Lei Yingchun was dumbfounded as he watched Ye Zhen open the city gate alone. Mo Rongzhan walked in as if nothing had happened, as if accustomed to Ye Zhen's ability.
"Come in." Ye Zhen glanced at Zhao Tianji and urged him to enter the city quickly.
"I brought a few people with me. They volunteered to help in the city." Zhao Tianji swallowed his saliva and looked at Ye Zhen with eyes full of respect. Behind him, there was an ox cart with four or five people sitting on it. They looked like ordinary people.
Ye Zhen frowned slightly and asked Zhao Tianji in a low voice, "Who are they?"
Zhao Tianji said, "That's Aunt Feng. Her son and grandson are inside. She wants to go to the city to take care of them. There are also doctors I brought from the capital. When they heard that you were going to the city for treatment, they all wanted to help."
Not everyone was afraid of the epidemic, and some people could not bear to see the massacre of the city.
"Are any of you afraid of cold and fever?" Ye Zhen nodded gently and turned to the people on the ox cart.
The people on the cart shook their heads gently and looked at Ye Zhen nervously.
Ye Zhen took the pulse of each of them and made sure that they were healthy before letting them follow her into the city.
"Miss, let me go in and help you." Lei Yingchun came back to his senses and hurried over.
"No need." Ye Zhen said faintly, "There are enough people."
Lei Yingchun stood stiffly outside the city gate and watched them close the gate.
Looking at the tightly shut city gate, the soldiers outside were stunned.
"Lord Lei, do we still set fire to the city?" The vice-general walked to Lei Yingchun and asked in a low voice.
"What fire? Didn't you see that the Heavenly Concubine has gone in?" If the fire was set, Shui Yichen would surely bury them all.
The vice-general asked, "What should we do?"
Lei Yingchun said, "Hurry up and tell His Majesty about this matter."
After Ye Zhen and the others entered the city, they found that the whole Luo Mei City seemed to be empty. The morning sun was bright, but it seemed that it could not shine away the haze here. Everywhere looked bleak and cold. The streets that should have been bustling were empty. They walked slowly along the street and saw that the sick people were hiding in their homes. Some had died and were carried out and piled up in the corners of the alleys.
The people hiding in the house heard the sound and quietly opened the door. Their eyes were full of fear and panic as they looked at Ye Zhen.
At the end of the street, there were a few corpses. The youngest child looked to be only two or three years old.
"Find a place to put the medicine down first." Ye Zhen could not bear to see this scene, so she whispered to Zhao Tianji.
"I remember that there is a General's Mansion in Luopei City. Why don't we go there first?" Zhao Tianji said. Even a grown man like him felt sad when he saw these scenes.
Ye Zhen nodded gently. They first found the general's residence, but there was no one inside. After settling down, Ye Zhen first boiled medicine for all of them to prevent them from being infected.
"Remember to cover your mouth and nose, wash your hands, and wash your clothes with boiling water," Ye Zhen told Zhao Tianji and the others. "Don't be careless, and drink a bowl of medicine every day to avoid infection."
"Alright." Zhao Tianji nodded.
Aunt Feng, who looked to be in her thirties, looked at Ye Zhen timidly. "Then can I go find my son and grandson?"
Ye Zhen said, "Don't walk blindly in the city. Let's burn the dead people outside first."
"Burn?" Aunt Feng exclaimed.
"If we don't do this, the epidemic will only get worse." Ye Zhen said.
They did not have many people, but time was tight, so they could only use the fastest method.
"I'll go with you." Mo Rongzhan said to Zhao Tianji faintly. "The others stay and help."
"Ah Zhan, can you?" Ye Zhen was worried that his injury had not healed yet.
Mo Rongzhan whispered, "It's no big deal."
Zhao Tianji glanced at Mo Rongzhan, thinking that although this man was no longer the emperor, he still had the aura of a superior. If he was with them, no one would dare to oppose.
"Then you will come with me to treat the disease." Ye Zhen said to Aunt Feng.
Aunt Feng wanted to say something but hesitated. Zhao Tianji said, "You said you wanted to help, so I let you in. If I find your son and the others, I will let you take care of them."
"Thank you." Aunt Feng whispered.
"Heavenly concubine, there are so many people. Can we really cure them?" The one who spoke was a young doctor. He came to Luo Mei City with a heart full of ambition but nowhere to use it. He also opposed the massacre of the city, but to no avail. When he learned that the heavenly concubine was coming in to treat the disease, he followed without saying a word.
However, after entering the city, he found that it was no longer called Luo Mei City, but hell.
"We'll do our best." Ye Zhen said.
Zhao Tianji and Mo Rongzhan nodded gently, and the two walked towards the gate one after another.
"Let's also prepare. I've seen the medicinal herbs. They are quite complete." Ye Zhen said.
"Yao Yao!" Zhao Tianji stood by the gate and called out to Ye Zhen with a strange look on his face.
"What's wrong?" Ye Zhen asked doubtfully and walked over.
Outside the General's Mansion, dozens of people stood. Each of their faces was pale, and their eyes were filled with fear. When they saw them open the door, they began to kowtow. "Please, give us a way out, don't kill us!"
"Give us a way out!"
"Don't kill us!"
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Ye Zhen looked at them in surprise. "What's the matter?"
"These are the people of the city. Don't think we're here to kill them?" Zhao Tianji whispered.
"They don't look seriously ill." Ye Zhen said, walking to the middle-aged man who was kneeling at the front and said to him, "You go and get up first. We're not here to kill, but to treat you."
"Liar! We already know that His Majesty has decreed that the entire city will be slaughtered! "cried one of the women.
Zhao Tianji said, "We're not lying. This is the heavenly concubine. Do you know who the heavenly concubine is? Her medical skills are the best. She will definitely cure you. She won't kill you. "
"Heavenly concubine?" The people were stunned. "Isn't the heavenly concubine dead?"
"No, the heavenly concubine is here. She's here to save you." Zhao Tianji said.
"Heavenly concubine, help us! Heavenly concubine, help us!" When the people heard Zhao Tianji's words, they immediately kowtowed to Ye Zhen.
Ye Zhen said in a deep voice, "You all get up first. If you want to cure your illness, you have to listen to my orders. Now, you all go to the yamen. I will go there to treat you and send you medicine. If there is a dead person in your family, you must carry the dead person out, otherwise the plague will never disappear."
"We'll listen to the heavenly concubine."
"Yes, we'll listen to you."
For the people of Luo Mei City, cremation was unprecedented, but the living were more important.
Survival was human instinct, and they all wanted to live.
(Tianjin)
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