Chapter 594: The Mind of a Little Child
Zhu Su and Queen Ma watched quietly from the sidelines. It wasn't until half an hour later that Dai Sigong carefully pulled out the silver needle on Zhu Xiongying's body.
"Dai Lao, I don't have red spots on Xiongying...... Was smallpox cured by you? Zhu Su asked with a bit of hope. After all, Dai Sigong is a world-famous miracle doctor, and he was brought back to Yingtian by himself, which belongs to one of the variables of history. Perhaps he alone would have been enough to cure smallpox.
"How can it be so easy?" Dai Sigong wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and his old face full of furrows was full of exhaustion and sorrow. "The old man just used the prescription in "A Thousand Golden Prescriptions" to suspend the smallpox sickness in the body of His Royal Highness the Taisun, and then temporarily sealed the sickness in the ...... with a silver needle."
"However, smallpox is a great epidemic, and the old man has done his best to ......"
"The prescriptions left by Sun Simiao, the king of medicine in the Tang Dynasty, are there no rule of law?" Queen Ma asked anxiously.
Dai Sigong shook his head: "Sun Zhenren's prescription can only suspend the symptoms, but it can't cure the cure...... When the old man was just administering the needle, he heard His Highness say that there may be a way? I don't know how? He looked at Zhu Su with burning eyes.
"I'm about to discuss with Dai Lao." Zhu Su hurriedly said.
He told Dai Sigong about cowpox, Dai Sigong frowned and brushed his beard, thinking deeply. "Your Highness is saying that you can take the swollen pus of smallpox from a cow and plant it in the human body to protect yourself from smallpox?"
"Indeed, once you have contracted smallpox, you will never be infected again in this life...... But taking the swollen and rubbing it on the human body, isn't this equivalent to making the originally unharmed person take the initiative to dye smallpox? So...... Isn't it in a hurry to get sick? ”
Dai Sigong's doubts are very reasonable. People who are not sick will never take the initiative to contract smallpox. This is also the reason why Zhu Su did not take the initiative to plant cowpox for his relatives before. He only knew that cowpox in later generations could prevent smallpox, but the essence of cowpox therapy was actually to actively infect smallpox virus once. What happens in the process of a pox, or what is not known in the process of planting pox in later generations...... Then he rashly promotes pox, maybe it will only kill others.
But now that Zhu Xiongying has been diagnosed with smallpox, Zhu Su can't care about it anymore. He told Dai Sigong about the principle of cowpox, which he only knew a little about: "Dai Lao has also used a microscope, and he should know that the so-called plague is actually a living 'virus'. ”
"Since they are living beings, they are strong and weak. People infected with smallpox also have severe or mild disease. If you can screen for active infection with the weak smallpox virus, it may be much safer. ”
"Of all the living creatures, only the cow has the mildest symptoms of smallpox. People infected with smallpox often have a high fever that does not go away, and they are uncomfortable and inexplicable. Even if you are lucky enough to leave a life, you will have to leave ugly pockmarked marks all over your body. ”
The cow was infected with smallpox, ate and drank as usual, and was only slightly depressed. A few pustule scars, often after a few days, will be completely healed. The smallpox virus on his body is the weakest smallpox virus, and if he is actively infected with this weak virus, won't he be infected with smallpox again when he is completely healed? ”
Zhu Su said as Dai Sigong and Queen Ma's eyes became brighter and brighter. Zhu Su glanced at Zhu Xiongying and said, "It's just that this kind of pox can only be prevented, but I don't know if it is effective in treatment." ”
"I haven't had a rash all over my body, so maybe it's too late...... Let's give it a try? ”
"It's worth a try!" Dai Sigong had already stood up excitedly, and the fatigue and malaise caused by the needle application had been swept away. "His Royal Highness Taisun's illness is still being treated, if I wait to take the cowpox pus, and then use the old man's acupuncture to directly cross the cowpox poison into the internal organs, then the cowpox virus can be the first to attack."
"Besides, cowpox should be taken anyway. Even if His Royal Highness Yu Taisun is useless, the queen and the fifth highness, you should always try. ”
Dai Sigong looked at Queen Ma and Zhu Su, shook his head and sighed: "Alas, the old man has already said that smallpox is extremely dangerous, and no one should stay on the side of His Royal Highness Taisun except the old man...... But the queen and the fifth highness insist on staying here......"
"If you don't try to grow cowpox, you will inevitably get sick in a few days."
"I'm tired of worrying about the miracle doctor." Queen Ma did not regret staying to take care of Zhu Xiongying, but Zhu Su gave up her life to enter, which also moved her very much. She looked at Zhu Su with satisfaction, and then got up and saluted Dai Si.
Dai Sigong sideways avoided, and then asked about the details that Zhu Su needed to get cowpox. Zhu Su told all the knowledge he knew about cowpox and smallpox, and he told him all about it. "In this way, it is necessary to go to the epidemic area to find the cow that is infected with the sore, and use the fire needle to break the cow sore, and take the pus from the sore...... It is best to keep the sores pure, not to be infected by other bacteria, to prevent other concurrent diseases...... "He has used a microscope, so he naturally knows the relationship between bacteria and diseases.
