Chapter 31: Funeral
Liu Ruyan was taken to a cave, and along the way, she found that the mountain here had a cave, and the pale blue sky was exposed above her head, like an inverted funnel, the further down she went, the wider it became.
To her shock, the cave was actually crowded with Bailai villagers.
In the corner are several huge braziers, mixed with the smell of herbs, charcoal, and filth.
The sound of coughing one after another, some people were out of breath, panting with their mouths open; There are also people holding young children, with old tears on their faces, and they keep wiping their tears.
The man who looked like a leader threw a few cloth towels, and someone behind her immediately cut the hemp rope around her wrist with a saber.
The leader spoke: "If you don't want to get sick, put on a cloth towel for yourself." ”
Zhuge Ming hurriedly picked up one and covered his mouth and nose, and also urged Liu Ruyan to put on this thing.
At this time, someone approached the leader and said with a sad expression: "Aunt Qiu and Xiaoyu also went to ......"
The man's breath faltered, he turned stiffly, and saw the bodies of a mother and daughter being carried in front of him, and under the cloth towel, the woman's thin fingers were still grasping the half-grown child.
His eyes were red, and he staggered all the way to catch up, and soon turned back, picked up his saber, and roared at Dr. Zhang like a madman: "You quacks, give back the lives of my wife and children!" ”
Dr. Zhang also regretted that the old face wrote the helplessness of the doctor: "The deceased is gone, and the living should be like this." This disease, the old man can't do anything. ”
"If you can't cure the sick and save people, what's the use of keeping you!" The man brandished his saber with a hideous face, "Lao Tzu hacked you quack doctor to death!" ”
Seeing that the man was about to hurt someone, a villager next to him stopped at the right time and persuaded: "Big brother, don't do this, it's still useful to keep them." ”
The leader glared angrily and blurted out: "What's the use? If the doctor is not good, everyone has to wait for death, so it is better to slaughter these quacks and bury them with everyone. ”
The villager wanted to say something, but at this time, Dr. Zheng, who was watching coldly, whispered: "It's all retribution." ”
"What did you say?" He walked up to Dr. Zheng with his legs pulled out, and his momentum was aggressive, "If you have the guts, you can say it again!" ”
Dr. Zheng saw a lot of bullying magnates in Beijing.
Facing a villager in the district, he looked quite arrogant: "The epidemic is as fierce as a tiger and wolf, and if the doctor can't be cured, he will be angry." A group of lawless and arrogant people, your wife and children are lives, isn't Yun Niang, who died tragically, a life? This is all the retribution of your Taiping Village! ”
"Whew-"
The saber fell and slashed heavily at Dr. Zheng, and everyone didn't even have time to react, only to see this famous doctor from Kyoto, lying on his head in a pool of blood.
"Who else?" The man turned his face, bright red blood beads rolled down from the tip of the knife, and he raised his knife and pointed at Doctor Zhang, Doctor Zhuge and Liu Ruyan in the corner one by one, "Lao Tzu said that if you can't cure the disease, you all have to be buried together." From today onwards, if a villager dies, a doctor will be killed! ”
Not far from his feet was the corpse of Dr. Zheng, Zhuge Ming was half frightened to death, begging the Buddha to worship his ancestors in his heart, and he couldn't wait to leave this place of right and wrong immediately.
In other words, Dr. Zheng is also miserable, how can he still think that this is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and what kind of reason does he have with a group of desperate people.
Those who know the times are Junjie, and whoever has a knife in his hand is the uncle.
Zhuge Ming shrank his head, lest the knife fall on his head.
The leader held the saber in his hand, his eyes stayed in the corner, and he pointed at the squatting boy with the tip of the knife: "Hey, the new here." ”
Liu Ruyan raised her eyes, there was no fear on her face, and she said unhurriedly: "My surname is Liu." ”
Zhuge Ming was so anxious that he stomped his feet.
When is it, you kid still cares about this.
The leader withdrew his saber and looked disdainful: "Oh, Doctor Liu? ”
Liu Ruyan bowed slightly.
