Xiao Tuo thought about it and decided to turn his horse around to catch up with Zi'an.
He dismounted and walked to Zi'an's carriage, lifting the curtain, "The prince said that he wants you to find an excuse to leave the capital for a while."
Zian nodded, "I understand."
Xiao Tuo was startled, "You don't ask why?"
Zi'an smiled and raised his eyes to look at Xiao Tuo, "Don't ask, I know the reason, go back and tell the prince, don't worry about me."
Xiao Tuo really found it strange, "Even if I don't tell you, do you know why I have to leave? Are you so smart?"
Zi'an looked at his puzzled expression and couldn't help laughing, "Yes, I am that smart."
"But women shouldn't be so smart." Xiao Tuo muttered.
"Okay, I'll try to act stupid in front of you from now on."
Xiao Tuo gave her a complicated look and said, "Okay, go away. I feel annoyed when I see women now."
"Why do you feel annoyed? Liu Liu isn't bothering you anymore."
Xiao Tuo snorted, "When she saw me, she asked me where Su Qing was. It seems that she has taken a fancy to Su Qing. She even said that she wants to marry me. Women are fickle."
Zi'an laughed, "Don't you think you don't care about her? If you don't care about others, then why does this bother you?"
"Hmph!" Xiao Tuo jumped on his horse and rode away.
Zi'an lowered the curtain and ordered, "Let's go."
She smiled slightly. It seems that the little tricks she taught Liu Liu were really useful. Xiao Tuo was also a dull and flirty guy. People's psychology was very strange. If someone always hung around in front of you, you would feel annoyed, but one day, she went to hang around with someone else, and you would feel unbalanced.
After laughing, she began to think about what Xiao Tuo had just said.
She understood why Murong Jie wanted her to leave the capital. She knew medicine, and all officials and people knew that she had cured Prince Liang and the Prince Regent.
It is true that Murong Jie is the regent, but the epidemic has become so serious that sometimes he cannot withstand the pressure.
Obviously, the instigators of this incident were her dear grandmother and father. With these two scoundrels around, she could never expect to have a peaceful day.
Leaving might be a good idea.
After returning to the mansion, she asked Yuan Cuiyu, "Mother, do you want to visit grandpa?"
Yuan Cuiyu was very smart. She understood Zi'an's idea immediately after hearing this. "If you want to go, I'll go with you."
Zi'an sat down, but he was a little hesitant, "I haven't thought it through yet."
"Can you help if you stay here?" Yuan Cuiyu asked.
Zian shook his head, "It seems impossible now."
"Can the golden needle technique help?"
"No, the epidemic can't be cured by acupuncture. Even if acupuncture can really cure this disease, if I'm not mistaken, Stone Village is just the beginning, and there will definitely be many more outbreaks later. I only have one pair of hands, how many can I save? Besides, it seems that acupuncture is not effective now."
Yuan Cuiyu looked at her and said, "Since you can't help, you'd better leave, otherwise you will be held captive in the capital. It's a crime to possess a treasure without any guilt. Your medical skills will become a sharp weapon that hurts you."
Zi'an thought about it and it made sense, but she had given Wang Yu an injection, so she couldn't leave until at least two days later.
The next day, the regent continued to send doctors to Shitou Village, and made the symptoms of the epidemic public, recruiting doctors. Anyone who could come up with a cure would be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver.
At one time, a large number of doctors rushed to Shitou Village. Many of the infected people had not been captured. Those who were captured were locked up in the village ancestral hall. The rest were kept in the residential areas on the right. There was a road in the middle for the officials and doctors to pass through.
If a doctor comes in, the soldiers will bring out a tied-up infected person for the doctor to examine.
In this way, a group of doctors came, a group of doctors left, and another group came. The officers and soldiers were annoyed. After checking each person, they said there was nothing they could do and they had to trouble them to keep bringing the patients in and out.
And that very night, one of the infected people broke free from the ropes and bit a doctor and two officers. After the news spread, no doctor dared to come in anymore. Although money was important, it was not as important as life.
General Qi took his men to check around the capital and found that someone on Fukang Street in the north of the capital was also infected and had bitten three people in his family.
Fu Kang Street is not far from Fu Gui Road. The court ordered that Fu Kang Street be blocked as well, and everyone nearby who was not infected must evacuate.
Zi'an knew that she could no longer stay in the capital, so she planned to go to the outskirts of the capital tonight to untie Wang Yu's meridians. She had no way to save him.
Before going out, Murong Jie came.
"Why don't you leave?" Murong Jie seemed very angry.
Zi'an said, "I will leave tomorrow. I was just planning to go out to the outskirts of Beijing to untie Wang Yu's meridians and give him a quick death."
"I will go with you." Murong Jie said. He saw a hint of sadness flash across her face. It seemed that she felt depressed and sad about her own powerlessness.
"Don't go. Go back and have some rest. Look at you, you have dark circles under your eyes." Zi'an said with concern.
"It's okay. I won't be able to sleep if I go back." Murong Jie came here on horseback, but now that he was leaving the city, he took her carriage.
The carriage rumbled out of the city. The whole city was now under blockade and all passengers leaving the city had to be checked. Zi'an lifted the curtain and the people guarding the city saw Murong Jie and quickly let him pass.
Seeing that he was frowning and looked troubled, Zian couldn't help but ask, "Is the situation serious now?"
"In addition to Shitou Village and North Street, the situation has also occurred in the army. Thirty-two people have been bitten, but only one person has shown symptoms." Murong Jie said in a deep voice.
"There are military camps too? Didn't you say before that you had people closely monitoring it?"
"We can't monitor him. If the bitten person didn't tell us, who would know? He bit someone, but the bitten person didn't say anything. It wasn't until he started to show symptoms of madness that he was discovered. Then the whole army was ordered to undress, and we found that more than 30 people had been bitten."
"The rest of the people didn't show any symptoms, proving that all thirty-one people were bitten by the same person," Zi'an said.
"Yes, this is terrifying, Zi'an. In just a few days, one person was able to bite more than 30 people without being discovered. What does this mean?"
"Someone in the army is protecting the person who bit people." Zi'an said without thinking.
"That's right. The troops stationed in the capital are all under my command. There are spies under my command, and there are also spies around me."
"Haven't you found out the spy around you yet?" Zi'an asked.
"I've found out. It's your concubine's people." Murong Jie sneered, "She planted spies around me. This time, there are also spies in the army. This means that she is more or less involved in this matter."
"The spies in the army may not be planted by her." Zi'an said.
I'm not trying to defend the noble concubine, I just think there are other possibilities.
"In a platoon, all of them were bitten except for one person. The one who was not bitten was a distant relative of her mother's family, and she arranged for him to be sent in."
When Zi'an heard this, he knew that he had already investigated it.
(End of this chapter)