Dr. Qiu's words were interrupted by Du Wenhao, who was very displeased, and snorted coldly: "Do you know that lying about the plague is a serious crime!" The lighter ones lose their official positions and are dismissed, and the heavier ones will be killed! ”

Du Wenhao said angrily: "The epidemic prevention is not effective, and the responsibility is heavier!" ”

"Ouch! You, a little medical officer, dare to teach you a lesson about the old decay? ”

"My lord! The epidemic is fiercer than a tiger! In the event of an outbreak, thousands of people will die! The magistrate asked us to immediately rush to Liujiawan to find out if there is really an epidemic, but you are still talking here, it's really ......, if you don't go, I'll go by myself! ”

Du Wenhao flicked his robe, turned around and left, anyway, he didn't know this little medical officer, and he couldn't bear the anger of this dead fat man.

Assistant Teacher Tang on the side hurriedly stopped: "Wait, Doctor Du, don't worry, things have to be clarified before you can decide." ”

"Then you guys slowly figure it out here, I was ordered by the county lord to rush to Liujiawan to investigate immediately, and I will not accompany you!"

Du Wenhao shook off Assistant Coach Tang's hand and rushed out of the Medical Bureau.

Dr. Qiu was so angry that his beard was shaking, and he pointed to the door and shouted, "This ...... is simply ......!" ”

Assistant Teacher Tang said to Dr. Qiu urgently: "My lord, let's go together quickly, it is the right thing that Master Hou has ordered, whether there is a real epidemic or not, we must also go to investigate, and there will be an explanation." ”

"Well, ...... then!" Dr. Qiu reluctantly stood up and walked out slowly.

Assistant Teacher Tang hurriedly ran out and shouted to Du Wenhao: "Doctor Du, wait for us, let's go together!" ”

Du Wenhao had already flown on the horse, turned his head and said, "Okay, you bring the medicine and wait for me at the West City Gate, I'll go back and get some things first." With a pull of the reins, he galloped out of the yamen.

Although this was the first time Du Wenhao rode a horse alone, he had already known how to manipulate it when he rode a horse with Pang Yuqin last time, and the official horses of the Yamen were all trained and easy to maneuver, so he quickly galloped back to the gate of Wuweitang on horseback.

handed over the horse to the stupid fat and hurriedly entered the lobby, and heard Wu Cong say that there were many critically ill patients, and like those before, they were all transferred to the ward in the isolation area according to Du Wenhao's request.

Du Wenhao hurriedly ran to the quarantine area, and was dumbfounded as soon as he entered the door, there were seven or eight simple stretchers made of door panels on the ground in the isolation area, and the patients lying down were all patients transferred from other pharmacies in the county with his head. At the first examination, all the symptoms were the same, severe pain all over the body, cyanosis of the skin, high fever and cough, and blood in the sputum.

Hantou, Pang Yuqin and Xue Fei'er were busy treating patients. The young woman whom Du Wenhao rescued earlier, as well as her husband and children, were in relatively stable condition after taking the medicine. Some of the newly transferred patients showed no signs of further deterioration after taking the medicine, while most of the patients, especially the critically ill patients, did not improve significantly after taking the medicine, and their condition continued to deteriorate, and two of them have died.

Du Wenhao was in a very heavy mood, from the perspective of syndrome differentiation in traditional Chinese medicine, there will be different symptoms in different stages of pneumonic plague, and the decoction he used before was only effective for some patients with the right syndrome, so in order to improve the cure rate, it is necessary to personally diagnose each patient and treat the syndrome. However, once the disease breaks out, it will be a large-scale infection, and thousands of patients will not be able to visit them one by one. Moreover, pneumonic plague generally does not take more than three days from the onset of illness to death, and it is too late to diagnose and treat them one by one.

What to do? It was the first time for Du Wenhao to experience this kind of thing, and he was so nervous that his hair stood on end.

At this time, the first batch of isolation gowns and gas masks ordered by Lin Qingdai had been urgently delivered. Du Wenhao was overjoyed, and asked them to immediately put on gas masks and then treat them, and briefly explained the use and use of gas masks. Han Tou and the others are now obedient to Du Wenhao's words, dressed up as required, and then continued to treat.

Du Wenhao asked Lin Qingdai to organize people to transfer the body to the basement mortuary, and then use disinfectant to strictly disinfect the quarantine area. and told them that they were going to Liujiawan to investigate the epidemic so that they could report it to the imperial court.

Pang Yuqin became anxious when she heard this, and hurriedly said, "Mr. Du, I'll go with you!" ”

"What are you going to do? You can't deal with it right now! ”

"Nope! I'm ......, I'm going to ...... with you! Pang Yuqin pulled Du Wenhao and didn't let go, for fear that he wouldn't let him go, he didn't know what to say, and he was so anxious that tears were about to fall.

Du Wenhao patted her shoulder and said, "Okay, let's go!" ”

Pang Yuqin wiped a handful of tears and nodded.

Du Wenhao and Pang Yuqin put on gas masks, took a few sets of cloth towels and wrapped them on their backs, took Pang Yuqin out of the house, let Pang Yuqin get on the horse first, sat in the back, galloped on the horse, and came to Xicheng.

