Chapter 124 Wei Shengxue: I have the best strategy, the middle strategy, and the worst strategy

Two months ago, Xia Wuqie traveled south, searching for the miraculous herb Panax notoginseng mentioned in a medical book given by an immortal. This herb can stop bleeding, relieve pain, detoxify, and reduce swelling. A hemostatic drug made with it as the main ingredient is highly effective.

But he searched all the medicine cabinets in Xianyang but couldn't find this medicine. He thought it might have not been discovered yet.

He originally wanted to purchase it from the caravans coming from the south, but they all said that they had never seen this kind of medicinal material. Although those merchants said they would collect it when they returned, Xia Wuqie thought that if he asked them to collect it, he might not even be able to guarantee the efficacy of the medicine.

So he packed his bags and left Xianyang.

Fortunately, the road is well-maintained now, and his body is healthy and strong thanks to the blessing of the country's fortune, otherwise he would have collapsed halfway.

Although he had not yet found the legendary miracle drug for stopping bleeding, he had accumulated a lot of case experience. Xia Wuqie added a few more notes to the notebook he carried with him.

After stopping and walking along the way, we finally got some news after entering Lujiang County.

The man who spoke was wearing a long robe, the corners of which were stained with dirt and grass. He looked like he had just returned from the wild.

"You're talking about the kind of grass that grows high in the mountains, right? It blooms pale yellow-green flowers in July and August every year, and each plant only has three leaf forks, each with seven leaves. You call it 'Sanqi'? This thing is only found here, and your accent doesn't sound like you're from here." At this point, his attitude had become much more cautious.

Xia Wuqi pulled out an armband with a red cross from the bag on his back, then a grass leaf emblem shaped like a mountain. "I'm a traveling doctor from Xianyang. While practicing medicine, I heard there's a miraculous medicine here that can quickly stop bleeding, so I came here specifically to find it."

"Barefoot itinerant doctor!" As soon as this obvious sign appeared, he was immediately recognized.

The man's attitude suddenly changed, and he politely invited him back home. "I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you just now. I thought you were one of those foreigners who forced people to buy things. I'm sorry for the offense, please forgive me."

Xia Wuqi certainly wouldn't deliberately embarrass him, so he just smiled and said it was okay.

After that, he stayed here. As there were still several months before the Panax notoginseng matured, he opened a small clinic here. He only took pulses and wrote prescriptions but did not sell medicine. The profit was meager but enough to support himself.

This kind of life lasted for more than a month. Most of the patients who came to see the doctor had common illnesses, and serious illnesses rarely occurred.

But in the past half month, strange things have happened.

It is the time between spring and summer, which is a busy season for farmers. Conventionally, this is not a time for large-scale pregnancy. In fact, most pregnancies in ordinary families are concentrated in winter. They don't have to go out to work, and it is too cold outside. They stay in a room all day, so the chance of pregnancy is high.

These children are basically born after the autumn harvest, when the harvest has just come and there is the most food. They will not starve to death early due to lack of food. After the autumn harvest, there is also the slack season for farming, so there is also time to rest for a few days after the harvest. It is the preferred time for ordinary families.

Children born in spring and summer happen to be born during the lean period, and the family members are busy with farm work and have little time to take care of the children.

But it was strange that in the past half month, wherever he went, he saw women with big bellies. Some of them were old enough to be grandmothers, but they were still pregnant.

Xia Wuqi withdrew his gaze and sighed inwardly that the customs in Chu were really very different from those in Qin.

Although he set up a clinic, he still maintained the habit of traveling around to practice medicine and did not sit in the clinic every day.

The people he saw near the clinic were still similar to those in Guanzhong, but the people he saw in the past half month were strange. However, due to the huge differences between the two places, Xia Wuqi just regarded these as different customs in the two places.

It wasn't until half a month later that he returned to the clinic...

On the first day of reopening, twelve of the fifteen patients he saw were pregnant.

