The village head was clearly shocked that this group of people had such ideas.
"You, you are simply unreasonable! This is a natural disaster, and you have to pull this superstitious stunt against this young girl. How can you be so shameless?"
The village headman thought these people were just making a fuss and didn't want to pay them any attention.
However, the turmoil could not end so quickly.
The official road was blocked by snow, making it impossible to send grain in from the outside, and Fu Xiaoyu could only worry anxiously.
He's been feeling uneasy these past few days, with a sense that something is about to happen, which is making him very uncomfortable.
"Your Highness, you haven't eaten properly for two days. Please sit down and have a meal."
Lin Yun was worried about his health, so she tried to persuade him.
"It's alright. Have you heard anything from the people you sent out?"
"No, for the time being. The official roads are completely blocked, and the mountain roads are difficult to traverse, so grain cannot be transported in. There is no other way for the time being."
Fu Xiaoyu waved his hand, saying there would always be a way.
More than a dozen villages in Jingyuan Town suffered from disasters of varying degrees, but only Linshui Village was the most severely affected.
The government's relief grain couldn't be transported in at all. They could only hope that the villagers there wouldn't cause trouble, otherwise the Han family would definitely be the first to be implicated.
At this time, an epidemic was spreading among the people of Linshui Village.
It started with a high fever, then a persistent cough, and finally, difficulty breathing caused him to suffocate.
In just a few days, the number of corpses at the foot of the mountain increased significantly.
It was impossible to find a doctor from outside, so the village head had no choice but to invite Cui Yulu over to treat everyone.
Although Cui Yulu didn't want to pay attention to those people, she also didn't want to watch innocent people die.
If you stand by and watch someone die without doing anything, your good fortune will diminish, and you will be punished.
"I'll go with you, I can help you."
"Let's forget about it. You're weak and you might catch a disease. It's better to stay home and study hard, and become the top scholar in the imperial examination as soon as possible."
Cui Yulu refused to let Han Yu'an go with her because she didn't want him to hear those things about her being a witch.
"No, this time you have to listen to me. I'm going with you."
In the end, he couldn't persuade Han Yu'an to go along, and Han Chunying also went with him.
When they arrived at the ancestral hall, they discovered that the epidemic was already very serious and that it was not caused by the cold at all.
After a careful examination, Cui Yulu realized something was wrong and that the patients with mild symptoms needed to be isolated as soon as possible, otherwise they would all be infected and the consequences would be very serious.
"Cui Yulu, you still dare to come here? These are all people you killed, cough cough."
Cao Jinfang was also quite ill at this time, but she still refused Cui Yulu's treatment.
Cui Yulu didn't force anyone and skipped over those who were unwilling to receive treatment. She first saw the child in Li Jinfeng's arms, who also had a high fever. The poor child was not even a month old, and his little face was flushed red. Because he couldn't breathe, the baby wasn't sleeping well.
She would hum softly from time to time, or cry out a few times.
"Can my child, Yulu, still be cured?"
The number of deaths has been increasing in recent days, and everyone is shrouded in the shadow of death, causing anxiety among the population.
"Let me check on the baby first."
Because of the special circumstances, Cui Yulu didn't have any special solutions at the moment, so she could only draft a prescription to see the effect, and then change the prescription if it didn't work.
When the village head told everyone about this, he was met with unanimous opposition.
“Village head, she’s playing with our lives. I don’t agree to this.”
"Yes, we disagree too, cough cough."
Seeing this, Cao Jinfang quickly added fuel to the fire.
“Village head, I’m not talking nonsense, this is definitely divine wrath. Why don’t we offer a sacrifice to the heavens and see if it works?”
"Yes, I've said it before, this is the will of the gods, and we must obey it. Village head, you're such a stubborn old man. Look at you now, the punishment is getting more and more severe. Anyway, we don't care. If you don't agree today, we'll replace you with a capable village head and use our own methods to survive."
Granny Han and Cao Jinfang exchanged a glance, then waved their hands simultaneously, and the villagers began to respond.
"Change the village head, change the village head."
The village head, exhausted and worried these past few days, was so angered by their outburst that he coughed up blood and fainted.
Han Tianbao quickly moved his father to the side to prevent him from being trampled by those people.
When Granny Han and Cao Jinfang saw that the village head had fainted, they immediately led their men to drive Cui Yulu out.
"Get out of here, we don't need you here."
The villagers were completely brainwashed by Cao Jinfang and Granny Han, and they picked up snowballs from the ground and threw them at Cui Yulu.
They completely disregarded the abnormality in their own bodies.
"What are you doing? Rain and Dew are here to save us. Calm down."
Du Heng, dragging his ailing leg, tried to block those people, but was pushed to the ground.
"What's it to you? If you want to stay in the village, shut up."
Han Sanniu threatened Du Heng and then pushed him aside.
Han Yu'an shielded Cui Yulu in his arms and stepped back. These people are truly insane; they're beyond saving.
“Listen to me, everyone. This woman is the cause of all this trouble. Get out of the village.”
“Cao Jinfang, shut up! How dare you incite others after all the dirty things your family has done? You are the one who should be leaving the village.”
Han Yu'an spoke in a cold and sharp voice, but it was quickly drowned out by the voices of the crowd.
Cui Yulu knew that there was no point in reasoning with this group of people, so she had Han Tianbao take the village head and Du Heng take Li Jinfeng and Du Juan out of the ancestral hall.
The group temporarily arrived at the village head's house. At this time, the village head's face was ashen, and he was barely breathing. It seemed unlikely that he would make it through the night.
After taking his pulse, Cui Yulu simply shook her head. He had exhausted his body these past few days and there was nothing she could do to save him. She could only use silver needles to prolong his life for a little while so that he could say a few words to his children.
After the silver needles were inserted, the village head slowly opened his eyes, looked at his son and grandson, and said softly, "I have been the village head all my life, and I have devoted myself to this village. I only thought that everyone could unite as one. I never expected that we would end up in such a miserable state. It is my incompetence, cough cough."
The village head coughed violently as he spoke, and Cui Yulu fed him some spiritual spring water, which finally calmed him down.
"Yulu, you're a good person. Don't listen to their nonsense. The people in the village still need to be saved. I'm begging you, you must save the village."
After the village head finished speaking, his hand fell limply to his side, his eyes looking reluctantly at his little grandson.
Han Tianbao knelt on the ground and shouted loudly for his father. Cui Yulu, who originally didn't want to get involved in other people's business anymore, wavered again at this moment.
She simply couldn't bear to refuse an old man's dying request.
In this way, Cui Yulu took Du Heng's family home and changed their prescriptions every day, finally managing to control their illness. Even Xiao Bao became lively and energetic again.
This process lasted about ten days. During those ten days, Cui Yulu worked late into the night and finally managed to develop the prescription.
She had lost a lot of weight, and Han Yu'an felt extremely sorry for her. Despite being misunderstood so badly, she still had a sincere heart and saved them. His wife was truly a good person.
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