A cold dream is not a dream come true

Xu Shusheng lay in the warehouse and passed away without a sound.

Mrs. Xu knelt in front of the warehouse door. She had expected her husband's result today, and she didn't react too radically. She just kept crying to release the sadness in her heart.

Prince Xi stood behind Mrs. Xu, silently mourning the dead.I looked at this scene blankly, feeling that everything was so unreal.

I only met Xu Shusheng once, and he died at noon the next day.Mrs. Xu was healthy the night before, but she was infected with the epidemic the next morning.Maybe Prince Xi will also be infected with the epidemic, and will pass away within three days?

At this moment, I really felt the horror of death.

Go back to the palace, go back.I said to myself, Meng Chuhan, as long as you return to the palace and agree to the emperor, the imperial physician will come to Chang'an and try his best to treat the people in Chang'an city.

It seems like this is all my fault.

I bit my lip in self-blame, and just as I was about to muster up the courage to speak out my thoughts, I saw Mrs. Xu suddenly kneeling in front of the warehouse door and fainting.

"Madam Xu!" Prince Xi immediately stepped forward to help her, and I also stepped forward worriedly, but I saw the red rash on Madam Xu's body at a glance.

"Luo Bing! Don't go!" I blurted out.

Prince Xi was taken aback by my cry, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Ms. Xu's body has a red rash..." I said fearfully, "You will be infected too!"

Prince Xi shook his head, "Chuhan, I don't care." She stepped forward to help Mrs. Xu and walked into the house.

"No!" I stood where I was but didn't dare to take a step forward. "I don't want you to die!" I don't want you to be infected with the epidemic, I don't want you to die! "I also... don't want to die..." I still want to go to Liuli Island with you, enjoy the mountains and rivers together, and enjoy the free life without imperial power and dictatorship...

Prince Xi stopped, but she didn't look back.After a long time, she whispered, "Study the medicine well."

Study medicine well.

After Prince Xi said this, she never came to me again. She hid in the broken thatched hut next to her and refused to see me.She was afraid that she would catch the epidemic and then infect me.

I spread out various herbs in the room, and slowly began to look through medical techniques to find similar cases.

It was already dark in a blink of an eye, and I still didn't come up with any results from my research, so I stood up and stretched.The little baby on the bed stared at me, bit his fingers and looked at me, and made cute noises from time to time.

I sat on the edge of the bed and picked up the baby.The baby reached out and grabbed my hair.

"Nan... Ang..." The baby's mouth made an indistinct pronunciation.

"Baby, what are you talking about?" I smiled tiredly, to please the young life.

The little guy seemed to have a good impression of me, she giggled and uttered an unclear syllable: "Mother..."

mother……

At that moment, tears welled up inexplicably.

A baby who has just turned one year old, when she just learned to call her mother, her father has passed away, and her mother will also die.The people in the whole city were in dire straits, but the emperor enjoyed a luxurious life in Luoyang and refused to send anyone to treat him.How can I, a little girl who sells medicinal materials, cure the epidemic that everyone fears?I'm afraid I haven't researched the prescription yet, and my life is also at stake.

How absurd this is.

Will everything change when I go back to Luoyang?

It seems that we made a wrong decision to flee Luoyang.Prince Xi was originally a prince, she was pampered and used to living a life of ample food and clothing, but now she wants to lose her status as a prince because of me and become a fugitive.Now she is hiding in the epidemic area, and she may catch the epidemic at any time.

Did God play a big joke on me?

In other words, returning to Luoyang and following the emperor is my ultimate destiny?

But I don't want to leave Prince Xi, I don't want to be with other women.But I don't want her to be infected with the epidemic, and I don't want her to die.

So I decided, I want to go back to Luoyang.

I walked out of the room and found that it was completely dark.I took a deep breath and stepped into the broken thatched house where Prince Xi was.

There was only one candle burning in Prince Xi's thatched hut, and it was very gloomy.She seemed to be lying on the window and fell asleep, with messy hair draped over her shoulders.I conveniently draped the sheet on the bed over her body.

The light of the candle flickered, and Prince Xi was awakened.She raised her head and rubbed it, looked at me confusedly, and then said nervously: "Get out quickly, it will infect you."

"It's okay." I said with a chuckle, I decided to go to Luoyang..."

"Back to Luoyang?" Prince Xi asked confusedly.

Her face looked very rosy under the light of the candle, not only because the candle was shaking, but also because she was angry.I grabbed her hand nervously and wanted to explain slowly, but her hand was extremely hot.

"Luo Bing!" I cried out in shock, and reached out to touch her forehead.Her forehead was so hot that my hands trembled, and it also made my heart tremble.

"Are you having a fever?" I grabbed her arm and asked in disbelief.

Prince Xi looked at me dully, without speaking.

