Chapter 62: The Art of Resurrection "Absurdity!" A man dressed in fashionable clothes...
At noon, at the city gate.
When Pei Yixue arrived on horseback, Prince Qi, Xie Yushu and another fifth-rank doctor were already waiting.
In order to rescue Ling Yi as quickly as possible, everyone traveled light, gave up the complicated carriages, and rode on horses.
"Can the divine doctor and His Highness' health bear the journey on horseback?" Xie Yushu said with a worried look. After all, "Xu Yi" was over sixty years old, and the King of Qi was still in a "sick and weak" state to the outside world.
The fifth-rank doctor was extremely anxious, as the epidemic could not afford any delay. Riding a horse was faster, but what if the genius doctor was exhausted?
King Qi and Pei Yixue looked at each other.
The King of Qi said in a deep voice: "I have been fine for the past two days, so there is no need to worry."
Pei Yixue also said: "Although I am old, my muscles and bones are still strong."
"Let's go." The King of Qi gave the order. Xie Yushu nodded and glanced towards the capital. He whipped his horse and shouted to the hundreds of guards behind him: "Let's go!"
The sound of hooves was like thunder, and a team of hundreds of people stirred up dust and quickly moved away from the capital.
Five days later, the team passed through two provinces and arrived at Chizhang, the neighboring province of Chengping.
As expected, the disease has broken through the defense line of Chengping and is wreaking havoc in Chizhang. In order to prevent the spread of the disease, the relief team decided to first station in Qujiang, a county town on the border of Chizhang Province.
"More than 3,000 people have been infected in Qujiang County, and hundreds have died." The Qujiang County Magistrate led Pei Yixue and others to the quarantine area. "All patients are isolated in the west of the city. I have ordered the bodies to be burned to prevent the spread of the virus."
"Sir! Sir!" A woman in a state of panic was holding a two or three-year-old girl tightly in her arms, crying for the officer, "She is still breathing! She is not dead yet!"
The county magistrate waved his hand to signal the officers to take the girl away by force. Pei Yixue glanced at the girl's face and hurriedly stopped them: "Wait!" He stepped forward to feel the girl's pulse and opened her eyelids. "Leave her here. She can still be saved."
He laid the child flat on the ground, took out the needle bag, and inserted a silver needle accurately into the Yongquan acupoint. After seven injections, the girl's weak pulse and breathing gradually recovered.
The official sniffed his breath and burst into tears of joy: "As expected, he is a miracle doctor sent from the capital. He really has the ability to bring the dead back to life. We are saved!"
Pei Yixue put away the needle and turned to the county magistrate: "Take me to the place where the corpses are burned first."
Less than two miles away, there was a pile of firewood piled high, with two or three hundred corpses piled on top of each other. Pei Yixue spent an hour picking out seventy or eighty "corpses" that were still alive.
As everyone watched with bated breath, he cast a rejuvenation spell, allowing these cold bodies to breathe again.
Three hours passed, and Pei Yixue stood up and swayed slightly. Xie Yushu quickly supported him and said, "Miracle doctor?"
"It doesn't matter." Pei Yixue looked at the more than 200 corpses left on the pile of firewood and sighed, "Burn them."
On the way back, when they passed the quarantine area, a group of people suddenly rushed up and surrounded them. "But is it Dr. Xu from the Liming Pharmacy? We have all signed the mutual aid contract with the pharmacy, and the Dr. Xu has to save us first!"
Pei Yixue recalled the terms of the contract, which only promised to pay three times the medical fee in case of illness, and did not mention priority treatment. However, Liming Pharmacy had just entered Chizhang and had not yet established a firm foothold, but it had already won the trust of the people. It was only right to give back at this moment.
"Thank you for trusting Liming Pharmacy," Pei Yixue helped everyone up one by one, "If you are in trouble, the pharmacy will do its duty. Don't worry, if you go to the pharmacy with a contract, you will be given priority treatment if you have the same condition."
As soon as these words were spoken, the other patients were shocked.
"Why? What about us?"
"Isn't it just money? How much? I'll sign the contract now!"
