A four-year-old medical prodigy descended to the mortal realm, and the entire capital sought her tre

Zhou Ruo called out for a while, but the voice in her mind stopped ringing, and her body showed no reaction.

When she got tired of shouting, she stopped.

I'm neither hungry nor thirsty.

She only saw that the energy in the body lying on the bed had been completely used up, with not a single ounce left.

She couldn't feel any touch in this body.

Because Zhao Jinzhong was holding her hand the whole time, but her spiritual sense couldn't perceive it.

A sudden commotion arose outside the Ling Shu Hall.

Someone shouted from outside the door, "Quickly give us the Qi-Subduing Pills!"

"Yes! We've all heard that the clinic has two thousand Fuqi Pills, which were delivered early this morning."

"Why are you closed? You have medicine but won't give it to us. Are you just going to let us die?"

These people heard that the Jingxi Pharmacy in the western part of the city was packed with people waiting to buy Fuqi Pills.

If they were to travel from the city center to the west side, even if they could get into line, they didn't know how long they would have to wait.

Somehow, word got out that these people knew there were two thousand Fuqi Pills in the Ling Shu Hall.

So they went together to the Ling Shu Hall to ask for it.

An was already anxious when he saw Zhou Ruo still unconscious, and now that someone was causing trouble at the entrance of the clinic, he was furious.

He opened the door and went out, scolding the troublemakers: "Who told you that having the Qi-Subduing Pill could cure Tianlang?"

The group, who had initially been quite aggressive, suddenly lost their fighting spirit after being overwhelmed by An Chang's imposing presence.

"They all say that Fuqi Pill can cure Tianlang... People in Xicheng are going crazy for it."

"Them? Who are they? Give me their names! I'm going to take him to the authorities and charge him with disturbing the peace!"

Upon hearing An Chang's words, the group immediately deflated.

"We don't know who said it, but people in Xicheng are scrambling to buy Fuqi Pills at Jingxi Pharmacy."

"At noon it was one tael of silver per grain, but I heard it has now risen to two taels of silver per grain!"

An Chang's expression changed drastically. He held up two fingers and angrily shouted, "Two taels of silver?! Why don't they just rob us?!"

"So...that's why we didn't go. We wouldn't have gotten a spot anyway, and...we don't have that much money..."

The group huddled together, speaking timidly.

"You're broke, so you've come here to cause trouble, huh?"

An Chang clenched his fists, angry at what these people had said.

An older woman standing nearby had been watching them for a while, and only dared to approach when she saw that they had stopped arguing and were no longer going to fight.

"Young master, is the young princess unwell?"

An Chang turned his head and saw that his aunt's whole body was covered with pustules from the Sirius virus, some of which had already begun to ulcerate.

"Auntie, you..." He didn't know what to say for a moment.

The aunt continued, "I vaguely heard you saying inside that the young princess had fallen into a deep sleep and hadn't woken up yet."

She took an apple from her bosom and handed it to An Chang with trembling hands.

"Young master, I've also heard that the young princess likes to eat fruit."

"This fruit is for the young princess. Could you please take it inside and give it to her?"

Looking at the apple in her aunt's hand, An Chang suddenly found her anger subsiding.

When the aunt saw that An Chang didn't move, she thought he was disgusted with her, an old woman infected with the virus.

She explained,

"Young master, please don't overthink it. I have no other intentions. The young princess cured my son, and I want to thank her, but I have no money..."

An Chang reached out and took the apple, thanking his son. With a lump in his throat, he turned and walked back to the clinic.

Back in the clinic, he muttered to himself,

"What exactly are the pharmacies in western Beijing up to? Why are they selling 'Fuqi Dan' (a traditional Chinese medicine) to ordinary people?"

An Chang took the apple into Zhou Ruo's room where she was unconscious, placed it beside her pillow, and said to Zhao Jinzhong,

"This fruit was given to Ruoruo by an auntie from outside."

Zhao Jinzhong's gaze lingered on the apple, but he asked about An Changjing's Western Medicine Shop.

He didn't hear clearly what the people outside were saying to An Chang, but Zhou Ruo's spiritual sense did.

"The Qi-Subduing Pill can't cure Sirius at all, how can they deceive the common people like this!"

Zhou Ruo's spiritual consciousness was sullen.

