Chapter 240

The mother-in-law of the Yang family raised her hand and pointed at the pot of water with trembling fingers: "That water... that water..."

...The water is not boiling!

The big brother she had been waiting for for more than ten years turned out to be harmed by this poisonous woman!

The mother-in-law of the Yang family was so angry that she had no time to say anything. Her whole body was filled with energy and blood, and her chest suddenly ached. The next moment, her vision turned black and she fell back.

Early in the morning, the Yang family was in such a commotion that all the neighbors opened their doors and came out to watch the fun.

"Someone in his family is sick again?"

"It sounds like it's from Lao Cui's family. Couldn't she be infected with the plague by her eldest grandson?"

"It's hard to say, do you remember the last time? Mr. Cunxi Ge Na's family was the one where all the family fell ill and were dragged away."

"..."

Amid the snooping comments from the neighbors, Minzhuang, who came after hearing the noise, knocked on the door of Lao Yang's house.

A few days ago, a patient who was several months old appeared in his house. He was the focus of attention. He came to Minzhuang from the incident in only half an hour.

The leader of the team, Minggang, shouted loudly: "Whoever is sick, bring him out quickly."

"Say hello to Master Cha, it's my wife who suddenly fainted." Lao Yang came out to reply in fear.

These burly, masked people would either yell loudly or drag people away every time they appeared. Some people are still guessing behind their backs whether those who were dragged away due to illness will be buried on the spot and never come back.

Therefore, when his wife saw Minzhuang, she was frightened from the bottom of her heart.

The leader asked: "How did you faint?"

Old Yang said: "I don't know. I was fine, but suddenly I fainted."

Seeing the displeasure in Min Zhuang's eyes, he suddenly thought of something and said quickly, "It seems that my daughter-in-law is here too. I'll call her back."

Mrs. Qiu, the daughter-in-law, is the woman who was doing things in the water.

She had lost her mind after Cui passed out. When she was called for questioning, she hesitated with a guilty conscience and couldn't understand. Min Zhuang,

who was leading the team, was sharp-eyed and saw that something was wrong. He deliberately used harsh words to scare her: "If you don't tell the truth, I will take you to jail."

"I say! I say!" Qiu was frightened and immediately leaked the truth.

Hiding her face, she told her how she did something and was discovered by her mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law was so angry that she fainted.

Everyone present said: "..."

They were all surprised.

Even the rest of the old Yang family knew nothing about this matter. When they heard her say these words, they looked at her as if they were looking at a stranger they had never met.

"You...how did you do such a thing!" Old Yang's hands trembled, and the corners of his drooped mouth twitched.

Qiu's husband staggered two steps and looked at her in disbelief: "Is what you said true?"

Qiu lowered her head and suddenly raised her head after hearing the words. But seeing the look in her husband's eyes, she lowered her head in shame: "I..."

Even if he usually has a sharp tongue, there is no use for it at this time.

Suddenly, Mrs. Cui woke up from fainting and screamed "Ouch, ouch" in pain.

It made everyone else look sideways.

Seeing Ms. Cui wake up, Minzhuang said nothing more. Since it was not a plague, the family's affairs were none of their business.

They were about to leave, but Cui quickly stopped them.

"Wait a minute, sir, I have something to say." Ms. Cui's face looked even older.

She lamented: "My eldest daughter-in-law and eldest brother are both in the resettlement house. I and several other people in my family may also get the plague."

"How do you say this?" Minzhuang frowned after hearing this.

Cui told them in detail that Qiu wanted to poison their Dafang family.

The eldest brother has already entered the resettlement house, but she still boils the unboiled water. Isn't it to harm her two elders and her eldest son?

"I've been feeling unwell for the past two days, and I'm afraid I might be sick too."

If she also went to the resettlement center, she would have a chance to see her eldest brother again.

Having said this, Ms. Cui looked fiercely at the woman huddled in the corner, daring not to raise her head.

The youngest daughter-in-law, Ms. Qiu, has been married to their family for more than ten years and has raised two children, both of whom are girls.

The generation of his family has few children. The eldest daughter-in-law only gave birth to a brother after so many years. The younger daughter-in-law was injured after giving birth to two sisters in a row and was unable to have another child. His family was poor and had no money to marry his two sons.

Therefore, it is not too bad for these two sisters. They are not lacking in food and clothing. Of course, compared with the eldest brother who was born a few months ago, the treatment of the second wife in the past few months has obviously been worse than before.

But the two parents-in-law asked themselves, they didn’t feel any grievances against their second wife, and they didn’t understand why the younger daughter-in-law would harm her elder brother like this!

Minzhuang couldn't make up his mind. After much thought, he felt that he couldn't let go of anything suspicious, so he took the whole family away.

