Concubine Yun smiled: "If the emperor wants to, he only needs to make a holy decree, so why bother with me?" is nothing more than being scolded by other concubines as a fox, or being accused of seducing the monarch by those ministers of the previous dynasty. ”

"The ministers...... It's just a big fuss. Wen Jingyuan rubbed his forehead with a faint pain, his expression was a little helpless, "You think carefully for me, but you have to toss and turn every night if you are bitter, tomorrow I will ask Zhao Gonggong to choose some supplements to send to you, and by the way, I will make another one, so as not to walk at night and catch a cold." ”

"Thank the emperor for the reward, then, the concubine will retreat first."

Concubine Yun put on her clothes and carefully tucked the quilt for Wen Jingyuan, and then left the dormitory lightly, and hurriedly walked a little farther away from the dormitory under the escort of Gonggong Zhao, and stopped suddenly.

"Mr. Zhao...... Look at my memory, in the future, you should follow the emperor's habit to call you Zhao Gonggong. Father-in-law Zhao, have you found someone for me? ”

Zhao Gonggong smiled on his face, and nodded hurriedly: "It's good, it's a distant relative of the slave, and it's absolutely reliable." Turning around and beckoning to the corner not far away, a little eunuch who was about seventeen or eighteen years old trotted over, and Zhao Gonggong pulled the little eunuch and saluted Concubine Yun: "It's good for Niangniang to call him a small pavilion." The child's father and mother didn't get early, and at the age of eight, he entered the palace and followed the slave, and he knew what to say and what to do. If the mother has any important matter, even if she sends him to do it, there will be no mistake. ”

"It's good to be reliable. Is it a small pavilion? You can go to the Jade Immortal Palace with me tonight, it just so happens that I have something to send someone to do. ”

Lazily waved her hand back to Zhao Gonggong, Concubine Yun led the small pavilion all the way to the newly given Yuxian Palace, a palace for living alone, before entering the courtyard, and a few lights appeared in the main room, illuminating the dark night road.

Concubine Yun pointed to the door, attached it to the small pavilion and whispered: "Go outside and guard, if someone comes, cough." Also, keep your mouth shut about whatever you hear or see, and you know what happened in this house, and after tonight, you have to act as if nothing happened. ”

Xiao Tingzi nodded timidly, and stood honestly at the door as Concubine Yun instructed, but after a while, he heard a voice in the room that shouldn't be there—the voice of a man.

The faint yellow candlelight made Concubine Yun's skin whiter and whiter, closed the door and walked into the inner room, where there was already a figure standing with his back to him waiting. Concubine Yun was not surprised, she crept behind the man with a charming smile and blew softly in the man's ear.

"The last general has seen Concubine Yun!" The man didn't know what he was thinking, and he noticed that someone behind him turned around suddenly, and when he saw Concubine Yun, he couldn't help but blush, and hurriedly bowed his head and saluted.

"Pretend to be serious? Didn't you still look at me when you were chatting with the emperor in the imperial garden that day? Now he has become a serious general again? Concubine Yun raised her hand and gently stroked the man's cheek, falling into the man's arms as soft as boneless, a pair of eyes bewitching, "General Qi, I gave up everything to call you, do you think I'm worth the price you pay?" ”

The coquettish voice full of seductive tones made General Qi's breath short, but he understood that if Concubine Yun was willing to give him something, then there must be a reciprocal exchange condition.

"If the mother has anything to say, she will do her best to do it." Seeing the seductive posture swinging in front of him, General Qi finally couldn't bear it, and suddenly grabbed Concubine Yun's slender waist, and gasped heavily on the snow neck that was as white as practice.

Concubine Yun swung her body to meet General Qi's movements as much as possible, a trace of ruthlessness flashed in her eyes, and her voice was so charming that she was so charming.

"I know that General Qi has led the Northern Expedition for many years and is very familiar with the soldiers there, so I want to ask General Qi for one thing......"

The lights flickered, whispered, and the silent conspiracy quietly spread out in the joyful waves, stretching out to the northern frontier of the distant abyss country.

Ye Haochuan led 30,000 soldiers and horses to the northern Xinjiang journey, after dealing with a few centurions who privately withheld the rations of the exiles, there were antagonistic feelings between the exiles and the soldiers.

In addition, when he arrived at the small village less than 100 miles away from the intended camp, Ye Haochuan encountered even more serious trouble.

The small village was so small that it had no name, and it was not marked on the marching map, and it was usually an inconspicuous place to pass along the march. It was evening when Ye Haochuan led the army here, in order to let the soldiers have a good rest before they were engaged in the tense defense mission, Ye Haochuan ordered to spend the night in this small village, who knew that this night would give birth to disasters.

In fact, that evening, Yan Liwu and Ye Ling Xi vaguely sensed that something was wrong, there were very few villagers in the village, and occasionally saw a few in front of the door and behind the house, but their faces were withered and trance-like, and everyone's faces were strange blue-gray, as if they were sick. Ye Ling Xi originally planned to call the doctor with the army to show the villagers, but who knew that the doctor who was addicted to alcohol had already fallen asleep with an empty wine jar, not to mention seeing a doctor, it was difficult for him to open his eyes and see people. At that time, Yan Liwu also had the impulse to replace the military doctor to diagnose the villagers, and then thought that his special identity should not be too eye-catching, and finally he couldn't hold back and didn't say anything.

So on the second day, he almost regretted his sorrow.

