Chapter 2293 Foreshadowing
The village chief selected people for them and then prepared water and a vehicle.
There were only two horses in the entire village, and they were old grazing horses, so they didn't give them one. Bai Shan and his friends had their own horses, so they could just harness them to the cart and use them.
This time, because the location was calculated by himself and might not be accurate, Bai Shan made a lot of preparations. After all, he didn't know when he could find it.
However, he also told the villagers, "We brought water and drinking water with us. If we are out for half a month and there is no news, we will return. Therefore, we will be back in a month at the latest."
If they haven't returned for more than a month, they've either found a place or something happened along the way.
Seeing that there was no news from Teacher Mo, Manbao let Bai Shan make the arrangements.
So the group set off first.
The two directions selected by Bai Shan were determined based on the known location of the tiankeng and the impressions of the villagers. However, not to mention that memory may be wrong due to the passage of time, the direction in the sky and the direction falling to the ground are also very different, so Bai Shan was also prepared to search for a long time.
Therefore, they were not at all surprised to encounter other people and towns along the way.
The people in Danshi Village hadn't seen outsiders for a long time, so when they saw outsiders, they subconsciously lowered their heads and avoided them.
But the young men who came out had no defects. They looked like all the people from the Western Regions, only a little thinner.
So people they met didn't pay attention to them. Instead, Bai Shan and Zhou Man were more eye-catching. They were both so good-looking and had good temperament, and everyone's attention was attracted to them.
Bai Shan and Man Bao didn't shy away from their gazes. They took out some silk cloth and asked for shelter or to buy water. After settling in, they confirmed their direction with them and inquired about the news. "I heard that many years ago, three huge fireballs fell from the sky and created three large pits on the ground. Have you seen them?"
Someone simply shook his head and said, "I've never seen that. It was a disaster sent from heaven. The kingdom was destroyed because of it."
Bai Shan: ... Gaochang was clearly destroyed by the King of Gaochang, what does the meteorite have to do with it?
But some people excitedly said: "I saw it. I didn't sleep that night. Fire fell from the sky and the earth shook when it hit."
Bai Shan asked curiously, "Did you see the direction it fell? I heard there are gems in the sinkhole, and I want to see them."
"Oh, I heard the gem is poisonous, so I don't dare to look at it," the man said. "Besides, who can find it? Master Ai searched for a long time and only found one."
Master Ai was the noble lord of their territory. The stone was presented to the eldest prince through his hands, and then from the eldest prince to Hou Ji, and then to the crown prince.
But unfortunately, he could not wait for the prince to settle accounts with him. As early as the eldest prince realized that there was something wrong with the stone, he found a crime and imprisoned his whole family in jail. He died before the Gaochang Kingdom was destroyed, and his whole family was wiped out.
Now this territory has no noble lords and is directly governed by the Anxi Protectorate.
Bai Shan couldn't get any useful information out of him, so he looked around and saw that the guards were all busy with their own things. Only Daji was guarding him. He then brought up another topic, "I heard that there's a country further west with great medical skills. The people there can not only prevent and treat smallpox, but also detoxify. Perhaps they can detoxify this kind of poison?"
People are no longer very interested in this poison. They have been talking about it for three years and are tired of it. Instead, they are very interested in the smallpox that is currently making a lot of noise.
Due to poor transportation, news spread very slowly. In the eyes of Bai Shan and others, the smallpox that had occurred half a year ago was already a thing of the past, but ordinary people in the Western Regions had just heard about the smallpox outbreak in the Central Plains.
So the person being questioned glanced at Bai Shan and Zhou Man, nodded as if he understood, and asked, "My dear, you and my lady, are you looking for someone from that country to treat smallpox?"
Bai Shan smiled and did not deny it.
The people in the Western Regions couldn't help but complain in their hearts, saying that the Han people were very crooked. It turned out to be true. They were clearly going there for the smallpox, but they insisted on looking for the stone that fell from the sky.
He said, since it’s a poisonous stone, everyone should stay as far away from it as possible, so why bother looking for it?
It turns out that their original target was smallpox.
They had never heard of this country, but it sounded very powerful, so they couldn't help but ask about it. Bai Shan then told them the story that the three of them had worked hard to compile for a long time in vivid detail.
Legend has it that there is a country in the West where birds sing and flowers bloom, plants flourish, and medicinal herbs are abundant. As a result, there are many skilled doctors there, and many difficult diseases are common there...
This beginning was Bai Shan's idea. When Manbao and Bai Erlang heard it, they felt that the country must be so unlucky that so many difficult diseases became common diseases.
However, it is obvious that people outside like this beginning very much. People who hear the story at the beginning are already yearning for it. When they hear that they have a method of vaccination, which is to infect cows with smallpox, and then inoculate the smallpox on the cows into humans, so that people will not be attacked by smallpox for their whole lives.
I heard that people in that country are vaccinated after birth, so they are not afraid of smallpox and can go wherever they want without worrying about epidemics.
The people who listened to the story became more and more yearning.
Except Daji.
Although he had long speculated that the young master and his companions might not have come to the Western Regions to really look for a method of vaccinating against smallpox, Daji was still stunned when he actually heard this story.
He was very familiar with the beginning of this kind of story. In the past, when the young master told such a detailed story, it usually had a purpose.
Daji knew about it, but the others didn't. After Bai Shan and the others left, the story spread widely in the village. Many people began to yearn for the Western country. Then the story spread from the village to the market, and then slowly spread to other places...
By the time people in Xizhou vaguely heard this story, it had already been spread and evolved countless times.
Of course, the first person to receive this news was General Guo.
To be honest, the delegation was staying in his Xizhou City, so it was impossible for him to have no doubts in his mind. He had clearly asked around before, but had never heard of any place that had a method of vaccination.
Moreover, he himself scoffed at this method. When faced with smallpox, one could only hide from it, so why would anyone be eager to plant it?
However, the emperor and the court seemed to be convinced of this method, so he could only entertain the delegation. However, Zhou Man and Bai Shan left the delegation, but the others stayed in Xizhou and made trouble in the city every day. To be honest, even if he claimed to know the emperor well enough, sometimes he couldn't help but doubt, was the delegation sent by the emperor really here for vaccination, and not for something else?
And at this moment, he received a report from his subordinates.
General Guo was so shocked that he immediately sat up from his chair, "What did you say?"
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(End of this chapter)
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