He didn't do it all over again, Xiao Xun later secretly gave Xiao Ruo more than 100 taels of silver.

This is what he hasn't spent yet, it's just the situation just now, he can't take it out directly, so as not to make Zheng Dongyang even more sad.

As a reward, Xiaoruo stood on tiptoe and tried to stretch out her hand, and gave the puppy a good head.

In the days that followed, the courtyard door of Xiao's house remained tightly closed, and a small wooden door separated two worlds.

Sure enough, a plague broke out in Qinzhou.

More and more people started to cough and have fever, diarrhea continued, and they were bedridden within a few days, and their skin appeared festering and pus.

With more and more patients, the streets are no longer as lively as before, and the shops are only open for a few hours a day.

Walking on the road and hearing someone coughing nearby, people fled like frightened birds, fearing that they themselves would also be infected with the deadly infectious disease.

The busiest places in the huge Qinzhou are the various medical clinics. People without obvious symptoms come to buy a dose of Guanwen Decoction.

It is still impossible to verify whether it has curative effect, but at least I can seek peace of mind.

Originally, people were worried that the pharmacies in the medical center would take the opportunity to increase the price, and the price of the Guanwen soup sold would also be high, but when they paid for it, they found out that this soup was only sold for ten yuan a bowl, and it was supplied daily. Intermittent.

It's not that no one has proposed a price increase. Every time other pharmacy shopkeepers come to discuss with shopkeeper Qian whether to raise the price of Guanwen Decoction, shopkeeper Qian always refuses with a straight face.

"I promise Miss Xiao that the profit of this soup can't exceed [-]%. If you want to increase the price, you have to ask Miss Xiao if she agrees."

His Maitreya face was quite majestic when he raised his face, and others didn't dare to mention it anymore.

The Qinzhou government responded unprecedentedly quickly when the plague broke out.

Judging from past records, the government usually only discovered the outbreak of the plague when a large area of ​​death occurred.

But this time Zeng Yongbo was keenly aware of the abnormality after listening to Jin Hui's report.

He quickly asked people to start an investigation along the line of sickness of the leave yamen servants, and learned that these people had been in contact with them recently, or had been to the disaster area in the west of the city that had not yet been dealt with.

When Inspector Zeng sent the yamen servants to check around the West District, he found several people who were walking among the collapsed houses looking for treasure.

The yamen servants immediately tied up these people and escorted them back for interrogation by Governor Zeng.

"When did you start picking up things from the disaster area?"

The trial hall of the yamen was solemn and solemn, and the few people kneeling on the ground were trembling, so they called them truthfully.

"My lord, we only started going there in the past few days. We heard that many people have found treasures there..."

"Ah, but we went late, the people we went before have searched the place completely, even the clothes from the corpse have been stripped, but we didn't get anything! My lord, it's a lesson!"

Zeng Yongbo continued to ask: "Then do you feel unwell in the past few days? Or did your wife and children feel unwell?"

One of the thin middle-aged people replied: "My family members are all in good health, but my neighbor hasn't seen him in the past few days. I heard that it was a sudden illness and he was bedridden at home."

Hearing this, Zeng Yongbo's complexion changed drastically, and he continued to ask: "Did he also go to the disaster area to pick up things?"

"Ah...ah, yes, yes, I just saw that he brought back a lot of usable chicken coops, so I thought about going to buy some..."

The thin middle-aged man was so frightened by the governor's sudden expression that he stuttered.

not good!

Zeng Yongbo shouted in his heart, and quickly ordered the government servants to count all the people who had been to the disaster area, and gathered these people and all the people who had contact with them in the empty temple outside the city.

Then he adopted the method of separating and isolating the patients according to the severity of the symptoms. Those with mild symptoms were delivered decoctions every day, and those with severe symptoms were locked in the most remote room directly, and no one was allowed to touch them.

All the clothes and things touched by the patients were burned and buried in pits.

