37 years old, I became a harem concubine

It took a long time before Shen Huan couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell asleep lightly.

He didn't know how long he had slept, but he suddenly got up straight from the bed, hugged the quilt, looked at the hot sun outside, didn't call Haruko, got up from the bed, put on his clothes and went out.

Seeing Xiaoxi who was sweating profusely fanning the charcoal fire outside, he asked him, "Where is Huiyi, why didn't you wake me up?"

"Huiyi said that the young master went to bed late last night, so let the young master sleep more." Xiaoxi wiped the sweat from her brow, and then said, "She went to collect all the clothes washed yesterday, iron them and take them away." go in."

"Well," Shen Huan stretched her waist, and sat down on the rail under the porch with a round fan, "By the way, Xiaoxi, how much food is left in our palace?"

Coincidentally, two days before the outbreak of the epidemic, it was the day when the Ministry of Internal Affairs issued the regulations.

As soon as the emperor gave the order, the imperial dining room naturally didn't care about the food in the palaces, so they asked people to go and collect the orders by themselves, and cook in their own palaces.

Shen Huan was the one who had promised, and the minimum amount of rice, noodles, meat, and vegetables for a month was not enough to eat, although it was a considerable pile up there.

Xiaoxi replied: "I just saw it this morning. The rice and noodles are enough for ten days. Because of the hot weather, the meat has already been eaten a few days ago. There is not much food left. It can last for five days at most."

Therefore, if the epidemic cannot be continued for ten days, they must go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to get some things, and there must be many more in the same situation as them, which is very dangerous.

Shen Huan frowned: "Eat sparingly, eat two meals from today, one dry and one thin, how long can it last?"

"it is good."

A few more days passed.

The medicines sent by the eunuchs are getting less and less, and from time to time there are guards on the palace road to clean up people who are infected with the epidemic, and the number of guards and imperial physicians is also decreasing.

At least two of the imperial physicians who came to Shen Huan's place to deliver medicine and diagnose pulse have changed.

On this day, Shen Huan was brushing the soles of the shoes for the third time with Xiaoxi and Qingzi who had finished everything, when a different sound came from outside the palace gate.

It was the unique sound of iron and leather armor rubbing against each other.

Goosebumps suddenly appeared on Shen Huan's back. He told Xiaoxi and Qingzi to stay here and not move, and leaned into the crack of the door to see what happened.

As soon as his eyes were close together, he saw that An Ning, whose eyes were red and swollen, was wrapped in a face scarf, and was crying from the Palace of Compassion and Ning with the Ouchi guards who couldn't see the end. Walk over to the right and walk towards the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Shen Huan didn't know what she was thinking at this moment, so she opened the palace door and said to An Ning, "Eunuch An Ning, where are you going?"

An Ning, who was in a trance, heard the voice, looked at Shen Huan for a while, and then remembered that it was Zhao's promise from the emperor.

He didn't think about anything, he didn't even think about talking to him, suddenly, he remembered something, stood in front of the guards and said: "Zhao promised, I have something to ask you, you and the slave can go to the Hall of Mental Cultivation."

Shen Huan didn't know what was going on, but she had already opened her bow and didn't turn her head back. She returned to An Ning and said, "Okay, but please wait, Mr. An Ning. I'll go and tell the palace guards in the palace so they don't worry about it."

I didn't know that sentence touched An Ning, An Ning nodded stiffly: "I should tell you..."

Shen Huan quickly turned around, trotted back, told Qingzi and Xiaoxi who were waiting for her, and told them that she was going to the Hall of Mental Cultivation with An Ning, and if she didn't come back later, let them eat and rest first, don't worry.

As more and more people contracted the epidemic, Haruko and Xiaoxi became more and more afraid. When they heard that he was going out, they were very worried.

But Shen Huan promised to take good care of herself, so they watched him go out.

Shen Huan turned around and closed the gate of the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and walked to An Ning's side: "Eunuch An Ning, let's go."

An Ning couldn't think of anything, nodded, "Let's go."

As the Hall of Mental Cultivation got closer, more and more Ouchi guards were guarding around, and finally it was like a cage.

An Ning led Shen Huan through the main hall, which was served by four imperial maids in the past, but is now empty, and walked in from the hallway to the east room.

As soon as she entered, Shen Huan smelled an unpleasant smell. The strong smell of medicine and vomit and excrement were intertwined, which was disgusting.

A thin lady with a body wrapped tightly, with only her eyes exposed, came out with a vomit that looked like clear soup. Seeing An Ning, she nodded slightly and went out.

Shen Huan couldn't believe that such a thing would happen.

The Yuwen Yue of the king of a country is infected with the epidemic!

How did he get it, how long did he get it, and how is he doing now?

Questions popped up from Shen Huan's nearly blown head, but there were no answers.

An Ning led him slowly towards the well-covered dragon bed, "The emperor contracted the epidemic three days ago. After being confirmed by the imperial physician, he immediately blocked the news and checked all the people around him. .”

"A total of two were found."

"Today is the fourth day since the emperor was infected with the epidemic. The emperor has already evacuated everyone around him. Only the maid and servant just now are by his side."

