The fifth day of the ninth month.

Early in the morning, many people gathered at the door of Hui Niang's pharmacy, all of whom came to seek medical advice.

Now Hui Niang's pharmacy is like a beacon for people to see in despair, because of the epidemic in eastern Guangdong and western Fujian, the roads to the outside world have been closed, and people don't know where to go even if they want to flee.

Hui Niang had already opened the shop, and she told the people outside what she had recorded yesterday, and people were very suspicious when they heard it.

Now everyone is afraid of getting sick, but Hui Niang asked people to take the initiative to find sick cows to plant cowpox, which is tantamount to inviting sick demons to the door, and those brainless people even began to scold.

"If you don't want to say it, don't open the door, now you are talking nonsense with one mouth, do you want to kill the people of the city?"

"Yes, yes, I have long seen that this mother-in-law is vicious, and it is clear that she wants to take revenge on us, so we can't listen to her."

"Let's go for a walk, let's go to other houses to buy medicine, I heard that the Zhao Ji Pharmacy in the north of the city has transported a batch of special medicines for the treatment of plague from the north, and it may not be effective."

……

Someone instigated it, and someone immediately echoed it.

Originally, Hui Niang wanted to help the people in the city survive the disaster ********, but she was regarded as having ulterior motives, and she was very aggrieved, but she still patiently explained all the methods carefully.

More than half of the people left on the spot, but a small number of people still chose to believe Hui Niang.

Last night, Shen Xi had already gone to find a sick cow in advance to extract cowpox, and then bought a needle back, and as those who believed in it lined up to enter the pharmacy to receive cowpox, the small epidemic prevention and control center was officially opened. The women and children were in charge of Hui Niang, while the strong men and old men were carried out by Shen Xi through the curtain.

After planting cowpox, each person will take a pair of traditional Chinese medicine that regulates the body, strengthens the spleen and calms the nerves, and the cost is no more than 50 yuan.

In the morning, there were no less than 100 people who had pox, and in the afternoon, more people came to plant pox when they heard the news.

On the first day, the number of people who came to the pox was the highest, and in the following days, because the actual effect was unknown, the number of people who came to the pox plummeted, but there were at least forty or fifty per day.

The government just started to send people to inquire about it, but there was no follow-up.

Most people have chosen to wait and see, and if the pox is really effective, I believe that there will be a wave of peak traffic soon.

But the problem is that those who are already weak have adverse reactions immediately after the pox, fever and rash These symptoms are the same as smallpox, and then those who have pox are frightened, and under the instigation of some people with ulterior motives, someone sued Hui Niang's pharmacy to the yamen.

But Han County made himself afraid of contracting the plague, and the case was taken but it was unknown when the case would be resolved, and just when people were preparing to besiege Huiniang's pharmacy, the plague began to break out on a large scale.

At the end of autumn, the circulation of the people was relatively frequent, and the climate in Fujian was humid and warm, which became a natural hotbed for the breeding and spread of smallpox virus.

When more people in the city became ill, the people soon discovered that those who had had cowpox had also developed symptoms of smallpox, but within a few days they had recovered and had no scars on their faces. After that, the plague was rampant, and none of those who had been infected with pox were sick, and there was even a situation where all the people in the neighborhood got sick, and the disease skipped the pox.

Just when many people gradually forgot about pox and thought that pox was looking for death, the number of people who went to the pharmacy to ask for pox suddenly increased, and some people even carried the sick people to seek treatment, but they were driven away by the government.

“…… Let me tell you, now I can only ensure that those who are not sick will not be infected, and those who are sick really have no choice, let it be fate. If anyone brings the sick again, the government will ask for the guilt. ”

As the spokesperson of the Yamen, Master Xia led people to guard the door of Huiniang's pharmacy at this time, on the one hand, to maintain order, but on the other hand, the people of the Yamen were afraid of death and wanted to become the first person to plant pox.

In mid-September, the pharmacy had to inoculate seventy or eighty people a day, and by the end of September, hundreds of people were coming every day, and the small pharmacy couldn't accommodate them.

Shen Xi knew that in the face of the large-scale outbreak of the plague, the pox planting technology could no longer be cherished, and the power of the government should be used to make the people widely inoculate to resist smallpox.

Led by Xia Zhushu, dozens of doctors in Ninghua City gathered at Hui Niang's pharmacy, and Hui Niang personally explained, telling these doctors which herpes on sick cattle is safe to give people pox, and how to operate it, because the technology is not complicated, by the next day, these dozens of doctors have been able to go into battle in person, and the pressure on the pharmacy has been reduced a lot.

But the people have a special dependence on Hui Niang's pharmacy.

Many people who used to shout that they would rather die than get pox, at this time they cried and shouted for Hui Niang to give them cowpox, Hui Niang was too busy here, and wanted to transfer them to other doctors, these people also recognized that Hui Niang's pharmacy was the authentic pox, and they just didn't go to other places.

"What did those people do? Now the plague is rampant, stay here, no face and no skin! Alas, we are tired and tired every day, and they don't necessarily appreciate it. ”

It was busy until sunset, and the pharmacy closed, but there were still people who came into the city from the countryside overnight to plant cowpox.

Compared with the county seat, the situation in the countryside is better, after all, there is a natural barrier between the villages, but once the plague appears, the situation is often more serious, sometimes as long as one person in a village is infected, it will soon spread to the whole village.

Although Shen Xi complained in his mouth, he was happy in his heart.

These days, the conditioning prescription he prescribed to Hui Niang has sold all the medicinal materials in the backlog in the pharmacy, and the price is fair but there is a huge profit margin, which can be said to be a lot of money.

After nightfall, Hui Niang and Zhou began to cook dinner.

Shen Mingjun was not at home, the two families had dinner together, and Zhou, who didn't touch the pox at first, came to help because there were too many people in the pharmacy these days.

Hui Niang brought the food to the table and said with a smile: "It's good to wait for a while, Han County Ling has already sent people out of the city to inoculate the people, and there will be people from Tingzhou Mansion City tomorrow, there will be more people, so we won't be so busy." ”

"Little girl, come over and eat vegetables, this child, she seems to be sick these days, fortunately she was planted with cowpox in advance, otherwise I really thought she had a fatal plague."

Because the staff turnover of the pharmacy was too large, Shen Xi could no longer let Lin Dai and Lu Xi'er take risks, so he inoculated the two of them with cowpox early, and the symptoms disappeared a few days ago. It's just that Lu Xi'er caught a cold and was infected with the wind cold, and her delicate little face was very sickly and cute.

Lu Xi'er dragged a pair of big shoes to Hui Niang, was hugged by Hui Niang on her lap, and the family ate around the table.

Hui Niang fed Lu Xi'er with a wooden soup spoon, but Lu Xi'er's big eyes stared at Shen Xi and Lin Dai, she was sick these days, and what she wanted most was Shen Xi and Lin Dai to play with her, but Shen Xi was the only man in this pharmacy after all, and he had to give men pox, so he didn't have time to play with her.

"Xiaoya, what's wrong?"

Hui Niang looked at her daughter and said with some distress.

Lu Xi'er leaned her head on Hui Niang's arms and said sleepily: "Mother, I don't want to eat." ”

"No, why don't you have to eat some...... People are iron, rice is steel, how can illness be good if there is nothing in the stomach? When you get better, let Brother Shen Xi play with you...... Come, mother feed you. ”

Shen Xi looked at Hui Niang's kind eyebrows and kind eyes in front of her, and sighed in her heart, Hui Niang is really a virtuous and good woman, but it is a pity that she lost her husband early and was widowed at a young age.

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