Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

In this day and age, drugs are rare.

Not to mention anything else, just say that the most common antipyretic and analgesic drug is now only aspirin.

Aspirin was developed more than ten years ago by a company that originally produced dyes. Before it was invented, Chinese people used traditional Chinese medicine to reduce fever, and foreigners... At that time, many people relied on salicylic acid to reduce fever.

That's right, it is the salicylic acid that is often found in cosmetic toilet water. This thing can be used as a preservative and is also used in dyes.

Salicylic acid is highly acidic and corrosive. Although it has the effect of reducing fever, taking it directly will damage the throat and gastric mucosa.Fortunately, the dye company developed acetylsalicylic acid on the basis of salicylic acid and named it aspirin, which finally gave Western medicine a drug that can safely reduce fever and relieve pain.

This medicine can be said to be unique, so in just a few years, it became popular all over the world.

Now that the First World War is going on, aspirin is a magic medicine on the battlefield. It is extremely difficult for China to buy it. It was not until after the First World War that the company was targeted and almost closed down, and many companies emerged at the same time Only when aspirin is produced, the price of this drug will drop, and when it was introduced to China, it became almost a miracle drug for everything.

Stomach pain, joint pain, headache and fever are all effective after taking it, isn't it a magic medicine?

In the case of aspirin, the only painkiller, it is conceivable how much effect the emergence of Xilin will cause.

The Shanghainese who saw the newspaper were all shocked. Everyone was extremely excited and happy.

Aurora University.

Many people feel heavy when they see a plague happening.

"This plague, I don't know how many people will die."

"We should organize some donation drive."

"People in our medical department should go to treat patients!"

……

While everyone was discussing, they saw Huo Ying's article published in the newspaper.

"This..." The person who was still impassioned before fell silent for a while.

They could hardly believe what they saw.

"I have read "Contagion", and I know that the infectious disease in it is fabricated. I always thought Xilin was also fabricated..."

"So... Er Shao Huo has been studying Xilin for a long time? That's why there is such a book?"

"It's possible! Tianxing must have known about this medicine a long time ago!"

"It's said in the newspaper that Xilin is very difficult to make and expensive. It's so kind that Huo Ershao is willing to donate such a drug for free!"

"You said the book "Contagion", is it possible that it's just a promotion for Xilin?"

……

Finally, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay: "Shall we go and see together?"

They are going to see if there is really such a magic drug!

a middle school.

"Have you heard? Second Young Master Huo's people have researched Xilin!"

"What Xilin? The one written in "Contagion"?"

"That's the one!"

"There is news in the newspaper! Come and see!"

……

A group of students leaned together to read the newspaper, and then saw the article about Xilin written on it.

"Xilin can cure so many diseases?"

"This drug is amazing!"

"Second Young Master Huo is really a good person, and he is willing to let the common people use it for free."

……

As for those hospitals...

Before that, Huo Ying sold some Xilin to foreigners, but not all foreigners knew the existence of Xilin.

Now that they learned that such a medicine really exists, they all exclaimed in disbelief.

"My God! I want this medicine!"

"Is there any way to get this medicine?"

"Carole was very secretive before, saying that syphilis can be cured... He must have known the existence of this medicine a long time ago! It says that it can cure syphilis!"

"It's incredible! A country that has always rejected science has developed such a drug!"

……

Western doctors were shocked and couldn't wait to see this drug, but unfortunately they didn't know how to buy it.

"We can go to the place where the plague happened..."

"Yes. A doctor is needed there!"

"If you go there, you will definitely see Xilin!"

……

These foreign doctors made a decision almost immediately to give free consultations to people who had the plague.

Scarlet fever is actually a very common disease. Ordinary people will be very scared if they don't understand it, but these doctors are not very afraid.

Which of them has never treated a patient with scarlet fever?

Many Western doctors have gone to places where the plague broke out, and many Chinese medicine doctors have also gone there.

They are also very curious about Xilin.

Moreover, those Western doctors have gone to treat patients. They call themselves Chinese doctors, so how can they not go?

This plague finally attracted half of the doctors in Shanghai.

The rest actually want to go, but unfortunately not all doctors can walk away...

Fu Yun'an didn't go, he still has a fever.

For a long time before, he was very busy, lacked sleep, and could not see anything when he was in good health, but this time he suddenly fell ill, which made him feel like he was falling ill.

His temperature was very high last night, reaching over 39 degrees several times. Fortunately, there is still aspirin in their hospital. Mu Qiong gave him medicine in the middle of the night last night.

After taking the medicine, Fu Yun'an's condition seems to be much better, but in a short time, he definitely can't do anything, so he can only take good care of him.

