A foul smell came from the innermost part of the secret room. There were about ten people inside with boils all over their bodies, and they kept wailing.
"It's time to take the medicine."
Fan Meiniang placed the medicine on the table next to her.
At this time, an old woman walked out. Although she was wearing a veil, Gu Yunran recognized her at a glance.
Madam Lu, she is really not dead.
With the help of the dim light, Gu Yunran vaguely saw the face of Mrs. Lu. Her eye sockets were sunken and she had lost a lot of weight. Her clothes were so loose that they could fit two of her.
Old Madam Lu picked up the medicine bowl, squatted on the ground and started feeding the medicine to those people.
While drinking the medicine, one of them suddenly twitched twice and died.
"These medicines are the ones that Doctor Mu prescribed for Zhier. They have been taking them for half a month, but no one has gotten better, and their condition is getting worse."
Madam Lu placed the medicine bowl on the ground and continued, "Do we need to continue the experiment?"
"No need." When Fan Meiniang mentioned her child who did not survive, her heart ached.
It was her ignorance that killed him.
"Tomorrow morning, throw these people to Shannian Hall."
After saying this, she turned and left, and the silly woman followed behind her.
Suddenly she stopped, frowned, and looked around.
Fan Meiniang asked, "What's wrong?"
Silly lady: "I sense someone."
Fan Meiniang's heart skipped a beat: "Are you sure?"
"yes."
The silly lady walked inside, and Gu Yunran and the two maids hid behind the door, holding their breath.
The silly woman grabbed the door frame suddenly, and just as she was about to find out what was going on, she heard hurried footsteps outside.
"Aunt Fan, something happened."
Fan Meiniang frowned: "What's the matter? You look so flustered."
Fangcao: "Lord Mu has brought people from the Dali Temple to surround the Lu Mansion."
"They said a spy had run into the Lu residence, and they wanted to search it."
Fan Meiniang's face turned pale and her heart began to beat wildly.
"Go!"
She quickly took her men out, sealed the secret room, sorted herself out, and walked out.
In the secret room, Gu Yunran was so scared that she was sweating profusely. She didn't breathe a sigh of relief until Fan Meiniang left.
"Luckily he arrived in time."
Old Madam Lu was feeding the remaining medicine to other patients. When she heard the noise, she turned around and saw Gu Yunran, she was startled.
With a bang, the medicine bowl fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
After being stunned for a long while, Mrs. Lu finally came back to her senses. She looked at Gu Yunran in surprise and asked, "Why are you here?"
Gu Yunran glanced at the people lying on the ground and did not answer her question. Instead, he asked her, "What disease did these people have?"
When Gu Yunran got closer, she could clearly see the abscesses on these people's bodies. They looked so familiar.
"The same smallpox as Xiaozhi?" Gu Yunran looked at Mrs. Lu with a cold gaze. In fact, she already had the answer in her heart.
Madam Lu remained silent, neither denying nor admitting.
Seeing Madam Lu’s reaction, Gu Yunran knew that he had guessed right.
She took a deep breath. "So Xiaozhi didn't contract smallpox accidentally. Did you plant it in his body?"
Hearing this, Madam Lu raised her eyes and shook her head: "No."
After a moment of thought, she said, "I don't know."
She really doesn't know.
"You really didn't know it then, but you know it now."
"So you've been pretending to be dead just as an experiment?"
Madam Lu shook her head: "No, I thought I was really going to die, and then I suddenly woke up, and Fan Meiniang said she found a master to save me."
"Later, when the Lu family fell into decline, she said she had a way to save the Lu family from danger."
Gu Yunran snorted and laughed: "So, you helped her get these people to test the medicine?"
"You didn't even ask her what she wanted to do?"
"Qing Zhou has truly stood up. Even if he can't serve as an official in the court, he has found other ways out. The Lu Mansion is gradually getting better, and Fan Mei Niang didn't lie to me."
Gu Yunran snorted and sneered, "What an ignorant and foolish woman!"
Madam Lu, however, was not afraid at all: "This secret room is unknown to anyone except my Lu family. Gu Yunran, do you think you can still get out?"
"Yes, I can't get out. You might as well let me die with a clear conscience." Gu Yunran looked at Madam Lu and asked, "Who invented smallpox?"
"I don't know. I haven't seen that person."
"Is Doctor Mu's previous prescription useless?"
Madam Lu looked at Gu Yunran warily, "Why are you asking so many questions?"
Gu Yunran looked at the ceiling and sighed: "Just curious."
"I'm curious which adult is so talented that he could research smallpox, which had disappeared for over 20 years."
Old Madam Lu felt that Gu Yunran couldn't get out anyway, so she let her die with a clear conscience.
"Fan Li."
Gu Yunran blinked: "Who is Fan Li?"
Madam Lu snorted coldly, "Who else could it be? That itinerant doctor father of Fan Meiniang."
Gu Yunran took a deep breath. If it was that old guy, there was no need to worry.
He had already fallen into Mu Qianchen's hands.
"By the way, where did you say you were going to send these people?"
"Shan Nian Tang."
Gu Yunran took a deep breath and asked, "How many have been given away?"
"I threw out two last night."
"Two?" Gu Yunran's eyelids jumped, and he ordered Qianbi: "Hurry up and go to Shannian Hall to find someone."
Qiannian Hall is a shelter built by the imperial court, specifically to take in homeless people and provide them with a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
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