Chapter 48 Relief for the Victims
The next morning, Zhang Fan had breakfast, received the money and goods from the barbarian Mengduo, and rode out of the Yuelai Inn and headed for Xicheng.
After a while, Zhang Fan came to Xicheng and found that the dense dilapidated wooden houses here were piled up on a vast plain, and the blackened victims were lazily lying on both sides of the narrow lanes to rest, a faint smell of stinky sweat filled the surroundings, and the sighs of men, women and children came and went, compared with the Yuelai Inn in Nancheng, it was simply two worlds.
The victims on the ground suddenly found a young man in a white robe and a black sword riding a handsome black horse towards the alley, his face showed a look of shock, he sat up one after another, and looked at him blankly, as if he saw the arrival of a god, he was a little timid and a little surprised in his heart, and suddenly there was silence around him.
"Big brother, are you here to save us?" Suddenly, a timid child's voice came from a dark corner. When Zhang Fan heard this, he looked into the corner where the voice came from, and saw a black and thin girl looking at him intently with wide eyes, the girl was like everyone else, wearing shabby gray clothes, but she looked a little fat, her eyes were bright and bright, and her black and thin little face was mostly covered by unkempt hair. There was a woman lying beside her, who was also dressed in gray, it should not be a skeleton wrapped in black skin, the woman heard her daughter speak, and wanted to stretch out her thin hand to cover the girl's mouth, but only halfway to it hung down weakly, her dry lips moved slightly but she couldn't make a sound, so she had to look straight at the man who suddenly looked at her daughter with her godless eyes, as if she wanted to ask the man who suddenly broke in to spare her daughter and not hurt her.
Zhang Fan felt the girl's innocent gaze, and a feeling of pity welled up in his heart, and then a gentle smile appeared on his handsome face, and he said, "Yes, I'm here to help you." Lying on the ground, everyone sighed slightly, as if nothing had happened, and stopped looking at Zhang Fan.
"Young man, go quickly!" A male voice came not far from the girl. Zhang Fan hurriedly looked at him when he heard this, and found that he was talking to a thin old man sitting on the ground, his gray hair and long beard were a little dirty, his wrinkled cheeks showed a serene face, and his eyes hidden under the messy hair were slightly cloudy. Zhang Fan said with a smile: "This old man, please rest assured, if you have some cultivation under it, you will be fine." When the old man heard this, he said slowly: "Young man, the old man advises you to go, otherwise you will really die." Zhang Fan laughed and said: "Uncle, I came prepared for this trip." Although the medical skills under the lower level are not the peak, it is still more than enough to cure a small plague, hehe. When the old man heard this, his face moved slightly, and then he was gloomy again, and said again: "Young man, things are far from being as simple as you think, you better go." Otherwise, you're going to lose your life here. Zhang Fanlang laughed loudly: "There is really no disease in the world that I can't cure, and there is nothing I'm afraid of, what is a little plague." The old man sighed and said, "That's it, you'll understand then." ”
Seeing the old man's gossip, Zhang Fan stopped talking nonsense with him, turned his head and said to everyone: "Everyone, you are proficient in medical skills, and you can indeed completely cure your illness, please don't be discouraged." ”
"Really, hero, can you really be with us? Thank you, you are really a fairy!"
"Big brother, you're so good!"
"Hero, you are really a living bodhisattva!"
As soon as Zhang Fan's words came out, everyone thanked one after another, and for a while, the sound of talking dispersed to the surroundings, and everyone spread the word of mouth, and after a while, there was a commotion in the entire Xicheng.
Seeing that everyone was no longer as lifeless as just now, Zhang Fan showed a gentle smile on his face, and said loudly: "Everyone, be quiet. When everyone heard this, the noise gradually subsided, their thin faces turned slightly red, and their godless eyes became as bright as stars in the night sky, and they all looked at the white figures in the crowd with hopeful eyes. Seeing that everyone had stopped the noise, Zhang Fan said loudly: "Everyone, I just came here, but I need to check everyone's condition and what kind of process I have achieved before I can decide to take medicine." In addition, I am too busy to do it alone, and I need people who are not sick or recovered from illness to help me treat everyone, so I would like to ask those who are not sick to come forward. When the crowd heard this, there was another commotion, and then there was silence again.
