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Let us in! Let us in!

Let us in! We need an explanation!

We need an explanation!

What's going on with you?

My wife ate hotpot at your Fan Lou.

Now she's feverish and sweating.

She's vomiting and has diarrhea.

She vomited like it was spraying out.

She's unconscious now.

My wife too.

Today.

You—you must give us an explanation!

Yes, we need an explanation!

Could it be food-induced gastroenteritis?

No.

You ate at Fan Lou too.

N-no, I didn't.

Fever, chills, sweating...

Could it be...

Quick, lock them up!

No contact with anyone!

Hurry!

Hurry!

Quick, quick, quick!

Let me go!

Let go! Hurry, get out!

What are you doing? Go, now!

Let me go! Why are you locking us up?

Let me go!

Go, go, go!

Let me go! Let us go!

Feifan, what's happening?

This will affect everyone in the city.

I must go to the palace at once.

Also, get me some cotton cloth.

I need to make masks.

Masks?

Masks?

No time to explain.

I must go to the palace now.

Alright, alright.

Also, keep those two locked together.

No contact with anyone.

Alright.

Okay, okay.

Hurry, hurry, hurry!

Go call someone! Go get help!

Someone, help!

How is the situation?

How is the Princess?

Your Majesty,

The Princess may have typhoid fever.

This illness is contagious.

Your Majesty, please step back.

Is there a cure?

I will prescribe some medicine first.

How confident are you?

About ten or twenty percent.

Ten or twenty percent?

What use are you to me?

Your Majesty, Young Duke Shi requests an audience.

Let him in.

Yes.

Your Majesty, Young Duke Shi is here.

I believe an epidemic will break out in the capital.

Please issue an order, Your Majesty.

Close the city gates immediately.

An epidemic?

I think it's very likely.

Your Majesty, I believe

this is very likely an epidemic.

It's what we call malaria.

This illness can be fatal.

It spreads extremely fast.

Besides closing the gates,

is there any other cure?

I can try to make medicine.

Good.

For the Princess and the people,

I order you to make medicine quickly.

Princess.

Why are you still standing there?

Go make the medicine!

Curing one is not as good as curing all.

Source, transmission route,

patients...

If we break any link in the chain,

the epidemic can be stopped.

The most common cause of epidemics

is transmission by mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes?

Exactly.

I beg Your Majesty to order

every household to burn incense to repel mosquitoes.

Clear all areas of standing water.

Close the city gates immediately.

Absurd!

Please reconsider, Your Majesty.

Closing the gates may cause panic.

Besides,

I've never heard

that Young Duke Shi knows the art of healing.

Prince Qing has so many doubts.

Why don't you do it?

You...

Prince Qing is right.

If we really close the gates,

the people will surely be suspicious.

Better to cure the Princess first, then discuss.

In your opinion,

how should the Princess be treated?

Your Majesty,

I have found a way to make medicine.

If conditions allow,

she'll improve in a few days.

Then hurry and make the medicine!

No!

How dare you, Shi Feifan!

You dare deceive His Majesty!

Oh no! The Princess has fainted!

Why are you still standing there?

Go quickly!

How is the Princess now?

Earlier, I

gave the Princess San Gen Cao juice.

She shouldn't be like this.

Speak honestly.

Forgive me, Your Majesty.

If the Princess doesn't wake today,

I'm afraid she won't last long.

Quack!

They're all quacks!

You go!

Me?

Go quickly!

It's you.

So you are the Princess.

The Princess is awake.

Still not back yet?

Duke, please don't worry.

It's already so late.

Why isn't Feifan back yet?

Duke, Duke, please don't worry.

Since Young Duke found a way to repel mosquitoes,

he should be fine.

Don't worry.

Young Duke.

Feifan! Father!

Young Duke.

Safe and sound.

Go tidy up the guest room.

Take the Princess to rest in the guest room.

Alright!

Princess, be careful.

Feifan.

Feifan.

Why did you bring the Princess here?

The Princess caught the epidemic.

The imperial doctors couldn't cure her.

His Majesty asked me to treat the Princess.

Feifan, are you out of your mind?

If even the imperial doctors failed,

how could you promise His Majesty?

What if...

I mean, what if...

What if you can't cure her?

Our Duke's Mansion will be doomed!

Father, please rest assured.

This is our chance to change our fate.

Besides,

I can't betray her trust.

It's you.

Even if you cure the Princess,

if everyone finds out

the Princess stayed at our mansion,

it will harm your reputation.

Father, isn't it the other way around?

What do you know?

A man's reputation matters too!

Th-this...

Th-this...

How about this:

Beg His Majesty for mercy, admit fault,

and send the Princess back.

At a time like this,

you can still laugh?

Father.

Father.

A woman's reputation matters too.

You brat!

Feifan.

How is the Princess?

San Gen Cao is holding it off for now.

San Gen Cao?

I heard the imperial doctors tried it.

It didn't work well.

It loses effect when heated.

But I have another way.

As long as you have a way.

Father, what did you find out?

The first few patients

all watched the monkey show on the street.

And the monkey

came from the hot Ri Nan Jun Guo.

Now it's barely alive.

Have we ever traded with them?

No, we haven't.

You mean...

Exactly.

But whoever is behind this,

won't be found so easily.

Right now, making the medicine is key.

As for the rest,

we can settle it later.

The epidemic is raging now.

Everyone, take care of yourselves.

Stay safe.

Take people to burn mugwort in every room and yard.

Understood.

Egg Yolk Pie.

Lead people to clear standing water.

Cover all drinking water.

Yes.

Meat Floss Pie.

Give Artemisia juice to those in quarantine.

Feed them Artemisia juice.

Yes.

Go ahead.

Be sure to protect yourself.

Yes.

Young Duke.

Feifan.

Is this wine for...

Father.

I'm purifying a crucial substance.

Feifan, tell me the truth.

These fuzzy things,

these green grasses,

are all for making medicine?

Yes.

San Gen Cao cures the epidemic.

Fresh grass juice works best.

But for better results,

the juice needs to be purified.

With limited resources now,

this is the best method.

Notify the Four Great Medicine Merchants:

No one is allowed to sell medicine to the Duke's Mansion.

Let him struggle for a while.

He'll be blamed for delayed treatment.

Interesting.

Very interesting.

Yes.

Safe and sound.

Go to the medicine shop.

Buy some San Gen Cao.

Alright, I'll go now.

Miss.

Are you really sending these precious herbs

to the Duke's Mansion?

Just returning them to their owner.

If they can make a cure,

it would be a blessing.

Go on, go on, there's really none left.

You...

Boss, why not do business with him?

What do you know?

The Four Great Medicine Merchants have spoken.

If we don't listen to them,

this shop won't last.

Get back to work.

Making medicine is crucial now.

Don't let Young Duke get distracted.

There must be another way.