The construction site in front of me was unusually dull.

At this time, the sky was dark, and there was curling green smoke rising everywhere, it was the people who had been busy all day making a fire and cooking, two thousand people were scattered in groups of three or five in an area on both sides of the road for several miles, their bodies were tired and looked demented, looking at the group of soldiers and carriages that came, many people quickly stood up in fear and stood with their hands down, and some did not make any movements, and they did not see it.

"Meet the prefectural commander!" A burly middle-aged man wearing cloth armor, a long sword hanging from his waist, and a leather whip in his hand, with a few soldiers hurriedly greeted and saluted Jiangbei Pavilion together.

"No courtesy, take us to see a seriously ill man!" Jiangbei Pavilion waved his hand.

"My lord, please come with me!" The big man turned around, crossed the roadbed and walked towards a low hill col, Chen Xu also hurriedly followed, after walking a few hundred meters, he saw a large patch of fallen thorns and weeds, on which dozens of ragged people were lying in tatters, many of them were humming, and there was a sour smell in the air, there was a half-pulled old man who was taking three fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys to feed some black things into the mouths of some people, it should be a doctor and apprentice who cured diseases.

"My lord, the seriously ill are all here, and the situation is slightly better on the other side, and two more people died today!" A group of people stood more than ten meters away from a group of people, and the big man said with an ugly face.

"Light the torch, I'm going to go over and have a look!" Chen Xu took off his T-shirt and covered his mouth and nose and said.

"Hurry up and do it!" Jiang Beiting hurriedly ordered.

"Light the torch~" With the roar of the big man, several soldiers lit a few torches, dispelling the dim night for a few minutes.

"Give me the torch!" Chen Xu reached out and took a torch, then walked over to the nearest man and squatted down.

Ragged clothes, withered face, sunken eyes, chapped lips, and a dull expression, this is the current situation of this man, and he exudes a strong sour smell all over his body, and at first glance it is the kind of situation where he has diarrhea and dehydration.

"How do you feel now?" Chen Xu asked.

Minfu struggled a few times and tried to sit up but failed, so he had to lie down and say weakly: "I have a fever in my stomach, my mouth is dry, and my whole body is weak, Xiao Langjun, I ...... Am I dying, I'm from Dongshan Village, and there is a 60-year-old lady at home, my mother-in-law is also a cripple, and I have a pair of underage children, if I die, will I not have to pay food tax this year......

"Don't think nonsense, you have eaten something unclean, and I am here to treat you!" Chen Xu comforted.

"Xiao Langjun, don't lie to me, more than a dozen have died in the past two days, this is a plague, it can't be cured, poor my mother and child will have no one to take care of in the future!" The man in his thirties said, tears flowed instantly.

Chen Xu stood up with a secret sigh, took a torch and went to see a few more people before returning.

"How's the nephew? Can it be solved? Jiang Beiting asked anxiously.

"My lord, prepare a large amount of salt and boiling water, and go and call all the four villagers of Xiaohe Village!" Chen Xu handed the torch to the soldier next to him, took off the T-shirt covering his face and said.

"Hurry up and arrange~" Jiang Beiting hurriedly ordered, a group of soldiers immediately scattered, and soon there were shouts and cheers all around, many people stood up to fetch water and burn the fire, and Ma Erdan and Tian Dazhuang were also led by two soldiers.

"Xiao Xu, I'...... We didn't mean to say it! Ma Erdan looked at Chen Xu and said uneasily.

"It doesn't matter, you guys hurry up and get all the rest of the medicine!"

"The medicine has been taken away by the prison army!" Niu Dazhuang glanced nervously at the black-faced man next to him.

"Go get it!" Jiangbei Pavilion shouted angrily.

"Wait a minute, sir!" The black-faced man hurriedly turned around, and after a while, he brought a few bamboo tubes, Chen Xu opened it and looked at it, and found that there was still most of it left, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said, "My lord, after the water boils, arrange for someone to use warm water to give these pills to the seriously ill to take three pills each, and then chew some licorice tablets, now that it is getting late, it is too late to find herbs, so that the sick people from now on, they must not drink raw water, they must drink warm water with salt after boiling, everything can only be arranged after dawn!" ”

"That's all there is to it!" At this time, the sky was almost dark and almost invisible, and Jiang Beiting could only sigh.

Half an hour later, as the water boiled, the salt was also thrown into the jug and stirred with wooden sticks, until the temperature dropped to the point where it could be drunk, under Chen Xu's arrangement, some people trembled and took the pills for those who were seriously ill, and then stuffed a few licorice tablets into everyone's mouth for them to chew and swallow.

As a former takeaway brother, but curing this kind of thing is really too much beyond the scope of skills.

In this era of lack of medical treatment, even if Chen Xu knows the treatment method, I am afraid he will not dare to make any package tickets, not to mention that there is nothing in the current poor Erbai, and even salt, the most basic thing to replenish the electrolyte balance of body fluids, is extremely scarce.

If the symptoms can be alleviated a little tomorrow morning, maybe they can be saved, otherwise they can only die of dehydration.

It was getting late, and the stars and moon appeared on the canopy.

Riding a horse and riding a car, after nearly 100 kilometers of continuous bumps, Chen Xu's body was already sore, and he ate a little dry food brought by the soldiers and fell asleep on the haystack.

"Virtuous nephew, virtuous nephew~"

When Chen Xu, who was scratching and sleeping, was woken up by Jiangbei Pavilion, the sky was already white.

"Virtuous nephew, good news, none of those seriously ill people died last night, all of them are still alive!" Jiang Beiting obviously didn't sleep much all night, his beard was unkempt and he had two dark circles under his eyes, and he was very emotional after shaking Chen Xu awake.

Chen Xu rolled over and got up, only to find that there were many people standing or sitting around, including soldiers and people, all talking in whispers, and many people had obvious joy on their faces.

"Let's go, let's see!" Chen Xu jumped up and strode towards the mountain col, and sure enough, dozens of people who looked like they were dying last night were still alive at this time, and more than a dozen of them were even able to sit up, and after seeing Chen Xu, these people quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed and shouted thank you for saving your life.

Chen Xu didn't have time to talk, so he checked the situation of more than a dozen people one by one, and asked about the symptoms by the way, most of which had no diarrhea.

In other words, yesterday's Turen Dan and licorice tablets still work!

Chen Xu was very happy, and at the same time, he was inexplicably surprised by the physique of people in this era.

And he also instantly thought of Yu Wuya, that foodie.

At the beginning, the blood of the two wounds on his body more than a foot long almost dried up, and after stitching up the wounds, he came back to life after only one night, and after two or three days of recuperation, he began to jump alive.

Therefore, the people of this era are generally more durable, otherwise they would not be able to bear such a grand project as the construction of the Great Wall.

Chen Xu had been to the Great Wall once in his previous life, and the magnificent buildings that stretched for thousands of miles on the ridges of the lofty mountains were built by relying on people's backs and shoulders, and some of the wild Great Wall broadcast on TV was suspended on steep cliffs of hundreds of meters, and even monkeys could not climb the mountain walls, and experts did not know how to build them.