"Mother, I heard that my cousin has smallpox?" Yin Ru rushed into the house of Mrs. Dingbei Hou in a whirlwind, her hair was a little scattered, and her body was full of dust blown by the northwest wind. After a few busy days in the temporary good hall, she lost some weight, her apricot eyes looked bigger and bigger, and her eyes were a little bright when she stared at people.

"Don't worry, the accompanying imperial doctor said that your cousin is not seriously ill, and your cousin-in-law has rushed over." Mrs. Dingbei Hou was actually so worried that she couldn't wait to rush over immediately, but she couldn't separate herself. It has been a few days since the outbreak of the epidemic in the northwest, and the news can no longer be hidden, and there has been movement in the Beiban side recently.

"That's smallpox!" Yin Ru's eyes widened, "It's all Jiang's!" obviously told her that her cousin had never had smallpox, and she also asked her cousin to go to the epidemic area to find some cattle, what should I do now! Cousin, if my cousin has three longs and two shorts, I will never spare her! ”

"Nonsense!" Mrs. Dingbei Hou scolded loudly, "What three long and two short." Didn't I say it just now, the doctor said that your cousin is not seriously ill. ”

Yin Ru stomped her foot fiercely: "Mother, why are you confused!" That's smallpox! There is no smallpox disease that is not serious, but it has not yet been released. I've heard people say, I've heard people say......"

These days, because of the discovery of smallpox, Yin Ru has also learned a little about this disease. It is true that smallpox is more likely to infect children, but adults are not completely immune to infection, and pox is less likely to occur after infection, so it is more troublesome.

Mrs. Dingbei Hou didn't know this truth, she had been upset for two days, and now when she heard her daughter speak like this without taboos, she couldn't help but feel even more irritable: "Okay, okay, stop talking!" ”

"I, I'm going to find my cousin!" Yin Ru really couldn't sit still. When she got the news, she thought that Shen Shu had already returned to the Dingbei Hou Mansion, but who knew that she ran back in a hurry, but the person hadn't come back yet, how could she wait any longer?

"Stop!" Mrs. Dingbei Hou slapped the table, "What time is it, what kind of mess are you making!" "The epidemic is rampant outside, and I have already sick a nephew, do I want another daughter to be sick? And Yin Ru has only taken over for a few days on the temporary Shantang, so do you have to throw it away?

Yin Ru stubbornly wanted to go out: "There are naturally others on Shantang's side, without me. I'm going to my cousin! ”

Mrs. Dingbei Hou slapped the table again: "Your cousin has your cousin-in-law over there!" ”

"What kind of cousin is she!" Yin Ru finally burst out, "If it wasn't for her grandfather, my cousin's eyes wouldn't have been broken. I don't know how she deceived her cousin, and actually said that this disease was passed from our family, and my cousin actually believed it! If she marries her cousin and treats her cousin, then that's fine, but mother, you see, she instigated her cousin to go to the epidemic area, and now her cousin is really infected with smallpox - she, what kind of thing is she! Just thinking about his own fame and reputation, how could he ever think about his cousin! ”

As she spoke, tears flowed down her eyes, and two light-colored marks were drawn on her thin face: "If she kills my cousin, I must kill her!" ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" Mrs. Dingbei Hou can only repeat this sentence now, "Your cousin is a blessed person, and he will be fine." ”

"Mother, do you believe it yourself?" Yin Ru wiped away a handful of tears, "Anyway, I'm going to see my cousin, if something really happens to him, I, I always want to see him for the last time!" ”

Mrs. Dingbeihou's eyes were also red, but she said: "The more you talk, the more unkind it is!" What the last side, your cousin will be fine! Besides, with the Jiang family taking care of you over there, what did you look like in the past! ”

Yin Ru cried loudly: "I don't care, I don't care!" I'm going to see my cousin! ”

The mother and son were in a mess, and Xiangxue, the big girl beside Mrs. Dingbei Hou, walked in quickly: "Madame-" Seeing Yin Ru's cloaked appearance, she was shocked.

