"Mr. Xu, I'm just afraid that the plague won't be cured, so let's go in first." The person who spoke was a doctor who came with them. His surname was Li. He was also a famous doctor in Beijing. He was seen holding a goat.
Hu Chou said: "Li has been practicing medicine for decades and has never seen anything like this.
It is too difficult to cure such a strange plague, not to mention that the water and food we brought have been exhausted. If this continues, we will have no water to drink and nothing to eat. Do we have to fight with
Do those disaster victims generally drink contaminated water and food?”
As soon as these words came out, the expressions of the remaining people changed. They came here because of the pressure from the government, not out of sincerity. After all, not every doctor has the heart to save the world. Most of them just regard practicing medicine as a way to make money.
It's just a means.
Several people were talking around Rong Yuan, and they all had the same idea, that is, asking when they could leave Tongzhou. For them, staying one more day would mean more pain, and they would be worried all day long, fearing when they would be infected.
The plague.
Rong Yuan spent a lot of words to calm them down. After sending them back, he asked Imperial Physician Yang who was still standing there: "Why didn't you help me to speak just now?"
"What did you say?" Doctor Yang spread his hands and said, "Are you telling me what's on your mind? Like them, I also hope to go back early."
"Since the imperial court sent us here, we must cure the plague before we can go back." Rong Yuan paused and walked to the backyard to look at the remaining rice and water. He estimated that we could still hold on for five or six days.
He sent people back to Beijing to inform him of the situation in Tongzhou, and asked people to quickly deliver water and food. This was also the material that the imperial court promised to rescue Tongzhou.
Just when he was about to write the book, Imperial Physician Yang suddenly came over and said in a serious voice: "Tell me, what will happen if we can't cure this plague?" Although he had prejudices against Rong Yuan, at this moment the two of them could talk.
He is a grasshopper tied to a rope, and any prejudices he may have are put aside for the time being.
Without waiting for Rong Yuan to answer, he said directly: "I don't want to die. When I came here, my wife was just pregnant. I promised that I would go back and watch the child be born. My mother will be over sixty next month."
Happy birthday."
Rong Yuan carefully dropped a few drops of water into the inkstone, then slowly rubbed the ink, and said: "No one wants to die, we don't want to, let alone those people outside; all we can do at the moment is try our best to save them. A
If you plan on the shortcomings, the three of you will always figure out a way."
"I hope so!" Doctor Yang said, but he didn't have much confidence in his heart. If he stayed in Tongzhou for one more day, his despair would increase. He was really worried that he would go crazy in such despair.
Just when Rong Yuan had finished writing the one-page memorial and was about to dry it and send it to the capital, there was a sudden commotion outside. Before they could ask questions, a soldier who had escorted them here rushed in nervously.
He ignored the salute and opened his mouth and said: "Two imperial doctors, many victims of the disaster have gathered outside. They are clamoring to see the two imperial doctors. They also said that if you don't go out, they will rush in."
Doctor Yang immediately panicked when he said this, and said nervously: "Then why don't you stop them outside quickly? If you let them in, who knows what trouble will happen."
When the soldier heard this, he quickly defended: "There are so many of them, we can't stop them with just a dozen of us."
"Brother Yang, don't blame them. Let's go out and see why they suddenly gathered here." Rong Yuan pulled the reluctant Doctor Yang out. As soon as he got outside, he saw dozens of people gathered at the door.
People, and these are just standing people, there are also many people who are lying on simple bamboo frames and being carried. At a glance, there are at least hundreds of people, and there are people coming from all over the place to guard the outside.
The sergeants were getting more nervous each one, lest they rush in.
"They're coming out!" Someone shouted, and the crowd suddenly became excited, pushing and pushing in. Even those who had been hiding on the bamboo frame and were suffering from the epidemic were struggling to get up. The scene was chaotic.
Incomparable.
Rong Yuan and Doctor Yang loudly motioned for them to be quiet, but their voices were mixed in the noise and couldn't be heard at all. In the end, an old man with a yellow beard and yellow hair, who looked like a leader, raised his hand to temporarily stop the noise.
.
Rong Yuan secretly sighed and quickly took advantage of this opportunity to say: "I wonder what you mean with so many people focusing here to see us? If it's for the epidemic, Dr. Yang and I are discussing the matter. We will do something as soon as possible.
I will heal everyone."
"Cure?" The old man with a yellow beard sneered and said: "Bah! You people, you call yourself a doctor or a famous doctor, and you brag about it so much, but what's the result? After treating it for so long, it has no effect at all. Let's not talk about it. They have taken it.
After you take the medicine, the condition gets worse every time, and you can even live for three or four days, but once you take the medicine, you can't even survive the next day, what kind of doctors are you!"
Sure enough, it came... Rong Yuan sighed secretly in his heart. He had been worried that the victims would revolt because they could not get effective treatment. Alas, he was really afraid of what would happen.
Thinking like this, he quickly explained: "This kind of plague you are suffering from has never been encountered before, so it will take some time to cure it. I hope you, fellow villagers, can give me a few more days of grace, and we will find you as soon as possible."
Come up with a cure." Doctor Yang was also there.
He couldn't help but nod. The most important thing right now is to appease these people, otherwise once a riot breaks out, there will be big trouble. Today, there are about six to seven hundred survivors in Tongzhou, and about two hundred of them have never been sick. Based on their relationship with
The dozen or so sergeants who came with us couldn't stop him.
The old man with a yellow beard smacked Rong Yuan hard on the face, "By the time you quacks come up with a solution, I'm afraid we'll all be dead, and we don't know whether the imperial court will send you to treat us or harm us."
Rong Yuan silently wiped the spittle from his face and Xingzi didn't say anything. Doctor Yang next to him took courage and said, "Don't think too much. The imperial court attaches great importance to this epidemic in Tongzhou. Otherwise, they wouldn't have sent me and Doctor Xu here. Don't worry.
, I will definitely try my best to treat him."
The old man with a yellow beard was obviously dissatisfied with his answer, and he snorted heavily: "If we are going to be cured, why do you want us to drink the polluted water source? And why have we not seen any clean water and food being transported in until now?"
They were forced to accept it because the court said that water and food would be shipped in soon. However, they waited day after day and never saw the food and water. On the contrary, people around them fell ill one after another. Those who were not sick were
Less and less.
Imperial Physician Yang was startled by his question, and Rong Jian took over the words: "After the earthquake, all the main roads in Tongzhou were blocked. Although a lot of them were cleared, it is still not easy to pass a large number of carriages, so please be patient.
Some things, the imperial court will definitely send them."
"Hmph, I still can't believe it. You're clearly deceiving me!" As he said this, the people behind him suddenly became excited again, shouting and waving the household hoe and other objects in their hands.