Outside Cangwu Town, Zhang Hu woke up before dawn. He felt dizzy and his muscles ached all over. He wanted to get up, but his whole body was sore. He reached out and touched his forehead.

Sure enough, he fell for it.

He lay weakly on the bed, trying to call his subordinates, but no sound came out after he opened and closed his mouth several times.

After a long time, he seemed to have accepted his fate and stopped struggling in vain. He turned his head and looked towards Cangwu Town with a bitter mouth.

Was he wrong? Wasn't it his original intention to save their lives? If so, his life was almost gone, where was the hope? Why didn't he appear yet?

Just when he was becoming groggy and about to fall asleep, he suddenly heard footsteps outside the tent, and then someone opened the tent curtain and came in.

Blurred, he seemed to see six tall and sturdy men with broad backs and their faces covered, leaving only their eyes exposed. Each of them carried two boxes of things in. He tried hard to support his eyelids, which felt like they were filled with lead, and not let them close. Unfortunately, he had lost control of his body.

Before he completely passed out, he only vaguely heard a sentence, "Oh no, he has a high fever convulsion, give him medicine quickly!"

His body felt extremely heavy, as if a stream of boiling lead was pouring from his head to his feet.

Zhang Hu was confused due to the fever. While he was in a daze, he heard someone walking back and forth beside his bed.

"Why is he still not okay? Hasn't he taken medicine?"

"Why are you in such a hurry? Do you think it's a magic pill that will make you better immediately after taking it?"

It is indeed an elixir. Zhang Hu has already felt the effect of this elixir.

The pill dissolved as soon as it reached his throat. A cool feeling with a strong medicinal aroma slowly flowed down his throat and spread throughout his limbs, driving all the heat out of his body. He could feel as if a mysterious force was repairing his body.

There was a faint light coming in from outside the tent. It was almost dawn, and Zhang Hu slowly opened his eyes.

Beside the bed, a tall and slender man was dozing with his chin supported by one hand. Even with his face covered, one could see his tiredness through the two dark circles under his eyes.

He swiftly got out of bed, drew out the sword hanging on the head of the bed, and pointed it directly at Cheng Zeli. The simple wooden bed creaked and shook with his movements.

Cheng Zeli was woken up and realized that he had fallen asleep. He quickly opened his eyes. After a sleepless night, his eyes were full of red bloodshot.

"Who are you and why are you in my tent?"

Zhang Hu narrowed his eyes and looked at him warily.

"General, don't be nervous. I have no ill intentions. It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is that I can help you solve your current predicament. General, why don't you feel your body and see if it feels more comfortable and relaxed than last night?"

His voice was extremely calm, and apart from being slightly hoarse from sleepiness, there was no trace of emotion in it, which gave people a sense of trust.

Zhang Hu followed suit and felt his body. The soreness was gone, his throat didn't hurt anymore, and his forehead wasn't hot anymore. His whole body was full of strength, comparable to his peak period.

He sheathed his sword again, pulled up a chair and sat down.

"How are you going to solve this current dilemma?"

"Just use this, the pills you took last night, and this prescription."

Cheng Zeli opened the lid of the bamboo basket containing the pills, and the pills with a strong medicinal fragrance were exposed to the air.

Only then did Zhang Hu discover that there were dozens of baskets in the tent.

The two of them talked secretly in the tent for a long time.

Half an hour later, Zhang Hu sent Cheng Zeli out of the tent. After watching him leave, he looked up at the sky.

The morning light is just breaking, the sun is rising, and a breeze blows across my face, bringing a hint of coolness, just like the magic pill last night, clearing away the heat.

After Cheng Zeli left Zhang Hu's sight, he hid in the grass, tore off his outer shirt, revealing the camouflage uniform underneath, and cautiously walked around the mountain for a long time. He squatted behind the bushes and observed the surroundings. Seeing that no one was following him, he hunched over and came to a grave, which was the entrance to the cave.

After turning the mechanism under the altar, the tombstone slowly retracted into the mountain.

"Third brother!"

"Ze Li!"

"How's it going? Is it going well?"

In the cave behind the stone gate, Cheng Laoer and others were waiting anxiously.

"Okay, we will send another 200,000 pills tomorrow. There are less than 5,000 people alive in Cangwu Town. The situation in other places will not be more optimistic than here. The prescription has been given to him. He can be cured by taking the medicine according to the prescription, but the speed will be a few days slower."

"Okay! Okay! So your identity isn't exposed, right?"

"No, I covered my face, so he didn't know what I looked like. I lied to him that I was a disciple of Yaowang Valley and that the pills were made there. My master was kind-hearted and could not bear to see the lives of the people in the world suffer, so he worked day and night and finally developed this Huiyuan Pill to fight the plague.

The master devotes himself to studying art every day and does not want to be disturbed by the secular world, so he hides his real name. "

"It's you who has to deal with it. If it were us, we wouldn't know how to fool them no matter how hard we try."

The sun had come out and it was time for the daily shift change, but no soldiers came out of the camp. He felt a little strange.

"Where are the people? Where are they? Come out and change shifts!"

After a long while, a few soldiers came out of the tent, supporting each other.

"General, it's not...it's not that everyone...can't...can't come out, it's really...everyone has fallen down!"

After a soldier said this with difficulty, he could no longer hold on and fell to the ground.

Zhang Hu hurried forward to support them. The scorching temperature reached his palms through his tattered military uniform. He hurriedly ran to the town gate, where some soldiers were still holding their posts.

"Hurry up, thirty people come here!"

The soldiers over there heard their general calling them and ran over quickly.

Zhang Hu took out pills from the tent and fed them to the soldiers who had just fallen down, then ordered the thirty soldiers to distribute the medicine to each tent.

He carried two baskets of medicine to the town gate and asked each soldier to take a pill before entering the town and distributing medicine to the people door to door.

"General Zhang, where did you get this medicine? How do you know if it's effective? If something goes wrong after taking it, who will bear the consequences?"

Li Wensheng noticed that the atmosphere today was a bit strange when he woke up in the morning.

During the more than half a month of guarding outside Cangwu Town, the air was dull every day. The fear of the plague hung over everyone's head, the shadow of death was always with them, and the dull atmosphere was suffocating. Even the scorching sun shone on their bodies, which could not warm their hearts that had fallen into the ice cellar. The stench from the burning corpses made it a luxury for them to even breathe a breath of fresh air.

He thought that such desperate days would not end until everyone here was infected with the plague and died.

But today was different. He actually saw long-lost smiles on the faces of some soldiers. It was simply unbelievable.

It turned out that Zhang Hu got the medicine from somewhere. No, he cannot take all the credit. He must find a way to pass this news to the county magistrate.

"Consequences? What consequences can there be? Death from illness or poison is all death. Do you think I should listen to you and kill them? Humph! If you are worried that there is something wrong with this medicine, why don't you just not take it!"

Zhang Hu didn't want to talk to him any more, so he snorted coldly and turned away, thinking out of sight, out of mind.

"you........!"

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