"Lord Wang, three cows have been found in this village!" Fifteen's face was gray, and there was still a little cow dung on the edge of his shoes, but his expression was excited. The two guards behind him and a Gu Cong each led a cow, and they were walking from the mud with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and they were all very embarrassed.

Yesterday there was a heavy snowfall in the northwest, and today it melted a little, and the ground is muddy. Black's hooves were covered in mud, and his hair was wet, and he was moving uncomfortably.

But it's useless to be uncomfortable. Because it is Shen Shu's mount, its treatment is already the best, and the rest of the horses are not as good as it, and it looks even dirty.

In fact, it was not only the horses, but also the people on the horses who were tired and dirty. Cattle were searched everywhere in every village, and now everyone felt that they already smelled of cow dung.

After all, they have all been crawling in the barracks, and although there is no smell of cow dung on their bodies, they also smell of horses, but in fact, they are not too much. However, the cicada clothes were a little unbearable.

Her father was a poor talent, his family had no acres of land, and he barely survived by teaching a few Mengtongs, but when the natural disaster came, he had no livelihood, so he had to sell his daughter to others, so as not to starve to death together. However, because her family has no land and no land, she has never dealt with cattle, horses and livestock.

Later, when she entered the Dingbei Hou Mansion, Mrs. Dingbei Hou liked that this little girl was delicate and clean, so she immediately stayed in the house to serve, although she also did some rough work of sprinkling and sweeping, but such as pouring night incense such dirty work, Mrs. Dingbei Hou was instructed not to let her do it. Later, when he was a little older, he went to serve Shen Shu, and he couldn't do these jobs.

As for Shen Shu, who entered the barracks when he was a teenager, there were no women in the army, and only the fifteenth day of the first year could follow him to serve, but Cicada Yi and Dieyi were not good. In this way, although these two people said that they were slaves, they had never suffered any hardships or tiredness.

Dieyi has a big temperament, but the cicada clothes are the most careful and clean, even when he first learned to ride a horse, he thought that the horse had some smell, but it was because he wanted to travel with Shen Shu and gritted his teeth to learn.

These days, Shen Shu and Gu Cong are wandering around, going to the bullpen to drill, and the place where they walk is naturally not a clean place, and the cicada clothes have long been a little unbearable. It's cold in the northwest in winter, and it's far less convenient to get hot water in the village than in Houfu, although Cicada Yi has never touched those cows with her own hands, she also feels that the smell on her body is similar to that of cows, which makes her dare not get too close to Shen Shu, and always feels that Shen Shu can smell the cow dung on her body.

"Three-headed?" Shen Shu's eyes lit up, and he leaned over without hesitation. Cicada Yi stretched out his hand to pull, but his hand was halfway out and put it down. Shen Shu has been like this all the way, what's the use of her pulling now?

All three cows were cows, with two skinny and shriveled milk-houses with transparent or translucent blisters, the largest ones the size of peas.

Gu Cong wrapped a white cloth in his hand, which had turned light gray, but said excitedly: "If there are these three more, the number will be about the same!" "The princess said that the first batch of pox can be planted with more than a dozen cows, because the implementation of pox is not a matter of one or two days, the key is to let the people see the results first, so as to calm people's hearts.

"Yes!" A smile also appeared on Shen Shu's stained face, "We can go back." ”

"Don't touch them." Gu Cong blocked Shen Shu's hand, "The princess said that you should not directly contact the sick cow. ”

"yes, yes." Cicada Yi finally found an opportunity and stepped forward to pull Shen Shu away, "Lord Wang, this will also be infected." ”

Shen Shu was a little unimpressed: "The princess also said that it doesn't matter. "If you can be contagious if you come into contact with it, then Taohua will not let someone who has never had smallpox do it.

Cicada Yi was half angry to death, but in a blink of an eye, she found that a guard holding a cow had a strange flush on his face, and his spirit was not very good, so he couldn't help but be startled: "What's wrong?" ”

The guard forced himself to support himself and said, "It's nothing, it's about yesterday when it snowed and I got cold, and I had a little fever." ”

For those who grow up in the northwest, the snow is nothing at this time, and it is not yet the coldest time. Shen Shu also felt that it was wrong, and went over and touched the guard's forehead, which was really hot: "Why didn't you say it earlier?" Okay, let's hurry back. Imperial Physician Gu checked his pulse. ”

Someone else stepped forward to pick up the ox from the guard's hand, and the guard stretched out his hand, and the reins hung on the sleeves of his coat and faded upwards, revealing his arms. Cicada Yi exclaimed in surprise and pointed to his arm: "Raw, pox!" ”

Everyone's eyes gathered, and sure enough, there were a few red rashes on the bronzed arms, which could not be seen if they didn't look carefully because of their dark complexion. Just further up, there are a few pustules, the center has been filled with water and become translucent, which is very conspicuous.

