Chapter 3215 Casualties
A person nearby took a look and said, "There's nothing left. We only dug her out. I don't know if the rest are still alive."
Zhou Man hurriedly carried her into the tent and asked someone to fetch a clean quilt. She took off her wet clothes and wrapped her up in the quilt. She held her in her arms, along with the quilt, and said, "Pour a cup of warm water and boil a bowl of brown sugar water. Hurry up."
Someone quickly took the order and left. Zhou Man held her in his arms, pulled out a needle bag, took out a few thin needles, and fumbled with her to give her a few injections...
Warm water was quickly delivered, and Zhou Man carefully fed her half a bowl, then another bowl of brown sugar water. The child's pulse gradually became stronger...
Zhou Man breathed a sigh of relief, placed the person on the wooden board, covered her with a blanket, and then took the needle bag and left. "Tell them to change all their wet clothes. If they don't have enough clothes, light a fire. Drink plenty of warm water and keep them warm. Be careful not to get hypothermia."
"Yes, but Master Zhou, it's June now. Will he get hypothermia?"
Zhou Man: "Although the rain has stopped now, it has been raining for several days. The weather is already cold. If you wear wet clothes and are exposed to the night wind, you will get sick even if you don't get hypothermia."
"I'll send someone right away."
Zhou Man was busy all night, and it was not until dawn the next day that she finally had a clear view of the place where they were staying.
This was a piece of dry land planted with beans, and there was wasteland next to it. However, because too many people came, the government simply flattened the bean field and requisitioned it.
The village was at the foot of a mountain and was mostly destroyed, with only a few houses remaining. The fields not far from the village were washed away by mountain torrents and were in a mess.
The county lieutenant is still leading people to poach people.
Zhou Man stood at the edge of the field, her body swaying. Xibing hurriedly supported her, "Madam, you are tired after a day and a night. Take a rest first."
Zhou Man turned around to look at the injured person sleeping on the ground and asked, "Have you treated everything?"
"Yes, we've treated all the patients who were sent here. The rest is the county government's responsibility." Xibing paused and said, "Their rescue speed can't keep up with our treatment speed. Madam, should we go and help dig them out?"
Zhou Man said, "Everyone hasn't slept for a whole day and night. Go and make some arrangements so that everyone can get some sleep. Some people will stay here, and the rest will go with me to another village to check it out."
"Didn't my wife send a team over there yesterday?"
"They are few in number and don't have much supplies. I need to go check it out. There are other villages as well. There are still too few doctors. I wonder if there will be doctors from other counties."
For doctors, curing illnesses and saving lives in the rear is more effective than digging people out in person.
Zhou Man only took a nap and woke up in less than two quarters of an hour. Then he ate a bowl of porridge, called the guide and went to the next village.
County Magistrate Sun was here. He hadn't slept all night either, but he was about to leave. "I have to go back to the county office to dispatch supplies. Lord Zhou, I'll leave this to you."
Zhou Man nodded and rotated between several severely affected villages, sleeping for a maximum of two hours a day. When Tang He and Bai Erlang came looking for her, they almost didn't recognize her.
Tang He clicked his tongue and shook his head, "This is the first time I've seen you so embarrassed."
Bai Erlang: "Although this isn't my first time, it's rare. How many days have you not washed?"
Zhou Man held up four fingers and looked at the two of them with a tired expression, "How did you get together?"
She guessed that Bai Erlang was here to provide disaster relief, so why was Tang He here too?
Tang He said, "I arrived at Mount Tai and felt the earthquake five days ago. I heard it was from Qingzhou, so I came here."
Tang He glanced at the cleared village, sighed, and asked, "What are the casualties?"
Bai Erlang handed her the purse he carried for snacks. Zhou Man took it, sat on the straw mat beside him, and pinched out a piece of snack from it to eat. "The statistics are not done by our medical department, but based on what we have learned in the past few days, it is no less than 60%."
Tang He was horrified, "Why are there so many casualties?"
"It was a natural disaster, at the wrong time." She gave Xibing a piece of pastry, reached out to ask for a bowl of water, and after taking a sip, she said, "The earthquake happened in the early morning, when most people were still asleep. It was also raining, so few people got up early."
"Less than half an hour after the earthquake, a flash flood came rushing down. Those who were buried had a high chance of survival, but now the chances of survival are even smaller, not to mention those who had just escaped death. They were swept away by the flash flood before they could even react."
She said, "There are still many missing people. Most of them were swept away by flash floods and cannot be found for the time being. Some others have disappeared without a trace."
Tang He frowned and asked, "Is the success rate of treatment high?"
"It's not bad," Zhou Man said. "Of those who are still breathing after being carried out, 80% can be saved. The remaining 20% cannot be saved."
She said, "We have enough medicines, and the county government can still provide us with water, food, quilts, clothes, etc."
Tang He nodded.
Bai Jilang: "So this is completely a natural disaster?"
Zhou Man: "The earthquake was definitely a natural disaster, and the flash floods weren't man-made. However, after this, the people of Changshou County should choose a better place to settle their village."
Tang He stood on tiptoe and glanced at the mountain behind the village. He said, "The mountain should also be reinforced."
Bai Erlang was stunned. "How to reinforce it?"
Zhou Man said while eating snacks: "Planting grass, planting trees, digging ditches and repairing walls, there are many ways, but it just requires a lot of manpower."
Tang He nodded, "Yes, but in order to survive, these are all worth it."
Zhou Man finished her snacks and felt a little better. She patted her clothes and stood up, "I'm going to work."
She ignored the two of them and asked people from the county government to come and deal with them.
Tang He came in disguise with his men. The people in the county government didn't recognize him and thought he came with his son-in-law, so they politely asked him to step aside.
Bai Erlang left a large amount of disaster relief supplies at the county government office and brought a part of them down, mainly to visit Zhou Man.
A doctor from Beihai County also came with him. Zhou Man felt a lot more relaxed because of their arrival.
There are very few new patients now, but previous patients also need to be taken care of. It takes a long time to treat their wounds, prescribe medicine and change the dressings every day.
Tonight Zhou Man finally had some free time. She took a hot bath, washed her hair, changed into clean clothes, and sat on the wooden bed, drowsy.
Bai Erlang and Tang He came over and said, "We brought a lot of food and some meat. We decided to make more to comfort everyone. Do you want to go out and take a look?"
Zhou Manqiang cheered herself up, asked Xibing to tie her hair up, and then went out with the two of them.
As the night grew darker, everyone had already started eating around the campfire. The injured were divided into several groups. Needless to say, the seriously injured could only lie in the tent, while the lightly injured sat with everyone else.
Are there any readers who don’t know that the Beihai County in the book is not the Beihai in Guangxi today, but the area around Weifang in Shandong. Because the ancients used to call Bohai also the Beihai, they established Beihai County and Beihai Commandery in that area.
(End of this chapter)
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