"How's the situation in Dali?" Wang Yizhu asked, "Are your symptoms the same as those of other plague patients?" "Dali is the capital of Yunnan Prefecture, with a large population, and this time there was a plague, and I don't know how many people suffered. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"I don't know what the situation is in Dali." Mei Ruchu's words surprised everyone.

It turned out that Mei Ruchu was full of poetry and books, cheerful and open-minded by nature, and liked to make friends. Three years ago, a foreigner passed through Fengkou Village and had to go into the village to beg because he was exhausted. Mei Ru first saw that this person was extraordinary, well-informed, and intended to make friends, so she invited him to her home and entertained him with good wine and food. The two of them drank and talked happily, and married Jin Lan. Before leaving, Mei Ruchu took out ten taels of silver and gave it to the man, and the man was grateful. Later, this person came to Dali, and by mistake, he started a wholesale business of medicinal materials, and became a well-known businessman in less than two years.

"The so-called 'reading thousands of books, traveling thousands of miles', I have always loved to wander around. Friends have invited me to Dali many times, but I have postponed it many times due to various reasons. I happened to be free a few days ago, so I thought about visiting him. Unexpectedly, his business suffered a sudden change, not only lost all his family property, but also owed a lot of debts. The residence has also been relocated from the luxurious merchant mansions in Dali to the thatched houses in the suburbs. Mei Ru saw her friend so depressed for the first time, and she had no intention of visiting Dali City.

It is said that more than half of the people in Dali City are suffering from the plague, most of the shops are closed, and there is a dead silence in the city. Later, the plague gradually spread out of the city, and one after another people were arrested in the suburbs. Seeing this, I hurriedly bid farewell to my friends and rushed back to Fengkou Village, but unexpectedly I still could not get rid of the plague. Mei Ruchu said.

"It takes three days from Dali to Fengkou Village, and there are no symptoms during the journey, and I feel dry after returning to the village. At first, I thought it was caused by a few days of traveling, so I didn't pay much attention to it, and grabbed a few herbs and took them. Unexpectedly, the situation became more and more serious, and the day before yesterday, my body was hot, and a rash appeared on my forehead and hands, and I was shocked to suffer from the plague. The people of the village were kind enough to send me to this cave and send me food every day, but I was not treated badly. If he had gone elsewhere, he would have burned the plague alive so as not to infect others. Mei Ruchu said truthfully.

"Burned alive?" The crowd was amazed.

"In Dali, I heard that as long as you get the plague, you may be burned alive. Every day, people go door-to-door to investigate, but anyone who finds a sick person is immediately dragged to a centralized incineration, whether dead or alive. In order to avoid being burned alive, some patients fled to the mountains and hid and became 'wild men'. There is no food in the mountains, and in order to survive, there have been tragic scenes of cannibalism. Of course, these are all things that Mei Ru has heard for the first time, and she has never seen them with her own eyes.

"It's cruel! They burned people alive! Even if you are worried about the spread of the plague, you can't be so inhumane! He Xiaotian scolded.

Mei Ruchu smiled bitterly, "What's the solution?" Those people were sent by the imperial court, and no one dared to offend. Their justifications are high-sounding, saying that they are to protect those who are not sick from contagion. But they kept grasping and grasping, but the number of sick people did not decrease. Sometimes the wrong person is caught. ”

"Imperial Court?!" This information quickly alerted Bai Lufeng. The imperial court actually knew about the plague in Yunnan! Now that we know, why didn't we send someone to treat them, but hastily burned the patient? Is there any reason for this? What's even more strange is that since the imperial court already knows, why don't the civil and military officials in the capital know anything about it, who intercepted the news? All this makes people suspicious.

"Mei Gongzi don't worry, I will definitely do my best to treat you." Wang Yizhu's words made Mei Ruchu overjoyed, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed to the four of them.

Out of the cave, Mei Lao had already sent someone to greet him, and it was needless to say that he was hospitable when he returned to the village.

"Miss Wang, can the original illness be cured?" Mei Lao asked.

"It's not certain yet, but I'll do my best, please rest assured." Wang Yizhu replied.

"Girls need not be afraid, the plague is extremely difficult to diagnose and treat. Regardless of whether it can be cured or not, we in Fengkou Village thank you for your concern for Ruchu. Mei Lao is a person who understands the general situation, and seeing that Wang Yizhu did not accept it, he knew three points in his heart. The plague in Dali is raging, and there are countless famous doctors, but they are still helpless, not to mention the little girl in front of whom she doesn't seem to be very old.

How did Mei Lao know that what Wang Yizhu was worried about at this time was not Mei Ruchu's condition, but the various stakes behind it. According to Wang Yizhu's diagnosis, Mei Ruchu did not suffer from the plague at all, and various symptoms showed that he was more like poisoning. Mei Ruchu had never been in contact with a patient in Dali, and there was nothing unusual on the way back to the village, but these symptoms only appeared after returning to the village, which was very different from the onset of the plague. If it was poisoning, who was poisoning? Since someone poisoned someone, why didn't the imperial court investigate the cause and arrest the murderer, but instead devoted itself to catching the patient and burning it? What really happened in Dali?

"Mei Ruchu should have eaten something she shouldn't have eaten and was poisoned." That night, when he returned to the room, Wang Yizhu expressed the doubts in his heart.

Bai Lufeng also had a lot of doubts in his heart, "This plague incident is too strange and full of suspicions, it is not as simple as an ordinary plague, there must be someone behind it, why don't we go and take a look." First, maybe you can find out the whereabouts of the Wu clan and find your father-in-law; Second, it can also save the people and catch the culprits behind the scenes. ”

Wang Yizhu nodded in agreement.

"Madam, Mei Gongzi, should we save it or not?" Bai Lufeng is not without concern about this. If you save it, it is very likely to startle the snake; If you don't save it, you can only watch Mei Ruchu, who is in her prime of life, die.

"I will find a way to control the toxins in his body, so that it does not deteriorate and saves his life. When the truth is revealed, we will return to Fengkou Village to detoxify it. "That's the best thing I can think of at the moment.

The next day, Wang Yizhu handed over the prescription to Mei Lao, "Please forgive Yizhu for being a shallow learner and unable to completely cure Mei Gongzi's illness immediately." According to this prescription, Mei Gongzi's condition should have been relieved, and his life was worry-free within a month. Yizhu went to find someone, that person's medical skills are more sophisticated, and he thinks that he can find a cure for the plague, and he will definitely return to the village to treat Mei Gongzi at that time. ”

Mei Lao was grateful, "The girl is really a miracle doctor, and the old man thanked the whole village for the girl's life-saving grace." Don't worry, we will take good care of the girl and wait for her return. ”

The next day, the four of them bid farewell to Fengkou Village and went straight to the direction of Dali. The closer you get to Dali, the stronger the breath of death. When you arrive at the outskirts of Dali, you can hear heart-rending cries everywhere. On the barren slopes and beside the streams, there are new graves.