The two arrived at a house with a lock on the door. If it weren't for the occasional painful groans coming from inside, Deng Shifa wouldn't have known that there was a patient lying inside.
"What are they doing?" he asked, puzzled.
Yun Wu said, "The patients living here are quite seriously ill. We're worried that they might spread germs by moving around outside, so we lock the door and come to check on them from time to time, fumigating them with medicine and giving them medicine."
At this moment, leaning against the window, pale-faced Pi Ge greeted Yun Wu with a smile.
"Dr. Yunwu, is it time for the fumigation?"
"It'll be quick. The medicine boy will bring it over as soon as he grinds the medicine."
Deng Shifa was surprised. Was this the seriously ill patient they had mentioned?
He was clean and tidy, and apart from being pale and a little thin, he seemed to be in good spirits. Most importantly, there was no strange smell coming from the house!
Then think about Cangwu County. Anyone with severe festering sores on their body, even if they only have one breath left, will be carried out and burned alive.
Back in the doctor's office.
Deng Shifa asked Lin Yinan impatiently, "Lord Lin, could you sell us some of your medicinal herbs as well?"
Lin Yinan looked at Doctor Lin, who was in charge of the medicinal herb reserves at Longtan Medical Clinic.
Dr. Lin readily replied, "Of course, no problem."
Then Lin Yinan told the two of them about the severity of the epidemic in Cangwu County, and she left the decision to them.
"The situation here has basically stabilized. They can leave once they recover. Which of you two would like to go?"
This epidemic is dangerous and has a long recovery period. Before Yun Wu could speak, Doctor Lin said, "Then this old man will go with Young Master Deng."
Yun Wu is someone I've watched grow up; it's safer to leave him in Longtan.
"No, I'll go!" Yun Wu knew what Doctor Lin was thinking, so he said, "It's freezing cold, you old bones shouldn't go on such a journey."
Dr. Lin was speechless, this kid really doesn't know what's good for him.
"Dr. Lin, then let Yun Wu go." Lin Yinan made the final decision.
Deng Shifa: Shall we set off now?
Dr. Lin glanced at him, knowing the situation was urgent.
"Not today. We need to prepare and get the medicinal herbs ready."
Lin Yinan glanced at the sky and said, "Young Master Deng, don't be in a hurry. Let's rest at Longtan for the night and set off first thing tomorrow morning after we've gathered the medicinal herbs."
"I was too hasty!" Deng Shifa said with some shame.
After confirming the departure time, Deng Shifa and Lin Yinan returned to the county town.
Doctor Lin pulled Yun Wu along to hurriedly organize the medical records, and the two of them went through the various symptoms of the epidemic and the corresponding responses again.
Finally, Doctor Lin sighed and said, "I told you I would go, but you young man insisted on arguing with me!"
"Don't worry! I can handle it." Yun Wu patted his shoulder to comfort him.
"If the symptoms are too severe and there is no cure, then life and death are up to fate. If your own life is more important, then don't force yourself into this situation and risk getting yourself into trouble."
Dr. Lin was worried and kept giving instructions to his son, as if he were teaching his son.
In a secluded village outside the city of Cangwu.
Zeng Xiaofeng was running a high fever and lay in bed in a daze.
Her personal maid was lying on the couch. She also had a fever, but she was conscious. She opened her eyes and stared weakly at the dark sky outside.
A crisp "click" sound rang out, and the room was locked from the outside.
The maid was so startled that she sat up from the couch. Immediately afterward, the window was slammed shut from the outside.
Then they heard the foreman outside the courtyard speaking, "Hurry up, seal all the windows shut, and bring over some firewood and pour tung oil on it..."
What are the people in charge trying to do?
The maid had a bad feeling and hurriedly reached out to grab the window that was about to be closed.
"Manager, why are you locking me and Miss up like this?"
Only then did she notice that the steward was holding a torch. The steward, expressionless, scolded the servant, "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and close the window. Do you want to get infected by her?"
To prevent the others on the estate from being infected, the master has ordered that the young lady and her maid be burned together.
They didn't want to do this, but those who contracted the disease had no way to survive.
Two old women who used to serve porridge to refugees at the porridge stall passed away a couple of days ago, their deaths tragic. Their children, who had served them, have also fallen ill and are unable to recover.
They want to live too!
Fearing that the people on the estate would cause a commotion and attract the authorities, the master reluctantly ordered the young lady and her maid to be burned to death.
Upon hearing the steward's words, the servant pushed the maid aside with the wooden board in his hand, slammed the window shut, and then nailed the board shut.
The maid was running a fever and was extremely weak. She was pushed by the servant and it took her a long time to get up. She staggered and fell to the bedside.
"Miss, wake up! Wake up quickly, the manager is going to burn us alive!"
However, Zeng Xiaofeng was burning up and trembling uncontrollably, her mouth opening and closing as she mumbled something incoherently.
Flames blazed outside, bright as day, while thick smoke billowed inside.
The maid coughed incessantly, now pinning all her hopes on Zeng Xiaofeng. Her voice grew hoarse as she screamed, and she simply opened her palms and slapped Zeng Xiaofeng left and right.
"Cough cough, Miss, please wake up! Cough cough cough."
She really didn't want to die!
Perhaps hearing her thoughts, Zeng Xiaofeng unconsciously opened her eyes, her breathing becoming more rapid.
"Miss, you're awake!" The maidservant stepped forward with delight.
Unfortunately, Zeng Xiaofeng, who responded to her, had her mouth and eyes wide open, but she couldn't catch her breath and died!
On the second day at noon, the ships carrying medicinal herbs from Longtan County to support Cangwu Prefecture docked at the pier.
With the support of Longtan County, the Deng family immediately mobilized soldiers from the military government to fully cooperate with Yunwu's treatment arrangements.
Half a month later, the death toll in Cangwu County began to decrease.
A month later, the epidemic was effectively controlled, and there were no new infections.
Unfortunately, the weather turned against them. On the second day after Yunwu arrived, the entire Cangwu County and even Longtan experienced a sudden drop in temperature, with heavy snow falling from the sky.
The sudden drop in temperature led to the death of more than half of the seriously ill patients.
The smoke from the mass grave outside Cangwu County never stopped; there were endless corpses being burned every day.
Whether it was a child or an elderly person, a poor person or a rich person, all bodies that died from the disease were uniformly incinerated.
For those with family members, as long as the family spends a sum of money, they can retrieve the remains after cremation.
If no one claims them, they will be dug up and buried.
The heavy snow fell continuously for nearly forty days, day and night, and even the ponds outside Longtan County, which rarely freeze, were covered with thick layers of ice.
Lin Yinan would occasionally take out a thermometer from her spatial storage to measure the temperature. Since last winter, she had noticed that the temperature was a few degrees lower than in previous years.
She knew this was a harbinger of disaster.
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