Xuanning Palace, Eyao lies on the couch, and a layer of bead curtain is hung outside the curtain, the bead curtain is made of thousands of large and small pearls, the beads move with the wind, the brilliance is dazzling, and the sound is like the sound of Hengpei.

The uncle knelt far away outside the bead curtain, frowning, worried, and cautiously told the master the news that was easy to hear. Xuanning Palace is now grounded, and it can only be found out from the guards who changed guards at the door and the palace people who sent rations, which is really not easy.

A cat meow faintly came from outside the palace wall, and the uncle said in a low voice: "Niangniang, that waiter Jia is really old and spicy." When he left Xuanning Palace that day, he immediately sent people into the mountains to catch more than 30 wild cats and put them in the palace to exterminate rats. Especially around Xuanning Palace, the cats bark all day long, or in a few days, there will not be many mice in this palace. So ----- like this" She raised her eyes to look at the bead curtain, but Eyao was still motionless, so she had to continue: "Besides, the king is not in the palace, what is the use of the mother tossing like this, and the main master is not there?" ”.net

"Humph!" E Yao snorted coldly: "They can prevent mice, but they can't prevent fleas." As for the king, he can't give up the child and can't trap the wolf, just a few palace people are sick, where can he be called back to the palace? Don't worry, I have my own way. ”

"Niangniang------" Uncle Concubine choked up a little: "Is it worth it for you to do this?" ”

A long sigh came from inside the bead curtain: "How is it worthwhile, and what is not worth it?" With the false name of this queen mother, it is better to become a pawn in the hands of others involuntarily! I have made up my mind, and tomorrow you will report it to the Imperial Medical Department, and you will say that I am also sick. ”

"No!" Uncle Concubine burst into tears.

Compared with the last time they saw the rat infestation in front of the Xuanning Palace, this time the chamberlain Jia and Duoyou only saw a deathly silence, and the rats stopped invading. The two followed the imperial doctor on duty to the small courtyard where the attendants lived, and entered a small room in the back, the room was pitch black, Ji Jie lit an oil lamp, and looked through the firelight, but saw four people lying side by side on a big kang, each covered with several layers of quilts, still trembling.

Seeing that someone was coming, the person sleeping on the outermost side leaned half of his body out of the kang, pressed his abdomen with one hand, and hugged his neck with the other, vomiting incessantly, hating to vomit out all his internal organs, and spit out light red bile in one mouth. Because of the long-term vomiting, I was already out of breath, and I fell back on the kang.

The chamberlain Jia saw the man's face clearly through the light, and couldn't help but gasp, wasn't this the little chamberlain he met in Xuanning Palace that day? It's only been a few days, how did you get sick like this?

The imperial physician lifted the man's clothes, his neck and limbs were swollen, and the two light-colored black spots on his side were very large, and he kept complaining to the imperial physician about the pain in his internal organs: "The fire burns me, and burns me from the inside." ”

The little waiter's soot-colored lips were already very difficult to speak, because of the pain and even tears welled up in his eyes. The imperial physician took out a silver needle to stir the abscess on his body, cauterized it with fire oil, and the little chamberlain shouted: "Oh! It hurts so much! ”

But the swelling that spread all over his neck and limbs never went away, and it was as hard as wood to the touch. The chamberlain Jia was chilled when he saw it, pulled Ji Duoyou out of the room, and let out a long breath and said, "It's strange that I heard the old man in the palace say that rats can transmit epidemics to people, and it seems that they can't run." Lord Sima, just in case, the sergeants under your command guarding the Xuanning Palace will not leave the palace from today onwards, and can only stay in the district. Each team of four people cooked in their own stoves, and the sergeants of each team were not allowed to move around each other, and the disease must not be allowed to spread in the palace. How is it? ”

Rao is Ji Duoyou is well-informed, and he was also frightened by the scene just now, and hurriedly responded: "Everything is subject to the arrangement of Wang Cheng's order." ”

After a while, the imperial doctor came out of it and shook his head in frustration: "One is dead, and the remaining three don't seem to survive tonight." ”

"Dead?" I don't know when the uncle who came to the front of the house asked the imperial doctor with a crying voice: "Is there no hope at all?" ”

"Yes, he's dead." The Imperial Physician said.

The chamberlain Jia scolded his uncle: "You are a female official of Xuanning Palace, what are you crying about?" You're all out of order, who do you call this palace full of people to rely on? And don't send someone to dispose of the body? ”

After a while, two masked attendants carried out a corpse. The little chamberlain had a mushroom-like growth in his mouth, his face was iron-blue, his lips were sallow, and his eyelids were copper-gray. He was curled up in a ball of swelling and his entire body seemed to be wrapped in a stretcher------

After only one glance, everyone did not dare to look at it again. Only the chamberlain Jia Shang was stable, and he kept instructing: "Remember, if any palace people die of this strange disease again, dig a pit and bury it on the spot immediately." People who have been in contact with the patient should live in a separate room, and the use of utensils should also be separated------" As he spoke, he seemed to remember something, and stared at his uncle in some surprise: "Why did you suddenly come to this house?" "It stands to reason that this place should be avoided!

It's okay not to ask, but the uncle immediately reacted to this question, knelt on the ground and cried: "Lord Wang Chengling, the slave is here to report, and the Queen Mother is also sick!" I implore Wang Cheng to make an early report, if it's too late, Niangniang's illness will be delayed! ”

"What?" Ji Duoyou and the chamberlain Jia asked in unison, and the two quickly glanced at each other. Or Duoyou couldn't help but ask: "What are the symptoms?" ”

"The slave doesn't know."

"Bold maid, you are the personal female official next to Niangniang, you don't know, could it be that you are jealous when you see the symptoms of the palace servant, and deliberately neglect the master?" The chamberlain Jia rebuked angrily.

The uncle and concubine kowtowed hard and said, "How dare the slave and maid?" Niangniang, but there is a little difference, according to the rules, I and the palace people around me also have to accompany the next life, how dare I slack off? It's just that after Niangniang felt unwell yesterday, she sent all the people I was waiting for out of the palace and didn't allow us to come close. The slave only knew that the mother had a high fever yesterday, and she had not eaten since then, and the rest of the situation was really unknown. The mother didn't let the slave and maid report, but the slave and maid saw that the situation in the palace was not good, and when she heard that the lord of Wang Cheng Ling was coming, she didn't dare not report it! ”

The inner servant Jia Dunjue held a charcoal in his hand, although Eyao said that he was not in harmony with the king of Zhou, but in front of the foreign ministers and princes, he was also a group of peace on the surface. Now that the second prince has been sent to Ying Guo as the king's eunuch, there are vague rumors outside that the young son of heaven can't tolerate his half-brother, and the words are already difficult to hear. If E Yao is also so unexplained and sick to death, then there are many rumors, how can she resist it? This matter cannot be afforded by a royal city order, and must be reported.

"Please ask Lord Wang Cheng to go and see the situation of Niangniang!" The uncle couldn't help kowtowing to ask each other, but the waiter Jia hesitated, did he accompany the imperial doctor? The severity of this disease is that I have seen it, there is a difference between men and women, the imperial doctor can diagnose the pulse through the pa, and he is a eunuch, in case the queen mother has any condition, he is not allowed to serve closely?

After hesitating, Duoyou loudly relieved the siege: "The royal city has made the palace affairs busy, and it is necessary to report to the Zhaoguo Gong, so it is better for the last general to accompany the imperial doctor." ”