Things like straw and thatch were still available in the countryside, and a thick layer of dry straw was soon laid under the base of the wall.

The people in the room either walked out on their own, or were carried out, and they couldn't help but squint their eyes when the harsh sunlight shone on them.

At this time, it was almost unitary time, the sun was shining but not violent, and people sat on the straw against the wall, and after a while, they were warm.

The patients, who had always felt that they were about to die, had a little energy, and the golden sunlight that sprinkled down seemed to bring them life, and a group of people squinted their eyes to look at the sun in the sky, not caring about the glare of the sun.

The lifeless atmosphere disappeared slightly, and Li Zheng quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly went to ask Gu Junruo to show him.

Gu Junruo said: "Let the sick but in good health come, change all the straw beds in a few rooms, scrub them clean, and find some dried wormwood to smoke the house." ”

Li Zheng was puzzled: "Where can I find dried wormwood at this time?" ”

"Since there is no dried wormwood, then use raw ones, and let people cut them now." Gu Junruo said: "Find out the people who are not yet sick, isolate them from all the sick, and smoke all the houses with wormwood." ”

Gu Junruo said: "Now that the eldest lady is on the mountain, I don't know what kind of plague you have for the time being, but Ai Ke wards off evil spirits, I think the plague is mostly caused by evil spirits, so everyone cuts more wormwood and comes back, in addition to smoking the house, you also have to boil some wormwood water to bathe and clean your hands, these can be done, right?" ”

At this time, wormwood grows at its most luxuriant in the year, and it is not difficult to find wormwood everywhere in the wild.

Li Zheng immediately responded, and then sent both sons down to find someone to cut wormwood.

Those who had been hiding in their homes were called out, and the village became noisy, but it regained some popularity.

The people passing by all glanced at Gu Junruo curiously, and after knowing that she was the county lady, their faces were two points more angry.

The county magistrate's wife has entered the village, they shouldn't be burned to death, right?

The county government will also send a doctor to save them, right?

Gu Junruo squatted in front of the first person who fell ill, "Your name is Zhao Daqi?" How old is this year? ”

Zhao Daqi was exposed to the sun, his face seemed to have two points of blood, the previous blue and white dead air dissipated a little, and he said in a low voice: "Mrs. Hui, it's twenty-three." ”

"When did you get sick?"

Zhao Daqi said: "About six or seven days ago." ”

Gu Junruo asked him, "What are the symptoms?" ”

Zhao Daqi's pasty-like brain barely moved, and he said in a daze: "At first, it was diarrhea, I thought I had eaten the wrong thing, and I thought it would be fine after pulling it, but who knew that the more I pulled it, the more I pulled it, and I still had some fever, so I went to the third uncle to get some medicine to eat." ”

He said, "It's better, but it's not all better." ”

His brain, which had been useless, moved, and finally remembered what he didn't want to think about, and tears flowed down his face, "But my father and mother also began to vomit and diarrhea, and like me, the third uncle couldn't say it well when he saw it, as if I infected them." ”

"I didn't have time to take a few pills, and the people were gone." Zhao Daqi cried: "And my son, my mother-in-law, just two or three days of hard work, all gone!" ”

Li Zheng was busy comforting him, and explained to Zhao Hanzhang: "He is the one who is the sickest one, he is lucky, he has been taking medicine to survive, but his family is ......"

Gu Junruo pursed his lips and asked, "Did anything unusual happen during the period before the onset of the disease?" For example, what you ate, what you drank, or where you went or what you did. ”

Zhao Daqi couldn't help himself from crying, and only shook his head vigorously.

Li Zheng said on the side: "In this case, the doctor has also asked, but he really can't ask anything abnormal, he was the same as us in those days, eating and drinking ordinary things, and doing the same farm work." ”

He said, "I thought, it's because the flood laid the root of the curse some time ago, doesn't it say that there will be a plague after the flood?" ”

Gu Junruo frowned, and said seriously to Zhao Daqi, who was crying: "Don't cry, if you want to save the people in the village, you have to remember what you did in the past few days, after the flood, it is easy to cause plague, but how long has the flood in Yixian County passed, it did not come when you were most hungry and cold, but when the sun was shining, and you had already eaten, think about it, you will know that it is wrong." ”

Zhao Daqi reluctantly raised his hand to wipe away his tears, and thought for a while: "On the day I got sick, I was repairing a bamboo raft at home, thinking that after the autumn harvest, someone on the other side of the river would definitely cross the river, and I would pull a few guests at that time, so I split bamboo at home and repaired the bamboo raft, and I didn't go anywhere." ”

He said: "I eat wild vegetable buns made by my daughter-in-law, and I eat the same at home, using bran and rice to cook sticky rice, and then knead it with blanched wild vegetables, and my family ate this for two meals." ”

"What about the day before?"

Zhao Daqi thought about it carefully and said: "The day before, I went to the field to see rice and corn, and saw some straw in the rice field, so I went down to the field to pull it, and then I went home, and I still ate wild vegetable buns, and my family ate all wild vegetable buns during this time." ”

Gu Junruo frowned and looked at Li Zheng.

Li Zheng immediately said: "Madam, during this period of time in our village, every household basically eats this thing, either wild vegetable buns, or home-grown green vegetable buns, the yamen does not have much relief grain, we are far away from the county seat, basically can't earn food, so we can only save some food, a meal, that is also less rice grains and rice bran, more green vegetables." ”

Li Zheng whispered: "Maybe it's because we eat too little, the disease enters the body, and our health is not good, so we get sick." ”

There is indeed this possibility, but Gu Junruo is still uneasy in his heart.

She lowered her eyes and thought for a moment, then asked Zhao Daqi again, "You have been eating and drinking with your family in those days, haven't you ever eaten or drunk anything else?" ”

It is said that Zhao Daqi can live until now, he is definitely the group of people with better physical fitness, if he eats and drinks with his family, and the disease enters the body at the same time, how can it be that he gets sick first, and his family gets sick later?

She also suspected that his family was infected by Zhao Daqi, and not by the disease at the same time as him, so where did the disease come from?

Zhao Daqi thought about it carefully and hesitated: "Not really, when I went to the field to pull weeds that day, the sun was very strong, and the sun made me dizzy. ”

"Back Bay?"

"Oh, it's a section of our river," Li Zheng said, "It's upstream, it's not very far from our village, and sometimes we go there to fetch water." ”

Gu Junruo turned his head and asked a row of people who were leaning against the wall in the past, and asked loudly, "During the period before and after the onset of the disease, who went to the river to drink raw water?" ”

Nearly half of those present raised their hands to indicate that they had been there.

Gu Junruo's face was calm, "Didn't the yamen make an announcement earlier, not allowing you to drink raw water?" ”

Someone argued: "The water in the river is very clean, why can't we drink it when we are young?" ”

Without waiting for Gu Junruo to speak, Li Zheng scolded them and said, "What nonsense, this is a lady's lecture, you just have to listen." ”

Although he didn't think there was anything wrong with drinking raw water, he drank it even when he was thirsty, of course, he was too busy during this time to drink raw water for the time being.

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