Unable to fight a group of patients, most of them were knocked out by Zhang Si, lying all over the place.
Those who didn't pass out struggled and still tried to get up, crawling toward the door with their eyes open.
Some people's faces and lips were already cyanotic, and their conjunctiva was red and bloodshot, as if they were evil spirits crawling out of the earth.
The Prince held his sword in one hand, and all he could see was this horrible hellish scene.
"Your Highness, you can't stay here, hurry back!" Xue Yao took off his bloodstained protective jacket and demanded that the Crown Prince leave the quarantine area.
The Crown Prince turned back to Xue Yao in surprise: "These are the common people infected with the plague? Just how many people in this county are infected with the plague?"
Xue Yao asked him to take a step to talk, stepping out of the fence and away from the sick area, Xue Yao took off her mask and gloves and reported to the Crown Prince: "The infected that are still alive are basically all in this valley, and the others, I've already explained to you in my letter-because of the extremely fast spreading and death of this vicious plague, most of the infected died before it was too late to save them. Most of the infected died before it was too late to save them.
At present, according to the rough statistics of the government, the dead in the county are about four thousand or more, and before the quarantine, the number of infected people per day was more than two hundred, and after the quarantine and prevention of the epidemic, the number of infected people per day now tends to be close to zero."
The Prince asked numbly, "Why did you not allow the blood to be seen? Is this plague spread by blood?"
Xue Yao patiently explained: "There are two main types of plague, and I have divided the patients into two wards. This ward is for the relatively mild glandular plague patients, and the common people call this disease "pimple disease", which is similar to malaria, and is mainly transmitted by insect bites and rodent bites.
Once treatment is ineffective and the disease is prolonged, the plague may infect the lungs through the bloodstream and become pneumonic plague.
Pneumonic plague patients are in another ward, that is, the so-called patients who can make people sick just by looking at them, the breath they exhale contains plague, once infected, most of them die violently within three days, and in severe cases, when they have an attack of bleeding from the seven orifices, the blood carries plague, and those who touch the blood are also at risk of contracting the disease."
These heart-stopping words were actually said so calmly by Xue Yao.
The Crown Prince turned his head to look at the patients in the fence with purple and blue faces and bloodshot eyes, and turned back to ask Xue Yao, "You've been staying with these people every day for the past two months? What if you catch the plague too?"
Xue Yao explained, "I prepare to protect the body to protect the mouth and nose of the clothing, every day to wear to prevent the epidemic, go back in the use of the plague extermination water a soak ......"
"What if?" The Crown Prince stared at Xue Yao incredulously, "It's already come to this, 'inviting the plague by looking at each other' is surprisingly not alarmist talk! What if you catch the plague as well? A violent death within three days? Why don't you scatter your hands and return to the capital?"
"This is Your Highness's new law trial county ......"
"This is Lone's business! Don't need you to be responsible for it."
Xue Yao was startled by the Crown Prince's outburst and turned his head blankly to look at the patients shaped like evil spirits within the fence.
He turned back to the Crown Prince and spoke with a helpless expression, ''Spreading their hands, what are they going to do? Allow the people of the entire county and even neighboring counties to become like this?
I may be able to save them, the big deal is to lose one life, but maybe I can get back hundreds of thousands of lives, do you think I can afford to lose my hand?
Spreading my hands, if all these hundreds of thousands of common people die, will I be able to sleep in the future?"
There was a silence.
The Crown Prince looked at the single young man in front of him, slowly nodded his head, and whispered with emotion, "Eloquent and righteousness is truly a man of the country, Xue Yao, you really call lone without a place to live."
Xue Yao nodded in a panic, "Your Highness is overstating things."
After saying that, he turned his head to look behind the Crown Prince, and didn't see the imperial guards, only the five eunuchs who had just gotten off the carriage and chased after him.
Xue Yao was puzzled, "You didn't bring anyone else?"
The Crown Prince lowered his eyes at the words and helplessly said, "Father only allowed additional doctors to be sent, and did not allow the army to intervene, so I slipped out of the capital on the pretext of trivial matters in the granary, and wanted to come and see what I could do to help."
Xue Yao's heart went cold.
No wonder the prince who never broke his word came so long ago, it turned out to be the emperor's insistence on not sending troops, insisting on letting the doctor control the epidemic.
