"Do you think there really will be a war?" Qin Mo finally calmed down, rubbed the wall of the teacup with white jade porcelain, and asked with a sigh.

Dahong has not been really peaceful these years, the border is often uneasy, Han Weiqi, Xiang Liangqing, Qin Shixiao, and An have all been on the battlefield in their early years, as family members, they have also been frightened when their brother went to the battlefield, and they have also been anxious and dare not open a family letter, for fear of hearing bad news.

But the bloody scenes of those Jin Ge Iron Horses were not staged in front of them after all. Lindu City is too far away from the battlefield, so far away that there is a bloody battle over there, and there are still people in Lindu City who are drunk and dreaming of death.

An Zaoyu was also silent, she was so similar to Qin Mo, just because of the similarity, she couldn't give her an answer.

"Even if we could, we'd be fine." Jiang Changxi said: "Because there is the prince, An Shizi, and the second brother Qin, we Dahong still have so many sons and daughters who stand up to the sky to defend the family and the country, and they will protect us." But why, there is still a deep uneasiness in my heart.

Jiang Changxi's uneasiness had no reason, but the sound of the door of Chen's Mansion being hurriedly knocked on the door that night confirmed her uneasiness.

The person who came was the medicine boy from Tianshui Hall, he seemed to be very frightened, his face was pale, his whole body trembled, he grabbed Jiang Changxi's hand: "Girl, dead, dead......"

But no matter how Ren Jiang Changxi asked, the medicine boy only muttered this sentence, and couldn't ask anything more.

Jiang Changxi decided to go to Tianshui Hall.

But Qin Shixiao hadn't come back yet, and no one dared to disturb Old Lady Chen and Old Lady Qin, Qin Mo and An Zaoyu wanted to go with her, but she refused.

"Let your uncle go with you." Coming here, Jiang Changxi and An Zaoyu both followed Qin Mo to call Chen Weisheng a little uncle.

Jiang Changxi still refused, so Chen Qin's family didn't let her go out: "You are a girl's house at night, in case there is a bad one, how can we explain to your old lady." "Chen Qin also knows Mrs. Jiang.

Seeing that everyone said this, Jiang Changxi couldn't shirk anymore, so he thanked him first, and then took Qingrong out of the door behind Chen Weisheng.

This time, it was sent by the Chen family in a carriage, and it was only half an hour to Tianshui Hall.

The door of Tianshui Hall was opened, which should have been opened when the medicine boy broke out to report the news. But after such a long time, no one came to close the door, and there was not even a light in the front hall, which shows that this matter is serious enough to make people lose their proportion.

Qingrong lit a lantern to lead the way in front, and several people turned around the verandah, and the people who stayed overnight tonight were scattered all over the hospital, all of them were far away from the patient's residence, and they were vigilant in fear.

Among these people, Shopkeeper Liao was the calmest one, and he was the first to recognize Jiang Changxi: "Girl! ”

"What the hell is going on?" Jiang Changxi looked around and found that among these people, except for the shopkeeper Liao, they were all medicine boys: "Didn't you have a doctor who stayed overnight tonight?" ”

"Yes, yes, it's Dr. Ping."

"Where's Dr. Ping?"

"In, inside." Across the spacious courtyard and the verandah, Shopkeeper Liao pointed to the room where Jiang Changxi had been during the day, where a patient from Lizhou City lived who had a high fever for two days.

Lizhou.

These two words are so sensitive that as soon as they appeared, Jiang Changxi subconsciously felt that this was a catastrophe.

She didn't hesitate to go over there, but Shopkeeper Liao stopped her: "Girl, girl, don't go over." Shopkeeper Liao regretted calling the girl over. But as soon as it happened, he was also scared enough, and subconsciously thought of the girl, and sent people to find it.

Alas, what is the matter!

"Why?" Jiang Changxi didn't have too many questions, and she had to go over and take a look at any more questions.

"The sick people in the house were very strange, the fever did not go away, and they burned alive. After death, the flesh and blood were as if they had been sucked dry, and they turned into white bones in an instant, and a lot of white insects were conjured. ”

Shopkeeper Liao said it scary, and the medicine boys who had never seen it nodded one after another, and described it there in a matter-of-fact manner, Chen Weisheng frowned, and also suggested that Jiang Changxi not go in.

"Somebody has to find out what is real and false." Jiang Changxi insisted on going in, but she asked everyone to stay put: "I am a doctor, I am measured." ”

Chen Weisheng wanted to say that there seemed to be a doctor in the house, and he was also tricked. But with a pair of Shangjiang Changxi's unusually firm eyes, he couldn't say anything.

Jiang Changxi insisted on going in, but Chen Weisheng couldn't stop her, Qingrong didn't stop her, she wanted to go in with her.

"The girl knows, and none of us can stop anyone."

That's it, "So I'm not going to stop you." ”

Before Jiang Changxi hit, he walked through the verandah and walked to the house where she had been once during the day.

Qingrong followed behind her, and every step was firm.

Rao is mentally prepared enough, as soon as Pu entered, he faced a white bone skeleton, Jiang Changxi was still startled, and subconsciously closed his eyes and quickly opened them.

It wasn't the bones that she should be focusing on now, but the three living people lying on the ground.

Yes, living people.

