The faint scent of medicine spilled into his nose, whether it was from the white cloth or from hers.

Her face was close to him, and she stood on tiptoe no more than the height of his mouth, and her arms tried to wrap around his neck, gently holding it, and her breath was stronger.

Never so close to someone, Yan Congyu subconsciously wanted to avoid it, only to hear her soft reminder in her ears: "Don't move." ”

Yan Congyu's body stiffened slightly, but it was just the time to tie a cloth, but it was as long as a century.

The breath that belongs to the girl alone came to his face, and Yan Congyu also distinguished the faint fragrance in the thick medicinal fragrance, but he didn't know what it was, and his breath was unstable.

The slightly cool fingertips touched his neck, Yan Congyu's body trembled, and when Qi Xiangsi knotted and let go, he just looked up at him, looked at each other, and avoided it.

The drizzle fell lightly on her hair, and quietly on her cheeks, and the fine drops of water could only be seen very closely, and the long eyelashes seemed to be stained, accompanied by her slight fluttering tremors, as if they were about to fall.

He looks like him under his beautiful eyes, and his cold expression is a little cramped? Feeling uneasy?

There is no powder under the beautiful face, and there is some powder on the cheeks, which seems to be getting more and more ruddy, so thin that the breath is mixed with the voice of Lord Song "Little Wangye", and he suddenly sobered up.

Qi Xiangsi reflexively let go of his hand and retreated, and when she lowered her head, Yan Congyu was suddenly a little disappointed and couldn't see her reaction, that is, in a few breaths, he turned around and looked at Lord Song indifferently, and the white cloth covered half of his face and also covered his feelings: "Hmm." ”

"Little prince, a new epidemic has been found among the people, and the lower officials will immediately send someone to send you back to Beijing." Lord Song stared at his face and whispered, saying that it was a new epidemic, but he was also afraid of scaring the little prince, he had been an official for many years and had heard of the plague many years ago, and many people died at that time, and many people were infected.

Yan Congyu glanced at the people who were hurriedly carried out by the officers and soldiers, and the cloth on his face was still smelling of medicine, a new epidemic? What kind of epidemic is that she should be so hurried, so she will put a white cloth on him.

Seeing that the little prince was silent, Lord Song couldn't figure out what kind of temper the strange and difficult prince was in this rumor, so he shouted more and more respectfully: "Little prince, please." ”

Yan Congyu looked at Qi Xiangxi, she had already walked towards the courtyard, her steps were hurrying, and she was in the same mood as her master.

He withdrew his gaze and turned to walk towards the makeshift room above, without saying or saying no

Qi Xiangsi almost bumped into Wang Lin after entering the yard, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he was going out with some clothes and threw them, she helped carry them to the open space outside, Wang Lin saw that her cheeks were crimson, and asked out of kindness: "What's wrong?" ”

Qi Xiangsi shook his head quickly, in fact, it was only a short time to tie the cloth for him, and he paused when tying the knot, Qi Xiangsi felt strange in her heart at this time, how could she reach out to tie the white cloth for him, what did she think at the time.

Wang Lin saw that she was distracted again, and smiled: "The teacher said that you reacted quickly just now, if you hadn't mentioned those rat infestations, I'm afraid you wouldn't have been diagnosed so quickly." ”

Wang Lin smiled very kindly, Qi Xiangsi really came to his senses, and poured out with one end of the big basket in his hand: "The teacher has been diagnosed?" ”

"Two patients at Dr. Luo have hemorrhagic fever." Wang Lin looked at so many clothes thrown out here, and didn't know whether to tell it to himself or Qi Xiangsi, "This time, I'm afraid it's difficult." ”

After returning to the courtyard, the sudden increase in the number of patients made the atmosphere more and more heavy and tense, at this time it was already dark, the courtyard was lit with lights, the lights on the road outside were sparse, and several lights were extinguished by the rain, and the most that came through the silence was the different sounds in the shed, and the movement of officers and soldiers hurriedly carrying people through the muddy road, and some people looked out from the shed, and they began to panic.

There was a smell of medicine everywhere, Qi Xiangsi's cheeks were wrapped in a cloth smoked with medicine, and he looked for medicine in the house with an oil lamp, and many patients had been sent to the courtyard outside the house, all of whom were found by officers and soldiers from the sheds of houses everywhere, and their symptoms were mostly similar to those of the previous patients, some were mild, some were more serious, and they had to go down according to the symptoms when they grabbed the medicine, which increased their difficulty.

