Because of the plague, the people in the county town have no income for a long time, so when Li Langzhong went to buy medicinal materials, the price of medicinal materials more than doubled compared to before the plague. But because the medicinal materials are urgently needed, it will take a long time if the imperial court is asked to allocate them, and the plague waits for no one, so Li Langzhong finally bought all the medicinal materials back.

"Mrs. Shizi, all the medicinal materials you want are here." Li Langzhong brought a total of five baskets of medicinal materials, large and small. Sheng Zi'an checked the medicinal herbs and felt that the medicinal materials were quite fresh.

"We now pound two taels of Chuanbei, four taels of Qianhu, and one or two bellflower to make them into powder, and then add water to make pills. This is a serving for one person. Now we have six hundred and fifty-eight patients, plus the new plague people who are brought in every day, and in order to ensure that everyone can get treatment, at least seven hundred pills are needed. Sheng Zi'an was very troubled in his heart, this pill requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and it is far from enough to rely on a few of them.

"So much? However, we are short of manpower now, and if we want to make so many pills, I am afraid it will take at least two or three days. Li Langzhong replied.

"I want to find a way to trouble Li Langzhong to place the medicinal materials first." After Sheng Zi'an finished speaking, he went to find Xiao Jue, if there were not enough manpower, I am afraid that the production of the pill would not be able to go smoothly.

Xiao Jue was dealing with political affairs at this time, and his face was sad.

"Husband, what's wrong with you, you're worried." Sheng Zi'an opened the door and said.

"The emperor sent me a letter asking me what caused the plague. But we are at a loss for what to do about it now, and there is no clue at all. ”

"Don't worry, husband, after everyone's condition stabilizes a little, Zi'an will accompany her husband to the village to find out." Sheng Zi'an went over to soothe Xiao Jue's frowning brow.

"Madame, come here now, is there something wrong?" Because Xiao Jue knew that Sheng Zi'an should be treating everyone's condition at this time, he felt a little puzzled.

"Husband, I don't know how to solve a problem right now. Li Langzhong had already prepared medicinal materials to treat coughs, but now it took a lot of manpower to mash the medicinal materials and make them into pills. We don't have enough manpower, and if we talk about a few of us, it's far from enough, so Zi'an doesn't know what to do now. ”

Xiao Jue thought it was something, but it turned out that there was not enough manpower. Xiao Jue thought for a moment and said, "Let's do this, you distribute the medicinal materials to each room, weigh the number of medicinal materials they need to use, and let everyone pound the medicinal materials for themselves and make pills." Madam, Li Langzhong, Cousin Yang only needs to tell the people in each room how to do it. ”

When Sheng Zi'an heard this, he went over and gently kissed Xiao Jue's lips, and praised: "Husband is really thoughtful!"

Xiao Jue couldn't stand Sheng Zi'an's provocation, he took Sheng Zi'an into his arms with his backhand and sat on his lap, Xiao Jue's eyes were full of doting, Sheng Zi'an was taken aback, and before he could react in a hurry, his lips were blocked by a touch of heat.

"Hmm... I'm going to arrange for everyone to make pills. After Sheng Zi'an finished speaking, he ran out with a red face.

Leaving Xiao Jue alone with a smile in the corner of his eyes.

"Li Langzhong, let's divide the medicinal materials now, divide them into each room, each person corresponds to one copy, and then let them pound the medicinal materials themselves, which can temporarily solve the problem of our lack of manpower." Sheng Zi'an hurriedly found Li Langzhong when he left the door and said.

"Huh? What about cousins? "I haven't seen Yang Xiuting in the morning, Sheng Zi'an is very puzzled.

"Yang Gongzi went out early in the morning, saying that he wanted to walk around the city to see if he could find inspiration to cure the plague." Li Langzhong replied.

"Okay, then let's start weighing the medicines." Knowing that Yang Xiuting was going to the city, Sheng Zi'an was not worried, so he began to weigh the medicine with peace of mind.

After a while, the medicine was weighed, Sheng Zi'an sent people to distribute the medicine, and then she and Li Langzhong went from room to room to tell people how to make pills. If there were really many people, everyone quickly made the pills.

"This pill is twice a day, so everyone can take it on time." Sheng Zi'an commanded.

Sure enough, after everyone drank this medicine, their coughs got better, and the deafening cough in the official mansion finally subsided, and people were grateful to Sheng Zi'an from the bottom of their hearts.

"Thank you, Mrs. Shizi." This is what a mother said, her child is still breastfeeding, and she has no hope of living, but now her eyes are finally shining again.

"That's what we should do, we just need to cooperate with us." Because there were too many people who thanked him, Sheng Zi'an didn't know what to say for a while.

At noon, Yang Xiuting returned.

"Cousin, what did you find when you went out this time?" Sheng Zi'an asked.

