Liu Zhijing lay in the post station for two days before he saw Gu Cong again.

Gu Cong was originally a little white face, and he had already darkened a lot along the way, but in just two days, Liu Zhijing found that he seemed to be darkened again: "What is Brother Gu doing these days?" ”

"I'm going to the smallpox-plagued area with the princess." Gu Cong actually didn't quite understand why the princess took him to find a cow. It is said that he was a physician, and he thought that after he came, he would be sent to the epidemic area to diagnose and prescribe prescriptions for patients, but the princess gave him a new task, saying that he was going to find some cattle with smallpox, and these cattle could not be infected with other diseases.

Because there is still anthrax in the northwest, it is very likely that cattle will get both smallpox and anthrax. Therefore, there must be an insider to tell what kind of disease the cow has.

The princess had already told him in detail about the characteristics of anthrax in cattle, horses, and animals, and had taken him to see sick cattle and horses, and now he understood very well that he would never make a mistake!

"To the smallpox-plagued area?" Liu Zhijing's body instinctively shrank, as if Gu Cong was now carrying the poison of smallpox, "Brother Gu had smallpox when he was young?" ”

"Nope. However, the princess said that adult people are not susceptible to smallpox, so there is no need to be too afraid, as long as you take precautions. ”

How can this be believed! Liu Zhijing shouted in his heart. His two uncles' families, whether adults or children, all died the same!

"What about the others?" Gu Cong is not the only one who came to treat the epidemic this time.

"The princess said that those who have never had smallpox should try not to go to the epidemic area." The princess didn't care about the life or death of others and took him to the epidemic area, but also because he was an expert, who could not only distinguish the symptoms, but also better protect himself.

"Then you are still going to ......" Liu Zhijing's eyes were about to pop out. He wanted to make meritorious service, but he didn't expect that there was someone here who wanted to make meritorious service even more, and he didn't even want his life!

Gu Cong smiled slightly: "The princess has never had smallpox, and she is not going to the epidemic area yet." "Even the prince of the county has to look for cattle, but he doesn't enter the epidemic area, but only commands on the periphery.

To say that Gu Cong really admires the princess of the county. He went to look for cattle, and although he entered the smallpox-endemic area, he did not deal directly with patients who had already contracted smallpox. But the princess of the county has to go to see those patients first, which is more dangerous than him.

Gu Cong himself is a healer, so he naturally knows that as a healer, he always has to deal with dangerous diseases. However, the princess of the county is not a doctor, and even the emperor did not issue an order for her to treat the epidemic this time, that is, as long as she wants, she can stay out of the matter. But she didn't do it, this is what Gu Cong admires the most, this is the heart of a true healer.

Liu Zhijing heard the cold air coming out of his heart. There is no smallpox in Yanzhou City yet, but if Jiang goes to the epidemic area like this, maybe he will bring smallpox back to Yanzhou City, and when the time comes, he will have a broken leg and can't run away if he wants to!

"Brother Gu, my leg-" Liu Zhijing punched his thigh, "It's true, something went wrong at this time, not only can't help, but also affects everyone." ”

Gu Cong thought he was really guilty, and hurriedly said, "Brother Liu doesn't need to care. When your leg is healed, there is still a lot to do. According to the princess, this method of avoiding acne will take more than one or two days to be implemented in the entire northwest, and there are still a lot of things to be done in the future.

Liu Zhijing couldn't wait to grab this nerd and shake it twice, so he had to say: "It's just that I still have to rely on someone to take care of me, so the princess is busy and worried about me, it's better to go back to the capital, at least the princess doesn't have to worry about it." ”

Gu Cong was stunned for a moment, and then he heard what he meant: "Brother Liu, do you want to go back to the capital?" ”

Liu Zhijing keenly saw that Gu Cong's eyes had changed, but at this time, for the sake of his life, he couldn't care too much about his face, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "I don't know how to cure diseases, I just want to do some trivial things, what to collect medicinal materials and sundries, I still barely do it." But now, if you can't run errands if you want to, what's the use? Brother Gu also knows that I always have a brother-in-law with the prince of the county, and I am lying idly like this, and it seems that I have also taken a part of the credit for the treatment of the epidemic, and it is difficult to ensure that no one behind me talks about the prince and the princess......"

There is some truth in this, Gu Cong's eyes softened, and he secretly thought that he had misunderstood him, so he said: "In this case, Brother Liu might as well go and talk to the prince to see what the prince means." ”

Liu Zhi sighed: "I am like this now, if I go to mention this matter to the prince, the prince will naturally keep me because of the princess's affection." I thought, can I ask Brother Gu to mention it in front of the prince, so that someone can send me back to the capital. ”

Gu Cong was about to set off, and before leaving, he took the time to come over to see Liu Zhijing's feet, and didn't have so much time to entangle with him, so he thought about it for a while and said: "Then I will mention it for Brother Liu, and the result will only be determined by the prince." After that, he went back to his room to pack his things and hurried away.