Zhuge Ming was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, biting his fingers, could this kid really want to pretend to be a doctor?
He didn't want to die, and he wasn't afraid of being seen and killed!
Even Doctor Zhang Huairen looked at Liu Ruyan in surprise.
"Okay, since you are Dr. Liu, you have your own set of healing skills." The leader crossed his arms around his chest and beckoned to her, "Come and heal them." ”
Liu Ruyan didn't move, just put her fingers between her sleeves and said indifferently: "I've already seen it just now." ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone was surprised.
Liu Ruyan said with a natural expression: "Look, smell, ask, cut." Pulse cutting is just a way of TCM consultation, and famous doctors from all over the world have seen it before, and Liu can't see the difference. But let me ask you, did you take the prescription on time? ”
"Of course, there is." The leader replied.
"Since you have taken medicine, do you know that illness comes like a mountain, and illness goes like a thread?"
The other party was stunned for a moment, and immediately retorted: "If the prescription really works, why do people still die?" ”
Liu Ruyan didn't answer, just pointed to the clear sky on the top of the cave.
"What do you mean?"
Not only him, but even Zhuge Ming and Zhang Huairen couldn't understand it.
Liu Ruyan put down his hand and let out a sigh: "There is less clear air in this cave, more turbidity, and the charcoal fire, can't you see that the villagers are dying of exhaustion?" ”
As soon as these words came out, the patients lying between the mattresses nodded one after another.
"It's really out of breath."
"It's uncomfortable in my lungs, and my chest is tight."
The leader was stunned.
This natural cave was originally a place carefully selected by them, which can not only withstand the cold outside, but also have a patio to hide the wind and air, but now it seems that there is still something wrong.
"Then according to Dr. Liu's meaning, what should be done appropriately?" The leader spoke, much more respectful than before.
Liu Ruyan lowered her eyes and pondered, and replied to him seriously: "And evacuate the villagers, according to the degree of the disease, they are divided into light and severe, it is best to have ten people in a room, and the charcoal basin is also removed for me, the serious illness is in the lungs, and I can't stand the smoke of you day and night." ”
The other party was a little hesitant: "But they are afraid of the cold, how can they freeze like this?" ”
She thought for a moment: "Is there a hot spring in the village?" ”
"Yes." A young man immediately responded to her, "There is a hot spring under the mountain, and it is for this reason that we chose to settle in the cave." ”
"In this case, a ditch was opened to divert the water from the spring to the ground, and adobe bricks were laid on it. The adobe brick bed is heated by hot spring air. As for those who don't go away, there's no need to cover it like this, you say yes, Dr. Zhang? ”
Zhang Huairen nodded: "That's true, for those who are weak and weak, if the high fever does not go away, they should be decocted with water with gypsum, ephedra, cinnamon branches and other medicines, and remember not to cover the quilt." ”
The leader was stunned and shouted behind him: "Don't be stunned, come and evacuate the patients, and you, follow me to dig a ditch." ”
Subsequently, in the huge cave mansion, the villagers were busy everywhere, and they couldn't take care of Liu Ruyan and the doctors for a while.
Zhuge Ming moved over, raised his eyebrows and said, "You kid, do you really know medicine?" ”
"I only know a little about the fur, but the air here is turbid, which is really not conducive to healing." Liu Ruyan lowered her voice and explained to Zhuge Ming and Zhang Huairen, "Take advantage of their lack of attention, and escape at the first opportunity." ”
Dr. Zhang was still a little hesitant: "Then these patients ......?"
"Hey, when is it, if you don't leave, you'll become a ghost under the knife." Zhuge Ming hurriedly persuaded, "This disease can't be cured by just a few of us, so let's get out quickly." ”
Dr. Zhang is old, but he also knows how to weigh the pros and cons: "Okay, the old man will go with you." ”
Liu Ruyan tore off the hairpin to mess up the bun, and made the two doctors unkempt, plus everyone in the village covered their faces with cloth towels, if you don't look closely, it will be difficult to detect for a while.
"Come with me later, remember, don't look back." She told me again and again.