Chapter 73 Patient Zero
When Doctor Xia heard the familiar voice, her heart trembled, but she felt it was impossible. She had never heard of the news that His Majesty had left the capital. The immortal would never be too far away from His Majesty, so how could he appear in this place?
She looked at her companion beside her as if to confirm, "I seem to have been so busy that I heard the voice of the Immortal Master."
Yinan pinched her hard, "Does it hurt?"
Doctor Xia hissed in pain. It hurt, it hurt. Yinan, though calm on the outside, was actually in a state of ecstasy. He pushed her away and said, "The Immortal Master has arrived. Go and greet him!"
After she finished speaking, she hurried forward, tidying up her clothes as she walked. However, she had been busy all day and had not had time to change her clothes, so no matter how she tidied them, they were not very neat. She had no choice but to carry the clothes stained with medicine and smell to the village entrance.
At the entrance of the village, a man stood on his horse. That familiar face was indeed the immortal whom I had not seen for a long time.
"Teacher Weisheng! It's really you! I thought I was hallucinating just now." Doctor Xia and Yinan shouted excitedly, and warmly welcomed them into the village.
Wei Shengxue and the others dismounted and led their horses as they slowly walked towards the village. "I heard from Shaolan that you had left Xianyang and were traveling around as doctors. I was wondering if I could run into you on this trip, but I didn't expect to run into you here."
"I wish I hadn't seen you here."
The epidemic was dangerous. They did not have the spiritual power to protect themselves like her. When it came to protection, they were not even as good as the people in the village. At least they had all kinds of protective equipment made by her.
Wei Shengxue's gaze swept over the two of them. The robes stained with medicine and the lingering smell of medicine around them clearly showed that they had been immersed in it until she arrived.
There were already signs of an epidemic in the city, and it might even have spread. Staying here would only put them in greater danger. Thinking of this, Wei Shengxue wanted to persuade them to leave.
"We just returned from the city, and I saw many people coughing outside the city, and the city's medicine shops were crowded." Wei Shengxue did not hide anything and said bluntly, "I suspect the epidemic has spread in the city, and there are quite a few people infected."
She looked at the two young students in front of her, both girls under twenty years old. Their lives had just begun and they should not fail in such a place.
"This place is dangerous, you'd better leave quickly."
During the training class, Doctor Xia was the most obedient. She would carefully write down almost every word she said in her notes and study it over and over again after returning home. But this time she was not obedient.
She stopped and turned to look at Wei Shengxue, her eyes firm. "Teacher Weisheng, I can't leave." She turned sideways and pointed to the large house not far away. "It's full of patients. If it really is an epidemic, I would have been infected long ago. How can I leave here and spread the plague?"
Wei Shengxue's face changed, and she asked anxiously, "These people's symptoms started with a cough, then a slight fever, and then a splitting headache that made them unable to get up, right?"
Doctor Xia was stunned for a moment, then reflexively asked, "Yes, how did you know?" As soon as she said that, she realized, "Oh, how could you not know? How could there be something in this world that you don't know? I'm confused."
Wei Shengxue was somewhat speechless at her assumption that she was omnipotent and omniscient. But now she told Doctor Xia seriously, "I've also encountered this situation and have admitted many patients. This time I came to the city to buy medicinal herbs to save them."
Buy herbs? Save them?
Doctor Xia's ears twitched, accurately grasping the point she was most concerned about: "Master, are you saying that you already know the prescription to cure the epidemic?!"
Wei Shengxue shook her head. "No, I just have a way to control it, which can barely prevent the disease from getting worse. I'm still far from buying a house."
Doctor Xia and Yinan exchanged a glance, each with a delighted smile on their faces. "Great! We have the herbs right here, several carts full! But we searched through all the books and notes and couldn't find a prescription that could control the condition. Now we've finally come across them. It's truly a coincidence!"
Wei Shengxue didn't expect this to be such a coincidence. They came here to collect some scattered medicinal materials from retail traders, but how could the quantity they had be compared with the stock in the hands of Doctor Xia and her group?
Their medical practice was supported by the Qin government, and each of their families was prominent, so they wouldn't be shortchanged if someone was missing out. Furthermore, the herbs they needed weren't precious, but rather commonplace items. It was only because the quantities they needed were so large that they felt limited.
"That's great." She turned around, motioned for the village doctor to come forward, and introduced them to each other. "This is the doctor we met in the village. The prescription to control the disease was developed by him and Doctor Yao from the Imperial Medical Bureau. You can just call him Doctor Shan."
After saying that, he pointed at Doctor Xia and the other girl and said, "These are my former students in Xianyang City, Xia Jianjia and Yinan."
Doctor Shan was listening quietly at first, but then he realized something seemed wrong.
Xianyang City, Imperial Medical Bureau?
Isn’t that a place specifically for treating the emperor?
And her surname is Xia... What is her relationship with the imperial physician Xia Wuqie?
