Chapter 96
After Yu Ying and Fu Wei came out of the yamen, they headed straight back to the west lane entrance.
When they came out of the yamen, Yu Ying tore the handkerchief she was carrying into two halves and gave half to Fu Wei. They both tied one on their faces to cover their mouths and noses.
The streets were deserted because the yamen runners were beating gongs and drums to drive the people home.
The city gates are no longer open to the public.
In Yu County, in addition to the people in the city, there are also people from the villages outside the city.
The yamen runners asked them to go to the county government office and wait. After confirming that there was no problem, someone would send them back to their respective villages.
Yu Ying and Fu Wei were unable to contact their elder brother and the others, and they didn't know whether they were in Yu County, or if they had said they were there but had returned.
I was worried here, but when I returned to the courtyard, I found that my elder brother and the others were already there.
Probably just one step ahead of them, so everyone is still in the yard.
Yu Ying asked, "Now everyone in the streets is beating drums and gongs, telling people to go back. I thought you, brother and sister-in-law, had already returned to Lingshui Village."
Wen Xing said with a worried look on her face, "Ningning had a fever last night. We rushed to find you and didn't dare go back."
Upon hearing this, Yu Ying's eyes suddenly tightened. Seeing her elder brother holding the tightly wrapped Fu Ning, she quickly stepped forward.
When he saw Fu Ning's face in his elder brother's arms was abnormally red, he reached out and touched it, and it was indeed hot!
Yu Ying suddenly remembered the content about Fu Ning's untimely death in the book. Her face turned pale and her blood ran cold at that moment.
What on earth is going on? The epidemic in Yu County is not mentioned at all in the book!
The few people who had just arrived in Yu County didn't know what had happened in Yu County. They just felt that the streets were empty, which was very strange. But they didn't have time to think about anything else. They just wanted to send Fu Ning to his brother's wife as soon as possible.
Although Yu Ying's hands were trembling slightly, she maintained her composure as a doctor: "Come inside first, let me take a look."
Fu Wei's eyes fell on her slightly trembling hands, knowing the anxiety in her heart.
He whispered to her, "Ningning will be fine as long as you are here."
Yu Ying didn't know why Fu Wei trusted her so much, but when she thought about how her elder brother and sister-in-law had escaped the disaster, she knew that Fu Ning would definitely not repeat the same mistake.
In the book, Fu Ning herself was malnourished and weak, but after six months of conditioning, although her physique was weaker than that of ordinary children, as long as she was properly taken care of, the flu could not take her away.
After thinking it through, Yu Ying felt determined.
After entering the house, Yu Ying asked everyone else to leave and asked her sister-in-law to go out and boil some water.
She carefully checked Fu Ning's condition in the house.
Fu Ning hadn't seen his aunt for a long time. Although he felt very uncomfortable, he called out "Aunt" softly and weakly.
Yu Ying smiled gently at her and said softly, "Auntie is here, and you'll get better soon."
She then checked Fu Ning's condition, which was consistent with the epidemic, and his face looked heavy.
Although it is an epidemic, it can be cured.
After Yu Ying comforted Fu Ning, she asked her sister-in-law to go in and take care of him, and told no one else to go in, especially Luo and Fu An.
When they heard that it was an epidemic, their faces turned pale. Wen Xing even hid in the house and wiped her tears secretly, wishing that she was the one who was infected with the epidemic.
Yu Ying had no time to care about other complicated emotions. She went into Fu Wei's room, wrote a few prescriptions, and then went to Ji's Medical Clinic with her elder brother to get the medicine.
Fu Wei stayed at home to look after her. He said to the worried Luo Shi and Fu An, "Liu Niang knows medicine. Ning Ning will be fine."
When Yu Ying and her elder brother arrived at the clinic, all the patients had been sent home to prevent the epidemic from spreading, so the door of the clinic was closed. Yu Ying went forward and knocked on the door.
A voice came from inside: "No consultation today, go back quickly!"
Yu Ying thought for a moment and said, "I am Yu Liuniang, the wife of a government official."
After a while, the door of the clinic opened halfway, and the medicine boy inside waved hurriedly: "Come in!"
Yu Ying and her elder brother quickly squeezed into the clinic. There were pottery pots burning in every corner of the clinic, and the rich herbal smoke filled the entire clinic.
Director Ji came over, holding a wet handkerchief, and asked, "Madam Yu, what brings you here?"
Yu Ying said, "I want to get some medicine."
Director Ji's opinion of her completely changed because of what happened today. He called the medicine boy and said, "This lady needs to get some medicine. Go and help her."
The medicine boy nodded, and Yu Ying handed him the prescription.
While the medicine boy was getting the medicine, Yu Ying asked, "Director Ji, is this confirmed?"
Director Ji nodded solemnly, "It is undoubtedly an epidemic. The yamen runners just went to report it."
At this point, he looked at the woman in front of him and said, "I pride myself on my years of medical experience, but I haven't been able to detect the current epidemic. If it weren't for you, Madam Yu, I'm afraid it would have taken me several days to discover it was an epidemic."
