When they came to the gate, the people of the city had already surrounded the mansion. When everyone saw Chu Lixue appear, they hurriedly knelt on the ground together, as if they had discussed it.

"Please save us, princess." Everyone said in unison.

Save them? Could it be that these people were also infected with the plague? Or did they just hear about the plague and panic? This matter must be clarified, and if you don't understand the current situation, it is easy to make things useless. The so-called prioritization and urgency should be handled differently in different ways.

"Folks, if you have any difficulties, just say it, as long as this concubine can do it, I will definitely try my best to help you." Chu Lixue said loudly.

"Princess Niangniang, we heard that there was a plague in Nanchu, and a large number of victims have come to Beichen Kingdom, many people have been infected with the plague, and those outside the city are infected, what can we do? Plague kills. An old man said on his behalf.

"yes, yes. Princess Niangniang, the second cow next door to my house vomited and diarrhea when he woke up this morning, wouldn't it be the plague. Another middle-aged woman said.

Hearing the middle-aged woman say this, everyone's emotions were uncontrollable for a while, and they were all talking about what to do if the plague was infected.

"Everybody be quiet and listen to me." Chu Lixue said loudly.

People are like this, they start to panic before they really encounter danger, and it is not wrong to prevent trouble before it happens, but a rush will not solve the problem.

When everyone heard Chu Lixue speak, they also quieted down instantly, "Folks, don't panic, I don't know what caused the plague this time, so this concubine will go out of the city tomorrow to investigate, only if you know the source of the disease, you can know what to treat, but if you are worried, just sprinkle some lime powder in the corner of your home, and then smoke wormwood to prevent it." ”

Hearing Chu Lixue say this, the people ran away one after another and went to the pharmacy to buy wormwood. But there are also some shopkeepers in the crowd just now, when they heard that wormwood can prevent the plague, they also hurried back to the pharmacy, now there is a plague, so many people need wormwood, naturally the highest price gets, usually only a few copper plates can buy wormwood, for a while, it was sold for three taels of silver and a penny, rich people naturally will not worry that they do not have wormwood, but those poor people who have no money ......

The wormwood in the Chinese medicine shop in Yuncheng also needs to be purchased from outside the city, although the wormwood is more expensive, it is still sold out quickly, and Chu Lixue naturally has a way to deal with such unscrupulous businessmen.

No one in the city knows that this Princess Chen is a person from the Medicine King Valley, and many pharmacies in the city have already passed through Chu Lixue and taken the road of the Medicine King Valley, and many rare herbs, as long as they can afford the money, the Medicine King Valley will naturally sell them.

"Princess, the shopkeeper of those pharmacies heard that wormwood can prevent the plague, and they even raised the market price, and many people can't afford it." Liuyue frowned.

Hearing Liuyue call herself the princess, Ning Xiang was a little surprised, could it be that the master is not angry with the prince? She said, this couple has a conflict, how can it come true, it was originally to deal with the Guo family, but now that the Guo family has fallen, and Guo Qilan in the palace has also passed away, even if there is any deep hatred, it should disappear.

"Liuyue, you go and tell those who have made a fortune that if they don't sell wormwood at the usual price, then they will charge him three times more for the medicinal materials they buy from Medicine King Gu in the future." Chu Lixue said coldly.

These bastards who make a fortune only think about themselves, and don't care about the lives of the people, the so-called doctors are benevolent, and they are all doctors who can treat people, and they do such things with their conscience, it is really in vain to be a doctor.

The pharmacy in Cloud City did not dare to raise the price again after receiving Chu Lixue's warning, and the price of wormwood returned to normal, but there were still some pharmacy stores that refused to sell at a low price, that is, the Bai family's pharmacy.

The Bai family has always relied on the queen mother and the queen to do whatever they want in Cloud City, they never look for the medicine king valley to buy medicinal materials, but buy them from some medicinal material merchants, and the quality and efficacy of the medicinal materials of those medicinal material merchants are naturally much worse, just like the astragalus, the high-grade astragalus of the medicine king valley is only collected once in seven years, and the astragalus of those medicinal material merchants is only one year, even so, the Bai family is still the only supplier of the Royal Imperial Medical Office.

The Bai family is the biggest moth in Beichen Kingdom, the Queen Mother Bai and the queen gave the Bai family all the things purchased in the palace in order to seize power, but as everyone knows, the Bai family regards the royal money as their own, and there are countless money greedy for ink from it.

The next day, Chu Lixue and King Chen came to the city gate with their entourage, to go out of the city to investigate, but the guards guarding the gate refused to let go, the emperor issued a strict order that no one was allowed to go out of the city, if they dared to let go of a person, they would cut off their heads, this is a matter of life and death, compared to their heads, even if it is King Chen and Princess Chen, they can't let go.

