Three more days passed, and Zhu Qiuyu and her group returned from distributing the antidote. The mission had gone smoothly, and Jin Chang was probably not lying. According to their investigation, only a small village and a town had been affected by the dead rats.
People in both places have started to fall ill. Almost all the villagers in the small village where the dead rats were first thrown have been infected, except for a few people who were working outside and had not yet drunk the water from the village.
Zhu Qiuyu, Zhu Xichen, and Zhu Yueran were the first to go to the village. They found all the wells in the village and then put the antidote into them.
Even after the antidote was administered, the water in the well was still undrinkable because it contained dead rats. The villagers had to quickly drain the well and replace the water with clean water several times.
Fortunately, the village had a small population of only a little over three hundred people, so there were enough pills. Each person took one pill, and the strong men regained their energy the next day, working hard to drain all the well water in the village.
With the current lack of technology, villagers use a very old method to drain their wells: they lift the water up bucket by bucket and pour it out, then start over once the well is full again.
Zhu Qiuyu and the other two dared not be careless. They kept watching the villagers until they had changed the well water and made sure that the villagers had taken the antidote before they dared to leave.
The situation in the other small town is slightly better. Although the town has a larger population, the dead rats were released in a shorter period of time. People with weaker constitutions have already reacted, but those with stronger constitutions have not yet shown symptoms.
The antidote was distributed promptly, and the situation was quickly brought under control.
Zhu Changge, Zhu Qingruo, and Zhu Chumo brought ten men in gray robes—yes, the same ten men in gray robes who had been turned against Prince Gong and had been quietly working for the group on Immortal Mist Island.
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