"Yes! We sign now!"
"Everyone, please be at ease." Pei Yixue frowned slightly, "Those who hold contracts will only be given priority at the doctors of Liming Pharmacy. The doctors summoned from all over the city are far more than just Liming Pharmacy. As for the current contracts, the epidemic has spread to seven provinces, and Liming Pharmacy is doing its best to fight it. The mutual aid contract has been suspended."
"Wrong logic!" A well-dressed man shouted, "If other doctors can cure it, why wait for you? The court sent you here, are you just concerned about the private interests of your pharmacy?"
"Someone come here!" the county magistrate shouted urgently.
"No need." Pei Yixue stopped the official and looked directly at the man. "First, I am not the only one who can save the people in the city. My duty is to develop a treatment method as soon as possible, teach other doctors, and fight the epidemic together. Second, things should be prioritized. If there are dying patients, please bring them to me as soon as possible. Third, before the epidemic, Liming Pharmacy accepted the trust of the people and signed a contract. Now that they are in trouble, the Pharmacy's 'self-interest' can be abandoned, but their 'rights' must be protected by the Pharmacy!"
His few words left the man speechless.
After saying this, Pei Yixue left the noisy quarantine area under the escort of the officials. Having handled seventy or eighty dying patients, he was already confident about the treatment of this epidemic.
After returning to the county government, Pei Yixue immediately made arrangements: "Call doctors who have been practicing medicine for more than ten years to teach this acupuncture method. Also prepare medicine according to this prescription and the number of infected people. If there is a shortage of medicine in the city, quickly order the Jishi Post Station to transport it from other provinces!"
After dealing with Qujiang affairs, Pei Yixue quickly wrote two more letters: "Please have Your Highness make a copy of this letter and send it to neighboring provinces and border towns, especially the borders of Chizhang, Jiangxi, Lianzhuang, and Shanhang provinces, to prevent the spread of the epidemic. According to the cases in Qujiang, one person has shown signs of mutation. Qingzhou, as the source of the epidemic, may be even more dangerous. I need to go there immediately."
It took another two days to get from Qujiang to Qingzhou. Pei Yixue rode non-stop and headed straight to the main hall of Liming Pharmacy in Yancheng.
"Boss!" Upon seeing Pei Yixue, shopkeeper Chen Ying burst into tears and rushed over, "You're finally back! Woo woo..."
This shout attracted the attention of all the patients who were wailing in the hall.
"Miracle doctor! It's Miracle Doctor Xu!" Someone shouted again, and the patients immediately gathered around like a tide.
"Divine doctor, help me!"
"Save my child!"
The pharmacy staff and guards hurriedly protected Pei Yixue in the center. "Don't panic!" Pei Yixue raised his voice to comfort, "The prescription for the epidemic has been distributed to each pharmacy. Take the medicine according to the prescription and you will be fine." If the infection is not the mutant strain.
After finally calming everyone down, Pei Yixue followed Chen Ying into the inner hall. Seeing that he hesitated several times and looked worried, Pei Yixue signaled Chen Ying to go into the inner room.
"Boss," Chen Ying was extremely worried, "before the epidemic, almost all the people in Lingyi Province signed a mutual aid contract with the pharmacy. The original intention was to find a way out for the people and to accumulate virtue and do good deeds. Unexpectedly, within two months, this damn epidemic came! With the contract in place, the pharmacy has to pay for the medicine expenses of millions of people out of its own pocket! More than five million people! The little contract money collected at the beginning, plus the pharmacy's annual income, together with the surplus of the Jishi Post Station, all went into it! Now the income is not enough to make ends meet, and we can't even pay the monthly salary for the employees next month! What should we do?"
"Don't panic." Pei Yixue rubbed his swollen temples. He never thought that one day he would go from being a wealthy businessman who spent money like water to being a poor man who had just arrived and couldn't even afford a new piece of clothing.
"The 30 million taels of silver allocated by the court for disaster relief should be enough for a while. At most half a month, when the epidemic in the eight provinces is over, everything will get better." He said a few words of comfort and asked, "How is Xitang County? Are the wet nurse and Qi Da all right?"
