The man stared blankly at the woman in front of him. Although her face was covered by a white veil, the clothes she wore were clean and exquisite, and the outstretched hands were lined with blue cuffs, as white as the white cloth used to make clothes at home—no, no, no, softer than those white cloths, whiter, and shinier!

Such a pair of beautiful hands are now touching him, and he has been locked up here for the past few days, urinating in the house, and his body is already dirty and smelly-the man is in a daze, and the hands have been withdrawn: "How many days has he been locked up here?" ”

"Five days, five days!" The man suddenly came back to his senses and hurriedly replied, "I just had a fever, so I was dragged here, I, I'm really not an epidemic!" ”

"If you say no, don't you!" A servant shouted loudly.

Taohua raised her head: "He is indeed not malaria, but just a cold wind." "It's because the officials are so scared, that some people pull it out when they have a fever, and there must be a lot of mistakes.

"Jiang-Jiang Yuanju, he is not malaria?" The Lantian County Commander hurriedly came over, with a look of disbelief, "These are all people with chills and fevers, if this is released, in case the epidemic spreads." ”

Taohua waved his hand to interrupt him: "This person is indeed not malaria. Now I'm going to see a patient, and if there's a misdiagnosis, I'll pick it out. The prefectural commander immediately circled another area nearby to place the misdiagnosed patient. She looked back at the man, "You are not malaria, but you have lived with the sick person for so long, so I can't let you go home right now." You'll have to stay in the area you've circled next to you until you're sure you're not getting infected again, and then you'll be allowed to go back. You can rest assured that your wind and cold will naturally be cured with medicine. ”

Lantian County Ling still couldn't believe it: "Why do you say that he is not an epidemic?" ”

"Because malaria will have a distended liver and spleen, and his liver and spleen are normal, although the fever is not malaria, it is just a cold." Momoka replied simply, and stepped into the room with her feet raised.

There were more than 30 people in the room, and when Taohua checked them one by one, two of them had already lost their breath and had to be carried out. There were also a few people who were still conscious enough to hear the conversation just now, and they all looked at Taohua with wide eyes and hope, hoping that she could also say that she was not an epidemic.

Next to the window was a young woman, who crawled over and pulled the corner of Taohua's clothes and begged: "Girl, you show me, I'm not an epidemic, am I?" ”

Taohua looked at her eyes through the sunlight, and suddenly her heart sank, and after checking her body again, her heart sank even more: "Come on, carry her out too." ”

"I, I'm not a plague, am I?" The woman was overjoyed, and her eyes, which had turned yellow, opened even wider.

Taohua shook it in her hand, turned her head and called the deputy envoy over: "Is there any medicine to cure blood poison?" "This woman is not malaria, but sepsis. There was a wound on her calf, which was probably not carefully treated at the time, and is now infected. The yellowing of her eyes means that she has jaundice, and she has chills, high fever, rash, and an enlarged liver, which may be difficult to treat.

The deputy envoy was confused: "No, there is no ......"

"Immediately send someone to the Huimin Pharmacy to call for medicine." Taohua looked at the rows of houses, "Haven't you carefully examined whether the people here are all suffering from malaria?" ”

The deputy envoy said, "Isn't it, isn't it?" ”

"How did you get into the pharmacy?" Taohua couldn't help it, "What about the people you brought, they won't be diagnosed?" "So what the hell are you doing here!

The vice-chancellor's eyes rolled. In fact, he didn't want to come to such a dangerous place as the epidemic area. Helplessly, at the beginning of this year, he bought a batch of inferior medicinal herbs -- of course, there were good ones -- and he thought that he would report a mildew in the rainy season and wash away the consumption of this batch of medicines, but he didn't know it. Who knows that the sky is not beautiful, there is not much rain this year, and there is no excuse to report the damage anyway.

