Report to the Empress and the Eldest Princess: They're using the system to poach your men.

"Ruo Li".

"Your Highness, what are your orders?"

"You and Ruoxin... never mind. You two stay in the shadows and report to me immediately if you make any unusual moves."

"Yes."

She had intended to send in another group of people, otherwise, with only 500 people, working non-stop, they might not be able to keep up.

But she had a vague feeling that something might happen outside the city, after all, Chaozhou was also suffering from a severe drought and was not far from Wuzhou.

Just in case, it would be safer to leave more troops outside the city.

"Xiao Tong, the Nu River army general said that Duke Anguo let them leave the city, but I have a feeling that it was Ming Wang who was behind it all?"

And don't you feel that he gives off the vibe of a venomous snake lurking in a dark ditch, waiting for the opportune moment to pounce and deliver a fatal blow?

"Besides, I remember you checked his body before, and there was nothing wrong with him. He's gone to so much trouble to hide it; if I didn't plan something, I'd feel I was letting him down."

"The Duke of Anguo is related to the maternal grandfather of the Prince of Ming. Do you think the events in Wuzhou might be related to him?"

[Xiao Tong?]

"Master, please don't tell me these things. My brain isn't up to the task; I can't understand these problems."

[You make it sound like I'm perfectly capable of thinking!]

Shen Sangwan curled her lips in disdain.

"Then why don't you give me some other clues?"

[Master, where did I get this clue?]

"Hmm—? Haven't any new missions appeared yet? I can guess based on the missions!"

Take the plague in Wuzhou, for example. Wasn't it all guessed based on the Empress's mission?

Xiaotong shook her head frantically.

He also noticed a progress bar, which seemed to indicate that once another task was completed, his mistress would be able to view the task panel herself.

I wonder what that old man in the main system is up to now!

[How strange! Shouldn't they be issuing missions that involve being affectionate with the Empress? Wasn't the plan to cultivate their relationship?]

Why cultivate feelings if you're not doing anything?

【….】

【Master, so this is what you've been waiting for! When did you become so love-struck? This is disaster relief and plague treatment, not a honeymoon! What's on your mind all day, Master?】

Besides, you'll be spending every day together from now on, how can that not count as developing feelings?

[I'd love to see some smutty stuff, but you have to be mindful of the occasion, Master, you know?]

Shen Sangwan was furious.

What the hell?

"You're the one who told me to 'seduce' her, you're the one who told me to steal her away, you're the one who comforted me by saying I could occasionally have some meat (a euphemism for sex), and now you're lecturing me?"

Besides, I never said that being all lovey-dovey meant being lewd.

Xiao Tong huddled in the corner, trembling. He suddenly wished that the Empress could be there to hear his master's words.

After all, he felt that the Empress was a jinx to his master, and he could leave the things he dared not do to the Empress.

Seeing that Xiaotong didn't say anything, Shen Sangwan was too lazy to continue complaining.

He stepped inside again.

Wen Yuening, along with her assistant officer and fifteen Yanmo soldiers, divided the area into sections for counting, and it took them nearly an hour and a half to complete the task.

Only a quarter of the patients in the abandoned garden were severely ill; the majority, numbering over 7,000, were moderately ill.

After the men dispatched by the Right Assistant General arrived at the wasteland, they first set up temporary medicine sheds and soup sheds to provide a place to store grain and medicinal herbs.

Shuyi brought only a few doctors with her.

The soldiers waited outside. After Shuyi had the doctor put on some cotton gauze, he led them into the abandoned garden.

"Your Highness, I only brought six physicians with me. The other soldiers are setting up sheds and medicine furnaces outside."

Shen Sangwan was helping to move the seriously ill person when she saw Shuyi approaching and signaled to the person opposite her to put the person down first.

The six doctors already knew Shen Sangwan's identity before they arrived, and upon seeing her in person, they all knelt down and kowtowed.

"This humble subject pays respects to Your Highness the Princess, may you live a thousand years!"

"Rise, the current situation is special, there is no need for formalities."

"Before you arrived, Physician Ning, who was by my side, prepared medicine according to an ancient prescription. Five people have already tried the medicine, but we do not yet know if it can cure the ailment."

“You can go and see for yourselves. In the outermost area, there are two men, two sisters, and a woman holding her son.”

"The prescription is with Shuyi. You can refer to the prescription and consider the patient's condition to see if you can improve it further."

"Yes."

The group of people respectfully accepted the prescription from Shuyi.

"Shuyi, you should go help out at the medicine shed. This place is not suitable for you."

Seeing that Shuyi had no intention of going out, he had no choice but to order her to go outside to do some work.

After all, with her small frame, she couldn't help carry people and might even get in the way. If she got infected, she would suffer even more. The best thing for her was to do odd jobs in the outer room.

"Your Highness, be careful."

Shen Sangwan nodded, "By the way, tell them to come in and help carry people once they've finished setting it up."

"The servant knows."

Seeing the people leave, Shen Sangwan and the soldiers opposite her continued to carry the people on the ground back inside.

By noon, Wen Yuening and Shen Sangwan, who had been busy all morning and had only eaten a bowl of porridge in the morning, were starving.

Shuyi and several soldiers who knew how to cook prepared lunch together, and also cooked four or five large pots of white porridge.

First, the soldiers were fed, and then the disaster victims who were still able to move around were allowed to line up in an orderly fashion from the doorway and have bowls filled with white porridge.

As for those lying in the middle area that cannot be moved, if there are people from the outer room accompanying them, then those people from the outer room will carry them in.

Some of the most severely ill patients in the innermost part of the hospital were already unconscious, while others were delirious. The soldiers could only pick out those they could feed and feed them, while those who could not eat had to be left alone for the time being.

Shen Sangwan ate at the same table with Wen Yuening. After they finished eating, she grabbed Wen Yuening's wrist and asked, "I wonder if there is any preventative medicine that these soldiers could drink, so that they would have an extra layer of protection?"

"I brought Atractylodes lancea from the medicinal herbs. I burned it to fumigate my clothes. Atractylodes lancea has a strong aroma and fragrance, and it has the effect of warding off evil spirits, but I can't guarantee that it will be effective in preventing it."

Wen Yuening glanced at the jade hand on her wrist and paused slightly. "As for the medicine, there are tens of thousands of people here, and it would be time-consuming and laborious to prepare the medicine for their treatment. In comparison, I think burning Atractylodes lancea would be better."

Shen Sangwan wanted to say something more, but the doctors swarmed around her and kept discussing the prescription with Wen Yuening.

"If it weren't for the fact that you were doing this for the disaster victims, I would have given you a good scolding."

Can't you see I haven't finished speaking?

How can you be so clueless!

Wen Yuening turned to the side, her lips curving upwards, and shook her head slightly with a smile.

“You can just call me Mu Ning. I’m not some kind of miracle doctor. This prescription is something I jotted down by chance when I was looking through it before, so there may be omissions. You are all seniors, so if there are any improvements you can make, please point them out so we can all consider them carefully.”

"I suppose you have all seen the condition of those five people. It is especially important to treat the symptoms. In this regard, the seniors should have more experience than I, a junior."

Wen Yuening adopted a very humble attitude, which made Doctor Yu and the others feel a little embarrassed.