To divorce his wife, the top scholar preferred being cuckolded to wearing a red hat.

I learned that the family that originated from this tragedy now only has one son left in the world. And it's completely unclear which treatment center he's currently in.

Helpless, Zhu Sha had to ask a few patients in the village. According to them, they initially only had some chest tightness and cough, which they thought was just a cold and didn't pay much attention to.

After Uncle Liu passed away, and more than half of the villagers showed these symptoms, they began to panic. But by the time they realized something was wrong, the disease had already spread widely, and even sealing off the village was useless.

Do you know who he came into contact with or where he went before he got sick?

"He once caught a giant rat on the mountain. He had loved eating wild game since he was a child, so naturally he would eat such a large wild rat. He had heard from somewhere that drinking the raw blood of wild game was the most nutritious thing, so when he killed the rat, he didn't process the raw blood at all and drank it directly."

"Drank the blood of some kind of rat?" Zhu Sha seized on the key words.

The villagers nodded: "That's what they said, we don't know the details either. He really killed us. If he hadn't been thinking about drinking some kind of blood-nourishing drink to replenish his body, there wouldn't have been this plague. That rat must have been sick, and he just happened to drink its blood, so he got sick too. He wanted to die, but he dragged us down with him. He's the sinner of the whole village."

Someone who wants to die but drags the entire village or even the whole of Qingzhou City down with him—that's a sinner for all time. Even in death, he can't escape this crime.

……

Looking at the desolate village before her, Su Mingyue couldn't help but feel a mix of emotions.

“Sister, our village used to be very beautiful, but look at it now, the village doesn’t look like a village anymore, and the home doesn’t look like a home anymore. The home is still here, but the people in the family can hardly get together anymore.”

When talking about her family, Liu Duoduo was overcome with grief.

"Come on, let's go over and take a look."

They were about to enter the village when they saw Zhu Sha and her group about to leave.

“Miss.” Jinxiu tugged at Zhu Sha’s sleeve. “Did you see that woman? She’s here too. I think she’s here specifically to go against you. Wherever you are, she’ll show up.”

Zhu Sha frowned: "What is she doing here?"

"What else could she be doing? She's obviously trying to steal the girl's credit. She's shameless; let's stay away from her."

Liu Yong opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but didn't know how to say it.

Although the other party was the Princess Consort of the War King, he couldn't comment on her medical skills.

"Dr. Zhu, I suppose she also wants to do her part for Qingzhou. The more people there are, the more strength there will be. Let her come if she wants to."

"How can you speak up for her now? Our young lady came here to find the source for the sake of the people of Qingzhou. To be honest, the reason this disease occurred is because your villagers were too greedy. They even dared to eat raw rat blood, which has harmed the entire city of Qingzhou." Jinxiu spoke without any politeness.

Liu Yong shut his mouth, thinking of the current situation, and said politely to Doctor Zhu: "Doctor Zhu, now that the source has been found, does that mean the disease can be controlled?"

“That’s right.” Doctor Zhu nodded, glancing at Su Mingyue not far away. “I already have a solution, but this isn’t the place to talk. When I get back, I will naturally discuss this matter with Physician Hu and the Prince. I believe that soon the people of Qingzhou City will no longer have to suffer from this disease.”

“Our young lady’s medical skills are no joke. Now that she’s found the source, eradicating this disease will definitely be a piece of cake. Of course, it also depends on whether anyone is sabotaging us. If someone is jealous of our young lady’s medical skills and tries to cause trouble, it might not go so smoothly. Brother Liu, you understand what I mean, right?” As Jinxiu said this, she gestured towards Su Mingyue and her group not far away, her meaning couldn’t be clearer.

Liu Yong pondered that this beautiful young lady did indeed have a rather big misunderstanding about Miss Su. He wondered what she would do if she knew Miss Su's true identity.

Su Mingyue ignored them and followed Duoduo in another direction.

She wasn't interested in what Zhu Sha and the others had discovered.

Her immediate priority was to have Xiao Xiang test the villagers' blood to see if it was infected.

Xiao Xiang said that to find out the source, they must check the blood indicators to determine the origin of the virus strain.

Just like the version Zhu Sha and the others knew, the villagers hated Uncle Liu's family to the core, believing that he had consumed the blood of wild rats to nourish his body, which led to the spread of this strange disease and caused suffering to everyone in Qingzhou City.

"Uncle, may I draw some of your blood? We need further proof to determine whether the villagers were infected because he drank raw blood."

The middle-aged man, who had been talking so eloquently, suddenly fell silent after hearing Su Mingyue's words, looking at her warily: "Draw blood? How do you mean by drawing blood? My body is a gift from my parents. If you draw my blood, you'll ruin my body. I don't agree."

“You’ve misunderstood me. I just need to take a little blood to see if our blood is similar to that of those mountain rats. If it is, it means that this virus did indeed come from them. If it’s not similar, it means that the source is something else. Don’t worry, it’s just a light prick with a needle, only a tiny wound the size of a pinprick, it won’t have any effect on your body.”

"Third Uncle, please trust Sister Su. Sister Su's medical skills are amazing. My sister had a fever for several days, and after a few doses of her medicine, the fever subsided. Now, only by finding the real source can our place return to normal."

"That's enough. This body is already infected, and it won't live for more than a few days anyway. Do whatever you want. If a solution can be found, that would be the best, and the people would be saved." The man called Uncle San sighed, rolled up his sleeves, and let Su Mingyue draw blood.

Su Mingyue took out a small syringe, gently pricked his arm to extract a small tube of blood, sealed it, and put it into a small medicine box.

One person is definitely not enough; she needs to select at least ten people as specimens.

Liu Duoduo led her to visit each family one by one, and in one afternoon they quickly collected ten tubes of blood.

As she passed a stinking ditch, Liu Duoduo involuntarily covered her nose: "The dead pigs, cattle, chickens and ducks in the village are all thrown here. Over time, this place has become a stinking ditch, which is very smelly."

Su Mingyue looked at the stinking ditch that resembled a well, and saw several rats scurrying about on it, foraging for food. Those rats were all fat and large-eared, quite robust, and didn't look like ordinary rats.

"Does your uncle eat this kind of mountain rat?" Su Mingyue suddenly asked.

Looking at the fat rats, which were more than twice the size of ordinary rats, Liu Duoduo exclaimed in surprise, then shook her head: "I didn't see them clearly either. I heard they were very fat, probably about the same size as these."

These rats are neither rats nor mountain rats; they look really scary.