Seeing that if someone comes to investigate at the end of the year, this matter will be exposed, and suddenly a good opportunity fell from the sky, and there was an epidemic near the capital, is it not a good opportunity to consume medicinal materials? So he was the first to run quickly, bringing with him the batch of inferior medicinal herbs, of course. In order to prevent being seen through, the people he brought were of course also "his own people". However, these "own people" are all entrusted to the pharmacy like him, and none of them have real talent and learning, of course, they can't see which patients are really malaria and which are other diseases.

Before Taohua could figure it out, Shen Shu had already understood, and immediately ordered the guards around him: "Go and get the medicinal materials they brought!" ”

The deputy envoy's face turned white, and he forced himself to support Taohua's side: "Jiang Yuan's judgment, Xia Guan is Yu Ge Lao's cousin, this matter - Xia Guan is also dedicated to the people, so he invited Ying to come, after all, the epidemic area is dangerous, and many imperial doctors are reluctant to come." Jiang Yuan judged the country to be the people, and the officials admired it, and there was a little filial piety here......"

His cousin is actually three thousand miles away, and Yu Ge Lao doesn't know who he is at all, but he himself gave some money under the banner and got this position. It's just that he couldn't care about it at this time, so he hurriedly moved Yu Ge Lao out again, and while talking threateningly, he tried to stuff a silver ticket into Taohua's hand.

However, before his hand stretched out, he was grabbed by Shen Shu: "You want to bribe the court judge?" ”

It's like a thief being caught red-handed by the wrist. What do you want to do when you come out with a silver ticket? There is no place to use silver tickets here, is it because you have to donate it to the hospital to buy medicine?

The deputy envoy still didn't give up, and looked at Taohua's face vigorously: "Jiang Yuan's judgment, the next official is-" Shen Shu is the king of the county, and he is not afraid of Yu Ge Lao, isn't this woman afraid either? I just hate that I don't know what kind of background she is.

Shen Shu took out the silver ticket from his hand, unfolded it and glanced at it, and sneered: "One thousand taels, it's really not a small amount." Lord of the Prefectural Order, please take this silver ticket, buy some covered clothes for these patients for five hundred taels, and give the other five hundred taels to the Luonan Prefectural Order, and use it accordingly. ”

At this time, several guards had already taken a few large bags of medicinal herbs, and Taohua's face changed after just one glance. The most of this batch of medicinal materials is gastrodia, not to mention that it is not a drug for malaria at all, even if it is used to treat other diseases, there are many fake ones mixed in this gastrodia, and the quality of the real ones is also very poor, and it can't be used at all!

"Take this person down and imprison him first!" Shen Shu listened to Taohua's words, and his face turned pale. After a few days of treatment, the medicine is not right at all, how can the people inside not die!

"Send someone to the capital immediately to urge medicine." Momoka was also anxious. I thought that the medicine they brought would probably not be very symptomatic, but I didn't expect that it would not be used at all.

"My lord, here, here!" A servant came panting, "There are several carts carrying a lot of medicinal herbs!" ”

Everyone hurriedly walked towards the entrance of the village, only to see that there were several cars, full of various things, and a few people wearing imperial doctor clothes. Taohua saw an old man in civilian clothes at a glance: "Uncle Grandfather! How did you get here? ”

"I've also been involved in the fight against the epidemic." Old lady Jiang said lightly and patted the car next to him, "This is a car of stinky artemisia." Your father has already taken a few people to the surrounding areas of the capital to look for them. ”

"Daddy, too—" Momoka felt a pang of heat in her heart. Artemisinin is a good drug for malaria, but its extraction method is relatively backward in this era, so a larger amount of Artemisia annua is needed to treat it. The wild plants around Lantian and Luonan counties alone are simply not enough.

"Your father can't diagnose the pulse and cure the disease, but he is good at picking medicinal herbs." Old lady Jiang said as she walked, "It's just that this stinky artemisia cures malaria, are you sure?" Back then, I also saw people use stinky artemisia to treat malaria, but the effect of decoction of medicine did not seem to be very good. ”

"You can't fry it in water." Momoka replied immediately. Artemisinin becomes ineffective when it exceeds 60 degrees. Before she crossed over, it had been verified that □□ extracted the best results, but now she could not make □□, so she could only extract the cold soaking solution in brine.

