"What is wrong with me?"

On the way back, Chu Lufeng realized that he might be sick, but he didn't think about the plague at all, he just thought it was a small illness or pain such as a cold. But seeing that Wen Yiheng is so serious, it is estimated that he has some bad disease.

"Plague." Wen Yiheng faintly popped out three words in his mouth, and Chu Lufeng was shocked when he heard it, and his heart trembled.

Rushing to Quzhou to deal with the flood, Chu Lufeng thought about all aspects, but missed the possibility of illness, only if he was strong and healthy, he would not suffer from the invasion of the disease, but now he was unfortunately hit, and it was still the worst plague.

"Don't worry, there is Jiudong here, and it will cure you." Wen Yiheng wanted Chu Lufeng to introduce Su Jiudong, and then told Chu Lufeng about today's events in detail.

Chu Lufeng drank the decoction and washed up, before Shanshan came to the main hall to discuss with Wen Yiheng: "Send someone to the county government to wait for the letter, but I haven't come back yet, is it that the messenger is delayed on the way." ”

"If it weren't for the delay on the road, I'm afraid that no one in Quzhou would have sent someone to report it." The servant has been precious for a long time, and Wen Yiheng thought of several possibilities in his heart.

Chu Lufeng drank water and contracted the disease, so the local victims would also be infected. However, it had been ten days since Chu Lufeng left Quzhou, and there had been no letter from Quzhou for ten days, let alone a report from Quzhou officials about the plague.

Chu Lufeng guessed that it might be that the officials in Quzhou had concealed their illness and did not dare to report it.

After the flood in Quzhou occurs, after the imperial court sends people to control the water, it will definitely hold the local officials accountable for their poor governance.

A total of 40 people were missing in this flood, seven villages and counties were affected, dozens of acres of fields were flooded, and dozens of large and small areas were affected.

If there is another post-disaster plague and it is found that the disease is caused by the government's failure to deal with the post-disaster hygiene, I am afraid that many officials will be held accountable by the imperial court for this.

Wen Yiheng also had contact with Chu Lufeng today, and there was a possibility of being infected, so he didn't dare to leave Qincha Xingyuan easily, so he asked several other secret guards to set off first to investigate the situation in Quzhou.

Su Jiudong went to the backyard to take a hot bath, and then smoked himself with wormwood, and after leaving the Qincha Xingyuan and returning to the medicinal restaurant, he smoked wormwood again, before he dared to come to the study to reopen the prescription, so that the shop guys could prepare enough medicinal materials.

Before leaving, Su Jiudong left a message for Shopkeeper Liu and Liu Yunniang, explaining that he would stay in Qincha Xingyuan in the past few days, and that the affairs of the medicinal food hall and everything at home would be taken care of by the two of them, and then he brought the medicinal materials and medicine box to Qincha Xingyuan.

Su Jiudong went and returned, brought back prescriptions and herbs, and did his best to diagnose and treat Chu Lufeng, and then take care of Wen Yiheng's condition in his spare time, while the few officials who were forced to stay in Qincha Xingyuan were diagnosed and treated by another doctor according to Su Jiudong's method.

After almost half a month, Chu Lufeng recovered, and Wen Yiheng and several officials were also exposed to the alarm that they might be sick. And several secret guards sent by Wen Yiheng have not returned, and there is still no news from Quzhou, Wen Yiheng is sure that the illness has been concealed by Quzhou officials.

Wen Yiheng decided to rush to Quzhou again to check on the situation in the affected areas. If there was really a plague, the prescription that Su Jiudong had given Chu Lu would be applied to the local patients.

"Take me with you, you don't know how to heal, I can go to the scene to see the situation." If the situation changes, I can also adjust the prescription in time, just to control the spread of the plague as soon as possible. ”

Su Jiudong could see that Wen Yiheng just wanted to rush to Quzhou with Chu Lufeng, and didn't want to take her with him.

"The situation in Quzhou is unknown, I will be worried if I take you with me. You'd better stay here and run the Medicinal Restaurant. Handle the affairs of Quzhou well, and I will rush back as soon as possible. Wen Yiheng was still reluctant to take Su Jiudong with him.

The two argued again, and the stalemate continued. In the end, Chu Lufeng helped Su Jiudong persuade Wen Yiheng, and Wen Yiheng finally agreed that Su Jiudong could accompany him, but he could not move around at will without his consent.

Su Jiudong nodded solemnly and hurried back to the medicinal food hall to pack the clothes and a few rare medicinal herbs he needed. The three of them made an appointment to meet at the Qin Cha Xingyuan, and as soon as noon arrived, everyone set off immediately.

From Qishan County to Quzhou, it would have taken seven or eight days to travel by water, but after the flood, the river was washed away and widened, and the river was turbulent, and it only took four days to reach it.

Wen Yiheng and his entourage arrived in Quzhou, and they still needed to walk a little more mountain road to reach the town after leaving the wharf.

Along the way, Su Jiudong only felt that there was an inexplicable smell mixed with the smell of musty after the disaster, the smell of herbs and the smell of disinfectant vinegar everywhere, which was weird and pungent.

Although after a period of post-disaster reconstruction, the roads have been cleared out and there is no devastation just after the flood, but there are still debris residues around the roads, and domestic garbage and water, grass, mountains and rocks swept by the flood are mixed and wrapped together, and it looks like it is easy to carry germs.

