Shen Xian was so angry with Guo Jia that she wanted to die, and it took a lot of effort for her to resist the urge to shoot Guo Jia to death, pulling him by the collar and taking him to the guest room behind the Taishou Mansion.

Shen Xian was almost a head shorter than Guo Jia, Guo Jia could only bend down slightly to accommodate her height, and after walking for a long time, he felt uncomfortable, so he struggled and asked, "Lord, what are you going to drag me for?" You can't take me around and spread the plague—"

"Take a bath." Shen Xian gritted her teeth and said, "After taking a shower, I changed my clothes, and then you gave me as far as I went!" ”

"It's not going to work." Guo Jiayi said in a rhetorical manner: "What if I am really infected with the plague? I can't infect anyone. ”

"You're addicted, aren't you?" Shen Xian's brows jumped, she raised her hand to cover Guo Jia's mouth, opened her round eyes and said angrily: "Shut up!" Don't say those two words again! ”

Guo Jia blinked, signaling that he understood.

Shen Xian felt so tired, she had a lot to say, she wanted to pull Guo Jia's ears and scold him, and she was worried about what would happen if this sick seedling was really accidentally infected...... All kinds of complicated thoughts were kneaded in my heart and stirred into a pot of porridge, and then it was put on the fire and boiled until it smoked.

In the end, Shen Xian didn't want to say anything, she just let out a long sigh and raised her hand to push Guo Jia into the door of the guest room.

"I'll go find someone to boil water for you." Shen Xian said outside the room: "You stay honest and don't walk around!" ”

After waiting for a while but not hearing Guo Jia's answer, Shen Xian slapped the door viciously: "Got it?" ”

"Got it, lord." Guo Jia said helplessly.

Picking up the shivering maids and servants who were hiding in the next room, Shen Xian went back to the master bedroom to take a look at Lu Kang and Lu Xun's condition. Lu Xun obediently drank the medicine, and the fever subsided a lot, but Lu Kang vomited everywhere after taking the medicine. Shen Xian had a bad premonition in her heart, but she and the doctor didn't mention anything very tacitly, and after reluctantly feeding the old man a bowl of medicine, the doctor took out the dazed Lu Xun and handed it to Shen Xian.

"My lord, take the young master away." The doctor looked at Lu Xun's pale cheeks and sighed softly.

Shen Xian was silent for a while, and then touched Lu Xun's head: "Okay." ”

After transferring Lu Xun to another room and setting it up, Shen Xian took the hot water sent by the servants and went to take a hot bath next door to disinfect and relieve fatigue. In addition to the maid's clothes, there are no clothes that a girl of Shen Xian's age can wear, and in the end, the housekeeper took the initiative and gave Shen Xian a new men's dress made by Lu Kang that has not yet been made. Shen Xian has been pretending to be a man for several years, but she doesn't care about these, besides, Old Man Lu is getting older and his body has lost a lot, Shen Xian compared it and found that the clothes actually fit quite well, so he thanked the housekeeper and went to take a bath.

After washing and being refreshed and tired, Shen Xian held her long half-wet hair and planned to go next door to see how Lu Xun was doing, but as soon as she pushed the door, she saw Guo Jia standing at the door, which startled her: "Why are you here?!" ”

Guo Jia looked at Shen Xian helplessly: "Then where else can I go?" ”

"You can find a place to sleep." Shen Xian said inexplicably: "It's still the middle of the night before dawn, aren't you sleepy?" ”

Guo Jia smiled: "It's about to dawn, it's already time." ”

Guo Jia took the cloth towel from Shen Xian's hand, calmly scooped her long hair under Shen Xian's puzzled gaze, and began to gently wipe her hair.

Shen Xian was stunned, she pushed Guo Jia's arm: "What are you doing?" ”

"Since you know about the plague, why don't you pay attention?" Guo Jiapao pulled away Shen Xian's claws: "Running around with wet hair, beware of the evil wind entering the body and contracting the wind and cold, being caught as a plague-"

Shen Xian covered Guo Jia's mouth and said angrily: "Guo Fengxiao, do you know that you are a crow's mouth!" You never speak well, not bad! ”

Guo Jia looked innocent: "Where do I have it?" ”

"You just have!" Shen Xian hugged her arms and snorted coldly: "Anyway, Guo Banxian, I beg you, shut up!" I don't want to die yet. ”

Guo Jia stopped talking. Shen Xian felt that this person's ten fingers were gently pressed on the top of her head, and there was a rustling sound in her ears, she suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and just wanted to say something to break the silence, she heard Guo Jia say softly: "Okay." ”

After a night of tossing, Shen Xian didn't try to drive Guo Jia away again, anyway, this person didn't move his nest alive or dead, and she couldn't do anything. But there are still necessary measures, so Shen Xian and Guo Jia agreed on three chapters.

