Plague Doctor

The night is like water, and the croaking in summer comes from the vast fields, one after another, one after another, like thunder.

An MPV car drove on an unmanned road. After entering this remote area, the traffic flow became less and less. Only a long distance along the way would there be a small village with a bleak condition. In the early hours of the morning, it was all quiet. Only occasional barking shows that there are still people in the village.

The two children in the car who had already slept in the car woke up because of the frog cry. They have basically lived in the city since they were born. They know the sound of car engines and horns, but they are still full of the sounds of nature. Curious.

"What's that called?" the three-year-old Cai girl asked.

"Frog." Yu Qi stroked her daughter's head and said: "It's the kind of frog in "The Frog Prince"."

"Crack, quack, quack," the six-year-old son, Xiaohu, yelled imitatively, croaking and bringing joy at the same time.

But Guo Pengbin, who drove the car, stopped and said, "Don't disturb your grandma, grandpa and grandma." The three old people all slept on the back of their chairs. After nearly ten hours of bumps, they couldn’t stretch their legs and feet. Their old bodies are a torment.

Little Tiger lowered his voice, but moved forward, leaning to the ear of his father in the front driver's seat, and quack quack quack again.

Guo Pengbin ignored his son, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and murmured to himself: "It's coming soon."

The mobile phone navigation shows that the distance to the destination Hewei Village is less than ten kilometers, and it will be reached soon.

On this road, Guo Pengbin was in charge of driving at full speed, Yu Qi was in charge of checking the news with her mobile phone at all times, and no accidents continued; Citigroup gave a lot of explanations about what happened in New York, and Tianji Bureau also issued a statement condemning the League of Will for Life. No matter how powerful the enemy is, they will fight to the end.

Those statements and statements made the world more aware of the complexity of the world in which they are living, dark forces, aliens, dimensional invasion...

To be honest, Guo Pengbin and Yu Qi didn't really understand much, but they knew that their guess was correct, and even the Tianji Bureau could not guarantee everyone's safety.

Moreover, strangers are still emerging in various places, and the weird howling is increasing.

Yu Qi knew that it was because she was constantly scanning a website that provided warning maps. Whether it was a foreign person or a patient, where new screams occurred, it was displayed as a red dot on the warning map.The red dots in Dongzhou are already densely packed, ten times more than when they set off.

As for Hewei Village, their destination has not yet seen a red dot, nor is there any area in this area.

When only the last five kilometers were left, Guo Pengbin stopped the car and made another call to Uncle Quan. Uncle Quan was less than 60 years old, and he was connected by someone in the village who had a mobile phone. Guo Pengbin asked: "Uncle Quan, we are almost here, today in the village... Is there anything happening? Is there any strange name?"

"Weird call? No." Uncle Quan's words came from the phone, "It's still like that, where are you?"

"It's almost at the end of the village." After Guo Pengbin finished the call, he spoke to his wife and the others, and then continued to drive the car.

Although the road here is very bad, the five-kilometer race was quickly completed. Through the windshield and the lights of the headlights, the couple saw the yellow mud houses that make up the village. Someone was flashing a flashlight on the roadside of the village. , It should be Uncle Quan and them.Guo Pengbin couldn't help but said with joy: "Here, here, wife, wake up mother and them."

The two children looked curiously, and Yu Qi woke up a few old people. Everyone heard the shouts of the people waiting in the front of the village.

"Peng Bin!" a middle-aged man yelled, shaking the flashlight in his hand, with joy in his voice: "Here."

The headlights made their figures a little blurry, and Guo Pengbin could see their faces, Uncle Quan, Uncle Hong and Uncle Bo when they drove closer.Uncle Quan is a relative, and Uncle Hong and Uncle Bo are both friends of his father during his lifetime.I haven't seen you in some years...

At this time, Guo Pengbin suddenly felt a little complicated and inexplicable, and he should have come back to the village a long time ago.

The car slowly slowed down and stopped. Mother Guo had already rolled down the window and looked out to say hello to these old acquaintances who might not have seen it for a long time: "Come back, Peng Bin said that it is dangerous outside recently. , A lot of messy diseases, just come back to live for a while."

"You can live as long as you want." Uncle Quan nodded cheerfully, his dark face full of smiles, "Your house is still there, and some sundries were placed before. Today I moved it for you, with a bed and stove. ...But you have lived in the city for a long time, you may not be used to it..."

"How come." Guo Pengbin said quickly. Those two yellow mud houses were definitely transferred out a few years ago. People can not let them live, because Uncle Quan is honest and honest. "It's good to have a place to live. I will ask you Uncle Quan more in the future."

The two children probed their brains. He took everyone out of the car first, then introduced the three uncles, "Hurry up and call someone."

This time, Xiao Hutou and Cai Yatou were also well-behaved. Although they were young, they seemed to be sensible. They called three uncles to make them smile more.

It is not the old wife and mother-in-law who are most likely to be unaccustomed to living. They are getting older. Even if it is not the current situation, it is good to live in this fresh-air country for a period of time; the most likely unaccustomed to is his wife , Yu Qi is not that kind of savage woman, she is also very polite at this time.

