Chapter 35 (1/2)
Chapter 35: Love, You’ve Come ah
Song Liang Zhuo had indeed come, and had even brought with him a few men. The sick man outside the city was lifted up into the carriage and quickly taken away.
Xiao Qi’s heart stung as she looked at the Song Liang Zhuo below the city walls, but other than praying that he wouldn’t get infected, she didn’t know what else she could do.
Song Liang Zhuo disputed with the people below the city gates for a while, then Xiao Qi saw those people walk into the empty teahouse next to the city gates. It seems they wouldn’t be continuing to insist on entering the city, and she secretly released a breath of relief.
Song Liang Zhuo tilted his head up to look at Xiao Qi who was leaning over the city wall and grinned. Xiao Qi waved at him, then turned around and ran down.
“Official Song, I found some more herbs? Do you still need any other ones?” Xiao Qi opened the small window and loudly asked.
“Here are prescriptions.” Song Liang Zhuo originally wanted to open the city gates, but after looking at those obviously still indignant people behind him, he headed to the small window to hand it over instead.
“Also, prepare some garlic and plant ash. Just put it outside the city gates, there will be someone to pick it up.”
Xiao Qi nodded. Suddenly remembering that Song Liang Zhuo might not be able to see it, she said in a loud voice: “I’ve remembered it. Official Song, you can’t get sick ah. You have to eat well and sleep well. If you get sick, I, I’ll…… anyways, you can’t get sick.”
Xiao Qi couldn’t hear Song Liang Zhuo’s reply and also couldn’t see his expression. Leaning against the thick city wall her heart was a mess. Warmth gradually appeared in Song Liang Zhuo’s eyes. He was silent for a moment before saying: “In the future you don’t have to come here early in the morning to wait, I won’t arrive until 4 in the afternoon.”
“I got it. What about this carriage of things?”
“Leave it to the city guards. Xiao Qi should head back early, I also have to go back now.”
“Ok!”
Song Liang Zhuo stood outside the city gates for a while, his hand lingered for quite a while on the city gates.
Of that population of nearly two hundred people, in one night, nearly thirty had already fallen. It was fortunate that Xiao Qi’s medicine cart was brought there just in time, but no matter what, to them malaria was still an unpreventable fatal disease. Looking at the sight of robust men that in one night just fell down twitching and could no longer get up, to not be afraid was impossible.
Song Liang Zhuo was afraid, afraid that those hundreds of lives would disappear just like this; afraid that he would also fall, leaving that foolish Xiao Qi whose innocence he took possession of to face the rest of life alone. Every moment he was idle he would think of what he said to Xiao Qi before he left the city. He regretted saying that sentence, but at this time he could no longer take it back. Based on Xiao Qi’s personality, what would actually be strange is if she didn’t scale the city walls to chase.
Song Liang Zhuo gave a bitter smile. Shaking his head he lightly patted the city gates before returning to that place he dreaded yet he could not abandon.
Xiao Qi stared at Song Liang Zhuo through the small window until his figure disappeared. Then she lifted her hand to wipe dry her tears and said to the guard at the side: “Official Song said for me to leave this cart of things to you. Think of a way to put it outside the gates. Don’t let people in and also don’t let people out.”
Xiao Qi headed back sobbing.
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Chen Zi Gong also silently followed her. Xiao Qi shot a glare at Chen Zi Gong: “What are you following me for?”
Chen Zi Gong shook his head: “Do you want help?”
“Help with what?”
Chen Zi Gong said: “People infected by the epidemic are originally supposed to be quarantined and not allowed to wander around. This move of Official Song’s is taking quite the risk.”
Xiao Qi sniffled: “Quarantined? Not given treatment?”
Chen Zi Gong lifted his eyebrow: “Xiao Qi didn’t see the person that fell just then? He was convulsing and vomiting. If I didn’t guess wrong, he probably had already been sick for several days. This is probably malaria, it can’t be cured.”
“You, you’re making things up!” Xiao Qi looked around, then lowered her voice: “Hate you! Don’t follow me!”
The corners of Chen Zi Gong’s mouth hooked as he said: “Why not dispatch troops……”
“You dare?!” Xiao Qi fiercely turned back, a rarely seen sharpness in her eyes. But it only lasted a moment before it dissolved back into endless grievance and anxiety.
Xiao Qi lifted her sleeve to wipe her runny nose while fiercely saying: “If you dare I’ll have my dad catch you and throw you in jail. Humph, breach of the peace!”
Chen Zi Gong’s brows lifted but Xiao Qi had already aggressively turned and ran off.
Song Liang Zhuo came on schedule right at four everyday. Other than the second day when he took the mosquito repelling spice bag from Xiao Qi, he didn’t approach the city gates.
The things Xiao Qi brought were all put outside the city by the city guards, then lugged away by someone.
Song Liang Zhuo also didn’t speak with Xiao Qi again and just stood outside the city while Xiao Qi stood on the city wall. He would just stare into Xiao Qi’s eyes for a while, or grin and smile, or lightly wave. Sometimes he didn’t do anything, and just quietly stood there for a quarter of an hour.
Xiao Qi’s earlier panic slowly faded. She felt that nothing would happen to him, she also felt that he could make it so all those victims will be alright.
Standing on the city walls watching as Song Liang Zhuo appeared from within the carriage had already become the thing Xiao Qi looked forward to most everyday. Xiao Qi came everyday with worry to wait, then return filled with joy. Each day that Song Liang Zhuo came to see her was a day that she knew he was safe.
However, not more than 500 meters from the city gates, the temporary region for the refugees had already become a scene of h.e.l.l on earth. Everyday when he opens his eyes there’ll be someone pa.s.sing away. Song Liang Zhuo already no longer had the courage nor the confidence to once again repeat that phrase of “everything will be alright”.
Barely even half a month had past, and already half the people here at fallen ill. And of this half, half had already pa.s.sed away. The good in it was that lately, people that were falling ill were significantly less, or it could even be said that there was no one else that had an outbreak of the symptoms.
This temporary small village was already packed to the brim with burial mats. Every corpse had quicklime scattered all over it before it was buried.