Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 1005: Chapter 1006: How Can This Thing Fall!

Immediately, Ning Wenxian sat by the bedside, wanting to grasp Su Chengyu’s hand, but Su Chengyu, terrified, swiftly withdrew his hand into the quilt, preventing Ning Wenxian from holding it.

”Your Highness...” Ning Wenxian looked somewhat hurt.

Su Chengyu said, ”Gong Juechen is finding a way to cure the epidemic, there might be a cure, my hand is cut and oozing pus, you’d better not touch it.”

Ning Wenxian immediately shook her head, ”Your Highness, Wenxian is not afraid.”

”I am!” Su Chengyu exclaimed loudly. ”I am afraid that before I die of the epidemic, you will have caught it and died!”

”Your Highness...”

”Be obedient.”

”Yes, Your Highness.” Involuntarily, Ning Wenxian smiled, her smile full of sweetness, as if they were talking of love and enjoying scenic views, completely oblivious to the terrifying city of epidemic around them.

Watching Ning Wenxian’s sweet and happy smile, Su Chengyu silently vowed: If I can survive and return to the Imperial Capital, I will definitely treat this person even better.

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With Ning Wenxian’s company, Su Chengyu felt much better than before, even though the epidemic still tormented him so much that he wanted to end his life immediately.

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That day, Qin Er entered Nanshen City, bringing a lot of Blue Grass Root, fifty sacks in total.

Xiao Changyi kept five sacks in the temporary palace, and he ordered Meng Zhuqing to send the rest to the Medicinal Cooking Room.

Meng Zhuqing obeyed the order, left the temporary palace, and planned to send the forty-five sacks of Blue Grass Root at the entrance to the Medicinal Cooking Room, but just as he left the temporary palace, he bumped into Tuoba Yao coming back from outside.

”Commandery Princess.” First, Meng Zhuqing respectfully greeted her, then couldn’t help saying, ”It’s too dangerous in this city, it’s better for the Commandery Princess to stay in the temporary palace and not walk around.”

Tuoba Yao said nothing, just gave Meng Zhuqing a cold glance and continued on her way.

But Meng Zhuqing sharply noticed that the sachet around Tuoba Yao’s neck was missing, that sachet which contained various epidemic-preventing medicines, and immediately, he asked in horror, ”Commandery Princess, where is your sachet?”

Tuoba Yao instinctively looked down and, noticing the sachet was gone from her neck, first paused, then indifferently said, ”I don’t know when it fell.”

Meng Zhuqing was furious. How could it have fallen!

Though furious inside, Meng Zhuqing didn’t curse or show it; instead, he hurriedly took off his own sachet around his neck and offered it to Tuoba Yao.

”Commandery Princess, please use This General’s for now; once This General has finished his duties and returned, I will have a new one made for the Commandery Princess.”

Tuoba Yao didn’t accept it.

But Meng Zhuqing, unable to concern himself with whether he was being presumptuous, forcibly handed it to Tuoba Yao.

Without further dialogue with Tuoba Yao, Meng Zhuqing handed the sachet forcibly to her and then proceeded to deliver Blue Grass Root to the Medicinal Diet Hall.

In the Medicinal Diet Hall, people infected with the epidemic were dying daily; when Meng Zhuqing arrived, another two had died.

Besides having the bodies carried out to be cremated, Meng Zhuqing could do nothing else.

”Zhuzhu, your timing is perfect, come here quick, help distribute some ice,” Gong Juechen saw Meng Zhuqing and immediately had him help distribute ice to the infected patients.

Once infected, the first symptom of the epidemic is a high fever; Blue Grass Root could only help alleviate it slightly. Fearing these people would be scorched senseless by the fever, they could only use ice to cool their bodies.

Previously, the ice in Nanshen City’s ice cellars wasn’t enough, fortunately, An Jing knew how to make ice with saltpeter, which kept the ice supply sufficient.