The sun is like fire, the bustling Yangzhou wharf stone surface is smoking, and in the canal, large and small boats shuttle like weaving, which is more than the swimming fish in the river; On the wharf, thousands of workers are like ants working hard under the scorching sun, carrying bags and boxes of tea, silk, raw silk and grain and other Jiangnan specialties and abundant products onto the cargo ship - of course, the most of the goods are still the world-famous Yangzhou Huai salt, these white flowers of salt are not worth a few dollars in Yangzhou, but after arriving in the interior and the north, it is more expensive than gold, Yangzhou can be rich in the world, most of the credit is on this salt.

"It's time to eat!" At lunchtime, with the shouts of the foreman, the carrying work was temporarily suspended. The hard-working Yangzhou workers are lucky, when most of the people in the country can only eat two meals a day, morning and evening, they have been able to enjoy the delicious lunch, although most of the things they eat are dry cold steamed buns on the canal water, but for the sweaty body, it is the best supplement. As for the foremen, cargo owners, and the salt merchants who occasionally visited the wharf, they ordered sumptuous or affordable wine and food in the restaurants and restaurants lined up on the wharf, and sat down to enjoy the good wine and food.

"Wow......!" At this relatively leisurely moment, a group of workers who were eating together suddenly rushed out of a person, ran to the side of the canal and vomited in a big gulp of the river, and one of the workers who was squatting with him just now scolded: "Lao Jiu, you fucking diarrhea and vomiting intestines for a while, are you eating a bad stomach?" Don't go to Lang Zhong yet? ”

"Damn, the money from Lao Tzu went to see Langzhong?" The worker named Lao Jiu was violently vomiting gastric juice like rice swill, and said weakly: "But it's strange, I obviously ate hot rice last night and this morning, and I didn't dare to eat cold rice cold, how could I vomit and pull?" ”

"Lao Jiu, what's wrong?" At this time, the foreman in charge of this group of dock workers came to check the situation, and after asking what was going on, the foreman scolded: "I dare to say that you didn't eat indiscriminately, this morning you fucking drank canal water and ran to the latrine, and went to drink three or four times, of course your stomach is broken." Scolded, the kind foreman took out thirty yuan and threw it in front of the old nine, "Advance your salary for two days, go and see Langzhong, don't fucking pull to death." ”

"Thank you, Wangtou." The worker named Lao Jiu picked up the copper coin and wanted to see Langzhong, but found that he was cold and weak, and it was difficult to stand up. After the sick worker left, calm quickly returned to the wharf, and it is not surprising that in this wharf with more than 4,000 porters, it was common for one or two workers to suddenly fall ill, and no one would pay attention to the memory. But strange things are starting to happen again......

"Ouch, ouch." In the restaurant near the wharf, a salt merchant in satin clothes covered his stomach and shouted to go to the latrine. Only a moment later, one of the entourages he brought ran back to the lobby of the restaurant in a huff, grabbed the restaurant owner's collar and scolded: "You are fucking tired, you dare to take unclean wine and food for us Master Liu to eat, causing him to vomit and diarrhea now, do you know who our Master Liu is?" When the prefect of Yangzhou saw him, he also had to bow respectfully! ”

"Wronged!" The owner of the restaurant shouted tremblingly: "I also know that Master Liu's status is noble, and he specially explained that the kitchen carefully washed the dishes before frying, and even the fresh fruits on the banquet were washed three times with water, and the wine and food were absolutely clean." The salt merchant's entourage was willing to believe it, raised his hand and slapped the boss in the face, and was about to fight again, when the entourage suddenly held down his stomach again, "Damn, Lao Tzu's stomach hurts too, and Lao Tzu will eat two apples." Ouch, I'll come back to you to settle the score. So saying, the attendant also ran quickly to the hut......

