The spring scenery in the Old Summer Palace is indeed very pleasant, and since the beginning of April, the weather seems to have been beautiful. The weather has been extremely fine every day, and the sky above and below the lake is bright and green.
But within a few days, news that made everyone uneasy reached the Old Summer Palace - a terrible plague broke out in the capital.
What is even more frightening is that only two or three days later, in the Old Summer Palace, a young eunuch who was responsible for going out to purchase goods actually showed the first symptoms of the plague!
Although people were immediately separated, no one expected that this spring plague would spread so quickly!
People were panicked for a while.
In the capital, people posted talismans and recited mantras, praying to God for blessings. In the Old Summer Palace, the emperor issued an order to designate a village 40 miles east, west, south, and west outside the capital as a centralized place for isolation and treatment of sick people to prevent the spread of the epidemic.
.Black banners are hung at the door of the homes of people who have been sick to warn people not to approach.
Due to the rampant plague, Yinzhen dispensed with the daily ministerial meetings at the Qinzheng Qinxian Hall, and established official positions specifically for this plague, extending from the Eight Banners military and civilians to the residents of the capital, overseas traders, and foreign vassals coming to the capital.
Check the symptoms one by one. The servants walking in the palace, if someone in the family is infected with the epidemic, even if they are not sick, they will not be allowed to enter the Old Summer Palace within a hundred days.
In addition, Yinzhen issued a special decree - to provide medical care and medicine to the people, reduce household taxes, and require local officials to dispose of unattended corpses to prevent secondary infection.
For a time, the imperial doctors asked everyone in the palace to cover their mouths and noses with something to prevent infection. The smell of mugwort was everywhere in the Old Summer Palace and the palace grounds.
The epidemic is caused by the malaria virus being introduced through the mouth and nose, and is highly contagious - if one person is infected, if not paid attention to in time, it may even cause an entire village to collapse.
In the spring of the Tiandi family, the two children have not yet realized the horror of the plague.
A few days after arriving at the Old Summer Palace, E Niang had already agreed to their spring outing, but they had just started to get started, but nothing happened.
Due to the seriousness of the epidemic, Hongxin's work in the Shangshufang was also suspended by Yinzhen's decree.
The two siblings were imprisoned in Tiandi Family Spring House.
Ji Ling issued a strict order - the servants kept an eye on the third princess and the sixth elder brother, and they were not allowed to take a step outside the world, otherwise they would be severely punished.
In addition, the imperial physician in the palace distributed medicine packages to prevent epidemic diseases to all palaces and gardens, including Su Mint, Kufan, Styrax, Tangerine Peel, Platycodon, Minghuang, Angelica dahurica, raw licorice, Fangfeng, Pinellia ternata, and Guanzhong.
When the recipe is cooked, it tastes extremely bitter.
In order to prevent the epidemic, everyone can only hold their noses and drink.
After the third princess finished drinking the medicine, the nanny took the medicine bowl with one hand and immediately put the prepared candy into her mouth with the other hand. The third princess pursed her lips tightly and her little face wrinkled up.
The sixth brother sat opposite his sister, holding his cheeks in his hands, his face filled with despair due to the strong smell of mugwort in the room.
"Mom, when can we go out?" The third princess bit into pieces the candy and raised her head with a frown on her face and asked Ji Ling.
Ji Ling tied the veil covering her face again, and then said: "It's almost time, bear with it a little longer."
Sixth Brother said: "I feel really depressed when I stay in this room all day long."
The two children chatted for a while and then sat down together. Ji Ling watched as they leaned their heads against each other, stretched out their hands to gesture with each other, and muttered about some homemade punching game.
After a while, Brother Six shouted: "Sister lost!"
The third princess had an expression of resignation on her face, and turned around to carry her sixth brother, but the sixth brother fell on her back. Just as he put his weight on her, the third princess's legs went weak and she immediately knelt down on the carpet.
Brother Six laughed heartily.
The third princess's face turned red. She turned around unconvinced and shouted to her younger brother: "What did you eat when you grew up? You are as heavy as a pig!"
Seeing that Brother Six was laughing so hard that he was almost out of breath, Ji Ling couldn't help but sigh in her heart: Fortunately, she had two children... Otherwise, at this time, if she was an only child, she wouldn't even have a playmate.
Qixi walked in from the courtyard wearing a face covering. She washed her hands carefully in the basin first and wiped them with rice wine before coming over and saying: "Master, the dinner will be according to the master's instructions. I will explain it carefully to the kitchen."
Already."
Ji Ling nodded: She asked the kitchen to only make hot stews from today on, and other cold dishes, fruits, as long as they have not been subjected to high temperatures, will not be used for the time being.
In addition, during the Spring Festival in the Tiandi family, only one person was allowed to go out of the courtyard to collect necessary items every day. A special room was set up at the entrance of the courtyard, and realgar tung seeds were used to burn smoke in the fire. When this person came back, his clothes had to be fumigated.
Throughout Qingyan in Jiuzhou, the imperial eunuch would carry a large pot of water boiled with astragalus, Chuanxiong, and angelica, walk around the palace, and fumigate everywhere, three times a day.
The medical prescriptions of Taiyuan Hospital were rushed day and night to make anti-epidemic pills made from terrestris, tiger head, Tianxiong, honey locust and turnip. Each pill is only as big as a red date and as round as a pearl. It can be worth six times when lit.
hour.
As soon as the pills were made, Yinzhen immediately had them delivered to Ji Ling.
The third princess and the sixth brother played the game of "You carry me and I carry you" for a long time. The two of them were very happy. After dinner, the two of them were chasing each other around the table and chairs in the house.
Got up.
The two of them were like ADHD children. The one chasing them was screaming, and the one being chased was screaming. The high-decibel sound almost brought down the house.
After all, it is his own child, and he is being held in the room. Ji Ling thought to himself: I can bear it!
But seeing the children running faster and faster, Ji Ling was afraid that they would fall down and bump into each other, so he immediately patted the table and said solemnly: "Hongxin! Xi'er! Don't be crazy, everyone sit down!"
Her voice calmed the children, and the sixth elder brother and the third princess finally stood still. Just as Ji Ling was about to speak, he saw a figure flashing at the door. It was Xiao Fenzi who led Xiao Chenzi from the Yangxin Hall with an uneasy look on his face.
Come.
Xiao Chenzi didn't come in, so he knelt down far away in the yard. Ji Ling thought that Yinzhen had assigned him to bring some prescriptions and burning pills, so he stood up and said, "This is enough for the whole family of heaven and earth.
It doesn't matter……"
Xiao Chenzi raised his head, and Ji Ling's words stopped abruptly.
She saw the tears on Xiao Chenzi's face under the palace lantern.
Ji Ling's heart sank suddenly, and she subconsciously blurted out: "What's wrong with the Emperor?".
Xiao Chenzi's lips trembled for a long time, kowtowed to the ground, and finally cried out: "Concubine Chen, your Majesty, starting from this afternoon, the situation seems not to be right... Now he is not feeling well, and all the imperial doctors have passed away.
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Bixue was beside her, and she couldn't help but asked in surprise: "How could this happen? When the emperor came to see our queen the day before yesterday, she was still fine!"
Xiao Chenzi said: "I don't know that the emperor doesn't have enough lunch today. I thought the mugwort smell in the Qingyan Palace in Jiuzhou was too strong, and it made the emperor lose his appetite, so he asked..."
Ji Ling raised her hand to stop the rest of his words and said, "Let's go."
Qixi came forward, silently, covered Ji Ling's mouth and nose with a handkerchief smoked on mugwort leaves, tied it tightly behind her bun, and then supported Ji Ling's hand.