Chapter 140 A big deal

Magistrate Shen was stunned.

She didn't expect that Mrs. Gu, a commoner, could do so in a critical moment.

"Sir, I'm going first."

Mo Li pulled up his mask, put on his hat, and strode out of the county office.

Looking at his back, Magistrate Shen admired him very much. With this kind of character and bearing, given time, he will surely become a great person!

She was about to sit down and continue arranging government affairs. Master Yuan, who had just walked out, hurriedly returned: "Sir, it's bad, someone has died in the city again!"

Magistrate Shen stood up suddenly: "How many people died?"

"The four people who died all died suddenly after taking Tongrentang's antipyretic drugs." Master Yuan was still frightened. "The previous deceased died during the treatment process, but today these four people's fevers have clearly subsided. Somehow I didn’t get over it... The family of the deceased made a big fuss in Tongrentang..."

Magistrate Shen's face was solemn: "That is to say, there is indeed something wrong with the original recipe... Before night, Master Yuan, please send someone to Nanzhou Fucheng to report the new recipe to the prefect. As for its use, If you don’t use this recipe, it’s up to the prefect to make your own decision. Also, ask the prefect to urgently transfer some skullcap from the north..."

Master Yuan raised his hand: "Yes!"

Four people suddenly died suddenly in Youshui County, causing huge panic.

If taking medicine can kill someone, who would dare to trust doctors anymore?

Two doctors from Tongrentang and doctors from three other medical clinics gathered in the inner hall to study the prescription together.

This is a fever-reducing prescription that has been passed down from generation to generation. They can write down the formula and dosage without thinking. But now, so many patients are taking this medicine at the same time, and not even one person has recovered. The person who got sick first It has been four days. Logically speaking, if you take the medicine for four days, even if you are not cured, you will be mostly better. Why is it so serious?

Doctor Zhou touched his beard and said: "I'm afraid this illness is not an ordinary fever. The cause needs to be found."

"There are only a few reasons for a patient to have a sudden high fever, such as wind-cold and cold, or evil heat spreading out. For those with wind-cold, use ephedra, cinnamon twigs, and Qianghuo; for those with wind-heat, use bupleurum, cohosh, and mint... I think the prescription is No problem…”

"If there is no problem, why do the people in the city never recover from long-term illnesses, and some even die suddenly?"

"This is a plague...there is no cure!"

"All sick people must be buried alive, otherwise the entire Youshui County will die!"

"..."

A room full of doctors looked horrified.

Plague is not an unfamiliar word. Just over ten years ago, during the border war, too many people died, and there was no time to deal with the corpses in the summer, so the plague broke out.

As the plague spreads, one village after another is wiped out. The plague will not be over until all the infected people are dead...

"Everyone, don't talk nonsense!" Mo Li came in from the door and threw the prescription on the desk, "From now on, make the medicine according to this recipe. The six of you will be responsible for all the people in the city. The two of you will follow me. Let’s go outside the city together!”

Doctor Zhou picked up the prescription: "Here, this is an antidote. It is a prescription for treating animals. How can it..."

Medicines are divided into three parts: poisons. Interpretations are those prescriptions that go straight to the curative effect. No matter where the disease comes from or the tolerance of the internal organs, as long as it is useful, if there are side effects, just prescribe the medicine to treat the side effects... Traditional Chinese medicine does not advocate this shortcut treatment method.

Although Mo Li didn't understand this, he supported his wife unconditionally.

He snorted coldly and said: "According to your treatment, I don't know how many people will die. If you treat people like animals, you can save one by one! Also, this prescription was written and submitted by a miracle doctor.

That miracle doctor travels all over the world and has a wide range of knowledge. Naturally, your knowledge is shallow and you cannot understand the magic of this prescription. Don't sit in a daze, go and make the medicine!"

Although there are still many people who disagree with this recipe, if this recipe is not used, are there any other better recipes?

The current situation is urgent, and a dead horse must be treated as a live doctor. Besides, Mo Xiucai was the one who got the prescription. If something big happens, then Mo Xiucai must also be mainly responsible. If this prescription is effective, then they will also take the credit.

Mo Li took four government officials and two doctors and went outside the city.

It was afternoon at this time, and before it was time to cook the porridge, the big pot happened to be empty.

Mo Li asked him to light a fire and immediately started boiling medicine. As soon as the fire started, many refugees began to gather around him, thinking they were making porridge.

"It's not porridge, what are you cooking?"

"Could it be that they boiled the bark of wild vegetables and gave it to us to eat?"

"It's good to be able to drink hot bark porridge. It's better than drinking the northwest wind."

The refugees gathered around and talked quietly.

