231 Refusal to Go to Southwest

"Master, if the military wants to invite you to go somewhere else, you must not agree. You still have Uncle Grandpa in the North, and he is very familiar with that place. Other places, such as the southwest and the seaside, are not good."

Sun Sicheng nodded and said, "Ping An, come with me to take a look. The master knows what's going on."

The two of them went downstairs, and sure enough, the two teams sat at two separate tables. He was not very familiar with Huaibei Prefecture, and had always had more contact with Siyuan. Master Bai and Minister Zhao were old acquaintances.

He naturally walked towards Master Bai and the others first.

"Minister Zhao, Master Bai, is there anything urgent that has brought you here in such a hurry?"

Master Bai looked at Minister Zhao, who said, "Young Master, I do have something to ask you."

The person from Huaibei Prefecture stood up anxiously and said, "My Lord, I am sorry to bother you. I am Qian Tongzhi of Huaibei Prefecture. The prefect cannot leave, so he sent me here to ask you for help."

Minister Zhao was a little unhappy, but he couldn't say anything when the other party mentioned saving his life. Besides, the Tongzhi was the deputy of the prefect, a fifth-rank official position, and he was a sixth-rank minister in the military department, so it was almost the same.

"It turns out to be Mr. Qian. Everyone, please sit down." Sun Sicheng bowed slightly. Thanks to his little apprentice, he now holds a fifth-rank official position. Although it is a nominal position, he is still a Beijing official, not to mention the real head of Baicaotang.

Qian Tong knew: "Young Master, there is a small village in Shuangxi Town, 30 miles away from Huaibei City. It is at the foot of Wangfeng Mountain. The village is not big, with about a hundred people. Most of them drink the mountain spring flowing down from the foot of the mountain. But a few days ago, some villagers fell ill one after another. The old doctor nearby went to treat them, but the villagers did not get better, and the old doctor himself got infected.

Now he isolated himself in the old house and asked his son to report to the authorities. The prefect did not dare to delay for a moment and finally found out that there was a dead and rotting wild boar at the water source on the mountain.

After finding out the origin of the incident, the doctors in the city took out medicine, and the yamen runners placed it at the entrance of the village, allowing people to take it and drink it themselves. However, it had no effect at all. Some people in the village had already died. Now the yamen runners could only stand by from a distance, but this was not a good thing.

This matter has been reported. Some people say that the best way to treat the sick is to burn them, but it is really impossible to burn more than a hundred people. Please help, young master."

Everyone present was stunned.

Sun Sicheng and Ping An looked at each other.

"My dear, don't worry. As long as you come up with some more prescriptions, Doctor Jie, the one who got sick, had been telling his eldest son who delivered meals about his illness before we came. His eldest son had been following him to practice medicine, and he would record what he had written down and tell other doctors. You don't have to come into contact with the patients.

The disease doesn't progress very quickly, but the situation is critical. We've been out for four days and we don't know what the situation is like over there."

When Qian Tongzhi said this, he wiped away tears that might not have existed.

Sun Sicheng and Ping An both thought of the prescriptions for epidemics in medical books. In the medical books, Master Hu clearly wrote about several types of decay, both normal and abnormal decay after death.

In other words, this wild boar may have eaten some kind of poison before it died and then rotted after death. This poison is particularly strong.

But different poisons are different, and they are not sure they can detoxify them.

Furthermore, based on what the old doctor said, without coming into contact with real patients with the disease, we may not be able to truly understand what kind of poison it is.

When it came to contacting patients, Sun Sicheng asked himself if he could do it. Life is only once, and when it's gone, it's gone. His life is very valuable. He has parents above him and a wife and children below him. What's more, he is only in his early thirties. It would not be enough if he didn't live to be seventy or eighty.

Of course, Sun Sicheng also knew that he was not very good at poison, at least not very powerful.

Ping'an had many prescriptions for treating various diseases in his mind, but as a child he could only stand silently beside his master.

When it comes to epidemics, it's best to stay as far away as possible. No matter how careful you are, you can never be absolutely safe.

"My Lord, I am also very sad to hear about this, but I am quite good at medicine, but I am not an expert in poison. I am afraid I cannot bear this heavy responsibility."

Qian Tongzhi became anxious and bowed deeply to Sun Sicheng, and Sun Sicheng couldn't stop him.

"Master, we are really counting on you. More than a hundred people are also counting on you to save their lives."

"Master Tongzhi, let me think about it. Minister Zhao, what can I do for you?"

Minister Zhao sighed, "It's no secret that the war in the southwest is quite intense. There is a severe shortage of doctors there, especially good doctors like you. We went to Prefect Bai, and he said you left first.

Sir, can you turn southwest?"

Sun Sicheng shook his head and said, "Lord Zhao, I'm sorry. I'm not used to the climate in the southwest. I went there in my early years and was sick for a long time. I went to the northern border for the sake of the Great Zhou. Otherwise, I would not have gone. Moreover, I left so early to send someone to Yunzhou. I won't tell you what I did specifically. It was also for the military camp."

Sun Sicheng went to Yunzhou for military matters. Without being told, everyone could guess that it must be for medicinal materials. War requires a large amount of medicine, and Sun family medicine is especially good.

"My Lord, is it really impossible?"

Sun Sicheng shook his head. "It's really impossible. Although I don't know if the epidemic in Huaibei Prefecture can be controlled, I still want to give it a try. The soldier's epidemic is hard to predict. It can be spread through the air. If it spreads to the city, the consequences will be disastrous."

Qian Tongzhi's face turned even paler. His wife, children and elder relatives were all in the city.

Minister Zhao could only helplessly say: "Then there is no other way. Young Master, the detoxification pills you gave me last time were very effective. Can you give me another batch?"

Sun Sicheng nodded and said, "I brought a lot this time, and I don't have much at home. How about this, I write a letter to Manager Ge and ask him to move out another 2,000 bottles, which is 10,000 pills. What do you think?"

"Very good, very good." Minister Zhao had a smile on his face. Although he couldn't take the person away, it was good to get so many high-quality medicines. The Sun family's medicines were good and not expensive.

Sun Sicheng turned to Qian Tongzhi and said, "Master Tongzhi, please leave early tomorrow morning. I have something to do in the afternoon. In fact, it is very difficult for me to leave tomorrow. One of my cousins ​​has suffered a serious stroke. I am not good at this. I have just treated him for three days. I don't know how to talk to his family this afternoon."

Everyone sighed.

This situation is indeed difficult, but if we delay for even a day, we don’t know how many people will die from the epidemic.

Sun Sicheng nodded to everyone and said, "I'm sorry, I have to go to my room to write a letter and come down later."

Qian Tong knew: "Young Master, you can go ahead and do your work. I will take the others to stay at the inn and we will set off together tomorrow."

Sun Sicheng and Ping An returned to the room: "Ping An, you guessed right, they really asked me to go to the southwest. The north is extremely cold, but it is better than the southwest where you can't guard against poison."

"Master, I wonder if there are any cures for the illness in the medical book?"

"It's okay. The Sun family has some other prescriptions for this. Let's try them one by one. If it doesn't work, I've tried my best."