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"Is sick?" The Empress Dowager glanced at the maid standing in the hall with her hands hanging down, and asked in confusion, "Why don't Xiangxue, Chunrong and Cuizhi? Are you sick too?"

"Yes." Shaoer replied with her head down, "It's not just them, but the people in their entire yard are infected with cold and seem to be very sick and unable to even get out of bed."

The Empress Dowager pulled out the golden Buddhist beads in her hand and sighed: "It's really a bad year. Recently, there have been accidents in the palace. It seems that we have to find a monk to do a ritual to drive away evil spirits."

Zi Yue hesitated for a while and said, "The Empress Dowager, I heard from the little palace maids that the first person who got sick was Xiangling. Two or three days later, Xiangxue and Cuizhi were also infected. At first, their symptoms were fever, cough, headache, and later chest tightness, difficulty breathing. I also heard that Cuizhi was vomiting yellow saliva this morning and was unconscious."

The Empress Dowager frowned and said, "The little wind and cold are so serious?" She pondered for a moment and ordered, "You can go to the imperial pharmacy to get some pairs of wind and cold medicines to them."

The palace stipulates that if there are diseases below the palace concubines, doctors are not allowed to enter to obtain medicine for evidence. Anyone who is sick will be sent to the sheep room in the west of Jinao Yushui Bridge to live and die for themselves.

Zi Yue answered "Yes", but her face was very serious, and she hesitated, "The Empress Dowager, I think their illness is a bit strange."

"eccentric?"

"Their symptoms seem to have a cold on the surface, but I feel like I'm infected... autumn epidemic."

As soon as the words were finished, everyone in the hall took a breath of air, and all their faces showed fear and lies. Several timid palace maids asked in a crying voice: "Autumn Epidemic? Will those servants be infected too?"

Two months ago, an autumn epidemic occurred in Hehua Village, the western suburbs of the capital, which involved one room, one room and one town. In just one month, hundreds of lives in a village died of illness.

Zi Yue hurriedly said: "Sisters don't have to worry. I remember that Taishang once developed a medicine that can prevent autumn epidemics. As long as we take them, we don't have to worry about the autumn epidemics."

The palace people were ecstatic when they heard this: "That's great."

"Xiangling and the others can't stay in the palace no matter whether they are infected with the autumn epidemic." The Empress Dowager frowned and ordered Zi Yue, "You can order people to send them to the west sheep room of Jinao Yushui Bridge."

Zi Yue lowered her head, smiled at the corner of her lips, and said respectfully: "Yes."

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The light in the house was dark, and the air was filled with a strong decoction and a disgusting smell. More than a dozen palace maids were lying on the big kang in a row. Some of them were seriously ill and had fallen into a coma. The mildly ill face was pale, coughed continuously, and looked very painful.

In just a few days, Chunrong was very thin, with a gray face, sunken eye sockets, protruding cheekbones, three-pointed like humans and seven-pointed like ghosts, holding on to the lapel in pain, her whole face wrinkled into a ball: "I feel so uncomfortable!"

Xiangxue, who was lying next to her, was slightly sick. She supported the edge of the kang with her hands and coughed violently. After a while, she said weakly: "If you have a headache or fever on weekdays, you will get better. Why did the medicine that I had been drinking for several days this time become more and more serious?"

Chunrong suddenly let out a "wow" sound, and lay on the edge of the kang and vomited violently, as if she had to vomit out her bile before she could stop.

Xiangxue asked worriedly: "Chunrong, are you okay?"

Chunrong's eyes were dissipated and she murmured: "The Jade Emperor, Queen Mother is here! Many gods!"

Xiangxue's heart sank and she shouted anxiously: "Chunrong, wake up quickly! wake up!"

The day before yesterday, Xiangling was also talking nonsense. After a while, she became unconscious. Now she was hanging her last breath and breathing. She probably couldn't hold on tomorrow.

Chunrong suddenly laughed and continued to shout: "I am the Nine Heavens Xuannv, but you can't kneel down quickly!"

Seeing that she was crazy, Xiangxue couldn't help but feel sad. She lay on the kang and cried loudly, sobbing and said, "God, please be kind and save us."

The door suddenly opened with a creaking sound, and a woman in a palace dress walked in from outside, stood in front of the bed and looked indifferently at the palace maid who was terminally ill. Her gentle and beautiful face was faintly filled with a strange smile.

Because the visitor stood against the light, Xiangxue couldn't see her face clearly, but her figure looked very familiar. After identifying it for a long time, she finally recognized the person and shouted in surprise: "Sister Ziyue, you are here!"

Zi Yue smiled and said, "God is so busy, how can I control my sister's life or death?"

Xiangxue's pale face rekindled hope for life, and like a drowning man saw driftwood, he grabbed her sleeve tightly and begged: "Sister Ziyue, you are a big celebrity beside the Empress Dowager. Please ask the Empress Dowager for grace and send an imperial physician to see us."

Zi Yue said lightly: "My sister is confused. The palace stipulates that if there are diseases below the concubines, doctors are not allowed to enter, and if there is evidence, they will get medicine. How could the Empress Dowager set a precedent for a few palace maids?"

Xiangxue said anxiously: "We have served the Empress Dowager for many years, and we have worked hard without any credit. Xiangling, Cuizhi and the others are almost out of reach. Sister Ziyue, you have always been the Bodhisattva's heart, please save us."

"Save you?" Zi Yue coldly brushed away her hand, but her face was as gentle as ever, "You are infected with the autumn epidemic, how can you save you? The Empress Dowager has issued an imperial edict to move you to the sheep house in the west of Jinao Yushui Bridge, allowing you to fend for yourself, so as not to be transmitted to others."

Xiangxue's face turned pale when she heard the word "Autumn Epidemic", and she said in panic: "Impossible! We just suffered from wind and cold, not autumn epidemic." She knelt on the kang and kowtowed, begging, "Sister Ziyue, please find an imperial physician to diagnose our condition. We have not been infected with the autumn epidemic. Don't drive us out of the palace."

Zi Yue sighed: "The Empress Dowager said, no matter whether you are infected with the autumn epidemic or not, you can't continue to stay in the palace. The Empress Dowager's golden mouth has been opened, and I really can't help my sister."

Xiangxue's forehead was red and swollen, and she kowtowed and cried and said, "You and the emperor have grown up with love. If you go and ask the emperor, the emperor will definitely listen to you."

Zi Yue said coldly: "The emperor governs the world with filial piety, how could he do anything that violates the will of the Empress Dowager?" She bent down slightly and said softly, "If my sister has any last words to tell her parents outside the palace, I will definitely bring them to you."
Chapter completed!