Datang beauty walk

This small village has already been put under martial law several miles away by the government. The officers and soldiers guarding the village are so tight that not a single bird can fly out.

Yizhen and Hanyue came to the gate of the temporary sentry post, where an officer led several soldiers to patrol and guard the gate of the wooden fence.The two soldiers with swords at the front stopped them when they saw them and said:

"Stop, didn't you see the notice over there? There was an epidemic in the village ahead, and no one is allowed to enter or leave here."

"Brother Cha, we are here to find my father. My father is a doctor, and he is treating people in this village."

The sentinel said impatiently:

"What doctor? I don't know, get out of here quickly and don't interfere with our duty!"

"What's going on?" The officer behind came over and asked.

"Sir, my father is a doctor. He treats people in the village. Let's find him. Please let us in!"

"No, no one is allowed in or out."

"Sir, please let us in!" Yizhen begged again.

"no!"

Seeing that they were not allowed to go, Yizhen anxiously looked towards the distant village.Hanyue was about to speak to her when Yizhen said to the official again:

"Sir, we are really here to find my father, he asked us to bring him the medicine to treat the disease, if you don't believe me, take a look..." Yizhen said as she took out the medicine she had brought earlier from the package.

The official was impatient with her pestering, so he said:

"If you are not afraid of death, go in! But let me tell you, you are only allowed to enter here, and you are not allowed to exit. If you go in, don't even think about coming out until the epidemic is not completely controlled!"

"Yes, we know."

The official let them in, and muttered behind him:

"To die in vain!"

Yizhen and Hanyue entered Mingyuan Village, walked for two miles, but did not see a single family, and after walking for more than one mile, they saw some scattered households one after another.

Going around a small hill, the terrain became flatter and there were more gates. They felt that this vast village was in a shadow of tension and fear: people hid in their homes, and there was no play on the village road. There are no old people sitting and chatting under the tree, and those who have to go to work in the field, when they return home after work, they also walk by with their heads down; there are new earthen graves in the fields, Sometimes weeping could be heard from the graves, and I don’t know which family died again.

Yizhen found out that her father and the doctor in the village had formed a medical hut in the temple of the village to treat the villagers, so they went straight to the temple with Hanyue.

It was already dark by this time, and when I entered the temple, I saw many patients sitting and lying on the open space, accompanied by their family members.Some patients lay on the bamboo board and groaned.Moan, some patients were helped to go to the doctor in front of the corridor for diagnosis.

Yizhen saw her father and several rural doctors wearing special white anti-epidemic gowns and covering their mouths and noses with white cloth and busy there, so she walked up to her father and called softly:

"father!"

Song Hanzhang was treating a sick person, and he was quite surprised when he heard the cry and looked up to see his daughter Yizhen.He stood up and walked straight to a room in the temple, and Yizhen hurriedly followed.

Entering the room, Song Hanzhang was furious, he reprimanded:

"How did you come here? You are so bold. Where is this place? Could it be you who came here? If you don't stay at home and make trouble here? It's good now, you can't go out. If the epidemic can't be controlled, you Wait for death together, I am so mad!"

Song Hanzhang was so angry that he couldn't stand or sit, and even the beard around his mouth was twitching in anger.

Yizhen didn't dare to speak loudly to offend his anger, so she whispered:

"Father, don't be angry, isn't it dangerous for you to be here? I can't sit still at home!"

"You, hey!"

"I came here to improve my medical skills. I have never seen many diseases with my own eyes."

Song Hanzhang became even angrier when he heard his daughter say this, while Hanyue outside heard him scolding Yizhen and said:

"What do you study as a girl? When I allowed you to study medicine, I just saw that you were enlightened. You learned it as soon as you learned it. It was for you to learn to play. I don't want you to become more and more uneducated and run around like a wild girl." , lawless...!"

Yizhen didn't dare to speak anymore, she stood obediently, and when her father Song Hanzhang finished scolding, she said aggrievedly:

"Father, we've already come, and we can't get out now, so just calm down, my daughter knows it's wrong!"

"Hey, you say you, I spoiled you!" Song Hanzhang sighed, paused for a while, and then said: "I asked them to give you a room, so you can rest first."

