The Sensory Animals of Ston Hill

Grace and Anna changed into clothes suitable for a palace in the three and a half floors.They have to repeat these safe steps every day: first go to the second floor of the small building to take off the clothes they wore from the palace and put on convenient ones; After that, it was dried in the inner courtyard of the small building.

They all felt a little embarrassed about this, because then Alan Stone would see those inner skirts, but there was no better way.

Alan Stone even helped them put all the clothes that were dried yesterday into the house, and folded them neatly.

Anna said that Master Allen's work was not as meticulous as his master's. Grace was sitting on the sofa on the second floor tying the stocking tubes. Hearing what she said, she couldn't help but blush.He didn't dare to think about what Alan Stone would be thinking when he rolled his cleaned silk stockings into a roll.

When they returned to the palace, Grace thought that His Majesty hadn't woken up yet, so she and Anna went to the girls' room.

Eva was sewing again when they entered the house.She and the children were the first batch of people to be vaccinated in the shed. The children recovered after a fever overnight, but the adults were not so lucky.Eva is still a little weak and has some rashes that have turned into blisters, also on her face, looking very miserable.

Grace blamed her for getting up to work again, and Eva said that she just had some bumps on her skin, which did not affect her hands and feet.

Grace smiled and looked closer at her face, "Did you forget Dr. Herman's advice? You must rest well, or you will easily get scars. If you have scars on your face like Dr. Herman, how can you go?" Where are you meeting Father Sies?" This was the news that Anna secretly told him. He used to think that a strong girl like Eva would definitely be with a tall and brave man, but who would have thought that she would be thin and quiet? "Good Father Sies".

Eva said in embarrassment: "Father Sies is a priest, don't make such jokes, Grace, I just discuss the Bible with him." ?”

"Dr. Hermann said that cowpox doesn't spread through the air—what part of the Bible are you talking about? Are you looking for evidence that clergymen can marry?"

"Grace!" Eva had never been so shy before, covering her face with her half-sewed clothes, "Anna! Why did you tell Grace everything!"

Anna told Grace not to tease Eva like this, but she herself laughed like Grace.

At this time, there were many footsteps outside the house, and they naturally lowered their talking and laughing voices.

The footsteps stopped, and the next moment, their door was pushed open, and His Majesty and several servants appeared outside the door.

"Your Majesty." Grace and the others quickly stood up and curtseyed.

"Chris..." Grace took a few steps towards the door, he was a little nervous, and His Majesty's expression looked a little unusual at this time.

The king stared at him for two seconds before moving behind him and seeing the blisters on Eva's face.He took two steps back in surprise, and let out a short gasp in his throat.

Grace hurriedly explained that it was not smallpox, but cowpox, and it would be cured in three weeks, and it was not so contagious.

But His Majesty turned a deaf ear to his explanation and ordered the left and right attendants to bring Grace out of the house.The attendants hesitated, looking at the three people in the room in fear.

"Bastard!" His Majesty kicked a guard's leg hard, then walked into the room and grabbed Grace's arm and pulled him out.

"Your Majesty, I haven't touched Eva, I haven't touched her, and I haven't touched anything that causes disease!" Grace was dragged away by him, and she didn't dare to touch him with the other hand. The guards hurried when they saw them coming out Step aside.

"Where are the smallpox patients!" the king turned his head and glared at him fiercely. "You have been in those three sheds for a few days!"

Grace was terrified. It turned out that His Majesty was so terribly angry, "I have never been near a patient! And every time I come back after washing and changing clothes! Your Majesty, I will not bring pathogenic factors into the palace... ...You, Your Majesty...how about I change my clothes again, Your Majesty, please don't touch me for now—"

His Majesty dragged him along the corridor and looked at him with a sneer: "What's the use of not touching you now? You've been going to those three sheds for a week! I might have already been infected by you!"

Grace felt that His Majesty might be a little confused, and he couldn't tell whether His Majesty was afraid of smallpox or not, because His Majesty's face was too close to him, and their breaths were mixed together.