The matter quickly spread in Yangjiazhuang, and the actions of the youngest daughter-in-law Qiu were widely publicized and abused.

Some women in the same village who had a good relationship with her suffered a disaster and were stared at fiercely by their mother-in-law, fearing that their daughter-in-law would be such a poisonous woman.

These women: "..." If they knew this person was scary, who would be close to her!

As a result, they were also criticized.

They couldn't help cursing her in their hearts that she would die badly.

At this time, Mrs. Qiu had been brought to the resettlement center with her hands tied. In addition, there were so many people in the Yang family who also had to find a house to live in.

Min Zhuang, who was leading the team, ran to A Xu: "Doctor A Xu, there are people coming to Yangjiazhuang again, but this time some people are different. These people are not sick yet."

"How can we bring them here if they are not sick?" A Xu asked strangely frown.

Minzhuang had no choice but to tell A Xu what happened. After hearing this, A Xu was a little confused.

What a waste!

There is already a plague, so how can it harm your own family?

Thinking that there was also the harmful Qiu family here, A Xu first told Minzhuang to arrange the old Yang family into the newly built resettlement house next to the child, and then reported the matter to Xu Yi.

Lin Xiuhui is also at the free clinic.

Hearing this, he smiled coldly: "Such ridiculous things have never happened before."

"Isn't it surprising?" A Xu was stunned.

Lin Xiuhui said: "It's strange, but people are unpredictable. When I was treating a patient with a teacher, I once encountered a patient who wanted to drag others down and poured the filth into the drinking well without telling them, so that they Many people in the village have died of the plague. "

"Hiss——"

Everyone gasped, there are such vicious people in the world.

"Has that person been punished in the end?" A Xu asked urgently.

Lin Xiuhui said: "Dead, he died first. Originally, no one knew about it, but he said it himself."

Xu Yi, who was listening: "..."

Why did he feel that Lin Xiuhui was deliberately scaring him? Where is A Xu.

Sure enough, when she saw A Xu showing a different look, Lin Xiuhui smiled with satisfaction.

It was as if his evil taste was satisfied.

Of course, he wasn't just trying to scare people, he was also reminding Xu Yi to be careful about evil people actually doing this.

Xu Yi thought: "What you said makes no sense. I'm really afraid that some vixens will harm people's lives."

After a while, he thought of an idea.

Looking at A Xu, who was still frightened, Xu Yi said: "You escort that Qiu family to Magistrate He County and say that the case will be decided by him."

Lin Xiuhui raised her eyebrows and looked at him: "?"

"Aren't you afraid of He County Magistrate? "The magistrate can't solve this stupid problem?"

Xu Yi said, "Then it depends on what Magistrate He chooses." Is it difficult to resolve household affairs with an upright official, or is the plague more important?

He didn't make it clear. Since the matter was handed over to Magistrate He, Xu Yi didn't say anything more and interrupted to ask what the outcome would be.

Instead, based on the "story" told by Lin Xiuhui, several teams were dispatched to inspect the daily drinking water in several villages day and night.

After the plague, Xu Yi once thought about teaching these villagers to drill wells, but he was not a craftsman and could not drill wells, so the matter could only be put on hold for the time being.

Later, the plague gradually spread, and he was so busy that he stayed in the resettlement workshop all day. He didn't even have time to go out, let alone find a craftsman to dig a well.

Yan Quyue did not rest because of the plague. She spent these days outside the resettlement workshop, cooperating with several large local medical clinics in Qishui to take charge of medicinal materials.

With her help, Xu Yi was relieved.

But this is not enough.

The plague spread faster than Xu Yi thought, like hidden time bombs that exploded one after another when the time came.

Xu Yi was caught off guard. Even Magistrate He County, who was always paying attention to the progress of the plague, was a little confused as to why so many fish were slipping through the net despite strenuous prevention and control efforts.

"Could it be that there is any harm in unknown places?"

Magistrate He walked back and forth in the study, looking at Master Feng with a low eyebrow, and suddenly felt a little unhappy with him.

Master Feng's performance was really poor regarding this plague, which gave him the idea of ​​changing to another master. However, changing the master is not an urgent matter at the moment. We will wait until the plague is over.

"Send a few people to the surrounding villages to check, and don't miss any corner." Magistrate He said with a serious look on his face, and gave the order meticulously, "Especially the water source. Be sure to find out where the flaw is."

Master Feng took the order and retreated . After I got off, someone came to report it soon.

It was said that someone was coming from the resettlement workshop.

Magistrate He originally thought that Xu Yi had arranged something to tell him, so without thinking about it he asked his servants to bring the people in.