An Chang told Zhao Jinzhong about what he had heard about the Jingxi Pharmacy.

Zhao Jinzhong exclaimed in shock, "Two taels of silver? Has Wang Changlin gone mad, or have the people gone mad?"

He got up and went out of the house to find Fu Lai and the others.

For the past two days, Fu Lai and Cai Wang have been staying at the clinic with Jia Yuntian to deal with the epidemic.

The other brothers continued to keep an eye on the alchemy room in the western suburbs.

"Fu Lai, Cai Wang, the Jingxi Pharmacy is selling Fuqi Pills at a high price. Go and see what's going on."

"Huh?" Jia Yuntian and the other two were stunned, finding it unbelievable.

Selling Fuqi Dan without a second thought is like eating uncooked pork. How can Jingxi Pharmacy do this?

Fu Lai and Cai Wang went without hesitation. They both had protective amulets drawn by Zhou Ruo that made them immune to all poisons, so they didn't have to worry about getting infected.

After the residents of the western part of the city bought and took the Fuqi Pill, they only felt that their strength had been restored slightly.

Apart from that, the symptoms showed no improvement.

Some impoverished people gave up taking Fuqi Dan because it was ineffective.

Some went to pharmacies in western Beijing to inquire about the situation.

However, the area outside the Jingxi Pharmacy was packed with people, and those who wanted to inquire why Fuqi Pills were ineffective couldn't squeeze in at all.

Some people with substantial financial resources, after taking one pill and finding it ineffective, would go and queue up again to buy more.

She even bought them at high prices from resellers and ate several of them, but they still had no effect.

In the epidemic zone where Zhao Yucheng was located, the number of people who entered due to infection with the Sirius virus increased dramatically.

The doctors could only rely on Zhou Ruo's small gourd to relieve everyone's pain with silver needles.

However, the relief effect is getting weaker and weaker.

Zhao Yucheng focused his energy on maintaining order in the epidemic area, and he could only temporarily leave the situation outside the epidemic area to his deputy.

After all, once the epidemic zone is established, people infected with the Sirius virus will come in on their own.

Two days later, most of the sick people outside the epidemic area in the west of the city had taken Fuqi Pills, but their condition did not improve.

The patients belatedly realized that the Fuqi Pill from the Jingxi Pharmacy was completely ineffective against Sirius disease.

Only then did they go together to the Jingxi Pharmacy to demand an explanation.

Who would have thought that these patients would respond so readily, disregarding their own discomfort, and desperately demanding an explanation from the Jingxi Pharmacy?

The initial looting of pharmacies in western Beijing turned into smashing and looting.

In the end, they had no choice but to close down, and the employees all hid inside the pharmacy, too afraid to come out.

It wasn't until after the incident of a mob vandalizing a pharmacy in western Beijing that Zhao Yucheng received a report from the city's western guards.

Pharmacies in western Beijing are selling Fuqi Dan (a traditional Chinese medicine) at exorbitant prices, taking advantage of the chaos to make huge profits.

He also heard that selling Fuqi Dan was Wang Changlin's idea, and that he also set the price.

"It's Wang Changlin again! This time, we'll make sure he doesn't lose face easily!" Zhao Yucheng gritted his teeth and cursed fiercely.

Inside the Ling Shu Hall, Zhou Ruo had been unconscious for three days without waking up.

Zhao Jinzhong also stayed up for three days straight, never leaving Zhou Ruo's side.

Fu Lai and Cai Wang would go to the west of the city every day to check on the situation of the pharmacies and the people in Jingxi.

Zhao Jinzhong and An Chang were aware of everything from the scramble to buy the Fuqi Pill to the subsequent vandalism and disturbances.

They didn't take any action because someone would handle it.

Zhou Ruo's spiritual consciousness was extremely anxious within this body.

Zhou Ruo was angry every day that Fu Lai and the others reported on the matter of Fu Qi Dan.

The severe infection situation among the people also worried her greatly.

It's urgent! Her abundant spiritual energy has absolutely no effect on this body.

Her spiritual consciousness seemed to be disconnected from this body, and she couldn't exert any spiritual power at all.

"Hey! Wake up! If you don't wake up soon, everyone will be dead!"

The voice within her body sounded once more: "Spiritual power is at its peak, settlement complete, calculation in progress..."