"It’s easy to catch the disease inside."
"If you can treat it, what does it matter if you get infected?" Gu Xingchuan smiled.
Ye Qichi also smiled, "Don’t worry, I won’t let you leave. Before preparing the medicine, I will have someone make preventive medicine for the staff first, specifically for those who will stay here to help me treat the patients to prevent infection. After you have taken the medicine, you can accompany me without delay."
First, he would not refuse Ye Qichi’s request.
Second, he appreciated the thoroughness with which Ye Qichi did things.
He just watched Ye Qichi’s receding figure.
That her petite frame concealed tremendous energy.
It inexplicably made people feel that the world was a beautiful place.
Xiao Wu was organizing manpower, and in that moment he couldn’t help but glance at Gu Xingchuan.
To say that Gu Xingchuan had no feelings for the Princess.
He didn’t believe it.
The Prince was so unkind to the Princess!
Ye Qichi handed the prescription to Xiao Wu.
Xiao Wu had people build a small wooden hut next to the ancestral hall, erected a stove, and set up several large pots, starting to cook the medicine together.
Ye Qichi stayed by the entire time.
She personally checked each and every medicinal herb, still afraid of making a mistake.
It took an entire night, but they finally finished making the medicinal soup.
Then they started, one by one, administering it to the plague patients.
Gu Xingchuan naturally stayed by Ye Qichi’s side the whole time.
Watching Ye Qichi’s busyness, watching the gratitude and admiration the plague patients had for Ye Qichi.
Never had any woman made him feel that her presence was like a ray of light, capable of illuminating the darkest skies.
Everything in the plague area was orderly.
Ye Qichi, somewhat tired, sat down in the corner.
Then she watched the soldiers take care of the plague patients under Xiao Wu’s arrangements.
She leaned against the wall, just watching.
Watching those inside finally having a chance to survive.
In the apocalypse, humans are growing fewer and fewer.
Every life is important.
After all, once humanity is extinct, it will truly disappear from this world forever.
She pondered these matters, watching Gu Xingchuan approach her.
Gu Xingchuan also had some medical skills.
So he helped her, diagnosing the plague patients together.
Seeing her sitting down to rest, and noting that his help was not currently needed in the plague area, he walked over to Ye Qichi.
"Would you like to sit?" Ye Qichi asked him.
She felt that someone like Gu Xingchuan, a man of noble birth, probably wouldn’t just sit on the ground.
And the ground was not clean with people walking back and forth over it.
Even Xiao Jinxing used to disdain such things.
But for the sake of survival, he later could not afford to care about those things.
However, Gu Xingchuan had not been pushed to such an extreme.
Yet in that moment, she saw him sit down on the ground nonetheless.
Without any disgust, he sat down next to her.
Ye Qichi smiled faintly.
She just felt that Gu Xingchuan had a way of making people feel warm.
"Tired?" Gu Xingchuan’s gentle voice asked her.
"A little," Ye Qichi admitted.
Her physical strength was indeed better than the average person’s.
Mainly, it was due to her strong self-healing ability, so even if she was extremely tired, she could recover quickly.
But after such a long time of sleeplessness and high-intensity work, she found for the first time that she wasn’t as resistant as she thought.
Now sitting on the ground, she felt somewhat unable to carry on.
Her eyes were even becoming a bit blurred.
But because this first dose of medicine was critical, there could inevitably be allergic reactions, so she could not leave.
"I can watch over here, do you want to go back and rest for a bit?" Gu Xingchuan suggested.
Ye Qichi shook her head, asking him, "You’ve also been tired from the journey these past few days. How about I have Xiao Wu arrange for someone to take you to Pang Nan’s residence to rest?"
"If you’re not going, how could I leave?" Gu Xingchuan said softly.
The moment he received Ye Qichi’s message,
He felt a little joy.
It had been half a month since Ye Qichi left,
He had also occasionally heard that something had happened between her and the Crown Prince.
He was always worried.
The moment he received her letter, at least he knew she was alive and well.
And she needed his help.
It gave him a justifiable reason to see her.
Now, of course, he wouldn’t leave easily.
Ye Qichi’s heart stirred slightly.
She still felt somewhat moved.
She said, "Gu Xingchuan, don’t catch feelings for me."
Gu Xingchuan’s body stiffened for a moment.
His heart, too, felt as if it had been stabbed with a sword.
But he did not show it.
"I don’t belong to anyone," Ye Qichi said, "and I won’t fall in love with anyone."