Chapter 141: Plague Outbreak
Gong Xiru was still asleep when she was woken up by a rapid knock on the door.
Before he could get up and open the door, the entourage barged in and said, "Young Master Gong, it's not good, go and see everyone." β
Gong Xiru's spirit was shocked, and he was busy putting on his clothes, and he didn't have time to comb his hair and wash, so he followed his entourage out.
Outside the quarantine area, Bai Lang Zhumo and Mrs. Hu arrived, and several people had heavy faces, and their mouths were closed as if they were discussing something.
Gong Xiru walked over and asked, "What's the matter, why are so many people suddenly infected?" β
The quarantine area was suddenly occupied, and there were hundreds of people lying horizontally and vertically on the ground.
The doctors were hurriedly giving the patient a decoction, but they had just drunk it in their mouths and were spit it out, and the scene was chaotic.
Bai Lang said solemnly: "When I got up in the morning, there was a large area of patients in the western district. From just now to now, more than a dozen people have died, and if it continues like this, I am afraid that these more than 100 people will not be able to survive today. β
Zhu Mo stomped his feet angrily: "The man hiding in the shadows, if I arrest him, I will definitely cut off his hands and feet, something like a wolf's heart." β
Mrs. Hu hurriedly persuaded: "Don't be angry with the three young masters, Doctor Lu went out to find the antidote, and he hasn't come back yet, how much antidote do you still have in your hands?" If so many people die, the news can't be controlled at all, and it will soon reach the emperor's ears, and maybe the entire heather will be sealed at that time. β
With Gong Chengyan in the palace, he will definitely try his best to make Emperor Qinglong close the way in and out of the heather.
Gong Xiru frowned slightly: "There is no antidote, now." I can only wait for Dr. Lu to come back. β
Mrs. Hu staggered and said in horror: "Gone? Aren't these people dead? It's overβthat's a good thing. β
Bai Lang pulled Gong Xiru and Zhu Mo aside. He whispered: "There may be an antidote in the hands of the poisoner, we have to find a way to find out that person." β
Zhu Mo rarely glanced at him: "Don't you talk nonsense, you are also interrogated by the people on the roster, and if you check it like this, you can't find anything at all." β
Gong Xiru looked at the people who were wailing because of the pain, and was stunned.
Zhu Mo didn't listen to him, and stretched out his hand and shook it in front of the latter's eyes: "Changyan." What are you thinking? β
Gong Xiru came back to his senses, walked to the patients first, and asked more than a dozen people back and forth. Finally, he raised his feet and walked towards the West End.
Zhu Mo and Bai Lang glanced at each other, and they both followed, Zhu Mo was puzzled: "Changyan, have you thought of any way?" β
Gong Xiru walked along. In a voice that only the two of them could hear, he said, "These people are sick in the morning. The outbreak of the epidemic is very fast, which means that these people were poisoned in the morning. β
Bai Lang thought for a moment and added: "Perhaps, the person who poisoned it was poisoned in the morning, but it was already dawn at that time, if he wasn't stupid, he wouldn't use such an easily exposed method." β
"So these poisoned people must have been exposed to something that had to be touched in the morning. The poison in the talent. Gong Xiru continued.
Zhu Mo listened to the left for a while, and listened to the right for a while. His mind flashed, and he was pleasantly surprised: "It's water, everyone eats and drinks water in the morning, it must be a problem with the water source." β
After finishing speaking, he fell into deep thought again and muttered, "No, didn't Dr. Lu also check the water before, and didn't find any problems." β
"It's not a problem with water, I just asked, among the poisoned people, there are also people who haven't eaten breakfast and haven't drunk water, think about it carefully, what do you have to touch in the morning?" Gong Xiru looked at the two.
The three of them talked and came to the West End.
The common people didn't know about the poisoning, and they always thought it was the plague, so after a large number of sick people appeared in the western district, the western district was empty in an instant, and only a few people who didn't know where to go and were helpless were still there.
Gong Xiru found someone to lead the way, and asked him to take the three of them to the patient's home, and after walking around, they didn't find any useful information, and the three of them looked a little disappointed.
In the distance, a mother's voice came: "Dabao, come here quickly, you don't have clothes on, come back." β
Gong Xiru followed the prestige and saw a child running towards him, his upper body bare, flesh and bones.
His thoughts raced, and after a moment, he suddenly smiled, "Clever." β
Bai Lang knew him, and immediately understood, and said in surprise: "You are suspicious, the poison was thrown in-"
The corner of Gong Xiru's mouth raised a confident smile: "It's not doubt, but affirmation, let's go, I know how to catch that ghost." β
Zhu Mo said twice and grabbed Gong Xiru, "Do you have a way?" What's the solution, tell me quickly. β
Bai Lang pushed him behind and said with a smile: "Go back and ask again, what's the hurry." β
"Can I not be in a hurry, seeing so many people dead, if I catch that guy, I will definitely beat him up and be angry for the people here."
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Tsuji Niang was named a six-pin'an person because of her contribution to disaster relief, but after a day's work, the news spread to the streets and alleys, and everyone knew about it.
