Entering and leaving the palace was strictly prohibited, and Hai Liangyi and other important officials were also arranged by the Queen Mother to rest in the Cabinet Courtyard, causing panic inside and outside the palace.
Li Jianheng's bedroom was cleaned every day with extra care. The eunuch Gong E, who was designated by the Queen Mother, was served. He had to wash and change clothes every time he entered and exited. Mu Ru did not borrow the hands of others, she personally stayed by Li Jianheng's side. Every day she would taste the soup and feed her, and she would not leave Li Jianheng's bedroom even when she ate and slept.
When Li Jianheng woke up and fainted, the Taiyuan Hospital was also worried, and he was cautious in prescribing medicines. Everyone had their heads on the belts of their trousers. Everywhere was dead, and everyone was like a concubine.
The people from the Taiyuan Hospital outside the palace coordinate the medicinal materials of Qidu. In addition to those who have been infected, all the victims who have moved from the low-lying areas also need to drink medicine. The Ministry of Household and Jinyiwei were in charge of the relief and distribution, and set up a porridge and medicine shed outside Zhaosin Temple to deliver soup, medicine and rice porridge on time every day.
Han Jin had already withdrawn from Donglong Street the night Xi Hongxuan fell ill, and the Eighth Battalion used the excuse of patrolling the major city gates, and completely threw the matter of dredging the official ditch to the Imperial Army. However, half of the Imperial Army was on standby at the Fengshan campus. Now they can't get in at all. Xiao Chiye's elite soldiers are not many. Fortunately, there are still people in the Ministry of Industry who have not withdrawn. And dug through the four main streets.
On the fourth day, everyone was exhausted and exhausted. As soon as Chen Yang, Ge Qingqing, Qiao Tianya, and Gu Jin came back, they gathered together and took a nap against the wall. Ding Tao and Xiao Wu were young, and their brothers took care of them, and took turns to stretch their legs and use them as pillows to sleep. Ding Tao's pen couldn't lick the ink, and the small notebook stopped recording. In just a few days, everyone has become unkempt beggars.
Xiao Chiye hadn't slept for a long time in the past few days. He had to lead people to dig trenches before dawn. When he didn't rest in the middle, he returned to Zhaosin Temple at night to guard Shen Zechuan.
Shen Zechuan was still awake a few days ago, but the fever never subsided and he vomited badly. There is nothing in the stomach, and the vomiting can only spit acid water. The medicine is fed in, and it will spit out in the middle of the night. So when Xiao Chiye came back, he hugged Shen Zechuan. He leaned against the wall and let Shen Zechuan lie on his chest or shoulders facing him. When Shen Zechuan wanted to vomit, he rubbed his back.
When it was more quiet, Zhaosin Temple was as lonely as a deserted island outside the dust. The rain stopped, the birds were not heard, and the dark night covered everything.
Shen Zechuan was breathing heavily, and suddenly coughed, his chest heaving violently. Xiao Chiye woke up from his light sleep, clutched his back, tilted his legs tiredly, and shook him gently.
"Lanzhou," Xiao Chiye coaxed, "Where is Lanzhou?"
Shen Zechuan looked sullen, the feeling of wanting to vomit stuck in his throat, he half-opened his eyes, and said in a hoarse voice, "Here..."
"After a while, the disease dissipated." Xiao Chiye said, "When you are well, the second son will take you on a horse."
Shen Zechuan put his pillow on his shoulder, and said "um" in a harsh voice.
"This is actually a posture of holding a child," Xiao Chiye whispered in this intimacy with his palm along Shen Zechuan's back, "I used to have a rash, and my mother held me like this. Today I hold you like this, you What do you want to call me?"
Shen Zechuan rubbed his cheeks, buried his face, and after a while, he said in a muffled voice, "I'll call you dad."
Xiao Chiye's chest vibrated, he laughed lowly, and he said, "Are you moved?"
Shen Zechuan coughed and did not answer.
Xiao Chiye said: "Second son used to train horses, and he ate and slept together. When Lang Taoxuejin was still a foal, we were besieged by heavy rain, and we snuggled up like this to keep warm. Maybe he forgot."
Shen Zechuan listened dazedly.
Xiao Chiye said, "Don't forget it, remember it if you are moved, and return it to me in the future."
