Chapter 35 Artemisia annua cures malaria
Xiao Yu looked not far away through the small window of the carriage, and saw about one or two hundred yellow-skinned, unclothed homeless people being driven in one direction by a team of hunters.
"Hurry up! Don't grind! Catching quickly urged impatiently, and whoever walked slower went up and pushed it, pushing the already stumbling person even more.
"Tell me about you, why don't you stay at home honestly on a cold day, and run out?! Net trouble for us! The man at the head took a hard spit.
Zhou Zhao is now sick at home, and this person should temporarily take the place of the head catcher.
Someone among the homeless people shouted in a trembling voice: "Master, it's not that we are willing to leave our hometown, it's really that we are too chaotic there, and we can't live at all!" Governor Li is also our parent official, he can't ignore it! ”
Catch quickly said impatiently: "Who doesn't care?!" Whoever is here to take care of you?! Hurry up and go, less nonsense! ”
An old man who was walking on the edge fell down under his feet, and was kicked hard by a nearby catcher, so he could only get up trembling and crookedly, and continued to walk forward.
Bailing Bailu was sad and grabbed Xiao Yu's hand: "Girl, they are so pitiful, let's help them." ”
Xiao Yu shook his head and lowered the curtain.
"I can't manage it now."
The displaced people are indeed pitiful, but they are also a great factor of instability, because they are cornered by corrupt officials and corrupt officials who are rich and unkind, and they are displaced all the way, they have no food, and a little food may cause riots, and that small group of people who are fast hunting cannot suppress the two hundred displaced people who have lost their minds.
Besides, if he appeared in front of them in such a glamorous manner, perhaps they would transfer their hatred of those corrupt officials and profiteers to him.
Xiao Yu lowered the curtain and said to the coachman, "Let's go." ”
Just after taking two steps, what Xiao Yufang was worried about happened.
I don't know what those catchers are doing, but I just heard the commotion outside suddenly louder, mixed with the woman's mournful cry, and those catchers who shouted and scolded, which made people feel uneasy to hear.
Bai Ling was a little worried, and he couldn't take pity on those homeless people, so he lifted the curtain and said to the coachman: "Uncle, hurry up!" ”
Seeing that the displaced people who had been lining up obediently and hurrying away gradually converged towards a center at this time, the crowd shouted something angrily, as if they wanted to vent all the anger and panic that had been suppressed until now, and the dozen or so catchers were instantly drowned in the crowd.
"Girl, what should I do?!" Bai Ling didn't expect that the homeless people who originally looked honest and miserable would become so terrifying in an instant, they simply turned into a huge monster that wanted to choose people to devour, and even they could feel the panic that the earth was trampled and constantly shook in the carriage.
Xiao Yu thought about the appearance of those quick and commanding people just now, and couldn't help but lift his forehead and sigh: "Stupid." ”
These people are accustomed to exercising power on the heads of the common people, thinking that the people are afraid of them and will always respect them, and they have a knife in their hands, so they have no fear, and these hundreds of homeless people naturally do not pay attention to them.
But if the people who were cornered broke out en masse, it would be the most terrible force in the world, enough to overthrow an entire dynasty, and even these two hundred people could trample them into pulp.
Xiao Yu sighed along with an old man among the homeless. Although he was also dressed in shabby cloth and had a gray face, he seemed to be no different from the homeless people around him. If you look closely, you can always notice the extraordinary bearing of the old man that is different from ordinary people.
The two young men beside the old man guarded him tightly so that he would not be hit by the wanderers who had lost their minds, and there was an unconscious young man beside him, who was supported by the other two on his back, and carefully avoided the people around him.
"Master, it can't go on like this, Lao Jiu's injury can't be delayed any longer, and the doctor must be found immediately." One of the young men whispered anxiously.
The man next to him also cursed: "These wine bags and rice bags, it's not enough to honestly bring the displaced people to the resettlement site, if you have to do nothing, there will be these things left under Li Fangming's hands." ”
A few people are the patriarch and his party. The patriarch found out that Li Yonghui colluded with mountain bandits and even raised private troops, and was about to leave to return to Beijing, but was chased by another group of killers sent by Li Yonghui. After a desperate battle, although the killer was annihilated, it also lost a guard.
These five guards are the best talents selected from the most elite ninety-nine guards in the Yuan Palace, and any loss of any one is a huge loss, not to mention that they have been guarding the patriarch prince all year round, and the patriarch has long regarded them as sons and nephews.
