Zhou Zhengsheng really didn't have any good ideas. He had been working as an imperial doctor in the imperial court, and he studied diseases that were only suffered by wealthy people.
The epidemic was not common, so Zhou Shengsheng had no idea for a while.
He couldn't find the root cause of the disease, and the other imperial doctors didn't know where to start.
Wang Huiming originally wanted to go back to the capital after visiting the border, but now he is afraid that he will be trapped here.
He couldn't go back and couldn't move around at will. He was very irritated and complained a lot about Zhou Zhengsheng and the others.
"Zhou Yuanjian, you are also the imperial hospital's judge after all. We have been at the border for more than ten days, why haven't you found a useful recipe yet? The emperor is pressing hard, and it's almost the New Year's Day. Do you and I want to Can’t you celebrate the New Year here?”
"The emperor has given an order. If a solution is found within ten days, both you and I will have to walk around without food."
Zhou Zhengsheng was also very upset because everything was different from what he had imagined.
He originally thought that there was no epidemic at all, and that he and Wang Huiming could return to Beijing without coming to the border to show off.
When the time comes, he will make the situation more serious when reporting to the emperor, and publicize his own achievements, how he suppressed the epidemic and how many border people he saved.
The emperor will definitely commend him and he will be praised by the world.
This reputation will follow him throughout his life and will allow him to reach a higher position.
Zhou Zhengsheng needs a good reputation.
But now that the epidemic exists, he is still helpless.
If he couldn't get the glory, he would get into trouble. Zhou Zhengsheng regretted coming here.
"I have never encountered such a situation. I need to gather the doctors in the city to discuss it carefully."
He was also anxious, but he didn't know much about the border. The physical differences between people in the south and north were so big that Zhou Zhengsheng had no way of knowing where the epidemic came from.
What he was thinking about now was how to find someone to take the blame for him, and Wang Huiming obviously couldn't do that.
He is not a doctor, at most he is an imperial envoy sent by the emperor to inspect things on his behalf, not to solve the problem.
To put it bluntly, Wang Huiming was sent here because the Ministry of Rites had nothing to do recently.
He is not important and the matter has nothing to do with him.
Zhou Zhengsheng asked all the doctors in the city to be arrested in the government office, and asked them to write down an insightful prescription one by one.
The doctors were miserable, but facing the soldiers holding swords, they dared not speak out in anger, so they could only write prescriptions with their heads down.
The doctors were all taken to the government offices, and there was no one outside to practice medicine.
In the past, there was no cure for epidemic diseases. Now, no matter what kind of disease one has, there is no one to treat them.
"What a sin. Are you here to save us or to harm us..."
An old woman knelt in front of a medical clinic, crying and complaining.
Hearing the noise from the closed shops around him, he curiously opened a crack in the door and poked his head out to see what was going on.
The old woman was kneeling on the ground, and next to her was a woman with her eyes closed tightly. The woman's protruding belly could be seen.
"Doctor, please open the door and let my daughter-in-law have a look. Please, I'll give you whatever medical fee you want..."
The door of the medical center slowly opened at this moment, and a half-year-old child looked at the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law kneeling at the door with a troubled expression.
"Granny Wu, I told you just now. It's not that our husband didn't save people, it's that he was invited to the Yamen and he hasn't come back yet. Not only him, but all the doctors in the street have been invited. If that doesn't work, please ask Po Wen to go to your house and show it to your daughter-in-law, I really can't do anything."
This kid is a medicine boy. He can give you any medicine you need, but he can't do anything to see a doctor.
Granny Wu cried even harder, and blood seemed to be flowing out from under her daughter-in-law.
The surrounding merchants who poked their heads out to watch the excitement all urged, "Grandma Wu, go find Grandma Wen quickly. Maybe you can save your daughter-in-law's life. If we continue like this, it will kill two people."
"Feng'er, Feng'er, hold on tight. Mom will take you to find Po Wen."
It’s not that she didn’t bring her daughter-in-law to seek help from Po Wen, but Po Wen was worried that the epidemic might contaminate her and refused to go out to see her daughter-in-law.
The mother-in-law looked desperate and struggled to support the body of the person next to her. At this moment, a pair of big hands helped her to pull up the daughter-in-law from the ground.
Granny Wu looked surprised and looked at the visitor warily.
The man turned sideways, and then his mother-in-law saw someone standing behind him.
"Mother-in-law, I am a doctor. I can save your daughter-in-law."
Si Ning saved Granny Wu's daughter-in-law at the last moment, and both the adults and children were fine.
Granny Wu was grateful and wanted to kneel down to Si Ning, but Si Ning helped her up.
"It's just a simple effort. You don't have to be so polite. Where is your son?"
Grandma Wu started crying again when she mentioned her son.
"He got the epidemic and was worried about infecting me and my wife, so he hid in the mountains."
"In the mountains?"
"There is a mountain behind, and many people live there, just to avoid infecting their families with the disease."
Only then did Si Ning realize that there was such a thing.
She immediately asked Granny Wu to show her the way and took Qiu Ju and Si Yihan up the mountain.
As Granny Wu said, there were already a lot of corpses piled up and down the mountain.
Some of those who have not died of illness are now dying on makeshift wooden beds.
Si Yihan frowned and looked at Si Ning, who nodded at him.
Si Yihan walked up to those people first, took out the baggage that Si Ning asked him to bring in advance, and unfolded it. Inside was the special medicine that Si Ning had developed in the past few days.
They have tried it on some epidemic patients in the past few days, and the effect is still good. They just need more people to verify whether this prescription really works or is only effective for some people.
Si Yihan explained his purpose of coming, but those people didn't refuse at all.
Even if there is poison in front of them, they will drink it without hesitation.
After all, their choice to go up the mountain shows that they do not want to spread the disease to more people.
There were many people on the mountain, and the medicine Si Ning brought was only enough for some of them.
"We'll come back tomorrow."
She turned to leave when someone called her.
"Miss, what is your name? We will repay you for your kindness."
"I am a doctor, and it is my responsibility to treat illnesses and save people. You are too polite."
Si Ning's identity was sensitive and he did not intend to say it in public. He only mentioned some things that needed attention and left with Qiu Ju and Si Yihan.
The next day, Si Ning took the medicine and went to the mountain again.
While diagnosing and treating them, I found that the symptoms of the patients who had taken the special medicine yesterday had been relieved a lot.
Si Ning changed the prescription again and asked Si Yihan to go to the city to get the medicine according to the prescription, while she and Qiu Ju stayed to take care of these people.
There are many people on the mountain and symptoms vary.
In addition to medication, it is best to combine it with acupuncture for better results.
But Qiu Ju didn't have any medical skills, and Si Ning was alone, so she couldn't take care of him at all.
After confirming that the prescription worked, Si Ning planned to go to the Yamen.
She knew that Zhou Zhengsheng had brought many imperial doctors to the border, and together with the doctors in the city, so many people should be able to come here.
