Chapter 104: The Plague
In the early morning of the next day, Ling'er had a sore throat and was a little dry, so she got up in a trance to drink water, and she didn't know how to touch the door frame while walking.
"Oops!" Ling'er covered her head and screamed.
"What's wrong?" Ah Jue heard a sound in another room, and a carp got up and ran over.
"It's okay, I hit the door frame." Ling'er stood against the wall for a while, feeling a little dizzy, and Ah Jue was going to help her when she saw her like this.
"How did you hit, I'll see my head." Ah Jue reached out to touch her head, and was so frightened that she quickly withdrew her hand, "Ling'er, why are you suddenly so hot and feverish?" ”
"I don't know, my throat is sore and dry, so I want to drink some water." Ling'er was already dizzy, and Ah Jue hurriedly carried her to bed by herself.
"You lie down and don't move, I'll call my master to take a look, I didn't eat anything yesterday, you didn't do anything, why did you suddenly have a fever, by the way, you went out to the dock by yourself yesterday, right?! If you...... What can I do?! Saying that, Ah Jue was in a hurry, covered the quilt on the bed for Ling'er, poured a glass of water, and hurried to find his master.
After a while, Ah Jue came with the hurried master, and before the master treated Ling'er, he took out two big scarves for himself and Ah Jue and surrounded them: "Just in case it is an epidemic, we have to protect ourselves first before we can save Ling'er." I'll show her first, if it's really an epidemic in a while, you take that token to Zhizhou, I need medicinal materials, and then you ask Zhizhou to send a message to Your Majesty, and say that Your Majesty is a very important person with the epidemic. ”
"Okay, Master Gong will take a look first..."Ah Jue always heard him say that he didn't show it to Ling'er, and he was a little anxious.
"Don't worry, go open the window for ventilation." Shigong saw that Ling'er had symptoms of high fever and chills, and he also had some nasal congestion and runny nose and cough, so he opened his mouth and took a candle to take a closer look at the dry throat and sore throat, and his tongue was red and yellow. He shouted in a low voice: "Ling'er, Ling'er? ”
"Master, you're here, I have a fever." Ling'er opened her eyes and looked at her master, but she was still dizzy.
"If you are uncomfortable, tell your master. Does it hurt somewhere? Shi Gong rolled her eyelids and looked.
"I have a headache and my whole body aches." Ling'er spoke weakly.
"Okay, Master knows it, I'll take your pulse." Shigong closed his eyes and gave Ling'er a pulse.
"Master, how's it going?" Ah Jue opened the window to ventilate and came back and asked eagerly.
"It's an epidemic, but it was found early, it's not serious, I'll write a prescription, you go to grab the medicine first, I'll take care of her, and after the medicine is boiled, you have to take the token to find Zhizhou." There is already an epidemic in this city, and the situation is not very good. "Shigong arranged it in an orderly manner.
"Yes, master." Ah Jue went outside to spread a piece of paper, grind it and wait for his master to prescribe medicine.
"Let me think about it." Shigong sat there for a long time without writing.
"What's wrong?" Ah Jue was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
"Don't be impatient, I'm recalling the recipe of the epidemic in the past, combined with Ling'er's condition." Shi Gong picked up the pen and wrote:
Forsythia, honeysuckle, ephedra, bitter almond, gypsum, indigo root, mianmaguanzhong, houttuynia cordata, patchouli, rhubarb, rhodiola, menthol, licorice.
"You go and grab three pills according to this prescription, give her a dose first, and then I will change it for her after seeing the effect." Shi Gong wrote the recipe and handed it to Ah Jue, and went to dissipate heat for Ling'er.
Ah Jue hurriedly went out, and when he went out, he found that there were already many officers and soldiers on the road, and there were no people on the street, but there was a long queue at the door of the pharmacy.
Ah Jue stood in the back and lined up, asking the people in front, "Why are so many people taking medicine today?" ”
"Don't you know? There was already a plague in Zhouzhou City, and the officers and soldiers had already sealed the city gate when they got up early, and they could only enter and exit. I came here to buy epidemic sachets, and I heard that they were brought with them to prevent the epidemic. The man smiled and chatted with Ah Jue.
"Sealed the city gates? So where was the epidemic found? Ah Jue asked anxiously.
"I heard that it started from the dock, where the people from outside, the population was too ordinary, and the dock was sealed. Now the people of the epidemic are carried to a place as long as they find it, what kind of medicine are you here to grab? The man chatted enthusiastically.
"I, I'm just going to grab some medicine for my daughter-in-law, she, she knows, there are always a few days a month when she has a stomachache." Ah Jue's brain was spinning rapidly, but fortunately this person didn't know him, otherwise he could see through it at a glance.
"I see you're quite young, you have a lady? Haha, I didn't get married for long. I'm also here to ask for a sachet for the lady. "The man seemed to be really talkative.
"In this way, you line up first, such a long line, I'll go and relieve myself first, and I'll come later." Ah Jue thought to himself that this was not the way, it was better to go first.
