After wearing the book, she got the wrong script

Chapter 181 Locating the source of the disease
Before Bai Fu left the house the next day, Aunt Fang sent someone to send a message, saying that she had thought of something.

Bai Fu hurried to Aunt Fang's place.

What Aunt Fang said was an old story.

A new dancer in the mansion, Aunt Fang once saw her so hungry that she couldn't stand upright, so she gave her a bowl of soup.

The dancer was very grateful, and complained casually that the cook who came into the house together was unreasonable, she was obviously good at cooking but she never gave them any food and drink, she was very stingy. "

The reason Aunt Fang told Bai Fu about this was because Bai Fu asked her to pay attention to whether the cooks in the mansion behaved differently from others.

After much deliberation, Aunt Fang felt that this was the most suspicious.

After all, the Huang Mansion is not harsh on its servants, and it is perfectly normal to share food with others on weekdays.

And this cook was sent by the sick shopkeeper from the north.

Although it was found out that she had never suffered from a disease, people who knew her origins would respond from the bottom of their hearts when they mentioned her, and they didn't like to see her very much, and Aunt Fang was also affected by this emotion.

After hearing this, Bai Fu went directly to the newcomer's residence, but she didn't go after listening to Aunt Fang's words, she had originally planned to come today.

She walked around the couple's courtyard like yesterday, and everyone chatted a few words, which were all daily questions.

For example, where are you from, what you are good at, where you got high school before coming to Huangfu, how you feel physically and so on.

As she asked, she remembered that when it was the cook's turn that Aunt Fang suspected, she looked at her twice more.

It was a dull young woman in her early twenties, petite, with her head bowed all the time, her voice was so thin that Bai Fu couldn't hear what she answered several times.

"Are you good at making vegetarian food?" Bai Fu asked.

The young woman nodded, "My mother works as a cook in a Taoist temple, so I learned from my mother."

"Before you came to the Huangfu, you were always in the Taoist temple?"

"No, I was working as a cook in a vegetarian restaurant in my hometown, and was picked up by the shopkeeper."

"I heard that you never share food with others, but what's the point?"

The young woman's eyes flickered, and she hesitated for a moment before whispering:
"If the heart is not sincere, the food will not be persuaded."

Well?
Bai Fu's writing hand paused, "What do you mean?"

"Su Zhai is only for those who have the heart and fate." The woman said softly.

She is also a cook with a motto in life.

Bai Fu nodded without saying anything, and let her go.

After asking, Bai Fu found that there were three people missing from the list, and they happened to be the three dancers from the north. After asking, he found out that Huang Qiuyang had called him to relieve his boredom.

Bai Fu: "."

This guy is really non-stop.

Bai Fu left the couple's yard, stopped under the big tree in the corner, and then jumped up to the tree.

Leng Buding was forced to look at the guard: "."

Bai Fu said: "Go to Huang Qiuyang's courtyard and pass a message, saying that his little uncle is very angry when he knows he is acting like this, and wants him to send the dancer away immediately."

The dark guard went to send a message, and soon the three dancers were sent back.

Huang Qiuyang looked at the servant girl who suddenly rushed into his yard to do all kinds of cleaning, with a look of helplessness on his face, finally let his father relax, why did the little uncle pop out again?

Bai Fu made up the investigation records for the three dancers. When she saw the dancer who complained to Aunt Fang, she was stunned. Isn't this the pretty woman who went to the decoction store to get the medicine that day?
"Do you often help people get medicine?" Bai Fu asked kindly.

The beautiful woman nodded, "The servant and Xiaowan are usually close, and when she was sick, the servant would help her if there was no one to take care of her."

Xiaowan is the name of the sick embroidered mother.

"Aren't you afraid of being infected by her?" Bai Fu asked with an admiring expression.

The pretty woman showed a bit of confusion, as if she also had this concern, "I'm also afraid, but the doctor said, pay attention and you'll be fine."

"When the shopkeeper who sent you here is sick, have you seen it?"

The pretty woman shook her head.

"The three of us fell in love with shopkeeper Li halfway. I heard from Su Niang that shopkeeper Li had already recovered."

Shopkeeper Li is the sick shopkeeper from the north, and Su Niang is the cook who works as a vegetarian.

"At that time, among dozens of you, was shopkeeper Li really the only one who got sick?" Bai Fu asked again.

