When Zhu Langzhong, who had been looking worried, saw the almost full of medicinal herbs in Jiang Ling's warehouse, his expression changed instantly. His eyes, which had been dim, now shone brightly.
He trembled all over, tears welling in his eyes, grabbed a handful of Scutellaria baicalensis and Forsythia suspensa, and with a look of ecstasy, held them under his nose and smelled them intensely.
"You are truly a living bodhisattva! Without these medicines, our village would probably be doomed!" Doctor Zhu looked at Jiang Ling with tears in his eyes.
Jiang Ling grinned but didn't say anything. Instead, Jiang Yaojie came over and asked with a puzzled look, "Mom, when did we get so many medicinal herbs? And why did you buy all these herbs?"
Jiang Yaojie looked at the various medicinal herbs in the warehouse and asked questions with a puzzled expression.
Jiang Ling turned to look at Jiang Yaojie, thinking that this child would be hard to fool once he grew up. She thought for a moment, then coughed awkwardly and said to Jiang Yaojie, "Isn't this shampoo? I was planning to research several kinds of shampoo, like oil control and hair strengthening ones. That's why I bought the medicinal herbs to research them. I didn't expect it to come in handy now!"
Jiang Yaojie seemed dissatisfied with Jiang Ling's answer. He scratched his head and looked at Jiang Ling with a puzzled expression, then looked at the medicinal herbs in the warehouse with a puzzled expression.
Worried that Jiang Yaojie might discover something amiss, Jiang Ling quickly said, "Go and help Doctor Zhu sort out the medicinal herbs! And take them to Doctor Zhu while you're at it!"
Jiang Yaojie always obeyed Jiang Ling's orders without question. He strode into the warehouse and began helping Doctor Zhu sort the medicinal herbs. Seeing this, Shen Congxin followed suit, saying, "Husband, let me help you!"
Jiang Ling watched the two people being so affectionate and felt a chill run down her spine. It felt like a mouthful of dog food had been shoved into her mouth, filling her up completely.
"You two help out first, Mom's going to find the village chief!" Jiang Ling, a single woman, didn't want to be fed any more dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection), so she made an excuse to leave.
The situation in the village did not seem optimistic. Before Jiang Ling even reached the village chief's house, she saw him squatting outside, smoking his pipe with a bitter and resentful expression.
"Village Chief..." Jiang Ling dared not speak too loudly, afraid of frightening him.
"Hey, you're back? How's the medicinal herb?" A hint of longing flashed in the village chief's dim eyes.
"Don't worry, Doctor Zhu has already started preparing the medicine! How's it going in the village?" Seeing the village chief's expression, Jiang Ling had a pretty good idea of what was going on.
But people are strange; even when they know the answer, they still can't give up and hope to hear about a miracle from someone else.
However, such a thing is clearly almost impossible. Hearing Jiang Ling's question, the village chief sighed heavily, shook his head, and said to Jiang Ling, "Sigh, it's too difficult..."
This was the first time Jiang Ling had seen the village chief with such a desperate expression. She frowned and asked with a serious look, "What's too difficult?"
The village chief sighed again, shook his head, and told Jiang Ling what had happened in the nearly two hours since Jiang Ling left.
The news of the plague spread to everyone in Lujia Village. Some people who seemed to be in relatively good health were already preparing to flee, while some women were taking their children to return to their parents' home.
Since Jiang Ling had instructed the village chief beforehand not to let them run around, the village chief ordered the security team to guard the village entrance closely.
Soon things started to escalate rapidly, and the security team clashed with those who were trying to escape, eventually even coming to blows.
After hearing the whole story, Jiang Ling's face contorted in pain. She knew that fear and escape were basic human reactions, but if they really let the person out, and the person's plague was in its incubation period, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Thinking of this, Jiang Ling raised an eyebrow: "Leave this to me!"
Before the village chief could figure out what Jiang Ling was up to, Jiang Ling had already disappeared from his sight.
Jiang Ling's home.
Jiang Ling took out her old lady's clothes, tidied her hair, put on her old lady's hairpin, and walked towards the village entrance with her old lady's seal on her head.
At this moment, a large crowd had already gathered at the entrance of Lujia Village, and everyone's face was filled with anger, especially the security team members. They all had some scratches and bruises on their faces, but they were still as solid as a city wall and refused to give way an inch. They remembered the village chief's words: "We cannot let a single person go."
"Erdan, you heartless bastard! Why won't you let me and the child leave! This is your child! Do you really want to watch us die?" The woman's face was streaked with tears, and her slender arms were frantically pounding on the man who stood motionless in front of her.
The man's face was ashen, and his eyes were red-rimmed; if he hadn't been trying so hard to hold back, he probably would have been in tears.
The woman's sobs were like a knife stabbing into the man's heart, and he could only turn his head away, unable to bear the sight before him.
"What are you all doing? Are you all trying to rebel?" Jiang Ling frowned and scolded the people who were making a ruckus.
Upon hearing Jiang Ling's voice, everyone froze in place. The previously noisy atmosphere vanished, leaving only an eerie silence.
"Didn't I tell them to stay indoors? Aren't they afraid of getting sick from gathering like this?" Jiang Ling frowned and continued to scold.
The woman was probably furious. She wiped her tears with her sleeve and shouted defiantly, "How could you be so heartless? Are you just going to leave us here to die?"
The woman's words were like a burning coal, exploding with a "bang" and shattering everyone's emotions.
They lunged at Jiang Ling out of control, their eyes blazing with fury as they hurled the most vile insults at her.
Jiang Ling raised an eyebrow, pointed at one of the people who was cursing the loudest, and threatened, "Do you know that offending a lady of the imperial court is a capital offense? I can report this to the prefect right now and have your head chopped off!"
Humans are always filled with fear and dread when it comes to death. Seeing Jiang Ling's angry expression, the man finally shrank back and shut his mouth.
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