"Quickly open the gates, and the king will go out with the princess to find out the source of this plague." King Chen said in a deep voice.

"Lord, I can't open this city gate, the emperor has an order, no one can go out, besides, there are people outside, in case you go out and get infected with the plague, then how can it be good, prince, princess, you two are safer in the city." The guard guarding the door said respectfully.

"If you don't go out to check the source of the disease, just seal the city gates, do you think you won't catch the plague? Now that someone is already infected in the city, do you want to make Cloud City a dead city? King Chen said angrily.

But the other party still refused to open the city gate, and no matter how reasonable King Chen said, he didn't dare to disobey the holy order. Seeing that this person couldn't make sense, King Chen couldn't help but be angry, grabbed the guard's shirt, and threw him far away in the corner. Seeing this, the rest of the guards unsheathed their swords one after another, this is the rhythm of wanting to use force with the prince.

"Lord, please don't embarrass the little ones, if you let the prince go out today, the heads of the little ones won't be saved, if the prince insists on going out of the city, just step on the little corpse first." One of the young guards said loudly.

Hearing this, Chu Lixue couldn't help but glance at the guard, this guard is not bad, he knows how to be loyal, now the plague is everywhere, and the name of the people is boring, maybe this is a warning from God, to choose a new master for this world. And she, as King Chen's wife, comrade-in-arms, and strategist, is also time to discover some talents for King Chen.

Listening to the guards' words, King Chen's face turned pale, and several guards were so frightened that they knelt on the ground on the spot, King Chen's prestige in Beichen is also not small, and sometimes offending King Chen will make them worse than dead.

Seeing that King Chen was about to get angry, Chu Lixue gently grabbed King Chen's arm and persuaded softly: "Lord Wang, what the guards said is right, now there are disaster victims outside the city, if the city gate is opened, they will definitely pour in, and there will be more sick people at that time, let's go to the city tower to have a look first." ”

"Okay, then listen to the lady." King Chen softened his tone.

When a few people heard that King Chen promised not to go out, they just went to the city tower to have a look, and now they were finally relieved, at least, their heads were saved first.

When you come to the city tower, how can the scene outside the city be described in a tragic word? Now in the open space outside the city, there are sitting and lying victims, who seem to have not eaten for a long time, and are gnawing on turf. Chu Lixue's heart was sour, it was the emperor's lack of way that brought disaster to the people.

Immediately, Chu Lixue and King Chen glanced at each other, King Chen hugged Chu Lixue with one hand, jumped into the air, and with a beautiful turn, the two of them had already fallen outside the city gate. Immediately, Li Ping, Liuyue, Wanyue and Rean Xue also jumped down one after another. Only Ning Xiang was left standing alone on the city tower.

"Hey, don't leave me." Ning Xiang said anxiously.

"Girl, you can stay up there. If the princess needs anything, you can't take it. Liuyue said loudly.

Hearing Liuyue say this, Ning Xiang felt that it made sense, so she didn't shout, but silently watched a few people walk among the victims.

When the victims saw someone approaching, they did not immediately surround them, but slowly moved backwards, as if they were afraid of their approach.

"Princess, these people seem to be afraid of us." Liuyue whispered.

Chu Lixue also sensed that something was wrong, according to common sense, the victims should have asked for help when they saw someone coming, not to mention, they all came out of the city.

Immediately, Chu Lixue understood the reason for this, among them, except for herself, the rest of the people came out with martial arts, those victims must be afraid, those who can jump from the city tower without being injured are very dangerous for ordinary people.

"Where are you all victims?" Chu Lixue said softly.

"We are all people near Cloud City, because there are displaced people entering the village, and many people are infected with the plague, so we ...... Ahem, ahem, ahem......" an old woman said in a dumb voice.

Chu Lixue looked at their appearance and felt very uncomfortable, "Old woman, stretch out your hand, I'll take a look at your pulse." ”

Hearing this, the old woman put her hands in front of her chest and said with a very vigilant look: "You are all rich and noble, I have no money, don't look at it." When she had finished speaking, the old woman withdrew back to where she had been sitting, and there sat a little girl of seven or eight years old, with a dirty face and hair like weeds, and on the back of the little girl's hand there were already several pustules that had festered, and there were many others in the same condition as the little girl.

Chu Lixue didn't care about any protection, and walked quickly in front of the little girl and said softly: "Little sister, let my sister see your hands, my sister is a doctor, let my sister help you, okay?" ”

The little girl hesitated for a moment, and finally stretched out her hand, but something unexpected happened, the little girl suddenly grabbed Chu Lixue's hand and bit it hard.