"..." Shen Huan looked at the dragon bed with thick bed curtains hanging down, "What did the imperial doctor say."

"The imperial physician said... Your Majesty suffered from the failure of the Yellow River's embankment a few days ago, and it is more dangerous than others after contracting the epidemic. He has already sent several prescriptions... but all of them have had little effect..."

"My lord, I don't know why this servant brought you here. If you want your own life, you can leave now." As he said, An Ning really didn't know why he asked Zhao to agree to follow him. do it yourself.

Perhaps, it was the emperor who obeyed the rules who was lucky enough to visit the nun Daochuo in the Hongjun Hall.

Perhaps, the emperor asked him to pick up Dao Chuo back to the palace in the middle of the night.

Perhaps, it was the emperor who flipped through the sign that Zhao had promised for several days.

An Ning was only seven or eight years old when he first entered the palace, and was assigned by Empress Dowager Yiren to take care of the prince Yu Wenyue, who was a few years younger than himself. He watched him grow up, followed him to the border, and watched him again and again. Birth and death, the Hulu retreated for thirty miles outside the pass, and until now they dare not take a step beyond the thunder pool.

Accompany him back to the capital to watch him ascend the throne of God.

An Ning sometimes has a little rebellious thoughts, he respects Yu Wenyue as his master, and there is such a secret place where he is his only friend and relative in this huge palace.

If this thought is known to other people, he must be said to be treasonous.

But, that's what he thought.

Shen Huan looked back at him, then at the dragon bed, quietly clenched the hands beside her, and walked over step by step.

This is an opportunity, he told himself.

Then he walked to the dragon bed, and gently picked up the bed curtain embroidered with dense embroidery patterns. With just one glance, he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

I saw that Yu Wenyue, whom he had seen in the Hall of Mental Cultivation that day, no longer had the tall and distant appearance in his memory. His cheeks were deeply sunken, his eye sockets were sunken, and his face seemed to be a skeleton covered in flesh. fear.

And his body under the quilt is also thin, making one wonder if there is any meat on the bones.

As if sensing that the bed curtain was pulled away, his yellow and blue eyelids, which were not healthy, opened slightly. Although cloudy, there was still a glint of light in his eyes looking at him.

He moved his hand on his abdomen: "You...you come...do...what..."

"Naughty..."

"..." Shen Huan looked at him, "It was the concubine who asked Chief An Ning to bring the concubine here."

"Your Majesty, how are you doing now? Do you want to vomit? Does your stomach feel bad?" Shen Huan was well-read and knew the symptoms of the epidemic.

One is vomiting, the other is diarrhea, and the third is fever and chills.

From the discovery of symptoms to the death of the patient, it can take as fast as seven or eight days and as slow as half a month.

As for Yu Wenyue, it was already the fourth day.

Yu Wenyue didn't seem to want to talk to him, he only opened his eyes a little and didn't speak.

Shen Huan didn't care about these, she stretched her hand in from under the quilt, and quickly touched his bony but still big-framed body, touched the area near his waist, and sure enough, it was wet.

"Shen... Huan..." Yu Wenyue's body stiffened, "Get out... go..."

When he called her real name for the first time, Shen Huan was stunned, and said to An Ning behind him: "Please trouble my father-in-law to ask someone to fetch some hot water, and then bring the emperor's clean obscene clothes, it is best to bring more." Some."

"Alas! Alas!" An Ning did not expect that Shen Huan would actually approach Yu Wenyue.

You know, the emperor asked the servants to pick up vomit these days, which is the biggest concession.

He was proud and conceited all his life, how could he let others see his messy appearance, so no one dared to touch his fire.

An Ning ran out to ask someone to prepare something, Shen Huan turned her head to look at Yu Wenyue, and lifted the quilt from his body, as if she didn't see that his lower body was so dirty, she bent down to help him up by the shoulders with her usual expression , then pushed him to the other side, and pulled out of the bed.

After An Ning brought the hot water and dirty clothes, he twisted the handkerchief and scrubbed his rotten buttocks and thighs little by little.

While wiping, he said to An Ning: "Elder-in-law, I have read many miscellaneous books before. The books say that vinegar has the effect of disinfecting epidemics. From now on, everything the emperor touches will be boiled with vinegar, and then exposed to the hot sun."

"Also, quicklime that has not been watered can also have a great effect, but a lot of quicklime should be sprinkled on the corpses and vomit and excrement of people who died of the epidemic to kill the bad things inside."

The body under the veil tightened, and Yu Wenyue twisted his neck a little bit with difficulty: "What you said...is...really..."

An Ning also said loudly: "Zhao agrees, is the method you said really useful?"

Shen Huan didn't expect that they didn't know this method, so she nodded: "It's useful, this method has been used in the concubine's palace, the concubine and the two palace people are all well, there is no medicine and no signs of contracting the epidemic recently. "

Yu Wenyue raised his hand vainly, and when he finished speaking, he said to An Ning: "According to... the method he said..., try...to do..."

"Yes, the servant will definitely settle this matter!" An Ning said loudly.

The author has something to say:

The author doesn't know which dynasty discovered these two methods, but he gave him to Huanhuan as his little gold finger, and I hope you don't get too deep into it.