Hearing that Li Fangming, the prefect of Beihuai, had a doctor in the resettlement center for displaced people set up outside Huaiqian City to see him on a daily basis, several people pretended to be homeless people and prepared to sneak in to find a doctor to treat the injured. Who knew that now it was disturbed by those few catchers who didn't know the height of the sky.
The patriarch glanced at the unconscious young man, frowned, and said after a while: "It seems that the matter here can't be good for a while, let's go directly to the city to find the doctor." ”
"No way!" One of the guards said urgently, "This is still the territory of the Li family, and we can't take any risks." Li Yonghui even thought about the relationship between Lord Zhou and the master, and had already taken precautions, but he was afraid that the city had already laid a net, and the master could not throw himself into the net. Why don't you find a place to settle down, and I'll go into the city and bring the doctor out." ”
"Aren't you going to fall into the net?!" Another sarcastically said, "If you go and never return, will we have to wait for you for the rest of our lives?" We can wait, Lao Jiu can't wait. ”
"So what the hell is going to do?!"
Several people were afraid and hateful, but they couldn't think of any other way for a while.
When the patriarch and his party were at a loss, they saw that the team of displaced people who were originally heading forward suddenly split up and ran in another direction.
"Look, brothers! There's a rich man there! Why do we have to starve here, and we have to suffer from the bird's breath of these birdmen, who suck the people's fat and trample on the bones of the people, live a good life every day, and now there are carriages to sit on! ”
"Anyway, the fellows can't live anymore, so they just turn him upside down!"
A small group of people shouted as they rushed towards the carriage that was slowly moving not far away.
It was the carriage that Xiao Yu was riding. Seeing that the honest coachman panicked instantly, he whipped again and again, and drove the horse away. But the horse, who had never seen much of the world, seemed to be stunned by the power coming from all directions, and with a lift of its hooves and a twist of its neck, it ran in the direction of the homeless.
When the homeless saw that the cart had not fled, they had run towards them, and after a moment of surprise, they rushed up with a strange scream.
Xiao Yu, who was sitting in the car, wanted to cry without tears.
Bai Ling's face turned pale with fright, and he clung to Xiao Yu's side.
Closer to the crowd, Xiao Yu heard those angry homeless people shouting something "kill to pay for your life", and the cry of the woman who had been extremely miserable was also mixed with the call of "my son", which seemed to be the cause of this chaos.
It was probably because those quick catches were not light or serious, and they injured the children in the homeless people, which aroused everyone's blood.
Xiao Yu had a plan in his heart, patted Bai Ling sappingly, opened the curtain and said to the coachman: "Uncle, don't be busy, let the horse stop." ”
The coachman was already frightened, and when he saw that Xiao Yu was calm and seemed to be in his chest, he couldn't help but obey his orders, and gradually stopped drinking the horse.
The homeless people surrounded the carriage in an instant.
When Xiao Yu was controlling the horse, Xiao Yu had already neatly taken off his skirt under Bai Ling's stunned gaze, and turned out a blue straight jacket from under the seat of the carriage, and tied his hair up neatly, and in a blink of an eye, he changed from a beautiful lady to a handsome boy that day.
Xiao Yu smiled at Bai Ling, pulled the men's clothes on his body, and took out the first aid kit that was always on the carriage: "Be prepared." After speaking, he got out of the carriage, ignored the fanatical clamor of the homeless people and the eagerness to grab the carriage, raised his hand and pressed it falsely, stood on the front of the carriage more than half a person, and said loudly: "I am the doctor!" I just heard, who's sick here?! ”
The rioting crowd instantly fell silent, and they couldn't help but look at each other.
Originally, when they saw that the carriage looked rich and elegant, they thought it was the car of a young lady, but they didn't expect it to be a doctor.
The doctor is also an ordinary person, they hate the rich who are not benevolent to the rich, but they maintain a simple awe for the doctor, and they don't know what to do for a while.
Seeing that they had calmed down, Xiao Yu felt more confident, and pointed to the chaotic crowd that was still pushing a few steps away.
"I heard the crying coming from that side."
A thin but dark and tall man who seemed to have a leading position in these crowds, he looked at Xiao Yu and said suspiciously, "Are you really a doctor?" How can there be a doctor as small as you?! You're not lying to us, are you? ”
"I'm really a doctor." Xiao Yu smiled and nodded.
It's just a simple sentence, a gentle and polite smile, but it seems to be more convincing than any gambling swear or big words, which makes people have to believe him.
