Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

Jiang Xinchun gave Mu Qiong a woman and a house in order to befriend Mu Qiong. Now that Mu Qiong doesn't want him, he naturally won't force him. He even praised Mu Qiong and said: "My goddaughter is not lucky to be with Mu Qiong. Sir, but the house is still good, and I will send the deed to Mr. Mu some other day."

Mu Qiong declined: "Mr. Jiang, I just reminded you that you will not be rewarded for nothing."

Jiang Xinchun said with a smile: "Although you just reminded me, you saved my life. I must thank you."

Jiang Xinchun was very persistent, but Mu Qiong refused, but after thinking about it, he finally accepted it.

Jiang Xinchun gave it sincerely, and he insisted on not accepting it, which might make Jiang Xinchun unhappy instead.Moreover, having a relationship with such a person is beneficial and harmless to him now.

After all, even senior government officials greeted Jiang Xinchun with smiles.

What Jiang Xinchun said at the beginning was to give the deed to Mu Qiong another day, but in fact, just as Mu Qiong agreed, he clapped his hands and asked someone to bring the deed to Mu Qiong. It was obvious that he had prepared it long ago. of.

Mu Qiong accepted it, and then found that the location of the house was extremely good, and it was a small western-style house. Although it was not big, it was worth at least tens of thousands of silver dollars.

He had thought about saving money to buy a house with Fu Yun'an before, but he didn't expect that the house would be in his hands in a blink of an eye.

Mu Qiong was not hypocritical: "Mr. Jiang, thank you."

"Mr. Mu is really different from those literati nowadays," Jiang Xinchun said.He knew many literati, and Mu Qiong was the youngest among them, but in some places, he was more transparent.

Don't say anything else, just say that he sent things... Some people put on a look of contempt and aloofness while receiving his things, which is quite annoying.

After the two talked, Jiang Xinchun yawned, and the people around him immediately handed over opium-filled pipes.

He is addicted to opiates.

Moo-joon takes his leave in good time.

Leaving from Jiang Xinchun, Mu Qiong went directly to Fu Yun'an, planning to give Fu Yun'an the house deed, and the two of them went to see the house together.

Mu Qiong was full of expectations when he went, but Fu Yun'an was not in the hospital.

"Mr. Mu, a plague broke out near Shanghai. Dr. Fu has gone there." Sun Dalin stayed at the hospital and said when he saw Mu Qiong.

"How did he go to the place where the plague happened?" Mu Qiong's heart skipped a beat, a little anxious.He is very clear about how terrible something like the plague is. After the plague broke out, Fu Yun'an actually passed away?

"Mr. Mu, don't worry, this plague is scarlet fever, and most of the victims are children. Mr. Fu will be fine." Sun Dalin said.

When Mu Qiong was writing "Seeking a Doctor" before, he specifically asked Fu Yun'an about some medical matters. Later, before writing "Contagion", he even pretended to be casual and asked about some knowledge related to the plague.

Although he basically didn't write about the plague knowledge in "Contagion", he knew a little about the plague and knew that there were many kinds of plague at this time.

At this time, all infectious diseases were collectively called the plague, including dysentery, typhoid, diphtheria, and scarlet fever.

And these are basically caused by bacteria.

In this era, because people were not clean and hygienic in terms of living and eating, bacterial infectious diseases were particularly prone to outbreaks, and because most ordinary people at this time lived in hardship and malnutrition, these infectious diseases could easily cause death.

Among these diseases, diphtheria and scarlet fever can be treated with penicillin.

Although the existence of Xilin is still being tightly suppressed by Huo Ying so that no one will know about it, but Mu Qiong knows that this medicine can be mass-produced, and now he hears that the plague he encountered is actually scarlet fever, and he feels relieved.

Still, he was a little worried.

Most of the people who suffer from scarlet fever are children, but adults may also be infected. It would be bad if Fu Yun'an accidentally contracted the disease... "Where is the place where the plague happened?"

Sun Dalin knew the relationship between Mu Qiong and his third young master: "Mr. Mu, Dr. Fu told you not to go there. After all, you are not a medical student..."