Dr. Ping and the other two medicine boys are not dead, they still have flesh and blood, they still breathe, and they are still alive. The only abnormalities are probably the obvious red spots on their hands, necks, and faces that cannot be covered by all the clothes, as well as high fever.

After confirming that there was nothing unusual, Jiang Changxi felt fortunate and at the same time tensed all his mind, and called the shopkeeper Liao and a few medicine boy helpers to carry the three patients to the couch.

The white bones in the room are still oozing.

"Girl, what have you found?" Jiang Changxi didn't let Qingrong touch the white bones, just looking at it like this, Qingrong really couldn't see anything.

Jiang Changxi said that this white bone had no research value, so he let people carry it out and burn it.

"The girl knows what is wrong with this?"

"Hmm." Jiang Changxi said: "You take straw mats and quilts and wrap white bones out, it's best to have something on your hands, don't touch it with your bare hands." Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Jiang Changxi added without saltiness: "It will be contagious." ”

“……”

"Girl, why didn't you say it earlier!" The medicine boy who carried three patients felt that he was about to die.

"Rest assured, before the patient dies, it will not infect people. It is only after they die that the remaining white bones are infected. ”

Jiang Changxi's timely explanation made them feel alive again.

"What the hell is this?" It's contagious, that's the plague, right? But Shopkeeper Liao has never heard of this kind of plague, people will not be contagious when they are alive, but they will be when they die.

"It's the Bone Plague." Seeing that everyone was still puzzled, Jiang Changxi had no choice but to continue to explain: "To put it simply, it is a kind of Gu worm that is fostered in human bones, and it is nourished by human flesh and blood, and before the foster person dies, the epidemic carried by the Gu worm cannot be released, so it has no ability to infect others. And once it grows up, after the foster is bitten to the point that only white bones remain, the Gu worms will spit out mucus to attach the disease to the white bones when they are full of food and drink, which is the white bone plague. ”

"Well, those bugs that ran into Dr. Ping's body......"

"That's the Gu worm looking for a new foster carer." Jiang Changxi's voice became lower and lower until there was silence. This is where the bone plague is most difficult to treat.

Jiang Changxi found Chen Weisheng and explained the situation inside to him.

Chen Weisheng doesn't know what the white bone plague is, but the epidemic that can infect people is always terrifying, and as long as it spreads, it will cause panic in the whole city.

"The banditry in Lizhou will soon burn to Pingzhou, if it is rumored that there is a plague in Pingzhou at this time, Pingzhou City will not be able to hold it." If these bandits succeed in crossing the river, it will be difficult to destroy them.

Speaking of this stubble, Jiang Changxi finally figured out what he felt was wrong before.

Why did the bandits who escaped from Lizhou give up the Panzhou ferry and choose the Luo Po ferry, this is a question that Jiang Changxi has never been able to understand.

But what if the purpose of the bandits is not to escape, but to shake the country of Dahong? So can she speculate that it is just a gimmick for any state officials to force the people, and their purpose is to spread the bone plague with the help of refugees in Lizhou, so that the entire Dahong will fall into panic and chaos because of this unexpected epidemic.

Jiang Changxi even had even worse speculations, if the Lizhou army had already contracted the bone plague at this time, they chased the bandits all the way from Lizhou to Panzhou and then to Pingzhou, if there were infected people on the way and died, it would not be more in the hands of the enemy.

There is still a cold ...... He is such a person, he is unwilling to explain in the face of all slander and criticism, and would rather resist impeachment and ask for rebellion than bow to those who misunderstand him. He is such a proud and flamboyant person, if one day he knew that he led the Lizhou army to scatter the bone plague, how painful and self-blamed he would be, and even face more incomprehension and abuse.

Thinking of this, Jiang Changxi felt a burst of chest tightness, and her subconscious thought was no, no, how could it. She hated to run to Han Weiqi's side right now and tell him to stop.

But she couldn't do it, she couldn't run out of Tianshui Hall, she couldn't run out of Pingzhou City. This reality made her feel deeply powerless.

"Lord Chen, can you find Second Brother Qin? You'll have to help me get him a letter. ”

"Yes. What are you going to tell him? Say what's going on here? ”

"Yes and no." Jiang Changxi immediately went to the study, grinding ink and laying paper and carrying pens, she was a little anxious, and the pen looked messy.

Fold the letter in half twice, and Jiang Changxi handed it to Chen Weisheng without sealing it: "Please Lord Chen give this letter to Second Brother Qin, he will know what to do after reading it." As soon as possible. ”

Chen Weisheng was very careful, didn't ask too much, left two people for Jiang Changxi, turned around and walked out of Tianshui Hall.

"Girl, the bones have been moved to the courtyard, will they be burned now?" Seeing that Chen Weisheng was gone, Qingrong came in to return.

"Wait a minute." Jiang Changxi picked up the pen again, and after thinking about it, he sorted out a prescription and handed it to Qingrong: "Let the shopkeeper Liao grab the medicine and boil it into a potion." When burning the bones, spray the potion from time to time, and after the incineration, douse the fire ash with the potion. ”

According to ancient records, the firewood used to burn the bones of a person with bone plague should have been soaked in potions. But they don't have time to soak the firewood anymore before they can dry it. Jiang Changxi had to change to the spraying method, hoping it could also work.