Chapter 33: I Want It All
Haoyue's face turned pale after hearing this, since this disease is transmitted by droplets, I am afraid that none of the people on this boat will be able to escape.
In the past two days, everyone has been living under the boat, and it is estimated that the virus has long been lurking in everyone's body, and it is only a matter of time before the onset of the disease occurs.
Zhang Xiang: "The soldiers listened to the order, and immediately dragged away the bedridden people whose hands and feet had ulcerated and burned them, locked the people with sick spots on their arms and coughed incessantly to empty houses for isolation, and concentrated the people who were not sick in the cabin to other places. ”
"Vice General Zhang! My father is still alive, how can he be burned to death directly, what is the difference between you doing this and killing people! Xu Jia glared angrily at Zhang Xiang.
"This is a military order! Your dad can't live anymore! The festering body will continue to deteriorate and then become a source of poison, do you want everyone to be infected? Zhang Xiang also yelled back.
Xu Jia's eyes were bloodshot, his hands were clenched into fists, and he said viciously: "If you want to take my father away today, unless you step over my corpse first." ”
This person was carried to cremation before he died, which was indeed inhumane, and the faces of the people around him were not very good-looking, and no one wanted their relatives to be burned alive.
Xu Jingyang, who had been shrinking to the side, suddenly stepped forward and whispered to Zhang Xiang: "Vice General Zhang, everyone will be brothers in the army in the future, and they will both serve King Yuan, and now they will be cremated before they die, which can be described as a revenge for the new soldiers to kill their fathers....."
Zhang Xiang glanced at Xu Jingyang, who had been obscure all the time, and then thought about it carefully, what this recruit said was very reasonable, as a deputy general, he would take these people to march and fight in the future, and if he had a dislike with the soldiers because of this matter, it would be more than worth the loss.
Just now, he was bent on controlling the epidemic as soon as possible, but he didn't take this level into account.
Alas, I am flustered, and I am still not calm enough.
Zhang Xiang inspected the faces of the crowd, and then sighed: "Isolate the seriously ill elderly and the family members who take care of them separately, and cremate the bodies as soon as they pass away." ”
Guards: "No! ”
Seeing that Zhang Xiang was relieved, everyone around him also took a breath, and there was more gratitude in their eyes when they looked at Xu Jingyang.
"Uncle Zhang, can this mild illness be cured? What herbs do you need? Haoyue asked with a small face.
Haoyue's question can be regarded as a reversal of Zhang Xiang's question, he can only see a doctor and not treat the disease, he is just a half-hung doctor who was ordered by the general to drive ducks to the shelves.
Zhang Xiang frowned, waved his big hand and ordered his soldiers: "First separate the crowd according to the degree of disease, and then use wormwood to smoke the whole ship, every corner of the ship must be smoked, I will first report the situation to the general, and then check the medical book to find a way to crack it." ”
After speaking, Zhang Xiang was about to leave the cabin.
"Uncle Zhang, wait a minute" Hao Yue suddenly called out to Zhang Xiang and said: "I met an old doctor on the road, and when I chatted with him, I heard some ways to deal with the epidemic, since measles can be transmitted through droplets, then we can make masks with gauze and absorbent cotton wool to cover the mouth and nose to prevent further droplet infection." ”
After listening to Haoyue, Zhang Xiang felt that the effect of this mask was better than the handkerchief on his face, so he asked: "I know gauze, there are a lot of them on board, but what is absorbent cotton?" Is it regular cotton? ”
Hao Yue shook her head: "Absorbent cotton is not ordinary cotton, it is better absorbent than ordinary cotton, and it can block saliva splashing more effectively." We burn the plants and trees to ashes, add water to clarify, and then put the cotton into alkaline water to soak, rinse and dry to get absorbent cotton. ”
This is the most basic method of making Wu's mask, which the teacher talked about in the previous science experiment class, but absorbent cotton wool is soaked in a strong alkali liquid, but the ancient resources are limited, and the alkali can only be extracted from plant ash.
Zhang Xiang nodded and said that he recognized Haoyue, this method is indeed feasible, and he has not found a treatment yet, so he can only make more efforts in prevention and control.
"This is your daughter," Zhang Xiang pointed at Haoyue and said to Xu Jingyang: "Then I will teach you to do this mask making thing, and after this matter is done, you will be given a military merit, and when you go to Hebei, you will be divided into good fields according to military merits." ”
After speaking, Zhang Xiang left the cabin and went to explain the situation to Fang Qishan.
After Zhang Xiang left, the crowd was isolated separately according to the severity of the illness, and the rest of the Xu family had no symptoms of infection, so they were divided together, and only the old village chief and Xu Jia were isolated separately.
