An Empire as a Betrothal Gift

After successfully fooling all the patients in Qingning County, the subordinates followed suit and gathered patients from other counties to Qingping County.

The epidemic situation in Qingping County is extremely serious. Originally, the symptoms of the disease became obvious on the second day, and the mortality rate was 100%. It should not have spread so quickly.The bad thing is that before the court came, the people of Qingping County did a stupid thing.

... They gathered together and held a sacrificial ceremony of "Sending the Plague God".

In the era when ghosts and gods were feared all over the world, the local people in the backward mountains were especially superstitious, and they believed that the plague was brought by the plague god.As long as the god of plague is sent away, the disaster will naturally go away.As a result, the people of the whole county gathered together with sick people from every family, knelt and kowtowed three times to the altar where offerings were placed, chanting words and praying.

When Wei Lian heard this, his temples twitched violently.

...In his eyes, this is simply the scene of large-scale droplet transmission, the scene of large-scale cluster epidemic accidents, and the scene of large-scale mortals dying.

It is conceivable that the God of Plague failed to send him away, and more than half of the entire Qingping County was recruited. Except for some strong young people, almost the entire army was wiped out.

When the imperial court's disaster relief team arrived, there were already corpses everywhere, and the sky was full of dead souls.

After Wei Lian took over Qingping County, he quickly implemented isolation measures to separate the sick from the healthy.All the sick people are concentrated in the south, and the healthy people live temporarily in the north, and the two do not contact each other.Patients are taken care of by medical officers, and the whole body must be protected when the medical officers take care of them.The imperial physician is responsible for judging the severity of each patient's symptoms to determine the dosage of the medicine.

Some family members were unwilling to be separated from the patients at first, and some patients were unwilling to cooperate obediently, as if they felt that being isolated was their own death sentence.Others felt that what the medical officer gave them was poison, intending to poison them to death, so they deliberately knocked over the medicine bowl and refused to drink it even if they were beaten to death.

The doctors were all distressed.You must know that there are so many patients, and the medicinal materials are in short supply, and some people will waste them like this, their hearts are so painful that they are bleeding.

It is not easy to boil medicine for so many people.The medicine boys were not enough, these elderly doctors all guarded the stove in person, and many of them fainted from exhaustion for several days.The hard work that has been painstakingly worked out is so let down, and if you don't feel sorry for it, you will die of anger.

After Zhou Yushan heard about it, he offered to propose a solution.

That day, Zhou Yushan pushed Zhou Xiaoshan who was in a wheelchair to appear in front of the people in Qingping County, proving to everyone that the imperial court did have a way to save them.

"Fathers and folks, I can testify! You all know that my mother also died of this disease, and Xiao Shan also got sick at the beginning. I have been running around in Jiangzhou City these days to discuss an explanation with the dog officer. The dog officer is now They are different from the dog officials who persecuted us in the past!" Zhou Yushan said loudly, "Xiaoshan is my sister, she also got this disease, and her right arm was rotten a while ago, but now! Take a look! Xiaoshan, show them." Zhou Yushan lowered his voice when he said this.

Zhou Xiaoshan stayed home since he was a child, and was a little nervous facing so many eyes for the first time, but he obediently rolled up his sleeves and exposed his arms.

It takes a lot of courage for a girl to bare her arms in front of outsiders, but in order to save so many lives in Qingping County, she volunteered.

The arms of a girl who grew up in a commoner's family are not as white and delicate as that of a daughter raised in a boudoir, but the upper part is intact, without any trace of rot.

The people who were originally excited were quiet for a moment, which made Zhou Yushan's voice clearer: "Did you see that! She is cured! After drinking the medicine prescribed by the young master, she was no longer serious that day, and it became much lighter the next day. Now the first day In three days, she recovered completely! Xiaoshan and I were brought up by you, we will not lie to you!"

The people were stunned for a moment, and then fierce looting broke out.Originally, they avoided the medicine, but now they all rushed forward: "Give me a bowl!"

"I want to drink medicine!"

"This medicine can really guarantee that we will be cured?!"

"It doesn't matter, give me a bowl too!"

"I also want!"

……

Zhou Yushan retreated, Wei Lian glanced at him: "You did a good job."