The daughter of the northwest is bold by nature, and she doesn't like to apply grease and powder very much, but the young girl is very concerned about her appearance. And the Dingbei Hou Mansion also has some rules in the army, that is, everyone must be capable and tidy, let alone the masters, how can they see such a messy appearance at such a moment, and Xiangxue was shocked.

Mrs. Dingbei Hou pulled her sideburns and said in a deep voice: "What's the matter?" ”

Xiangxue glanced at Yin Ru, whose face was full of tears, and her voice couldn't help but be a little quieter: "There is news from the quarantine area, what kind of green plum drink did the princess use, a total of twelve people have been medicated, and six of them have improved now." ”

"Is that really useful?" Mrs. Dingbei Hou didn't know whether to be surprised or happy. Anyone who used that green plum drink was a critically ill person who had no effect on the medicine, and now he has lived six, and it should be said that the effect is very good.

"But six more died." Yin Ru sobbed and retorted.

Mrs. Dingbei Hou didn't care to listen to what she said, and hurriedly said, "Is there still that medicine?" How did the princess make it, hurry up and make it again! ”

Xiangxue said helplessly: "The slave maid went to inquire with the guards who came to the northwest, and said that the princess had loaded a lot of rotten melons and rotten fruits in the carriage, and only then did she make such a jar." "At that time, the smell of the carriage was really not good, but fortunately it was winter, and if it was summer, I was afraid that it would not stink all the way.

"Rotten melons and rotten fruits?" Mrs. Dingbei Hou and Yin Ru were dumbfounded. Could it be that this green plum drink is actually made from rotten melons and rotten fruits? Those things are meant to eat bad guys!

"I heard that there are other people's pickled vegetables......" Xiangxue didn't know what expression she should make. Rotten fruits, vegetables, and vegetables have to run away after eating, which is a well-known thing, but I have not heard that eating these can cure diseases.

So now that the princess is not here, no one will make this thing, and no one will dare to do it at all. The medicine made by the princess of the county died after eating people, and the Dingbei Hou Mansion and the King of Anjun were behind the head, if ordinary Langzhong was like this, then I don't know what the end would be.

"Okay...... It's to save people...... "Mrs. Dingbei Hou didn't know what to say."

"Can I give this medicine to my cousin?" Yin Ru said it and regretted it, this medicine is half dead and half alive, how can it be used by Shen Shu.

"The princess said that this medicine could not be given to smallpox patients." Xiangxue hurriedly replied, this matter was specially told by the princess when she left the quarantine area. I heard that after rescuing several anthrax patients, the family members of patients with smallpox came to ask for this medicine, but they were all rejected by Fu Lao Langzhong, who was in charge of this medicine. Now that the smallpox patient is dead, the family is still making trouble, saying that Fu Lao Langzhong refused to give her son medicine, otherwise maybe someone could be cured.

Yin Ru was disappointed for a while, and pulled her hair casually: "Then I still have to go to my cousin!" ”

Mrs. Dingbei Hou was weak for a while. knew that she shouldn't let her daughter go over like this, but when she thought that Shen Shu might never come back, even she wanted to go over immediately.

"Madame, ma'am!" A little maid ran into the courtyard, and did not dare to enter the main room, but stood in the courtyard and said loudly, "The princess sent someone back to deliver a letter, saying that the princess and his wife should rest assured that the prince's illness does not matter." ”

"What doesn't matter?" Yin Ru jumped to the door in one step, "You come in!" Why doesn't it matter if the prince's illness matters? ”

The little maid was just passing the word, and she was not qualified to enter the main room, so she was startled by the young lady, and stood in the middle of the courtyard and didn't dare to move: "It was the first brother of the prince who came back to deliver the letter." ”

"Call in!" Mrs. Dingbei Hou couldn't calm down anymore, and stood up and called out repeatedly, "Tell him to come in!" ”

Chu Yi came in in a hurry, and was asked by Yin Ru on his face without waiting for a salute: "What's wrong with my cousin?" ”

Chu Yi hurriedly said: "Don't worry, girl, the princess said that the prince did not have smallpox." ”

"What's that?" Mrs. Dingbei Hou breathed a sigh of relief, if it wasn't smallpox, it would be good if it wasn't smallpox, and if it wasn't smallpox, it would be saved. However, didn't the news sent back from the previous one say that it was smallpox, and there was a pox on the body, so why was it not smallpox at this time?