"Big brother, I'm not sick, can I come and help?" Zhang Fan looked forward when he heard this, and found that it was the girl who spoke to him first, his handsome face twitched slightly, and then smiled: "Of course you can, little sister." When the girl heard this, she said in a coquettish voice: "Thank you, big brother, and my mother is not sick, but my mother is too hungry, can you give my mother some food, and my mother can also help you." Zhang Fan was stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect that the woman who was so thin that there was almost a bunch of skeletons left was not sick, but he didn't think much about it, and said, "Of course you can." He rolled over and dismounted, took out a water bottle and several pieces of dry bread and jerky from the package, and handed them to the little girl's arms. Seeing this, the girl said coquettishly, "Thank you, brother." Then he ran out.
Then a thin young man came out and said, "I'm not sick, count me in." ”
Then a white-haired old man said, "The old man is in good health, count me in." ”
Then a thin woman said, "The little woman is not sick and can help the hero." ”
As the female fairy tale fell, the people around stood up one after another to help Zhang Fan treat the patient. Zhang Fan took a cursory look and found that two-thirds of the victims were not sick, which puzzled him, so he said loudly: "Everyone, don't be busy first, I'll diagnose you first, see your physical condition, if you are sick, but you have to rest well, otherwise it will aggravate the condition." ”
When a young man heard this, he quickly walked up to Zhang Fan and said, "Hero, look at me, I'm not sick." Seeing this, Zhang Fan pulled his left hand, put his middle finger on his wrist, probed a little, found that the young man's pulse was strong and powerful, and said, "Okay, you can, next." ”
A young woman walked up, quickly rolled up the sleeve of her left arm, and stretched out her hand, Zhang Fan saw this, and said, "Girl, it's not the left arm, the woman wants to explore the right arm." The woman's face was flushed when she heard this, and she quickly retracted her left arm and timidly stretched out her right arm. Zhang Fan used the same method to cut the pulse, and found that the woman's pulse was a little weak, but it was not a plague, and said: "Your pulse is weak and not suitable for more labor, so sit down and rest." When the woman heard this, she said anxiously: "Childe, the slave family is really not sick, and he can help Childe." Zhang Fan smiled: "I know you're not sick, but you're a little weak." But don't work too much, otherwise it will affect your body. When the woman heard this, she blushed and begged, "Childe, you can let me help." Zhang Fan was helpless and said, "Okay, but you just need to follow me to help." Next. ”
When a middle-aged man heard this, he stepped forward and quickly stretched out his left hand, Zhang Fan reached out and said, "Yes." Next. ”
An old man staggered forward and slowly stretched out his left hand, Zhang Fan saw this and found that the old man's pulse was too weak, and said: "The old man's body is too weak, just rest on the side." Hearing this, the old man looked at Zhang Fan and said, "Hero, you are old and not sick." Seeing this, Zhang Fan patiently persuaded: "Uncle, you are too hungry, let's eat something later." Next. The old man staggered to the side with tears in his eyes.
When a boy heard this, he stepped forward and stretched out his left hand, Zhang Fan reached out and found that the boy's pulse seemed to be floating, and it was beating violently from time to time, and said, "Child, you are sick, go back and rest." When the boy heard this, he cried, "Big brother, but I still have strength." Zhang Fan persuaded: "Go and rest." Not only are you sick, but you've been hungry for a long time. I'll get you something to eat later, so go down." Next. When the boy heard this, he cried, "Thank you, big brother." Then he went down slowly.
Hearing this, a middle-aged woman stepped forward and quickly stretched out her right hand, Zhang Fan reached out and said, "Yes." Next. ”
After a while, Zhang Fan selected hundreds of victims who were not sick from the crowd. He stood up and said aloud to everyone, "Everyone, I won't examine the rest carefully, but the old people who are over the age of sixteen and the children who are not yet ten years old should stay where they are for the time being." The others divided into pairs of ten, and went to gather together every hundred people in the city, and then set up a cauldron, made a fire to boil water, and waited for a while to boil porridge for everyone to drink. When everyone heard this, they said loudly: "Thank you for your benefactor, your benefactor is merciful!" Zhang Fanlang said: "Everyone, be quiet first, I still have something to say." When they heard this, they fell silent. Zhang Fanlang said: "Half of the 365 brothers and sisters I selected just now are here to order everyone to clean up the garbage, and at the same time set up a large pot to boil water and prepare to boil medicine. The other half of the people went to Dongcheng to buy more than three kinds of detoxification flowers, ginseng and coptis, and the others went to buy rice noodles, vegetables, salt and meat. Then I'll give you two pieces of silver. ”
When everyone heard this, they immediately burst into tears of gratitude, and said in unison: "Thank you benefactor, the benefactor is really an immortal sent from heaven to save us!" Immediately, everyone received gold and silver from Zhang Fan's hand, and they were busy, while Zhang Fan shuttled among the patients.