Chapter 99: Remember history and never forget national shame!
After listening to Su Mei's words, Huo Jianguo nodded and quickly arranged for the soldiers to go back and call for help.
Su Mei squatted down again, trying to find some clues among the bones.
But until the afternoon, when Qin Zhengting and several soldiers arrived at the location of the corpse pit, Su Mei still found nothing.
Except for Qin Zhengting, no other members of the medical team came with him. It's not that no one was willing to come, but so many soldiers were sick that some people had to stay behind to take care of them.
Hearing that Qin Zhengting had arrived, Su Mei stood up helplessly and looked up at him:
"Master, I have been looking through these bones for an entire afternoon, but I still can't figure out what kind of plague these bones could cause!"
In Sumer's knowledge base, there was no plague that could be linked to corpses that were decades old.
Above the corpse pit, Qin Zhengting looked solemnly at the white bones in the pit.
After paying a solemn respectful tribute to the bones, Qin Zhengting spoke to Su Mei:
"You come up first!"
"Okay, Master!" Su Mei thought Qin Zhengting wanted to discuss something with her, so she found a gap and began to climb up using her hands and feet.
But she overestimated the flexibility of her fat body. She climbed up for a while and then slid down along the depression.
It was Huo Jianguo who reached out and pulled her out of the pit.
After she came up, she found that Qin Zhengting was not near the corpse pit, but had gone to the front of the cave. He was turning over the pile of black mud used to block the entrance of the cave.
After clapping her hands, Su Mei walked behind Qin Zhengting. She looked at the black mud and said:
"Master, the source of infection must be related to those bones. Why are you digging up this dirt?"
"Found it." As soon as Su Mei finished speaking, Qin Zhengting stood up holding a few pieces of grass.
Su Mei was confused at first, then she patted her head in sudden realization: "Oh, yes, why do we have to find out what disease it is!
As long as we can find a living thing that can survive on the soil surface and can survive in this source of infection, it can be used as an antidote to the plague."
"Not stupid yet." Qin Zhengting glanced at Su Mei calmly, then walked up to Huo Jianguo with some grass and said:
"Hurry up and find someone to dig a bundle of this grass, take it back and boil it, and let the sick soldiers see the effect.
If it works, you can bring people here to dig up this grass in large quantities."
"Okay." Huo Jianguo took the grass and immediately distributed it to the soldiers present. The soldiers took the samples and started digging nearby.
There was a lot of grass like this growing nearby, and soon the crowd dug up a large bundle.
Qin Zhengting looked at the grass and said, "That's enough. Let's take this grass back now."
"Is there a high probability that this grass can be used as an antidote?" Huo Jianguo asked.
"Very big." Qin Zhengting nodded, and then said: "According to my experience, this grass is more than 90% effective as a medicine to stop the plague."
"Then to avoid wasting time, I will take the soldiers to continue digging here. Doctor Qin will go back to test the efficacy. If it is effective, you can ask the commander to send more people out to dig together." Since this medicine can most likely be used as an antidote, Huo Jianguo thought it would be better to dig more before it gets dark.
Although only the new recruits are sick now, they have come into contact with many people in these days.
The plague is contagious from person to person. If the medicine is effective, everyone in the entire military district will have to drink it. Not only the military district, but also everyone in the military family compound will have to drink a few bowls.
This means that the demand for medicinal herbs will be huge, so Huo Jianguo doesn't want to waste time and wants to start digging them now.
Qin Zhengting thought about it and felt that Huo Jianguo's idea made sense. He nodded:
"After you confirm that the herbs are effective, you still have to deal with the corpse pit here. There are too many people in it, and there are sources of disease. Just build a collective tombstone!
After backfilling the soil, bricks and cement are poured on top to make a tombstone for them, on which the reasons for their deaths should be written.
We want future generations to know how their ancestors were invaded by Japan. If they see it, they will understand what it means to remember history and never forget the national shame. "
Remember history and never forget national shame!
Su Mei's heart was shocked when she heard these eight words.
She had only heard these eight words in books and short videos before, but when she saw the white bones with her own eyes, she thought she understood the meaning of these eight words even better.
National hatred and family feuds are hard to forget.