"Yes, Dad."

Yizhen and Hanyue came to the ancestral temple to rest for a while, then Yizhen also dressed like her father, came to her father, and asked:

"Father, have you found the source of the disease?"

Song Hanzhang frowned and said:

"No, it is still unclear what caused the plague. We guess the water source is the most likely. We have made the villagers use boiled water. Although the number of sick people has dropped, some people are still getting sick."

"Then the water that these newly infected people drank before getting sick was boiling water?" Yi Zhen asked.

Song Hanzhang leaned over to examine the patient and said:

"According to them, they boiled the water to drink it."

After listening to her father's words, Yizhen pondered for a while, then took the oil lamp to visit the patient.

For four consecutive days, the situation has not improved. Every day, people in the village will fall ill, and the serious ones will die before being cured. Everyone is terrified.Many villagers bet their hopes on the gods, and there is an endless stream of villagers who go to ask the gods for divination every day.

On the fifth day when Yizhen and the others came to Mingyuan Village, they put on protective white robes again, and went to every household in the village to see the sick.

There are 87 households in Mingyuan Village. Since the outbreak, 32 people have died of the disease, and 21 people have also been infected. Everyone in the village is in panic.

This morning, it was reported that several people in the village were ill, and Yizhen and Hanyue rushed to the home of one of the patients.

When they came to the patient's home, the patient's parents and wife were weeping sadly in the courtyard, and even the cat in his house was wagging its tail sadly and circling around them.

The young woman led Yizhen to the patient.I saw the originally young and vigorous man lying on the couch with a dark complexion, wailing in pain.The man turned over from time to time, crawled on the side of the bed and vomited, and the room was filled with an unpleasant stench.

After Yizhen took the man's pulse and asked the woman to roll up his sleeves, she saw that there were many dark spots on his arms and legs, which were of different sizes and raised above the skin. The condition was very similar to that of other patients. It's just that the skin hasn't festered yet.

Yizhen took out a clean silver needle, selected two acupoints on the patient's body and pricked two needles, and kept the needles. After a while, the patient no longer felt nauseated or vomited.Yizhen looked at his tongue again, and then wrote a prescription, asking his family to go to the temple to get the medicine.

Yizhen came out of the patient's room and asked his family members about the history of the patient's illness in detail, and looked at the food left over from the patient's previous consumption and the water consumed by his family.

When Yizhen entered the stove room of the patient's home, she accidentally saw a little mouse that died in the corner.After going out, Yizhen asked the patient's parents in the yard:

"Is this cat yours?"

"Yes, it belongs to my family." The patient's mother said.

"Are there many cats in the village?" Yizhen asked again.

"Half of the households in our village keep cats," said the old man.

"Then can your cat catch mice?" Yizhen continued to ask.

"Of course, why can't cats catch mice? Our cat is good at catching mice." The old woman said.

Yizhen continued to ask:

"Did your son have dinner with you last night?"

"My son went to work in the field yesterday and came back late. We left him food." The old woman replied again.

Yizhen nodded and said:

"Okay, take good care of the patient. The patient's illness is short and not too serious. If you need anything, go to the doctor's room to see the doctor."

Walking out of the family's door, Yizhen lowered her head and thought while walking. After walking a dozen steps, she said:

"Han Yue, I seem to have found the source of this epidemic."

When Hanyue heard it, she hurriedly asked:

"What is it?"

Yizhen didn't answer, but asked her instead:

"Tell me, why doesn't the cat eat mice now?"

"Are you talking about the mouse that died under the wall of this family's stove? Maybe the cat didn't eat it because it smelled that the mouse was sick." Hanyue said.

"Then what disease do you think this mouse has?" Yizhen asked after her.

Hanyue seemed to understand something after hearing this, and hurriedly said:

"You mean, it's possible that this person got sick after eating food contaminated by sick rats?"

Yizhen's eyes were shining, she looked at Hanyue:

"If more dead rats can be found in the village, then we can be sure that this epidemic is caused by rats. If so, the epidemic can be controlled and the disease can be prevented. Let's go!"

☆, joking