Chapter 9: Mrs. Gan is sick

"I can't help it, I can't help it, you are a master, how can I ......" Zuo Ci waved his hand vigorously and shook his head. The ancients respected the teacher the most, Zuo Ci already recognized Liu Hou as a master, where did he dare to call himself a master.

"Pedantic!" Liu Hou shouted, "How can the immortals of my generation be bound by the rules of this mortal world. What did I teach you just now, as long as the code of conduct conforms to the word 'virtue', you can do as you like in other trivial matters, and those stereotypes and vulgarities are just bullshit. ”

"Yes, yes, the master has taught him a lesson." Zuo Ci turned into a chicken again and pecked at the rice. In my heart, I was so impressed that I threw myself to the ground, "The master is the master, and he really deserves to be a fairy among the gods, and he sees how free and easy people are." ”

"I'm still a toddler, and I need a way to cover it up. Think about it, if a 3-year-old child knows something that even today's well-educated people don't understand, how shocking it is, in case people think it's a demon, it will be troublesome. That's why you need to do this cover-up, you know? You are also considered a master of the world in the minds of people, and the profound knowledge that speaks out of your mouth will not arouse people's suspicion. Liu Houyi was anxious and told the truth.

Zuo Ci was very moved by Liu Hou's heartfelt words: "With the master's trust so much, the disciple will never give up." "Say it and bow again.

"Alright, alright," Liu Hou waved his hand to get him up. "It's all said, my generation of immortals, don't care about so many rules, you don't have to worship in the future, and we don't need to call the master and apprentice in the future, I will call you Lao Tao in the future, you just call me a kid."

"Then what's going on, so let's do it, I'll call you little boy in the future." Zuo Ci said.

"Whatever you want, come with your ear, I'll teach you, if my father won't let you take me as an apprentice, you say so." Liu Hou taught Zuo Ci a few more words, and then sent him to Liu Bei.

Liu Hou felt very comfortable in his heart, and finally had a way to solve the problem that had been hanging in his heart. With the cover of Zuo Ci, a big god, you can play to your heart's content in the future, and you can do whatever you want, and no one will doubt Zuo Ci, a "master". He was in a good mood and was particularly energetic when he danced with bamboo poles in the garden.

It is said that after Zuo Ci said goodbye to Liu Hou, he asked Liu Bei to tell him about accepting apprentices. Liu Bei couldn't help but have mixed feelings, according to unconfirmed rumors, Zuo Ci was looking for the true dragon emperor, and now he said that he wanted to accept his son as an apprentice, didn't he say...... On the other hand, the son was accepted as an apprentice by a Taoist priest, in case he taught some alchemy and qi convincing techniques, he would concentrate on cultivation in the future and ignore political affairs, and then his own country would be ......

Seeing Liu Bei's hesitation, Zuo Ci thought, "Sure enough, it's not what the master expected." So he threw out a few words from Liu Houjiao: "Uncle Liu Huang, don't worry, your son is not a born person, I will not teach him the method of alchemy and cultivation to become an immortal, but will only teach him some knowledge of marching and arranging formations and passing through the world to help the country." ”

Liu Bei was overjoyed when he heard this, he also knew that Zuo Ci, like Zhuge Liang, was proficient in the art of Qimen Dunjia, which was very useful for fighting, "It's so long." As he spoke, he bowed to Zuo Ci and bowed fully.

Since then, Zuo Ci has been fooled by Liu Hou to his side and acted as his spokesperson and official spokesperson. As for how Liu Hou squeezed his surplus value to the greatest extent, I will not mention it for the time being, because at this time, two major events occurred, a bad event and a happy event.

In September of the fourteenth year of Jian'an (209), Mrs. Gan fell ill violently. After the Battle of Chibi, Cao, Sun, and Liu still fought small battles, and Liu Bei's name of benevolence spread all over the world, and a large number of displaced people poured into Jingzhou in order to get Liu Bei's rescue. The work of resettling displaced people was very heavy, and the entire Liu Group was overloaded.

Mrs. Gan has always been Liu Bei's virtuous helper, and she also personally went outside the city to help resettle the displaced people during this time. It is estimated that due to the unclean diet outside the city, coupled with fatigue, on this day, Mrs. Gan fell ill after returning from outside the city.

Liu Hou didn't know that Mrs. Gan was sick at first, because as soon as Mrs. Gan got sick, Liu Hou was taken away by the maid and was not allowed to contact Mrs. Gan, which is probably equivalent to quarantine measures.

It wasn't until 3 days later that Liu Hou heard Zuo Ci talk about it and knew what happened. It turned out that the land of Jingxiang had always had plague epidemics before and after the Red Cliff War. Due to the large number of soldiers who died and the large number of displaced people who fled in all directions, the plague spread quickly. Although it has been more than half a year since the end of the war, the epidemic is still happening one after another.

This time, among the displaced people who came to Jingzhou, there was also an outbreak of the epidemic, and Mrs. Gan estimated that she contracted this epidemic when she went to resettle the displaced people, which is said to have a very high mortality rate. Liu Bei asked a famous doctor to diagnose and treat Mrs. Gan, but it didn't work, Zuo Ci was one of the three gods, and of course he was also invited to enter the consultation expert group, but obviously this time Zuo Xian Weng was helpless.

