I'm reborn, so it's not too much to kill the one who traveled through the book, right?

"Sir, why do you think there is black smoke rising from this city? This smoke...if Mao is not mistaken, it might be..." Master Wu Mao said worriedly as he looked at the black smoke rising from the sky above Jinhu County.

Regardless of whether it was as he guessed or not, the choking black smoke must have been caused by the burning corpses.

All the people in a city were infected with the plague and were waiting to die, so why did they suddenly start burning corpses so frequently?

Unless the people inside are already well and are cleaning something.

Otherwise, Wu Mao couldn't understand how some dying people could have the energy to do those things.

Liu Zhizhou looked at the black smoke and frowned tightly.

“If that’s the case…” Liu Zhizhou’s face darkened, and he said viciously, “I wonder if the imperial envoy has passed away.”

Wu Mao hurriedly said, "More than half a month ago, those people inside sent news that the imperial envoy had been infected with the plague. I'm afraid he has become a corpse now..."

Liu Zhizhou narrowed his eyes. If that was the case, the imperial envoy was most likely dead.

As the magistrate of Jinhu County, Liu Zhizhou was very clear about the time it took a person to contract the plague and die from the disease.

From the time a person is infected with the plague to the time they die, a weak person will take about five days to die, while a strong person can last about ten days.

In Liu Zhizhou's eyes, the imperial envoy was just a civil official, and it was the best he could do if he could survive for ten days.

Liu Zhizhou stroked his beard and said, "Just in case, the city gate cannot be opened now."

Master Wu Mao nodded and said, "The plague is rampant in the city, and you are also concerned about the safety of the people nearby, so this is the proper etiquette."

Liu Zhizhou smiled contentedly.

Before, he was concerned about the fact that many people in Pei County survived, so he allowed the female doctor to bring food and medicine into the city.

But a few days have passed, and the neighboring county is still under seal. It is obvious that the female doctor lied, and Liu Zhizhou is not afraid that all the people under his rule will die.

What Liu Zhizhou didn’t know was that the news of Pei County’s lockdown had not been spread outside.

The effect of Master Taixu's medicine was naturally very good, but after the people gradually recovered, it was not so easy to open the city gates of the county town where the plague was everywhere.

The inside must be cleaned up before the city gate can be opened again.

The people Liu Zhizhou sent to inquire about the news were afraid of being infected with the plague, so they did not go forward. They just looked from a distance and saw that the city gate was closed. They thought that the situation in Pei County was the same as that in Jinhu. After returning, they told what they saw to County Magistrate Liu.

With a reference, it didn’t matter to County Magistrate Liu whether the people in the city could survive. All he wanted at this moment was for the imperial envoy who was imprisoned in the city to die.

As the people in Jinhu County gradually recovered, every household began to run out of food, and the county government could no longer provide porridge.

Because Fa Cai had mentioned this matter to Shen Rong in advance, Shen Rong had always kept it in mind.

Shen Rong spent two days and found a house in the southern suburbs of the city where no one lived nearby.

Shen Rong took out the little food in the space.

These grains were the remainder of the 50,000 dan donated, and included both dry grain and new grain that had not had time to be dried.

Shen Rong thought that so many people had started to run out of food, and she couldn't care less and could only take these out.

However, Shen Rong had already thought of a reason before this.

After Shen Rong took out the grain, she immediately returned to the county government office to inform Fa Cai.

"Brother Wang, I seem to have found the disaster relief grain left behind by the imperial envoy!" Shen Rong said confidently.

Wang Facai, who was worried about food, was suddenly shocked.

"Where?"

"I found it when I passed by the south of the city. Brother Wang, come with me." Without saying a word, Shen Rong took Wang Facai to the place where she hid the grain.

As for why Shen Rong put the food on the head of the imperial envoy, firstly, Jinhu County had suffered a flood, and the food in many people's homes had become damp or soaked in water.

Although grain in winter is not so easy to mold and rot, anyone with good eyes can tell the difference between good grain and bad grain at a glance.

