Chapter 406: Hope Lost
"Let's wash and eat something" Mu Xiaoxue made some simple things the next morning, fortunately they still have some food left here, but it is not much, and cooking porridge twice a day can only last until tomorrow, but let's talk about it after these two days, Mu Xiaoxue went out to dig some wild vegetables by herself, and made do with it.
"I'll bring it in for Daddy. As soon as Mu Xiaoxue put things away, the first thing Ling'er thought about was her father, what a good child.
"Don't worry, your father hasn't woken up yet, let him rest again. Mu Xiaoxue grabbed Ling'er, she had just gone in to see it, and Imperial Doctor Chen was sure that he was asleep, so he was fine.
"Okay" Ling'er pouted, but as soon as she thought that she might disturb her father's rest when she went in, she immediately changed her face.
"Ahem, cough, cough" There was a coughing sound in the room, but it sounded like it should have been a dry cough when you woke up.
"Daddy, drink some water. "The little ones reacted faster than they did, what a distressing child.
It wasn't until he got up and ate something and drank the medicine that Imperial Doctor Chen had boiled that they started asking him again.
"This is the imperial doctor sent by the imperial court, and you are also thanks to him, now we have something to ask you, do you feel better now" Mu Xiaoxue briefly introduced them to the man.
"Ask me if you have anything to say, and I will tell you what I know. The man's voice still sounded a little weak, but it was much better than yesterday, and it didn't feel hoarse.
"Can you tell us what you did when you found out you were infected," Mu Xiaoxue thought, only by starting with their living habits, it might be faster.
"I get up early every day to work in the fields, sometimes all day, and even the food is brought to the fields to eat. Farmers like us have nothing else to do but farm, and we just hope that when the harvest comes, we will have a good harvest, so that the family will not have to worry about food and clothing. ”
"So how did you get infected, what did you do before you found out, or what people you met? From his words, it is clear that he has only been to his own fields, but if he has only been to the fields, how can he get the plague?
"I don't know, at first there was a person in the village like this, we thought it was just a strange disease, and everyone didn't pay attention to it. But then more and more people got the same disease, and when I found out a few days ago, I felt that something was wrong with my body, and I wondered if I would be like them, so I locked myself in this room, and you all know about the rest of it. The man slowly recalled that until now he himself did not know what had happened, he had always been in good health, and he did not know why it suddenly became like this.
Mu Xiaoxue frowned, if he said this, it didn't seem to be anything special, and he still didn't know where the problem was. "What were the symptoms when you noticed them?"
The man recalled, "At first, I felt that I didn't have much strength, my mouth was very dry, and sometimes I felt a little nauseous, and then slowly I felt that every part of my body was like a small insect crawling, so I wanted to scratch it hard, and I felt like I wanted to die immediately." ”
"Then have you been in contact with those who have been infected by you first?" does not rule out this possibility, the farmer family likes to go their own way, it may be that he has been to someone else's house, or it may be that someone else has come to their house.
"No, we don't have time to run the door here than anywhere else, most of them are busy farming, and they are afraid that the harvest will not be good in the coming year, and there will be no food at home after paying the taxes paid, so there will be no time to run the door or anything like that, at most they will meet on the road to say hello, or talk a few words when they take a break in the field. "When I think of such a heavy tax burden, the faces of the people in the village are sad for a year, and the next year when the harvest is better, I can still take care of the food and clothing of the family, but there is no superfluity.
The three of them frowned at the same time, they were so busy that they didn't even have time to go to the door, and there was no food to save when they paid the personal tax, and they knew that the court paid the tax, but it was not so serious that people were afraid that they would not be able to pay it, and they didn't even have a little time to rest, wouldn't this be a bit too exaggerated.
"That means that usually you have no other place to go except to go to the field or to go home, right?" according to him, then he is two points and one line, either in the field or at home, so where is the problem, if it is at home, why is he the only one who has trouble, and his wife and daughter are fine
"Hmm," the man replied uncertainly, without thinking.
"Then think about what happened in the field during those two days, or whether you talked to people or something. "Now one possibility can be ruled out is that there is no problem at home, and the problem should be in the field.
"No, these days are busy times, so there is still time to chat, and even the food is sent to the field to eat. ”
When he said this, he couldn't understand why he had the plague and had no contact with people, nor had he been to other people's homes, and the food was also sent by his family. No, they must have missed that detail, or he forgot that detail.
"Then have you eaten anything from other places besides eating the things sent by the family, for example, your lady is late for the delivery, or there is a delay in delivering it, and you are hungry and buy some food or something there. ”
"No, if he really didn't have time, I wouldn't have been hungry for a day, because we didn't have any extra money to buy that. "Food and clothing are all problems, and there will be spending money that shouldn't be spent.
"Okay, you take a break, see if there's any discomfort there, and then think about whether there is anything you have forgotten, and if you think of anything, you can tell us. Seeing that he was a little struggling to speak, Mu Xiaoxue didn't ask any more, because according to him, there was no favorable information, I thought that he could have some hope if he got better, but there was no useful news at all, and the only thing that was comforting was that his body was better.
"What to do now, it seems that he can't find any reason here. The three of them went out of the outhouse, all with a sad expression, now the matter is getting more and more serious, in the morning Feng Lingyun went out to see that the number of deaths has increased again, and these are not because of the plague disease, but most of them are because they can't bear to commit suicide, if this continues, more people will die in despair every day.
"Uncle Chen, can you find a prescription for this plague from him" The most important thing is the source of the disease, but now that there is no clue to the source of the disease, it is okay to find the prescription for these people who have already had the plague