Chapter 4: The Plague Theory

When I arrived at the place, I saw that the gate was closed, and the eldest grandson would not ask the gatekeeper to open the door and go to investigate by himself.

Walking around the courtyard, I found that the courtyard wall was basically intact, and there was a person watching from a distance every other while, and there were several relatives of the sick in front of the gate sobbing at the bottom.

The gatekeeper saw the eldest grandson and Li Zheng coming over, and they were busy greeting each other, this eldest grandson was unique in the town with his prestige for a few days.

"How?" The eldest grandson asked.

"It's all okay, these are relatives, and there are three children and four elderly people in them." The eldest grandson knew that due to the poor resistance of children and the elderly, it was normal for the chance of being infected to be higher.

"How's it going?"

"It's a big place, it's basically one room per person, and there is a child who is not too serious and is responsible for delivering food to each room."

"Do you have a mask?" The mask is naturally also an invention of Changsun Tang, there is no cotton, and it is replaced with silk and linen, the effect is not good, but it is better than nothing.

"This, everyone has it, but I don't wear it much when I feel uncomfortable."

"You bastards, don't you want to die?" Li Zheng was unwilling.

"Let them put their masks on, remember, it doesn't mean that they have no hope when they get inside, according to my approach, there should be a few more people who can come out." The eldest grandson said calmly, and the relatives around him stopped sobbing and looked at him.

"Then do as I say, first, the lime should be sprinkled every day, and in the yard as well. Second, take all the vinegar from the town and put it on every house to boil. The eldest grandson said this sharply, the era without disinfectant is really helpless, so I can only make do with it.

"Third, don't let the ships dock, the town is not allowed to enter or leave, and the plague must not continue to spread." The eldest grandson continued to command.

After saying this, the eldest grandson went back to the town.

After about seven or eight days, five of the seven patients walked out of the small courtyard intact, but the other two could not withstand the calamity, Changsun Peng asked the bodies of these two people to be burned and disposed of, generally first, the Chinese who pay attention to entering the soil for safety are unwilling to do this, but the prestige accumulated by Changsun Shu in the special period is to let them no longer make times.

Finally, the eldest grandson who had some leisure slept for three whole days, and the villagers stewed the only remaining chicken in the whole town and boiled the soup and sent it to him.

No one had a fever for several days, and the eldest grandson had a fire to burn down the small courtyard, and when he was about to set off, he found that there was no boat passing by the river these days.

At this time, at the entrance of the town, an old man who was dusty appeared, followed by six people.

"The rest of the towns are all plain, and it's strange how calm and quiet it is." The old man said to himself, this is going to enter the town. The old man, who was called "Sun Zhenren", looked about fifty years old, but his face was ruddy, and he was wearing a somewhat shabby robe, dressed like a fairy.

"Sun Zhenren, you wait here for a while." A leader-looking man dissuaded. "Little Wu, you go to the front and have a look."

The man named Xiao Wu answered, and he planned to go to investigate.

Sun Zhenren didn't wait for Xiao Wu to come back, he stepped forward, he knew the duty of these six people, and he didn't stop it, but he didn't wait on the spot according to the leader's words.

The five young men who were hiding in the shade of the trees at the entrance of the town looked at the posture and immediately sent one person to inform Li Zheng, but the remaining few people carried out the simple rejection horse and sealed the town.

"What's the matter with you guys?" Xiao Wu, who arrived first, asked first.

"A few officials, there is a plague in this town, but it is inconvenient for the rest of the people to enter and exit." It was here that a man of articulate words was arranged to take care of things at the door.

"Plague, why didn't I find out, we have passed through more than a dozen towns, and that town is not a place of vegetarianism, and the cry is earth-shattering?" This little five didn't overwhelm people with power.

"These officials, there is really a plague in the town, here and the eldest grandson are waiting here for a few of us for fear of being infected by mistake without knowing it!"

"Contagion? This word has some meaning. This little brother, how many people are in this town? "Sun Zhenren has already rushed over.

"If you go back to the Dao Chief, it's about five or six hundred!"

"How many people have died in this plague?" Sun Zhenren asked directly.

"Two, a six-year-old child, and an old man in his fifties."

"What, only two?" Sun Zhenren was shocked, if this was the case, then the plague would not be afraid, but the mortality rate in each of the dozen or so towns passing by was basically around two or three percent.

"How did you do that?" Sun Zhenren had already disregarded his demeanor, and took a step forward to grab the front of the steward.

"When the meeting is coming with the eldest grandson, you can ask him, I have been here for more than ten days, and the specific situation is not very clear."

This person in charge is called Liu Xi, who was originally a guest in the pawnshop in the town, and he can talk about it, observe the words and looks, and look at the situation of several people to know that the old man has an extraordinary background, so he invited the old man to sit down, rinsed the cup with lime water, and cleaned it with water several times before pouring water for Sun Zhenren, which was naturally ordered by the eldest grandson.

