After rebirth, I win people's hearts by being cute

The prefect and Su's mother paced anxiously, extremely worried.

"What on earth is going on? Why is the city suddenly closed?"

After Su's mother received the news from Qiu Rong yesterday, she went to pick up the child and didn't take it seriously at first.

But this morning, the soldiers who were delivering food said that the county town was sealed off, and it seemed to be related to some disease. Su's mother was so anxious that she couldn't eat.

"What kind of illness is so serious?"

Anran hadn't seen her mother for two days and was infected by the tense atmosphere. She kept crying and kept asking for her mother.

She doesn't want anyone else to hold her, only Anzhi can hold her. She sobs even when eating, and needs Anzhi to accompany her before she can fall asleep at night.

Mother Su looked after her two children, covering her eyes with a handkerchief and crying, "What is going on? I don't know how they are doing now."

Father Su took out the dry tobacco that he didn't smoke at first, and said, "Well, wait."

At the government office, Su Yi forced himself to arrange various matters despite his weak body. After finishing the arrangements in the city, he prepared to take doctors to the refugee camps in various villages.

"Wait, I'll go too."

Su Yi looked at Liu Huan, who was dressed as a man, and refused: "No, you stay."

Liu Huan didn't allow any explanation and walked beside Chang Bai in advance, "Let's go."

"Liu Huan..."

Liu Huan turned around and said, "I have been in contact with you for such a long time, if I was going to be infected, I would have been infected long ago. Anyway, I have nothing to do in the government office, and I can take care of those patients if I go there."

Su Yi was speechless. He knew that Liu Huan had a stubborn temper and would not change his mind once he made a decision, so he could only compromise.

"Then stay with me." Seeing that Liu Huan wanted to refuse, he added: "At least let me look at you."

Each of them compromised and took a step forward, and the two went to the disaster-stricken village to check.

Many people cough, but few die, except the elderly.

As soon as the two arrived, an officer introduced them: "This is the county magistrate, Lord Su. It was Lord Su who came to provide disaster relief when the earth dragon turned over that year, so everyone should believe that Lord Su can save everyone.

The patient dragged his tired body to his knees and kowtow to thank the Lord of Heaven.

Su Yi reached out his hand and helped up several people nearby. "Don't worry, I have already reported this matter to the emperor, and I will be here with you to tide over the difficulties. We will shoulder the difficulties together, don't worry, I will not abandon you."

Everyone who heard these words shed tears. Just a few simple words calmed everyone's anxious hearts.

The urgent message of eight hundred miles traveled quickly reached the capital, and when the court officials heard that the suspected case was smallpox, they began to get nervous.

Especially Su Cheng, he knew that Su's mother and her group were still in Nanchang County. Now that such a big thing happened, he was so anxious that he didn't care about anything else and just wanted to go to support them.

Qi Mu was so anxious that he was running around in circles. He selfishly wanted Su Cheng not to go, even for the sake of his sister.

The emperor looked solemn. He couldn't bear to let Su Cheng go even if no one else was going. If it was really smallpox, he didn't want two people from the Su family to go in at once.

Seeing that the emperor was reluctant to agree, the ministers in the court lowered their heads and reduced their presence, fearing that the task would fall on them.

Seeing that the emperor was in such a dilemma, and fearing that his brother-in-law might be in danger, Qi Mu stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, I am willing to go to Nanchang County to provide support."

The emperor looked at a group of court officials who were extremely disappointed, but he had no choice but to give up as he had few people at his disposal. After much hesitation, he issued an edict.

Emperor: "Qi Mu, accept the order!"

"The end will be here"

The Emperor: "Appoint General Qi Mu as the Imperial Envoy and lead the Imperial Hospital to Nanchang County for support. When he returns, he will be rewarded. Set off immediately without delay."

After returning, Qi Mu packed his luggage and headed straight out of the city without any time to explain. Su Cheng wrote a letter home and rushed to see him off. He knew that Qi Mu went there because he volunteered, and his heart was filled with guilt.

"Big brother..."

Qi Mu waved his hand, "Okay, if you have anything to say, wait until I come back. You should take care of the family during my absence. If you really can't come back, tell my parents that I was unfilial and I will be filial to them in my next life."

The situation was urgent. When the Qi family found out about it, Qi Mu had already walked far away. Qi Mu's wife fainted when she heard about it.

Su Cheng returned home feeling guilty and told his wife about this. Qi Yuechan burst into tears immediately, "Big brother..."

In the end, she didn't say any words of blame, because she knew that her husband was worried about not only his eldest brother, his parents-in-law, his second brother and his wife, but also his nephews and nieces.

If it really was a plague, she didn't dare to think about how much of a blow it would be to her husband.

Three-year-old children don’t understand anything, and their parents’ emotions directly affect them, causing them to burst into tears.