Yu Ying said, "I just came back from the county seat, and I saw a lot of sick people on the street, so I became concerned all of a sudden."
Modern influenza has become a common household disease every year. Whether it is a traditional Chinese medicine hospital or any other hospital, influenza patients will flock to the hospital during the transition season from autumn to winter and from spring to summer. This is based on experience.
"You don't have to be so modest. Fortunately, the discovery was made in time, and the magistrate acted decisively. This epidemic should be under control soon. If it had been delayed for another two days, the consequences would have been disastrous."
Yes, Yu Ying had read some records about how terrifying the ancient epidemics were. The death toll was heavy, and she felt palpitations whenever she thought of the content she had read.
Soon, the medicine boy brought over several large bags of medicine.
These large bags of medicine are medicinal materials not available in Lingnan. Combined with the herbs she has stored, they are enough for about a hundred people.
Yu Ying gave the money, then put on a veil and left with her elder brother.
As soon as they returned home, their sister-in-law had recovered. Yu Ying asked her to light charcoal while she went to prepare the dosage for the Children's Ephedra Decoction.
When boiling the medicine, Yu Ying asked her sister-in-law to burn the charcoal. She immediately put it into a ceramic basin and placed atractylodes, dalbergia and mugwort on top. When these herbs slowly burned, smoke would float out of the room.
These gases have the effect of removing filth and avoiding epidemics, and can have a disinfecting effect.
Yu Ying asked her sister-in-law to fumigate every room for half an hour, and the room where Ningning was should be fumigated for a quarter first.
After all, it is just ordinary charcoal, so when burning incense, it cannot be kept in the house for a long time.
While decocting the medicine, Yu Ying learned from her elder sister-in-law and elder brother that many villagers in the village had coughs and fevers.
Upon hearing this, his expression suddenly became solemn.
The Chinese New Year is approaching, and villagers from all over the surrounding villages are coming to Yu County to buy New Year's goods. In just these two days, I don't know how many villagers have come to Yu County.
At this time, because Fu Wei was working in the government office, neighbors came knocking on the door to ask what had happened and why Yu County was suddenly blocked.
This matter is hard to say, as panic may occur if one is not careful, so Yu Ying said that she is not sure and needs to wait for news from the government office.
In the afternoon, people from the yamen asked every household if there was anyone with a fever at home. If there was, they would be taken to the place where they were accommodated immediately, and a doctor would be there to treat them free of charge.
Free medical treatment is not a good thing, and people immediately became panicked.
Some people are afraid that they will never be able to return once they go, so they hide the fact that they are fine.
So that afternoon, not many people were willing to volunteer to go to the resettlement center.
The magistrate had no choice but to take a tough stance and directly tell people that it was an epidemic. If they did not want to implicate their families or did not want to be implicated, they should go to the resettlement center.
If someone with a high fever does not go, it is tantamount to violating the law. Once discovered, he will be fined 200 coins of silver. If anyone reports a person who is hiding, he will be rewarded with 10 coins.
The magistrate's measures were drastic, and the resettlement area was immediately filled with patients with fever.
Fu Ning was infected with the epidemic. Although Fu Wei was his aide, he did not set an example and was afraid that he would not be able to convince the public. Moreover, the county magistrate would not show leniency to him just because he was his aide.
Fu Ning is young, and Yu Ying also has to go to the resettlement center, so she is the one who takes care of him.
Fu Wei was worried about her.
But she knew in her heart that if she didn't get rid of the epidemic out of fear, she would no longer be herself.
He didn't want her to go, but he didn't stop her.
Yu Ying handed some medicine and prescriptions to Fu Wei, instructing him, "Uncle He and Aunt He and their family are here in the village. They also helped me a lot when I was catching thieves and during this reclamation. I can't just sit back and watch. See if you and your brother can go back to Lingshui Village. If you can, take these herbs with you and have the villagers fumigate their homes with them. Then, boil a large pot of medicinal soup and distribute it to the villagers with fevers."
Fu Wei nodded and said, "My Lord should have sent people to each village. Tomorrow, I will also send people to each village to understand the situation. My elder brother and I will go together then."
At the end of his words, Fu Weijing looked at her and whispered, "Be careful."
Yu Ying sighed softly: "I will, you should be careful too."
After saying that, Yu Ying packed up her clothes and bedding, ready to take the sleepy Fu Ning and leave with the yamen runners.
Fu An had heard of the epidemic and knew how terrible it was.
He knew where they were going, and clenched his fists and said, "I want to go with you, little aunt. I can help you and take care of my sister!"
Yu Ying rubbed his head and said, "Your uncle must be very busy these days, and your father may also have to accompany your uncle to work. Your mother and grandmother are the only ones left at home. You are a little man now, you have to take good care of them."
Fu An was holding back tears. , and said: "But I don't want you and your sister to go to that resettlement center, can you not go?"
Yu Ying shook her head and promised, "I'll be back soon and bring Ningning back in good health."
