Da Suining

Chapter 115 Plague
Tang Xiaoniang wanted to see Mrs. Xiang's critical illness, so she went to Xiang Suining's room without waiting for the servant girl to elaborate.

In the courtyard of Xiang Suining, the second-class maidservant was wearing a light green gown, with her head down, standing there in a daze, with a sad look on her face. The medicine pot set up under the west corridor, the firewood for decocting medicine under it had not been completely extinguished, and the smell of medicine was strong. The wind here smells like traditional Chinese medicine.

He could vaguely see Su Momo busy in the inner room, with Su Momo here, Mrs. Xiang must be there.

What was she doing in Xiang Suining's yard when she was critically ill?
Is it possible that he will die by the second girl's side?
eccentric.

Tang Xiaoniang sighed coldly in her heart, Mingzhu had already lifted the curtain to invite her in.

Xiangyan followed Tang Xiaoniang without haste, looking at everything in the courtyard with cold eyes, when did Xiang Suining's courtyard get so clean?The bamboo under the window is growing really well, but no matter how good it is, it is still not as bright as the flowers in her yard.On the contrary, Xiang Suining's maidservants, although they were plainly dressed and their clothes were old and not old, they looked calm and well-behaved, they looked like they had been carefully trained.

In the past, Xiang Suining herself was like a timid cat, but now she knows how to train a maid?There is progress.

Xiang Suining's maidservant didn't wait to see Xiang Yan, when they saw Xiang Yan, they just thought in their minds that some spectators are here.

As soon as Tang Xiaoniang stepped into the inner room, she howled: "Old madam, old madam, why can't you do it?"

This voice, crying with joy, made Mrs. Xiang a little uncomfortable: "I'm still here, why are you crying so painfully?"

Tang Xiaomei was a little confused: "Old madam. Didn't you say... Didn't you say that old madam, are you critically ill?"

"what do you say?"

"I think the old lady is doing well. Naturally, it's those little hoofs. Of course it's the pearl. That little hoof is crazy. I dare say that the old lady is critically ill. The master was shocked when he heard that, and now he is going to the palace to invite the imperial doctor." .I was worried about the safety of the old lady, so I brought the children here to visit."

"I'm fine, you can go back."

It's always like this, and there are too many words without speculation.

How many years of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the relationship has not been cultivated at all.

Knowing that Mrs. Xiang couldn't die, Tang Xiaoniang knew that she was happy for nothing, and she couldn't help but feel disappointed, but Mingzhu's child had been serving in the mansion for many years, and she was not a Huqin person, so why did she ask Xiang Daying to invite the imperial physician?Could it be?

Tang Xiaoniang's eyes rolled like glass beads, she leaned over and lifted the curtain, and saw Xiang Suining lying on the bed with a gloomy face, sleeping so deeply, as if dead.

At Xiang Suining's youthful age, now his eyes are closed, his eyes are bruised, his lips are purple, and his complexion is dull. It doesn't look like a normal face, but rather a serious illness.

Could it be that Xiang Suining is dead?
No matter if it's Madam Xiang or Xiang Suining, it's good news for her, Tang Xiaoniang.

Tang Xiaoniang suppressed the ecstasy in her heart, and pushed Xiang Suining's arm with a handkerchief: "Second girl, your grandmother is here, why are you still asleep?"

"Don't touch her." Mrs. Xiang's face darkened.

"Second girl, wake up, Yan'er and Guo Xin are here to play with you."

"Don't touch her!"

Tang Xiaoniang quickly withdrew her hand.

Xiang Suining lay there motionless.

Mrs. Xiang was almost in tears, but she didn't want to lose her sense of proportion in front of everyone, so she just endured it, but her heart was boiling like boiling, and she felt extremely uncomfortable.

Tang Xiaoniang sat facing Mrs. Xiang, took a sip of tea slowly, wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, and said, "I think something happened to the old lady. It turns out that the second girl is not well. What is the second girl's illness?" Huh? Why can’t ordinary doctors cure it? Need to use the palace doctor? It seems that the second girl is seriously ill, right?”

Mrs. Xiang looked at Tang Xiaoniang with a sullen face.

Tang Xiaoniang quickly laughed: "It's okay, it's okay, it doesn't matter if you get any disease, the master has already invited the imperial physician to the palace, the imperial physician is very skilled, and he can't treat any difficult and miscellaneous diseases."

Tang Xiaoniang was restless while talking.

She looked at Xiang Suining's face, and saw that she couldn't move, and she didn't know what to do. Although Xiang Suining was not very hard-working since she was a child, she was very hard-working. When she was four or five years old, she fell off a rockery. He was in a coma for two full days, and then he got some medicine and took it, and he recovered.No side effects at all.

What's wrong this time?
What is wrong with this?

Tang Xiaoniang gave Xiangyan a wink.