"Uncle and grandfather, I will make the medicine, but there must be those patients in it who are not malaria at all, so we must separate them."

"What?" Old lady Jiang's face changed, "Nonsense! I'll go! ”

The best imperial doctors have been circled by the Queen Mother to the Nanyuan Palace, and those who came with today are all with little qualifications in the Imperial Hospital, and some are even just apprentices. This also has an advantage, that is, they don't dare to argue with Taohua just because they are the imperial doctor. And some people knew that Mrs. Jiang had a great reputation in the Tai Hospital, and they all immediately obeyed the command honestly, and some experienced people followed Mrs. Jiang to identify patients, and a few apprentices followed Taohua to make Artemisia annua infusion.

As Taohua said, more than 200 of the thousands of patients in this circle are not malaria. But not everyone is as lucky as the middle-aged man, all he gets is a cold. Some people have typhoid fever, others schistosomiasis. As for the woman who was sepsis, she died the next morning.

After seeing the method of making the infusion solution from Taohua, Mrs. Jiang took a few imperial doctors to Luonan County. Fortunately, the two counties are close to each other, and the village where Luonan County ordered the circle to settle the sick is not too far from the village of Lantian.

As Shen Shu expected, there were also people in Luonan County who wanted to make a fortune by taking advantage of the plague, but they were even more bold, because a local pharmacist colluded with the Luonan County Order, one was to use moldy herbs for the sick people, and the other was to force the people who were not sick to buy the so-called "anti-plague soup" from his medicine hall.

When Mrs. Jiang arrived in Luonan, she tasted the anti-plague soup and found that this thing was just boiled out of some honeysuckle and licorice in it, and it had nothing to do with the treatment of malaria. It's just that the pharmacist relied on the support of the county order, and did not take him seriously, but slandered Mrs. Jiang for having no real talent and learning, and instigated some uninformed people to drive Mrs. Jiang out of Luonan.

When Shen Shu rushed over, he was encountering the people making trouble. He didn't even hesitate, and drew his saber on the spot and cut off the head of the medicine merchant. Blood poured out, and a human skull rolled down, shocking the people and the Luonan County Order.

But at this time, it was too late for him to regret it, as soon as Shen Shufu asked the facts, he sent the county order to prison, and ordered the county to take charge of his duties, and Lantian generally began to eliminate mosquitoes and malaria.

With the blood warning, Luonan and the other officials and pharmacists were silent, and none of them dared to speak, and things went more smoothly than on Lantian's side. It's just that like Lantian, the epidemic has been happening for more than ten days, and the county order can't hold it down before reporting it, so the malaria has spread, and some patients are already seriously ill and have no surgery to recover.

On the afternoon of the third day of Taohua's arrival in Lantian, Jiang Xi personally sent four large truckloads of fresh yellow artemisia over. He was tanned by the sun, and his clothes were stained with grass and mud. However, he didn't realize it himself, but he was startled when he saw Taohua: "Sister Tao, you-"

Taohua's current appearance is of course worse than Jiang Xi's. These days are the most stressful time, the patients who have been delayed in the front of the disease keep dying, many people are too sick, bowls of artemisia water poured are useless, and finally die. There are especially many women, children and the elderly here, and corpses are constantly being carried out almost every hour.

At the same time, there are still patients in the county who continue to send them here, and news has come from around the county that malaria patients have also appeared in Baqiao. After crossing Baqiao, it was about to reach Chang'an, and Taohua had to send an experienced imperial doctor to Baqiao to stop the spread of malaria.

