Dressed as the villain's stepmother

"I was sent by Master Qu to help fight the plague, but this time I encountered bandits, so I came a little slower."

Jiang Lianzhu replied, looking at the soldiers in front of her.

One of the soldiers hesitated for a while: "Lord Qu Yanlin?"

"Exactly, the things that the adults requested to be transported should have entered the city a few days ago. If you don't believe it, ask some people responsible for escorting the things to identify them."

Jiang Lianzhu said immediately.

Several soldiers looked at each other, then sent one person into the city and found someone responsible for escorting the goods.

When the man who was called out saw Jiang Lianzhu, his eyes widened immediately: "Miss Jiang, you are finally here!"

"We met bandits along the way. Except for me, everyone along the way should be trapped in the stronghold now."

Jiang Lianzhu explained and led the horse to the city gate.

"This plague is coming fiercely. If we don't act quickly, we may run out of time."

"Yes!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several soldiers opened the city gate.

Jiang Lianzhu handed the horse to the man beside her, pulled a veil from her sleeve and wrapped it around her face and walked in.

Although it was already midnight, the city was still brightly lit.

The shops on both sides of the corridor were closed, and mats were spread out on the ground, with all the people lying on them infected with the plague.

"Miss Jiang, these are all hopeless." The man holding the horse explained while tying the rope to the tree, "Once this plague is contracted, you will be dead within three to five days. If If the corpse is left in the city for a long time, more people will be infected."

The man explained in a low voice and pointed at the dark place in front of him.

"The supplies we delivered before are placed there. However, none of us know the art of Qihuang, so we didn't dare to move around for a while. We just waited for the girl to use these things."

"I understand." Jiang Lianzhu nodded and mentally noted the situation in the city.

The man has been in this city for three days, so he knows most of the things in the city.

There were still a group of people in the city who had not been infected with the plague, and they all fled inside, hiding in their houses and unwilling to come out.

Those who are living outside are all already infected, but they have been infected for a longer or shorter time.

The man quickly stopped outside a room and leaned aside to make way for Jiang Lianzhu.

"Miss Jiang, the county magistrate has arranged for you to live in this house. If you have any instructions in the future, just call us as soon as possible."

"I see."

Jiang Lianzhu responded, and then told the man in front of her: "I will go out to see the conditions of those patients in a moment, and I have to trouble you to inform them of my identity in advance."

"Miss Jiang, are you going now?"

The man was a little dumbfounded. He didn't expect Jiang Lianzhu to go straight to see a doctor without even taking a break.

"Those people outside are dying. If it's delayed until tomorrow, I don't know how many more people will die." Jiang Lianzhu said firmly.

When the man heard this, he didn't ask any more questions, and immediately turned around to help inform him.

Jiang Lianzhu asked someone to help move a table and put it at the city gate. After listening to the man's words, many patients knew that a miracle doctor had come to the city and lined up in front of the table.

"Auntie, how long have you been infected with the plague?" Jiang Lianzhu felt the pulse of the woman in front of her and asked after a pause.

She has only come into contact with one patient infected with the plague so far. Except that her pulse condition is a bit weird, she can't notice anything else for the time being.

"It should last three or four days. Ever since I was infected with the plague, I have had fever from time to time...and my throat has not gotten better."

The aunt responded to Jiang Lianzhu's words with some difficulty, and after finishing speaking, she coughed violently again.

At first she thought she had a cold, and thought that just taking a few pills would be enough.

It wasn't until people around her started to suffer from this symptom one after another, and some even died after getting sick, that she realized that she was not suffering from a simple cold, but that she had contracted the plague.

Jiang Lianzhu listened to her aunt's detailed explanation and had several guesses in her mind.

"According to what my aunt just said, all of you who got sick drank the water from that well?"

"Yes, this plague first spread in my family. At first, no one paid much attention to it, but later I realized that something was wrong... I was thinking about it when I was in so much pain that I couldn't sleep these past few days. What's going on? After thinking about it, I guess it's the problem with the well."

The aunt replied in a hoarse voice.

When Jiang Lianzhu heard this, she turned around and ordered the man beside her to get a ladle of water for her.

Afterwards, he picked a few herbs, ground them, wrapped them in oil paper and handed them to his aunt.

"Take these medicines and boil them. Drink them three times a day. If there is no effect after drinking these three medicines, come back to me here."

"Girl, are you sure this medicine will be effective?"

The aunt asked suspiciously while holding the medicine.

She also recognized the medicinal materials that had been ground just now. Most of them were used to treat wind and cold. They were not much different from the few prescriptions she had taken before.

The prescriptions she had taken before were never good. Could this Jiang Lianzhu prescription really work?

"Basically, they are almost the same. The warm epidemic and the wind-cold are slightly similar, so the medicines used will inevitably be similar. It only takes a slight adjustment of a few of the medicinal materials."

Jiang Lianzhu said with a very determined tone.

The aunt originally had some questions hidden in her heart. After hearing what Jiang Lianzhu said, she immediately couldn't say anything anymore. She thanked her and left with the medicine.

The patients at the back came forward for consultation one after another.

At the beginning, Jiang Lianzhu saw too few patients, so she didn't figure out the rules. It wasn't until later that she gradually discovered the commonalities among several people, and she prescribed prescriptions faster and faster. Until dawn, she had already treated those who were dying. The patient looked at it again.

The man standing next to her couldn't believe his eyes. Is Jiang Lianzhu really that amazing?

"Miss Jiang, can all those people be saved?" The man stepped forward curiously and asked in a low voice.

"It can be saved. Those people just now were not too serious. If they take the medicine according to the prescription I gave them, they will be able to be saved." Jiang Lianzhu affirmed.

When she first started prescribing, she was a little hesitant, but as she went on, she became more and more determined that the prescription she gave would be fine.

She seemed to suddenly think of something, turned around and asked, "By the way, where is the ladle of water I asked you to get before?"