It's a pity that things in the world often backfire, and Lan'er and Xiaoxiang'er also suffered from the same disease, vomiting and diarrhea, and repeatedly. (Product @ Book ¥ Net)! In addition to feeling guilty, I increased the invisible pressure, and my once doubts about the epidemic began to waver.

Lan'er forced a smile and comforted me and said, "I'm sorry, miss, Lan'er is useless, I can't help and I have to burden you to take care of us." ”

Xiao'er bled pale and winked at me mischievously: "I can just try the medicine, miss, I'll try a new prescription first." ”

I've always wondered if there's something wrong with my prescription, otherwise why the disease of the victims can't be completely eradicated. I worked day and night to find new recipes and new medicines, but with little success. If you take the drug, the symptoms will be relieved and improved, but after the effect of the drug, there will always be recurrence.

I used all the knowledge that I had seen from the book and what the master had taught. The illness came from the mouth, and depending on the symptoms of the victims, I think it is more like food poisoning caused by eating unclean things. I have repeatedly tested the rice porridge that the victims eat every day, and I have also tested the water I drink twice, and I once had a sudden inspiration to ask the victims to look around for snakes, insects, rats, ants and other things that can easily spread diseases, but they found nothing.

Suddenly, at a loss, I locked myself in my tent, tried and tested, and could barely sleep at night.

I began to get a little discouraged, and privately persuaded my father and third brother Qingwei to find an excuse to leave the disaster area. Qingwei was angry at me, saying that I looked down on him and stubbornly refused to leave.

After about four or five days, the victims also began to talk in whispers, especially the death of the two old people, which became the last straw that broke the camel's back, adding a trace of despair to their faces. The crowd began to stir a little.

I sat on the floor tired, depressed and helpless.

At this time, the gates of the city opened. A humble carriage came straight in our direction from within, greeted by the golden sun, and stopped in front of my tent.

The coachman lifted the hat upwards and said in a muffled voice, "Miss Eleven, our master asks you to talk in the car." ”

I was stunned, and when I looked up, it turned out to be Mu Lin!

I stood up happily, dizzy, and quickly held on to the tent behind me to stabilize my body. I suddenly thought that I had been outside for so many days, and I didn't know how much dirt I had messed with. Liang Ci has always been good and clean, and it is inevitable that he will be disgusted.

The steps that wanted to run forward couldn't help but pause, stopped alive, and said in a low voice: "The plague is very contagious, if there is anything, just tell it." ”

"Why haven't you seen you for a few days, so much nonsense, do you have to let me go down and invite you?" There was a cold and impatient voice in the carriage, hoarse with exhaustion and displeasure.

Mu Lin opened the curtain of the car, and I obediently entered the carriage. Sit down three feet away from the cool remarks.

At this time, I realized how much I missed him after not seeing him in these days, and I gradually blurred my vision as I greedily looked at the people in the carriage who smiled softly at me.

He frowned at me, and suddenly burst into fire at me without warning: "Su Qingwen, I haven't seen you for a few days just now, look at what you've tossed yourself into!" People are not people, ghosts are not ghosts, they are thin like a piece of paper, and the wind outside the city is stronger, which can directly blow you back to Jiangnan. Why are you such a woman so uncomfortable! If you don't let you go out of the city, you have to do it, and when you come out, you don't take good care of yourself."

talked endlessly, and scolded him.

I didn't say a word, just got up and turned around and left!

"What are you going to do?"

I looked up at the roof of the carriage and forcibly held back the tears that almost burst out of my eyes: "If His Royal Highness the Qi King finishes scolding and is relieved, I will go back, I am very busy." ”

As soon as he turned around, his wrist was grabbed from behind by a large warm hand and pulled back suddenly. I have been exhausted for the past few days, I was already a little dizzy, and suddenly he pulled hard, and I couldn't support it, and I fell into the soft carriage, and sat cross-legged in the cold speech, and my head happened to hit his lap.

Before I could cry out in pain, he first shouted: "Wow, my head is so hard, it hurts me to death." ”

The grievances I endured finally couldn't help but burst out, hammered him on the chest a few times, and cried and shouted: "Let you talk about me, let you scold me!" ”

Liang Ci grabbed my hand a little funny, and exaggerated the appearance of grinning and pain: "Miss Eleven, spare your life!" ”

I burst into tears and laughed, wiped my face embarrassedly, looked at my eyes again, and said uncertainly: "Am I really embarrassed now?" ”

Liang Ci smiled "poof", took out a vermilion bright lacquer food box from behind him, opened the lid, and a hot aroma suddenly filled the entire carriage.

"Fortunately, I'm bold, I wasn't scared by you, you look at your unkempt face, red eyes, it's really scary."

But I didn't have time to pay attention to his teasing, because my eyes were full of food boxes in front of me. Liang Ci took out a clay pot carved with a smiling face Maitreya from the food box, uncovered the lid of the seated Buddha on it, and suddenly a mouth-watering aroma came to his face, the meat fragrance was rich, and the taste was delicious. The seduction made me stare all over the place, staring at it, swallowing desperately and asking, "What is this?" ”

Liang Ci unhurriedly took a folding coffee table from the side, put it in front of me, took out a pair of ivory chopsticks from the food box, and handed it to me with a smile: "Brewing meat incense floats around the neighborhood, and the Buddha abandons Zen and jumps over the wall." ”

"Buddha jumping over the wall? It's extravagant, but it's even better if you have a bowl of green rice or sesame pancakes to accompany the vegetables. I snatched the crockpot in Liang Ci's hand, and I didn't have time to taste it, so I devoured it.

