But Lin Mengya showed a thoughtful smile. Instead, she said to Fanglan,
"You should have thought of something. Now, there are only the three of us here. Why don't you tell me and let me, a little girl who knows nothing about the world, gain some knowledge? "
Although Fanglan said so. Fanglan, who was clever, more or less understood that this might be the problem that the princess came out to test her.
She calmed herself down, sorted out all the clues in her mind, and said slowly.
"I have been in the palace since I was a child. Although I didn't serve the masters in the palace, I more or less heard some things. Five years ago, there was a plague in the palace. I once saw with my own eyes that the things of the little eunuchs and palace maids who were infected with the plague were disposed of in this way. "
Lin Mengya nodded, and she had a better impression of Fanglan.
He was calm and magnanimous, bold and meticulous, and his words were polite and restrained. Perhaps, there were more flashes of light that she had not discovered.
But one thing was sure, this girl would definitely not be an ordinary person in the future.
Seeing Lin Mengya's faint smile, Fanglan knew that she had guessed correctly. Her heart skipped a beat, and a touch of anxiety appeared between her eyebrows.
"If that's the case, then — the whole palace is in danger, isn't it?"
The last plague was still fresh in her memory.
At that time, she was just a little palace maid who was being trained. She saw that many of her sisters who entered the palace with her fell ill for no reason. In the end, they were carried out of the small courtyard where they lived and never came back. She felt a stabbing pain in her heart.
"You're right. Pearl is indeed infected with the plague. And it's a very contagious plague. If it weren't for the fact that I accidentally told you not to get close to her these days, you would have been infected by the plague. I'm afraid that you would have been infected by the plague by now. "
In fact, things were not as bad as Lin Mengya said.
Now the Shen Nung system could not only sense the toxins of animals and plants, but also the infectious bacteria that were harmful to the body.
This plague was similar to diphtheria, but the incubation period was longer.
In modern times, there might have been a cure. In fact, she had been vaccinated since she was a child, so her immune system had been injected with antibodies.
But in ancient times, this plague could only mean death.
"What? Master, should we tell the others? "
In Lin Mengya's eyes, plague was just a word recorded in textbooks. However, Baisu and Fanglan had experienced it themselves.
In modern times, because of medical knowledge and the popularization of vaccines, such large-scale epidemics rarely appeared. But in this space-time, the plague was the sickle of the dead that harvested lives.
Fanglan, who had always been calm, could not help but feel nervous. He looked at Lin Mengya with an anxious look in his eyes.
"Pearl won't live past this night, and even if we tell others now, I'm afraid it's already too late."
Although it was not clear how Pearl contracted this disease.
However, one thing was certain. Once this disease broke out, Pearl definitely wouldn't live for more than 24 hours.
In other words, before the sun rises tomorrow, Pearl will die of this plague.
In fact, Lin Mengya also wanted to tell more people to avoid innocent casualties.
But just now, Pearl's inexplicable action reminded her of one thing. When she met Pearl in the yard, she did not cough hard.
However, when Pearl kowtowed to her, she coughed hard and almost fainted.
If this was the case, there was only one possibility.
That was, Pearl knew that she had been infected with this plague. And she wanted to spread the plague to her by coughing hard.
There was a slight chill on her back.
It was not until now that she understood how vicious Pearl's intention was. If it weren't for her body, she would have developed antibodies to this kind of bacteria.
Based on what happened just now, she would definitely be infected with this plague virus!
Thinking of this, Lin Mengya suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
"Maybe — Pearl — got this disease on purpose!"
Lin Mengya tried to tell him about her speculation.
Baisu and Fanglan stared at her in great surprise. How, how was this possible?
"That's impossible, Master. Aren't you thinking too much? No matter how much Pearl hates you, she can't use this method, can she? Even if she can really make you infected, but … but she will be finished! "
Baisu frowned tightly. This method was simply a way to die with the enemy.
Fanglan also agreed with Baisu, and she also had her own reasons.