Yin Ru had already asked quickly: "Is the doctor wrong to diagnose?" ”

Chu Yi sorted out his language before he replied, "It's not that the doctor made a mistake. The princess said that the disease that has passed on people is called smallpox, and the prince came from a sick cow, which is not called smallpox, it is called cowpox. ”

"What kind of people have pox, isn't it different?" Yin Ru interrupted him anxiously, "Is that cousin okay now?" ”

"Not yet." The first day of the first year was a little embarrassed, "The princess asked her subordinates to come back first to deliver the letter, please rest assured that the illness will be cured in ten days at most." ”

"What?" Yin Ru was about to jump up suddenly, "The illness is not cured yet, so it is reassuring?" How can this be reassured? She said that she would be healed in ten days, but what if it was not good? ”

It was difficult to answer this at the beginning of the first year, so after thinking about it, I had to say: "My subordinates don't know medical skills, but I see that the pox on the prince's body is very thin, and his spirit is not bad, it really doesn't seem like smallpox." "And the same goes for another guard, who was sick at the same time. Doctor Gu began to look at smallpox and said that it was smallpox, but now he also said that it didn't look like ordinary smallpox.

"That's a pox that can't come out!" Yin Ru was even more anxious, "It's dangerous if you can't get pox, don't you know?" ”

Of course I know this. But Imperial Doctor Gu said that if there is no pox, the patient's mental lethargy will be very obvious, and he will have a high fever and weakness, which is very different from the current situation of the prince.

Mrs. Dingbei Hou waved her hand to stop her daughter, and asked in a deep voice: "That's what the imperial doctor really said?" Isn't he the one brought by the Chiang family? ”

"Imperial Physician Gu was invited to treat the epidemic." Chu Yi hurriedly replied, "According to the prince, it may be someone who the emperor can trust." "Moreover, the northwest is the territory of Dingbei Hou, and Shen Shu is the nephew of Dingbei Hou, who dares to talk nonsense about his life and death? If you say it's okay, Shen Shu really has an accident when he turns around, and Gu Cong's ten lives are not enough for Beihou to die.

"So, Zhengming will really be fine?" Mrs. Dingbei Hou was skeptical, and hope rose in her heart.

Chu Yi: "When the subordinates came down, the princess and her party had already left to come back, and the subordinates saw with their own eyes that the prince was in good spirits." Count, I'll be back in two days. ”

Yin Ru wanted to jump again: "Smallpox patients want to recuperate, how can they still hurry?" "It's a well-known fact that you can't see the wind when you have pox, but it's freezing in the northwest, how can you not be in a hurry?

Mrs. Dingbei Hou glared at her: "You have a good life!" Since your cousin will be back soon, you should go back to Shantang to do your business, don't make trouble! ”

Yin Ru could rest assured, but Mrs. Dingbei Hou glanced at her, with real anger in her eyes, so she didn't dare to make any more trouble, lowered her head and went out.

Here Mrs. Dingbei Hou got the repeated assurances of the first day of the new year, and her heart was a little relieved, so she said: "You go and tell the princess, don't rush back like this, even if it's not smallpox, I'm afraid it's not good if it blows." ”

Chu Yi bowed his head and said, "The princess said that those cattle should be sent back to collect pox seedlings quickly, and they should not be delayed for too long." Originally, the princess asked the princess to get well before leaving, but the princess ......, "The princess heard that the princess said that this illness is fine, so he must come back with the princess." Before he rushed back to the Dingbei Hou Mansion, Cicada Yi was still in a hurry because of this matter, and almost quarreled with the princess, and he didn't know what was going on now.

In fact, Cicada Yi is also in a hurry now. Although she was in Shen Shu's carriage, Taohua had been sitting next to Shen Shu, feeding medicine and water without pretending to be someone else's hand, and there were two people next to her, mint and bellflower, who squeezed her in the corner and couldn't come forward at all.

