Chapter 253: Understanding the Epidemic

After entering the hall, both sides politely gave each other a brief introduction.

The noble man in a golden and black brocade dress is the prince Ji Moyu, who is about fifty years old but in good spirits, and the uncle is Chu Changquan, the general of Shu State, and the graceful woman in red soft armor is actually the deputy commander of the Shu Janissaries, named Liu Xianru, and the other two are also military generals.

Ye Lingyu also introduced the four of them to the crown prince Ji Moyu and others, but when introducing Bingyue, he reversed the name one by one---- Yue Bing.

The arrival of Bingyue and his entourage made the prince of Shu and several generals very happy, because, in their opinion, these immortal envoys were omnipotent. The business is important, and the two sides did not greet each other much, and went straight to the point.

General Chu Changquan gave a brief introduction to the current situation of the epidemic in Shu for Ye Lingyu and the four of them, saying that the current plague in Jinguan City is spreading very fast, and even the palace has been affected. About two-tenths of the people in the city have been infected with the plague, and more and more are dying from the disease. The epidemic in the neighboring Lincheng and Qingwu cities occurred relatively late, and although the number of infected people is not as large as that of Jinguancheng, it is not optimistic.

Symptoms of those infected with the plague begin with a high fever followed by a red rash. What makes people feel very strange is that all infected people will slowly bloom a flower in the shape of a black lotus on their chests in the later stage of infection, and after the flower is formed, human life will come to an end.

The young and strong can live for about 15 days at most if they are infected with the plague, and most of the old people do not live for 7 days.

The government has traced the source of the disease in many ways, but has not found the source of the disease. At present, only the first infected people in Jinguan City have been found to be Li Er from Chengxi Lane 6 and Liu Wusheng from Chengnan Lane 3, both of whom had been out before the onset of the disease, and the most suspicious thing is that they both went to a mountain temple five miles south of the city.

The government also sent several groups of people to the mountain temple to investigate in detail, but did not find anything abnormal. Perhaps this is also related to the fact that a few days have passed when the two were found to be ill, and even if there are traces, they may have been destroyed. But the strange thing is that the mountain temple is not abandoned, and there are people who go to incense from time to time on weekdays, why are others not infected, only they are infected.

Li Er and Liu Wusheng both thought they had typhoid fever when they first got sick, and their families didn't pay much attention to it. By the time they were diagnosed with the suspected plague, they had unknowingly infected dozens of people, even Lang Zhong and Lang Zhong's medicine boy, who had treated them, were not spared.

I don't know if it's because they didn't check out in time and can't judge the exact time of infection or other reasons, anyway, Li Er and Liu Wusheng, who were initially infected with the plague, lived the longest, and the family members and neighbors who were infected by them, including Gu Langzhong in the south of the city and Liu Langzhong in the west of the city, all did not survive for ten days.

Listening to the general's explanation, Bingyue has analyzed that the cause of this plague has not been found out, and the epidemic has not been controlled, so it should be that either the illness of the infected person has not been detected, or the condition has been found but helpless.

"General Chu, have the corpses of Li Er and Liu Wusheng been burned?" Bingyue was only a tentative inquiry, generally those who contracted the plague would definitely dispose of the corpses by burning them.

"Yes, Yue Immortal Envoy. General Chu replied very respectfully.

Bingyue did not feel any discomfort with General Chu's respect, which was related to her experience in her previous life. "Have you checked the nearby water source?" The spread of the plague in general has a lot to do with the contamination of the water source, Bingyue continued to ask the other party.