Chapter 40: The Influenza Plague Pandemic

Yifang asked: "Oh, I mean, if ah, your five-flavor pill is a big seller, rich and rivals the country, one day, you are caught by the bad guys, and the bad guys want you to tell you the composition of the pills, if you don't say it, the bad guys will kill you, how do you choose."

Jin Cheng said: "If you don't say it, you won't say it if you kill me" Xindao Lao Tzu said, and the bad guys will also cut me.

She added: "I'll continue to suppose that if someone is particularly rich, and he wants to pay for this pill, of course, it is a lot of money, and you can't use it up in your life."

Jin Cheng was puzzled, and patiently replied: "Don't sell it, in fact, money is something outside the body, and realizing your own value is the most important."

After Yifang asked, she stopped making a sound, and the two went back to their rooms.

Jin Cheng was inexplicably asked by this question, and he didn't know what she meant.

After dinner, Zhihua reported: "Young Master, now the pre-ordered quantity of Wuwei Pills exceeds 2,000 bottles, and we only produce more than 100 bottles every day, and I also transferred two people from the pharmacy to come over."

Jin Cheng was also anxious: "Then you go buy some maids and come back, this output still has to keep up."

Zhihua nodded and said, "Okay, I'll look for a few smart and clever people to come back."

Beijing, Yifang's house.

When the mother saw her daughter coming back, she asked the kitchen to cook a lot of dishes that she liked to eat.

Brother Jin Yiwen also cared: "Sister, why haven't you come back for so long, why do I feel that you have grown taller again" He loves his sister the most.

Brother Jin Yiwen is five years older than her, has good grades since childhood, just admitted to the Jinshi, became the youngest Jinshi in the Tang Dynasty, and now serves in the Ministry of Officials, although he comes from a medical family, but he is not interested in medicine, many people read, such as that Zhang Qingshan has been reading for more than ten years, and he has been in Xiucai, and he has not been admitted to the Jinshi examination, and now he is dragged down by his family, and he will not take the exam anymore.

There are often some people in the world who break down, you can't get into the undergraduate college entrance examination several times, and some people have the green light all the way to the bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees, Jin Yiwen is such a person.

When the father saw his daughter come back, his cloudy face finally relaxed, and he also greeted him for a while.

Seeing that everyone had eaten almost enough, her mother went straight to the topic and said: "Fang'er, you are 15 years old this year, you are a big girl, and your mother still remembers the way you used to wear open crotch pants, so cute."

The elder brother also chimed in: "Yes, time flies so fast."

My father was just eating with his head down and didn't get involved.

Yifang was baffled, feeling that her mother was particularly concerned about her age today, and she had a bad premonition.

The mother said, "I am as old as you, and I am already married to your father."

Yifang saw that her mother had gone so far away, and the starting point from age was to highlight this theme, so she immediately retorted: "What's the hurry, I'm still young, and my brother hasn't started a family yet."

The mother immediately said: "Your brother's good things are also coming soon, let's talk about you now, don't talk about it."

The father interjected coldly: "Your matter is to be considered, and someone told me today, I decided this matter earlier, and I would like to reply to others, otherwise I feel that our Jin family deliberately brushed up on attitude."

The mother immediately said: "Indeed, Fang'er, now General Wei Yuanma's son is in good condition, I heard that he has made many miraculous achievements in the army, and we are also in the right place, master, when will we settle this matter."

Yifang was a little irritable when she heard this, and she didn't know why she was irritable, so she immediately said: "No, I'm still young, let's wait two years, what is good about the people in the army, they don't know how to cherish people at all, no matter how good he is, he has his own strong hand, maybe one day he will be cut down, and your baby daughter will be a widow."

The father shouted: "Fang'er, don't talk nonsense."

Brother Jin Yiwen also said: "My sister is reasonable, I think General Ma is the cousin of his queen, some show off, what kind of merit has he made, I want him to exterminate the Guiyi Sect, he is good, the people of the Guiyi Sect did not catch one, and arrested a lot of ordinary people to receive rewards, which made people complain, that is, a lord who deceived the superiors and subordinates, and the son was afraid that it would be difficult to get better."

The father coughed, meaning to stop him, and said solemnly: "Hearsay is rarely preached, and your mother is just talking."

