"That's what a real man should say. Let's drink more today, and bring some meat back to Ye Xing'er later."
Nie Yun grinned from ear to ear, bowing and nodding repeatedly to Lü Tu and the other two: "Thank you for your guidance, elder brother and sister-in-law."
Today finally brought some good news. No matter how great the external threats are, at least they have been temporarily kept out by Lü Tu. Moreover, smallpox, cowpox, and penicillin are all being arranged. It was an exceptionally fulfilling day.
After a hearty meal, Nie Yun took a ceramic bowl, served Ye Xing'er a bowl of mutton soup and two steamed buns, and ran off like a precious treasure.
After he left, Song Yuxi shook her head and said, "Nie Yun probably really likes Ye Xing'er."
Nangong Huiyu asked curiously, "Who is that person? I've never seen him before?"
"I had contact with her; she seemed to come from an official family and had been exiled to Wuchuan..."
Nangong Huiyu frowned and said, "Husband, sister, haven't you ever suspected that Ye Xing'er is strange? She had already left, but she still came back, and after coming back, she still wanted to get close to Nie Yun in this way."
As she said this, she noticed that Lü Tu and Song Yuxi were staring at her and smiling, and suddenly realized, "So you two saw through the problem a long time ago."
Song Yuxi smiled and said, "Sister, even if Ye Xing'er didn't find her relatives after going out, she would definitely not go to Nie Yun first when she returned to the village, but would come to me first. The fact that she went to Nie Yun first means that she must have encountered something outside."
Lu Tu nodded: "Yes, and as you can see, Nie Yun has been bewitched by her. If I directly confront him about Ye Xing'er, how much of a blow will it be to him?"
"We can't just let someone with such an unclear identity stay in our village, can we?"
Lu Tu was puzzled: "So what? Our village has taken in so many refugees, who can guarantee that they are all innocent? Anyway, they can't leave the village on weekdays, and they can't even contact people from other villages. So what if they have secrets?"
Song Yuxi also agreed with Lü Tu's approach: "I've met Ye Xing'er before, and I think she's a very thoughtful and decisive woman. Even if we confront her now, we won't get any answers. Instead, we'll be in the wrong. It's better to let Nie Yun try and see if he can win her over."
Nangong Huiyu exclaimed in surprise, "Sister, ever since you witnessed your husband's schemes and tricks, you've started to become just like him, even more powerful than me, this White Lotus Sect demoness."
Song Yuxi took her hand: "Sister, you mustn't talk about yourself like that anymore. Everyone has a past. In my husband's and my hearts, you will never be a vixen."
Looking at the two women who were so sincere with each other, Lü Tu felt that it was rare and precious for a family to be harmonious and prosperous. He was amazed that these two women, who were both incredibly beautiful and of incredibly high social standing, could get along so well. Apart from their time in bed, Lü Tu hadn't done anything; it was all thanks to their own communication.
For the next five days, Lü Tu kept going back and forth between Guo Erniang and the penicillin culture room, while Hu Delu also finished making the syringes.
Lu Tu used a syringe to extract a small amount of the cowpox vaccine from Guo Erniang and put it into a clean earthenware bowl in order to kill some of the virus, otherwise it would not be possible to inject it into smallpox patients.
The most primitive and effective physical method of eradication is heating, which is easy to do. The next step is to add some nutrients to the cowpox virus to cultivate cowpox.
After Lu Tu finished everything in another room, he handed it over to Qin Qianqian for safekeeping, since although this thing was not fatal, it could still spread on a large scale.
In addition, the villagers are not in good health and have weak resistance. If someone were to rashly enter this place and spread the large amount of smallpox virus cultivated here, it would be a catastrophe.
Under Xiao Zhong's command, the refugees built rows of shacks outside the village's original wooden fence for temporary residence, which provided them with a place to stay.
After a brief period of contact, the refugees found that they could at least get enough to eat here, and there was shelter from the wind and rain. It was just a bit crowded, but it was a hundred times better than their previous days of wandering. They all made up their minds to behave well and try to stay here in the future.
Ten more days passed, and during this time Lu Tu did not send anyone to Wuchuan City, because each trip would bring another danger.
At midday that day, Lu Tu was sunbathing in the courtyard when he saw Liu Hu rushing over to report, "Brother, someone is looking for you outside."
"who?"
"They claimed to be servants of the Wang family."
Upon hearing this, Lü Tu had a bad feeling and quickly ran towards the village entrance. He saw that the leader was none other than the servant Lin San, surrounded by a group of servants and maids, but Wang Miaoling and Cui Guo were nowhere to be seen.
"Lord Lü, help me!" As Lin San knelt down first, the other servants and maids also knelt down one after another, kowtowing repeatedly.
Lu Tu frowned: "Shut up, all of you. Lin San, tell me, what happened?"
"The smallpox epidemic has completely spread throughout Wuchuan City. Almost all the neighbors have contracted smallpox, and even my young lady has not been spared!"
"What!?" Lu Tu was taken aback.
Even though Wang Miaoling had given herself a heads-up, why did she still get smallpox?
Lu Tu looked at Lin San warily: "Is this really true?"
Lin San quickly patted his chest and said, "It's absolutely true, sir. Cui Guo is still at home taking care of the young lady. We really have no other choice. Even Doctor Zhang is helpless, so we can only come to beg you!"
Lu Tu looked at the other servants and maids: "You all retreat to the outside of the village and do not have contact with my people."
Even though the crowd felt that what Lü Tu said was somewhat insulting, they knew better than Lü Tu how terrifying smallpox was, so they quickly and obediently retreated to an open space in the distance.
Liu Yang, who was standing next to Lü Tu Chong, instructed: "As usual, check each of them one by one. If anyone has smallpox, let him stay in the distant forest until I return."
"Brother, why don't we just kill him?"
Lu Tu already had cowpox and smallpox scabs, and precisely because he lacked smallpox patients for testing, he simply shook his head and said, "No need to kill them. I'll just test whether my medicine is effective. Just make sure the smallpox patients don't come into contact with other people. Bring quicklime and wood ash!"
If it weren't for the thought that if Wang Miaoling died, her family's treasures would be lost to history, Lü Tu really wouldn't have wanted to take this risk!
After saying that, Lü Tu covered himself with quicklime and wood ash, then took a clean cotton gauze mask and put it on, before running alone toward Wuchuan City.
No matter which method is used to treat smallpox, Lü Tu has no way to bring the medicine to Wuchuan. If he wants to save Wang Miaoling, he can only bring her back to the village.
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