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Chapter 1459: What did you say? (Part 1459) [Seeking monthly votes]

"No!"

Seeing the doubtful look from the Xinglin doctor, Dong Dao realized that he had refused too hastily, and could not help but soften his tone, trying to cover up the truth: "What I mean is that we are running out of time. There are only fifteen of us Xinglin doctors in Fengluo. The epidemic area is far away, and there are too many variables on the road. What if something unexpected happens during this period... I am going to say something that you will not like to hear. It is not a big deal for you and me to be killed in this mortal body, but this strange disease has spread in Fengluo City..."

Everyone looked solemn and gloomy.

I dare not imagine what kind of hell on earth that is.

Dong Dao sighed and said, "The people are precious and the country is important. I am favored by the Lord for recognizing and appointing me. If it weren't for her, there would be no old Dong Xingdao in the world, and I wouldn't be here today. No matter what the cost, I will not let this epidemic ravage Kangguo."

Everyone who heard it was moved.

The more sensitive eyes began to well up with crystal tears.

The doctors who volunteered to go to the epidemic area were even more excited.

"Dong Xingdao, what are you talking about? It's as if we have never received any favor from our Lord? As a minister, we should be loyal to our Lord; as a doctor, we should relieve the pain of the people! This is our duty! You, Dong Xingdao, can sacrifice your life, but we are afraid of death?"

If she was afraid of death, she would not have volunteered to go to the epidemic area. After saying this, she changed the subject: "Your worry is not unreasonable. We are in great need of manpower right now and cannot do without anyone... But, the news from the epidemic area has been spread, why hasn't anyone sent the specific medical records?"

If there are detailed medical records, they can also provide a reference.

Dong Dao was vague: "Maybe they are afraid of the spread of the disease?"

If we carefully investigate Dong Dao's words, this excuse is not very tenable. However, the Medical Department is not a court where intrigues are rampant at any time. Under Shen Tang's deliberate guidance, this department has a strong academic atmosphere. The doctors in the Medical Department devote their energy to studying medical skills and conquering the classics of the Medical Temple. They are not very cunning. The person with the most cunning in the Medical Department is Dong Dao.

This little idea is born for the development of medicine.

As the chief physician, he had to negotiate various preferential benefits from the royal court on behalf of the Medical Bureau so that doctors could concentrate on studying medicine.

Therefore, the fourteen people smoothly accepted this lame excuse.

Even if there are doubts in my heart, I will keep them to myself.

They believed that Dong Dao would not harm the doctors in the medical department or the royal court, and even if he concealed something, it was out of necessity.

After this meeting, the Medical Department became even busier.

The doctors who were qualified to enter the Holy Temple of Medicine arranged a shift and raced against time to find a solution. The Holy Temple of Medicine had a vast amount of books, and searching day and night was only the tip of the iceberg. Dong Dao also assigned homework to the students in the name of a test, asking them to go to the Medical Department's library to search through the books copied from the Holy Temple of Medicine over the past ten years. Qi Miao was also called back by Dong Dao.

"teacher."

Qi Miao was startled when he came in.

Teacher Dong Dao lived a very disciplined life. When had she ever seen her teacher's room so messy? It looked like a bookcase in a library had collapsed.

"Jun Qiao came just in time."

Dong Dao's voice came from the corner.

Seeing him crawling out from a pile of books that were more than a person tall, holding a book with annotations on it, Qi Miao hurried forward to support him and asked in confusion, "Teacher, were you robbed?"

Dong Dao patted the dust off his body and said: "I would rather be robbed... cough cough cough, let's go outside to talk, it's too dusty here! Be careful, there are some things I need you to do here."

Qi Miao bowed and said, "Teacher, please give me your instructions."

After hearing the content of the task, Qi Miao blinked in confusion.

She thought the teacher had called her back urgently for some important matter, but the first thing he did was to ask Qi Miao to negotiate with the Ministry of Households to ask for money to buy firewood and coal. He also asked her to find someone to post notices on the streets and send people to the surrounding areas of Fengluo to negotiate for hot water.

Dong Dao coughed and said, "This is not easy to handle."

Qi Miao: "Disciple knows it's not easy."

The things that Dong Dao asked for were difficult for the Ministry of Revenue to handle. It was a huge sum of money. In previous years, the disaster relief in winter was less than one-tenth of this amount. Moreover, in this weather, everyone is wearing summer clothes. Who would burn coal? Or should the whole country burn coal?

In the years since the founding of the country, the royal court of Kang sent people to search everywhere and accidentally discovered several open-pit coal mines that were easy to mine. In order to increase production and prevent coal from becoming a precious commodity, the coal currently sold on the market is of relatively low quality and has a strong odor and smoke.

During the coldest time of winter, the royal court would subsidize coal, so that most common people could keep warm for a while. In addition, the promotion of earthen kangs and the opening of logging in various mountainous areas meant that the number of casualties in winter was halved year by year. The royal court would also ask the Ministry of Revenue to stock up on cold-weather items in advance, which would then be released into the civilian market in turn to ensure stable prices for cold-weather items.

