Chapter 143 Where did you get so many pills?
Seeing that he was silent, Chen Fenghe smiled and said, "That's why I asked you to punch him a few times to vent your anger. If you miss this opportunity, you'll never get it again. Don't be so reserved. It's fun to take revenge when you have a grudge. You really don't want to beat him? Then forget it."
Chen Fenghe pursed her lips and smiled, giving up teasing him.
When Xiao Yunshuo saw her smile, which was as beautiful as a newly blooming lotus, his dark eyes darkened slightly.
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion at the door.
"Let me go! I want to see the imperial envoy, I want to see His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin!" A hoarse and weak voice came.
Chen Fenghe's heart moved. Why did she feel like she had heard this voice somewhere before?
She leaned over to the crack in the door and took a look outside, only to find that a man with a cloth covering his mouth and nose, messy hair, and a dirty official uniform on his body was being pinned to the ground by several other officials.
She looked for a long time before she could see the man's face clearly. It was Han Dayan, the chief of the police whom she had saved in the town before!
Han Dayan's head was pinned to the ground, but he still struggled to speak. "I heard that His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin brought two imperial physicians to Qizhou City to treat the typhoid epidemic. They've been in the city for a few days. Why haven't they gone to the abandoned house in the west of the city to treat the patients? You know, if we delay for a day, dozens more people will die! Let me go quickly! I want to see His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin and the imperial physician!"
If someone hadn't come to tell him today that the imperial envoy and the imperial physician had arrived in Qizhou City, he would still be foolishly guarding the west side of the city!
But why didn't the imperial envoy come to save people? He ran over in a hurry.
The officer holding him down laughed mockingly and said, "Han Dayan, it's already this late, and you're still dreaming in broad daylight? His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin and the two imperial physicians are of noble status, but are those patients worthy of seeing His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin? Let me tell you bluntly! Those people in the west of the city, including your team of brothers who were sent to look after them, are all abandoned pawns! Do you still expect this to cure them? Who in the world doesn't know that typhoid fever and plague are incurable diseases? I think you'd better accept your fate as soon as possible!"
When Han Dayan heard this, he was stunned.
"how so?"
Han Dayan suddenly struggled mightily, and with brute force he managed to overturn the two officers holding him down. He stood up and ran while shouting, "No! Impossible! The Imperial Envoy came here to treat typhoid fever, not what you say! Besides, typhoid fever can be cured! I saw someone cured it myself! The Imperial Physician must be able to do it too... Your Highness the Prince of Jin! Please, Your Highness the Prince of Jin, save me... Ah!!"
Before he could finish his words, there was a flash of a knife, and an officer actually drew his knife and chopped him on the calf!
Han Dayan stumbled and fell to the ground, bleeding profusely.
At this moment, the prefect, Lord Zhu, appeared hurriedly and shouted, "How dare you! Han Dayan, you messed up the last job I assigned you, and I haven't punished you yet, yet you dare to come to the government office and cause trouble! I think you're tired of living! Come on! Throw him into jail immediately and punish him severely!"
Upon hearing this, the two officers immediately rushed forward to arrest Han Dayan.
Han Dayan suddenly let out a "Wow!" and started vomiting violently!
Everyone present couldn't help but be stunned, and then they all retreated several feet in panic as if they had seen a ghost.
Master Zhu pointed at Han Dayan with a pale face and a trembling voice: "Han Dayan! Are you...are you infected with typhoid fever? You are so bold! You dare to come to the yamen with typhoid fever? Are you trying to infect me and His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin! You beast! You...you are so bold!"
Han Dayan was stunned when he heard this. He had been feeling sore and weak all over these past few days. He thought he was tired from taking care of the elderly, the weak and the sick.
Now that I think about it, I probably got infected again.
It’s a pity that this time… Madam Shen is not here, and no one can save him.
Thinking of this, a tragic look flashed in Han Dayan's eyes. He simply sat cross-legged on the ground and said in a sad voice, "Yes! I have contracted typhoid fever! This typhoid fever spreads very quickly. Within three days, everyone in the government office will be infected! So, Master Zhu, please quickly ask His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin and the imperial physician to come forward and treat the typhoid fever! Otherwise... we will all perish together!"
Upon hearing this, Lord Zhu was filled with anxiety and anger. He jumped up and shouted, "Han Dayan! You still want to die together? I tell you to die right now! Come on, kill him immediately!"
Han Dayan felt sad after hearing what Lord Zhu said.
