Noble First Daughter-in-law

Shang Ruyi took a deep breath.

But the next moment, she felt that her breathing was blocked, and then she remembered that she had put on a veil for herself since the moment she stepped out of the Duke's mansion, and her breathing was not a big problem, but she could feel a little discomfort when she took a deep breath.

She stretched out her hand and pulled the rope around her ear, and slowly got out of the carriage.

As soon as the battle was over, he was choked by a strong smell of medicine and coughed, and the people around him also covered their mouths and coughed in a low voice, and only raised their heads to look forward after the breath was relieved.

In front of you is Changle Square.

The whole city is filled with smog. Although you have not officially entered, you can see a few people who are tightly wrapped and veiled, holding tissue paper rolls wrapped in wormwood, Jiangzhenxiang and other medicinal materials, lighting them up and waving smoke around the street. The strong smell of medicine diffused again; the square city was surrounded by a wooden fence starting from the base of the city wall, and went around the city for a week, leaving only one road at the entrance, and the spikes of the wooden fence poked out from the smoke. , giving people a very dangerous feeling, as if the next step is to enter the dragon's lake and tiger's lair.

On both sides of the entrance, there are soldiers guarding with swords.

Seeing Shang Ruyi coming, they bowed their hands together and saluted without saying much, Shang Ruyi only nodded, and walked in slowly with Tusheer and Wo Xue.

The smoke in the workshop is thicker and more choking than outside.

The three of them seemed to have walked into some fairyland full of fog in the legend—but, where is this fairyland?After walking a few steps further in and seeing the situation in front of them clearly, the three of them gasped.

The long street is already full of patients!
This Changle Square is the closest market to the south city gate. Unlike other markets in the inner city, most of the functions of this market are for travelers who have just entered the city and have little money to come and go. , there are only a few inns and a small number of private houses in the front, and the horse market behind the city wall is a horse market for buying and selling horses and vehicles, so it is very convenient to clear the market, but it is a big problem to accommodate patients.

The only few inns are already full of people, and the rest can only stay on the street.

Therefore, they temporarily built a long pergola on both sides of the long street, with straw mats under the pergola, and most of the patients were treated here.Although the weather is not too cold and it is not too uncomfortable to sit on the straw mats, but it just rained two days ago, and the mud all over the street has not yet dried up, soaking these mats, and the patients sitting on them one by one His clothes were shabby, his hair was disheveled, and his body was covered in mud, making him even more miserable.

Even so, no one complained, because the people here had no strength to complain. They coughed continuously, and some of them started to vomit. Someone hurriedly took charcoal residues to cover the dirt. They had just cleaned it up. Someone else vomited.

For a moment, the stench and helpless lamentations filled the entire Changle Square.

The doctors were also busy with their feet on the ground.

As soon as Shang Ruyi walked over, three people rushed forward to meet her and saluted her.

"Meet the young lady."

These three people are all middle-aged men in their 40s, the leader is the oldest, with a slightly chubby figure. After some conversations, I found out that his surname is Wu and his name is Zongzhi. He is the medical supervisor sent to Changlefang by the Imperial Medical Office The two people behind him are the doctors of the imperial medical department.

But yesterday Yu Wenye said that there should be three medical officers in Changle Square.

But Shang Ruyi didn't ask any more questions, just exchanged a few words with them, and Wu Zanzhi also said very politely: "I just found out that the Young Madam is coming to Changle Fang today, so I feel disappointed."

Shang Ruyi shook her head: "That's too serious."

After speaking, she looked around again and asked, "Master Wu, how is the situation today?"

Wu Zangzhi said: "I heard that patients were found in a few more places in Xicheng, and the general has already sent people to get them. Another 21 patients were brought in from outside the city early this morning."

"What about the situation in the workshop?"

"Alas, another seventeen patients died last night."

"……Oh."

Shang Ruyi frowned slightly.

In fact, as long as the plague spreads, it is normal for people to die, but when she heard that seventeen more died, she still couldn't help feeling bitter.

This is only the second day.

I walked a few more streets, and the situation was almost the same. On each street, there were doctors from major medical clinics in the city, some of them were helping to see the doctor, and some were holding tissue paper tubes wrapped in wormwood and other medicines and lighting them up. Burned smoke everywhere, and those patients were paralyzed on the ground one by one, wailing and moaning constantly, filling the whole city with a sense of decadence.

He clearly knew that he was here to help, but at this moment, even Shang Ruyi himself was almost infected by this aura, and he was at a loss and even more helpless.

However, before the time of helplessness, Shang Ruyi subconsciously wanted to take a deep breath, but she stopped immediately, and only turned her head to Wu Zaizhidao: "Master Wu, please trouble me about this time." You all need to worry a lot. Please don’t worry about other things, if you can save one more person, it’s one.”

Wu Zanzhi and the two doctors behind him looked at each other, both showing a hint of surprise.