A notice was issued to inform the people of Qinzhou that if they had items from the disaster-stricken area in their homes, they would all be destroyed, and offenders would be punished severely.

A series of vigorous measures prevented the number of patients from the Qinzhou plague from increasing step-by-step.

Even so, the disaster lasted for more than four months.

It wasn't until the peach blossoms were in full bloom and fluffy little green peaches grew on the branches that Qinzhou gradually returned to life.

Xiaoruo was on the way to Pingxin Medical Center, she was going to get Yanhusuo back and process it today.

The family didn't have much money, so she couldn't buy raw medicinal materials to process and then sell them, so she simply took orders from members of the chamber of commerce.

The raw medicinal materials are taken from them, and after being processed, they are also sent to them, and Xiaoruo earns a processing fee from it.

As soon as she entered the back door of Pingxin Medical Center, she saw two familiar figures.

"Treasurer Mao, I'm here to get the Yanhu Suo. Are you there, Shopkeeper Qian?"

One of them was Mao Zengrong, the shopkeeper of Pingxin Medical Center, and the other, who looked like a fat Maitreya, was the shopkeeper Qian.

"Miss Xiao is here." Mao Zengrong greeted with a smile: "I'll let the guy get the medicinal materials, just wait a moment."

Shopkeeper Qian cupped his hands and said, "I'm here to discuss something with Shopkeeper Mao, and it just so happens that Miss Xiao is here, why don't we discuss it together?"

Xiaoruo stepped forward with a smile, put down the empty basket in her hand, and waited for the assistant to install the yanhusuo.

She knew that Shopkeeper Qian was a bit superstitious looking at her now, and wondered where she was from a god, otherwise how could he have known in advance that there would be a plague and prepared a prescription to prevent the plague early.

"You two still want to bring me along for business?" Xiaoruo joked, "I don't have the money to participate in the shares."

"Participation?" Shopkeeper Qian was taken aback for a moment, and then said, "It's not about us doing business, this matter was originally with the chamber of commerce."

He was used to words that he hadn't heard before popping out of the mouth of the eccentric girl in front of him, and he thought it was because she was very knowledgeable, so he didn't bother to ask.

Speaking of the chamber of commerce, Xiao Ruo, the external director of the Qinzhou Pharmaceutical Chamber of Commerce, wanted to know more about it.

"Any questions?"

"It's like this. Before we prepared a large amount of medicinal materials in advance, the news of selling cheap Guanwen soup has spread to all the state capitals. The name of our chamber of commerce has already become famous all over the country."

Shopkeeper Qian bowed his hands to Xiaoruo as he spoke.

"This is Miss Xiao's prophetic vision."

After a wave of flattery, he went on to talk about business.

"A few face-to-face masters came to us two days ago and asked our chamber of commerce if they could get a magical medicinal material. They said that their mistresses were willing to pay a lot of money to buy it."

"I've never seen such a thing that looks like a bug but not a bug. I thought their mistress was asking for something to buy, and I was afraid it was something a woman would eat, so I came to the shopkeeper Mao who is good at this kind of thing."

As he spoke, Shopkeeper Qian picked up a small piece of silk folded into a square on the table.

This square silk handkerchief has gorgeous patterns and elegant style, and the birds embroidered on it are about to fly, vividly.

Naturally, Xiaoruo didn't recognize that it was cut from the brocade that was said to be worth a thousand gold, but thought that this small piece of silk was probably very valuable, and it seemed that the owner of the silk handkerchief was either rich or expensive.

The folded silk handkerchief was carefully opened, revealing a small medicinal material wrapped inside.

This medicinal material is rather weird, the lower end is yellow-brown worms, and the upper end is in the shape of an upright plant. It looks like a living thing and is grotesque and absurd. Neither Shopkeeper Qian nor Shopkeeper Mao has ever seen it before.

"Cordyceps sinensis?" Xiao Ruo could tell what the medicine in front of her was at a glance.

"Miss Xiao know?" The two asked at the same time.

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