Chapter 696: Control
Governor Cheng personally led people to the small Qingzhuang next to Qinghu. Xiaoqingzhuang was one of the first villages to find the epidemic, and when the epidemic was discovered, the outside of Xiaoqingzhuang was guarded by officers and soldiers, and the villagers were not allowed to enter or leave.
As more and more patients contracted the disease, the villagers of Xiaoqingzhuang almost despaired - the plague was terrible, and the villagers listened to the word of mouth of the older generation. The end result is that the village is ruined and people die!
When Governor Cheng arrived, the morning light had gradually spread in the sky, and the sun had just peeked out of the horizon. At this time, smoke was already rising from the sky above Xiaoqingzhuang, and the hard-working villagers would go to work in the fields in groups carrying hoes, and the voices of peasant women scolding naughty children would be heard in the village from time to time......
At this time, Xiaoqingzhuang seems to be an empty village. The whole village was silent, and there was a solemn dead air in the air. In the past few days, people who have been seriously ill have died. In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the dead are not allowed to be buried, and they must be pulled outside the village to be burned......
In ancient times, it was important to enter the soil for safety. However, in the shadow of death, where are the villagers of Xiaoqingzhuang still in the mood to take care of these. He may be the next to die; Who will burn next?
Governor Cheng inquired about the soldiers and generals guarding the village, and learned that in Xiaoqingzhuang, except for a few families with wells, almost all of them were infected with the epidemic. This also verifies the words of the little doctor girl - the epidemic is spread through water sources!
The plague changes color when everyone talks about it, even the doctors who are traveling with it. They wandered at the entrance of the village, looking at the lifeless village, and a sense of fear rose in their hearts, and no one dared to enter the village.
Governor Cheng persuaded bitterly: "The doctor girl said that as long as you wash your hands and don't drink the water in the village, you won't be infected......"
"Your Excellency, it's not that we don't trust you. But after all, the miracle doctor in your mouth is just a teenage girl, and her medical skills have not been verified after all. It's not that we people are afraid of death, but there are old and young people in the family, and we can't live without us! A doctor in his forties, rubbing his beard, shook his head and sighed.
Yue Yuan sneered and said, "Fear of death is fear of death, why do you say it so high-sounding?" Governor Cheng, I'll go in with you...... Of course, if you don't believe our lady either, you can wait outside here. Give me the medicine box, I'll go in by myself! ”
Governor Cheng hurriedly said: "The old man naturally believes the words of the divine doctor." The old man will accompany you in! ”
"Full Moon Girl, I'll go in with you too!" General Li pointed his nostrils at several doctors, and snorted coldly, "You guys, you have lost all the people of the Xicheng doctors!" We Xicheng people are not all bad seeds! ”
Governor Cheng followed the officers and soldiers guarding and knocked on the door of the village chief's house. The village chief's family also drilled a well, and there were not many people in the family who were infected with the epidemic. Only the most favored grandson in the exclusive group contracted dysentery because he played with other children in the village and did not like to wash his hands.
The little guy pulled it for several days, and he pulled out pus and blood, and his eyes were dehydrated, and he looked more serious than the little son of Liang Zhizhou's family. The little one was placed in a separate room in the backyard, which was originally a place for livestock rations and grass, and these days, if it were not for the child's mother, who had not given up the child, perhaps the person would have been gone long ago.
When the village chief heard that the miracle doctor invited by the prefect Cheng had a way to treat the plague, he was so excited that he burst into tears. The smell of being locked up in the village and waiting to die, he really had enough.
The elder brother Dong at the head of the village, because he couldn't stand this, hanged himself on the beam of the house with his trouser belt in the middle of the night. If it goes on like this, people don't die of illness, but they collapse themselves first!
"Don't talk nonsense, saving people is like fighting fire, where are the patients?" The full moon carried the medicine box on his back and interrupted the village chief's words of gratitude to Dade.
"In the backyard! Divine doctor, please come with me! The village chief's youngest son, the patient's own father, hurried ahead to lead the way.
"I'm not a miracle doctor, I'm just a divine doctor's maid!" The full moon followed the village chief's youngest son into the backyard. Entering the house, she smelled a strong fishy smell and couldn't help frowning.
The little daughter-in-law, who had been cooling her son with water inside, said with a slightly blank expression: "It doesn't smell good, does it?" Don't let people go out, eat, drink and Lazar are all inside, it's strange that it smells good! Four dogs, are you willing to show up? Aren't you afraid of being passed on by your son? ”
"Daughter-in-law, this miracle doctor can cure our son's illness! We're saved! The youngest son of the village chief looked at his daughter-in-law with a little excitement in his expression.
