Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Or did he think of her Doraemon at first? Part II

“Then, what to do next?”

“Separate the patients, Your Highness. Patients who have diarrhea and stomachache, patients who showed symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting, patients who have diarrhea and fever and are also vomiting, and then those who are healthy. They will be split into four groups and treated according to their symptoms. The healthy will take care of the sick. Most importantly, they need to eat clean food, use clean utensils, and...”

The transmigrated doctor continued to explain her method. Bai Yu was only half listening because she had expected most of them already, though for other details she had nothing to recommend or take action on her own like when she distributed rehydration solution since she did not know what medicine to use in this world, or if it could be easily cured with healing magic.

This time it was Bai Hua’s fate to show her ability. Bai Yu only needed to go with the flow. Still, the villainess was worried in place of Bai Hua. There were no diarrhea tablets or antibiotics here, then how would she cure food poisoning?

Haahh! She should have brought a first aid kit with her when she killed herself.

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Three days passed, Bai Hua and the army’s royal doctors, together with royal doctors from the capital, invented a formula. Then, the army’s soldiers went out to find the herbs with the property that could be used to treat the symptoms.

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Though the cold weather was an obstacle for the non-soldiers, the combined efforts helped the villager’s condition, and some were cured. They all praised the commander-general and Miss Bai Hua in great joy.

Still, there was a worrying condition of some villagers whose fever showed no sign of easing. Even worse, people in a nearby village also started showing the same symptoms. The meeting was held again in Ouyang Feilong’s tent.

“We need to use the same method as we did with this village so that we can continue treating the sick.” It was the illustrious Miss Bai Hua who spoke up to share her opinion. Many in the tent nodded in agreement with her.

“Who would watch over that village, then? The distance between the two villages was too much to travel back and forth so frequently,” a royal doctor from the capital voiced the point that everyone had been worried about.

It was clear that no one wanted to go to that village, since it was unknown whether the condition of the people there was better or worse than here. And because of this fear of the unknown, they were afraid that they would fall sick as well if they went there. No one wanted to risk. Not when the cause of the disease was still unknown.

“Benwang will go there and the captain will stay here.” The man with the dragon mask was the one who accepted this mission in the first place. He was never afraid of something trivial such as this.

Bai Yu internally applauded Rui Wang. If she wanted to create a good impression and buy his trust, then she could just volunteer to follow him there. But she would not...because there was something she just remembered that she had to do.

“I would like to go with Your Highness as well,” Bai Hua said with a determined gaze, surprising everyone in the meeting, except Bai Yu. She could predict that the heroine would always act as the center of attention because this was the scene created for her.

“The situation here is almost resolved, there is only the fever that I have yet to find a way to treat. I will try to think up a method while helping the patients in that village.”

“But you have started making progress here...” the army’s royal doctor who had worked with Bai Hua from the start and saw both her brilliance and bravery hesitantly said.

“Hua-er believes in you, doctors...” Her thin lips formed a beautiful smile. The peach blossom eyes gaze at every one of the elderly royal doctors. She continued in a firm voice. “...The elders here all are professional. You can handle this situation; I am sure of it.”

“Then I will go with you, miss,” royal doctor Mu who had treated Bai Yu’s wound said with eyes filled with trust.

“Just you and I are enough, sir. I will leave the matter here in you all’s care.” The former sentence was said to the doctor who volunteered, while the latter was to other doctors with a smile.

This third miss of the Bai family was not a useless person. She was capable, but not arrogant. She was gentle, but not weak. Bai Yu had to internally give Bai Hua a big round of applause.

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“Why didn’t you volunteer to come with benwang?”

“I am not skilled at treating the sick, Your Highness. Moreover, I am a woman. It would only cause Wangye more trouble if I follow.”

“But your sister volunteered without hesitation.”

Screw my sister!

“Wangye please do not tease me.” Bai Yu smiled so wide her two dimples showed, even though inside she wanted to spit fire at this black dragon! Why would he provoke her by comparing her with Bai Hua?!

“Benwang may have misjudged you.” He walked away as soon as he finished speaking, not in time to see her confused reaction.

What was he talking about? All along he was indifferent toward everything, then why would he care about her? And up until now what kind of person did he want her to be? Or did he think she was Doraemon?

“Miss, lunch for the villagers is finished. Do you want to return to the tent?”

“I want to go to the river next to the village.”

“The water there is so cold. You can’t play in it, miss.”

“I didn’t say that I was going to play.” She flicked her puppy maid’s forehead then started heading toward the said river. Before setting out, she had asked two soldiers to guide her way. Although the area was under Ouyang Feilong’s care, she still had to take precautions in case that something unexpected happened on her way to the river that was not too near or too far from the village.

When they reached the river, Bai Yu walked up to the bank. Her white hands, now completely free of wound or scar, cupped the water in an attempt to examine it, though it was still as clear as every time the villagers took it to use and consume. She frowned. If there was nothing wrong with the water, then what could be the carrier for the bacteria, then?

“Do you know which way is the other village?” The slim figure gracefully stood up. Today she wore a dark blue dress like always. It was the color that gave Bai Yu the image of a cold and serene beauty more than normal.

“Walking down this stream will take half a day to reach the village, miss.”

It was what she thought, this village was in the area of headwater, and the next village was also not far down the river. Bai Yu was still certain that the source of the bacteria was from water.

“What if we walk that way?” She pointed in the opposite direction, which was the source of this river.

“It is a forest, miss.”

“No villages?”

“No, miss. If we walk up the stream, it will take three days until we reach the magic forest. There is no human living there.”

“Then what else is living there?”

“I do not know.”

“Forget it.”

Bai Yu sighed. She gave up and finally turned to go back to her tent. After the group had split up, the two soldiers were confused about the young miss’s behavior. Still, her questions were only about the villages and nothing of concern, so they both decided not to report it to the general.

That night, Bai Yu thought over and over while lying in her tent about what could be the source of the disease. Everyone else was busy with taking care of the villagers, and so they might have forgotten to focus on finding out the cause. This could be ignored before, but now that another village started being affected, Bai Yu thought that the matter could not be ignored any longer. At first, she was sure water was the carrier of the disease since the two villages were located near the same river, but she could not find anything out of ordinary when she inspected the water.

Then what could be the carrier?