I know that she is infected with the epidemic.

"Let's go back to Luoyang!" I took her hand and said, "Luoyang has the best imperial physicians, and they will definitely be able to cure this plague!"

"I'm not afraid of death."

"You are a prince, you should enjoy the glory and wealth, you should live well..." I said in a trembling voice, "Let's go back, don't run away..."

She shook her head and held my hand tightly: "Even if I die, I can't give you up to Miss Huang."

At that moment, I felt how important I was to her.All along, I thought that my position in her heart was just that of a woman who came at her fingertips. Today, with her words, I really know my position.

Originally, she only chose the latter between being rich and rich and me, but now she still chooses the latter between life and me.

"I" is irreplaceable to her.

"But, I don't want to lose you either." I grabbed her arm and slowly approached her, "Let me also be infected with the plague with you."

"No." She pushed me away abruptly, "Go and study the prescription, I believe you."

Her eyes were full of expectation and trust in me, as if she was telling me: Meng Chuhan, you can do it.

Afterwards, I went back to the house, rearranged my thoughts, and began to study the prescription.

At noon the next day, the baby also started to have a fever.I knew she was also infected with the epidemic.At night, Mrs. Xu's room was silent, and I guess she had passed away.

In the whole yard, I am the only one who has not been infected with the epidemic.I can't believe it, is there still resistance to this disease?But I have no memory of this disease.

It's late at night, but I still can't sleep.Because tomorrow night will be Prince Xi's limit, and I still haven't researched a prescription that can cure this epidemic, and I am not reconciled.

Another sleepless night.When the East began to grow pale, I vaguely heard the sound of a carriage.

When I walked out of the yard, I immediately saw the imperial physicians getting off the carriage.The imperial physician was in the palace all day long and had never met me, so I boldly stepped forward to speak.

"May I ask if your lords are the imperial physicians of Luoyang?"

When the leading imperial physician saw me, he immediately stepped forward and replied: "The old minister is Wu Zheng, the imperial physician of Luoyang. Can the lady tell the old minister about the situation in the city?"

"Please." I invited Imperial Physician Wu to the house, and other imperial physicians entered the city one after another to investigate the situation.I gave a general account of the recent situation in the city, took the baby out, and explained the course of the disease.Of course, I deliberately hid the existence of Prince Hee.

Imperial Physician Wu looked at the prescription I developed, thought for a long time, and said slowly: "More than ten years ago, this kind of epidemic also happened in Mengzhou."

"Mengzhou?"

"Exactly." Imperial Physician Wu nodded, "But because Mengzhou Shengle is a big city of medicine, within a few days, he got the prescription to treat the epidemic, and the epidemic was cured very quickly."

I thought about it carefully, but I didn't think completely enough. There were only fragments of memory in my mind.

"And this kind of epidemic, after recovery, there will be resistance, and there will be no second time."

Hearing this, I suddenly had an impression.It seems that more than ten years ago, I had this strange disease.At that time, I drank a lot of bitter medicine, and then nothing happened.

Imperial Physician Wu recalled: "Because the epidemic was cured, the imperial physician in Luoyang did not record this prescription. The old minister only remembered that Tripterygium wilfordii and..."

With an idea, I casually said, "He Mutong?"

"It seems to be... Otherwise, the girl can try it?" Doctor Wu asked.

Now I can only be a dead horse as a living horse doctor.I tormented the medicinal materials in the new prescription together, then poured it into the baby, secretly let Prince Xi take it, and distributed the rest to the nearby patients.

Physician Wu has been observing the baby's condition in the house, and found that the baby's symptoms did not increase, but slowly began to improve.Physician Wu's anxious expression eased a little.

Sitting there, I have been very concerned about the situation of Prince Xi, but I dare not go to check.At this time, I thought of the situation in the palace, and asked cautiously: "Mr. Wu, why did the palace send someone to treat you so late?"

Unexpectedly, Imperial Physician Wu shook his head and said: "Miss, you don't know something. This current sage is a woman, but she is a woman who is greedy for beauty."

"What does the doctor say?"

"The empress has recently taken in a beautiful lady in her harem. This lady is still young and unruly. She said that she would not let us heal Chang'an, so the emperor would not dare to send us to Chang'an..."

I listened carefully and found that the imperial physician's delay in coming had nothing to do with Prince Xi. "Then... Didn't a prince escape from the palace recently? Isn't the emperor angry?"

Physician Wu shook his head: "The emperor didn't take this matter to heart, but simply ordered him to be arrested, so he didn't ask any more questions. Because the emperor's thoughts are all on that empress!"

I shook my head in doubt: "Who is this empress?"

Imperial Physician Wu thought for a while and said, "It seems to belong to Meng Zhou Sheng Le, right? It is said that it is called Meng Di..."