"My sister drank saliva, and I saw that my sister was haggard a little more these days." Kikyo smiled and brought a glass of water to Cicada Yi, "Now that the princess is here, it's fine, sister, don't worry." ”

Cicada Yi stared at the glass of water and didn't want to take it at all. Don't look at this bellflower as young, ghostly, and with a bad idea. At this time, seeing that she was coming to bring her water, in fact, there was such a place in the carriage, and as soon as this little girl sat down beside her, she was squeezed there and couldn't move. If outsiders see it, it is not said that she is inconvenient, but that she has a big shelf, and the princess's dowry maid will serve her.

"My sister should rest." Cicada Yi still took the water in the end, and the dead girl didn't put it down, if she didn't take it, it would make people see that she had to talk even more, "In fact, the princess is the hardest, and my sister should serve the princess carefully." ”

Kikyo smiled: "Not really." Sister, you didn't go to the quarantine area, the princess is really hard. The scene over there...... Sister Dieyi has vomited a few times. In fact, she also vomited, but she vomited quietly behind people's backs, Sister Mint said, they are the princess's dowry maids, the Jiang family's family background can't match the princess, the princess relies on her own skills, so they can't fall into the princess's face.

Cicada Yi also heard Dieyi describe a few words about the miserable scene in the quarantine area, but she was so focused on Shen Shu that she didn't listen to it much. At this time, he said perfunctorily: "I also heard her say that many people died." That's why she's worried about Shen Shu!

Kikyo originally wanted to stimulate her, but now when it comes to the tragic situation in the quarantine area, she is not in the mood for a while, and only said: "That's why the princess is in a hurry to go back, and get the pox vaccine out earlier, so that the people in the northwest will no longer be afraid of smallpox." ”

Cicada Yi didn't speak. In fact, until now, she didn't believe that Taohua could really make any pox seedlings, but at this time, in front of people, she would never say it.

Shen Shu was also talking to Taohua about this: "You mean, if you plant that pox seed, the disease is similar to what I am now?" "He was feverish now, but he was in good spirits, and he was definitely not in the faint and dying condition of a smallpox patient, as is commonly said.

Taohua tucked the quilt for him, nodded and said, "Yes." In fact, if you don't use medicine now, you will recover on your own in about a month. After smallpox was contracted in cows, the toxicity was much lessened, and it was far less terrible to get it to people, but it could prevent smallpox from happening again. ”

"The smallpox born on the cow is actually like this...... Shen Shu raised his hand and looked at his arm, there were a few thin pustules on the back of his hand and forearm, which looked very similar to ordinary smallpox, but it was far less dense and terrifying.

Taohua smiled slightly, and stuffed his hand back into the quilt: "That's right." You can't be careless, though. After all, I am sick now, and I am more susceptible to wind cold. At that time, cowpox was nothing, but other diseases were not forgiving. After all, this is an era when a cold wind and cold can cost people their lives, although Shen Shu is in good health, she doesn't dare to be careless.

Shen Shu lay down honestly and looked at Taohua's face: "You have lost some weight." "I want to know where the quarantine area is good to stay, and then I went to find the source of anthrax, and now I know that he is sick and rushed over, how can I not work hard?

"You've lost weight, too." Taohua touched his face, groaned for a while, and suddenly said, "I said that your contempt was passed down by blood, I wonder if you can find relatives and friends with similar symptoms?" "This time when she came to the northwest, she found that the attitude of the people in Dingbei Hou Mansion was not friendly to her, and after Zheng Mama inquired in all parties, she finally found the crux of the problem - there are no people who have been despised by Dingbei Hou Mansion.

Shen Shu hesitated for a moment, and in the face of Taohua's knowing eyes, he could only say: "My aunt said that relatives near and far have inquired about it, but they have not ...... However, perhaps as you said, there is something else in someone's blood...... Genes, it's just not shown. ”

Taohua shook her head slightly. Mrs. Dingbei Hou inquired about the seven aunts and eight aunts, but the result was none. It's a bit too rare to carry the gene for color blindness and not show it for generations. It's no wonder that the Dingbei Hou Mansion thinks she's lying, and even she herself is a little suspicious now.

