Five days later, a strange aura spread through the tribe.

At the beginning, some people felt more or less unwell, and after about three days, their heads were hot, their mouths were dry, and there were many people who had diarrhea; The thatched pit in the mountains behind the tribe is now full of smell, and some people would rather pull it in their pants than go there to solve the excretion problem.

At first, people didn't think about it, after all, who hasn't had a headache and brain fever? Thought it would be nice to rest for a few days.

But this was only the beginning of the nightmare.

As time went on, more and more people were infected with epidemic diseases, and those who were the first to be infected were almost bedridden, relying on a little fire of life to hang on to their last breath.

Twelve days later, people died, and although they were rare, they were shocking enough!

This is the plague, the most terrible disease that has swept through the dynasties.

"Ahem, ahem!"

In the small house, there are bursts of pale and weak coughs, but they are as powerful as coughing out lungs, and it makes people feel extremely distressed to listen to them.

Taijia sat quietly on the pillow of Yiyue, as the first group of people infected with the plague, Yiyue almost couldn't walk, and he had to be served by Taijia when he ate and went to the toilet on weekdays, and he would fall and be injured if he was not careful.

Perhaps the Tygar should have expected that by the time they sorted out the bodies that day, those people had been dead for almost twenty days, and if they hadn't been soaked in water, the bodies would have rotted long ago.

It was precisely because they did not anticipate this incident that the Qiang people were more or less infected with viruses and bacteria, and finally returned to the tribe and spread the disease to all parts of the tribe.

The plague did not mean to stagnate in the slightest, and in just half a month, it spread all over the tribe, 20 people died, about 400 people from more than 600 people in the tribe were infected, and many of the remaining 200 people were suspected of being infected, but they did not get sick for the time being.

The whole tribe was lifeless, no one had walked out into the streets, and only the coughing sound of room after room could be heard, but it was the clearest sound in the world.

"Mother, do you want to drink water? I'm going to pour you ......."

Taijia obediently served Yiyue, and Yiyue's closed eyes slowly broke away, looking at Taijia with a bitter face, she sighed in annoyance, and said in a hoarse voice: "Son, my mother is infected with the epidemic and is terminally ill; You are about to throw your mother out and bury it, and the province itself is also infected! ”

Taijia sobbed tears and said, "Mother, why are you confused? I have the Yin Gu of the Elders, which is invulnerable! ”

"Oh...... That's right, my mother forgot about it...... Ahem, ahem! Yiyue coughed painfully, but stopped Taijia from coming to support her hand, and sat up stubbornly, "Where is your father?" ”

“…… The twelve witches of the tribe came, saying that they were to drive away poison for everyone; Although he was not infected, he went. ”

Yiyue was surprised and asked, "Then why don't you take your mother there?" ”

"If these prayers were useful, there would be no profession as a medical worker!"

Yiyue was silent for a long time, her throat trembled silently, and she forcibly held back her cough, until a faint prayer sound came from outside the house, and then she said: "My son is the son of God, but I don't believe in God but in medicine......"

"I wasn't originally a son of God, but an elder ......"

Halfway through speaking, Taijia lowered his head, everyone is dead, what's the use of talking about this now?

Yiyue's face turned pale and said with a smile: "Ahem, cough, cough...... Son, although we Miao Jiang also believe in God, we are not blindly thinking that God can bring us everything...... We hope that the gods will bless our people, but in the face of all disasters, we choose to face them ourselves, rather than bother the gods. ”

"Mother is Miao?" Taijia looked at Yiyue in shock, it was the first time he had heard about it.

"It doesn't matter...... Yiyue lowered her head gloomily, and said, "But since you believe in medicine, you can't sit still!" Mother knows that some herbs have the effect of relieving the plague, so you should write them down and find them to share with the people......"

"Medicine...... Medicine! ”

After listening to Yiyue's words, Taijia suddenly realized that although he had learned less from human medicine, he had read some Chinese medicine classics! Regarding the plague, there is a "Treatise on Plague" written by Wu Youxing in the Ming Dynasty, and the Dayuan drink in it has the effect of treating the plague, why didn't he use it to make medicine?

Besides, although Yiyue is a Miao person, she said that she knows some herbs to relieve the plague, but in the end she is not as good as the future doctor. Before Yiyue could open her mouth, Taijia said: "Mother, you rest, I already have a way!" Just wait for my news at home! ”

With that, Taijia ran out of the house, leaving Yiyue with a blank face, coughing a few times with a wry smile, and falling asleep again.

……

The book "Treatise on Plague" is still a book valued by students of Chinese medicine, and the drugs recorded in it have a great role in promoting the solution of the plague problem in the field of Chinese medicine. Taijia skimmed this book and was still a little impressed by the seven medicines needed to reach the original drink.