Qi Xiangsi has had several moments very close to death, and she has also seen the children who were taken away sick and died in the village, but it was the first time she saw such a situation, the people in the shed were sick, and the danger of death was hidden everywhere.

These diseases caused by rodent infestations are contagious, and plague is even more terrifying.

Hundreds of years ago, the ancestor emperor fought the country, once broke through a city, after the city was broken is a great epidemic, at that time there were countless casualties, and more than 10,000 people died in just 32 days.

Because of the chaos in the city at the beginning of the attack, it was the young doctor who saved people, and the epidemic that was initially judged to be typhoid fever was later determined to be the plague.

Qi Xiangsi read many books on the way here, and now some of these patients have died violently in a few days, and some are caused by rat infestation, and all kinds of diseases under the flood are even more difficult.

Stroking the cloth on his cheeks, Qi Xiangsi took out the selected medicine and handed it to Jiang Ying, in the shed, Imperial Doctor Chen and they immediately asked people to isolate the patients as soon as they were diagnosed, and outside Lord Song had already cleaned up a few places specifically for these patients.

It was confirmed that the onset of plague was too fast, and it would die within a few days, but the epidemic disease infected by the rat infestation was discovered in time and there was treatment, and the places where these patients were placed were mostly selected in private houses.

Late at night, the rain finally stopped, the road outside the courtyard was already muddy, everyone was covering their faces, and Qi Xiangsi was still wearing thick linen clothes.

The coughing in the shed continued, and Imperial Doctor Chen's eyes were already red, and they hadn't stopped since they arrived here, and their iron bodies couldn't stand it.

Qi Xiangsi fed some boiled medicinal soup to a few patients who were in good condition according to what Imperial Doctor Chen said, and suddenly there was a sound of falling things outside, Qi Xiangsi put down the bowl and went out to take a look, the little boy during the day was carrying his sister on his back, and he was holding a package in his arms, and when he went down the steps, he accidentally kicked over the crockpot under the eaves, and hurriedly wanted to leave here.

After seeing Qi Xiangsi, his steps were faster, and he tried to cover the person on his back, Qi Xiangsi felt that the little girl on his back did not seem to be asleep at a glance, and quickly stepped forward to pull her, but the little boy refused and ran away.

But after all, he was carrying a person on his back, Qi Xiangsi quickly caught up with him, grabbed his arm and dragged him to the side, pressed against the wall, quickly turned the little girl's head, covered her forehead, and it was amazingly hot.

Qi Xiangsi didn't say a word and hugged the little girl off his back, and the boy immediately came to grab it: "What are you going to do, give my sister back!" ”

Qi Xiangsi freed up a hand and directly pressed his shoulder and scolded: "You want to kill your sister!" ”

The boy was stunned for a moment, his fierce expression faded, but he still wanted to snatch the sister in her hand, Qi Xiangsi simply pressed him directly against the wall, raised his knee and fixed him on it, raised his hand and gently covered the girl's forehead, rolled down her eyelids, which were already red, and her upper chest was also red.

"You let go of me!" The boy watched her look at her sister, struggling fiercely to turn over, Qi Xiangsi unceremoniously pressed hard, he couldn't play with his hands behind his back, and began to shout, "I won't let you send my sister there, you let go of me, you let go of her!" ”

"You don't know what you said about it." Qi Xiangsi saw an officer and soldier coming in the distance, shouted for them to catch the boy, and then carried the girl into the courtyard, put it on the board bed inside and turned his head to find Imperial Doctor Chen, "Teacher, it seems to be a hemorrhagic fever." ”

Imperial Physician Chen touched her forehead, the little girl may have nothing to vomit in her stomach, nausea and retching, her uncomfortable face was entangled together, after seeing it, Imperial Physician Chen had the same judgment as Qi Xiangsi: "Compared with the previous patient, please, the child is worse resistant, you carry her to the shed in front." ”

At this time, the boy rushed in, and saw Qi Xiangsi handing over his sister to someone else to take him out, Jiang Ying stopped him outside: "This is saving her, if you still stop it, aren't you afraid that your sister will die?" ”

"The people over there are dead, and I don't want you to send her there." The boy was full of fear, and he was talking about the place where the plague patients were housed.