"It's smallpox, it's smallpox!" Cicada Yi pulled Shen Shu back, "Lord Wang, stay away!" ”

The team was in an uproar, and the guard himself stepped back nervously: "Don't come here, prince!" ”

Gu Cong hurriedly stepped forward, stretched out his hand to take the guard's pulse, and took his arm to look at it carefully for a while, and his face became gloomy: "It's indeed ......."

Cicada Yi desperately pulled Shen Shu back: "Lord Wang, get out of this place!" Didn't you say, didn't you say it didn't matter? When he said that, he almost screamed, "If the prince is also—how about it!" ”

Shen Shu pulled out his hand: "Be calm!" There were nearly 100 people in the group, and he was the only one who was sick, so it can be seen that there is nothing to be afraid of. Imperial Doctor Gu, there is a town ahead, you immediately prescribe medicine, and immediately call someone to arrest you! ”

When Shen Shu and the others returned to Dingbeihou Mansion, Taohua also found a grassland here.

"The people in the village are herding sheep over there." A half-grown boy pointed to the hill at the back of the village and looked at Momoka a little timidly.

This village is considered medium-sized in the northwest, because the land is barren, and the production of farming is difficult to make a living, so every family raises sheep, and when it comes to the end of the year, they will kill and sell it, so that they can have money for the New Year. Over the years, it has become an important way for the village to make a living. At this time, when they heard that the government had come to check on the sheep they raised, they all gathered nervously and stared at Taohua and the others with vigilant eyes.

There were a few sheep in front of Taohua, all of whom looked very nervous and trembled from time to time. While Momoka was observing, a sheep suddenly twitched and soon fell to the ground, dark red blood with bubbles coming out of its nose and mouth.

Taohua quickly took a step back, turned her head and nodded to the sergeants who followed: "It's anthrax, that's right." "Dingbei Houfu has found this place from a batch of furs that spread germs before, but the sheep in this village didn't seem to be wrong at that time, and now Taohua sees a sheep sick and dead, it can be completely determined.

"What are you going to do?" The half-grown boy saw a few men with white faces and hands wrapped in white cloths, picked up the iron rods in his hands and knocked all the sheep he raised to the ground, and he was immediately anxious.

"Your sheep have anthrax, and now it's contagious." Taohua raised her hand to stop the young man, "You are also sick, you must be isolated and observed first." "The teenager had a rash on his arms and face, apparently infected.

There were 300 sergeants who came with Taohua this time, and when they got the signal, they immediately surrounded the whole village. The whole village was in chaos, and some people shouted and tried to rush out, but they were stopped by the sergeants.

"Princess, these people want to sneak out of the village." Two sergeants dragged a few people over, apparently a family, a man and a woman, each with a child in their arms.

"We just want to go to our relatives...... "The man said in horror, his eyes flickering.

Taohua ignored him, and only looked at the child in the woman's arms, which was a three or four-year-old girl, who was having a high fever and coughing quietly from time to time.

"If you have an illness, why don't you send it to quarantine?" Taohua saw that the girl coughed heavily, and a little bloody foam appeared on her little lips, and her heart suddenly tightened, and she asked sharply.

"It's just a little cold." The man hurriedly replied, "Not a plague, not a plague." ”

Momoka didn't want to hear him at all. If there had been no anthrax in the village, or she would have thought that the girl had pneumonia or something, but now it seems that it was pulmonary anthrax.

The woman looked back and forth at everyone with a frightened face, until the man denied that the girl had the epidemic, and then she suddenly shook off the man as if she had just woken up from a big dream, and knelt down in front of Taohua: "Please save my baby, she, she has the epidemic!" ”

"What nonsense are you talking about!" The man suddenly became angry, "What kind of epidemic is she, there is no epidemic in our village at all!" It's just the wind chill. ”

The woman burst into tears: "If you don't treat her, the baby will die!" ”

"A girl-" The man blurted out, suddenly saw Taohua in front of him, and quickly closed his mouth.

"Princess!" One after another, the sergeants returned, bringing back a few sick people, "I heard that two of them have died, and they have been buried in the back mountain." ”

"Bring the village chief!" Taohua said coldly, "Isolate this village on the spot, observe those who are not sick and those who are already sick, and only those who do not get sick can move out after 12 days." Immediately go to the quarantine area to bring Lang Zhonghe medicinal herbs, as well as those lime spirits, and some charcoal. ”

The guards who listened to her orders were stunned for a moment, lime spirits or something, they all understood that they had been to the quarantine area, it was used for "disinfection", but what was charcoal for?