He ran all the way, and finally arrived at the mansion, and no one dared to stop him with the token.
"Zhizhou! Zhizhou! Ah Jue entered the palace and shouted.
"My lord, Lord Zhizhou is not here, there is a plague in Zhouzhou City, and Zhizhou has gone to the scene." A person like a master dared to come out to receive Ah Jue, he heard Zhizhou say it, and he also recognized the token.
"Zhouzhou City only enters but can't leave, how can the news get out?!" Ah Jue asked eagerly.
"My lord, although I don't know the identity of the adult, what do you do when you send the news, and with whom do you pass the news?" The master stepped forward and poured a glass of water for Ah Jue. "Adults drink tea."
"I don't have time to drink your tea, no matter where Zhizhou is, you take me to him! I have a big urgency. Ah Jue only thought about Ling'er in her heart.
"Now in Zhouzhou City, there is no greater urgency than the epidemic." The master gave Ah Jue a nail that was neither soft nor hard.
"This is about the epidemic, take me to Zhizhou." Ah Jue doesn't say it clearly, and he can't talk to a master.
"Here, let's find a servant and take the adult to Zhizhou." The master was also afraid that he had something to do with the epidemic, after all, he still had that sign in his hand.
Ah Jue followed the official to the temple, and Zhizhou took a face towel and covered people's mouths and noses to cover the epidemic patients sent by the inspection.
"My lord, this person came to you and said that there was something urgent." The official walked up to Zhizhou and bowed.
"I really don't have time to find someone for him this time, and when the epidemic passes, you let the adults go back first, this is not the place where he should come." After Zhizhou finished speaking, he was ready to take a look at the next place.
"Zhizhou, Zhizhou! I'll tell you about the epidemic! Ah Jue hurriedly ran to the front of Zhizhou to block him. Zhizhou spoke further. ”
"My lord, you see that I am also a parent official, so many people are waiting, I really don't have time." Zhizhou is also in a hurry.
"Meet me in person!" Jue holds the sign.
Zhizhou knelt down helplessly, Ah Jue leaned in Zhizhou's ear and said: "There are three things in total, first, the woman who is with me is the current Her Royal Highness, she is in the post station, she may have been infected with the epidemic, my master has already prescribed a prescription, you send someone to grab medicine for me; Second, you send someone to send a message to the Imperial City, tell Your Majesty about the situation here, and tell your Highness the news of Her Royal Highness, so that Your Majesty can quickly send a doctor and medicine to save people; Third, His Royal Highness is resting at the post station, I heard that you are going to move here if you are infected with the epidemic, and my master and I will definitely not move her here, you send a writer to guard next to the post house, and don't let the idlers wait back and forth, so as not to be infected again. ”
"Emperor, Emperor..."Zhizhou was so frightened that he was kneeling, and sat on the ground all of a sudden, the crown princess is the only crown prince of His Majesty, if something happens in Zhouzhou City, he still doesn't want this head.
"Don't make a show at this time, we didn't plan to say it here, but now we have no choice." Ah Jue took out the prescription in his hand and gave it to Zhizhou, and then talked about the place where he lived now.
"Xiaguan will send someone to get medicine and send it, Xiaguan is optimistic about these people, and he will visit His Highness in person when he has some leisure." Zhizhou has a feeling that the six gods have no master.
"You sent a servant to take me to get the medicine together, I'll be in a hurry when I wait at the post house, I'll go with him." Ah Jue pointed to the official who had just brought him to Zhizhou.
"Aji, you take this adult to grab the medicine, just say that I want to catch it, be sure to catch it, go to the adult's residence to see, what you need is directly from the government to find it." Zhizhou commanded, turned his face to look at Ah Jue and asked what else he wanted to order.
"In this way, my master has encountered an outdated epidemic before, and he has prescribed prescriptions with the imperial doctor, and has dealt with such things, I will go back to take care of Ling'er in a while, and let him come to help these people take a look, and I will go back and ask for you." Ah Jue looked at the people lying on the makeshift low beds on the ground in the temple, and felt a little unbearable.
"That's really hard, I don't have many doctors here, and there are even fewer who are proficient in these, and the adult's master has prescribed prescriptions with the imperial doctor before, so it must be very powerful." When Zhizhou heard him say this, his eyebrows fluttered, and he was excited: "I'll ask Aji to ask the master to take a look." ”
"My master is an elder with a strange temper, let me tell him personally, he is taking care of Ling'er now, and when Ling'er is stable, he should come over." Ah Jue felt that he was in a bit of a hurry, what if the master didn't come, and he regretted saying this.
"Okay, let's take care of the ...... first Ling'er, yes, Ling'er matters. Zhizhou tried to recall the name of the crown princess that Ah Jue said just now.
"Aji, let's go grab the medicine, Lord Zhizhou, thank you!" Ah Jue didn't talk much nonsense, so he pulled Aji and ran away.