As a result, what was brought in was a strong man and a submissive woman.

The Qiu family had never seen such a powerful force before. She was already scared to death halfway. Now when she saw the county magistrate, she fainted from fright.

Magistrate He: "?"

"What exactly is going on?"

Min Zhuangxing bowed and replied, "Hello Magistrate, Doctor Xu asked us to bring this. Here is Doctor Xu's handwriting, please see Magistrate He."

Magistrate He took a look at the handwritten book and cursed in his heart what a nonsense! Why should such matters be pushed to his side? Looking at the frightened woman who was incontinent, Magistrate He had disgust in his eyes.

He couldn't help but think of someone, and the vague figure in his mind gradually overlapped with the woman in front of him.

He said coldly: "Drag her down, wake her up, and interrogate me about all the details of the case."

As for what will happen, judging from the current situation, it is not appropriate to sentence the person to exile.

If this woman carried the plague and spread it to other places, wouldn't she be harming people in other places?

In addition, Magistrate He thought about it for a moment and came up with another meaning.

Xu Yi was so brave, daring to play tricks under his nose. It's just that this kind of mentality is quite bold in the eyes of Magistrate He, but in the eyes of others, how dare he be like this.

Thinking of this, Magistrate He looked pointedly at Minzhuang who was speaking: "After the interrogation, you take the person back to the resettlement house to ensure that the person does not have the plague, and then sentence him to punishment."

"Yes." Minzhuang After receiving the order, Mr. Qiu was taken out.

...

and half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

Cholera, which has been out of control, has finally made new progress.

The advantage of having new doctors join is that while treating patients, they are doing in-depth research on new prescriptions.

After more than ten days and nights of trying, they finally developed a more effective basic formula based on the original "Pulsatilla Soup".

When you are not sure about the diversity of the cholera virus, you can use this basic recipe to boil the decoction and provide it to the villagers. At the same time, villagers who are classified as "potential patients" can take medicinal decoctions to prevent and control the disease before it breaks out.

With this basic formula in place, no new patients have appeared in the villagers of Wangjiacun and Yangjiazhuang.

Patients who had previously contracted cholera gradually improved and recovered after treatment.

The first batch of villagers who were taken away were safely sent out of the resettlement workshop.

On this day, when Xu Yi organized several doctors to conduct routine examinations and eliminations for the patients and staff in the resettlement center, they discovered that two people in Shuili and Minzhuangli, who were the first to come to the resettlement center, were unfortunately infected. .

This news quickly caused panic in the resettlement workshop.

Some minzhuang and shouli, who were not willing to come, gathered in the crowd to demand explanations, and even wanted to cause trouble.

Xu Yi was worried about uncontrollable chaos in the resettlement workshop and immediately convened an emergency meeting.

A Xu said quickly with a serious expression: "The people have been taken to quarantine separately, but several other soldiers came to ask if they would be sick too."

Qi Ming frowned and asked: "You didn't follow them Explanation?"

A Xu shook his head: "I explained it, but I couldn't listen."

At first, they told these Shuili and Minzhuang that as long as they carried the medicinal powder and Piwen powder developed by Xu Yi, they would take the powder after contacting the patient. , you can avoid infection with a high probability.

But those people... only half-listened to it.

They only heard "no chance of infection" instead of "high probability".

As time goes by, this extremely small probability will always happen. Now that someone in the resettlement workshop has really been infected with the plague, things have become serious in an instant.

Lin Xiuhui analyzed: "With today's prescriptions, if you take the medicine immediately after getting sick, you can recover in four or five days. Why can't they wait?"

Xu Yi raised his eyes and looked at everyone present: "Because they are afraid."

The current treatment environment and material level will have great limitations when a plague occurs. The usual situation is that the people are sick and corpses are everywhere. This perception is a lingering shadow among the people at the bottom.

Such a shadow of death, let alone ancient times, even in modern times with ultra-high-tech levels, a variety of precise instruments and equipment, and even very good medical teams, will have various limitations when dealing with plagues.

Everyone is afraid of death.

Even Xu Yi is afraid when facing death.

During the resettlement workshop they established, no patient suffered from long-term treatment or was in danger of life, but it was only convincing to a certain extent. However, it was far from enough to eliminate the fear of the plague for those who wanted to help with disaster relief in the future.

Xu Yi broke the silence: "Shouli and Minzhuang were sent by Magistrate He. We have no right to ask them back, not to mention we need them."

"What should we do now?" Lin Xiuhui asked him.

They are a bunch of folk doctors who want to suppress the strength of the people and the strength of the people, which seems to be too exaggerated.

Xu Yi said calmly: "I will come forward. If something happens to anyone, I will be responsible for all the consequences."