The pretty woman looked at the other two, and the two shook their heads in bewilderment, expressing that they didn't know, then the pretty woman turned around and said:
"To be honest, my lord, we didn't know about shopkeeper Li's illness until we came to Huang's mansion. It was only after the housekeeper came to investigate and asked Su Niang that we learned the details. According to Su Niang, no other illnesses were found except shopkeeper Li. Suffering."

Bai Fu: "So you also think Su Niang is suspicious?"

The beautiful woman suddenly showed panic, like a cat whose tail has been stepped on, and said anxiously: "My lord, slave, I don't know who is suspicious. Su Niang, she is not human, but she is actually a good person."

Bai Fu snorted, "What a good idea?"

"She knows some earthen recipes for healing, and occasionally distributes them to us servants, and even helps Xiaowan wash clothes."

After hearing this, Bai Fu glanced at the beautiful woman, still smiled kindly, asked a few more questions and let them go.

"If you ask casually like this, what can you ask?"

Yuan Zitai asked when he came in the evening.

Bai Fu came out from behind the screen with a dark face, his hair was still dripping, and he made no effort to hide his impatience, "Can you come back at a later time?"

He didn't come early or late, but he came when she was taking a bath. If she wasn't used to taking off her make-up and washing her face last, she might have revealed her secrets.

Yuan Zitai narrowed his eyes slightly.

"It's fine if you give my secret guard a false pass on my order, but now you have the final say on when I come?"

Bai Fu was not in the mood to accept this, took the towel and wiped his hair while saying:

"If you ask, you won't be able to find anything. There is a reason for me to do this. Don't talk too much, my father."

Yuan Zitai obediently stopped talking.

Every time Bai Fu said that his father was a sign that he should not be provoked, he sipped his tea in embarrassment, and then spit it back into the cup when he realized something.

This tea was prepared in the mansion, not brought by Bai Fu from outside the mansion.

Bai Fu looked disgusted.

"Are you disgusting or not!"

After asking Yuan Zitai to leave with the teacup, Bai Fu turned on the positioning device of the wristband to check the newlyweds, and curled his lips slightly.

A good night's dream.

In the evening of the next day, another diagnosis was made in Huangfu.

She is a low-level sweeping girl in the mansion, responsible for cleaning the Gong room in the courtyard of the new couple.

Bai Fu was finally able to locate the source of the disease in the newcomer's yard. Soon, the whole yard was sealed off, disinfected several times a day, and each other monitored each other's hygiene compliance.

Another day later, things have made new progress——
Dr. Fan's condition worsened, and Dr. Xing was diagnosed.

Bai Fu immediately remembered the nourishing soup that was delivered to her that day but was drunk by Dr. Xing, and immediately asked Medical Officer Qi to arrange for further investigation.

The result came out that day.

It wasn't that the people arranged by Doctor Qi were capable, but that a cook in the small kitchen hanged herself before being investigated.

After careful inspection, it was found that the food of the confirmed patients in the mansion was indeed written by this cook.

"Others in the small kitchen recalled that the nourishing soup that Master Huang Er and his wife drank, and the cakes that Master Qiuyang ate, were all sent by her. I have eaten her filial piety with my mother-in-law." Doctor Qi said.

Bai Fu said that if he really carries the virus, as long as he eats it and touches it with the unclean hands of the cook, he may be infected.

Inferring the result from the cause is often because things are intricate and complicated, and the thinking is easy to be biased and the key points cannot be found.

But it is much easier to reverse the derivation.

Sure enough, after the cook hanged herself, the people who worked together recalled the details and strange things that they hadn't noticed before.

All the blame was directed at the cook.

but--
"The source of the disease may not be her"

After reading the suicide cook's message several times, Bai Fu said.

The suicide cook is not a newcomer, she has been in the mansion for two years, she is very valued in the small kitchen, she has neither direct nor indirect contact with the low-level cleaning maids.

Moreover, the suicide cook did not affect the people around her in the mansion for two years, Bai Fu felt that no matter how well she protected herself, it was impossible.

Bai Fu asked Aunt Fang in private, and Aunt Fang said that many people, including her, had eaten the meal of the suicide cook more than once, and they lived together in daily life, and they didn't find anything unusual about her.

A few days ago, I was still saying that my daughter-in-law was about to give birth, and I didn't know when I would be able to go back and have a look.

Such a person would commit suicide?

"Then why did she commit suicide in fear of crime?" Medical Officer Qi asked puzzled.

"Are you sure it was suicide?" Bai Fu asked.

Doctor Qi nodded, "I have checked it, and there is no trace of murder."

