Ten years ago, the eldest prince of the Tatars died, which led to internal strife on the steppe. The three princes under the Tatar king launched a year-long series of attacks on the border city.
His purpose was to prove his abilities to the Tatar king and to seize the throne.
At that time, General Feng was in his prime. As the commander-in-chief, he led his troops to guard the border city. Even in a year of bitter fighting, he caused the three princes to suffer a lot of losses.
On the eve of victory, a strange illness broke out in the army. Fortunately, the Tatars were unaware of the situation and withdrew their troops in time.
Otherwise, with the three princes relentlessly attacking the border city, the city would probably have fallen long ago, and there would be no opportunity to defend the border city now.
Song Yanqing was only twelve years old at the time. As a boy, he always admired military generals who led troops into battle and dreamed of becoming a great general who could hold off ten thousand men.
At that time, the Great Jin Dynasty was in the midst of a debate among the ministers to select a prince to be named crown prince. In order to avoid the infighting among factions, Song Yanqing's maternal family, the Gu family, obtained an imperial edict to send him to the border city for training.
Song Yanqing had personally witnessed how the soldiers who went out of the city to meet the enemy fell one by one.
In just two months, more than 10,000 people died, which was even more frightening than contracting a plague.
It torments the spirit, destroys the will, leaves one drowsy, in pain, and bleeding every day, like a useless person.
Lu Qiqi did not interrupt Song Yanqing's recollection, but continued to listen to him, thereby extracting key information.
Song Yanqing said, "After the Tatars withdrew their troops, the late emperor specially dispatched people from the Imperial Medical Academy to secretly come here to investigate and treat the patients. Not only could they not find the cause of the illness, but in less than two months, all the remaining soldiers recovered."
After that, this strange illness was recorded in the annals of the Imperial Medical Academy.
Within two months, the soldiers suffering from scurvy recovered. Lu Qiqi guessed that this was because the Tatars withdrew and the grain camps replenished vitamins in time.
Back then, even 30,000 people couldn't solve the problem; now the number has more than doubled, which is truly a headache.
Seeing Lu Qiqi's worried expression, Song Yanqing asked, "Since you were the first to discover this disease, do you have a way to treat the soldiers?"
Lu Qiqi took a deep breath and said, "The disease that causes bleeding is called scurvy."
Most of these illnesses are caused by a long-term lack of fresh fruits and vegetables in the body.
This disease is not a terminal illness.
Afterwards, I will devise a prescription using herbs that cool the blood, such as forsythia, astragalus, coptis, and rhubarb, to be decocted and taken orally. However…”
Since it wasn't a terminal illness and her brow was still slightly furrowed, Song Yanqing knew that this matter was not so simple.
He stared intently into her eyes and asked, "Is there anything else difficult?"
The two looked at each other, and Lu Qiqi explained the method of dietary therapy: "Medication can only clear heat and cool the blood, but it does not solve the fundamental problem."
These soldiers lack fresh fruits and vegetables, so we must provide them with fresh fruits and vegetables to replenish what their bodies are lacking through dietary therapy.
After a moment of silence, Song Yanqing said, "Arrange for the seriously ill soldiers to take medicine first, and I'll figure out the rest."
For some reason, although she didn't know how he could solve the problem, Lu Qiqi felt much more at ease after hearing these words.
It's like someone fighting alone for a long time, and finally someone emerges from the darkness to fight alongside you.
After finalizing the initial treatment plan, Lu Qiqi instructed Imperial Physician Ren to summon the doctors from the wounded soldiers' camp overnight to propose a treatment plan.
Meanwhile, Song Yanqing also had the Shadow Guards count how many people in the army had similar symptoms.
To avoid arousing suspicion among the soldiers and causing morale to plummet, the only option was to use a headcount check as a cover-up.
After Lu Qiqi finished discussing matters, she walked out of the tent in the wounded soldiers' camp. The starlight had already filled the sky.
She walked back to her tent, her shadow stretched long by the moonlight, listening to the rustling sounds of insects coming from the weeds all around her.
Tonight she asked Physician Ren for leave, planning to go to the military camp tomorrow. She would use the name of the Tianlang Escort Agency to take out the green fruit from her space in a reasonable way, so that no one would suspect its origin.
After a good night's rest, she rode out of the camp the next day.
After leaving the military camp and checking that no one was around, he led his horse into the space and severed his connection with the outside world.
All the green fruits were on the trees. Lu Qiqi cut a bamboo pole in her space, walked into the green fruit forest, and waved the bamboo pole to manually create a rain of green fruits.
Sometimes, these green fruits would even disobey her and fall straight onto Lu Qiqi's head, making her wince in pain.
After being hit twice, she learned her lesson and found a straw hat in the cabin to wear, which helped to alleviate the blows to her head.
After hitting ten trees in a row, Lu Qiqi felt that her arms were so sore that she could barely lift them.
Just as she was about to put down the bamboo pole, she saw Wangcai and Xiaoye chasing each other as they ran up to her.
The sound of the bamboo pole knocking down the green fruit was quite loud, so it's not surprising that it attracted the two of them.
Seeing a wolf and a tiger running towards her, Lu Qiqi was afraid they would trample the green fruit on the ground, so she quickly called out to stop them, "Wangcai, Xiaoye, don't run! Stop!"
The two that drink from the spiritual spring every day have long since developed spiritual intelligence. Even Xiao Ye, whose spiritual intelligence developed later, can understand Lu Qiqi's commands.
Hearing her urgent voice, their excitement remained undiminished, but their limbs began to brake suddenly.
Wangcai ran ahead of Xiaoye, then suddenly stopped, only to be knocked away by Xiaoye's round head, rolling several times before coming to a stop.
When it got up and turned to look at Xiao Ye, Lu Qiqi couldn't tell for some reason that it looked a little confused in the way it turned its head.
Ignoring Xiao Ye's dog, Wang Cai turned around and walked towards Lu Qiqi, crouching low to avoid hurting Qing Guo.
With Wangcai as a template, Xiaoye also followed suit and walked with crouching steps.
Lu Qiqi felt a little embarrassed looking at the two animals' actions. If you called them stupid, they would walk up to her without stepping on the green fruit.
They're clever, though, because they didn't know to go around them!
The two walked up to Lu Qiqi and could no longer contain their excitement.
Xiao Ye, in particular, was so happy that she had nowhere to vent her joy. She bit the bamboo pole and stood it upright, then tried to climb up.
The small bamboo pole couldn't withstand its rough handling; it snapped in an instant.
Hearing the sound of the bamboo pole breaking, even the mighty king of beasts was startled, as if he knew he had done something wrong, and dared not look at Lu Qiqi.
Seeing its startled appearance, Lu Qiqi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She had just taken a step when she saw Xiao Ye take a step back and crash into the tree trunk, causing the green fruits to fall down.
Lu Qiqi was delighted, "Since you broke my bamboo pole, I'll punish you by making you pick green fruits!"
After making up her mind, with Xiao Ye's help, Lu Qiqi quickly shook down one-third of the green fruits in the forest.
The green fruit couldn't be harvested in a day; she still needed to have Gu Shaoqing prepare a cart to transport all the green fruit to the military camp.
While the horse-drawn carts used to transport lime are still around, they can be put to good use!
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