Within three days, all the medical clinics and pharmacies in Liuzhou City were mobilized to provide free treatment for the epidemic patients. People in Liuzhou City no longer drank river water but only deep - well water.
Song Qinzhou and Song Chuyu led people to carry out epidemic prevention and control throughout the city. However, the situation was critical, so they had to report the truth to the emperor in the capital.
But after the Eastern Palace got the news, the crown prince deliberately made things difficult. He blocked the messengers sent by Song Qinzhou outside the city.
"Just let that loving couple die in Liuzhou City," said the crown prince with cold eyes, showing no emotion at all. Now that he had a new "ally", he was like a tiger with wings added.
It suited the crown prince's mind that Prince Yu and his wife were trapped in Liuzhou City.
However, Prince Yu Zhongli Mingye was one step ahead. He anticipated that the crown prince would block the messengers from Liuzhou, so he arranged an insider in the palace to reveal this matter to the emperor.
The emperor was deeply shocked. On one hand, he learned that Prince Yu was trapped in Liuzhou, and on the other hand, he saw with his own eyes that the crown prince ignored the safety of his own brother for the sake of the throne.
That night, he arranged for many imperial physicians to rush to Liuzhou in person. "Let me see if this good son of mine still has brotherly love and concern for the safety of the common people in his heart!"
Unfortunately, the emperor underestimated the crown prince after all. Once the crown prince took action, all the imperial physicians of the court were "invited" elsewhere. The emperor's arrangement was of no help to Liuzhou City.
After waiting for a few days, Zhongli Mingye knew that the court could no longer provide assistance to Liuzhou. Song Jinyu had to step forward in person, mobilizing the nobles in eastern Liuzhou to donate silver and medicinal materials. At the same time, she spread the prescription for preventing and treating the epidemic.
Looking at Song Jinyu's emaciated face, Zhongli Mingye felt extremely distressed. Hearing that she had arranged people to go to Tianmen Mountain for help, he only sighed at his own incompetence and hated the crown prince for having no sense of the overall situation.
"Mingye, I'll go out of the city to ask Tianmen Mountain for help. Now," Song Jinyu sighed. Seeing that there was still no assistance from the capital, she knew that only Tianmen Mountain could solve the current situation.
Zhongli Mingye slapped the table in hatred. "I'll go. You stay in the city."
It wasn't that they had to go. When Zhongli Mingye sent a letter to the capital, Song Jinyu had already arranged people to go to Tianmen Mountain for help. Unfortunately, none of the people sent back. After Qingfeng's investigation, he found that those people were all dead.
Sure enough, some people wanted the whole of Liuzhou to be in deep trouble. Song Jinyu gently placed her hand on his. "Don't blame yourself. This is a natural and man - made disaster. It's not something you can control alone."
People in the capital were only concerned about power struggles. Who cared about the lives of the common people!
Song Qinzhou strode in. "Your Highness, please don't be impatient. I just caught He Shuda. After interrogation, it turns out that the well water in the city was also poisoned. This kind of poison makes people look exactly like they have an epidemic when it breaks out."
"Sure enough, it's exactly as I guessed," Song Jinyu said. She knew that Ling Yu had eaten fish soup made from fish caught in the river before getting sick. Since other adults were less affected after eating it, and the General's Mansion and the Prefect's Mansion all drank their own well water, they were not poisoned.
Song Jinyu had suspected someone was poisoning for a long time. Zhongli Mingye thought of another possibility. "Order Chuyu to guard Qinghe Pass, and send Qingfeng to keep an eye on Yanqiu."
Song Jinyu looked at him with admiration. This man was really quick - witted. "Now, I already have the antidote prescription, but there are not enough medicinal materials in the city. We have to send someone to look for Senior Brother Wen again."
"I'll go in person!"
In the Eastern Palace, the crown prince was looking at the beauty beside him happily. She looked exactly like Shen Yingyun. "Your Highness, I've been waiting for you so long!"
"Didn't you die?"
"I... I... Woo..." Back then, the former crown princess was soft - hearted after all. She couldn't bear to kill her own younger sister, so she found a fake - death medicine for her to have a chance of survival.
Originally, Shen Yingyun lived quietly in the manor outside the city. But after learning that the Shen family was convicted, she became like a frightened bird.
She was not willing to live in obscurity and didn't want to live a commoner's life. So she managed to escape from supervision and finally reunited with the crown prince.
By then, the crown princess in the Eastern Palace had changed. She couldn't show herself in public as a good - born lady.
The crown prince was very happy to get her back. Because of Chen Mingzhu, he increasingly thought the former crown princess was good. Now that Shen Yingyun was back, they were naturally affectionate with each other.
After that, there was a concubine named "Guiyun" in the Eastern Palace. After Chen Mingzhu got the news, she just nodded coldly and didn't ask about it anymore.
Shen Yingyun's beautiful eyes were more gentle as she served the crown prince until he was fully satisfied. Concubine? Humph!
Shen Yingyun was quite dissatisfied, but for the time being, she had to hide her true feelings and just be a concubine.
The person who sent Shen Yingyun into the Eastern Palace stood on a desolate mountain, looking at the dawn in the east, and sneered. "All this has just begun."
"You all will surely pay the price!" Her voice was shrill and full of a feminine feeling. Every time she spoke, she felt extremely disgusted.
But she had no choice. This identity and this body might bring new opportunities. Otherwise, if she was discovered, she would be killed.
Song Jinyu, Zhongli Mingye, you never thought I'm still alive, did you!
Thinking of that person, thinking of her smiling face, Ouyang Jinse, or today's reborn Jinyu, felt a dull pain in her chest. "Cough, cough."
Back then, she schemed and destroyed the Jinshui Palace. Now she had changed her appearance and was coming back for revenge.
"Hehe."
She stretched out her hand and looked at her fair and jade - like fingers. There was a disgusted expression on Jinyu's extremely charming face. She didn't know what kind of means that strange old man had used to turn her from a man into a woman.
Moreover, her skin became more fair and tender, and her voice became sweeter. If it weren't for the people from the past, no one in the world would recognize who she was.
"Beauty, are you satisfied?" The strange old man suddenly emerged from behind her like a ghost. "The poison in Liuzhou City is my masterpiece!"
His hands, like dry tree trunks, touched Jinyu's shoulders, making her a little stiff. "You mustn't be careless. That girl is very powerful. She has learned from Miao Yunshen. She must have come up with a way to deal with it."
Otherwise, why would she go to Tianmen Mountain to look for Wen Sirong? She sneered. "I'm afraid she already has the antidote by now."
Is it for Zhongli Mingye?
But, Song Jinyu, you may not have time to go to Tianmen Mountain.
No matter how smart you are, this world is still a man's game. When all this is over, I will surely take you away. I will never let you go in this life.
By then, Song Jinyu will be my possession. Since I, Ouyang Jinse, have already entered hell, I'll find her and enjoy the fun of darkness together!
The news from Xingjian was like adding frost to the snow for Song Jinyu and Zhongli Mingye. "Yanqiu doesn't dare to act for the time being, probably because he's afraid that the Southern Court King is in Father Emperor's hands."
"Now, that king and his mother hold great power, so they dare to be so offensive!"
After Zhongli Mingye gave the order, he saw Song Jinyu come back from outside.
"Do you know where all the imperial physicians in the capital have been captured?"