Chapter 68 Chao Chao: I'm Going to Get Smallpox
Chao Chao looked at the small red dots on Gong Xingwen's body in disbelief, her pupils growing bigger and bigger.
She stood up suddenly, took a step back and ran quickly towards the front hall.
Yuanyuan looked up when he heard the noise, but only had time to see Chaochao's back. He muttered strangely, "What happened to my sister? Why did she suddenly run away without saying a word?"
Gong Xingwen grabbed his arm again and said without looking up, "Maybe he has to pee urgently."
Yuanyuan thought about it and felt that it was possible. He continued to look down at the parts in front of him. He seemed to have an inspiration just now. He would try it quickly so that he could surprise Chaochao when she came back.
Yuanyuan was laughing, and Chaochao had already run quickly to the front hall.
Jian Yunsang and Song Zhen were discussing the affairs of the Chaoyang Foundation. On the table in front of them were several file bags, which were just brought to them by He Nanzhou.
He Nanzhou went to arrange the banquet. All relatives had already been notified, so they set the banquet time for a week later. It happened to be the weekend, so the children would have time to get together.
He Nanzhou was responsible for these matters. Jian Yunsang had few relatives, not even her own parents, let alone other relatives. They had rarely visited each other in recent years and were not in the local area, so she did not inform anyone except her parents. Anyway, her parents would tell her aunt and uncle about Chaochao's return.
At the moment, her mind is more on the charity foundation. Now that she has a direction and knows that she needs to do more good deeds, she naturally has to start preparing.
When Chaochao ran over, Jian Yunsang had just put down a children's medical record. When he looked up, he saw the little girl panting.
Jian Yunsang immediately stood up and walked towards her, "Why did you come in? You're running so fast, are you thirsty..."
Unexpectedly, she had only taken a few steps when Chao Chao, who had already stopped quickly, suddenly shouted, "Mom, don't come over."
She shouted so loudly that Jian Yunsang frightened her so much that she froze in place for a moment. Even Song Zhen was stunned and stood up.
"What happened to Chao Chao?"
"Mom, you, don't come over here, don't come near me." Chao Chao ran to the front hall and then she remembered that she shouldn't have run in like this. She clearly had a phone watch and could call her mother, so why was she so impulsive?
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but take two steps back, her voice slightly nervous and scared, "Mom, I might, might not be well, please don't touch me."
Jian Yunsang frowned, his expression becoming serious, "What happened? Chaochao, don't be afraid."
"Mom, my good friend that Brother Yuanyuan brought has a lot of rashes on his body. It seems to be a symptom of smallpox. I heard that if you come into contact with someone who has smallpox, you will get it, too. We were so close just now, I might also get the rash. So, so, mom... don't get close to me."
As she spoke, her voice began to tremble. Perhaps she knew how terrifying this thing was. Gradually, a hint of crying appeared in her tone, and her eyes quickly became blurry.
Chao Chao hurriedly raised his head, wiped his eyes, and was about to turn around and leave, but who knew that the next moment, he was picked up by Jian Yunsang.
Chao Chao opened his eyes wide and looked at her in shock. After he came to his senses, he quickly reached out to push her, "Mom, put me down quickly."
Jian Yunsang hugged her tighter, smiled and pinched the tip of her nose, and gently wiped away her tears, "What nonsense are you talking about? What smallpox? We don't have smallpox anymore. As early as fifty or sixty years ago, smallpox was completely eradicated."
Chao Chao paused, then looked up in surprise, "Extinct, extinct?"
The people of Daqi were equally stunned.
They were somewhat stunned. What did extinction mean? Smallpox was an extremely horrible disease. Once infected, at least two-thirds of the people would die, and often half of the people in a city would die. How could it be extinct when even the dignitaries and the royal family were helpless against such a devilish disease?
Emperor Jingxuan clutched the sleeves of his dragon robe tightly and stared at the sky nervously.
Smallpox, these two words were very familiar to Emperor Jingxuan.
His younger brother from the same mother died of smallpox at the age of four.
He still remembers what happened back then vividly. In his mind, he can still see the symptoms of his younger brother covered in blisters, the indifference of the late emperor who ordered the entire palace to be sealed off, the scene of the palace servants walking hurriedly and quietly, and the look of his queen mother hugging him tightly and crying silently but unable to do anything.
These memories are so profound that even the palace where the emperor's younger brother lived back then is still vacant.
Smallpox, that is indeed a deadly disease. Even if all the doctors with excellent medical skills from the Imperial Hospital and the people were gathered together, they could not pull people back from the brink of death.
Now you tell him that this epidemic that kills countless people every year has disappeared?
How is this possible? Could the disease completely disappear?
Countless Daqi people under the sky had bewildered expressions. If the sweet potato yield of 10,000 catties per mu in the sky filled a large number of people from poor families with hope, if the fact that everyone could go to school for free made many people envious, and if the ability to connect to mobile phones of people thousands of miles away made dignitaries jealous, then the extinction of smallpox at this moment made all the people under the sky hold their breath.
Smallpox was not a rare disease in the entire Daqi, and even Chao Chao knew about it. Naturally, most people had heard of it, and many people had even been infected with it, and many people had lost their loved ones because of it.
Including Hu Laifu, he no longer had the intention to compete with Jiang Laosan and others secretly. Chao Chao knew about smallpox because Hu Laifu's brother died of this disease when he was a child.
What’s worse, after word got out that his brother had smallpox, the whole village shunned his family. They were not even allowed to leave the house, and some people even advocated burning his brother to death to prevent the disease from infecting other people.
Later, his brother died, but the smallpox was also passed on to his sister who took care of him. Two people in the Hu family died that year. Hu Laifu became the only son of the Hu family and was spoiled by his parents until he became what he is today.
However, every time he talked about his brothers and sisters, Hu Lai Fu would be in a bad mood, holding the wine jug to drink, and then he would start to act crazy after drinking.
Chao Chao didn't know it at first, so he was beaten twice. Later he carefully avoided it.
But she also learned about the terrible thing called smallpox. Even though she had never seen it, she had heard of the symptoms.
So, when she saw the rashes on Gong Xingwen's body, her first reaction was that it was contagious smallpox.
(End of this chapter)
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