When people are separated, her own pressure naturally increases. At first, Mint thought that she could give her girl a hot meal and put on a clean dress, but soon, even she was pulled to help, so the clothes that Taohua was wearing now were kneaded like dried pickles, and even the white veil covering her face was stained with large stains.

"I'm fine." Momoka moved her stiff shoulders. That's how the epidemic is treated, working in no white and no black, and only sleeping a few hours a day. She had experience in her previous life, and her body in this life was not bad, and she could withstand it, "Dad, you can't wear it like this." ”

Although it was already August, the sun was still strong at noon. Jiang Xi drove for a long day against the sun, so hot that he rolled up his sleeves high and his collar was open. Taohua hurriedly put him down: "When you arrive in the epidemic area, you must prevent mosquitoes." Dad, when you go to the mountains to find medicine, you must also cover your face and hands, and you must not be bitten by mosquitoes. ”

Jiang Xi was a little confused: "It's strange that I have seen people killing mosquitoes in smoke all the way over, saying that this malaria was transmitted by mosquito bites, it turned out to be true?" He walked through the county seat, and saw that those people were busy working outside the house, filling in the puddles, sprinkling some smashed broken bowl flowers and other insecticides in the larger pools, and some big trees in front of the house and behind the house were bored out of the tree holes, and they were also filled with yellow mud to smooth them out, and they were very busy.

Taohua nodded: "It's true." Although many mosquitoes have been killed now, there are always some that cannot be killed, so we can only wait until the weather is colder to freeze them to death. So Dad, you have to be careful now. What she can do now is to eliminate the wintering places of mosquitoes, kill the existing children, and wait until the winter mosquitoes are extinct, and the people in the two counties of Luonan and Lantian will have to kill the mosquitoes again, so as to prevent some diseased mosquitoes from overwintering and initiating malaria next year.

Jiang Xi couldn't help but ask: "Sister Tao, all of these are you reading from medical manuscripts?" "He's also seen those manuscripts, why didn't he remember them? and the stinky artemisia to cure malaria, I don't seem to mention it.

Taohua smiled, didn't answer her father's words, only lowered her head to tidy up her father's clothes, and took out a simple purse for him to hang on: "Dad has worked hard." Here's a deworming pill, it's always good to take with you. ”

"Daddy isn't hard." Jiang Xi immediately threw the question out of the clouds, "You bring this!" Dad is going out to find medicine, so he doesn't need to bring this. ”

Taohua held his hand and didn't let him take it off: "I have a hat." Mint also made me a gauze hand cage, which I put on when I wasn't busy, and I wouldn't even show my hands. ”

Jiang Xi looked down at his daughter's hand and found that there were a few more scars on his hand, and he couldn't help but feel distressed: "What's going on?" Where's the mint? ”

"She's gone to take care of the sick." Taohua smiled, "It's just an accidental stroke, it's okay." ”

"Jiang Yuan's judgment-" Shen Shu came out of the village and saw Jiang Xi slightly stunned, "The third master is also here?" ”

"Hey-" Jiang Xi hurriedly saluted, "Send some medicine." King Anjun was also ......, "Of course he knew that King Anjun had come to the epidemic area by order, but he didn't expect that it had only been a few days, and Shen Shu was also covered with stains, and his eyes were red."

Shen Shu hurriedly returned the salute, and then turned to Taohua: "Jiang Yuan's verdict, those dozen patients have not had a fever until now, and they really look better." Since he came to the epidemic area, he has put the word "court judgment" on his lips, always reminding everyone of Taohua's identity.

These dozen or so patients were just sent in before Tao Hua came, and their condition was relatively mild, and they saw immediate results after taking Artemisia annua water, and now they have been transferred to the lightly affected areas on the outskirts of the village to live, and they will be cured immediately.

At first, these imperial physicians were skeptical about the efficacy of Artemisia annua water, but the improvement of this group of patients immediately dispelled their doubts, and now everyone is active, and several apprentices take turns to make infusions day and night, almost sleeplessly. The doctors showed their strengths, racking their brains to replenish the patient's qi and body, so that they could survive the torture of malaria until they recovered.

