When Jane Ning heard the man say that the woman was suffering from an internal disease, she thought it was venereal disease, or syphilis.
Even if syphilis is treated without Western medicine, just boil and drink a mixture of Chinese yam, raw licorice and dandelion for a few months and the condition will gradually improve. It is not a terminal illness.
As a doctor, it is her responsibility to cure diseases and save lives, and do more good deeds to accumulate blessings for the children. If she can save the child but doesn't, how can she expect God to be kind to Ah Man and protect Ah Man from repeating Xiu Gu's mistakes?
However, she was shocked when she saw the maculopapular rash on the woman's face. This was clearly smallpox, not syphilis.
Both smallpox and syphilis cause damage to the skin. The difference is that smallpox causes maculopapular rashes on the face in the early stages, while syphilis causes maculopapular rashes in the middle and late stages, and syphilis causes dark red or bronze spots.
"Sister, the pimples on your face have only been there for a day or two?" Jane Ning would not be contagious after having been vaccinated, but she still opened the medicine box and took out a few masks from the herb room.
The woman nodded. "It grew yesterday."
As he said this, he covered his face and started crying.
"She has a younger sister who sells sex in the capital. I came to her house a few days ago. Her husband had long forbidden her to have any contact with her younger sister, but she refused to listen and insisted on having contact with her younger sister behind her husband's back."
"Really?" Jian Ning was shocked. "Is her sister really in the capital?"
Jane Ning asked a question and took a few steps towards the onlookers, but they quickly retreated as if avoiding the plague.
"Why would I lie to you?" one of the women said, "When her sister came the other day, she was wearing a veil, acting like the daughter of a wealthy family. Bah! How shameless!"
It's over, Jane Ning's heart sank. Smallpox spreads very quickly, and there's going to be chaos.
She immediately set off a signal flare and then shouted to the women, "Go back quickly, close the doors and windows, and don't go out unless necessary. Wait for the official's letter and return quickly."
Several women heard her shouting anxiously, saw her set off fireworks, and mentioned the government. Although they didn't understand what she meant, they dodged faster than the other and disappeared in an instant.
"Brother, open the door quickly, your wife is not sick, open the door and listen to me, open the door quickly!"
Hearing Jian Ning knocking on the door and saying that the woman's illness was not caused by an internal organ, the man opened the door and came out of the room, "What did you say? It's really not caused by an internal organ?"
"Really not."
"What kind of disease is that?"
The man pushed the crying child back into the room, fastened the doorknob, strode over and opened the gate. He glanced at the woman sitting on the ground and looked at Jian Ning with suspicion, "If it's not a heart disease, can it be cured?"
"Do you know anything about pox?"
"What?"
The man almost jumped up, staring at Jian Ning for a moment, then turned around and ran back, forgetting to close the gate. He didn't run more than two steps before suddenly stopping.
"It's over, it's over!" He slapped his legs and stamped his feet, crying, "You loser! You brought this unlucky guy into the house! You're going to kill our whole family!"
"No, no, no!" The woman shook her head several times. When she first heard Jian Ning say that she didn't have a heart disease, her mind hadn't yet formed a clue. Before she could even feel happy, she fell into the abyss again.
She got up and tried to rush into the yard, but she stopped when she heard the child banging on the door and crying. After taking a few steps back, she let out a howl and fell to her knees in front of the man.
"His father! Beat me to death! I'm the one who hurt you all, beat me to death, beat me to death!"
Jian Ning shook her head and said, "Big sister, hurry up and get up. This disease is not incurable."
"Ah, it can be cured?" The man heard that it could be cured, and then saw that Jian Ning had been standing next to his wife, not seeming to be afraid at all, so he made a gesture to invite her in, "Come in and tell me, can it really be cured?"
"Sister, put on this mask first." Jian Ning demonstrated, let her put on the mask and led her into the yard, "Brother, find a room for your wife to stay alone first. You and the child should not have any more contact with her for the time being..."
Jane Ning's face showed horror before she finished speaking. She stared at the mossy spot next to the man's right foot, then gestured for him to stay still. She stepped forward and leaned over to take a look. "Who drew this? Did your child just draw it casually?"
There is a circle on the ground with a cross drawn inside it.
"I don't know. I'll ask him." The man said, and then he shouted to the crying child in the room, "Qing'er, did you draw that circle on the ground?"
The child ignored him and just kept calling for his mother.
"Has anyone come to your house today, and an eighteen-year-old girl?" Jane Ning asked anxiously.
"No one has come..." He suddenly stopped, turned his eyes to stare at the woman standing next to Jian Ning, and said sternly: "But you let her into the house while I was away?"
The woman covered her face with her hands and was about to cry. Jian Ning quickly grabbed her shoulders and shook her, "Don't cry yet. Tell me quickly, is there another girl? When did they come, and where is she now?"
"It wasn't my sister. It was her lover who brought some people here. They wanted to rest for a few days. I said I wasn't feeling well and didn't let them in. We just exchanged a few words in the yard and then they left."
"But there's a little girl?"
"Um."
Jane Ning felt like she had been hit by a heavy punch in the heart. The mortality rate of smallpox was alarmingly high. If she could not get effective treatment in time and could not fight off the disease herself, then she would have no way out, and that was death.
She suddenly thought of Ding Youtian again and staggered.
The woman looked at her face, which looked as pale as death. She was so frightened that she covered her face and burst into tears.
"Cry, cry, cry! What's the point of crying now?" The man was so angry that he paced back and forth in the yard. Thinking that he and his son were probably infected as well, he quickly knelt down like the woman and said, "Female Bodhisattva, you said you could cure it. Please have mercy on us and save our family!"
Before Jian Ning could say anything, hurried footsteps could be heard outside the courtyard. She hurried out to block Huo Jincheng and the others at the gate, nodding her chin outside and saying, "Let's talk over there."
"Wait a moment, I'll give the instructions and come back." After saying that to the man, Jian Ning quickly walked out of the yard.
"Hurry up and send someone back to the pawnshop to inform the owner. Tell him to tell my husband not to leave that room, and not to let anyone else go there again. It's best if no one moves around before I return."
Seeing her serious expression, Huo Jincheng's eyes darkened. "What's going on? Explain it clearly."
Jian Ning nodded his chin towards the woman in the courtyard. "She has a sister who works in a brothel in the capital. She came to her place a few days ago. Her sister has a lover, who is either the shopkeeper Wang or the coachman. Man'er has been to this house before."
"Listen to me." Seeing him about to rush into the yard, Jian Ning stepped aside to block him and said, "If you're not afraid of contracting smallpox, go right in!"
The ancients were terrified when talking about smallpox. As soon as she finished speaking, the people following Huo Jincheng involuntarily took a few steps back, with panic expressions on their faces, as if they were facing a great enemy.
Huo Jincheng's face fell.
"Are you absolutely sure that this is no joke?" He stared at Jian Ning and asked in a deep voice.
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