Su Cheng lost the mood to coax the baby and left in annoyance. Qi Yuechan patiently held the child and walked away to coax him without disturbing Su Cheng.

Heshui Village and Heshui Village in Nanchang County also suffered from the flood. The devastation everywhere indicated that the place had just experienced ravages of wind and rain.

When Liu Huan and Su Yi arrived, the tent was full of villagers, and they were coughing violently. Next to them was a large pot filled with thick medicine.

The other bite was wild vegetable porridge and black-faced steamed buns, as it was almost time for dinner.

Everyone held a stick and a bowl to make a bowl of porridge and a steamed bun, and then a bowl of medicine soup. The weather was getting colder, and everyone looked around the fire listlessly, with dull eyes as if they could not see hope.

Maybe because of the illness, no one recognized Liu Huan and Su Yi. They just came to deliver medicinal materials and check on the situation. After the check, they were ready to leave.

The two had just walked a few steps when they heard a woman screaming, "Shuanzi, Shuanzi, what's wrong with you?"

The two men turned back and saw a boy of several years old on the ground, convulsing all over and foaming at the mouth, surrounded by a group of adults crying and shouting.

Seeing the child gritting his teeth, foaming at the mouth and rolling his eyes, no one knew what to do.

Liu Huan knelt down without hesitation, picked up the chopsticks beside him, took out a handkerchief to wrap them up and stuffed them into his mouth from the corner of his mouth. The child instantly bit the chopsticks tightly.

The action was done in one go, shocking everyone around him. "What are you doing?"

The child's mother stepped forward and tried to push her away, but Liu Huan said calmly, "If you don't want him to die, don't make trouble."

As he spoke, he tilted the child's head to one side, loosened the quilt wrapped around him and opened his clothes.

"you……"

The woman saw her face clearly, the face that she had envied, then jealous of, and then hated.

The child gradually stopped twitching and the doctor came over. "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

The woman came to her senses and said quickly: "Doctor, I don't know what happened to my son just now."

The doctor came forward to examine him, gave him two injections with silver needles and said, "He had a fever, but he is fine now."

After that, he went to prepare medicine. There were doctors in the tents of several villages. They were busy preparing various medicines every day.

The woman's son opened his eyes weakly, fearing that he would do it again. He wanted to ask Liu Huan for help but didn't know how to start.

Liu Huan also recognized this person. She was the village chief's eldest daughter-in-law. Naturally, next to her were the village chief's family.

Although he didn't like this family, the children were innocent, so Liu Huan still told them some precautions.

"Don't wrap your child in so many blankets when he has a fever. Use some warm water to wipe his body and wear fewer clothes for better ventilation."

"Next time you do this, remember to put something soft in his mouth to prevent him from biting himself, don't pick him up and put him on the ground with his head facing one side, and don't rush to feed him after he recovers, let him take his time."

Liu Huan threw the quilt aside and said, "Cover the child with the quilt if he has a fever. Don't let the child get burned to death."

The village chief opened his mouth but said nothing, but someone nearby said that Liu Huan was a blind cat that caught a dead mouse. Who wouldn't understand such a simple truth?

The child on the ground weakly called for his mother. The village head's wife was about to wrap the child in a blanket, but her daughter-in-law immediately took the blanket away and said, "Mom, the child is too hot."

The village head's wife didn't take it seriously. "What's so hot? Can't you see the child is shivering from the cold? Hurry up and wrap him up. She just happened to see him by mistake, and you really took her words seriously."

The village head's daughter-in-law couldn't persuade her mother-in-law, so she wrapped the child in the quilt again. After a while, the child started to twitch again, and it took a lot of effort for the child to return to normal.

She refused to wrap the child in a blanket, and when the village head's wife tried to persuade her, she cried, "Mom, the child is just too hot. Let's listen to Madam Liu."

The village head's wife was so angry when she saw this that she cursed the man as an ungrateful person and moved away.

On the carriage that Su Yi and Liu Huan were taking on their way back, Su Yi kept coughing. When he finally stopped coughing, he started gasping for breath again.

Liu Huan rubbed his back worriedly, "Why don't you go back and rest for a while?"

Su Yi looked sideways at the face that was worried about him and smiled subconsciously. Liu Huan felt distressed and a little angry, "What are you laughing at?"

Su Yi squinted his eyes and smiled for a while without saying anything, then leaned back in the carriage and closed his eyes to rest.

He fell asleep unknowingly, and when he woke up he found himself lying in Liu Huan's arms. The familiar smell filled his nostrils, making him involuntarily hug the waist of the owner of his body tightly with his backhand.

Liu Huan touched his sweaty hair and waited quietly for him to come back to his senses.

When he looked up again, apart from a little redness in his eyes, nothing else could be seen.

"Go, go."