Xiang Yan was ecstatic in her heart.

If something happens to Xiang Suining, then she won't get Guo Wei, right?

Those who dare to attack Guo Cheng's ideas will not regret death.

Xiangyan held on to the bed with a handkerchief, she wanted to try Xiang Suining's snorting.

If she died, it would be useless to invite Taishang Laojun, right?When the time comes, the imperial doctor will come in vain.

As soon as Xiang Yan lifted the curtain, Mrs. Xiang coughed.

The cough made Xiangyan take three steps back in fright.

"grandmother--"

"Don't make up your mind, the second girl is angry."

"I just want to see how the second girl is doing. After all, they are sisters, so I am worried about her." As she spoke, Xiangyan burst into tears.

Mrs. Xiang was tired of watching Xiang Yan's tears, and she didn't want to say anything to her, but said indifferently: "Third Miss, you are not a doctor, and it's useless to watch, wait for the imperial physician to come."

Several people looked at Xiang Suining through the curtain.

Mingzhu applied a towel to Xiang Suining's forehead over and over again, but it had little effect, Xiang Suining's head was still hot.

Fortunately, Xiang Daying invited the imperial physician here without stopping.

It was none other than Lu Yu's father, Physician Lu, who came.

After all, Imperial Physician Lu is an Imperial Physician in the palace, and he is well-informed. He came with a medicine box, and seeing Xiang Suining's decadent appearance, he didn't say anything. Instead, he opened the medicine box, took out the mat, and silently felt Xiang Suining's pulse .

The room was very quiet.

Physician Lu retracted the mat and put it back in the medicine box.From his face, there was no movement.

Physician Lu seemed calm, and Mrs. Xiang heaved a sigh of relief.

"The old lady doesn't have to watch over it anymore, go back to the room, I'll prescribe the medicine for the second girl right away." Said the doctor Lu, and at the same time called Xiang Daying to speak in the corridor, as if deliberately avoiding the crowd.

The bamboo shadows in the corridor are deep.

Doctor Lu rolled up his sleeves and washed his hands with the water brought by the maid.

"How about the little girl?"

"Not very good."

"How is it bad?"

"I've been practicing medicine for decades, but I've never seen her pulse."

"Emperor Lu has been walking in the palace for many years, and we are also colleagues. If you have anything to say, just speak up."

"I've only seen this pulse condition in medical books, but I don't dare to jump to conclusions. I'll come back and discuss it with a few imperial physicians before I can come up with an idea. I'll prescribe a prescription, and you can feed it according to the medicine. Whether she can get well depends entirely on her luck."

"What's wrong with my little girl? How can the doctor Lu be helpless?"

"If I'm not mistaken...it's the plague."

Plague is plague.

Xiang Daying only heard about the plague from his ancestors.

Plague is invisible and invisible, and it is silent and odorless, so it is difficult to prevent it.

When the ancestors were in the past, there was a plague, bones were everywhere, every family was crying, the disease was easy to catch, and even the family was wiped out.

In less than a month, there were tens of thousands of casualties. At the beginning, the dead could still be buried. Later, more and more people died, and the corpses were scattered all over the field, so there was no time to bury them.

At that time, whether people can survive or not depends entirely on their own good fortune.

I remember that my ancestors said at that time that during the plague, people had high fever, headache, fatigue, coughing, and bleeding. Even a strong man didn't even have the strength to stand up overnight, and he couldn't lift his chopsticks.

Not to mention ordinary people, even high-ranking scholar-bureaucrats died a lot.

The emperor was so frightened that he left the capital and took refuge in the remote south.

In the face of the plague, money is useless, whether to live or not, really depends on luck.

Prime Minister Daying asked Imperial Physician Lu: "Although my daughter is in a coma and has a persistent high fever, she doesn't seem to be coughing or bleeding. Could it be a plague?"

Physician Lu shook his head: "In my opinion, there are nine out of ten reasons. It's just that people are infected, and the symptoms of the disease are not exactly the same. There are sayings in medical books: yin and yang are out of place, cold and heat are at the wrong time, or the rain does not fall, or It is rainstorm, which is easy to breed plague. The disease is not wind, cold, heat, or damp. It is caused by a unique plague in heaven and earth. In the past, the plague almost wiped out a city, causing corpses to pile up like mountains. Miserable, think of the heavy rain in Changzhou City the year before last, which lasted for half a month. This year, there was a severe drought, no crops were harvested, the people were displaced, and many refugees came to Qingcheng to make a living. This plague may be at this time spread."

Physician Lu had reason and evidence, Xiang Daying frowned.

"If it's really a plague, then your whole house must be strictly protected. It's best to wear a mask, and there must be a distance between each other. As for Miss Xianger, it's best to place her alone, and a fixed person will come to serve her every day. She, and those who serve her, you should have less contact with her."