The little daughter-in-law's dull eyes froze for a moment, and suddenly regained their brilliance. She looked at the full moon, her lips trembled, and she was so excited that she could hardly say words: "Save my son, divine doctor, please save him!" My hairy egg is only six years old, he's my sweetheart, he can't die-"
Yue Yuan put down his hand pinching his nose, pointed to the Gong bucket on the side, and said with a frown: "Clean these out, and in addition, open the window." It's getting hotter, and I'm not afraid of suffocating people! ”
Outside the child's father's utility room, he didn't dare to get any closer, and when he heard the words, he said: "Doctor girl, you can't do this, you will pass the illness over to our whole family!" ”
"Are you a doctor, or am I a doctor? If you want me to save your son and the people of your village, do as I say. In addition, I am not a miracle doctor, I am just a maid and assistant of a miracle doctor. ”
Yue Yuan took out a bag of drifting ** from the medicine box, handed it to the child's mother, and instructed: "Grab a handful and put it in the gong bucket, stir as much as possible." In this way, all the sick gas in the patient's feces can be removed. By the way, you have a lot of contact with patients these days, so you should wash your hands before eating, and don't share dishes, chopsticks, and plates with patients......"
The child's mother seemed to have received a holy decree, holding the drifting ** in both hands, and whispered timidly: "The tableware used by Mao Dan'er is specially made of wood by his father, and he treasures it every day, so he doesn't give it to others." I've been sick for a few days, and I've been coaxing some rice soup with a wooden bowl and spoon......"
Cheng Zhifu listened and nodded lightly. Perhaps, this is one of the reasons why the village chief's family and other people have not been infected!
The child's mother went to dispose of the feces in the bucket, and Yue Yuan took out the infusion tool, hung normal saline for the severely dehydrated little guy, and crushed berberine into powder and poured it into the sleeping little guy.
Berberine was too bitter, the little guy frowned, a little resistant, and there were faint signs of waking up. Unfortunately, his body was too weak to resist. The full moon pinched the little guy's nose familiarly and poured the potion into it.
Yueyuan handed over all the drifting ** to Governor Cheng and said: "You ask the village chief to take you around the village, and first get rid of the feces, one of the sources of infection." ”
Governor Cheng carefully took this unseen powder, then handed it to General Li, and solemnly admonished: "This arduous and important task will be handed over to General Li and your soldiers." The old man took several craftsmen to survey the landscape and find water sources. The most important thing is to solve the water problem of the villagers! ”
Cheng Zhifu was just suffocated by the smell of the gong bucket in the hairy egg house, and the feces of the sick were comparable to biological weapons, he really couldn't hold it!
General Li felt that the drifting ** in his hand was like a hot potato that had just come out of the pot, and it was not connected, nor was it not. Garrison the Lord and send him to assist the prefect in controlling the epidemic. The words of the prefect, he had to listen. Can't always ...... Let the prefect do this pickling work!
As a result, General Li and his officers and soldiers became dung diggers in Xiaoqingzhuang, and they haunted various latrines in the village. Farming people, in order to save natural fertilizer, even if it is a soak of urine, they have to hold back and spill it in their own toilets. Every household has a simple latrine, and next to the latrine is a place where manure is stored in the open air.
The task of General Li and his officers and soldiers is to sprinkle the drift ** like a dung pond and stir it in it with a long dung spoon - vomit! The smell can literally smoke people to death.
Soon, the village chief's son brought the young adults in the village who had never been infected to support them.
Originally, the villagers who were trapped in the village waiting for death heard the village chief's son say that the prefect had come to rescue them with a miracle doctor. Suddenly, a strong desire to survive burst out.
So, when the village chief's son gathered the villagers who had not been infected and told them what they could do to prevent the infection. Many people listened and offered to help.
These days, they have lived in fear, and the people around them have fallen ill one by one, and they have died one by one, first the old, the weak, the sick, the young, and then the weaker young people......
These uninfected villagers wanted to escape, but they were besieged by officers and soldiers; I want to hide, but I have nowhere to hide. Terrible plagues are everywhere, and perhaps they will be the next ones to die.
Looking at the relatives around me, the illness is getting worse and worse. looked at the neighbor who was smiling and greeting him a few days ago, turned into a corpse and was carried to the entrance of the village and burned to ashes. That despair, that fear, tormented them all the time. Their nerves are like a rubber band stretched to the extreme, and they are in danger of breaking in the next second!
Suddenly, the village chief's son brought the good news - the source of the plague had been found, and that was water and dung! Water sources, they are not good at digging wells, and they are good at handling manure. Who doesn't dig a manure pit and save manure every year?
While working, the officers and soldiers who retched, and the villagers who took the initiative to help, threw the dung scoop to the villagers as if they were amnesty, and pushed away from the command.
In less than half a day, all the contaminated feces have been disposed of. Governor Cheng moved the seriously ill to a courtyard, and Yuequan took a few soldiers to treat them.
Governor Cheng couldn't help much, so he gathered the healthy villagers in the village together and preached how to prevent the spread of the epidemic and how to take care of the sick at home.
For those villagers with mild symptoms, General Li led his soldiers to deliver special medicines from door to door. The little girl of the miracle doctor said that berberine is eaten three times a day, three pills at a time for adults, and halved for children.