The epidemic in Mucheng has finally been brought under control, and no new cases have been found for about half a month.
Those with mild symptoms have long since recovered, and those with severe symptoms are getting better day by day.
Lu Yuyan and Physician Jiang are preparing to return to Shengjing tomorrow.
Ruoling leaned on Lu Yuyan's shoulder: "Ayan."
"Um?"
Do you remember what you said to me that day?
"Yes, I remember. You're awake. My word is law. I am Your Highness, and I will do whatever you ask."
Ruoling slapped him: "Who asked you to do anything?"
"So, Your Highness, you're abandoning me?"
Ruoling was caught in his trap, and angrily turned away, ignoring him.
Lu Yuyan chuckled, turned the person around, and kissed him immediately.
The kiss was long and deep, and Ruoling finally collapsed into Lu Yuyan's arms.
In an era when girls could marry after their coming-of-age ceremony at the age of fifteen, Ruoling was already sixteen years old, an age when she could discuss marriage.
Originally, according to the old emperor and empress dowager's wishes, while selecting a wife for the fifth prince Zhu Dan, they also planned to select a consort for Ruoling.
However, finding a suitable husband for Ruoling is a difficult problem. Talented men are unwilling to marry princesses, since marrying a princess would preclude them from entering officialdom.
The Empress Dowager would be the first to object to someone who lacks talent.
Zhu Chen, who was beaten so badly he couldn't get out of bed, lay in bed for a full two weeks before finally being able to get out of bed on this day.
Zhu Chen's face was gloomy. Even now, when he thought about the beating he received that day, his bones still ached slightly. How could he not hate it?
If he doesn't avenge this grudge, he won't be Zhu Chen.
Unfortunately, the epidemic was too severe at the time, and he also contracted it. His close guards, who had been in close contact with him, were detained in a courtyard. During this time, Wu Chuan and Xi Yi were by his side, and he never had a chance to get a chance to play.
Since learning that Ruoling had contracted the disease, Lu Xiaoyun sent Wu Chuan, Xi Yi, and others to protect Lu Yuyan and Ruoling.
His arm was still wrapped in gauze. That night, he summoned his chief bodyguard and gave him the following instructions.
Lu Yuyan made great contributions during the epidemic in Mu City and was loved by all the people of Mu City. It would be difficult for Zhu Chen to do anything to him openly and legitimately in Mu City as a prince.
Upon returning to Shengjing, he will undoubtedly receive praise from his hypocritical father, the emperor. Furthermore, as Zhu Yu's personal physician, dealing with him will be even more difficult.
Therefore, the best time to take action was on the way back to Beijing.
The next morning, before dawn, Lu Yuyan and the others set off.
Fearing that the people of Mu City might find out they were leaving and cause a scene of thousands seeing them off, no one said a word. Only a few carriages and dozens of guards silently left Mu City in the morning light.
At this moment, Wu Chuan and Xi Yi stood guard on either side of the carriage.
On a May morning, wisps of rosy light peeked through the clouds, bringing a touch of warmth.
However, as soon as they arrived at the city gate, they saw a large crowd of people coming to see them off.
"Mr. Lu, Mr. Lu, look! There are so many people!" Xi Yi shouted.
Lu Yuyan lifted the carriage curtain and stepped out, standing on the carriage shaft.
The common people stood on both sides of the road, some old, some young, some dressed in tattered clothes, some neat and tidy, leaving a path for the carriage to pass through, and quietly watching the boy standing on the carriage shaft.
Lu Yuyan bowed deeply to the people. In fact, he rarely left the government office, but that didn't mean the people didn't know what he had done for them.
The people knew that Mr. Lu did not want to disturb them, so they told people not to talk about it.
They didn't want to put Mr. Lu in a difficult position, so they quietly came to see him off.
Lu Yuyan looked at Xi Yi, who quickly waved his hand: "It wasn't me."
Wu Chuan waved his hand, "It wasn't me either."
Lu Yuyan turned to look at Ruoling in the carriage: "It's you. Yesterday you said you were going out and didn't want me to come with you, so it was you?"
Ruoling looked at Lu Yuyan with a smile: "Third brother is trying to steal your credit, how can that be? I won't let him succeed. When we get back to Shengjing, I'll tell Father and Grandmother all I can about him! Yuyan, this is what you deserve."
Lu Yuyan chuckled lightly. He didn't care about any of that. He just didn't want Zhu Chen, that parasite, to profit from the national and people's suffering. Thinking of everything that Zhu Chen had done to Ruoling, he still hated him to this day.
"Have you packed everything up?"
Ruoling patted the box on the left: "Yes, it's all safe. Don't worry. Third Brother embezzled a lot this time, I'll make him pay back ten or twenty times over!"
Fourth Brother also said that he didn't care about the 500,000 taels of disaster relief money, but that was giving him too much credit; this man is insatiably greedy.
Five hundred thousand taels of silver were sent for snow disaster relief, plus silver for the plague relief, totaling more than one million taels. One-third of that went into Zhu Chen's pocket.
The national treasury is so depleted that this person is still lining his own pockets; it's truly despicable.
As the carriage passed by, the people knelt down and kowtowed to them, watching their saviors, who had worked tirelessly day and night for the past few months to save their lives and those of their families, leave.
"Uncle Ma, go faster!" Lu Yuyan urged the driver. He couldn't pretend to tell the people to get up, so he could only tell the driver to hurry up so that the people could get up quickly.
"Alright, Princess, and gentlemen, please hold on tight." With a flick of the reins, the horseman swiftly led the carriage past.
The common people watched as several horse-drawn carriages sped past them, thinking, "What good people!"
"Yes, if it weren't for Mr. Lu, this miracle doctor, we would have been dead long ago."
"And the princess, I heard that all the medicine we drink was brewed by Princess Ruoling."
"I also heard that the princess fell ill from exhaustion due to brewing medicine day and night, and even contracted the plague, almost losing her life."
"Who said the princess fell ill from brewing medicine?" The man lowered his voice and muttered in the crowd, "I heard it was His Highness the Third Prince who ordered his servants to bring his used tea set to the princess's room, and that's how she got infected."
"Oh, how could this person be so wicked?"
"Shh, stop talking, are you guys out of your minds? Luckily, Princess Ruoling is very fortunate, and Immortal Lu's medical skills are superb."
Lu Yuyan and Ruoling rode in one carriage, while Imperial Physician Jiang and several other imperial physicians rode in another.
Because Ruoling's body was still very weak, thick soft cushions were laid in the carriage so that she could lie down and rest.
But the carriage was bumpy, and it was really uncomfortable to lie down like that, so Lu Yuyan carried Ruoling in his arms the whole way.
Zhu Chen had been in Mu City for more than five months since he came to provide disaster relief on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month. He then encountered a civil unrest, followed by a major epidemic. He believed that he had done a great favor for the people of Mu City.
It is only right that the people of Mucheng are grateful to him, support him, and love him.
Moreover, at this critical juncture of re-establishing a crown prince, he also urgently needs such popular support.
Therefore, when he learned that Lu Yuyan, Ruoling, and the others were leaving today, he specially kept two imperial physicians and the newly appointed governor of Mucheng with him to postpone their departure by one day.
The news was naturally released well in advance.
As a result, reality slapped him hard in the face.
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