Sun Zhenren looked at Liu Xi's skillful movements, and knew that this was not for him alone, so he accepted it calmly, took the water and drank it in one sip, he was really a little thirsty after such a long time, and a faint alkaline smell was barely acceptable.

As the first batch of people to come after the plague, Sun Zhenren and his entourage brought hope to the town, because the food collected after the flood could not be managed for long, and it was the period when the plague was raging, and it was impossible to send people to the county seat for help.

"This Daoist, I don't know what happened to this Jingzhou Mansion now?" Li Zheng asked first, this is a matter of life and death for hundreds of people in the town.

"This Jingzhou Mansion was first affected by floods, who knew that the disaster would not go alone, and the whole mansion was full of plagues." There was not a word of nonsense, and the leader took over.

"You're said to have only two people here? How is this done? Zhang Zhenren couldn't hold back a little and asked directly.

"This Dao Chief, is it like this......" The eldest grandson told the details one by one, of course, a large part of these credits were given to Li Zheng, and he just received the duty of giving advice.

"In this way, the spread of the plague can be stopped on a large scale... Dye..."This Sun Zhenren remembered Liu Xi's words and felt that this word was more appropriate.

"Dare to ask the name of Changgao?" The eldest grandson was a little hesitant, not knowing whether it was good or bad to speak out about the knowledge of infectious diseases in later generations.

"The Taoist chief's surname is Sun, and his name is Simiao." This name can be described as thunderous, and if there is a list of doctors in the entire history of China, this one is definitely among the top ten.

"I have admired Sun Dao's name for a long time, but the kid didn't have a chance to see it. The plague contagion kid thinks it's caused by something very small, so small that we can't see it, so I call these microbes, and although I haven't seen them, I think they'll be seen someday. After learning that it was Sun Simiao, the eldest grandson lowered his figure, and then said it in one go, and this kind of microscopic thought will gradually be carried forward when someone puts it forward.

"Microbes? But what does it mean to 'one flower, one world, three despised and three bodhi'? This sentence comes from the "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra", and the more famous sentence is "color is emptiness", Sun Simiao is not only proficient in Lao Zhuang's theory, but also has a lot of research on Buddhism. Therefore, as soon as the eldest grandson said the word microorganism, Sun Simiao accurately understood the meaning of this word.

"Exactly, the Taoist Chief's explanation is a different way, the kid has never known how to say this discovery, but the Taoist is in his words!" The eldest grandson slapped a sycophant first, this is a person who has escaped from low-level interests, and the benefits are great!

"Tell me what you think." Sun Simiao didn't care about this.

"I think that people are like a country, each part has its own role, and this microorganism is like bandits, blocking the normal function of the human body, so people get sick, and this infectious disease is like this gang of bandits is very powerful, and it can flow between several countries." To put it simply, Sun Simiao understood.

"Can you discuss a thing or two with Lao Dao Hui Yaolu." When the eldest grandson didn't know how to solve it, this Sun Simiao opened his mouth again: "No, I'm afraid that the plague in Jingzhou Mansion will stay for a while!" ”

"The kid is a person from Chang'an, and he will come to the door to ask for advice after Chang'an, but at present, Jingzhou still needs the Taoist to sit in charge." The eldest grandson secretly sighed and was no longer entangled.

"The current situation in Jingzhou Mansion can be said to be an ordinary natural disaster, half of which is a man-made disaster." Halfway through the talk, but he didn't want to say it anymore, Sun Simiao is not a person who likes to complain, it's just that this time the matter in Jingzhou is big, not only natural disasters and plagues, but also the inaction of the Jingzhou assassin history, he actually ran away first, this Jingzhou city group has no leader, not only failed to provide disaster relief in time, but provoked a civil uprising. On the one hand, the emperor was furious and ordered to kill the assassin Shi, which was the first time since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, on the other hand, he urgently dispatched the surrounding government soldiers to suppress it, and at the same time ordered people to appease, Sun Simiao heard that there was a large-scale plague outbreak here and took the initiative to come.

"Yes, if I could do better, no one in this Liujiazhen would die because of this." The eldest grandson was wrong.

"You've done a good job, can you accompany Lao Dao around this plague-ridden place in Jingzhou?"

"The kid's ability is limited to this, I'm afraid that following the Taoist will cause chaos, the Taoist can rest here for a day, and when the kid writes this Chen, he has done his best to do his best." This is a good opportunity to fight the jungle to brush up on prestige, but in this way, his future path will basically be fixed as a doctor, there are advantages and disadvantages, so the eldest grandson has to thank Bumin, this plague is presided over by Sun Simiao, but there will be no more big mess, and this time with the help of Sun Simiao, you can tell the world about this method of cutting off the spread of the plague, and you can rest assured.