Bound Shark Wife

The wind was cold, and the head of the clan and the high priest took advantage of the rain and fog to leave the clan garden before dawn.

The carriage swayed slowly, Meng Linzhi leaned on the floor of the car and pondered for a while the prescriptions for the treatment of the epidemic, and then suddenly said: "You...now you are facing that shark day and night, sharing the same bed day and night."

Pu Yuan didn't answer this question, Meng Linzhi nodded thoughtfully, in fact, it's not normal to not like a shark when he spends day and night with such a beautiful shark.

But once you like it...

The high priest looked at the patriarch and hesitated to speak. Some words still had to be swallowed in his heart. Maybe it would take time to verify everything. Whether it was suitable or not, the patriarch thought it was necessary.

Along the coast, the family of sick fishermen had asked the patriarch to send military guards to guard the surrounding area, guarding and not allowing ordinary people to approach.

Meng Linzhi handed Pu Yuan a face mask and anti-epidemic sachet in the car, everyone jumped out of the car, and he still didn't forget to turn around and say: "If you don't want to go in, Zong Zhang."

Pu Yuan didn't talk nonsense with Meng Linzhi, he got off the horse after putting on the mask, he walked in front, his mind was swept away from the groggyness of last night, and there seemed to be a slippery breath between his lips and teeth.

The lingering shark-like taste made Zong Zhang not close his lips tightly, as if once he closed his lips, he would completely take over the shark's smell.

I don't know what is the use of the shark bead, he held it in his mouth in the middle of the night, the fatigue of the body disappeared.

Pu Yuan calmed down, and the priest who had been waiting by the patient's house all night saw that the chief priest and the high priest had arrived, and quickly handed them the records of the conditions of the sick people last night.

Meng Linzhi carefully studied their symptoms one by one, and went into the room with the medicine box on his back to check.

When the sky was bright, Pu Yuan ordered Wu Wei to collect all the winter grains stored in the house and put them outside the main room, as well as the leftovers from the fish household.

The guards searched through the entire house inside and out, sorted and picked up uneaten, eaten, leftovers, including bones thrown away after eating, and discharged them one by one.

Meng Linzhi walked out from the inside and asked the little priest next to him to take the prescription to grab the medicine and suffer. Seeing the array of grains in front of him, he laughed: "It seems that the harvest this year is really good."

Just as Meng Linzhi finished laughing, Manager Li came in hastily from outside, looked at the two of them and said, "Yesterday, the hospital admitted several patients with the same symptoms as this family. Contact, Frost had a drink together that night. I asked the medical center to keep the person in isolation, and the high priest should go to check the situation."

The high priest asked the young priest to follow up with the medicine box on his back, and said to Pu Yuan, "I'll go there first, you can stay and look over here."

The two split up, and Pu Yuan led a group of military guards to check all the stored and eaten food one by one. After he checked and confirmed all the food one by one, the sky gradually darkened.

Pu Yuan asked Wu Wei to separate out a portion of leftover fish bones, and the head of this fish could still be seen with some vague shapes.

If it wasn't for the colder weather that lasted longer, such leftovers would rot, fester and stink in just two or three days.

Pu Yuan has never gone fishing in the sea, but he often visits the coast and knows about the fish species caught by the fishermen, but there is only a vague fish head shape in front of him, which he has never seen before.

He asked Wu Wei to bring a few nearby fishermen who often went to sea, and when they were all present, he asked them, "Have you ever caught this kind of fish before?"

The fishermen stepped forward one by one to look at the remaining fish bones and heads, looked at each other in blank dismay, and shook their heads one after another.

"I have been in the sea for nearly 30 years, and I have never seen a fish with a head as big as this."

"I haven't seen it before. From my head, I guess that this fish is not too small. Lao Feng has been in the sea for many years, and he has never caught any fish. I don't know how fat this fish is. He only caught it. .”

Fishermen dare to catch any fish, but not all fish are eaten, which ones can be eaten and which ones cannot. According to their decades of experience at sea, even if they can’t explain why, the instinct of fishing is engraved in their bones. Most fishermen have the intuition of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages.

