Chapter 446 Fairy Lady
There were children and daughter-in-law in Ershan's family. They were all skinny and dark, wearing tattered clothes. They sat together, watching Su Qianqian giving injections and feeding medicine to Ershan's father.
At this time, they were eagerly waiting for Ershan's father to wake up, but after some time there was still no movement. They looked at each other and felt a little panicked.
Qin Yuzhuo, who was standing nearby, was also getting a little impatient. He quietly walked up to Su Qianqian and signaled with his eyes to check her breath to make sure she had already left.
Su Qianqian felt Ershan's pulse and then looked into his eyes and felt that this shouldn't be the case.
Just then, a long snoring sound was heard. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound in surprise and found that it came from Ershan's father!
"My father...is asleep?" Ershan, who was already frightened to the point of being at a loss, asked Su Qianqian in disbelief.
"It should be that he was tortured by the disease during this period and probably didn't get enough rest. Now that he was able to breathe and relax, he immediately fell asleep."
As Su Qianqian spoke, she took out the silver needles from Ershan's father's body and left enough herbs for Ershan's whole family.
"Boil the herbs in a large bowl of water. Do not use polluted river water. Everyone in your family should drink it. If your father feels uncomfortable after waking up, you can come to me at any time. There is also food. The disaster relief army will send it to you later. You don't have to worry."
Su Qianqian packed up her things and walked out, and Ershan followed behind her, thanking her profusely and seeing her off.
The treatment went very smoothly that day. The villagers all rushed to invite Su Qianqian over. Even the other half of the village where the three imperial doctors were located were happy to ask the imperial doctors for treatment.
Six days passed like this, and all the villagers in the half of the village that Su Qianqian treated gradually got better, except for some who were weak and needed to be well cared for.
However, the treatment effect on the other half of the villagers treated by the imperial doctors was obviously not as good as that on Su Qianqian's side. Many of them still had no strength and had difficulty breathing.
The villagers ignored the agreement between the two and started making trouble. The doctor who was beaten might have looked easy to bully, so he was punched right under the noses of the disaster relief army.
"Just adjust those few herbs." Su Qianqian pointed at the prescription, which she had added at the beginning.
While treating the victims in Cangshan Village, Su Qianqian led the Qin army to carry out large-scale disinfection in the surrounding villages, burying the dead poultry and human bodies deep and drying them with lime.
Fortunately, it hasn't rained in the past few days, which gave Su Qianqian precious time. Half a month later, all the villagers in Cangshan Village recovered.
After the imperial doctors' final strict examination, when the barriers sealing off Cangshan Village were opened, the villagers were both happy and sad. The white cloth on the courtyard gate told the villagers that so many of their relatives would never see this scene again.
"This time, His Royal Highness Prince Xiang personally supervised the fight against the epidemic, which enabled the people of Cangshan Village to see the light of day again. All the villagers should thank His Royal Highness Prince Xiang for loving the people like his own children..."
Xue Zhiqing stood on a huge rock and expressed her gratitude for the successful fight against the epidemic.
"Goddess!"
"Goddess!"
The people interrupted Xue Zhiqing's ups and downs. At first, only one or two people called out this name, but in the end, all the villagers shouted loudly and in unison: "Fairy Lady!"
Ershan's father and Dahe's mother were supported by their family members and stood in front and bowed to Su Qianqian again and again.
King Xiang and Xue Zhiqing both looked unhappy. The people were obviously disrespectful to King Xiang, but they worshipped Su Qianqian as a god.
"Fellow villagers, I am not a fairy lady. You can just call me Madam Su. Doctors are kindhearted and do good deeds. I am only doing my job and do not deserve such a great gift."
Su Qianqian spoke from her heart, but to Xue Zhiqing and King Xiang, it seemed that she was pretending to be humble and was actually trying to praise herself even more.
After this comes the last project of disaster relief, which is to resettle the affected people and get them back on track. In addition to distributing relief food, they also have to repair houses and organize them to resume farming and production.
Qin Hanzhang became even busier. He spent the whole day leading the Qin family army and the imperial city guards, working with the villagers to clear the silt from the fields, repair the destroyed houses, rebuild the dams and plow the fields.
Su Qianqian took people to Hongzhou City.
People in Hongzhou City had already heard that Cangshan Village was saved by a fairy lady, so there was no need to lock the city gates.
But country people coming into the city would ask if you were from Cangshan Village. If you were, most of them would stop you and ask about the fairy lady.
Su Qianqian and the other three changed into men's clothes and rode into Hongzhou City. The guards at the city gate checked their badges and, knowing that they were here to provide disaster relief, they did not pay much attention to them. They had seen King Xiang who had provided disaster relief before, so a few soldiers were nothing special.
Su Qianqian led the three of them straight to the Hongzhou prefectural government office. When they arrived at the gate, Su Qianqian called the guard at the gate:
"Tell your prefect to come out to receive the imperial envoy. I will count to ten. If he is gone after ten counts, I will ask the prefect of Hongzhou to change his master!"
"One..." Su Qianqian stretched out a finger.
The guards don't know the truth, strange things have happened frequently recently, Prince Xiang is still providing disaster relief in the surrounding villages, the young masters of noble families have been stripped of their clothes and sent into the city, and even a stingy person like the master has given away rice, grain and medicinal materials. Who knows if this imperial envoy will really bring the master down?
The guard jumped up as if he had springs under his feet, shouting "Master, come and get the imperial envoy!" and ran straight to the backyard.
Su Qianqian slowly stretched out her second finger: "Two..."
When Su Qianqian counted to "eight", the prefect Shen Youjia ran out in his slippers, holding his black hat and asking, "Who is the imperial envoy?"
"The imperial envoy is here! Are you the prefect of Hongzhou?" Su Qianqian looked down at Shen Youjia while sitting on the horse.
"Your Excellency the Imperial Envoy, I am Shen Youjia, the prefect of Hongzhou. I hope you will forgive me for being late in coming to greet you." Shen Youjia saluted with a flattering look on his face.
"Not too late, not too late. I haven't even finished counting ten yet... I have been ordered to help His Royal Highness Prince Xiang with disaster relief. Now that the epidemic in Cangshan Village has been resolved and it is in the reconstruction stage, Prefect Shen will do his best to help the people resume production."
Hongzhou Prefect: Are you going to use my limited strength for others?
"Your Excellency the Imperial Envoy, this is not the place for conversation. Please move inside the mansion and I will follow your orders." Shen Youjia put on a smile.
Compared to an unpopular prince who has no one to rely on from his maternal family, it is better for him to be an imperial envoy who has real power in his hands. Just a report back would be enough to move his official hat to another place.
"No need to go into the government office. This imperial envoy is very busy. The prefect only needs to prepare the craftsmen and laborers according to this list, as well as all the necessary tools, and they will arrive at the affected riverbank on time tomorrow to start work."
Su Qianqian said this as she handed a long list to Prefect Shen.
When Prefect Shen saw the first few lines, his head started to hurt: How much silver does this cost!
Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind: "My Lord, may I ask if you have brought the imperial edict for me to read?"
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