Although there is no emperor now, the prefect of Yangcheng is still Lin Guangji, who was appointed by the imperial court before.

At this time, Yangcheng had been blocked, and it was only allowed to enter and exit, and there were obviously many more soldiers guarding the city gate than Tongcheng.

When Xingyun passed in front of these soldiers, she found that the armor on their bodies was even better than that of Tongcheng.

Their eyes were sharp, and they had a murderous aura on their bodies, and they looked like they had killed people on the battlefield.

After entering Yangcheng, Xingyun found that there were still many pedestrians on the street, and the shops on the street were still open.

People covered their mouths and noses with a triangular cloth on their faces, and although everyone was in a hurry, it was not as bleak and desolate as they imagined, and there were groups of soldiers patrolling the streets.

It seems that after the outbreak of the epidemic, the government's action was still very strong, and the spread of the epidemic was controlled in the fastest time.

The sick patients in the city were all concentrated in a certain area in the south of the city, and the generals who sent them over took them and the herbs collected from Tongcheng to the epidemic area in the south of the city.

The epidemic area was also heavily guarded, and before they could get close, they already smelled a bitter smell that was so strong that it could not be dissolved—it was a mixture of many kinds of medicinal herbs.

Except for the groups of heavily armed soldiers, all of them were carts and horses carrying medicines and escorting patients.

When Xingyun and the others entered, they were filled with a large bowl of medicine, which was said to be a medicine that could prevent diseases.

I don't know if Xingyun can prevent the disease, but the taste is really bitter!

Then they gave each of them two triangular cotton cloths to cover their mouths and noses, and then the next man led them inside.

The epidemic area was divided into the eastern and western districts, separating the eunuchs of the noble clan from the common people.

As soon as he arrived at the temporary medical center, Dr. Du quickly entered the role without resting, asking the doctors who had been here for several days about the epidemic and discussing the prescription with them.

Xingyun listened to it for a while, and found that there were some things that she didn't understand well, so she secretly wrote it down in her heart, thinking that she would ask the teacher again when she had time.

There were not enough people in the epidemic area, everyone came and went in a hurry, and Xingyun and the dumb girl were quickly pulled by others to help.

The prescription for the treatment of the epidemic has not been settled for a long time, and the doctors can only temporarily regard the patients in the epidemic area as the objects of experimentation, and whenever a new medicine is discussed, they will let people decoction the medicine and distribute it to everyone, and if it has no effect after three days, they will change to something else.

Xingyun and the dumb girl were taking care of the medicine stove in the pharmacy at this time, and after the medicine was decocted, they would distribute it to the people who came to pick up the medicine.

The dumb girl has been following Dr. Du since she was a child, and the work of decocting medicine is not difficult for her at all, but Xingyun is quite unfamiliar with it, and sometimes she needs to be reminded by the dumb girl.

The two of them cooked the medicine here for an afternoon, until someone told them that they could rest and go to dinner.

The rice is a big pot of rice, and the taste is not very good, but it can only be said that it is full.

A doctor like Dr. Du has someone who specially delivers food, and when Xingyun and the dumb girl went to find Dr. Du after eating, they found that the food box beside him had not been touched at all.

Dr. Du sat at the desk in the corner, and there were many prescriptions in front of him, all of which had been collected by the government from various places during this time, but none of them could effectively treat the epidemic.

Dr. Du twisted his eyebrows, his mouth was full of words, and he was holding a pen in his hand and writing something on the paper.

He crossed it out again, tapped his head with a pen, and began to sigh.

"Teacher, is it difficult to cure this epidemic?" Xingyun walked over and asked in a low voice.

Dr. Du shook his head and nodded, "It's a bit similar to the plague in the south last year, but it's different in some places. The epidemic virus is different, and the corresponding medication is naturally different, and there is no clue how to treat it. ”

Xing Yun can understand that even in modern times, the emergence of a new epidemic infectious disease will make everyone feel like a great enemy, not to mention the ancient times with a low level of technology.

"No matter how difficult it is, sir, you have to eat and rest first, otherwise if you don't wait for you to come up with a cure, I'm afraid you'll fall down yourself."

Dr. Du didn't have much appetite, and was forced to eat something by Xingyun, and then was rushed to rest.

Dr. Du's age is also considered to be old among so many doctors, and he hasn't rested much along the way, so he is indeed a little tired, so he no longer insists.

Early the next morning, Dr. Du got a strange thing with two threads in a square shape from Xingyun.

"What is this?"

Xingyun showed him how to wear a mask, and Dr. Du was pleasantly surprised to turn the mask in his hand over and over again.

"It's a lot easier to hang on your ears, and it's not easy to fall off."

Although this mask seems to be simple to make, the thought in it is very ingenious.

Although Xingyun felt that the two pieces of cotton cloth were useless, it was better than nothing, but this cotton cloth was a little troublesome in the back of her head, and Xingyun took her dumb girl to make a few modern masks before going to bed last night.

When Dr. Du entered the hospital wearing a new mask, he attracted the attention of some doctors, who curiously asked about the origin of the thing.

After learning that it was specially made by Dr. Du's disciples for their own teachers, they all praised his disciples for their ingenuity and filial piety, and said that they would instruct their subordinates to make some for everyone according to this style.

However, there were also a few doctors with vicious eyes who could see at a glance that Xingyun and the dumb girl who were following Dr. Du were women, and some people scoffed at them.

In fact, Xingyun and the dumb girl didn't do much to cover up along the way, they just wore men's clothes.

However, the dumb girl is still young, and she has been dressed as a boy since she was a child, so she looks indistinguishable.

And Xingyun's face that she has changed with a human skin mask is too ordinary, and she doesn't have the posture of a woman nowadays, so everyone really didn't notice that they were women.

Nowadays, there are very few women who study medicine, and even if they do, many of them are just treating some exquisite ladies and ladies in the back house, coupled with the prejudice against women, some people think that Dr. Du is really brain-filled to accept a woman as an apprentice.

Dr. Du's new mask was just a small storm in the early morning, and the doctors soon began a new round of discussion about the epidemic, constantly trying new prescriptions.

Xingyun did not go to the pharmacy to decoct the medicine this time, she was taken by Dr. Du to check on the patients who had the epidemic.

Yesterday, Dr. Du had learned a lot about the epidemic from other doctors and had seen some patients, but he still needed to see more patients.

Dr. Du did not go to the eastern district where the relatives of the dignitaries were located, but went to the western district where the common people lived.

There are several times more patients in the west than in the east side, and unlike the east side, where one patient can live in one room, they are all several people living in one room, and most of them sleep directly on straw mats.

However, Xing Yun noticed that although there are many people in the West District, the environment here is quite clean and tidy, and the air is filled with the smell of bitter medicine.

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