Chapter 24: My heart soars in purgatory
After Luo Wencheng came back, he really found out a lot of more detailed information than the innkeeper provided.
This plague should be malaria, and the people in the world still don't know about malaria, but Chen Feng knows about the source of the symptoms and other factors (I've read related novels). The malaria epidemic was initiated by the barracks, but the original source was a caravan from the south, or a caravan summoned by the authorities, as soon as it arrived in Altay City, it pulled more than a dozen wagons of goods into the barracks, and a few days after the caravan left, the soldiers who stayed behind began to get sick.
It should be that a southern poisonous mosquito came to the barracks with the southern caravan, and after unloading the goods, they flew and bit the soldiers. Moreover, Luo Wencheng also learned that the initial infection this time was basically an old and weak soldier who was forcibly conscripted into the camp when he was old, and later it developed to the outside market, and occasionally women and children were infected among the common people. These people themselves are extremely poorly resistant. But the barracks are supposed to be a gathering place for young and middle-aged people, so why are only the old and weak? It turned out that at the same time as the caravan left, all the young and strong soldiers of the whole battalion were dispatched and pulled out to Tianshui City, the capital of Xilang. In recent years, the entire territory of Xilang has been vigorously conscripted, some young and strong are recruited for the young and strong, and some retired veterans are also recruited for the second time, and then the young and strong train the capital, and the old and weak stay behind. This remote city of Altay has a large number of conscriptions, and now the posture of this country can be seen from the whole leopard.
"Brother Wen Cheng, how did you get such detailed news? It is worthy of wisdom and the strongest brain! Chen Feng was a little curious, but the average local person probably didn't know such a detail.
"Hey, I claimed to be a merchant who came here to buy special products, and I went all the way to the city lord's mansion and found a porter steward to bribe some silver. After a little questioning, the person in charge poured the beans into the bamboo tube, and all the beans were poured in one go. I can't wait to tell me all the color of his wife's pants! Besides, it's not a secret to them. Luo Wen said on his behalf.
"Haha, there are yours, but you are wrong, this is really confidential. For us. β
"Yes, Xilang must have planned a large-scale military operation, but such a large-scale conscription, whether it is for Beisha or our Cangdong, must have been monitored a long time ago, so I didn't worry too much."
"Well, it is certain to be perceived, but although it is said that Xilang has been attached to my Cangdong for more than 100 years, and he has contacted the mountain to see the information sent by his family, who is Xilang targeting this time, he still needs to investigate and scrutinize before he can draw a conclusion!"
At this time, Zhang Tianyi spoke: "Ha, Xilang Xiao'er has the courage to use troops against us, and it is not that he has not been subdued in the past hundred years, and if he jumps again, he will be pressed again!" β
"I've decided, I'm going to go to the barracks and investigate! In this way, I know that this disease is actually called malaria, and there is a herb called 'buttercup' that can be solved, I will draw a picture for you, plus a few other side medicines, you should go to the market or the pharmacy to buy a large number of them now, and I will recommend myself to the city lord's mansion tomorrow to show that I can stop the plague, so that you can go to the barracks to find out! By the way, Brother Tianyi, what to do with Yinyi and Yintwo, let them fly! Wait until we leave! Chen Feng made another arrangement.
The next day, Chen Feng took the Chinese herbal medicine purchased by the two of them, cut them with a sword with their hands, took a few pairs, and then took Luo Zhang and the others down the lobby of the inn and went out to the city lord's mansion.
A few people came to a house in front of a few people in a short time, this house is obviously different from the surrounding adjacent to other portals, two tall stone elephant carvings in front of the door, painted red gates, white bricks and tiles, quite atmospheric. The Western Regions is prevalent in white.
Luo Wencheng stepped forward and knocked on the door again, looked for the steward he asked yesterday, and secretly stuffed the ingot silver, and asked him to help introduce the city lord, saying that his master had found a good medicine to relieve the city lord's worries and illness!
After a short time, the three of them were led into the mansion by the steward. After the second entrance, it was arranged in a wing room on the west side. After serving the tea and pastries, let Chen Feng wait for a while. Chen Feng glanced at the depths of the courtyard, Huo, it is a four-way garden, and the rockery fish pond flowing water bridge should have. The people of this remote town want to be scraped a few times! Hehe, the city lord will play! It's a pity that this is not in Cangdong, and Chen Feng intends to take a mouse for no reason.
Before the tea was cold, the steward brought a middle-aged fat man with a big belly to the west wing and introduced: "Everyone, this is our city lord of Altay, Lord Wudajinwu!" β
"Morning to the lord of Wucheng! We are Cangdong businessmen, and my surname is Feng, Fengdong. After traveling so far, I have just heard that there is a plague going on in your land, and I know the same way that I encountered the epidemic when I traveled to the hinterland of the south a few years ago, and I know the solution! This is the antidote that has just been prepared. Chen Feng had a polite smile on his face, neither humble nor arrogant.