The woman is pregnant, and the man is fat because he eats too much? Although this is possible, the probability is too high.

Twelve out of fifteen are like this.

This is not normal.

Xia Wuqi packed up his equipment and walked out of the clinic.

He remembered that it was time for a follow-up visit for a patient, so he decided to go to his home and take a closer look at everyone he met along the way.

He was determined to find out, so this time when he went out, he paid special attention to the stomachs of passers-by. He was surprised to find that almost 40% of them had bigger stomachs than they did half a month ago.

It’s impossible that he will be away for half a month and these people will get fat.

"Hahaha, what are you talking about, doctor? There's no such thing as eating too much to get fat in a family like ours." Upon hearing his question, the patient's family laughed.

"It's a Gu disease. We have had it for generations here. It's more common in spring and summer. It will be much better after these few months. Don't worry, doctor."

As a doctor, Xia Wuqi was completely annoyed by this disregard for the disease. He asked, "Could this Gu disease, this Gu, be related to the Baiyue people in the mountains?"

I've heard that some tribes in the south like to play with insects, but I didn't expect them to be so arrogant, directly poisoning so many people and not letting them go for generations!

Xia Wuqie was puzzled by their attitude. "Aren't you going to resist? Force those people to give out the antidote. You can't let your descendants continue to suffer like this."

"Resist? Force them to hand over the antidote? Of course they don't have it. This disease has existed since my great-grandfather's great-grandfather, or even older than them. Don't we want to solve it? But how? Those mountain people will even die with a big belly!"

Beneath his calm and nonchalant tone was the numbness of countless fruitless struggles. "It's like spilled water on the ground, there's no way to recover it. It's already full of poison and there's no way to save it. It'll just make you feel a little worse. Life is always difficult. When we were fighting wars everywhere, we could be dragged onto the battlefield to defend ourselves. Even if we didn't, we never knew when we would die at the hands of a noble. Just endure it, life will pass quickly."

Xia Wuqie moved his mouth, not knowing what to say.

As a doctor, he should condemn this behavior of disregarding one's own life, but as a sober person, he knows that what the other party said is the truth and it is the cry of a helpless person.

In the end, it was the patient's family who comforted him, "This year we received immortal seeds as a gift from the immortals, and the rice in our fields is growing very well. One acre is equivalent to several acres before. After paying taxes, we can stay and have enough food. I never thought that one day we would really have enough to eat."

"And that sickle," he gestured, "with a few swipes, you can mow down a whole field. When plowing in the spring, you don't have to treat people like oxen. The magic plow just makes a few circles and the ground is turned over quickly and well."

"Oh, if I had known that we could live such a good life after Qin conquered Chu, I would have sneaked away to Qin with my family long ago. Hey, I heard that people there can make a new set of clothes every year, is that true?" There was a glimmer of anticipation in his eyes, as if all the hardships in life had left him.

Xia Wuqie smiled faintly and answered him in a dreamy tone that outlined a bright future, "Not yet, but a lot of weaving mills have been built, and some places over there no longer have to pay cloth taxes. People in Guizhou can use the cloth they weave at home to make clothes and quilts for themselves. When the weaving mills here are built in the future, you can keep the cloth for your own use."

"No need to pay cloth tax?! Oh my god, then I can make new clothes every season?" He slapped his thigh and shouted happily.

The old woman who was feeding the chickens outside heard him yelling, lifted the curtain and peeked in, scolding him: "Ji Ji is making new clothes, and you, a spendthrift, are dreaming in broad daylight!"

"Hey, mother, I'm not dreaming. Divine Doctor Xia said that the cloth tax is no longer required in Qin, and he also said that the cloth tax will be abolished here in the future. Then we can keep the cloth for our own use!"

The old woman who came in suddenly widened her eyes and looked at Xia Wuqie as if to confirm: "Divine Doctor Xia?"

Is this true?

Will there really be a day when we don’t have to pay cloth tax?

