Chapter 122: Despair
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Just when Jin Qing and the others were about to hold on, the carriage of the Zheng family to deliver medicinal materials finally arrived at the city of Pingzhou.
More than a dozen carriages full of medicinal herbs lined up, quite imposing under the city of Pingzhou.
Jin Qing suddenly calmed down, and took Meng Jun and Pingzhou Yin to the outside of the city to receive medicinal materials, the leading steward was surnamed Li, and he was strong, thinking that he had been running outside all year round.
Seeing that Jin Qing was about to lift the rain cloth covering the carriage to inspect the medicinal materials, Steward Li stepped forward and said with a smile: "Doctor Yuan, it is important to cure the disease, our Zheng family's medicinal materials are a hundred years old, and there will be no problem." This is a list of medicinal materials that we sent, and the type and amount are clearly written on the list. β
Jin Qing smiled, took the list and looked at it a few times, Zheng Baifeng was still a little level, so that most of the sent were licorice, coptis, skullcap, fritillary, etc., these medicines have a certain control effect on the plague.
However, Jin Qing didn't dare to collect the medicinal materials so hastily, more than a dozen truckloads of medicinal materials were related to the lives of the people up and down Pingzhou, and if there was a problem, it would be a big trouble.
Seeing that Jin Qing was unmoved, and was about to check the medicinal materials, a steward with an unkind face next to him jumped out and shouted, "What are you going to do with this girl?" Can you afford to delay our master's business? Brothers have traveled so far day and night, and you still want to make things difficult for us under the city? Isn't it, brothers? β
As soon as he said this, the rest of the stewards were hooked up, not to mention the hard work of the road, but also to be harassed by a yellow-haired girl, suffering from such idleness, they all shouted, "Where is our master?" Don't try to make things difficult for us, let our master give you a good look when the time comes! β
Seeing that the matter was getting bigger, Steward Li's face was also a little embarrassed, so he first calmed everyone's emotions, and then smiled at Jin Qing: "These people have been running freight outside for many years, and they are rude, Doctor Yuan must not mind." You see, if it's inconvenient for you here, why don't you call our master? β
This group of people opened and closed their mouths to Zheng Baifeng, they really thought that as long as Zheng Baifeng was here, they would be able to walk sideways!
Jin Qing said lightly: "You don't need to call him over." β
Steward Li smiled brightly, sure enough, it was a little girl, and she didn't dare to say anything more when she was scared by the name of the master.
However, Jin Qing stared at him and continued: "Doctor Zheng came to lead the state, regardless of his personal safety, insisted on diagnosing the patient, unfortunately contracted the plague, and has already served the country with his body. β
Steward Li suddenly felt a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the steward of the Zheng family, who was babbling, also quieted down for a moment, and Steward Li suddenly felt that his tongue was inflexible, and he stammered and asked, "You, what did you say?" What's wrong with my lord? β
Meng Jun stepped forward sideways, blocked in front of Jin Qing, stared at him, and said word by word: "Doctor Zheng is infected with the plague and sacrificed his life for the country, this adult is Pingzhou Yin, and he can also testify." Meng Jun pointed to Pingzhou Yin.
Steward Li took a few breaths before digesting Meng Jun's words, looking at the several carts of medicinal herbs behind him with a pale face, and was silent for a long time.
Finally, Steward Li called up the steward of the Zheng family, who was sitting on the ground with an uneasy face, gritted his teeth and said: "Since our master is gone, this medicinal herb is half sold by our Zheng family, and it is also our master's intention, let's send it to the city first." β
Jin Qing walked out from behind Meng Jun, raised his hand and said, "Slow!" Let me check first! β
Steward Li was in a hurry to say something, but the grumpy Guan jumped to his feet and shouted, "Lao Tzu will let you check and see what kind of bird eggs you can check out from your little girl's skin!" β
Meng Jun's face tightened, and his hand pressed the long sword on his waist, Jin Qing immediately pressed his hand and shook his head, now the medicinal materials are the most expensive, as long as the medicinal materials are fine, what if she is scolded by these stewards.
The rain cloth on the top cover of the medicinal materials was torn open, and the medicinal materials that had been concocted were neatly stacked in the box, and the shape and color were of the highest quality, impeccable.
Jin Qing was slightly surprised in her heart, as soon as Zheng Baifeng left, the Zheng family was in charge of Zheng Zixing, Zheng Zixing has always been greedy for money, he would be so generous to take good medicinal materials to half sell and half send to Pingzhou for disaster relief?
However, Jin Qing didn't care about it, the time was urgent, this batch of medicinal materials would have to be distributed to various counties after entering the city, Jin Qing was only afraid that the medicinal materials given by the Zheng family would be insufficient, after all, the Zheng family was a hundred years old, and now since the boxes on more than a dozen cars were full, Jin Qing waved his hand, and the soldiers brought by Pingzhou Yin and the soldiers trotted over, ready to drive the carriage to Pingzhou City.
Steward Li quietly breathed a sigh of relief, the joy in his eyes flashed, and he glanced at the grumpy steward.
Jin Qing's sharp eyes noticed it, and she was suspicious, and hurriedly shouted: "Slow! Immediately the carriage stopped again.
Steward Li's heart was raised in his throat, and sweat was also dripping on his forehead, and he smiled and said, "Doctor Yuan, what's the matter with you?" It's not a small thing to say that you, it's important to heal the disease! β
Jin Qing ignored Steward Li, opened a box, put aside the best medicinal materials on it, picked up the medicinal materials below and put them under his nose, and immediately smelled a pungent smell of sulfur.
