Leng Junyi kicked the wooden barrel that had fallen next to the well, looked at the reins next to the well, and opened the wooden cover on the well. Suddenly, a stench hit their faces, making Xue Xichen and Leng Junyi almost suffocate.
.
"Cough cough cough cough cough!"
Xue Xichen quickly turned her face away and fanned her nose with her hands. She was choked and out of breath. She kept sticking out her tongue and spitting in an attempt to clear away the putrid and disgusting smell.
Leng Junyi looked into the well, staring at the well with deep eyes and unblinking eyes. His eyebrows were tightly knitted, full of worry, and he said in a deep voice: "There is a rotting corpse in the well."
"Bah, bah, bah! No wonder the smell is so bad!" Xue Xichen quickly moved away, waving her hands desperately and slapping away the goosebumps all over her body. She said eagerly: "Cover it! Cover it! Cover it quickly!"
Leng Junyi looked serious and said in a deep voice: "This man's body was soaked in the well water. It has rotted and was covered with maggots. It is unsightly. I'm afraid he has been dead for dozens of days."
Xue Xichen frowned and suddenly asked, "Is this a living well?"
Leng Junyi observed carefully and replied: "The well water is clear. The corpse has just been soaked. It doesn't look like stagnant water."
Xue Xichen's expression turned grim for a moment, and she asked nervously: "Are you sure this is a live well? How deep is the well water? You said you just soaked a corpse, could it be that the well water is very shallow?"
"No!" Leng Junyi replied, "I didn't explain it clearly just now. There was a rotten wooden barrel in the well, and a dead body was lying in the barrel. The barrel tipped over, and the body was immersed in the water, but the body was still inside the barrel.
, I only saw the lower body.”
"Could it be..."
Xue Xichen was horrified and couldn't help but shudder. She covered her lips and exclaimed, "If this person died because of being infected with smallpox, he lost his footing and fell into the water. The well water was contaminated, and the living water flowed to other places along the undercurrent at the bottom of the well."
place,……"
Leng Junyi was worried, "If the spring water seeping from this well is connected to the drinking water in every household's well in Lintong, then..."
"Well water is poisonous!"
Xue Xichen exclaimed, and her face changed instantly, "As long as we drink the water fished out of the well, we will get smallpox!"
Leng Junyi's eyebrows were solemn, "If this is really the case, then even if Liuyue finds a way to prevent and treat acne, as long as the toxins in the well water are not removed..."
"If the well water is contaminated, then we will face the danger of water shortage!" The more Xue Xichen thought about it, the more terrifying she felt, and she couldn't help but shudder.
"Xichen, don't worry!" Even so, Leng Junyi was also very worried. He tried to comfort him, "Maybe, things are not as bad as we thought..."
"No! Brother Leng, you don't understand the horror of smallpox!" Xue Xichen said excitedly, "The smallpox virus reproduces very quickly and can be spread through droplets. It enters the human body through the respiratory tract and spreads at an alarming rate. If the well water is really contaminated,
The smallpox virus, then, means that we can no longer drink the living water within a hundred miles of the square. A person can survive a month without eating, just drinking water; however, a person cannot survive a day without drinking water!"
"Xichen, you once said that as long as the vaccination is successful, you will have lifelong immunity. By then, you will no longer have to be afraid of smallpox..."
Having said that, but...
Xue Xichen frowned and frowned: "Now, we still don't know whether we will succeed or not. Now that we encounter something like this again, I..."
"Xichen, don't worry!" Leng Junyi comforted her, "Although well water is used in the general's mansion to wash clothes and clean the rooms, it is never used for cooking and drinking. Because Qingge thinks the well water is not clear enough and the food tastes bad.
It was not sweet enough, so he was accustomed to sending people up the mountain every morning to fetch the clear water flowing from the stone walls of the mountain stream for consumption."
"ha?!"
Is there such a thing? He is indeed a prince! His lifestyle is so extravagant! She really wants to thank Feng Qingge for being extravagant and unintentionally saving their lives.
Xue Xichen felt relieved and said: "I really want to thank Feng Qingge for having this habit, which saved our lives invisibly... I don't know where the undercurrent of the spring water in the well is going. If I could know, We can also inform those people not to drink it..."
"I'm afraid it's too late!"
Leng Junyi's eyebrows were solemn and worried, "The epidemic has spread. Regardless of whether they have drank the poisonous well water or not, all the people have fallen ill. What's worse, they are just like the corpses in the well—— die!"
Xue Xichen sighed. She said: "We still have to send someone to investigate this matter carefully. No matter how dangerous the situation is, we still have to investigate clearly, but we want peace of mind."
Leng Junyi agreed, "Okay!"
"Now, what to do with this body?"
"I'll go down and fish him out."
"No!"
Xue Xichen stopped Leng Junyi, "Brother Leng, this is inappropriate! The corpse is severely rotten and smelly, and it is also infected with smallpox. You have no immunity, so you must not touch it. If you touch it, you will get sick!"
She thought for a while, took out a white jade porcelain bottle from her arms, uncorked it, poured some powder into the well, put it away again, and put it back in her arms.
Leng Junyi asked: "Xichen, what kind of powder did you sprinkle on it?"
"Corpse powder."
"Corpse powder?!" Leng Junyi was horrified, "Why sprinkle corpse powder? Isn't this adding poison to poison?"
Xue Xichen answered calmly: "Instead of dissolving the body, how about leaving it to continue to stink in the well?" She pointed out coolly, "For such a dirty and disgusting job, of course corpse powder is the best way to do it. Convenient!"
Leng Junyi "..."
Why would he actually feel that using corpse powder would frighten him more than letting him go down to retrieve the corpse?
Xue Xichen looked into the well and after confirming that all the corpses had melted, she took out another red medicine bottle from her arms, pulled out the stopper, and poured out some red liquid.
The red liquid melts when it enters the water and disperses into the well water without leaving any color.
Leng Junyi asked: "What is this bottle of liquid?"
Xue Xichen tossed the bottle of Chinese medicine and replied: "Senior brother gave it to me, saying it can be used for disinfection."
"disinfect……"
Leng Junyi couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows.
After being poisoned by carrion infected with smallpox, corpse powder and disinfectant, even if this well is not contaminated, would anyone dare to eat it?! Can it still be eaten?!
"That's it!"
It is safer if this well is abandoned! Otherwise, even if you are lucky enough to escape smallpox and not die from the disease, you may be poisoned by the water from this well!
Leng Junyi said: "We sealed the well to prevent others from drinking by mistake."
Xue Xichen nodded in agreement, "We must seal it! We must also seal all the wells connected to this well! I just don't know how many wells nearby are connected to this well?"
Leng Junyi said: "Let's go nearby and take a look."