Bai Fu couldn't figure it out anymore, she told Doctor Qi what Aunt Fang had said, and said:

"A person who misses his grandson should not commit suicide."

Doctor Qi thought about it and speculated: "Is it possible that it is a new disease? Are you afraid after learning that so many people have been affected?"

It's really possible.

It's a pity that when people die, the lights go out, and doctors can't diagnose it, and they can't just find someone to do experiments to confirm.

"If it's new, it means there are other sources of the disease." Bai Fu said, "The real source of the disease must be found out, otherwise there will be endless troubles."

Soon, Xu Zhizhou cremated the cook who committed suicide according to the regulations, isolated and observed the people who came into contact with her, and at the same time investigated all clues deeply.

It's a pity that there is no progress after checking.

Just when everyone was at a loss and people in the new couple's courtyard were panicking, a gossip suddenly came out from nowhere——
The government would rather kill one thousand by mistake than let one go, and decided to cremate all the people in the couple's yard, just like the cook who committed suicide.

In just one day, the couple's yard was like a purgatory on earth, with cries, shouts, curses, and roars filling the entire Huang Mansion.

"Medical Officer Qi, is this all right?"

Outside the gate of Huang's mansion, Xu Zhizhou looked in the direction of the courtyard and asked with a worried face.

The order to be cremated due to the suspected epidemic was issued by Yuandu. He was only acting in accordance with the regulations. The family also issued a notice and did not hide it. It is not surprising that it spread.

It's a very important moment, so explain it carefully so that it won't make such a fuss.

It's a pity that Mr. Bai insisted that he suspected that there were other causes of the disease, and that he was plotting to kill others. He asked him not to explain and let the rumors ferment.

It's fine if you just let the rumors ferment.

However, Mr. Bai also asked the people in the government office to cooperate to put on a vicious look, pulling one or two people out every once in a while, creating the illusion of being dealt with in turn.

Although he didn't go in to see it, Xu Zhizhou already had a picture of purgatory on earth in his mind.

And he is the living king of Hades in the purgatory on earth.

Although Medical Officer Qi couldn't bear it, but now he also suspects that someone behind the scenes is deliberately creating false appearances to mislead them. He nodded solemnly:

"Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain, that's the only way."

After Xu Zhizhou left Huangfu, he was going to Xiaoxi Village, and met Mr. Fei who happened to come to the town on the way.

"If this gets out, will my Zhizhou still do it!" Xu Zhizhou asked anxiously.

Although he knew it was a strategy, and although Mr. Fei felt that this operation was a bit too much, since the matter has been done, there is no turning back.

"Did he say what to do next?" After thinking for a while, Mr. Fei asked.

"Let us hold on for three days no matter what." Xu Zhizhou frowned.

Mr. Fei was silent for a moment.

"Then hold on for three days."

"What if the source of the disease is not found after three days?" Xu Zhizhou didn't expect his friend to stand in line so neatly, with an expression of disbelief, "Do you want to lose my good reputation?"

Mr. Fei glanced at his friend lightly.

"If the epidemic breaks out and there are countless casualties, what good reputation do you have?"

Xu Zhizhou: "."

Just as uneasy as Xu Zhizhou, there are all the old men and sons of the Huangfu.

Hearing the rumors of the cremation, Mr. Huang called Mr. Huang, Mr. Huang hurried over, and hurriedly said without waiting for Mr. Huang to ask:
"Father, don't worry, it's fake news."

Mr. Huang glanced at his son indifferently, "I think you are the one who is worried."

Grandpa Huang choked.

Well, it's no wonder he wasn't worried when the yard shouted like that.

"Who came up with this plan? Old Fan's apprentice?" Old Master Huang asked leisurely as he twirled the jade ball.

Seeing that his father didn't look worried, Mr. Huang nodded, sat down on a chair beside him and said:
"Medical Officer Qi told us to hold on for three days, and then we will come to a conclusion."

Mr. Huang was puzzled: "Why is it three days?"

Grandpa Huang shook his head.

"Medical officer Qi doesn't say anything, I guess there are already suspects, and it's not convenient to disclose it to us at the moment, so as not to leak the wind."

Mr. Huang was thoughtful, but he didn't ask any more questions. He only asked Mr. Huang to keep an eye on him, and told him to go to work.

As soon as Mr. Huang left, Mr. Huang also left the yard alone and came to the gate of Mr. Fan's yard.