In the morning, some villagers attacked the patrol guards, and after snatching the war horses, they suddenly fell to the ground, bleeding and convulsing, and the miserable appearance was very scary, and even the doctors who rushed there were also startled. When Yan Liwu was called over by Ye Lingxi, the villager was already angry, and he swallowed his breath in less than an hour, and the cause of death had not yet been ascertained.

Ye Haochuan repeatedly asked the military doctor many times, and the results were all trembling, stumbling and useless answers, and in desperation, Yan Liwu, who had been helping the exiled prisoners to see some minor problems, was pushed to the front, and directly faced the cold corpse covered in blood and barely visible in human form.

"I don't see anything wrong with it, I've never seen it." Yan Liwu frowned, and his mind quickly searched for the medical books he had read, but none of them could match the symptoms of the dead villagers. When he was confused, Yan Liwu suddenly found that the villager seemed to be holding something in his hand, which made people break it and see that it was actually a piece of raw meat, and then remembered the strange appearance of the villager he saw the night before, and gasped: "I have to go and see if the other villagers are okay - there is an epidemic that makes people very hungry, and they must keep eating raw meat to maintain, and the attack is quite fast." If this is the case, I'm afraid we're going to be in trouble. ”

Ye Ling Xi and Ye Haochuan glanced at each other, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly sent someone to the village to check, and the news that was returned made the soldiers present fall into a panic.

"General! Grandma! ...... in the village The people in the village are crazy! They're all crazy! The soldiers who fled back in embarrassment fell at the foot of Yehaochuan with a crying voice, "Those villagers ate all the domestic animals in the village raw, and some dead villagers were also ...... by them It's all crazy, there are no normal people in the village anymore! Let's go! Checkmate! ”

Ye Haochuan was not as panicked as the other soldiers, and after a long silence, he looked at Yan Liwu: "Since the Red Lotus girl knows that this is an epidemic, then she should also know the prescription for treatment, right?" It's not too far from Xuancheng, and I can send someone to buy any medicinal materials I need. ”

"No, I don't know a cure for this disease." Yan Li shook his head worriedly, "I have only read about this epidemic in books, and many people have died, and finally all the people who may be infected with the epidemic have been isolated to avoid the spread." ”

"Contagious? Can't you touch them? Ye Ling Xi just wanted to reach out and turn over the corpse, but when he heard Yan Li Wu say this, his arm suddenly stiffened, and he stopped in mid-air and didn't dare to move forward.

The complicated situation made Yan Liwu a little headache, and his brows became more and more wrinkled: "I don't know the specific situation, but I am afraid that the current situation is not optimistic, if most of the villagers in this village are infected, it means that the contagion is still very strong." Someone went to walk around the village yesterday, right? If you have been in contact with the villagers, it is very likely that you have already contracted the disease. ”

The words immediately caused an uproar, and people were panicked for a while, not to mention going to the village to check the situation, but they didn't even want to go out of the tent.

Ye Haochuan looked calm but couldn't think of a solution, he wanted to save the infected villagers for fear of affecting the army, and he wanted to lead the troops away but couldn't give up those villagers who stepped into the ghost gate with half a foot, he hesitated and thought for a long time, and finally his sister Ye Lingxi made the final decision.

"You have to save those villagers, and besides, there may be people in the army who have contracted the epidemic through contact, and there is no way to escape."

"All diseases have to have a source, and there may be a glimmer of hope for finding the first infected." After all, he is not a professional doctor, and he is not sure whether he can find an antidote to save people, and all he can do is to try step by step and start from the most fundamental source.

Seeing that Ye Ling Xi was resolute in his will, and he was eager to try it, the military doctor also slowly calmed down, holding on to his half-length beard and nodding: "All things are mutually restrictive, and the same is true for epidemics, and there must be an antidote if there is an epidemic." The old man has been practicing medicine for many years and has seen countless herbs, and he may find something after a few days of careful searching, but the army will be delayed here for a while. ”

If an army of 30,000 people broke out of the plague with unimaginable consequences, Yan Liwu knew that the stakes were high, and took the initiative to take on the important task of helping the army doctors find the source and antidote, and began a busy and dangerous work in the temporary barracks.

The noisy army of the past suddenly became quiet, and the crisis lurked in a seemingly stable situation, which was dangerous and difficult, and not many people knew about it.

On the first day, nearly 30 percent of the villagers broke out;

On the second day, infected people began to appear in the army;

On the third day, four horses were eaten raw by the infected;

Day 4, Day 5, Day 6......

Seven days later, most of the villagers infected with the epidemic had died, the number of infected people in the army had reached 100, and the death toll had soared to more than a dozen.

Yan Liwu understands that if she can't find a way, she will have to choose to isolate the infected, and that will inevitably cause some people who are not sure whether they are infected or not, and they will be locked up in a prison area until they die - including many people she knows, such as the child she rescued, and Ye Lingxi.

Yan Liwu guarded Ye Lingxi's side for a day and a night, and when Ye Haochuan, who had not seen anyone all day, opened the curtain and appeared, Yan Liwu really wanted to ask him why he didn't stay with his sister, but he had no choice but to give up when he saw Ye Haochuan's bloodshot eyes and tired face.

"Last night, I went to Xuancheng to pick up an old man, and she said that there might be a way to deal with this epidemic, and you can discuss it when she comes." Ye Haochuan gently tucked the corner of the quilt for the sleepy night Ling Xi, got up and looked at Yan Liwu, there seemed to be a look of disappointment in his eyes, "Ling Xi hates that others hide from her and lie to her, when she wakes up, you can tell her yourself-about your identity." ”