Village Chief Yang had already smoked two cigarettes. He didn't know what Dr. Xiao was doing when he came to him in the middle of the night to ask him what he was doing.
There, Xiao Chen asked Village Chief Yang some things about Yang Laowu and the others.
Xiao Chen felt that the plague must be related to tree fellers like Yang Laowu, and he needed to investigate as soon as possible.
"Dr. Xiao, do you have any other questions?" Village Chief Yang asked sadly, smoking the cigarette.
"It's okay, you can go back and rest first."
Village Chief Yang also went back to his tent, leaving Xiao Chen and Tang Bing there. Tang Bing didn't know what Xiao Chen was thinking.
A century-old curse?
Yang Laowu?
Tree feller?
Xiao Chen looked at Tang Bing on the side and said: "Sister Tang Bing, I will send you back to rest first. I will go to the doctors to find out the situation later."
Tang Bing knew that Xiao Chen was very busy, so he didn't say anything.
After returning to the tent where she and Mo Xiaowan lived, Xiao Chen went to the simple laboratory in the quarantine area, where doctors and postdocs were now conducting research on the dead.
When Xiao Chen came over, he found that there were still lights on.
"Dr. Li, Dr. Chen, have you rested?" Xiao Chen asked.
Soon, a man wearing myopia glasses, who looked to be in his thirties, and wearing a lab coat came out. When he found out it was Xiao Chen, Dr. Li asked: "Dr. Xiao, I don't know what you want from me."
Something?"
"Were you just doing research on the dead body?"
"It's dissection." Dr. Li said.
Anatomy experiments and research are very normal in Western medicine and modern medicine. However, in Yangjiazhai, the Miao people do not want their own family members to undergo dissections, and those who agree are Han people.
However, these medical doctors' dissections of patients these days have not made much progress in other aspects except for the clear understanding of heart failure after death, let alone allowing them to find the source of the spread of the plague, or to find the source of the plague.
This is how the plague spreads.
"Doctor Xiao, do you need to go in and take a look?"
Xiao Chen shook his head. He had clairvoyance, so he understood very clearly without having to perform an autopsy on the deceased. Now he just wanted to come over and ask if any suspicious infectious bacteria or viruses had been found.
Xiao Chen asked: "Have the new batch of supporting doctoral students arrived?"
"The afternoon has arrived."
"Well, I will go up the mountain with them tomorrow morning."
Up the mountain?
Dr. Li doesn't understand.
Xiao Chen didn't say anything more and returned to the tent where he slept.
Xiao Chen only practiced inside until early the next morning. After he got up to wash up, he went to check on Yan Qing's condition. Now Yan Qing was still in the incubation period, but after drinking the medicine prescribed by Xiao Chen, he seemed to get some
ease.
Now as long as Xiao Chen can save the other party, Yan Qing will definitely support whatever Xiao Chen wants to do.
According to Yan Qing's situation, after Xiao Chen prescribed another dose of medicine, he went to the temporary restaurant to have breakfast, and then went to Dr. Li's research laboratory.
When these Ph.D. students got up this morning, Dr. Li had already said that Dr. Xiao would go up the mountain with them.
As for going up the mountain?
They don't know, but they speculate that it may be related to finding the source of the spread of the plague.
Xiao Chen came here and soon saw Dr. Li again. Xiao Chen just ordered five doctoral students, asked them to finish breakfast and bring water, and then started to go up the mountain.
What we can learn from Village Chief Yang last night is that it may not be easy to go up the mountain.
Xiao Chen also personally went to find Village Chief Yang and asked him to introduce a young villager to take them up the mountain where Yang Laowu cut down trees before his death.
This young villager was also a Miao man, and his surname was Yang. Xiao Chen simply called him Little Brother Yang.
However, when this little brother Yang heard that Xiao Chen was going to go up the mountain to find the place where Yang Laowu and the others cut down trees before his death, this little brother Yang was obviously a little scared.
Because he knew very well that Yang Laowu and his tree cutters would just come back, and then the plague would break out and they would die.
Now if we go up there, we will be like them.
"Brother Yang, don't be afraid, we will follow you there."
"Yang Laowu and the others cut down sacred trees, so they were punished by the gods. They even came to our village and infected us innocent villagers." Brother Yang said.
"This may have something to do with it, but if we don't find out where the source of the plague is, more innocent villagers will suffer."
In the end, this little brother Yang had no choice but to succumb to Village Chief Yang's order and led Xiao Chen and the others up the mountain.
After all, the lives of people like Xiao Chen are so precious, and they are not afraid of it. What do they think of themselves as ordinary villagers?
Xiao Chen, plus this little brother Yang, and five other doctoral students, four men and one woman, are all medical doctors in their thirties.
"Dr. Liu, our trip is to go up the mountain to find the source of the plague. I suspect that the source of the plague is in the mountain." Xiao Chen looked at one of the men and said.
"Dr. Xiao, it's possible." Dr. Liu could only say that.
Brother Yang took the machete commonly used by the Miao people to clear the road ahead. Xiao Chen also took a woodcutter. Of course, there was a section of road at the bottom of the mountain. Because it was often used by tree fellers like Yang Laowu, these roads were better.
Walk.
"Brother Yang, how many trees did Yang Laowu and the others cut down?"
"There may be several large cars. I heard that each person made a profit of 10,000 to 20,000 yuan. We don't know how much they cut off the last batch."
Obviously, they were following the mountain road that Yang Laowu and the others took. After walking for almost half an hour, Xiao Chen found that they were still at the bottom of the mountain.
This Yangjiazhai and the surrounding mountains are really too big. I think Yang Laowu and the others, who are in their fifties, cut down trees on the mountains above in order to make some money, and then have to move them down, and then move to another place.
Large trucks can only be pulled on the highway outside.
However, in a place like this, where the income is very low, it is really tempting for these people to have an extra income of 10,000 to 20,000 yuan.
"Dr. Xiao, you see these are all traces left by the chopped tree trunks."
"Then what kind of trees did they cut down?"
"They are mainly nan trees and camphor trees. I heard that the bosses from the south like them very much, so who are the few who get so much money?"
Phoebe tree?
Could it be Jinsnan?
These are undoubtedly the best for making furniture.
However, the most famous thing is to use golden nan to make coffins, which has been the favorite of dignitaries since ancient times.
Xiao Chen always felt that these things seemed to be destined to be the same.
"Then do you know the price of those trees?" Xiao Chen asked.
Brother Yang shook his head. He didn't seem to be sensitive to money. (To be continued)