As the daughter of Qishan, Qi Miao was obsessed with medicine but she was not ignorant of these twists and turns. If coal consumption was too high and the price soared in winter, the impact would be too great. She had to ask for clarification, at least to know why the teacher did this.

When Dong Dao heard Qi Miao was worried about the price of coal, he was stunned.

He really didn't think of this.

But even if I thought about it, I couldn’t take care of it.

Summer is the time when all kinds of evil winds and lustful spirits are active. If a strange disease breaks out at this time, the spread speed will be much faster than in autumn and winter, and it will be more serious. If you lose your life in this summer, why do a bunch of dead people worry about the soaring coal prices in winter?

Dong Dao explained: "It's for epidemic prevention."

Qi Miao was shocked and asked, "When and where did the epidemic occur?"

Dong Dao vaguely skipped this part and pulled out Shen Tang to endorse him. The master said that all actions should be based on the medical department first, and some difficult to explain contents can be concealed: "After several days of research and speculation, this disease is easy to enter through the mouth, so drinking water must be boiled."

Wang Ting has been advocating drinking boiled water for more than ten years.

However, the same thing -

Ideal is full, the reality is very skinny.

After more than ten years of publicity and education, the common people also know that most of their diseases are related to drinking raw water, but they don’t have the conditions to drink boiled water/cold boiled water every day. Poor families even have to share a pot with several households to save firewood, let alone drinking water?

Wang Ting has tried every possible way in recent years to increase the frequency of drinking boiled water in every household, but it is still not possible to drink it whenever you want, and many families still drink raw water. Dong Dao didn't know when the enemy would come to release the disease, so he could only prevent it as much as possible.

Boiling water can eliminate most of the evil winds, lustful spirits and filth.

I think the source of the epidemic is no exception.

Every household was reluctant to burn the incense, and they had no conditions to do so, so the only thing they could do was to make the royal court bleed a little. Dong Dao also knew that his sudden idea had made things very difficult for the finances, and made the already poor treasury even worse. Although the master had ordered that the medical department be the first priority, Dong Dao was still worried that the officials of the Ministry of Revenue would make things difficult for him and not be conscientious in the process. It would be different if Qi Miao came forward, and no one would want to mess with Qi Shan.

Qi Miao's face always works in front of Xun Zhen.

"So that's how it is. I understand. I'll do it right away."

After going to the Ministry of Revenue, Qi Miao came out with a lot on his mind.

This trip went so smoothly!

When did the Ministry of Revenue, which has always been stingy, become so generous?

She smelled the breath of storm, and her intuition told her that something big seemed to be happening. Qi Miao was busy supervising the announcements and personally promoted them for several days. Not only Fengluo was undercurrent surging, but other areas in Kangguo were also like this.

All registered doctors in the royal court received unified orders from the Medical Bureau and were dispatched to different regions to be on standby at any time. Some unregistered doctors in the wild also came to inquire after hearing the news from somewhere. They were all worried about the same thing - this was a sign that the enemy was going to fight and enter the territory of Kangguo! Otherwise, why would so many doctors be mobilized to be on standby? It was definitely a matter of life and death!

The doctors from the wild medical field who heard the news hesitated for a moment before packing up their medical boxes and bags and reporting to the various Zhechoufu.

They have nothing else on their mind.

I only know that without doctors, Kangguo’s situation would fall into a slump.

Who among those who could become doctors in the medical field had not experienced the dark years of wars in the northwestern countries? When they thought about the difficult times of practicing medicine and making a living, they would cry until their pillows were wet. Compared with other countries, they hoped that Kangguo could survive.

After learning the reason, some people shook their heads helplessly.

"You guys are so capable, you can't find a foothold anywhere you go?" You know the enemy is going to invade Kangguo and you don't run away. Are you stupid?

Wild Xinglin Doctor: "We Xinglin doctors are not as well-rooted as the literati and warriors. The Xinglin family has only had a few hundred people for many years. With such a small number of people, we need to rely on a big tree to take root... Mr. Shen has provided a place for us. In such a critical moment, how can we easily withdraw and protect ourselves? This is inhumane! It goes against the benevolence of doctors."

The reason they are wild and refuse to be registered is that they do not want to be restricted, not because they have any objection to Kangguo. Some people have left the protective umbrella of Kangguo and found that it was raining heavily outside.

The contrast makes Kangguo even more valuable.

Those who heard this could not help but stand in awe: "Sir, you are so righteous!"

The Kang Kingdom was immersed in this tense atmosphere. Some people thought that the enemy was about to attack and were actively preparing for war. Some people who knew nothing were entangled in the extravagant act of burning coal in the summer and wrote articles to criticize the current extravagant trend. The rest who knew the truth were so busy that they were spinning like a top. Ning Yan was busy with official business.

In the past month, I have not slept for less than an hour a day.

Even the most iron-hearted scholar cannot bear it.

