Chapter 931 A narrow escape
"Reporting to the Crown Prince, Crown Prince Rong and the imperial physician have arrived in Xiaowuzhen."
Chu Jingqi picked up the cold food and was about to eat it when the soldiers outside the door knocked on the door and came in to report.
His hand that had just picked up the chopsticks paused for a moment, then stretched out to pick up a piece of egg, put it into the bowl, wrapped it in a big mouthful of rice, and swept it into his mouth.
Due to the drought for half a year, there has been no vegetables to eat in Jiangnan for a long time. Even meat vegetables have been killed in the past few months and there is not much left to eat.
These eggs were laid by the chickens raised in the Zheng family's village. Zheng Wenting sent a basket of eggs, a basket of duck eggs, and a basket of goose eggs for them to eat. He also sent ten chickens, ducks and geese each for laying eggs. He, Chu Yuexi and Fox had eggs to eat every day.
In addition to eggs, Zheng Wenting also gave him a lot of dry goods to eat, such as dried mushrooms, dried white fungus, black fungus, kelp, radish strips, dried beans, as well as Jiangnan's local specialty bacon, cured duck, fish with distiller's grains and other dishes. Several kilograms of fine tea leaves.
Here and there, two large carts were given to him.
After delivering these dry goods to him, Zheng Wenting also left Jiangnan two months ago.
At that time, it was not long after the plague broke out in Jiangnan and the city was not yet closed. Zheng Wenting took his own ship to transport goods, left Yunzhou City and went directly to Tuanghuai City.
On the second day after he set sail, Chu Jingqi ordered the entire south of the Yangtze River to be sealed off. At that time, it was just half a month before the plague broke out.
Chu Jingqi took a few mouthfuls and felt that there was something in his empty stomach, which made him feel better. Then he raised his head and looked at the soldiers at the door with a cold expression. "Notify me and ask the imperial doctor to make soup and medicine immediately to treat the patients and control the epidemic. Tell me." Doctor, no more people can die in Xiaowuzhen. If they continue to die like this, they themselves will die too."
If the epidemic cannot be controlled, everyone in Xiaowuzhen will die soon, and the dozen or so imperial doctors will also die in Xiaowuzhen.
The soldier responded respectfully and withdrew.
Not long after, the imperial doctor in Xiaowuzhen received the order. The imperial doctor did not dare to refute Chu Jingqi's order, let alone resist. At the beginning, the emperor wrote the imperial edict to Chu Jingqi in front of all the ministers of the dynasty, and gave it to Chu Jingqi before he executed it. right.
"Where's Chu Yuexi? Isn't he the disciple of the miracle doctor? Why can't he be seen here in such a big epidemic?" Rong San saw that all the imperial doctors were there but Chu Yuexi was not there, so he suspected that Chu Jingqi was abusing his power and protecting the Got Chu Yuexi.
Fang Gao stared at him, as if looking at an idiot, "Prince Rong, Young Master Chu is the commander-in-chief of the Yinlin Guards. At some point, patients will have to be treated by the commander-in-chief of the Yinlin Guards. These Is the imperial doctor just trying to look good?”
There is no need for a serious imperial doctor, but he wants to command the head of the Yinlin Guards to come to Xiaowuzhen to treat the plague. This is something he can't think of.
Rong Sanke commanded the envoys no matter what. He said righteously, "When the country is in trouble, everyone is responsible. He, Chu Yuexi, is an official of the imperial court and the apprentice of Doctor Bai. At this time, he should put the lives of the people at risk." Put it first, rather than putting your own safety above everything else.”
Chu Jingqi threw this hot potato to Rong San, who was not convinced no matter what he thought.
You know, in Xiaowuzhen, if you are not careful, you will be infected with the plague. Once you are infected with the plague, it will be a narrow escape.
This is gambling with life again.
As soon as Rong San thought of Chu Jingqi's despicableness, he was filled with anger and wanted to find fault with him. However, Chu Jingqi was the commander-in-chief of Jiangnan, and no commander-in-chief would always appear in the plague quarantine area, because, Chu Jingqi His life is more important than anyone else's. Rong San understood this matter, and just because he understood it, he was very unconvinced.
We are all the princes of the palace, why should he be at Chu Jingqi's disposal?
Is it just because Chu Jingqi has fought for several more years than him?
Fang Gao had a cold face and his teeth were itching with anger, "Prince Rong, Master Chu puts the lives of the people first, so he has not had a good night's sleep for more than two months in a row, day and night. They were checking the health of the people in the camp. The people here were all infected with the plague. Before Prince Rong came, there was no medicine in Xiaowu Town to save them. Even if Young Master Chu is here, and it is difficult for a clever woman to make a living without rice. But in the camp, Young Master Chu can at least monitor the people, discover patients infected with the plague at the first time, and send them out in time, so that the plague does not spread more severely. , otherwise, with such a severe plague, how could only more than 10,000 people have been sent here this month? I’m afraid there will be more than 100,000 people.”
Seeing Rong San targeting Chu Jingqi everywhere, Fang Gao was so angry that he wanted to beat Rong San up, but because he was afraid of his identity, Fang Gao endured it again and again and decided not to cause trouble to Chu Jingqi.
After Fang Gao glared at Rong San, he led his subordinates down,
Rong San was still holding back a lot of words, so when he saw him leaving, he angrily chased him two steps and almost reached out to grab him, but the imperial doctor spoke in time and stopped him, "Prince Rong, There are only a dozen of us who have to cook soup for tens of thousands of people. We are really busy. We also ask Prince Rong to help us and send a few more helping hands to us.”
"You go prepare the medicinal materials first. Those who cook the medicinal soup, I will prepare it for you." In the end, it was the responsibility on his shoulders that made Rong San take a step back.
With enough medicinal materials and a dozen imperial doctors, the number of people dying in Xiaowuzhen gradually decreased after the third day.
On the other side of the camp, after most of the people were sent to Phoenix Mountain, fewer and fewer patients were sent to Xiaowu Town.
Half a month later, recovered people appeared in Xiaowuzhen.
More than a dozen doctors took turns taking a pulse of a young man. Finally, Doctor Liao burst into tears with excitement, "Okay, it's completely cured. This prescription... Princess Chu Yu's medical skills are incredible. It's really amazing."< br>
"You said this prescription was written by Princess Chu Yu?" Rong San looked surprised.
He thought that the prescription should be Chu Yuexi's, but he didn't expect that it would be Chu Yu's.
Could it be said that Chu Yu had long foreseen that a great plague would occur in Jiangnan?
"Yes, before Princess Chu Yu returned to the capital, the prescription was given to Prince Chu. How come Prince Rong didn't know about it?" Doctor Liao asked.
Imperial Physician Liao was one of the first batch to enter the south of the Yangtze River with an army of 200,000, and had witnessed the entire process of the drought in the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, he knew that the prescription belonged to Princess Chu Yu, not Chu Yuexi.
"Princess Chu Yu not only sent prescriptions, but also later delivered a large amount of medicinal materials. However... there were too many patients infected with the plague, and so many medicinal materials could only last a few days."
Doctor Liao did not tell Prince Rong that, in fact, more than half of the medicinal materials were eaten by the common people who were not infected at the time.
If the common people had not drank a bowl of soup to prevent the epidemic, I am afraid that not only these people would have been infected at the beginning.
In the history books, when a plague occurred, hundreds of thousands of people did not die.
(End of chapter)