When Mu Qiong woke up after a nap, he saw Sun Dalin coming and cleaning the room lightly.

"Mr. Mu, I have some good news for you!" Seeing Mu Qiong, Sun Dalin smiled and said, "Second Master Huo has medicine that can treat scarlet fever, he will donate it, Dr. Fu will be fine after injecting the medicine! "

"Really?" Mu Qiong looked at Sun Dalin pretending to be surprised.

Sun Dalin nodded happily, and then took out the newspaper for Mu Qiong to read.

Mu Qiong took the newspaper and scanned it casually, and saw clearly the news on the front page of the newspaper.

Journalists trumpeted the plague in newspapers.

Forget it, the person who wrote the article didn't write as straightforwardly as he used to write news, but imitated his style of writing, and wrote those who had the plague very pitifully.

This is really a bit abnormal.

Mu Qiong didn't pay too much attention to this news, and quickly looked at the following news, and then deliberately showed a surprised expression: "I didn't expect that the medicine written in "Contagion" actually existed, and Huo Ershao was willing to put it Donate it... Huo Ershao is really a good man."

"Yes." Sun Dalin nodded: "Second Young Master Huo is indeed a good man. He said he would find someone to send Xilin over, and Dr. Fu will be fine."

"That's good." Mu Qiong was relieved.

Although he wrote to Third Young Master Huo to ask for Xilin, it might take two days to get the medicine, and it would be very troublesome for him to use it for Fu Yun'an...Now Second Young Master Huo donates the medicine, just It would be nice not to have such troubles anymore.

Mu Qiong breathed a sigh of relief, and asked Sun Dalin if the other doctors were okay.

After coming back yesterday, Mu Qiong asked Sun Dalin to send someone to find other doctors. There was something like this in Fu Yun'an's mask. I don't know if someone targeted him alone or everyone.

"Mr. Mu, in addition to Dr. Fu, there are five other doctors whose masks have been swapped, but they are not infected. Of course, they may not be sick yet." Sun Dalin said.

In fact, they not only notified the doctors last night, Huo Ying also asked people to investigate how the masks were swapped.

Jiang Xinchun was responsible for this matter, and it was cleared up after one night.

Several doctors who went to the free clinic had their masks replaced, and these masks were all replaced by a thief in a shantytown. Give him money and ask him to change a few doctors' masks, and he will go.

He sneaked in under the pretext of helping, and Fu Yun'an and the others did not become suspicious. After all, at this time, it is a good thing that someone is willing to help.

As for the people who knew him in the shanty town... This thief used to steal things, and he never stole in the shanty town where there is nothing to steal, so that the people here have a pretty good impression of him. When he went to help, everyone just thought He wanted to stutter, and no one reminded the doctors at all.

And for this kind of thief who can steal other people's wallets without anyone noticing, it couldn't be easier to secretly replace the masks in the pockets of a few doctors.

The thief has been arrested, but Sun Dalin didn't tell Mu Qiong about it.

They are just doctors, and they can't do these things.

"As long as they're fine." Mu Qiong said, frowning again.If Fu Yun'an's mask has been tampered with, it means that the people behind the scenes are here for Fu Yun'an, but if the masks of several doctors have been tampered with... What exactly do the people behind the scene want to do?

Mu Qiong was wondering, and suddenly thought of the news on the front page of the newspaper.

There is a high possibility that this plague was concocted by humans, and the doctor's mask is probably because they want to make things worse, discredit Huo Ying and force Huo Ying to take out Xilin.

As a result... Huo Ying took the initiative to expose...

Mu Qiong has already begun to imagine the appearance of the master behind the scenes.

As for who is behind this scene... most of them are Japanese.

Xilin is very important, and it is destined to be coveted by many people, but the western powers already know that Huo Ying has Xilin in their hands, and if they want Xilin, they will definitely ask Huo Ying directly. In addition, it is possible to force anything by force, but it is impossible to use this The other way is Japan... According to what Huo Sanshao said, Huo Ying did not give Xilin to Japan.

The Japanese probably wanted to use the plague to test the effect of Xilin, to see if the medicine really existed, and then try to ruin Huo Sanshao's reputation.

The more Mu Qiong thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case.

At this time, Sun Dalin said again: "Those doctors are not used to using masks, they take them off after use, but they are not infected, Doctor Fu..."

"Yun'an needs to exercise!" Mu Qiong said.

The infectious diseases he wrote in "Contagion" are very scary, and they will be contagious as soon as you touch them, but in fact, the infectious diseases in real life are not contagious just by touching them casually.