Will there really be such a day?

Will there ever really be a change in our life of weaving cloth every day but still having no clothes to wear at home?

Xia Wuqie nodded vigorously, "Yes, there will be such a day. When the Qin Dynasty becomes more powerful, it will happen. It will happen."

He had visited the textile factory on the outskirts of Xianyang. The factory was later divided into two areas: wool and cloth. The water-powered textile machines were very fast. The amount of ordinary coarse linen produced in three days was equivalent to all the cloth collected from the cloth tax in a county. Moreover, the cloth was smooth and fine, much better than the cloth produced in the homes of the common people.

The immortal said that this was just an old machine. When they all learned the immortal magic in the future, they would be able to use it to build faster and better machines, which could even weave hundreds of pieces of silk a day, not to mention this ordinary coarse cloth.

Upon receiving a positive answer, the old woman slapped her thigh with joy, then turned to scold the two men in the house, "We can't use all that cloth. Let's save it. When we have enough, we can transport it to the city and sell it. We can save the money to buy two more acres of land, so that our children and grandchildren will have confidence when they talk about marriage in the future!"

"Regardless of whether we're related or not, we have to cure this disease first." Doctor Xia took the opportunity to interject, successfully bringing the topic back to the present. "Life is getting better and better these days. We can't let our children and grandchildren continue to suffer the same hardships we've endured. If there were a way to eradicate this disease, their lives would be much better, don't you agree?"

That makes sense.

For those who have endured hardship for most of their lives, what keeps them going, besides the instinct to survive, is creating a better life for their children and grandchildren. It might have been okay before, but now that life is getting better and better, how can they not be tempted?

"Divine doctor, we must cure this disease!"

But this is a disease that has been passed down from generation to generation, and I don’t know where to start treating it.

It’s poisonous, it’s poisonous. You have to find the poison first, remove the worm and then detoxify it.

Xia Wuqie prescribed a new prescription for the patients. Taking into account their family circumstances, he used common and readily available medicines. If they really couldn't afford them, they could find them by going to the mountains themselves.

To solve a problem, you must first understand the problem.

For the next period of time, he traveled around nearby towns and villages, on the one hand to find the commonalities among these diseases, and on the other hand to explore the extent of the disease's impact.

There is another important purpose - to determine whether this poisonous disease is an infectious disease.

The disease had existed in Chu for a long time, but it was not introduced into Qin during the Qin-Chu War. It should not be a serious infectious disease, but he could not take such a chance. He had to rule it out carefully by himself.

The result can't be said to be good or bad.

It is contagious, but not human-to-human.

When he confirmed this information, Xia Wuqi breathed a sigh of relief.

"I hope it doesn't turn into an epidemic." He whispered his relief.

Given the current situation in Daqin, if such a large-scale epidemic breaks out, it will inevitably suffer serious damage and will lose control over Chu.

If this can be done well, the Chu people will be able to return to their loyalty, and from then on, there will be no more Chu people, only Qin people will remain.

However, we still need to study in depth how to cure this disease.

"I don't know. It's been like this since I was a kid. I'll just have to get over it."

"What if I can't make it?"

"Can't make it?" The old man at the village entrance knocked the ashes from his pipe. "Well, it's just one more bag on the mountain."

"Can this disease be cured? Well, I'm not saying this is fatal. If you say it's serious, it won't kill many people. If you say it's not serious, it will make people unable to conceive."

When talking about this matter, their already sad faces were covered with a layer of gloom.

"Divine Doctor Xia, can this curse really be broken?"

"Curse?" Xia Wuqi asked in surprise.

"Yes, everyone says so. It must be a curse. Otherwise, how could it prevent people from having children? And no medicine can cure it. For hundreds of years, our ancestors have never been able to escape this curse."

"That's right. I heard that even the king's son died of this disease. A nobleman like that couldn't get any medicine, and yet he still died. It must be a curse!"