Jin Qing was startled, threw down the medicinal materials and opened another box, reached into the box and touched a piece of medicinal materials, there was still a strong smell of sulfur, and the medicinal materials were obviously eaten by insects.
Meng Jun saw that Jin Qing's expression was wrong, and raised his hand to beckon the soldiers to take care of the Zheng family's steward, walked up to Jin Qing, and asked, "But what's wrong with the medicinal materials?" He really couldn't see that these medicinal herbs had regular shapes and beautiful colors.
A layer of cold sweat broke out on Jin Qing's face, and after she checked all the boxes, she stepped forward and pointed at Steward Li and asked, "This is the medicinal herb sent by your Zheng family?" All of them? No more? β
Steward Li's expression was uncertain, his face kept sweating, and he looked left and right a few times before he said: "Doctor Yuan, this is not a fake medicine, but the genuine Coptis chinensis, fritillary, and Panax notoginseng are not bargains, why do you hold us like this?" β
Jin Qing's long-accumulated anger erupted, grabbed the medicinal materials in the box, and smashed his head and face on Steward Li's head, "You are a person who is in the medicinal materials business, and you have the face to say this!" You have smoked the damp and worm-infested herbs with sulfur, thinking that I will not be able to see them? Or do you think that with you Master Zheng here, these bad medicinal materials will be able to enter Pingzhou? β
Steward Li was smashed and didn't dare to resist, and there were several soldiers with spears around him who looked at him angrily. Steward Li said with a smile: "Doctor Yuan, we also have difficulties, in just two days, where can we get so many medicinal materials?" Besides, aren't there good ones on the box, these good ones will be left to you and the general, and these bad ones will be given to those ordinary people, and it will become their life anyway, and they haven't picked it up! β
Jin Qing couldn't listen to Steward Li's words anymore, looking at more than a dozen carts of medicinal materials, her mind was blank, she originally expected the Zheng family to send life-saving medicine, but now these medicinal materials are basically smoked with sulfur, damp or insect, and there is almost no medicinal effect at all.
She suddenly hated Zheng Zixing, he knew that his father was also in Pingzhou, or he was greedy for small profits, and he must have sent the medicinal materials that were damp and insect-giving to the Zheng family medicine hall before and were about to throw away with sulfur and smoked them, even if the Zheng family's price was low, it was equivalent to a transaction without capital.
It's really black-hearted enough, and he doesn't even think about his own father.
Meng Jun was furious, and the soldiers around him immediately stepped forward and slapped Steward Li a few times, causing blood to fly from his mouth.
The steward who had been the most ferocious didn't dare to speak at the moment, and hid behind in fear, afraid of asking himself.
Steward Li was finally beaten and resentful, if his master was still there, where would he suffer this humiliation, these medicinal materials are not fake medicines, the people in this wild place can't afford to buy the medicinal materials produced by the Zheng family's medicine hall on weekdays, it is obvious that Yuan Jinqing deliberately did not give face to the Zheng family!
What's more, the old man's medical skills are gone? There is also a lot of suspicion in this!
Covering his mouth, the blood still flowed out along his fingers, and Steward Li said angrily: "Qiao Shi, that old puppet wants to take the position of the doctor, you wait, the concubine will not let you go, our master must be killed by you!" β
Meng Jun didn't take Steward Li's threat seriously, looked at the embarrassed Steward Li, and said in a deep voice with his back hand: "Inferior is good, the crime of the Zheng family medicine hall will be kept and we will show the emperor after returning to Beijing, you spread rumors and slander, but this crime can't wait until the capital." β
As soon as the words fell, Steward Li was immediately pushed to the ground by the two soldiers, Meng Jun squinted his eyes and waved his hand and said, "Military law has dealt with it." β
The rest of the Zheng family stewards watched as Steward Li was tied up by two soldiers and pushed to the city gate, and one of the soldiers raised a knife and rolled Steward Li's bloody head to the ground, and Steward Li's body also fell to the ground.
Those Zheng family stewards were trembling with fright, and many of them peed their pants on the spot, flowed down their legs to the ground, and wet the ground under their feet. Pingzhou Yin is just a scholar, although he has seen many dead people during this time, he has never seen such a bloody scene, and his legs are a little weak on the spot.
At the moment when the soldier raised the knife, Meng Jun covered Jin Qing's eyes to prevent her from seeing this bloody scene, but the sound of the knife cutting flesh and bones still clearly reached Jin Qing's ears, and Jin Qing shivered involuntarily.
Meng Jun frowned, quietly took Jin Qing aside, and first asked Pingzhou Yin to take away the bodies of the Zheng family's stewards and Li stewards, who had been frightened.
It took a long time for Jin Qing to come back to her senses, looking blankly at the dozen or so carriages outside Pingzhou City, her heart was desperate, she had a premonition that all the people in Pingzhou would not be able to avoid this plague, if she didn't want the plague to spread throughout Pingzhou, it would be sealed, and without medicinal materials, it would be summer soon, and it was foreseeable that in a month at most, Pingzhou would be an empty dead city.
Meng Jun carried Jin Qing to the carriage and sat her down, while he stood in front of her.
At this moment, fear finally prevailed over everything, Jin Qing covered her face, tears poured out" "I can't hide, I can't hide ......"
Meng Jun gently wiped away the tears on Jin Qing's face with his sleeve, and was about to say something, but he heard the sound of a carriage behind him.
Jin Qing also heard it, and when he raised his eyes, a convoy was coming quickly from the direction of Pingzhou City, and the person in the lead was close to HuΔjia, but he was a crane with a childish face.
As soon as Jin Qing saw the leader, the tears that had been stopped erupted again.
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