With Huo Bingbing's previous strength, she could have rescued those people. Unfortunately, because of the sudden plague, the elixirs were almost used up. How could it be easy to rescue more than a hundred people?

Huo Bingbing said with a worried look on her face: "I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. You know, I have already used a lot of elixirs to save people just now, and now I don't have any elixirs to save people."

In the past, she only provided the magic pills to Xiaofeng and her five children as snacks and had no other uses, so she just stockpiled a dozen bottles and kept them in her space.

This time, because of the sudden plague, the elixirs in stock have been used up, and now there are simply not enough elixirs to save people.

Besides, the elixir cannot be refined in a short time. It involves many precious medicinal materials and it takes 49 days to refine it.

When Long Yi heard this, he became anxious. If the princess said so, wouldn't those people who died of the plague be unable to be resurrected?

If this were true, how many families would be broken up?

He didn't even dare to think about it.

"Princess, please, save them."

Long Yi, a grown man, for the sake of the lives of ordinary people, ignored the old saying that a man's knees are made of gold, and suddenly knelt on the ground and begged Huo Bingbing.

Huo Bingbing quickly helped him up and said...

“General Long, please don’t be like this. I want to save them, but some things are destined. This time my elixir has run out, and it may be their fate.”

"You can't go against fate. Besides, everyone will die. This is the law of nature. No one can avoid it. If everyone is immortal and so many babies are born every day, wouldn't the world be in chaos?"

"We should respect nature. You have to believe that everything is already predetermined."

Long Yi was not stupid. He understood what the princess meant and knew that it was impossible for the common people who had contracted the plague to be resurrected.

He forced himself to be strong and made up his mind. Since he couldn't save the dead people, he would save those who were suffering from the plague. So, he clasped his fists towards Huo Bingbing and said, "Princess, you are right. I will go to the neighboring country to buy medicinal materials first, and try to come back as soon as possible to boil medicine for the people."

"Okay, go soon and come back soon." Huo Bingbing waved at him.

Long Yi and his men had just left Youzhou, and Huo Bingbing wrote another letter to the Snake King, asking it to help Long Yi carry back the medicinal materials.

However, because the snake king could not speak human language, Huo Bingbing specially wrote a letter and asked it to take it to Long Yi to explain her intentions to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.

As for Long Yi, Youzhou had fallen out with all other countries because of Jinshan. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he and his men disguised themselves, sneaked into Dayao Kingdom, and then went to every pharmacy to purchase medicinal materials.

At the beginning, everything went smoothly, but later, something happened. The soldiers of the Dayou Kingdom suddenly appeared on the streets in large numbers, and posted notices in every clinic, prohibiting stores from selling ten kinds of medicinal materials, and saying that if any store violated the rules, the owner would be executed immediately.

Long Yi and his men just came out of a medical clinic and followed the crowd to check the notices. Only then did they realize that those medicinal herbs were all the ones they wanted to buy.

The notice was clearly directed at them.

Who leaked their whereabouts?

He also had a clear idea of ​​the medicines he wanted to purchase.

"General Long, what should we do now?" Xiao Ding, a subordinate of Long Yi, was his confidant. He would usually discuss matters with him. When he saw this scene, he asked in a low voice.

Long Yi replied in a low voice: "Let's see what the situation is."

After he finished speaking, he raised his voice and asked the officer who posted the notice: "Brother, these medicinal herbs are very common, why does the government prohibit their sale?"

The officer looked up at him and saw that he was dressed in ordinary clothes, like an ordinary local citizen. He glanced around furtively and said, "You don't know yet, right? There was a big plague in Youzhou last night, and these herbs are needed to save lives. That's why the government banned their sale to prevent people from Youzhou from buying them."

Oh, so that's how it is. The onlookers suddenly realized.

Long Yi narrowed his eyes. There was indeed something strange about this matter. The plague broke out in Youzhou just last night, and he ordered the city to be sealed off in the middle of the night, not allowing anyone to leak the news. How did the lord country receive the news so quickly?

There must be something evil here.

So, Long Yi winked at his subordinate and asked him to ask questions. After all, if he asked so many questions by himself, it would easily arouse the suspicion of the officers.

The subordinate understood and quickly raised his voice to ask, "Brother officer, you said that the plague broke out in Youzhou last night, how come our country received the news so quickly? Could it be that someone deliberately spread false news to deceive us? After all, these medicinal herbs are very common."

"Yes, yes, maybe someone is deliberately playing a trick on us. I can dig up these medicinal herbs anywhere in the mountains. How can they be medicine to cure the plague?" The onlookers nodded in agreement.