"Yes Yes."

"I will prescribe the medicine according to the prescription recorded in "Thousand Gold Prescriptions. Volume [-]. Shanghan". If the weather is in season, there are only three ways to treat it. It should be supplemented, scattered, and reduced. It takes more time for the second girl to take the medicine on time. Rest, the place where she rests must be clean, and there should be no miscellaneous people serving her."

After Physician Lu left, Xiang Daying went to see Xiang Suining again.

He was still lying in such a crooked condition, without any improvement.

Mrs. Xiang is always worried: "What did Doctor Lu tell you?"

"Physician Lu said...that the second girl is...she might be..."

"What is it?"

"Probably the plague."

Mrs. Xiang was startled, plague, isn't that a disease that can kill people?

Tang Xiaoniang was still poking her head in front of Xiang Suining's bed. When she heard about the plague, she was so frightened that she jumped a few feet away, and she didn't forget to cover her nose with a handkerchief: "Second Miss is trying to kill us. She has such a disease for sure. Isn't the government going to end?"

Xiang Yan didn't know what plague was, so she asked Tang Xiaoniang with big eyes: "Mother, what is plague? Why is our Xiangfu going to end?"

"Plague is contagious, and [-]% of people will die."

Xiang Yan fled to the outside of the corridor in one breath, fanning the wind with a handkerchief: "It's really unlucky, why don't you tell me you have the plague? What if I get infected?"

"You are the head of the family, you have to make up your mind." Madam Xiang looked at Xiang Daying.

Xiang Daying paced the room with his hands behind his back. After a long time, he sighed and said, "Physician Lu said that he probably won't survive. Why don't you take him outside and let fate take care of you?"

"Nonsense, Doctor Lu is a parent of doctors, how could he say such cruel words, you must have made up things to deceive me."

amount.

Xiang Daying clicked his tongue and said: "Mother also knows that the plague is contagious, so we can't let her infect us all, right? Otherwise, let's move her to the Zhuangzi. Aren't there a few people in our Zhuangzi who grow crops? As for the house, let her go there, someone will take care of her, the air will be good, and it will not be noisy, it will be good for her recovery."

"No, Zhuangzi is full of rough people. They must not be satisfied with their service. The second girl is like this. If I leave it to them, won't the second girl's life be killed? Besides, Zhuangzi is not close to Qingcheng. inconvenient."

"What kind of doctor are you looking at?" Xiang Daying said helplessly: "The imperial physicians have no idea, and those doctors in Qingcheng are even more useless. Imperial physician Lu also said that this disease must be carried by oneself, and the second girl's Life is probably not that hard."

"I also think Zhuangzi is not suitable for the second girl to recuperate." Tang Xiaoniang said.

It's rare that she keeps pace with Mrs. Xiang, and Mrs. Xiang only thinks that she is kind.

"According to me, isn't there a dilapidated ancient temple outside the city? It has been in disrepair for a long time, and the beams have fallen off, but the stone Buddha inside is still there. The temple is full of incense, people will definitely not want the second girl to go, and There are too many people, so it is not easy to recuperate. I think this ruined temple is very good. One is quiet, the other is ventilated, the third is blessed by the Bodhisattva, and the fourth is not infecting us. The second girl went there. .”

Xiang Daying looked at Mrs. Xiang.

Mrs. Xiang leaned on her crutches and said, "Second Miss will not go anywhere, she will be raised in her yard. Those who are willing to serve Second Miss will be given three liang of silver per month. You can go."

Mingzhu and several maidservants hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, neither of them wanted to leave.

Tang Xiaoniang wanted to say something again, but Mrs. Xiang gave her a look, and she didn't dare to say anything.

Since then, Xiang Suining drank the medicine prescribed by Doctor Lu.Three times a day, no less than one time. If you vomit, you have to boil some more to make up for the vomit.

Xiangfu is full of medicine.

Everyone is surrounded by white veils when they go in and out.

It's okay to wear a gauze cover at ordinary times, but it's difficult to eat.

You have to lift up the gauze cover first, then take a bite of food, swallow the food, and then put down the gauze cover.

Sometimes I forgot to lift the gauze cover, and the rice spilled all over my body.

Tang Xiaoniang was not happy: "It's great to carry it out, everyone is safe, now everyone is in fear, and I don't know when they will die."

"The second girl has been ill for a few days, isn't she still alive? It's not that serious." Xiang Daying comforted her.

"You only love your second daughter, and you don't think about Yan'er and Guo Xin at all. What if Yan'er has something to do? According to me, you should take the second girl out. If it's not cold today, then What does it matter if you carry it to a ruined temple for a few days?"

"Go and tell the old lady, if she agrees, I have no objection."

Tang Xiaoniang blushed, and bitterly picked up the bowl and began to chew the rice.

(End of this chapter)