"Oh? Do you know that the antidote has been prepared? Is it really reliable? β
"Reliable! The city lord can arrange for someone to come and try it, and the radical cure effect is not so fast, but the first-time taker can also greatly reduce the pain of the disease, and the effect is immediate! β
"Hahaha, it seems that the lord of this city has a noble person to help him! Before, I was worried that the governor and even the capital would be held accountable! If the promise is really reliable, the lord of this city will definitely be rewarded! As he spoke, he arranged for the steward to take Chen Feng and the three of them to the front of a few side rooms, and there were more than a dozen malaria patients lying on the Chase bunk in the room. It turned out that there were a large number of servants in the lord's palace who were infected with malaria.
Zhang Tianyi got the furnace medicine jar, fried a patch of medicine according to Chen Feng's instructions, and picked a servant who was lying on a hard bed to take it.
Wu Dajin observed for a while, and his eyes lit up: "Lao Ding, how do you feel now?" β
"Ah, U... Master Wu, you..."After Lao Ding drank the medicinal soup on the bed, it didn't take long for him to stop shaking and shaking immediately, and after a while, he struggled to get up from the bed and replied, which showed the power of the medicinal soup.
"Hahaha, good and good, Feng Shaoxia, your antidote is really reliable, Lao Ding is weak and can't speak, so he can only wait for death!"
In fact, Chen Feng was also surprised in his heart when he looked at this magical effect, and he was calm and calm on the surface. After all, he only has a theoretical level, and he has read a lot of miscellaneous books in later generations and does not dare to guarantee the scientific effectiveness of prescriptions.
"Hurry up, Steward Zhang, assist the two young heroes to decoct the medicine, and cure all the people in our house first!" Feng Shaoxia, you come with me! This Udajin was overjoyed, and his face trembled.
Then, Chen Feng was naturally asked to go to the garrison camp in the city to administer medicine, and Chen Feng was polite for a while, and he didn't need to be rewarded, just give him the cost of purchasing herbs. Wu Dajin readily agreed, and then arranged for someone to take Chen Feng and the three of them to the inn to get the medicine and go to the camp.
A group of people, with a cart of medicinal herbs and cans, came to this Altay city defense barracks, which was supposed to be a lively military camp for training soldiers and horses, but at this time it was lifeless.
When everyone came to the barracks, only a few uninfected soldiers were boiling water to add water to the sick soldiers on the bed, and found a soldier and asked. At this time, the total number of people in the barracks was less than 3,000, and most of them were retired veterans who were temporarily recruited and stationed. However, nearly 1,000 people have fallen from the plague, and nearly 100 old and weak soldiers have died of no longer being able to hold on, and the corpses are simply buried in a large pit in the big field behind the barracks. More than half of the remaining hundreds of uninfected ones have already run away. The adjutant general of the military camp had led his troops to open the capital a few days ago. The current commander in charge, the highest-ranking commander over 60 years old, has also been sick and bedridden for several days. The lord of Wucheng, who has the post of supervising the army, has never visited the future since he heard about the epidemic in the military camp.
Chen Feng and the others have never seen such a purgatory-like picture, after all, they have not experienced the beating of society, so they went down the mountain and saw a real scene in the corner of today's society. Chen Feng couldn't help but be moved in his heart, the sky couldn't bear it, and he used all things as a dog. In today's world, the ideology of class stratification is extremely solidified, and ordinary people in the market cannot talk about human rights at all, but can only say that they are cautiously living in this troubled world. However, society has not yet developed scientifically, and when encountering natural and man-made disasters, it can only be flattened with human lives. Although the Cangdong Empire is the strongest in the continent, it is nothing more than that. The military camp in the border city of Xilang, which encountered malaria, is an example, shocking!
There is no mistake in all beings, there is no mistake in society, we cannot say that we are wrong, we can only say that these are just the necessary things for social development.
I, Chen Feng, have crossed hundreds of millions of light years and have been reborn here, even if it is like a drop in the ocean, it will definitely rise up in the sea, so that the dawn beings of this Canglong Continent can see a ray of hope!
When I returned to the barracks, I saw that no matter who could stand or not in the camp, I saw Chen Feng and his party coming to the camp with several truckloads of medicinal materials, and they were all excited all of a sudden. Understandable. These old soldiers have long since given up hope of life, and the plague has been breaking out for many days, and no one dares to approach this place only to flee. But as long as someone comes, the encouragement effect on everyone's hearts is huge! I can see hope! They all thought that there was no one in this Altay city who could care about their life and death, and let them fend for themselves.
Chen Feng and his entourage immediately started to decoct the medicine, and used a few large cauldrons to make rice. While supervising the boiling of medicine, Chen Feng pulled a few old soldiers who had not yet been infected to ask, there were still many doubts caused by the epidemic, and Chen Feng came to the barracks with a purpose.
"This old brother, the city lord sent me and others to cure the plague, and we also want to investigate the specific cause of the incident so that we can report it to the top! Brother can tell me if he knows, or I can ask you to answer! Do you know when the onset of the disease began in the barracks? β
"Young Hero! This villain really knows that I just asked for leave to go out that day, and when I came back, I heard that someone was sick, and the next day I couldn't get out of bed seriously, it was the sixteenth of the first month. β
"Oh? When did the southern merchants leave? When did the young men and women led by the Lord leave? β
"Six or seven days in advance, the two groups of people left almost at the same time before the Lantern Festival."