This was the official he served, the one who spoke for the people! Rather than risking his life for him and aiding and abetting his evil deeds, he would rather die right now!
He closed his eyes.
However, the expected pain and death did not come. Instead, there were continuous wailing and the sound of bones breaking, which could be heard all around.
Han Dayan opened his eyes and looked in shock at the two masked men, a man and a woman, who easily knocked Lord Zhu and other officers to the ground, with either a broken leg or a broken hand.
After the two men defeated the officers, they didn't want to fight anymore. The man turned around and grabbed him, pulled him up, and whispered, "Come with us!"
The woman walked vigilantly behind to cover their retreat, and stuffed a pill into the mouth of every fallen official, including Lord Zhu.
This pill is naturally the one that can make people lose their short-term memory.
The three of them quickly left the backyard of the yamen, turned into the alley, and after turning several times, they finally turned into a tea shop.
When the tea shop owner saw Xiao Yunshuo, he said nothing and immediately took the three of them into the woodshed in the backyard.
Han Dayan always felt that the two of them were strangely familiar. After Chen Fenghe took off her mask, he shouted in surprise: "Mrs. Shen...Mrs. Shen! Why are you here? Why are you in the government office?"
Chen Fenghe blinked and said with a smile, "Master Han, you're joking. We met you on the street. Why did you say you were in the government office?"
Han Dayan was stunned for a moment before he reacted. He nodded continuously and said, "Yes, yes! I made a mistake! I met Madam Shen and this young man on the street..."
As he spoke, his voice lowered, and then he suddenly ignored his injured leg and knelt in front of Chen Fenghe with a thump.
"Madam Shen, I know you have a special identity and it's inconvenient for you to reveal your medical skills, but there are countless patients infected with the plague in Qizhou City. I beg Madam Shen to save them from this dire situation!"
Chen Fenghe hurriedly said, "Master Han, please stand up. If I can help, I will definitely not stand idly by."
After the last time, she has been using the previous method to extract penicillin in the space, so there is no shortage of medicine now.
However, her identity made it difficult for her to move around, so she had originally planned to go to the abandoned house in the west of the city to rescue people tonight.
Han Dayan was so moved after hearing what Chen Fenghe said that tears welled up in his eyes. He immediately kowtowed twice and said, "Thank you, Madam Shen! I will lead the people in the abandoned houses in the west of the city to thank you!"
After saying this, Han Dayan suddenly felt dizzy and fell headfirst.
Fortunately, Xiao Yunshuo was quick-witted and supported him in time.
He checked his breath and said, "He must have fainted."
Seeing the wound on his calf still oozing blood, Chen Fenghe said, "I'm afraid the wound on his leg is too deep and he's lost too much blood. He needs stitches to stop the bleeding immediately, otherwise his life is in danger..."
But... men and women should not touch each other.
After the last experience, she felt it was not easy to start treating the man directly.
Chen Fenghe thought for a moment, then said, "How about this, I'll teach you how to sew wounds, and you sew them up for him, okay?"
Xiao Yunshuo nodded and said, "Okay."
Chen Fenghe immediately took out the needle, bamboo tweezers, and mulberry bark thread for stitching the wound, and whispered, "Can you get some hot water? Boil the clean cloth, the needle, and the mulberry bark thread together to disinfect them. Also, prepare a piece of pork with skin and some strong liquor."
Although Xiao Yunshuo and the tea shop owner did not talk, Chen Fenghe guessed that this place should also be the prince's sphere of influence, so she asked this question.
Xiao Yunshuo went out to give instructions, and sure enough, not long after, the owner of the tea shop brought the disinfected items to the door of the room.
While waiting, Chen Fenghe took out another porcelain bottle and said, "This is a pill made from Datura flowers. Let him take it first. It will make him fall asleep, which will reduce the pain when he gets stitches."
Datura stramonium is a plant of the genus Datura, which is rich in scopolamine and has analgesic and anesthetic effects.
Xiao Yunshuo: "...where did you get so many pills during your exile?"
Chen Fenghe almost choked at the question and quickly evaded the question, "Oh...they were all...I bought them at the pharmacy...hehe..."
Xiao Yunshuo glanced at her and didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he gave the pill to Han Dayan.
Chen Fenghe breathed a sigh of relief, quickly picked up the items next to her, held the needle with tweezers, and demonstrated it to Xiao Yunshuo on the pig skin.
After Xiao Yunshuo looked at it carefully, he took the needle and tried to sew a few stitches.
Although it was crooked, Chen Fenghe had to admit that Xiao Yunshuo still had some talent.