Haoyue described the shape of the mask to the other ladies of the Xu family, and Xu Jingyang took the opportunity to take someone to fetch gauze, cotton, and burn grass and water.
Haoyue shook her little head and said: "A layer of absorbent cotton is sandwiched between the two layers of gauze, and two long belts are left and right to tie behind the ears, this is the mask we are going to sew, do you understand?" ”
The aunts nodded: "Well, I understand, I feel that it is very easy to sew." ”
Seeing that Shen Yinxing was also nodding seriously on the side, Haoyue covered her face, I know that A-Niang, you must have understood, but you don't know how to sew.....
After a while, Xu Jingyang found a large piece of gauze, but because there was no cotton on the boat, Xu Jingyang had an idea, led someone to dismantle the quilt, and then took a few baskets of cotton wool from it.
In the past few days, it happened that there was no sun on a cloudy day on the river, so Xu Jingyang sent someone to dry the wet absorbent cotton on the iron plate.
After Xu Jingyang prepared the materials, under the guidance of Haoyue and the skillful sewing of the aunts, the simple Wu's mask was born.
"Don't show your mouth and nose, just tie the strap like this." Haoyue took the first Wu's mask and demonstrated how to wear it.
Looking at the finished mask, everyone praised: "This mask is indeed more convenient than a handkerchief." ”
Soon, under the non-stop rush of everyone, batches of masks were shipped out, and later the whole ship wore masks.
But Hao Yue knew very well in her heart that masks were only a means of epidemic prevention, and only by formulating a prescription for treatment could the problem be truly solved.
Now that she's done everything she can do, she's left to fate.
As for Zhang Xiang, since he left the cabin, he hadn't closed his eyes for a day and a night, and his eyes were red.
He locked himself in his room and crammed into medical books to find a cure.
The leprosy that is now prevalent on ships seems to be different from what is recorded in ancient books, with a longer incubation period and a faster onset of disease.
People don't feel anything at all at the beginning of the infection, and then overnight they get bruises, then they cough, their skin ulcerates, and then they cough up black blood and die.
After previous investigation, it was learned that the source of the infection of the leasy disease came from the villagers of Huoshi Village in northern Henan, and some of them drank the water soaked in the dead bodies on the road, thus contracting the disease, and later because they were afraid of being found sick and were not allowed to board the ship, so they kept their illness hidden until they were infected with others and were exposed.
And now, the ship has been a steady stream of soldiers have begun to fall, coughing on the ship is coming and going, everyone is shrouded in the shadow of death, and everyone's face is covered with a haze.
If only the old ship doctor were still there, the more Zhang Xiang thought about it, the more angry he became, and he punched the desk, and the table was instantly torn apart.
That Gongsun family is like this, there is no one in sight, and innocent people are killed indiscriminately!
Now the head of the Gongsun family learned that the ship was infected with the epidemic, and he still vigorously stirred up trouble, saying that General Fang was not doing well and recruited infected homeless people, so he caused a big disaster, and he had to refer to him in front of King Yuan.
The person who sent the clipper out to find the doctor has not yet returned, and now it seems that it is too late, and by the time the doctor arrives, the people on board are estimated to be dead.
Haoyue was also lying in Shen Yinxing's arms with her head shrunk at this time, her face listless and without any expression.
The old village chief left the night before yesterday, and before he died, his body was thin and skinny, and he vomited black blood all over the ground.
Before dying, the old village chief collapsed on the bed and said to Xu Jia that he was homesick and wanted to go back to his hometown to see, but he still wanted to be buried in the ancestral grave.
Xu Jia cried when he heard it, and the old village chief left before he finished speaking, and was immediately pulled out for cremation after leaving, and then the ashes were sprinkled into the Ganjiang River, and he was not buried in the earth, let alone buried in the ancestral grave.
Then the next morning, Xu Jia also collapsed, his eye sockets were deep, the bottom of his eyes was blue, and he lay on the bed weakly, looking at the roof with his eyes distracted, letting the blue spots on his body rage.
Brother Er Ya started coughing in the early morning, usually he smiled when he saw everyone, but now he is like a wooden man, there is no smile on his face, Er Ya Niang hugged Er Ya, who was also coughing, and cried bitterly on the side.
Many members of the Xu family were dragged away, and like other seriously ill people, they lay on the cold and empty floor waiting to die.
Haoyue's family is okay, there are no symptoms of infection at present, but everyone's mood is low and depressed, and no one will feel good in this environment.
