Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law

Youzhou, Maguan County.

Fukang is an old customer of Fuze Restaurant. When Fuze Restaurant first opened in Youzhou, Fukang got the Jiangjun card (which is a membership card, as mentioned before) launched by Fuze Restaurant. For Fuze Restaurant The hot pot is highly recommended.

In addition to the usual banquets, Fukang would go to Fuze Restaurant for a meal every now and then.

Today, he invited two or three friends and invited them to have hot pot at Fuze Restaurant.

The must-order foods for hot pot are mutton rolls and beef rolls. Fukang ordered ten portions of each.

When the waiter brought the food, one of Fukang's friends was immediately surprised and said, "Why is this meat raw? How can you eat it raw?"

This friend has never had hot pot before.

Just as the waiter was about to explain, Fukang waved his hand and asked the waiter to go down first. Then he smiled at his friend and said, "Brother Hua, you don't understand this. This is the specialty of hot pot. This cuisine is different from other dishes." , we need to put this meat into the pot."

Fukang was also very patient in explaining everything to his friend.

This feeling that his friends don’t understand but he is the only one who understands and speaks clearly and logically makes him feel more confident and feels that he is “ahead” in the foodie world.

"Brother Hua, do you know why this mutton is cut so thin?" Fukang pretended to be profound.

"Why?" Hua's friend asked if he didn't understand something.

Although the other two friends have come to eat once or twice, they are not regular customers of Fuze Restaurant. In addition, this time it was Fukang's treat, so they did not say anything and let Fukang show off.

"Look."

Fukang picked up a piece of mutton roll and cooked it again and again in the hot spicy pot. He said: "There is a word for the way it is eaten, which is called seven ups and eight downs. The reason why this beef and mutton is cut so thin is , because as long as it is rinsed seven or eight times, it is ready to eat. "

After saying that, the mutton was cooked, he mixed it with the seasoning, gave it to his friend named Hua, and said with a smile: "Brother Hua, try it."

"Can you eat this?"

The friend surnamed Hua suddenly felt the novelty, picked it up and tasted it, his eyes lit up: "Not bad, not bad."

"Of course. Otherwise, why do you think this Fuze Restaurant can be opened all over the Wei Dynasty because of this hot pot and the Three Kingdoms Storytelling downstairs." Fukang smiled and looked at the other two friends: "Come on. Come, eat everything, you’ll be full.”

"Brother Rich, please go first." Several friends said in unison.

"Please, please."

With that said, Fukang stopped being polite and started to boil the mutton and start eating.

As a result, after taking a few mouthfuls and chewing a few times, Fukang frowned and said "eh".

"Brother Fu, what's wrong with you?" asked my friend named Hua.

"This mutton tastes a bit weird."

Although he said it was strange, he still swallowed it in one gulp. He was considered an expert in this regard and felt that there was something wrong with the taste of the mutton.

"Strange?"

One of Fukang's two other friends, one surnamed Liu, scalded his mouth while eating the mutton and said, "What's weird? This isn't very fresh anymore. You can still taste the mutton smell."

"Yes, rich brother, this mutton is so tender." Another friend also said.

"Yeah?"

Fukang picked up another piece of mutton, rinsed it, and tasted it.

That's right, it just had a strange smell, which was different from what he had eaten before. He couldn't have tasted it wrong.

He immediately called the waiter and asked where the beef and sheep came from.

The waiter smiled and said, "Sir, these cattle and sheep were all transported from Sheng'an County a few days ago. What you eat are all just slaughtered today by the chefs in the kitchen."

"Impossible." Fukang said, "If it was freshly slaughtered, why does it have a strange smell?"

"Strange smell?"

The waiter came to the plate with beef and mutton and smelled it, then said immediately: "No?"

"You'll know if it's there after you try it." Fukang rinsed another piece and gave it to the waiter to taste.

But the waiter still didn't taste anything strange.

However, as a waiter at Fuze Restaurant in Maguan County, the waiter had never seen anyone before, so he immediately said: "Sir, if you are not satisfied, I will replace the one for you all."

Fukang asked the waiter to change it immediately.

After changing them again, Fukang still had some after eating. He frowned and wanted to make a fuss.

The three friends quickly stopped him. Anyway, they didn't find anything weird. They just felt that Fu Kang was too picky and said: "Brother Fu, forget it, forget it."

A friend even analyzed for Fukang that the sheep may be too old this time, which is why there is a strange smell.

Fukang then gave up, but then he stopped eating any of the beef and mutton and started eating other dishes.

