Song Jinyao saw that Gu Chao was in a daze, and nudged her.

"Why are you stunned?"

"No, nothing. I went to Egret County yesterday, and I hurried back today, and I came to you immediately. Today is the second half of the day, so I'll go back and see my fellow door, and I'll come early tomorrow."

"Ah, you can't stay a little longer if you're leaving so soon, you can have dinner right here. Okay? ”

Gu Chao thought about the few plates of pastries that had been removed, he only had time to eat a piece, and he wanted to eat it, but if he ate here, what would they do if they were healed outside? It's still a long time before the evening, and it's not good if they have something to discuss with them, and they're here eating and drinking.

"Next time, there will be more opportunities. I'll have to go out into the hall to see my companions, maybe they've got something to look for me. ”

Song Jinyao put away the jewelry and books on the table as they were and hid them in their original places. opened the door again and called Brother Jin in the distance.

"Brother Jin, where are the two sons of the Qing Pavilion today?"

"Miss Hui, except for Miss Gu today, there have been no outsiders visiting."

Gu Chao heard this, and stepped forward suspiciously:

"My senior brother has traveled far away, but no one else has come?"

"No, the master went to the stores to inquire today, and the merchants and guests will not come to the house when they get the news. Today, only Miss Gu came, you were alone. ”

How so? I threw Chang Yu to Lin Zhuo and asked them to come back later, why didn't I even see a shadow?

"Jin Yao, my fellow disciple didn't come to me, I'm worried that something unexpected will happen, and I have to leave today. I'll be here early tomorrow, okay? ”

Since this is the case, it is not easy for Song Jinyao to keep it. Let Brother Jin send people out well.

Out of the Song Mansion, Gu Chao hurried to Guanxi. When they arrived at the inn, they didn't see their group.

Strange, if they don't come to the Song Mansion and are not in the inn, where will they go? Oh, Lin Zhuo and Huaixu are not here, could it be that Chang Yue helped Lin Zhuo and them investigate the case? Also, it's useless for them to go to the Song Mansion, Miss Song only sees herself, and it's a waste of time for them to go.

In this case, it will be dark for a while, and I heard that the Heihe Institute where the epidemic patients are concentrated is very close to Guanxi, so instead of staying here and doing nothing, it is better to go to the Heihe Institute to have a look. If Senior Brother and Chang Yu were here, there must be various reasons not to let them go, and now that they are alone, it is good to go and take a look secretly, maybe they can find some clues.

Gu Chao greeted Feng Da and wanted to ask him how to go to Heihesuo. Bongda shook his head vigorously.

Ask her a girl's family, why do you want to go to that kind of place, a bad one is infected with a bad disease and drags others down, if the proprietress knows, maybe she won't let her live here, and desperately advise her not to go.

Gu Chao had no choice but to thank him for his kindness, and obediently indicated that he would not go. After Feng Da left, Gu Chao sat under the big locust tree in the courtyard in distress, thinking about how he could go to the Heihe without knowing it.

Alas, by the way, doctor, I heard that the patients who are locked up in the Heihe Institute will have a doctor to check on them, and they will send someone to send supplies. If someone dies in it, for fear that the corpse will rot and infect, there will be officers and soldiers from the county government who will ask him to bury him.

Although I don't know where the people who deliver the supplies are, and I don't know where the home is. Then you can only go to the best doctor. At this time, there will always be a doctor in your own clinic.

So Gu Chao went to the street, hired a small carriage, and asked the coachman to take him to the doctor. When Gu Chao arrived at the largest clinic in Qingcheng County, Huichun Hall, he learned that Dr. Meng had gone to Heihe, and it happened that the primary school apprentices of Huichun Hall were going to send medicinal materials to Dr. Meng.

Gu Chao immediately asked the apprentice to get in the car and take him to Heihe. The apprentice was half grateful and half curious, why others avoided Heihe, why did she still go inside. Gu Chao said to go and see the family inside, and set off after a short time.

Along the way, Gu Chao asked the apprentices about the epidemic. I learned that the symptoms of the epidemic at this time were both acute and slow.

Mild symptoms are just itchy all over the body, dizziness and chest tightness. In severe cases, there is a rash of red sores, high fever does not go away, cough does not stop, and there will be coughing up blood. And there is no definite number of severe and mild cases, it is all luck.

As she spoke, the carriage arrived at Heihesuo, and Gu Chao was about to get out of the car, but the junior apprentice stopped her.

"Girl, you can't go in like this, it's very dirty inside, oh, this cloth covering, put it on, thank you girl for hiring a carriage to send me here today, otherwise I'm still worried about how to come."

"It's nothing like this, I haven't thanked you for bringing me over, so let's do it, I'm from the Guanxi Inn, I'm going to take the car back later, or I'll pass by the Rejuvenation Hall, and I can send you back when the time comes."

The two thanked each other and then parted for the time being.

Heihe was originally an abandoned village, with many large and small rooms, and the local legend says that the original owner was cursed because he did some bad things, so the whole family died of a strange disease.

Later, it was renamed Heihesu, and it would send people there when every outbreak of the epidemic. There was still a large mass grave in the wilderness next to it, where all kinds of unclaimed corpses were discarded.

Because of this, except for the epidemic period, Heihe Institute is gloomy all year round, and all the terrifying stories rumored by the people of Qingcheng County originated from here.