She Only Cares About Cultivation
Chapter 151: [150] Tasty and Pretty Fisherman 1 (first update)

Chapter 151: [150] Tasty and Pretty Fisherman 1 (first update)

Tangyuan was awoken by the sun, its searing rays blinding her and scorching her skin painfully. She’d never felt such heat before; her throat felt like it was on fire. With great difficulty, she covered her eyes with her hand and after adjusting to the light for a while, she managed to open them wearily.

Because the light was so intense, she had to keep her hand partially over her eyes. To her dismay, she found herself lying in a small boat, rocking and drifting on the sea. And next to her lay a child around seven or eight years old wearing ancient clothing?

Where had she traveled to this time?

As she was lost in a dream-like state, Liang Tian’s voice rang in her head.

"You’re awake? If you’re awake, then brace yourself for the plot..."

After that, her mind went blank as memories that weren’t her own began to fill her head.

She was originally called Shen Xiaoyu, a common fisherman’s daughter who grew up by the sea, with parents who were ordinary fishermen, generation after generation relying on fishing for a livelihood.

The small fishing village was peaceful and serene. How wonderful it would have been if such happiness could have continued, but just a few days ago, one day in golden October, the village chief’s son, who had been missing for a while, suddenly returned home.

After coming home, he started experiencing chills and high fever, then severe chest pains, coughing, and coughing up large amounts of frothy pink or bright red blood-streaked sputum. He gasped for breath and had difficulty breathing. Initially, everyone thought it was just a common cold, so they consulted the local herbalist who prescribed some herbs, but unexpectedly, within two to three days, he died.

Soon after, the village chief’s family also began showing the same symptoms. His son had not been buried even a week when the village chief, realizing something was seriously wrong, rushed to town to find a doctor. After hearing the specifics, the doctor, terrified, scrambled away, screaming,

"Get out, get out now, it’s the plague, the plague!"

Upon hearing the word "plague," all the patients and doctors at Huichun Hall, as well as the waiters, fled in terror.

The village chief was stunned, for all his calculations, he hadn’t anticipated it would be the plague. Did he even stand a chance of living through it?

Although the doctor was timid and cautious, he knew how fiercely contagious the disease was and quickly went to the county government to seek help from the soldiers. The Lord County Magistrate, upon hearing this, was also terrified. If the plague really broke out within his jurisdiction, the consequences were unimaginable.

So, they quickly had the village chief and his family confined within their home, leaving them to bang on the doors to no avail as no one would open them.

In less than three days, everyone in the family had died, and those who had been in close contact with them started showing varying symptoms of infection. The Lord County Magistrate first had their houses burned, and then he isolated those already showing symptoms.

However, over these ten days, the people the village chief’s family had contact with ranged from within the village to outside, and from there to the town while they sought medical help. Both indirect and direct contacts were numerous; even he couldn’t count them all. Though the soldiers went from house to house asking, with those previous cases as examples, who would dare admit it?

One thing led to another, and the epidemic became uncontrollable, especially in the small fishing village where already more than a dozen villagers were suffering from unrelenting high fevers.

Xiao Yu’s father had once experienced the plague outside and knew how terrible it was. He quickly realized their village was being quarantined.

If he wasn’t mistaken, the next step could possibly be to massacre the village.

Xiao Yu’s family had a fishing boat, so one deep night, her father took her mother, herself, her brother, and all their valuable and useful possessions including household and farming tools, even the old hen, and loaded them onto the boat, planning to flee under the cover of darkness.