Mo Li stood on the chair and said loudly: "This is boiled medicine. It is specially used to treat diseases. Drinking it can save lives. Come and get the medicine in half an hour. People who are not sick should not come here."

The refugees couldn't help but be in an uproar.

"The magistrate of Youshui County is so kind. Even if he has two porridges a day, he still has medicine."

"I heard a long time ago that Youshui County had a great harvest. The county government here must be very rich, otherwise there would be no money to buy medicinal materials for us refugees."

"The refugees who came from Nanzhou yesterday said that Nanzhou only provides one meal of porridge a day, which is plain water porridge. After drinking it, your stomach will be full of water. The magistrate of Nanzhou is too poor, and you are the richest in Youshui County. We are in the right place.

Already."

"I also heard about the name of the richest village in Youshui County. I heard that their village harvested rice twice, so there must be a lot of food..."

A group of refugees here are discussing.

Let the few men gathered together over there hear it. They are also refugees, and they are the leaders among this group of refugees.

The three or four people looked at each other and then laughed at the same time.

They have been together for three or four months, and they already have a tacit understanding with each other. They know what the other person is thinking without communicating.

A large pot of medicine was quickly cooked, but with as many as four to five hundred refugees, it would take more than a dozen pots of medicine to be boiled. Drinking a bowl of medicine per person would be reassuring even if no effect is seen for the time being.

Porridge was served twice a day, and medicine was served three times a day. Large pots were set up in and around the city all day long.

Mo Li was so busy following everyone that he felt dizzy.

Even during the most tiring autumn harvest in Gujiacun, he was not so tired.

But Mo Li didn't stop. When he handed bowls of porridge and bowls of medicine to the hands of the refugees, he felt an inexplicable sense of responsibility in his heart.

A scholar must be ambitious and have a long way to go.

Isn’t it important to consider benevolence as one’s own responsibility?

Isn't it just a matter of time before death?

He once again realized what the words in the book meant.

On the morning of the next day, good news came from the city. The body temperatures of many patients with high fever gradually dropped. Although they were not cured, at least they gave people hope.

Magistrate Shen still didn't sleep all night. He had a direction for the treatment of the disease, so he could put it aside for the time being.

However, there was not much food left in the granary.

She put down her pen and spoke slowly: "Master Yuan, take my seal with you and invite all the merchants in Youshui County. Each merchant must send a representative. Anyone who dares to disobey will be tied up directly. Bring it here."

Master Yuan was surprised and said: "Sir, what do you mean..."

"Youshui County is in trouble, and these extremely wealthy businessmen should have something to say." Magistrate Shen sighed, "Although doing this will make the merchants jealous, we have to do this... we can't just watch it. Hundreds of victims outside the city starved to death."

Master Yuan understood it as soon as he heard it.

The situation in Nanzhou Fucheng is even more difficult. There is definitely no hope. The only option is to let the merchants bleed and transfer the pressure of food shortage to the merchants.

Although this method is somewhat damaging and is not conducive to the management of merchants in the future, it must be admitted that this is the only effective method at present.

Master Yuan turned around and went to do this.

Nowadays, the city is in turmoil, and the police officers are patrolling at all hours of the day. Everyone is panicked. Even the wealthy merchants are afraid of contracting the plague and dying suddenly. Many merchants want to take their families to other places to avoid, but The city gate was closed and they couldn't get out.

These people also wanted to know what the county magistrate's next arrangements were, so as soon as Master Yuan went to invite people, the merchants came without saying a word.

The lobby of the Yamen was filled with merchants, as many as sixty or seventy people.

The shopkeepers of each shop had their faces covered with a layer of gauze... They didn't know why they had to cover their faces. They saw that the government servants had something covering their faces, so they followed suit.

After everyone arrived, Master Yuan went to the study to ask for Magistrate Shen.

As soon as he walked outside, a yamen servant came over in a hurry: "Master, that shopkeeper Wu said he would recruit, and he did all the recruitment..."

Master Yuan thought for a while before he remembered who Shopkeeper Wu was.

The shopkeeper who wanted to buy Mrs. Gu's prescription forcibly, wasn't his surname Wu? He was a foreigner. He heard the news and came to Youshui County. Before he started doing business, the boy beside him revealed the purchase of the soap prescription. Out...

The Lord sent him to investigate, and he found out easily that the first thing that Shopkeeper Wu did when he came to Youshui County was to seize a married woman... So, he immediately arrested Shopkeeper Wu and threw him into prison. .

I have been busy dealing with the refugees these days, so I forgot about Shopkeeper Wu.

As far as he knew, Shopkeeper Wu was quite rich, so why not give him a huge killing?

Although the method was a bit dirty and despicable, the money was used for the victims, and he, Yuan, had a clear conscience!

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