"I don't go to touch patients, I just look around." Mu Qiong said.

Sun Dalin thought for a while, then told Mu Qiong the address, and said, "If Mr. Mu wants to go there, I'll see you off."

Mu Qiong nodded, and asked Sun Dalin for a mask again.

At this time, doctors generally do not use masks.

It was not until 1897, that is, 20 years ago, that someone suggested that a gauze could be used to cover the mouth and nose to resist bacteria. At that time, everyone directly covered a gauze on the face.

Nowadays, masks have been used abroad, but not many people use them. In China, no one used them at all before.

But recently masks are popular here in Shanghai, Huo Ershao even opened a factory specializing in the production of masks.

And this is related to the novel "Contagion" written by Mu Qiong.

In this novel, almost everyone wears a mask, and the doctor even wears a mask and gloves to prevent himself from being infected-although this is not 100% effective, it still has a certain effect.

While this novel was popular in Shanghai, masks were also popular in Shanghai.

The doctors in Fu Yun'an Hospital may not all wear masks to treat patients, but at least everyone around them wears masks.

Mu Qiong asked for a mask, Sun Dalin quickly went to get two, and then gave Mu Qiong one.

They called two rickshaws, and when they arrived at their destination, they got out of the car, put on masks and walked forward.

Scarlet fever is basically transmitted through droplets, and wearing a mask can make it much better.

The place where the plague broke out was a shantytown around Shanghai. Most of the people living here were from Zhejiang.

Zhejiang is mountainous, and there has always been less land and more people. In order to survive, many people will leave the place where their ancestors lived for generations to find a way out.

Zhejiang merchants developed in such an environment, but the vast majority of people do not have the capital to be merchants. When they come out, they can only work part-time.

These people built a few sheds at random as their residences, drank water and washed toilets in a river... In fact, infectious diseases broke out among them several times a year, but this time it was more serious.

In the past, not many people got sick, and when they died, they died, and no doctor would come.

This place is not a concession, not even within the scope of Shanghai County.The people living here can be said to be the lowest class in Shanghai, and many of them don't even have jobs.

When Mu Qiong walked over, he found that the place was extremely dirty, with garbage and human feces scattered on the side of the road.

"Mr. Mu, let's wait outside." Sun Dalin said.

"It's better to go in and have a look." Mu Qiong said, walking straight forward.

He is also afraid of getting sick, but Fu Yun'an is inside... And this time the disease is scarlet fever, so it's not that scary after all.

Although the plague broke out, the people in the shantytowns still lived their lives with numbness.

People don't care if they get sick when they don't even have enough to eat.

There are very few roads here, and Mu Qiong quickly followed the road to a ruined temple.

There are many people gathered here, including patients, policemen, and doctors.

The doctors who came over included Western medicine and Chinese medicine, there were about a dozen of them, and with the people behind them, there were twenty or thirty people in total, and these people were boiling Chinese medicine for the patients at the moment.

All of them wore masks. It can be seen that the novel "Contagion" has affected many people.

"It is said in "Contagion" that the most important thing to prevent the plague is to disinfect and ensure hygiene. For those who are already sick, they should eat nutritious liquid food..." Someone was talking, through a mask, His voice was a bit inaudible: "These are all asking for money."

"Doctor Shao, the government doesn't allocate money." Someone said.

The person who spoke earlier frowned immediately.

After Mu Qiong went in, he heard this. At the same time, he glanced and saw Fu Yun'an in the crowd.

Although he was wearing a mask, he could still recognize Fu Yunan at a glance... Mu Qiong smiled at Fu Yunan who had already seen him. After smiling, he realized that he was wearing a mask. Fu Yunan might not be able to see him.

Those people have all looked over... Mu Qiong said: "I'll donate one hundred oceans to buy some food for the sick."

Mu Qiong is not a very generous person, at least he has never been self-sacrificing, but recently he got a windfall, so he doesn't mind spending some.

These patients were all hungry and thin. He took out a hundred silver dollars, which should make them eat better. Besides, it was okay.

"You are?" the doctor Shao asked.

