The woman was only slightly dazed, and then nodded, "Yes, almost all the people in our neighborhood draw domestic water from this well."
In this way, the origin of the silverfish seems to have been confirmed.
However, Jiang Nianjiao couldn't help but cast her eyes on the young woman. She had a slim figure and a flat belly, and she didn't show any signs of being infected by silverfish.
And it wasn't just her, there were obviously people in other houses who were not infected with the silverfish.
But they were obviously using water sources contaminated by silverfish.
Why do the same well water raise two different people?
Su Zhirou obviously had the same doubts, "Does your family also use water from this well?"
The young woman nodded anyway. She looked at the larvae in the bucket, and then asked in a low voice, "Doctors, what's wrong with this well water?"
Su Zhirou wasn't sure for the moment, so she didn't answer. Instead, Jiang Nianjiao just said to the woman, "We'd better go to your room and take a look first."
The woman naturally nodded cooperatively after hearing this, and then they only tested the woman's water tank. Sure enough, there were larvae of the silverfish in the woman's water tank, but everyone in the family did not. If you are not infected by silverfish, is it possible that this silverfish is still a constitutional infection?
While the two were wondering, an older girl in the woman's family was cooking something in a pot. When white smoke came out of the pot, the little girl opened the lid of the pot, and instantly there was a ball of white smoke in the pot. Steam billowed out.
Cui Qiao just asked casually, "What are you cooking?"
The little girl whispered, "I'm steaming steamed buns."
It was almost noon, and the young woman had no choice but to ask casually, "Do you guys want to stay for something to eat?"
The three of them waved their hands at the same time.
Then I saw the little girl next to the young woman taking out the steamed buns and pouring the hot water from the pot into a porcelain pot.
"Can you guys use some water?" the young woman asked again.
Jiang Nianjiao shook her hand, but Su Zhirou took the initiative and said, "I am indeed a little thirsty. It would be great if Madam could give me a glass of water."
The woman smiled and said, "What's this?"
Then she raised her voice and said to the girl beside her, "Girl Lan! Why don't you give the guest a glass of water?"
The little girl was convinced and quickly went to get a set of crude tea cups.
It can be seen that this family is in better condition than the family next to it, and it is also more sophisticated.
Su Zhirou took the water cup and did not drink it immediately. Instead, she used medicinal powder to explore the water in the cup as usual.
Although there were still silverfish larvae in the water, these larvae had obviously been boiled away by the boiling water just now.
At this time, these larvae are just like sediment falling to the bottom of the cup.
Su Zhirou was about to take a tentative sip, but Jiang Nianjiao didn't know it, so she just held the side of Su Zhirou's cup and said, "Can you drink this water?"
Su Zhirou chuckled softly, "Miss Jiang, they boil this water. All the silverfish have been boiled away. Even if you eat it, they are just some insect corpses. I think I understand." Why is this lady different from the neighbor next door?"
When the woman heard this, she asked in confusion, "What are the two doctors discussing?"
Su Zhirou smiled and said, "Madam, let me take a look at it for you."
Although the woman didn't know what was going on after hearing this, she still came over. After a check by Su Zhirou, it turned out that the whole family was very healthy and had not been infected by silverfish.
Su Zhirou became more and more excited. She only took the initiative to ask, "Madam, do you always boil water before drinking it?"
The woman nodded, "Yes, this is our custom in Huai'an. It is said that when water is stored underground, yin energy is generated. Only by burning the water with fire can the yin and yang be neutralized."
After hearing what the woman said, although the method of promoting boiling water seemed to be a crooked approach, it was obviously very effective.
Su Zhirou looked extremely excited, and then she told the woman, "This method of yours is excellent, and it is most suitable for boiling water. Please remember not to drink that raw water in the future, whether it is your children or your family." "
After listening to Su Zhirou's words, the woman naturally nodded.
Then Su Zhirou only had another
I even visited several houses, and as expected, most of the houses that were not infected with silverfish were from Huai'an.
Huai'an is a water city in the southwest, because there is no way out in my hometown, and there are floods every year. After the floods, diseases are prevalent.
The local people couldn't survive, so they left, and a group of refugees finally settled in various places.
Fortunately, the Huai'an people are very hard-working and very cooperative. A few years ago, a Huai'an businessman named Ye established a large business in the capital, so he also brought his fellow villagers to the capital to do business.
So there are also people from Huai'an in the west part of the city.
Of course, now is not the time to pursue these matters. After a visit, Su Zhirou proposed to go back. She obviously wanted to use her father's influence in the Imperial Medical Bureau to promote the method advocated by the Huai'an people to all families. household.
Jiang Nianjiao also wanted to find the source of the contaminated water, so the two could only part ways halfway.
