"Child, my child …" The woman cried bitterly as she held her child, who had just died.
This crying sound made Luo Shang extremely anxious, how could it be like this, what exactly were these two pills that were missing?
No, why not try again?
"I say, little girl, do you know or not? We are all old people in a hospital. We have seen all kinds of illnesses, but we still don't know anything about this plague. You look so young, are you sure you can do it?"
"That's right. At such a young age, you actually managed to show off."
The imperial physicians of the imperial hospitals were all discussing amongst themselves. It was already past noon, and it had only been half a day since a thousand people had died. If things continued like this, it would be even more dangerous.
The water in the well had already been sealed off, and everyone's diet was exceptionally careful. Why were so many people infected with the plague?
Luo Shang just couldn't understand. She could only watch as more and more corpses were carried away in front of her eyes.
"Look, three more died over there, do you think you can?" A relatively young imperial physician shouted out loudly. This alarmed the other imperial physicians who were concocting medicine, and they all walked towards Luo Shang, surrounding her.
The young imperial physician kicked over the stove where Luo Shang was concocting the medicine. The boiling medicinal juice splattered onto Luo Shang's hand, and instantly caused a field of blisters.
She bit her lip and did not say a word.
"Look, look." We have so many imperial doctors here accompanying a little kid like you to boil this useless medicine. A joke. Do you really think that I, who have a lot of experience and studying sages, can't beat you? " His discontent caused a stir in the other imperial physicians.
"I advise you to quickly retreat and stop obstructing our treatment."
Luo Shang chuckled. She loosened her hand that was covering the blisters and covered it with her sleeve.
"Her cold eyes were still so firm and beautiful." I was the one who brought up the leaderboard, so if there were any mistakes, I will bear the consequences myself. If you want me to give up, fine, take it, and let His Majesty personally issue an order. "
After she finished speaking, Luo Shang threw the unveiling of the Emperor Board to him.
"You …" The imperial physician was so angry he couldn't speak. He couldn't find any words to argue with this woman. "Imperial Physician Jiang, Senior Guo, you two are the imperial physicians with the highest aptitude, please say something."
"I want to see who dares!"
The imperial physicians looked over and saw the woman walking towards them. They immediately kneeled. Greetings, County Princess Chaoyang. "
Leng Yuxin scoffed, she was the one who couldn't bear to see people acting so pretentiously the most. Luckily she came in time, otherwise Luo Shang would have been in a difficult situation.
Leng Yuxin looked at Luo Shang and nodded, indicating that she should be at ease. She then turned around and said to the crowd, "All of you listen up, this is the legal wife of the King Jin, the younger sister of General Luo. I want to see who dares to spout such arrogant words!"
Hearing this, everyone present panicked, they had never thought that this woman had such a background. Looking at her young age, they did not expect her to be the princess consort of the King Jin.
When the imperial physician heard this, his face immediately turned blue. His lips turned white, and he trembled. "This official deserves to die, this official should die a thousand times for his crimes. Princess, please spare my life! Princess, please spare my life …"
Luo Shang looked at Leng Yuxin and shook her head.
"Hurry up and do as the wangfei says." Leng Yuxin reprimanded.
"Yes, yes, yes. Your subject will go right away." The imperial physicians retreated in a flurry, pulling up the one on his knees whose legs were already numb, and quickly left.
"This bunch of quack doctors, this bunch of trash." Leng Yuxin wiped the corner of her lips and looked over to Luo Shang. Seeing that her sleeves were wet, she felt that something was wrong.
"What happened to your hand?"
"I accidentally broke the wok just now. It's fine." Luo Shang crouched down and picked up the broken pieces of the furnace.
She frowned when her hand touched the shiny black fragment. Crystalline particles are hard to digest and put into medicine, I understand. "
Listening to the curiosity in her words. Leng Yuxin was confused. What do you understand? Luo Shang. "
"Princess, there's something I need your help with." Those two medicines weren't ordinary medicinal ingredients. She was afraid that if she went to search for them, those imperial physicians definitely wouldn't give them to her in accordance with the usual rules.
Only Leng Yuxin could bring it over.
Listening to Luo Shang, Leng Yuxin indeed took out the two ingredients, but after brewing it, she did not see another batch of corpses being carried out like what Luo Shang had expected.
"Luo Shang, as you have seen, this is a plague. It is definitely not as simple as you thought it was in the past. This time, since you left the residence unnoticed, Mo Yun might have already sent someone to report to Big Brother. When Leng Yuxin heard about the plague in the capital, she had originally wanted to go to the Yue'e Pavilion to discuss how to deal with it. It was unknown who released the news that the wangfei had left the manor without permission. This time, she had come to bring her back.
"I can't go back yet."
"But big brother, that …" Leng Yuxin sighed, she knew Luo Shang was stubborn, with her promise, she would not go back with her.
"Fine, since you're not leaving, fine, then I'll stay behind to accompany you."