"No harm done." Xue Yao saw that the Crown Prince looked ashamed, he could only comfort with a bitter smile, "Now that the epidemic is roughly under control, there are only these patients left to take care of, just now more than a dozen more errand boys ran away, the sick area is understaffed, it will soon be time to feed the medicines, I'll have to boil the medicines right now."
"Leave the boiling of the medicine to me." Behind the Crown Prince, the old eunuch doctor at the head of the group smiled and came over, rolling up his sleeves and saying to Xue Yao, "Mr. Xue, could you lend the prescription to the old man for a look?"
"Don't bother with Dr. Xu's hands," Xue Yao hurriedly blocked, "You're unprepared like this ......"
"There are preparations." Imperial Doctor Xu pulled out a mask from his sleeve and put it on, smiling at Xue Yao, "I've brought everything you sent with me."
The other, younger eunuch coldly followed Dr. Xu.
He had always objected to Xue Yao pretending to be a Taoist priest to bewitch the common people, but now he was slightly red and ashamed, but still complained about Xue Yao in a thick voice: "You keep saying that this valley is some kind of yang-energy-rich eight trigrams feng shui treasure, and that you want to perform a magic spell to get rid of the epidemic ghosts, but how was I supposed to know that you're brewing medicines to cure the sick in this place? Lack of manpower also do not say a word, as if the whole county only you a doctor like! We are not people?"
The other three eunuchs also finally found their way down the steps, and quickly walked to the valley, pressed up the carts carrying the corpses, and asked Xue Yao, "These diseased corpses, where are they going to be sent to be burned?"
Xue Yao was a bit at a loss for words for a moment, most of this group of doctors had been looking at him unfavorably since they arrived in Ping Rong County.
Especially after he pretended to be a Taoist priest, only the old Imperial Doctor, Lord Xu, had been secretly supporting him and helping him answer many dialectical theories on Chinese medicine.
Lord Xu is already close to seventy, coming to the quarantine area to take care of the patients is really a bit dangerous, Xue Yao still dissuaded, "My lord, there aren't too many patients now, you'd better go back to the courtyard and wait for my ......"
"You've just said that there's not enough manpower, so is it reasonable for the few of us who have come to treat the sick to stand by and watch?" Lord Xu said seriously, "If we didn't want to make a small contribution, we would have left with the doctors who claimed to be sick.
Fighting for the country is the mission of the generals, practicing medicine to cure the sick is our duty as doctors, really want a life for a life, but also should let the old man to fight in the front.
The old man one day does not fall, should not let you such a benevolent and righteous nationalist to risk their lives. You have saved the people of the county, the rest of this trivial matter, it will be handed over to our aftermath, but also lest these old fools to come to a trip, what favor did not help, back to the capital to call people poke the back of the spine."
Xue Yao hesitated for a moment, but still accepted the request of a few doctors to join him, and began to assign manpower to boil the medicine and burn the corpses.
The Crown Prince also rolled up his sleeves and wanted to help, but was firmly stopped by Xue Yao.
"Does Your Highness still remember the last few paragraphs of my request in my letter?" Xue Yao pulled the Crown Prince to an unoccupied corner and seriously reminded, "Your well-being is always the number one priority, benefiting the people or preventing epidemics, it has to be implemented only if the ruler father of the world has the heart to do so."
The Crown Prince didn't expect him to dare to say this even to his face, and immediately looked around warily, frowning as he warned Xue Yao, "You mean lone understand, this cannot be said."
"Forgive Xue Yao's presumption, just understanding is not enough." Xue Yao anxiously looked at the Crown Prince: "You have to be able to do it, and let us do it, you must always put your own safety in the first place, when you are safe, the people of the world will be able to live better and better, and your brothers won't be treated badly. The implementation of the new law is difficult, the root of the problem is still insufficient power, everywhere subject to constraints, I can only help you to this point, to solve the difficulties of the Ping Rong County, if there are still difficulties in the future, you might as well suspend the implementation of the patience to wait for the right time."
Xue Yao could no longer hold back, what needed to be said had to be picked apart.
This time, during the robbery of Ping Rong County, Xue Yao's ability to return alive had to rely on a trifle of luck.
It was not easy to keep the position of the Crown Prince, but a year and a half later, there would be a big disaster, if the Crown Prince still did not want to save the Emperor at that time, then all of Xue Yao's efforts would be in vain.
