Chapter 157: The Plague
After the decoction was knocked over by the fourth prince, Lingxi re-decocted the medicine. By the time the medicine had passed, it was already a few hours late.
When he arrived at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, His Royal Highness suddenly asked Lingxi: "Qin Zhang's kid's personality has always been a little stubborn, he didn't cause you any trouble when he went over to your side today, right?" ”
"Although the fourth prince is a little stubborn, he is kind-hearted. He was just curious about the medicinal herbs over there today, so he went over to take a look. Lingxi replied indifferently.
"If in the future, if he has offensive words, don't take it to heart." His Highness suddenly said this today, and Lingxi didn't quite understand what His Highness meant.
"Your Highness is serious, but I don't understand what Your Highness means?" Lingxi really didn't know what His Highness was talking about.
"Later, you'll understand." His Royal Highness didn't say it explicitly, so Lingxi didn't ask anymore.
Lingxi is different from Yue'er, if it is Yue'er's character, he will definitely ask to the end, but Lingxi knows how to measure proportions, and there are some words, since His Highness doesn't say it now, he naturally has his reasons.
Lingxi thought about what happened to his senior brother last night, so it seems that the person who wants to take His Highness's life is probably not as simple as Changpingjun and his party.
At this moment, she had an ominous premonition in her heart that something bad would happen next.
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A few days later, a plague suddenly appeared in the west of Fancheng City, and five or six people died. As for the plague, everyone talks about its color change, knowing that the plague will pass people.
It means that it will spread from person to person, so even the people are afraid when they hear about the plague.
The DPRK had ordered the five or six corpses of the plague to be burned, and it was thought that such a doom would pass.
But unexpectedly, ten days later, the plague broke out in the entire Fancheng.
30,000 people died of the plague, and even the officials of the DPRK and China were not spared. Even the entire people of the Northern Dynasties knew about this news.
The imperial physicians in the palace ordered them to be helpless, and they could not develop a special medicine for the treatment of the plague for a while.
Only some traditional Chinese medicine can be prescribed for prevention, but this cannot solve the root cause.
When Prince Qin Yu heard such news, he hardly could sleep at night for the past few days. After a few days of thinking, Qin Yu decided to go out to see the situation of the plague outside.
But Lingxi has been blocking His Highness and not letting him go out, because this plague is extremely contagious, and once it is infected, his life is in danger.
But Qin Yu cares about the people, and it is impossible for him to sit idly by and watch such a thing happen.
"Your Highness can't go out!" Lingxi knew that His Highness was going out to check on the plague today.
"If the outbreak of the plague is not controlled as soon as possible, the consequences will be unimaginable." Qin Yu knew that Lingxi was for his good, but as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Northern Dynasty, he cared about the people and worried about the country and the people.
"If Your Highness is infected with the plague, you will have to worry about your life." Lingxi wanted to remind him that if he went out now, he might not be able to come back so easily.
"Now Fancheng has nothing to see when he goes out, and he is full of bones, as a prince, if the people are in dire straits at the moment, how can I not care." Qin Yu has the world in mind and cares about the people. This love for the country and the people is really rare.
Lingxi can't say anything about His Highness, she knows that as long as His Highness decides something, it will not change. But Lingxi didn't want to see His Highness in danger.
So she asked to go with His Highness to check on the plague outside. At this time, His Royal Highness was even more moved in his heart, he didn't expect that she would have such a mind as a woman.
It's good not to go out, but as soon as you come out, the streets and alleys of Fancheng have long lost the prosperous scene of the past.
On the side of the road, most of them were hungry women, holding their children in their arms, leaning against the broken thatch.
The streets were filled with helpless crying, and seeing such a scene made people cry.
Qin Yu didn't expect the epidemic of this plague to be so fast, and in just a few days, tens of thousands of people died.
"Your Highness, it's not a way to go on like this, or I'll find a patient to see." Lingxi offered to do so.
"You didn't say that there is no cure for the plague for the time being, and it is too dangerous to rush to diagnose and treat the sick." His Highness is still worried about Lingxi's safety.
"But if you don't try it, how can you develop a prescription?" Lingxi is different from other women, she has always had ideals in her heart, and she wants to use her medical skills to heal the sick people in the world.
"Then be careful." His Highness reminded her.
"Hmm!".
So they went into a common man's house, which was a dilapidated house with a tattered roof that had long since been sheltered from the wind and rain.
It was in such a room that there lay a few thin children and an old woman.
Lingxi and His Highness brought a face towel and covered their mouth and nose.
Lingxi walked over, picked up one of the children, made him lie down, and began to check his pulse.
This child hates cold and heat, has a headache and body aches, is as white as powder, has a red tongue, and has a number of pulses.
Lingxi then went to see the old woman, who seemed to be more ill, with heat and irritability, headache, abdominal pain, diarrhea, spots, confusion, and a scorched tongue.
"How?" His Highness asked Lingxi.
"Their situation is not promising." Lingxi sighed softly, how should this situation be good for so many sick people in Fancheng?
Lingxi looked at the stove in this house, which had long been destitute. After she saw it, she felt very uncomfortable in her heart.
He was already destitute, and now he is suffering from the plague......
Such poor people look at them with such helpless eyes. And there is nothing they can do, is there really only death waiting for them?
"Let's go back and figure it out first." Qin Yu pulled Lingxi and wanted to take her away.