"Yes, I heard that Pearl is not an ordinary person. Her family was considered to be a declining clan, so if she caught the eyes of the masters, it was very likely that she would be given a good marriage. Even if she is not appointed, she will have family waiting for her when she leaves the palace in a few years. Even … even if she gets benefits, this is too absurd, isn't it? "
Lin Mengya increasingly felt that this was more and more likely.
In the yard, the person who hated her the most should be Pearl.
And Baisu had mentioned that Pearl had secretly made a doll with her name on it.
It meant that she must want her dead.
Moreover, she had seen Pearl's hateful eyes. It was a kind of almost crazy and twisted hatred.
But Lin Mengya could keenly feel that the source of this hatred was not the acupuncture in the Court of Imperial Physicians that day. Or, not completely.
If Pearl had a reason to hate her more, or —
"Don't you think it's strange? This kind of disease has a long incubation period. Or in other words, Pearl has been infected with this disease for a long time. Not to mention you, even Agate, who eats and lives with her, has not been infected with this disease. Do you think that with Agate's body, she can be immune to all kinds of diseases? "
Lin Mengya's words instantly confused the two girls.
But when they figured out the key point, Baisu and Fanglan couldn't help but gasp.
"Could it be that — she let herself get this disease just to —"
Baisu said in disbelief, and her round eyes were full of surprise.
Lin Mengya nodded gently, confirming their guess.
"It's just so that I can get this disease too."
She sacrificed her life just to drag Lin Mengya into trouble.
This kind of trick could be called crazy.
"That is to say, in fact, Pearl clearly knew what disease she had, but tried her best not to let Agate get infected. Could it be that no one in the palace was infected with this plague except her? "
Fanglan finally understood why the princess was not anxious at all.
The princess was right. Even Agate, who was closest to her, was not infected, which meant that Pearl had been avoiding the spread of this disease and the crowd.
"Oh, I remember that when she left, she coughed hard at you, Master. Master, you won't be infected by her, will you? "
Baisu, who didn't realize it, immediately exclaimed.
But Lin Mengya rolled her eyes at her. Since she entered the palace, this girl had become less and less clever.
She smiled helplessly, but still pressed Baisu's shoulder and said,
"By the time you miss me, I'm already a pile of bones. Don't worry, I have the antibodies to this virus, and I won't be infected. "
Baisu and Fanglan looked at Lin Mengya together, and their big eyes were full of doubts.
Lin Mengya coughed softly, then lowered her eyes and explained, "It's the antidote.
I took the antidote to this disease when I was a child. Now, this kind of illness has no effect on me. "
"Oh no, I blurted out the word antibodies."
Lin Mengya couldn't help but smile bitterly when she replaced it with the simplest similar word. If her teacher heard that she, a postgraduate graduate of medical school, couldn't even use a noun every day, she didn't know what he would think.
"Oh! So that's it. You scared us. So, is what you let us take also the antidote to that disease? "
What they just took was called the Hundred Herbs Condensed Fragrance Pill.
Her teacher asked Long Tianyu to bring it to her. Although it was a small pill, it was full of essence.
At the end of the day, this disease was just a virus with a high incidence and infection rate. Therefore, the Shen Nung System would analyze the most effective medicine according to the current situation.
And the Hundred Herbs Condensed Fragrance Pill could prevent this kind of plague.
Thinking of this, Lin Mengya almost wanted to thank Pearl for her clear distinction between love and hate. Otherwise, Baisu, Fanglan, and the 10th prince who had just returned would also be harmed.
She was infected with the plague, but it didn't spread to innocent people. In addition to Pearl's own precautions, Lin Mengya thought that someone must have taken some measures.
This person definitely didn't want a large-scale plague to break out in the palace.
Moreover, Pearl was fine a few days ago. Why did she suddenly get sick? There must be an invisible big hand behind her, pushing things forward.
If she wanted to find out who the mastermind behind the scenes was, she could only find out from Pearl's mouth.
"Baisu, come with me. Let's go to see Pearl."
Making up her mind, Lin Mengya took out a dark purple cotton-padded jacket from the cabinet.
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