Chapter 56 Li Zhi: I believe whatever my elder brother says

The scattered objects were assembled together, and it turned out to be a huge centipede with many strange seats on it.

It was similar to the dragon boat during the Dragon Boat Festival, but it seemed that this centipede could not go into the water.

"This is a mechanical centipede, which can seat up to six people."

The centipede was shiny black and looked very domineering. The men present were deeply attracted by this mechanical centipede.

"There is such a delicate thing in the world!"

"You sit on it, I will drive the centipede."

The grandmother of the little yamen runner had seen him playing with this thing a long time ago, but she was not afraid and sat in it naturally.

Gan Fanren and others were like two fools entering the city, curiously rubbing every part of the mechanical centipede and carefully examining it.

When the little yamen runner drove the mechanical centipede to move, they felt extremely shocked.

Gan Fanren and Gongsun Yue still had to maintain the integrity of scholars, so they were quite reserved. Although they found it novel, they did not show it on their faces.

Li Zhi was the opposite. He could not help asking, "How can your centipede move without a horse pulling it?"

"Did you use some kind of evil magic?"

The young yamen runner frowned when he heard this.

"I modified this based on the wooden ox and flowing horse. It can be easily driven without the need for oxen and horses to pull it."

"In fact, it was not developed by me alone, but the result of my father and I working together for many years. It was with it that my father saved the county magistrate who was besieged by the mob."

He touched the inside of the mechanical centipede and said with some nostalgia.

"Such a good thing, why didn't the magistrate keep it?"

Such a magical thing should be treated as a treasure and presented to the emperor.

The little yamen runner looked a little lonely: "The magistrate said that this thing is an unknown thing, a monster, and ordered me to destroy it on the spot."

"I couldn't bear to let my years of hard work go to waste, so I cut the centipede into several parts and saved it."

Stupidity, ignorance.

If such a thing can be used, it will be a great weapon that benefits the country and the people.

Gan Fanren thought that such a good thing was almost destroyed by this stupid magistrate, and he wanted to rush up and slap the magistrate twice.

"Turn right, the Minyifang is in front."

Gan Fanren pointed to the alley not far away, where some faint light could be vaguely seen.

The Civil Epidemic Prevention Center sounds grand, but it is actually built from a few abandoned houses. The houses look shabby and not much better than a cowshed.

Such an environment made the young yamen runner a little suspicious.

Gan Fanren did not give him a chance to hesitate. He jumped off the centipede and walked towards Su Baishou.

"Senior Su, I found two more patients."

Su Baishou asked Li Zhi to lift the people off the centipede.

After a brief check of the two people's conditions, he immediately asked Su Nanxing to bring the medicine and personally gave them acupuncture.

"The lady's condition is relatively mild, but the young master is not optimistic."

Su Baishou looked tired: "I prescribed a few medicines according to my own experience, which can only control the epidemic, but cannot cure it."

"It would be great if we could see other doctors, maybe there would be a breakthrough."

This really posed a difficult problem for Gan Fanren.

"We have been to many places to kill rats in the past few days, but we haven't seen other doctors. If it were normal days, we could search slowly, but now the situation is urgent. If we let us grope, I'm afraid the patient will not be able to hold on."

The little yamen runner hurriedly said: "I know where they are!"

"Then let's go find other doctors first, and then go to kill rats."

With the help of local people, they quickly found other doctors.

The doctors at Jianan Pass have been fighting the epidemic for a long time and are in a very bad condition.

They were all huddled together in dirty, tattered clothes and messy hair, sitting on the ground in a state of exhaustion and paralysis, as lifeless as dead wood.

"There is no medicine, no medicine, this is our last medicine."

"Even if we go out to buy medicine now, it will take several days to go back and forth, and thousands of people will die in a few days."

"We clearly asked the county magistrate to buy medicine ten days ago, why hasn't the medicine come yet?"

"Is the county magistrate going to give up on us?"

They had no hope for the future, and even told the patients about the lack of medicine without avoiding them.

The patients lay on the ground motionless, obviously having accepted this fact.

Gan Fanren was not sure whether they could still develop medicine with Su Baishou in this state.

Now Xiaoye City is in chaos. If a prescription is not developed in time, not only he, but also his wife and children hiding in the guest room will not be spared.

They must find a way to treat the plague as soon as possible.

"Who said there is no medicine."

Gan Fanren snatched the fan from Gongsun Yue's hand and said softly, "Lend me the fan."

He waved the fan and walked in the moonlight. His originally handsome and elegant appearance, under the blessing of the moonlight, seemed like an immortal with a heart full of life.

"I am the messenger of the goddess, and I am here to save all living beings by the order of the goddess."

"The goddess is bound by the rules of heaven. Although she cannot appear directly to help us, she can give us medicinal materials and food."

"As long as everyone cheers up, we can definitely defeat the epidemic!"

Gongsun Yue was so scared that his courage broke.

Forget about the time in Tongmen Pass. At that time, the situation forced them to pretend to be the goddess's messenger.

This is not Tongmen Pass, and no one helped them build the goddess's temple to create momentum.

More importantly, Gan Fanren would not be so lucky to meet a fellow villager who provided medicinal materials.

Gongsun Yue looked at Li Zhi, but saw that Li Zhi puffed out his chest and looked proud.

No, brother, what are you bragging about?

The identity of the goddess's messenger is pretended, don't you know?

He poked Li Zhi: "Aren't you afraid?"

Li Zhi looked at him with disdain: "What are you afraid of?"

Although this kid is smart, he is too timid and gets scared by a little thing.

"If we can't produce the herbs by then, we will be torn to pieces by these people."

Li Zhi laughed foolishly: "Brother is a messenger of God, how can you not produce the herbs?"

Gongsun Yue subconsciously wanted to hold the fan tightly, but he squeezed nothing. He was shocked: "No, you really believe it!?"

"What, brother can still lie to me?"

This idiot!

"That's a lie to outsiders, how could you believe it?"

"Why shouldn't I believe it? If you weren't a messenger of God, how could you come up with so many delicious foods?"

"Huai Bi told me that the goddess often sent them food and daily necessities!"

"Do you believe what Gan Huai Bi said?"

"He's only five years old!"

Li Zhi raised his voice: "Five years old, so what? Although Huai Bi is young, he is very smart!"

"At such a young age, he already knows how to use chili water to deal with wild boars."

Gongsun Yue fell into a deep sense of powerlessness: "You believe what a five-year-old child says. I think there's no need to treat your brain. There's no hope!"

Li Zhi was questioned and unhappy. He stood beside Gan Fanren angrily.

The people of Xiaoye City have been suffering from the epidemic. Looking at the corpses carried out every day, they prayed to the gods and Buddhas every day. The appearance of Gan Fanren was like a life-saving straw.