Xia Wuqie refuted them, "This is a disease, but the cause and prescription have not been found yet. Once the source is found, it will definitely be cured."

However, "This disease can also make people unable to have children?!"

"This is probably the first time Doctor Xia has heard of this disease. It happens in the spring and summer when the disease is at its worst. The whole village is unable to have children, so they try to get pregnant in the fall and give birth to the child before it's serious."

Xia Wuqi calculated the time. When the child was half a year old, it was a time of famine and severe disease. "Can the child be raised if it is born?"

"Children, it's just about being born and dying, dying and being born again. If you can't raise them, just throw them in the back mountain and have another one." He spoke of this as if he was talking about what to eat for dinner. His tone was so flat that even Xia Wuqie, an old doctor who was used to seeing life and death, shuddered.

But this is the current living situation of ordinary people. Children are born and die constantly, and it depends on luck to raise a few of them. So they have to keep giving birth. It is like adding a bucket of water to the pot, and a living child means an extra labor force.

Putting all this aside, Xia Wuqie spent half a month visiting patients but still couldn't determine the cause of the disease. He returned to the clinic and found a row of bungalows in the backyard, which were filled with the patients he had admitted during this period.

"How was it today? Was it any worse?"

As soon as Xia Wuqi returned to the clinic, he went into the backyard to visit his patients.

"Divine Doctor Xia, we are all fine. We eat and drink well here and don't have to work. How can we not be fine?"

"Right, right, right. We were so bored that we cleaned the yard. The meal is ready. Doctor Xia, you haven't eaten yet, right? Go and have your meal first. It's still warming on the stove."

Xia Wuqie: "Why are you fighting again? I can do these chores myself. You are patients and need to rest well."

"Alas, Dr. Xia provides us with food and shelter, and even treats us without charging us any money. How can we just lie there doing nothing?"

"Yes, it's just an ordinary chore. I picked it up after finishing my farm work at home. It's very easy."

Xia Wuqie couldn't persuade them and had to give up.

After dinner, he began to take the patient's pulse again.

His heart sank. Judging from their facial expressions, they looked rosy, even better than when they first arrived, but judging from their pulses, the illness was clearly at home.

He reached out and pressed on the patient's bulging belly. It felt even harder than before, and the curve of the belly was a little more obvious.

"Do you feel any discomfort or any changes in your body?"

"Tell the truth!" He interrupted the casual words they were about to say and emphasized sharply.

Frightened by his attitude, everyone swallowed back the "nice words" they were about to say. After a long time, someone slowly spoke.

"I've been coughing a lot these past few days, and my chest feels stuffy and I can't breathe."

"I've been eating less these days. I want to eat but I just can't."

"I seem to have lost some of my strength. I used to be able to lift the big table by the door by myself without spilling the soup on it. But today I almost dropped the bowl on top of it."

"I've had stomachaches in the middle of the night for three or four days now, but the pain isn't that severe. I'm afraid people will call me pretentious if I tell them, so I keep it to myself."

"I……"

Xia Wuqi summarized their symptoms, which were basically abdominal distension and pain, loss of appetite, and constant coughing... These symptoms were too common, and it was really hard to tell what the illness was.

The only special thing is...

He looked at the bulging bellies in the yard. Both men and women had big bellies, which was absurd and weird.

His expression was serious, tinged with self-blame for his inability to cure the disease. Someone in the crowd noticed his gaze lingering on their bellies, and wanting to lighten his mood, they joked, "Look at us all with big bellies. Why not call it 'big belly disease' instead of gu disease?"

"Yes, yes. Even men can get big bellies, so it's called a big belly disease. Why not call it that from now on? It's much more intuitive and appropriate than Gu disease, and it's not that scary. If someone hasn't seen it, just point to a woman's belly and tell them: That's the disease. If you get it, you'll become like this, hahaha."

Everyone joked with each other, trying to create a happy atmosphere and dispel the gloom in the clinic.

Big belly...sick?

Big belly disease!