The entire Jinhu County suffered from floods, followed by a plague, and the only one who could bring in grain was the imperial envoy.

For this reason, Shen Rong put the grain on the head of the imperial envoy.

Wang Facai saw Shen Rong's guess and did not doubt it.

Firstly, he was not a government official of this county. Secondly, when the imperial envoy passed through Pei County, he did leave some grain for Pei County.

This is also the reason why Wang Facai had no doubts.

Wang Facai said excitedly, "Wait a minute, Doctor Shen, is there much food? If there is a lot, I will call a few people to go and get it."

Shen Rong thought of the dozen bags of grain she had put there and said, "It's quite a lot, more than a dozen bags. Brother Wang, go and call for people to move the grain. However, if we take the grain privately and the imperial envoy finds out, I'm afraid..."

Wang Facai thought for a moment and said, "If there are only a dozen or so bags... the grain is not much, and the adults will not go to great lengths to investigate for it. Even if the adults find out accidentally, we will just pretend that we don't know the origin of the grain, and I'm sure no one will punish us."

After all, these food were not eaten by just the two of them.

Shen Rong nodded, "Then I'll listen to Brother Wang."

Wang Facai quickly brought a group of young men and moved the grain back to the county government office.

After Shen Rong's reminder, Wang Facai checked every bag of grain and found that a lot of it was new grain that had just been harvested. He couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.

Shen Rong guessed, "Perhaps the grain was collected in a hurry and delivered before drying. The weather is cold, so it didn't go bad."

Wang Fa Cai thought about it, but couldn't think of any other reason, so he could only believe Shen Rong's statement.

From then on, Wang Facai had one more job to do himself - drying the grain.

The county government office of Jinhu County is not small, and there are many open flat areas in front and behind, which are more than enough to dry more than a dozen bags of grain.

In order to prevent others from stealing grain, Fa Cai always kept an eye on it personally.

Because the county government had grain, the porridge provided at the gate had never been removed.

However, due to limited food, each person was only provided a bowl of porridge every morning, so many people managed to survive.

As the sun was setting, Wang Facai dried all the grain and put it away. He glanced at Shen Rong who was collecting herbs, looked towards the city gate, sighed, and said, "Doctor Shen, now all the people in the county have been cured by you. I don't know when County Magistrate Liu will open the city gate."

Shen Rong thought for a moment and said, "It should be soon!"

As long as her master was outside, she would definitely be able to get out. Shen Rong had great faith in Master Taixu's ability.

Shen Rong felt more confident when she thought of the account book that Zhou Wu had given her to keep.

Wang Fa Cai didn't know all this. He felt that Master Shen Rong and his apprentice were just doctors with good medical skills. They would not be able to have a say when facing those officials.

"I'm afraid that County Magistrate Liu had no good intentions when he let us in!" No matter how stupid Wang Facai was, he finally reacted now. What's more, he was not stupid.

Shen Rong also agreed with what Wang Facai said.

There are so many people in Jinhu County, but the doctors outside the city only send a little medicine in every day. No normal doctor can do that.

It was obvious that those doctors were following the instructions of County Magistrate Liu.

And because she claimed to have a recipe to save people as soon as she arrived, she obviously disrupted some of County Magistrate Liu's plans.

No matter how much Magistrate Liu feared Shen Rong, he could not kill her, the doctor who came to save people, in public. So he could only send her into the city to let her contract the plague and die.

And the food and medicine that Shen Rong brought into the city were just to shut up Shen Rong and others.

As for the effects of those medicines, County Magistrate Liu naturally knew that no matter how Shen Rong mixed them, it would be impossible for her to make a medicine that could cure the plague.

These were her deductions after she was given the account book on Saturday.

Unfortunately, despite all the calculations, Magistrate Liu did not anticipate that the food and medicine Shen Rong asked for were just for show.

In fact, all the medicines she used were taken from the space.

Very few of the medicinal herbs given by County Magistrate Liu could be used.