At the same time, among the workers of the wharf, in the teahouses, in the restaurants, and in the restaurants, there were more than 20 patients with roughly the same symptoms on the wharf, and in the houses along the canal, there were many such patients. As time went on, more and more people became ill, and the number of sick people on the dock soon exceeded fifty, which made the people around the dock panic, no one knew what was going on, and the handling work was greatly affected, and the foremen also had a feeling of weakness, not knowing whether the next sick person was themselves. At this moment, a worker who began to help the worker named Lao Jiu to see Langzhong stumbled back, and shouted to the foreman from a distance: "Wang Tou, something is wrong, Lang Zhong said that Lao Jiu is suffering from cholera!" If you don't do it, you'll die! I want a few of us to eat and drink with Lao Jiu to see Langzhong! ”

"Cholera! (Note 1)" The foreman surnamed Wang's face turned white, and he hurriedly greeted: "Quick, quick, you guys who are eating and drinking with Lao Jiu go to see Langzhong, don't infect us with cholera...... Oops, not good! I also said a few words to Lao Jiu just now, and I also have to go see Lang Zhong. Shouting, the foreman surnamed Wang didn't even care about monitoring the work of the workers, and ran to find Lang Zhong with the other workers.

"Cholera? Damn, that's a deadly disease! Needless to say, the rich people of the salt merchants and shippers rushed to Langzhong for diagnosis and treatment, for fear that they would suffer from a serious disease that would kill people, but they were still moving slowly, and three or four salt merchants and shippers who had drunk or touched the canal water vomited and diarrhea, and showed symptoms of cholera. Desertion also began among the dock workers, who did not understand the principle of the spread of cholera, but knew that cholera would kill people and take their lives. Soon, the once bustling wharf was empty, and only a few people remained to look after the cargo, but they were also terrified for fear that they would contract the deadly cholera.

The news of the outbreak of cholera along the canal soon spread throughout the whole city of Yangzhou, and the people of the whole city were all terrified, and Han Shiqi, the prefect of Yangzhou, who was making a big slap at the post house, also had to rush back to the yamen to listen to the report of the errand and the master on the epidemic, but before others left the post house, his master came running on a horse full of sweat, holding a scroll and shouting: "Lord Prefect, something is wrong, the number of soldiers and civilians suffering from cholera plague in the city has exceeded 800, and the death toll has exceeded 100." According to the estimates of the Lang Zhong, by this time tomorrow, the number of sick and dead people will at least double! ”

"So serious?" Han Shiqi's face turned blue, although it was said that how many grass people died had little to do with him, but once the plague spread, he couldn't run away anyway if he got a 'bad' word in this year's official evaluation, not to mention that he wanted to be re-elected as the prefect of Yangzhou, even if he was transferred to other places to be an official, it was also wishful thinking. The master nodded breathlessly and said: "This is just the best plan, now the statistics in the east city of Yangzhou City, although there are no statistics in the west city, there are sick people; There are also no statistics outside Yangzhou, and I have already sent officials to count the detailed figures. ”

"How much is it useful to count patients? Now the key is, how to control the plague? How can those who are sick be treated? Han Shiqi, who usually has a Taoist face, was so anxious that he sweared. At this time, Jiangsu Governor Zhu Guozhi, Nan Huairen, Qiang Donkey and Wu Ciyou and others had heard the news and rushed to check, after asking a little, Wu Ciyou immediately wrote a few words in the palm of the donkey's hand, and the donkey immediately shouted: "Cure a fart?" Just as the city of Beijing did with smallpox, drive all the sick people out of the city, find a desolate place for them to stay, and not allow them to run around! Yangzhou City is the grain and salt transshipment and distribution center in the south of the Yangtze River, if there is chaos here, the imperial court's grain and salt taxes this year will be all over! ”

"But if all the sick are driven out of the city, they will not be able to cure them, and I am afraid that few will come back alive." Han Shiqi was the only one of the few officials present who had a little conscience, and he also knew how to think about the sick people. But his words were immediately interrupted by the donkey, who yelled, "Is the lives of a few stinky people important? Or is the emperor's grain and salt taxes important? If you don't fucking drive all the sick people out of the city, Lao Tzu will immediately ask the king to order the banner to cut you! ”

"Yes, yes, I will do it immediately." Han Shiqi was taken aback, and hurriedly agreed to do it. Nan Huairen stopped him, "Governor Han, please wait, according to the latest discovery of our European Leeuwenhoek, cholera is likely to be caused by unclean food and contaminated water, for the sake of safety, we can no longer use the water of canals and ordinary rivers in the post house, please prepare a special well for the post house immediately, and it is strictly forbidden for the sick and ordinary people to approach our special well." ”

"Wow......." Nan Huairen's words reminded the shrewd Wu Ciyou, and Wu Ciyou hurriedly whined and quickly wrote a few more paragraphs in the palm of the donkey's hand, and the sweat on the donkey's forehead immediately flowed down, and he shouted again: "Quick, send someone to inform the army guarding the prisoners, so that they can no longer use the river water in the canal, and all the well water will be used, and all the sick soldiers and prisoners will be driven out of the prison!" And all the salt merchants in Yangzhou City, also go to all the notices, go quickly! Han Shiqi took the order and left, Zhu Guozhi, Wu Ciyou and others were relieved to go back to rest, as for the life and death of the people of Yangzhou City shrouded in the shadow of the plague, they didn't bother to worry about that......

