Ruohong smiled and said, "Let's drink it." ”

"The two of us are standing far away, and we should be fine." Rice Pearl said.

Ruohong smiled and said, "You see we all drank, don't you two drink a little bit of embarrassment?" ”

Dan Tang put down the wine cup, bared his teeth and said, "That's it! We've all drunk it, and you're going to drink it too, what's it called? ”

They don't want to drink either! However, they are maids, and the master's words are orders, and they can't drink it!

"One loses and one wins." Lian Xin said with a smile.

As soon as the rice pearl bowed the moon eyes, he closed his teeth and bit it, and drank it.

Thinking that they were in a hurry to drink, both of them coughed.

Lian Xin asked the little maids to bring hot water and toiletries, and waited for the two young ladies to wash up, while Ruoxue and Ruohong were served by Lianxin Dan Tang to clean their faces and wash their hands, while chatting about how to prevent diseases.

"Such an infectious disease, if you take good precautions, you can prevent many people from getting sick, that is, you can save many people." Ruohong wiped the water stains on her hands, took the tea bowl from Pomegranate's hand and drank a sip of honey water.

"It's hard to get everybody to believe it, and if you tell someone who isn't sick that he's sick, he won't believe it at all." Ruoxue said, she also took the tea bowl from the little maid's hand and drank two sips.

Ruohong thought for a moment and said, "If there is an old doctor with a high reputation, he comes out and says that this is a highly contagious disease that needs to be guarded against by the whole people." ”

Ruoxue turned her head to look at Ruohong, this matter seems to be solved.

"What's wrong?" Ruohong asked.

Ruoxue said with a smile: "There is such an old doctor who can come out and say a sentence that can convince people." However, he will not talk about it until he has seen it!

"Can you let him go to Yang's house to have a look?"

"Yes."

"That's great, you let him go and see it, if he is an old doctor, he can see that it is a contagious disease." Ruohong said.

Lian Xin waved her hand to let the maids who were waiting for the washing to withdraw, and turned to clean up the bed.

"Okay."

Ruoxue asked people to take a pen and paper, wrote the situation of the Yang family on a sticky note, and asked the old doctor to come over to take a look, "This old doctor Qi is familiar with his grandfather, and he used to come to the house as a guest, and when someone in the family is sick, he is often invited to take a look." In recent years, he has not been visiting the clinic for a long time, and his grandson has come to see him, but he rarely comes. ”

"Isn't it too old?" Ruohong walked over to Ruoxue. Look what she's writing.

"I heard that Dr. Qi is very healthy, although he doesn't go to the clinic, if someone comes to the door, he will still see it." The peony grinds the ink and places the ink ingot next to the inkstone.

Ruohong remembered that when SARS was born, several prescriptions based on Bupleurum were announced on TV, and the people bought them home to decoction to resist the SARS virus.

Ruohong said casually: "There is a decoction based on Bupleurum that seems to prevent the flu virus. ”

Ruoxue remembered the medicinal tea she drank in the morning, and asked Lianxin to find the prescription and show Ruohong if it was the Bupleurum prescription she said.

Ruohong waved her hand again and again, she was not a doctor, or she gave her the prescription, and she didn't know whether the pharmacological properties were Chinese herbal medicines to prevent the flu.

"I really don't understand Chinese herbal medicine, don't ask me." She said.

"I thought my sister could do anything!" Ruoxue said with a smile.

"The ruler is long and the inch is short! Even if I knew some, it was only scratching the surface. Ruohong said.

The next day, Li Tao woke up early, estimated that the time was still early, and lay on the bed looking at the tent of the five blessing flowers on the top of the bed, and came out of his mind for a while.

After lying down for a few more moments, he sat up, lifted the curtain and put on his shoes and got out of bed.

Toshiba, who slept in the outer room, slept relatively lightly, and got up and dressed when he heard the movement, "What are you doing when you get up so early, it's not time yet, right?" You don't have to go up to ,......."

There were two oil lamps burning in the room, but it was not very dim.

Li Tao walked to the table and lifted the teapot and poured a cup, took it up and drank two sips, "I can't sleep, I got up and went around the street, Grandma said that I wanted to eat Liufuju's fish skin Xiaochaos, as well as shrimp ball xiaolongbao, I went to buy it and sent it to her." He said.

Toshiba put on his shoes and went to the ground, stretched out his hand and pushed the still sleeping manjuan, and spoke louder, "Don't drink cold tea, be careful of hurting your spleen and stomach, there is hot water on the small stove in the next room." As she spoke, she turned and took the candlesticks and lit a few candles.

Then he went to the inner room again, took out the royal blue Hangzhou silk straight jacket from the closet, and came out to serve Li Tao to change clothes.

