My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

Seeing Ji Yunshuang personally touching the patients, he immediately became anxious, "Sir, how can you personally touch the patients?"

When Ji Yunshuang saw Rui Bingtian, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes, but she quickly said, "Why not? I also know some medical skills."

Rui Bingtian rebuked him with a cold face: "My lord, you should prioritize the overall situation now. If you fall ill, what will happen to the people of Ningxing Prefecture? Leave these trivial matters to me."

As he spoke, he put the medicine box aside and prepared to take over from Ji Yunshuang to examine the patients.

Since someone was willing to volunteer to help, Ji Yunshuang had no reason to refuse. She handed him a mask and gloves, saying, "Put these on."

Rui Bingtian frowned and said, "How can I take a pulse with this thing in my hand?"

Ji Yunshuang said, "These are for preventing infection. Your gloves are made of a special material, which may cause some interference, but it doesn't have a significant impact on pulse diagnosis."

Rui Bingtian also noticed that the gloves were made of some unknown material, were transparent, and were very thin.

He was surprised, but didn't ask any further questions. He immediately put on gloves and a mask and began to examine the patient.

Ji Yunshuang continued to question the villagers about any unusual behavior they had exhibited before falling ill.

At first, we asked dozens of villagers, and they all said that they were the same as usual and had not done anything different from usual. They didn't know why they got sick.

Some people cried and asked Ji Yunshuang if they had really contracted the plague, and if there was any hope for them. They begged Ji Yunshuang not to burn them.

In this era, there were no medicinal remedies to cure the plague. People were terrified of the plague.

In dealing with the plague, the government mostly adopted the simple and brutal method of burning all suspected infected people to death in order to control the spread of the plague.

This is why the people were so afraid of the plague.

"It's not certain yet whether it's an epidemic; we are conducting tests."

Ji Yunshuang said, "But regardless of whether it is an epidemic or not, I can assure you that I will never abandon you."

I would never set fire to your homes to control the epidemic. I will do my best to treat you.

If you want to recover quickly, you should answer my questions honestly. Only by answering my questions honestly and finding out the cause of your illness can you be cured.

The villagers were skeptical of Ji Yunshuang's words.

Upon seeing this, Rui Bingtian said, "Do you know who this gentleman is? There was a big fire in Ningcheng a few days ago, I don't know if you've heard about it."

In the middle of the night, a fire suddenly broke out in Ningcheng. The fire not only destroyed Ningcheng, but also caused countless deaths and injuries.

It was Lord Ji who brought medicine and food to save the people of the city.

You may not believe others, but you cannot disbelieve Lord Ji.

Although Guangping County is some distance from Ningcheng, it's impossible that the people of Guangping County were completely unaware of such a major event happening in Ningcheng.

In fact, they had heard quite a bit about Ningcheng and the female official who was called the Fairy Bodhisattva.

Only then did some villagers begin to admit that they had lied before.

A villager with a gaunt face said, "I went to the mountains to collect firewood and saw a wild dog. The dog looked injured and wasn't very agile, so I threw a knife at it and killed it."

I brought that dog home and the whole family ate it. After that…it seems like not long after, everyone in the family started getting sick. Could our illness be related to that stray dog?

Upon hearing the villager's words, another villager immediately said, "Sir, I wasn't telling the truth either."

When we went to work in the mountains before, we saw chicken feathers sticking out of a newly dug mound. We dug it up with hoes and found that someone had buried the chicken in the ground.

We saw the chicken was fine, so we took it home, cleaned it, and cooked it.

“My family also ate a dead chicken, but it was one that I raised myself. I raised that chicken for two years, intending to take it to the city to exchange for money, but I never expected it to die. Dead chickens are hard to sell, so we cooked it for our own family to eat.”

……

As the villagers began to speak, Ji Yunshuang discovered that eight households had fallen ill after eating dead chickens, while only one household had gotten sick after eating wild dogs from the mountains.

Other sick villagers said they had not eaten any dead poultry or wild animals.

Ji Yunshuang first suspected that she might have been infected with avian influenza.

Moreover, most patients have fever, cough, sneezing, diarrhea, etc., which are all symptoms consistent with avian influenza.

If it's just bird flu, she doesn't think it's a big problem.

In this backward era, there may have been no way to treat such a large-scale epidemic.

But her space contained many modern medicines, plus that mysterious nectar...

She felt confident that she could save these people and bring the situation under control.

At this moment, Wei Shen returned from the mass grave.

He cupped his hands in a respectful gesture towards Ji Yunshuang and said, "My lord, we've found Miss Li's brother's body, it's..."

Ji Yunshuang asked, "What is it?"

Thinking of the horrific scene he witnessed when he found the boy in the mass grave, Wei Shen struggled to suppress the nausea rising within him. "Miss Li's younger brother... was devoured by wild beasts, and his body is now mangled beyond recognition, making him difficult to identify."

Upon hearing Wei Shen's words, the Li family all burst into tears.

Li Chunxi looked at the man with hatred and said, "Zhao Daquan, you caused my brother's death without a complete corpse. You are not human. You will be punished."

Zhao Daquan said, "I just threw his body into the mass grave. He died of illness a long time ago. What does it have to do with my father? What else could I do? Who knows if he would have infected us too?"

Ji Yunshuang frowned and said, "No matter what, the corpses must not be disposed of carelessly."

If there was some kind of epidemic, and the carcass was eaten by wild animals in the mountains, then the wild animals might also have contracted the disease.

The disease would spread to other places, infecting more people. The bodies of those who died from the disease would be cremated and then buried.

"Moreover, even if the body is damaged, it doesn't mean that the cause of death cannot be determined."

She looked at Li Chunxi and asked, "Besides him, who else went to your house at that time?"

Li Chunxi hurriedly said, "The Zhao family has all gone, and the Qian family is also there."

As she spoke, she pointed out all the people who had visited his house at the time.

Upon hearing Li Chunxi's words, a villager immediately said, "There were too many people at the time, and I was in the back, so I didn't see anything."

"It has nothing to do with me..."

Some people hunched their shoulders and hung their heads; clearly, no one wanted to come forward and explain what had happened.

Ji Yunshuang said, "I have medicine to save you, but I don't save animals."

Just as she finished speaking, Rui Bingtian said, "Sir, I have already diagnosed it. This is an epidemic. I suggest that we seal off the village first. Everyone in the village may have been infected with the epidemic."