"Oh, that's my great-father." Doctor Xia never concealed her relationship with Xia Wuqie. Although some people criticized her for this, saying that she just had a good family background and didn't have much real ability, she never took such double talk to heart.
In many cases, simply revealing your family background can save you a lot of trouble.
"Who are you?" The eldest master finally recovered from the series of shocks. "How do you know people from the Imperial Medical Bureau? No, how can you bring people from the Imperial Medical Bureau with you on your trip?"
The only person who could travel with doctors from the Imperial Medical Bureau, apart from those sent as military doctors, was the emperor.
But these young men obviously could not be the old emperor who was already in his sixties. Moreover, it was said that the Qin Emperor was extremely afraid of death because he had encountered too many assassination attempts. Whenever he went out, he was surrounded by people. How could he come out with a caravan in such a simple carriage?
Wei Shengxue tilted her head, her tone flat, "Oh, you found out. What do you think we should do?"
The boss broke out in a cold sweat immediately.
Kill to silence the witness!
This was the first answer that came to his mind.
He was on full alert, anticipating the imminent attack, but even as he waited, the opponent didn't even change his stance. It was obvious that what he had just said was just talk.
He breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, a surge of anger rose in his heart.
What does she mean!
Was she sure that I wouldn't tell anyone, or was she certain that I wouldn't dare to do anything to them? Oh, or maybe it was just that I couldn't do anything. Think about their mysterious and elusive methods. It was true that they could wipe out the entire copycat with just a flick of the finger. There was really nothing to be wary of.
After realizing this, the boss lowered his head dejectedly, and even his raised hair fell down.
Wei Shengxue said this briefly and turned the topic back to the main business.
"Doctor Shan, please copy the prescription we developed to them later."
She paused, then turned her gaze towards the large room. "Now let's go and see the patients inside."
Weishengxue walked forward and asked, when were these patients admitted?
Perhaps we can find the original source from them, and then based on the system's analytical capabilities, we may be able to find the most suitable formula, that is, a special medicine.
When mentioning this, Doctor Xia spoke more concisely, saying, "We came here over a month ago and set up a tent nearby to provide free medical treatment. But starting about 25 days ago, more and more people came to treat coughs."
At first they didn't take it seriously. After all, it was the time of changing seasons and the busiest time for spring plowing. People were tired and weak, and every year some of them would cough a few times. This was a very common symptom among the people, and it would be fine after they got through this period.
They simply prescribed the medicine as usual, knowing that these people would not actually go to the pharmacy to get medicine, and they did not have the extra money to buy medicine. So after some research, they prepared another prescription, using more ginger, garlic and other things that can induce sweating and warm the body.
Wei Shengxue listened to her narration and nodded. This response was acceptable.
"This is what a doctor should do." Doctor Shan praised.
A qualified doctor should not only prescribe the right medicine for the right condition, but also for the right person. For wealthy families, it is not a big deal to prescribe some expensive warming and nourishing herbs, but for the poor, they may not have the money to buy even the cheapest medicine, so they should use some common prescriptions that do not require extra money.
Doctor Xia glanced at him and continued, "The first group of people to receive the letters were fifteen days ago. At first, we didn't realize it was an epidemic until Yinan went back and looked through his notes and discovered that these symptoms matched those of an infectious disease."
During the training class, they knew that the infectious diseases mentioned in the classroom were their plagues.
"At the time, we weren't sure if it was a plague, but we quarantined the village just in case." Doctor Xia gave a wry smile. "We admitted 63 people with mild symptoms and 7 with severe symptoms. Twelve more of those with mild symptoms were transferred to severe cases, so now there are 51 people with mild symptoms and 4 with severe symptoms."
"If twelve people are transferred to critical condition, shouldn't there be nineteen at most? How come..." Wang Li suddenly stopped talking in the middle of his speech. It was obvious where the missing people went.
They were so comfortable under the protection of the immortals that they even ignored the fact that it was a plague, a plague that made every family wear mourning clothes and every household hang white clothes!
[Host, go to the critical care unit first] The system suddenly spoke.
Wei Shengxue turned around and walked to the other side while heading towards the mild illness ward.
"System, what did you find?"
[The magnetic field fluctuations here are very obvious, and it is very likely that there is a patient zero.]
'Can you still scan this?'
[I am a cultivation system, I can see the messy yet solid cause and effect lines here, and add a little bit of deduction.]
Wei Shengxue nodded inwardly and asked Doctor Xia, "Among the first patients we admitted, who was the most seriously ill? Is he still alive?"
Doctor Xia thought she wanted to know about the symptoms of the epidemic at different stages, so she said, "The man is dead, but his pulse history and clinical manifestations are all recorded."
She smiled and said, "I originally thought that if we died, we would send these files away, leaving behind some insignificant experience for those who come after us."
Wei Shengxue turned around to look at her and said seriously, "No, you won't die. You, her, and everyone else will all live well."
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