Chapter 455 Vehicles
Shuozhou City, the locomotive station.
Crowds of people, countless Shuozhou people carrying large and small bags, squeezed outside the station, slapping on the wooden fence.
"Stationmaster Wang, just let us pass, please!"
"Yeah, Wang Liulang, we are not sick, and we are in good health. I hugged you when you were young. Since your aunt is my wife and sister, let us go there."
"Wang Liulang! I am the manager of Shuozhou Liuguang Bank, and now I have to bring important books to Luoyang. If the reconciliation is delayed and Shuozhou taxes are delayed, can you bear the responsibility?"
In the fence, Wang Liu, the station master of Shuozhou Station, sweated profusely, and explained loudly: "Fathers and folks, the order to block Shuozhou Station was issued by General Yan Hu, and the prefect also agreed.
Vehicles passing through Shuozhou will not stop here, and there is nothing I can do about it. Everyone please come back. "
His explanation was not approved by the people, but instead aroused the anger of the crowd.
"General Yan was unconscious. The prefect asked his soldiers to block the main roads, but he hid in the mansion behind closed doors. Even your chief doesn't care about it. Why do you have to stay here?"
"How many people have died of illness in Shuozhou now? You still let us stay here, you clearly want us to die!"
"Stationmaster Wang, please!"
A young peasant woman with a baby in her arms and a child in her hand squeezed through the crowd, crying: "My parents, elder brothers, younger siblings, my husband, father-in-law, and mother-in-law were all infected by the plague and died of illness.
My eldest sister was married long ago. When she heard the news of the death of her parents and siblings, she was deeply saddened.
There is only me and my two children left at home, and there is no one else.
Stationmaster Wang, please let us go by car. "
The peasant woman burst into tears. She took off the swaddle in front of her bosom, put the baby on the ground, and kowtowed heavily to Wang Liu.
Her forehead fell on the stone brick of the locomotive station, making a bang sound, and after a while, her forehead was covered in blood and flesh.
Wang Liu's mouth was dry and his fingertips were numb. The surrounding crowd also showed unbearable expressions, trying to help the peasant woman to stop her from knocking down.
However.
"Ahem—"
Maybe it was because of kowtowing in a hurry, or maybe it was too long without drinking or eating. When the peasant woman got up, she coughed violently.
The surrounding crowd all changed color, like ripples in a lake, pushing back and retreating, forming an empty circle among the crowd.
"She's sick!"
I don’t know who shouted sharply and panickedly. The eyes of the crowd looking at the peasant woman are no longer sympathetic and pity, but full of hostility and suspicion.
"I'm not, I don't. It's wind chill."
The peasant woman picked up the swaddle and tried to explain to the people around her, but she coughed more violently.
"Hit her, drive her away!"
"Dare to come out when you are sick, do you want us to die? Don't you know how terrible this disease is?"
"Back, back, back!"
The villagers who were still fighting against the enemy just now changed their faces instantly, and yelled at the peasant woman,
The young man waved a stick from a distance, threatening,
The women took eggs from their baskets and threw them at her,
Even the gray-haired old man raised his cane tremblingly, waved it at her, and opened his mouth with only a few teeth left, cursing in a dialect that not many people could understand.
The youngest child in swaddling weeps loudly, while the older children appear dull and bewildered.
“.”
Wang Liu looked at the scene in front of him, couldn't bear it, turned his head and said to his subordinates: "There is a small gate behind the station, you go out through the small gate and take her out of here first."
"Station Master, here."
The subordinates looked at each other, no one stood up to answer the conversation, and everyone avoided Wang Liu's sight, as if his eyes were the fangs of a poisonous snake.
The horror of the plague has been deeply understood by the people of Shuozhou these days.
Once the sick person develops the disease, he will suffer severe pain, chest pain, cough, difficulty breathing,
Death is inevitable within two or three days. When dying, the skin bleeds and the body is purple and black. There is no cure.
According to the academic publications, "infectious diseases" will spread in different ways.
The spread rate and intensity of this infectious disease far surpassed all previous plagues. It is even more unsolvable than malaria before the advent of effective drugs.
As station employees, they can usually fight against hooligans who come to find fault with them, and even hunt down bandits who steal the railway tracks and road tyrants who set up checkpoints.
But they are just ordinary people, and their abilities are nothing more than that. How can they fight against invisible and intangible infectious diseases?
They also have families. If they put themselves in to save a peasant woman, who will save their family?
Seeing subordinates looking at each other and hesitating,
Wang Liuyi gritted his teeth and turned to dissuade the people outside the fence: "Everyone, don't embarrass her, and let her go. I will write another book and send it to Daizhou. I believe someone will be responsible."
Before the words fell, the sound of a loud siren came from afar.
At the end of the horizon, a Reiki locomotive was galloping.
"The car is coming!"
"Quick, everyone, work together to flatten the fence, everyone get in the car!"
"The car doesn't stop, we stand on the rails and see if he dares to stop!"
No one paid any attention to what Wang Liu was talking about. The common people rushed forward, pushing the wooden fence like crazy, and hitting the barrier with their bodies.
The wooden railings creaked and broke, and the wooden stakes were pushed out of the soil bit by bit under the action of brute force.
Boom!
Accompanied by a loud noise, the wooden fence collapsed, and the crowd carrying large and small bags shouted up the steps and rushed into the station.
The dozens of soldiers who stayed in the station could not stop the crowd at all.
"Let them go."
Wang Liu looked gloomy. He stepped over the collapsed wooden fence, lifted the peasant woman covered in egg liquid and egg shells from the ground, and handed her a handkerchief.
Woohoo!
The siren sound came from afar again, and the driver on the Lingqi locomotive seemed to see the people crowded on the railroad track, and kept blowing the whistle.
However, the people who decided that this is the only chance to escape from Shuozhou stand on the railroad tracks hand in hand, cheering and encouraging each other.
"The car will stop, it will."
"This is the State of Yu, who speaks of Yu Law! Even if there are princes and nobles in the car, they dare not really order the car to run over."
"Everyone, don't panic! You must stand firm! We will be saved when the car leaves Shuozhou!"
(end of this chapter)