The officer glanced around furtively and whispered, "You should have heard about it, right? The emperor of Moli Kingdom and the king of Youzhou have an irreconcilable feud. He specially arranged spies in Youzhou. This time, it was the spies of the emperor of Moli Kingdom who informed us of this matter. There is no mistake."

Upon hearing this, Long Yi clenched his fists tightly under his sleeves. After the plague subsided, he would find that woman and cut her into pieces.

The subordinate came close to him and asked in a low voice: "General, now we can't buy medicinal materials, what should we do?"

Long Yi: "Let's go back to our residence first and think of other solutions."

In order not to arouse suspicion, this time when they came to Dayao Kingdom, they did not stay in an inn, but rented a civilian house as their place to stay.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they returned to their residence, a huge python flew down from the eaves, opened its bloody mouth and bared its teeth at them, as if it wanted to eat them.

“Ahhh…snake…” At first, the subordinates were scared to death, but later Long Yi realized that it was the young master’s pet, and hurriedly told his subordinates not to shout and alert the neighbors, which would be disastrous.

Unexpectedly, the men were so frightened that they couldn't control themselves and kept screaming.

The voices of neighbors could be heard faintly outside...

"What's going on over there? Why is someone shouting?"

"It looks like a new neighbor who just moved in. Let's go over and take a look. If anything happens, we can still lend a hand."

"Good."

When Long saw that he had alarmed the neighbors, he became anxious and threatened his men in a low voice: "Shut up, everyone! Don't shout! If you shout again, I'll cut off your tongues."

The men also realized the danger, because they were now in disguise and had sneaked into the Dayao Kingdom to buy medicinal herbs. If they were found out, they would all die, so they quickly covered their mouths with their hands and dared not say a word.

The python didn't know it was in trouble, and it opened its bloody mouth, spitting out red snake hairs, breathing hot air at them, hissing...

"General Long, my ancestors asked me to come and bring the herbs back for you. Have you bought them?"

After saying this, the long snake tail swung over from behind and handed a letter to Long Yi.

Long Yi took the letter and was about to read it when he heard the neighbors knocking on the door and asking...

"Bang..."

"Excuse me, what happened in there? Why are you screaming so miserably?"

"Yeah, have you run into any trouble? You might as well tell us. We are all neighbors, and we will see each other sooner or later. We will help if we can."

Suddenly, the yard became quiet. The men looked at each other, and no one dared to say a word.

However, Long Yi clearly saw that there was regret in their eyes, as if they were saying: I shouldn't have shouted so loudly. Now, we have alarmed the common people. What should we do?

For a moment, Long Yi was at a loss.

At this moment, the python hissed twice...

"My fellow men, General Long is in trouble now. Who is willing to come out to save him? As long as anyone is willing to pack up the body, I will share some of the elixir given by our ancestors with you in the future."

Just as he finished speaking, a small flower snake swam out from the wall, came to Long Yi in fear, and then lay down with a "click", like a scratcher, motionless.

However, its small eyes turned, its red tongue spitted out, and it hissed...

"My king, you must remember that when our ancestors give you the elixir as a reward, you must share some with me. I am risking my life to do this."

The python said: "Don't worry, I can't go back on my words."

The little flower snake said in a trembling voice: "You must tell this human that I am just being used as a prop by him. You can't really kill me."

"I'm scared. I'm so scared."

Its body kept shaking. If it weren't for the elixir, it would not do such a dangerous thing.

"Don't worry, it's okay." The big python said that it would not tell the little flower snake that Long Yi could not understand what it said at all.

Fortunately, Long Yi was smart and finally understood what it meant. He immediately grabbed the little flower snake, opened the door, raised the little snake in his hand, and said to the neighbors outside the door...

"Dear villagers, we just found a small snake in our yard. I'm sorry to have disturbed you all."

The neighbors suddenly realized what was going on and said in unison: "Oh, so that's how it was. No wonder I heard there was a snake just now."

"Little brother, we are close to the suburbs, and there are usually many snakes, insects, rats and ants. If you want to ensure safety, go to the market and buy a bag of realgar and sprinkle it on the corners outside the house, and you will be fine."

"Yes, snakes are afraid of realgar."

As they talked, they peered into the yard.

At this time, the python had already hidden itself. When it heard the neighbors talking about buying realgar to ward off snakes, it gnashed its teeth in anger, because it knew that its subordinates hated realgar the most and would run away as soon as they smelled it.

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