Xia Wuqi tried hard to pull out the thread from his memory.

He must have seen this unique name before!

What is it?

Where did you see it?

He racked his brains to recall that this must be a new term he had learned in the past two years.

New terms learned in the past two years.

In the past two years...

Xia Wuqi jumped up directly.

What else have I learned in the past two years, besides the immortal books taught by the immortals!

He stood up and rushed to the room where his handwritten copy was kept.

"Big belly disease, big belly disease... found it!"

He stared intently at a few lines of text: Schistosomiasis, also known as big belly disease or Gu disease, is a chronic parasitic disease that is mainly transmitted through contact with the skin and infected water, and is prone to multiple small-scale infections...1

"Schistosomiasis, it comes from the water... No wonder..."

No wonder they are everywhere, it turns out they spread throughout the entire river system along with the flowing water.

Thinking of this, Xia Wuqi's face, which had been relaxed because the source of the disease was found, suddenly tensed up. How to treat the source of the disease that was spread throughout the entire water system!

He let go of his hand with a wry smile and said, "I can't spread the medicine along all the rivers." He laughed at his own idea before saying it.

It’s better to just cover yourself with a quilt and dream about such fantastic things.

He grabbed the medical book and looked through it again, trying to find a solution.

The good news is that there are indeed treatments available, and even methods to address the cause of the disease.

The bad news is that he can’t understand the remedies for the disease, and he probably can’t cure the root cause either.

What is praziquantel? He even doubted whether he had ever studied medicine, otherwise how could he not even understand the name of the medicinal material.

No, he simply never went to school. He doesn't even know three words.

What should ordinary doctors do when faced with this situation?

Call someone!

But his master, senior brothers and junior fellow apprentices are all no longer alive.

But he can cheat!

"Master, help! It's urgent!"

…

When Wei Shengxue received the news from Xianyang, he had just ordered people to hold Liu Ji and feed him medicine.

Because she was worried that the medicine would be too strong, she divided the pill into four pieces and fed it to the patient over two days.

The first day was fine. Although his eyes were straight and his face turned green after taking the medicine, and he couldn't get out of the toilet afterwards, he still took the medicine obediently. But on the second day, when it was time to take the medicine, he started to procrastinate. Sometimes he had official business to deal with, and sometimes his subordinates had urgent matters. Seeing that the best time to take the medicine was about to pass, Weishengxue called Luo Qing to hold his hands and feet and forced him in.

"Liu Ji, Liu Ji, I'm not forcing you to do this. It's just that good medicine tastes bitter, and you have to get used to it. Relax, it will pass quickly. Tomorrow you'll be a healthy and energetic person again."

Wei Shengxue stood in the yard and comforted him calmly, but the tone of his voice was...

According to the person involved, Liu Ji, the tone of voice of "the immortal is not afraid of back pain when standing and talking" was too obvious, which made his already uncomfortable body worse.

"Ask the kitchen to make some brown sugar and egg porridge, and add a handful of dried red dates to it to replenish his qi and blood."

Liu Ji sat up in shock from his dying illness and stretched out his claws in protest, "Master, if I remember correctly, these are for women after childbirth!"

"Oh, it's almost the same. They are both for nourishing the body. Don't be so picky. Just make do with whatever works. If I really cut two slices of ginseng for you, it would cause trouble."

Wei Shengxue straightened her sleeves and taped the instructions on the newly refined pill. "I'll give you this medicine. If something happens in the future, just take two pills. Even if they're not suitable for your condition, at least they'll keep you alive. Maybe you can wait for a miracle doctor to come and save your life."

Liu Ji didn't hesitate at all. His hands moved so fast that they almost left an afterimage. In a flash, he saw that the medicine bottle that was originally placed on the table disappeared.

No matter how unpalatable it may be, it is a life-saving thing and it is absolutely not pretentious.

