Chapter 2061 Responsibilities
Manbao's eyes lit up, and he was even more anxious to go home. "Doctor Zheng, I'm going home first. By the way, please tell Jishitang later. Wait until the Ministry of Revenue has purchased the herbs before telling them..."
Doctor Zheng: "...Doctor Zhou, you're overthinking it. We at Jishitang are dedicated to saving lives and will not take advantage of others in need."
Manbao nodded and said, "Of course I trust you and Manager Zheng, but I'm afraid the other people in the Zheng family don't think so."
Doctor Zheng paused, then covered his stomach and said, "Oh no, my stomach is a little uncomfortable. I have to go back to the Imperial Hospital. Doctor Zhou, please leave the palace first."
Since this kind of thing is difficult to say, I will just leave the palace later. I can check the recorded cases of smallpox treatment in the Imperial Hospital to see if there are any prescriptions that can be used. The night passed quickly.
Manbao watched him hold his stomach and slowly return to the Imperial Hospital, then shook his head and left the palace.
Perhaps no one in her family expected that she would be able to leave the palace today, so no one was waiting outside the palace. Manbao thought about it and walked out of the imperial city. When she saw Minister Liu's carriage from a distance, she waved her hand and then took Minister Liu's carriage out of the imperial city.
Manbao and Minister Liu sat opposite each other, the old and the young, looking at each other, and sighed in unison.
Minister Liu asked Zhou Man, "Is there any prescription for preventing or treating smallpox?"
Man Bao said, "Taking medicine to prevent it is useless. It is transmitted by evil spirits, and it can be spread through droplets and contact. So everyone at home should go out less, wash things thoroughly, and boil drinking water for both the master and servants. Keep the house clean inside and outside, and this will cut off most of the transmission routes."
"The remaining half depends on people's hearts."
The smallpox evil creature is not a tall monster or beast that can be seen with the naked eye, so there will always be mistakes and omissions.
Manbao thought for a while and said, "But the mouth and nose should be the most important, followed by the exposed hands and feet. Well, maybe your family can find a piece of cloth, preferably cotton, to cover the mouth and nose, just cover it with a few layers."
Minister Liu: ...What's with the mask? You're hiding it like that, and you think he can't see anyone?
In the end, Manbao gave him a prescription. "This is either a prescription for preventing smallpox or a prescription for curing smallpox, but no one knows how effective it is. If Minister Liu wants me to write one for you."
In fact, she felt that he didn't need it. If their family really got smallpox, even if they couldn't invite the imperial physician from the Imperial Hospital, it would not be difficult to go directly to the Imperial Hospital to ask for a prescription.
But Minister Liu was still very happy to accept it, and then sent the person to the door of Zhou's house before returning to Liu's house.
It was almost dark at this time.
Manbao knocked on the door in the last bit of light. When the doorman opened the door and saw Zhou Man coming back, he was surprised. Seeing that she was the only one outside, with no guards or carriages, he immediately felt distressed. While letting her in, he shouted to the inside: "Miss Man is back, Miss Man is back."
Zhou Liulang and his friends lived in the first courtyard entered through the side door, and were the first to hear the shouting. Old Zhoutou and his friends had just finished their meal and were sitting in the main room, and they hurried out when they heard the noise.
Zhou Liru ran the fastest, rushing up to them in a flash. Nervously and deliberately lowering her voice, she asked, "Aunt, my uncle and the others said there's a plague out there, right? Are you okay?"
Old Zhou and Mrs. Qian were also anxious.
They had never seen a plague in their entire lives, but they had heard of it.
Not to mention the distant past, when the Jianwei Weir burst, plague broke out in some places. The number of people who died and were washed away by the water was almost the same. I heard from people who fled to their county town that people died in pieces and were in great pain before they died. They were hungry, vomiting, and had diarrhea. When they started bleeding, they died immediately.
The plague is as terrible as the flood, or even worse.
If you encounter a flood, you can at least survive by hiding in a high place. But what should you do if you encounter a plague?
Before Manbao came back, Old Zhou asked Qian, "Do you want to go to the mountain to pay your respects to the Heavenly Lord?"
Manbao came back and rejected his idea directly. She said, "Don't go out recently, brother. The winter wheat in Putian Village has been planted. You guys should stay home too. You can help out at the restaurant occasionally, but don't go to any crowded places..."
Manbao was giving instructions here, and Baishan and the others rushed over after hearing the news.
Seeing that the three brothers, along with Old Madam Liu and Mr. Zhuang, had come over, she simply repeated the precautions, then looked at Bai Dalang and said, "Brother Bai, please don't go back to Changqing Lane for the time being. Bring your sister-in-law and nephew to live here with you, and try not to let the servants go out."
"Are you going to Xiazhou?" Bai Shan interrupted her and asked.
Manbao sighed and nodded at him.
Before Old Zhou and the others could be surprised, Bai Shan said calmly, "I'll go with you."
Bai Erlang opened his mouth wide, looked at Manbao, then looked at Bai Shan, and finally gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, "I, I'll go too."
Bai Dalang grabbed him, and Bai Erlang hissed and immediately hid behind Mr. Zhuang.
Mr. Zhuang frowned, "None of you three have ever had pox."
Manbao was also feeling uneasy, and said to Baishan, "Please let me think about it."
She has to ask Teacher Mo and Keke first.
Bai Shan looked at Manbao quietly, thinking that she wanted to ask Uncle Zhou, and nodded after a while.
The Zhou family was naturally not happy to let Manbao go, but Manbao said, "Dad, Mom, this is an assignment from the Imperial Hospital."
Old Zhou was speechless. He didn't have a very high level of awareness, but he knew one thing: if he served the emperor's family, he had to do his best to serve them.
What's more, saving lives is a great merit.
Old Zhou was discouraged and said to Qian: "Pack the children's luggage."
Old Madam Liu also sighed. Although Manbao had not yet agreed to let Bai Shan go, based on her understanding of the two children, Shanbao would definitely go, and Manbao would most likely not be able to stop him.
So after returning home, he said to Zheng: "Pack up Shanbao's things as well."
Zheng couldn't help wiping away her tears, but she didn't say anything against it.
Old Madam Liu clapped her hands and sighed, "That's just how it is when children grow up. When people grow up, they become more opinionated. Ultimately, it's their life, and we shouldn't interfere too much."
"My daughter-in-law understands and is just worried."
"I know, I'm worried too, but I think Manbao is the imperial physician, and Shanbao has always been in good health, so they should be fine."
Zheng followed this line of thought and thought, "Erlang is in good health, but Manbao has been in poor health since childhood. He has only become plump and healthy in recent years. I'm afraid he is more susceptible to illness than Shanbao and Erlang."
"That's right," Old Madam Liu sighed, "but unfortunately she's the imperial physician. This is her duty, she can't escape it."
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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