"He is Mu Qiong, whose pen name is Lou Yuyu." Fu Yun'an introduced, and looked at Mu Qiong with some disapproval.

"So you are Mr. Lou Yuyu who wrote "Seeking Doctor"!" Dr. Shao looked at Mu Qiong excitedly: "I like your book very much!"

"Seeking a Doctor is really a good book."

"The man surnamed Cui has always been thinking about the abolition of traditional Chinese medicine. It is said that when he mentioned it last time, someone gave him a copy of "Seeking Medicine" and asked him where he would like people to go to seek medical treatment after the abolition of traditional Chinese medicine... He was dumb. Speechless."

"Mr. Lou Yuyu, there are many patients here, and the disease is easily contagious, so you must be careful."

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These doctors have a very good attitude towards Mu Qiong, and they all admire Mu Qiong.

There was a plague here, and those officials who were in charge of the people here were unwilling to come and take a look, but Mu Qiong, an irrelevant person, came...

"I will be careful." Mu Qiong said: "Actually, you should be more careful. I just came here to take a look, and I didn't come into contact with these patients. You are different. You can come here to treat the common people at this time, really. It's worth to admire."

What Mu Qiong said was the truth, and what he said made those doctors very useful.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, everyone continued to treat the common people.

Most of the patients here are children, but there are also teenagers and adults. Seeing these doctors check their symptoms one by one, Mu Qiong felt a surge of respect in his heart.

Throughout the ages, every time a plague occurs, there are always some doctors who don’t care about their own safety in order to cure the disease and save others...

Mu Qiong took out the money and asked Sun Dalin to buy some food and cook it for the patients here, and he also helped to do what he could.

He used to go to the free clinic with Fu Yun'an, but now he is doing it in an orderly manner.

"Mr. Lou Yuyu studied medicine?" A doctor asked curiously.

"No." Mu Qiong said with a smile: "But I used to go to free clinics with Dr. Fu in order to write "Seeking a Doctor."

"Old Zhang, haven't you read "The Last Two Years of Me" written by Mr. Lou Yuyu not long ago? This incident was written in it." Dr. Shao said humanely to the questioner.

"You don't know that I don't like to read things..." said Doctor Zhang.

While chatting, everyone settled the patients, and not long after, another patient came.

The disease of scarlet fever is basically a sudden fever and chills, and then it starts to have a sore throat and discomfort all over the body, and the throat will become congested, red, swollen and spots appear... It is precisely because of this that Chinese medicine calls it rotten throat Sha.

The above symptoms are relatively mild. In severe cases, a rash will appear on the first or second day after the onset of the disease. From the neck to the chest, it will become congested and red, and a dot-shaped congestive rash will appear, and it will begin to spread. , and even spread to the whole body after a few days.

This kind of disease is rare in modern times, and it can be cured immediately if you get it, but in this era, it will kill people.

After Mu Qiong saw the conditions of those patients, his heart sank.

He knew that Huo Ying had penicillin, but he also knew that the price of penicillin was very high now, and Huo Ying might not be willing to take out penicillin to treat these patients.

Moreover, he logically did not know the existence of penicillin, and he couldn't even mention it to Huo Ying.

Mu Qiong read articles from the period of the Republic of China in modern times. At that time, rich people could turn a blind eye to the hungry people on the side of the road. At that time, he didn't understand, but now he knows some reasons.

At this time, such a situation is too common.

What's more, these patients can be called lucky-the place they stayed in was Shanghai, where the rich and powerful at most would not allow the patients to enter the city or the foreign concession, but they would never simply kill them all for safety's sake.

"The disease of rotten throat is not necessarily fatal, it is not bad."

"Most of these people survived."

"Be careful, it shouldn't be contagious."

"Better get someone to take care of the sick..."

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The doctors talked a lot, and someone said: "I heard that those foreigners have medicine that can treat rotten throat syndrome!"

"Even if there is, so what, how can these people afford it?" Another person asked.

Everyone can only sigh.

Everyone was busy all afternoon, and all these patients took medicine and the food that Mu Qiong asked them to buy and cook.

The rice is boiled for a long time to produce rice oil, and then chopped vegetables and eggs are put in, so that it is nutritious for the sick to eat.

