Yijia Yishi

Chapter 496 Epidemic
After Zhou Yong went to see it, his complexion changed when he came back, and he cupped his hands and told the princess: "This is an epidemic, I'm afraid it will be bad."

The princess turned pale when she heard this, and her lips trembled: "How could it be an epidemic? There has never been such an illness in the manor."

Lu Shuyi also felt puzzled, and frowned, "Master, are you sure it's an epidemic?"

Zhou Yong nodded very positively: "It is indeed an epidemic." He said: "The epidemic is a serious disease that can be contagious. If one person is infected, it will spread to a room, or even a prefecture, a county, and a city, and there are many infected people. I was not allowed to live, and in the end my whole body festered, and I died in pain.”

The princess's face became paler, and even her body was trembling.

Lu Shuyi shook the concubine's hand, and hurriedly asked Zhou Yongdao: "Master, is there a way to control this disease?"

Zhou Yong shook his head: "There is no cure for the time being, the most urgent thing is to burn wormwood all over the house, spray spirits, and then isolate the sick maidservant, and temporarily isolate those who have had contact with her to prevent others from being infected. As for the prescription, I will slowly consider one."

"Mother Concubine, what do you think should be done?" Lu Shuyi asked the princess, and at the same time she was full of suspicion.

She also experienced the plague in Kyoto in her previous life. This kind of disease cannot happen suddenly, unless the solar terms are wrong, or too many people died after the war, and the water source is not clean.

There have been no deaths in the palace recently, and the water source is not likely to be unclean, and this solar term is not a period of high incidence of epidemics. Why did people suddenly get sick?

The concubine has never experienced this before, but she knows how severe the epidemic is, so she immediately said: "Just do as the master said."

At the same time, he repeatedly warned Lu Shuyi: "This disease is a serious one, don't go there these few days, just stay in your own room, and always pay attention to the people you can contact, and take care of yourself. "

Lu Shuyi nodded. When she came out of the princess's room, she asked Zhou Yong specifically: "Master, if this disease is uninfected, do you think it is easy to attack in a place like the palace?"

Zhou Yong shook his head, also puzzled and said: "It stands to reason that this season is not the season of epidemics..." He shook his head again and said: "But there is no absolute in everything."

Lu Shuyi rolled her eyes, and her doubts deepened. After returning to her residence, she immediately asked Dongmei and the others: "Has there been a plague recently?"

Dongmei knows this kind of thing the most, she immediately replied: "Yes, Zhouzhuang, it's not too far from our Changle Town." After thinking about it, she said: "Actually, it's not too far from Baoding Mansion."

Lu Shuyi frowned.

Dongmei said in a low voice: "I heard that many people died, the corpses were burned one after another, and the superiors even issued an order to seal off the village, and the people in the whole village may not escape death, which is pitiful. "At the same time, he was very worried about the situation of the Huo Mansion, frowned and said: "The people in the handyman class probably won't be able to keep it."

When she heard about the handyman class, Lu Shuyi suddenly remembered something, her eyes sank, she rolled up her sleeves and asked: "A few days ago, the group of people in front of Shi Zifei were sent to the handyman class to do coolies because they neglected her. Yet?"

Dongmei nodded: "Yes, the maid Xiaoju who was found to be ill was originally a second-class maid next to Shizifei."

Lu Shuyi lowered her eyebrows and remained silent for a moment, feeling something flashing in her heart. After thinking for a long time, she stretched out her hand and slapped the Kang table, angrily said: "That's right, that's right."

Seeing the sudden anger on Lu Shuyi's face, Dongmei and Dongqing were confused for a moment.

When the few people looked at each other, they suddenly heard Lu Shuyi asking urgently: "Did the maid named Doumiao next to Shizi Concubine leave the palace a few days ago?"

"Yes." Dongqing replied, "It is said that she is going to fetch sweet potato pancakes for the Crown Princess."

Do I need to make a trip home to pick up sweet potato pancakes?

In such a huge palace, it is impossible for no one to know how to make sweet potato cakes. Even if no one knows how to make sweet potato cakes, there are so many talented people in Baoding Prefecture, how could there be no one who can make sweet potato cakes.

A few days ago, because Lu Shuyi was only pregnant, she only cared about the child in her womb, and didn't care too much about other things. Now that she thought about it carefully, she realized that this matter was strange.

She immediately ordered Dongmei to say, "Hurry up, go find Shuangxi immediately, and ask him to find out everyone Doumiao has come into contact with in the past few days no matter how many people he uses. "

If this plague is really He Ruyi's handwriting, then she is too crazy.

Lu Shuyi exhaled a long breath, her heart was churning along with it.

Just when Shuangxi went to investigate the whereabouts of Dou Miao, another rumor spread in the palace, saying that the plague was brought by Chai Xiu'e and Lu Wenhui who lived in the palace a few days ago.

One of them lives in Changle Town, which is very close to Zhouzhuang, and the other lives in Yizhou, which is not far from Zhouzhuang. As soon as they left, some people got sick. Who would bring the disease if it wasn't them?

With such rumors, those maidservants and women saw Lu Shuyi one by one, fearing to avoid them, they all walked around the bend.

Dongmei was so angry that she wanted to arrest these people and beat them up, she said angrily, "Are they blind? If it was the disease brought by our Fourth Young Master and Miss Xiu'e, then how could we get well? Isn't it early illness?" gone."

Lu Shuyi didn't bother to pay attention to these rumors, she only cared about the movement of the bean sprouts and the situation of the epidemic.

She went to Zhou Yong every day to watch him consider the prescriptions, and at the same time, she helped him look up some ancient books, and made one patch after another.

However, more than a dozen of the maidservants and women in the handyman class contracted the disease, and Xiao Ju, who was the first to contract the disease, died of the disease.

Everyone in the palace was panic-stricken, everyone covered their mouths and noses when they walked, and replaced the sachets and sachets they wore with wormwood, and the kitchen burned vinegar stones every day and smoked them three times in the morning and evening. .

And the people outside also heard that someone in the palace was infected with the disease, and they were too frightened to pass in front of the palace.

But within a few days, King Huo's mansion became lifeless, with a sense of oppression of death hanging over his head, making people breathless.

The concubine sighed every day, and couldn't eat or drink water. She lost weight very quickly.

Lu Shuyi had no choice but to come over every day to persuade her to eat.

Under such circumstances, He Ruyi was very carefree and happy. She also ate a lot of water and drank a lot of water. She was lying on the couch and listening to Doumiao saying how many people died today. Her charming face immediately turned into a flower, and she said with a smile: "If this goes on like this, within a month, those people who dislike me will all be dead." She stretched out her hand and twirled a crystal clear grape, peeled it and put it in her mouth , the tone became cold again: "It's just that the bitch can't get sick, it's really hateful."

Dou Miao felt cold in her heart, she was the one who brought this disaster, and now four people had died, she was also terribly afraid.

She couldn't sleep well at night for the past two days, and as soon as she closed her eyes, Xiao Ju's pale face dangled in front of her, crying for her life.

She was terrified, and also felt terribly tormented.

(End of this chapter)