Chapter 238

Master Feng took the scarf handed to him by Minzhuang and looked at it twice with an unclear expression. He found that this scarf was different from the scarves he had usually seen around his face.

It is made of two plain plain cloths sewn together, with something similar to straw inside. There are openings at the lanyards sewn at both ends. Master Feng opened it along the opening and made sure that it contained dried straw. After covering my mouth and nose, I don't feel so stuffy, and there is even a faint elegant medicinal fragrance.

Master Feng was hesitant. Where did Xu Yi learn this method?

The official doctors he had seen in the Huimin Bureau before could only cover their mouth and nose with a piece of silk cloth, but there was no such method.

The resettlement room was full of patients. Master Feng did not go in and only patrolled the outside.

Soon, he saw the grain pushed by the villagers piled into a warehouse. There were several earth stoves set up in the open space outside, and several cooks were busy cooking lunch.

Master Feng came closer and saw that the pot was boiling rice porridge with wild vegetables.

Gululu -

the porridge is green and shiny, with a lot of wild vegetables mixed in. It looks unappetizing.

Thinking that Magistrate He had allocated 10,000 silver coins, this was not a small amount of money. Almost all the money in the county government had been invested.

Master Feng suddenly thought about it and grabbed a cook to ask: "How do you feed a patient something like this? Is this all arranged by Dr. Xu?"

"Master Feng, it is indeed arranged by Dr. Xu." The cook saw him coming and asked. He answered timidly.

After hearing the answer he wanted, Master Feng reluctantly let him go, wiped his fingers in disgust, straightened the wrinkles of his gown, and went to see Xu Yi.

At this time, Xu Yi was at the free clinic outside the resettlement workshop.

"Free Clinic" was still the name he chose. Anyone with symptoms could first be diagnosed through the Free Clinic and then enter the resettlement center for treatment.

In just a few days, more than 60 people have been infected.

This speed has been controlled as much as possible, but Xu Yi is still worried that as the weather gets warmer and hotter, the disease will spread faster.

"Xu...Brother Xu," outside, Pang Min came in quickly. Just as he was about to call someone, he thought that Xu Yi was already "Uncle Xu".

He couldn't shout, so Xu Yi thoughtfully suggested that as long as he was in front of outsiders, he could always call him by his previous name.

"Brother Xu, south of the city, this is the seventh township where patients have appeared." Pang Mincai spoke very quickly, "Just now, Junior Brother Yang has gone to pick up people with a few hands."

"How many people are there this time? ?" Xu Yi asked with a frown.

Pang Mincai said: "There are four people, old and young, all from the same family. Among them, the old lady is seriously ill and I heard that she can't even get out of bed."

After hearing this, Xu Yi stood up and asked: "Where are they?"

Pang Mincai: "It should be there soon."

Xu Yi put on a homemade mask and picked up the medicine box: "I'll go there first, and you let A Xu fry the medicine soup first."

"I'll go with you." Pang Mincai shouted.

Xu Yi shook his head and said solemnly: "If you stay here, if someone from above comes to see you, you can still say something back."

Pang Mincai twitched his lips: "This is the resettlement workshop, who will come from above?"

Xu Yi meant. Looking at him deeply: "That's not necessarily the case."

After saying that, he came out of the free clinic and strode away towards the outside.

Not long after he left, on the trail behind the free clinic, a Minzhuang came with Master Feng.

"Master Feng, this is the free clinic. Doctor Xu is usually in there." After Minzhuang explained, he said with a smile, "The younger ones will go and get busy first."

Master Feng waved his hand and looked at the door of the free clinic. , lifted up his gown and went inside.

As soon as he came in, he met Pang Mincai, who was grabbing medicine inside. Master Feng was slightly stunned and asked him, "Where is Mrs. Xu?"

Pang Min then continued to grab the medicine: "Brother Xu went out to pick up the patient."

"..."

When he saw no one, Master Feng didn't give up and sat down at the table. On the chair and stool, he raised his chin and stared at him: "I have something to ask."