The four of us ate this hot pot for most of an hour.

After paying the bill, the group was about to leave Fuze Restaurant when the friend named Hua suddenly bent over and violently vomited in the lobby on the first floor of Fuze Restaurant.

Fukang didn't pay attention at first, and even deliberately stayed away from his friend named Hua. He felt that his behavior was a bit embarrassing to him.

But after vomiting, the friend surnamed Hua fainted and fell to the ground, and the other two friends also started vomiting. Only then did Fukang realize that something was wrong.

The shopkeeper and waiter in the store rushed forward to check upon seeing this, but when they came over, except Fukang, his three friends had all fainted on the ground.

The shopkeeper was frightened and feared a lawsuit, so he quickly invited a doctor to check.

After the doctor made a diagnosis, he just said that they had eaten something bad, and prescribed a prescription on the spot, telling them to go back and take medicine, and they would wake up soon.

Hearing this, Fukang thought about the strange smell of the mutton, and immediately started arguing with the shopkeeper.

This is what people fear when opening a shop and doing business. People faint in their own shop, and three people faint at a time. Even if the shopkeeper has ten mouths, he can't explain it clearly, and can only pay money to settle the matter.

The shopkeeper thought that the matter was over.

But he didn't expect that three days later, Fu Kang's three friends died.

Not only that, there were many deaths in Maguan County, all of which were related to the Fuze Restaurant in the county.

As expected, the Fuze Restaurant in Maguan County was sued to the government with a lawsuit.

The county magistrate of Maguan County was Guo Ning, the runner-up of the last imperial examination in the Song Dynasty.

He took the initiative to ask Chen Mo to go to the north, so he took office and came to Maguan County.

And the food poisoning death case of Fuze Restaurant was the largest case he handled since he took office.

In just these few days, hundreds of people died in Maguan County, all related to Fuze Restaurant.

Guo Ning ordered the closure of Fuze Restaurant and launched an investigation.

After investigation, it was found that these dead people had eaten beef and mutton.

Just when Guo Ning was tracing the source of beef and mutton.

People below reported that those who had previously come into contact with the dead had also begun to fall into a coma and were now being treated.

Among these people were the shopkeeper, waiter, chef, and cook of Fuze Restaurant.

Guo Ning's face changed. After all, he was a person who had read the history of classics and children, and realized that these cattle and sheep might be sick and contagious.

Guo Ning immediately ordered isolation.

But at this time, it was a little late.

Those who had come into contact with the dead and fell into a coma died one by one in less than two days.

Not only that, the coroner in the yamen, the constable who had come into contact with the dead, and so on, also fell into a coma.

Guo Ning's face changed drastically, and he immediately issued a notice, imposing martial law throughout the city, and strictly ordering all the people in the city to be isolated at home, and not to enter or leave the city.

Then, Guo Ning immediately reported it, gathered people, burned the bodies related to the Fuze Restaurant incident, and recruited doctors from the whole city to the government office.

This kind of thing happened not only in Maguan County, but also in Sheng'an County and surrounding counties, and even the entire Youzhou.

When the Youzhou prefect learned about this, he was immediately overwhelmed.

Youzhou also has doctors with superb medical skills.

After their diagnosis and observation, this should be a plague.

Hearing about the plague, the Youzhou prefect also wanted to faint.

Plague has appeared many times in history, almost every few decades or hundreds of years, and many people die every time.

If it is not handled well and allowed to spread, he will not only lose his official position, but also his head.

He immediately found several generals such as Zhao Liang who were guarding the border, hoping to mobilize the army to block the whole state first.

After Zhao Liang learned that it was a plague, he did not dare to be negligent, and immediately mobilized troops to block the main traffic routes connecting Youzhou to other states.

The Youzhou prefect, in addition to reporting it immediately, investigated the source of the plague.

Soon, they found Guan Rong from Sheng'an County.

At this time, Guan Rong had already died of the plague, and dozens of people in the Guan family, including servants, were not spared.

But not all information was obtained.

Before Guan Rong's family died, the housekeeper of the Guan family said that the cattle and sheep were bought from Jinxia.

When the investigation was launched in Youzhou.

This plague did not only break out in Youzhou.

Cangzhou and even Gaozhou were found.

Because before the blockade of Youzhou, Youzhou and Cangzhou were in circulation. Some merchants who had eaten hot pot in Youzhou returned to Cangzhou the next day.

There were also people who had contact with the dead, visiting relatives and friends everywhere.

...

July of the second year of Zhenghe.

Tianchuan.