Zhou Yushan smiled shyly: "Young master saved Xiao Shan's life, and the grass-roots people just talked a few words, it's just a matter of little effort."

Wei Lian looked down at Zhou Xiaoshan's legs covered by the blanket, and said, "I can heal her legs."

Zhou Yushan was stunned.

"Save people to the end." Wei Lian smiled lightly, "It's just a little effort."

Zhou Yushan's eyes trembled, and he immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "My lord is so kind and virtuous, and the grassroots will repay them like cows and horses!"

"No need." Wei Lian lowered his eyes.

"I said, it's easy."

In the next few days, things slowly started to get back on track.Zhou Mingli took care of Jiangzhou's government affairs for the time being, while Wei Lian gave Zhou Xiaoshan acupuncture and moxibustion every day, accompanied by medical treatment, to slowly restore her legs, and would pay attention to the progress of the epidemic in the rest of the time.The imperial physicians and medical officers and medicine boys were busy seeing patients, decocting medicines, and feeding them. Everyone was very busy.

However, the speed of treatment cannot keep up with the speed of death of patients.The medicinal materials are limited, it takes time to decoct the medicine, and there are not enough people to take care of it, so everything is powerless.

People die every day in Qingping County, and the corpses pile up like mountains.It can only be said that the situation is much better than before the court came.But in the face of life and death, manpower is still small, all they can do is try their best to save.

Wei Lian ordered those corpses to be burned to prevent them from becoming a new source of infection.However, this move was protested by the family members of the deceased. They believed that people should be buried in the ground after death, and that burning the body would destroy the bones and ashes.Some family members gathered to take the body away for burial.

Some soldiers could not understand this approach, but because of the prestige that Wei Lian had built up these days, they chose to obey the order unconditionally, and planned to talk to the protesting family members of the deceased again.

Wei Lian said, "Let them take it away."

The soldiers froze for a moment and moved out of the way.

A few days later, the news came that the family members who took away the corpses were all infected with the plague without exception, while the family members who chose to keep the corpses were all safe and sound.

On the same day, some of the soldiers were found to be infected.The reason was that he secretly took off his face mask to breathe.

So far, no one dared to question Wei Lian's order.He said he wanted to burn the body, but no one stopped him.

Everything proved that the young master was right, and he seemed to have become a myth in everyone's hearts.

Wei Lian sent the sick family members and soldiers into the isolation area.Now with drug treatment, mild patients can recover quickly.

However, the lack of manpower and medicinal materials has caused many people to suffer from mild illness to severe illness, and even died without waiting for the bowl of life-saving medicine.

Driven by the desire to survive, people will become selfish.

The behavior of patients grabbing medicine appeared in the isolation area.

Xu Wenqing has become a little silent these days.

He is a doctor, but he has not seen much life and death.He was born in Yongping, a prosperous and prosperous city, and the biggest illness he has seen in the past is to treat people with headaches and brain fever.

But now he faces life and death every day.

Seeing husbands and wives separated by yin and yang, white-haired parents giving away black-haired ones, and young children losing their parents, all of them are the most painful in the world.Anyone who has the ability to empathize will feel sad when watching it.

There is a serious shortage of manpower, and Xu Wenqing has been taking care of patients for days.The patient who talked to him yesterday may be covered with a white cloth today and carried out to be burned into a handful of ashes.This happened so much that he didn't even dare to talk to the patients anymore.

Imperial physicians are people who are in close contact with patients. Even with all precautions, there are still many imperial physicians who have been recruited, and practitioners have become patients.Those who can have a certain status in the Tai Hospital are all elderly, and their physical resistance is not very good.Even though the imperial physician would take medicine as soon as he was sick, one old imperial physician left them.

That old imperial doctor was called Grandpa by Xu Wenqing, and he is considered highly respected in the imperial hospital.

On the day he passed away, all the people in Tai Hospital mourned for him for a moment, then suppressed their grief and continued to devote themselves to life-saving work.

Wei Lian came to the scene silently, bowed slightly to the old doctor's body, and then ordered it to be burned.

In the flames, Xu Wenqing stood aside for a long time.

This incident seemed to be the last straw that crushed him.

