At this moment, Empress Dowager Gao suddenly felt something shaking under her feet, and was a little surprised, and when she looked down, she was startled. At some point, several voles were already squatting at her feet, spinning around. He tilted his head and looked at her with sly eyes.

Empress Dowager Gao screamed in fright, threw out the pen in her hand, stood up and wanted to run. Only then did she find that there were already a lot of voles in her dormitory, some lying on the ground, some with their bellies facing the sky, and more slowly crawling around, and some voles crawling in from outside the house.

Because the Queen Mother wants to review and approve the folds in the dormitory, this is a major matter involving state secrets, and without the summons of the Queen Mother, others cannot enter her dormitory, and can only wait outside the house. And these voles came in from the backyard, because it was summer, and the back doors were left open for ventilation and coolness. Voles crawl in silently and don't attract the attention of others. This caused the voles to crawl all over the house, but no one noticed them, because the voles had not yet climbed to the front yard where the palace maids and eunuchs were.

Hearing the screams of the Queen Mother, the palace maids and eunuchs in front hurriedly pushed the door and rushed in. Immediately, he was frightened by the countless voles on the ground and screamed in the same way, especially those palace maids. The Queen Mother had already jumped directly on her phoenix bed, kicking and beating on the bed, screaming and saying, "Come on, get these rats out, get them out!"

The palace maids and eunuchs hurriedly looked around for tools to fight voles, but after the tools were found, they found that they had no way to fight at all, because there were too many voles, and they kept crawling in from outside the house like the tide, and the palace maids and eunuchs were also frightened and stupid, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

From the hole in the courtyard of the Empress Dowager Gao, which was trampled by the fat palace maid, a steady stream of voles rushed out, and these voles rushed in all directions. It didn't take long for the inner courtyard of the palace to become a world of voles, and people screamed everywhere. The eunuchs and palace maids in the palace who were a little more courageous found out that this was a good opportunity for them to make meritorious contributions, and immediately desperately picked up hoes, flat poles, firewood knives, and even tables, chairs and stools, and launched a fierce battle against the voles crawling everywhere on the ground, and a man-rat war began in the inner courtyard of the palace.

It was clearly humans who had the upper hand in this battle, as these voles were nowhere near as agile as they had been. Moreover, many voles died of convulsions on all fours before the palace maids and eunuchs found them and gave them a head-on blow. The voles died in pieces in the inner courtyard of the palace, in the royal garden, in the bedrooms of the ladies, and even on the dressing table. There are vole carcasses everywhere.

The voles that crawled out of the collapsed hole in the courtyard of the Empress Dowager Gao took nearly an hour to climb and finish, and I don't know how many voles jumped to all parts of the inner courtyard of the palace, and the killed voles were piled up like a hill, and all the inner courtyard of the palace became bloodstained, full of vole blood.

Of course, there are countless eunuchs and palace maids in the palace who have been bitten by voles, and most of them jumped to their feet and attacked and bitten them when these palace maids and eunuchs didn't know what was going on. When you find that voles are rampant, you are prepared. Voles are very slow to move, so they can no longer bite them.

There was only Song Shenzong who was the exception, because these voles did not sneak in, but swarmed. Song Shenzong's dormitory was heavily guarded, and voles rushed in large numbers, although it was very sudden, but the speed was not fast, on the contrary, it was still grinding and shaking, and some of them lay down and did not move halfway through the run. Therefore, when the vole rushed towards Song Shenzong's dormitory, the guards immediately discovered it and took action.

The guards in the palace were not allowed to carry blades, but in the hands of these guards, anything could be used as a weapon. Some took off the rosary around their necks as flying locust stones, some directly slapped the handrails they were leaning on as hand sticks, or took off their belts as soft whips, and beat these voles one by one to fly around.

These guards don't know why so many voles suddenly come running, and there is a steady stream. Although it could not break through the barrier formed by the guards, it gave the guards great trouble. They were afraid of disturbing the official Song Shenzong who was resting in the dormitory, so they all silently attacked those voles that rushed in.

Despite this, Song Shenzong, who had always slept badly, woke up in the end. Because the terrible squeak of the vole is something that these guards can't stop no matter how hard they work.

So he got up and walked out of the dormitory, and when he saw it, he suddenly gasped. On the lawn rockery path not far from his dormitory, there were densely lying vole corpses, most of which had been beaten into meat sauce by the guards, and the flesh and blood were blurred. But there were still a large number of voles coming this way from all directions, and although they were not fast, they were enough to make him feel creepy.

Song Shenzong was so frightened that he took several steps back and exclaimed, "What's the matter?"

Gonggong Long hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "The official family doesn't need to panic, it's just a few voles." ”

After Gonggong Long found a steady stream of voles coming out of the hole in the garden of the Empress Dowager Gao, he immediately couldn't care about the Empress Dowager Gao anymore, and ran back to the emperor's bedroom with people at a fast pace. He was relieved to find that the emperor was still asleep, but before he could tell the guards about it, the voles had already swarmed in. He didn't participate in this man-rat war, but nervously waited in the house for Song Shenzong who was taking a nap.

