These hands are fair and clean, with long, slender fingers and thin calluses on the palms. They don't look like the hands of someone who does manual labor with a hoe, but rather someone who wields a sword or knife.

Lu Qiqi looked up and, sure enough, it was Song Yanqing. She asked, "Are you going too?"

Song Yanqing said, "I don't know what's going on inside. None of them know martial arts, so they can't protect you."

Lu Qiqi thought to herself, 'Maybe my martial arts skills are even stronger than theirs.'

Lu Qiqi handed Song Yanqing a mask. She was happy to have another person to help. The two teenagers were not of much use. She could find an excuse to send them back later.

Song Yanqing led the way, with Lu Qiqi walking alongside him.

The village looked like it had white walls and blue tiles, but unexpectedly, the roads were dirt roads. After walking about a hundred meters, Lu Qiqi saw that the walls were half yellow and half white, and there were collapsed blue tiles on the ground, revealing a sense of decay and desolation everywhere.

Suddenly, Lu Qiqi saw a boy of about thirteen or fourteen years old, dressed in patched coarse cloth clothes, with a fierce look in his eyes. He was holding a long stick and pointing it at them. He said, "You should leave quickly, there is a plague here!"

Lu Qiqi asked, "Young man, besides your village, is there another road to Heshun Prefecture?"

The boy said, "No, the mountains are all cliffs on both sides, so it's impossible to walk through. But you can't come this way. Not only is there a plague here, but the government also forbids the people of our village from leaving. It's no use for you to come in!"

Lu Qiqi and Song Yanqing exchanged a glance, and Lu Qiqi asked again, "Has the government sent a doctor to treat him?"

The boy waved his stick at the air and said, "Yes, but it's dead! You'd better leave now, or you'll die here too!"

Lu Qiqi wasn't afraid of the boy's fake act and continued to ask.

Seeing that Lu Qiqi was determined to get what she wanted, the boy stopped chasing her away. Anyway, it was none of his business if she died; it was their own fault for not leaving.

After some questioning, Lu Qiqi finally understood that the boy was thirteen years old, the third child in his family, and his name was Zhou San.

There were six brothers in the family. Their parents and other relatives had all passed away, leaving only the six brothers and their grandmother.

Six months ago, Yi'an Village experienced a month of continuous rain, which triggered a flash flood. Villagers climbed the mountain to take refuge, and the floodwaters took half a month to recede.

After that, the villagers fled to Heshun Prefecture. Zhou San's family had just finished building their house, and unwilling to abandon their fields and house to make a living elsewhere, they stayed behind.

Unexpectedly, less than half a month later, an epidemic broke out in Yi'an Village, and the villagers who stayed behind suffered from vomiting, diarrhea, and bloody stools.

A few days later, several people died overnight. When the government heard about it, they immediately sent a doctor to treat them. However, the doctor also died. As a result, Yi'an Village was placed under control and people were not allowed to leave.

After hearing this, Lu Qiqi told Li Damao and Li Ermao to go back and report to the people of Lijia Village that they must not eat or drink anything from Yi'an Village!

Lu Qiqi then told Zhou San that she could cure the illness and asked Zhou San to take her to see the patients.

On Wednesday, seeing that she was determined to die, he stopped trying to stop her, angrily threw down the stick, and led the way for them.

Lu Qiqi and her group were led to a room by Zhou San. The room was dimly lit and had a faint musty smell. The room was very empty, with only an old woman lying on a wooden board.

Lu Qiqi frowned slightly. This environment was even worse than when she and Lu Yao were in Maoshan Village!

Lu Qiqi heard Zhou San call out, "Grandma."

He then whispered a few words in Grandma Zhou's ear before beckoning to Lu Qiqi.

Lu Qiqi went over to take Grandma Zhou's pulse and her heart sank; it was cholera.

No, it's a more severe form of dysentery!

Just as she expected, the villagers of Yi'an Village did not carry out disinfection after the flood receded. It should be noted that the saying that a plague will follow a flood is not unfounded.

After a flood, feces, animal carcasses, and rotting matter are mixed together. If these are not disinfected, consuming contaminated water and food can cause dysentery.

Like cholera, dysentery can be transmitted through feces and water.

Lu Qiqi then remembered that Zhou San had said all six brothers were fine, and she asked, "Don't you brothers eat with your parents?"

On Wednesday, I looked up at Lu Qiqi with a bit of a daze.

Lu Qiqi then changed her question, "What kind of water do you drink? What kind of food do you eat?"

On Wednesday, after thinking for a moment, his face flushed slightly. He said, "After the flood, there wasn't much food left, so my brothers and I went to the mountains to dig for wild vegetables, pick wild fruits, and drink mountain water. Sometimes, if we were lucky, we could even catch a rabbit."

Lu Qiqi interrupted him, "Your parents and grandmother drink the village's water, right?"

Wednesday nodded. "There's an old well at the entrance of the village, and the water in it is very sweet."

Lu Qiqi said seriously, "On Wednesday, tell the villagers not to drink the water from the old well anymore, and to boil the water they fetch from the mountain before drinking it. Your illness is caused by drinking water and food that has been flooded by the flash flood."

When he learned on Wednesday that his parents had been killed by a flash flood, his eyes gradually reddened. He lowered his head, and tears fell to the ground. He wiped away his tears forcefully. He was determined to tell the villagers not to drink the water from the ancient well anymore!

Once the symptoms are understood, the right medicine can be prescribed. Lu Qiqi had a prescription in mind, but she didn't have all the traditional Chinese medicine on hand. She asked Zhou San, "How many people are left in your village? Is there any medicine left in the village?"

If there are any medicines available, she can try to find some that are effective.

Zhou San shook his head and said with distress, "There are less than eighty people, we've run out of medicine, and the government officials have abandoned us."

Lu Qiqi nodded, stood up, and said to Song Yanqing and the others, "I know how to cure it."

Li Shoucai smiled and gave Lu Qiqi a thumbs up, "Girl, you really are something else!"

Lu Qiqi said to Song Yanqing, "But I don't have that many medicines."

Song Yanqing: "Go ask the government officials for it."

Lu Qiqi laughed, just as she had thought. She waved her hand and said to Li Shoucai and the others, "Let's go find the government officials and fight them!"

Li Shoucai was so shocked by Lu Qiqi's words that he couldn't move. He said, "Girl, do you know what you're saying? Fighting with the government? Are you tired of living?!"

Li Shoucai called out from behind, but Lu Qiqi and the others had already gone far away, so he had no choice but to hurry up and catch up.

Lu Qiqi walked to the village entrance, and sure enough, there were soldiers guarding it a hundred meters away.

Lu Qiqi took a few steps forward, and the soldiers drew their knives halfway out. Lu Qiqi's lips twitched slightly. Damn it, these corrupt officials who treat human life like dirt.

One of the soldiers shouted at Lu Qiqi, "If you dare take another step closer, kill you on sight!"

Lu Qiqi stepped forward anyway. Yi'an Village was plagued by disease, and she figured they wouldn't dare to attack unless they weren't afraid of death!

When the soldiers saw that Lu Qiqi was defying him and actually took a step forward, he angrily drew his knife and pointed it at Lu Qiqi, hoping to scare her away. Otherwise, he really wouldn't dare to rush up and kill her!

Lu Qiqi said, "I am a doctor and I have a prescription for treating Yi'an Village. If you bring the medicine here and cure the villagers of Yi'an Village, you won't need to guard this place anymore!"

The officer sneered, "You little brat, a doctor? Then I'm the King of Heaven!"