Chapter 655 Her Opinion

The doctor hurried over, and there was a flurry of activity on his side. The guards brought by the two governments also gradually became agitated, coughing one after another.

Xiao Changheng rubbed his brows and ordered people to take hundreds of people from Prince Duan's Mansion and Prince Qi's Mansion to nearby places for isolation and triage.

Hundreds of palace guards were at a loss at this moment. They were also afraid of getting sick and having no one to treat them, so they all followed the instructions obediently.

Like other places, the city garrison was also equipped with a special team of doctors. Although there was a shortage of manpower, they still quickly dispatched a team to methodically register symptoms and distribute medicine packs to hundreds of guards.

Several disciples of the Medical Immortal Valley were walking around with silver needles in their hands. When they saw someone coughing non-stop, they would use acupuncture to suppress the cough. The medicine boys were holding ceramic pots and pouring warm medicine into everyone's mouth one by one. Their movements were so swift that it seemed as if they had long been accustomed to this kind of chaos.

"Your Highness, how should we accommodate these people?" the general defending the city asked in a low voice.

There are definitely not enough doctors here, and some people have already borrowed staff from other places, but because it involves two princes, the specific instructions still have to be received from the Regent himself.

"Divide them according to the epidemic area. Those with mild symptoms will be concentrated in the West Camp, and those with severe symptoms will be sent to the East Camp." Xiao Changheng said coldly, "If anyone causes trouble, tie them up and throw them into the black tent. No exceptions."

"Yes, sir!"

The generals understood that the phrase "no exceptions" specifically referred to Prince Duan and Prince Qi.

After he took the order and left, Xiao Changheng turned and walked towards the city.

The streets were filled with the bitter scent of herbs, and the eaves along the street were hung with herbal bags for epidemic prevention, swaying slightly in the wind.

Although the plague was raging, the people were less panicked than expected - the doctors in the Medical Immortal Valley set up temporary medicine sheds everywhere, and the disciples of the Xuanmen sect went door to door holding copper bells to remind people to take medicine. Even the beggars on the street corners were wrapped in coarse sackcloth issued by the government, squatting beside the fire and gulping down medicine soup.

Xiao Changheng walked and looked along the way, and his heart was slightly relieved.

Just as the herald said, although nine out of ten people were infected with the disease, there was no large-scale death. Even some of the first patients who took the special medicine had begun to recover. Thanks to this, the panic atmosphere that had just emerged among the people did not spread.

After turning a long street, there was a sudden noise ahead.

Xiao Changheng paused and saw a group of people surrounding a green cloth carriage which was piled with medicine bags and guarded by guards on all sides.

Standing next to the carriage was a woman in simple palace clothing. She was Princess Chang'an, Xiao Yueyun.

"Don't crowd! Line up according to household registration, and each household will receive three packets of medicine!" She spoke in a clear voice, holding a roll of names in her hand, and she didn't even notice the ink stains on her fingertips. "There are six people in your family? Take six packets! Auntie, your little grandson is only a few months old, so reduce the dosage by half, and don't feed him too much!"

The people responded one after another upon hearing this, and the team moved forward slowly and orderly.

Xiao Yuejun turned to the maid behind her and said, "Abi, go tell the West Street Medicine Shed to send some more No. 8 medicine bags. We don't have enough here."

The maid left in a hurry, and she squatted down again and helped up an old woman who stumbled and fell: "Grandma, be careful, I will help you sit over there and drink the medicine.

Xiao Changheng watched quietly for a moment and understood.

Judging from her skill, she must have received an anti-epidemic talisman when the plague first broke out and came out to help.

He was about to step forward when he saw Xiao Yuejun suddenly stand up and glance sharply at the back of the crowd: "The one in the gray shirt! You've received medicine twice, do you think I can't see it? In the face of the epidemic, greed for one more packet of medicine will cost someone's life!"

The man who was named blushed and retreated with his neck shrunk.