Manjuan was woken up by someone, and listened to Toshiba speak loudly, reminding her to get up quickly, hurriedly lifted the quilt and sat up, she was wearing a rose-red embroidered belly pocket, her smooth back was exposed, and her lower body was wearing pale green silk pants, a pair of small and delicate jade feet appeared, she reached out and took a small coat with half an arm on the side and put it on, "I'll pour water." With that, he pulled on his shoes and opened the door and went out.

"No need,......" Li Tao wanted to say that he was taking two sips to moisten his throat, but he ran out after seeing her.

"Let her go." Toshiba turned to the front, reached out to tie the buttons on Li Tao's clothes, and picked up the belt to tie Li Tao.

Manjuan came in with a pot of boiling water, covered his mouth and yawned, walked to the table and poured the water in the tea bowl, added new tea and poured boiling water, "Are you going out?" She picked up the lid of the tea bowl and covered it, went into the house, took out the jade pendant purse, sachet and other accessories, and handed them to Toshiba one by one.

As soon as Toshiba looked up, he saw a jade arm stretched out in front of him, snatched the jade purse from Manjuan's hand, and said, "Why don't you go and put on your clothes, see if it's freezing for a while." ”

As soon as she said it, Manjuan felt cold, and quickly ran back to the bed, kicked his shoes and got into the quilt again, "You serve the master first, let me warm up for a while." She said.

Li Tao crossed his hands and let Toshiba hang those trinkets for him, "Oh, I really have to go out for a while, you pack a few clothes for me, don't bring those jade sachets, I don't bother to get them." He said.

"Where are you going? We don't know! Toshiba hung the sachet on Li Tao's belt, stood up straight, looked up and down, and saw that there was nothing wrong, so he took two steps back and turned to get the dresser.

Manjuan sat up again and asked, "Where are you going?" When to go? She reached out and took her garment and put it on.

Li Tao sat on the stool with his back tilted up, and Toshiba took out an ivory comb, combed his hair, and put his hands on a bun on the top of his head.

Li Tao turned his head to look at the man who was dressed and got out of bed, and said, "At noon, I won't tell you where to go, you won't be worried." ”

Toshiba put his hair in a bun, turned around and went to the dressing table to take the gold filigree Qibao hair crown, "If you don't tell us to know, we will be even more worried!" She said.

"That's it!" Manjuan walked over and took the tea bowl, lifted the lid and blew it, and brought it to Li Tao's lips, "Drink it slowly, be careful of scalding ......," she said.

Li Tao took a sip of her hand, "You know, I'm afraid I won't sleep well." He laughs.

Waiting for Toshiba to put on a hair crown for him, Li Tao stood up and looked himself up and down, turned around and strode outside, "It's still early, you guys can sleep again." ”

Li Tao accompanied his grandmother to breakfast, and then supported the old lady in the garden, and walked slowly for a while.

The bright sunshine in the morning, with the smell of spring grass, makes people's mood happy when breathing.

From the peony that has sprouted in the east, I stepped on a winding stone path, bypassed a few clumps of flowers and trees, and walked to a magnolia tree to stand still.

Li Tao stretched out his hand and picked a magnolia flower and put it under the old lady's nose, "Grandma smells this, is it fragrant?" He said.

"What's the matter? Go ahead. The old lady reached out and took the magnolia flower, put it under her nose and sniffed it slowly, she felt that something was wrong with her grandson, and when she got up in the morning, she ran out to buy her snacks, and ate breakfast with her, and then helped her to go around the garden, which was too abnormal.

Li Tao pondered for a while, and said, "Grandma, I have some things to leave for a while, and I can't be by your side anymore. ”

"Where to go?" She asked.

Li Tao didn't answer her question, "Some small things, I will rush back as soon as possible, Grandma can rest assured." As she spoke, Li Tao helped her sit down on a stone bench and squatted down to beat the old lady's legs.

"yes, got it." The old lady was silent for a moment and said, "The peach blossoms of the Hokkean are blooming, right?" I thought about going there for a few days. As soon as you leave, this courtyard is very empty, and there are better places in the Hokkean, and I can also listen to the scriptures and eat vegetarian food for a few days. ”

Li Tao thought for a moment and said, "It's okay, then I'll let someone clean up." ”

In the morning, Ruoxue asked the big kitchen in the house to cook two pots of small chaihu soup, and let the old and young in the house drink it once in the morning and once in the evening to prevent the cold and heat in spring.

Ruoxue told the people of the inner courtyard not to go to the outer courtyard, and the people of the outer courtyard were not allowed to enter the inner courtyard, and the items purchased daily were placed outside the door of the second courtyard, and the people in the inner courtyard were to pick them up by themselves.

In the early morning, Mrs. Cao saw a bowl of medicine on the dining table, and she was a little unhappy in her heart.

