Zhu Xixi, who was nestled in Pei Sining's arms, also heard the conversation between Old Lady Zhu and Chen Xiang, and her round face showed a hint of gloom.
[We have to cross the mountains? That means we can't bring many supplies. We'd have to traverse over a thousand kilometers of wilderness to reach Hengyang County. Many exiled prisoners died on that thousand-kilometer journey.]
Without food or water, how can everyone survive more than a thousand kilometers?
[Besides, the plague isn't a particularly difficult disease to treat; it's just smallpox, and Xixi has the antidote!]
Is Grandma really going to abandon the cart and supplies and cross the mountains?
Xixi tilted her head and curiously rolled her dark eyes, voicing all the questions in her mind.
As she was thinking, she suddenly yawned, blinked her wet eyes, and drifted off to sleep.
Just after she fell asleep, Pei Sining stared at Zhu Xixi in her arms with terrified eyes, as if she had seen a monster.
What the hell? What did he hear? Was that Zhu Xixi's inner voice? He could hear her inner voice?
What kind of creature is Zhu Xixi? Why is she like this? Could she be some kind of monster?
At this time, Zhu Dabao and Zhu Xiaobao, who had picked mugwort, returned to the camp, and the adults also found a cure for the plague.
The group of people excitedly took the prescription and mugwort and walked towards Old Lady Zhu, placing them in front of her.
Liu approached Pei Sining with a beaming smile, expressing her gratitude apologetically, "Young Master Pei, thank you for your hard work. Please leave Xixi to me!"
Pei Sining, whose mind was wandering, slowly came back to her senses when she heard Liu's voice. She hurriedly handed Zhu Xixi to Liu and moved away from Zhu Xixi in shock and fear.
Liu observed Pei Sining's strange expression with suspicion, and was about to speak when she heard her mother-in-law shout.
"Come here, everyone, Mother has something to say."
At Grandma Zhu's call, everyone gathered around, looking at her with curiosity.
Old Mrs. Zhu's face was somber, her eyes filled with bitterness and helplessness. She sighed and said, "Lord Chen said that we are going to pass through a village called Lujia Village, but this village was recently infected with a plague."
“He planned to take everyone across the mountains to Hengyang County. If we went across the mountains, we wouldn’t be able to take our carts and large luggage with us.”
Zhu Haotian and his team tried their best to find a solution, but the guards actually wanted to risk traversing the steep mountains.
“Mother, those mountains are not easy to traverse. One wrong step and you could fall off a cliff. And once you cross the mountains, you’ll reach the wilderness. I’ve heard it’s all yellow earth and sand there. We adults can carry it, but what about these children?”
“Yes! I remember it was marked on the map that the wasteland is more than a thousand kilometers away from Hengyang County. Under the scorching sun, the children will not be able to stand it.”
Zhu Chenfeng also felt that abandoning the cart to cross the mountains was not a reliable plan. Moreover, all their tools for making a living were on the cart, along with a lot of quilts. If they threw all of these away, they would probably freeze again when it got cold in October.
How could Old Lady Zhu not know what her son was talking about? It was precisely because she understood these issues that she had the idea to take the risk.
"The main problem now is the plague, but if we can find a way to solve the plague, wouldn't that make the escorts give up crossing the mountains?"
Sun had the same idea, believing that the plague was mainly caused by dampness and toxins entering the body after a severe drought, which led to the villagers contracting the disease.
If she could find out what kind of plague virus was causing the outbreak in Lujia Village, there would be a chance to resolve this epidemic.
“Mother, I think it’s feasible. If we can find out what this epidemic is, then I can find a way to cure it.”
Pei Sining squatted among the group, staring blankly at their conversation, her face growing paler with each word she heard.
The conversation among the Zhu family members was almost identical to what Zhu Xixi had been saying: Lujia Village, across the mountains, Hengyang County.
Is this little girl possessed by a deity, able to foresee future events?
Although he had never believed in ghosts or gods, he could only speak nervously at this moment.
"It looks like smallpox."
"Smallpox? Young Master Pei, how do you know it's smallpox?"
Upon hearing this, Madam Sun turned her head and looked at Pei Sining with curiosity, asking in return with a puzzled expression.
Pei Sining naturally dared not reveal that she could hear Zhu Xixi talking, so she could only swallow hard and explain with a smile.
"My guess is that, based on current knowledge, smallpox occurs every day."
Grandma Zhu agreed with Pei Sining's idea, but to find out what the virus was, they still needed to investigate it thoroughly.
"Third son's wife, what are your thoughts?"
"I....."
Sun didn't know what to do for the time being, after all, she had never cured the plague before, and only knew about the antidote from the book.
But if we need to investigate what kind of epidemic it is, we still need to look it up in medical books. "Mother, give me some time, let me look for it."
"Alright, I'll try to buy you a day. After a day, Lord Chen will definitely gather everyone to set off. So, during this time, you must find out what kind of plague it is."
Grandma Zhu could understand her daughter-in-law's situation. After all, she was not a doctor and had never been exposed to plagues, so it was understandable that she didn't know how to solve the problem.
“Okay.” When Madam Sun heard the word “one day,” she nodded excitedly.
Liu looked at Sun with a worried expression, then subconsciously looked down at her daughter and murmured to herself.
"Xixi, we'll definitely get through this ordeal safely, right?"
At this moment, Zhu Xixi was in the pharmacy in the space, half of her body buried in the medicinal herbs. She was looking for a vaccine to treat smallpox, as well as protective clothing, gloves, masks, and the entire pharmacy, which she stored in the bracelet space.
She absolutely couldn't let the wicked Zhu Yanyan flaunt the vaccine. With a wave of her hand, she separated the medicine from the pharmacy and the smallpox vaccine and put them into her bracelet, then happily spun around in place.
Halfway through the turn, she heard her mother sighing, and she hurriedly swam towards the outside of the space.
Mother, Xixi is here!
Xixi slowly opened her sleepy eyes, revealed a bright smile, and reached out her little chubby hand to touch Liu's face.
[Mother, don't be afraid, Xixi will protect everyone.]
However, when you come into contact with patients and corpses, you must wear masks and gloves.
It's best to wear protective clothing when you come into contact with them!
Xixi secretly put the things in the woods; she doesn't know if her mother will find out.
Xixi blinked her big, dark eyes, waved her little hands, and threw all the supplies into the bushes in the woods.
Then, stretching its little neck, it pointed towards the woods with its tiny finger and babbled.
At this moment, Mrs. Sun was engrossed in searching through books. Mrs. Liu hesitated for a moment, then picked up her daughter and came to Mrs. Sun's side.
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