Gu Junruo pursed his lips, and said to Li Zheng: "Ask them clearly where they drink raw water during this time, and also, pass the order, from now on, everyone is not allowed to drink raw water, whether it is people or livestock, they need to use boiled water, and the water must be rolled three times before it can be used." ”

She pursed her lips and said, "If I find out that someone drinks raw water again, he and his family will not expect to receive the medicine bag from the county office." ”

Li Zheng was stunned, and immediately turned his head to a young man who followed behind him and said, "What are you doing in a daze, didn't you hear Madame's orders, why don't you go quickly!" ”

The young man was one of Li Zheng's nephews, and he reacted, responded repeatedly, and ran to make arrangements.

Gu Junruo turned around twice in place, calmed down a little, and continued to ask the patients about their symptoms before and after the onset of the disease.

There is no need to wait for the doctor to come back, judging from the medical books that Gu Junruo has read, this is likely to be cholera.

She asked Li Zheng directly, "What did the doctor say, is it cholera?" ”

Li Zheng's eyes lit up, and he immediately said: "Yes, yes, the doctor also said that it was cholera, and that it was a very powerful plague, very contagious." ”

He looked at Gu Junruo with blank eyes, "Since Madam knows about this disease, does she know the prescription for it?" ”

Gu Junruo pursed his lips, shook his head and said: "I just flipped through a few medical books, and I saw the prescription in "Zhou's Thousand Golden Prescriptions", but I only know it, I don't know why, and I have to ask the doctor if it is applicable." ”

When Li Zheng heard this, he immediately urged the villagers to go to the mountain to call the doctor who collected the medicine down.

Gu Junruo glanced up at the position of the sun and felt that this time was still early, so he asked, "Is Houwan far away from here?" ”

Li Zheng hurriedly said: "It's not far, it takes about a moment to walk, and we will go there to fetch water when there is little water in winter." ”

Gu Junruo said: "Find someone to show us the way, let's go to Houwan to have a look." ”

Li Zheng really wanted to show her the way in person, but at this moment, the whole village moved, not only to rearrange the quarantine, but also to arrange for someone to cut wormwood, and even to clean up the house that Gu Junruo could live in, and he couldn't leave for a while.

He could only call his little grandson, an eight or nine-year-old child, "Madam, this is my little grandson, his name is Santu, this child is very familiar with the places near the village, you can let him lead the way wherever you want to go." ”

Gu Junruo nodded.

Santu is a very solid child, and it can be seen that compared with the children of the same age in the village, he is much stronger and more clever.

Gu Junruo followed behind him and asked, "Do you still pick the water from Houwan in your village now?" ”

"No, only after the beginning of winter, when there is less water, do we get water from Houwan," Santu said: "There is a well in our village, not far from my house, there is a spring at the entrance of the village, and the water that comes out is sweet, better than the water in the well, but at the end of autumn, the spring water is less, not enough for the people in the village, and the well water is not enough, so we have to take water from Houwan." ”

"Then under what circumstances will you go to drink the water of Back Bay at this time?"

"It's only when I go to work in Back Bay that I drink when I'm thirsty."

The people of this village don't have the common sense that they can't drink raw water, and the water looks so clear, what can't they drink?

Back Bay is a bend in the river where the water rushes downstream, and here it eases down a bit.

From here, about two miles downstream of the river, there is the section of the river where they usually ferry, smuggle customers, and usually the people in the village go to wash clothes, quilts, and all kinds of things.

It is not only convenient for picking up passengers, but also able to cover for the ferryman.

Therefore, although the water is clear in the upper back bay, there are fewer people here, so there are only a little more people when they need to work here, and when they need to get water in autumn and winter.

Gu Junruo stood by the river and looked down, and found that the water here was indeed very clear, there were large areas of aquatic plants on both banks, and if you looked closely, you could see small fish swimming among the grass.

Santu skillfully led her down from an opening, which was a step made of stones, and it was not slippery to walk on it.

The steps lead to the water, and because the water is so deep, there is a step that goes into the water.

Children like water, and Santu is the same, he deliberately took off his shoes, tread water with his feet, and said happily: "This is the place where we take water and drink water, look, this water is old and clean." ”

Gu Junruo lowered his eyes and looked at the surface of the water, and said after a while: "There are many aquatic plants here, and it can be seen that it is not clean. ”

"How can it be dirty?" Santu squatted down and picked up a handful of water to show Gu Junruo, "Look, it's clean." ”

He said: "It's summer, it's not clean enough, you wait until winter to see, when there is less water, the water will be cleaner." ”

Seeing that Gu Jun didn't believe it, he lowered his head and was about to drink, "If you don't believe it, I'll drink it for you." ”

Gu Junruo was startled and hurriedly stopped him, "You can't drink this water casually, I suspect that the plague comes from the water of this back bay." ”

"I asked several people who were the first to get sick, they all drank water here, and when there was a flood a few months ago, the water must be very dirty, how can you just drink it?"

"But now the water is clean," Santu couldn't understand, "said my grandfather, and the dirt has sunk to the bottom of the river, so it doesn't matter." ”

Gu Junruo's face was even more ugly, "In other words, the chickens, ducks, fish, pigs, and even people who were drowned in the past have sunk into the water?" ”

"No, no, no, these are all fished up," Santu said: "Two months ago, the new county order had an order, let us fish up these things and bury them, otherwise there will be a plague, at that time our village scooped up all the things, I mean other dirty things have sunk to the bottom of the river, my father said, those things don't matter, this water is flowing, all the way downstream, drink as you like." ”

Gu Junruo squinted his eyes and looked upstream, sniffed lightly and asked, "Did you smell anything?" ”

Xiaochan also sniffed and shook her head, "No." ”

Gu Junruo frowned, "I seem to smell a rancid smell in the water." ”

Li Shi said: "Madame, is it because I have listened to Santu's words and thought too much, I haven't smelled anything." ”

Gu Junruo sniffed carefully, shook his head and said, "No, it's just a smell, look up and down the river to see if there's anything abnormal." ”

Chen Jian came to Zhaojia Village on purpose, it is impossible not to do anything, and the sudden outbreak of plague in Zhaojia Village is really related to this river......

Gu Junruo had a guess in his heart when he asked Zhao Daqi.

She asked Li Shichang and Xiaobei to find a few longer sticks, and after taking one herself, she said: "Look for it, especially in places where water and grass are lush, you must look carefully." ”

Li Shichang had no choice but to take the stick, "Then let's find the upstream first, and then look downstream when we go back later." ”

Gu Junruo also prefers to find upstream.

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