The mouths of these patients are basically rotten, and they would lose their appetite, but probably because the porridge is too fragrant, everyone insisted on drinking the porridge.

After all this work, it was getting dark, and the doctors were about to leave.

Mu Qiong and Fu Yun'an went out together, and when they got outside, Mu Qiong took off his mask: "Yun'an, why did the plague suddenly break out? Why did you come here by yourself? There are so many doctors in your hospital..."

"Scarlet fever occurs more often in winter." Fu Yun'an also took off his mask: "As for me coming...someone comes to the hospital to look for me, so I'll come and have a look." The presence.

However, generally speaking, he does not need Xilin. He has been in contact with many patients with scarlet fever, but he has never been infected.

Mu Qiong reached out to take Fu Yun'an's mask, intending to put it away together with his own mask—there is a shortage of supplies these days, and it is impossible to throw away things like masks after they are used, they are all boiled and reused.

Holding the two masks in his hand, Mu Qiong frowned: "Yun'an, your mask is different from mine."

Fu Yun'an's mask is thinner than the one on his hand.

Most of the masks on the market today are produced by Huo Ying's company, and they are divided into three types according to their thickness.

The masks used by Ping An Hospital have always been the thickest, but now the masks that Fu Yunan took off... seem to be thinner?

This thickness is the problem of missing two layers of gauze, which is not easy to distinguish, so that Fu Yun'an didn't notice it before.Now that Mu Qiong mentioned it, he took a closer look and found the problem: "Maybe... my mask was exchanged with someone else's wrong one?"

"This mask is thicker than the medium-thick mask produced by Huo Ershao's factory, and thinner than the thick mask used by Ping An Hospital..." Mu Qiong faintly felt something was wrong.

He suddenly thought of those film and television dramas and novels related to Gongdou that he had read before, and took Fu Yun'an's mask and just tore it off.

The mask was torn open, and a piece of yellowed gauze was sewn in the middle.

Mu Qiong's face changed, Fu Yun'an covered his mouth, but retched uncontrollably.

Fu Yun'an is indeed a bit of a clean freak. It doesn't matter if he walks in a messy place or encounters a messy thing. He can change clothes and take a shower. But it's hard for him to accept such things in his mask.

At the same time, his heart sank.

His mask should have been replaced, and now there is this thing in the mask... Is this someone trying to harm him?

"When was your mask changed, do you have any impression?" Mu Qiong asked with clenched fists.

He didn't expect such a thing to happen.Fu Yun'an went to treat those patients in order to save them, but someone took this opportunity to kill him!

Fu Yun'an... Will something happen?

"It should be noon." Fu Yun'an said, his face pale.

They went there in the morning and had dinner together at noon. He took off the mask and put it in his pocket at that time, and it should have been replaced at that time.

He has always been very careful, but this time there were many patients, many things, and he was very busy, so he didn't think much about it...

"Let's go to the hospital and see what's on it," Mu Qiong said.Although there is penicillin, not all diseases can be cured by penicillin... If nothing else, smallpox is not extinct at this time, and it may be fatal if infected.

Now Mu Qiong only felt cold, and there was a strong anger in his heart.

Fu Yun'an nodded, then snatched the two masks from Mu Qiong's hand, put them all in his pocket, and kept away from Mu Qiong: "Don't get too close to me." The things in his mask , there is a high probability that it is the pathogen of an infectious disease. He is very likely to be infected now, and Mu Qiong must not be infected.

"What are you thinking about right now!" Mu Qiong grabbed him and strode forward.

At the same time, I quickly analyzed it in my heart.

This mask is exquisitely made, and it must have been prepared in advance. In other words, the replacement of Fu Yunan's mask was probably planned in advance by someone.

But the plague just broke out. Today, the government started to find doctors to treat the patients. How could that person be sure that Fu Yun'an would go?

Did he already know the existence of the plague, or... this plague has problems?

Mu Qiong suddenly thought that the type of plague was scarlet fever, which happened to be a disease that penicillin could treat...