Since he was walking with Shen Shu, he naturally wanted to meet at the Dingbei Hou Mansion first, so as soon as they met, he mentioned Liu Zhijing's words: "...... Brother Liu meant to go back to the capital, so as not to cause trouble to the prince again. I don't know what the prince thinks? ”

Shen Shu sneered: "This king, the future brother-in-law, is very thoughtful. ”

Gu Cong heard his strange tone, thought for a while, and said, "Maybe Brother Liu is really afraid that he will get credit for nothing...... At least he still has a lot of strength to collect herbs along the way."

Shen Shu laughed again: "Imperial Doctor Gu is kind-hearted, no wonder the emperor and princess trust you." That's it, so that the person sent him back to the capital, and reported his credit for collecting medicinal materials. In addition, I have to say how he was injured, so that no villain would suspect that he had escaped. He didn't plan to erase Liu Zhijing's hard work, but well, the little coolie from collecting medicinal materials was too far from the real credit. As for whether outsiders will think that Liu Zhijing escaped from the battle, it has nothing to do with him.

Although Gu Cong felt that his words were sarcastic, he didn't think much about it. After all, the big thing is ahead, and Liu Zhijing's matter is really irrelevant, so he said casually: "The prince is a benevolent person, and the lower officials thank the prince for Brother Liu." "Turn around and go to check the protective things that have been prepared—these things are at stake in the lives of people when they enter the smallpox area.

Shen Shu shook his head at Gu Cong's busy back, but he couldn't help but smile, with these people, why worry about the uneven epidemic situation in the northwest!

"Lord, the princess is out." Fifteen sharp-eyed, saw a group of people coming out of the courtyard, and immediately whispered a reminder.

Shen Shu raised his eyes and looked. Taohua wore a dark red long jacket with narrow sleeves and a tight jacket, covered with a dark blue cape, and the lower skirt was shorter than the usual one, revealing the sheepskin boots underneath. His black hair was braided and tightly coiled, a little strange to look at, but it was extremely neat. Without jewelry on his head and no grease powder on his face, it is obviously a face that is no different from the past, but it makes people feel that something is different.

"The princess looked like a general on an expedition." Fifteen muttered something in a small voice.

This sentence reminded Shen Shu. Taohua is tall and tall, even if she comes to the northwest, she is not inferior. The two eyebrows are like ink paintings, the heroic spirit between the eyebrows is not like a Jiangnan woman at all, when she was in the capital, she always walked unhurriedly, and spoke softly, so she didn't feel that she was striding up at this time, and she really looked like a general who was about to go on an expedition, with a decisive look on her face, as if if she put a knife in her hand, she would be able to cut off the opponent's head with a knife the next moment, which attracted the subordinates of the Dingbei Hou Mansion along the way to see her and unconsciously let go to the side.

Momoka didn't know what everyone was thinking. At this moment, she seemed to have returned to her previous life, with a sense of urgency and responsibility when the hospital organized a flight to the earthquake site, as well as a faint pride. She walked all the way to Shen Shuma, only to find that he was smiling, and couldn't help asking, "What are you laughing at?" ”

"Nothing." Shen Shu turned over and dismounted, and personally raised the curtain of the carriage for her, "The princess went out on the expedition and won the battle." ”

Taohua smiled: "The soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, it all depends on whether the prince supports it later." ”

Taohua followed a string of people, except for a few maids and Dieyi who were married by the Jiang family, who wanted to follow her to the epidemic area, and Cicada Yi who wanted to follow Shen Shu. Cicada Yi stood at the end of the line, watching Shen Shu open the curtain with one hand and help Taohua get into the carriage with the other, and he didn't know what it was like.

Originally, she thought that when she returned to the northwest, Taohua's life would not be so comfortable, and the Dingbei Hou Mansion didn't like her, so imperceptibly, Shen Shu's love for Taohua would naturally fade away. Especially in the matter of eye disease, maybe Mrs. Dingbeihou will let Shen Shu understand that Taohua is simply deceiving him, intending to shirk Jiang Fanghui's responsibility back then! In this way, knowing that he was deceived, will Shen Shu still treat Taohua as he did at the beginning?

However, the development of things seems to be completely contrary to her hopes, everyone in Dingbei Hou Mansion does have a bad attitude towards Taohua, but Shen Shu has always maintained Taohua, and what is even more unexpected is that Taohua cannot cure the epidemic in the northwest, but proposed to let everyone plant pox to prevent smallpox infection.