Qi Xiangsi put down the little girl and handed it to Wang Lin, walked out and grabbed the boy's clothes, pressed him hard to sit down, and looked at him condescendingly: "What did you eat." ”

The boy ignored her, his eyes were full of stubbornness, and Qi Xiangsi was not afraid that he would not be able to deal with him: "If you don't say it, I'll send your sister to it, and you know what the situation is there." ”

Jiang Ying turned his head to look at her, how could anyone be so threatening.

"And they ate the bread you gave us." The boy had tears in his eyes, maybe he realized that he couldn't snatch his sister over, maybe he was too scared, he pursed his mouth strongly, tears fell down, but he didn't even want to gasp.

"What water do you drink these days, and what do you eat?" Qi Xiangsi was unmoved, and asked him coldly, the boy was anxious, and his words were messy, drinking water from the river, rainwater stored in the water tank, and eating vegetables that had not been dug up in the vegetable field outside, and the rations distributed by the yamen before were snatched away by others, so he ate everything when he was hungry.

Before the accident, there should have been a brother and sister who were cared for by their parents, and although the clothes worn by the boy were simple but clean, but now there are only two brothers and sisters left, and they can guess what happened without asking.

Qi Xiangsi looked at him, pulled him to the place where the medicine was boiled in front, scooped a spoonful of soup medicine from the pot into the bowl and handed it to him: "Drink it." ”

The boy glanced at her, Qi Xiangsi replied to his cold eyes, he held the bowl and blew a few times and drank it a few times, Qi Xiangsi picked up the steamed buns on the shelf and handed it to him: "I'll let you see my sister when I'm done." ”

When the boy heard this, he hurriedly grabbed the big mouth plug, and choked on the second bite, Qi Xiangsi saw him beating his chest and didn't help him: "If you choke to death, no one will care about her." ”

The boy blushed and coughed violently, lowered his head to eat steamed buns, but his movements were much slower

Three days passed, and when dawn came, the east gradually revealed the white of the fish's belly, and the people in several courtyards did not rest for several days, and the officers and soldiers also searched everywhere for several days.

Fortunately, although there are many patients, but the disease is controlled in this area will not spread outward, under the construction of the imperial doctor, some of the clothes of the sick people are concentrated in the open space and burned, and Qi Xiangsi went to see the little girl's situation in the early morning.

The patients infected with the epidemic were isolated, some of the only typhoid fever cases were also arranged, and the people who were in good condition were moved to higher places, so that in case some of them were infected and had not yet surfaced, they could not go out and move around freely.

The sky was overcast, and it didn't rain anymore, but it seemed to be shrouded in shadows, and there were cries from time to time in the isolation room, and some family members couldn't bear to keep their relatives here, and insisted on coming in to accompany them, and some medicines were delivered to them and fed to the patients inside.

Qi Xiangsi saw the brother and sister outside the hut next door, the little girl who had drunk the medicine did not get better so quickly, she vomited a few times in the past few days, the boy has been by her side, remembering that Qi Xiangsi told him, and the little girl vomited all these things to the courtyard outside, if he also had an accident, the sister would not be able to live.

Those who could afford to move left here when the flood occurred, leaving behind mostly the old and weak, and these people were killed by typhoid fever, that is, more than 20 people had died in just three days.

The boy in the house saw Qi Xiangsi, and when he went in, he ignored her, and he still remembered the grudge against her before pushing her, and watched Qi Xiangsi diagnose her pulse, and said in the first sentence: "I know that you are helping by the doctor's side, will you treat people." ”

"You're right." Qi Xiangsi checked her chest and back and armpits, and turned her head to look at him, "I'm really a half-ass." ”

The boy glared at her angrily, Qi Xiangsi raised his hand and pinched his face through the cloth: "Yes, you still have the strength to get angry, it seems that you are fine." ”

I have never seen such a doctor, and such a person can be a doctor in the future!

The boy glared at her, probably afraid of Qi Xiangsi's methods, and stopped talking angrily.

Qi Xiangsi asked about the situation of the night after carefully examining according to what the teacher said, and after leaving, he went into the next door and asked about the patients' conditions one by one.

