I don't know if it's the effect of Lu Li's medicine, or if it's really tiring to toss this one, in short, after Lu Li left, he had a good night's sleep. The next morning, at 7:20, Lu Li came knocking on my door. "Miss Chu, you still have 10 minutes. Lu Li's unhurried voice came from outside the door.

"What?"

"There are 8 minutes and 41 seconds left. ”

I hurriedly got up, got dressed haphazardly, washed quickly, and finally, cleaned up a second before Lu Li pushed the door in.

"No, when will I get up, how long will it take to get up, why do you decide?" I suddenly reacted, "Lu Li, you just bullied me into getting up in the morning to be confused!"

"Isn't this up too?" Lu Li raised his eyebrows.

"Mr. Lu, why didn't you see you being so pushy before? Yesterday we were still respectful to each other, why is this the case this morning?" I said angrily.

"First, we met at 8 o'clock this morning, and for you, if you still want to eat, getting up at 7:20 is the limit. Second, since you and I have been working together for a while recently, it is purely superfluous to be so polite. Lu Li replied. "Also, it's not like that. ”

I was speechless.

After breakfast, we met Li Nan as promised. "Please also ask Li Gong to talk to us, where was the first patient to be discovered?" I got straight to the point.

"Speaking of this earliest case, it's really strange. A 54-year-old man was transferred to the municipal hospital from the township hospital below. There is a river here, which has no formal name, but is called the Qingshui River by the locals, and the village where he lives is located in the upper reaches of the river. Later, many of the same patients were brought in, and they lived in the lower reaches of the village. Li Nan said as he recalled.

"Isn't the source of this virus very clear?

"This is strange here! He is the only one in his village who has fallen ill from the parasite, and the other patients have been infected by people later. The vast majority of the first patients sent from several villages downstream could be found to have parasitic infections in their bodies. ”

"In other words, he is the only one in their village among the first batch of patients, and the other patients belong to the second round of patients?"

"Exactly! It stands to reason that if there is a source of infection in this village, there is no reason to infect people outside first, and no one else in this village is infected with this parasite carrying the virus except for the first patient! And we have investigated many times later, but we have found nothing. It's a pity that this patient died soon after the onset of the disease, and he didn't have time to ask what he had been exposed to and what he had done before. Li Nan's face was embarrassed.

"I see. I mused.

"Regardless, a little clue is better than nothing. Since this is in doubt, let's start here. "After listening to what we said, Lu Li proposed this plan.

"Looking at the current situation, it has to be like this. Next, I asked Li Gong to take us to that village. ”

The village is really remote. After a morning in the car, I came to this conclusion. On the way, Li Nan told us that there is a centuries-old ancient cypress tree at the entrance of the village, which is still flourishing today, and it is because of this ancient cypress that this village is called Gubai Village. Most of the young people in the village have gone out to work, and now only some old people and children remain in the village, and it is extremely quiet after nightfall.

After arriving at Cooper Village, it was already noon. After lunch at the village chief's house, we took the opportunity to inquire about the origin of the first patient. "Oh, the person you are talking about is Zheng Youcai, and he usually likes to wander around the village. The daughter-in-law died the year before last, and there were two sons, both of whom were working on the construction site outside, and they didn't come back once or twice a year, and this time they didn't even come back when Lao Tzu died. At the mention of him, the village chief shook his head again and again, with a look of disdain. "Supposedly, he is a little old, but he does some things that are not respected. For example, he is a person who likes to take advantage of small advantages, and when he sees a small cucumber ripe in other people's vegetable gardens, he has to pick it away. Usually, even if you see a rotten rope on the ground, you quickly pick it up and put it in your pocket. The whole village is old and young, and no one is close to him. ”

"No, we have been in trouble here recently, and it started with him. When he was sick, he didn't go to the hospital, but quietly shrunk at home. Or we haven't seen him wandering around the village for a few days, go to his house to take a look, good guy, there is not a single bottle or jar left at home, all of them are smashed, and even the ballast is lost. Seeing that he was really sick, the big guy rushed people to the township hospital. Later, the township hospital said that it could not be accepted, and it was a terrible epidemic, so it was transferred to the city hospital overnight. When he was transferred to the hospital, he shouted that he would not go, and he died not long after arriving at the ground. Alas, you can tell me, it's just that he is looking for his own death, and the people who sent him to the hospital are infected with the epidemic, and they come back and string together a village, really, really ......" At this point, the village chief couldn't say any more, only sighed again and again, and waved his hands again and again.

"So, you don't know what he was exposed to before he got sick?" I asked.

"Oh, it's too late for us to avoid him, so who cares what he does!" said the village chief hurriedly.

Coming out of the village chief's house, I couldn't help but talk to Lu Li about Zheng Youcai: "It seems that there are many doubts about this Zheng Youcai. First of all, if a normal person is sick, there is no reason not to go to the hospital and quietly hide at home. Secondly, this person loves to hang out, loves to be cheap, and has a greater chance of encountering unusual things than others. Besides, a person who loves to be greedy for small and cheap will inevitably be a little stingy, and there is no reason for him to suddenly change sex after illness and smash his own things, right?"

"Unless, he's trying to hide something. "I'm right.

"Not bad," Lu Li said after listening to my words. "Maybe the mystery is hidden in the pile of fragments of bottles and cans. Even if a sick person wants to hide something, he can't go far, so we might as well go to his house first. ”

After inquiring all the way, Lu Li and I found Zheng Youcai's residence, a house that looked a little old, the courtyard wall was crawling with creepers, the wall skin was falling off, and the door was not locked. I went up and knocked on the door to make sure that there was no one at home, as the village chief had said.

So, Lu Li and I unceremoniously pushed the door into someone's house.