The third floor of the Stargazing Tower in the Imperial Palace.

Different from the jeweled rooms decorated by ordinary women.

Nalan Yiren's room was extremely simple, and the room was filled with not a refreshing fragrance, but a strong smell of medicine.

The window on the windowsill was not closed, and the warm sunlight shone through the windowsill and fell on the affectionate couple on the soft couch.

Nalan Yiren sat in Chen Mo's arms, holding Chen Mo's head with both hands, biting her cherry lips tightly, and tilting her head back.

Her shoulders were exposed, the lapels of her palace skirt were open on both sides, and the white bellyband even broke a strap and was thrown aside casually.

Chen Mo was like a hungry baby, being fed by Nalan Yiren.

Chen Mo was in high spirits at this time.

Since the incident in the royal enclosure that day, the relationship between Chen Mo and Nalan Yiren has progressed rapidly.

Not only kissing and making snowmen, Chen Mo can do whatever he wants.

Sometimes he can also be a baby.

But Nalan Yiren took her "chastity" very seriously and hesitated to give it to Chen Mo.

After eating, Chen Mo looked up at Nalan Yiren, who was already infatuated, raised his hand to pinch her chin, and kissed her lips.

The most direct change was that after the close relationship with Chen Mo, Nalan Yiren's "poison" was reduced.

In the past, Chen Mo would get numb tongue, swollen mouth and swollen face when he kissed her, but not now.

Nalan Yiren would even subconsciously respond to Chen Mo's passionate kiss.

As they kissed, Chen Mo pushed Nalan Yiren down on the couch, pressed his body against her, raised his head, held her rosy face, looked into her eyes, lowered his head to kiss the corner of her mouth, and leaned over to her ear and said, "Yiren, are you ready?"

"Hmm?" Nalan Yiren didn't react for a while.

"What we talked about last time in the Royal Enclosure, are you ready to be my woman?" Chen Mo stroked Nalan Yiren's face with a smile on his face.

Nalan Yiren's red face became hot, and after a moment of silence, he trembled and said, "I want a wedding."

"Okay, I'll ask the Ministry of Rites to do it later."

"No."

"?"

"What I mean is that you and I go back to the Poison King Valley, you...you are my man, of course I have to take you to my grandfather's grave, let my grandfather see you, and then we will get married in the Poison King Valley, and then I...I will give you my body."

After saying that, Nalan Yiren seemed to have used up all her strength, and her shy head was about to smoke.

"Then we will go in a few days." Chen Mo thought about it and felt that Nalan Yiren's request was reasonable and there was no reason not to agree.

"Yeah."

Nalan Yiren nodded gently, her heart was immediately lifted up, but she was too shy to look into Chen Mo's eyes.

Chen Mo pinched her chin, forced her to look at him, and then said "playing rogue": "Yiren, if that's the case, then you help me first."

"Hmm?"

Nalan Yiren looked at Chen Mo in confusion, not quite understanding what he meant.

"Yiren, I feel so bad, please help me." Chen Mo leaned close to her ear again and whispered.

Nalan Yiren's face turned blood red, and she couldn't understand what Chen Mo meant.

Just when she was a little at a loss, not knowing whether to agree or not.

An anxious voice came from outside.

"Your Majesty, Elder Geng has an urgent matter to see Your Majesty."

Nalan Yiren took the opportunity to push Chen Mo away, sat up, and seemed to be worried that Chen Mo would be angry, and explained: "Since it's an urgent matter, then you should go over quickly."

Chen Mo was so angry that his teeth itched, and he almost succeeded.

But even though he was angry, he didn't hold a grudge, but felt it was a pity.

He didn't stay with Nalan Yiren any longer.

Geng Songfu came to see me for something urgent, so it must be something urgent.

…

Imperial Study.

When Chen Mo hurried over, Geng Songfu had been waiting for a long time.

“Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you.”

“No need to be polite, Mr. Geng, please get on with your business.” Chen Mo waved his hand, motioning him to sit down and talk.

Geng Songfu didn’t bother to be polite anymore. As the matter was urgent, he didn’t sit down either. He quickly took out a memorial from his arms and handed it to Chen Mo, saying, “Your Majesty, something big has happened. A plague has broken out in Youzhou. This is related to the beef and mutton in Fuze Restaurant. The source is still being investigated by the governor of Youzhou. By the time he handed in this memorial, thousands of people had died in Youzhou.”

“What?!”

Upon hearing this, Chen Mo’s face changed drastically, and he quickly opened the memorial and checked it.

His movements were even a little hurried.