Chapter 92: Epidemics
Therefore, when a plague broke out that was big enough to sweep across half of the country of Li, no patient would kneel outside the clinic in Yushan Town and beg the doctors inside to save their lives.
The entire Yushan Town and everyone nearby who knows about the Baby Clinic knows that the people in the Baby Clinic are never soft-hearted or kind.
They charge money for treating illnesses, and double, ten times, or even more for saving lives.
How serious your illness is will determine how much the clinic will charge for your treatment.
All those who could not pay wrote IOUs and put their fingerprints on them, and from then on became non-staff members of the Yushan Town Baby Clinic.
Help find herbs, learn how to prepare medicinal materials, or help with cooking, washing, cleaning, and driving away anyone who tries to cause trouble or default on their debts.
Xuanjitang in Yushan Town is the most indifferent and unsympathetic clinic in the entire county.
But the people living nearby have never said a bad word about Xuanjitang and the young miracle doctor over the years.
They would not scold the young doctor for being conscienceless, but would only feel sorry for him because he had been seeing patients for the entire day without a rest.
They would not gather together to watch when outsiders came to seek medical treatment but instead caused trouble instead. Instead, they would immediately pick up their own brooms, hoes and sticks and rush over to help and drive away the other party.
If someone asks them why they do this, out of ten people, ten will answer: I should do this, I have to do this.
Because during the three years that the young miracle doctor had been treating patients at Xuanji Hall, the country was in great disorder, rebellions broke out everywhere, refugees were displaced, and epidemics were rampant.
But Yushan Town was never affected.
In years of famine, the little doctor would teach them to collect herbs and sell them to the rebels and the court, and the money earned would be just enough to buy food to fill their stomachs.
Rebellion, the little doctor always has a way to make the rebel leader poisoned, and the little doctor is the only one who has the antidote. If the rebels want to live, they have to listen to the little doctor and withdraw their troops and protect the peace around Yushan Town. Over time, even if the rebels pass by Yushan Town, they will not approach it, but will avoid it as if they were encountering a poisonous insect.
The little doctor usually wouldn't interfere with refugees, but if any refugees attacked or injured someone, he would immediately provide treatment. If any refugees rushed to the clinic, their bodies would be seen outside the clinic the next day, which meant that there was no more refugee unrest in Yushan Town.
And the epidemic...
Sometimes there is a great epidemic, and disasters are rampant. Every family has the pain of zombies, and every room has the sound of wailing. Some people die with their entire family, and some even lose their entire clan. Some people think that the epidemic is caused by ghosts and gods, and that those who are infected with it are all people who wear coarse clothes and eat wild vegetables, and live in thatched houses. As for those who live in a house with a large hall and food, and have doors covered with thick mink and bedding, there are few such people (1).
Epidemics rarely occur in wealthy and powerful families, but those who are caught up in major epidemics are always the ragged and hungry common people.
Once an epidemic broke out, the imperial court would have only one way to deal with it, which was to drive all the people in villages within dozens of miles of the source of the epidemic to one place, and then start fires one after another among the villages.
They burned those who were sick with the disease and had no cure and could only wait to die.
But there are more people who are still alive and well, and not even showing any signs of illness.
No one heard the painful and desperate roars of the people in the fire, and no one would add even a calming medicine to the people who were in constant fear due to the epidemic.
They have no choice but to die.
But the people in Yushan Town and its surrounding areas do not have to flee in panic or wait for death in despair when they are affected by the epidemic.
Because the doctors and medicine boys of the Doll Clinic and the non-staff members would put strange masks on them, teach them to boil water before drinking, and remind them to wash their hands and change their clothes frequently, and...
During last year's epidemic, only three people died in Yushan Town.
The three people did not die of the disease. Instead, they were stranded in an infected village while visiting relatives and were then burned to death by the government soldiers.
The epidemic that year was first dealt with by the Wawa Medical Clinic, which first prescribed medicine, and then it quickly spread, and was quickly brought under control in a short period of time.
Logically speaking, when the epidemic broke out this year, the first thing that everyone should think of is the Baby Medical Clinic that quelled the epidemic.
But in fact, from Kyoto to the border, the first person that all the people thought of when they heard about the epidemic was Li Jinyuan, the lucky star of the Li Dynasty who was far away in the Kyoto Imperial Palace and was always favored by the emperor.
During the epidemic last year, when the epidemic was gradually disappearing, a piece of news swept across the entire Li Kingdom like a hurricane, and everyone knew that before the epidemic broke out, the fairy boy Fuxing had an extremely terrifying predictive nightmare. The emperor believed it without a doubt, so he ordered all government offices to prevent the epidemic. Although the prevention was not in place, more areas that should have suffered from the epidemic escaped because of the fairy boy's predictive dream.
Later, when the emperor was worried about the epidemic day and night, the fairy boy had another dream, and after waking up, he told his majesty with a joyful smile that he had sprinkled fairy dew in his dream, and the place where the epidemic broke out no longer had to suffer from this disease. After a few days, the epidemic was eliminated and the people returned to peace.
The emperor was overjoyed and offered sacrifices to heaven that same day, announcing to the world that the Kingdom of Li had a lucky star and that the world would be at peace. From then on, Li Jinyuan enjoyed the treatment of a prince and did not have to kneel when meeting the emperor. He was even allowed to attend court and participate in state affairs.
