Adorable Genius: Miracle Physician Concubine Cai Mi

Chapter 323 Arriving at Jiangshui City

After learning that her parents were planning to go to the south for disaster relief, Ji Xiaoyang wanted to go with her, but was sternly rejected by them.

What can he do as a child?In case of encountering hungry victims, they would be easily injured. Moreover, no matter how healthy a child is, their resistance is not as strong as that of an adult. In case of being infected with the plague, if it cannot be cured as soon as possible, the consequences will be unbearable for Qi Susu.

She really wanted to save people, but it didn't mean she wanted to put her son in it.

Therefore, Qi Susu rejected him on the grounds that he wanted to stay and take care of his younger brother and guard the palace.

Although Ji Xiaoyang was very sorry, she was really worried about letting her brother stay at home alone.

Other guards of the palace: Aren't we human?

Just in case, Ji Wutian specially reserved [-] hidden guards for Ji Xiaoyang to protect him and Xiao Jinxing.

In fact, it wasn't just Ji Xiaoyang who was worried, but Steward Gu was also worried about the two masters going, but he couldn't tell them not to save people, he could only persuade them to bring more skilled guards for self-defense.

Ji Wutian originally had this intention. When he usually goes out, he may only bring a dozen or twenty guards by his side, but this time he brought a full 50 of them. Ten or even twenty masters, plus ten hidden guards who can fight one against a hundred, unless they are surrounded by thousands of people at once, they will not threaten their safety.

In addition to the guards, Hong Lian and Lan Xingchen, two people with equally good medical skills, accompanied her to take care of Qi Susu and help her, Zi Zhu, and two smart and steady servants transferred from the palace.

In addition to people, they also brought a lot of luggage, only a small part of which was their personal luggage, most of which were various medicinal materials collected for treating the plague, and things such as lime powder for disinfection.

After everything was prepared, the group set off directly to the most severely affected area in the south without much delay.

Along the way, it is inevitable to pass through some towns and villages. These places also gathered a lot of victims. The closer the place is to Anyang Mansion, the better the resettlement of the victims will be. If it is far away, it is hard to say.

Some directly stop the victims from entering the city, while others set aside a space in the slums of the city to accommodate the victims, providing a meal of steamed buns and thin porridge every day, so that the victims will at least not starve to death, but once they get sick Yes, except for one or two doctors in a few places who are willing to find a way to treat them, the others will basically be driven out of the city directly.

The rain in the south has lasted longer than that in Anyang Mansion, and it has been nearly a month since the disaster happened.

This time is not long or short. Some of the people have some food in their own families, and they have money to buy food. If they persist, they will not be unable to survive. The situation is not too serious. At least Ji Wutian and the others didn't see anyone who was so serious that Yi Zi ate them, or fought for a little food, and beat people to death and maimed.

Occasionally there will be a place to sell children and daughters, and life is really hard to live on. Sell one or two children to exchange some money for others to live on. The sold children can go to some rich families and people can take care of food and clothing, as long as it is voluntary. , Others can't control that much.

Even Qi Susu won't let Ji Wutian do anything when he sees her.

She herself is not used to and is unwilling to buy and sell people, but she can't do it alone, and she has no intention of changing the status quo of this era.

Speaking of which, people in the south have long been used to floods every few years. The south is richer than the north, and there is no shortage of rice. Even if the fields are flooded by floods, there will still be no shortage of food in a short period of time.

What they were really afraid of was the accompanying plague.

As long as there is no disease, the disaster will always pass, and the harvest can be replanted, but once sick, the sick people will not get treatment, or the treatment will not work, and the disease will prolong and get worse. Many sick people will be placed in At the same time, the feeling of desperation continues to spread, and there is no hope. The feeling of sitting and waiting to die is the most terrifying.

Ji Wutian and his party came all the way, and saw very few people who really starved to death, most of them died of illness on the way to the north, and their corpses were exposed in the wilderness, and no one cared about them.

In such a situation, Ji Wutian will ask people to burn the body according to what Qi Susu said, bury the ashes and set up an unnamed wooden tablet, engraved with the clothing or appearance characteristics of the dead person on it, in case someone knows him later People are comforted when they see it, and if they don't meet, they have a clear conscience.

And if when passing through some places, it is found that there is a doctor who treats the sick victims but lacks medicinal materials, Ji Wutian will directly reveal his identity and ask the local government to collect the medicinal materials. When the disaster relief money arrives, it will be replenished.

Of course, the rest of the disaster relief money must be used on the people, so that they can eat and drink, and treat their illnesses. After they finish taking care of the most serious areas over there, they will pass by these places again. It is used on the common people, just ask.

With the supervision of such a heavyweight as Ji Wutian, these officials dare not casually reach out to the disaster relief money.

Ji Wutian is not considered an imperial envoy, but he is doing the work of an imperial envoy in a disguised form.