"Thank you, Immortal Master, for the medicine. When are we going to check on those workers? They went into the water with me, so they must have been in trouble too. As the governor of this place, I can't just sit back and enjoy myself while they continue to suffer."

Wei Shengxue was about to speak when she saw the spiritual pendant on her waist glowing faintly.

There is news.

Her spiritual power wrapped around it and she quickly read the message.

As soon as she finished reading the first sentence, her eyes changed slightly with shock.

After quickly reading the message, Wei Shengxue's facial features wrinkled into a ball.

She looked at Liu Ji and said expressionlessly, "One good news and one bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

Liu Ji said without hesitation: "Good news."

Although the immortal's expression and tone did not seem to indicate good news.

"The good news is that you're not poisoned, and the bug in your body isn't a Gu. You don't have to worry about the Baiyue people maliciously retaliating against you."

Liu Ji had a bad feeling in his heart and asked with a trembling voice, "What about the bad news?"

"Bad news, there are millions of people who are sick with you, so you don't have to worry about being alone~"

Liu Ji: ...

Liu Ji: ???

Liu Ji:!!!

He sat up and even bit his tongue because he was too excited.

He covered his mouth and sobbed, "What do you mean?!"

What does it mean that there are millions of people accompanying him in his illness?!

Are there millions of people suffering from the same disease as him?

Kuaiji County is quite prosperous, with a total population of about 300,000 to 400,000 people!

Are all five or six counties in Chu poisoned?!

Wei Shengxue read expressionlessly, "It's not a poisonous insect, it's schistosomiasis, a disease that's very, very difficult to eradicate and spreads with the river water."

As the river spread.

spread……

Liu Ji lay back on the chair with a thud and said weakly, "Master, please let me lie down."

He was still counting on the success of pearl farming to take him one step further in his career. But given the current situation, let alone moving up a level, it would be great if he didn't fall directly.

According to Qin law, what punishment should he, the county magistrate, receive for such an incident?

Oh, I haven’t watched it for so long that I can’t quite remember it.

At that time, his crime will be more severe because he does not understand Qin law, but he will not be beheaded directly!

"Don't be too pessimistic."

Liu Ji immediately revived, "Master has a way!"

Wei Shengxue directly opened the real-time communication and pulled the emperor and his ministers who were far away in Xianyang into the 'group chat'.

"Fellow Daoist." Ying Zheng's low voice came through the sound transmission stone.

"Greetings, Immortal Master." The ministers followed him and greeted him.

"Your servant, Liu Ji, the governor of Kuaiji County, pays his respects to His Majesty the Emperor!" Liu Ji raised his voice and took every opportunity to make his presence felt.

Wei Shengxue waited for them to greet each other before getting down to business.

"Regarding the question raised by Doctor Xia, I have a temporary solution and a fundamental solution. One is fast, the other is slow. You..."

"I want them all!" Ying Zheng answered without hesitation.

Liu Jigang's open mouth behind him immediately closed.

Ying Zheng continued to ask: "What is the method to treat the symptoms? What is the method to treat the root cause?"

Wei Shengxue: "Schistosomiasis is rampant because it attaches to snails. To eradicate it, we must first eliminate the snails. These creatures are ubiquitous in southern waterways. The only temporary solution is to first use special methods to remove the snails, then fill in the riverbeds and ditches, including small canals, covering the snails with less than three inches of soil, and then dig new canals."

Zhi Su Nei Shi did a quick calculation and said, "This round will take at least several years, with countless manpower and material resources invested, and it will be impossible to salvage all the snails." Manpower is limited, and there will always be a few corners that will be missed, and then the snails will recur.

"Yes, this is a protracted war. Even if we mobilize everyone to carry out a major cleanup, it will still require continuous governance from generation to generation." Wei Shengxue quickly scanned the information retrieved from the system without concealing the hardships and setbacks involved.

However, "floods never cease. Should we stop repairing dams?"

In just a few words, the hardships involved and her attitude were clearly and plainly explained.

