Drunk Bamboo

"I, the commoner Zhao, the owner of Yungui Medicine Shop, greets the princess!"

As soon as Shopkeeper Zhao saw Xie Yuzhu, he immediately knelt down with a face full of gratitude.

The guy behind him and Lan Yu beside him also knelt on the ground and saluted Xie Yuzhu.

After losing his family, Manager Zhao left Zhongdu, this sad place.

People who have been caught in the rain know better to hold an umbrella for others.

The revived shopkeeper Zhao reopened his medicine shop and gathered together those people who had lost their family members in the plague.

Now, most of the people inside and outside the Yungui pharmacies throughout Rao Country are people who suffer from the same disease.

That’s why Yungui’s pharmacies are opening more and more and getting bigger and bigger.

Because from the owner to the clerks of Yungui Pharmacy, they all do things with the heart to cure diseases and save lives, not for money, let alone to make a lot of money.

Xie Yuzhu stood up quickly, "Get up quickly."

"Godmother, the princess doesn't like people bowing and kneeling to her." Yun Ling hurriedly helped Shopkeeper Zhao up and helped her sit down, "Please sit down."

Shopkeeper Zhao smiled lovingly at Yun Ling and was even more polite to Xie Yuzhu.

“I don’t know how to thank the prince and princess for saving the Yungui Medicine Shop and being so kind to my Ling’er.”

Yunling told her how the prince and princess treated her. Everyone in the palace treated her like a family member and never let anyone bully her.

After hearing this, Shopkeeper Zhao admired and was grateful to Prince Feng and the Princess even more.

"It was Yunling who took care of me." Xie Yuzhu smiled and introduced Zhang Xinghe next to him, "This is Mr. Zhang, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice. We came here today to ask about the plague that happened back then."

Shopkeeper Zhao glanced at Zhang Xinghe with sharp eyes and a serious expression.

"What happened back then..." Shopkeeper Zhao raised his eyes and looked at Yun Ling, who nodded.

Seeing that Shopkeeper Zhao was hesitant, Yun Ling spoke first:

"Godmother, I told the princess everything about Uncle Yun and Dad. She said she wanted to find out the truth of that year."

She looked at Zhang Xinghe and said, "Master Zhang is also investigating what happened back then. When I was in the palace, I met Master Zhang several times. Not only did he not expose me, he also helped me cover up, so I was not discovered."

When Shopkeeper Zhao heard this, the look in his eyes when he looked at Zhang Xinghe immediately changed.

"You two are Ling'er's benefactors!"

Zhang Xinghe asked, "Madam, how much do you know about what happened back then?"

Shopkeeper Zhao had a sad face and was quiet for a while, as if he was reminiscing.

Or you can calm your mind and try to explain things with clear thoughts.

Several people waited patiently, without saying anything and without urging anyone.

She shed a few tears first, and Yunling wiped them for her.

"My husband's family has been running a medicine shop for three generations. He is also very good at medicine and knows a lot about all kinds of poison antidotes. Ling'er's father is the accountant of the medicine shop. He grew up with my husband and has excellent medical skills. The clerks at Yun's Medicine Shop all know some medical skills. We make a business by selling medicinal materials. My husband sometimes sits in the medicine shop and treats the people for free."

"Ten years ago, on a cold night, many people came to seek medical treatment all of a sudden, all with high fevers. Most of the patients were children and the elderly, and their parents were anxious and looked for doctors overnight. Later I heard that all the doctors in the city were called up that night because there were so many sick children and elderly people."

Xie Yuzhu asked softly, "How did you find out that there was something wrong with the plague later?"

Manager Zhao's eyes turned angry. She said, "Because this plague came strangely. At the beginning, my husband suspected that it was not an ordinary cold. The prescription for colds didn't work at all. And it's impossible for almost all the children and the elderly in the city to get sick at the same time. If it is a plague, it is not contagious."

Zhang Xinghe was puzzled, "Contagious?"

Shopkeeper Zhao was thinking about how to explain.

Xie Yuzhu then said, "The reason why the plague is called a plague is that, in addition to the fact that the condition is complicated, there is no medicine to cure it, and the condition deteriorates rapidly, the most terrifying thing is that it spreads very quickly, and can be spread to other people through breathing, contact, food, etc., and infect them with the same disease. If there is no treatment and the spread cannot be stopped, the consequences will be unimaginable disasters."

Her voice was cold. “If it is not controlled or a cure is developed, a plague can destroy a country.”

Many plagues in history were caused by poor environmental hygiene after natural disasters, and most of them were infectious diseases caused by bacteria and viruses.

The sudden outbreak of a plague in the prosperous Zhongdu for no reason is strange in itself.

Some people use poison to fake a plague and take human lives to achieve their own goals. They are simply not human.

Xie Yuzhu speculated, "It was like hell on earth because of the lockdown."

Zhang Xinghe's eyes were cold, and his tone was even colder, "My grandfather once said that at that time, Li Fengyu from the Shang Pharmacy risked his life to meet with His Majesty and begged him to seal off the city."

Xie Yuzhu: "If it is a plague, Li Fengyu did nothing wrong. At least the people outside Zhongdu City will not be infected with the plague."

The room suddenly became quiet and depressing.

Xie Yuzhu apologized, "Madam, please continue."

Shopkeeper Zhao came to his senses and continued, "In addition to not being contagious, my husband also discovered that there were dark black spots in the bones of the burned corpses after the plague. He suspected that it might be poisoning, not the plague."

Zhang Xinghe asked hurriedly: "Did he raise any questions to the government?"

Shopkeeper Zhao lowered his head and said helplessly, "Who would believe us? At that time, the whole Zhongdu was in a panic. No one took my husband's words seriously. The officials ignored him and drove him out directly. Later, His Majesty ordered them to enter the palace, and they informed the head of the Shang Pharmacy, Li Fengyu, of the matter."

"I remember my husband said when he came back from the palace that Li Fengyu agreed with what they said and said he would inform His Majesty."

Her voice became softer and softer. "But for some reason, there was no news after that. In the end, they all died of the plague."

"Later, I heard that the Imperial Concubine found a traveling doctor and brought him back to the palace. He developed a medicine to cure the plague."

Xie Yuzhu finally understood after hearing this, "So that's it."

Xie Yuzhu has only just figured out the ins and outs of the plague that happened ten years ago.

But precisely because no one dared to look back, no one noticed the problem.

Even the emperor was reluctant to mention it. Everyone in the palace knew that it was the emperor's weak spot and a big taboo.

And the man who committed the heinous crime escaped safely.

"If the princess and Lord Zhang reinvestigate this matter, I will do my best to help." Shopkeeper Zhao stood up and said solemnly, "I have kept all the medical records and notes that my husband left behind. I will go and find them. I hope they can be of some use."

Xie Yuzhu's eyes lit up, "Great, I was just about to study how this poison was prepared and how to make an antidote."