Because he was afraid that Su Zhirou would encounter some trouble on the road. Jiang Nianjiao only let Luohua around her protect Su Zhirou.
She and Cui Qiao went to explore the source of the water source.
After all, after she heard that the current epidemic was caused by silverfish, she also asked Su Zhirou to find out where the silverfish came from. After all, before this, there had never been such a thing in the capital. In the end, Su Zhirou Rou only told her that the silverfish seemed to be a product of the southwest.
Therefore, Jiang Nianjiao always felt that this matter should not be that simple.
After visiting several neighborhoods in succession, Jiang Nianjiao finally found a unique source of water.
She used the medicinal powder given by Su Zhirou, and then went to explore the source of the water.
Then it turned out that there were indeed many silverfish in the source water. @
Just walking down the road, I saw a floating corpse floating in the water.
If this kind of floating corpse is soaked in water, I am afraid that even if the water source was clean before, but now it is polluted, there may be other germs.
Seeing this, Jiang Nianjiao only asked Cui Qiao to fish out the floating corpse.
The floating corpse had obviously been soaked for several days. Now it was completely rotten and had an unpleasant stench. And because he had been soaked in the water for too long, the man's appearance had already changed beyond recognition.
However, the man's belly was swollen, and he looked like he had died of silverfish. The man was dressed in coarse cloth, and he didn't know whose helper he was.
Seeing this, Jiang Nianjiao naturally didn't want to stay long, so she and Cui Qiao went to report to the official.
Officials on the west side of the city heard that a body was found at a water source on the outskirts of the city, so they naturally sent people there.
But when Jiang Nianjiao mentioned whether she could send a few people to guard the water source, she was reprimanded by an official from the yamen in the west of the city, "I will make my own decision on this matter. Just take them to find the floating corpse."
Jiang Nianjiao had no real rights, so she really couldn't do anything to this official at the moment.
Therefore, they could only accompany the official towards the water source.
Fortunately, before coming to report to the officials, Jiang Nianjiao only asked nearby people to guard the body here, so when they came over, the body was still there. Even because people came one after another, before the officials came, the body was already there. A lot of people gathered around.
Seeing this, the two young officials in soap clothes had no choice but to expel the onlookers.
"When the government handles cases, give way to me!"
Upon hearing the figure of the soap-clothed official, the others naturally quickly gave way to a path.
There was even a young man wearing a short jacket who ran out quickly among these people, but because the place was so busy, no one noticed the young man leaving.
When the young official in soap clothes saw the swollen belly of the floating corpse, he just cursed in a low voice, "What kind of plague is this again?"
At this time, they were also afraid of being infected by the disease, so naturally they refused to work hard. They only said to a ragged idle man next to them, "Go and call your regiment leader over, and just find a place to bury it. After burying it, Just ask your group leader to come and collect the money."
The ragged idle man ran quickly after hearing this.
Jiang Nianjiao heard that the soap-coated clerk didn't even want to investigate, so she buried him on the spot, which was naturally not allowed.
But before she could speak first, there was a man wearing a short jacket and looking like a hard-working worker.
The man took the initiative and said, "Sir, my brother died in a strange way. You can't just bury him like this."
The young official in soap clothes said impatiently, "Everyone who is strange or not is a plague ghost. If you don't bury them first, you want to kill us! All the brothers in the mansion have fallen ill a lot because of you." These plague ghosts are doing evil.”
After saying this, the two petty officials just waited for the group leader to come over.
The man was still arguing with the clerk, "My brother is not a plague ghost. He must have been framed. You can't bury someone directly like this."
However, the two clerks didn't bother to take care of this mess. Seeing that the man was stubborn, they had to work at the stall because of the epidemic. Moreover, many people were sick and there was a shortage of people in the yamen. They almost Even if two people work as ten people, their wages will not increase, and they don't have to pretend to be sick. Naturally, they feel extremely unbalanced.
Now seeing that this man wanted to increase their official duties, the two men immediately yelled at the man, "Should you take care of this matter or should we handle it? Your brother got the plague and died. What grievance can there be? It's you who My brother got this plague and jumped into this water. I think your brother and you must be in the same group. Are you deliberately destroying the water source?"
Seeing that the two minor officials were about to arrest the man, Jiang Nianjiao quickly stepped forward to stop him and said, "Wait a minute, I also think this is a bit strange."
However, how could those two petty officials give Jiang Nianjiao this face? When they saw Jiang Nianjiao coming to take care of this matter, they also slapped a hat on their faces and said, "The body you found first was not a thief. This person is actually a thief." You pushed it down."
After speaking, the two men planned to capture Jiang Nianjiao and send them to prison together.
