Plague Doctor

On March 14, Beidian Village became increasingly restless from early morning.

Low houses are scattered around the farmland. The courtyard is surrounded by a wooden fence in front of the house. It is also full of fruits and vegetables, and chickens and ducks are raised.

"Baby, look, there's a helicopter!" The sun rose at 6:46 in the morning. At around 8 o'clock, Zhang Shuqin, the mother of one of the families, held her baby in her yard and pointed to the sky happily. The five-year-old My son was excited to see several military helicopters flying over.

The baby's father, Guo Lei, was watching at first, but he immediately felt something was wrong and muttered, "Why did this helicopter stop at our place?"

The five helicopters roared to a stop on the ground. They were from the forest farm contracted by Old Man Tian.

Did Old Man Tian commit a crime? Such a big thing?

Guo Lei felt strange about his guess. The permanent population of the village was only three to four hundred people, and everyone in the neighborhood knew him. Old Man Tian was famous for being hardworking and willing to work. He did not engage in gambling or fighting. He was a farmer. Planting trees doesn’t even cause conflicts on farmland, so what can you do?

After a while, a convoy passed by on the road outside, with the Tianji Bureau's logo on the car. Something must have happened.

Guo Lei was worried and followed several villagers to get closer to the forest farm to take a look at the situation, but they were all stopped by the police and the road to the forest farm was blocked.

More than an hour later, it was almost 9:30 in the morning.

There were helicopters again, and a larger convoy drove into Beidian Village, including buses, medical vehicles, armored vehicles...

A group of old people such as Old Man Zhang and Old Man Wang were gathering around to play chess, the villagers were busy in the farmland, and Guo Lei and others were talking about the situation at the entrance of the village.

All the villagers suddenly heard a loud voice, which was a helicopter hovering in the sky broadcasting to the ground: "Dear folks, fellow villagers, due to something happening in the nearby forest farm, for the sake of everyone's safety, we will immediately evacuate the entire village. .”

At the same time, the village chief and many other cadres have been anxiously telling everyone to follow the state's arrangements, pack up quickly, and evacuate immediately.

"You don't need to bring anything to wear or eat! The most important thing is to bring your documents, medical records, ID cards, household registers, bank cards, and any valuable gold items. Hurry!"

The villagers were all stunned, listening to the sound of the radio and looking at the helicopters and vehicles... an epidemic outbreak? But no one in their village has fallen ill recently...

"Mom, there are so many cars!" The little baby was ignorant and pointed to her mother excitedly, but Zhang Shuqin was speechless and just held the baby tightly.

The radio rang over and over again. The vehicles stopped at the entrance of the village. Teams of people got out of each vehicle. They were all wearing fully enclosed protective suits of different colors and had different responsibilities. Most of them walked quickly towards the village. The vigilant barking of dogs suddenly sounded everywhere.

Some personnel went to each house and led the villagers to evacuate. Most of the villagers were elderly. The elderly and aunties followed them tremblingly.

Some personnel used unknown detection equipment to detect something in and outside the village, and reported using walkie-talkies.

Guo Lei went to find his elderly parents, while Zhang Shuqin quickly found a duffel bag, took out the family's documents, money and valuables and put them in. Although the broadcast said that there was no need to bring clothes, Zhang Shuqin still grabbed a few pieces of clothes that she liked. Take away the children's clothes.

Someone in protective clothing walked into the house and told her it was time to leave, so she picked up her duffel bag, hugged her child, and left.

At the edge of the village, more than 400 villagers boarded buses with the help of these protective clothing personnel.

Before getting on the bus, each villager needs to show his or her ID card to verify that he is indeed a villager here. However, since there are many elderly people, many of whom are in their 70s, 80s or even 90s, it is difficult for them to find their IDs even in ordinary times. What’s more, now, those who cannot show their IDs are all gathered in a car at the back.

No one's mobile phones have been taken away, but the signal here seems to be blocked, and they can't access the Internet or make calls.

When a bus is full of people and the door is closed, the driver immediately drives away, heading for a destination unknown to the passengers.