"First of all, you have to listen to me, you can stay wherever I tell you to stay, and you are not allowed to run around." Shen Xian raised a finger and said with a stern expression.

Guo Jia nodded, but looking at his eyes that glanced around, he knew that this person didn't take Shen Xian's words to heart at all. Shen Xian frowned and thought for a long time before saying, "If you don't listen, I'll write back to Yizhou now and ask Wen Ruo to turn over all the wine you hid and sell it." ”

Guo Jia was stunned for a moment: "Lord, you can't do this!" You said it at the beginning, how can you regret the beauty of the world and the elixir of Yulu? ”

Shen Xian narrowed her eyes slightly, and she whispered, "I just regretted it, what are you going to do?" ”

probably didn't expect Shen Xian to be such a straightforward scoundrel, Guo Jia reacted for a while before slowly saying, "Lord, do you really want to do this?" ”

Shen Xian said that it is so strong when it sounds good, and it is a stubborn donkey when it is ugly, and she loves to compete with others the most in her life, and the more she opposes a thing, the more she wants to try it. If you follow her fur, you will find that this is a soft and cute animal, and sometimes it will rub you when it is happy; If you go against the hair, I'm embarrassed, and you will turn around and bite viciously every minute.

So when Guo Jia said it in a slightly threatening and persecutive tone, Shen Xian successfully blew up.

"One word." Shen Xian smiled: "You are either obedient or leave, choose for yourself." ”

"I'm obedient." Guo Jia didn't say anything more, a smile flashed at the corner of his mouth, and he nodded and said, "Lord, what you say yourself, you must remember that I never suffer a loss." ”

Shen Xian casually bowed her hand to Guo Jia, not taking his words seriously: "Each other." ”

"The second point...... If you haven't thought about it, let's talk about it later! ”

was interrupted by Guo Jiayi, Shen Xian completely forgot what the "Three Chapters of the Law" she had just thought of was, she scratched her head irritably: "Now you stand outside the door and don't run around, I'll go and see how Bo Yan is." ”

In order to show his sincerity, Guo Jia nailed himself to the corridor like a tree, and watched Shen Xian push the door to enter the guest room, he suddenly asked, "I heard the doctor say that he has a fever?" ”

Shen Xian's fingertips clicked on the door frame, feeling the slight coolness of the morning dew condensed on it, and she said, "I fed him medicine before, and now his condition is much better." ”

Guo Jia asked again: "Where are you ...... Master Lu?" ”

This time Shen Xian didn't speak, she shook her head slightly.

Guo Jia understood what Shen Xian meant, and he didn't speak again.

Lu Xun shrunk himself into a small ball on the bed, hiding in the quilt and half asleep. He slept restlessly, his brow furrowed, and he kicked his legs from time to time. Shen Xian put her hand into the quilt to grab Lu Xun's pulse and hold it for a while, and finally breathed a sigh of relief after feeling that his pulse was a lot normal.

"This frowning ......" Looking at Lu Xun's pale little face with two conspicuous blushes, Shen Xian helped him tuck the corners of the quilt: "What did you dream of?" ”

Of course, Lu Xun couldn't answer, he turned over uneasily, his cheek touched Shen Xian's palm, he shivered at first, and then he pressed towards Shen Xian's palm like a young beast shivering from the cold when he saw the source of fire, and rubbed it obediently.

If it were in normal times, Lu Xun's unconscious behavior would definitely make Shen Xian's heart tremble, and she couldn't wait to hug it and kiss her. However, at this time, Shen Xian only felt sad.

"Sleep well, it's okay, don't worry."

Shen Xian coaxed and rubbed, and finally let Lu Xun fall asleep well, she gave Lu Xun another set of stitches, and then got up and went out.

Guo Jia was not at the door, only the housekeeper was waiting respectfully under the cloister with a thick cloak, and when he saw Shen Xian looking around at the door, he hurriedly greeted him and said: "Mr. Guo went to the hall to find Liu Yuanjun to discuss matters, let me wait here, ...... you."