Lingxi gently put the child down and left with His Highness.
When they returned, they cleaned it thoroughly. Lingxi told His Highness that the plague is a disease, not wind, not cold, not heat, not wet, but a strange feeling that is unique between heaven and earth.
This means that the causative agent of the plague is caused by "foreign qi", which is different from the ordinary six external evils.
It's just that His Highness doesn't understand medical skills, and he just listens to these words. And tonight, Lingxi is destined to be another sleepless night.
The scene she saw when she went out today made her feel very uncomfortable.
Lingxi wants to learn from others by diligently seeking ancient teachings. It is hoped that through some of the prescriptions of the predecessors, a cure for the plague will be found.
So she took out all the medical books that were in the cupboard and studied them carefully.
Among them, it is recorded in "Danxi Heart Method, Volume 1, Plague V" that the plague is generally sick, and it is also known as the epidemic of Tianxing. There are three ways to govern: it is appropriate to make up, it is appropriate to disperse, and it is appropriate to fall.
In the "Treatise on Plague", it is believed that the epidemic qi invades the body through the mouth and nose, and believes that "evil enters from the mouth and nose", and the way of infection with the epidemic qi is "the way of infection and infection, although the feeling is different, the disease is the same".
The "Treatise on Plague" mentions the party of "Qingwen Septic Drink", but the history of the record is long, and the formula and dosage in the prescription have long been lost.
Lingxi is slowly studying medical skills like this, looking at it, it is already the second half of the night. The cold wind had already invaded her body.
However, she didn't know that in the end, she fell asleep on the table.
The candles in the hall were still burning, and through the flickering light of the candles, a man walked in.
His footsteps were getting closer and closer to Lingxi, but by now Lingxi was already asleep. After a day of walking with His Highness during the day, and studying medical books for several hours at night, she was so tired that she was completely unaware of the man's arrival.
He walked on his feet, then to the edge of the bed, but in a few moments he left.
By the time he left, the candles in the hall had been blown out, and Lingxi was already lying on the bed.
On the second day, Lingxi got up very early, sorted out the prescriptions, and decided to go out again to see those who were sick.
She packed the medicinal herbs, and when she came out, she happened to meet the fourth son.
"Lingxi girl, where are you going?" The fourth prince asked.
"Now that the plague in Fancheng is terrible, I'm about to go out and have a look?" Lingxi has always been kind-hearted, and when she saw the situation of Fancheng patients yesterday, she would definitely not sit idly by.
"Isn't the plague going to be a good thing? You can't go? The fourth prince was worried about her.
"It's okay, I already told His Highness yesterday that he agreed to let me go out." Lingxi didn't think about his own safety at all.
"Really?" The fourth prince was skeptical.
"Hmm!" Lingxi nodded.
The fourth prince took the medicinal herbs from Lingxi's hand and said with a smile: "Brother Wang told me last night that I would go out with Lingxi girl today. ”
Lingxi was stunned all of a sudden, I don't know which one these four sons want to play?
Qin Zhang, this kid, speaks straightforwardly and moves quickly, and he walked to the gate of the Prince's Mansion and waited for Lingxi.
Lingxi was distressed, but there was no way, who made the fourth prince so enthusiastic today, so he had to follow her over to help.
And there seems to be little reason to refuse him, to be a good person. Qin Yu has two people in this world that he can't control, one is Princess Yongning, and the other is Qin Zhang, the fourth son.
Princess Yongning, in Qin Yu's words, she is not called rude, she is simply unreasonable. Qin Zhang has a somewhat uninhibited temperament.
On the streets of Fancheng, it has long lost its former prosperity, and now the plague is rampant, and the streets are deserted.
Lingxi squatted in the dilapidated room, treating the patients. The fourth prince felt that he didn't know how to heal at the moment, he was a little passive, and he didn't know how to help Lingxi.
However, the fourth son's brain is still very flexible. He slowly fed the decoction to the patient.
The aristocratic son, who had always been well-fed and well-fed, was willing to serve the sick in person today, and it was of his own volition.
Really said that the role of beauty is too great. And it's a kind beauty, which makes people even more pitiful.
On this day, basically Qin Zhang did all the work except for the consultation. And he will also take care of the patient, whether the patient is an old man or a child, he is very careful.
This is really his growth history, before this, he didn't know what it meant to care about others, but now what he does is to care for the people and the people.
This day came out in the morning and was busy until late at night, and the fourth son did not stop taking care of the patients.
"Hah! I found that I had the potential to become a physician. Qin Zhang said with a smile.
"......" Lingxi was a little speechless, because she felt that the fourth son was just a temporary interest, and he didn't really like the medical profession.
Moreover, the personalities of these four princes are even more active than His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and people can't react for a while.
"The fourth prince should go back and rest early." Lingxi said as he sorted out the medicinal herbs.
The fourth prince squatted in front of Lingxi and looked at her: "You are the one who should rest, you are not good at staying up until the whole person is angry." The fourth prince said in a concerned tone.
"At critical moments, I can't rest, and I always want to develop a prescription as soon as possible." Lingxi was always thinking about this.
She is kind-hearted and always considerate of others.
"Then I have to take care of you, or you will fall, and this hope will be gone." The fourth son is always straightforward and quick to speak, and he says whatever he thinks.
Now Lingxi finally understands what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince told her before, alas, these four princes are too enthusiastic.