Guo Lei took his parents, wife and children to meet at the entrance of the village. At this time, the family was on one of the buses, sitting near the back of the bus. The other people around him all knew each other. Some were silent, some sighed, and some complained excitedly.

"Mom, Mom, where are we going?" the child asked in a low voice. Although he was young and ignorant, he could feel the gloomy atmosphere at this time and was a little scared.

"It's okay." Zhang Shuqin patted the child's hand, "Didn't Mom tell you, those uncles and aunts are good people, let's go play with them."

"Mom, will we come back?" The child seemed to hear this as comfort, blinking his eyes in anticipation of a positive answer.

No matter what they said or did, the adults in the car were haunted by a fear of whether they and their families could survive.

Now that I heard this child ask, I suddenly thought about this question, will we come back?

Guo Lei looked at his son, looked at the villages and fields outside the car window, and felt an inexplicable panic in his heart.

He had already moved to the city a few years ago, but the cost of living was too high and he didn't like that kind of lifestyle, so in the end he chose to return to his hometown. He hoped to live a good life here and build the place well. He originally wanted to contract some wasteland and plant trees like old man Tian did...

But now, will you come back? Can you come back?

"Yes, of course I will come back." Zhang Shuqin nodded and forced a happy face to the child, "This is our home."

At this time, the bus drove onto the road and was gradually moving away from the village.

There were some people in protective clothing accompanying the car. At this time, one of the middle-aged women stood up and said: "Fellow folks, my name is Fang Tian. I am a doctor. If you feel uncomfortable, please tell me immediately. I want to Do some research, have any of you ever had thyroid disease?”

Everyone cooperated with the inquiry amid doubts, but none of Guo Lei's family had any history of this.

After the inquiry, Dr. Fang asked several other staff to distribute a small tablet and a small paper cup of water to the villagers who clearly had no medical history.

"This is an iodine tablet." Dr. Fang said, "Swallow it now."

Iodine tablets? Guo Lei and Zhang Shuqin didn't understand why they wanted to eat this. Many villagers asked about it, and some elderly people had already swallowed it obediently.

"Folks, the cause is a radiation problem at the forest farm." Dr. Fang said, having been allowed to explain to the folks to a certain extent.

When she talked about the radiation issue, the old people didn't understand it. The faces of young people like Guo Lei changed. Radiation? What radiation?

"Don't panic, everyone. We have not detected radioactive materials in the village. The contamination is limited to a small area in the forest farm. We should not be harmed. In other words, you have nothing to do now. The evacuation is a safe transfer. Taking iodine tablets is for It’s an emergency prevention, but if you have thyroid disease, you may have problems if you take this. When you arrive at the resettlement site, you will have a detailed physical examination. If the examination results are fine by then, you will only take the iodine tablets this time.”

Dr. Fang has a positive tone and tries to speak plainly so that the elderly can understand him.

But the old people still looked at each other in confusion. If they didn't understand well, they would just follow the state's arrangements.

On the contrary, the young people in the car were really relieved. It was not Legionnaires' disease, not a plague, but radiation, but the village was not polluted and they were fine...

Zhang Shuqin hugged the child, and Guo Lei was about to ask something: "Doctor Fang..."

Suddenly, a loud bang came from behind! I don’t know whether it was affected by this or the road was uneven, but the moving bus bumped slightly.

"Ah...what, what's going on?"

"Is it an explosion? It seems like an explosion..."

"What exploded?"

The passengers suddenly panicked, and on the faces of Guo Lei, Zhang Shuqin and others, the haze that was about to dissipate suddenly became heavier. They all looked out of the car windows, but could not see any flames or thick smoke, but the direction of the explosion was from Old Man Tian's forest farm.

"Everyone... don't worry." Doctor Fang's words were a little slow. She, the driver, and other Tianji personnel all had frowns on their faces in protective suits.

This explosion was not part of the action plan.

It was still morning, the sun was shining brightly outside the car, but they only felt cold.

Love the Plague Doctor.