Taohua looked at the area that had turned yellow and was covered with snow and a little gray: "Burn it." The people of this village had to be moved out and could no longer live and raise livestock. ”

A large part of the reason Bacillus anthracis is so difficult to deal with is that it is too difficult to eliminate. Once the pasture is polluted, these things can survive in the land for twenty to thirty years, and they can reproduce quickly when the right situation is met, just like Xiaoqiang.

Even in later generations, Bacillus anthracis was a very headache, not to mention that in this era, Taohua was almost nothing. Lime and liquor can't actually kill the spores of Bacillus anthracis, even if they are burned with fire, they must be kept at a certain temperature for enough time. It is important to move the village out of the village so that they can no longer live here.

Even with three hundred sergeants, it took a lot of effort to control the village. Taohua interrogated the village chief, only to learn that a few sheep in their village were sick at first, because the owner of the sheep was poor, so he peeled off the dead sheep's fur and sold it, and the mutton was boiled and eaten by his family, and a bowl was given to the surrounding neighbors and relatives.

As a result, several people in the village fell ill at once. At first, everyone thought that they had eaten bad stomachs, but then two people died, and there was an epidemic outside, and some people even found out nearby, so the village chief panicked.

He had a son who was a county magistrate in the county, and he was afraid that if it was known that the epidemic had spread from his village, his son's future would be over, so he promised all kinds of benefits to the villagers and made everyone keep silent.

And the couple that the sergeants intercepted at the earliest, the family was sick with a little girl, and the man felt that this was a money-losing goods, and instead of going all the way to the quarantine place, it might not be cured, but it was better to exchange some money and save it for his son to marry a daughter-in-law in the future. Although the woman felt sorry for her little daughter, she was used to hearing the man's words, so she had the courage to say two sentences, and immediately attracted a punch and kick, and she didn't dare to say anything.

It's just that when Taohua brought someone here, her unquenched motherly heart came back to life, so she knelt down to Taohua for help despite her husband's obstruction.

This kind of thing is not limited to this family in the village. Although there is a side job of raising sheep in the village, most of the people are still poor, and marrying a wife is a big expense. So many people marry their daughters in exchange for a dowry, and then use this dowry to hire their daughters-in-law, so that after decades or even hundreds of years, the local daughters have become used to exchange money, so that at this time, when the village chief proposed Xu Yinqian in exchange for everyone's silence, there were actually many daughters in the family who were sick, and they thought it was quite cost-effective.

In this way, when the Dingbei Army found out about the vicinity, the entire village chose to keep silent, and the Dingbei Army was not Langzhong, so they were actually fooled. The only thing to be thankful for is that the village chief was afraid that another sheepskin would be sold, so he collected all the dead sheep from the villagers' homes and buried them in the back mountain, and did not sell more contaminated sheepskins to the outside world. In addition, the Dingbei Army investigated tightly, so that the epidemic did not spread in a large area.

"This, this is just-" Mint flushed with anger, "Princess, this is a grass life!" He, he deserves to die! ”

Taohua closed her lips tightly, afraid that she would scold as soon as she opened her mouth. Over the years, most of the daughters in the Jiangnan area have the craft of reeling silk and weaving, and the family is also more noble. Jiang Xi is a very fond daughter, and after nearly ten years of stable life, she has almost forgotten about patriarchy. I didn't expect to be in the northwest this time, but I was caught off guard and was confused by the cruel facts.

Dieyi was also very angry: "Escort him to the Hou Mansion and let the Hou Ye cut off his head to set an example!" ”

"Have you ever told your son about this?" Taohua took a few deep breaths before she could barely calm down, "How much money did you promise the whole village, and where did this money come from?" ”

The village chief's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly said: "The villain's son doesn't know, absolutely not!" He has also followed the county magistrate to treat the epidemic everywhere these days, and he has never returned to the village at all! The little one can swear that if there is a lie, the sky will be thundered. ”

Taohua sneered: "What you are doing now is enough to thunder several times!" Say, "How much money was promised?" ”

The village chief stood up. What he said before was true, and this matter was really his own initiative, and it had nothing to do with his son. However, the money he used to buy the whole village was sent back by his son over the years, and of course it won't be all Yulu.

Taohua laughed angrily: "It's very good! Someone came, raided his home, made a book, and sent it back to the Hou Mansion. ”

The village chief's legs went limp, and he collapsed to the ground. The two sergeants went up to catch chickens and lifted the man up and dragged him out. Taohua couldn't help but slam her fist on the table anymore: "Bastard! ”

Mint was startled, and hurriedly stepped forward to hold her hand and looked left and right: "The princess is not worth being angry with this kind of person, how can it be good to hurt herself." The prince will definitely not let him go! ”

Taohua smashed too hard this time, and when she came back to her senses, she regretted it a little. This is in an epidemic area, and creating unnecessary wounds will only increase the chance of infection, and she shouldn't be so impulsive.