Zhang Xiang ordered someone to boil Angelica Angelica, Atractylodes and Du Ruo as a decoction with Tusu wine, but the seriously ill person vomited as soon as he drank it, and his condition could not be relieved at all, so he could only watch the green spots slowly crawl all over his body, and then began to pus and fester.
"Yue'er, why is this mask useless...."The second girl asked crying with the mask in her hand.
"Didn't Sister Yue'er say that this mask can only prevent transmission, and it can't treat diseases, we may have been infected a long time ago" Brother Er shook his head weakly, and then motioned to his mother to say a few words.
Haoyue felt very uncomfortable, nestled in Shen Yinxing's arms and couldn't speak, she was thinking, if she had rushed in directly and tied up the doctor at that time, would there be no such things as follows, the old village chief would not have died, and everyone would have been saved.
"Yue'er, it's okay, don't think too much." Shen Yinxing touched Haoyue's hair, and then comforted her.
Only Xu Ajiu was stupid all day long, and now he felt that everyone was very depressed, no one played with him, and he was not stupid anymore, so he squatted in the corner and drew circles.
Seeing her brother, Haoyue suddenly thought of Nalan Shuo, the beautiful Nalan Gongzi doesn't know what is going on now, will he also be sick in bed, and then his whole body is covered with blue spots and ulcers and pus...
However, Haoyue thought too much, in fact, as soon as Fang Qishan heard that there was an epidemic on this ship, he transferred those celebrities and nobles to another clipper ship on the grounds of repairing the ship, and now Nalan Shuo is estimated to have arrived in Hebei and eaten supper on the romantic street where the wind blows ten miles of flowers.
And Fang Qishan did not notify the Gongsun family to transfer because of the old ship doctor, so the Gongsun family also stayed on this ship, and now the head of the Gongsun family jumps like thunder in the room every day, scolding Fang Qishan for fighting people, and saying that he will definitely participate in him when he arrives in Hebei.
Seeing that there was no hope, Zhang Xiang's half-hung medical skills didn't work at all, there were more and more dead bodies on the ship, and the cremated corpses were lined up in rows, piling up on the deck.
Haoyue looked at the blind box in the space mall, she fantasized that there could be a cure for the plague inside, but according to past experience, the things in the blind box were all daily necessities, how could there be a prescription for everything.
But despite this, Haoyue still wanted to give it a try, after all, there was really no way to do it now, and she hoped to open something useful from it.
Haoyue thought about it, and simply put all the rice, flour, grain and oil, eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs, roed lamb legs, roasted chicken, and preserved duck in the space on the shelves.
After all, now that he is following Fang Qishan, he doesn't have to worry about eating.
After the goods are loaded, Haoyue pulls the prices of all goods to the maximum value of the range.
Then, she used the supermarket loudspeaker to record a paragraph: "Today, as long as you buy products in the supermarket and consume a certain price, you can get a corresponding gift." ”
The list of gifts includes: two water tanks, a pair of stone lions, four hollow carved chairs, two antique fragrant wood combs, a set of glazed tea sets, a coral ornament, a goose down cape, a pair of ancient embroidered gold silk shoes, and a blue glazed porcelain vase.....
Haoyue will be in the Kuomintang Mansion calligraphy, painting and household items, as a gift for consumption, although these things can't be sold, but can be sent!
After the loudspeaker publicity, more and more people poured into the supermarket.
People are red when they look at the gift list, and the merchant is losing money and making money!
This boss really dares to send it!
If you dare to send it, we will dare to buy it!
If you don't take advantage of this, you're a big fool!
So men, women, and children flocked to the house, regardless of whether they had it at home, let alone whether they needed it or not, and they all began to go on a shopping spree, and everyone's shopping cart was piled up into a small mountain.
In less than an hour, all the goods in the supermarket were sold out.
Haoyue's eyes widened as she looked at the empty supermarket and the long list of numbers on the bill.
Damn! This group of people is really crazy! It's really hard to pick up the wool.......
But today she was already losing money and making money, and this discount is estimated to be unmatched by any supermarket.....
Haoyue counted the bills, and today I actually earned 30,000 yuan a day!
She usually can't even earn a few hundred dollars!
Haoyue took the small money, looked at the rows of blind boxes in the system mall and swallowed her saliva.
The blind boxes in the space mall are refreshed once every two days, and 20 are on the shelves at a time, and Haoyue can probably buy more than 30 blind boxes with the money on hand now.
Today, let's be arrogant, Haoyue pointed to the little hand on the shelf, and said arrogantly: "These blind boxes are all opened for me!" ”
After speaking, the blind boxes of the system mall were opened together, and the space suddenly shone with golden light, so that people couldn't open their eyes.