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Zhu Guozhi and others didn't care about the life and death of the people in Yangzhou, but Wu Yuanming, the initiator of the spread of the plague, had to care, and after learning the severity of the spread of the plague in Yangzhou, Wu Yuanming immediately ordered the Wu brothers to pull Zhu Fangdan from the bed, and he slapped his head and covered his face - two slaps. Wu Yuanming held back his anger, grabbed Zhu Fangdan's collar and roared in a low voice: "Bastard, I just asked you to create a dozen cholera patients to scare the Tartar soldiers guarding the prison so that they dare not drink river water, how can you get thousands of patients for me?" Well, now the people of Yangzhou are in danger, this is all your iniquity! ”

"Wronged, I didn't expect it to spread so badly." Zhu Fangdan said with a bitter face: "Originally, cholera was the most difficult disease to control the spread of infection, but today's weather is as hot as summer, and the vomit of cholera patients in the river water is fermented, the toxicity is strengthened, and people drink more water, so the epidemic is much bigger than expected." If it rains heavily tomorrow and the weather cools down, the epidemic may not spread. But if the weather is as hot as today tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, the epidemic will definitely expand. ”

"Still expanding?" Wu Yuanming looked up at the window in shock, the moon and stars in the night sky outside the window were sparse, and there was no trace of clouds at all, and it was obviously impossible to rain the next day. Wu Yuanming had no choice but to ask Zhu Fangdan again: "Then in addition to rain and cool down, what other ways are there to treat and prevent diseases?" ”

"Cholera is difficult to treat, give the patient to drink first-aid Huiyang soup and blood detoxification soup, gua sha acupuncture and moxibustion; People who are not sick should drink aconite Lizhong soup and Huoxiang Zhengqi soup for prevention, which should have some effect. Zhu Fangdan replied with a bitter face. Wu Yuanming almost fainted, pinched Zhu Fangdan's neck and shouted, "How many people are there in Yangzhou?" How much does it cost everyone to drink such a pill? Can't you think of an easy way to save money? ”

"You must not drink raw water, eat less raw fruits and cold vegetables, and you should be able to prevent ......." Zhu Fangdan's face turned purple by Wu Yuanming, and he struggled to reluctantly answer. At this time, Yao Qisheng came over and pulled away Wu Yuanming, who was about to strangle Zhu Fangdan to death, and persuaded: "Child, this is due to the weather, you can't blame Mr. Zhu all." Yao Qisheng turned to Zhu Fangdan again and instructed: "You go to the old bustard of Lichun Courtyard, tell her how to prevent it, and then prescribe medicine to all the girls, so that they don't get sick too." Zhu Fangdan was afraid that he would be beaten by Wu Yuanming again if he stayed where he was, so he quickly agreed and slipped out.

"Kid, take your breath." Yao Qisheng pulled Wu Yuanming to the table and sat down, and said with a smile: "Child, if things are like this, it may not be a bad thing for you and your father. Yangzhou is the largest and most important grain and salt distribution center of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, the outbreak of plague here, it is difficult to transport the grain and salt of the Tartars to the north, without grain and salt, the life of the people in the north is bound to be more difficult, and it is difficult for the Tartars to win the hearts of the people. Moreover, the salt tax in Yangzhou has always been the financial pillar of the Tartars' treasury and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the plague here will also affect the finances of the Tartars, in order to make up for the financial losses, the Tartars can only increase the taxes in other places in addition to compressing the silver roots, and the people will inevitably be unable to bear the heavy taxes, and the whole body will be affected by a trigger, which can be greatly beneficial to our great cause of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty. ”

