Gu Jinzhi and Si Lian returned to the mansion at noon.

  Unbeknownst to god and ghost.

  The maids in Gu's courtyard thought she was reading books at the old master's place, while the maids at the old master's place thought she had returned to her own courtyard.

  Song Pan'er wanted to manage household chores, usually at noon they didn't eat together, she wasn't paying attention.

  Gu Jin first slipped in from the corner gate and returned to her own courtyard, hiding things well. She bathed and changed clothes before going to her mother's side to pay respects.

  "... Zhejiang also had it, but that was over a decade ago." During dinner, Gu Yanwen and Song Taner brought up the smallpox in Liujiacun, "At the time, the doctors said it was very frightening. But that year's governor was an official who didn't know what he was doing, just throwing money around."

  He was afraid that the matter would become public and be known to the imperial court, so he actually arrested several leading doctors! Afterwards, many people died before the imperial court sent a special envoy."

  Song Pan'er also cursed: "Damn it, such corrupt officials should be killed to warn others!"

  Then he smiled and said, "You actually remember, I've already forgotten."

  "It's not that you forgot, maybe you just never heard it. At that time, you were pregnant with Sister Jin and were extremely nervous, who had the leisure to listen to other things?" Gu Yanxin said, "Zhejiang is far from Beijing, only a limited number of people have heard about it. We studied abroad, and we knew everything that was going on..."

  Song Pan'er just smiled and didn't refute him.

  "In the past, there were also people who had it, like more deaths, but in this dynasty, we haven't heard of it again... " Gu Yanxin sighed, "I don't know why, but we happened to catch up with this time. Mei Qi and I went to the tea house for tea, and everyone on the street was talking about: Heaven-born strange signs, monsters born, and disasters frequent. These omens and monsters, who knows where they are."

  "In the year I was born, did something happen?" Gu Jinze suddenly asked.

  Gu Yanwen and Song Pan'er were both stunned.

  The two of them secretly harbored their own thoughts, recalling Gu Jinzhi's unusual skills.

  Song Pan'er's palm was a little cold, wasn't Gu Yan also?

  "Should be, right?" Gu Yanwen asked, "I don't quite remember."

  Just now he said that Song Pan'er was pregnant with Gu Jinzhi at that time and it was very clear.

  When Gu Yu asked him one question, he hesitated and was at a loss for words.

  Gu Jin couldn't help but smile bitterly.

  She just wanted to ask which year it was. If the time is short, some doctors may have experienced it and they may have experience to tell Governor Hu Ze Yu to find help.

  After all, Zhejiang is not far from Yancheng Prefecture.

  The look on parents' faces...

  Gu Jinzhi really wanted to cover his face.

  After dinner, she returned to her own courtyard.

  Song Pan'er and Gu Yanwen also rested.

  At night, Gu Yanwen turned over several times, he couldn't sleep, and wanted to chat with his wife.

  Song Huan'er was breathing evenly, and Gu Yan didn't dare wake her up, so he swallowed his words again.

  When the third watch drum sounded, Gu Yanwen gradually fell asleep.

  Song Pan'er slowly opened her eyes.

  She didn't sleep either, closing her eyes and pretending to be asleep, waiting for Gu Yanjin to fall asleep first.

  She knew what Gu Yanwen wanted to say, it must be about Gu Jinzhi's "omen". According to Gu Yanwen's personality, as long as Song Wan'er gave the word, he might even call a Taoist priest to make a fuss at home.

  Song Pan'er didn't want it to be this way, as it would hurt Gu Jinzhi's heart and only make the child avoid his parents.

  Gu Yanzheng studied abroad and didn't know the reason why, but Song Pan'er was with Gu Jinzi every day. She knew her daughter best.

  Perhaps in previous years, Gu Jin often had an eerie silence, looking like a fool; perhaps her skills were beyond human understanding.

  Ke Gu Jing is absolutely not some kind of demon!

  Gu Jing is just an ordinary girl.