"Old Feng will definitely not do stupid things. I guess he got sick this time."

"Zongzhang, did the Feng family really get sick after eating this kind of fish?"

Naturally, Pu Yuan didn't make a conclusion right away, he asked Wu Wei to pack up the remaining fish bones, and asked Meng Linzhi to come back and check it before looking at it.

Torches were gradually set up around the enclosed farmhouse. Meng Linzhi came back from the medical hall, drank the hot tea brought by his servant, and said to Pu Yuan who was still under the shed: "It is certain that they are infected with the same disease, and the symptoms are all the same. Similarly, there is an old woman who I am afraid I will not be able to survive tonight, but it is not necessarily..."

Meng Linzhi took out an exquisite but finger-sized porcelain bottle from his arms: "Do you know what this is?"

After finishing speaking, he smiled with his lips hooked, and he didn't make a fool of himself: "This is the pill I made by finely grinding and extracting the scales that Xiaosha left me last time. This small bottle of pills has consumed a lot of shark scales. , The efficacy of the medicine has not been tried yet, but this time it can be verified."

Pu Yuan looked at the small porcelain bottle in Meng Linzhi's hand, frowned and said, "I have asked people to isolate all the fishermen who have been in contact with the patients in the hospital. Some of them were infected by wind and cold or were infected by a serious disease." I don't know for now."

Meng Linzhi asked, "How many people are there?"

Pu Yuan: "27 people."

Meng Linzhi remained silent, because even if this bottle of pills was effective, as long as they prepared for the worst, one bottle of pills would not be enough to treat 27 people.

The idea of ​​the high priest has not been fully implemented, because shortly after dawn the next day, three of the four people in the house suddenly died suddenly.

The youngest one left had a high fever, and exuded a smell of rotten flesh, and among the three dead people, the hands, feet, chest and abdomen showed signs of decay from the inside out.

Meng Linzhi scolded everyone, including the Zong Zhang, and did not let anyone approach him.

"All of them are dead, and the rest may not survive for half an hour. I will go to the medical center immediately to check on the conditions of those patients. Zongzhang, you also need to take someone on a trip at this moment to take the quarantined fishermen away. Keep them all under strict supervision, ask them how their symptoms have changed, and tell me all after writing it down.”

"These dead people need to be treated for epidemic prevention. In addition to masks and medicine bags, we will start to boil a big pot of medicinal soup today, and let the guards and priests who guard the patients drink it on time."

Meng Linzhi paused: "Master Zong, you are no exception."

This busy work lasted until midnight, and after the third watch, everyone had time to take a breather and rest.

Li Guanshi took people to distribute hot food in person. Pu Yuan and Meng Linzhi sat together. Neither of them made a sound. They ate and drank hot soup in silence until all the food was eaten. Started the hot tea in his hand, looked at the rainy and red sky above his head, and said, "I won't go to the Zongyuan tonight, and stay on the coast to see if other people have any sudden illness."

Pu Yuan said: "I will rest here temporarily."

Meng Linzhi sighed: "It's better to be busy recently than to be busy in spring."

The sky was dim, and everyone continued to devote themselves to the epidemic.

It was raining continuously, and the gray sky weighed heavily on the hearts of those who had been running for several days. Unless necessary conversations, few people spoke.

Not long after Shen Shi, the night immediately filled the entire coast, and the sound of the waves was sometimes gentle and sometimes turbulent.

In the thatched shed, Pu Yuan unfolded the oral records of all the patients recorded in these two days, and pointed out the only most likely way of infection.

Meng Linzhi leaned over his neck and took a look: "The boss of Chen An's family is not infected, and he has never had dinner with his family."

All the patients used to share a pot and a bowl to eat and drink soup. The boss of Chen An's family happened to go to the city to sell goods for a few days, and ate at a noodle shop for several days. But intact.

There was movement outside the sealed fence, Meng Linzhi glanced at it, and soon heard the shark calling Pu Yuan's name from a long distance away.