Areca nut, magnolia, grass nut, zhimu, peony, skullcap, licorice, according to a certain proportion of decoction, can achieve the effect of avoiding filth and turbidity, for the plague cure has a miraculous effect. However, this is limited to the early and middle stages of the plague, and if it is in the late stage of the plague, no matter how powerful the Chinese medicine is, it can only look at the patient's face.

"Without further ado, let's go find medicinal herbs!"

Taijia's first reaction was Gong Changqiu's warehouse, he was a witch doctor, and he would definitely have a little collection of medicinal materials. However, what made him feel a pity was that all of Gong Changqiu's medicines were from Miaodi or Yunnan, and after looking for a long time, Taijia only found grass fruit and betel nut.

Grass fruit and betel nut are produced in China's Yunnan-Guizhou, Liangguang region, now these places are barbarians, if it weren't for Gong Changqiu's young travel around the world with a little inventory, just these two medicinal materials, Taijia would have to spend a huge amount of time to collect.

Moreover, this betel nut is not the betel nut required by traditional Chinese medicine, the betel nut required by traditional Chinese medicine is the seed of the ripe fruit of the betel nut after peeling, and it is the "betel nut" in the mouth of traditional Chinese medicine after drying. In the face of a large number of betel nuts, the Thai armor can only be put aside for the time being, and then slowly cleaned up when it is free.

It was only then that Taijia realized that it was not as easy as he imagined to find medicinal herbs.

In this era, there were no medical halls, let alone pharmacies, and all kinds of medicinal herbs were still weeds of origin, and they had not been mined on a large scale, let alone cultivated.

Just mention these seven kinds of medicinal materials, except for the two that have been found, the remaining five kinds of only "Magnolia" medicinal materials are produced in Sichuan. The distribution of the other four herbs is also extremely scattered, among which peony and licorice are still close, and they are produced near Qin, but Zhimu and skullcap are distributed in Hebei, and they have to go to Yanzhao to find them!

What can I do?

Taijia thought about it, and he had to try his luck at the cliff first.

"Herbs? I'll find it for you! "When I arrived at the Cliff Mansion, Taijia was directly drunk, "Not to mention that I have never heard of these medicinal materials you said, even if I have heard of them, according to what you said, these medicinal materials are extremely far away, where can I find them for you?" ”

Edgeworth on the side of the cliff looked at the gradually low Taijia, his heart was very painful, and he hurriedly shook his father's cuffs and shouted: "Father, you will do the eldest brother a favor!" ”

"It's not that I won't help, how can you ask me to help?" Mao Biya is extremely annoyed, now that the epidemic is rampant, if Taijia has medicine to alleviate the epidemic, as long as he has it, he will give as much as he wants!

But he didn't, you can't let him conjure it out of thin air!

The two looked at each other speechlessly, and after a long time, Taijia suddenly opened his mouth: "Give me something valuable......

"What are you going to do?"

“…… I'm going to Qin and Zhao to find the medicinal herbs I need! ”

Biya was shocked: "Are you crazy? Don't say you're still young now, it's a year to come back and forth, and when you come back, the plague will have already dispersed in our tribe! I'm afraid people are almost dead! What's the use of you coming back? ”

What Biya said is not unreasonable, but now, what else can be done?

"Can't I replace it with another drug?" Edgeworth opened his mouth and asked, thinking to himself, wouldn't it be much easier if all the medicines were all the medicines in Shudi?

Taijia covered his forehead, pondered for a moment, and said: "There should be yes, like drowning ginger in grinding juice, it is the easiest way to alleviate the plague at present...... But compared to that medicinal herb, the effect is much smaller, I am afraid that it can only curb the development of the plague, but cannot completely eradicate the plague! ”

Indeed, Da Yuan drink is the best prescription for getting rid of plague, and there are no more herbs and no less; Although sepsis powder and other medicines have the same effect, there are too many medicinal materials; There is too little ginger juice, and at most it can only cool down people who have not developed the disease.

"Then it's better to use this medicine to suppress it first, and then go to the country you said to find medicinal materials?"

Biya looked at the talking Edgeworth, and suddenly felt that this was a good idea; But how long can the plague be suppressed, and can it wait until the Taijia comes back from collecting medicine?

After all, in addition to the magnolia bark that Shu has in Shudi, the other four medicines are only known to Taijia, and no one can complete this task except him.

"Let me think about it...... Think about it. ”

Taijia felt that this matter had to be carefully considered, even if he was at full power, in Shudi, where the Golden Bull Road had not yet been opened, it would take a month just to go from Maoyi to Qin, one month to find land and collect medicine, one month to Zhao State, one month to collect medicine, and at least eight months back and forth, if his mother was ...... during this time.

But perhaps he didn't have time to think about it for the time being, because just now, a new battle report came.

Yang Tiantong led his troops to attack!