Now that the first batch of patients has been cured, Taohua can't help but smile on her face: "Great." ”

Her face was covered under the white veil, and the gauze was stained again, and she couldn't see it at all. But Shen Shu felt that he could see her smile clearly, and couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips slightly: "Wang County Ling wants these people to go back to the county seat, so that everyone in the city knows that their malaria can be cured here, lest there are still people hiding the sick and refusing to send them out." ”

"That's a good idea." Momoka thought for a moment, "But it's best to observe for another night, and if there is still no fever by tomorrow morning, it's not too late for them to go back." ”

Lantian is still quite brainy, but he doesn't know medical skills, and he has never encountered a major epidemic under his rule, and the deputy envoy of the Huimin Pharmacy took advantage of the fire to rob, so although he was busy but didn't see any results, there were still people in the county who didn't believe that the government could save their lives at all, and there were patients at home who did everything possible to hide it and refused to send them to the village. What's worse is that Taohua found typhoid patients in this batch of patients, this is also contagious, if they are allowed to hide it, and then spread typhoid fever, wouldn't it be worse?

But there are so many officials in the yamen, and some of them are already sick, even if all the officials are released, it is impossible to turn every family upside down, and the only way is to cure some people, so that the people can rest assured, so that they can send the sick themselves.

Jiang Xi heard that a group of people had been cured, and he immediately perked up: "Dad will go get medicine again!" "Other drugs can be transferred from Huimin Pharmacy, but Artemisia annua is not used every day, and you can only find it if you want to use it in large quantities.

"That's Daddy's worked hard." Taohua looked at Jiang Xi with some reluctance. He personally led people to collect medicine in the mountains and fields, and his face and hands were covered with small scars drawn by branches and grass leaves. It's a pity that the Huimin Pharmacy, which has been in operation for many years, has become an institution that takes advantage of the opportunity to make profits. Everyone is making money in their pockets in the name of Huimin, and all doctors with some conscience are not willing to come here at all, so that now the entire Huimin Pharmacy can't find a single person who understands medicine.

As for the few people brought by the deputy envoy, it was not as accurate as the villagers to find Artemisia annua around the county seat, and the medicine clips picked back were seven and eight, and I don't know how many mistakes were made. In a fit of rage, Taohua sent them all to fill in the soil to kill mosquitoes - staying here would not only not help, but also cause chaos.

"It's okay, it's okay. Luo Nan also sent three cars, and early the day after tomorrow, Dad came over again. Jiang Xi said, seeing that the herbs on the cart had been unloaded, he jumped into the mule cart and left.

From this day on, the two counties finally had cured patients go home. This made the people who had been waiting for it finally have confidence, and suddenly another group of people were sent to the village.

"Be sure to isolate the typhoid patients in isolation, and then let them go to their homes, let them clean them immediately, and the clothes and utensils used by the sick people should be burned, or boiled in hot water. They are not allowed to excrete freely, let alone dump dirty water into the river. Also, fly extermination! While giving orders, Taohua was glad that it was not the middle of summer, otherwise mosquitoes and flies would fly around, and the disease would probably not be a problem spreading to the two counties.

On the fifth day, Jiang Xi sent two more truckloads of Artemisia annua, and Huimin Pharmacy also sent two carts of medicines for typhoid fever. It was also from this day that the situation began to improve.

In fact, the so-called improvement means that the worst period of time has passed: most of the patients who were seriously ill at the beginning have died, and the patients who came in later have their condition under control, and fewer and fewer dead people have been carried out of the village, while more and more people have recovered. Although the earliest patients did not actually get any benefit from the government's rescue, and the yellow artemisia came too late for them, from the perspective of the whole situation, the epidemic has no longer spread, and the prevention and control have been effective.

It was from this time that the pressure on the people fighting the epidemic was a little less, and they could finally have time to rest.