  When Song Pan'er was as old as Gu Jin is now, she also felt uncomfortable in her heart. Looking at her parents and siblings made her feel uneasy, and all she wanted to do was stay alone every day.

  At that time, her mother was also worried about her and kept muttering to herself. Later on, Song Wanting even got annoyed with her own mother and didn't want to communicate with her at all, creating a rift between the two.

  It's precisely because of her experiences that Song Pan'er can especially understand Xiao Nu's mindset, and she is even more unwilling to have a rift with Gu Jinzhi.

  She likes her current relationship with her mother, and they are very close.

  It's hard not to think of Gu Jinzheng...

  Song Pan'er was worried about the child, but Gu Yanjun was a hot-headed person. If Song Pan'er also worried, he would have blown up early on, and then Gu Jinzhi wouldn't know how to be sad.

  Can only be a daughter-in-law, to dispel others' doubts for Gu Jin's sake!

  Song Pan'er didn't sleep all night.

  At first, I didn't dare sleep, but later I couldn't sleep anymore.

  Two days later, the chickenpox in Liujiacun became more and more severe, and people gradually began to die.

  The governor's office sent people to garrison and set up a "plague prevention office", Gao Jin hired doctors to go to the affected areas for treatment.

  Hu Zeyu settled these matters and at the same time sent people to send a letter to the capital to ask the imperial court for support.

  "The Epidemic Gate" has gained little, and all doctors are afraid of death.

  Qin Shen reported to Ming Hui Gong Zhu that he wanted to go to the "Shi Yi Xing Men" temporarily as a reminder, in charge of affairs.

  Minghui Princess highly praised and personally entertained the Yanling Wang family, raised rations silver, and increased the stakes for the Shiyu government to hire a doctor.

  It's been ten days since I came and went.

  In several villages downstream of Liujiacun, all were affected.

  Although it was heartbreaking and infuriating, it was also expected. Hu Ze Yu immediately dispatched people to the disaster area.

  Just then, Hu Zeyu heard a chilling piece of news: the Gu family in Ma Yuan Alley, that is, the family of Gu Yanzheng, had sealed off their gate.

  Their whole family has contracted smallpox!

  This news caused an explosion in Yanling Prefecture.

  The people of Ma Yuan Lane all fled in a hurry.

  Everyone in the city is also terrified and no one dares to approach Ma Yuan Alley.

  County Governor Hu Ze had no choice but to personally bring Zhao Daoyuan and the old man from the Zhou family's medicine shop to their doorstep.

  As a result, both of the two prestigious doctors confirmed that all members of the Gu family had contracted smallpox.

  The pot in Yanling Prefecture has been opened.

  Everyone wants to escape.

  It's just that there are many soldiers holding hands, and it's very difficult to enter or leave the city gate.

  "...I heard that Miss Gu's seventh daughter has been to Liu Family Village!" It was unclear who had brought up this topic.

  "No wonder they brought back the disease and infected the whole family!" Someone was furious, "Burn them to death, burn all of them to death!"

  Princess Minghui was also heartbroken and frustrated: "After all, they are just children, I'm afraid their intention is good, but they don't know what's at stake and have caused a big trouble! Seal off their house, if someone dies, burn down the mansion!"

  Hu Zeyu originally had a good relationship with the Gu family and wanted to speak up for them.

  The princess also said it was for the sake of all the people in the city.

  He helped Gu's family plead for leniency, and if there were any other cases in the city, it would be Hu Zaiyu's responsibility.

  He did not dare to do things that would anger heaven and men, so he dispatched fifty generals to surround the residence of the Gu family.

  Time passed for another seven or eight days.

  It's been twenty days since the plague in Liujiacun. Many people have died, and many have recovered, although their faces are disfigured.

  The house has been locked down for eight days now.

  The city was filled with voices scolding Gu Jin, people were furious and wanted to tear this ignorant little hoof apart, they wanted to burn down the Gu family in one go.

  So, except for the people of Tai Shou Men, every day there are hundreds of people gathered around Ma Yuan Xiang, fearing that Hu Ze Yu will privately release the people of Gu's family.

