Shen Yuan picked up a pebble and smashed it squarely on Chu Yuning's forehead.
"Ouch—" Chu Yuning cried out in pain, clutching her forehead.
Everyone turned to look at Chu Yuning and Chu Qiuyue.
Feeling uneasy under the gaze of so many people, Chu Qiuyue shuffled behind Chu Yuning.
"Brother Yu, why are you standing in the wrong line? You should be in the line going to the ancestral hall. You've been sick for so long and you still haven't gotten better." The old clan chief frowned, not understanding what his eldest grandnephew was up to.
Chu Yuning pursed her lips. "Clan leader, my illness is completely cured! I no longer cough or have a fever, and I don't feel uncomfortable anywhere in my body. Yueyue and I should be on the side of those who are healthy."
"The group that is not sick will be placed at Aunt Tian's house. They just need to stay home and avoid contact with sick people. They don't need me to see them or prescribe medicine."
Shen Yuan stood on the haystack, looking down at Chu Yuning with a half-smile, and said, "As for the other two teams, I will see them every day, prescribe medicine according to their physical condition, and decoct and brew the medicine for them until they recover."
What? The group that wasn't sick... they won't get medicine or treatment?
Chu Yuning hesitated immediately. His illness hadn't improved at all; in fact, it was getting worse. He needed to take his medicine!
Now trapped in Chu Family Village, he can't get out, can't find a doctor, and can't go to a clinic. The only thing he can rely on is the medicine that Shen Yuan brought.
If he can't even get to drink these dregs of medicine, he'll die of illness in this Chu Family Village sooner or later!
Shen Yuan raised an eyebrow slightly, leisurely observing Chu Yuning's increasingly embarrassed expression, until he gritted his teeth and slunk back to the group that was supposed to stay in the ancestral hall.
Shen Yuan couldn't help but sneer: "Scholar Chu prides himself on being a refined scholar, well-versed in the classics. I never expected him to try to take advantage of the chaos at such a critical moment, disregarding the lives of his fellow villagers. Such selfishness is truly disgusting."
The last two words were spoken with great emphasis.
Like a dull thud, it struck his spine hard, making Chu Yuning unable to lift his head.
Seeing that everyone was standing still, Shen Yuan asked again, "How did you all contract the disease? Who did you come into contact with?"
Mr. Zhu said, "I went to Erniu's house to play cards for a while, and I got sick the day after I got home."
Chu Erniu said, "I felt a little unwell the night I went to the old clan chief's house to warm myself by the fire. I thought it was just a cold and didn't take it seriously. The next day, I continued playing cards with them."
"I'm going to the ancestral hall, cough cough cough, to deliver blankets to the two of them..." The old patriarch of the Chu family turned to look at Chu Yuning and Chu Qiuyue, who were standing at the back of the line.
A few days ago, heavy snow collapsed the Chu family's old house, and Chu Yuning and Chu Qiuyue temporarily moved into the ancestral hall.
He was worried that the two children would catch a cold sleeping on the floor, so he asked his family to bring a few more blankets for them to sleep on on the floor.
He also noticed that Chu Yuning and Chu Qiuyue had been coughing incessantly all night, as if they were coughing up their lungs, and they seemed to be in great pain. He thought they had just caught a cold from being exposed to the cold wind.
Looking back now, it seems that the two of them were the ones who brought the epidemic back to the village!
In just a few words, the villagers helped Shen Yuan pinpoint the source of the epidemic.
Everyone stared at Chu Yuning and Chu Qiuyue, their faces showing dissatisfaction with the people who brought disaster to Chu Family Village.
Chu Qiuyue bit her lower lip tightly, hiding behind Chu Yuning, not daring to look into those people's eyes.
They looked at her like she was a sick rat, and that kind of gaze made her feel very uncomfortable.
Yes, she and her brother were the first to fall ill, but was it their fault that they got sick?
She and her brother didn't want to infect everyone!
But they're already sick, so what's the point of Shen Yuan digging into the source of the illness now? Is she just trying to make things worse for him and his brother?
Chu Qiuyue peeked out from behind Chu Yuning and stared at Shen Yuan with resentment.
Shen Yuan naturally noticed the gaze, but she merely curled her lips and didn't take the other person seriously.
The old clan chief led the lined-up people to the originally designated place.
The person at the very front and the very back of each team is responsible for watching over everyone in their team, preventing anyone from leaving the team, and preventing outsiders from visiting their team members.
Since the village head died, only Tian and her son Xiaohuzi remained in the family. She didn't like to visit the neighbors, and there were no guests at home, so she and her child were not sick for the time being.
Ms. Tian held Little Tiger in her arms. She was responsible for looking after and caring for people like herself who were not sick for the time being. She brought all of them to her home.
Tian brought out three braziers, filled them with firewood, and lit them to provide warmth for the villagers. Then he took out all the bedding from his house and spread it on the straw stack for everyone to rest.
Shen Yuan picked out the Isatis root she had brought, prepared several more doses of medicine, divided them into several packets, and handed them to Tian Shi.
"These are medicines to prevent disease; you can drink some even if you're not sick."
Ms. Tian accepted the medicine packet.
"If you find anyone sick in the next few days, move them to the ancestral hall or the clan head's house immediately. Don't be soft-hearted. If we don't separate the sick from the healthy, the villagers' epidemic will never be cured!" Shen Yuan instructed.
Knowing the seriousness of the matter, Madam Tian quickly nodded in agreement: "Okay, don't worry, whatever you ask me to do, I will definitely do it! Even if the sick person is Xiao Hu Zi, you can send him wherever you want. I will never change the rules you set for anyone."
After giving instructions, Shen Yuan went to the old clan chief's house.
After examining the villagers who were staying at the clan chief's house and prescribing medicine, it was already dark when she rushed to the ancestral hall.
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