The tall man frowned: "You'd better not lie to us!" ”
After saying that, he turned around suddenly, and the middle of the crowd instantly gave way in front of him, and the man shouted loudly while striding forward: "Get out of the way of Lao Tzu!" Keep the lives of those beasts and teach them another day, and let the doctor treat Sister-in-law Wu's son first! ”
His roar of rage instantly echoed the crowd, and it was transmitted to the rioting crowd one by one, and it had an effect in an instant.
Xiao Yu looked at this scene and thought that this person was also a talent in this troubled world, this big brother wouldn't have the surname Chen or Wu, right?
Bai Ling trembled and got out of the car, and the homeless people around her looked at her very unkindly. Xiao Yu pulled Bai Ling to his side, handed her the first-aid kit in his hand and hugged it, and said to everyone with a smile: "This is my assistant." He pulled the driver who was limp in front of the car to his side, "This is the only old slave in my hospital." After saying that, he got out of the car with the two of them and stepped on the road that had just been out of the way in the crowd.
Bai Ling wanted to follow Xiao Yu's side. The coachman looked at the big girl Feng who had suddenly changed her clothes, and although he was puzzled, he felt that this little master was very reassuring. Although the eldest girl Feng was walking towards the most central and dangerous place surrounded by the homeless, there were dozens and hundreds of hungry wolf-like eyes staring at them along the way, and the coachman did not dare to fall down and followed.
The patriarch looked at the young man who suddenly appeared, and his eyes narrowed slightly.
"Is he really a doctor?" The guard on the side whispered with some suspicion but some expectation.
"It looks like he's still a child, maybe he's fooling around to save his life."
"What's wrong with the child, do you dare to treat him as a child when the prince is so old?!"
The guards argued in a low voice, and the patriarch glanced at the injured guard who was unconscious, pondered for a moment, and said softly: "Don't speak, let's take a look first." Lao Qi, you go and loosen the acupoint for Lao Jiu, so that his leg will not die. ”
Lao Qi nodded in response, clicked twice at the base of the unconscious Lao Jiu's thigh, and then untied the strip of cloth on his thigh, and a piece of fresh blood instantly gushed out, rushing away the hemostatic powder pasted on the wound, and soaking the clothes that were already soaked in blood......
Lao Qi trembled when he saw it, and after a while, he clicked on his acupoint to stop the bleeding and wrapped the bandage again.
"If you can't stop the bleeding anymore, Lao Jiu is only afraid of ......" his voice was a little choked, and he turned his head to look at the young man who had already walked to the middle of the crowd.
The young man was dressed in a blue straight jacket and looked very straight, obviously with slightly slender shoulders, but he seemed to be more stable than anyone else, and under the malicious gaze of so many homeless people, he did not even have a trace of uneasiness, as if he was in a no-man's land.
Such a calm expression shouldn't be pretended, right? Perhaps in this small Huaiqian city, there are really hermits who are different from ordinary people, who have some heavenly skills, and can become their salvation in danger and despair......
Lao Qi looked at the patriarch prince, but saw that the patriarch also looked at the young man with interest.
Xiao Yu didn't know that someone was secretly observing him, but then again, there were hundreds of pairs of eyes here who looked him up and down openly, and no matter how many more pairs there were, it wouldn't hurt.
The dozen or so catchers had all fallen to the ground by this time, clenching their bellies and wailing, as if they had learned some lesson, but none of them were fatal.
In the center of the crowd was a haggard-looking woman, with no age on her dark, thin face, and a little boy who looked like she was only seven or eight years old in her arms. The little boy fell limply in her arms, as if unconscious.
The tall and thin man squatted down in front of her: "Sister-in-law Wu, there is a doctor here." Let him show the eggs. ”
Sister-in-law Wu looked at Xiao Yu, struggled to get up and knelt down, and Xiao Yu hurriedly stepped forward to hug her.
"This eldest sister doesn't need to be like this, I'll take a look at the child right away."
Sister-in-law Wu seemed to have cried out with all the strength in her body just now, and at this time she just hugged the child in front of Xiao Yu's eyes, and cried weakly in a short breath voice: "Doctor, big ...... Husband, please save him, give him my life, as long as you can save the egg, he is still a child...... Doctor, I beg you, I beg you......"
Xiao Yu was very sad when he heard this, and half-knelt on the ground, concentrating on looking at the unconscious child.
There was a little scrape on the egg's head, some blood came out, and it had dried up there.