With the help of Aji, the two of them easily caught the medicine they wanted, and went back to Ah Jue to decoct the medicine first, but before the medicine was decocted, the post house had been surrounded by officers and soldiers, Ah Jue thought to himself, this Zhizhou is quite fast. Ah Jue was about to go back to see Ling'er, when he heard the officers and soldiers downstairs shouting: "Is there any, is there a fever, the fever is with us!" Lord Zhizhou has an order, all those who have a fever should go to a place for treatment, and they will be sent back after being cured! ”
"......" Ah Jue thought about it badly, this Zhizhou estimated that he forgot about the other things he said to him, what should these people do if they were taken away by Ling'er indiscriminately, isn't this a toss, Ling'er is a woman, and she is weak, and she has a high fever...... Thinking of this, he hurriedly ran back to the room, and the officers and soldiers had already begun to check room by room.
"Aji, you, Zhizhou, I'm afraid you forgot what I explained, we are lying down, but we can't move!" Ah Jue didn't know how to explain it to Ah Ji.
"My lord, this, the little one is going to guard the door. It's just that the officers and soldiers are not the same as our officials, and they don't buy our accounts, and we know that the state lord personally ordered it. "Aggie will be anxious.
"You don't have to stay here, you hurry up and go to Zhizhou to report, find a way, I'll be here to guard." Ah Jue picked up his sword and blocked the door.
"Silly boy, your swordsmanship can beat a few officers and soldiers, you look at how many people they came, now is the most important thing to find Zhizhou!" Shigong just cooled Ling'er down, waiting for Ah Jue's medicine: "You kid go find Zhizhou, Ah Jue, you go to boil the medicine, I'm here to guard." ”
"Master." Ah Jue didn't want to leave either.
"Go and look at the medicine, Ling'er will drink it later!" Shigong is really afraid of him grinding.
"Yes." Ah Jue left, and Ah Ji also ran out.
The master put a towel on Ling'er's head, put his hands and feet outside the quilt, and went to the door with a sword to guard.
"Open the door, open the door, open the door, the officers and soldiers come to check the epidemic, if there is any, come out quickly!" An officer knocked at the door.
"There is no epidemic here! You can go. "Shigong stood at the door and spoke, but he didn't open the door, but he heard it very clearly outside.
"If you say no, there won't be it, we have to check it, open the door!" The officers and soldiers shot hard!
"What a shot!" The voice of Lord Zhizhou sounded, it turned out that Aji had just run out and met Zhizhou not long ago, Zhizhou remembered this matter, and he was also afraid that the officers and soldiers would make a mistake, and if His Highness came back, what would happen to His Highness, His Majesty could destroy his nine clans, so he hurriedly ran over.
The officers and soldiers all retreated, the post house was also emptied, Ah Jue had just decocted the medicine for Ling'er, and Zhizhou and the master were guarding in the living room of Ling'er's room.
"Master, the medicine is ready." Ah Jue stepped forward with a bowl and spoke.
"Go feed her." Shigong was talking to Zhizhou about things. "My prescription here is still the same as before, and there are some changes I prescribed to Ling'er, which is based on her situation. If you take this prescription with you, you still have to find a doctor to change it according to this prescription and then treat the patient, and everyone's condition is not exactly the same. ”
"Yes, yes, the elder has seen the epidemic before, and when His Highness is stable, can you go with the lower officials to see, I really don't understand." Zhizhou tried to make a gesture of pleading.
"It's not for me to go and see it alone, I have to take care of Ling'er first, her father entrusted her to me, I don't take care of her, I don't worry about going out, wait for her to get better." The master didn't completely refuse, he just didn't let go of his heart, and then said: "You are like this, you first use your channels to inform Your Majesty, ask for medicine from the doctor, and by the way, inform Your Highness of your illness." ”
"It must be certain, the lower official will do it, and I will come to see her when His Highness is stable." Zhizhou also felt that it would be better for Her Royal Highness the princess to guard a healer. "Don't worry about the medicine, I'll send someone to handle it."
Zhizhou left, leaving a pair of officers and soldiers to handle the post station, and the rest of the post station was also emptied, and Aji was left behind to take care of them, and also to be the liaison between Zhizhou and Ah Jue.
Ling'er drank her master's medicine, and the fever subsided after a while, and after a while, she got up again, drank three pairs of medicines, and still cycled back and forth between high fever and low fever, one high fever and one low fever, this is the fourth day, and there is no improvement, and her whole person is also groggy and wakes up when she sleeps.
"Master... Am I okay with this? Ling'er spoke weakly.
"Of course, when did Shigong lie to you." Shigong was anxious in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it in front of Ling'er and Ah Jue.
"I'll write a letter to my father and queen mother in a while, you can collect it for me, if I can't bear the epidemic, it will be my last pen." Ling'er looked at the sky and watched helplessly.
"Nonsense!" Shi Gonggong scolded angrily: "I'm guarding you here, and it's okay to keep you!" ”
"Master, it's been three days, why am I still burning like that." Ling'er touched her forehead and said.
"I'll check your pulse again and change the way." Shigong stretched out his .........