The city gate is not a place to talk, and the city gate of Yangzhou is not convenient to open for too long, the two sides salute, briefly introduce each other, and ride into the city by car.

Shen Qingyi sat back in the four-wheeled carriage, and looked at the long-lost city through the clear glass window.

The familiarity of Yangzhou in her memory is second only to her birthplace Huzhou (Wuxing).

Ten years ago, his father Shen Lun moved to Yangzhou to assassinate the history, and half of the family members of the Laiguo Mansion followed him, including Shen Qingyi's mother and daughter, but in less than a year, the jealous Mrs. Lu sent the mother and daughter back to Wuxing Shen Mansion on the grounds of serving Mrs. Tai - Shen Qingyi is like a fish in water, because her mother's maiden family is Huzhou's premier Xinglin family Cheng, it is said that the ancestor is the registered disciple of the Taoist innate master Yao Dian, who holds Puzi Ge Hong, and since then the medical heirloom, Shen Qingyi and his maternal ancestor have close private contacts, He received a lot of help from his grandfather in studying medicine - it was not until Mrs. Tai died that Shen Qingyi and his mother were admitted to Yangzhou by his father, and it was not until she married Hexi.

Now, walking on the poplar street of the city again, Shen Qingyi has a feeling of being in a different world.

This cross street that crisscrosses the inner and outer city is still so wide, with tall poplars sandwiched by jasmine trees on both sides, which is still so green and eye-catching in the spring breeze, and the ochre red brick road with butterfly patterns is still so beautiful and unique; However, the cars, horses and pedestrians on the road are extremely scarce, and they seem to be deserted and deserted.

This is not the Yangzhou she remembers.

It is the second largest in the southeast after Jiankang Mansion, at the intersection of the Yangtze River and the North-South Grand Canal, the geography is unique, the transportation of iron, grain, salt and money from the north and south of the Tang Dynasty must pass through here, the commercial prosperity has brought the dense population of the market, after more than 200 years of Chengping, the population of Yangzhou alone exceeds 600,000, every day there is an endless stream of cars and horses and pedestrians, there are rich Yangzhou people, there are also merchants from other states, scholars and literati who come to travel, As well as the monks and warriors who went south and north, as well as the Persian and Dashi Hu merchants living in Yangzhou, the monks and Taoist priests from the Nanyang countries, and the Buddhist monks of Tianzhu, as well as the merchants, students and monks of the vassal countries of Silla and Fuso, walked on the cross street that ran through the inner and outer cities, and almost could see the costumes of the north and south of the Tang Dynasty and the Hu clothes of the surrounding countries......

In Shen Qingyi's memory, this is a prosperous and lively city that pursues freshness, and every day is full of vitality.

Today, the long street with cars and horses seems to have been destroyed by a strong wind, showing a kind of depression with few pedestrians.

In the middle of the epidemic case, more than 300 people died within six days from the first case of "suspected cholera" was discovered, and by the time of the count, 968 people had died, and more than 3,800 people had been quarantined. Compared to the huge population of six or seven hundred thousand in Yangzhou City, this number is not much, but the most terrifying thing about the plague is its contagion, once it cannot be contained, thousands of people die, it refers to the daytime thing. As soon as the official announcement came out, everyone in Yangzhou was panicked and closed their doors tightly, and they only went out unless they had to do so, and banquets and spring festivals were even extinct, and the shops in the markets were closed, and they only followed the orders of the government to open medicine shops, rice shops, and vegetable markets.

The plague is fiercer than the tiger!

Shen Qingyi couldn't help but sigh silently.

However, although there are few cars and pedestrians in the city, it does not give people a sense of dead silence.

The city is still alive.

From the Yangzhou officials who greeted them, it can be seen that they are anxious and anxious, but they have not yet reached the state of fear and despair, which shows that the plague in the city has at least been controlled from the epidemic, and at the same time, because these officials have a backbone that gives them the strength of hope and support.

This is, of course, her father Shen Lun.

As the supreme governor of Huainan Dongdao, the imperial court from the top of the three ranks, sitting in the city, is enough to give the people a sense of peace of mind, and the power of the peace of mind brought by the head of a family surnamed A is far greater than his official position, even the powerful people in the city have settled down, and they are not afraid to go around camping and trying to get out of the city - before the incubation period of the epidemic is determined, no one will leave the city, which powerful person can be more valuable than the head of the Wuxing Shen family? Even if there are children of a family surnamed A who serve as officials or live and travel in Yangzhou, her father can suppress them. And none of the powerful people were released out of the city, and the hearts of the people below were naturally more stable.

Senior Brother Zhihe mentioned the situation in Yangzhou in the epidemic case, saying that "although there are many epidemics, they are solemn and orderly", which is no different from the scene imagined by Shen Qingyi.

Although her father Shen Lun said that he was a little "confused" in the affairs of the back house, he was clear in his insight into politics and affairs, and he did not compare the small details, but the major events were never ambiguous.