Leaning down slightly, Taohua carefully looked at Shen Shu's eyes. Shen Shu's eyes are not like the Yin family sisters and brothers, but they are quite similar to the emperor, they are all narrow single eyelids, the eyeballs are black and large, and when the eyelids hang down, they look gentle and harmless, and once they are lifted to reveal the pitch-black pupils, they are a little sharp.

"See what?" Shen Shu's voice was slightly hoarse. Since the wedding night, they have been busy with the epidemic in the northwest, and if you calculate it, it has been a month, and the husband and wife have very little time to be intimate, not to mention that they can't see each other at all these days.

Taohua was slightly stunned, feeling that her hand was suddenly held by Shen Shu through her sleeves, and her five fingers made her feel a little painful, and suddenly understood, and suddenly her face was hot, and she struggled slightly: "Don't make trouble, let's get serious." ”

"I'm getting down to business, too." Shen Shu chuckled and didn't let go of her hand.

Taohua was afraid that the strength of the struggle would be too great, and he would lift the quilt on his body to suffer the wind, so he had to let him hold it and said, "I'm looking at your eyes." I've seen a method before, saying that acupuncture and moxibustion may improve the symptoms of blindness, and I want to give it a try when the epidemic calms down. ”

Acupuncture for the treatment of color blindness is a project in the former Taohua Internship Hospital, and Taohua is not qualified to participate because she is an intern, but she also read some information. In principle, the optic nerve is stimulated through acupuncture, and the effect may depend on the individual's physique.

I always thought that Shen Shu was born with hereditary color blindness, but Taohua didn't think about it, but now she has doubts in her heart, but she thinks she can give it a try.

Shen Shu was stunned: "I-can still be cured?" "For his eyes, whether it is the first emperor or the marquis of Dingbei, they all seek medicine for him, and I don't know how many ways they have thought of, but they have no effect. Later, Taohua told him that the disease of blindness could not be cured, so he was even less hopeful, and then he suddenly heard Taohua say that he could use acupuncture and moxibustion, and he was stunned for a while.

Taohua hesitated: "I don't dare to say that it will definitely work, it's just - give it a try......"

Shen Shu said without hesitation: "Okay! He hadn't hoped that his eyes would be cured before, because he couldn't see red, and it didn't really have much impact on his life. Even if you wear clothes, you are not afraid of wearing the wrong color, isn't there a maid guard?

But at this moment, he really wanted to heal his eyes. Everyone said that Taohua loved to wear red, and said that she was bright and bright in red, but he couldn't see it. Even on the day of their wedding, his vision was a deep and shallow gray, and he couldn't see the bright red wedding room, the red dragon and phoenix candles, and the red wedding dress his bride was wearing.

If one day, his eyes could see, and he could see Taohua's delicate red lips, and he could see her rosy cheeks, and he could see her figure in all kinds of red clothes, then—he thought, maybe there would be nothing more to ask for.

Taohua stretched out her hand and shook it in front of Shen Shu's eyes: "Why are you distracted, what are you thinking?" ”

"Nothing." Shen Shu came back to his senses and looked at the face with a pointed chin in front of him. Although he can't see the red lips and pink cheeks, the eyebrows like ink paintings, the eyelashes like butterfly wings, and the black and white eyes are also fresh and bright, which can make him addicted.

"Distracted again?" Taohua helplessly stretched out her hand and shook it again, always staring at her like this, there were girls in the carriage, it was really a bit of that......

Shen Shu realized that he had seen God again, and when he turned his eyes, he saw the bellflower next to him smiling, and couldn't help coughing dryly: "I, I'm thinking about the cowpox." After I go back, how to concoct this pox vaccine, and how to plant it for the people - Langzhong in the northwest is afraid that they are all in the quarantine area, and there are not enough manpower......"

Taohua pondered for a moment: "There are not many Langzhong in the northwest, so it is naturally not possible to rely on them alone." But it's not a very difficult thing to plant pox, I think - pick some people and teach them some simple medical skills, not only can they plant pox, but they will also be useful in the future. ”

This time the Northwest epidemic control, she can be regarded as knowing the hardship of not having professional manpower. To be honest, the use of those sergeants and servants in the epidemic area made her tremble, lest these people also fall ill. If you can train a group of people – not doctors, which is too difficult – but something like a nurse, it can make a big difference.