Liang Ci looked at me amusedly, and took out a bowl of crystal plump japonica rice from the food basket!

I was like a whirlwind of clouds, and I couldn't wait to swallow my tongue together, but the eating appearance only stunned the cold words, and exclaimed: "Slow down, slow down, be careful of choking." ”

Then lift the bottom of the basket and take out a cup of chicken soup that has been stewed and fragrant.

I happened to choke on the tip of my throat with a mouthful of rice, and I couldn't go up or down. I took the chicken soup, used the spoon to put aside the layer of oil flowers and green spring onions floating on it, and tasted a mouthful of hot mouth, I said anxiously: "Water, water, cold water!" ”

Liang Ci glanced at the jug in the carriage and shook his head: "That's raw water, it hasn't been boiled yet, so you can't drink it." "I scooped up the chicken soup from the soup cup with a spoon and came over to feed me.

I was stunned for a moment.

Liang Ci was in a hurry and patted me on the back: "What's wrong with you, you're really choking?" ”

I slapped his hand away, jumped up excitedly, swallowed the rice at the tip of my throat vigorously, and shouted, "I know where the crux is!" ”

After speaking, he didn't explain, turned around and jumped out of the carriage, ran towards the tent where I lived, lifted the curtain, and excitedly woke up Lan'er, who was sleeping: "Lan'er, Lan'er, let me ask you, where does the water we usually drink come from?" ”

Lan'er opened her eyes in a daze, and saw that I was excited, a little inexplicable: "I heard that people often drown in the moat, and the water is not clean, so the water we drink is from a reservoir in the east." ”

"Is all the water boiling?"

Lan'er shook her head: "The pot stove is limited, and it needs to be used to boil medicine, so we all drink raw water." But don't worry, the water that you, the old man and the third young master drink, and the maid are all boiled to cool. ”

No wonder I have checked my drinking water a few times and found nothing abnormal, my father and my third brother have been safe and sound, the problem must be here!

I got up and ran out of the tent like a gust of wind, and the fatigue of these two sleepless days vanished in this moment. I eagerly stopped the two men who were coming at me and asked them to take me to the water source.

The two men were excited when they saw me, and they didn't know what was going on, but they didn't ask me much when they saw that I was eager, so they turned around and led me to the east waterhole, and asked me, "Miss Eleven, is there anything new to discover?" ”

I was afraid that if my guess was wrong, they would be disappointed, so I could only say uncertainly: "I'll find out until I've seen it." ”

Nestled in the middle of a lush patch of aquatic plants, the pool is supposed to be a natural formation, and the accumulated rootless rainwater does not flow, but is stagnant, and the water is clear.

The two men pointed out to me the stone platform where they usually drew water, and I walked over, stood on the stone platform, squatted down, picked up a handful of water, and sniffed closely, there was no unusual smell, and there were no impurities. I took out the silver needle on my waist and tried it, and there was nothing unusual.

I was a little discouraged for a moment, could I have guessed wrong?

I stood on the edge of the stone platform, looked around, and finally noticed that something was wrong. The aquatic plants near the waterhole are luxuriant, but the color of the aquatic plants in the circle closest to the waterhole is slightly yellowish, almost indistinguishable, if you are not careful, you can't see the difference at all.

I reached for the slightly lighter-colored aquatic plants, and the two men behind me hurriedly said, "Miss Eleven, be careful. ”

I thought that the aquatic weeds were deeply rooted and it would not be easy to pull them up, but who expected that with a little force, the aquatic weeds would be uprooted, and I used too much force, and I almost fell to the ground. It turned out that the roots of the aquatic plants had already been somewhat rotten, and the rhizomes were all densely covered with black spots.

I couldn't help but feel a chill on my body, and the two big men behind me couldn't help but say, "What is this, so disgusting!" ”

Holding back the discomfort, I twisted a little between my fingers and crushed it, and it was full of sticky green juice. I quickly washed my hands in the water and said to the two of them, "Please pick a few yellow-colored aquatic plants for me from different locations." ”

The two also knew that there must be a mystery in it, so they didn't say much, picked a few suitable terrain, and pulled out a few aquatic plants.

That's all the same.

Sure enough, it was Gu poison, and someone had tampered with the drinking water of the victims. Although this kind of Gu poison lives in the water, it does not float in the water, but likes to cling to aquatic plants and absorb the water of aquatic plants to survive. So no one found the pool to be unclean. And their excrement is toxic, the silver needle is undetectable, and the toxicity can be completely eliminated by high-temperature heating.

However, I gave free medical treatment to the victims, and the decoction took up most of the pots, and the victims did not have the conditions to drink cooked water. Someone must have taken advantage of the weakness to enter and throw Gu poison into the pool, causing people to vomit and diarrhea, and even have symptoms of high fever.

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