The tall and thin man saw him inspect the wound and said indignantly: "It was those bitches who raised them with the handle of a knife, and the child fainted after knocking it." If the eggs don't heal, I'll let those dog mongrels pay for the eggs! ”
"Repay your life, pay for your life!" There was a sudden fierce response in the crowd, and the few catchers lying on the ground shrank into a ball and shivered in fright.
Xiao Yu frowned and glanced at the tall and thin man: "Let them shut up!" Don't be noisy. ”
The tall and thin man choked and stared at Xiao Yu fiercely, but Xiao Yu stopped looking at him and continued to touch and pinch the boy to check it.
This little doctor is so bold! The tall and thin man clenched his fists and wanted to have a seizure, but in the end he didn't have a seizure, and roared angrily: "Whatever you shout, shut up!" I didn't see the doctor think you were noisy! ”
The crowd fell silent.
The guards beside the patriarch said in a low voice: "Can govern a group of homeless people like this, but this man has some ability. ”
The patriarch nodded. He couldn't see the young doctor crouching down now, so he closed his eyes slightly, and listened to the sound coming from there.
But I heard the little doctor say: "This wound is just a bruise, a small wound, and it is not the main reason for the child's coma." As soon as his voice fell, he heard the dissatisfied voices of the displaced people around him, and suddenly boiled. The patriarch shook his head slightly.
The fledgling is not afraid of tigers, and he is really still a young man......
"How is that possible! We can see that the beast hit the child on the head, and the egg fell! ”
"That's it! You want to excuse these dog mongrels and you're not a good thing either! ”
"This doctor is fake, it must be fake!"
"Fake, fake!"
Xiao Yu ignored their clamour, and still touched the child's body.
The body is feverish, and there are some shivers just now, obviously it is autumn and winter, and the clothes on the child's body are thin, but they are actually wet with sweat when they feel it, and they are still sweating profusely on their backs.
Such a symptom, this disease, originally occurred more often in the hot summer when there are many mosquitoes. Although the weather is cold now, Xiao Yu still thinks about it, malaria.
There is a high probability that the child has contracted malaria.
It's a pity that he can't do a blood film test now, and he can only judge it based on his symptoms.
Xiao Yu asked Sister-in-law Wu: "How long has Dan'er had a fever?" ”
Sister-in-law Wu replied without a master: "It started at noon yesterday." ”
"Is it that the fever is good and bad, and I still have chills, and I have a headache and nausea when I have chills?"
Sister-in-law Wu's yellow eyes lit up obviously, and she nodded again and again: "The doctor is right, the egg is like this!" Doctor, what kind of disease does Dan'er have? ”
Xiao Yu was basically able to confirm it, and he said: "Dan'er has malaria, which is a pendulum." ”
As soon as his voice fell, the crowd that was still noisy just now instantly fell silent again.
This time, the silence was even worse than the previous one, and there was a depression that gradually spread.
"Malaria...... It's malaria! I don't know who shouted, and the crowd that was tightly packed instantly retreated like flowing water in all directions, and even a few of the catchers lying on the ground endured the pain, and even ran towards the distance with a rolling belt, and the others didn't care to stop them.
"Stay away, stay away! The eggs have malaria! ”
The coachman was also so frightened that he wanted to retreat, but he saw that Bai Ling was just standing beside the big girl Feng with his eyes wide open, and his little master was also squatting in place with the same unchanged face, and he couldn't help but stop, still standing behind Xiao Yu.
Sister-in-law Wu also seemed to be stunned, a pair of wooden eyes first looked at Xiao Yu stunned, and then looked down at the child in her arms, she whimpered, hugged the child and cried.
"Oh my miserable eggs! What can I do, what can I do?! ――”
The tall and thin man also stepped aside, and when he saw Xiao Yu still squatting in front of Sister-in-law Wu and Dan'er, he couldn't help but wonder: "Didn't you lie to us?!" Malaria can infect people, and nine times out of ten people who can't be cured of malaria will die, are you playing some tricks! ”
"Who says it can't be cured?" Xiao Yu didn't even look at him, walked back to the carriage and got a pen and paper, this time no one stopped his way, everyone looked at him jealously, eager to stay away from him.
He wrote a few lines on a piece of paper, folded them and handed them to the coachman.
"Uncle, you go back to the city immediately and hand over this letter to Doctor Qin, let him do what I say, and then take him back here. Be sure to be fast! ”
The coachman took the letter and solemnly stuffed it in his arms, looked at the homeless people over there, and whispered with some hesitation: "However, I can't leave the girl here alone......
Xiao Yu smiled: "It's okay, I can handle it." It's too late to save people, you go early and come back early. ”
When the coachman heard this, he could only answer and got into the carriage.
