"Oh." An suddenly laughed in the early years, and his smile seemed a little ill-intentioned to Jiang Changxi: "Actually, I'm just asking routinely, Miss Jiang doesn't have to be so nervous." ”

“…… I didn't. ”

Ann smiled in the early years: "I know." So Miss Jiang doesn't have to be nervous. ”

“……”

I can't talk anymore this day!

……

The next day, Jiang Changxi got into a carriage and followed the army to Lizhou.

The situation in Lizhou was even more serious than Jiang Changxi imagined, and nearly half of the people who remained in the city were infected. Most of the Lizhou troops stationed in the garrison also fell ill, and the soldiers who were not too seriously ill even held on to their posts. And basically no one in the city has ever been exposed to Gu poison, and they don't know how to protect and treat the bone plague. Without knowing it, many doctors suffered from white Gu parasitism, and it was difficult to protect themselves.

Among the doctors who came to help Lizhou, Jiang Changxi was the youngest one, she knew that people were soft-spoken, but fortunately there was Dr. Wen.

She gave Dr. Wen the revised prescription of the old doctor of Shi'an Hall, and did not interfere in the treatment of patients again, but took Qingrong and Shopkeeper Liao to visit Lizhou City.

Qingsong still had to wait in Panzhou for the rich merchant who was said to have red dancao, so he didn't follow, but it didn't hinder them from finding someone at all.

Shopkeeper Liao led Jiang Changxi and Qingrong to a dilapidated tiled house. This is the famous slum alley in Lizhou City, and such dilapidated and almost crumbling tiled houses can be seen here.

Pushing open the wooden door that was virtually useless, the shopkeeper Liao walked in front to explore the way, and he said as he walked: "Before the imperial court sent troops to suppress it, the bandits outside the city had attacked the city several times to burn and loot, and the original city guards in Lizhou City were not many in number, and almost all of them were protected at the gathering place of the official mansion. The people of the slums wanted to save their lives, but they could only flee when they heard the news. ”

"Generally speaking, if the bandits enter the city only for money, compared to the poor alleys, the official residence is protected by heavy soldiers, and it is obviously better to loot the rich merchants without official background. But listen to what you mean, after the bandits entered the city, they were divided into three routes, and they didn't even let go of the slums. ”

"Yes." Shopkeeper Liao replied: "So on the night the bandits entered the city, the slum alley was almost empty. ”

"The night is dark and the wind is high, while killing people and setting fires, while leading away the troops, the slums are lonely, just to do the unsightly hands and feet."

Shopkeeper Liao took Jiang Changxi and the others around the tiled house, which was surrounded by a fence behind the tiled house, and a well was erected outside the fence. The well is secluded, feeding nearly 100 families around.

"The people who first contracted the bone plague came out of the slums. The slum lanes are very large, and there are many dragons and snakes, and the biggest common denominator is the water source. ”

Jiang Changxi stood by the well and looked inside, the well water could be seen to be clear, and the haze sky was reflected upward, because the well was deep, no matter how Jiang Changxi looked, there was only a faint dark color, and he couldn't see the situation at the bottom of the well.

She straightened up, looked around, and asked, "Can you find a tool to draw water?" ”

"Is the girl going to take a drug test?" Shopkeeper Liao had already inquired and said: "After my subordinates heard that King Nanxiang drove away the bandits, they also suspected that someone had poisoned the well, and they had ordered someone to test it, and the water in the well was not poisonous. ”

While Shopkeeper Liao was talking, Qingrong had already found a wooden bucket for drawing water from one of the households. It's just that the rope tied to the barrel is not long enough to hang down to the bottom of the well.

"I want to see what's at the bottom of this well." Jiang Changxi said.

Shopkeeper Liao had to find some rope with Qingrong, and extended the rope for a long time, thinking that it was enough, and the three of them stopped.

Shopkeeper Liao threw the wooden barrel into the well and slowly lowered the long rope, but the wooden barrel had enough water and sank quietly.

After a long day's work, the shopkeeper Liao felt that the wooden barrel was in the end, and he listened to Jiang Changxi's command, held the rope, and made the wooden barrel circle at the bottom of the well.

This kind of action looks simple, but in fact, if you want the barrel to be obedient, it still takes a lot of effort for the shopkeeper Liao.

There was indeed something at the bottom of the well, and the shopkeeper Liao tried his best to fish up the things below, disturbing the clear water of the well and bringing up a lot of sediment.

Qingrong squatted on the side to look at the things that Liao shopkeeper had scooped up, including wooden combs, wooden brushes, black stones, rattles and other messy things, and also took the small fish that he thought was the thickness of his little finger.

Jiang Changxi checked them one by one, and there was nothing abnormal.

"Girl, there should be nothing else." Shopkeeper Liao wiped the sweat on his forehead, and still muttered a little in his heart, I don't know what the purpose of his girl is to catch these things.

Could it be that she was wrong?

Jiang Changxi didn't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief. If things weren't what she thought, the bone plague seemed to be clueless again.

Jiang Changxi thought for a while and said, "Are there any other wells near here?" ”

"Yes." Shopkeeper Liao inquired: "There are three such wells in this area of Slum Lane. ”

"Let's check on the other two."

“…… Be. Although he didn't know why, Shopkeeper Liao still followed.

Before the three of them could check the third well, they fished out a black skull from the second well.

The shopkeeper Liao who fished it up was the first to see it, and he was startled, but fortunately, after the bone plague, he had some knowledge of such things as skeletons, so that he would not overturn the barrel.

"Be careful, don't spill water on you." Jiang Changxi also saw the skull and reminded him loudly.

