A cold dream is not a dream come true

"From now on, you are not allowed to see other women behind my back."

Prince Xi's words were icy cold, even at noon in the early summer sun, I couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

Does she know that I went to see Young Master Yun Xin last night?I was obviously very careful when I went out...

I opened my mouth, and just as I was about to explain, I heard a commotion from outside the carriage.

"My lord! I beg you, my lord! Please save my husband!" It was a woman's desperate cry, mixed with the cry of a baby.

Prince Xi frowned, lifted the curtain of the carriage, and cautiously explored the situation outside.I also looked out, and saw a woman in her 20s kneeling in front of the officers and soldiers guarding the gate with a baby in her arms.She was unkempt and her face was stained with tears.The baby was probably frightened by the noisy environment and kept crying.

"My lord!" The woman knelt on the ground, rubbed her knees on the ground, climbed to the feet of the officers and soldiers, and pulled the trousers of the officers and soldiers, "I beg you..."

"Don't worry about it!" said the officer, frowning. He wanted to lift his feet to avoid the woman's entanglement, but he didn't realize that the woman's whole body was stuck to the officer's leg. When the officer flicked his leg, the woman rolled and crawled out several meters.

"How can you oppress the people like this?" I stood up angrily from the carriage, wanting to reason with the officer.

Prince Xi also saw this scene, but she didn't speak, but frowned and held me back: "Chang'an City is an ancient city, officers and soldiers would not be so reckless, let's not act rashly."

"But..." I was still a little jealous of Prince Xi's attitude just now, so I sat back in the carriage obediently.

"Besides, we're on the run, so we don't have to, so don't attract other people's attention."

Hearing this, I felt very uncomfortable.Not only did she lose her glory and wealth because of me, but she also told herself that she was a fugitive all the time... I looked up at Prince Xi's face guiltily, and found that she didn't mean to blame me, but just stared outside Case.

The woman was kicked down, but the baby was always held tightly in her arms.She got up and touched the baby in her arms, then crawled to the feet of another officer and begged: "My lord...my husband is at the edge of the mountain...please save him...I promise, you will not You will be infected with the epidemic... Please, my lord..."

"Plague?" Prince Xi asked.

"Has there been an epidemic in Chang'an City?" I was also a little surprised.

Prince Xi shook his head and pulled me out of the carriage.After paying the fare, she pretended to be nonchalant and walked to the city gate, expressing that she would enter Chang'an City.

The officers and soldiers checked us briefly and then let us pass.Prince Xi strode forward, completely ignoring the mother and child.

Is it necessary to turn a blind eye like this?

When I was in a panic, Prince Xi stumbled suddenly, then she looked down at the woman on the ground, and asked in surprise, "Ma'am, what are you doing?"

When the woman saw Prince Xi asking herself, she rushed forward immediately: "Girl, please save my husband...he is on the edge of the cliff right now...he wants to commit suicide..."

After hearing this, Prince Xi looked up at the officers and soldiers guarding the city. The officers and soldiers said helplessly, "The man in her family is infected with the epidemic, please be careful."

Prince Xi nodded, and then said to the woman on the ground: "Madam, please get up quickly, I just like mountain climbing, and maybe I can't help you with anything."

The woman saw that someone was willing to take care of her, and she didn't care if she could help, she immediately wiped her tears, got up and thanked: "Thank you two girls, thank you two girls!"

Along the way, the woman briefly explained some things to us.The woman's husband, surnamed Xu, is a scholar.The two got married last year and gave birth to a daughter. The family lived happily in the outskirts of Chang'an City.Just a few days ago, a strange epidemic suddenly broke out in the city of Chang'an. At first, it was just a headache and fever, and then a red rash appeared all over the body. Finally, he was bedridden until he stopped breathing.The whole course of the disease was only three days, and then passed away.Moreover, this kind of epidemic spreads through the air. If two people come into close contact, a healthy person will inevitably be infected.The people in the city were infected with the epidemic, and they were driven out of the city gate by their family and neighbors.Xu Shusheng was kind-hearted and secretly delivered food and water to the patients.Unexpectedly, I was infected with the epidemic just after delivering it for a day.Xu Shusheng was afraid of infecting his wife and daughter, so he quietly came to the edge of the cliff by himself, wanting to know his life.

When Mrs. Xu heard the news that her husband was going to commit suicide, she hurriedly held the child to dissuade him, hoping that he would give up the idea of ​​committing suicide for the sake of the child.Unexpectedly, when he got to the edge of the cliff, he found Xu Shusheng hanging on a branch halfway up the mountain, and passed out.Mrs. Xu is a weak woman, she couldn't save her husband, so she rushed to ask the officers and soldiers for help, but the officers and soldiers were afraid of contracting the epidemic, so they refused to help her.

"Why didn't you report it to the court?" Prince Xi frowned and asked.

Mrs. Xu shook her head: "I heard that the lord handed over the memorial and sent someone to report it quickly, but there was no news from Luoyang... We are also ordinary people, how can we care so much..."

