At this time, Mingyu suddenly said: "Strange, why do I smell something strange in this side hall? Or is it the same before, but I just didn't smell it?"
Xiao Liuzi took a few puffs and said, "What does master mean? The slave smells the same. There's nothing weird about it."
"I can't tell you, I just feel that the smell is weird, as if..." Mingyu glanced around, finally focusing on the embroidery, and said: "It emanates from here."
Shuiyue's heart moved, she put her finger over and said, "Master, I just put some wetness on my finger. Can you smell it and see if it's the same?"
Before she finished speaking, Mingyu had already taken a few steps back, holding Xiaoliuzi's hand, and looked at Shuiyue with a horrified look on his face, "You...you got it?"
Shuiyue was confused by her appearance as if she had seen a ghost, and said: "Yes, Master, what's wrong? Is there anything wrong with this thing?"
Mingyu came back to his senses and realized that he had made a mistake, so he quickly covered it up and said: "I don't even know what this thing is, so I don't know if it's appropriate. But as soon as you put your finger over it, I felt a stench and felt nauseated.
That's right, Xiao Liuzi, hurry up and get a basin of hot water to wash Shuiyue's hands, I really can't stand the smell."
Shuiyue smelled it carefully again and said: "Although this slave also feels the smell is a bit bad, it is not as obvious as the master's smell."
Xiao Liuzi fetched water in a panic, put the copper basin in front of Shuiyue, and quickly returned to Mingyu. Shuiyue had an illusion, as if... Xiao Liuzi deliberately avoided her. Could it be that,
Even Xiao Liuzi felt that the smell on his hands was bad, but they didn't think so just now. What was going on?
While Shuiyue was cleaning her hands, Xiao Liuzi looked tense and said: "Master, I feel that something is not right about this matter. Otherwise, I would like to ask the imperial doctor to come over and take a look at what is on this embroidered picture.
If it's just a normal water stain or even a milk stain, it shouldn't have such a smell."
Mingyu nodded repeatedly and said: "If you feel something is wrong, then ask the imperial doctor to take a look. It is always right to be careful."
Xiao Liuzi left in a hurry. Shuiyue washed her hands several times, but she still felt that there was a smell on her hands. She did not dare to touch the embroidered picture again, waiting for Xiao Liuzi to come back.
About half an hour later, Xiao Liuzi brought Zhou Minghua in. Xiao Liuzi had already talked about it with him on the way, so after he saluted Mingyu, he turned his attention to the embroidery picture. Under Xiao Liuzi's guidance, he discovered that
to those unfinished places,
He did not reach out rashly, but took a silver needle and dipped a little from it. After smelling it, it was indeed a bit strange, but it did not have an obvious odor as Xiao Liuzi said.
It looks a bit white and looks a bit like pus.
Zhou Minghua was just thinking about it casually, but suddenly he recalled that Hongli had sent a group of imperial doctors to the Yangxin Palace. Is it possible that... this is also the case? But the emperor has already controlled this thing, so why would it appear again?
And it's still in the palace. This... this is unreasonable, unless someone brought it to the palace on purpose.
Thinking of this, Zhou Minghua's heart beat faster and his hands trembled uncontrollably. At this time, Mingyu's voice suddenly came, "Mr. Zhou, how are you? Have you found out what this is?"
Zhou Minghua was so frightened that he almost dropped the silver needle to the ground. After regaining his composure, he said: "If you want to return to your Majesty, I haven't checked it out yet. Please wait a moment."
After Mingyu nodded, he checked according to the methods he knew, and found that it was just as he had guessed before. His expression became extremely solemn and he said: "I dare to ask, has anyone come into contact with this?"
"Shuiyue has been in contact with me before." After saying this, Mingyu asked anxiously: "Mr. Zhou, have you found out?"
Listening to their conversation, Shuiyue had an ominous premonition in her heart and said, "Mr. Zhou, what happened? What on earth is that thing?"
Zhou Minghua said with an ugly face: "I can't be sure, but nine times out of ten, the thing on the embroidered picture is... the pus that oozes from smallpox patients after they get sick."
As soon as these words came out, Shui Yue was stunned. She never thought that it would be smallpox. This kind of thing has not appeared in the palace for a long time. Now...how could it suddenly appear now?
Mingyu also looked shocked and said in a trembling voice: "Mr. Zhou, you said... you said it was smallpox? How is this possible? No one in the palace has smallpox. Dr. Zhou, could you have made a wrong diagnosis?
"
Zhou Minghua said in a deep voice: "Wei Chen also hopes that he has made a wrong diagnosis, but it is indeed very likely that it is smallpox." After saying that, he turned his eyes to Shui Yue, who was still in shock, "Have you ever had the disease before?
Smallpox? Or pox?"
Shuiyue looked at him blankly for a long time, her eyes slowly became focused, and she murmured: "No, never." Before Zhou Minghua could speak, she suddenly stared at her hands and said incoherently: "I have been in contact,
I will get smallpox, will I die? I just touched it, I didn’t know it was smallpox, I don’t know anything else.”
Seeing that she was gradually getting excited, Zhou Minghua said quickly: "Don't worry, although you have been exposed to smallpox, you are not necessarily infected. Maybe you are lucky and you may be fine; it is also possible that this is not smallpox at all. But in this case
During this period, you’d better not have any contact to avoid spreading the infection to other people.”
When he mentioned it like this, Mingyu also thought about it and said repeatedly: "Yes, Dr. Zhou is right, we need to lock him up quickly, otherwise the infection will spread and things will be in trouble. Xiaoliuzi, lock Shuiyue immediately
Go into the room where she lives, and don’t let her come out until you’re sure everything is okay.”
Xiao Liuzi quickly agreed, but he did not dare to approach Shui Yue. In the end, Shui Yue left on his own, leaving Xiao Liuzi to get the big lock and lock himself firmly in the room.
After taking Shuiyue down, Mingyu said with a hint of urgency: "Mr. Zhou, what should we do now? What else should we do? In addition, I have been standing here, will anything happen?"
Zhou Minghua said: "Don't worry too much, Madam. Smallpox can only be transmitted through direct contact or inhalation of droplets. You have never had either of these and you will be fine. After dawn tomorrow, please ask other imperial doctors to come here and take a look.
In order to determine whether it is smallpox." After that, he said: "I would like to ask you, where did this embroidery picture come from?"
Mingyu said with a complicated expression: "This embroidery picture... was co-embroidered by me and Concubine Xian to prepare a gift for the Queen Mother's birthday. Because time was too tight, Concubine Xian had been taking it back to Yanxi Palace to embroider in the past days.
, until tonight, I wanted to finish embroidering the last crane myself, so I stayed in Kunning Palace. I didn't expect that such a thing would happen."