There were bursts of noisy sounds coming from the sound transmission stone. Although it was not clear, one could sense the intensity of the argument.

"Master, what do you think His Majesty will do?" Liu Ji wrote on a piece of paper and showed it to Wei Shengxue.

Wei Shengxue's fingertips moved lightly, and words condensed from spiritual energy appeared in the air: [Ying Zheng is an adult, he wants both!]

Liu Ji: [Really? A bowl of brown sugar, red dates, and egg porridge, I bet it's just a temporary solution.]

Weishengxue: [A bowl of coptis root water will definitely treat both the symptoms and the root cause.]

The two looked at each other and made a bet.

After a while, silence returned over there, and Ying Zheng's short and powerful voice came out:

"rule."

Just one word set the tone for the matter.

Wei Shengxue raised an eyebrow at Liu Ji and made a gesture of drinking medicine.

Liu Ji nodded with a bitter face: I accept the loss.

"What is the solution to the symptoms?"

Wei Shengxue: "They only save people, not treat the water. After they treat it, they get infected again when they go back into the water, and then they continue to save people."

Internal Secretary Zhi Su clutched his chest, his heart aching, "This is no different from wasting material and financial resources!"

Medicinal materials are never cheap!

Moreover, "In the entire territory of Great Qin, there is no medicine that can treat a million people at the same time."

This is a pity, but it is also true.

Medicinal materials have always been exclusive to the nobility. When common people get sick, they have to endure it. If they can endure it, they will continue to live. If they can't, they will die. The only thing left is a thin coffin and an extra mound on the mountain.

Medical treatment has never been for the poor.

The two bosses want to treat everyone's illnesses at the drop of a hat, but where will the money come from? Where will the medicinal materials come from?

Let's put the money aside for now. What about the medicinal herbs? Nowadays, all the medicinal herbs are picked by herbalists who travel through mountains and rivers, and the yield is never high.

Could it be that immortals have a way to grow medicinal herbs?

The idea that medicinal herbs were planted in rows in the fields like wheat and millet, with their leaves waving in the wind, popped up in Zhisu Neishi's mind. He immediately shook off this unreliable fantasy. After all, they were not grains, so how could they be planted in the fields?

"It's easy to say that the medicine used to treat the symptoms is simple, and Daqin has a lot of it in stock."

Um? ?

Everyone pricked up their ears.

"It's pumpkin seeds. Dry them, grind them into powder, and take them for ten days or so. It will kill the worms in the body." The immortal's voice came through the sound transmission stone, carrying a faint chill. "But as I said before, this is only a temporary solution, not a cure. Once a cured person comes into contact with water containing snail eggs, they will be infected again."

Pumpkin seeds!

This can actually be used as a medicinal ingredient?!

Yes, pumpkin seeds are precious, but that's because we're still in the seed stockpiling phase, trying to accumulate enough seeds for the promotion. Once the promotion is complete, pumpkin seeds will become commonplace and available to every household. They have nothing to do with the preciousness associated with medicinal herbs.

"This is wonderful!" someone at the table cheered loudly.

This kind of common thing can help the common people solve the problem of illness themselves in the future, which is very suitable for the ecology of the common people.

The temporary solutions that had just been suppressed began to rear their ugly head again.

It is enough to treat the symptoms now. When the whole country of Qin rises to prominence in the future, will we still be afraid of those tiny schistosomiasis?

These words were very inflammatory and many people were convinced on the spot.

but……

"What do you think, fellow Daoist?" Ying Zheng asked the sound stone.

The sound transmission stone flickered, bringing back the immortal's response: "Of course, a two-pronged approach."

This is the practice on her home planet, and history has proven that it is also the most effective practice.

She didn't even understand what was there to discuss, as the most appropriate path had already been laid out.

"Just as you said."

Ying Zheng used his eyes to stop the people below from speaking and finalized the conclusion of the discussion.

In Kuaiji County, Weishengxue signaled Liu Ji to open the teleportation array.

