Chapter 55: Yishou Village
"This ............" Qiuyuan Dark Snow hesitated.
"Oh yes, I forgot, you woke up with no memory of the past, I just want to ask you now if you would like to kill them for yourself. Shadow said.
"I am willing, as long as it is ordered by the master, I will not hesitate to go to the soup and fire...... I don't remember the past anymore, but I don't care about the past!" said Akigen Darksnow.
"You...... Do you really not care at all?" asked Shadow as he walked up to Akigen Dark Snow.
“...... Not care. After hesitating, Qiuyuan Dark Snow shook his head and said.
"Okay, good, then I'll leave this matter to you. Shadow said.
"Yes...... Got it. ”
After speaking, Qiuyuan Dark Snow turned and left.
At the same time, Qiu Yuanxue, Xing Yuxiang, and Yege and the other three restored Xiaoxi's grave to its original state.
Yege squatted on the ground tired and gasped, "Whew...... Call...... This...... It's not something that can be done in a day, but it's been done by the three of us. ”
"Whew...... Fortunately, Miss Qiu is not around, otherwise someone else would have found out and thought that we were here to rob the tomb. Xing Yuxiang wiped the sweat from his forehead and said.
"Sorry...... Xing Yuxiang, Sister Night Song, in fact, you don't have to participate in this kind of thing......" Qiu Yuanxue said.
"It's okay, Miss Qiu, you have helped us all the way, and it is our honor to help you this time. Xing Yuxiang said.
"Whew...... Yes, Sister Xue, you're welcome. Nightsong said.
"Okay, let's go to Yishou Village to investigate. Qiu Yuanxue said to everyone.
"What kind of place is that?" asked Yege curiously.
"I don't know, it should be the nearby villages and towns of this generation. Xing Yuxiang said.
Qiu Yuanxue walked forward to take a look, and found that there were forks on the left and right sides of the front, she pointed to the road on the left and said, "I remember that the scholar mentioned just now that Yishou Village can be reached by walking along this road." ”
"Alright, Night Song, Autumn Girl, let's go. Xing Yuxiang said to Yege and Qiu Yuanxue.
So, the three of them walked all the way through the jungle path and finally arrived at Yishou Village, only to see a lot of black cloth tied to the wooden beams at the entrance of the village, and the village and town seemed very quiet.
Qiu Yuanxue, Xing Yuxiang, and Yege walked into the village and town, only to find that the surrounding houses had become dilapidated and messy, and the cobwebs were spreading on the eaves of the houses.
"Hey, what's going on here?" Ye Ge asked curiously, looking around.
"There are strips of black cloth hanging everywhere here, which proves that the people in the villages and towns here have had a serious illness. Qiu Yuanxue looked around and said.
Qiu Yuanxue, Xing Yuxiang, and Yege continued to walk forward, and as they walked, they came to the door of a dilapidated pharmacy.
I saw a man in a tattered cloth robe standing in front of the door, and he bent down and placed a lily in his hand on the ground in front of the pharmacy.
Qiu Yuanxue stepped forward and asked, "Hello, this son, do you know a girl named Xiaoxi?"
"Well, isn't this young lady a friend of the heroine?" the man asked, turning his head.
"Oh...... I just heard about Xiao Xi's woman, and I want to ask you what happened after she came here before. Qiu Yuanxue asked.
"Oh, I can say that Xiaoxi, I was also one of the patients who contracted the disease in this Yishou Village back then, and I remember that it was five years ago......"
In this way, this man told the encounter in front of Qiu Yuanxue, Xing Yuxiang, and Yege......
Turn back in time, back to five years ago -
In Yishou Village, because the well water in the village was polluted by rats, the villagers were infected with a serious illness after drinking the well water, because there was no doctor proficient in medical treatment in the village and town, and the imperial court also sent officers and soldiers to close the city to take care of it, but then the officers and soldiers who defended the city were also unfortunately infected with disease, and the officers and soldiers had no choice but to withdraw from this terrible disease village and town, leaving this lonely village and town to fend for itself.
Those in the village who did not get sick had to secretly go to the surrounding towns to seek medical treatment.
One day in a villager's house, a little boy was sick and paralyzed in bed, his face was pale, his lips were chapped, and he was coughing incessantly.
Immediately afterwards, a middle-aged woman walked into the house with a doctor, and when the doctor saw the little boy's condition, he immediately said to the woman in shock: "You...... You're trying to kill me!"
"Doctor, please do it, save my family!" the woman prayed as she knelt on the ground in grief-stricken grief.
"There's no cure for it! Do you know what it is? It's the plague! I'm going to die here, alas...... You'd better be smart. ”
After saying that, the doctor wanted to turn around and leave, but the woman grabbed the doctor's feet and cried out, "Please, even if I go bankrupt, I will give you as much silver as you want, please cure my child...... He's only eight years old!"
"You let me go! This is no longer a matter of money, and even if I give you money, I will never cure this disease! What about a child? Having this kind of disease can only be regarded as a bad fate, and no one is to blame!"