Song Shenzong was awakened and came out to see this large field of mice, but he really didn't feel scared or panicked, but he was very disgusting. But no matter who else it is, including the guards who are fighting to exterminate the rats. They would rather fight an enemy with thousands of horses than fight these disgusting little voles.

Song Shenzong retreated into the room, closed the door, walked to the window, and glanced out from time to time, the terrible squeak and smell of blood, mixed with a strange smell, wafted in, making him smell even more disgusting.

He angrily closed the door and window, gasped for breath for a while, and thought to himself, could this be an inspiration from God? Is it a sign that his days are numbered? Otherwise, how could so many voles suddenly appear in the inner courtyard of the palace, which is almost isolated from the rest of the world?

Song Shenzong felt that his body was getting worse and worse these days, and it was useless to take medicine, which made him feel worse and worse. No matter what it is, always think about it that way.

It took almost an hour for these voles to be eliminated by the eunuchs and guards in the palace. The entire inner courtyard of the palace was littered with bloodstained vole corpses.

The eunuchs gathered them in a basket cart in an open space next to the imperial dining room, set up firewood, and burned baskets of voles on the firewood, and soon a disgusting smell of burnt meat wafted through the air. It made the emperor and queen mother, who were already scared enough, even more disgusting, but there was no way.

On the next day, the palace was cleaned of blood stains and burned the corpses of voles. All of them were terrified, not only because they were reprimanded by their masters, but also because of the large number of voles that suddenly appeared in the palace for some reason.

Empress Dowager Gao beat the gardener and the palace maid who were in charge of the maintenance of the garden with a board, locked them in the house for three days and did not allow them to eat, and fined them two months. In fact, Empress Dowager Gao herself understands in her heart that this matter is really no wonder for the two of them. Because this vole did not burrow through the wall, and the skill of voles to burrow far exceeds that of house mice, who would have thought that they would burrow into the inner courtyard of the palace?

Empress Dowager Gao once sent someone to check on the hole drilled out by the vole. The hole was about the size of a footbasin, and a man could barely fit into it. But no one dared to go in, so Empress Dowager Gao could only order the entire vole hole to be blocked with stones, in case new voles crawled in through this passage again.

The panic caused by voles became even more terrifying after a few days. Because people in the palace kept falling ill, and the condition was unusually terrible, even more terrible than the new plague found outside. High fever, delirium, large pimples appear in the neck, armpits and groin, and quickly break and drain pus, forming dark spots and quickly spreading all over the body, and finally die in pain within a day or two.

The first to fall ill were the eunuchs and palace maids in the Empress Dowager Gao's house, and they called the imperial doctor to come and inspect them, but the prescription was useless, and they died soon after. And one after another fell ill, and they all died very quickly. It only took two days, and the entire inner courtyard of the palace was panicked. The plague began to spread in the inner courtyard of the palace.

At this time, several little princes also fell ill one after another, Zhao Xu, Zhao Price and Zhao Kui, etc., as well as the grandmothers and maids who took care of them. This immediately made Song Shenzong's heart hang.

Several of Song Shenzong's sons died while they were still infants, which made him extremely sad. And now the remaining sons actually fell ill at the same time, and there was a high fever and nonsense of the new plague peculiar to the eunuchs and palace maids who died of illness in front of them, and at the same time lumps began to grow on the neck, armpits, and groin, and began to darken their bodies.

Song Shenzong immediately ordered the Imperial Physician Wang Yuan to come in and rectify it.

The royal court's judgment was a little unpleasant these days, because after Yang Xianmao's prescription was obtained by Song Shenzong, it was immediately printed and distributed to the entire capital medical hall and pharmacy. And on the top of the published prescription, the words "Yang Xianmao's original prescription of the Tai Hospital's Tai Doctor" were specially marked, so that Yang Xianmao's name quickly spread throughout the capital with this prescription.

Wang Yuan judged that he was not a bad person, but the so-called literati were light, and he was not exempt from vulgarity, and he was reluctant to see Yang Xianmao's recipe produce an effect, which made Yang Xianmao's reputation increase. Contrary to his wishes, his prescription really produced a good effect, and the cure rate reached 90%. Unless the person is very sick, as long as he takes his medicine to a small extent, he will soon get better. This made the people of the whole city spread the word of mouth to this young imperial doctor, and he was like a living bodhisattva, which made the royal court judge very unhappy.

In the past two days, a large number of voles suddenly ran into the palace, and the royal court judge, as the imperial doctor, already knew about it. But he kept his mouth shut and didn't say anything. Soon, there were many people suffering from plague in the inner courtyard of the palace, and the doctors in the hospital were very busy. They can only leave the matter of seeing a doctor in their hands and enter the palace to treat the sick palace maids and eunuchs. The royal physician healed members of the royal family.