"Now that it's confirmed, have someone send some pumpkins to Kuaiji County. It doesn't have to be many, just a hundred or so will do."

Zhi Su Nei Shi quickly pulled out the information about pumpkins from his mind. A pumpkin has at most a few hundred seeds, and all together there are tens of thousands of seeds.

"One pumpkin seed can save dozens of people?"

——If you calculate it this way, it can almost become a miracle drug!

"Of course not." Wei Shengxue's silence was so strong that even the sound transmission stone couldn't block it. "A few grams each time, three times a day. Even a pumpkin isn't enough for a full course of treatment for one person."

"It will be at least the year after next before you can expand the market here. I'll set up operations here to quickly ripen several batches of pumpkins, so that the affected counties can plant pumpkins by next spring."

"Pumpkins have a high yield. Even if you only plant one acre of land, it is enough for the whole family to eat for half a year. Some of the seeds can be saved for planting, and the rest can be dried and used as medicine."

In this way, the symptoms can be treated.

As for the fundamental solution, it was not that she looked down on the Qin Dynasty, but with Ying Zheng's current prestige in several counties in Chu, he really could not organize such a large manpower to fill all the ditches and rivers.

Agriculture depends to a large extent on water. Villages would normally fight to the death for a well. Now all the rivers and ditches are to be filled up. If someone with ulterior motives exaggerated the situation and spread the news, the people would immediately riot.

This principle is very simple. Even Wei Shengxue can see through it, let alone those who have been immersed in this for many years.

"Liu Ji."

"I'm here." Liu Ji, who had just organized people to check the teleportation array, immediately stepped forward and saluted.

"I order you to take charge of this matter. Ensure that pumpkin seeds are distributed to all counties before winter. I will instruct the county governors to cooperate with your work."

Liu Ji accepted the order and said, "Yes, I will definitely fulfill my mission."

The teleportation array behind him lit up, and large pumpkins stacked neatly appeared on the originally empty ground. Each one was as big as a washbasin, and the golden pumpkins had a faint white color, as if they were covered with a layer of white gauze.

Liu Ji now looks at these pumpkins as if he is looking at his own lover, with a deep affection and deep love for them.

Wei Shengxue didn't look at the busy Liu Ji anymore. He knocked on the spirit pendant and passed the transfer station in Xianyang to contact Xia Wuqi directly.

She briefly explained the solution to the problem, then asked him, "Should we send you some pumpkin seeds now, or wait until next year?"

Xia Wuqie did not hesitate, "Master, if it is convenient for you, could you please give me some now? There are still patients in the clinic, and as a doctor, I cannot abandon them."

Wei Shengxue agreed without hesitation. It was just a piece of cake for her.

She took out a pumpkin seed, and with a burst of spiritual power, in just a few breaths, she made it go through the life cycle of taking root, sprouting, blooming and bearing fruit, maturing and withering. She repeated this several times, and a dozen pumpkins fell at her feet.

With a stroke of his fingertips, a simple single-time teleportation array appeared above the pumpkins. A green light flashed, and the pumpkins disappeared along with the teleportation array.

"Did you get it?"

"Thank you for your mercy, Immortal Master. I have received the life-saving medicine."

…

In the Lujiang County Medical Clinic, Xia Wuqie walked out of his bedroom and happily announced:

"Fellow villagers, the immortal has taken pity on us and has given us a life-saving elixir. Everyone, please come inside and carry the herbs!"

Immortal, elixir, help.

Everyone in the yard stood there in a daze, unable to digest the news for a moment.

The ears heard it, but the brain couldn't react.

“Ouch!”

Someone howled loudly, awakening everyone's consciousness.

"The Gu disease can be cured!"

"Ahhh! The poisonous disease can be cured! The elixir can break the curse!"

Someone shouted and ran out of the clinic.

"The gods of the Great Qin can break the curse that has lasted for hundreds of years!"

"The gods have come to save us!"