Shen Xian took the cloak and wrapped it around her body, and for a moment she seemed to want to say something, and finally waved her hand: "...... Never mind. ”

"How's it going out there?" Shen Xian changed the subject.

"Liu Yuanjun and General Zhao led people to seal off the city, all the people who were confirmed to be infected with the epidemic moved to the south of the city, the doctor was also there, and the rest of the people were strictly forbidden to go out, and as soon as there was an illness, they would immediately report it, and then send people out......"

The butler trotted behind Shen Xian and whispered. Shen Xian turned his head and glanced at him with his spare eyes, and found that this person was more than one rank higher than those maids and servants who panicked without the backbone of the master, and the most important thing was that he did not have the slightest displeasure with Shen Xian, and his gestures were respectful and respectful.

It should be Lu Kang who left something.

Shen Xian suddenly interrupted the housekeeper's words, and she whispered, "Your family's adults...... Probably not so good. ”

The housekeeper was stunned, lowered his head and said, "The master woke up once, and he said it himself......"

"When?" Shen Xian asked again.

"My lord, you took care of the young master." The butler replied.

"Come with me and take a look outside the house." Shen Xian turned around and walked towards the door: "Your family has been much better since the young master drank the medicine, and the medicine should still have some effect, and then improve it." ”

The housekeeper was slightly stunned, as if he didn't expect Shen Xian to personally take the risk to go to the place where the epidemic was most severe, but he quickly reacted, and did not shirk or show a scared look: "Wait a minute, my lord, I'll go and prepare the car." ”

"Don't bother." Shen Xian waved her hand: "Let's go." ”

In just one night, Shucheng, which was still prosperous, became so gloomy and bleak, the streets were full of patrolling sentry posts, every household was closed, and there were always thin cries that penetrated into Shen Xian's ears like a gossamer, which made her feel uncomfortable.

The north of the city is mostly where the rich families live, and the epidemic can be controlled, but not the south of the city, as soon as she stepped into the alley, Shen Xian felt as if she had come to hell. There were people lying all over the place, some of whom had only one breath left, and they were still struggling desperately; Some have resigned themselves to their fate, staring blankly at the sky with a pair of eyes, their eyes empty; Others were already dead, lying next to them and left untouched, so they had to wait for the soldiers to patrol and then drag the bodies away.

"Your Excellency?" The doctor who treated Lu Kang looked at Shen Xian in shock after feeding a dirty little boy and drinking medicinal soup: "Why are you here?" ”

"I'll see." Shen Xian said in a low voice, she felt like she was holding a ball of qi in her chest, she couldn't go up or down, and she was so stuffy that she was about to explode: "Those corpses...... How did you deal with it? ”

"To prevent contagion, they were all burned." The doctor sighed: "Evil......"

Shen Xian leaned against the wall and watched a group of doctors busily shuttling back and forth among the people, doing her best just to save an innocent life. She was dumbfounded: How did this happen?

Shen Xian asked in a hoarse voice, "Can it be cured?" ”

"Try your best." The doctor replied: "This doesn't seem to be a disease, like Lord Lu, this bowl of medicine in the old man's hand is useless; But like Young Master Lu, it can basically be good if it is poured down, or it may be a problem with physical quality, some people are fine if they have good health and high resistance, and some people are not good......"

The doctor babbled for a long time, but Shen Xian didn't listen again, she turned around and left silently.

As soon as she got out of the alley, Shen Xian ran into Zhao Yun, Sun Quan and Lu Kang. When she saw the two children, Shen Xian was frightened, she suddenly took a step back and distanced herself from the three of them, and shouted at the same time: "What are you doing in the city!" Isn't it a lockdown! ”

The last sentence was said to Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun's face flashed with shame, and he clenched his fists and pleaded guilty: "It's the subordinates who are not doing well, Zhong Mou hid in the carriage and secretly followed, he and Gongji didn't want to go back......"

"Sun Zhongmou." Shen Xian closed her eyes, and she suddenly became a lot calmer: "What are you doing here?" ”

"I, I'm seeing you all leave......" Sun Quan said resignedly, hiding behind Zhao Yun. If Shen Xian had kept a violent posture and beat him up, Sun Quan would not have been so afraid, but just like Sun Ce, who suddenly got up, made Sun Quan's legs tremble in fright, when Shen Xian's cold gaze as if it had been quenched in ice water swept over, Sun Quan suddenly froze, and the words he said were all stammering.