The carriage and horse traveled very quickly on the deserted street, and it was not long before entering the inner city from the outer city, and when they reached the intersection of the cross street, Shen Lun asked all the officials to leave, and each returned to the provincial government and the state government to deal with things, and he and the Yangzhou Thorn Shi led the Taiyi Cheng of the Taiyi Department and the person in charge of the Yangzhou Medical Bureau to continue to greet each other, and rode the horse into the North Poplar Street, and then stepped westward, until the northwest of the inner city is located under the plum blossom ridge Qihe Temple.

The pharmacists of the Daomen all live here.

The residence of the three Dao Xiaozi had already been arranged, and the luggage carriage continued to go inside under the guidance of the Taoist priest in Guannei, and the attendants were each settled. Everyone got off the carriage in front of the view, Shen Lun said goodbye to Dao Xiaozi with a few words, and said to Shen Qingyi, who was saluting and saying goodbye: "Now the epidemic situation is not optimistic, and Seventeen, since he is a pharmacist, he should take the treatment of the epidemic as the leader." When the epidemic eases, it is not too late to return to the public mansion and meet your mother. ”

The "mother" he said was, of course, Mrs. Lu.

Shen Qingyi didn't want to deal with Mrs. Lu at this time, although it was reasonable to live in a Taoist temple, but it was unreasonable not to go back to the Gongfu to meet his mother-in-law, and now with his father's words, he would save her trouble, and he would not spread the reputation of "disrespectful and unfilial".

Shen Qingyi knew that although his father was "confused", he was not ignorant of the battles in the back house, but he had always been affectionate and gentle to his wife and concubine, and he didn't want to get involved in women's struggles.

Shen Qingyi sighed in her heart, her father is very good to every child, he is a qualified father of a family, he will not mess up the distinction between concubines and concubines, but he will not treat his children lightly, but for his mother, he is not a good person - his father's true feelings are given to too many women, how much can his mother occupy?

She suppressed the complexity in her heart, sincerely saluted her father, and said, "Respectfully." ”

After saluting and saying goodbye, Dao Xiaozi turned around and shook his sleeves and said, "Don't be restless first." Go to the place where you discuss every day and talk about the epidemic. ”

"Whoa." The person in charge of the pharmacists sent here by the Daomen was none other than Zhihe, the eighth disciple of Dao Xiaozi, and when he heard this, he and the Guan Zhu Ying He led the way to the abbot's teahouse, which had become a place for the pharmacists to discuss the epidemic. In order to facilitate entry and exit, the high table of Zen chairs was changed in the tea room, and the white reed mats were also removed from the terrazzo brick floor, so that everyone did not need to take off their shoes to enter.

After sitting down in order, the Taoist waiter served sencha, Dao Xiaozi took a sip and took a sip, and asked Zhihe: "How is the epidemic?" ”

Zhihe is fifty-one years old, with a long beard under his chin, a thin figure under his robe, and a hidden blue color under his eyes, but his voice is unhurried, giving people a sense of steadiness, "The doctors have some differences in their judgments about the epidemic, and if you want to explain the epidemic clearly, you have to start from the beginning." As he spoke, he looked at the imperial physician Hu Rulin and the medical doctor Chang Tao who were present, and said to Chang Tao, "The specific situation is still best known to the Yangzhou Medical Bureau-there is Dr. Lao Chang." ”

Chang Tao, the person in charge of the Medical Bureau, has just crossed the 60 mark this year, his beard is still jet black, but his sideburns are a little gray, and his short and fat body is solid, but the blue and black color under his eyes is much more than that of Zhihe Yanzhòng, and even his voice is a little hoarse, and he is not polite when he hears it, and he directly talks about the beginning of the epidemic.

These epidemic cases have been mentioned, but they are not so detailed, and Shen Qingyi and Zhihuan are listening carefully. Dao Xiaozi leaned back on the chair and squinted, holding the tea cup and taking a sip from time to time, I don't know if he was listening carefully. But there is no difference in the number of people, including Hu Rulin and Chang Tao, the elders of the Daomen Medicine Hall have always been alchemists, how can they have the heart to study epidemics? This elder's coming over is just a reflection of the importance that Daomen attaches to the epidemic, which is enough to make Hu and Chang grateful, who would want to fight for merit in the face of such a violent epidemic? I just hope that the more doctors who come to help, the better.

When Chang Tao said about the epidemic, Hu Rulin was holding a tea cup and secretly paying attention to Shen Qingyi and Zhihuan.

When he went to the plague in Suitingzhou, he was in charge of an important pharmaceutical research prescription, which was led by another imperial physician, Cheng Zengzu Wang, and when he came back, he mentioned more than a dozen pharmacists in Daomen, the most outstanding of which were Zhi Yuan and Zhi Huan.

