Farmer girl swaps husbands: buys a sickly villain and pampers him

Chapter 150 (Intensified)
Magistrate Chen rushed to the temple and heard that Su Yaoguang and Jiang Jing were still in the intensive care unit and had not come out. He summoned Zhang Zhaodi and asked her how they were doing.

"Sir, our patients here were almost fully recovered, and it seemed that everyone would be cured and able to leave the mountain within ten days. Now, these lousy things have been brought in, which have worsened the condition of those who were almost recovered. This is not the worst part. The worst part is that this is just the beginning. Judging from the current situation, the worst is yet to come! Sir, if this continues, it will never end. Who can bear it? This epidemic is like an unkillable earth dragon, and it will continue to multiply! My daughter is still inside. If anything happens to her, I won't be able to live either."

“Sister-in-law Zhang, don’t worry. Boss Su is a lucky person and will be fine. Now the people call her a living Bodhisattva. She is deeply loved and respected by everyone. Even Buddha will protect her.” Magistrate Chen comforted Zhang Zhaodi for a few words and then stated his decision. “Since the others are almost recovered, let’s clear this place out to prevent those with milder symptoms from getting worse.”

"Does the master mean to let them go down the mountain first?" Zhang Zhaodi asked.

“That’s right. You take these patients with milder symptoms down the mountain, and I will arrange accommodations for you so that you can take care of them until they recover. I will also send some highly skilled doctors to help here.”

“I’m not leaving,” Zhang Zhaodi said. “I want to stay with my daughter.”

Zhang Pandi and Zhang Yingdi were also unwilling to leave.

“If those doctors dared to come, they wouldn’t have pretended to be dead before. They’re afraid of dying, so let them take care of the patients with milder symptoms. We’ll stay here with Yaoguang to take care of the seriously ill patients.”

"Sir, another twenty have arrived." A constable rushed over. "I heard there are more coming. Didn't the neighboring city seal off the city before, forbidding them from moving around? How come there are suddenly so many sick people? Judging from their appearance, they all look like they're on their last breath. Could it be that the neighboring city deliberately sent them here?"

Magistrate Chen said sternly, "Send someone to inquire about the situation in the neighboring county."

"Yes," the constable replied. "If they deliberately sent the patient here, then their intentions are rather despicable."

"No matter what their conspiracy is, these are living, breathing human beings, and we can't just ignore them. But relying on Boss Su's family alone won't be enough. We need to gather everyone who is willing to come and help. However, we must first make it clear to them that the patients from the neighboring county are different from the patients here. Taking care of them is more dangerous, and if we're not careful, we might end up getting infected ourselves."

The abbot appeared and organized the monks to take those with milder symptoms to the bamboo huts on the back mountain.

The bamboo huts over there are where the monks meditate, and outsiders are never allowed to set foot there. This time, the monks opened the last forbidden area, allowing the sick to move there to recuperate.

Xiao Yanci stood in the crowd, looking in the direction of the meditation room where Su Yaoguang was.

In her past life, she saved him and did so much for him. In this life, she saved unrelated people again, risking her life for them. Whether in her past or present life, she was a foolish woman. But why did he find this foolish woman somewhat moving, as if she were radiant, impossible to ignore?

Madam Wen tugged at Xiao Yanci and said, "It seems that Miss Jiang has also fallen ill. Do you think Miss Jiang might have the same ailment as them?"

Xiao Yanci frowned: "No. That's an illness from the neighboring city. Huan'er has never been in contact with people from the outer city, how could she have contracted such an illness? She caught a cold, just give her some medicine for colds."

"That's good, that's good." Mrs. Wen patted her chest.

Xiao Yanci watched her movements, his gaze lingering on her surging breasts. His cheeks flushed, and he awkwardly turned his head away.

"Since Huan'er is sick, why don't you stay by her side to take care of her? Why are you running around everywhere?" With that, he strode towards his meditation room.

A smug look flashed in Wen's eyes.

All men are the same, like a leopard can't change its spots. Xiao Yanci currently cherishes Jiang Yihuan like a precious treasure; sooner or later, he'll succumb to temptation and become her devoted follower. In the intensive care unit, Su Yaoguang heard someone enter, turned around, saw Zhang Zhaodi and the others, and angrily said, "Why are you all here? I didn't say..."

"What are you saying?" Zhang Zhaodi grabbed Su Yaoguang's ear, interrupting her.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch..." Su Yaoguang begged for mercy, "Mother, my ear is about to fall off."

"It's better that it fell off; it'll be more obedient then."

"Who said that? If my ears fall off, I won't be able to hear what my mother is saying, and I won't listen to her either."

“Yaoguang, these patients were all sent from the neighboring city. Look at the scale of this, there are many more to come!” Wang Huanzhi said. “Even if the three of you work yourselves to death, you can’t take care of so many people. If we don’t come in, are we just going to watch you work yourselves to death here? Also, the county magistrate just came by and said he would send another group of people over to help later.”

Su Yaoguang heard that there was a large group behind them, and knew that they really needed manpower, otherwise they would not be able to manage so many people even if they worked themselves to death.

"Hiss..." Zhou Wangshu gasped.

"What's wrong?" Su Yaoguang walked over. "Are you injured?"

“This person was carrying a dagger. I wasn’t paying attention and I cut my finger,” Zhou Wangshu said. “I’ll just put some medicine on it.”

"Jing'er, quickly take a look at Wang Shu, he was cut by a dagger that the patient was carrying," Su Yaoguang shouted.

Jiang Jing rushed over: "You can't get hurt in this situation, it'll make you more susceptible to disease. Quick, pour some alcohol on the wound, sprinkle some medicine powder on it, and bandage it with a clean white cloth."

The people the magistrate had summoned arrived quickly. They were all familiar faces, because not long ago they had come up the mountain as patients, but this time they were here to assist the doctor.

"Why are you all back again?" Su Yaoguang felt a sense of warmth upon seeing the familiar faces of these men and women.

“You risked your life to save us without asking for anything in return. We have survived this ordeal, so of course we should repay this blessing to more people.”

"Mr. Su, you can rest assured, we will take care of people."

"When we were going up the mountain, we saw a lot of people being brought up. We just came down the mountain not long ago. The patients brought in from the neighboring county are almost flooding this place."

“Those people are pitiful too. We have kind-hearted people like the county magistrate and Boss Su to help us, but they don’t. The officials over there would burn them to death!”

Su Yaoguang organized everyone to begin helping the patients.

Jiang Jing is still testing the prescription, so she divides the patients into regions based on their symptoms, and decocts different types of medicine for each region to see the reactions.