Chapter 2079 Arrangement
When it comes to transferring people from the capital, Yang Heshu is the natural person to look for.
Yang Heshu thought for a moment and agreed, then sent another official document to the capital.
The official took the official document and rode it at full speed to the capital. In the evening, he met the Imperial Hospital's convoy at the post station.
When Imperial Physician Lu heard that he was going back to the capital to transfer more people, he was shocked. "Why do you need to transfer more people?"
The officer said, "There are too many patients and not enough doctors."
Doctor Lu became worried.
As they walked along, they found that the counties had begun to close their city gates and many checkpoints had been set up on the official roads. The closer they got to Xiazhou, the worse the situation became.
The order from the capital arrived before Zhou Man and his group left the capital, but the prefectures and counties had not yet made arrangements when Zhou Man and his group passed by. However, they seemed to be lucky, because the prefectures and counties responded as soon as they passed by.
Doctor Lu and his colleagues were questioned a lot along the way. Fortunately, they came from the north, not the south. People going from the north to the south were questioned more strictly. Anyone with a fever or pox had to be treated nearby and was directly taken to the medical tent outside the city for custody.
Doctor Lu and his companions went in to see the patient when they passed by, and gave him a few prescriptions and treatment methods before leaving.
Some counties and prefectures also wanted to force them to buy the medicinal herbs because they brought a lot of them. However, Doctor Lu had a bad temper and the herbs were for Xiazhou City, so they were unable to succeed.
However, Doctor Lu was still exhausted during this period, so his schedule was a little slower than planned.
He glanced at the two large bags beside the official, frowned, and asked, "Why are you carrying such large bags when you're delivering an urgent order?"
The officer said: "This is something that Doctor Zhou asked me to bring home."
Doctor Lu immediately asked, "What is it?"
He said, "Things from the epidemic area cannot be taken out of the city casually."
The two officers immediately said, "They are letters. There are letters to family, the Imperial Hospital, and classmates. Anyway, there are a lot of them. Doctor Zhou said to give them all to her family and ask them to deliver them."
In fact, there was more than that. She also divided up some medicines and told Zhou Liru and Liu Sanniang to give them to the right people.
It’s a pity that she couldn’t find the smallpox virus vaccine when she left Beijing, otherwise it would have been best to give it to them nearby.
Doctor Lu then stopped asking questions and just reminded, "When you pass through the checkpoint, it's best to shout out that it's an emergency report from Xiazhou City. That way you can pass through."
The officer was puzzled and only understood the meaning of these words the next day.
Dejing County also closed its city gates, and barriers were set up at several official road intersections. Anyone coming from the north would be strictly checked. They met many people returning to the north along the way, and also saw some people walking directly into the mountains before reaching the checkpoint, as if they wanted to bypass the checkpoint and go south.
The officials didn't care. It had snowed heavily two days ago. How could it be so easy to enter the forest?
Not to mention the big beasts and blind bears that may exist in the mountains, people can even freeze to death from the cold, not to mention that it is very easy to get lost.
Even these people who were raised by the imperial court did not have the courage to take a shortcut into the mountains at this time.
When they arrived at the checkpoint, they shouted "Urgent news from Xiazhou City". The people guarding the checkpoint immediately retreated and stood ten steps away from them. They didn't even ask them to dismount. They just glanced at the red seal on the document from a distance and let them pass.
Officer A couldn't help but say happily, "What Doctor Lu said is right. It really works well."
Officer B was furious. "Is this a good thing? Let's go quickly. We need to reach the capital within five days."
At this time, Manbao was seeing off the first patient who recovered after she arrived at the other hospital. After watching her being surrounded by people and taken home, she turned around and went back to see the newly admitted patients.
After Bai Shan took over, he found that there were not many new patients in the wealthy family during this period, so he began to move the patients in the rooms around the main courtyard.
The reason is also very thoughtful. In the West Courtyard, Doctor Zhou will mainly be active in the main courtyard, after all, Madam Yang is here.
In the East Hospital, not only Dr. Jin, Dr. Hua and Medical Assistant Lu focus their energy on the main hospital, but even Zhou Man will come to the main hospital for consultation first when he comes.
So some patients who were reluctant to move rooms immediately moved on their own initiative, and some of the courtyards on the edge were vacated.
Bai Shan had several wooden beds built, the screens inside removed, and two and four beds added to each room.
Then he took the patient list he got from the county government office and began to select some patients to send in.
Those patients had been arranged in the medical tent before, but now they were sent to the other hospital. They did not think that ten beds in one room were too many, and even felt it was spacious, so they expressed their gratitude profusely.
Most of the patients selected have family members to take care of them, but there are also some who do not have family members to take care of them closely. He tries his best to arrange for the family to be together and let them take care of each other.
So there were actually patients among the people who went to the front hall to get medicine.
Fortunately, the patients living in rooms near the main hospital basically do not go out and just stay in bed, so they are not aware of the changes outside.
The maids and servants knew about it, but because of Bai Shan's smiling warning and Bai Cheng's mediation, they didn't say anything.
When Yang Heshu came over after a busy day of government affairs, he saw so many patients from ordinary families coming into the other courtyard. He couldn't help but smile and asked Bai Shan, "Does Doctor Jin and the others have any objections?"
"There are complaints, but I apologize," Bai Shan said, "There are more patients in the medical tent, and we don't have enough doctors right now, so we can only do this."
Doctors Jin and Hua, who had just felt a little relieved, did not expect that within two days of the good days, Bai Shan had crammed more patients into the other hospital, nearly twice as many as before.
The two felt dizzy, but seeing Bai Shan's face full of guilt and worry about the patient, they couldn't utter any angry words.
Especially when he looked at the corridor, it seemed as if he wanted to enclose it and put beds in it. They immediately stopped talking and turned to look at the new patients.
Manbao was also busy. In the end, Bai Shan crammed in so many patients that she simply went to the East Hospital to snatch Doctor Lu away. Except for not being able to give acupuncture, he could do everything else, including taking pulses and prescribing medicine.
The front hall was also very busy, dispensing medicine from beginning to end, but there were still many people queuing.
Bai Shan asked someone to open an extra seat, and occasionally he and Bai Erlang would go up to help.
Both he and Bai Jilang could barely recognize most of the herbs, and the names were written on the medicine cabinets, but they were a little slow at first.
It was simply because they were all for the same illness, so the dosages of the medicines in the prescriptions varied slightly, but the herbs used were pretty much the same. After getting a dozen or so prescriptions, they were familiar with them, especially Bai Shan. Sometimes, he would find the place for the medicine just by Bai Erlang reading out the name...
The pharmacist who was dispensing medicine in the same row with him had mixed feelings. Are all scholars so smart?
Manbao looked at Mrs. Gong San's rash and felt her pulse. He said, "There are no new rash today. Wait two more days. If there are no more, then it will be considered cured. You can go home after the rash disappears."
Mrs. Gong San was very surprised. "Am I cured now?"
Manbao nodded and said, "Almost."
Looking at Manbao wearing a mask, Mrs. Gong was filled with gratitude. She couldn't help but hold Manbao's hand and said with a smile, "When I get better, I will ask Doctor Zhou to use our lamb ribs from Xiazhou City. Lord Yang has been here for a short time and you may not know that the lamb ribs from Xiazhou City are actually the most delicious."
See you at 6pm
(End of this chapter)
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