Chapter 2069 Vaccine
Manbao washed his hands and changed his outer clothes before sitting by the fire, but he was still three meters away from Bai Shan and Bai Erlang.
Bai Shan, who wanted to whisper something to her, was suppressed by her gaze. He could only squat on the other side of the fire and said, "Okay, let's leave early tomorrow morning?"
Manbao nodded. There were more patients waiting for her in Xiazhou City. She couldn't stay here for just one patient. Besides, she didn't have much medicine on hand.
According to what Teacher Mo said, if things move quickly, we should have a conclusion before noon tomorrow, and we will soon know whether there is a ready-made vaccine or not.
After a night, Manbao was woken up by Bai Shan. She poked her head out from under the quilt and saw the bright morning star in the sky as soon as she opened her eyes.
Bai Shan said, "It's daylight now, get up."
Manbao responded and got up to wash up.
The guards took out hard steamed buns and distributed them to everyone. Manbao took one, roasted it by the fire at a distance from them, and ate it with boiling water.
Bai Erlang said as he ate, "It's been a whole night. There's no need for you to stay so far away from us, right?"
Manbao wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, put his mask back on after finishing his meal, and said slowly, "Do you know how long the smallpox virus can survive in dust and bedding?"
"how long?"
"Half a year to a year."
Bai Jilang and everyone: ...
"It's not afraid of extreme cold or extreme heat, so you'd better be careful."
One guard couldn't help but ask, "Isn't smallpox caused by evil spirits entering the body? What is a virus?"
Manbao paused and then said, "It's a poisonous disease."
She was the imperial physician, and everyone believed what she said without a second thought. The guards suddenly realized, "So smallpox is poisonous, no wonder it's so deadly."
Man Bao said: "So you'd better be careful when you arrive in Xiazhou City. Wash your hands frequently, wear a mask, and try not to touch your mouth and nose with your hands..."
She gave a lot of instructions, and the guards all listened carefully.
After we finished eating, it was almost dawn and everyone packed up to leave.
Manbao gathered the last bit of medicine he had and gave it to Wu Xiang and his family, saying, "This is all I have. Due to limited ingredients, the medicine I gave her isn't very good. I see the rash has broken out, but her temperature isn't very high. With the right medicine, she should be able to survive. If you insist on heading south, we can't persuade you too much. Although you might meet a lot of people along the way, you can't enter the city gates, so the number of people you can harm is limited..."
Manbao paused and said, "Forget it, it's up to you."
Bai Shan just nodded to them and got on his horse, without forcing them to return to Xiazhou City.
The Wu Xiang family was tense and only relaxed after their horses had run out of sight.
They were still a little bit unbelievable. How could they be let off like this?
Wu Xiang's family looked at each other in bewilderment. The woman couldn't help but ask, "Her father, what should we do?"
Wu Xiang looked at the road ahead, then at the way he had come, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go to the Yue family first."
However, it is not far from here to Dejing County by horseback, and it only takes half a day to get there, but it will take at least a day to walk.
Wu Xiang gave his daughter some medicine, then pushed the cart and continued walking with his wife and mother. However, after walking for more than an hour, there was no one on the road.
It seemed as if there were only the four of them on the spacious official road. No matter where they went, it was empty. Even time seemed to be infinitely stretched out. Walking for more than an hour was as unbearable as walking for three or four hours.
The woman was terrified. "Dad, if Dejing County is also sealed off like the adults say, and we can't get in, then wouldn't these two days have been wasted? It's so cold, can Daya endure it?"
The old woman reached out and touched the child, then hesitated. "Son, I feel that Daya is not as hot anymore. The medicine that the female doctor gave her last night is effective. She is not as itchy anymore. Why don't we go back? If we get stopped in Dejing County, we won't be able to get a doctor. Daya needs to see a doctor and take medicine."
The woman nodded repeatedly, and she was also very nervous. Her child had already contracted smallpox, and she couldn't really take the child back to her parents' home. Her brother and sister-in-law also had children. What if the child infected her family?
Wu Xiang also began to hesitate. He stopped and looked at the road ahead. He waited for a long time but no one came. He looked back at the way he came, but there was no one either. He became even more uncertain. Could he really see a doctor in Dejing County?
Bai Shan and his companions were speeding along the official road. Bai Erlang couldn't help but ask Bai Shan loudly, "Will they really come back?"
Bai Shan said with certainty: "They will!"
"They don't know whether Dejing County is really sealed off, and we are officials coming from the capital. They will be unable to help but trust us. As long as they don't encounter people from the north on the road, they will turn back."
But at this time, everyone avoided Xiazhou City as if it were the plague. Who else would come here except those who had to come on official business?
If they encountered people who came to Xiazhou City on official business, and they took out a smallpox patient, they would definitely be killed on the spot, not to mention being caught.
The group galloped and saw the city in just over an hour. Naturally, they also saw the fences and people blocking the city.
Bai Shan and his companions galloped forward and reined in their horses.
There were only two yamen runners guarding the fence. No one had come to Xiazhou City during this period, so there were only two yamen runners stopping people from entering the city, but there were quite a few people inside who were preventing people from leaving the city.
Seeing the seven horses galloping towards them, the two men put their hands on their swords and looked at them warily.
Manbao felt that he was carrying poison, so he always lagged behind them when riding a horse. Baishan and Daji arrived first. Daji took Manbao's visitor card and the documents from the Imperial Hospital and went forward to negotiate.
Manbao reined in the horse, sat on it, closed her eyes and immersed her consciousness in the system. Koko communicated with her in half an hour.
"Teacher Mo sent an email."
Because they were on horseback, Manbao didn't go to see it himself, but asked Koko, "What did he say?"
"The data is out. There's a vaccine that can prevent and treat the disease, but it's not completely effective, only 89 percent. There's a unique set of data on the smallpox virus, but Professor Mo says it's not very transmissible."
Manbao asked, "Is the vaccine expensive?"
Keke looked at the prices on the mall and compared them with those in the encyclopedia. He said, "It's not expensive. This is a vaccine developed thirty years ago to prevent a type of R virus. However, Mr. Mo used drugs from the encyclopedia for testing. Do you want to buy it at the mall or the encyclopedia?"
Of course I bought it from the encyclopedia.
Manbao asked, "How much is it?"
"One hundred and fifty points per piece, but with the technology tax, it's one thousand and fifty points. If you're buying in bulk, the price will increase by ten percent for every ten additional pieces you buy."
Manbao: ...She knows that the encyclopedia is different. In real life, the more you buy, the cheaper it is, but that's not the case with the encyclopedia.
As long as there is a technology tax on products, whether it is an encyclopedia or a product in the mall, the more you buy, the more expensive it will be, and buying in batches will not work.
After watching the news all morning, I was really surprised, but it also seemed reasonable, hahahaha
See you at 6pm
(End of this chapter)
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