The night is dark. There are no young people in the village all year round. There are very few cars. Some of the vehicles are agricultural diesel tricycles. The roads between the houses are mostly mud roads. And these yellow mud houses are densely built. The MPV can't drive in.

At the moment, the car stopped at the entrance of the village. Guo Pengbin, Uncle Quan and other men took out a box of luggage from the rear compartment and moved to two yellow mud houses in the village.

When Yu Qi saw the two adjacent yellow mud houses, even though she had been mentally prepared, she understood what the situation was now, and she still felt a little uncomfortable.

Both houses are one house high, with old and shabby yellow mud exterior walls, old shabby tile roofs, and a wooden door that is also old and shabby. Outside the house there is a small ruined courtyard, full of nothing. The weeds that people care for are piled up with sundries such as water tanks and firewood.

The telephone poles inserted on the roadside outside the house were shaky, and there were wires leading to the two old houses, but due to disrepair, Uncle Quan and the others were not sure whether they could still be connected.

After entering the house, Guo Pengbin opened the old switch on the wooden board. The electric lamp entangled in the spider web can emit a dim light, which immediately made them all breathe a sigh of relief.At the current temperature, if there is no electricity, no fan, it is difficult to sleep well.Don’t even think about the air conditioner, but there is no fan in the house. Fortunately, there is an idle floor-standing electric fan in Uncle Hong’s house, and there is also a small fan in Uncle Quan’s side. this problem.

Tap water is available. After letting go of the turbid water from the old pipes, the water quality slowly becomes clear.However, the "kitchen" is basically an old stove inside the house and several pots and pans in the yard outside; and there is no independent bathroom. The toilet is a small hut on the wasteland not far from the yard.

With this kind of living environment, living for a few days may be no problem, but after living for a long time, there will be many problems...

When Uncle Quan and the others were not paying attention, Yu Qi sighed and did not conceal the loss in her heart, and said to her husband: "There is a lot of reconstruction to be done, at least there must be a separate bathroom... Our house, the monthly payment cannot be broken. What..."

Guo Pengbin wanted to say something but stopped, but in the end he didn't say anything, and first continued to carry the luggage in.

Two yellow mud houses, their family lives in the larger one with his mother, and the old wife and mother-in-law live in the smaller one next to them.

Uncle Quan, Uncle Hong, and Uncle Bo are busy. In this midsummer season, even if the night breeze is cool in the early morning, they are all sweaty, shirtless and full of blessed belly, just like when working in the field. .The three uncles left to go home until they were all busy and saw that the family was initially settled down.

Before leaving, Uncle Quan said, "You live first. If you have any shortcomings or repairs, tell me tomorrow, I will take you to the town to find someone to do it."

"Okay." Guo Pengbin nodded and responded. In fact, he only wanted the entire village to be closed and not to contact the outside for a short time, including the nearest town.

After Uncle Quan and the others left, everyone who had been running around for a day should also sleep and rest.

At first, the two children looked curiously here and there, there were a lot of questions for parents, but after all, they were a few years old, and soon became tired. Yu Qi coaxed the two children to sleep in the house. On the small broken wooden bed near the door with the best ventilation, the borrowed old floor-standing fan that creaked.

She told a fairy tale to the two children, let them sleep peacefully, and went to another yellow mud room to help their parents clean up.

Guo Pengbin's mother felt that the house was too hot. After seeing her grandchildren, she moved a bamboo mat and spread it on a freshly cleaned floor in the yard outside and slept there.She, an old peasant woman, could bear the darkness and mosquitoes around, just like the refreshing night breeze.

Standing at the door of the yellow mud house, Guo Pengbin watched his mother sleep on the ground. After a while, he snores and is already fast asleep.

He looked at the bottomless night, his mind was tumbling, and after a sigh, he walked over to the wooden bed.

Cai girl was asleep too, but Xiaohu's head was still turning around, penetrating his head, and seeing him walking, whispered: "Dad, I can't sleep..."

"What's the matter?" Guo Pengbin sat on the side of the bed, paying attention to avoiding the position of the fan.In fact, after driving for a whole day, he has a high concentration of energy and has been tensing his nerves. He has long been exhausted. He almost fell asleep when he sat down, "Is it hot? The bed is too hard? The fan is too noisy? Or is it outside? Frogs noisy?"

Little Tiger shook his head when he heard, "I can't sleep..."

"Have you been homesick?" Guo Pengbin whispered, and reached out to caress his son's young face, "This is home. Dad used to grow up here, and sleep in the bed where you are now sleeping... …Dad knows that you are still not used to living, but something happened...We all have to be brave, you know?"

Little Tiger's head seemed to understand, but after all, he nodded and closed his eyes vigorously. The little face was determined, "I know, I'm a man."

"Well, go to sleep..." Guo Pengbin couldn't help smiling. Maybe the room was really stuffy, and even the heart that had been cold from time to time was warmer.