In the morning, Li Guolou drank porridge calmly, and before a bowl of raw 'chicken' eggs was swallowed into his stomach, someone came to disturb him for breakfast.

The newlywed wife of Zheng Hengdan, the secretary of the office, Zhou Jiaoyun, came anxiously, her face was white, and she stumbled and said: "Captain Li's big thing is not good, my husband has passed out, and he can't wake up when he screams, for fear that the strangers will bring the plague." ”

"Ahhhh Li Guolou rose from the ground and said angrily: "Zhou Jiaoyun, you give me honesty, did you poison me!" ”

Zhou Jiaoyun cried with a sad face and said: "I knew there would be this result, I slept well last night, we made a fuss until midnight, we are so good now, how could I think of poisoning my husband." Besides, I don't know the place here, and I don't even know where to buy the rat 'medicine'? I called Xiao Bian Dan many times in the morning, and even used cold water to splash my face, I really couldn't wake up Xiao Bian Dan, I was afraid that Captain Li would have an opinion on me, so I didn't even call the neighbor next door, and came to you directly. ”

Plague is most likely to break out on 'spring' days, which is close to the 'Mongolian' ancient grassland, where rats are often plagued and there have been plague epidemics. This plague is an incurable disease, and even when Europeans hear the word "plague", they are also talking about the tiger's 'color' change, a plague in the European Renaissance caused the loss of at least tens of millions of European populations, and the civilization regressed for decades. To this day, Europeans are still talking about the catastrophe at that time, and the hygiene habits of Europeans have changed since that catastrophe and they have become civilized and hygienic people.

Li Guolou pointed his finger at the tip of Zhou Jiaoyun's nose, and said fiercely: "Zhou Jiaoyun, you are honest with the official, don't spit out half a word of 'dew', and if you dare to say the word 'plague', the official will arrest you." You go and get the doctor Wang Zhenzhen for me, and let's go see Xiao Biantan together. ”

Li Guolou looked at the food on the table, he couldn't eat it anymore, and where the "broom star" Zhou Jiaoyun stayed, he didn't even dare to drink a sip of water. Self-blame came out of the mouth, and last night I said bad things about this place in Balizhuang, and retribution will come early in the morning.

When he stepped out of the 'door' threshold, Li Guolou turned his head and shouted: "Battle, today you stay in the stable, shovel the grass, wash the manger, and do the work in the stable. I'll come back to check, well done, and keep you fed for the night. ”

"Yes! Captain Lee. "Battle was overjoyed and jumped up with joy, who would have thought that Li Guolou thought that he was from the 'Mongolian' ancient grassland, and he was afraid in his heart that he was the source of the plague.

Zheng Hengdan and Zhou Jiaoyun's home is a "new home", a three-room tiled house that was rewarded by Li Guolou to the secretary Zheng Hengdan in the borderless land, and the wedding was happy.

When he stepped into the courtyard, Li Guolou felt that this house was weird, the 'door' of other people's courtyards was open to the south, and the main 'door' of this courtyard pointed to the west. The courtyard was very large, there was a millstone, and there was a thatched hut stacked with farm tools, and there was no 'chicken' coop, but a cobblestone pond, in which there was only some dirty stagnant water, which was not drained, and small tadpoles could be seen swimming in the water.

Doctor Wang Fuzhen wore a mask and gloves to see Zheng Hengdan, who was unconscious, in the bedroom, and Zhou Jiaoyun stood anxiously to the side, using a 'hair' towel soaked in cold water to compress Zheng Hengdan's forehead.

Li Guolou also wore a mask and gloves and slowly walked into the room, three steps away from the patient, waiting for the conclusion of the doctor Wang Zhizhen's treatment.

Wang took off his mask, turned his head to Li Guolou, and said, "Mr. Li, the heat of Xiao Biantan is not very high, thirty-nine degrees, and the injured arm has no signs of infection, so he should not be unconscious." Is it typhoid fever? It's hard to say at this point, but it depends on whether anyone has contracted the disease, and there is no comparable 'sex' in individual cases. However, the medical prevention measures of the whole village should be done well, I think it is better to focus on disinfection and prevention, and the whole village will be cleaned up, and I will give the villagers some Chinese herbal 'medicine' to prevent typhoid fever? ”

Li Guolou nodded and said: "Doctor Wang is right, those people from other villages should not be allowed to work in the village casually, they should still be observed for three days, and personal hygiene should be done, I will learn a lesson." ”

Wang Fuzhen sat at the table and wrote the 'medicine' prescription: gypsum, zhimu, hay, and japonica rice.

