After returning home, Baili Ye took Biyu and Youchun out.

He and Li Tong sat facing each other.

Neither of them spoke.

Li Tong was holding the tea bowl, and her mood was much better than when she was on the street just now, and now she was feeling weak when she faced Bai Liye, who had a lot of questions.

As for who the man was, it didn't seem to matter anymore.

Judging from what he said, he knew with his toes that he was one of the people who had been helping Baili Ye build momentum.

It's just that what she didn't expect was that the other party had been spying on her, and even heard the conversation between her and Li Yinzhi.

Fortunately, Li Yinzhi didn't say it too clearly, and Li Tong also hoped that the other party didn't understand.

"Ma'am, how are you feeling now?"

A tender voice sounded from front of him, Li Tong raised his head, and the soft face of the man came into view, with concern and worry.

Li Tong pulled the corners of his mouth: "I'm much better." ”

"What were you thinking? Is it because of the fact that Imperial Doctor Li went to cure the plague? ”

Li Tong also wanted to explain, but when she heard that Bai Li Ye had already found an answer for her, she nodded kindly: "Yes, I'm very worried, the plague is not good, and there are countless deaths and injuries." ”

"Don't worry, Imperial Doctor Li's medical skills are the leading role in the entire imperial hospital!" Bai Li Ye gave a thumbs up in front of Li Tong, and Li Tong couldn't help laughing.

"You're talking like a bandit."

Seeing her smile, Bai Li Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm in a mountain village where I heard about the plague?"

Bai Li Ye hugged Li Tong tightly, and his chin rested on the top of her head: "Although it is a mountain village, it is not closed, and it is only half an hour to ride an ox cart from the village to the nearest town." What's more, there are more than 100 families in that village, all of whom are dying. ”

"Indeed."

can send the best imperial doctor in the imperial hospital to treat the people, and the little emperor really can't say that he doesn't love the people, but he loves it very much. Li Tong thought to himself.

In ancient times, the traffic was inconvenient, the carriages and horses were very slow, and although the mountain village was not closed in their eyes, it took half a month for the news to come and go.

The plague spread very quickly.

At first, only a small number of people developed fever symptoms accompanied by a slight cough, which did not attract special attention, and the patients went to the hospital to see a doctor, and the medicine prescribed by the doctor was only to treat the cold.

At first, the prescription worked, but gradually, more people began to cough, and the area with the highest incidence was in the mountain villages, and then in the nearby towns.

The first to notice the special situation was the doctor in the medical center.

In a short period of time, the number of patients who come to the clinic for the same disease is several times higher than before, which is a very abnormal situation.

The number of medicinal herbs used to treat the cold in the hospital also showed a rapid decline, and the price of medicinal herbs increased steadily, causing the market to become disordered, which attracted the attention of the government.

The barefoot doctor in the village, and the doctor in the nearby town's medical center, were soon busy.

Because someone started dying.

The first to die was a child.

The child had a fever at the beginning, and it was slightly relieved after taking the medicine prescribed by the doctor, but soon the symptoms returned, and even menacing, unable to swallow, the whole body was weak, and the body temperature climbed to the point of burning the brain in just a few days, and remained high, and the ordinary medicine for wind and cold had no effect.

The barefoot doctor finally couldn't hold it out and called for help from the doctor in the town's medical hall, but it was too late.

The disease broke out on a large scale, and the sick people panicked, crowding the hospital to the brim, and everyone was crying, wailing, and begging for help, but the doctor was helpless.

When Li Yinxian arrived with half of the imperial hospital's imperial doctors, he was already exhausted, but he didn't have the time to rest at all, so he rushed into the epidemic area with a medicine box.

After learning of the possibility of the plague, the local government immediately decided to isolate the entire mountain village, only allowed to enter and not leave, and all the patients in the nearby towns with symptoms were also gathered in one place for treatment, and the doctors were fully armed, only a pair of eyes were exposed, and the medicine of the whole city was transported to the same place.

Even so, people die every day, and death and paleness overflow the entire mountain village.

"Imperial Doctor Li, you're finally here!" Cao Xianling's official uniform was already soaked with sweat, and his brain, whose hairline was receding, was also soaked with sweat.

"How many people are sick? How many patients are critically ill? How many children are there? How many are the elderly? How many more have died? Li Yinxian didn't say much, and asked as he walked.

Cao Xianling pinched his sleeves and practiced wiping his sweat: "This ...... The situation is too detailed, and the lower officials don't know very well, and Dr. Yu is now in charge of the epidemic area, he should know best, and the lower officials only know that one hundred and fifty-three people have died. ”

"One hundred and fifty-three." Li Yinxian's footsteps paused, and then quickened his pace.

There are more than 100 households in the entire mountain village, and the total number of people is only three or four hundred, and the time from the outbreak of this epidemic to the present is a month.

But one hundred and fifty-three people is not a small number for this village.

Li Yinxian solemnly glanced at Cao Xianling: "Who was the first to find out that the situation was special?" ”

"It's Dr. Yu."