"Uncle?" Xiao Yuejun turned around and saw Xiao Changheng, and was stunned for a moment, as if hesitating whether to come over to pay his respects or continue distributing medicine.

Xiao Changheng waved his hand to signal her to go ahead and get busy. Xiao Yuejun understood what he meant and stopped hesitating and continued to get busy.

But she remembered something while dispensing the medicine, and turned around and said:

"Uncle, please wait a moment. I have something important to discuss with you."

Xiao Changheng nodded slightly, looked around, and saw the servants of the princess's mansion busy unloading sacks of medicine from the carriage, so he walked over.

After a while, the maid who delivered the message came back, and Xiao Yuejun asked her to take over distributing the medicine packages. When she finally had time to look back, she saw the always feared Regent, rolling up his sleeves and unloading the goods with the servants in her house.

Xiao Yuejun stared at it for a moment, then walked over with a sigh in her heart and called out softly:

"Uncle."

Xiao Changheng unloaded the last two large bags of medicine onto the ground, then turned to look at her, straightening his sleeves while saying:

"Um, what is it?"

Xiao Yuejun turned to the blank space at the back of the roster and saw another piece of paper filled with words. He tore it off and handed it to him:

"This is a situation I encountered before. I thought there might be other places with the same situation, so I wrote this and thought I would send someone to pass it to the emperor's uncle later. It just so happens that you are here."

Xiao Changheng took it and saw tiny handwriting densely written on the paper. It turned out that some people in the community were questioning whether those who organized the isolation, treatment and medicine distribution were really sent by the government, and they were trying to incite trouble.

Xiao Yuejun detained the troublemakers on the spot, explained the truth to the people who did not know the truth, properly calmed the people's emotions, and wrote down these experiences, thinking that if the same situation occurred in other places, it could be used as a reference.

Xiao Changheng quickly scanned the contents on the paper and gave her an appreciative look: "Well done, can you lend me your pen?"

He took the pen from Xiao Yuejun, wrote a line of comments below, signed his name, and instructed the accompanying guards:

"Give this to Nan Zheng, and let him refer to this solution when he encounters the same situation."

Xiao Yuejun was a little dazed and stopped predicting. Seeing Xiao Changheng's puzzled look, she lowered her eyes and smiled, without saying anything else.

Xiao Changheng saw that she was worried and said:

"But what other problems have you discovered in the process of responding to the epidemic? Just speak frankly."

"That's not the case..." Xiao Yuejun hesitated, "I just didn't expect the emperor's uncle... would value my opinion so much."

Xiao Changheng raised his eyebrows:

"Your opinions are reasonable and valid, as they should be."

Xiao Yuejun's eyes moved slightly, and after a moment of silence, he spoke softly:

"But if the person who saw this page today was not the Emperor's uncle, he would think that what I did was unnecessary, or even..."

She didn't say anything more.

Xiao Changheng's expression paused, and he suddenly understood what she really wanted to express, and remained silent for a while.

"I'll go and get busy first. Please do as you please, uncle." Xiao Yuejun glanced at the people queuing up to get medicine, bowed slightly to him, turned around and got busy again.

Xiao Changheng looked at her straight back, his gaze becoming somewhat distant.

If Prince Duan and Prince Qi had 30% of Xiao Yuejun's responsibility, they wouldn't have caused such a scene at the city gate, making a fool of the royal family.

But in the eyes of Prince Duan and Prince Qi, Princess Chang'an's talent could only be a pastime after dinner just because she was a woman, and her abilities and ambitions were only icing on the cake for them.

Her opinion…their opinions, had never mattered.

Even if they feel that their insights exceed their expectations, they will become dissatisfied and find fault with them, suppress them, and then take the results for themselves.

How arrogant.

The ones who caused all this were the countless Princes of Duan and Princes of Qi... and the Emperor's brother.

Xiao Changheng looked quietly at the busy yet orderly scene in front of him, finally sighed slowly, turned around and left.