Hu Su didn't take Zhong Ming to a strange place, the two just came to Old Man Sun's house.

The fence door of the Sun family's small courtyard was wide open, and the thatched house was also crowded with people, Fei Dacheng, who was anxiously scratching his head, Sun Luolian, whose eyes were red and still wiping his tears, and Li Carpenter, who was checking the pulse of Old Man Sun.

Old man Sun also fell ill, and Carpenter Li was familiar with pharmacology and was invited by Sun Luolian to diagnose his grandfather.

When Sun Luolian saw Zhong Ming walk into the house, she immediately cried to him and said, "Brother Zhong, last night was fine, but early this morning, I saw that my grandfather was sick with a strange disease." ”

Zhong Ming stepped forward and touched Sun Luolian's head, and comforted him in a soft voice: "Xiaolian, don't cry, everything is with me, and when I go to the city to get medicine, I will definitely be able to cure Uncle Sun." ”

Just after comforting Sun Luolian, Fei Dacheng also came to Zhong Ming's side and said in a low voice: "Brother Ming, this disease is strange, according to Uncle Hu, all the young and old in our village are so sick that they can't get out of bed, and now only a few of us are fine, I guess, it may be an epidemic." ”

A sentence of epidemic made Zhong Ming's brows frown, and his heart was also nervous.

Many incurable infectious diseases of this era were called epidemics, which means plague, whether they were influenza or smallpox.

If it is an ordinary flu, you can find some medicine for typhoid fever, but if it is smallpox, the medical skills of this era are really tricky, and if you want to cure it, I am afraid you have to find other methods.

After thinking for a moment, Zhong Ming comforted: "It doesn't have to be an epidemic, don't talk nonsense, don't make people panic, maybe it's just ordinary typhoid fever." ”

After saying this against his will, Zhong Ming poked his head out and looked into the inner room.

I saw Old Man Sun lying on the bed, his face was also pale, wheezing violently, the symptoms were the same as Liang Yu, Carpenter Li put his hands on the pulse, and diagnosed Old Man Sun's pulse for a long time before shaking his head and saying, "Strange, weird!"

Seeing Carpenter Li get up, Zhong Ming hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Uncle Li, how is Uncle Sun's situation?"

Carpenter Li pulled down the robe draped on his body, beckoned Zhong Ming to come outside to speak, the two came to the living room, Carpenter Li sat down, Zhong Ming and several people surrounded him, wanting to hear what Carpenter Li had to say.

"I think it's a strange disease, it's not like typhoid fever, it's not an epidemic, it's like ...... Poisoning. ”

Zhong Ming was surprised: "Poisoning?"

Carpenter Li nodded, and said: "Whether it is typhoid fever or epidemic, the outer fire is vigorous, and the internal fire is sweaty, but Sun Li is hot all over, if the same burning flame, his body is stronger than usual, and even the pulsation is more powerful than that of ordinary young people, if it is not poisoning, I can't think of any other reason." ”

"Isn't that a good thing, and how can you be unconscious?" Zhong Ming asked, puzzled.

Waving his hand, Carpenter Li sighed and said: "Zhong boy, you think, how can this ordinary person afford to consume day and night, as the saying goes, things must be reversed, and the sick villagers are all because they can't stand this benefit, and it is the same as not being able to make up for nothing." ”

Zhong Ming understood this, he nodded, and hurriedly asked, "Is there a way to save me?"

Carpenter Li shook his head and said: "I only read pharmacological classics when I was a child, but I am not proficient in this way, and I haven't figured out a way to deal with it." ”

"That's not for nothing!"

Fei Dacheng patted his thigh, and hurriedly spun around in place, Sun Luolian heard that there was no way to save her, and she was about to cry again.

Tightening his shirt in embarrassment, Carpenter Li said again: "Although I haven't come up with this rescue method yet, I have found that this strange disease may be related to yesterday's night rain." ”

"Last night's rain was weird, and I smelled a pungent smell, so I paid attention. ”

After speaking, Carpenter Li waved at Hu Su, Hu Su immediately understood, turned around and walked out, and after half a ring, he returned to the house with a four-legged snake in his hand with a dish.

After Hu Su put the bowl on the table, Carpenter Li pointed to the bowl and said: "This rain is mixed with a trace of black gas, as thin as a gossamer, if you don't look carefully, you can't see it at all, but this black silk is extremely toxic." ”

Zhong Ming and the others also poked their heads to look, and sure enough, the rain in the bowl was just as Carpenter Li said, and there were black silks wandering in the turbid rainwater.

Carpenter Li picked up the four-legged snake again and said: "This four-legged snake is one of the five poisons, and I won't explain much about its toxicity, and such poisons can't resist the erosion of that black gas." ”

As Carpenter Li threw the four-legged snake into the bowl, the four-legged snake struggled to flutter in the water, and its tail was broken, breaking its tail to survive, which is exactly the habit of the four-legged snake.

At a speed visible to the naked eye, the black silk in the water converged towards the four-legged snake, and after a while, the black silk disappeared, and the four-legged snake was belly facing the sky, and there was no movement, and when Carpenter Li picked it up again, it was already dead.

"This poison is so toxic that if it is not treated in time, I am afraid that it will be life-threatening. ”

As soon as Carpenter Li's words fell, Zhong Ming slapped the table and said angrily: "I may have a way, you wait here, I'll go to the city." ”

In fact, Zhong Ming had already begun to suspect in his heart, this rain came so suddenly, and the situation on the border was so impermanent, everything seemed to be deliberately arranged by someone, and a pair of invisible hands were controlling everything behind the scenes.