"No wonder no one wants to be regent, it's not a job for a human being..." Ning Yan even felt that working non-stop for ten days or half a month would be easier than it is now. She didn't need to look in the bronze mirror to know that the bottom of her eyes were dark and her eyelids were heavy as if they were filled with lead water.

The same is true for Li Wan and Miao Ne who assisted Ning Yan.

I haven't been home for twenty days.

They knew part of the truth, but could not tell the truth to their families - according to the power of the epidemic reported by the Medical Bureau, it would be useless for their families to send Fengluo away. Fengluo had a full range of medicines and doctors, and there was still a possibility of receiving treatment. If they ran away, they would lose everything.

Li Wan gently pulled at the stuffy collar of his shirt and lowered his head to smell it.

Deadpan: "Sour and smelly."

There is no time to sleep, let alone take a shower or change clothes.

If it weren't for the literary talents and words of scholars who could keep clothes clean, the clothes would have become smelly after being worn for more than 20 days, and it was summer!

Miao Ne used her fingers to pry open her eyelids to wake herself up.

She was not very energetic: "You can't smell it after a long time."

After holding on for another two or three hours——

Seeing that they were close to their limit, Ning Yan was kind enough to say, "We are almost ready. You can go back and rest for half a day."

The two of them expressed their gratitude: "Thank you, Minister."

I didn't plan to use it to wash up when I got home, I just wanted to go to sleep.

With the help of her teacher Luan Xin, Miao Ne settled in the capital. The location of the house she bought was not very good, but it was cost-effective and the neighbors were friendly. When she returned, there were two people standing outside the door.

One of them looked back as if he had sensed something, his eyes filled with surprise.

Cui Xiong almost ran over and hugged her tightly, his voice faintly choked with sobs: "Ximin!"

Miao Ne: “…”

Being hit head-on by a 100-200-jin weight, her eyes rolled back and she fainted on the spot. Cui Xiong was so scared that he screamed: "Ximin——"

In the end, it was his younger brother Cui Mi who steadied the situation, gave Miao Ne some breathing space, and put two maltose pieces in her mouth.

Miao Ne, with pale lips, slowly woke up, and the weak and dizzy feeling was suppressed: "Are you screaming like a ghost to summon ghosts?"

Cui Xiong wiped his tears with the back of his hand: "Woo, woo, don't say that word!"

Miao Ne didn't even have the energy to roll his eyes.

"Then why are you crying?"

Cui Xiong was choked with sobs and couldn't speak.

Cui Mi pressed his brows and said, "Let's talk about it after we go in."

Miao Ne sipped several bowls of thick porridge, and the color of his lips finally returned to normal. Only then did he have the energy to ask the two brothers how they got to Fengluo.

Since the army went out to meet the enemy, the Cui Xiong brothers have returned to their father Cui Zhi to help stabilize the situation in the southwest. Cui Mi has special abilities and can prevent unexpected situations. Why did these two people run to Fengluo instead of staying in the southwest? What happened?

Thinking of Cui Xiong's mournful look, Miao Ne put down his bowl and chopsticks.

"Am I going to die?"

Miao Ne was just joking when he asked. Cui Xiong pursed his lips and turned them into a human-shaped pot spout, whining non-stop: "Ximin, don't say that word. I can't stand it. I really can't stand it..."

Miao Ne: “…”

No way, is she really going to die?

Miao Ne calmly asked, "Did I die heroically?"

You can live an insignificant life, but your death must be heavier than Mount Tai!

Cui Xiong's tears fell immediately. Cui Mi covered his mouth and begged for mercy: "Please stop talking."

Miao Ne chuckled, "Okay, tell me what happened."

After a conversation, Miao Ne realized that the two brothers had left a letter and sneaked here, not because Cui Zhi or Cui Xiao instructed them to. The two brothers came here because Cui Mi accidentally saw a future: "I saw that the queen looked inhuman at my brother's place. Not only the queen... many people in the city are like this. The source seems to be in the capital Fengluo. We two brothers rushed here at full speed."

The two filial sons also forged Cui Zhi's official seal.

Otherwise, he would not have been able to borrow the fastest warhorse from various post stations and travel unimpeded. After entering the city, Cui Mi also tried to find out more details about the future, but he was unlucky. All he saw were either trivial disputes or worthless trivia.

After much thought, I can only come to meet Miao Ne first.

Then Miao Ne took them to see Minister Ning.

"Non-human appearance?"

"Green face and fangs, very scary, and——"

"And what?"

“Although he has no breath of a living person, he can walk like a living person.”

Miao Ne couldn't help but think of the big and small actions that had taken place in the Medical Department during this period, and he clenched his fists to calm himself down.

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The physical book of Tui Zhen has not been shipped yet. It is said that the Pop Mart Ao Bing vinyl figurine that was not scheduled to be shipped until June has been shipped. Ah, Ah, Ah——

PS: The weather was very strange. There was a sudden thunder at eleven o'clock, making the study room as bright as day. Then the computer screen went black, and I almost missed the update.