Chief Secretary Xie did not linger in the carriage and quickly went out to continue his work.

Gu Yuzhi's gaze involuntarily fell on Imperial Physician Qin, whose usually serious face was now even darker. While taking a pulse, he was talking to the boy beside him. The boy nodded repeatedly and quickly took notes. Then he sat down to take another person's pulse.

Next to the makeshift clinic, a small shed was set up, filled with injured civilians. Even sitting in a carriage, their cries of pain could still be heard.

With his vision obstructed, Gu Yuzhi couldn't see much, but he could hear distant roars and wails.

"Hurry, lift this side up! There are still people down there, they're not dead!"

"There's a child buried here, come quickly!"

Soon, a wailing sound rang out outside the carriage. A little boy grabbed the sleeve of a constable: "Save my mother..."

"My daughter..."

Just then, a loud crash came from ahead, and another house collapsed under the weight of the snow. The carriage shook violently, and the horse neighed, clearly startled. The guards had to pull hard to calm the horse down.

Gu Yuzhi's face was pale, and her little hands gripped the edge of the window tightly until the carriage was stable before she slowly let go.

Outside the window, screams continued, and in the distance, Guard Qi roared, "What are you standing there for? Like a doorman? Hurry up and save them!"

He peeked out through the crack in the window and saw a person covered in blood being carried over. The woman knelt down in front of Qin Yuanpan and another person, pleading, "Doctor, doctor, this is my husband. Please save him, please save him."

Just as Judge Qin was about to get up, he heard the doctor next to him say in a sarcastic tone, "This is indeed a clinic, but these medicinal herbs are expensive and hard to come by, so they are not free. Madam, if you want to save your husband, you should go to the Wen residence. The Wen family's physician has been treating patients with headaches and fevers all morning and hasn't charged a single penny."

Upon hearing this, the woman immediately kowtowed to the doctor, pleading, "Doctor, I beg you, please have mercy and take a look at my husband..."

Qin Yuanpan's apprentice stepped forward to help her, but she pushed him away and said sternly, "I won't let you see, get out of my way!"

Wen Xiu slammed his folding fan shut: "This fellow has really gone too far!"

Gu Yuzhi finally calmed down and the two of them. They lowered their heads and dared not look at the blood-soaked person. Hearing what Wen Xiuzhu said, he also felt that the woman had gone too far. He nodded his little head and said angrily, "If you don't want to look, then don't look. You even pushed people."

“Your Highness,” Wen Xiuzhu sighed, “I was referring to the doctor next to me. His words had two meanings: first, that Imperial Physician Qin was just a physician who could only treat colds; and second, that our Wen family was stingy and only provided medicine for typhoid fever free of charge.”

Gu Yuzhi was indignant: "What do you mean he only treats colds? My mother said that Imperial Physician Qin comes from a family of doctors, and his medical skills are among the best even in the Imperial Hospital. This woman looks down on Imperial Physician Qin, hmph..."

He thought for a long time but couldn't come up with any vicious words, so he had to give up with a puffed-up face and sit there angrily. But he kept thinking about the person bleeding profusely, and his little hands gripped the blanket tightly.

Shu Xiaohan saw his reluctance and gently patted his head: "Your Highness, as the saying goes, it's hard to persuade a damned person. If this woman's husband dies, then it is his fate. You don't need to think too much about it."

He didn't speak, but looked over again and saw the doctor step forward to take the man's pulse, press slightly on the injured area, and then shake his head: "Take him away. Your man has internal bleeding; even a celestial being wouldn't be able to come back."

The woman stared in disbelief, then suddenly closed her eyes and collapsed.

Judge Qin lifted his eyelids slightly and raised his chin. The guard beside him quickly led the man to the small shed at the back. Judge Qin stood up, and the apprentice sat down.

Gu Yuzhi's eyes lit up immediately. He knew that although Judge Qin was a bit fierce, he actually had a very kind heart.

Before Qin, the physician, had even been inside for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the woman woke up. The doctor beside her exclaimed in surprise, pointed to the small shed behind Qin, and shook his head, saying, "Madam, you'd better go in and see her quickly, or you won't even be able to see your husband one last time."

The woman jumped up and rushed into the shed, shouting angrily, "Give me back my husband! You took him away without my permission, what are you trying to do?"

She made a huge scene, punching and kicking the guards. Before long, she attracted the attention of Prefect Qi. After learning what had happened from the young apprentice, he ordered the yamen runners to arrest the woman without saying a word. Then, he looked at the doctor beside him and said coldly, "If this doctor doesn't want to treat patients, he should go back and rest early. It's freezing cold, don't let your own people get cold too."

The doctor clearly hadn't expected Prefect Qi to say that. He flicked his sleeve, ultimately not daring to leave at this crucial moment.

Prefect Qi looked around and said, "The physician from the Wen family came to treat me without asking for payment for the consultation or the medicine. He's doing this purely out of kindness. If I find out anyone else causing trouble here, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

He left in a hurry after saying that, without having time to come up and explain to Gu Yuzhi.

Gu Yuzhi slowly closed the car window, then rested his chin on his hands, lost in thought.

Wen Xiuzhu seized the opportunity to ask, "Does Your Highness know why that woman would make a scene and refuse to let Imperial Physician Qin treat her just because of a few words from others?"

Gu Yuzhi looked up blankly, shaking his little head: "Why?"

“Because in the northern desert, Physician Qin has no reputation and is just a physician in the prefecture. But if Your Highness opens a clinic and Physician Qin’s reputation as a famous doctor spreads, if a similar situation occurs again, that woman will not listen to a word from others and will beg Physician Qin to save her life.”

“We know that Imperial Physician Qin is highly skilled, but others do not. Your Highness should know that a doctor’s reputation is built up little by little. As for the pharmacy, if Your Highness had the pharmacy to support you during this snow disaster, the doctors at Li’s Medical Hall would definitely not have dared to talk back to Imperial Physician Qin like this.”

Gu Yuzhi nodded blankly, and after a while whispered, "The medicine prescribed by Imperial Physician Qin is too bitter, and he always has a stern face. I don't talk to him directly much in the manor." He felt that it was not good to talk about someone behind their back, so he stuck out his tongue. "After the disaster relief is over, I will ask him if he wants to open a clinic."

Shu Xiaohan, through Gu Yuzhi, naturally saw the situation outside. There were injured people everywhere, and her mood became much heavier. "When a dynasty prospers, the people suffer; when a dynasty falls, the people suffer."

She seemed to understand why she had spotted the young prince's task at a glance.

No one spoke again, and they sat quietly until the charcoal in the carriage had burned out and the temperature gradually dropped. Gu Yuzhi gently stamped his foot: "It's so cold..."