After coming out, it was already dawn, Qi Xiangsi saw someone above sending medicine down, walked through a few alleys to check, I don't know if it was because of the medicine or the water level subsided, and there were a lot fewer mice in the alley.

Qi Xiangsi came to the river again, compared to the vigor of the previous days, although the river surface did not fall much today, it was much calmer, the water quality like yellow mud and sand is now much lighter, and the air was very cool in the cloudy sky after the rain, mixed with a strong muddy smell, and there were all kinds of medicinal smells in the distance.

The wind blew people sober, Qi Xiangsi turned to look at the house where the little prince came out yesterday, the door is now closed, and he should have gone back to Kyoto three days ago.

How could the prince with a noble body stay here, Qi Xiangsi felt funny at the idea that came up, and when he turned around to follow the downstream road to take a look, there were steps in front of him, Yan Congyu and Lu Qinzheng walked up.

Qi Xiangsi didn't think about running away this time, his first reaction was that he didn't seem to have changed his clothes.

His eyes subconsciously fell on his feet, and the little prince, who was disgusted even with the rain, had been tormented these days.

After two thoughts, "why is he still here", he also blurted out: "Why haven't you gone back yet?" ”

Yan Congyu walked up, his steps naturally avoided those muddy pits, his feet stepped on the stones, and when he came to her, he looked at her as if to say, where to go back.

Qi Xiangsi suddenly wanted to laugh, withdrew his gaze from the stone, and didn't answer him, it is conceivable that the emperor's favorite son, Shen Guifei's heart, how could the noble little prince still stay here.

The emperor will not pursue the death of the people, but if something happens to the little prince, these people sent by the hospital will not have to lose their heads.

Thinking of this, Qi Xiangsi wanted to persuade him to go back: "The disaster relief has been here for so many days, shouldn't the little prince go back to recover his life?" ”

"You want me to go back."

Yan Congyu pointed through her with a word, and Qi Xiangsi did not deny it: "You are the prince, your status is noble, and if you stay here, Lord Song still devotes his energy to take care of you, isn't it a lack of skills." ”

Lu Qin, who was the protector of the master, couldn't help but argue for the master, and what Miss Qi said was too underestimating to the prince: "The prince rushed to Zhuzhou overnight, and the rice and medicinal materials sent over in the past few days were all ordered by the prince in Zhuzhou, and if you wait for the imperial court's order, it will take at least seven or eight days." ”

It is impossible for Yan Congyu to carry Wen Ling with him, so if he goes to Zhuzhou like this, he will force them to send them over, and only report to the court afterwards.

If this kind of thing is good to ask for, it is meritorious, and if it is not good to ask for it, it is an abuse of power.

Qi Xiangsi was slightly stunned, and Lu Qin said again: "According to what Miss Qi said, the houses have been cleared out here to house the people, the prince has hardly slept in the past few days, and has been on the road, and the downstream water level is now receding, and the prince will go to inspect after he comes, and he has not rested." ”

Qi Xiangsi looked at him, the corners of her mouth moved slightly, and she didn't know what to say, she thought that a high-ranking person like him didn't care about these lives, it was not that he was cold, but when he was in a high position, some things were naturally cheap, just like the maids in the palace could be beaten and scolded at will, the palace girls in the palace died unknowingly, the people were suffering, and there was Lord Song who was presiding over here, he should go back to Kyoto, return to life, and not be so dedicated.

She seemed to be thinking wrong.

Lu Qin also wanted to say that Yan Congyu glanced at him, and he stood there silent.

Qi Xiangsi raised her hand and stretched out towards his chest, Yan Congyu dodged back, and she took a step faster and grabbed an unknown flying insect from his shirt.

When he let go, the insect fled quickly, and Qi Xiangsi coughed lightly: "Then you, do you want to take a rest." ”

"No, you don't."

"I'd better go get you some medicine."

Yan Congyu looked at her hands pinched and placed in front of her, looking like a child who had made a mistake, and the feelings that had just been inspected suddenly improved.

"Okay."

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Qi Xiangsi carried the basket and walked up, the requisitioned house in front of him was where the little prince lived, after entering, Lu Qin was fetching water outside, and he was very happy to see her coming, pointed to the house over there, and let her go in by herself, and the prince was inside.