Some medical workers in later generations have analyzed the Battle of Chibi from a medical point of view, and they believe that a very important factor in Cao Cao's defeat is that Cao Cao's soldiers are northerners, and they generally have no resistance to the epidemics in the Yangtze River Valley, resulting in the outbreak of infectious diseases among the soldiers and the loss of combat effectiveness.

Those scholars also speculated that Cao Jun's outbreak may have been one or both of schistosomiasis, malaria, typhus, or both. "History of Wei" records that Cao Cao took the initiative to withdraw from the army because the soldiers were too sick because the soldiers were too sick, and he burned the ship himself before retiring, so that Zhou Yubai picked up a good reputation. Of course, this historical material is estimated to have been compiled by Cao Cao himself, and no one can stop him from putting gold on his face.

Liu Hou naturally didn't know this, but he was shocked when he heard Zuo Ci's words, and he suddenly remembered that in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it seems that Mrs. Gan died not long after the Battle of Chibi, and Liu Bei married Sun Quan's sister Sun Shangxiang a month after her death. Could it be that Mrs. Gan died of illness this time?

Liu Hou couldn't help but get anxious. Although Liu Hou and Mrs. Gan don't have much mother-son relationship, he is still very reluctant to watch this "mother" who has a snow-white complexion, a beautiful posture and takes care of him in every possible way. It is said that a child with a mother is like a treasure, and a child without a mother is like a root, he doesn't want to be a child without a mother's pain, and finally bullies his stepmother.

Liu Hou inquired about Mrs. Gan's condition in detail, and asked Zuo Ci to take him to Mrs. Gan's ward to see Mrs. Gan. Mrs. Gan was diagnosed with "typhoid fever", after the onset of the disease, she vomited and diarrhea, more than a dozen times a day, and it has been three days now, Liu Hou saw her with a dead face, sunken eyes, and wrinkled skin, obviously due to severe vomiting and diarrhea The symptoms of dehydration of the body.

Now Mrs. Gan is dying, like a candle in the wind. "Alas, it's a pity, Uncle Liu Huang has already sent someone to Changsha to invite Zhang Ji, Zhang Ji is the best at treating typhoid fever, but even if he is fast, it will take at least 4 or 5 days to come and go. It seems that Mrs. Gan has only been in the past one or two days. Zuo Ci shook his head lightly and sighed.

"Who? That Zhang Ji? Is he powerful? Liu Hou was also very sad in his heart, listening to Zuo Ci's meaning, Mrs. Gan couldn't last 2 days.

"Changsha is too shou Zhang Ji Zhang Zhongjing, it is said that he is the best at treating typhoid fever, with him, Mrs. Gan may still have a chance to live, but unfortunately she can't survive until his arrival, ashamed, ashamed, I have been refining the pill for a lifetime, but I have not refined the pill that can continue my life." Zuo Ci sighed very much.

Liu Hou's eyes couldn't help but light up after hearing this, Zhang Zhongjing? Healer? yes, why didn't you think of him? Zhang Zhongjing was revered as a medical saint in later generations, and his "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" was a sacred book of Chinese medicine for thousands of years, and it was a compulsory subject for Chinese medicine students, which shows the depth of his medical attainments. With him here, Mrs. Gan does have a good hope of being saved, the question is how to make Mrs. Gan last until his arrival? Liu Hou couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Chaisang, Lu Su hurried to see Zhou Yu as soon as he came back from Jingzhou. On a high slope, there is a pavilion with a guqin on the stone table of the pavilion, and spices are burning in an antique incense burner next to it, and a wisp of green smoke is rising. A young man with a lupine scarf and a face like a crown of jade was stroking the piano, the sound of the piano was sonorous and powerful, but the young man's eyes were staring at the bottom of the high slope.

Below the high slope was another scene, only to see a group of soldiers under the leadership of their respective teams practicing in full swing. The high shouting and killing sound under the high slope and the sonorous sound of the piano are intertwined, not only does not make people feel noisy, but makes people feel that they complement each other.

If Liu Hou sees Zhou Yu's appearance, he will definitely scold: "Kao, what a sassy bag." ”

Hearing the footsteps, Zhou Yu didn't look back, and said, "How about Zijing asking Jingzhou?"

It turned out that Zhou Yu sent Lu Su to Liu Bei to ask for Jingzhou, who knows where Liu Bei ate a face of ashes, and was fooled by Zhuge Liang, and punched a white slip for him to take back the errand.

Lu Su asked and took out the white strip that Zhuge Liang had beaten and said, "There are documents here." Presented with Zhou Yu.

Yu paused and said: "Zi Jingzhong's Zhuge plan is also called borrowing land, but it is really a mess. He said that he would return Xichuan after taking it, how do you know when he will take Xichuan? If you can't Xichuan for ten years, you won't pay it back for ten years? How can such instruments be used? You also help him with the guarantor. If he doesn't pay it back, it will inevitably affect you, what if the lord blames him? ”

When Lu Su heard this, he was stunned for a long time and said, "Xuande shouldn't fail me."