As a result, the name of Li Jinyuan, the lucky star fairy boy, spread throughout the entire Li Kingdom. The people built steles and temples for him, cast clay sculptures and wooden carvings, and worshiped him day and night.
However, Xuanjitang, which should have been the one that made the greatest contribution in this epidemic and gained great fame, was nowhere to be found. Even the imperial court only awarded it a hundred gold coins as a reward.
The people of Yushan Town were indignant, but they had nowhere to complain for the little miracle doctor in the Baby Clinic.
They felt that the imperial court was sorry for the children who were working hard to treat the epidemic in the Baby Clinic, so they felt more pity and guilt. On weekdays, as long as there were daily disease treatment methods from the Baby Clinic, they would study them carefully and seriously, but they disdained the so-called lucky star fairy child.
There is also a shrine in Yushan Town, and a little baby is also enshrined in the shrine, but this little baby is actually their little miracle doctor, not some lucky star fairy who has come to earth to show his divine power.
If they don't acknowledge it, naturally they won't offer incense and sacrifices to it.
Not only Yushan Town refused to recognize it, but also the battlefield in the border area where medicines were always sent by the Baby Medical Clinic refused to recognize it.
Little did he know that because of this, Li Jinyuan, who was far away in Kyoto, could not complete the special task issued by the system to "bless the whole country". He could only watch with resentment as the glaring progress bar always stayed at 93% when the task time came, silently cursing the people of Li and the garbage system thousands of times in his heart.
Fortunately, he received another special task related to the epidemic.
This time, Li Jinyuan vowed that he would complete the task 100% perfectly and get the system's sky-high task reward: completely seize the protagonist's luck and be second to none.
He should have gotten this reward last year, but something went wrong and no matter how hard he tried, the progress bar was stuck at 93% and would not move. He had no choice but to urge the system to hurry up and create another long-lasting epidemic.
In order to make this epidemic more serious and to fully establish his reputation as a lucky star, Li Jinyuan chose the most serious epidemic in this plane from ancient times to the present.
He just wants more people to die so that he can fulfill his own immortal name.
The system asked him at the time what to do if the epidemic got out of control.
Li Jinyuan sneered and replied: "Even if only a hundred households are left, so what? These are just ants that would not even appear among paper people. Who told them not to choose to worship and believe in me last year? This is all their own fault!"
The soul of the new era has long been lost in the imperial power and wealth.
He also couldn't see that his always cold and inhumane system was madly devouring the luck and vitality in his soul in his invisible mind.
That was not a system, it was just a monster hiding deep in his soul like a thorn in his flesh.
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"Xingxing, are we really leaving?" Wei Jinan sat on the stool, looking at the child who was holding a pen and concentrating on writing the prescription in front of the medicine cabinet.
After several years, the little boy who was not as tall as his legs is now eight years old.
After five years, he still hasn't been able to raise the child to be plump and white. Now, the child still looks weak and pale, but there is more flesh on the cheeks.
If Wei Jinan returned to the border like this, he was afraid that his father and Xiaowu, whose strength was increasing, would pin him to the ground and beat him.
Hearing her brother's question, Xingxing nodded and whispered in the chill of early spring, "Chun Xing, come with us. Xuanjitang is closed. The people here have taken anti-epidemic medicine in advance. Even if a major epidemic spreads, they will be fine. I have to go."
The stars have gone a long way along the path they chose.
Now, it's time for him to go back to find his brother.
After all, it was because my brother had to go to the battlefield, and there was a lack of doctors and the medical conditions were not up to standard that I chose to study medicine.
Chun Xing has learned a lot of medical knowledge in the past three years, and has also sewed countless animal corpses. She even sewed the corpses of prisoners herself. Xingxing wants to take her to the border.
As he said, it's time to go.
If you don't leave now, you may never be able to leave again.
Wei Jinan roughly guessed where his brother's sense of urgency came from.
The letter home that was sent from the capital at such a fast speed that several horses died in the rush.
In the suburbs of Li State, the source of the epidemic, people in the inner city have also been infected.
Xingxing was the doctor who came up with the prescription during last year's epidemic. When the dignitaries and nobles are facing life-and-death crisis this year, the first person they think of must be Xingxing.
If he didn't leave now, Xingxing would be forcibly taken to Kyoto, and would once again become the nourishment of some lucky fairy boy's fame.
When Wei Jinan thought of the absurdity of last year, he wanted to pick up a knife and chop off Li Jinyuan's neck, then pull down the pig on the throne and chop it into pieces to feed the dogs!
But a lack of patience can ruin great plans.
He was even more worried about his grandmother and her two friends who were far away in Kyoto.
Although they basically stay indoors, the epidemic is invisible and intangible...
Just as he was thinking about it, Xingxing, who was standing in front of the medicine cabinet, had put down the pen in her hand, raised her hand to lift the prescription written in ink on the counter, blew it dry, folded it, and handed it to her worried and dazed brother across the counter.
"What is this?" Wei Jinan took it in surprise.
"Two prescriptions." Xing Xing said to her brother with curved eyes, "One is for my sister, to treat her congenital deficiency, and the other is for my grandmother and my master's wife, to prevent and treat the epidemic. One dose will be effective."
Wei Jinan's hand, which was about to open the paper, suddenly stopped.
He held a thin stack of folded paper and looked up at the stars in disbelief.
Then he met the child's frank and gentle smile.
Wei Jinan: “…”
The 19-year-old boy's hands, which were still steady even after swinging the knife a hundred times, were now shaking uncontrollably as he held the thin origami.
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