Pang Min then wrapped the banana leaves for medicinal purposes, called a minzhuang over, and asked him to send the medicine to the rear. Then, he faced Master Feng, looked at his outfit, and remembered who this person was.

Yes, Xu Yi really got it right.

Pang Mincai said, "Excuse me, Master Feng."

Master Feng looked at him with a slightly displeased attitude. It was not worthy of his anger, but directly held him to account: "I came here today just to see how you will build this resettlement workshop." What's going on? I didn't expect you to follow County Magistrate He's instructions and fool the villagers with some wild vegetable porridge."

"Huh?" Pang Mincai was stunned.

Master Feng continued to criticize: "How can this patient recover if he only drinks wild vegetable porridge? If you do this, don't you think about the consequences?"

"Master Feng, did you misunderstand something?" After hearing this, Pang Mincai didn't know where this person was coming from. Looking for trouble.

"The wild vegetable porridge you are talking about, the wild vegetables in it are called water willow branches. They are actually medicinal materials. It is very beneficial for people with abdominal pain and dysentery."

"How could Master Feng be so indiscriminate and question me first. Pang Mincai's eyes turned cold, "Does it mean that I am just a civilian doctor, so I can slander my reputation casually?"

...

For doctors, reputation is very important, how can a county magistrate be allowed to slander him casually? of?

What's more, Pang Mincai is still a young man who doesn't act according to common sense. He is full of blood and cannot tolerate anyone abusing his power.

While clamoring, he asked Master Feng to accompany him to meet with County Magistrate He and ask for an explanation from Magistrate He.

Master Feng was shocked by his reckless behavior and repeatedly shouted at him not to be presumptuous.

"I'm the county master, how can you, a common man, be rude to me!" Master Feng was furious. He was a civil servant after all, how could he be reprimanded like this?

"Hey, brother, calm down." From behind, Yang Xiujin hurried over after hearing the sound and pulled the two of them away.

"Master Feng, please calm down." Yang Xiujin said with a flattering smile, "My senior brother just can't tolerate dirt in his eyes. It's really not against Master Feng. You are an adult and don't remember the faults of villains. Don't argue with him."

" Humph!" Master Feng shook off his hand.

Pang Mincai took the opportunity to shout: "Junior Brother Yang, you don't know, he falsely accused us of treating patients badly."

Yang Xiujin blinked at him fiercely: "You can't say this nonsense. How could Master Feng be that kind of person? He is Magistrate He's right-hand man. Magistrate He entrusted us with such tasks. Master Feng also did it to congratulate us." The county magistrate."

"Humph." Pang Mincai looked away.

Yang Xiujin smiled, cupped his hands and said, "Looking at this situation, both of you said a few words. If Master Feng is worried, you can come and ask me, and I will tell you everything.

" This is a big deal.

He was afraid that he would really cause trouble to Magistrate He and that Magistrate He would hold him accountable, so he walked down the steps and said a few words before throwing up his sleeves and leaving the free clinic.

Seeing that the person was gone, Yang Xiujin sighed: "Brother, why should you vent your anger with him? Too much anger will harm your body. Besides, he is a master. If he wants to hit you, wouldn't he be able to pinch you with both hands? If you really offend him then, in Qishui is not easy to deal with. "

"How can I be afraid of him?"

"You are not afraid, but you have to consider me. I only have a small medical clinic in Yangjiazhuang."

"..."

Pang Mincai is not afraid. After speaking, I also knew that he was angry just now and was a little too angry.

Thinking about it now, I still feel angry: "You don't know, he said that the wild vegetable porridge cooked by Brother Xu was a cruel treatment to the villagers."

Yang Xiujin's expression changed slightly: "You made a good fuss just now. This time, Master Feng should not Will come easily to cause trouble."

He added, "We have to remind Brother Xu later."

...

Xu Yi received the patient outside the resettlement center. On the bullock cart, there was one person lying down and three people sitting. The one lying down was the old lady Pang Mincai was talking about.

