After being sentenced to death, she came to her senses.

However, it was too late. After the bed curtains were pulled back, Fang Menghe saw Fang Xiaoran lying trembling on the bed, her exposed skin covered with scarlet spots.

Fang Menghe was terrified by this scene. She instinctively loosened her grip on the bed curtains, but Fang Xiaoran seized the opportunity to pounce on her, tightly hugging her waist while coughing up blood and saying, "Third sister, save me, I'm dying, save me... cough cough cough..."

"Blood, blood! Let me go, let me go!" Fang Meng's mind went blank. She used all her strength to break free from Fang Xiaoran's embrace. She didn't have time to blame her ill-mannered sister and fled the room in a daze.

Those waiting outside saw Fang Meng stumble out, covered in blood, and rushed forward to ask what was wrong, only to hear her shout, "Go, go! Get out of here!"

After saying that, she ran away like a frightened bird, leaving a group of people looking at each other in confusion. Although they didn't understand what was going on, they wondered why they were still there when their girl had left. So they quickly chased after her.

In the blink of an eye, the courtyard returned to its usual tranquility.

Inside the room, after hearing that there was no more noise outside, Fang Xiaoran slowly got up from the floor. Ziju quickly stepped forward to help her up and asked worriedly, "Miss, are you really okay?"

Fang Xiaoran chuckled and said, "Don't worry, not only will everything be fine, but Beiju will also have some peace and quiet for a while."

As she spoke, she took the handkerchief that Ziju handed her and wiped the blood off her face. She also wiped away the red dots on the drawing. Looking at the shocking wound on her wrist, Ziju felt a pang of heartache. "You don't have to abuse your body like this."

"You mean this?" Fang Xiaoran raised her wrist, her eyes darkening slightly. "Anyway, I was going to bleed anyway, so it was just something I did on the side."

Besides, although Fang Menghe is not very smart, what if the old nanny next to her is experienced and uses fake blood? Wouldn't she be able to see through it at a glance?

……

Fang Menghe rushed back in a daze, and as soon as she saw Madam Wang, she threw herself into her arms and said in a trembling voice, "Mother, Fang Xiaoran may have caught the plague. She... she vomited blood all over me. What should I do?"

"What!?" Madam Wang's face turned pale. She quickly ordered her to be taken to a room and locked up. After changing her into blood-stained clothes, she made her put on a veil and call a doctor to examine her.

After taking Fang Menghe's pulse, the doctor said that her pulse was fine. However, if she came into contact with someone suffering from the plague, the symptoms would not appear for the time being. She would have to be observed and treated at the same time. The doctor also asked Fang Menghe to tell him where the source of the plague was. If it was a plague, it had to be reported in time. This was the capital city, and the consequences would be unimaginable if it spread.

Fang Menghe said fiercely, "It's alright, it won't spread. She's under house arrest and can't go anywhere. But Mother still needs to send more people to guard the area around the North Residence. We absolutely cannot let anyone out."

But this puzzled Wang, who asked blankly, "But where did she get the plague from? We've all been in contact with her, could it be...?"

"Don't worry, madam. If no symptoms appear, it can be basically determined that you are fine. Moreover, it's not like you will get sick as soon as you come into contact with someone. The longer you are together, the greater the risk of getting sick. I will do my best to take good care of your health."

Fang Menghe gritted her teeth, "Once she returned to the manor, she basically stayed in the North Residence. The only people she had regular contact with were those two maids. As for where she contracted the disease, she might have already been infected before she came back, which is why she rushed back to the Fang manor. So she came to harm us!"

Madam Wang asked anxiously, "Should we tell your father about this?"

"No." Fang Menghe shook her head. "As long as she dies in Beiju, the key will eventually fall into our hands, and you will have one less major threat."

For several days in a row, no one came to the North Residence again, and the people in the North Residence were also unable to leave.

Originally, only Fang Xiaoran was confined to her quarters, but now, even her two maids are not allowed to come and go. People outside treat them like ghosts, chasing them away with long sticks and telling them to hurry back to the North Residence and never come out again.

"Isn't this just like lifting a rock only to drop it on your own foot? Now nobody can get out." Qinglan sighed, sitting under the eaves, grumbling in frustration. Life in Beiju was already hard enough, but now there was no hope at all.

Ziju smiled and shook her head, "The young lady has her reasons for doing this. We should just do as she says."

Seeing that Ziju was brewing medicine for Fang Xiaoran every day without fail, and calculating that the medicine she had bought earlier should have been almost used up, Qinglan asked curiously, "Where did this medicine come from? You didn't just brew the dregs for the young lady, did you?"

"How could that be?" Ziju fanned herself earnestly, and after thinking for a moment, said, "This medicine was given to me by the young lady."

"Where did you get that girl?"

"I don't know about that."

"Could it be that the young lady can perform magic tricks?"

Where did the medicine come from? Of course, Fang Xiaoran would run out every day, scaling walls and rooftops, to get it from the pharmacy.

After her health gradually improved, she was finally able to use her light-footed skills to barely climb over the backyard wall. Anyway, no one would come to the North Residence now, so no one would notice if she ran away.

After Ziju gave the prescription to the pharmacy owner last time, Fang Xiaoran also established a relationship with him. Her prescription was really effective, and the owner hoped to have more cooperation, which Fang Xiaoran naturally did not refuse.

So she would hold consultations at Danxi Pharmacy every few days under the name of Physician Qi. This Physician Qi might be little known in the capital, but he was a household name in the Lingnan area and was known locally as a living Hua Tuo.

This Doctor Qi is very mysterious. She is always elusive, appearing and disappearing suddenly. Many nobles suffering from terminal illnesses are inquiring about her whereabouts, but unfortunately, no one has ever seen her true face.

The reason Fang Xiaoran knew so much about Doctor Qi was because Doctor Qi was her mother, Bai Qiqi.

On the day of the consultation with Dr. Qi, a long queue formed early in the morning at Danxi Pharmacy, waiting for Dr. Qi to see patients.

Fang Xiaoran set a special rule: she would hold consultations three times a month, and each consultation would last only three incense sticks. Once the last incense stick went out, she would leave immediately and would no longer treat anyone.

It is because of this rule that it is so difficult to get a consultation with Dr. Qi. In order to have her treat them, patients have to queue up at Danxi Pharmacy before dawn.

Of course, there were also those who just wanted to join in the fun, wanting to see if this miracle doctor was really as amazing as the rumors suggested.

A teenager at the back of the line looked at the long queue and couldn't help but ask the old man in front, "Sir, is this Doctor Qi really that amazing?"

Upon hearing this, before the old man could speak, the woman beside him excitedly said, "Of course he's amazing! Those difficult and complicated diseases that even Dr. Cui of Baohetang couldn't treat, but after Dr. Qi examined them, they started to improve in just a few days. Especially last month, that Wang Mazi, who was almost dying on his last breath, was treated by Dr. Qi and he prescribed medicine. Guess what? Now Wang Mazi can work in the fields and can carry two bags of rice at a time without any problem."

The boy found it unbelievable, "Is it really that amazing?"

"Go and see for yourself. Doctor Qi's consultation fees are not high, and ordinary people can afford to see him."