"You wait a minute," Chen Jintong glanced at Lang Zhong next to him, "Listen to the old gentleman, what's the difference?" ”

"There are many different places, first of all, if it is really a plague, people will fall into vomiting and diarrhea within three days, but the state of these people is not the same, as for the state after three days, people will be cranky and talk nonsense, but all the people in our village are fine, just to survive."

"He Jiang, you continue." Dongfang Xuanze listened carefully to everyone's analysis, at this moment, everyone was united, He Jiang heard Dongfang Xuanze say this, nodded slightly, and continued to speak freely, the whole He Jiang's description was over, and everyone found that the current disease and the plague seemed to be different.

There are similarities in the differences, after comparison, Lao Langzhong said: "Why don't we continue to study and study, I always feel that they are not plagues, Childe said that once the plague is infected, everyone will die, but now it seems that this is not the case." ”

According to He Jiang's personal experience, everyone gradually understood that this may not be a plague at all. Thinking of this, Chen Jintong said, "Why don't you continue to investigate tomorrow?" ”

"Since my family, our family has been sick many times, but everyone is fine now." An old farmer next to him looked at Chen Jintong.

Now, in order to find out the source of the disease, everyone has worked together, Dongfang Xuanze stared at the man and asked about some information, it turned out that since March last year, the family has started scarlet fever one after another, and their family members have all been sick, and they thought that they would be wiped out, but who knew that they could sit up while lying down, and they could stand up while sitting.

According to the old farmer's oral account, Chen Jintong found that the old farmer had never taken medicine at all, which made Chen Jintong even more puzzled.

Just do it, on the second day, Chen Jintong, Dongfang Xuanze, He Jiang and Langzhong and the villagers arrived at the first house, the altitude of the house was relatively high, and everyone was out of breath.

Chen Jintong is responsible for inspecting the living environment of the family, from indoor to outdoor, to see what is different.

Dongfang Xuanze went to inspect the sweet water well.

As for He Jiang, He Jiang went to the back mountain to see the vegetables and fruits, and then to see if there were any strange things in all directions, about half an hour later, everyone checked it, He Jiang walked to the place of Huihe with his head down, frowned and spread his hands. Dongfang Xuanze looked at Chen Jintong and smiled bitterly, "There is nothing wrong with the sweet water well." ”

"There are no treasures in this house, it's so strange." Chen Jintong's gaze crossed the group of people one by one, everyone had yellow faces and thin muscles, and when he looked at the child in the woman's hand, he couldn't help but wonder, "Sister-in-law, how old is your child?" ”

"It's a year and a half, what?" The girl blinked her big watery eyes, smiled happily, and looked at the child in her arms.

"Why didn't he speak? You let him come down and walk. Chen Jintong seemed to see the problem, and the peasant woman sighed when asked by this: "It's really strange, it's more than a year old, he just can't speak, hey, since the plague started, the children in our village seem to have grown up a lot slower." ”

When Chen Jintong heard this, he looked back at Dongfang Xuanze, Dongfang Xuanze asked to see the child in a friendly way, and took the child from the peasant woman, Dongfang Xuanze looked at the child first.

This child's face is pale, his eyelashes are extraordinarily long, and he is incredibly thin, because of this thinness, his cheekbones are towering, and his eyes are like quicksand falling into his sockets, and the whole person looks very weird, Chen Jintong waved his hand to let Lao Langzhong come over.

The old man looked at it and concluded that the child had eaten something poisonous, and when the peasant woman heard it, she was frightened: "We eat coarse tea and light rice every day, and we have lived here since our ancestors." I've never eaten anything unclean, so how can I get poisoned? ”

"Sister-in-law, do you know that some poisons will not kill people immediately, but will accumulate venom in the human body, and over time the venom will be internalized into the human blood, and then ......" The medical officer also knew that he could not explain it clearly in a few words, and when he said this, the peasant woman suddenly sobbed and hesitated.

"My lord, you have to think of a way, we are really miserable." The peasant woman was already crying, and Chen Jintong said: "We won't leave today, we will eat whatever you eat, live as you want, and see what the problem is." ”

This is not the best way, after a while, the peasant woman went to be busy eating, He Jiang saw that the peasant woman was busy and went over to help, he picked vegetables from the backyard, and after washing them, the peasant boiled water for Chen Jintong and others to drink, at this moment, Chen Jintong looked at the bucket, and she was shocked.

There was sediment in the bucket, like black particles, Dongfang Xuanze also found it, she shook it, and found that the black sediment was distinct, and no matter how you shake it, the black sediment will not stick, one by one like a miniature version of marbles.

Chen Jintong saw that He Jiang was washing vegetables, grabbed the vegetables and looked at them, He Jiang was complaining that the vegetables were not very clean, Chen Jintong also found black particles stuck in the soil at the same time, and when she saw this, everything seemed to understand.

"Sir, look at what this is?" Chen Jintong filtered the water and put the black particles on a piece of cloth, and under the sunlight, it could be seen that the black particles were dark and could radiate luster.

Although the medical officer was well-informed, he was not sure what it was for a while, and he was indecisive, but a junior next to him exclaimed in surprise, "I know what this is, I know." ”

"You know?" Everyone spoke in unison, and the latter walked towards Chen Jintong, who carefully examined the particles and confirmed: "I did something in a workshop in the back mountain last year, and these particles can smelt black iron, which is iron." ”

"Iron?" Chen Jintong has never seen what iron ore is like, and at this moment, he suddenly became enlightened, but he was afraid that this person was wrong, so he emphasized that the figure should look at it carefully, and then the latter looked at it seriously, "It's iron, and the villain has a way to prove it." ”

The man said, "Last year we went to the factory to do work, and the factory people gave the miners magnets so that they could better distinguish what is a black stone and what stone contains iron ore. ”

The man took a swarthy, dull stone from his neck, and brought the stone close to the black particles, which seemed to have been awakened suddenly, and they jumped one by one, and instantly adhered to the stones.

"It's iron, it's iron."