Shen Xian asked again, "Do you think it's fun?" ”

Sun Quan shook his head violently: "No!" No! ”

In fact, after seeing so many people who were about to die of illness along the way, especially after accidentally seeing the corpses piled up by the soldiers at the city gate ready to be burned, Sun Quan's spirit was already tense to the extreme, and he felt that he was about to vomit.

Looking at Sun Quan, who was scared like a quail, and at Lu Ji, who was standing straight in place with his neck bent, Shen Xian said slowly: "If you are a doctor, even if you have even the slightest idea about these plagues, I will not stop you outside the city." ”

"But now you sue me, what can you do?" Shen Xian laughed sarcastically: "Save people? Or do you help take care of the sick? Or like the soldiers, carry the dead to the gates and pile them up to be burned—"

"Vomit-" Before Shen Xian's words fell, Sun Quan suddenly clasped his chest with one hand, and grabbed the hem of Zhao Yun's clothes with the other hand, bent down and began to retch.

"You don't even have the courage to listen to these news...... Shen Xian shook her head: "I don't let you come, because you really can't help anything, and if you are infected, you will add chaos and delay your legs." Zhongmou, your brother entrusted you to me, and I have to be responsible for you; Gongji, too, your father has not woken up from his bed. ”

"But, but everyone is busy...... Sun Quan, who had been retching for a long time, gradually eased up under Zhao Yun's gentle patting, and he lowered his head and said, "How can we just wait outside." ”

"How much ability you have, how much responsibility you have," Shen Xian said lightly: "Otherwise, you will be reckless." ”

"Shall I send them away?" Zhao Yun asked Shen Xian.

Shen Xian shook her head: "Now that the city is closed, I can't leave if I want to, go to Taishou Mansion, let the housekeeper find two rooms far away for them to live in, don't run around and stay honestly, in case you feel uncomfortable, come to me." ”

Sun Quan was honest now, he followed Zhao Yun like an eggplant beaten by frost and slowly moved forward.

Lu Ji suddenly said, "Sister, I want to see my father." ”

Shen Xian's back stiffened slightly, and just when she hadn't figured out what excuse to use to prevaricate Lu Ji, Lu Ji said again: "Sister, I know that my father may not be able to hold on, so I want to come back to see him, can you take me there?" ”

Shen Xian turned her head slowly, and Lu Ji's deer-like pure and immaculate eyes made her heart hurt slightly. After a while, Shen Xian said, "Yes." ”

"Thank you, sister, I'll leave after reading it, I won't trouble you." Lu Ji said obediently: "Bo Yan is ......"

Shen Xian tried her best to show a smile to Lu Ji: "He's fine, he has already taken medicine and has improved, and if nothing happens, he will be almost fine after a few more days." ”

"That's good." Lu Ji didn't say anything more.

At the gate of the Taishou Mansion, the group ran into Guo Jia and Liu Xuan. Shen Xian didn't dare to approach the others because she had just returned from the hard-hit area in the south of the city, so she told Zhao Yun to take Lu Ji to see Lu Kang after she had done a good job of disinfection, and then hurriedly went back to the house to take a bath.

Before the washing was finished, someone knocked at the door: "Lord, there is a letter, it is sent from Yizhou and Yangzhou." ”

Shen Xian tore off the robe that had been cleaned and finely smoked with wormwood leaves, wrapped herself simply, walked over and opened the door: "Who sent it?" ”

Guo Jia handed the letter to Shen Xian: "Zhao Ji and Gong Jin." ”

Cai Yan's letter said that the news of the outbreak of the plague in Lujiang had spread all over the world, Cao Mengde's soldiers and horses stopped at the border of Yuzhou, Hua Tuo had already set off to come here, and he would be able to arrive in ten days at the earliest.

Zhou Yu had two letters, which were sent in chronological order, and the first letter said that they had stationed themselves thirty miles outside Shouchun City with Danyang's soldiers and horses, and had passed on the news that Yuan Yao was still alive and Yang Hong was undercover to Yuan Shu.

