This flower dew was originally produced by Yun Jiao for those impoverished people.

It doesn’t contain musk, just some cheap fragrance and additionally some herbs with a strong smell.

Mosquitoes don’t like the smell of these herbs, and naturally they will drift away when they smell them, thus achieving the effect of repelling mosquitoes.

There’s not much flower dew, so Yun Jiao advised Prefect Wu to distribute it to the villagers outside the city as much as possible.

A few days later, several mansions outside the North City Gate and West City Gate were ready, and Yun Jiao urged Prefect Wu to call all the soldiers from the Guard Station to transfer the patients.

This was also Yun Jiao being cautious, afraid that some people might escape during the transfer.

After all, even in highly developed modern societies, some people run away when they are taken into quarantine, even though the state pays for their treatment, they still try to escape for reasons unknown.

Yun Jiao followed the Forbidden Army and some Yangzhou garrison soldiers outside the North Gate to watch the transfer of patients.

Sure enough, when Captain Fang announced that all patients must be concentrated in nearby mansions for isolation, some patients who appeared very weak indeed crawled up from the ground and ran away.

Some of those who couldn’t run started wailing and shouting.

The Forbidden Army and garrison soldiers began to catch the ones who were trying to escape.

Some ran while shouting, "Run, they definitely want to catch us and bury us."

Yun Jiao took a big loudspeaker, shouted desperately to explain the situation, but very few listened to her.

Panic spread quickly, and more and more people began to run.

Fortunately, there were also many soldiers, and after some effort, they managed to gather all the patients together, tying them with ropes and moving them towards the mansion.

Yun Jiao saw that young girl among the crowd, she walked over and asked, "Feeling better?"

The girl’s mother replied, "I think she’s getting better, the chills don’t last as long anymore. When she has a fever, her forehead is not as hot as it was a few days ago."

Yun Jiao nodded, "Once you’re in that mansion, keep taking the medicine, and when you’re completely better, you can come out."

The woman timidly asked, "Are you sure they’re not taking us to bury us?" 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Yun Jiao laughed, "Definitely not, it’s to prevent infected people from being bitten by mosquitoes."

She then handed the woman several herbal packs, "Light them and throw them into the yard in the evening."

"This will kill mosquitoes."

After these patients left, Yun Jiao distributed mosquito-killing herbal packs to the villagers.

She instructed them to light the herbal packs in the evening when mosquito activities are rampant.

The patients who were escorted into the mansion by soldiers saw each room neatly arranged, with mesh doors and windows. It didn’t feel quite like they were brought here to be executed.

Some remembered Yun Jiao’s words, "What Doctor Gu said might be true."

Some nodded, while others remained skeptical.

Until they received their first meal, the vast majority believed they wouldn’t be killed.

After all, there’s no need to waste food on someone marked for death.

Of course, it’s not proper to say it was a meal, it was congee.

The congee was as thick as the disaster relief porridge they ate at the city gate earlier, a chopstick standing in it wouldn’t fall.

A suspicious person angrily smashed the bowl, "I won’t eat, is this my last meal before death?"

Soldiers quickly came in, dragged him into a small room, and locked him up.

The small room had locked doors and windows, with no way for anyone to get out or for mosquitoes to get in.

As for whether he would suffocate or overheat inside, no one cared.

As long as people don’t die in large numbers, the life or death of one or two civilians is of little concern.