Yang Xiuting's expression was a little solemn, "Today I went out to walk around the city for a long time, and I heard that the water they drink is flowing from the village, if there is something wrong with the water source, not only Wan'an County, but the entire Jiangnan and even the whole country may be infected by the plague." Then the situation will be out of control. ”

"Let's block this river first, and I have already reported the formula for thickening the veil and pills to the emperor, and the emperor will make the whole country start to be on guard when he sees it, so we don't have to worry about it first." Xiao Jue replied.

Now that everyone's cough symptoms have been reduced, the next step is to reduce the fever. Sheng Zi'an, Li Langzhong, and Yang Xiuting didn't finish acupuncture for all the people until the evening, they were really tired, and they went back to their rooms to sleep after acupuncture.

The epidemic situation in Wan'an County has stabilized for the time being, and Sheng Zi'an instructed people to exercise more and not to stay in their rooms every day. So the group prepared to go to the village to survey the water source. The government is definitely inseparable from people, and Li Langzhong originally planned to stay in the government to take care of people.

"Zi'an, I won't go, I have a terrible headache today, and it's not suitable to hurry, so let Li Langzhong go with you, and I'll stay in the official mansion." Yang Xiuting wanted to find a reason not to go to the village, because he really didn't want to see the scene of Xiao Jue and Sheng Zi'an kissing me and me, and he couldn't help the jealousy in his heart, so he casually found a reason to stay.

"In that case, then cousin takes care of himself." After Sheng Zi'an finished speaking, they rushed to the village.

Because he made more pills when making them, Sheng Zi'an brought the pills to the five princes, and the five princes were having lunch in the room at this time.

"Is the fifth prince in good health recently? It looks like his face is a lot more ruddy. Xiao Jue asked. He saw that King Yu was sitting on the edge of the bed of the five princes and watching the five princes eat, and he almost started to feed the five princes with this concern. So he continued: "What about my father? How is my father doing lately? ”

"I'm fine, there's nothing big about the news from the frontier recently, and when the fifth prince recovers and your mother is buried, you can go back with peace of mind as a father." King Yu replied. But the most important thing in his heart is the safety of the five princes, and Princess Yu's funeral is only incidental.

Sheng Zi'an looked at King Yu so worried about the five princes, and also saw that King Yu's words were not really for Princess Yu, she thought that only if the five princes were healed, and King Yu went back to the frontier, Xiao Jue could feel better, so she secretly ran to the kitchen where the decoction was made and added her own blood to the medicine of the five princes.

"Here comes the medicine." The maidservant came in with the medicine.

"The fifth prince has drunk the medicine and rested, let's go to the water source to investigate." After Xiao Jue finished speaking, he didn't want to stay in the room of the fifth prince for a moment. Then they went together in the direction of the river.

On the way, Li Langzhong introduced: "This river is called the Yun River, and the water used by Wan'an County and its nearby villages is obtained from this river, but the village is in the upper reaches of Wan'an County, so the Yun River will pass through the village first." So they planned to go all the way up the Yunhe River to see if there would be anything different.

After walking along the Yunhe net for a while, Xiao Jue and they smelled the smell of rotten stinky meat. The smell choked people to tears. Although everyone wore thick veils, they were still retching from the smell. If you go up further, you will see that there are some sparse houses here, which look like they have been abandoned for a long time.

They went to the room to take a look. When they walked to the house, they found that there was a seal on the door of the house, and the date on the seal had been lost after a long time of wind and sun, so they prepared to enter the house to find out.

When the door was opened, the door had not been used for a long time, so there was a loud creaking sound, and the first thing I saw when I opened the door was a room, and the dust from the roof fell to the ground with cobwebs, and the whole room was filled with the smell of decay.

After entering the room, there is a large courtyard, the yard is very dirty, there are still some cages left, there are large patches of dried blood on the ground and on the wall, it looks very oozing, it looks like a large slaughterhouse.

Xiao Jue approached the cage and found that there were a lot of chicken feathers falling under the cage, and Sheng Zi'an also found that the corners of the yard were also covered with large and small chicken feces, so everyone deduced that this was a chicken killing field. But this chicken killing farm has been deserted for a long time.

If you don't look carefully, you can't see that there is a recessed groove in the corner of the wall that can be used for liquid flow, and everyone walks along this groove, and finds that the end of the groove is the cloud river.

"Could it be that the chicken farm discharged the chicken blood wastewater into the Yunhe River, causing everyone to be infected with the plague?" Sheng Zi'an asked, only this one explanation is reasonable at present, otherwise this plague is too strange.

"It looks like it's in disrepair and it's dirty. Let's go to the village and find out what is going on here before we make a decision. Xiao Jue replied, if it was really what Sheng Zi'an said, this plague would be more than half solved. Xiao Jue's frowning brow finally showed a trace of loosening.