The old lady and young woman on the side also looked at them warily, but when Man Bao went to lift the quilt, he hesitated but did not stop him.
The quilt was lifted, and inside was a shivering little girl with pimples all over her head and face.
Daji and others were all startled and took two steps back.
Manbao was also startled, put down the quilt, took out a mask from his pocket and put it on, then lifted the quilt again to check the little girl's condition.
She was still having a fever, and there were pimples all over her face, hands and feet, as well as her chest and abdomen. Manbao had never seen so many pimples on a person in his whole life.
After careful inspection, she stood up and said to the young man: "It's getting dark, do you want to sleep in the open?"
The young man warned: "We will make a fire to keep out the cold."
Manbao then said to Daji: "Let's stay here for one night. You wear masks and stay away while I take a look at her symptoms."
Daji and others agreed and went down to arrange a place to sleep.
The young man's family stayed half suspicious and half expecting.
Man Bao opened the bag and found that she still had some medicinal materials with her. After careful consideration, she grabbed a pair of medicines and gave them to the woman to boil them.
Bai Shanze and the young man from his family went to collect firewood. When they came back with two bundles of firewood, the young man had already confided in Bai Shan and told him everything he knew.
According to him, his name is Wu Xiang, and his family does live in a nearby village, not very far from Xiazhou City.
"Half a month ago, Xiazhou City was suddenly closed. It was said that there was an epidemic in the city. Things from outside the city can be sent in, but things from the city cannot be sent out, and people cannot come out." Wu Xiang wiped the words.
Tears said: "Our family lives in a village not far from the city. We heard that there was a shortage of vegetables in the city, so we sold the cabbage we stored in the cellar and passed it through the city gate. There were people inside to collect it. We
I thought it would be fine just to sell some vegetables, but who knew that my child suddenly had a fever five days ago and then started getting acne."
"There is an announcement in the city. If someone outside the city is also infected with smallpox, if there are many people in a village, the village will be closed. If there are not many people, the people will have to move to the city. Our children are so young, we
I don't want her to go into the city alone, but the village can't accommodate us, so we have no choice but to come out."
Bai Shan asked: "Where can you go?"
Wu Xiang glanced at his wife and said, "We want to go to Dejing County, where my father-in-law's family is. The city has not been closed yet. We want to take the child to a doctor, maybe he can be saved."
Bai Shan asked calmly: "Smallpox is a disease that is extremely contagious. Even your village and clan can't take you in. Can your father-in-law take you in? And once you leave, the smallpox epidemic will spread."
As soon as he said this, Wu Xiang looked at him warily, "You, do you want to arrest us?"
Bai Shan shook his head and looked at him with a look of compassion: "We just came from Dejing County. I'm afraid you don't know that the imperial army has been sent to the capital. Not only Dejing County has also been sealed off, but also the prefectures and counties to the south and west.
The roads have all been closed, and people going south now have to either hide in the mountains or go back to Xiazhou, but they are walking, so they are not that fast."
Wu Xiang exclaimed: "Impossible!"
"What's impossible?" Bai Shan said: "The capital is full of nobles, and there are more than one million people there. Do you know how many people are more than one million?"
Wu Xiang's eyes widened.
Bai Shandao: "There are not as many people in the ten Xiazhou states as there are in Chang'an. As long as one smallpox patient enters, more than one million people may be infected with smallpox. Therefore, the imperial court attaches great importance to this and has already cleared the road."
Closed."
Facing Bai Shan's dull gaze, Wu Xiang had no choice but to believe it. He couldn't help but burst into tears, "The imperial court is asking us to die."
The old woman and the woman were also sad and burst into tears.
Man Bao and Bai Erlang: ...It sounds like it’s true.
Bai Shan said seriously: "That's why we are here."
Wu Xiang looked at them. Young men of sixteen or seventeen years old, what's the use of them coming?
Bai Shandao: "We are all from the Taiyuan Hospital, and we are followed by the convoy of the Forbidden Army and the Taiyuan Hospital."
Wu Xiang, his mother and his wife couldn't help turning their heads to look at the official road.
Bai Shan sighed and said, "Don't look at it. We are young, so we left quickly. We only ran here from the capital in five days. The imperial doctor who stayed behind is old and brought several carts of medicinal materials.
Even if we are escorted by a large army, we won’t be able to move quickly, and it will probably take three or four days to arrive.”
He softened his expression and said: "Magistrate Yang of Xiazhou wrote to ask for help. Your Majesty is concerned about the people in the epidemic area, and ordered the Ministry of Household Affairs to purchase a large amount of medicinal materials. Now the first batch of medicinal materials is coming with the imperial doctor, and there will be more to come.
"
He looked at the cart and lowered his voice: "I told you this in advance because I had a good relationship with my brother. These medicinal materials are to help people in the epidemic area. You can still get free medicine when you stay in Xiazhou City. And
You can see the imperial doctor, but if you continue to the south, let alone see the doctor, you can't even enter the city. Without local household registration, it is impossible for the county to accept you. Do you have to sleep in the wild and endure it?"
The fire had been lit and it was no longer so cold. Man Bao asked someone to push the trolley to the fire, and then pricked her with a needle a few times to reduce her fever a little so that she would not be too uncomfortable.
But she didn't dare to give her fever-reducing medicine, because smallpox could only be cured if it spread out, and if it was covered, it would be fatal.
She no longer paid attention to Bai Shan who was still deceiving others, but rolled up her sleeves and looked at her acne carefully.
After a while, she found a pimple that she had scratched. She probably couldn't help scratching it. Her wrists had been tied before, probably because she was afraid that she couldn't help scratching.
After finding the broken pimple, Manbao took a piece of white paper and carefully took out the pimple with a needle...
The old ladies and women on the side looked at her blankly, not knowing what she was doing.
Man Bao left with this piece of paper, using the excuse that he wanted to study acne so that people would not get too close. Then he sent the paper to the teaching room and sent it directly as a teaching material, and then asked Keke to desperately contact Teacher Mo.
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Teacher Mo, who was sent seven reminder messages in a row while online, silently looked up from a pile of books, received her pathogen, and then went offline to study.
There is no need to look for other research institutes for this kind of thing, he can find out the order in his own small research laboratory.
At night, the little girl couldn't help but cry. It was so itchy that she couldn't bear it.
The old woman and the other women could only hold her hand and comfort her constantly. Seeing how uncomfortable she was, they couldn't help crying.
Man Bao picked through the bag and finally got together a pair of medicine. After boiling it, let it warm, and then asked them to use gauze dipped in the medicine to clean her.
"It just barely relieves the itching, and it also has the effect of reducing the rash. I just don't know how effective it is. You can give it a try."
She looked at the two of them, frowned, found two masks and gave them to them, "It's better than nothing, you haven't had acne either, right?"
The two of them took it with great gratitude and put it on as they did. Although they didn't know what the use was, since both the nobles and the imperial doctors did this, it should be useful.