  Yanling Prefecture's defense is strict, and the current situation is under control. Currently, apart from the Gu family, there has been no case of smallpox.

  "It's been eight or nine days, it should be dead by now!" Zhao Daoyuan muttered to himself. He and Old Man Zhou had been to the Gu's house before, and indeed the whole family was burning with fever, a precursor to smallpox.

  It's been eight or nine days, those weak children and maidservants should also be unable to hold on.

  On the tenth day, the Gu family opened their door.

  Their family's Third Master Gu Yanjun was at the forefront, followed by a group of young servants and maids, standing at the gate, loudly quarreling with the people from the Taishou Mansion: "Our family is just inoculating against smallpox, we will never contract it again in this life, how can you lock us all up?"

  The people around all heard it in their ears.

  Those maids and young servants keep shouting about planting pockmarks or something.

  Yanling Fu suddenly boiled over again.

  What is acne, they don't know!

  They only knew that the Gu family had no smallpox on their faces and were all in high spirits. However, previously, they had indeed closed their doors, and the doctor said that their whole family was infected with smallpox.

  Everyone in the city has scolded Gu Jin before, but at this moment, they are all speechless, with an unprecedented shock in their hearts.

  ——*——*——*——

  Thanks for the enthusiastic reward from Xiaoyuanzi and Qinqin.

  When writing this case, I also checked a lot of information and read many documents. Regarding the birthmark, some people say that they have cowpox. In fact, the cowpox inoculation method was invented in Europe, with a very low success rate, and it's not so coincidental to have cows born with pox.

  Europe invented cowpox inoculation in the eighteenth century. After its invention, a large number of people still died from smallpox, which killed nearly 100 million people.

  Over 100 million!

  Can you guys imagine why they made the plague sound so terrifying?

  China had already appeared in the 11th and 12th centuries during the Song Dynasty, but at that time the technology was not mature, and it was possible to die after vaccination, only on a small scale, and there were many controversies; by the Kangxi period of the 17th century, the human cowpox vaccine had gradually become mature!

  Cowpox grows on the body of a cow, and smallpox grows on the body of a human.

  Later on, smallpox basically didn't cause many deaths.

  Why people still think smallpox is terrifying, it's because modern people have read too many Western medical classics.

  Maybe some of you will ask, why when talking about the defense of Tianhua, the first thought is crazy death, and then the second one says cowpox inoculation?

  Is cowpox inoculation really the best way to treat smallpox?

  In my humble opinion, the reason lies in the Republic of China!

  In the early years of the Republic of China, there was a massive movement to ban traditional Chinese medicine and promote Western medicine. At that time, Japan had already abolished traditional Chinese medicine and only used Western medicine.

  China first came from Western learning spreading east, everything was about science, and the yin-yang wu-xing that Chinese medicine emphasizes were seen as dregs; secondly, China learned everything from Japan.

  The movement to ban traditional Chinese medicine has been going on for nearly thirty years. Later, the Nanjing government issued a policy prohibiting traditional Chinese medicine from running schools, which was already a policy to strangle traditional Chinese medicine. Without schools, there is no one to pass it down to, how can traditional Chinese medicine continue? The old traditional Chinese medicine practitioners fought for a long time, until the 1930s (I'm too lazy to check the exact date, those who are interested can check it themselves), the Nanjing government revised its policy, allowing traditional Chinese medicine to run schools, but only privately, and not with state funding.

  Even if we won, it was a bitter victory, and now that I think about it, my heart still hurts.

  Since the Republic of China era, Western medicine has been growing wildly in China. The treatment cases of Western medicine have also been touted and welcomed in China.

  Western medicine's treatment of smallpox with cowpox was thus revered as the best treatment plan.

  Actually everyone has different opinions, which one is better, I don't know.

  I only know that the invention of cowpox was seven or eight centuries later than the Chinese people's method of inoculation, and after its invention, a large number of people still died; while in ancient China, the largest number of deaths were often due to war, not epidemics.

  I don't care what others say, I only believe in traditional Chinese medicine's ancient method of inoculation: variolation.