"So, the night before yesterday you proposed a plan to spread the plague, but my father did not stop it, and I hope that the plague will get worse." Yao Qisheng smiled treacherously at Wu Yuanming. Wu Yuanming was stunned and admired his godfather's viciousness, and then muttered, "It's just...... It's just that the people of Yangzhou are suffering. ”

"Changing the dynasty and fighting for hegemony in the world, isn't it the people who suffer? Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer. Yao Qisheng sighed with emotion, and instilled the concept to his godson: "Child, those who achieve great things are not informal, in the future, when you and your father rise up against the Qing Dynasty, there will be a fire in the villages of Jinxiu Jiangnan, the trees will smoke, and the people will be displaced, the situation is bound to be worse than the current plague, if you really want to expel the Tartars and restore the Han family, you have to get used to such a disaster." ”

What kind of person is Wu Yuanming, an excellent civil servant who has established the idea of serving the people, although the scene described by Yao Qisheng is very terrifying and miserable, but it only took a short time for Wu Yuanming to get rid of the guilt of endangering the people by the plague. first nodded and smiled at Yao Qisheng, the stepfather of Yiqiu Zhiqiu, and then asked worriedly: "Father-in-law, the plague in Yangzhou is so serious, do you say that Zhu Guozhi and the lackeys of Kang Mazi who are strong donkeys will escort Gu Yanwu and them out of Yangzhou because they are afraid of the plague?" Then the preparation we had made before would have been all painstaking. ”

"I've thought about this." Yao Qisheng smiled cruelly: "Do you remember the elixir that Zhou Huichun gave you?" After taking it, people will have symptoms of jaundice, I asked Zhu Fangdan to adjust the properties of the medicine, and people will not only have jaundice symptoms after taking it, but also the body will be very uncomfortable, as if they are really sick. He also sent Sun Tingling to contact Zhu Guozhi and the donkey, and put medicine in their wine and tea...... Those Kang Mazi's dog legs were afraid of death, so they naturally didn't dare to risk going on the road, and their condition worsened on the way. ”

"The father-in-law is really clever." Wu Yuanming smiled cruelly and slapped Yao Qisheng's sycophant, pinched his chin and said: "In this case, wouldn't it be more relieving to ask Sun Tingling to directly poison these lackeys?" ”

"You can't poison them for two reasons." Yao Qisheng shook his head, and explained one by one with two fingers: "First, if they are poisoned immediately, then Sun Tingling will definitely not be able to escape, and that anti-bone boy may sell us." Second, if they are poisoned, it will not play a role in preventing them from leaving Yangzhou immediately. Moreover, Wu Ciyou's hardcore traitor is quite treacherous, Sun Tingling may have to use wine and food in front of them first, otherwise they will not be fooled. ”

"What the father-in-law commanded, the child went and arranged it." Wu Yuanming admired the treachery of his godfather Yao Qisheng so much that he respectfully agreed to arrange it. Yao Qisheng stopped him and said with a smile: "No need, I have already asked Sun Tingling to do it, count the time, Sun Tingling should have gone to the post house to find them to drink." After that, Yao Qisheng and Wu Yuanming, who gave a thumbs up, looked at each other and laughed, that smile - the same cheap!

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Just like the kind-hearted old man Yao Qisheng said, Sun Tingling had indeed entered the post house where Donkey and Nan Huairen and others lived tremblingly, to be honest, Sun Tingling did not have much confidence in completing the task given to him by Yao Qisheng, and he didn't want to be humiliated in front of the vulgar and rude Donkey. But if he didn't do this, Sun Tingling couldn't do it if he wanted to use Wu Sangui's power to really control Guangxi, so after thinking about it, Sun Tingling finally took the risk to come to the post house according to Yao Qisheng's instructions - in order to win the trust of Yu Donkey and others, Sun Tingling didn't even bring an entourage.