The old lady had been ill for three days. The family did not connect this matter at all, but there were still people beating gongs and drums in the village, shouting that there was a plague, and asking them not to drink raw water, not to eat rotten meat, etc.

The family realized belatedly that the old lady in their family was suffering from the plague.

Before they could be taken out of the house, the whole family was hit by the trick, but the village chief noticed something was wrong and reported it to Min Zhuang, who was on patrol.

Minzhuang reported it to Yang Xiujin again, and his family was afraid that they would die at home.

"Doctor, help, help..."

Seeing Xu Yi's behavior, the family cried weakly.

Xu Yi heard a buzzing sound in his ears: "Don't worry, I will do my best to treat you."

He diagnosed the pulse and confirmed that they had the same disease. He immediately took out the prepared Piwen Powder from the medicine box and gave them warm medicine. .

This Piwen Powder is made from several medicinal materials such as Chuanxiong, Atractylodes, Angelica dahurica, Ligusticum orientalis, Linglingxiang, etc., which are ground and sieved into powder. Each medicinal material has the effect of treating abdominal pain and diarrhea. [Note 1]

In an emergency, you can first use this Piwen Powder to relieve symptoms.

After entering the resettlement house, A Xu brought the boiled medicinal soup and gave it to them one by one.

The family's condition has been treated and has not deteriorated further. Although they still have abdominal pain and diarrhea, they are no longer like before when they vomited after eating.

Xu Yi settled the patient and returned to the free clinic. Pang Mincai stood outside the door to blow the air. He said, "Why don't you go in?"

"Master Feng is here to cause trouble." Pang Mincai raised his eyebrows, "I'm having trouble with him. Once, I was persuaded by Junior Brother Yang to leave. I thought I should let you know."

Xu Yi asked suspiciously, "What kind of trouble are you looking for?"

Pang Mincai said, "You just insulted us without asking anything."

"..." Xu Yi was speechless for a moment, and smiled to comfort Pang Mincai, "Everything I do is registered in the register, and I will send it to Magistrate He every day."

Pang Mincai breathed a sigh of relief: "You should be more careful in doing things. "

The other party wanted to strike first, but he was just treating the other person the same way. After all, they didn't do anything like that. If they really made trouble to Magistrate He, I don't know who would be scolded.

Right now, the only thing that gives them a headache is the plague.

A character like Master Feng is not enough for him to keep in mind.

"By the way, what do you think of that family?" After talking about other things, Pang Min asked about business.

"It's okay. Only the old lady is seriously ill, and the sister is not seriously ill, so I placed them separately." After Xu Yi said that, something suddenly occurred to him, "The Biwen Powder we prepared is almost used up, Mincai, your Can you bring in a few people? "

They are really short of manpower.

...

Outside Qishui County, the villages ten miles to the south have been uneasy for several days due to the news of plague prevention and control.

Dr. Qi Ming from Qiaojiazhuang had just returned from traveling half a month ago and had been resting for two days when he heard the news.

"How can there be a plague when everything is flourishing in spring?" Qi Ming was confused. He only heard about the plague being prevalent in summer.

Qi Ming was still confused when he received the order from the magistrate of Qishui County. The order stated that private doctors should be recruited to jointly prevent and control the plague.

He was anxiously wandering around with the warrant in hand. Beside him, the young apprentice suddenly asked: "Teacher, you don't want to go? What Magistrate He said above is not forcing you. If the teacher doesn't want to go, then we won't go."

"This is How can we not go away from the plague?" Qi Ming glared at the young apprentice.

The young apprentice scratched his face: "Since we are going, why is the teacher hesitant?"

Qi Ming sighed: "I want to go, but this Magistrate He is confused, how can such a big matter be left to a private doctor? "

Then what the teacher means..." The young apprentice blinked at him.

Qi Ming stroked his beard and said hesitantly: "I'll go meet the doctors first. I can coax Magistrate He to obey. I wonder if he has some real skills or is it just like embroidering pillows."

