Only then did Madam Wang notice that Xichun was also there, looking sickly and coughing incessantly. "You two have the same symptoms?"
Tan Chun hurriedly shook her head, "Sister Xi Chun is almost better, cough cough cough..."
Xichun cried as well, saying, "I didn't catch a cold, I just... cough cough cough, I'll be fine after taking medicine for two days, cough cough cough cough..."
At this moment, the old woman beside Madam Wang whispered, "Madam, the people around the two young ladies have also been coughing on and off for the past two days. I'm afraid it might be contagious."
Madam Wang's heart skipped a beat. Contagious? Looking at Tan Chun and Xi Chun, both of them were pale, with sunken eyes, and extremely thin. Could it be tuberculosis?
This...this...
"Someone! Someone, fetch a doctor!"
She quickly ordered someone to take Tan Chun and Xi Chun back to their own courtyard to wait for the doctor to arrive.
"It's very serious; it's already entered the lungs."
Lady Wang nearly crumpled the handkerchief in her hand and looked at the doctor, asking, "Is it contagious?"
The doctor quickly nodded, "Any cough is contagious."
Lady Wang's heart sank to the bottom. She thought of Tan Chun and Xi Chun, who, relying on their good health, paid their respects every day...
He gritted his teeth and said, "Doctor, please examine me too."
After confirming that everything was alright, Madam Wang ordered that all the people who had been coughing and sick in the past few days be locked up.
Grandmother Jia naturally heard about it, and the two of them got together to discuss it. "The matter of the Empress's affairs can be settled after the New Year, and there can't be the slightest mistake in the family!"
"How about this, you decide whether to send it to the estate or the temple!"
Madam Wang didn't even want to give away the estate, since it was hers. If she got sick from it, she would have to spend money to treat it, and if it couldn't be cured, she would have to spend more money. "Then send it to the temple," she said.
"Yes, you can decide." Grandmother Jia said, drinking a large bowl of medicine, but she was still a little worried. "These next few days, we need to be careful inside and outside the house and keep it clean."
Madam Wang nodded. She also attached great importance to this matter, but the most urgent matter was Tan Chun's marriage.
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