Mr. Huang didn't enter the house. He sat on the stone table in Old Doctor Fan's yard with a jug of wine, and asked the maid to open the window and shouted at Old Doctor Fan who was bedridden.

"Last time I said I was done drinking, but I lied to you. There are still two jugs left." Mr. Huang shook the jug and said.

Old Doctor Fan snorted weakly.

Mr. Huang heard it and smiled:

"I told you not to worry about those soups. If you don't listen, look, eat yourself up."

Old Doctor Fan didn't know whether he had no strength to hum or was guilty, so he didn't say anything this time.

Mr. Huang continued to tease, taking two sips of wine from time to time to resent Mr. Fan.

When Bai Fu came over, Mr. Huang had just finished drinking a pot of wine. He seemed to be enjoying himself, and got up to leave. After walking a few steps, he staggered and almost fell down.

Bai Fu quickly supported him, smelling the familiar smell of wine, she frowned slightly, "Old Doctor Fan is so sick, why did he bring the wine here again? Is it because he didn't die fast enough?"

Old Doctor Fan: "."

Who am I provoking!

Mr. Huang was also wearing a white blouse and mask. Bai Fu didn't look carefully, thinking it was some housekeeper in the mansion.

Mr. Huang stood up straight, looked at the angry and aggressive boy in front of him, "Are you Mr. Fan's apprentice?"

Bai Fu looked at him inexplicably, but didn't speak.

Old Doctor Fan's voice came from the room, "I don't have such an apprentice!"

Bai Fu rolled her eyes, making it difficult for anyone to be your apprentice. She went straight into Old Doctor Fan's room, put the food box on the table, and said flatly:
"Today's food."

"take away take away"

Old Doctor Fan waved his hand angrily, "100 taels a day, but you only give me porridge, you are bullying the old man, I am alone and alone!"

Bai Fu opened the food box.

"Obviously there are fruits and vegetables, fish soup, and meat. If others want to eat, I won't give them."

I am ashamed to say that there is meat, but what kind of meat is boiled meat!

Old Doctor Fan was so angry that his beard was shaking, Bai Fu ignored him, set the food on his own and left.

Mr. Huang looked at Bai Fu who was speechless and rolled his eyes, and then at Old Doctor Fan who was rolling his eyes with anger. He didn't know which joke he was poked at, so he smiled and walked into the room.

"If you don't want to eat, then I'll help you eat. My stomach is hurting just now."

Old Doctor Fan sat up suddenly, "It's not cheap if you don't eat it, you old man!"

"It's been two days and one night, what are you going to do?"

Yuan Zitai frowned, looking at Bai Fu who was lying motionless on the bed and asked.

Bai Fu continued to lie on his stomach, and a muffled voice came from under the quilt, "Just ask your hidden guards to keep an eye on it, so that no one can get away."

As she spoke, she pointed to the outside, "Close the door from the outside, thank you."

As soon as Yuan Zitai left, Mr. Fei's secret guard delivered a package, and Bai Fu couldn't wait to get up and take the package to Gongfang.

When he came out again, the dark guard hadn't left yet.

"Is something wrong?"

Bai Fu looked at him strangely and said.

"Master asked Mr. Bai how sure he is." The dark guard said expressionlessly.

Bai Fu thought for a while, "Half."

The dark guard left with this answer, and Bai Fu lay down on the bed again until ten o'clock in the morning, when she sat up abruptly and glanced at her wrist.

Oh, I really can't hold my breath anymore.

Darkness is like ink.

The bride and groom's courtyard is brightly lit all night.

They are going to die, who else is big enough to sleep?

Crying and crying, cursing and cursing, after two days, those who had no strength gave up struggling early, and those who had strength were tossed to the point of emaciation, and the whole yard was shrouded in despair.

Yuan Zitai couldn't bear to see it.

His father was also afraid that he would not be able to bear it, so he would rather stay in the house and not come out, right?

A slender figure slowly came out of Gong's room, she was probably exhausted, she staggered a little, she supported her abdomen with one hand, and walked slowly towards the well with the other hand against the wall.

There is a sink next to the well. The water is brought up and poured into the sink. The water in the sink will flow out from a small hole on the side of the sink, which is convenient for people to wash their hands with running water.

The waste water will flow into a large tank, and every time the water is full, there will be special people to deal with it.

Now the tank is almost full, but there is no one to take care of it.

The woman picked up the water, poured it into the sink, and squatted down to wash her hands carefully.