Lei Zhutou was already taking the catcher to investigate the people entering and leaving, and Dr. Qiu and others were also waiting at the door, and when they saw Du Wenhao coming, they said with an unhappy face: "You said it was urgent again, what are you doing slowly?" ”

Du Wenhao said in a deep voice: "My lord, our Wuwei Hall has sent some new patients, with the same symptoms, very similar to the plague. Two people have already died! The rest are also very sick! I'm worried that there may be an outbreak in the city soon, and the two adults need to leave one in command, and there is no need for both to go to Liujiawan. ”

When Dr. Qiu heard this, his face changed slightly: "What you said is the truth? ”

"It's best for adults to stay and sit in the town, and by the way, go to my Wuwei Hall to check it out to know the truth."

"That's good!" Dr. Qiu happened to borrow the slope to get off the donkey and said to Assistant Teacher Tang: "You take Hong Guoliang to Liujiawan with him, Wang Xiang, you follow me to Wuweitang to check the situation." ”

Du Wenhao told Lei Zhutou to send someone to Wuweitang to bring the customized isolation suits and gas masks to put on, Lei Zhutou learned that Du Wenhao and they were going to Liujiawan and brought a horse to Pang Yuqin, otherwise the thirty miles of road is still not close, and the two of them are afraid that the horse will not be able to stand it if they ride a horse back and forth.

Pang Yuqin thanked him, changed his horse, and then took Pang Yuqin and ran out of the city gate with Assistant Teacher Tang and Hong Guoliang.

Along the way, from time to time, I encountered people fleeing with their families and families, and inquired and learned that they came from different villages, and many people in those villages were sick and died, including those from Liujiawan.

Hearing is false, seeing is believing, this kind of thing cannot be hearsay, in case it is false, it is not a joke. The men continued to beat their horses and gallop forward.

When approaching Liujiawan, the corpses that had fallen to the side of the road could already be seen on the road, their whole bodies were purple and black, and the death was very terrifying. was so frightened that Pang Yuqin didn't dare to look at it.

Liujiawan is by a small river, looking from afar, it is a pleasant place, the heavy snow two days ago, most of it has melted, and the road is muddy. They beat their horses and whips, galloped all the way, and finally came to Liujiawan.

At the entrance of the village, some cattle and sheep were grazing with their heads down, but they couldn't see the shepherd boy, looking at the village from afar, lifeless, and there was no cooking smoke wafting, and the four of them looked at each other, and their hearts sank.

Du Wenhao said: "Everyone quickly change into isolation gowns, put on gas masks, don't take them off, this is to guard against evil poison!" ”

Several people followed Du Wenhao's example and put on isolation gowns and gas masks, Du Wenhao talked about the precautions for use, and then several people got on their horses and ran to the village.

As soon as he entered the village, Pang Yuqin screamed, startling everyone, only to see Pang Yuqin pointing to the door of a room: "There is ...... there, there seems to be a person there!" ”

Du Wenhao looked in the direction of Pang Yuqin's fingers, and saw a person lying on his stomach at the gate of the courtyard at the entrance of the village, with a very strange posture, just from the stiff and twisted posture Du Wenhao could judge that this person should have died. Everyone rode over, came to the gate of the courtyard, only to see an old man lying on his stomach, Du Wenhao flew off the horse, walked over, and carefully flipped him over, only to see that his face was cyanotic, his eyes were staring at the front, and the body was already stiff.

Du Wenhao got up and glanced at the courtyard, and found that there was still a person lying there, it was a white-haired old lady, so he hurriedly went in to check and found that he was also dead

Du Wenhao came out and walked into the street of the village, shouting, "Is there anyone? ”

His voice rang out empty, and no answer was heard.

Several others shouted loudly, but there was still no response.

Du Wenhao said: "Let's search separately to see if there are any living people!" And then here you will concentrate! Pay attention to safety, never take off your isolation gown and gas mask, and do not touch the corpse with your hands! ”

Assistant Teacher Tang and Hong Guoliang searched the left and right, and Du Wenhao took Pang Yuqin to search the middle.

After walking a few steps, I found several dead bodies on the side of the road, all purple and black. They rode on their horses, shouting all the way, until they reached the other end of the village, and heard not a single living person reply, except for the dead bodies by the roadside.

The two dismounted and began to search house to house, and when they opened the door, they saw the bodies lying dead in the room, or on the bed, or on the ground, or by the door, or in the courtyard, men, women, and children. The two of them alone found hundreds of corpses. Many homes have been turned into a mess, and some valuable things are gone. Du Wenhao's heart sank, which showed that the survivors in the village had fled the village in terror! In this way, the epidemic will spread further!

Now there is no way to report to them in Zhuangzhi County, Du Wenhao took Pang Yuqin to continue to search for survivors.

In a courtyard full of dead people, Du Wenhao found Pu Shan, the aplastic patient of Sankeliu, as well as his father Pu Laohan and two children, all dead.

Du Wenhao was in a heavy mood, but he didn't expect that he was trying to cure his aplastic anemia, but he died of pneumonic plague first.

Then they searched for survivors, and finally, in a courtyard, they found a young man, leaning against the corner, staring blankly at the door, still panting for breath.

Du Wenhao ran over quickly, squatted down and asked, "This big brother?" We are the medical officers of the county government, what is going on in the village? ”

"Dead ......, cough cough cough ......, all sick and ...... died, and in less than two days, all the people in a village died, cough cough cough...... The rest of the ...... ran away...... Ahem"

"Do you know that there is another village nearby that has this disease?"

"I don't know...... Ahem, ahem, chest ...... It hurts......"

At this point, the man staggered and his breathing became more and more rapid.

Du Wenhao saw that he was about to faint, and hurriedly took out the golden needle from the outpatient box to treat him, but as soon as he took out the golden needle, dark red blood gushed out of the man's mouth, and his eyes rolled, and he slowly softened to the ground, and he stopped moving.