Outside the village, Madam Gu hit Gu Hui one by one.
Gu Hui knelt still, Mo An also knelt down with red eyes, his voice choked with sobs, “I can’t blame Hui’er for this, if we knew, we wouldn’t have gone on this trip, and we wouldn’t have left my little brother to accompany Bao’er, to say that it’s my fault, it’s my fault that I didn’t take care of the business matters years ago, it’s all my fault, if mother-in-law wants to beat me, just beat me.”
Mrs. Gu stopped her hand, she did not know that she could not blame Gu Hui, but with Yi’er’s life and death still unknown, her heart hurt as much as if it was cut by a knife.
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The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good idea of what you are doing.
“How did you suddenly contract smallpox?”
“I don’t know, we set off from home on the fourth day of the first month, and first went to Second Miss’s house and stayed for two nights. On the sixth day of the first month, we came to Missy’s place, and just after we arrived, Missy and Auntie said that there was a business matter that had not been dealt with before the year, and that the other party wanted to break off their cooperation with Auntie, and that they had to go out for a trip, and asked Young Master to stay and look after Young Master Bao, saying that they would be back in three or four days. The young master thought it would only take a few days, so he agreed. The young master could not stand it any longer and wanted to take young master Bao home, but just before he packed his things, the maid who was serving young master Bao suddenly died. The doctor took one look at her and ran away in fear, screaming that it was smallpox. I was terrified and dragged the young master to leave quickly, but the young master disagreed, saying that if it was really smallpox, there was no telling how many people would be infected on our way back and that it would infect the family. The whole village was then sealed off and we couldn’t even get the message out.”
“You go and lie down.”
“I want to look after the young master.”
“He won’t wake up for a while, so you get a good night’s sleep and when you do, Gu Yi will be fine.”
“Really?”
Song Wangyue nodded her head.
Little Four immediately laid down on the bed in the outer room and closed her eyes, but instantly fell asleep.
Dr. Yao looked at Gu Yi without blinking, reaching out to probe his forehead a moment later and taking his pulse a moment later.
“Master, I think this smallpox is fishy.”
When they entered the village just now, the village was quiet. According to Xiao Si, the maid had fallen ill on the tenth day of the first month, and it was inevitable that she would infect the people in the village, and even if there were no dead people in the village, there would be those who had fallen ill, but there was no sound at all in the village, which meant that no one else had been infected.
Doctor Yao looked to her.
“Only two maids died in the whole Mo family, the rest of them seem to be fine at all, don’t you think it’s fishy?”
Doctor Yao changed his face abruptly, “You mean ……”
“When I boiled the medicine just now, I purposely added ingredients to it, everyone in the house should be asleep by this time, won’t we know if we go over and take a look?”
The two of them had their pulses checked, and their faces changed a few more times, and then the pulses of the servants in the courtyard were also checked, and they were not infected.
He then checked the pulses of all the people in the house and found that none of them had smallpox.
“Go outside and take a look.”
Song Wangyue went back to the courtyard, took a lot of Banlangen, and went with Doctor Yao to the front door of the house. Just as she opened the door, she was immediately scolded by the medical officer who had been watching from afar, “Don’t come out.”
“We are not going out, we just want to give you this herb, it is a medicine to prevent smallpox, you can boil it and give it to the people in the village.”
Once he heard that it was a medicine to prevent smallpox, the medical officer slowly approached, Song Wan Yue pulled Doctor Yao back two steps, “This medicine can only prevent, not cure, if there are people in the village who have smallpox, we have other herbs.”
“No need, apart from the Mo family, no one else has been found in the village.”
Dr. Yao’s face became more and more ugly as he returned to the house and looked at Bao’er’s still red face after taking the medicine, “The tiger’s poison does not yet eat its children, how dare they do something that is worse than even animals.”
“What the Mo family is plotting should be the Gu family’s property.”
As soon as Gu Yi died, the Gu family’s countless family assets would only be the two of Gu Hui and Gu Wen’s, if they had Gu Yi around, they might not even get a small portion of it.
Doctor Yao hummed, “They don’t think about it.”
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Outside the village, Gu Hui fainted from crying once more, Mo An carried her back to the carriage, Master Gu and Madam Gu were indifferent, if Gu Yi died, they both wouldn’t live either.
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“Wake up.”
Gu Yi looked at her, her reflection reflected in her eyes, before slowly moving to Bao’er.
“How is he?”
“It’s not good, it’s been an hour since the medicine was fed and the fever hasn’t gone down.
Gu Yi closed his eyes and reopened them, looking at her hopefully, “You have a solution don’t you?”
“He’s too young and his resistance is weak, so Master and I can only do our best.”
“He must be saved ……”
Gu Yi suddenly became excited, “He’s still too young to die like this.”
“Young master, take it easy, take it easy! Don’t you still believe in my medical skills? As long as Young Master Bao has a breath left in him, I can keep him, you need to rest well now.”
“I’m fine.” Gu Yi took a deep breath.
Doctor Yao’s heart lifted as he listened, his finger once again resting on his pulse.
There was a sudden movement in the government, followed closely by the sound of footsteps coming through.
Gu Yi’s face changed, “Xiao Si! Stop them!”
Little Four sat up in a tentative manner, got out of bed sharply and walked outside.
Old Master Mo and Old Lady Mo were helped in by their frightened maids.
They had drank the medicine and passed out, and when they woke up they didn’t think much of it, they just hurried over and stopped in front of the curtain, “Doctor Yao, how is Bao’er?”
Ever since the maid serving Bao’er was diagnosed with smallpox, Gu Yi had pulled up this curtain and forbade them to come over, they were so anxious but could do nothing about it.
Doctor Yao was taking Gu Yi’s pulse and did not answer immediately.
Master Mo’s heart sank, and Old Lady Mo almost fell to the ground, “My good grandson, ah ……”
“Young Master Bao is not dead yet, the in-laws’ wife is crying too early.”
Old Lady Mo’s crying stopped abruptly, followed by surprise, “You mean, Bao’er he, he ……”
“Young Master Bao is blessed with a great life.”
Old Madam Mo cried with joy and was about to lift the curtain to see when a wooden stick was placed against her, “Old Madam, back off.”
“I’ll take a look, I’ll take a look.”
“If you don’t want everyone in this house to be infected with smallpox, please withdraw.”
Old Master Mo pulled her back, “Calm yourself, since Doctor Yao said Bao’er is fine, she will definitely be fine, let’s go back and wait.”
The sound of footsteps moved away.
Song Wan Yue narrowed her eyes, Old Madam Mo’s eagerness just now didn’t seem to be fake, if that was really the case, the biggest suspicion would be Gu Hui and Mo An.