Zhong Ming slapped the table and got up, hurried out, turned on his horse, and ran towards the city.

Carpenter Li and Hu Su hurriedly chased out, and Carpenter Li shouted with a worried face: "Boy Zhong, you have to be careful!

I saw Zhong Ming's figure on horseback just wave his hand and gallop away.

Hu Su bowed his head and stood behind Carpenter Li, and said in a low voice: "Lord, I'm afraid this matter is not simple, yesterday the book was transmitted, the imperial court, the Jingyue Immortal Official has been selected, and the construction of the Jingyue Immortal Temple is just recently, I think we can't stay here either......"

Carpenter Li smiled helplessly and interrupted: "The New Tang Dynasty is so big, but there is no place for me Li Jianye, if we go again, where can we go?

Hu Su behind him gritted his teeth and said hoarsely: "It's useless to be a subordinate, Lord, a subordinate deserves death!"

Carpenter Li smiled bitterly and waved his hand, "I'm a little tired, when will it be the end to hide like this, let them go, since I met Yang Yanlang, there is no need to hide." ”

Hu Su was silent and stood silently behind Carpenter Li.

Carpenter Li looked at the direction of Zhong Ming's departure for a long time and couldn't return to his senses, and only sighed after half a ring: "Mr. Zhong, please." ”

......

Outside the broken wall, a man and a horse galloped past and came to the closed gate.

On weekdays, the city gate has already been opened at this hour, but for some reason, today the city gate is closed, Zhong Ming can only hold the reins, frown and shout: "Where is the gatekeeper, quickly open the city gate for me!"

After the shouting, a head poked out of the city wall, covered with a white cloth in front of his mouth, and he was dressed in a soap robe.

The gatekeeper shouted loudly: "If you don't open the city gate today, there is an epidemic in the city to avoid the spread of the epidemic, and the county commander has ordered the city to be closed." ”

These words made Zhong Ming's heart tighten, it seems that the scope of the disaster this time is very wide, not only the mud village, but the entire border town has been affected.

Thinking about it, Zhong Ming thought for a while, and then spoke: "I am Zhong Ming, the nephew of Captain Yang, and I have important things to do in the city, so please make it convenient for you." ”

Hearing that it was Zhong Ming on the city wall, he hurriedly shouted: "It turned out to be Young Master Zhong, open the door to Young Master Zhong!"

The rope stirred, the city gate slowly opened a crack, Zhong Ming hurriedly rode in, he didn't have time to talk to a few officials, just took out two pieces of broken silver from his bosom and threw them on the ground, shouting: "Trouble everyone, please go and have a glass of wine with this little money." ”

The officials behind him were still thanking Dade for Zhongming, but he had already ridden his horse to the downtown of the city, and his original intention was to go to the Jishitang in the city first.

There is only one medicine shop on the border, which is Jishitang, and if you have any symptoms, you have to come here to find medicine.

Galloping all the way, Zhong Ming found that the usually lively street market was full of doors today, only a few people hurried through the street, no matter what shop was closed, passing through Qinxiangzhai, there was no aroma of pastries in the past, only the cough of the shopkeeper.

But all the pedestrians I saw on the road were like rats crossing the street, hurrying by, not daring to stop.

When I arrived at the door of Jishitang, I saw a group of people surrounding Jishitang, chanting continuously, and the panic of the crowd could be felt by the bells.

Jishitang opened the side door, and there was a junior apprentice standing in front of the door, and the old doctor was nowhere to be seen, only to hear the junior apprentice shouting: "Don't come to ask for medicine, my master is also sick, and there is no medicine for you!"

The group of people outside the door did not give up, but still wanted to buy a few pairs of medicine bags for typhoid fever, and some even asked the apprentices to diagnose him.

The epidemic has caused panic in the hearts of the people, and many people in the city are not so sick, but these people are the most terrible, they have only passed the year of famine, and there is still the shadow of the great disaster in their hearts.

Within a day, these people will smash open the door of Jishitang and grab the medicine themselves, and in two days, I am afraid that the rice and grain stores will be smashed open.

That year, the border town was ransacked, and it was these irrational survivors who were even more terrifying than the enemy.

Now that there are not enough people in the city, and they can't even see a quick catcher patrolling the streets, how can we ensure that these people who are terrified in their hearts will not riot.

Zhong Ming rode on his horse, stopping in front of the door of Jishitang for a while, and after thinking about it, he could only sigh and shake his head, turn the horse's head and go into the distance.

At that moment, Zhong Ming couldn't care about this group of people, he had already guessed that maybe the old doctor of Jishitang in the city had no way, and the place where he asked for the medicine was still elsewhere.

The old horse under the crotch was urged by the bell to tighten and gallop to a mansion.

Zhong Ming turned over and dismounted, looked up, and saw a plaque hanging on the gate of the magnificent mansion: Tianfu.

The handwriting and the hanging plaque of the county government are the same as the hands of one person, and this is Tian Xingjian's mansion.

Everyone in the border town is now in danger, and the streets are either deserted and uninhabited, or they are gangsters who fish in troubled waters, but everything seems to have nothing to do with Tianfu, and the two courtyards in front of Tianfu are still standing in front of the door talking and laughing, and there is no tension at all.

When he saw this scene, Zhong Ming's face showed joy, and he knew that he had found the right place.

Zhong Ming stepped forward and said, "Please ask the two eldest brothers to help inform Tian Gongzi that Zhong Ming has something to ask to see." ”

The nursing home looked up at Zhong Ming, and one of them waved his hand and said, "You wait here, I'll go in and report." ”

The guardian turned around and walked into the Tian Mansion, while Zhong Ming waited outside the door with a nervous expression.