Pu Yuan took the umbrella out of the thatched shed, the blue shadow had already penetrated into his umbrella, covered with damp and cold water vapor.

Liu Songzi chased after him without panting, bent over and coughed violently, and said, "Servant, servant—"

Meng Linzhi waved his hand: "Catch your breath first, it's already here, let's see each other first."

Liu Songzi choked and nodded quickly.

Meng Linzhi suddenly remembered something, and said, "I forgot to tell you that after taking the pills for the old woman who deteriorated in the hospital, other people's illnesses were getting worse, but the old woman's illness was in a stable state, so I gave her another pill, but if the pill is really effective, the amount is not enough to treat more than [-] people who are infected."

Meng Linzhi looked at Xiaosha: "We can't let Shark continue to pull our scales."

"and many more……"

Meng Linzhi's voice was hoarse, and Pu Yuan looked at him at the same time, and both looked at Xiaoyu.

The two of them were also suddenly busy, and then they remembered that there was a mermaid who could gallop in the sea and shake the sky, and came out of the sea himself.

Pu Yuan pulled the cuff of Shark, Meng Linzhi walked and asked, "Come and see this fish, have you seen it?"

Surrounding the blurred fish head that was circled independently, Xiaoying met the gazes of the head of the sect and the high priest, and said slowly, "Shark has seen it before."

Meng Linzhi's eyes lit up: "Where is it?"

Xiaojiao pointed to the direction of the sea: "There are many red seaweeds growing far and deep on the bottom of the sea. That place is very strange. There are only such fish and grass." Other fish schools will not go to the territory of this kind of fish. Because if you eat them you will die.

Shark thought for a while: "Shark has eaten."

Meng Linzhi asked: "Red seaweed? Can Xiaoxie draw the specific appearance of fish and seaweed?"

Xiaojiao looked at the two in embarrassment, Pu Yuan said in a deep voice, "He can't draw."

Meng Linzhi: "...um."

He sighed: "At least I have a clue, human life is at stake, and the delay can't be too long now, otherwise I worry that all the patients who can't get the pills will die."

Xiaosha reached out and got under the cuff of Zongzhang, hooking the back of Zongzhang's hand: "Shark can't draw, but I can go down and bring up fish and grass for you to see."

The coast on a rainy night was bitterly cold, Meng Linzhi and Zongzhang each held an umbrella, and their eyes fell on Xiaoyu beside him.

This sea area, Pu Yuan, has been guarded by Wu Wei along the four sides, and only Meng Linzhi and he are waiting for the fish by the sea.

Xiaoyu was a little happy, this was the first time A Yuan asked him for something, so he asked A Yuan to take a big cloth pocket, planning to bring more fish and grass ashore.

Xiaoyu stood on the rocky cliff, hung the cloth bag in his mouth and started to bite, his voice was muffled when he spoke: "Shark went down."

Puyuan and Meng Linzhi saw Xiaoyu's voice falling and jumped down, and they took a few steps to follow the edge of the cliff, the cold sea air was on their faces, the sea was dark, and they could only vaguely see the faintly flickering lights in the water. blue light spot.

Meng Linzhi slowly let go of the breath he raised: "...Xiaosha jumps so fast, we haven't prepared ourselves for it yet, it's so dark below, what if we jump down and hit the rock with our head tilted and hit something, what should we do? ?”

Pu Yuan glanced at him coldly, Meng Linzhi said: "My worry is not unreasonable."

The patriarch and the high priest found a stone under the rain and stood in the leeward place to wait.

Meng Linzhi: "You said what if..."

Receiving Zong Zhang's look, Meng Linzhi shrugged: "What I want to say is what if the little shark comes up and feels cold and has no clothes to wear? Swimming in the sea for so long, those fish and shrimps will never have a mouthful of hot soup." Bar."

A quarter of an hour later, a fire was lit on the shore, and broth was being boiled in a pot.Li Guanshi sent a clean new suit, Pu Yuan picked it up and hung it between his arms, silently looking at the dark sea.

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Typo to be fixed!