Yifang threw away the dishes and chopsticks, stepped forward and grabbed the brother's arm and said: "Brother, you love me the most, you persuade your parents, they want to marry your sister, and then there will be one less person in the family to eat, I will be difficult to see my brother in the future, I am so sad."

The mother said: "You are talking nonsense, did our Jin family send you this mouthful, you rabbit cub, you are now 15 years old and the most suitable to find, if you wait a few more years to become a leftover girl, then you tell me what conditions you want, I will give you a counselor."

Father continued: "The article is right, although our Jin family is not rich and rich, it is better to find a family to study, there are a lot of people who have come to propose marriage in recent days, and when I am busy with this paragraph, I will take a good look at the staff."

Yifang said: "Father, no matter how we say it, we are also a medical family, it is better to find a person who is right, and I still want to talk about the medical skills of the Jin family."

Mother interrupted: "What else do we want you to carry forward your medical skills, you can teach your husband and children yourself, doctors are not a good profession, your father and uncle have recently Alexander, their hair has turned a lot gray, before, I thought I didn't study medicine, I complained for a while, now it seems that his choice is right."

The father remained silent and continued to take a sip of alcohol.

Brother Yiwen said with concern: "Sister, I have recently gone out, so it is safest to stay in Jinfu."

Yifang didn't figure out the situation, what kind of thing is this, she also promised her senior brother to go over tomorrow night to get an injection, and immediately said: "I'd better go to Wuweiguan, there are a lot of patients recently."

The father said: "Now that the public opinion of the flu in Beishan County is serious, according to legend, many people have sneaked into the capital to take refuge."

Yifang was shocked and said: "No wonder I was interrogated for a long time when I entered Beijing today, and there were more than ten times more officers on duty, but I think that Jingkou County is not so heavily guarded."

The father said in a dull voice: "If you don't come back today, I am going to arrange for someone to go to Wuweiguan to pick you up."

Yifang was startled, and said in her heart, fortunately, I came back, if I didn't come back, I wouldn't have to help it, and said leisurely: "Father, I think it's five or six hours for Beishan County to ride a horse from our capital, if the people flee, how long will it take."

Mother said: "No matter how far you go, you have to go, now there is a flu plague, a lot of people have died, if the capital is not allowed to enter now, these people will continue to Jingkou County, Linshan County, it is already close, say 1,000 to 10,000, you can't go out of this door again."

The father shouted: "Don't chew your tongue, a lot of people have died, who did you listen to, now the official statistics are less than ten dead, and they are all old, weak, sick and disabled."

Mother muttered: "Now the whole capital is saying that the mouth is on other people's faces, if you want others not to say it, just hurry up and find a way, and there are many people who say that a cold in the Taiyi Mansion can't be cured, and the court raises you to eat dry rice, and now what they say is ugly to death."

The father shouted: "Nonsense".

Yiwen saw that the parents were going to do it, and immediately said: "Mother, we still don't believe in rumors, many people want to see the jokes of our Taiyi Mansion and Jinfu now."

Yifang was shocked when she heard this, so many people had died, and immediately asked, "Father, tell me what the hell is going on."

Father said: "In fact, the time is not long, half a month ago, Beishan County suddenly a wide range of people caught a cold, some of the family was not spared, at first did not attract attention, in fact, two or three old people and a child died in front, how do you know, a few days ago, suddenly a family, grandparents, grandchildren and grandchildren all died of a cold, your uncle and I also went a few times, has not found a good way, so now the emperor called us last night to train."

The mother said, "What are you scolding for, you doctors are not omnipotent."

The father said helplessly: "Our Imperial Physician's Mansion should solve problems for the Holy Lord, and we should treat diseases and save people, but now our Imperial Physician's Mansion is still a little helpless."

Yifang said in her heart, you and the imperial doctor have no way to make a down payment, and I won't get involved, but now I don't dare to mention it anymore, I can only wait a few days to see the situation and then think of a way, she was about to ask some more details, and a servant came in and said: "Master, the imperial doctor sent someone to ask you to prepare, and he came later."

The father asked, "Oh, what do you want me to prepare".

