Meixian County.
At this time, Zhao Yiming was feeling dizzy and sore all over, and was helped back to the simple room by Jingyu and Jifeng.
In order to allow the people to receive treatment on their own, he declined the county magistrate's offer to let him stay at the post station these days, and instead lived in a tent built on an open space in the slums north of the city, living with the soldiers and eating with the people.
He had only been here for about ten days when he contracted this strange disease. He had wrapped himself tightly at first and did not notice the rash on his body. It was not until the rash began to itch and he started to have a fever and feel uncomfortable that he realized he might have been infected.
Sure enough, the imperial doctors diagnosed the disease after taking the patient's pulse.
Originally, he knew that he was infected with this strange disease, and he didn't want Jingyu and others to touch him for fear of infecting them. Unexpectedly, the two of them rolled up their sleeves and showed him their arms covered with rashes.
"Master, we've both been infected. It's too late."
After handing over the task of organizing the anti-disease efforts to the secret guards who had not yet been infected, the three of them supported each other and returned to the tent. As soon as Zhao Yiming lay down on the bed and was thinking about Tian An, he heard Zhuyue's sharp screams outside the tent.
Zhao Yiming was afraid that he would pass his illness on to the cat, so he could only instruct the sick soldier to take the letter from its feet and put it at the door of the tent, and then he would go over to get it.
As soon as he saw the contents of Tian An's letter, his head, which was originally dizzy from the burn, seemed to be healed instantly, and he stood up from the simple bed in full energy.
When he learned that the so-called contagious disease was nothing more than someone poisoning people on a large scale, he became furious and wanted to find the poisoners and execute them by slow slicing.
After Zhao Yiming carefully put away the potion that Tian An had wrapped in the letter, he quickly glanced at the antidote recipe and handed it to Jingyu, asking him to send it to the imperial physicians immediately. "Tell them not to test the medicine anymore. Just boil the medicine according to the recipe and distribute it. Boil as much as you can."
Thinking of the contents of Tian An's letter, Zhao Yiming frowned and then specifically reminded them: "Tell them not to use well water to boil the medicine, use river water or stream water, anyway, use flowing water.
Also, try to cover up as much as possible at this time."
"But, I have already..."
Before Jingyu finished speaking, Zhao Yiming knew what he was going to say, "Don't worry! The Queen's Kunning Palace has also been affected. Madam has already cracked the virus. It's not a disease, it's just a poison. It's not contagious at all."
"What? It's not contagious? Then..." Jingyu was about to ask, but Zhao Yiming interrupted him directly, "Send the prescription to the imperial doctors first, and we'll discuss the rest after you come back."
With doubts in her heart, Jingyu delivered the prescription very quickly, and the imperial doctors also trusted Tian An very much. When they heard that this was the prescription developed by her, although they had some doubts in their hearts, they still did as Jingyu asked.
When Jingyu came back, Zhao Yiming had already injected himself with the antidote.
He is calling all the secret guards to discuss the capture operation.
The people who drugged me would certainly not do such a wicked thing in broad daylight, so if we want to catch them we have to wait until night.
Zhao Yiming asked the poisoned secret guards to go to the imperial physician first to get a bowl of detoxifying medicine for each of them to drink, and then they returned to their tents to rest, gather their strength and wait for nightfall.
Tian An said in the letter that the reason why people mistakenly believed that this poison was an infectious disease was that someone was poisoning it on a large scale continuously.
The reason why some people have clearly improved but fall ill again is that they are simply poisoned again. If the person who poisoned them cannot be caught, no matter how much medicine they drink, it will be of no use.
After thinking about what could poison a large area of people, Zhao Yiming finally set his sights on the "well".
Every village in Meixian has one or two wells, and everyone relies on these wells for daily water use. If someone really puts poison into these wells, it will cause large-scale poisoning.
After careful consideration today, Zhao Yiming discovered another phenomenon, that is, among those who were poisoned, almost all of them were ordinary people, and it seemed that only a few servants in some wealthy families were poisoned.
If there was a separate well in their house and it was not easy for the poisoner to enter their house to poison them, then as long as they stayed in the house and did not consume water from the well outside or food made from this well water, they would not be poisoned and would not be infected at all, because the poison could not be transmitted at all.
After the secret guards went to rest, Zhao Yiming was still not idle. He asked the soldiers to find several village heads in Meixian County, and asked the county government's legal advisor to get him a map of Meixian County.
Because of the previous bribery incident, the lawyer was always afraid that Zhao Yiming would hold him accountable, so when he heard that Zhao Yiming wanted him to do something, he came running over, hoping to atone for his sins and make Zhao Yiming forget about the previous incident.
Zhao Yiming took the map and did not refuse the master's request. He just said, "It depends on your performance." Then he turned and left.
Based on the descriptions of the village heads, he marked all the wells in Meixian County on the map, except for those belonging to the rich.
When night fell, the secret guards were arranged to ambush near the wells, and anyone found poisoning the wells would be arrested immediately.
However, on the first night, the secret guards kept watch all night but found nothing. Two-thirds of the people in the city fell ill, and the remaining one-third stayed in their houses and dared not come out. Not to mention the person who poisoned the city, there was not even a single person to be seen near the well.
However, although the secret guards did not catch anyone on the first night, after the imperial doctors used Tian An's prescription, the sick people showed obvious improvement after taking the medicine three times a day.
Zhao Yiming believed that as the people's condition improved, the person who poisoned them would become restless and would poison them again soon.
He just needs to sit back and wait.
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