Qi Yuning suddenly felt a chill coming over her. She said to Lichun, "Send me back."
Qi Yuning left the lobby and had not yet returned to her own courtyard when she felt so cold that she could not walk. She rested in a pavilion and shivered.
Lichun ordered the maid to fetch a hot water bottle.
Qi Yuning still felt very cold even holding the hot water bottle, and she was always afraid of the cold.
"What's wrong with this lady?"
Qi Yuning heard a strange voice and saw the woman who came. She was dressed simply. Her clothes were even worse than those of the maids in the Princess and Prince Qi's Mansion. The silver hairpin on her head was the only jewelry on her body.
When Lichun saw the woman dressed in this way, he was also wary and asked, "Who are you?"
The woman bowed and said, "My name is Lin Lu. My husband is the newly appointed Doctor Liu from the Ministry of War. Today, I've been invited to attend the little princess's first birthday banquet. I need to go to the bathroom. I don't know the way..."
Qi Yuning said weakly, "It turns out to be my cousin's wife. This is the first time I've met her. I'm sorry for being so rude. I'm suffering from malaria and I'm sick right now. Xiaoman, please take Madam Liu to the banquet."
"Malaria?" Lin Lu looked at Qi Yuning and asked, "How did you get malaria? Did you go to Lingnan?"
Qi Yuning shook his head and said, "I haven't been to Lingnan. I've been in Shengjing City the whole time. I don't know why I'm haunted by the malaria ghost. Maybe this is my doom..."
"Things like malaria will kill you are just feudal superstition. Malaria is a disease you get when you're bitten by a mosquito infected with the malaria virus."
Although Qi Yuning felt extremely uncomfortable, she still listened to what Lin Lu said, "A mosquito bite?"
"Yes, the miasma they often talk about in Lingnan is actually just a large number of mosquitoes. When infected with malaria, the mosquitoes bite people and transfer the poison to them. Ten days or half a month later, people start to get sick and die one after another. They all think they are infected with miasma. People in the Central Plains and the north like to say that they are possessed by malaria ghosts."
Qi Yuning looked at Lin Lu in front of him and said, "How can a mosquito be so capable?"
"Just trust me. I've been fighting malaria for who knows how many years, and I can save you."
After hearing what Lin Lu said, Qi Yuning looked at her and asked, "Can you save me?"
Lin Lu nodded and said, "Yes, I have saved many people from malaria in Lingnan with my prescriptions, so you can rest assured.
My medicine is very useful, but unfortunately I thought there was no malaria in Shengjing City, so I didn't bring the medicine from Lingnan. You have to wait for me to go and collect it."
Qi Yuning could only try his best to save the situation. He looked at Lin Lu and smiled, "Okay, thank you, cousin."
Lin Lu said, "Alas, there is no need to say all this. It is already very good that you can remember us poor relatives. My husband is stubborn and has always been unwilling to trouble relatives. But we two came from Lingnan to Shengjing to take up our posts. We are usually honest and have no money to bribe. My husband has been excluded from the Ministry of War these days.
It wasn't until a few days ago when the people from the Ministry of War saw the invitation you specially asked your maid to deliver that my husband was finally appreciated by his superiors in the Ministry of War."
Qi Yuning coughed twice and said, "I should have visited more often, but the Qi family didn't have many important events in the past, and we rarely hosted guests. Also, my cousin is far away in Lingnan, so it's difficult for me to visit him. When we get to Shengjing City in the future, we can visit more often."
Lin Lu said, "Okay, I'll go back and get the medicine."
After Lin Lu left, Lichun asked Qi Yuning, "Princess, can she really cure malaria? She doesn't look very old to me."
Qi Yuning sighed and said, "Now we can only try our best to save the situation."
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