Having settled matters with Bai Menghan, Ye Shuangshuang smoothly convinced a few government officers who had the most confidence in her medical skills to accompany her to the county where the plague had broken out.
In the county where the plague erupted, the County Magistrate was already busy to the point of dizziness, his mouth full of blisters, nearly driven mad—he not only had to control the plague but also worried about himself and his family catching it.
Doctors from the entire county and two neighboring counties had been recruited to research how to deal with the plague, but to no avail, as two of the doctors had caught the plague themselves and had collapsed.
Even the doctors treating the sick had fallen ill, and with common people being restricted from moving around freely, panic was rife among the populace, especially after some frailer common people started dying over the last couple of days, leading to even more unstable public sentiment.
