When Dingbei Hou Yin Chongyan returned to Dingbei Hou's Mansion from the barracks, it was already getting late. As soon as his horse entered the gate of the Hou Mansion, he saw his daughter Yin Ru pounce like a butterfly: "Dad-"

Yin Chongyan is over forty years old and has only this one daughter, so naturally he loves the pearl in his hand, and he can't care about anything else, so he hurriedly dismounted: "Why is Ru'er waiting here, it's windy at night." ”

Yin Ru pursed her lips: "Dad, you and I are a pampered little girl in the capital." ”

There are indeed no pampered people in Dingbei Hou Mansion, even if Yin Ru is the heart of the whole family, he also learns some boxing and kicking when he is young, and in this place in the northwest, it is only good to be able to bow and fight, because I don't know when I may be able to save my life.

"So there's something to find Daddy?" Dingbei Hou was robbed and didn't get angry, but still asked with a smile. However, even if he was smiling, this tall and bold man frowned, and his eyebrows were twisted into deep Sichuan lines.

"Of course there is." Yin Ru sneered, "Mother only asked someone to tell Daddy, my cousin came with my cousin, but I didn't tell Daddy, how capable our princess is, right?" ”

This is indeed not mentioned. Mrs. Dingbei Hou also couldn't believe Taohua's so-called statement that people who were not sick would no longer be infected, let alone let the people in the northwest know that the epidemic could not be cured at all, so the person sent to deliver the letter only said that the young master had returned with the princess, and nothing else was mentioned.

"What's going on?" Dingbei Hou heard that his daughter's tone was wrong, and his eyebrows immediately tightened. During this period, he had to treat the epidemic on the one hand, maintain stability in the northwest on the other, and prevent the Beiban from getting the news to come to the sneak attack. At this moment, when I heard what my daughter meant, it seemed that the matter of curing the epidemic had changed again, and I suddenly became a little anxious.

Yin Ru sneered: "My cousin-in-law said that she can't cure this anthrax, and she can't cure smallpox." ”

This news is very bad, but it was also expected by Dingbei Hou, and he sighed and said: "Smallpox is incurable. It's just-that-all, in this way, it is really a catastrophe in the northwest, and it must be reported to the emperor immediately, but it is really not possible, and now the uninfected people in Duzhou City must be moved to Guannei. ”

In the past, there was an outbreak of smallpox somewhere, and because the epidemic was unstoppable, local officials were afraid of spreading, so they simply isolated all the people in the epidemic area, whether they were sick or not, and left them to fend for themselves. Even after the matter was reported to the imperial court, the imperial court acquiesced.

The northwest is heavy, and the imperial court attaches more importance to it, and it is categorically impossible to sit idly by and watch the smallpox epidemic spread, maybe this method will be practiced again. However, Duzhou City is not a small village and town, and if the entire city is confined, it will be tens of thousands of lives, which will immediately cause turmoil.

On the other hand, because there are so many people in the state, if they are allowed to move freely, if people with smallpox escape to other places, it will also cause the epidemic to spread. Even if the number is counted as one-tenth of the population, the epidemic will be completely out of control, and it is not even known that the whole country will start smallpox.

When Yin Chongyan thought of this consequence, he suddenly didn't even have the mind to go home to see the nephew of the county king, and turned over and was about to get on the horse again: "Jun'er go to see your mother and your daughter-in-law, and then tell your cousin, I have to deal with this matter immediately, and tell your cousin and the Jiang family not to go to the epidemic area, smallpox is not a joke." ”

As soon as Yin Jun agreed, Yin Ru grabbed his father's reins: "Dad, I haven't finished talking yet." My cousin said that she had to go to the epidemic area, one to find out what area was contaminated with anthrax, and the other - she said that she could not cure smallpox, but she could not cure smallpox, but she could not prevent smallpox from smallpox. ”

In the last sentence, Yin Ru said with a sarcastic face. I've never heard of such a thing, you can't even cure smallpox, and what can you say that can make people smallpox-free?

When the Marquis of Dingbei heard the first sentence, he couldn't help but get angry: "Nonsense! Zhengming has never had smallpox, what if he comes back from the disease and passes it on to him? "Let's be honest, my nephew and daughter-in-law have to mess around, and if they die, they will die, but they can't infect their nephew with illness, that is his sister's only flesh and blood!

However, when he heard the last sentence, Dingbei Hou's words were broken again in the middle of his speech: "What? Can she make people smallpox-free? ”

"yes." Yin Ru sneered, "Dad, do you think this is a fool's dream?" ”

Yin Jun couldn't help but shake his head beside him. This Jiang family, it's just a matter of using Shen Shu's eye disease to get some tricks, after all, although it is a little weird, it doesn't hinder anything in the end. But now this is smallpox, which is related to the lives of thousands of people in the entire Northwest, is it child's play!

He looked at his father, ready to persuade him if he was angry. Although the Jiang family is confused, it is always the person selected by Shen Shu himself, even if it is on Shen Shu's face, just if the Jiang family is talking in her sleep, the epidemic area still can't let her go, if Shen Shu can't look down on his daughter-in-law, it's a big deal that the Dingbei Hou Mansion looks at her - the whole house is full of subordinates who can punch and kick, and it is not difficult to see a southern woman who is powerless.