"What kind of medicine is this, and which doctor prescribed it?" She asked.

"It's a medicine to prevent spring heat and cold." Mother Wu was behind Mrs. Cao, bowed back and said.

Hearing Wu's mother say that it was to prevent cold and heat in spring, Mrs. Cao picked it up and drank it.

The second Miss Ruoxian and the fourth Miss Ruofeng, as well as the fifth Miss Ruofei and the sixth Miss Ruolan sat around the round table and had breakfast with Mrs. Cao.

On the table were two baskets of fennel-trapped, a plate of shortbread, and four side dishes.

In front of each person, there is a bowl of red date fragrant rice porridge.

Six or seven maids were by their side, serving tea, bowls, chopsticks and other things.

Ruofei, the fifth young lady, who was sitting on the left side of Mrs. Cao, opened her mouth and said, "It's not the doctor's prescription, it's the eldest sister's prescription." ”

"Nonsense!" Mrs. Cao threw the bowl to Mother Wu, and her face was also annoyed.

Ruofei pursed her lips and didn't stir up any more trouble.

Wu's mother hurriedly explained, "Although it is not prescribed by the doctor, it is all ready-made prescriptions, but it is also the right medicine." She said.

"I'm not sick, and my big sister also let me drink it, it's so bitter! ......" Ruolan spoke, and her little face wrinkled into one place because she remembered the bowl of bitter medicinal soup.

"I also drank half a bowl, and the rest of it was poured out, so bitter." Fourth Miss Ruofeng stuck out her tongue and said.

Ruoxian, who was sitting on the other side, took a small bite of the fennel-stuffed bun in her hand and said, "Didn't the eldest sister say prevention?" It's good not to get sick if you drink it. Many people in my uncle's family are sick, and I don't know how many more people will get sick in the future! ”

"Really?" Ruofei looked at her sister, how could she not have heard that everyone in her uncle's family was sick.

"Yesterday, the eldest brother went to my uncle's house to see it, and the eldest cousin, the third cousin, and the eldest aunt were all sick." Ruoxian continued: "After the eldest brother came back, he sent the maid back to A-Niang, A-Niang had just fallen asleep at that time, and the eldest brother's maid told Sister-in-law Ning to listen. My maid went to the kitchen to ask for hot water, and when I heard them talking, she came back and told me again, and I found out. ”

Ruofei said softly "oh", and said, how could there be something at home that she didn't know!

Old Madam Cao frowned when she heard this, I'm afraid this is really an epidemic! She has lived for almost 60 years, and she has also experienced two epidemics, and those two epidemics occurred in as many as 60 or 70 prefectures and counties.

Ruolan asked, "Don't you get sick after drinking the medicine?" ”

Ruoxian looked at the little sister sitting there stirring the porridge bowl opposite, and said, "Maybe! ”

"Then I'll drink the medicine obediently." Ruolan said.

Ruofeng put down the chopsticks in his hand, "Cousin's house in the late Qing Dynasty is so far away from our house, it shouldn't be transmitted into the mansion, right?" She said.

Ruoxue and Ruohong accompanied Tian to breakfast, and gossiped with her for a while, before the maid said back and forth that Aunt Zhou had gotten.

Ruoxue asked the maids and servants in Jihui Hall to drink medicine once a day to ensure that Tian and Aunt Zhou were healthy and not harmed by the virus.

The maids and servants in the courtyard were also strictly ordered not to visit the door in a few places, and they all stayed honestly in the courtyard.

Several houses with people should be fumigated with vinegar to prevent the breeding of germs and kill viruses.

Ruoxue is also worried that if the disease spreads into the house, it will not be one or two people who will get sick, but dozens or even more people who will get sick.

Tian is a perennial medicine person, and he eats more medicine than rice, and he gladly accepted Ruoxue's letting her eat a bowl of Xiao Chai Hu soup to clear heat and detoxify.

Aunt Zhou is pregnant, it is not good to take medicine casually, and when she got up, Ruoxue sat in her room and told her about the Yang family.

Aunt Zhou also felt that it was impossible for the disease to come into the house, but for Ruoxue's worries, she couldn't resist Ruoxue's kindness, so she agreed to let the doctor come to see it, and then the doctor would give her a prescription to eat.

When Aunt Zhou had breakfast, Ruoxue asked Dr. Tong, who came to see Aunt Zhou, to check her pulse, and Ruoxue told her about her worries again.

Dr. Tong was a little skeptical and asked, "Are there any sick people in the house?" ”

"Not yet. However, my eldest brother has been in contact with patients, and it is possible to get sick in three to five days at most. Ruoxue said.

Ruoxue told Dr. Qin Tong carefully about the illness of many people in the Yang family, and she was also afraid that the illness would attack on a large scale, and it would be difficult to clean it up at that time.