After trying the needle, Xiao Yunshuo walked over, tore off the cloth on Han Dayan's leg, first cleaned the blood with clean water, and then poured liquor directly on the wound to disinfect it.
Even after taking the pills, Han Dayan was in so much pain that he almost cried out.
Xiao Yunshuo neatly stuffed a wooden stick into his mouth and whispered, "The soldiers should be searching us now. If you don't want to be discovered, just endure it."
Han Dayan was awakened by the pain. When he heard his words, he immediately nodded and forced himself to hold it in.
Chen Fenghe felt a little reluctant, but she couldn't take out the anesthetic needle and use it in front of Xiao Yunshuo, so she could only let Han Dayan suffer some pain.
Xiao Yunshuo quickly sewed up Han Dayan's wound, and the bleeding finally stopped. He then bandaged the wound with a clean cloth, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, there was a sudden noise at the door, followed by messy footsteps and voices.
"I'm following the prefect's orders to search the entire city for the assassin who dared to kill Prince Jin! There's blood inside and outside your shop. If it wasn't you who was hiding it, who else could it be? Search!"
The teahouse owner hurriedly said, "Sir, there's really no one else in this backyard. That bloodstain is from my greedy little brother. I bought a chicken at the market this morning and just killed it. Who would have thought it would flutter forward and scare away several tables of customers!"
As he spoke, he saw that the bloodstain had indeed spread all the way to a tree in the backyard. Wasn't there a chicken hanging on the tree?
The officer's face suddenly became embarrassed.
The tea shop owner dug a silver ingot out of his sleeve and stuffed it into his pocket, saying with an apologetic smile, "Sir, we are good citizens and would not dare harbor an assassin. Please understand, sir."
After receiving the bribe, the officer's expression softened and he said with a smile, "So that's how it is. In that case, we've searched this place and we'll move on to the next one!"
The three of them finally relaxed their tense hearts after hearing the officers leave.
Chen Fenghe said, "There's no time to lose. Let's go to the west of the city. I'm afraid no one will search there."
After hearing this, Xiao Yunshuo said, "Alright. But... do you have the medicine? I asked Yuan Xu to have someone use your previous method to prepare the medicine, but it will take another seven days..."
Chen Fenghe nodded and said, "After giving a bottle to Jiangjia Village, I still have some left at the inn. I'll go back and get it."
She didn't dare to say it this time, so she just carried it with her, otherwise wouldn't Xiao Yunshuo be even more suspicious of her?
Xiao Yunshuo said, "I'll go back to the inn with you. As for Mr. Han, it should be safe here. Let's get the medicine and come back."
The two men carefully left the teahouse. Sure enough, there were many soldiers outside searching for assassins along the street. However, Xiao Yunshuo was smart and had good skills. He was able to hide before the soldiers found him every time. Therefore, the two men quickly returned to the inn.
Qin Mengyue finally felt relieved when she saw Chen Fenghe coming back.
After Chen Fenghe briefly explained the situation, she took the medicine and went out again.
After meeting up with Han Dayan, the three of them quickly arrived at the abandoned house in the west of the city.
It is called a house, but in fact only broken walls and ruins are left. The three courtyards are in a precarious state and are crowded with people. Coughing, vomiting and groaning sounds are heard one after another, and the smell is even worse.
Han Dayan limped along, then pulled himself together and explained, "We're locked up here with nothing to eat or drink. We had to rely on money, so I asked my brothers to go to the market to buy food and cook a big pot of rice to fill our stomachs. We're lucky to be alive. Boiling water for a bath is unthinkable..."
"I was thinking of getting some medicine according to what you asked me to do, Madam Shen, but it didn't work... In the past few days, there have been dozens of dead bodies carried out... Sigh, it's all because of that idiotic imperial envoy. Before he came, we were all still at home, but when we heard he was coming, we were all driven here. And what a lousy imperial physician, we haven't even seen him yet, so he's of no use at all!"
Chen Fenghe's face was serious. She had never expected the situation to be this serious!
Chen Fenghe immediately said, "Master Han, find some people who are still able-bodied. Just like we did in the town before, clear out a courtyard and separate it from the other two. Send the most seriously ill patients to the house in the separated courtyard. Use the medicine I have with me to treat them first. Once the medicine cultivated by Young Master Yun's people comes out, we can continue the treatment. There's just one thing: Master Han said that the two of us are disciples of the Medicine King Valley, so we must never reveal our true identities to anyone."
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