Zhou Yu said: "Zi Jing is an honest person. Liu Bei's heroic generation, Zhuge Liang's treacherous man, where is he so kind as Mr. ”

Lu Su said: "If so, what can I do?" When he said this, he was naturally afraid that Sun Quan would blame him.

Zhou Yu said: "Zijing is my benefactor, I want to give you a gift in the past, how can I not save you?" You can stay for a few days, wait for Jiangbei to make a reward, and then find a way. ”

Lu Suzheng was hesitant and uneasy, and suddenly heard a report from Xizuo: "The doctors in Jingzhou have been recruited, and they have also sent fast horses to recruit famous doctors from other cities. ”

Zhou Yu was overjoyed when he heard this: "It must be the outbreak of the plague in Jingzhou, God help me, just take this opportunity to go down to Jingzhou with a drum, Zijing, quickly follow me to transfer troops and send troops to Jingzhou immediately." ”

"Okay, I seem to have heard that Mrs. Gan is sick...... "Hasaku said with sweat on his forehead.

It turned out that Liu Bei, under Zhuge Liang's construction, gathered all the people infected with the plague and those who came into contact with it, and put them under the care of the army, not giving them contact with the outside world, and strictly sealing the news of the outbreak of the plague. For a while, he couldn't find out what was going on, but Mrs. Gan was seriously ill and was well known.

Zhuge Liang's starting point was considered from a military point of view, that is, to prevent the enemy from knowing about the outbreak of the plague in Jingzhou and taking the opportunity to attack. Unexpectedly, it met the requirements of the isolation measures for infectious diseases and effectively prevented the spread of the epidemic.

"Nonsense, can a sick lady Gan be able to recruit doctors from all over the city?" Zhou Yu shouted.

"I heard that Mrs. Gan's skin is better than snow and her appearance is beautiful, and Liu Bei loves her very much. If she is seriously ill, there is no guarantee that Liu Bei will really make any crazy moves. Lu Su said.

"Yes, yes, I heard that Mrs. Gan has not eaten a drop of water for three days and three nights, and she is already dying." Hasaku hurriedly added.

"Well......" Zhou Yu shook the goose feather fan in his hand, pondered for a long time, and suddenly raised his head and said to Lu Su: "I have a plan, I can make Liu Bei arrest with his hands tied, and it is easy to take Jingzhou." ”

Lu Su said: "Will the plan be released?" ”

Zhou Yu said: "Mrs. Gan can't see that she can't live, Liu Bei has lost his wife, and she will definitely remarry." The lord has a sister, who is extremely brave, has hundreds of maids, often carries knives, and the room is full of weapons, although the men are not as good. I am now the master of the book, teaching people to go to Jingzhou as a matchmaker, saying that Liu Bei is coming to join the family. deceived him to Nanxu, and when the time came, his wife could not be married, but was imprisoned in prison. I will send someone to ask Jingzhou for Liu Bei. When he hands over the city of Jingzhou, I will intercede with the lord again, and the lord will definitely not hold Zijing accountable at that time. ”

Lu Su was overjoyed and thanked, and couldn't help but have some doubts, so he said: "Liu Bei just lost his wife, so he arranged a bride for him, it doesn't seem to be good, what if he misses the old love and refuses to agree?" ”

"You don't have to worry about this, Liu Bei once said, 'Brothers are like siblings, wives are like clothes, clothes are torn, and they can be sewn; Hand and foot broken, Encore continued?' It can be seen that he is a ruthless person. For a man like him, changing wives is as common as changing clothes, and he will only think that the marriage between the two countries is good for consolidating the alliance between the two sides, and he will not give up such an opportunity because of nostalgia for the old relationship. Zhou Yu replied.

So, Zhou Yu wrote a letter and chose a fast boat to send Lu Su to Nanxu to meet Sun Quan.

Nan Xu, a young man with blue eyes and purple hair, was on the high ground, only to see his Chinese face, big mouth and thick lips, and fine eyes, although he was young, he had a momentum of not being angry and self-imposing, and he was obviously a person who had been in the top position for a long time. This person is Sun Quan, the supreme ruler of Eastern Wu, and all the civil and military forces stand in two lines, and Lu Su stands in the middle to report things.

Sun Quan threw Liu Bei's paperwork on the ground and said, "Why are you so confused, what's the use of such a document." ”

Lu Su hurriedly took out Zhou Yu's letter and presented it: "The governor of Zhou has a book to present here, saying that with this plan, Jingzhou can be obtained." ”

After Sun Quan finished reading it, he secretly praised Zhou Yu for his plan, and wondered who could do it. Suddenly remembered: "It has to be Lu Fan." So he summoned Lu Fan to come, gave him a good advice, and asked him to go to Liu Bei's place to be a matchmaker.

Lu Su escaped, and while secretly breathing a sigh of relief, he couldn't help but be grateful to Zhou Yu.