Chapter 109: The Plague

"Your Highness's situation is not good!" Yang Yun was drinking tea with Chi Li in the backyard of the county government, and the county ordered Guo Long to take Zhong Wenrui, the county seat. hurriedly walked in and said to Yang Yun with a solemn face.

"In recent days, there has been a sudden increase in the number of people in the city who have headaches and fevers. The medical centers did not pay attention to it at first, but in the past two days, more and more people have developed such symptoms, and they are getting worse and worse. Guo Long continued.

"I went to several clinics today, and there have been several people who are very sick, and the main symptoms are abdominal pain and diarrhea. Particularly severe, severe headache is occurring. What's more, there are projectile vomiting, convulsions, and coma. Zhong Wenrui continued.

After listening to the report of the two, Yang Yun's expression became solemn, this is not a good thing. So, he hurriedly prepared and followed the two to the medical hall in the county town.

After Yang Yun came to Wu County, he reduced the dependence of the people of Wu County on Taoist temples and temples through a series of means. Therefore, now many people or family members in Wu County are sick, and they like to choose to go to the hospital for treatment. Because they found that the treatment of various ailments in the medical hall was much more effective than the "immortal medicine" of Taoist temple monks and Taoist priests.

The group soon came to the nearest medical hall and saw many people standing inside and outside the medical hall. Most of them have very ugly faces and are depressed, and it is obvious that they are suffering from illness.

Yang Yun is a doctor with rich clinical experience. He keenly felt that the disease was likely to be contagious, so he asked the people accompanying him to take out face towels to cover their mouths and noses and come to the infirmary.

As soon as I walked into the medical hall, I saw people coming and going, almost crowded. The doctors in the hospital were busy, examining and prescribing medicines to these patients.

Because there were so many sick people, the doctors in these hospitals showed obvious tired looks on their faces, and even some apprentices who had just studied medicine began to check the conditions of some people with mild illnesses and try to prescribe some medicines.

Look at these sick people, one by one, they are in pain. In the direction of the latrine, there are so many patients who vomit and diarrhea that a thick smell wafts out in that direction.

The group went to several medical centers in the county seat, and the situation they saw was similar to the first medical center, and in the entire county, there were one or two thousand people who were sick, and their symptoms were almost the same.

All this gave Yang Yun an ominous premonition. He hurried back to the county government and looked through various medical classics. Based on his years of medical experience, Yang Yun had to come to a conclusion that made him very depressed, this time it was likely that the plague was coming.

In his previous life, when Yang Yun was studying medicine in college, he had heard about the serious harm of ancient plagues. In ancient times, there were several major plagues, because the medical conditions were very poor at that time, and medical skills were very limited. The emergence of such a large-scale plague is likely to cause thousands of people to die in a village, town, or county.

Therefore, this plague, in an era when medical conditions are seriously underdeveloped, is really deadly.

After this idea, Yang Yun was very anxious. Seeing the lives of the ordinary people in Wu County, there was finally some improvement, and they encountered such troubles again. Even though Yang Yun has superb medical skills, he is also a little desperate for such a powerful large-scale infectious disease.

After returning from the hospital, Yang Yun did not go out again. He locked himself in his room all day long, reading various medical texts, combining the knowledge of the plague in his head to find a reasonable response.

The condition of the people in Wu County is getting worse and worse, and more and more people are getting sick, and the hospital has been surrounded by water. There was no way, so the county government came forward to move all the residents around the hospital and let these sick people temporarily live in the homes of nearby residents.

Despite Yang Yun's repeated admonitions, everyone still underestimated the power of this disease, and many county soldiers who maintained order near the infirmary were also infected with the disease, and even in the end, Guo Long, the county commander who often visited the infirmary to check on his condition, was infected. There are more and more people in the county town who are suffering from this disease, and many people die of illness before they can be treated.

Liang Qing is a native of Wu County, and a few days ago, his father had a fever and abdominal pain, and his condition became more and more serious. Although I went to the hospital to get the medicine, my condition still did not improve.

In the process of going to the hospital for treatment. His father saw that there were many people in the hospital who had the same symptoms as himself, and many of them were his acquaintances. Soon after, many others in the neighborhood also contracted the same disease.

News came one after another that several people in the neighborhood who had the same disease had died due to the severity of the disease. Seeing that there were more and more sick people, Liang Qing's father became anxious, and he called Liang Qing to his bedside.