Qi Xiangsi knocked on the door frame outside, and when he saw that there was no movement inside, he opened the curtain and walked in, Yan Congyu sat at the table by the window, facing him sideways, looking at it in his hand.

There was only a bed and a table in the simple room, and the light outside the window was not very bright, but these seemed to matter here, as long as he was here, he looked noble.

He lowered his head quietly, his expression was focused, his brows were always slightly frowned, and there were problems in front of him, Qi Xiangsi always felt that at such an age, with his expression, he would grow old for many years.

But after looking at it for a long time, it seems that it is a good match, if he is not like this, he is not a little prince.

When Yan Congyu raised his head when he turned to the last page, Qi Xiangsi put the basket down, took out the medicine from it and put it in front of him: "Drink it while it's hot." ”

The medicine was cooked thick and black, and the smell was also strong, or Qi Xiangsi personally watched the heat and decoction, focusing on prevention, lest he get sick due to excessive fatigue.

Yan Congyu took a few sips of the bowl and drank it, but he still couldn't control it, his brows twitched slightly, and a piece of starch candy came very quickly in front of him, Yan Congyu paused and took it and put it in his mouth, and Qi Xiangxi's voice came from his ears, "I'm afraid those children don't take medicine, this is used to coax them." ”

He doesn't speak.

Qi Xiangsi smiled, and took out the steamed buns from the basket again, now is not the point to eat, this is still too late to eat in the morning, so I simply warmed it up and brought it over.

This time he didn't answer, only looked at the bowl where she put down the steamed buns, and his voice was faint: "Send someone to send you back in a few days." ”

"Go back and do something." Qi Xiangsi saw that he didn't eat, and he was hungry, so he reached out and pinched half of it and sent it to his mouth, leaning against the wall lightly, and he was tired after standing for a long time.

"Aren't you afraid of your family?"

Qi Xiangsi thought about it seriously and shook his head: "Don't be afraid." ”

Yan Congyu raised his head and was about to say something, when suddenly there was a noise outside.

Qi Xiangsi ran outside, saw the officers and soldiers running towards the house where the plague patients were housed, shouted that something was wrong, stuffed the remaining steamed buns into his mouth, and ran over with them

Several people who were diagnosed with rat disease ran out of the house and crashed into one of the houses where the people were housed, and the inside was suddenly chaotic into a pot of porridge, screaming and noisy, and the people inside were crowded out, and the officers and soldiers outside could not enter.

When Qi Xiangsi arrived, the two officers and soldiers squeezed in and had already held down a patient, and there were more people crowded in the house, several of them were trampled on the ground because of the pushing, and they were injured, crying and wailing, Qi Xiangsi squeezed away the crowd that kept coming out and went inside, threw the messy hair bundle back, knelt on the ground and first asked someone to help the injured people aside, so that people would take care of them so as not to be stepped on again.

Outside, Imperial Physician Luo and they arrived quickly, and the patients who had not yet been caught by the officers and soldiers inside suddenly rushed towards the people in those corners, and the room that had just stabilized was chaotic again, and a swarm of bees crowded towards the door, and Imperial Physician Luo couldn't get in outside, and it was extremely chaotic inside.

When Yan Congyu arrived, there were people inside and outside the door, and the fear of death at this time had already frightened those people, who still listened to the command outside, they were originally settled here because they were afraid of a latent disease, otherwise they would have gone to the top a long time ago, and now suddenly two people with rat disease ran in, crushing the last string in people's hearts, they were afraid of death.

Yan Congyu looked at the window, and immediately let Lu Qin break through the window, and the people at the door saw that the window was now open to go out, and they swarmed towards the window, at this time Lu Qin had already entered, and directly drew his sword and pointed at those who were swarming over, which made them stop.

Imperial Doctor Luo and the others went in through the window, because they didn't know how many people inside were scratched by these two patients, and they were worried about being infected, so they asked Lord Song to take down all the people who went out of this room and lock them up first, as well as the people they had just come into contact with.

Lord Song quickly transferred people over, Qi Xiangsi leaned against the wall in the room, and the people next to her retreated a little, so she was able to stand firmly, took the medicine box from Jiang Ying's hand, and squatted down to give the injured patients a simple treatment: "You stay here and don't move." ”

There was a cry in the house, a few people huddled in the corner, not far in front of them was the rat disease patient who was suppressed by the officers and soldiers, those two people were too fierce, and they still said that if I die, you don't want to live, most of the people here will bury him.

