Accidentally dressed as an empress

riverside

"Check if there are any special marks or objects that can help us find out their identities." Su Da frowned and loudly instructed the guards.

Su Da turned his head and looked at Zhang Xiaomiao who was standing nearby. He asked, "Guard Zhang, is there anyone you know here?"

Hearing the sound, Zhang Xiaomiao quickly approached the corpses placed on the shore, squatted down, and looked solemn.

She gently pushed aside the hair that covered the deceased's face, her eyes focused and careful, carefully examining the deceased's face, not missing any subtle features.

After carefully examining them, Zhang Xiaomiao stood up, shook his head, and said gravely, "Brother Su, I don't recognize any of these people."

Su Da frowned, pacing back and forth, muttering to himself, "What should I do? These people's identities are unknown, and their deaths are so strange. There must be something hidden."

Zhang Xiaomiao looked at Su Da and said, "Master Su, how about we look around for clues? Maybe we can find some clues."

Su Da stopped, nodded, and said, "Okay, take your men to search the area carefully and don't miss any suspicious places."

Zhang Xiaomiao responded and began to search the surroundings carefully with several guards, while Su Da continued to stay beside the corpse.

Su Da looked serious and quickly called the locals from Yunyin City in the guard team to come and identify the body.

"Look carefully at them all, is there anyone you know?" Su Da said anxiously.

Under Su Da's instructions, the team members began to carefully look through the bodies that were placed there.

"Sir Su, I've never seen him." A local said helplessly.

"You really don't know any of them?" Su Da frowned, his face full of unwillingness.

Just when everyone was feeling somewhat disappointed, one of the team members suddenly let out a puzzled "Huh?" He stared intently at one of the corpses, frowning slightly as he muttered to himself, "This person... looks a little familiar."

He moved closer to the corpse again, carefully examining the deceased's face, and tried to search his memory for relevant information.

Su Da immediately rushed over and asked anxiously, "Do you know him? Think carefully about where you have seen him before?"

The team member closed his eyes tightly, trying to recall. After a moment, he slowly opened his eyes and said, "I think I saw it at the market in town, but I can't remember the details."

Su Da pondered for a moment and said, "Anyway, this is a clue. Keep checking, maybe we can find more useful things."

Time passed minute by minute, the sun gradually set, but the searchers still found nothing.

Just when everyone was feeling disappointed, a guard suddenly shouted, "We've found something here! Sir, come and take a look at this!"

Su Da and Zhang Xiaomiao rushed over and saw the guards found a bloody handkerchief under a big tree. Su Da frowned, staring at the bloody handkerchief and asked, "What's so special about this handkerchief?"

Zhang Xiaomiao also came forward and examined the handkerchief carefully.

The guard carefully handed the handkerchief to Su Da and said, "Sir, look at the material of this handkerchief. It's not something ordinary people use. It looks like something from a wealthy family. Perhaps it reflects her status."

After working for a whole morning, I didn't find any useful clues.

Su Da raised his head and looked around. "Let's call it a day and go back to the city. Let's bury these bodies."

.....................

The sun shone on the riverside of Yunyin City, and several women were washing clothes by the river as usual.

Suddenly, one of the women, Cui Niang, shuddered. She hugged her arms tightly and her face turned pale. "Oh, what's wrong? Why is it so cold all of a sudden?"

The sisters nearby gathered around and asked with concern.

Before anyone could figure out what was going on, the chill spread quickly throughout the body like an icy poisonous snake.

Immediately afterwards, high fever swept over like a surging wave, with chills and high fever alternating.

"Sisters, I... I feel so uncomfortable." Cui Niang said with trembling lips.

"Cui Niang, have you caught a cold? Let's go back first." Another woman said, and together with the others, she supported Cui Niang and walked home.

When they returned home, their family members were a little worried when they saw them like this.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Cui Niang's son asked anxiously.

"It's okay, child, you're just a little cold. You'll be fine after a good sleep." Cui Niang said, trying hard to suppress her discomfort.

Seeing that she was in pain but still able to move and talk, her family thought it was just a minor ailment and did not take it too seriously, but just asked them to have a good rest.

But after a few days, children and the elderly who had drunk the river water fell ill one after another.

Chaos began to appear in the streets and alleys. "Oh my god, my child has a fever!"

"The old man is also dying, what's going on?"

The disease spread rapidly like wildfire.

The city's medical clinics were instantly packed with panicked crowds, and people scrambled to get in.

"Let us in and save my child!"

"Save my dad first, she's dying!"

Cries and cries for help were intertwined.

The patients' faces were ashen, their lips were chapped, their eyes stared blankly ahead, and their bodies were as hot as if they were burned by fire.

"Doctor, please, save my child!" A woman knelt down in front of the clinic holding her unconscious child, her eyes filled with tears of despair. Her voice was hoarse, but she was still begging bitterly.

Her forehead banged against the ground, "Doctor, if you don't save her, she will die!"

Inside the clinic, the doctors were extremely busy, and the pharmacists were running back and forth to get medicine.

The young doctor's forehead was covered with sweat. She frowned and looked at the increasing number of patients with great anxiety.

As she flipped through the medical book, she muttered to herself, "How could this happen? What kind of disease is this? I've never seen such strange symptoms before."

She tried one prescription after another, but some of the medicines had no effect at all, and some even made the patients more miserable.

An old man was coughing violently on his hospital bed, and every cough sounded like his last struggle.

The young doctor hurried to the old woman and took her pulse, his eyes full of pain and helplessness.

The old man trembled as he grasped the young doctor's hand. He said weakly, "Doctor, am I... am I dying? I don't want to die. I still have grandchildren to see."

The young doctor held the old man's hand tightly, tears in his eyes, and comforted him: "Don't give up, we will find a way. You have to hold on!" But as soon as he finished speaking, the old man took his last breath and his hand slipped from the doctor's hand.

The young doctor's fists clenched tightly due to weakness, her body trembling slightly. She bit her lip, her heart filled with self-blame: "Why? Why couldn't I save her?"

A doctor next to her patted her shoulder and said, "Lin Yu, this is not your fault. This disease is too strange."

The young doctor raised his head, his eyes filled with determination: "No, I must find a way to cure him."

In the prefectural government

A guard was on duty when suddenly her body stiffened as if all her strength had been drained away. Her face instantly turned red and beads of sweat rolled down her forehead.

Her eyes began to become blurry, her legs went limp, and she fainted on the ground with a thud, her body twitching slightly on the cold ground.

"Someone come quickly! What happened to her?" Colleagues around hurried over and surrounded her.

"Hurry, see what happened to her!" someone shouted anxiously.

An older guard reached out to touch her forehead and was instantly shocked by the scorching temperature: "It's so hot! What's going on?"

Everyone was trying to help her up in a panic, some went to get water, and some prepared to find a doctor.

At this time, Yunxiu rushed over after hearing the news. Seeing the chaotic scene before her, her face became extremely solemn: "Could it be an epidemic?!"

Since the well water turned red, the people did not dare to drink it and could only drink river water.

However, the river water was contaminated with bacteria from corpses, which was the plan of the person behind the scenes.

What a vicious plan, comparable to Jia Xu from the Three Kingdoms period!

Yun Xiu frowned, her eyes filled with worry. She said to Su Er, "Quickly gather the sick guards in one courtyard and seal off all passages in the mansion. Only doctors are allowed to enter and exit. Everyone else should minimize contact with the patients."

All the guards who had been upstream of the waterway and had come into contact with the corpses fell ill. More and more people developed high fevers, and the prefectural government was in chaos.