"Your Majesty, it's better not to get so close to me." He also started to worry now, what if he really got the pathogenic factor on his body.Dr. Hermann said that the most dangerous way smallpox is infected is through breathing into the lungs.

His Majesty looked at him coldly for a while, then turned his head and ordered behind him: "Seal that room—" The door was immediately closed by the guards.

"Your Majesty!" Grace exclaimed.

"Seal up the windows too, and seal them with wooden boards, leaving only a hole for delivering food and water!"

"Your Majesty!" Grace knelt down at his feet, knocking her forehead on the ground, "Your Majesty, please! Don't lock them up!"

The king bent down, squeezed his face with two fingers, and wiped the ashes on his forehead with the other hand, "Why are these two maids so important to you? Is it because you have known each other for a long time?"

Grace looked up at him with tears in her eyes, "Your Majesty, don't lock them up... It's terrible to stay in a room with closed windows, it's a hell on earth, please don't treat them like this! If you hate They, drive them out of the palace, if you don't like me playing with them, I will never go to them again, but please don't lock them up, it's really terrible!"

"Have you ever been locked up in a room with the windows sealed?"

Grace's eyes widened and she nodded, "Chris, please."

His Majesty squatted down, looked at him at the same level, his face finally returned to his usual calmness, "Is it because I am strong that you are weak? Because I seldom treat people well, so you are soft-hearted to everyone?... But those commoners have nothing to do with you. What does it matter? Why are you doing this?"

Grace hugged his arm tightly, "Your Majesty! You didn't see that kind of scene, and neither did I, but I was told that a patient can walk today but can't get out of bed the next day! Eva It's just blisters on the face, neither contagious nor fatal, and it will heal after a while, as if you haven't had the disease. But the face of a real smallpox patient is like the back of a toad—"

His Majesty frowned in disgust, "You don't need to tell me, Grace, I know how disgusting a patient with smallpox looks..."

"Then do you know how fast smallpox spreads? Your Majesty, it's terrible. On the first day when the shed was built, only one smallpox patient was found, and on the third day, more than a dozen were found. Until today, it was only one morning." More than 30 people have had smallpox, and they are all people who don’t know that they have the disease! Your Majesty, what if there is already one in the palace! Many people who have smallpox have not had time to develop blisters, but they have passed it to many people!”

His Majesty's face changed, and he turned his head to order his personal secretary: "Search every room in the palace one by one! Everyone must be checked, eyes, tongue, and every inch of skin must be carefully checked!"

"Then Eva..."

"She just has cowpox?"

Grace nodded quickly.

"Let them stay in the house, don't come out, someone will bring them food, and you are not allowed to go to them until her face is clean, or she is dead."

Grace immediately smiled through tears, raised her arms and hugged him, "I won't die, cowpox is useful, and it won't kill anyone."

In the evening, there was chaos in the palace. Everyone who heard the news was frightened, and the carriages carrying the wife and the master fled from the palace in an endless stream.

Grace also saw the man who had been carried out, her face covered by the sheet, but one hand was exposed, covered with sores like a toad's back.

He saw real fear in His Majesty's eyes.

"Is it really useful?" His Majesty asked abruptly after sitting on the sofa in his room for a long time.

"It's really useful, Chris. Nearly a thousand people have been vaccinated in the shed, and no one is really sick. You don't have to be afraid of smallpox anymore." Grace touched His Majesty's hand and found that his hand was frightened. When it was cold, I held his hands with my own hands and rubbed them gently.

"It's going to be weak for a while after the vaccination, isn't it?"

"Could have a fever. It's going to be hard the first two nights, but it's not dangerous. Chris, Dr. Hermann is an expert in this area, and he'll take care of you."

"I want you to stay by my bedside."

"I will, I am good at taking care of people, and I will stay by your bed until you are fully recovered."

"Then help me call Dr. Herman over...and Colonel Ston."

"Okay." Grace shook her right hand lightly, and the note that Mr. Wales stuffed into his palm read: There is a smallpox patient in the palace.