"Father." The 17-year-old boy looked at his father with red eyes, "I originally thought that I would be very sad if I stayed in Yongping and couldn't help. But I found that I came, but I still couldn't save them. It seemed even more sad to see them die."

Doctor Xu patted his son's head: "Then choose again, do you still want to come?"

Xu Wenqing nodded: "I'm coming."

"Although I can't save so many people...but at least I can save some people."

Imperial Physician Xu said with relief: "Our Xu family has a good young man."

Two days later, Doctor Xu contracted the plague while taking care of patients.

Xu Wenqing went to take care of him in person.

Doctor Xu's illness is mild, and his body is still in good shape. He only needs to take a few doses of medicine and he will be fine.However, when Xu Wenqing was going to serve Dr. Xu to take the medicine, a middle-aged man who was almost half-rotten ran over with his last breath, snatched the medicine bowl with his last strength and drank it down: "Give me the medicine!"

Xu Wenqing was taken aback, and said angrily, "Why are you grabbing the medicine! You are so sick, the dose of this bowl of medicine is useless to you!"

The big man said grimly: "It's better than nothing! Why can you drink the medicine first, I didn't see the medicine until I was about to die!"

Xu Wenqing choked: "The medicinal materials are in short supply now, and it will take time to cook, wait—"

"I'll die if I wait any longer!" The big man sneered, "What? Your life is your life, but ours is not?"

Xu Wenqing was so angry that her face turned red: "But my father is still sick and wants to save you! He got sick to save you!"

The big man was unreasonable: "Since it is to save us, wouldn't it be right to give me your father's life-saving medicine? This is what he should!"

Xu Wenqing was suddenly speechless.

Seeing the big man walk away, Xu Wenqing shuddered.

This pure and kind boy began to doubt the meaning of his study of medicine.

He found that he saved lives.

But it can't heal people's hearts.

The big man still failed to survive in the end, and the mild medicine didn't work for him, so he still died.

Xu Wenqing went to boil another bowl of medicine and gave it to his father to drink.After Tai doctor Xu recovered, he joined the ranks of saving patients without stopping.

Xu Wenqing became more and more silent, mixed with a trace of indifference.He seems to have a knot.

There was another farce recently. A patient in Qingning County was sent back after being cured, but her son was unwilling to accept the old mother. Instead, he shouted: "Where is gold! Who wants this old man? I want Gold!"

"If you don't give me gold, I'm going to make a fuss! How can you court lackeys keep your word!"

Sadly and ridiculously, this happened more than once.

"My lord, there are quite a few people gathered outside to make a fuss, saying that they want to give them gold, and the agitation is very serious..." The guard hesitated, "How about... let's give it to them?"

After all, the young master has indeed promised so, and they are not short of those few taels of gold...

Xu Wenqing sneered aside.People are greedy, and he has already seen how bad they can be in the past few days.

Wei Lian asked back, "Do you really think it makes sense to save people's lives and give them gold?"

The guard hurriedly said: "Of course there is no reason at all! But so many of them are making trouble..." One more thing is worse than one less thing.

"Remember, if it's unreasonable, it's unreasonable. It's not that there are too many people making trouble for no reason, so you should stand by their side." Wei Lian said warmly, "Believe it or not, let them do it once today, and everyone will follow suit in the future, all in vain attempt to go to heaven." If you drop the pie, you will hurt the heart of those who are truly responsible."

"Although there is a lot of disaster relief money, it will be used to appease the refugees. Jiangzhou is now full of businesses and there are many places to use the money, but it should never be used here." Wei Lian said calmly, "If you pass on the order, anyone who picks quarrels and causes trouble , Imprisoned for seven days. Those who stir up people's hearts will be given thirty sticks. Those who refuse to change after repeated admonitions will be killed without mercy."

"Yes!"

Xu Wenqing was startled.

He quietly watched Wei Lian's exquisite eyebrows and eyes, and suddenly felt a gentle and powerful aura in this young man who was not much older than him.

Then Wei Lian looked sideways at him and smiled slightly.

"Doctor Xu said that you seem to have something on your mind recently."

Xu Wenqing's expression changed slightly.

Unexpectedly, my little thoughts were still seen through by my father...

Wei Lian turned around: "Follow me."