Prince Xi nodded and said nothing.I followed them and listened to their conversation, and thought to myself: If Luoyang did not send an imperial doctor to treat them in time a few days ago, it may be because Prince Xi's defeat of the Koryo State affected the emperor's mood, but after Prince Xi and I fled Luoyang , the emperor should send someone here immediately, why did the imperial physician not arrive?Are they busy trying to catch us?

Just as we were thinking, we came to the edge of the cliff, and there was no one on the edge of the cliff, only a faint cry for help: "Help... who will help me..."

"My husband is hanging halfway up the mountain... Is there anything you can do, girl?"

Prince Xi nodded: "I know a little about martial arts, I'll go and have a look."

Madam grabbed Prince Xi and took out two long silks from her bosom: "Girl uses this to cover her face to prevent infection."

Prince Xi took the long silk tie and face, and Mrs. Xu turned around and handed the baby in her arms to me: "Girl, the baby is still young, so don't let her catch the epidemic. Please take her back to my house later, and I will be with that baby." After the girl rescues my husband, I will go to you..."

I took the baby and nodded.This baby is a little small, only one year old, and can't speak yet.She tilted her head, stared at me with big eyes, stretched out her small hands to scratch my face lightly, and just smiled "giggle".

"I really like you, girl." Mrs. Xu smiled at me.

Prince Xi was ready and looked back at me.I nodded to her encouragingly.

Prince Xi walked to the edge of the cliff, and not long after, he pulled up a frail scholar.Mrs. Xu beckoned to me, motioning for me to go back first with the baby in my arms.

The thatched hut of the Xu family was very dilapidated. I sat by the bed with the baby in my arms, and the baby didn't bother me, lying quietly in my arms, waiting with me for their return.Not long after, they took the scholar back to the courtyard and isolated him in the warehouse to prevent the infection from spreading to me and Prince Xi.

Mrs. Xu prepared a set of clean clothes for us and hoped that we could stay.Seeing that it was getting late, Prince Xi agreed to stay.

In the early morning of the second day, we packed our things early and prepared to leave this town full of epidemics immediately.Unexpectedly, as soon as the front foot stepped out of the door, there was a "popping" sound coming from Mrs. Xu's room, and then the baby began to cry.

"What's wrong?" I asked nervously.

"I'll go and have a look." Prince Xi stopped me and went to observe the situation alone.I went back to the house and waited for the situation.

After a long time, there was a baby crying outside the door, I got up and turned around, and found that Prince Xi was hesitant to enter the house with the baby in his arms.

Prince Xi frowned and said: "Mrs. Xu started to have a headache and fever, and she probably caught the epidemic."

"What?" I realized the seriousness of the matter, and asked with a frown, "What happened to Xu Shusheng?"

"He has begun to fall into a deep coma, and probably won't survive tonight."

"What about that child?" I was a little worried and walked out the door.

Unexpectedly, Prince Xi took a step back holding the child: "Maybe both I and this child have been infected by now, so don't come near me."

"No! How did you get infected?" I shook my head desperately, "Otherwise, let's escape from Chang'an now!"

Prince Xi sighed: "This child's parents are both infected with the epidemic. Don't we want to save him? Even if we really don't care about this child, we must pass through Chang'an City to go straight to Fu'an City. Now Chang'an City It's already in chaos, and it's only a matter of time before we catch the epidemic."

"Then...then what should I do?" I was so anxious that I was about to cry.I know that the epidemic is so severe at this time, and you will die in three days.It doesn't matter if I die, I can't let Prince Xi die in vain like this!Abandoning glory and wealth for me, and finally going to die in another country... This kind of thing...

While I was thinking wildly, Prince Xi asked in a low voice, "Don't you know some traditional Chinese medicine? Do you have some ideas?"

I was so anxious that I even forgot that I knew Chinese medicine!I calm down and think carefully about the prescription for this treatment.

First of all, we should prescribe the right medicine, polygala, red poria cocos, red peony root, rehmannia glutinosa, Ophiopogon japonicus, Anemarrhena, and licorice are Qingxin powder; saponins thorn 3 catties, mixed with wine, steamed on high heat for half a day, taken out and dried, 1 white goose, Take the hairs, stir-fry them over low heat, soak in half a catty of bittersweet wine for 1 day and night, peel off the skin and take the place of Xiao Huan Dan.

Other than that, I can't think of any other good herbs.I asked Prince Xi a few words, tied a long silk on my face, and went to the pharmacy in Chang'an City alone to inquire about the situation.

The streets of Chang'an City were sparsely populated, and occasionally I saw a few passers-by with flushed faces and a weak look.It was hard to find a pharmacy that was open, and only the shopkeeper was guarding it.

"What advice, master?" I handed the prescription to the old man.The old man took the prescription and looked at it carefully, nodded and said: "Young lady's prescription is really wonderful! But the old man thinks there is still something missing, so the old man's prescription has not been successful so far."

"Thank you for your advice." I took back the prescription and frowned and thought about it, what's missing?

I took the medicine and went back to Xu Shusheng's house.Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the door, he heard Mrs. Xu crying: "Husband..."

I walked quickly into the courtyard and found Mrs. Xu was kneeling in front of the warehouse door and crying.

"What's wrong?" I asked Prince Xi who was standing beside me.

"Scholar Xu... passed away..." Prince Xi said.