Regent, the princess you found is a treasure

"Do you mean to ask for help from Qingdu City?" General Wei frowned and asked with a hint of doubt in his tone.

"Yes." General Duan nodded without hesitation.

"But will they save us? They could have easily captured Danyang City by just standing by and watching." General Wei still shook his head in disbelief.

"Instead of sitting there and watching innocent civilians and soldiers die, it is better to give it a try and see if there is a chance of a turnaround. As long as I can save the lives of the people in the city, I am willing to surrender." General Duan said with a determined look on his face.

"You...ah..." General Wei sighed helplessly.

Indeed, seeing people dying from the plague every day and seeing people living in the shadow of fear, instead of lingering on like this, it is better to give everyone a glimmer of life and hope.

"Okay, let's do as you say." General Wei finally made up his mind.

General Duan acted promptly, wrote a letter quickly, and sent an envoy on horseback to Qingdu City that night to ask for help.

When Su Luoxue saw the letter for help, the sky had just begun to turn pale. She was still immersed in a sweet dream, but was hastily awakened by Meixiang and taken to the hall.

At this moment, everyone in the hall had arrived. When Xuan Moyin saw Su Luoxue coming, he handed her the letter on the table. The letter had been read by everyone present before. After she finished reading it, Xuan Moyin asked, "What do you think about this matter?"

"General Duan is indeed an outstanding general!" Su Luoxue put down the letter in her hand and said slowly, "In order to save the lives of the people in the city and his soldiers, he would rather surrender to us, just hoping that we can spare the lives of the people in the city. Such a human act is really admirable."

General Chen then said: "If the situation is true, then we can easily capture this Danyang City without sacrificing a single soldier."

However, Xuan Haochen shook his head and said, "Taking advantage of someone's misfortune is not a gentleman's behavior. Uncle, we can certainly rescue the people of Danyang City, but we must never use the opportunity to seek personal gain." His tone was firm.

After listening to what Xuan Haochen said, Xuan Moyin and Su Luoxue both nodded in agreement.

Su Luoxue frowned slightly and said solemnly: "Life is at stake. The people in Danyang City must be saved. However, surrender is not necessary. We have enough strength to take this city. What do you think?"

General Song, Prime Minister Gu, General Chen and others nodded in approval.

After some discussion, it was finally decided that General Song would lead a team to deliver pills for treating the plague to Danyang City.

General Duan had never expected that Qingdu City would deliver the pills so quickly, and what surprised him even more was that they did not take the opportunity to force him to surrender.

General Duan took out a pill without hesitation and swallowed it. The pill melted immediately after entering his throat. It tasted slightly bitter at first, but then a faint sweetness emerged. In a moment, he felt his internal organs begin to heat up slightly, and a warm torrent gradually flowed from his limbs to his head. In a blink of an eye, he felt refreshed and the turbid air in his body instantly dissipated without a trace.

"What a good medicine! It is undoubtedly a miracle drug!" General Duan couldn't help but exclaimed.

After confirming that there was no problem with the pills, he gave the order without hesitation: "Quick! Distribute these pills immediately, one pill for each citizen in the city, and also for all the soldiers in the barracks!"

Then he issued another order: "Move all those who have passed away to an open area and gather them together for incineration."

This was what Su Luoxue specifically told General Song to convey to General Duan, because these people died of plague, and once their bodies rotted, it would be easy for a large number of germs to breed. Moreover, they died of plague themselves, and if they were not properly handled, the consequences would be disastrous!

For safety reasons, no one is allowed to watch the cremation of the body.

Only a dozen soldiers wrapped themselves tightly and carefully poured some pine oil on the corpses. General Duan took a blazing torch from a guard. He couldn't bear to see these dead civilians and soldiers, so he closed his eyes and threw the torch in his hand towards the pile of corpses.

In an instant, the flames rose into the sky like a fire dragon and spread rapidly. Along with billowing smoke, a strong and pungent smell of burning instantly filled the sky above the entire Danyang City, making people feel suffocated and heartbroken, and this burning lasted for three days and three nights.

Princess Yong'an actually made the courtyard where she lived completely independent and isolated from the outside world! She even strictly prohibited anyone from approaching it, leaving only a few maids who had been serving her closely.

In recent days, the number of people dying from the plague in Danyang City has been increasing.

Yong'an was in this small courtyard, and she deeply felt that even every breath of air she breathed seemed to be filled with the scent of plague.

She couldn't help but feel regretful, regretting why she had acted on impulse and led everyone to this terrible place, Beiliang Kingdom.

Nowadays, those so-called doctors and imperial physicians are helpless in the face of this plague. They can only watch the infected people die one after another...

That day, the maid suddenly ran in with a small porcelain bottle in her hand and said to Princess Yong'an excitedly: "Princess, Princess, this is a magic medicine to cure the plague."

Yongan took the porcelain bottle from the maid and asked with doubt in his heart: "Have those useless imperial doctors finally made medicine?"

"No, Princess. I heard that it was General Duan who asked for it from the regent and princess in Xianqing Capital." The maid said quickly.

"Did you dare to eat what was brought over there?" Yong'an asked the maid with a look of idiocy. But in his heart, he was thinking, could it be poison? How could Su Luoxue, that woman, be so kind as to send medicine to Danyang City?

"Princess, everyone outside has eaten it. I heard that General Duan was the first one to eat it. It was indeed very effective for those people after eating it." The maid continued.

Of course, Yong'an couldn't be so gullible as to believe that Xuan Moyin and Su Luoxue could be so kind. It was good enough that he didn't take the opportunity to step on them at this time. How could they actually send him medicine?

She poured out a few pills from a porcelain bottle and asked the maids to take them one by one.

Although the maids were a little hesitant, they still took it and put it in their mouths.

After one incense stick of time, Yong'an saw that the maids were fine, and after two incense sticks of time they were still fine. "How do you feel now?" she asked.

"Princess, I will quickly make my whole body feel unblocked and relaxed. This is the most refreshed time of the month." said a maid.

"We too..." others echoed.

Only then did Yong'an swallow the last pill in the porcelain bottle.