"Imperial Doctor Xu, I'm afraid that this plague won't be cured, so let's go in first." The one who spoke was a doctor who came with them, surnamed Li, who is also a first-class famous doctor in Beijing, and I saw him holding a goatee and saying sadly: "Li has been practicing medicine for decades, and he has never seen such a strange plague, it is too difficult and too difficult to cure it, not to mention that the water and food we brought are all left, and if this continues, we will have no water to drink and nothing to eat, do we have to drink the polluted water and food like those disaster victims?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the rest of the people changed, they came here because they were forced by the government, not out of sincerity, after all, not every doctor has the heart to help the world and save people, and more, they just regard practicing medicine as a means to make a living.

Several people surrounded Rong Yuan and talked about it, all of them had roughly the same meaning, that is, to ask when they could leave Tongzhou, for them, one more day of pain would be one more day, and they would be afraid of the plague all day long.

Rong Yuan took a lot of time to calm them down, and after sending them back, he asked Imperial Doctor Yang, who was still standing in place, "Why didn't you help you talk just now?" ”

"Say what?" Imperial Doctor Yang spread his hands and said, "Do you want to speak from your heart?" Like them, I'm hoping to go back sooner. ”

"Since the imperial court has sent us here, we must be cured of the plague before we can go back." Rong Yuan walked to the backyard to see the remaining rice and water, and estimated that he could hold out for five or six days, and he would need to send someone back to Beijing to inform him of the situation in Tongzhou, and let people hurry up to send water and food over, and this is also the material that the imperial court promised to save Tongzhou.

Just as he was about to write an excerpt, Imperial Physician Yang suddenly walked over and said in a condensed voice: "You say, what will happen if we can't cure this plague?" Although he has prejudices against Rong Yuan, at this moment the two of them can be said to be grasshoppers tied to a rope, and any prejudices will be put aside for the time being.

Without waiting for Rong Yuan to answer, he said directly: "I don't want to die, when I came, my wife was just pregnant, and I promised to go back to watch the child be born, and my mother, who will celebrate her sixtieth birthday next month." ”

Rong Yuan carefully dripped a few drops of water in the inkstone, then slowly grinded the ink, and said: "No one will want to die, we don't want to, and those people outside don't want to; All we can do at this moment is try to save them. One is short, three are long, and they will always find a way. ”

"I hope so!" Imperial Physician Yang said this, but he didn't have much confidence in his heart, one more day in Tongzhou, the more despair he had, he was really worried that he would go crazy in such despair.

Just when Rong Yuan wrote a page and was about to dry it and send it to the capital, there was a sudden commotion outside, and before they could ask, a soldier who escorted them here ran in with a nervous expression, didn't care about saluting, and opened his mouth to say: "The two imperial doctors, there are a lot of victims outside, clamoring to see the two imperial doctors, and saying that if you don't go out, they will rush in." ”

Imperial Physician Yang was also panicked when he said this, and said nervously: "Then why don't you hurry up and stop outside, if you let them in, who knows what will happen." ”

When the soldier heard this, he hurriedly defended: "There are a lot of them, and we can't stop them with a dozen of us." ”

"Brother Yang, don't blame them, let's go out and see why they suddenly gathered here." Rong Yuan pulled the reluctant Imperial Physician Yang to walk out, and as soon as he arrived outside, he saw dozens of people gathered at the door, and this was only a standing person, and there were many people who were carried on a simple bamboo frame, and there were hundreds of people at a cursory glance, and there were also people who kept focusing from everywhere, and the sergeants guarding outside were more and more nervous one by one, lest they rush in.

"They're out!" I don't know who shouted, and those people suddenly surged up, pushing and shoving, and even those who had contracted the epidemic who had been hiding on the bamboo frame struggled to get up, and the scene was extremely chaotic.

Rong Yuan and Imperial Physician Yang loudly signaled them to be quieter, but the voice was mixed with the noise and could not be heard at all, and the last thing was still a yellow-bearded and yellow-haired, burly old man who looked like a leader raised his hand to temporarily stop the noise.

Rong Yuan sighed secretly, and hurriedly took this opportunity to say, "I don't know what so many of you are talking about when so many of you are here to see me and the others?" If it is for the epidemic, I am discussing this matter with Imperial Physician Yang, and I will treat you as soon as there is a way. ”

"Heal?" The yellow-bearded old man sneered and said, "I'm bah! You people, known as the imperial doctors, famous doctors, boasted of incomparably good interests, and the result? After treating it for so long, it doesn't work at all, don't say it, after they have taken your medicine, the situation will get worse every time, and even they can live for three or four days, but they can't even survive the next day after taking the medicine, what kind of doctor are you! ”

Sure enough...... Rong Yuan sighed secretly in his heart, he had been worried that those victims would make trouble because they could not get effective treatment, alas, he was really afraid of something.

Thinking like this, he quickly explained: "This kind of plague that you have obtained has never been encountered before, so it will take some time to cure it, and it is very important for you to wait for a few more days, and I will find a cure as soon as possible." Imperial Physician Yang also nodded on the side, the most important thing at the moment is to appease these people, otherwise once the riot starts, it will be a big trouble. At present, there are about six or seven hundred survivors in Tongzhou, of which about 200 have never been sick, and they and the dozen or so sergeants who escorted them together cannot stop them.

The yellow-bearded old man smacked heavily on Rong Yuan's face, "Wait for you quacks to come up with a way, I'm afraid that we are all dead, and I don't know if the imperial court will send you to treat us or harm us." ”

Rong Yuan silently wiped away the saliva on his face, Xingzi did not speak, and Imperial Physician Yang next to him strengthened his courage and said: "Don't think about it, the imperial court attaches great importance to this epidemic in Tongzhou, otherwise it would not have sent me and Imperial Doctor Xu over, you can rest assured, we will definitely try our best to treat it." ”

The old man with the yellow beard was obviously not satisfied with his answer, and snorted heavily: "If you want to save us, why do you want us to drink that polluted water?" Why hasn't there been any clean water or food brought in? "They were forced to accept it because the court said that there would be food and water coming in soon, but they waited day after day, but they never saw food and water, but the people around them fell ill one after another, and there were fewer and fewer people who did not get sick.

Imperial Physician Yang was stunned by his question, and Rong Yuan took over when he saw this: "After the earthquake, all the main roads in Tongzhou have been blocked, although a lot of them have been cleaned up, but it is still not easy to pass through a large number of carriages, so please be patient, the imperial court will definitely send things." ”

"Hmph, it's still not accurate, it's clearly deceiving me!" As soon as he said this, the people behind him suddenly became excited again, shouting and waving the house hoe and other things in their hands.