At this point, Yu Ying added, "You also need to stay healthy."
As they were talking, the yamen runners entered the house and searched it as a routine to make sure no one was hiding.
Fu Ning contracted the epidemic and had to be sent away. Wen Xing and Luo Shi both burst into tears.
Yu Ying turned to them and said, "I will take good care of Fu Ning and will also send the yamen runners back with a message."
Luo came forward and choked up as she advised, "Sixth Mother, you must take good care of yourself too."
Yu Ying felt a little warm in her heart and nodded slightly: "I will."
After saying this, he followed the yamen runner and went to the place where he was resettled.
Fu Wei looked at their backs as they left in the alley, and even after they disappeared, he kept looking.
Ah Ying, come back earlier.
Come back safely.
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The resettlement accommodation was divided into three thatched courtyards.
The patients staying there have different medical conditions.
After all, the epidemic came unexpectedly, so the environment is a little bad, but fortunately it has been cleaned and burned with incense.
Because of the rush, the beds in the house were simply made of wooden boards.
County Magistrate Zhou has had a cloth towel distributed to each patient, and asked everyone to wear the cloth on their face to cover their mouth and nose.
And every half an hour someone would bring them warm water to drink.
County Magistrate Zhou had specifically instructed that the doctors on duty should live in separate quarters from the patients, two people per room. Since Yu Ying was the only female doctor, she had a separate room.
Hearing this, Yu Ying breathed a sigh of relief.
If there were so many people together, Fu Ning didn't know when he would get better.
Yu Ying brought Fu Ning into the house, made the bed, poured her half a cup of hot water from a bamboo tube, and let her rest on the bed.
At this time, Huo Yachai came to call someone, and Yu Ying asked him to wait for a moment.
Yu Ying said to Fu Ning, "Fu Ning, be good. I'm going to treat someone else. You can rest in the room. I'll come back to see you every half an hour."
Although Fu Ning was afraid of the unfamiliar environment, he still nodded: "I'll wait for my aunt to come back."
Yu Ying put on a hastily made mask, stood up and left the room, followed Huo Yachai, and asked, "Have all the doctors from the clinic arrived?"
Huo Yacha shook his head and said, "No, Madam Yu was the first to come."
Speaking of this, Yachai Huo felt respect for Madam Yu.
If a woman has such a fearless heart, what about other doctors?
These doctors who claim to be saving people are actually procrastinating because they are afraid of death.
None of these yamen runners are not afraid of death, but they still came anyway!
As soon as I walked into the yard, I met Director Ji and his son and the eldest disciple who had just arrived.
Huo Yacha was stunned for a moment and asked in confusion, "Your Excellency said that each clinic would send one person to see patients, but why are there three people from Ji's clinic?"
Director Ji glanced at Madam Yu behind the yamen runner and said, "Madam Yu, don't be afraid. We grown men are not the kind that cowardice."
Upon hearing this, Huo Yacha breathed a sigh of relief: "Director Ji has such courage, I admire him."
Director Ji said, "Let's talk about reminiscing later. Let's go check on the patient first."
For fear of bringing serious illness to patients with mild symptoms, they would first visit those with mild symptoms.
Someone noticed a woman among the doctors and couldn't help but wonder, "I've never heard of any female doctors in Yu County. Could they be filling in the gaps and trying to scare us?"
When someone questioned this, Director Ji immediately retorted, "Madam Yu's ancestors were imperial physicians. Whether she's capable or not is beyond doubt. She was the first to discover the epidemic. You're able to save your lives thanks to Madam Yu. It's up to you whether this disease can be cured or not!"
Everyone, including Yu Ying, was stunned when they heard Director Ji's words.
Yu Ying didn't expect Director Ji to directly say that she was the first to discover the epidemic.
No one expected this, and most people in Yu County were convinced of Director Ji's character, so his words were definitely true.
They looked at the masked woman and were secretly surprised at her ability to detect epidemics, but then they remembered that Director Ji said that this woman's ancestor was an imperial physician, so it was not surprising that she could detect epidemics.
And this medical skill must be good!
Thinking of this, everyone began to hope that it was this woman who healed them.
Yu Ying and several people from Ji's Medical Clinic began to take everyone's pulse and check them. If they were not suffering from the epidemic, they would be separated and observed separately.
Every time the inspection was almost over, Yu Ying would go back to check on Fu Ning.
But she was afraid of bringing the patient's illness to Fu Ning, so Yu Ying only took a look outside the window and called out to let Fu Ning know that she had gone back to see her.
As for the doctors from Zhengji, Liji and Luoji clinics, they arrived late.
Perhaps it was Luo Dianshi who secretly put pressure on them, so this time it was Luo Ji Medical Clinic that came first.
The doctors in these clinics were all reluctant to come, so they were very impatient with the patients and wished to stay as far away from them as possible.
Their reaction highlighted the responsibility of Ji's Medical Clinic and the female doctor, and made the patients even more grateful to the doctors and the female doctor at Ji's Medical Clinic.
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