Li Guolou glanced at it and said with a smile: "Doctor Wang, I didn't expect that you, a Western doctor, still have 'very' research on Chinese medicine." You will also use the recipe of the white tiger soup of the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing. ”

Wang Fuzhen smiled dumbly: "Hey, I was debunked by you, this recipe has been verified by the 'bed', and what the ancients said will not be wrong, not to mention that the ancestor was written in the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever". If there is no disease, it should be prevented, and if there is a disease, it can be used to go to disaster. I think Xiao Biandan's illness should be poisonous in the body, some like signs of poisoning, and the pupils are dilated. As he spoke, Wang Shunzhen swept to Zhou Jiaoyun next to him, meaning to tell Li Guolou that he did not find that Zheng Hengdan had external injuries on his body, and the external injuries on his arms were originally bandaged, and only the disease entered from the mouth, so Zheng Hengdan's bride Zhou Jiaoyun was the most suspicious.

Zhou Jiaoyun's face was white, she shook her hand and said: "Captain Li, I have really reformed myself, it was more than nine o'clock when Xiao Bian Dan came home last night, drank a bowl of jujube porridge, and went to bed, and he was still alive." Could it be that yesterday he climbed a mountain and was bitten by something? ”

Li Guolou remembered the pond in the yard in his mind, what did the farmers here build a pond at home to raise? It is very likely that this farmer was originally a snake keeper, so if the owner's family is all dead, will the snakes raised by this farmer escape? The room has a wooden floor, and there is a good chance that venomous snakes are hiding under partition walls and floors.

Thinking of this, Li Guolou became bolder, walked to the patient Zheng Hengdan, lifted the quilt, and checked whether there were any wounds on the unconscious Zheng Hengdan.

Li Guolou carefully inspected Zheng Hengdan's body, from top to bottom, without being shy. As a catcher who had even seen the slick corpse, and there was no one dead, Li Guolou didn't feel scared at all. There were only two feet left without looking, and Li Guolou finally found a slight wound on Zheng Hengdan's left thumb.

"Doctor Wang, come and see!" Li Guolou pinched one foot, not too smelly, and let out a cry of surprise.

Wang Fuzhen leaned in front of his nose to watch and asked, "Mr. Li, what is this bite, can't you see it?" ”

"Little snake, a highly venomous little snake, fortunately it hasn't grown up yet, otherwise Zheng Hengdan would have been bitten to death. Last night, the little snake climbed into the 'bed', got into the bed, and secretly bit the little flat dan. The snake belongs to the 'yin' and 'sex' and likes yang, so it only bites the male 'sex' and sucks a few mouthfuls of blood from the small flat dan. This poisonous snake is very strange, you look at the wound of Xiao Biandan, there is no redness, swelling and bruising on the surface of the toe, it means that the poisonous 'sex' has all flowed into the blood vessels. ”

"Ahh So what to do, Dr. Wang, you have to hurry up and find a way. Zhou Jiaoyun was so anxious that she cried, although she was proven innocent, she was likely to become a widow, making her sad and desperate, and feeling ill-fated.

Wang Zhenzhen also locked his eyebrows, and he was powerless against snake venom, different snakes had different poisonous 'nature', so he was helpless for a while. He hung his head and said: "Mr. Li, that's troublesome, there are many kinds of snake venom, and I don't understand it." ”

Li Guolou has read all kinds of miscellaneous books in order to be a god catcher, and he thought of a way, anyway, a dead horse should be a live horse doctor, try to see if it is useful.

"Listen to me, you must lure the snake out and find the culprit. Doctor Wang, you go find some realgar, rice wine, and ginger, and sprinkle realgar around the room to smoke out this poisonous snake. Zhou Jiaoyun, you go out, the 'woman' can't stay here, I want to perform exercises and fight with poisonous snakes. "Li Guolou chattered, 'handed over' trivial matters, and arranged the room like a Taoist priest, and even lit incense and candles.

Wang Fuzhen studied Western medicine and originally didn't believe in ghosts and gods, but he admired Li Guolou from the bottom of his heart, and had already worshiped Li Guolou as an almighty immortal. ”

Li Guolou nodded and said, "Yes, but Doctor Wang, if the little snake comes out, you must not move." Snakes can distinguish between food and scenery by the movement of things in front of them, and if you don't move, there is no danger. ”

"Hey, I'll go get ready." Wang avoided Zhen and ran out of the yard with his 'legs', and he could see Li Guolou's mysterious approach, and it was not in vain.

Li Guolou was beating a drum in his heart, feeling that his heart was about to beat to his throat, and he comforted himself that as long as it was not a plague, everything would be fine. The poisonous snake and the yellow eel were almost inseparable, and their faces were silent, so that the two guards could not see how nervous he was.