In the next few days, Ling Yi still went out of the city with Bai Miaojian and Zhang Zuolun for disaster relief, but she didn't go missing anymore, and Tsuji's identity made Liang Kai come forward.
Liang Yi was instructed by Ling Yi to secretly observe the physical condition of the victims.
Because the supplies are good, the accommodation environment is also clean, and nothing happened.
Until this day, Chen Xiang, the shopkeeper of the silver shop, hurriedly found him and hurriedly said: "Good steward, Dongmian found a patient, the symptoms are similar to the eldest lady's, I have isolated him from other people, and the news can't get out for a while." β
Liang Yi's heart jumped, Ling Yi said that if there was a great plague in heather, then the victims outside the city would also suffer one after another, of course, he also knew that this plague was just poisoning, but others didn't know, the key was that the emperor didn't know.
"Let's go, lead the way." Liang Kaidao.
When the two of them came to the poisoner, the latter was vomiting a mess, and it seemed that there was only incoming air but no air out.
Liang Yi hurriedly took out the antidote given by Ling Yi, he knew when it would definitely come in handy, so he took it with him.
After giving the antidote to the patient, Liang Yi instructed him: "Don't say that we saved you, if someone comes to ask, just say that it is an ordinary disease, and there is no big problem." β
The power of the antidote was very fast, and within a moment of eating, the poisoned person's mind had cleared up a lot, and he understood Liang's words, although he didn't know why, but the latter saved his life, and he nodded yes busily.
"Let's hurry up, the poisoned people will definitely release the news, maybe those with ulterior motives are already on their way." Liang Qi urged.
Chen Xiang should be, and as soon as the two of them left, they saw Gong Yunrui coming over with a team of people.
The poisoned man inexplicably looked at himself surrounded by a group of people with unkind faces, and asked in fear: "Adult, dare to ask the adult to find the little one, what's the matter?" β
Gong Yunrui's face was gloomy: "You have the plague, for the good of the others, you must be isolated." β
The poisoner was shocked and frightened, "My lord, the little one just ate his stomach badly, and he didn't get any plague." β
"Hmph, look at your appearance, where is the bad stomach, it is clear that you want to harm other people, come on, arrest him, the plague breaks out here, let everyone evacuate here."
"My lord, the little ones didn't get the plague, and the little ones didn'tβadults." The poisoned man screamed while struggling, but he had just been detoxified, and his physical strength had not yet recovered, so he could not break free at all, so he could only be grabbed and taken away.
Chen Xiang said anxiously: "What now?" was captured. β
"Don't worry, let everyone cheer up and pay attention to the surroundings, since he is the first, then soon, there will be a second and third or even more, we only need to detoxify the poisoned person, even if he catches a room of people, the emperor sees that everyone is alive, then his palace family is not just a shame."
"Then I'll hurry up and find more people, we are fellow villagers, and we also know a lot of people."
Liangqi agreed: "Don't leak the news, they poison in the light, we detoxify in the dark, forgive them and can't guess who has the antidote, when the time comes, it's our chance." β
"Yes."
Gong Yunrui arrested the first person, and soon more and more people around were arrested one after another, and the news spread.
In the palace, Emperor Qinglong's face was pale, and he pointed to the group of people below, and said angrily: "How can a good person suddenly break out of the plague?" β
Everyone was silent, and at this time, the emperor was furious, who dared to speculate.
Gong Chengyan paused for a moment, and finally stood up and lamented: "Your Majesty, Wechen guessed that the plague was brought from the heather, and Wechen heard that the plague broke out in heather a few days ago, and many people died, but the local county order was not played, and Wechen thought he had heard the wrong news."
But now it seems that heather has indeed suffered from the plague, but everyone who comes out of heather, I am afraid that they are infected with the plague, Weichen believes that in order to avoid the spread of the plague, it is best to block the spread path of the plague first, and then think about how to treat the plague. β
Although he was demoted, his power is still there, and many people in the DPRK and China are still on the same line as him.
One after another, some people came forward to second.
Gong Chengyan's words, Emperor Qinglong knew what it meant, it was nothing more than giving up a city and saving most of the people.
He asked in a deep voice, "How many people outside the city have the plague?" β
Gong Chengyan thought for a while: "The plague began to spread the day before yesterday, and so far, there have been more than sixty people. β
"No dead people?" Emperor Qinglong asked suspiciously.
Gong Chengyan was stunned for a moment, and then said slowly: "Not for the time being." β
He was also puzzled about the dead man, why were all more than sixty people alive, when the poisoned person would surely die in one day? He couldn't think of a reasonable explanation, and could only think that something was wrong with the epidemic.
Emperor Qinglong breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good that there are no dead people, it's not too bad." β
Gong Chengyan was still about to be persuaded, but he saw Ling Shandao suddenly come out.
"Your Majesty, the courtiers have been outside the city for disaster relief these days, she said, those people just ate the wrong thing and made a stomach, but some people regarded it as a plague, and spread the news wantonly, which made the people outside the city panic, and the people in the city were not at ease." (To be continued......)