Chapter 3445: The Extra Chapter 24
The chief steward led them directly out of the house, but not out of the yard. Instead, they went out through a small door on the side, walked through a long corridor and arrived in front of another building.
There were guards inside and outside the small gate, and there was a guard every ten steps on both sides of the corridor. At the end of the corridor was a door, which was also guarded by people. After entering, Zhou Man was dazzled by the large area of camellia in the yard.
The people standing in the yard talking turned around and looked over. One of them frowned when he saw Zhou Man and Bai Shan, "Is it you?"
Zhou Man looked over when he heard the voice and found that it was the stall owner he met yesterday. The shopkeeper said his name was Wu Jin.
Zhou Man smiled at him and nodded, "I didn't expect that we have such a good connection with the stall owner. We meet again."
The chief steward's eyes flicked back and forth between them. "Do you two know each other?"
Zhou Man smiled and nodded, "We bought this gentleman's medicinal herbs at the market yesterday."
Wu Jin nodded slightly to the chief steward.
The chief steward then introduced them to the people standing in the courtyard, "These two are doctors from the Central Plains, from the Imperial Medical Bureau. I hope you can work together to cure our lady."
"The Imperial Medical Bureau?" Someone sneered, "Nine out of ten doctors in this world claim to be from the Imperial Medical Bureau, and the remaining one even dares to claim to be a direct disciple of Director Zhou. But who knows if that's true?"
Zhou Man was surprised. "Does our Imperial Medical Bureau have such a high reputation outside?"
Wu Jin and others: Shameless!
The chief steward didn't care whether she was real or fake, as long as she could save the lady, so he urged: "Doctor Zhou, go in and see the lady first and see if you have ever seen such a disease."
Zhou Man's eyes lit up slightly. She had wanted to go in and take a look for a long time.
Bai Shan followed silently. Before entering the room, a maid brought up a tray of masks. Seeing the chief steward frown, she timidly said, "It was Wu Zhang who asked that everyone entering the room wear a mask to avoid..."
She was also wearing a mask at this time. She looked up at Zhou Man and Bai Shan cautiously and timidly and said, "To prevent infection."
The chief steward put on the mask with a serious face.
Zhou Man and Bai Shan naturally had no objection. They picked up a mask and put it on very obediently. Not only that, they also put their hands in their sleeves, trying not to contact the outside world. They didn't know what disease this lady had...
As they entered the room, they smelled the strong aroma of Chinese medicine.
The house was spacious with layers of gauze hanging down. There were many maids serving in the house. They all stood with their heads down. Zhou Man's eyes slid over them. Although they were all wearing masks, she always felt that fear and despair were revealed on their faces.
Bai Shan, who has always been perceptive, also noticed it and frowned slightly. Like Zhou Man, he also became curious.
Madam Li was lying on the bed with the gauze curtain drawn. Zhou Man couldn't see the person lying on the bed clearly. He glanced at the chief steward and seeing that he had no objection, he walked past him and went forward.
The maid standing by the bed numbly reached out to lift the curtain without even looking at Zhou Man, so Zhou Man looked up at her.
There was a pretty woman lying on the bed, but her face was pale and her lips were slightly cyanotic.
Zhou Man stared at her dark blue lips, and after a while he reached out to take her hand out from under the quilt. However, he did not take her pulse immediately, but instead looked at the color of her nails first.
Bai Shan, who was somewhat knowledgeable in medicine, peeked over from behind her and saw that her lips and nails were blue, a color even darker than blue. He was stunned and asked, "Is this poisoning?"
Zhou Man felt that the person lying there was trembling slightly. If he listened carefully, he could even hear her teeth chattering. He touched the quilt she was wearing and found that it had three layers. In the sunny spring in southern Xinjiang, quilts of such thickness were rare.
She turned around and asked the maid for the pulse pillow. While placing her hand on the pulse pillow to check her pulse, she said to Bai Shan, "It's not poisoning, it seems..."
She calmed down and listened to the pulse, frowned and said, "It looks like malaria."
She looked up at her face and lips again, her heart sinking. "It's malaria."
This is an affirmative sentence.
Bai Shan turned his head and looked at the chief steward.
The chief steward was surprised and said, "It's malaria. Doctor Zhou is the fastest person to diagnose malaria. Does he have a prescription for treatment?"
Zhou Man continued to feel her pulse and asked, "When did it start? How has her condition been since the onset of the disease? What medicines has she taken?"
The general manager said, "It started ten days ago. Madam first felt unwell and thought she had caught a cold, but the medicine prescribed by the witch doctor didn't work. Two days later, she had a fever again. The witch doctor changed the prescription, and after two days, Madam felt much better. But she still had a fever from time to time, just not as hot. We all thought she was getting better, but two days later, Madam felt cold again, shivering all over..."
"The lady's health was getting worse, so the chief asked Wu Zhang to see her. Wu Zhang then diagnosed her with malaria."
Zhou Man glanced at the maids serving in the room and asked, "How many people have been infected during this period?"
Seeing the chief steward frown, she said, "Knowing the number of people infected can help us determine the contagiousness of this malaria."
The chief steward then said, "To date, Wu Zhang has diagnosed eighteen people with malaria."
Zhou Man confirmed: "Including your wife?"
"Of course not." The chief minister said, "Dr. Zhou is asking about servants, isn't he?"
Zhou Man skipped the question and continued, "Are there any deaths?"
"Five have died."
That's why the chief's mansion was so anxious to invite witch doctors from various tribes to treat the disease.
Zhou Man nodded to show that he understood, and asked, "What prescription did she use before?"
The chief steward turned around and rummaged through the desk beside him, and soon brought back a stack of prescriptions.
Zhou Man took it and looked at it carefully. He paused when he turned to a few prescriptions. The chief steward saw them with sharp eyes and said, "This is the prescription written by Wu Zhang."
The chief steward's eyes gleamed, "Come to think of it, Zhang Wu also came from the Imperial Medical Bureau. Seeing that you two are about the same age, perhaps you studied under the same person."
Zhou Man then asked, "Is Wu Zhang's name Zhang Yin?"
"Yes," the chief steward looked at her in surprise. He was just testing her. Could it be that she really knew him?
"Doctor Zhou really know Wu Zhang?"
Zhou Man said, "I only know that his name was Ah Yin when he was in school. Ah Lu, who studied with him at the Imperial Medical Bureau, called him Wu Yin. I heard that after he completed his studies and returned to Southern Xinjiang, he was chosen as the next generation of witch because of his superb medical skills and was given the same surname by the chieftain at the time."
The chief at that time was named Zhang, and he had a grudge against the current Chief Li.
Many people in southern Xinjiang do not have surnames. Among them, apart from the chief and elders of the tribe, the witch is the most respected.
In some tribes, the status of the witch is even higher than that of the chief, and in more tribes, the witch and the chief are on equal footing.
However, most Wu people do not have surnames. They simply use Wu as their surname and add their own names at the end.
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