The servant was so anxious that he sweated, and his heart said that the capital of the imperial physician had already arrived at the door just now, and immediately said that he still had to prepare the medicine box, and he didn't say what he wanted the master to prepare, so he said: "The imperial doctor didn't say anything about the down payment, but he himself said that he would go home and get the medicine box or something."

The father immediately said, "Okay, I know, you go and prepare the medicine box, I may need to use it later."

Yiwen said: "Just a cold is actually fatal, it is really sick, our officials are now spreading the word, and many colleagues also want me to bring them some Chinese herbal medicines to prevent colds."

Yifang was curious: "Father, what is the patient's performance?"

My father was a little upset, thinking that Yifang was also a doctor, so he said patiently: "Headache, chills, fever, and body aches, we have used a lot of prescriptions, such as guizhi soup, ephedra soup, etc., to no avail."

Yifang was drinking tea at this time, and when she heard her father talk about these symptoms, she was secretly frightened, and her brother's book "Great Doctor Jin Cheng Prescription" had this description, and immediately asked tentatively: "Is it that no matter what medicine is used, the patient's fever is difficult to solve, and the patient is not easy to sweat."

When her father heard what she said, he couldn't believe his ears, she should have heard someone else, otherwise how would she know, waiting to be asked.

A voice came in and said, "Big brother, let's hurry up to the Chengnan vegetable market, I heard that a few more people died there just now, a pregnant woman died last night, and the two old men can't do it today, Uncle Guo came to say that the saint was furious just now, and asked us to find a way to hurry up and find a way in the Imperial Doctor's Mansion, otherwise we will go to see him with my head" It turned out to be the down payment of the Imperial Doctor, Yifang's uncle.

My father originally wanted to ask Yifang about it, but now when he heard him say that there were also dead people in the capital, he was shocked and immediately said: "Aren't the four entrances of the capital under martial law?"

Uncle said, "Hey, there are fish that have slipped through the net, there are pregnant women in the family, for the sake of safety, so a few days ago I went to the capital in the name of relatives, who knows, three died at once, but there is also one in the stomach, now there is only one man left in the family, and now the whole city is under martial law, as long as there are patients with fever and cold in the family, they must be isolated, and all of them are sent to the vegetable market in the south of the city, where a quarantine area is made, and there is no way, there will be a big incident, and the light will lose the official, and the heavy will lose the head."

Everyone sighed when they heard it.

The father was also anxious, and immediately said, "Then hurry up and take a look."

When my uncle saw that Yifang was back, he immediately said: "Fang'er is back, don't go anywhere from now on, or go to my house with Sister Yiren, I have already notified hundreds of pharmacies in the Jin family to prepare boards... Gen, I am going to distribute it to everyone for free, you may lose a lot of money, I haven't had time to discuss it with you, Uncle Guo didn't agree at first, I told him about it, and he agreed in principle."

The father said: "What is there to discuss, it is important to treat the disease and save people, but this banlan root is free of charge, will it cause panic in the whole country."

Uncle said: "It's true, the main thing is that it has developed too fast, and now the capital is in a panic, and the army has come forward, and now the imperial court has been asking us to assess the impact of this plague, how do you say this should be good."

The mother was even more anxious and said: "Ah, this time our Jin family has a big event, please bless the Bodhisattva, let us get through this difficulty, and let the people of the whole Tang Dynasty get through this difficulty."

When my father saw that my mother was actually worshipping the Bodhisattva, he said irritably: "Auntie, can you not make a mess, there is a use in worshipping the Bodhisattva now."

He thought for a while and said, "If we really can't control it, then we have to start playing the Holy Saint and make plans in advance, otherwise there may be a national pandemic, and then we will be passive."

My brother interjected: "I read an ancient book, more than 300 years ago, after the flooding of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the plague epidemic killed hundreds of thousands of people."

Uncle looked at him appreciatively and said: "Wen'er reads a lot, there is indeed such a thing, after the catastrophe, it is easy to have a big epidemic, the imperial court has sent an army to Beishan County two days ago, and flies are not allowed to fly out, how do you know that this happened in our capital, it is really a desperate death."

Yiwen hurriedly said: "Does that mean that if this flu can't be controlled, will these people be clicked?"

My father and uncle tacitly agreed, "Do you think there is a better way than this?"

The mother was even more frightened and couldn't speak.