Let’s talk about scarlet fever. This disease is actually similar to hand, foot and mouth disease and influenza. It is not even as contagious as influenza. In modern times, no one would treat it as a plague.

Generally, when a child gets sick, the parents are mostly by the side, hugging and sharing the same bed, so it is not necessarily contagious.

The reason why this disease was very serious in ancient times, and the contagion became stronger, is that the sanitation and medical conditions were not good at this time, and many poor families lived in a small house with a dozen or so people, and it was not even clean. can't drink the water.

Secondly, ordinary people at this time are generally malnourished, and that's fine, they still have to do heavy physical work, and they have to exhaust their bodies.

You know, at this time, the people at the bottom are classified as old people when they live in their 40s, and if they die in their fifties, they are regarded as the end of their lives.

Everyone's health is already poor, and if there is any infectious disease, of course it is easy to catch it.

As for the high mortality rate... Scarlet fever is a disease that causes high fever, but at this time, a small aspirin costs several oceans. How can ordinary people afford it?

Even if they could afford it...they didn't know there was such a medicine in this world, let alone where to buy it.

Forget it, this disease is not cured by taking medicine once to lower the temperature... If you have scarlet fever, you can have a fever for more than a day!

Adults can't stand the high fever, and children are even worse when they are weak. As a result, the death rate is naturally high.

In fact, most of the plagues at this time were similar to scarlet fever. It is not surprising that the doctors who went with Fu Yunan were not infected.

These doctors are usually in good health, with strong resistance, and they are adults again. Scarlet fever, a disease that usually only affects children, naturally will not fall on them.

Fu Yun'an will get sick now, definitely because his body is too weak.

Mu Qiong began to think about urging Fu Yunan to exercise, and in addition, let him rest and sleep more.

I don't know if Fu Yun'an suffered from insomnia or something else, it always seemed like he didn't get enough sleep.

While Mu Qiong was thinking about getting Fu Yun'an to exercise more, Huo Ying had already finished interrogating the captured thief.

Although the thief changed the masks of several doctors, he also said that the employer said that it is okay to not change the masks of the older doctors, but the masks of the younger doctors must be changed.

So the first thing he changed were the masks of Fu Yun'an and Shao Zhongping.

Huo Ying's mink coat was attached to a hat. When he came out of the interrogation room and entered his office, he tore off the hat, and said to the people around him: "It should be the Japanese who did it. They may have already set their sights on Yun." It's settled... Send a few more people to Yun'an to protect him."

"Yes, Second Young Master." The subordinates agreed.

Huo Ying waved him out, feeling a little regretful.

If he had known that the Japanese would make such a fuss, he would have disclosed the existence of Xilin earlier... Now that he has made such a fuss, maybe Yun'an has already been targeted by the Japanese.

Although he still doesn't know why the Japanese are eyeing Yun'an.

Huo Ying was right, Doihara Shiro had indeed set his sights on Fu Yun'an,

Early this morning, without sleeping all night, he had already read the news in the newspaper.

He wanted to discredit Huo Ying and failed again.

But not all of his plans were in vain.

He wants to know whether Xilin really exists, and now he knows it. Not only that, when Huo Ying donates Xilin...even if Huo Ying doesn't sell it to him, he can get some, and then send it back to China for people in their country to study .

He doesn't believe that people in their country can't research things that can be researched by Chinese people.

Doihara Shiro thought so, and immediately asked someone to contact the people from the government department in Shanghai, and asked them to try to get Xilin.

At the same time, he also asked people to stare at Fu Yun'an and Shao Zhongping.

He hired a thief to change the mask, and afterward, he sent someone to keep an eye on the thief.

The thief was caught.

Those doctors, even if they discovered the mystery in the mask, they would not be able to find out the matter and catch the person in such a short period of time... If such a situation occurs, it is probably Huo Ying who made the move.

I don't know for whom Huo Ying made the move... Shiro Doihara looked at the five names on the paper in front of him, and circled two of them.

Fu Yun'an, Shao Zhongping.

Shiro Doihara stared at the two names for a while, then frowned again.

Most of their Japanese influence in China is in the Northeast and Shandong. There are not many Japanese in Shanghai, and even fewer people under his command.

For a long time, Britain and France have firmly controlled Shanghai, and other forces are not allowed to intervene.

Forget it, the spies he spent a lot of time burying, and the intelligence network he laid out, were taken over by a bunch of people.

Thinking of those things, Doihara Shiro's face became a little ugly.

If they had no one in Shanghai, and they were worried about Britain and France, how could they not even be able to catch their luck?

And Xilin...