"In this way, the old man still has to go in person. Others are frizzy and irritable, and the pus they take may not be usable. And it is necessary to go deep into the epidemic area, so it is appropriate for the old man to take a trip. Dai Sigong had already lifted his medicine box.
He had already contracted smallpox and was not afraid of it. If you send other people there, you may have to infect one more person.
The old doctor has a heart for benevolence and does not want to add to the debt.
"Dai Lao is hard." Zhu Su and Queen Ma saluted Dai Sigong.
What followed was a long wait, Queen Ma sat at the head of the bed, looking at Zhu Xiongying who didn't know anything with her eyes. Zhu Su was a little anxious, from Dai Sigong's tone, he knew that Zhu Xiongying's smallpox could not be suppressed for a few days, what if there were no cows in the epidemic area who happened to be infected with epidemic sores, or if there was no one in the epidemic area to raise cattle at all.
After a while, I thought of Kong Xixue who I met at the gate of the palace, and the guy who was writing at the gate of the palace seemed to want to use the smallpox epidemic as a far-fetched attack on Xinxue as the way of heaven, so as to give him the only remaining glimmer of life in the Yansheng Mansion...... But why didn't this smallpox come out early or late, just when the imperial court was preparing to abolish the Yansheng Mansion, the world would really be so coincidental?
But this idea flashed in my mind, and then it was lost in other thousands of thoughts.
The sky gradually darkened, and Zhu Su and Queen Ma didn't bother to light too many lights, so they only lit one next to the bed for taking care of Zhu Xiongying. The only flickering lone lamp was lined with the hall of Nuoda, and the dim environment made Zhu Su's heart more and more irritable.
"The Divine Doctor is back!" There was a noise outside the hall, and there seemed to be an urgent inquiry from Lao Zhu and Zhu Biao, Zhu Su heard Dai Sigong telling everyone not to get close again, and then the door of the hall creaked open again, only to see Dai Sigong with a happy face, holding a small transparent glass bottle in his hand as if he was caring for some treasure.
"Fortunately, I was not dishonored! The cow teased the pus and got it back! ”
Queen Ma and Zhu Su were all happy, Zhu Su hurriedly went to light the lamp, and the Qianqing Palace suddenly became bright.
Dai Sigong had already sat on the edge of the couch, took out a lot of silver needles of different thicknesses, and put them in the high-altitude alcohol extracted by the Baoyuan Bureau to disinfect.
"The old man is going to give the needle to His Royal Highness the Taisun next, please ask the queen and the fifth highness to hold down His Royal Highness the Taisun, don't let him make a move."
Zhu Su and Queen Ma nodded, and held Zhu Xiongying's hands and feet respectively, Dai Sigong took a deep breath, and the old hand, which was originally a little trembling, instantly became extremely stable. The old doctor was extremely decisive in applying needles, and in an instant, Zhu Xiongying's body was full of silver needles, which was extremely scary.
"The old decay is going to grow cowpox."
Zhu Su saw that the old man used a knife to cut a small wound on Zhu Xiongying's arm very quickly, and then used a silver needle to pick out the cowpox pus, and smeared it into Zhu Xiongying's sore very accurately. Then he kept twisting a silver needle, and Zhu Xiongying's "ah" sound turned out to be painful and woke up.
"Xiongying hold back! Grandma will never let you die! Queen Ma was already in tears.
Dai Sigong kept twisting the silver needle, and Zhu Xiongying seemed to be continuing to feel great pain. But seeing Queen Ma's appearance, he actually squeezed out a smile obediently: "Grandma Huang doesn't cry, Xiongying knows that grandma is taking Xiongying to see the disease, Xiongying will hold back." ”
"Good, good boy. Wait for you, Uncle Fifth will take you on a hot air balloon ride! Zhu Su also encouraged the little child.
"Is the fifth uncle here too?" Because Zhu Su was holding Zhu Xiongying's feet, Zhu Xiongying couldn't see him, but when he heard Zhu Su's voice, the little child's tone still showed a little joy.
The little child Tong pursed his lips and endured the pain for a while, but he didn't know what he thought, and suddenly said to Zhu Su: "Fifth uncle, Xiongying doesn't want to become the Shoucheng Emperor who rules the arch, Xiongying wants to be a male lord like the emperor's grandfather." ”
"Xiongying also wants to be like the fifth uncle, opening up territory for the Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Su was stunned, he never knew that this little child had such an opinion in his heart.
"Good! Okay, Uncle Fifth supports you! ”
"What's the point of being a ruler who only knows how to stare at his relatives and calculate, and has no opinions."
"Xiongying has grand ambitions, and his heart does not let others."
"I will definitely be able to become another generation of my Ming Dynasty!"
(End of chapter)