And Zhihuan is Hu Rulin's colleague Zhong Jingting, who was very famous in the Tai Medical Department ten years ago, and at the age of 37, he was already a medical officer in charge of a department, and he was a young genius. Hu Rulin was also a doctor at that time, and Zhong Jingting was a colleague, but he was 16 years older than him, and he could be called his father, but this promising junior handed in his resignation three years after serving as a doctor, saying that he would resign from the government and retreat, which caused an uproar in the department. However, the person who lives in the official suddenly realizes the Tao and resigns as a monk or Taoist, which is not a strange talk in the Tang Dynasty: Yi Xue's senior monk and his party served as Si Tiantai before becoming a monk, and the abbot of Ximing Temple served in Taifu Temple before becoming a monk; Songyang Guanguan served as the Guozijian before becoming a monk, and Jingyang Guanguan served in the Criminal Department before becoming a monk...... Zhong Jingting is not a high-ranking official among them, but he is the first in the Changzhi Dynasty, which caused a lot of discussion, but it was diluted by other new things after a short time, until no one mentioned it.

But Hu Rulin was very thoughtful, so he noticed that there were some famous doctors who "disappeared" before Zhong Jingting, and there were also some famous doctors who quit their homes or traveled without news after Zhong Jingting...... At that time, there were all kinds of speculations in his heart, and when Zeng Yicheng and his entourage came back from Tingzhou, they talked to the senior management of the Imperial Medical Department about who the Daomen pharmacists, including the Daoist Zhihuan, were, and everyone was suddenly surprised, it turned out that those doctors were "monks" and "traveled" to the Daomen Medicine Palace. Hu Rulin was a little envious in his heart, but he was not too jealous, although the reputation of the medicine hall was high, he was a layman, he was reluctant to be rich and rich, surrounded by children and grandchildren, and it was just envy twice.

This Zhiyuan female Taoist master Zeng Yicheng once emphatically mentioned that she seems to be an important person in the Medicine Palace, but she doesn't know her name, surname and origin, but looking at her demeanor, it must be a family that can raise that kind of elegance that is not superficial - but Hu Rulin never expected that this family's background was so amazing, the daughter of Wu Xing Shen.

However, what is even more surprising is that this family girl turned out to be the personal disciple of the Dao Xuan Sun Medicine King!

Hu Rulin still had a feeling of disbelief, anyone at the gate of the city who heard the elder of the prison hall say, "This is my senior brother Dao Xuanzi's medical disciple" had to breathe stagnantly, no, twice, Hu Rulin felt that his heartbeat was still a little abnormal.

You're so young!

Medical Taoism is no better than others, and you must have rich clinical experience, even if you are talented and have no experience in treating diseases, it is only on paper. Take Zhong Jingting as an example, his ancestors and fathers are all famous doctors in Beijing, he has memorized medical scriptures since he was three years old, practiced medicine with his father at the age of ten, and was able to be an assistant at the age of fifteen, and accumulated ten years of clinical experience before being elected to the Taiyi Department. And this Shen lady was born in a family with the surname A like Wuxing Shen, can she still be a doctor from elementary school? It is impossible to have the convenience of Zhong Jingting's family background, how deep can his attainments in the medical Tao be?

Hu Rulin couldn't help but doubt Zeng Yicheng's praise for this female Taoist.

There are also well-known female doctors in the Taiyi Department, but most of them are good at obstetrics and gynecology, and there are very few female doctors in the medical department, and there have never been female doctors in the epidemic department, let alone female doctors with rich experience in epidemic treatment. Hu Rulin was not born in the epidemic department, but the deputy director of the Etheric Medical Department led the team, but he has rich clinical experience in medicine, and the cause of the epidemic is also in the category of medicine, only since the Jingzong Dynasty has been independently divided into a department, but the principle of the disease still belongs to the medical department, and now I see Shen Qingyi's age, but twenty-three or four, right? There must be no doubt in the heart.

Shen Qingyi had a keen sense, how could he not know that this imperial doctor was secretly observing her? Maybe I'm still thinking about it, doubting it.

She looked indifferent, she had seen a lot of this kind of questioning gaze in the Medicine Palace, compared to Hu Yicheng's obscurity, the pharmacist in the Medicine Hall was undisguised, not to mention that she also had the title of "the only personal transmission of the Taoist Xuanzi Doctor", not to mention the examination in the name of learning, that is, the poisoning temptation has been experienced several times, if it were not for her powerful counterattack, she poisoned a few pharmacists, I am afraid that it will not stop later. Although these pharmacists are older than her, almost all of them are grandparents, and they were also famous doctors in the folk or imperial medical department before entering the medicine hall, and they don't know how much more patients and clinical experience they treat than her, but so what? In terms of specific treatment, she is not as good as these old doctors, but because she is old in experience, she is also limited to experience and dare not dare to try new things. And if the epidemic can use the old recipe and follow the previous experience, how can the epidemic end?

She was better than theirs, not experience in the first place.

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