"I'm tired of informing you, Guangxi General Sun Tingling asks to see Lord Qinchaqiang Donkey." Sun Tingling hardened his head and personally handed the famous thorn to the warriors of the Shanpu Battalion who were guarding the door. These warriors of the Shanpu Battalion are all brought from Beijing by the donkey, and naturally know what Sun Tingling's wife Kong Sizhen did, and when he heard Sun Tingling's name, he couldn't help but laugh, and a warrior of the Shanpu Battalion laughed and said: "Wait, I'll go in and report to you, but I don't dare to guarantee whether Master Qiang will see you." After that, the warrior of the Shanpu Battalion laughed and went in, and the other warriors and Qing soldiers continued to point at Sun Tingling, laughing very much, Sun Tingling was furious in his heart, and said secretly: "Laugh, one day, I will make you laugh heartily!" ”

When Sun Tingling was fantasizing about the beautiful scenery of Beijing when he and Wu Sangui joined forces, the warrior of the good fighting camp came out and said to Sun Tingling contemptuously: "Master Qiang said, you can see him, but you must leave your weapon behind, and you have to let us search your body, otherwise everything will not be discussed." Sun Tingling gritted his teeth and replied: "Yes, you can search for it." As soon as the warrior waved his hand, several of his companions immediately searched Sun Tingling from head to foot, including the dagger that Sun Tingling hid in the shoe tube for self-defense, and at the same time found a letter from Sun Tingling's arms, Sun Tingling quickly explained: "That letter was brought to Sigege by the donkey, please don't open it." ”

"No, Mr. Wu specially explained, in order to prevent poisoning, everything has to be checked." The warrior of the Shanpu Battalion couldn't help but open the letter, checked that there was no letter, and then returned it to Sun Tingling, and sneered: "Don't worry, I didn't read your letter, come in with me, and return your weapon to you when it comes out." Sun Tingling reluctantly agreed.

As the warriors of the Shan Battalion walked through the heavily guarded corridors and courtyards, Sun Tingling soon came to the best room of the Yangzhou Post House where the donkey and the others were, in the room, the donkey was already drinking and fighting with Wu Ciyou, Nan Huairen, Zhu Guozhi and others, and there were five or six beautiful maids waiting next to him. After Sun Tingling came in, the donkey didn't give up his seat to Sun Tingling, and he laughed for a while before he said, "Why hasn't General Sun left Yangzhou yet?" Do you want to come to see me? Are you here to get the gift I have for you? Hahahaha....... ”

"Hahahaha......." Zhu Guozhi, who had a grudge against Sun Tingling, also laughed, and Wu Ciyou couldn't pull them, so he had to laugh. Sun Tingling was almost dizzy, and it took a long time to calm down and say in a low voice: "Lord Qi misunderstood, you are a Qincha, why are you embarrassed to accept your gift?" Instead, the lower official wants to invite a few adults to drink flower wine once, for the benefit of colleagues, I wonder when you will have time? ”

"There's no time, we'll leave Yangzhou tomorrow and go to Jiangning." The donkey said with a grin: "The plague has broken out in Yangzhou, and if Lord Ben stays here, I'm afraid it will hurt your body, so I'll leave tomorrow." ”

"Do you have time tonight? Xiaguan has already set up a banquet in Lichun Courtyard, the best courtyard in Yangzhou, and has also ordered the best red card girl. Sun Tingling asked tentatively again. The donkey slept with Sun Tingling's wife, so he dared to eat the wine banquet set by Sun Tingling, shook his head and said, "No need, don't you see that we have eaten here?" There are girls sent to me by Lord Zhu tonight, and you can keep those red-card girls for yourself. ”

"That's ......." Sun Tingling looked at the wine table, showing an expression of wanting to eat with Donkey and the others—and at the same time, he also glanced at the half-full red wine jar and wine bowl of his daughter in front of Donkey. The donkey relied on Kangxi's favor to see no one in his eyes, Zhu Guozhi had an enmity with Sun Tingling, and Wu Ciyou was treacherous and pretended not to know, and he didn't mean to invite Sun Tingling to sit down. Nan Huairen, whose hand was injured and could only be fed by a beautiful maid for dinner, couldn't stand it, nodded and said, "General Sun, if you don't dislike it, how about having dinner with us?" ”

"That's it." Sun Tingling hit the snake with the stick, cursed in his heart and sat down next to the donkey with a cheeky face, poured a glass of wine and raised a glass to the four of them: "Sun Mou is not talented, I salute all the adults, and do not respect it first." But Sun Tingling's hot face was attached to the cold buttocks, except for Nan Huairen, who couldn't move, nodded and smiled at him, but the three of them didn't move, and no one refused to clink glasses and drink with him. Sun Tingling was embarrassed and angry, so he had to put down the wine glass after drinking, and pulled the braid in front of him to play with the braid.