Officials in the south received news from their colleagues, especially those who were greedy for granaries or colluded with grain merchants to drive up prices. Afraid of falling over and losing his official position.

As a result, when approaching the destination, the victims and disasters that Ji Wutian encountered were not as serious as those places before, and were better than they expected.

But only a little bit.

When they arrived in Jiangshui City, one of the three most severely affected cities, it had been 20 days since they set off from Anyang Prefecture.

When Ji Wutian and his party arrived at the gate of the city, the first thing they saw was a rotten "corpse mountain". The piled up corpses were all people who died of the plague. Flies were flying around the "corpse mountain", and the smell of rotting meat and stench , Stretching for ten miles and unable to dissipate, it looks scalp-numbing, especially terrifying.

The guards who followed were considered to have seen the big scene, but their faces were still pale, and there was some unbearable expression in their eyes.

As doctors, Honglian and Lan Xingchen were relatively able to hold on, but Zizhu and the other two servants had never seen this kind of battle, so they ran out of the carriage in disgust and hid in a corner to vomit.

Ji Wutian looked at the 'mountain of corpses', his face was livid, and his eyes were full of anger.

Qi Susu, who was sitting next to her, didn't look too good-looking, but she still patted his hand reassuringly, and said, "Take care of all these corpses and go to the city first."

Ji Wutian took a deep breath to relieve his emotions, and then quickly asked the guards to burn all the corpses not far away, and then sprinkle lime powder around them for disinfection.

Qi Susu watched the guards dispose of the corpse in the carriage, and then looked up at Jiangshui City, whose gate was barely closed. Just looking at the tragic situation outside the gate, one could imagine how bleak the situation inside the city would be.

I just hope that it's not too late for them to come, because everyone inside is already dead.

It was half a day after the corpses outside the city were disposed of. The captain of the guard went outside the city gate to call for someone. After there was movement inside, Ji Wutian's identity was revealed, and the people inside the city opened the gate and let them in.

The group of people did not stop at the gate of the city, and went straight to the magistrate's yamen in the city.

On the way, through the window of the car, I could see that all the doors of the shops on both sides of the street were closed, and some of them were smashed into a mess. Many small stalls on the street were overturned. I don’t know if the people panicked after discovering the epidemic. There was still some kind of riot.

There are a lot of garbage scattered on the ground, and some rotten vegetable leaves or meat that have rotted long ago, exuding a rotten smell.

Occasionally, some people can be seen hiding in the house and peeping at them secretly, their eyes are full of fear, vigilance and scrutiny. From their bloodless faces, one can see the undisguised depression and defeat.

The Jiangshui City that Qi Susu had heard before was a very prosperous city in the south of the Yangtze River, but the city in front of him felt like a pool of stagnant water, lifeless at all.

About half an hour later, the carriage arrived in front of the magistrate's yamen. At this time, the people in the yamen had already received the news from the gate of the city and rushed out to greet him.

Ji Wutian helped Qi Susu get out of the carriage and looked at the people in the yamen, and found that the leader was not the prefect of Jiangshui City, so he asked in a deep voice, "Where is the prefect of Jiangshui City?"

The leader, a middle-aged man with a mustache, wiped his sweat and said with a bitter face, "Master Zhifu has also fallen ill."

Ji Wutian frowned and said, "Who is in charge in the city now? Who are you?"

The middle-aged man said: "Returning to the prince, I am the master of the magistrate, Xu Wen. The magistrate fell ill three days ago. These three days, I have been leading the people from the yamen to handle the affairs of the city."

Ji Wutian said: "Go ahead and talk."

Xu Wen hurriedly said: "Yes, my lord, please." Then he looked at Qi Susu, muttering in his heart, why did the lord bring his wife with him when he came to relieve the disaster?

Ji Wutian saw his doubts, but didn't care, walked into the mansion hall, and said after sitting down, "This is my king's concubine, who has excellent medical skills. This time, this king came here because The princess wants to help hearts that are suffering from the epidemic."

Xu Wen suddenly realized that it was so!
He has long heard that the princess is very skilled in medicine. She has treated many people in the capital and after arriving in Anyang Mansion, and King Yu has always loved and favored the princess. It is understandable that he is willing to accompany him to Jiangshui City.

Xu Wen gratefully saluted Qi Susu and said: "Thank you, Princess Wang, for willing to take the risk to help the people. If the people in the city know that you two are here, they will definitely cheer up."

Speaking of the people, Ji Wutian asked him: "How is the situation in the city now? When the king entered the city, he found that the corpses of the dead people were piled up outside the city. The magistrate should be very clear about how to deal with the corpses that died of the plague. Pile them up at the gate of the city!?"

Xu Wen's intuition gave him the backbone, and he managed to calm down his panic all the time. Now when he heard the question, his expression became bitter again, and he talked about the things in the city in detail.

(End of this chapter)