Shen Zechuan wanted to say something, but he opened his mouth but made no sound. Xiao Chiye stretched out his fingers to brush Shen Zechuan's wet hair, and looked down at Shen Zechuan's pale profile.
"Lanzhou."
Xiao Chiye whispered, Shen Zechuan fell asleep in the low voice, he was immersed in some kind of pain and pleasure, indulged in torment, and tasted the sweetness from the bitterness of suffering.
Xiao Chiye is like the scorching sun and the wind from the grass, he is different. In the gloomy and humid rain and snow, Shen Zechuan hid the veil, as if hiding a passionate dream. In this dream, there are thousands of miles of grass and wild horses, and thousands of miles of clear sky, soaring, which eventually became his unexplainable snooping.
Xiao Chiye is the kind of temptation. Every sentence he recites "Lanzhou" is like a sea of affection. The cynicism and the firmness and stability are contradictory mixed together, he whispered to Shen Zechuan frivolously, and he opened his arms to Shen Zechuan incomparably reliable.
Shen Zechuan was powerless to fight, and was deceived by the affectionate and frivolous kiss, and turned into a bad guy who rubbed his ears and temples with Xiao Chiye. Finally, in this pain, he relied on Xiao Chiye vaguely.
Shen Zechuan's vomiting eased a little later, and Xiao Chiye fed the soup little by little. Every time Shen Zechuan showed signs of drowsiness, Xiao Chiye would say "Where is Lanzhou", as if with inexplicable power, he could call Shen Zechuan back again and again.
Xiao Chiye would still hug Shen Zechuan for a nap at first, but as several people died one after another in the next few days, he did not dare to sleep again at night, listening to Shen Zechuan's breathing at any time.
On the ninth day, two more people died under the canopy. The body could not be placed or buried, so Xiao Chiye handed it over to Ge Qingqing.
Qiao Tianya was squatting by the fire and fanning the fire when Ge Qingqing led someone to clean up the body. He looked at the medicine while thinking about things.
"The Governor is waiting for the medicine," Xiao Wu came over and asked, "Are you all right?"
"The official ditch has been dug, so don't be in a hurry today, ask the governor to wait." Qiao Tianya added two sticks of firewood, removed the handkerchief that covered his nose and mouth, and said, "You keep your eyes on the governor, he will wait every day. Next to my master, if I also get infected, there will be no medicine left here."
"There was a plague at Luoxia Pass in Yongyinian year, and the lord took someone to deal with it, and he didn't catch it." Xiao Wu crouched down and waited, "I heard from the brothers in Libei that the Xiao family was appointed by destiny, then Physical, not ordinary people."
"Tantaihu is also very strong, so if he doesn't say the same thing, he will fall?" Qiao Tianya said, "It's okay to be more careful, have you taken your morning medicine?"
"Drink." Xiao Wu said honestly.
"How is Tantai Tiger today?" Qiao Tianya moved his numb legs.
"I haven't vomited since yesterday," Xiao Wu said. "Brother Chen said it was because of his strong body, and we found it in time, the medicine was sufficient, and there was an imperial doctor who took care of him, so it's fine!"
"You can't take it lightly if you're not awake." Qiao Tianya seemed to be thinking about something all the time. He threw the fan to Xiao Wu, "Show your brother the fire, I want to talk to them about serious matters."
Having said that, he got up and walked to the canopy.
The canopy had half the curtain lifted, and Qiao Tianya got in. It was dark inside, but not damp, and the mattresses were dry, and the servants of the Taiyuan Hospital changed and washed them every day. Seeing that Xiao Chiye was talking to Tantai Hu, he waited for a while.
Xiao Chiye turned his head and said, "What's wrong?"
Qiao Tianya lifted his robe by himself, sat on the stool next to him, and said, "Talk to you about something important."
Xiao Chiye rubbed his wrench and looked at Qiao Tianya in a relaxed manner.
Qiao Tianya said, "This disease has records in Taiyuan Hospital and Jinyiwei. Have you seen it?"
Xiao Chiye nodded.
"Do you know the cause of Dancheng's illness? Xiao... Governor," Qiao Tianya almost called out Xiao Er again, and changed his words in time, "My master checked Jinyiwei's records here before he fell ill, and there are some things that I specifically want to remember. Come on, I've been thinking about this illness for the past few days, but the master is still awake, so I can only talk to you."
"What did Lan Zhou say?"
