Chapter 2082: The Cold Wind (Reward for the book friend "Liangkou Ni Ni")
However, Doctor Luo still hinted, "When Doctor Zhou gave us the medicine, he forgot Doctor Lu. I think Doctor Lu doesn't look very happy."
Manbao said, "But Doctor Lu has had smallpox before, and he won't get smallpox again."
Each pill is very valuable. Doctor Lu no longer needs it, so why waste it?
However, these anti-epidemic pills are really too expensive, especially since they keep getting more expensive the more you buy. It's simply not worth it. Therefore, a vaccination method should be developed. Then everyone can get vaccinated directly, so that if they get smallpox, they won't have to buy pills again. She privately calculated in her notebook that for every ten pills, the price would increase by ten percent...
This increasing price is about the same as drinking her blood.
The encyclopedia really guards things with high technological content very strictly.
While Manbao was thinking about such an important matter as money, Assistant Doctor Qin and Assistant Doctor Luo could not help but look at each other. They both felt that there was indeed a big conflict between Doctor Zhou and Doctor Lu.
Doctor Zhou has always been generous, but he was reluctant to give Doctor Lu even a piece of candy to cheer people up. Well, it was Doctor Lu who spoke rudely at the beginning.
Manbao didn't take this matter seriously, and Doctor Lu had long forgotten about Zhou Man. Seeing the chaos in the medical tent, Doctor Lu, who was wearing a mask, exhaled in anger, but his beard didn't blow up.
He scolded the patients who were sitting or lying in the medical tent and asked them to get up immediately, make their beds, wash their faces and hands, and wait for his consultation.
The patients, who were originally lazy and a little angry with the doctors, shrank their necks timidly after being angrily scolded by Doctor Lu, and got up obediently to make their beds.
The doctor who hurried in: ...
Most of the people living here are scoundrels. Sometimes they are still seeing other patients, and when they don't have time to see them, they will directly find other medical tents to fight and swear at others. They are very chaotic, but they didn't expect that Doctor Lu would calm everyone down as soon as he arrived.
The patients looked at Doctor Lu's official uniform and sat or lay down timidly. They didn't dare to make a noise even if they didn't see him for a while.
Manbao walked to the other side of the long medical tent, where only women were staying.
Assistant Doctor Qin said, "This medical tent is really well-designed. This side is full of female patients, the middle is mostly children, and the other side is full of male patients."
Manbao also noticed it and nodded, saying, "A row of medical tents is long enough. This way, if a man or a woman passes through, it will be easy to see what they are doing."
Finally, they arrived at the first medical tent. Manbao lifted the curtain and went in. He saw many women lying inside. The light was a little dim, and the smell inside was so bad that even Manbao felt uncomfortable wearing a mask.
She frowned, and the steward who led them shouted, "Wake up, everyone! This is the imperial physician from the Imperial Hospital coming to see you. If you're still alive, open your eyes..."
The patients in the medical tent made a commotion, and some even struggled to get up and look at Zhou Man.
Manbao nodded and greeted everyone, "Hello everyone, I am Zhou Man from the Imperial Hospital. This is Imperial Physician Qin, and this is Imperial Physician Luo. We are here to examine you today."
After saying that, he turned to Assistant Medical Officer Qin and Assistant Medical Officer Luo and said, "Let's get started."
Assistant Doctors Qin and Luo were surprised that Zhou Man had directly raised their status to the outside world, but when they saw that the patients in the medical tent were suddenly convinced of them, they understood.
The two men nodded silently, carrying their own medicine boxes and going forward to see the patient, one sitting below Zhou Man and the other sitting opposite Zhou Man.
The beds in the medical tent were even simpler, with a few bricks underneath and wooden boards on top. A bed could only accommodate one person, and was short and simple.
So wooden beds were laid on both sides of a medical tent, leaving only a passage in the middle that was wide enough for two people to pass through.
Manbao squatted in front of the innermost patient. She noticed that she was different very early on. Everyone else opened their eyes or sat up to look at them, but this person was the only one who didn't move at all.
Manbao reached out to feel her pulse, and startled, he then touched her neck. After a while, he opened the medicine box and took out the needle bag. While giving her acupuncture, he asked, "Where are her family members?"
The patient next to him replied: "No."
Manbao raised his head and glanced at the patient who answered, and asked, "Then where is the person who takes care of her?"
"No," said a patient beside him, "This disease is contagious. How can we let our family members in? Besides, we don't know if our family members are still alive. They might all be dead."
Manbao remained silent, rolled up her sleeves and gave her acupuncture. After a while, the person on the bed reluctantly opened her eyes.
Manbao felt her pulse and asked her, "Do you know your name?"
The patients in the medical tent are completely different from those in other hospitals. Perhaps only two out of ten patients here are accompanied by their family members.
Some families, or even a family of friends and relatives, live here, or some people from the same village live together.
Patients with different illnesses, regardless of their severity, are all housed together. Even though the managers have tried their best to separate the medical tents, it is still not perfect.
In the face of life and death, these inconveniences and shortcomings seem insignificant, and medicine is still the most worrying thing.
Some patients have been admitted for three days. They are delirious with fever and have never seen a doctor. They just go to the big pot outside to get a bowl of medicine. The lucky ones can survive the high fever; the unlucky ones are carried out without even seeing the doctor after being admitted.
After the family identifies the body, it will be cremated and the family will take a handful of ashes home.
Some people have no family members to claim them. They are cremated directly and the ashes are piled aside. People who cannot find their relatives come here to cry, then grab a handful of ashes and take them back as their own family.
Only when he really came in did Manbao realize the difference between the medical tent and the other courtyard. The current stability of the medical tent was all thanks to Yang Heshu's efforts, and the deterrence of General Gong's troops.
Manbao jumped in and couldn't get out. She was so hungry that she left the medical tent to find something to eat. At this time, let alone taking a bath and changing clothes, she even had to search for a long time before she found someone to give her a basin of hot water to wash her hands.
This basin of hot water was shared with Medical Assistant Qin and Medical Assistant Luo.
The three of them squatted beside the basin to draw water to wash their hands, then put their whole bodies in to soak. Manbao sighed.
Assistant Doctor Qin also sighed, "I originally wanted to boil the needles before giving them to the next person, but..."
Assistant Doctor Luo said, "Be content. After all, they are all smallpox. However, we rarely use needles, which makes it difficult for Doctor Zhou."
Manbao silently pulled her hand back and wanted to wipe it, but found there was no towel. She could only silently shake off the water droplets on her hands in the cold wind, and then hang her hands to dry with Assistant Doctors Qin and Luo.
As the cold wind blew, the originally warm red hand slowly turned back to its original color, and then tended to turn cold red.
Manbao turned around and said, "Let's go and eat something."
They couldn't find Doctor Lu and his men at all, so they went straight to the place where the medicine was being boiled. When the soldier who was boiling the medicine saw them, he pointed at the bowl, then poured them a bowl of rice porridge and gave them a bun. This was their dinner.
The three of them squatted in the cold wind, eating buns and porridge, looking quite pitiful from a distance.
Good night
(End of this chapter)
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