"Xitang County is a small city with few people, slightly better than Yancheng. Aunt Li is in the countryside, and Qi Da is at Qixia Cliff. They are both far away from human habitation and everything is fine."
"That's good." Pei Yixue was relieved. "Daohua Village and Jishi Post should still have some medicinal materials in stock. Send a message to Qi Da immediately and have them shipped to all the Liming Pharmacies in the area according to the amount listed in this list."
Pei Yixue spent the entire afternoon treating more than a dozen patients with difficult mutant strains in the pharmacy, and was so busy that he felt dizzy.
"Excuse me, is this Doctor Xu from the Liming Pharmacy?" Pei Yixue was bending over to examine a patient when he heard the question from behind.
He turned around and saw several elderly men in their seventies leading a team of dozens of people, pushing aside the wailing patients and walking straight towards him. Each of them carried a medicine box on their backs, and they all looked like doctors.
Pei Yixue stepped forward and asked, "May I ask who you are?"
The leading old man bowed and said, "Xuan Gu Medical Immortal Sikong Zhao, I have long heard of the great name of Liming Pharmacy, and I have long heard of Divine Doctor Xu."
"You are so kind, I am sorry to insult you. I have also long heard of your holy name." Pei Yixue hurriedly returned the greeting.
The name of Xuan Gu Medical Immortal Sikong Zhao was famous throughout Daqing and even various countries. It was said that his "Lingshu Tianxing Acupuncture Method" could save people with severed heart meridians.
In Pei Yixue's mind, in this world of books, the only person whose medical skills can rival his is Sikong Zhao. I was unable to see the emperor last winter when he was seriously ill, but I didn't expect to meet him today in the epidemic area.
There were many patients but few doctors in the epidemic areas of the eight provinces. The dozens of doctors brought by Sikong Zhao were like a timely rain of relief.
"This gift is well deserved by the miracle doctor!" Sikong Zhao said solemnly, and bowed with the doctors behind him. "The miracle doctor has spent all his wealth to save the people, and has worked tirelessly day and night to develop prescriptions for various places, which makes us doctors ashamed! For this reason, we have gathered more than 8,500 doctors, divided into 362 teams, and are rushing to the Liming Pharmacies in various places in the eight provinces to provide assistance. We have come to Yancheng specially to do our humble part, and we hope that the miracle doctor and the pharmacy will not despise our insignificance."
Pei Yixue's heart warmed up, and his fingers trembled slightly. He originally thought that Sikong Zhao had only brought this group of people to Yancheng, but he never thought that he had mobilized more than 8,500 doctors to spread to the epidemic areas in eight provinces!
"The Medical Immortal and all of you are righteous. Liming Pharmacy, on behalf of the people of Lingyi, deeply thanks you for your kindness!" Pei Yixue returned the gift solemnly. With such strong support, countless people could be saved from dying in vain due to lack of medical care.
The doctors who came to support the rescue quickly started to treat the patients. They worked almost day and night, and their sleep time was compressed to one or two hours. This high-intensity work lasted for three days, and letters containing treatment plans for various strains of the virus were delivered one after another from the imperial post station to various places in the eight provinces.
Under the guidance of Liming Pharmacy, doctors from all over the country put aside their prejudices and worked together.
In addition to the reinforcements organized by Sikong Zhao, doctors who came spontaneously from all directions continued to pour into the epidemic area, greatly alleviating the dilemma of the disparity in the doctor-patient ratio.
In terms of medicinal materials and food, Jishiyi Station worked day and night and withstood most of the transportation pressure.
Everything seemed to be on the right track, except for money, which became a huge problem standing in the way.
The rare medicinal materials needed to treat the mutant strains were extremely expensive. After the 30 million taels of silver allocated by the court were distributed among eight provinces, after careful calculation, it only lasted for three days.
Without follow-up funding, sporadic donations of medicinal materials and food would be nothing more than a drop in the bucket.
Jishiyi Station can transport goods, but it cannot create goods out of thin air.
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