"It seems that this epidemic is coming from the southern merchants, or from the goods and materials they brought!"
"I don't know, brother, do you know what kind of materials the merchants bring?"
"I know this, the little one is involved in unloading. Several of the carts were armor and swords, and it was said that they were all made of southern iron, but most of them were taken away by the main general. β
"Oh? Don't you have some warm cotton clothes or shoes? β
"The villain didn't see it."
"Okay, I probably know, it must be the caravan passing through the southern jungle, there are southern poisonous mosquitoes attached to the goods, and when you unload the goods, you take the opportunity to come out and bite the soldiers, it is possible that now not only the old soldiers you left behind are infected, maybe the soldiers brought out by the general are also infected and outbreaked!"
"By the way, brother, this first pot of medicinal soup is almost ready, you take me to find your main general first, I will personally bring the medicine over to check his physical condition by the way, and you also call some people to help deliver the medicine by the way!"
In an independent barracks, there were still two old guards guarding the door, Chen Feng went in with medicine, fed the main general, and then held his wrist, and slowly probed with a slight internal force. Under the old man's ten years of complicated teaching and the factors of his own long-term illness, Chen Feng also knows a little about medicine. After some investigation, I feel that the lieutenant himself is still functioning well, and as long as the virus is removed, he should be able to recover quickly. Turning his head to look at the accompanying city lord mansion steward, he asked, "What is the name of this general?" β
"Oh, oh, it's a little forgetfulness, this general's surname is Zhao, and he is currently the chief officer of the city defense battalion."
"General Zhao should have always practiced martial arts and was physically strong, as long as the medicinal decoction takes effect after a while, the virus is removed, and he will be able to recover soon." Chen Feng made a diagnosis.
Chen Feng then went out and inspected the barracks. There is basically no big problem, and all the people who should be investigated have been explored, and there should still be a bit of fate in this Xilang capital.
Sure enough, after a while, General Zhao struggled to find Chen Feng by one person.
"This young man, you are our benefactor, our benefactor of the whole Altay! What should we call our benefactors? β
"The general is polite, in the people of Cangdong, Fengdong, take two friends to travel here, how can you not lend a hand! The benefactor is not a benefactor, and a small favor is not enough! Chen Feng replied solemnly.
"Wind Boy! Don't think it's a reward! I thank you for my whole battalion of 3,000 soldiers and the people of the city! "When you say that, you have to bow down!
It is indeed the person who was pulled back in a circle after the ghost gate was closed. I can't thank you enough. Chen Feng hurriedly supported Old Man Zhao, and the internal force was sent slightly, but Old Man Zhao couldn't kneel down!
"Young man, the old man still has something to ask for!"
"General, you say!"
"Shaoxia, your medicinal herbs, formula, I don't know if it's okay... That's right, it's my son, the adjutant general of the battalion, who has taken 5,000 sergeants to the capital a few days ago, and this plague broke out in a few days after I stayed in the barracks, and I was worried that someone would be infected on their march, but there was no news yet..."
After hearing this, Chen Feng smiled at the corner of his mouth: "General, I'm too worried, my recipe is not a precious object, and the herbs are also ordinary herbs, but I just happened to know this plague and know the way to restrain each other, so I didn't use these herbs to make money at all, and the city lord just gave me the principal of my purchase of medicinal materials." So the recipe is no problem for you! β
"However, it's a matter here, the three of us are also going to the capital of Xilang to return to my Cangdong through the capital! The old general remembers your son's party, I can catch up with him quickly, and if someone is infected, I can also help! But you have to give me a token, for fear of misunderstanding, after all, the route of the march is a secret for you. β
"Okay, okay! That's for the best! Old man Zhao let out a breath of air in his heart like putting down a stone. The internal strength of this Fengdong young man is unfathomable, and there is contact under his knees just now, giving people a rock-like unshakable feeling. Fortunately, he and the others have no evil intentions, and they don't do chivalry to make money, otherwise they would not be able to keep them with this battalion of the old, weak, sick and disabled.
After finishing the affairs in the barracks, Chen Feng then took a piece of jade pendant and a handwritten letter from Old Man Zhao, and took Luo Zhang and the others back to the inn.
"Brother Wen Cheng, it seems that this Xilang has something to do with our Cangdong! If it is with us to use the army Beisha, they will send materials from the south to protect against the cold, Xilang and Cangdong north and the whole territory of Beisha are located in the cold zone, and there are wind and snow all year round! β
"Well, you can guess! Let's hurry up, take advantage of the war, first go to Xilang Capital to investigate again, and then go south a little south to return to Cangdong through our Cangdong garrison in the west military camp! This Western Army is the direct line of our Chen family, and it has always been led by the protΓ©gΓ© of the old country. The tiger talisman jade pendant given to you last time by the old Guogong is recognized by all the Chen legions, and seeing the talisman is like seeing the Guogong! Luo Wencheng said seriously.
After that, Zhang Tianyi had already packed up the purchased materials, led to the door of the carriage and shouted: "Wencheng Xiaofeng, go!" β