"The food is ready and ready to be distributed from house to house." Mei Zhiyan said to Gu Li.

"I'll go with you later." Gu Li nodded.

She also wanted to contribute some money to buy food and medicinal herbs, but all her savings were used to buy medicinal herbs for the victims last time, and if it weren't for the fact that Chunhuitang was now in charge of her food and housing, she wouldn't even be able to eat.

Gu Li and Mei Zhiyan put on isolation gowns, masks and gloves, and went to Nanmen Lane.

When he got there, Gu Li saw a familiar figure from a distance, watching people boiling medicinal herbs.

"Mei Zhangyuan." Gu Li walked over to him and shouted respectfully.

"Doctor Gu is here." Mei Zhangyuan responded with a smile.

"Are these medicines used for disinfection, or are they used to prevent diseases?" Gu Li asked.

"Both." Mei Zhangyuan pointed to the cauldron on the left where the medicinal herbs were boiling, "This one is for disinfection", and then pointed to the right, "The one over there is for disease prevention." ”

Gu Li nodded, and said: "Mei Zhangyuan, please tell all the people involved in the treatment to protect themselves, and definitely not to eat or drink water casually." ”

"This disease is not easy to treat, there is no good way, so the only thing we can do is to do a good job of prevention and control. As long as fewer and fewer people are infected, then this epidemic will pass. ”

Mei Zhangyuan nodded in agreement and said, "What Doctor Gu said is very reasonable. ”

"I brought some protective gear from the Spring Returning Hall, you can distribute it." Gu Li pointed to a carriage behind her.

After explaining this, Gu Li, together with Mei Zhiyan, together with the officials of the two household departments, began to investigate door to door.

Gu Li went to Sister-in-law Zhang again and asked her to take them away one by one.

Sister-in-law Zhang lives here and is familiar with this side, and with her with her, she can get twice the result with half the effort.

Every time she went to the door of a house, it was Sister-in-law Zhang who stepped forward to knock on the door first, and when the door opened, Gu Li explained the reason, sent a bucket of rice grain, and secretly observed to see if there were any old people who had not yet been buried, and whether there were people infected with epidemics.

They started at the mouth of the alley, and progressed relatively smoothly, and no unburied or sick people were found. Even those who are infected have been sent to the hospital for treatment.

"It's fine at the head of the alley, but if you go any further, it's not good." Sister-in-law Zhang said.

There are several families she knows of that have people infected with the disease.

Walking to the door of a house, Sister-in-law Zhang stepped forward to knock on the door again, but before she knocked, she gave Gu Li a look.

"Who?" Someone inside answered the door.

"It's me, someone from the government has come to give us food, sister-in-law, hurry up and open the door." Sister-in-law Zhang replied loudly.

With a "squeak", the simple wooden door was opened, and out of it came a sallow woman.

"Today's epidemic is serious, the court is sympathetic to the people, and specially distributed rice grain, each family has a bucket, this is your family." Gu Li said to the woman in a soft voice.

"Oh, good." The woman agreed and took the rice from Gu Li's hand.

At the moment when she got close, Gu Li's expression froze, and she glanced at Mei Zhiyan.

"Sister-in-law, do you have any patients at home? I know a little bit about medicine, and I can help you see it. Gu Li tried her best to make her tone sound gentle and harmless.

But when the woman heard this, she immediately looked panicked as if she were facing a great enemy.

"No, no, my family doesn't, you guys hurry up!"

As she spoke, she stepped up and entered the door, slamming it shut.

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law!"

Gu Li shouted twice, but no one answered.

In this way, Gu Li looked at Mei Zhiyan again and shook his head.

"There's a problem with this one, write it down." Gu Li said to the official of the household department who accompanied him.

The official took out a small notebook and recorded the location of the house.

Leaving the house, Sister-in-law Zhang led them deeper into the alley.

Hearing that Gu Li and his party had left, the woman with her ear on the door breathed a sigh of relief.

She went into the house, put down the rice grain, and heard the man lying on the bed weakly asking, "Gone?" ”

The woman pulled a face and did not reply.

After a while, he reprimanded: "I have already asked you to send the old thing out for burial, you don't listen, you have to pretend to be filial and do your filial piety, now it's okay, you are infected with the epidemic, and our whole family will die together!" ”

The man on the bed threw up, and the woman wiped her tears as she went over to give him relief.

"Otherwise, you can send me out." The man gasped.

"Nonsense!" Madame reprimanded, sobbing and saying, "If I send you out, you will really die." ”

She had heard that anyone who was sent out to contract the epidemic would be confined in one place, and no one would take care of them, so they would wait for death.

"I'm not going to send you out." The woman said in a firm tone.

Even if you die, you have to die at home.

Sister-in-law Zhang had already walked away with the group, and when she knocked on the door again, Gu Li immediately sensed that something was wrong.

It didn't taste right, and if she was right, there must be someone hiding in this house who hadn't been buried.

Mei Zhiyan also smelled it, and ordered the two officials beside her: "Get ready." ”

If you want to take the deceased away, I am afraid that the family will not cooperate obediently, so you can only take strong measures.

"Who?" Someone in the door answered, but when they heard it, their tone was full of vigilance.

It was still Sister-in-law Zhang who replied, and immediately after, a woman came to open the door.

Gu Li gave rice and grain, and said to her: "Sister-in-law, we have to go into the house by the way and sprinkle some medicinal powder, so that you can also protect yourself from illness." ”

The woman immediately became alarmed, and said "no" again and again, and closed the door again.

But the two officials were ready, opened the door, pushed the woman away, and rushed into the courtyard.

After entering the door, the smell became more and more obvious, and the official followed the smell and found a thin coffin parked in the side room.

"Carry it out, cremate and bury it immediately, pay attention to isolation, and protect yourself." Gu Li said.

The two officials immediately carried the coffin out.

Gu Li and Mei Zhiyan did not leave immediately, but stayed behind to do the ideological work of this couple.

"I can understand that you want to be filial, to be filial to your children and to your parents, and that is also what you should do. But at the same time, we have to understand that this kind of behavior is very, very dangerous, and you are risking your lives to fulfill your filial piety. Gu Li slowly admonished.

"Even if we risk our lives, then we must do our filial piety." The man argues with his neck crossed.

"It's not like the two of you are taking a risk, it's risking the lives of everyone in Changning City. You have done your filial duty, but you have harmed the people of the city. If your parents knew that you had become sinners for the ages in order to fulfill your filial piety to them, would they be happy? ”