The young apprentice listened to the teacher's nagging very seriously. Di responded: "Teacher goes, students must follow the teacher."

"No." Qi Ming looked at the little apprentice, who was no more than ten years old, and shook his head repeatedly, "You are too young. Guard your home. If a patient comes to come, Just say I'm going out."

...

Some villagers in Yangjiazhuang are dissatisfied. They are not sick or suffering from disaster, so why can't they leave the village?

What's more, only a few villagers with diarrhea showed up, and they were yelling at them to use firewood to boil water for drinking?

They are really wealthy people, but they don’t know how hard the ordinary people live. Firewood is so expensive, who would be willing to use it to boil water.

Moreover, every household in the village drinks the water from the river every year. It is living water, so why can’t we drink it?

"Old Xie's family, don't listen to those who have it. Our family has been drinking river water for decades. When has anything happened?" A woman whispered to her neighbor next door, "This bundle of firewood is for sale." It costs eighty cents to boil water, and it will be finished in a few days. Who has the money?"

"But the person who came to call out said that the people in our village are all suffering from the epidemic, so they just need to drink water . "

It's just a lie to those of you who don't understand. If it were really an epidemic, people would have died."

"Shh... don't speak so loudly,"

said the woman. He continued, "You don't know, I escaped from Shouchun. The drought in Shouchun that year killed many people. No one collected the bodies, so the plague spread, and more people died."

"Is it really that terrible? "

Of course, if my family hadn't escaped first, how could they have come to Qishui."

The two chatted for a long time. The woman saw that the neighbor believed her words and returned home to eat melon seeds with satisfaction.

After a while, his mother-in-law asked her to boil water for her uncle's brother. The woman responded with a smile, turned around and came to the kitchen, spat on the ground, and reluctantly poured the water on The pot burned for a while, but before the water boiled, the firewood was extinguished.

"Why isn't this water hot?" Mother-in-law asked suspiciously.

The woman said: "After I cooked it, I poured some of the water that I had boiled earlier into it, so that if my brother wanted to drink water, he could drink it immediately."

With her explanation, her mother-in-law no longer doubted, I happily took the water to feed my eldest grandson who was just a few months old.

A few days later, the eldest grandson, who had been raised fat by his mother-in-law, suddenly started vomiting after eating rice porridge.

Then she cried loudly, no matter how she was coaxed, it was of no use.

His mother was so panicked that she quickly asked her mother-in-law if she had fed her brother anything unclean.

"No, I just listened to what Dr. Xu said. The water and food given to the eldest brother are all cooked." My mother-in-law cried and wiped away her tears. Could it be that his eldest brother died young?

The woman rushed over when she heard the crying, and happened to hear them say that her eldest brother was sick.

The disease was exactly the same as what was being reported outside. She couldn't help but feel secretly happy. In the past few days, all she had been feeding her children was boiled water.

It would be great if this sister-in-law's child really gets the plague.

The woman thought to herself, made a sad look, squeezed out a few tears and cried: "Sister-in-law, let's take our eldest brother to the resettlement center quickly."

"There are so many patients in the resettlement center, and the eldest brother is still like this. " Little one, how can I bear it?" My sister-in-law burst into tears, holding the child and calling out her nickname.

The woman gave some more words of advice, saying that there was a doctor in the resettlement center and that he was very lucky and had a good fortune, so he would be fine.

Upon hearing this, the grandmother seemed to have figured something out. She no longer cried in self-pity, rolled over and hugged the child, and rushed out of the house.

*

More than half a month passed in the blink of an eye, and villagers outside Qishui City fell ill one after another.

The 20 houses in the original temporary resettlement house were not enough for patients to live in. Even though Magistrate He sent twenty more minzhuangs behind him, Xu Yi and the others were still short of manpower.

At this time, two other doctors arrived outside the resettlement square in an ox cart.

Both doctors carried handwritten notes issued by Magistrate He, and Min Zhuangli, who was guarding outside the resettlement house, let the person in.