The guards Cheng Kun and Liu Yu helped sprinkle realgar around the house, Li Guolou looked at the room, and sure enough, there was a strong 'yin' atmosphere, and the lights had to be lit during the day, the room was dim, and the sunlight could not shine. The original owner also kept snakes in the room, and he should have made a fortune by raising snakes. The person who can catch the poisonous snake will treat the patient who has been bitten by the poisonous snake, but unfortunately he did not have the fate to see it.

'Touching' 'touching' Zheng Hengdan's forehead, the wet cold sweat is still flowing, and the 'desire' to survive has made the "little flat dan" support until now. When you move into a new house, you have to burn paper money and tin foil, and the charcoal stove burns vigorously to remove the evil gas from the original room. It seems that Zheng Hengdan couldn't help but only think about hugging the bride, and didn't drive away the "evil" in the new house.

"'Mao' is so! If I save you, count your life hard, and if you can't save it, don't come to me to settle accounts. "Li Guolou thought of the scene when Xiao Bian Dan and 'Mao' recommended himself, and couldn't help but feel cordial, this traitor was a little interesting.

Wang Shunzhen walked into the room, and Li Guolou said, "Doctor Wang, close the 'door'. ”

The 'doors' and windows were closed, the room was even darker, Li Guolou twisted the oil lamp into a bean, and the dim room was full of the smell of 'medicine'. Li Guolou sprinkled rice wine with ginger on the wooden floor of the wall, and let the liquor mix into the wall and wooden floor. He wants to 'force' that poisonous snake out, and the snake understands reason like a human, and knows what he has done in his heart.

Time passed minute by minute, Li Guolou stood still, and Wang Fuzhen also didn't dare to move slightly. About half an hour later, under a corner, a small white snake swam out, with a black tumor on its tongue and snake letters in its mouth, slowly swam and climbed up to the big 'bed' along the corner. The three people in the room didn't move, Zheng Hengdan couldn't move, and he lay on the 'bed' straight without a quilt.

The little white snake seemed to know what to do to survive, climbed onto the 'bed' along the foot of the 'bed', swam to Zheng Hengdan's left foot, bit Wang Zhenzhen's left thumb, and sucked Zheng Hengdan's blood.

Doctor Wang Fuzhen was taken aback, opened his mouth wide to watch the strange scene happen, Li Guolou shook his head at him, and asked him not to make a sound.

As the minutes passed, the little white snake seemed to have sucked up the blood, its stomach bulged, and swam down the foot of the 'bed'.

Li Guolou jumped forward suddenly, and the bamboo basket in his hand was buckled upside down on the top of the little white snake's head, and he caught the little white snake with one move.

"That's it! Dr. Wang opened the door. Li Guolou wiped the drops of cold sweat on his forehead.

The refreshing wind blew into the room through the 'door', and Wang Fuzhen said, "Mr. Li, what should I do with this snake?" ”

Li Guolou shook the bamboo basket and said with a smile: "If Xiao Bian Dan survives, of course I will let it go." ”

Wang Fuzhen also wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and said with an embarrassed smile: "Oh, this is the white lady's 'sex', right?" ”

"Yes, the little white snake should suck out the venom, wait for the little flat and white tiger soup to drink, let's see the situation." Li Guolou doesn't know if what the book says is right? You can't go wrong with a two-pronged approach.

Wang Shunzhen broke the mouth of Zheng Hengdan, who was in a coma, and fed Zheng Hengdan to drink white tiger soup.

"It's moving! Little flat dan, the Adam's apple has moved! Zhou Jiaoyun, who was playing beside her, screamed in surprise, it is always a good sign to be able to swallow the 'medicine' by herself.

"Mr. Li, where did you learn this trick?" Wang avoided the shock and was inexplicably moved, and he was a doctor who saw that Zheng Hengdan was showing signs of recovery.

Li Guolou hesitated and said: "I read miscellaneous books, and I can't remember it for a while, as if there is such a case written by the Tang Dynasty. Since the owner is gone, it will be 'chaotic', so it will bite a small flat dan, and its habit of life is not biting. I 'forced' it to put it in a desperate situation, and the little white snake knew what was going on. ”

"Oh, oh, oh!" The people next to him suddenly realized, but Cheng Kun 'interjected' and said, "Captain Li, you are a god." ”

"Shhh Li Guolou stretched out his finger and whispered: "Don't mention this matter again, I'll talk about it later." After speaking, Li Guolou left with a bamboo basket, the 'dark' room, the feng shui here is not good, and it will be rebuilt in the future, how can the courtyard 'door' face west. If you don't change, it is inevitable that the red apricot will go out of the wall!

Li Guolou read miscellaneous books, and even knew a little about feng shui, and he saw that Zhou Jiaoyun was not a peaceful 'woman' Taoist family.