Fortunately, although her hand was red, it had not broken the skin and bleed. Taohua raised her hand and wiped her face, and stood up: "Let's go, go see the patient!" ”

The whole village was quickly divided into two halves, with the sick on one side and the people who had not yet become ill on the other, and the soldiers were isolated and guarded in the middle.

Taohua walked around the patient area, and her heart sank. Because of the consumption of mutton that died of illness, most of the patients in this village were intestinal anthrax patients, and some patients with cutaneous anthrax had become serious because of the delay for too long, and it was not easy to recover.

However, fortunately, the dead sheep were buried and not eaten again, so there are not many sick people in the village, otherwise I am afraid that there will not be a few people left in a village now.

"Princess, someone is sick." Dieyi's face was covered with a white cloth and she hurried over. After a day here, she stopped throwing up, to be exact, too busy to vomit. The manpower and medicinal materials transferred to the quarantine area have not yet arrived, and the 300 sergeants have to guard the village, go to the neighborhood to buy medicinal materials first, and burn the sick sheep, and they are also very busy. Dieyi had been going in and out of the patients with Mint and the others, and although she was still facing vomiting and diarrhea, as well as various herpes on her skin, she miraculously stopped throwing up.

The onset of the disease was the teenager who began to point out the back mountain ranch, who began to vomit and have headaches, and soon fell into a coma. He was cared for by a ten-year-old girl who also had herpes on her arm, and was his sister.

"Princess-" The girl already knew Taohua's identity, and knelt down and kowtowed when she saw her, "Please save my brother." We didn't mean to cause the Northwest to break out, and we didn't know it could be so bad......"

At first, there were only two diarrheas, and some people had some rashes on their faces, but after the ulcers, they were fine, and they didn't hurt or itch, so no one paid attention to them - in a place like the northwest, what is it to have a scar on the face, and it is not a delicate lady in the city. Who knew that it was these few rashes that could make her brother sick like this?

“…… My father and mother have died a long time ago, and my brother is left to ...... me" The girl couldn't cry, "The princess can punish us as much as she wants, just please save my brother!" ”

Taohua bent down and pulled her up: "I'm afraid your brother's illness can't be saved...... sepsis caused by cutaneous anthrax, secondary to meningeal anthrax, this condition is critical, even in her previous life, the mortality rate was very high, let alone here.

The girl's legs were weak, and she was almost paralyzed again. Taohua closed her eyes slightly, turned her head and said, "Your current condition seems to be relatively mild, and you should be isolated from your brother." ”

"No, no!" The girl almost crawled to the young man's side, and grabbed his hand, "If I don't leave my brother, we will die together!" ”

"Then take the boiled white cloth and teach her how to avoid infection." Momoka turned her head, held back the sourness in her eyes, and strode out of the room.

Dieyi chased after her: "Princess, really, really hopeless?" ”

"In this case, the medicine is useless." If there was still that crude penicillin, she would try to feed it, but now that the Qingwen Septic Drink had failed, she really had no choice.

"Don't wipe your eyes with your hands, you may have germs on your hands!" Taohua stopped Dieyi wiping away her tears, "Go take care of other patients, at least those patients who have hope, always try to save them as much as possible." ”

Dieyi walked away with red circles under her eyes, and Taohua stood in place, listening to the cries coming from the left and right, and only felt as if her whole body was blown cold by the northwest wind. She has saved disasters and seen death, but at that time she was not as powerless as she is now—she knew what medicine to use, but she didn't, she could save it, but she couldn't save it, she could only watch people die, and she had to use medicine on people who had more hope of survival.

However, who can live and who deserves to live, is it up to her to decide? What a doctor should do is to do her best to get to the patient's last moment, but if she consumes too much time and medicine on this teenager, she may delay the treatment of other patients, is this right or wrong? Life is too cruel.

"Princess, princess!" The sound of horses' hooves like a drum interrupted Taohua's distraction, and she rode a fast horse at a gallop, and the people were covered with dust immediately, so that Taohua recognized it for a moment: "Fifteen? "He shouldn't have ridden like this, who knows if there is a blood clot in his body, will it fall off because of intense exercise?

"Princess!" Fifteen only when he got close to the horse, he slammed the horse, and when the horse was still standing upright with its front hooves and neighing, he had already rolled the saddle and dismounted, "Princess, go back quickly, the prince has smallpox!" ”

"What?" Momoka grabbed him, "What did you say?" ”

"The prince has smallpox." Fifteen's tears came out of his eyes, and he washed out two small grooves on his face, "I have begun to have a fever, and I have acne on my arms and chest!" ”