"Doctor...... Do you still have a conscience? Don't you have children? If it's your child lying in bed, wouldn't you go for treatment?...... Do we who are sick deserve to die?......" The woman was devastated by this, and she asked the doctor in tears.
"Okay, okay, I don't have any children, okay! Even if you ask a hundred doctors for this disease, no one will treat you! I haven't lived enough, so you can spare me!"
The doctor shook off the woman's hand, and he walked out of the room at a quicker pace.
After the doctor left, the woman still refused to give up seeking medical treatment and ran around, but later due to the strict investigation of the town, the woman stood at the gate of the village with other families and people who needed medical treatment, waiting for someone to pass by to save this abandoned village and town from the world one day.
Day after day, year after year, rain or shine, those people still hold signs for their lives and hope that someone will pass by, while most of the plague-infected patients in the villages and towns have died, and only about 200 patients are still struggling in pain on the line between life and death.
One day, a young woman with short hair passed by outside the village gate, and this person was none other than the medicine doctor Xiaoxi.
When the woman saw Xiao Xi, she hurriedly beckoned to kneel on the ground and said, "Girl, will you cure the disease?" Please, save my family Ming'er!"
"Yes, girl, if you can heal, please save us!" the other villagers knelt on the ground and begged for help.
Xiao Xi turned around and stepped forward to help the old woman and everyone, and said, "Everyone, please get up, I have studied medicine, may I ask what is going on here?"
"Our family is sick...... Alas, they kept asking for medical advice to no avail, they said they were afraid that they would infect themselves and left, and now the village has been abandoned, and no one is willing to help us......" said a thin old man in the crowd.
"Girl, please, save my child! I am willing to give as much silver as you want, even if the family is bankrupt. The woman cried.
"Auntie, and everyone, don't worry, since I have come here, I will do my best to help you heal. Xiao Xi saw that everyone's eyes were full of longing and expectation, which made her heart determined to cure this disease.
"Listen to me, although I am only a pharmacist, I am willing to treat the condition of everyone present for free, and then I will take you to take me door-to-door to check the condition. Xiao Xi said
"Great! I didn't expect you to be willing to treat us for free. When they heard this, the people cheered.
Then Xiaoxi visited each patient's house to check the symptoms of each patient, she frowned and walked out of the house thinking and said, "The diseases of these patients are really not optimistic...... If it is delayed any longer, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”
"Girl...... Is there a cure for this disease?" asked an old man in the crowd.
"Rest assured, since I said I was going to cure them, I have to take the responsibility...... I need manpower. Xiao Xi said.
"Girl, what kind of manpower do you need, let's see if we can figure it out. ”
"You're welcome, manpower is one thing now, and the most difficult thing at the moment is the prescription, there is no such prescription in the medicinal materials I carry, and I need to go to the capital. ”
"When are you coming back, girl?" asked one of the men in the crowd.
"Yes, my family's Ming'er is still waiting for treatment. The old woman said.
"Girl, we have hired a lot of doctors before, and they all ran away after one look...... Are you going to ...... too," said a small man in the crowd.
"No, don't worry......... First of all, as a doctor, I should go forward in the face of a serious illness to pursue the truth of the cure, because this is the responsibility and responsibility of a doctor, if you still can't believe me, I can put the medicine box next to me here. ”
After speaking, Xiao Xi took off her medicine box and put it on the ground, and then she quickened her pace and walked towards the capital.
She came to the capital and rushed to the Fuyitang prescription, and at this time, Li Bo, the shopkeeper of the pharmacy, warmly entertained: "Yo! Miss Xiaoxi, what kind of wind blew you here?"
"Uncle Li, I need some people who know how to mix medicines, do you have any extra manpower there......?" By the way, I still need some herbs. Xiao Xi said anxiously.
"Where are you going?" said Lieber, frowning and brushing his beard.
"I went to Yishou Village, where the people had the plague and needed to be treated. Xiao Xi said.
"Yishou Village! It's still the plague!" Li Bo's eyes widened in shock when he heard it, he raised his voice and spoke, and at this time, there were still many customers in the pharmacy who were buying medicine wandering around the store, Li Bo noticed it and whispered to Xiao Xi: "Hey! Xiao Xi, you ...... You still dare to go there if you have the plague, and it's a blessing that you haven't been infected, you know. ”
"Uncle Li, can you help me?" Xiao Xi said.
"Alas...... If you want to buy medicine, hurry up. Li Bo waved his hand mercilessly and said.
"I didn't expect it...... If Uncle Li is sick, it is your relatives, your mother, and your child, can you save it? Everyone is not born to your parents? Since you practice medicine, you must have medical ethics! If you don't abandon every patient and concentrate on treating them, this is a real doctor!" Xiao Xi said with some anger in her heart when she heard Li Bo say this.
"Miss Xiaoxi, it's really not that I don't help you, this is to kill you, do you know? If you don't get sick, the disease will not only die but also infect others, and there is no cure. Li Bo said with a helpless look on his face.
"I think...... There is no cure, it is you demons who push patients into the abyss of death and leave them to fend for themselves!" After speaking, Xiao Xi walked out of the pharmacy with a snort.