When he walked into the village, Li Yinxian was thinking that after this incident was over, he would have to find a way to transfer this witty Dr. Yu to the imperial hospital.

The village was completely isolated, and officers and soldiers guarded the entry and exit, and the meals were delivered to the entrance of the village by people from outside, and then sent by the officers and soldiers to a special place where the meals were placed, so as to avoid contact between the sick and the outside world as much as possible.

When Li Yinxian saw the doctor, he was covering his face with a white cloth, sitting to check the pulse of a child, his soft eyebrows and eyes were frowning tightly at this time, and his expression was not very good.

It wasn't until he withdrew his hand and gently tucked the corners of the quilt for the unconscious child that Cao Xianling gently shouted: "Doctor Yu ......"

Doctor Yu straightened his waist, looked over, and met Li Yinxian's straight eyes, and the two nodded, which was regarded as a greeting.

"How's it going?"

Without any greetings, Li Yinxian asked.

Dr. Yu is also a direct person: "Not optimistic. ”

The eyebrows of the two tightened by half a minute.

"Of the 153 people who die today, more than half are children and the elderly, and not so many are elderly."

"Has the cause been identified?"

"Water source."

Li Yinxian stopped and turned his head to see that on his left hand side was a stream that flowed down from the top of the mountain, and most of the water of the entire mountain village still depended on this stream, which crossed the village and converged into a lake on the east side of the village, and then went east, passing through a large field and dispersing into several tributaries leading to nearby towns.

"Are there any healed?"

"Yes." Doctor Yu nodded vigorously, but the sorrow in his eyebrows still did not dissipate: "During this period, we have been taking antipyretics, supplemented by a lot of water and excretion, but we still can't confirm whether this antipyretic medicine is suitable for all patients." ”

Li Yinxian nodded: "Where does the source of drinking water come from today?" ”

"There is water from wells in the city, and it is brought from the city, and it is boiled and then used again." Cao Xianling actively raised his hand to answer.

Li Yinxian raised a question: "Could it be that the water used in this village was all directly drunk?" ”

Doctor Yu nodded and said, "Yes, they think that the stream that flows down from the top of the mountain is made of perennial snow water, which is very clean, and most people drink it directly." ”

Li Yinxian pulled the corners of his mouth in disgust: "A bunch of fools, this year is hotter than in previous years, and there is more rain, so the snow on the top of the mountain melts more than in previous years, and the beasts in the mountains are rare and complicated, if there is any poison buried under the snowdrift, the toxin flows down the melted snow water, and they drink it directly, they are looking for their own death." ”

This was said quite mercilessly, and Dr. Yu's face also changed.

He originally didn't expect this possibility, and always thought that someone had poisoned the water, maliciously causing a plague and shaking the country's foundation, but now when he heard Li Yinxian say this, he felt that it was not impossible.

Their small and broken place is neither a border town nor a transportation artery, and it is really not worth the hard work of people to poison and kill them.

Although he didn't know what the poison dissolved in the water was, Li Yinxian knew that the unsolved toxins either had slow symptoms or died immediately, and the death was tragic.

From Doctor Yu and Cao Xianling, it was learned that those who died were like normal sick and dead patients, but their faces would turn blue and white, and their lips would turn slightly purple, which was a symptom of poisoning.

Children and adults need a lot of water, so the poisoning is deep, even if the antipyretic medicine is taken in time, but because the toxin is deep, it is difficult to save it.

Before Li Yinxian came, just in case, he deliberately brought a few bottles of detoxification pills, but looking at the current situation, he could only save one and count one, but fortunately, the detoxification pill was not difficult to refine, and the medicinal materials in the nearby towns were all gathered in one place, which was convenient to use.

With the detoxification pill as the mainstay, supplemented by antipyretics, within half a month, the epidemic was stabilized.

Cao County's order deliberately posted notices in nearby towns and villages, saying that water sources should not be directly drunk, and must be boiled before other uses.

Before Li Yinxian left with the medicine box, he deliberately talked to Dr. Yu for a long night, trying to let Dr. Yu go to Yicheng.

Unfortunately, it failed.

Li Yinxian had a lot of anger for this, but everyone had their own ambitions and couldn't force it, so he could only stand in the courtyard and play a set of rabbit punches at God, and by the way, he said a dirty word without repetition for half an hour to show respect.

Outside the city, Cao Xianling took Mrs. Yu and others to personally send Li Yinxian away.

"You're really not going with me?" Li Yinxian stepped on the carriage with one foot, kicked on the ground with the other, and turned his head to stare at Dr. Yu, who had soft eyebrows.

"The grass people have thanked the adults for their love, but the children are young and the high hall is old, so it is inconvenient to travel far." Doctor Yu bowed, respectful and rigorous.

Li Yinxian gritted his teeth: "Okay, you can think for yourself, if you can't get along here, go to Yicheng to find me." ”

Cao Xianling, who was standing on the side, broke out in a cold sweat, and couldn't help but slander, what does it mean that he can't get mixed up? Does he look like a corrupt official? Can this Imperial Doctor Li speak human words?