The fool has become a spirit, and she can speak

Chapter 1224: Sky-High Price Herbs

As soon as Wan Lianxing sat down, Sha Guanghan reported the war plan and strategy to him. Wan Lianxing had only been in for less than a cup of tea, but in this short period of time, Sha Guanghan had already discussed the matter with everyone. The whole plan was quite perfect. What Wan Lianxing could think of, everyone in the room had thought of, and what Wan Lianxing could not think of, everyone had also thought of. He could only agree with Sha Guanghan to immediately send troops to attack the first seven cities in Chaizhou.

Sha Guanghan was very thoughtful in his work. After selecting a certain number of men and horses, he left a large camp here, saying that it was a place for those soldiers who had contracted the plague and had not recovered to recuperate. Another person who was ruthlessly left here was Wan Lianxing.

In order to prepare for this expedition, Wan Lianxing deliberately went back to his tent to change his clothes. As a result, no one agreed to let him go with them. He was so angry when he saw the large army marching out that the fan in his hand was about to smoke.

Seeing Wan Lianxing looking at the vanishing group of soldiers with an unhappy look on his face, Cheng Feng tried to comfort him, "Uncle, go back. Your body is just like the soldiers who stayed here. You are not fit to go on the expedition."

Wan Lianxing said dissatisfiedly: "Didn't Sha Guanghan also get the plague? He can lead thousands of troops to fight, can't I just follow him and observe the situation? If we encounter any difficult problems, won't he have one more person to discuss with?"

Cheng Feng said, "Uncle, how can it be the same? The plague that Sha Guanghan contracted is not as serious as yours, and it was controlled with a bowl of medicine. Look at you, except for this face, your whole body is covered with herpes. If something unexpected happens on the road, how will you let Sha Guanghan explain it! Another main reason why he is unwilling to take you with him is that if you go with him, he will feel constrained everywhere."

"You mean I'm a nuisance, uncle?"

"Uncle, how could you misinterpret my meaning? Sha Guanghan has always been decisive in his work. If you were here, he would have to ask you for your permission. How could he do anything freely?"

Upon hearing this, Wan Lianxing flicked his sleeves and walked away.

Seeing this, Cheng Feng hurriedly asked: "Uncle, where are you going? The military camp is behind us!"

Wan Lianxing walked away without looking back. Cheng Feng looked at Huang Chenming and said, "What happened to my uncle? I didn't say anything. This guy has a weird temper."

"Before you came back, the emperor was very gentle. He was pleasant-looking all day long and had no temper at all. But as soon as you came back..." Huang Chenming didn't say anything else. He just shook his head slightly and went forward to chase Wan Lianxing.

Cheng Feng stood there and muttered, "How inexplicable! This person has a bad temper, what does it have to do with me!"

With only a pair of feet, several people followed Wan Lianxing for a long distance, and finally stopped at the entrance of a village. Wan Lianxing was attracted by the scene in front of him. A dozen villagers had their mouths and noses covered tightly with a piece of cloth. They were burning several corpses under the scorching sun, and there was a child among the corpses.

Wan Lianxing couldn't help but step forward and ask, "Did all these people die of the plague?"

The weather was dry, and the people who covered their mouths and noses certainly couldn't breathe smoothly. They were all thin, with dull eyes, and looked sick and malnourished. At this time, they were burning the bodies numbly, without communicating with each other, just silently watching the bodies in the fire burning little by little, and no one wanted to talk to Wan Lianxing.

Wan Lianxing asked again: "How many people in your village have been infected with the plague?"

At this time, a villager turned around to look at these people in gorgeous clothes, and also heard Wan Lianxing's foreign accent, so he asked: "Are you from outside the area?"

Seeing Wan Lianxing nodded, the man kindly said, "We have a plague here. How dare you outsiders approach the village? Aren't you afraid of contracting the plague? You'd better stay away!"

Wan Lianxing pulled his collar to show the man, "I've been infected."

The villager looked at the red spots on Wan Lianxing's body and was a little surprised. "It's so serious. You won't live for more than two days."

At this time, the entourage shouted: "How dare you!"

Wan Lianxing turned around and said to his entourage: "How dare you!"

The villager could not help but shook his head and said, "Don't think you are not afraid of anything just because you are rich. This plague is very serious. The herpes on the corpses we burned is not as serious as yours, so you'd better be careful." As he spoke, his eyes looked at the corpses in the fire. In the hot weather, there was a fire as big as a pile of firewood in front of him. The heat waves and unpleasant smells came in waves, making people dizzy.

Wan Lianxing couldn't help but ask the villager again: "You mean, their symptoms after contracting the plague were milder than mine, but they all died in the end."

The man moved his scarf to cover his mouth and nose more tightly, then nodded slightly, thought for a moment and said, "We have no money to buy medicine, so we can only wait to die. But even if you have money, it's useless. All the herbs in the pharmacies in the city have been looted, and no one has any medicine to use."

"So you guys are dead?"

"Of course not. We go up the mountain to collect herbs ourselves."

"What medicine?"

The man took a handful of green grass from a basket nearby and showed it to Wan Lianxing. Wan Lianxing asked suspiciously, "Can this cure the plague?"

Cheng Feng said, "Uncle, this is mugwort. Fumigate the house to repel mosquitoes, but it can't cure the plague."

The villager said, "It's better to have medicine than not to have any. We can boil the mugwort and drink it. It's also good."

Wan Lianxing was surprised. He asked the villager, "Since mugwort doesn't work, why do we still use it to treat the plague? Isn't the city distributing herbs to treat the plague? They started distributing them yesterday. Why don't you go get the herbs?"

"Where can we get it? The government office? The government office sells the medicine for a sky-high price. Not to mention us, even you guys probably can't afford it. If you don't believe me, go to the city and take a look. You can't even count the number of people who died in the city today."

Upon hearing this, the Thunder Shadow flew into a rage, "How can this be possible? Who did this? Didn't I order someone to take out some of the grass for military use and distribute it to the people in the city? Who allowed them to charge? Who did they hand over the herbs to? Go check it out for me and find out who is taking bribes and abusing their power!"

"Yes! I will send someone to do it right away!" The speaker was Huang Chenming.

Although Wan Lianxing was angry, he was still rational. He told Huang Chenming, "The key is the medicine. Get it back as soon as possible."