Chapter 90: Throw it into the fire!
Then the military doctor came over and his basic diagnosis was similar to Ruan Mian's.
Ruan Mian referred to the prescription he prescribed, combined it with his own spiritual spring water and some antiviral drugs, and boiled a pot of Chinese medicine.
During this period, she ordered all the dining tents to be burned down.
No matter what was inside, they didn't want anything. Some soldiers were reluctant to give up the flying squirrels they caught, and wanted to offer the unskinned flying squirrels to Huo Zong to taste.
Fortunately, Ruan Mian stopped it quickly.
"You must never eat this again. The poison in your body is probably caused by this thing."
When the soldiers heard this, they felt like they were holding a hot potato!
Throw it into the fire!
She arranged those with mild symptoms in the camp together, and those with severe symptoms to another place, and also found the servant who was with the general.
The servant had never entered the tent and had been staying in the carriage. Ruan Mian stood at the door of the tent and shouted to him to remember what he needed to prepare.
In addition to designated medicinal materials, there are also some cloths and other supplies.
Thinking that she would have to stay here for a few days to check on the situation, she asked General Huo: "General, can you let the servant send someone to report to my family that I am safe? I am afraid they will worry about me."
Huo Zong naturally agreed.
After arranging everything, it was already late at night.
Many people's symptoms improved a lot after taking her medicine, especially those with mild symptoms, and the dizziness and headache disappeared quickly.
They were overjoyed, but less than one night later, they caught a cold because the tent was too cold, and their illness worsened.
The camp was now inaccessible, and the prepared firewood was almost gone. Even if the servant brought it over, the quantity was limited, and the firewood pile was not concentrated. It could only warm the body slightly and could not provide enough energy.
Seeing this, Ruan Mian went out in the middle of the night, carrying a rusty iron sword, and came to the small slope behind the tent.
She dug away the snow in the bright moonlight. As she expected, the soil underneath was very soft and free of impurities. The soil was very balanced and a little sticky.
It must be because it is close to the wetlands.
So she dug some out with great effort, and soon, Xie Huaian's voice came from behind her.
"What is Madam Ruan doing?"
He discovered Ruan Mian when he left the tent and followed him all the way.
When Ruan Mian saw him coming, it was just right for him to have one more person.
He said, "Your Excellency, you've arrived just in time. I was planning to make something warm for everyone, which will help with recovery. I need some soft, clean soil. Since your Excellency is here, why don't you join us?"
"Something good to keep warm?"
This piqued Xie Huaian's interest, and he simply went to call Huo Zong over.
Huo Zong was still half asleep at the moment and looked impatient. Ruan Mian saw that he was such a big guy and was afraid that he would be in a bad mood after waking up, so she spoke quickly.
"General Huo should go and rest. The two of us will do."
Hearing her say this, Huo Zong immediately perked up! !
"How can I let a woman like you, Madam Ruan, work so hard? Wait, I'll call someone right away."
Without waiting for Ruan Mian to stop him, he went to the tent and called a few subordinates. With these grown men, it didn't take much time to dig up a pile of black mud.
They are about to pile up into a small hill.
However, this was not enough, she needed some stones, the more the better.
She had just looked and found that the rocks here were relatively regular, and many of the materials used to build the city walls were obtained from the nearby hills.
Huo Zong then took those people and picked up a pile of stones overnight.
"There's still plenty of hay in the forage tent, and the unburned charcoal can be used as an emergency measure. Come get them all."
There wasn't much charcoal, so Ruan Mian took advantage of the fact that no one was noticing and added some of the peat he had dried himself into the charcoal.
This way, the burning time will be longer.
Everything was ready, with only one thing left. He looked at the general and said, "General Huo, I'll have to trouble you to ask your subordinates to get some glutinous rice mortar."
Building the city wall requires a large amount of glutinous rice mortar, which can be found everywhere at the post stations or where they work.
However, Ruan Mian didn't expect that there was one in this camp.
Huo Zong sent someone to fetch quite a bit of it. "Before, this was a supply point for repairing the city wall. You needed a lot of these things, but now we have everything. So, Madam Ruan, what are you going to do?"
Now that everything was ready, Ruan Mian struck while the iron was hot and began to pile up stones in an empty tent, fixing them with glutinous rice mortar to build a kang.
Then a layer of hay is placed on the kang to keep warm and increase comfort.
Then fill the kang with the moist soil, wrap it with stones, and compact it hard.
The last step is to spread the combustible charcoal in the center of the kang and light it.
A simple but very warm kang is completed.
Ruan Mian clapped his hands and gestured to Huo Zong, "General, why don't you go up and lie down?"
Huo Zong found it strange. Before lying down, Ruan Mian took some thick animal skin blankets and spread them on top.
Huo Zong only felt the heat from under the kang gradually coming, and soon his body became warm!
"Madam Ruan is so clever! With this thing, even if several people lie down on it, they won't feel cold! Come on, come on, Master Xie, why don't you try lying down on it too?"
Huo Zong pulled Xie Huaian to lie down, muttering to himself.
"Mrs. Ruan is indeed the capable person chosen by Lord Xie. It's such a pity that she is trapped in that internment camp!" Huo Zong thought of the words from the court, looked at Ruan Mian twice, and asked her.
"Madam Ruan, your Ruan family comes from a merchant family. For three generations, only your brother has served in the court. You should not be involved in court disputes. Why was he exiled this time?"
"And they're with the people from the Bo Mansion and Xie Mansion? Their crimes are not light."
Ruan Mian understood the meaning behind General Huo's words and smiled slightly.
"People's hearts are unpredictable. Although my brother was implicated in the National Children's Rhyme Case because of his poetry, no one can truly say how many people are behind this."
"Even if Lord Xie were to personally examine this case, there would probably be things he wouldn't have noticed, right?"
This was just the first incident of Prince Yan's rebelliousness. Prince Yan and his party had cultivated so many forces and done so many things behind the scenes that they could not all be eradicated in a short period of time.
The people from Bo's Mansion were only merged into a team later. It is very likely that after they were sentenced, someone played a role in fanning the flames.
In other words, whether it was because of her or her brother, someone in the court was watching them.
At present, Ruan Mian speculates that it may be related to the fifth princess.
But she couldn't be sure.
Just as he was thinking, Huo Zong suddenly smelled a different smell: "Is peat burning here?"
Ruan Mian didn't expect that his nose was so sensitive. Even though it was sealed in the kang and burned with so much charcoal, he could still smell it in such a short time.
Pointing at the kang, she explained, "I added some dried peat to the charcoal, just in case it wasn't burning enough. By the way, General, if the charcoal can't be adjusted quickly, you can use the peat to prop it up."
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