When the people around him saw that he was leaving, they immediately stopped doing it again, blocked in front of the carriage and shouted: "This person wants to escape, he wants to go back to move the rescue soldiers, can't let him go!" ”
Xiao Yu was a little angry, looked around, looked at the tall and thin man and said, "Do you still want to save that child?!" Then he looked at the homeless people blocking in front of the carriage, "What am I going to do to save the soldiers?" What are you afraid of?! Are you really going to rebel against the imperial court?! If you don't go to a good resettlement place, you don't have food to eat, you don't sleep in a bed, what results do you want to get if you make a fuss here?! Now it's just a trouble, and the law doesn't blame the public, not to mention that the fault is those few who catch quickly, and they will only be punished. If you become a thief, a random team of soldiers in Huaiqian City can correct you on the spot, is this the result you want?! Then I wish you all kindness and kindness! ”
His series of questions made everyone speechless and looked at each other.
A few old people in the crowd had already begun to pull the young man back, and persuaded bitterly: "The little doctor is right, don't make trouble, just listen to the old man, we can't afford to make trouble, we can't afford to make trouble......"
Xiao Yu looked at the ragged old people, and felt a little unbearable in his heart, so he softened his voice and said, "My coachman went back to find someone to dispense medicine, and the medicine can save this child." I'll be here with you anyway, what are you afraid of? ”
He said to the coachman, "Uncle, hurry back to the city." ”
The coachman tentatively picked up the carriage, but this time no one stopped him. Xiao Yu quickly took a cloak from the car and walked back to Sister-in-law Wu.
"Sister-in-law Wu, come and wrap up the child, it's too cold here." He put the cloak over the egg.
Seeing that Sister-in-law Wu's hands and feet were numb, Xiao Yu simply picked up the egg and asked Bailing to help him wrap the cloak tightly around the boy's body.
Sister-in-law Wu saw that the cloak was delicate in texture, warm to the touch, and inlaid with fur, which was a valuable and wealthy thing at first glance. She hurriedly stopped: "This ...... I can't help it, I can't help it, the little doctor's clothes are so precious and clean, and the eggs are dirty......"
Xiao Yu smiled: "Sister-in-law Wu doesn't need to be polite, aren't clothes just used to keep out the cold." I'll hold the eggs, you can rest. ”
Sister-in-law Wu turned her head to look around, and saw that in addition to her and Dan'er, there was also the little doctor and the girl beside him, and there was an empty space around her, and even the eldest brother Tie who had taken good care of them along the way stood in the distance and looked at them hesitantly.
Sister-in-law Wu looked at Xiao Yu, this little doctor's dress was full of wealth and nobility, and his words and deeds were like a son and brother from a high-ranking family. He said that he was a doctor, but none of the doctors she had seen in her life were like this, and even the richest rich man in their township, the Xiucai Lang of the Foreign Family, could not compare to him in the slightest.
He is obviously a rich young master who can only be raised in those big families, but at this time, when those fellow villagers are avoiding them, this immortal-like son just holds her child like that, wraps her body with eggs and stains with dust and mud in such a gorgeous dress that she can't afford in her life, and holds him in her arms, without a trace of disgust, without a trace of hesitation.
Sister-in-law Wu's tears filled her eyes again, she wanted to kneel down to thank this son who was willing to help them like this, but she felt that kneeling down was disrespectful to his kindness.
"Doctor, little boy, thank you, thank you, Dan'er, Dan'er, he will definitely repay you well in the future......" Sister-in-law Wu said in a choked voice, Xiao Yu asked Bai Ling to go over to comfort her, and he sat on a severed tree with the boy's thin and light little body in his arms.
I hope that Dr. Qin will be quicker and bring the medicine over quickly.
In the 21st century, there was a Ms. Tu Youyou who won the Nobel Prize for the antimalarial drug artemisinin, in fact, in ancient times, there has been a record of using Artemisia annua to treat malaria, but the effect is greatly reduced, the reason is that after Artemisia annua is decocted in medicinal water, the effective antimalarial ingredients are destroyed by high temperature. In the letter, he wrote a simple extraction method by salt immersion, and extracted the juice of Artemisia annua directly, hoping that Dr. Qin could understand it. He believed in the young man's skills.
Several pairs of cloth shoes suddenly appeared in front of him, Xiao Yu looked up, and saw a kind-faced old man looking at him with a smile.
"This little doctor, can you help my nephew take a look at the injury?"