Although the Western powers are at war, they still cannot be underestimated. If their countries want to obtain Xilin, they need to use some special means...

Doihara Shiro began to plan.

On the other side, Mu Qiong is making Fu Yun'an have breakfast.

Breakfast is shredded chicken porridge and buns from the Fu family.

Cook porridge with skimmed chicken broth, add shredded chicken and chopped cabbage heart, the porridge is not only easy to digest, but also nutritious.

Just a little hungry.

Fortunately, there are big meat buns.

Mu Qiong drank a bowl of porridge with him, and ate two meat buns before he was full.

"I have Sun Dalin taking care of me here, you don't need to stay here." Fu Yun'an ate something and took another aspirin, he was much more awake, and said to Mu Qiong.

"It's inconvenient for Sun Dalin to take care of you," Mu Qiong said.

"Inconvenient?" Fu Yunan frowned.

"You are my man, how can you let others take care of you?" Mu Qiong said.

Seeing Mu Qiong like this, Fu Yun'an suddenly wanted to laugh.

He was very uncomfortable, but he felt quite comfortable.

"Yun'an, Huo Ershao has a medicine called Xilin, which can cure scarlet fever, you can relax, this is just a small problem." Mu Qiong said again.

"I know." Fu Yunan smiled.

Mu Qiong poured another glass of water for Fu Yun'an: "Yun'an, the masks of several doctors have been swapped this time, it is estimated that someone wants to harm you... I think it is someone who wants to cheat Huo Ershao, but Huo Ershao Shao, in turn, disintegrated their scheme..."

Mu Qiong told Fu Yun'an his analysis.

On the one hand, this is to let Fu Yunan know that the scheme of the people behind the scenes has not succeeded, so that Fu Yunan can be happier. On the other hand... he also wants to show off.

He thinks his analysis is quite powerful.

While they were chatting, someone sent Xilin. The person who came was the western doctor who was called to the orphanage by Jin Huailai to treat the dying child who was seriously injured.

This person really belonged to Second Young Master Huo, maybe he was the one who researched Xilin... Mu Qiong remembered that this person had injected medicine into that child, and the medicine was probably penicillin.

Mu Qiong looked at this man curiously, and then saw that he planned to inject Fu Yun'an directly.

"Wait." Mu Qiong stopped: "Is Xilin injected directly? Is there any problem with this injection?"

The man said: "Xilin is injected directly, of course I have to give him a skin test first."

As he spoke, he used the syringe to do a skin test on Fu Yun'an's arm.

He had already injected his third young master with Xilin last night, and he had done a skin test at that time, so that he almost forgot this step...

Fortunately, it was remedied in time.

When Mu Qiong saw him doing this, he thought that he was thinking too much just now—this person might not want to inject directly, but wanted to give Fu Yunan a skin test.

Fu Yun'an: "..." The skin test was very painful, and it hurt one more time for nothing.

Because of the skin test, Fu Yun'an was injected with penicillin after a long time.

After giving Fu Yun'an the injection, the western doctor left.

Mu Qiong stayed and continued to talk with Fu Yun'an.

Fu Yun'an actually has a lot of things to deal with, but Mu Qiong has been staying here and won't leave, he can't handle it in front of Mu Qiong...

He simply ignored it, and Huo Ying was also in Shanghai, so there was nothing wrong with him.

Fu Yun took a rest with peace of mind, asked people to put away his letters first, and went to see him after he recovered from his illness.

After Fu Yun'an gave such instructions, the letter from Tianxing that had just been delivered was locked into the box together with other letters.

Mu Qiong has been with Fu Yun'an all the time, but those patients suffering from scarlet fever in the suburbs of Shanghai are still a little dazed at the moment.

Most of these patients were children, but there were also many adults, and when they learned that they had the plague, they thought they might die.

At the beginning, they were lying at home waiting to die, but yesterday a group of doctors came, and together with the police, they got all of them into that ruined temple!

And they actually ate egg porridge in the ruined temple!

With such a disease, they deliberately eat less at home. After all, it is a waste for people who are about to die to eat too much.

But now, someone actually gave them egg porridge!

In the spirit of not being wasted, and planning to be a hungry ghost if they die, they all ate a lot.

This night, because of someone crying, many of them didn't sleep well, but the next day, when they found out that they were being served porridge with lean meat and vegetables, they became excited.

They thought, no matter how uncomfortable they are, they have to eat a few more meals and enjoy it before they die!

Thinking of this, their mental state will be much better.

And at this moment, many doctors came suddenly, and these doctors also told them that their illnesses could be cured!

The patients who were waiting to die in the room were all excited for a moment, and then they were surrounded by many more people than these patients.