Luo Shang had advised her many times, but she refused to return home. The most important thing right now was to cure the plague, but she had already tried all kinds of methods, and Luo Shang did not have a single clue.
The plague had arrived in a hurry and taken the lives of so many people.
She looked at the prescription in her hand again and again. Just what kind of medicine were these? He had tried almost all the drugs in the hospital, but they had all failed, so how could it be like this?
"Empress Wei, Luo Shang knows that you resent my Wu Zhou. But I believe that with how kind you are, if you were still alive, you wouldn't have let me off. Since the lives of everyone in the city are in danger, Luo Shang begs for your protection. "
"If you are alive in heaven, please tell my daughter how to solve this plague." Luo Shang had no other way, she really had no other choice.
"Reporting to the wangfei, five more people have died."
Hearing the guard's report, Luo Shang squatted on the floor and closed her eyes.
As for the prescription, it slowly unfolded and laid flat on the ground.
Just as Luo Shang was about to pick it up, her eyes suddenly lit up. Why was this corner missing for the scroll?
What did this mean? Could these two herbs be poison?
Or could it be an ordinary medicine? Or was it forbidden drugs?
Luo Shang opened her eyes wide. "Forbidden medicine."
Ever since the founding of each country, every country had a ban on drugs. The drugs that were banned from circulating were either extremely toxic or something else.
The plague that happened in Wei Guo was solved by the Queen Lady Yan herself. The people who saw the prescription shouldn't be many, so the only person who destroyed the formula would be the Lady Yan herself.
Lady Yan was a person of the Wu Zhou, and defending a nation and Wu Zhou were natural enemies, thus the citizens of the country would never accept medicine from Wu Zhou. Could it be that these two medicines came from the land of Wu Zhou, and were extremely symbolic, which was why the Lady Yan had no choice but to destroy the name of the medicine?
Leng Yuxin patted Luo Shang's shoulder, looking at her lost in thought. Did you think of something? "Could it be that you know about the two medicinal herbs?"
Luo Shang did not answer her, but turned and wrote another set of ingredients again. This set of ingredients were not too different from the ones from the previous few times, but they were all modified to smell different types of medicinal herbs.
"Try again." Luo Shang passed the prescription to Leng Yuxin.
Leng Yuxin had already tried many times, and she had almost lost her confidence. She nodded in the end, and led the girls away.
Luo Shang carefully examined every single corpse, including the place they were staying. Ultimately, she still thought that it was because of the water.
"Princess, we've extracted a lot of water from the well. When we're in the depths of the well, all of the water came from the same location, the Thunder Mountain outside the Royal Capital. In addition, there are a large number of dead rats in the depths of the well. " The guards were drenched from head to toe, and immediately reported back after finding the clues.
Her guess was right, it was indeed a matter of water.
The imperial city had been bustling for many years and had never been in an epidemic situation. It was likely that this time, someone had maliciously caused trouble and tampered with the source of the water.
"Immediately report this to the central command and send people to Thunderclap Mountain to check if anyone has tampered with the source of the water." "Once discovered, the water supply would be cut off immediately. No matter how much trouble it would take, it would still have to be transferred to the capital through the water supply elsewhere."
The guards looked at each other and replied in unison, "Yes."
"Luo Shang."
When Luo Shang turned back, she was walking towards her. She had a worried look on her face with both her hands on her shoulders, and she once again shook her head.
Still not good enough.
Luo Shang did not speak and lowered her head.
"Hehe …" We did it, Luo Shang, we did it. "Look at how you acted just now." Leng Yuxin did not care about her image anymore as she hugged Luo Shang and laughed.
Luo Shang was startled, her eyes immediately turned red, and she thought to herself: I finally succeeded. Thank you so much for the empress's benevolence.
Following Luo Shang's instructions, all the medicine halls opened up and gave the antidote to Luo Shang using official funds.
People who are not infected with the disease also apply for the prescription for the patient to boil the medicine.
"Princess, you are the living Bodhisattva of our people."
"Princess, thousand years, thousand years."
"Long live the wangfei, long live …"
All the commoners knelt down and kowtowed to thank the living Bodhisattva. Prince Jin's Wife.
"Get up quickly, you can't help it. What you really need to thank is the His Majesty, and the Wu Zhou. It is they who have not abandoned you in the end. " Luo Shang smiled. Her smile was very beautiful, like a snow lotus blooming in a mountain of heaven. It was clean and pure, without a single flaw.
Leng Yuxin sighed. Look, this group of commoners only cares about the Prince Jin's Wife, who still remembers this princess … "Tsk tsk …"
"You can come back with me now?" Leng Yuxin looked at her.
Now that it was dusk, she had promised Mo Yun that she would definitely bring him back, and it was going to be dusk soon.
"I need to see that they are really fine before I go back."
"You are truly stubborn. Fine, I'll wait for you." Leng Yuxin chuckled.