Mu Qiong took Fu Yun'an and walked quickly. When he encountered a rickshaw on the road, he let Fu Yun'an sit on it, and gave the rickshaw driver a big ocean: "We are in a hurry, go to Ping An Hospital."

In winter, there are fewer people going out, and the business of the rickshaw driver is also bad. At this moment, he suddenly received a silver dollar, and the rickshaw driver was overjoyed: "Sir, get in the car quickly."

The guest gave him a silver dollar... and he thought it was to attract two people.

Ping An Hospital is not close, and it is tiring to drag two people there, so we should give more...Of course, one ocean is a bit too much.

"Just pull him." Mu Qiong said, "Hurry up."

"Hey!" The rickshaw driver responded, pulled Fu Yun'an and ran away, while Mu Qiong ran beside him.

Wearing a robe is not suitable for running, it is very unsightly to run, but at this moment, Mu Qiong didn't care too much, he pinched the hem of the robe in his hand and ran fast.

The rickshaw driver didn't expect that Mu Qiong was going to run by himself, he looked at Mu Qiong in surprise, and after realizing that Mu Qiong was running fast, he unconsciously accelerated his running speed.

This person is a silver dollar as soon as he makes a move, and he looks like a young master at first glance, he can't even run away from a young master!

I have already collected one silver dollar from others, so I must let others know how fast I run!

As a result, the coachman speeded up, and Mu Qiong also speeded up.

At the end of the run, the driver, who was used to running, couldn't help panting, so he could only slow down and move forward steadily.

And Mu Qiong was running at his speed!

This young master is really amazing!The rickshaw driver admired him from the bottom of his heart.

Fu Yun'an was also a little surprised at the moment.

After discovering the mechanism in the mask, Fu Yun'an's heart remained calm, disgusted and a little scared.

He even wondered inevitably what would happen if he died.

He had thought about this many times, but this time he thought about it again, and he was a little bit reluctant.

However, he soon gave up.

Looking at Mu Qiong, who was running beside the car and lost his image, Fu Yun'an wanted to laugh for no reason.

He doesn't want to die at all.

After running like this for about four to ten minutes, I finally arrived at Ping An Hospital.

The driver of the rickshaw was so tired that he didn't say a word on the way, but he almost couldn't stand when he got there.

Mu Qiong was also very tired, sweating profusely, but he didn't have time to worry about it: "Yun'an, how do you feel now?"

"I'm fine." Fu Yun'an said, got out of the car and strode inside.

Mu Qiong followed closely behind him.

"There is a laboratory in the hospital, and I only know how to use a lot of equipment in it. I'll go and test it." Fu Yun'an took the cloth and walked in, and said to Mu Qiong: "Take a shower and wait for me outside. "

After he finished speaking, he entered the laboratory and closed the door directly.

Mu Qiong didn't take a bath right away.

He called the doctor on duty in the hospital and asked him to wait at the door of Fu Yun'an's laboratory, and then sent someone to find Sun Dalin. After doing all this, he went to take a bath.

Fu Yun'an's parents are not in Shanghai, and Fu Huai'an is still young, so it's useless even if he is notified... He can only watch it.

Mu Qiong put underwear in Fu Yunan's place, but not his coat, and his current coat is no longer easy to wear after contacting many patients... He simply found a set of Fu Yunan's clothes to wear.

He was already taller than Fu Yun'an, but at this time the robes were loose, and the robes were made bigger in winter, so he wouldn't be out of shape.

After Mu Qiong took a shower, he went to wait at the door of the laboratory, and then asked someone to inform Zhu Wanwan that he would not be going home today.

Sun Dalin soon came and entered the laboratory with another person Mu Qiong didn't know. Mu Qiong wanted to go in too, but was stopped by someone.

He really didn't know anything about the experiment... Mu Qiong didn't insist on going in, but just paced back and forth at the door.

The hospital was very quiet at night, only the sound of his footsteps kept ringing, and it seemed to hit his heart, making him even more flustered.

Mu Qiong felt that he had been waiting for a long time, but in fact Fu Yun'an came out after staying in the laboratory for a few hours.

Seeing Mu Qiong, he smiled wryly: "I'm infected with scarlet fever."