"Sister, let's go." Dieyi had already led a horse, and seeing that Cicada Yi was still standing in place in a daze, she couldn't help but greet, "The prince is about to set off." ”

The maids of the Jiang family are all from Jiangnan and don't know how to ride horses, so they have all gotten into the carriage at this time. Shen Shu and a cadre of guards had also turned over and mounted their horses, and sure enough, only the cicada clothes were still standing there, which looked very abrupt, and even the subordinates of the Dingbei Hou Mansion looked at her a little strangely.

Cicada Yi has never been so out of shape, and when she woke up, she couldn't help but blush a little, and hurriedly led her horse, and said in disguise: "I'm thinking, if you forget to bring something, if you go and find that you have brought something missing, but it will be a delay." ”

She has always been meticulous and thoughtful, Dieyi did not doubt that she had it, and nodded: "I also checked it again before going out, and there was nothing missing, sister, don't worry." ”

The carriage drove all the way out of Yanzhou City and divided into two teams outside the city: Shen Shu took Gu Cong to Duzhou City to find the cattle with smallpox, and Taohua first went to the place where the infected patients gathered, and then went to find the place where anthrax originated.

Shen Shu stopped at the intersection for a moment, watched Taohua's carriage go away quickly, and then turned the horse's head and said loudly: "Go!" Let's not fall behind the princess. ”

If there's anything like hell, it's one of them. In a fenced village, when I arrived at the entrance of the village, I heard a heart-rending cry - two corpses were carried out by several people with white cloths, two women chased after them and cried, and two children fell from one of their skirts, and one pulled her one by one, and asked, "Where is Daddy?" ”

The maids who had just gotten off the car all stood stiffly, and the bellflower was already red in her eyes, but Taohua darkened her face: "Why is the child here?" Sick too? ”

"It should be that there is no ...... yet" to greet her was a local acquaintance, who was already very busy, "but this woman has no relatives and no relatives at home, so she has to come with two children to ......"

"Nonsense!" Taohua said sharply, "This is the patient's residence, how can someone who has not been sick come in!" There is no one at home, can't the government temporarily set up a good hall and take care of the children first? As she spoke, she strode over, took a child with one hand and looked at it carefully, then pushed the little one to Tongzhi, "Take him out immediately, he must be quarantined for three days, and if he doesn't get sick, he will be sent back to the city!" ”

The woman was crying so darkly that suddenly one of the two children was taken away, and she hurriedly reached out and grabbed it: "Who are you?" Give me back my baby! ”

Taohua was already wearing gloves on her hands that the maids rushed out, and she turned her hand and separated the woman's hand: "You have already been infected, and your eldest son is also infected, do you want to let your younger son get sick again?" "The woman's arms and the older child's face were already blistered, except for the younger one, which seemed to be fine.

The woman was completely confused. Her family came to the northwest from the mainland to beg for a living, and there were no relatives in the local area, and her husband was the pillar of the family, and suddenly her husband fell ill, and the sky fell, and now she only knows to hold the two children by her side, and while stretching her hands to pull, she cried: "Our family died and died together......

"Nonsense!" Taohua picked up the child forcefully, "Take these two people to the cutaneous anthrax isolation area and take medicine immediately!" "Cutaneous anthrax has an 80 percent cure rate, which is relatively safer than the rest of the anthrax, and as long as the woman does not catch any other diseases while caring for her husband, she has a good chance of surviving. However, children have poor resistance, and if they are infected, they can easily become the "two percent" that cannot survive.

The child was taken away from his mother, startled at first, and then began to cry. Taohua hugged him and shook it, and motioned to the mint who followed behind him to take out a piece of candied fruit and stuff it into his mouth: "Don't cry obediently, my mother and brother are tired, I want to go to sleep, can I play by myself?" ”

When the mouth was filled with something sweet, the child's tears were withdrawn, and while chewing on the candied fruit, he sobbed and asked, "Where is Daddy?" ”

Taohua couldn't bear to turn her head, and then said softly: "Daddy is tired from working all day, so he needs to sleep more." Don't make any noise with him, let him sleep well, okay? ”

Dieyi was also born in a poor family, otherwise she would not have been sold to Dingbei Hou Mansion to be a girl, but after all, her parents were still there when she left home, and she had never seen such a tragic situation, so she couldn't help but feel a little red in her eyes, and stepped forward and said: "Princess, the slave and maid will carry him over." ”

Taohua sighed, turned her head and instructed the fellow acquaintance next to her: "Go check immediately, has anyone brought in any children who are not infected?" If so, give them out immediately. Even adults, if you don't get sick, you shouldn't come! ”

Tongzhi Nuo Nuo hurriedly urged his subordinates to do it, and defended himself in a low voice: "The princess doesn't know, these people must always be taken care of when they are sent in, and there are not many Langzhong in the northwest area, and they are all long in bruises, so when such a thing happens...... If the family doesn't come to take care of it, the officials and others really can't take care of it. "The people in the yamen are also people who are not sick, so should they come to take care of the sick? If you don't need the patient's family, where will you have the manpower to take care of it?