Yifang was also shocked when she heard it, it was just a common cold, and it actually caused such serious consequences, she just used the excuse of going to the toilet, and while eavesdropping on their conversation outside the door, she turned the senior brother's "Great Doctor Jin Cheng Prescription" to the second page and confirmed it, only to see the crooked handwriting on it: Jing Fang Poison Powder is suitable for external wind and cold, nepeta 10g, wind 10g...... Bupleurum 6g, suitable for external wind cold, damp evil invasion, cold and fever, body aches, no sweat ......, Moss white veins floating, this is exactly the same as the symptoms that her father said, she was excited in her heart at this time, and she didn't know if this guy was lying to herself, this prescription had never been seen in the Tang Dynasty, and she said it with a big grin, her father and uncle definitely didn't dare to let herself use it, she was making up her mind, not to mention keeping the glory and wealth of the Jin family, thinking about those poor people, as a doctor, she should also bet on the truth of this prescription, Senior Brother Xindao, if you lie to me, I will never pay attention to you again in this life, and I don't care what kind of amnesia you have, if this prescription is true, let our Jin family survive the crisis, and if you can save thousands of people, I am willing to make a promise。

Yifang was about to go in, and his father and uncle had already come out.

Seeing Yifang at the door, his father stopped and told Jin Yiwen: "Take care of your sister, don't let her run around."

Yifang asked, "Uncle, are there any flu patients in the Chengnan vegetable market you said?"

The uncle said: "Well, there are now hundreds of people there who have been diagnosed, and there are hundreds of people who have a fever and cold in the capital, and they are all isolated."

The mother chased after her and said, "You have to be careful."

Yifang plucked up the courage and said: "Uncle, father, I have a way."

Her father and uncle ignored her and continued to walk out.

Yifang hurriedly followed out and said, "Father, uncle, I really have a way, let me go together."

The father said solemnly: "Fang'er, aren't you messing around, you still go together, absolutely not."

When the mother saw that her daughter was going out with her, she was so anxious that she was dying, so she immediately grabbed her and said: "You wild girl, now is not the time to be reckless, you can save it, then what do you want your father and uncle to do, you go to be the capital of the imperial doctor" The words came to her lips, and she felt that something was wrong.

Father glared at her, and said in his heart that he was the second-in-command of the imperial doctor, and his younger brother was the capital, so if you say this, you will not be able to get off the stage.

My uncle was full of flu at this time, so he didn't pay attention to it at all, and continued to walk.

Yifang saw them walking away and muttered, "At least let me try"

Yiwen comforted his sister and said: "This is a typical bureaucracy, at least you can try it, take 10,000 steps back, and listen to how you save it, sister, you tell me, this is the first and second in command of the Imperial Doctor's Office, so he has been self-styled to such a point, how can he cure the disease and save people."

The mother stepped forward and grabbed her son at the same time and said, "If you don't say a word, that's your father, your father, you guys are not fuel-efficient lamps."

By the morning of the second day, my father went home with his head shut.

Apparently I didn't sleep all night, and I was physically and mentally exhausted.

With a dull gaze, he picked up the tea given by his mother, took a sip and said, "Hey, the Jin family is going to lose in our hands."

The mother was surprised: "What's the matter, don't think too much, you are too tired, wait for some food and have a good rest."

The father tilted his head and said: "My younger brother Jin Shuang has been suspended and put in prison this morning, saying that he is not doing things well, more than a dozen patients died in Beishan County last night, and there is a young and strong young man here, and now the situation is out of control, in the past, our Taiyi Office thought that those old, weak, sick, disabled and pregnant had lower resistance and couldn't resist, and now there are young people who have died, which has poked a big hole, indicating that this flu has been uncontrollable, and now the government and the opposition are blaming, and all the blame is pointed at our Taiyifu."

Mother herself picked up a cup of tea, and when she heard him say this, the cup trembled a little.

The Yifang brothers and sisters also happened to arrive at the door, and when they heard their father's words, they were all frightened.

Mother hurriedly said: "Then you... What is the attitude of you, the Holy One?"

"What attitude, what attitude do you have, I'm next, the Holy God will give me a week, let me think of a way, one of my legs has gone to prison, I don't care if I live or die, I'm just worried about what you will do."

The mother choked up and said, "What should I do, what should I do?"