In order not to startle the snake, so as to get rid of all the forces that Yang Hong buried in Shouchun in one fell swoop, Yuan Shu and Sun Ce jointly staged a play to coax Yang Hong. They first arranged for Yuan Yao to "die" in the assassination of Yang Hong's assassins, and then Sun Ce sent people to Yuan Shu every day to talk about the union, and just when the two sides were almost finished talking and Yang Hong was already in a hurry, he finally received the news that "Yuan Yao is dead".

So Yang Hong couldn't wait to inform Yuan Shu of the matter, Yuan Shu was furious, and the alliance negotiated with Sun Ce immediately turned yellow, and the two of them wrote letters and scolded each other every day, looking like they were tense, but in fact, they were secretly pulling out Yang Hong's subordinates who came to send letters to Cao Cao one by one.

The second letter, which followed the first letter, contained only a few short sentences, to the effect that they had learned of the outbreak of the plague in Lujiang, and Yuan Shu moved the people of Jiujiang near the border of Lujiang to Wujun and Danyang in large numbers. And Sun Ce clamored every day to come to Lujiang to take Shen Xian out, but was stopped by Zhou Yu.

Yuan Shu did this probably to give up Lujiang, originally he couldn't gnaw on this hard bone, now the hard bone is not only hard, but also poisonous, Yuan Shu doesn't want it, and he is busy dealing with the upcoming Cao Cao, where can he care about the life and death of the people of Lujiang.

As for Sun Ce, it was the right choice for Zhou Yu to stop him from coming over, Shen Xian is now doing everything possible to send people out, how could he let Sun Ce come over and mix blindly.

"What do you think?" Shen Xian asked.

"Cao Mengde stopped in Yuzhou, Lujiang is safe for the time being, and no one will come over anyway." Guo Jia smiled: "As for when he will fight with Yuan Highway, it probably depends on the situation on Yang Changshi's side." ”

Shen Xian pondered for a moment and then said slowly, "How about letting the eldest brother withdraw?" ”

Guo Jia said: "I just don't know Eberfu's character......

Will he be willing to send troops to occupy the territory at such a time?

Shen Xian knew that she shouldn't have this kind of mood, and she was obviously sad to see the people on the street suffering so much, but deep down, Shen Xian was really glad that this plague came too timely, so that she took down Lujiang without a single soldier, not to mention, and became a shield that everyone avoided in front of Yu Zhang and Huiji. With Lujiang in front of him, no one dares to care about it at this time, even if Yuzhang Huiji Second County stirs up the sky.

I'm not a thing. Shen Xian thought silently.

Guo Jia didn't seem to notice Shen Xian's abnormality, he thought for a while and said, "Huiji will be handed over to Gongjin and them, and Yuzhang will be handed over to me." ”

Shen Xian frowned: "You are alone?" What are you going to do? ”

Guo Jia was very indifferent, he smiled and said: "Lord, sometimes it is not necessary to send troops to take a piece of territory, the so-called 'general scheming, then cutting the enemy, then attacking the army, and attacking the city', pay attention to the soldiers who surrender without a fight, just like Lujiang." ”

Shen Xian frowned slightly, and a flash of intuition told her that there was something wrong in Guo Jia's words, but she didn't hear it.

"You ......" It is best for Guo Jianeng to take the initiative to leave the dangerous place of Lujiang, but Shen Xian is not very worried about him alone: "I will send Zilong to go with you, there will be a response on the way." ”

"No need." Guo Jia refused, he suddenly laughed: "Zilong still follow you, if the lord has to let me bring someone, how about handing over Lu Xiaogongzi to me?" ”

"What are you doing with him as a little kid?" Shen Xian was very puzzled.

Guo Jia put on an unfathomable expression: "My lord, this kid in your mouth is now the patriarch of the Lu family, and the person who takes the lead. I want to subdue the hearts of the people, the patriarch of Lu wants to establish authority, and we will take what we need...... Don't underestimate him. ”

Remembering that Lu Ji was sometimes so precocious that he didn't look like a child at all, Shen Xian sighed: "I don't have ...... Well, if he agrees, I don't have much of an opinion. But you have to take care of him, I promised Lord Lu. ”

"Don't worry, my lord." Guo Jia blinked: "I also have experience in taking care of children, and I have one at home." ”

Guo Jia didn't mention it, as soon as Guo Jia mentioned it, Shen Xian suddenly remembered Guo Yi's pitiful appearance of being tossed by his father, and then had a deep sense of worry about Lu Ji's future.