Zi'an has been here for two days, and the prescriptions he has prescribed are all extremely conservative, which are to first detoxify and fight viruses. However, there are not many medicines left in Muzhai, so they can only be picked fresh from the mountains.
It is not easy to find all the herbs needed for a prescription. Fortunately, the wooden village is at the foot of the mountain, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the water on one side, so we can barely find all the herbs.
Forsythia, Scutellaria, Isatis Root, Orchidaceae, Prunella Vulgaris, Houttuynia Cordata, Taraxacum Officinale, etc. are relatively common, and it is the transition between spring and summer, when all the herbs and flowers in the mountains are in full bloom.
However, it is not so easy to find medicinal materials that can inactivate the virus.
For example, ginseng, ganoderma lucidum, astragalus, poria, polygonatum, dodder seed, acanthopanax senticosus, etc. Dodder seed can barely be found, but for other medicinal materials, you may have to go down the mountain to buy them.
Fortunately, Zi'an and the others couldn't find it, but Gao Fengtian found it.
He ordered people to buy these medicines today. Buying medicines is now a big problem. The medicines from the Huimin Bureau are not released to the public, so the public can only purchase them themselves. However, due to the earthquake, the mountain roads are broken, and the areas around Qicheng, Luoxian and Ancheng are in a mess. In addition, the plague is rampant, so even the merchants selling medicines dare not come in.
And with so many patients, the consumption of medicinal materials is also quite high.
Zi'an is still trying to find a suitable prescription, so today he picked two people to test the new medicine.
As soon as the medicine was ready, Zi'an asked Liu Liu and Ling Li to bring it over and feed it to the two patients.
Liu Liu was so smart that before she even walked into the West District, she saw several people coming towards her with ferocious looks. They snatched the medicine from their hands without saying a word.
Liu Liu had seldom done kitchen work in her life, and it was her first time to light a fire and boil medicine. She was devastated to see the medicinal juice she had worked so hard to boil being dumped on the ground.
The imperial guard didn't wait for her to get angry. He grabbed her wrist with one hand and said sternly, "Go, the master wants to see you."
Liu Liu was so angry that her teeth were ground into powder. She punched him in the eye and then kicked him directly in the groin.
The imperial guards didn't expect that Liu Liu, who looked frail, actually knew martial arts, and they were caught off guard and fell into the trap.
"Huh? He actually knows Kung Fu. Wow, it seems that the Regent of the Great Zhou really came here for a purpose. Even the accompanying maid knows Kung Fu."
As he spoke, he reached out his hand, trying to pull Liu Liu in front of him and twist her, but Liu Liu bent over and spun around, supporting herself on the ground with her hands, and swept her kick across the enemy troops, knocking the imperial guards to pieces.
"Let's go together."
Several imperial guards immediately rushed forward and attacked Liu Liu's legs, chest, and head in various ways.
They didn't take Lingli, who was very delicate and trembling as she held the medicine in her hands, seriously at all and simply ignored her.
The only bowl of medicine she had in her hand was boiled today. If she poured it out, she would have to boil it again, and the medicinal materials would be wasted.
So, while Liu Liu and those people were fighting, she walked over carefully from the side. At least she could ask a patient to try out the prescription first to see if it was suitable, so as not to waste the Regent Princess's efforts.
When Cao Guojiu saw that a fight had broken out, he immediately brought the rest of the people over. Seeing Lingli tiptoeing to leave, he sneered, rushed forward, stopped Lingli, and slapped her.
Uncle Cao came from a military family. Although his martial arts skills were not very good, he had put a lot of effort into learning them. With this palm strike, even a man who knew a little bit of fancy moves would be knocked out by him.
Lingli did fly out, but she was not slapped away by him. Instead, she carefully protected the medicine, soared into the air, and flew out using her lightness skills.
Lingli has to protect this bowl of medicine, otherwise, how could she avoid it
Cao Guojiu was startled and exclaimed, "Wow, you actually managed to dodge your grandfather's palm?"
He raised his hand and grinned, "Come on, everyone."
All the imperial guards were dispatched to launch a strong attack. Lingli rushed in quickly with the medicine in hand, intending to put the medicine in place before coming out to deal with these bastards.
But she ran in, and the imperial guards followed her in. With one kick, the table fell to the ground. How could the eggs in an overturned nest remain intact? The table fell, and the medicine she had been protecting for a long time also broke with a thump.
Lingli was so angry that his eyes were bleeding. He raised his fist and rushed forward.
With a crackling sound, all the imperial guards were thrown out.
Liu Liu on the other side was not as happy as Ling Li. Three imperial guards surrounded her and she was unable to get away for a while. She even gradually became unable to stand on her own.
Suddenly, a figure fell from the sky and landed in front of Liu Liu. A long sword stabbed out like a whirlwind, and in a moment, the sword was placed on Cao Guojiu's neck.
The hero who suddenly came and saved Liu Liu was Xiao Tuo.
At this moment, Murong Jie, Su Qing, the princess, Gao Fengtian and others arrived.
They were in the kitchen helping Zi'an select and prepare medicines, because there were no doctors in the mountains and the other people did not understand medicine, and the people brought by Lord Su knew even less. Murong Jie, Xiao Tuo, Su Qing and others knew something more or less, because after all, they grew up learning martial arts, so even if they didn't know what the medicine looked like, they knew its properties.
Hearing the sound of fighting outside, Zi'an asked them to go out and see what was going on, while she continued to study the prescription.
When Cao Guojiu saw Murong Jie, he opened his eyes wide and shouted, "Murong Jie, you are really here. You are so brave. This is Beimo, not your Great Zhou. How dare you hold this uncle hostage?"
Murong Jie looked at the spilled medicine on the ground with a cold face. Those two bowls of medicine were lit by the charcoal stove and he was the one who watched the fire, but it was spilled
Furious, he said to Xiao Tuo coldly: "What are you still standing there for? Throw him out."
"How dare you?" Upon hearing this, Cao Guojiu was furious. "Murong Jie, you stole the Holy Sword. Now everyone in the entire Northern Desert is looking for you. Do you still dare to disrespect this uncle? If you know what's best for you, you should go back with this uncle and apologize to the emperor. Otherwise..."
Princess An walked out, her eyes wide open, "What else? Who said he stole the holy sword? Did anyone see it with their own eyes?"
Uncle Cao was somewhat wary of this princess because of her way of doing things.
However, he was in the right at this moment, so he was not afraid of her. He said, "Princess, the imperial guards saw him steal the holy sword with their own eyes. Don't you know about this? The emperor has already issued an order for his arrest."
"Don't I know? When did this happen? I came to Muzhai during the day on the fifth day of the first lunar month." Princess An said.
Uncle Cao stretched out his hand and pushed Xiao Tuo's sword. A cunning flashed in his eyes. He said, "No wonder the princess didn't know and was deceived by these evil thieves and taken in here. They stole the holy sword on the fifth night of the New Year and fled all the way to here. The princess didn't know about this until she came down the mountain. I will tell the emperor that the princess didn't know about this. I believe the emperor will not blame the princess for taking in spies from the enemy country."
"Thank you for your kindness." Princess An said lightly.
"Ignorance is not a crime. The princess didn't know they stole the holy sword. She thought they knew medical skills and stayed in this wooden village to take care of the patients. This was out of patriotism and love for the people."
Princess An raised her eyebrows slightly, "No, I didn't take them in. I brought them here. We were here on the fifth day of the New Year."
(End of this chapter)