His words were too blatant, and on first hearing, he was implying that the Crown Prince patiently waited for the Emperor's death before messing things up.
If someone with a heart of gold hears about it, they'll kill their head.
The Crown Prince's filial piety wasn't feigned, so he blushed badly after hearing this, and it was also because he knew Xue Yao's good intentions, coupled with his talent and righteousness in saving the country and the people, that the Crown Prince suppressed his fire and only said, "I understand."
Half a month later, the last five patients in the quarantine area were cured, and after fetching well water to wash their whole bodies with soap and putting on new clothes, they gratefully kneeled down to say goodbye to Xue Yao, and went back to their respective homes.
Only Xue Yao and the five Imperial Physicians were left in the quarantine area, and the guards of the guards sat at the mouth of the empty valley chatting.
It's been a long time since I've had such a leisurely day.
At sundown on the first day, no new patients were brought to the quarantine area.
Neither did the next day.
Neither did the third day.
The five eunuchs all cheered with excitement, but Xue Yao seemed to be in disbelief.
I can't believe I've defeated the number one killer of mankind that once ravaged the world for centuries.
Xue Yao arranged for the government officials to burn all the daily necessities in the quarantine area, and then blandly followed the eunuchs back to their homes to pack their belongings and prepare to return to the capital.
Several eunuchs admired the teenager's composure.
Having made such a great achievement, he actually did not have the slightest bit of pride.
Xue Yao himself didn't know what was going on in his heart, but he always seemed to feel that he still had some hang-ups.
On the day of departure, Xue Yao was invited to board the Prince's carriage, which suddenly stopped when it reached the street.
The Prince asked the coachman why he didn't go.
The coachman said that the people were blocking the road ahead.
Xue Yao, who was sitting in the car in a daze, looked up sharply, lifted the curtain and jumped off the carriage, quickly walking around to the front of the car, and was instantly shocked by the sight in front of him-
The streets were filled with the common people of Ping Rong County, carrying eggs, rice and cured meat in their hands, red-eyed, gazing at the line of caravans returning to the capital.
Seeing Xue Yao get off the bus, the people who didn't dare to squeak suddenly fell to their knees, weeping with tears, and shouting in a jumbled manner, "The grace of saving our lives is well remembered" and "The living Buddha lives a long life."......
For a moment, Xue Yao seemed to know what he was waiting for.
He looked in surprise at the street full of old people who couldn't see the end of the road.
One face at a time, the faces of young and old were flushed with a healthy redness.
With every glance, the tugging in Xue Yao's heart was filled with a point.
The Prince and the doctors also got off one after another, looking at the street full of "people's army".
A burly teenager carrying a bamboo basket pushed his way out of the crowd and rushed to Xue Yao, begging him to accept his family's meager gift of thanks.
Xue Yao instantly recognized that this was a healed patient in the quarantine area, and immediately pinched the teenager's face in surprise: "Half a month has passed since I've seen you, your little cheeks have rounded out a bit, and you have a good appetite, ah?"
The young man fell to his knees, raised the basket, and yelled, "My mother says that she can't repay you for your great kindness, so please accept this bit of cured meat."
Xue Yao grinned and teased him, "Is it your mother who wants to thank me, or is it you who wants to thank me?"
The young man was stunned by the question, and after careful consideration, he thought of how his mother had cried happily all night that day when she saw him return home cured, and decided to give this opportunity to his mother, so he said, "Do you want to thank you one by one? Then let my mother thank you first!"
"Pfft ......" Xue Yao laughed away, laughing, but her eyes began to burn.
As a "living Buddha", it is not good to cry in front of the people.
Xue Yao hurriedly accepted the young man's gift of thanks and said to the people, "This gift of thanks is enough to represent everyone's thoughts towards Mister Xue, the victory over the epidemic ghosts was not due to me alone, but also thanks to everyone's variation of right and wrong and their trust in me. After I return to the capital, I will publicize the recipe for making the sacred stone, and I hope that everyone will carry on the habit of exterminating the plague to keep Ping Rong safe for generations."
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I would like to pay tribute to Mr. Wu Liande, a fighter of the plague in the late Qing Dynasty, with [Pingyong County Epidemic Control Chapter].