Chapter Eighty-Eight: Pox
They were stopped by the officers and soldiers in charge of the investigation at the city gate.
Helian Che walked at the forefront, looked back at the emperor's carriage, and took out a golden sign from his bosom.
The officers and soldiers looked at it closely, their expressions were immediately shocked, and they shouted to the crowd behind them: "The emperor has returned to the court!" ”
The rest of the officers and soldiers immediately knelt down and shouted to see the emperor.
The chariots and horses slowly entered the city gates, but they were stunned by the sight before them.
I saw that the city of Tokyo, which was busy with traffic in the past, had become empty and desolate, and there was still a trace of the prosperity of the past.
On the sidewalks, except for the group of people who had just entered the city, there were only occasionally three or two people in a hurry, and under the eaves of the street lay homeless refugees and dying beggars.
However, in just one month, the city of Tokyo has changed its appearance and become so unfamiliar.
Helian Che frowned.
Ye Cheng was shocked and asked in a low voice: "We didn't take the wrong path, right?" Is this really the Imperial City of Tokyo? ”
Ye Lingyi also frowned deeply, a little unable to believe what she saw in front of her.
In the carriage, Liu Shilang put down his hand to lift the curtain, and looked at Li Yuanlin with an unusually solemn face: "It seems that Tokyo City is very fierce. ”
Li Yuanlin didn't speak, and his expression didn't relax for a moment, while worrying about the people in the city, he was also thinking deeply about a question: What did Helian Che mean by saying that it was easy to solve?
Before the thought stopped, the carriage stopped first.
"What's going on?"
Liu Shilang scolded the coachman.
The coachman was extremely aggrieved, saying that Master Helian in front of him had let him stop.
Stepping on the pedal to get down to the carriage, Li Yuanlin saw that the front of the team turned out to be Baijia Lane, a well-known gathering place for poor people in Tokyo.
At this time, Baijia Alley was crowded with poor people suffering from epidemics, most of them were because they had no money to treat the disease and were afraid of infecting other people in the family, in the absence of conditions, they could only crowd in the alley and wait for death, most of them only relied on a worn-out blanket, three or two tasteless and nutritious pancakes to spend the last days of their lives.
The epidemic is undoubtedly a catastrophe for these poor people, and it seems that only a dark despair and a miserable fate await them.
When Li Yuanlin stopped, three or two people wearing smocks and veils lazily carried the deceased onto the cart and slowly dragged him away.
Those who died were like garbage, wantonly discarded on street corners, and then collected and burned by the officers and soldiers of the imperial court.
Naturally, the refugees and beggars on the street who witnessed the process quickly joined the ranks of perdition.
For a time, everyone was in danger, all who could escape in the city fled, and the medicine in the city of Tokyo poured into the homes of the rich like the flow of doctors, but even so, people were still helpless against the epidemic, and life was still facing great tests every day, and the gloom and crisis turned this once prosperous city into a desolate, depressing, and lifeless city.
"This ...... What's going on here? ”
At present, only Li Yuanlin, Helian Che, Wu Yuanzhou, and Liu Shilang knew about the plague in Tokyo, so some officials who did not know the situation were obviously panicked.
Helian Che stood at the forefront, looked back, and glanced at Li Yuanlin from afar.
Li Yuanlin knew that now was the moment when he needed to make his own decisions, so he took a deep breath and shouted in a deep voice: "Doctor Tai! ”
The elderly physician hurriedly responded and led the three apprentices to kneel in front of Li Yuanlin.
The old doctor, who thought that he would make Doctor Tai and a few people go to investigate the condition first, never expected that Li Yuanlin just glanced at them and said, "You guys go over with me to have a look!" ”
As soon as these words came out, the onlookers were in an uproar, and Liu Shilang immediately stood up against it: "Absolutely not! The emperor's dragon body is so golden and precious, how can it be used for adventure? If someone has to go to investigate, the old minister is already a person who is half covered by the loess, so let the old minister go! ”
The rest of the ministers chimed in and invited themselves to go.
He Nai Li Yuanlin had made up his mind, so he took a veil to cover his face, and walked towards Baijia Lane, which was crowded with patients, with firm steps.
"Isn't the emperor messing around?"
Wu Yuanzhou and Helian Che stood together, frowning, and looked like they were about to go up to stop Li Yuanlin, but they were dragged by Helian Che.
"Have you forgotten what I told you?" Helian Che looked into the distance.
Wu Yuanzhou couldn't understand, and asked with a confused expression: "What?" ”
"This is his first step to fight against the Queen Mother!"
Since the Empress Dowager wanted to use the people's panic about the disease to coerce the emperor, why didn't the emperor use the people to rebel against the Empress Dowager? After all, the power of unilateral words is limited, but the power of actions can dispel all rumors.
As long as Li Yuanlin is with the people, and the people of the Western Dynasty support the emperor in person, why be afraid that Empress Liang will use any clumsy tricks that cannot be put on the table?
This is the method that Helian Che said was solved?
Wu Yuanzhou thought for a while, and finally understood Li Yuanlin's intentions, but the epidemic is dangerous, is it really worth risking his life?
When he reacted again, Helian Che had already walked towards Baijia Alley, which had become gloomy due to the sickness.
