Chapter 239: Blood Kin
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
During that period of time in her previous life, Gu Yanfei almost never left the house. She actually didn’t know much about the capital.
She only knew that first, the eldest grandson of the Marquis Mansion suddenly died with blood flowing from his mouth and nose. Then, it was the young master of the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, followed by the two girls from the Taichang Temple...
First the children, then even the adults were infected. More and more people died, from noble courtiers to commoners.
In the beginning, only three or four people died a day. Later, almost a hundred people died every day. The officials reported that it was a plague and told everyone to try not to go out to avoid contagion.
During that period, the entire capital was shrouded in the fear of death, afraid that it would be their turn next.
At that time, the government chased the infected people out of the city and circled a village to be guarded by soldiers, leaving them to fend for themselves.
It was Kang Wang’s consort, Gu Yunrong, who disregarded her safety and went to the plague village to eat and live with those patients. She also turned the tide and extinguished the plague that might kill tens of thousands of people.
Countless citizens in the capital were grateful for her kindness and spontaneously ran to the entrance of Prince Kang’s Manor to kowtow to her. There was a sea of people, and many families even offered her longevity tablets.
These things were pieced together by Gu Yanfei in her previous life from the idle chat of the maidservants and old women in the Marquis Mansion.
Turning the tide? Gu Yanfei’s lips curled into a faint smile as her gaze landed on the dense snow outside the window.
There was almost no spiritual energy in this small world. It was impossible for
Old Madam Murong to be refined.
It was fine if mortals died. When a corpse rotted, it would produce corpse poison. The longer it lasted, the more poisonous the corpse poison in the corpse would be.
Unlike ordinary dead people, Old Madam Murong’s corpse poison was even stronger.
It was summer and there were many flies and mosquitoes.
Children were weak and were the easiest to be infected by corpse poison. The poison also acted up the fastest. Therefore, it was the children who died in the beginning. After being infected by the corpse poison, the adults’ reaction would be slower than the children by a day or two. The fastest would be a day, and the slowest would be three to four days. Those who were infected by the corpse poison would die one after another...
‘Eh?” Gu Yanfei stopped stroking her chin and blinked.
Countless spots of light instantly appeared between the dense snowflakes outside, like a dazzling galaxy pouring down from the night sky, or like a treasure sprinkled by a god in the clouds...
Thousands of light spots surged toward her from all directions, illuminating the courtyard with brilliance.
It was a merit.
Gu Yanfei’s eyes lit up like stars, like a cat that had stolen a fish. She was smug and satisfied.
She had avoided a disaster that was about to lead to the deaths of thousands. This was the merit the heavens had given her.
Hmm.
Although Heaven’s Will of this small world wasn’t very likable, it was still quite generous.
The thousands of firefly-like light spots quickly gathered beside Gu Yanfei and entered her body, nourishing her internal organs and clearing her meridians, making her feel brand new.
Gu Yanfei blinked and immediately felt the gains this time.
Her eyes saw better. She could even clearly see every petal of a certain red plum in the snow.
Merit was indeed more useful than any divine pill or miracle medicine!
‘Why?” Gu Yuan looked out of the window in confusion, thinking that something was happening in the courtyard. ‘What are you looking at?” Gu Yanfei was still savoring the changes in her body when she came back to her senses. She smiled and said, “I’m looking at the cat.’ Gu Yuan didn’t see any cats in the courtyard at all.
‘Meow!”
In the next moment, she heard a familiar meow from the other side of the green brick wall.
A ball of fur jumped onto the wall with a whoosh. It was light and stable. The calico cat that had been out for a long time was finally willing to return.
It looked even more energetic than before it went out. Its long fur was fluffier and more glossy, as if it had suddenly grown bigger.
She’d earned merit this time, as had the cat.
However, the cat didn’t seem to be in a good mood. It lowered its head and sniffed its long fur. Its round cat face wrinkled in disgust.
It subconsciously stuck out its tongue to lick its fur, but it stopped as if it had thought of something, leaving its pink tongue half-exposed.
It... it was already dirty and smelly!
A layer of snow had accumulated on the wall and the ground. The cat leaped into the snow and rolled, covered in snow.
Gu Yanfei looked at the “frosted cat” and couldn’t help but smile happily..