Taohua couldn't help but sigh again: "That's it, you have a point, it's just an adult, children must not come in!" "I have poor resistance, and I am not as self-disciplined as adults, and I know how to protect myself, so I am easily infected.

Walking in from the entrance of the village, you can hear the sound of moaning and crying everywhere, and from time to time someone is carried out covered with a white cloth, which is also stained with dirty marks. Some of the people who followed the corpse were crying, some couldn't even cry, and some even had a sick face and looked like they were going to follow soon.

Mint followed Taohua to the Lantian epidemic area, and she was able to stand up to this meeting, but the bellflower was already pale, and she couldn't let herself vomit out, so she was busy behind Taohua.

There were many people in and out of the village who had white cloth on their faces and white gloves on their hands, all of whom were recruited from Langzhong in the northwest. Tongzhi called a leader: "This is Fu Laolang, who is famous in our northwest, and now he is leading the epidemic treatment." ”

"The old man has seen the princess." When Fu Lao Langzhong heard that it was the princess of Anjun, his eyes suddenly lit up, "The recipe given by the princess is much more clever than the recipe of the old man, and those conditioning methods are also extremely useful, and they have saved a lot of people." Now that the princess is here, it will be better, the old man and others are worried, those who have intestinal and intestinal anthrax have diarrhea too badly, although try to let them drink sugar and salt water, but ...... Is there a cure for the princess? Some of the sick would not have died......"

If the diarrhea is too severe, it will be dehydrated, and mild to moderate dehydration can be supplemented by oral liquids, but severe dehydration requires intravenous infusion, which Taohua can't do now.

Because of diarrhea and vomiting, the smell of the place where the patient lives is really unpleasant. Fortunately, it is winter in the northwest, otherwise the situation would have been worse if mosquitoes and flies flew around in the summer. Rao is like this, Dieyi followed Taohua into a room, and couldn't help but vomit.

There was a rancid smell in the room, and a child was lying on a mat with filth beneath him. The child was about five or six years old, and although he was still crying quietly, he had no tears. A woman next to him kept feeding him water, but every time he took a few mouthfuls, the baby would vomit.

"Princess? Is it the miracle doctor of the capital? The woman pounced on her like a straw, "Please, save my child, my man is gone, and this child is the only one left!" ”

Momoka pursed her lips and didn't speak. The child's mouth is dry, the tongue is sandpaper-like, and the heartbeat is noticeably too fast. The worst thing is that his diarrhea can't be stopped, and he has already had a watery stool for a while, and if he can't be given intravenous fluids, dehydration alone can make him die.

"Gave him medicine?"

Fu Lao Langzhong also looked miserable: "I have used it, but-" This recipe for clearing the plague and poisoning drink is much better than what they can prescribe, and it has also cured many people, but for some people, especially children, it is still of little use.

"Give it a try...... Momoka sighed deeply and turned to the woman, "Now there is a kind of medicine, it may be useful to drink it, but maybe it won't be good at all, and even some people can't help it and die, are you willing to try it?" ”

The woman didn't care about anything at this time, and the dead horse was regarded as a live horse doctor, and immediately nodded. Momoka glanced back at Mint, who opened the jar she was holding, revealing some dark green medicinal soup inside.

"What's, what is this?" Fu Laolangzhong stood closer, keenly discerning from the smell of a room that resembled a musty smell, which emanated from this medicinal soup.

"Penicillium drink." This is a little penicillium that Taohua made along the way, this thing is neither hygienic nor unit-based, it is completely helpless, "Feed him a spoonful." "The treatment of anthrax requires intramuscular injection of penicillin, but don't say that Taohua doesn't have a syringe now, and even if she does, she doesn't dare to inject this thing into people's bodies, and even oral administration is completely against health regulations.

Without hesitation, the woman picked up the child, poured a spoonful of the odd stuff into the child, and waited hopefully. However, it backfired, and after about a quarter of an hour, the child began to convulse and turned purple.

Penicillin allergy! Taohua immediately took out the silver needle and stabbed the acupoints in the middle and Neiguan, but after some scrambling, the child still stopped breathing.

"What the hell is this?" The woman was stunned for a moment, and suddenly pounced on Taohua, and her eyes flashed with hatred like a wolf, "You give my son back!" ”

Kikyo pounced on her and blocked her: "The princess has already said that if you drink this medicine, you may die, but you said that you are willing to try it!" ”

Taohua waved her hand silently, and two officials stepped forward to drag the woman away. Obviously, she has been taking care of the child for a few days, and the woman is skinny, but at this time, almost two men can't hold her, kicking and biting, and scolding loudly in her mouth, scolding so much that she is hoarse, her throat is split and she refuses to stop, and her voice can be heard within more than ten zhang nearby.