Qi Xiangsi's heart sank when he saw the sadness on those people's faces, and he had just pushed for the second time, and there were more injured people.

After seeing one and getting up to look at the other, and asked Qi Xiangsi and them to take a look at the injured people in the house, at this time, one of the tied people suddenly struggled vigorously, and rushed towards the nearest Qi Xiangsi, he also opened his mouth wide and wanted to bite, it was only the distance in front of her, Qi Xiangsi retreated, and when he was about to dodge, a sword hilt in front of him stretched out, and slapped on the man's face with a snap, knocking him back.

The coughing sound suddenly sounded, and Qi Xiangsi only had time to see clearly that the man was coughing up blood violently towards her, and his arm was pulled by someone, and he turned his back and crashed into his arms.

Qi Xiangsi's head was protected by him with his hand, only to hear Lu Qin shout Wang Ye, and the blood coughed up by the patient splashed directly onto Yan Congyu's hands and neck.

The next moment, Yan Congyu drew a knife from Lu Qin's hand and stabbed a sword into the man's chest.

There was silence all around, Yan Congyu was like a ghost official from hell at this time, his expression was cold and terrifying, he looked at the person in front of him with cold eyes, watched him lose his vitality and fell to the ground, pulled back the knife from his heart, and the blood dripped down the knife body to the ground.

"Kill him." Lu Qin took the knife from his hand, and neatly executed the master's order and directly killed the struggling patient, no one around dared to approach anymore, and even those who were injured and needed to be treated were very afraid of Yan Congyu.

Qi Xiangsi raised his head, but he didn't see what kind of look was in his eyes, and his heart was all hung on the blood stained on his neck.

There was nothing to use on his body, Qi Xiangsi took off his scarf and didn't even think about wiping the blood stains on his neck directly for him, and his mouth trembled slightly: "You go out quickly." ”

Qi Xiangsi pushed him hard, but couldn't push him: "You go out quickly, stay in the house and don't walk around." ”

At this time, Imperial Physician Luo also came over, and when he saw the blood, his face was calm: "Lord Wang, please go out with the lower officials immediately." ”

"You stay here, Lord Song, you come to clean up the aftermath." Yan Congyu directly grabbed Qi Xiangsi's hand and pulled her out, his voice was so cold that no one was allowed to resist, "You go with me." ”

Qi Xiangsi's arm was very painful when he pulled him, and he was worried that his hands were stained, so he had to follow him back to the house just now, and he didn't think about it after entering the house, urging him to change his clothes and let Lu Qin boil water: "I'll go to Imperial Doctor Chen to get medicine, don't leave here." ”

Seeing that he didn't let go, Qi Xiangsi couldn't help but raise his voice too high: "Okay, I promise you, I won't go back there!" ”

She raised her hand and promised, "It's a puppy to deceive." ”

Finally exoneded, Qi Xiangsi trotted to the courtyard, Imperial Physician Chen was not there, she rummaged in the hut and searched for the prescription prescribed by Imperial Physician Chen to others before, quickly grabbed the medicine, took a decoction pot and rushed to the little prince, after entering the courtyard, he went to the kitchen to decoct the medicine, and called Lu Qin to come over and instruct: "Soak these herbs first, and then put them down after half an hour, and after the decoction is done, you let the prince drink the medicine while it is hot." ”

"Miss Qi, what about you."

Qi Xiangsi waved his hand: "I'm not sure how many people are injured in the room over there, there are not enough people, I have to go and see." ”

As soon as she turned around, Qi Xiangsi was startled by the black shadow at the door and stood in place, Yan Congyu changed her clothes and looked at her indifferently: "You don't want to die?" ”

"Doctor Luo, they're all there." Qi Xiangsi walked out of the kitchen and said to Lu Qin, who came out, "The little prince's clothes can't be left in the house, wait for them to be burned, I also cooked medicinal soup, and let the prince take it first when the water dries into a bowl left." ”

Qi Xiangsi finished speaking in a voice that was calmer than him, and left the courtyard directly, as soon as Lu Qin turned his head, his master's face dropped again, but just now he felt that Miss Qi seemed to be angry.

It's hard to understand.