Having risked his life, before he could even confirm whether Doctor Lu believed him, he closed his eyes and fainted completely.
Doctor Lu was a royal physician specially sent by the Empress, the head of the Imperial Medical Academy, and the Emperor's personal physician.
He was skilled in treating difficult and complicated diseases and had some knowledge of plagues throughout history.
However, there were no real research subjects, and the symptoms varied more or less with each plague.
Therefore, he could only rely on medical books and figure it out on his own.
Before he left the capital, he had heard that a plague had broken out in Wuning Prefecture.
It wasn't that he had no idea or didn't want to go; rather, he was able to leave the capital by order of the Empress to stay by Fang Shizhong's side.
At that time, he only thought that the Empress was worried about her only remaining nephew from her maternal family, which was why she acted this way.
However, upon arriving here and seeing Fang Shizhong's face, which bore a striking resemblance to the current emperor, he was surprised to realize why the emperor had no objection to his leaving the capital.
The current emperor and empress have a fairly good relationship, and they have two sons and one daughter.
The eldest son was the eldest prince, who died at the age of six.
When the second son, the eleventh prince, was one month old, a high-ranking monk from Huguo Temple said that he should be sent to the temple to be raised for twenty-five years.
Otherwise, they won't live past thirty.
Therefore, more than twenty years have passed, and no one has seen what the eleventh prince looks like.
As for the remaining daughters, they are the sixth in line according to the princess's birth order, and they came of age at the end of last year.
As the princes grew up, the emperor also grew old.
With the eleventh prince not by her side and her family stationed far away in the northern frontier, the empress became a threat to the palace.
Correspondingly, no one considered the eleventh prince, who was "training in a temple," as a rival.
In the capital city at present, the factional struggles among the various princes are becoming increasingly fierce.
He was originally a royalist, and he would side with whoever the emperor favored as crown prince.
Now that he's here, looking at Fang Shizhong's face, he's suddenly realized that the Emperor and Empress are playing a grand game.
Or rather, in protecting their children.
Indeed, the untimely death of the eldest prince saddened the emperor whenever he thought of it.
Because he had just ascended the throne, the court was unstable, and he was caught in the tug-of-war between various forces, so he couldn't do anything about them.
Even though they later gained power, they still had many concerns.
Therefore, he thought that he would miss the opportunity to conduct this research, as he could only stay here.
But who would have thought that not long after, Anping County also saw such an event!
Although there weren't many, just a few people.
And they're mostly in Qijia Village, but that's enough for him!
Therefore, after learning about the situation, he volunteered to come here as a visiting doctor.
A doctor is someone who only treats illnesses and doesn't care about anything else.
So, what is the meaning of this scholar named Qi Mingyu?
He already said that the yamen runners had investigated and found that the people from Chijia'ao had no contact with him.
Why does he have to implicate others?
Is it because of that girl from the Chi family that he divorced her, and he was so angry that he wanted to ruin her life?
Thinking this, Doctor Lu looked at Qi Mingyu, who had fainted on the ground, and his gaze gradually became somewhat unfriendly.
As a doctor, he has seen all sorts of people.
But he still looks down on men who abandon their wives and children.
Yes, Dr. Lu had already figured out Qi Mingyu's confidence before coming to Qijia Village.
In his view, Qi Mingyu was a heartless and treacherous person.
His lawfully wedded wife poured her heart out to him, only to be met with his cold-heartedness in return.
Even if such a person can cure the plague, he should not be allowed to pursue an official career.
If he were to set foot on it, it would surely be another disaster!
Qi Mingyu, who possessed the protagonist's halo and was unlikely to die from the plague, never dreamed that his career would be ruined by his actions of putting down innocent bystanders.
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