Chapter 225: 小姑娘，你很不错啊

Young Lady, you’re pretty good ah! 

Ge Lao was in a daze. 

This…was Tang Lao blaming the Empress?

At that very moment, he immediately glanced at Lu Yunluo beside him.

He only saw that she was looking at Tang Lao with a smile on her face.

Somehow, Ge Lao suddenly panicked in this heart, feeling that this close friend of his should have angered the Empress.

At this moment, he hastily made eyes (meaningful glance) at Tang Lao.

However, Tang Lao didn’t realize it in the slightest and still said with an indignant face, “You say, the Empress Mother can’t tell such a big lie in order to appease the people, right? Isn’t it?”

“We can’t deceive the common people, only if the people are informed, then they will cooperate with us by not running around and minding their own business, so that the number of people infected with smallpox will become less and less. You also know my temperament, later when the others are here, will you stand up and speak for me? You can’t let the Empress spread such a big lie, that’s harming many people!”

He had also come to Tai Ling County for some days already. 

He knew better than anyone how the plague in this Tai Ling County had reached the point where it was now out of control.

It was because the county magistrate surnamed Cao had kept the news of the plague of smallpox from the people, and had not taken the necessary isolation measures, which had led to this great disaster.

“Ge Lao, what’s wrong with your eyes?” Tang Lao always found Ge Lao who had been scowling at him.

What was the meaning of his eyes squeezing towards that little girl on one side?

Tang Lao followed his line of sight toward Lu Yunluo.

Speaking of which, this little girl is really good.

At such a young age, she has such extraordinary medical skills.

Looking at this little girl’s age, she seemed to be about the same as their Empress Mother.

Tang Lao couldn’t help but start making a comparison between the two.

This little girl in front of her, has a good nature, excellent medical skills, and is not afraid of working hard. 

Especially the scene where she tore her sleeve today, it still shocks him quite a bit.

No matter how he looks at it, this little girl is really satisfied.

On the contrary, that Empress Mother.

He heard that she entered the city early in the morning.

But no matter how tragic it is outside, he hasn’t seen this Empress Dowager come out once.

Except when the people made a fuss just now, he went there reluctantly. He heard the guards at the door saying, after returning, he went back to his room to rest.

Although she is the Queen Mother, what she wants and no one can control her. 

But now the people of Tai Ling County are in dire straits (extreme misery).

How could she Continue to rest in her room?

Elder Tang sighed and shook his head, his gaze fell on Lu Yunluo, “Little girl, you’re really good ah. Are you interested in coming to our Imperial Medicine Department? With your strength, it’s more than enough for you to be an eighth grade doctor, how about it?”

Although, a woman troubled the official a little.

But with this little girl’s remarkable medical skills can also be a help.

Seeing a good seedling aka a young successor, Tang Lao, as the Imperial Physician Officer of the Imperial Physician Department, naturally wanted to recruit her under his command and serve the court.

Ge Lao on the side simply didn’t have the face to continue looking. 

A moment ago, he had reduced the Empress to a worthless person, but in the blink of an eye, he started praising her again.

Lu Yunluo was about to speak when Imperial Envoy Liu walked in.

His voice could be heard from afar, “Old Tang, I finally found you!”

He rushed over after arranging all the things underneath him.

Because of a huge fire, many of the people were homeless, so they all had to live in makeshift tents.

There were also a lot of injured people as well, all huddled in the tents.

If it were usual it would be nothing.

If this smallpox plague is spreading so strongly.

All live in tents, increasing the risk of infection, but these people really have no other place to live.

This is not because he wanted to find Tang Lao and ask how to deal with it, but he heard that Tang Lao came to the county government, so he rushed over.

After walking in, he saw that Lu Yunluo was also seated near the table, and he hurriedly saluted as he did so, “This humble servant gives respect to the Empress Dowager.”

Tang Lao’s body stiffened, and his gaze fell to Lu Yunluo beside him.

She … is the Empress?

Lu Yunluo was satisfied as she looked at the shocked Tang Lao and said with a slight smile, “Get up ba.”

“Thank you Empress!”

Lu Yunluo got up, smiled with a gentle face and said, “This palace remembers that there is still quite a lot of bean paste left in the kitchen, Elder Tang has been working hard for days dealing with the plague, remember to eat all the bean paste in the pots, don’t waste the food.”

After leaving, Ge Lao smiled with a schadenfreude expression. [Take pleasure in (or gloat over) other people’s misfortune]

The expression on Tang Lao’s face was much more exciting, there was surprise, there was exasperation, in short, it was complicated.

A hilltop outside of Tai Ling County.

A man stood with his hands clasped behind his back.

A dark shadow came over to report, “Master, the riot has been calmed.”

The man looked at the city gate in the distance, which was only a tiny bit big, and said, “It doesn’t matter.”

Now the plague is rampant in Tai Ling County.

His purpose had been achieved.

“Master, the Empress of the Dong Lan Kingdom said that she can make smallpox disappear.” Hei Ying thought about it but still said the words he heard just now.

Although he didn’t believe it either.

But the firmness with which the woman spoke again made him unable to help but pay attention.

The man let out a cold laugh, “This Empress of the Dong Lan Kingdom really has a big mouth. Even a outrageous lie like curing smallpox can be told.”

This smallpox plague was something that the Bei Cang Kingdom (Northern Dark Green /Blue), had also learnt about.

For many years, how many countries, how many emperors had not been able to do anything about this smallpox.

A mere Empress of the Dong Lan Kingdom also dared to say such brag (talk big) as making smallpox disappear.

How could such a stupid woman be made Empress by Ji Wujue?

Then not only does Ji Wujue have a bad vision, his brain is also bad?

Indifferently, he turned around, “Now order our people to retreat.”

“Yes!”

Above the great hall of the county government.

Lu Yunluo sat on the side, listening to the people underneath report the current situation in the city in detail.

“Before the big fire, the city has already set up more than two hundred tents in accordance with Prince Chen’s instructions, and all the patients have been segregated separately in accordance with confirmed and suspected patients. As of yesterday, the number of confirmed infected people is nine thousand one hundred and four, the suspected patients are about five thousand, and the number of deaths has reached two thousand six hundred and forty-three.”

This long list of figures reported by Tang Lao was alarming.

From the discovery of smallpox until now was just over twenty days.

Surprisingly, there were already so many people infected.

Moreover, according to this ratio, the death rate was truly terrifying.

Moreover, smallpox has an incubation period of fourteen days, during which it is also contagious.

Among the people in the city, there must still be many latent patients who did not develop the disease.

Like this potent infectious disease, if you can’t isolate the incubation period patients in time, the plague is afraid that simply can’t be stopped.

But according to the ancient medical conditions, wanting to find out the patients who have not yet developed the disease is simply harder than climbing up to heaven.

“However, after this fire today, I’m afraid that within a few days, this number of infected people will definitely skyrocket.” Tang Lao said heavily.

Everyone discussed some more. 

For example, the current situation of people gathering in tents.

This would take quite a bit of time if the house was rebuilt.

But how to avoid bunching up these days was the issue that the crowd discussed the most.