When the shopkeeper Liao heard this, he didn't dare to lift the water, and it took a bucket of water for a long time to hit it.

"Girl, this ......" Shopkeeper Liao looked at Jiang Changxi in a little panic, and saw that she looked calm, Qingrong had a cool little face, and suddenly felt that he was making a little fuss, and he couldn't help but feel stupid, and swallowed the rest of the words back.

Qingrong has been by Jiang Changxi's side for a long time, and she has really seen anything disgusting, but the black skeleton is only once in her impression.

"Girl, this skeleton can't be the one lost in Jingzhao Mansion?"

"It's indeed the traces left by the Earth Rotting Gu." Jiang Changxi's face changed slightly, and the question that had been stored in his heart for half a year was finally solved. Earth rot Gu, white bone plague, so it is.

Earth rot Gu, these three words Qingrong is not unfamiliar, so this skull is indeed the white bone that was lost in Jingzhao Mansion. However, what Jingzhao Mansion lost was a whole skeleton, there was only one head in this well, where did the other bones go?

"It should be in the rest of the well." has a new calculation for the white bone plague, and Jiang Changxi's mind is not on these bones. But that doesn't mean you can ignore it.

Jiang Changxi said to the shopkeeper Liao: "Take An Shizi's token and go to the general of the Lizhou Army and ask him to take someone to check the wells in the slums." Wells with bones are the source of bone plague. ”

"Remember to remind them that no one with the slightest wound on their body should come near it, let alone touch the water in this well."

Shopkeeper Liao took the order, and the black skull was taken back by Jiang Changxi.

Hearing that Jiang Changxi and Qingrong were back, Dr. Wen came over, Jiang Changxi was dispensing medicine, and the skull was placed on the table, and Dr. Wen saw it as soon as he came in.

"Is this Earth Rotting Gu?"

"It's Bai Gu." Jiang Changxi said.

Regarding the white bone plague, Dr. Wen has also been a good person recently, and he even understood Jiang Changxi's meaning: "So one of the blind Gu is the ground rot Gu?" ”

"Not bad." Jiang Changxi prepared the medicine, Qingrong happened to light the fire, so she added water to the medicine jar and put it on the stove to fry: "It's just a white Gu that I don't know which flavor of the Earth Rot Gu is the same as the Gu Cultivation." ”

"Is there a direction?"

"Probably." Jiang Changxi casually moved a small chair and pushed it to Dr. Wen, she stood in front of the stove, looked at the red-hot charcoal fire in the furnace, and said, "There are not many Gu worms that can rot Gu in the same place and cultivate white Gu, about a dozen kinds." The white bone plague spread by the other party throwing the bones directly into the well, and the Earth Rotting Gu may be the main Gu. I'd like to start with that. ”

Dr. Wen sat down and sighed: "It's also a great effort." ”

"It's already good." Compared with more than 100 kinds of combinations that don't know the main and auxiliary, it is already good to have a little eyebrow now.

How could Dr. Wen not know, but in the current situation, I am afraid that it will take some time to prepare the antidote to the bone plague, and I don't know if those infected people can survive until that time. During this period, the death of even one patient can lead to more tragic casualties. Many people are concerned about this, and he is really worried that if this continues, Lizhou will repeat the mistakes of Pingzhou sooner or later.

It took two days of hard work, Jiang Changxi still couldn't find out what the other flavor Gu was, but she revised the prescription again according to the toxicity of the ground rot Gu, and the patients took it according to the stick, barely able to suppress the onset of the epidemic, but it made people see some hope.

After knowing what Jiang Changxi was doing here, except for Dr. Wen, the other doctors came over occasionally to discuss the prescription, and the time next to them was not good to come over and disturb. Jiang Changxi was also happy to be a little quieter.

After the closure of Lizhou, the materials and herbs in the city were dispatched and supplied by Panzhou An in the early years, and Jiang Changxi also asked people to pass on new prescriptions. In her early years, Ann had people go back and forth every day to tell him about the situation in Panzhou.

After another three days, the situation in Panzhou stabilized, the high fever of the patients parasitized by the white Gu subsided somewhat, and the patients with better physical fitness occasionally woke up.

This is undoubtedly exciting good news, although the situation in Lizhou City is not as optimistic as Panzhou, Jiang Changxi is also a little relieved.

While breathing a sigh of relief, Jiang Changxi also had a headache, as the days passed, she tried four or five recipes successively, but she couldn't try another Gu Lai, and Lizhou's newly relieved condition began to get worse day by day.

"Don't worry, girl, there will always be a way." Seeing that Jiang Changxi began to sleep endlessly trying Gu again, Qingrong was anxious and found several people to persuade him.

But Jiang Chang was anxious, and others were also anxious, and he persuaded and persuaded him, and he didn't know who was persuading whom.

At the same time, the bandits who retreated from Lizhou forced into Pingzhou, and Qin Shixiao led the only soldiers in Pingzhou City to fight to the death with them, forcing the enemy to retreat ten miles outside the city.

The two sides were in a stalemate for ten miles for a night, and the enemy lurked under the city to launch a surprise attack when the heavenly general Qiming, Qin Shixiao defended with flowing fire, and Xiang Liangqing, who was ordered to dispatch the support of the Yuncheng army, killed nearly half of the enemy, and captured the rest. And when cleaning the battlefield, he found that the enemy military division Xie Ziying was not among them.

On the other side, in the city of Lizhou.

It's time for Panzhou to send supplies again, this time An brought Qingsong to Jiang Changxi in the early years, and after Jiang Changxi heard about it, he was finally willing to put aside her medicine furnace and chased it out.