Ye Lingyi said to Chen Thirty and Le Ya, who were following behind, "I'll take a look!" ”
With the consent of the two, he replied to Ye Cheng: "You stay here and don't run around." ”
With that, he slid awkwardly off the horse's back.
Ye Cheng was not at ease and shouted: "Wolf girl! ”
Ye Lingyi's footsteps hurriedly walked towards the Baijia Alley.
When the group approached, they found that most of these patients were terminally ill, lying on the ground with a painful moan of "ouch".
Others, who were still conscious and sober, were looking at the "uninvited guests" with nervous expressions, and their black and purple faces looked very hideous and terrible because of the dense red rashes.
Immersed in those suffocating gazes, even the air became extremely heavy.
There is an air of decay and decadence all around.
Doctor Tai had a guess in his heart, and hurriedly took a few apprentices to carry out a diagnosis on three or two patients with red rashes and suppurations, and bleeding from the mouth and nose.
But this check, but the three souls were so frightened that they disappeared from the seven spirits, and they hurriedly asked Li Yuanlin to stop and not go inside.
"Your Majesty, this epidemic is a pox disease! If you suffer from it, you will probably not be saved! Please also ask the emperor to take care of the dragon body and stay away from this place as soon as possible! ”
After Doctor Tai's words were finished, some of the ministers who came in immediately let out an exclamation and seemed to regret coming in.
Ye Lingyi, who followed the last, bent down, approached the patient to take a closer look, and said, "Isn't this smallpox!" ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone cast their eyes behind them.
Ye Lingyi stood up and said in a deep voice: "I heard that most of the ancients who got this disease relied on their own immunity to recover, and it is probably not so easy to treat, but if you want to prevent it, there is still a way to try!" ”
When the old doctor heard this, his complexion changed, and he drank coldly: "What can you understand as a little woman who doesn't know how to write and ink, don't bewitch the people and disturb the holy hearing here!" ”
Ye Lingyi didn't want to deal with that old stubborn doctor, so she said directly to Li Yuanlin: "The slave maid has heard that there is a method that can effectively curb the spread of pox, and the emperor can give it a try!" ”
"Green kite, this matter is at stake for the lives of the people, you can think clearly before answering!" Li Yuanlin's eyes were calm and deliberately reminded.
Even Helian Che gave her a look and said coldly, "Why don't you step back quickly?" ”
Ye Lingyi didn't follow his words, looked away, and picked a slightly less morbid one among the sick people and said: "If you want to curb the disease, you must first plant antibodies in your body." ”
After speaking, he looked at the old doctor behind the crowd and said calmly: "I have heard that once a person has a pox, if he can rely on himself to heal, then that person will never get pox again in his life." ”
She paused, and then made a statement that shocked the audience: "So if you want to curb the disease and get antibodies, you must first get sick!" The method is also very simple, that is, take the scab of the shallow person and grind it into powder, so that the person without the disease can inhale, and carefully recuperate without waiting for the onset of the disease, and then the disease can be healed by itself, so that the antibody can be obtained, and the disease can be suppressed! ”
"Crazy! Pox is so dangerous that people who get it are likely to die, and who doesn't know that it's extremely contagious? Others are afraid that they will avoid it, but they still have to propose a treatment method to take the initiative to get sick? Isn't that crazy? ”
"Yes, such a treatment method is appalling, unheard of, it's just a life-urging charm, it's really hateful for a little woman to be so vicious, she should be dragged down and cracked!"
The officials spoke ill of her, and their indifferent and vengeful eyes rushed to their faces like a tide, as if the one standing in front of them at this moment was a heinous madman.
Ye Lingyi smiled: "If you don't believe it, I can be the first experimenter." ”
Hearing this, the crowd was in an uproar again.
Helian Che pulled her away, lowered his voice and scolded: "Don't make trouble!" Losing your word before the saint is a big crime, and if you really pursue it, I'm afraid the emperor won't be able to protect you! Besides, you are a little girl, you can't even understand literature and ink, how do you know how to cure pox? ”
"I really didn't make a fuss! It's all written in ancient books! Ye Lingyi shook off his hand.
The words blurted out made Helian Che stunned, and asked in confusion: "What ancient book records the treatment method for pox?" ”
Pox has been an incurable and intractable disease since ancient times, even if you are lucky enough to survive, the terrible red spots will accompany people like a brand, and what ancient books even the doctor never knows, but she knows a girl who can't read big words?
This inevitably aroused Helian Che's suspicions.
But Ye Lingyi can't say that he is reading ancient books in another world, so he knows a little bit about it.
After being entangled for a long time, Ye Lingyi simply prevaricated and said, "Anyway, this is what a friend of mine told me!" Try it out! ”
"No way!" Helian Che's attitude was also very firm, and his expression became indifferent, "I'm the master, you have to listen to me!" Get out of here now! ”
"You ......" Ye Lingyi's eyes widened aggrievedly, and then looked behind him, the group of officials also had a jealous and hateful face.
"I think this girl's method is worth trying."
Before anyone heard it, the woman's voice was like a warm spring lake, gentle and soft, and she knew that she was a gentle and beautiful woman when she heard it.
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