After washing, it seemed that she felt that it was not enough, so she picked up the bucket and started to carry it again. The moment she was about to throw the bucket into the water, two hidden guards appeared from nowhere, and knocked her unconscious with a slap in the face.

The bucket was firmly held by another dark guard. The dark guard looked into the bucket indifferently, and saw that it was a lump of excrement, and then gestured to the outside.

Soon, a group of guards rushed in with torches.

The moment they saw the torch, the dull-looking people woke up instantly, and then screamed and roared heart-piercingly.

Bai Fu screwed a person into the yard, and the hidden guards also screwed a person beside him.

"It turns out that the three are still in the same group." Medical officer Yuanzi Taiqi came in and said.

The three people who were arrested were the three dancers.

Bai Fu had located all the people in the newcomer's courtyard before, but the murderer seemed very sure that he would not be caught, so he did not act until he was cornered by rumors this time.

I thought it was committed by one person, but judging from the fact that the other two dancers were about to escape while the guards were changing shifts, they also knew about it.

The person who threw excrement into the well was most likely a virus carrier, and the other two didn't know.

Soon Su Niang was also brought, and when Su Niang saw a few people, she looked terrified and surprised:
"You, you."

Bai Fu quietly looked at the cook for a moment, then sighed, then turned to look at the medical officer.

"Go to another place and take your time to interrogate, don't scare other people."

The next day, the newlyweds were appeased and sent to another villa on the outskirts of Huang's house for further observation. The three dancers and cooks who were arrested were taken to another place for further interrogation.

Bai Fu only confirmed on the first day that several people were indeed trying to escape by poisoning, and then he didn't ask any more questions, because old doctor Fan's condition suddenly deteriorated again.

"Doctor Fan is old, and he was infected twice in a row. I'm afraid he won't be able to survive."

Several doctors said worriedly after using all available medicines but still no effect.

Bai Fu pouted.

So as I said earlier, the disease comes from the mouth, it is all the fault of old man Fan's greedy mouth!
That being said, Bai Fu still gave Dr. Fan amoxicillin. Fortunately, Dr. Fan didn't have any adverse reactions, and survived after a few days of tossing.

Doctor Qi then brought the follow-up to the interrogation.

The three dancers were triplets. Plagues broke out one after another wherever they went, and they were constantly expelled. At first they didn't understand why, but then they slowly figured out the pattern——
As long as one of them touches food with his hands after going to the toilet, or eats with others, the other person will get sick.

They tossed around to make a living, but were later discovered and bought by those who wanted to buy them. They used a trick to come to Raozhou through shopkeeper Li, intending to poison Huang's mansion, but they insisted that they took the money but did not know who the buyer was.

The way of poisoning is to secretly touch food with dirty hands.

Poisoning Dr. Fan's soup and the cook committing suicide were indeed the work of the three of them in order to divert attention.

The three of them also knew how to pretend, and worked together to arrange the scene of the suicide.

Complaining to Aunt Xiang Fang about the stingy cook who came together, and deliberately making shopkeeper Li sick in advance is also one of their means of diverting attention.

The excrement was thrown into the well water because they heard that the doctor made a potion, which can tell who has been sick and who has not by spitting. They were afraid, so they wanted to disturb the water and make everyone sick .

The rumor of testing the medicine was naturally spread by Bai Fu, and at the same time, she asked the hidden guards to focus on those who stayed in Gong's room for a long time, or sneaked around the well.

She wasn't sure if this would catch the murderer, but she always had to try.

Fortunately, she seems to be lucky.

"Why didn't the cook and the other two dancers get infected?" Medical Officer Qi asked puzzled.

Bai Fu said: "It is possible that you have not been exposed to the source of the disease, or you may have suffered from typhoid fever, but recovered, so you will not be infected again."

Doctor Qi suddenly realized, "It turns out that I am immune."

Bai Fu looked at the medical officer strangely.

"Traditional Chinese medicine also talks about immunity?"

Doctor Qi: "To tell you the truth, Mr. Bai, I was sent to Raozhou this time to take charge of the epidemic control. The Tai Hospital has given relevant training in advance."

Hearing about the epidemic, Bai Fu's eyes flickered.

"The epidemic predicted by the Great Master?"

Doctor Qi nodded.

"Are you sure it's pox?" Bai Fu asked again.

"Yes," Doctor Qi said, "The Grand Master predicted the pox epidemic, but the Regent ordered me to take strict precautions against any suspicious symptoms."

(End of this chapter)