"Say that this disease is unusual." Qiao Tianya propped up his knees and whistled at Ding Tao, "Recite the details of Dancheng disease to the Governor, you will never forget it, do you remember?"
Ding Tao thought about it for a moment, and said, "Yongyin's disease in Dancheng is summer. The Tai Hospital sent someone to check with Jin Yiwei, and found that the disease was strange. After checking it, he found out that there was a mass grave behind the site. It was dirty and messy and no one had cleaned it up. The corpses that were thrown before the spring were soaked and smelled, and there was a deli shop in front. At that time, the weather was hot and flies were flying around, and the shop owner fell ill first. People noticed that he suspected that it was a cold, so he grabbed some medicine and continued to open a shop to do business. Oops! Those cooked food were sold, and he became ill again, and it was the Dancheng Prefecture that realized that something was wrong."
"What about the mass graves, there are people who are thrown there, maybe they happened to be sick, or they were bitten by some wild animals, and they happened to be soaked again, and they were eaten by flies and insects, and people got close. Naturally, it is easy to be recruited." The imperial doctor packed the box and said, "It was not easy at that time. Pill City was closed for half a year, and many people died. We were lucky this time. We found it early and had experience, so we took precautions in time. "
"That's right, but why did Que Du get sick?" Qiao Tianya said, "The low-lying area of Donglong Street is indeed soaked with stinky blisters. Some people get sick, which is to be expected, but there is no murder on Donglong Street. Let me say something. To be honest, don’t take offense to the Governor, in Donglong Street, it is normal to suffer from flower willow disease, why is it so strange this time, it is Dancheng disease?”
The imperial physician was knowledgeable and found a reason to go out.
"There is no exact explanation for the onset of Dancheng disease," Chen Yang thought for a while, then said, "This time it collapsed and rained heavily. Everyone is in the water, maybe..."
"There are too many epidemics," Qiao Tianya said. "For example, the plague in Luoxia Pass was the plague, but Hezhou couldn't get it. The situation is different in different places, so I can't make generalizations. My suspicion is serious, and I don't speak secretly. I think This disease didn't start from Donglong Street, but from—"
Qiao Tianya raised his thumb and pointed at the roof.
There was silence in the shed, and everyone else changed color.
Qiao Tianya laughed and said, "Isn't it a coincidence? Heaven and man will suffer when they come down to earth, and it is hard to guard against falling into a pit. There has been no news from the palace for the past few days. Why does it look like it just started?"
"Immortals live in Tiangong," Xiao Chiye said slowly, "Immortals cherish their lives and dare not play like this. The kind of possibility you're talking about can only be done by people who are desperate and desperate."
"Then I don't know," Qiao Tianya said, "Si Lijian now lacks a big eunuch who can take charge of the twenty-four yamen, and many things are in chaos without supervision. If someone really brought something in. , you can get past it by fooling around. Our Imperial Army and Jin Yiwei are all foreign soldiers, and they are beyond the reach of the inside, but I don't think it can't be prevented. "
Why did Li Jianheng go out of the palace, just for fun? He had only experienced an assassination case not long ago, and he is not a bold person, how dare he sneak out? Unless someone instigated.
Xi Hongxuan will discuss everything with Shen Zechuan now. He himself did not expect this accident. He is still lying in bed at the moment, and his life is hanging by a thread. So who instigated Li Jianheng and caused the Ouhualou to collapse
Xiao Chiye was silent in thought.
His intuition is not the queen mother, because Li Jianheng now has the momentum to honor her. This is the time for her to regain her strength. She absolutely cannot bear Li Jianheng to die now.
Who else is there
This time, it's not to scare Li Jianheng, but to really want Li Jianheng to die. But if Li Jianheng died, who would benefit
The curtain was lifted again, and the imperial doctor pointed his head and said cheerfully, "Governor, Lord Zhenfu is awake!"
Xiao Chiye got up suddenly, took a few steps out, and entered the house. Shen Zechuan, who had been sleeping for days, half-opened his eyes, and Xiao Chiye squatted beside the bed softly, watching him.
Shen Zechuan raised his fingers and stroked Xiao Chiye's brows vainly. Xiao Chiye grabbed his hand and pressed it on his cheek.
"Touch it," Xiao Chiye leaned closer and laughed hoarsely, "Touch it for you."