A few seconds later, Yue Yue asked curiously, "I wondered, how could the plague spread so quickly when the northern and western regions were so far apart?"
Xi Xi shook her head and answered, "I don't know either. However, a close friend of my elder brother's who works in the Imperial Physician Court said that the plague may be spread through water. As for the details, my elder brother said it's best not to know too much."
While the two young ladies talked in low voices, Ye Huiyu listened to their conversation carefully. After a while, the two ladies changed the subject, and she stopped listening to them. When she took another sip of tea, Ye Huiyu frowned slightly because the tea was cold.