The two hoarse words were full of a man's fatigue. He almost fainted when getting off the car. When Liu Huan supported him, she could feel that his whole body was as hot as a fireball.

After inspecting all the villages, the two returned to the government office. Chu Xuan walked into the room with a letter, "Sir, the capital is eight hundred miles away, urgent."

Su Yi took a look at it, put it away and ordered, "Tell everyone to hold on for a few days and the imperial physician will be here."

They initially judged that it was not smallpox, but a plague much weaker than smallpox. However, the doctors in Nanchang County had limited medical skills, and the number of patients with fever and cough was increasing day by day. The only thing to be thankful for was that not many people died.

Seeing this symptom, Liu Huan thought of a disease, infectious pneumonia, which looked not serious, but had a long way to go. In the early stage, there was fever and cough, in the middle stage, there was shortness of breath, and in the late stage, the whole lung fibrosis and white lungs were formed, and the person was not far from death.

The only good thing is that it didn't spread as widely as smallpox and didn't kill as many people.

After explaining everything, Su Yi couldn't hold on any longer and wanted to take a rest, so Liu Huan helped him lie on the bed and unbuttoned his collar to let him cool down. He made some ice cubes, wrapped them in cloth and placed them under his armpits to cool him down.

Seeing that his fever had subsided, Liu Huan immediately called Ermo over, asked him to make ice cubes and send them to each tent, and told him their uses.

"Remember, you can't use the soles of your feet, abdomen, back, or head. You can only use your armpits and neck, okay?"

I told him several times for fear that Ermo would not remember, and even gave detailed instructions on how to put a hot water bottle on the child's feet while putting ice cubes.

Although he knew that infectious pneumonia was powerful, Liu Huan still underestimated it.

On the second day, people in the city began to be infected one after another, and the first symptoms were fever and cough.

Because the city is densely populated and the virus spreads quickly, Liu Huan thought that in the past people with respiratory infections usually wore masks.

A good mask can block more than 80% of viruses. In ancient times, there was no non-woven fabric, so people could only use simple cotton cloth instead, even if it could only block 50%.

Su Yi looked very haggard these days, so she didn't disturb him but went directly to find the county magistrate, but she still conveyed Su Yi's opinion.

The city is in a panic now. As long as others say something is effective in fighting the plague, everyone will try their best to do it.

As soon as the notice was posted, people quickly signed up and were willing to help make masks for free.

Liu Huan suggested that everyone stay at home and not go out, because the disease is transmitted through the air. Although some people thought it was nonsense, after hearing the order from the county magistrate, they still obediently took the gong and went around the city to publicize it.

Anyone seen wandering outside without permission will be arrested as a warning to others.

The masks were made in the government office. The cloth was purchased by the government office from several cloth shop owners. The first batch of masks were first given to officers and soldiers.

Liu Huan also made a simple sprinkler out of wood, and asked the officers and soldiers to wear the clothes she specially made, put on masks, and carry water mixed with quicklime to disinfect everywhere.

Someone in front was beating gongs and drums to remind people that wild vegetables after spraying were not easy to use, especially in several villages along the river, which were disinfected twice a day.

Even the houses where the villagers lived were not spared.

After using a large amount of quicklime, the air smelled a bit unpleasant, the people in the city began to complain and became more frightened. They all prepared to escape without listening to any dissuasion.

Su Yi was so sick that he couldn't get out of bed, and the other people in the yamen were unable to control those people. They all came to Su Yi's door and started chattering, but they didn't dare to go in because they were afraid of being infected.

"What should I do?"

Even Chu Xuan's dissuasion was of no avail.

Liu Huan was afraid of waking up Su Yi who had just fallen asleep, so he closed the door and whispered, "My Lords, if you have anything to say, let's go over there and talk. The Lords are resting."

Everyone standing in the yard was afraid of being infected, so they readily followed Liu Huan to the hall next door.

Liu Huan asked: "I wonder what you want to talk to me about. Can you tell me first?"

Everyone knew that Liu Huan was the county magistrate's wife, so they respectfully told the story of what had happened outside.

"Many people in the city have been infected. The people think that we are not opening the city gates because we want them to fend for themselves in the city. Now they are protesting on the streets."

"Yes, ma'am, those people are very hot-tempered and are about to start a fight with the soldiers. Now they are gathering at the city gate, ready to break it down and get out."

"Yes, people have started to die in the city. More and more people are getting sick, and no one is listening to advice."

An older clerk at the side suggested, "Madam, I understand the feelings of these people. What's the difference between this and waiting to die in the city? Why don't we just let the big guys go and leave? At least those who are not sick can survive."

Liu Huan glanced at him and said seriously, "Let them go and infect other places or even the capital? Do you want to be the sinner of the Li Kingdom?"

When several people heard this, their faces turned pale. This crime was too heavy for them to bear.