However, Yin Jun turned his gaze to Dingbei Hou, only to find that the expression on Yin Chongyan's face was very strange, not like anger, but as if he remembered something, as if he was a little unbelievable and a little surprised.

"Daddy-" Yin Ru also felt that her father's expression was strange, so she called carefully, and said a little coquettishly, "You are in charge of your cousin-in-law, is it okay for her to mess around like this and bring your cousin tired?" ”

Yin Chongyan waved his hand, and interrupted her as if he was impatient with his daughter's words: "She said, can people not have smallpox?" ”

"yes." Yin Ru was a little unhappy, "Dad, you won't believe it, will you?" Where is this approach? ”

Before she could say anything, Yin Chongyan had already thrown the reins of the horse to the little maid who came, "Where is your cousin-in-law?" ”

Yin Ru opened her mouth, and saw Yin Chongyan striding towards the inner courtyard, and couldn't help but be stunned: "Dad-"

Yin Chongyan couldn't hear what his daughter was saying at this time. The words that Fang Cai's daughter said suddenly reminded him of an old man he had seen in the barracks when he was a child.

That old man was a native of the southwest region, and he heard that he was still a descendant of a well-known family of doctors in the local area, but because he killed the children of local officials, he was accused of making a name for himself as a quack doctor and causing death, and his whole family was sent to the northwest to fill the army. Due to the lack of adaptation to the water and soil, the family died on the road, and only this old man supported him to the northwest.

Because he had some medical skills, the old Dingbei Marquis transferred him to the barracks, Yin Chongyan was only eleven or twelve years old at the time, followed his father in and out of the barracks, once fell from a horse and sprained his ankle, and was sent to the old man for treatment, so he recognized him.

Lao Langzhong was usually silent, perhaps because Yin Chongyan was only a half-old child at that time, so he said a few more words to him. came and went, and the two couldn't say that they were friends for the year, but they could often say a few words.

At the end of that year, the weather was extremely cold, and many people in the barracks suffered from wind chills. Lao Langzhong was busy all day, and he also found time to go to the grave of his wife and children, but before the first month passed, he fell ill.

He is already in his sixties, and he has been exiled to the northwest for thousands of miles, and his body has actually been cut out in the air, only the breath hangs, and it is not obvious on weekdays. This time he himself was infected with the wind cold, which was menacing, and he couldn't get up again when he lay down.

Although he was seriously ill, he was sane and clear, and for the first time he told Yin Chongyan, who came to visit, about his past. He said he was convicted because he had given anti-pox to a child in a local official's family who had not contracted smallpox, and as a result, two of the family's four children survived, but the only son died.

The anti-pox technique, Yin Chongyan sounded thrilling, it was actually to use the pox slurry from the smallpox patient to let the unsick child first contract smallpox and have a disease.

Yin Chongyan only thought that this old man was a madman at that time, even if Lao Langzhong said that he had three grandchildren in his family, all of whom used this method and survived, he couldn't believe it.

However, he still remembered what Lao Langzhong said when he was dying: The disease of smallpox, once it is passed, it will never be again again, so it can be seen that there must be some truth in it. After administering acne prevention to my three grandchildren, I thought I had a perfect solution, and I was anxious to apply it to others, so that I deserved this result. Those who practice medicine should not be careless and cautious. However, there must be merit in this method, but unfortunately I can't do what I can't do, otherwise it will benefit the world. Now that I am dead, I dare not complain, and the wife and children of those who regret it are innocent, and I am burdened. What is even more regrettable is that the three grandchildren died here, and it cannot be proved that the anti-acne technique is really effective, so that future generations dare not continue to try.

After Lao Langzhong said this, he was silent again. Maybe he also saw that Yin Chongyan didn't believe him at all, so he refused to say more, and he was silent until he died.

Perhaps it was because it was too unbelievable, but Yin Chongyan kept these words in his heart. At this moment, when he heard Jiang say that he could no longer be infected with smallpox, his mind suddenly floated to the words of the old man - could it be that there is really such a way? Or is Jiang also like this old man, but whimsical?

Yin Zhong rolled in the core, not obvious on the face, and strode into the main courtyard. As soon as I entered the house, I saw my nephew Shen Shu, who I hadn't seen for a long time, wearing a sandalwood robe very rarely, and was talking to Mrs. Dingbei Hou. On the next chair sat a woman in a pink jacket, listening with a smile on her face.

"Uncle!" Shen Shu hurriedly got up.

"No need for those courtesies." Yin Chongyan waved his hand to stop the maid who had taken the mat, strode forward, and patted Shen Shu on the shoulder, "It looks good." ”

"Let my uncle miss it." Shen Shu returned his hand to grab the woman who got up from the chair with him, "Uncle, this is Taohua." ”

Yin Chongyan looked at this tall woman, and said, "Ru'er said, you claim that you can make people no longer infected with smallpox?" ”

That's not a very polite question. Yin Chongyan was born tall, his face was dark in the wind and rain on weekdays, and he was full of neutrality when he spoke, so he stood condescendingly, and letting go of his voice could scare timid girls into crying. However, the woman in front of her only smiled slightly, and bowed: "Uncle came back just in time, and he was about to discuss this matter with his uncle." 166 Reading Network