Su Jiudong frowned, and was about to say something to Wen Yiheng, when he was attracted by the official errand that appeared in front of him. dog

Wen Yiheng and his entourage wanted to sneak into Quzhou secretly to find out if there was a plague for the time being, and in order to hide people's eyes, they all pretended to be ordinary people, so the officials who passed by didn't care about Wen Yiheng and them, and just skipped them and led a group of people in white clothes to walk along the mountain road to the mountain.

Wen Yiheng felt that there must be something strange in this, so he first sent a secret guard to follow the group of officers and soldiers to see where they went, and Wen Yiheng and his party first went to the village in front to find a foothold. At night, at the entrance to the mountain, we will meet with the secret guards who have gone to investigate.

At night, Wen Yiheng and Su Jiudong traveled lightly and met with the dark guard at the entrance of the mountain on time, and the news brought back by the secret guard also surprised everyone.

During the day, the secret guards followed the officers and soldiers into the mountain, and there was a three-entry courtyard in the mountain.

Outside the courtyard, about 30 officers and soldiers guarded it, and the officers and soldiers sent the people they had brought in during the day into the courtyard, and gathered with some people who looked sick and looked like they were living inside, while a few people who looked like doctors wandered around the smoking kitchen.

In the evening, several doctors sent decoction to all the people in the house.

At about a moment, the officers and soldiers who were originally guarding the outside of the courtyard, and the officers and soldiers that Wen Yiheng met during the day, quietly gathered at the gate of the courtyard, and there were almost sixty people.

The officers and soldiers gathered at the gate of the courtyard but there was no movement, and several doctors in the courtyard became active, and after inspecting all the rooms in the courtyard, they came out and whispered a few words to the officer at the head.

The officer ordered the officers and men to wear white cloths to cover their mouths and noses, and quietly sneaked into the courtyard, entering the house to resist one unconscious white-clothed person after another.

The officers and soldiers carried the unconscious people out of the courtyard and went to a naturally formed cave behind the mountainside in an orderly manner. The cave is surrounded by a strong smell of burning and a disgusting unidentified aura.

The secret guard continued to observe secretly, only to see the officers and soldiers moving the people into the depths of the cave one by one, and after the last officer and soldier left the cave, a small soldier with a torch walked into the cave.

After a while, there was a faint light of fire in the cave, and the soldier with a torch rushed out of the cave, and the soldiers guarding the cave pushed several large stones to block the entrance of the cave.

Soon after, the originally faint fire grew stronger, and the cave was full of flames, and a terrible scream came from the cave, accompanied by the smell of burning.

The secret guard, who hid in a high place to get a glimpse of the whole picture, calmed down his disgusting emotions, and returned to the entrance of the mountain early to wait for Wen Yiheng's arrival.

Hearing the secret guard's report, Wen Yiheng's color changed, and Chu Lufeng was even more furious, and he punched the thick trunk next to him in anger.

"This group of beasts kills innocents indiscriminately, killing people like grass!" Su Jiudong was indignant, his face was flushed with anger, and his chest rose and fell violently.

The practice of this group of officers and soldiers burning the sick made Su Jiudong think of the behavior of the villagers who wanted to sink the pond to drown the sick villagers two years ago.

Such a contemptuous treatment of human life. The people who are sick but refuse to heal properly, and only adopt extremely negative practices, are a false response to the local officials, and they are unwilling to act!

"The people who were burned to death were all ordinary people, and those officers and soldiers dared to commit such evil acts, and they must have been instructed to do it by the officials above." Wen Yiheng asked the secret guard to quietly arrest the leading officer and take him back to the village for interrogation.

Wen Yiheng and Chu Lufeng identified themselves, and the leading officer was frightened and immediately explained everything.

After the flood, a plague really broke out in Quzhou. At first, there were sick people in a few small villages, but then the plague gradually spread, and more and more people became sick, and the disease became more and more serious.

The county officials of Quzhou were afraid that the outbreak of the disaster would provoke the accountability of the imperial court, and they could not protect themselves, so they figured out how to suppress the plague. First, he concealed it from Shangguan and did not report it, and then in the name of isolation and treatment, he concentrated the sick villagers in the private residence of an old corrupt official in Lianzi Mountain, outside the county seat.

In the courtyard, there were doctors dressed as officers and soldiers, pretending to diagnose and treat patients during the day, and in the evening they would give medicine to the patients, which was called treatment, but in fact those medicines were not antidoes to the plague, but drugs that could make people faint.

The patients drank the medicine in the evening, and the effect of the medicine set on within an hour, and at night, almost all the patients fell into a deep coma, at which time the officers and soldiers would take all the patients to the cave and set them on fire to death.

Every night, sick villagers were burned to death, and this matter lasted for more than ten days, and hundreds of sick villagers were burned to death, and the cave was already filled with the smell of burning and the stench of countless dead bodies.

The inexplicable smell that Wen Yiheng and his party smelled on the road was the same as the inexplicable smell that the secret guard smelled at the entrance of the cave, from the corpse stench and burning smell emitted by the corpses of the burned patients in the cave.

For the sake of officials, the evil intentions of such a careless disregard for human life are exposed, which is jaw-dropping.

Wen Yiheng, who had originally decided to stay overnight, heard about such a terrible thing, and decided to rush to Quzhou County overnight, and ordered the officer to gather the officers and soldiers and doctors in the courtyard in the mountains and take them all back to Quzhou in batches.