"Kids. This time, we in Wu County may have a great plague. This disease is very contagious, and I heard before that there was once a county town that was also infected with such a disease, and all the people in the county died. Father, I am very old, but our Liang family, we can't give up! Hurry up and leave Wu County with your daughter-in-law and your children, otherwise, our whole family will die here. The old man lay on the bed and said with a solemn expression.

"What did you say, Dad? You are still sick, how can your son leave you alone to escape? Liang Qing said sadly.

"You foolish boy! I have your mother here to take care of me, and I can't let our Liang family die because of my illness. Father's words began to grow harsh.

"Otherwise, let the child's mother take her son and daughter to her mother's house, and the son will take care of you here." Liang Qing is a filial son, and he can't accept it in his heart if he wants him to leave his father.

"You rebel, why are you so disobedient? If you don't listen to me, I'll go on a hunger strike from today until I starve to death. The father began to get angry.

Liang Qing knew that his father was a very stubborn person, and the things he decided could not be changed, so in desperation, he had no choice but to take his wife and a pair of children to a nearby county, preparing to go to his wife's mother's house to escape the disaster.

Just out of the county seat, Liang Qing was surprised to find it. Like them, there are quite a few people who are ready to leave Wu County to escape the contagion of the warm epidemic. Many families are supporting the old and the young, dragging their children and daughters, and walking along the mountain road to leave Wu County.

Eventually, the disease caused panic among the people of Wu County. The phenomenon of people fleeing from other places began to appear, and this phenomenon is becoming more and more serious.

Liang Qing's family went through hardships and finally came to the junction of Wu County and neighboring counties. However, they were surprised to find that there were many heavily armed soldiers guarding the place.

These soldiers were armed with knives, guns, bows and arrows, and did not allow the people of Wu County to cross the border between the two counties, and if there was a forger, they would not hesitate to kill them. In front of them, several corpses lay at this time, which was the best warning to everyone.

In desperation, Liang Qing had no choice but to take the family and embark on the way home. When they returned to their home in the county seat, they found that Liang's father had died, and Liang's mother, who had been taking care of Liang's father, was now also infected with illness.

In the past few days, the disease has spread rapidly, and those who have already fallen ill have become the target of everyone's strict prevention, and even some villages have locked up seriously ill people in their houses and burned them alive.

Seeing that the condition was getting worse and worse, Yang Yun was anxious, and studied carefully in the house for several days, and finally wrote two prescriptions. One prescription is used to treat patients who are already sick, especially those who are seriously ill, while the other is mainly preventive.

Yang Yun quickly sent the two dictated prescriptions to the county office, and asked people to go to various pharmacies to collect various herbs. And asked Liu Yuan to arrange for the soldiers of the county to find a few cauldrons and boil out several large pots of decoction.

At the same time, Yang Yun knew that this disease was particularly contagious, so he asked the gendarmes of the county government to temporarily move all the people living near the county government. Then gather the sick people in the vicinity of the county government, so that they are not allowed to contact the people in the county, so as not to let more people be infected with this disease.

Liang Qing's family heard that the county government issued a document to send all the sick people to the empty houses near the county government, and to separate them from those who were not sick. Originally, his father was sick and died, and his mother was sick again, according to Liang Qing's thoughts, he didn't want his mother to go to a strange place alone.

However, in order not to infect her family, Liang's mother insisted on following the advice of the county government and separating herself from her family.

In this era, the people do not have a strong sense of hygiene, so they often become the cradle of germs.

Therefore, Yang Yun asked the county government to issue a proclamation, so that all the people and all livestock in Wu County are not allowed to use raw water from rivers and lakes, and can only drink the well water from deep wells.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Yun issued a notice. Tell the people to try not to eat raw and cold food, because these diseases may enter everyone's body with food.

In addition, Yang Yun also has the identity of the White Lotus Sect Master. told the people about several "immortals one by one". Let the people use these "fairy grasses" to boil boiling water every day. After cooling with this boiling water, use it for bathing.

The people of Wu County have been in remote mountainous areas for a long time, and many people have no concept of bathing at all. Therefore, Yang Yun, as the leader of the White Lotus Sect, told these people that after bathing in the holy soup made from these immortal grasses, their whole body might be shrouded in immortal qi, so as to avoid diseases and evil entering the body.

I saw my father die of this disease and agony. My mother also contracted this difficult disease. Liang Qing's family knows that this disease, if not taken seriously, will bring devastating disasters to everyone.

So their family became the first group of people to respond to the county government's call. Every day, I go to the prefectural government to receive a decoction that is said to prevent this disease, and according to the advice of the prefectural government, I bathe in fresh soup with fairy grass every day.