What Yu Wenyuan said outside the Taiji Hall that day, don’t say they know it, I’m afraid that most people in the world know it now, not only know it, but who can’t understand the deep meaning in these words?

The plague this time is a battle for future princes!

But right now, Shang Ruyi told them not to take "other things" to heart, obviously telling them to put saving lives first.

Could it be that the second son of Yuwen and this young lady stopped fighting?

That's why they let people mess around in the workshop?
Although a few people were surprised, but since Shang Ruyi had already spoken, they didn't have much to say, and they all agreed.And Wu Zanzhi hesitated for a moment, then said: "Since the young lady said so, then there are some things that I don't know what to say—"

At this time, Shang Ruyi took another look around and said, "Are all the patients in these streets?"

Wu Zanzhi stopped.

Sensing his eyes flickering, Shang Ruyi immediately felt something: "No?"

Wu Zanzhi hesitated again, and then said: "There are still some, in the stable over there."

"stable?"

When Shang Ruyi heard this, she frowned. It was already very uncomfortable for people to sleep outdoors. How could they put patients in the stables?

So he said: "Patient, how can you put it in the stable?!"

Wu Zhizhi said bitterly: "Young Madam, we don't have enough manpower, besides - this plague is different from other diseases, those who have been infected for more than half a month have almost reached the bone marrow and cannot be cured; elderly patients can be cured The chances of that are pretty slim."

The other two doctors also echoed, "We did this for the sake of the patients here."

"Yeah, we just want to save more people."

Hearing what they said, Shang Ruyi was also speechless. She was silent for a while before saying, "Then, please take me to have a look."

Then Wu Zanzhi asked the two doctors to go to work, and he took her to the workshop.

After crossing several long streets and a corridor, they were almost close to the city wall. The fog in front of them was even heavier, and the strong smell of medicine was mixed with an indescribable stench. Xun frowned, and Tusheer couldn't help retching.

Shang Ruyi is no stranger to this taste.

It was the same smell in the Taiyuan military camp before, which made Tusheer almost faint. She didn't expect that after so long, she still didn't improve.Shang Ruyi smiled wryly, and said, "Forget about Sheer, you just stay outside, don't go."

When Tusher heard this, she wiped her mouth in a hurry: "I'm fine, I'm going to follow the little——wow!"

But before she finished speaking, there was another retching, and Wo Xue hurriedly supported her and patted her on the back. Shang Ruyi sighed and said, "If you go like this, if you really vomit it, it will cause trouble for others."

"what……"

"Staying outside to help is the same. Those in Changlefang are all patients."

Hearing what she said, I really didn't live up to it, Tusheer could only stay aggrieved, and went to help the doctor on the other side take care of the patients, while Shang Ruyi took Wo Xue and followed Wu Zanzhi to move on Walk.

When the corridor under his feet came to an end, the vision suddenly opened up.

Ahead was a large open space, but it was muddy and even mixed with uncleaned horse manure and urine. After being taken away, some patients were moved there, and some patients could only stay away from the muddy place where horse manure was piled up as far as possible, and leaned under the eaves that could barely shelter from the wind and rain.

And they didn't even have straw mats.

The condition of these people is obviously more serious than the people outside. Some have fallen into a coma, some are awake, and they are like strips of torn sacks that have been emptied, lying limply on the ground, watching someone walk in, blinking their gray eyes Without blinking, it has long since lost its vitality.

The air is not only full of stench, but also full of deep dead air.

Seeing this situation, Wu Zhezhi sighed, and said: "Except for the previous——, the patients here were the first to be infected with the plague, and now they are really terminally ill and cannot be cured."

"..."

"Young Madam, we want to treat illnesses, but we also need to save lives."

"..."

"The people here are so sick, even if the soup is distributed outside, they can't drink it anymore, let alone—"

Speaking of this, his eyes flickered, and his tone was the same as when the prophecy was interrupted by Shang Ruyi just now, and he said with a little anxiety in hesitation: "There is no money yet."

"..."

Shang Ruyi frowned slightly.

But she still didn't speak, she just stared at the bleak scene in front of her.

At this moment, a thin figure suddenly broke into sight.

I saw a man wearing a gray-green robe with tight sleeves and a veil on his face. He was taking a bowl of medicine and walking to the eaves. He was helping a patient to be fed, but the patient had obviously died. Unable to take the medicine normally, he coughed violently as soon as he took a sip. With this cough, the decoction was sprayed all over the man.

Shang Ruyi's heart tightened when he saw it.

But the man was not angry, he just wiped his robe with his hand, and said softly: "Don't worry, drink slowly."

That voice—it was a woman!

Shang Ruyi opened her eyes wide, watching her patiently feed the decoction to the patient bit by bit, the patient was trembling and coughing uncontrollably, and the decoction mixed with saliva dripped onto her hands, she didn't care; Looking at the robes she was wearing, it was clearly the robes of the Imperial Medical Office, but it was slightly different from the robes of the other two men just now!
This is actually a female doctor!