"Tell me, what's the matter with us?" After getting Wu Ciyou's guidance, the donkey asked Sun Tingling coldly, wanting to send this obscure Sun Tingling away earlier. Sun Tingling held the tip of his braid and said in a low voice: "Lord Donkey, I have something I want to ask you, Sigege and I are not young, but our wedding date has not been decided, so I want to ask your lord to go back and persuade Sigege, please have time to ask the Empress Dowager for a favor and set our wedding date." Also, Dai Liangchen, the clothed slave of the Sigege family, made a lot of trouble in Guangxi, and his army often clashed with the army of the king of peace on the border of Yunnan and Guangxi, but the combat effectiveness of the Guangxi army was comparable to that of Yunnan, and nine out of ten losses were the Guangxi army, so please come forward to take care of Dai Liangchen. ”

"That's it?" The donkey looked at Sun Tingling and asked, looking ready to drive people away. Sun Tingling hurriedly loosened the braid that had been pinched, took out the letter that had been opened from his arms, handed it to the donkey, and said respectfully: "This letter was written by me to Sigege, I know that the letter I wrote to Sigege before, she burned it without reading it, but the letter that Lord Donkey transferred to her, she had to give the adult a face to see the letter." ”

"Of course, who told me to satisfy her the most?" The donkey took the letter with a boastful blow, and unceremoniously took out the letter in public and read it, laughing while reading, "The handwriting is not bad, but it's a little too numb, and besides, haven't you officially married Sigege yet?" Why do you call Sigege Madame? Haha, there's a love poem behind it! The donkey laughed and held up the letter to Wu Ciyou, Zhu Guozhi and others to see, and said with a strange smile: "Mr. Wu, your poems are even praised by the emperor, look at how this poem is written?" ”

Since Sun Tingling entered this room, Wu Ciyou's treacherous eyes have never left Sun Tingling, and when the donkey said this, Wu Ciyou finally looked curiously at the love poem that Sun Tingling wrote to Kong Sizhen, and said with a smile: "Yes, it's just a little rougher." Sun Tingling, who had also been on guard against him, finally seized the opportunity, and quickly grabbed the red altar in front of the donkey, and as soon as his hand loosened the pill hidden in the palm of his hand, it fell into the wine jar - the pill was tied by Yao Qisheng for Sun Tingling to hide in his braid, Yao Qisheng knew very well how treacherous Wu Ciyou was.

"Huh?" Sun Tingling's actions still attracted the attention of Wu Ciyou, and he hurriedly pulled the donkey to see Sun Tingling, Sun Tingling smiled reluctantly: "Sir, don't be surprised, the lower official just wants to give you a cup of toast, and even more so a bowl of donkey, to thank the adults for their kindness of thousands of miles." As he spoke, Sun Tingling first filled the wine bowl in front of the donkey, then filled the wine glass in front of Wu Ciyou, Nan Huairen and Zhu Guozhi, and finally poured his own wine glass, raised his glass and said to the donkey: "My lord, for the sake of Si Gege, you must drink this cup of wine from the lower official." In the future, when the lower official and the four geges get married, the lower official will invite the adults to drink the wedding wine of the lower official. ”

Sun Tingling lowered his voice and put on the green hat to this point, and the donkey would deceive people too much if he didn't give face, so the donkey finally raised the wine bowl in front of him and touched Sun Tingling's wine glass, and when he was about to drink it, Wu Ciyou held down his hand, and watched Sun Tingling drink the wine poured out of the same wine jar, and Wu Ciyou let go of the donkey's hand with confidence. After laughing for a long time, the donkey was also a little thirsty, and secretly laughed at Wu Ciyou, who drank all the daughter red in the bowl, Nan Huairen and Zhu Guozhi also drank the wine poured by Sun Tingling respectively, Wu Ciyou hesitated for a long time, and finally drank the wine.

"Okay, if General Sun is done with everything, please take care of yourself, and the official and the Jiangsu government affairs will discuss with Lord Donkey." Zhu Guo, who had a grudge against Sun Tingling, ordered the expulsion. Sun Tingling was no longer entangled, and immediately said goodbye and left-Sun Tingling was eager to go to Zhu Fangdan immediately to ask for an antidote.

Note 1: The incubation period of Vibrio cholerae is as short as a few hours and as long as three to five days.