Practicing Medicine in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 46

Seeing his anxious expression, Wu Yi couldn't help but soften his heart.

Zuo is just a child who is less than eight years old, and he is at the age of being proud of being coquettish and rolling around. If he can have fun at the knees of his parents, even in a small town as remote as Yuanzhou, he will always be happy with his family, so why bother begging him to do it? master.

As for Li Sujie and his wife...

Thinking of the couple who had helped him in Yuanzhou, Wu Yi couldn't help feeling a wave of uneasiness in his heart.

He had broken letters with the county prince's mansion for more than a year, and he still didn't know what their situation was now, or they had been relocated to some other poor and remote counties.

It's just that everything is busy right now, and I really don't have the time to ask them about it.

While meditating, there was a sudden knock on the door, followed by the yawning voice of his teacher——

"Bastard, go out to work!"

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There are nearly a hundred cases of confirmed or suspected smallpox patients in the Wangling newspaper, and there are only three imperial doctors and their students accompanying them. It will take a lot of time to check them one by one.

"Just stay and watch the dog." Shen Hanshan summoned Zhang Qiren's students and he was not polite, "If any dog ​​has acne, report it immediately!"

Xu Ziwen and Wu Xu wished that they didn't have to go out on their errands, and while they were busy, they took charge of the two dog pens, lifted a chair and reclined on them, and they were more relaxed than anyone else.

"Wu Yi, go and see these ten households."

Shen Hanshan gave him a list of ten suspected smallpox families, and the three doctors divided the remaining schools equally.

Although Wu Yi was assigned to only ten households, he went to check it alone, and the responsibility was extremely heavy—once smallpox became prevalent, it would cause a devastating blow to the famine-stricken Guanzhong area.

Therefore, if one family is missed by mistake, it may lead to a catastrophe, and it is safe to give him a part of the family, which shows the trust of the three doctors in him.

Shen Hanshan ordered to go down, and the group of people got the order, like a pigeon flying out of the cage, they rushed to the door they wanted to check without stopping.

Wu Yi checked door by door according to his own list, and found that Shen Hanshan should have assigned him the dozen or so families he was still suspicious of, and out of the ten, only one had real smallpox, and the remaining nine had real smallpox. Either chickenpox or measles, both are diseases that can heal on their own and only need maintenance.

He had seen all the pulses of these patients, and left solutions for them. He was the first one to return to the county mansion amidst the gratitude of the farmers.

Rao is the lightest of his weight, and it took a whole day to go back and forth to his hometown.

After sorting out the list and putting it on Shen Hanshan's desk, he looked vaguely through the screen window, the slanting sun outside the window was like a fiery red boulder, burning the whole sky crimson, and two flying geese flashed by in the distance, like two small flying geese. Arrows go through the sun.

I can't help but feel moved, they are a busy group of people, from the most expensive imperial doctor doctor, down to him, a little-known little student, no matter their rank, seniority, or priority, they are all doctors with heavy responsibilities.

There are many affairs under the division, but the responsibilities on the body are regardless of the severity.The current situation is serious, they are like this pair of geese, no matter how hot the sky is, they must break through the clouds and the sun to get through this difficulty.

Thinking of it this way, my heart couldn't help shaking, and I couldn't bear to take time to rest. I just picked up Ge Hong's "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription" on Shen Hanshan's desk, selected the smallpox section, and studied it carefully.

"If you don't cure it immediately, you will die. If the cure is poor, the sores and scars will be purple and dark, and they will disappear when they are old. This vicious aura is also..."[1]

The densely packed words are like a net, covering all the sleepiness of two days and one night without sleep. Wu Yi only felt that these wise words were too heavy to put into his mind, making his head droop uncontrollably... …

He tilted his neck, finally fell on his teacher's desk, and fell into a deep sleep.

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Perhaps it was because he was too tired, but he slept very peacefully and soundly this time.

When Wu Yi opened his eyes, he found himself lying on the bed in the wing room of the east courtyard, with Li Jing lying beside him, watching him sleep with his little face propped up.

Not only was he a little embarrassed, he fell asleep on the teacher's desk, obviously Shen Hanshan sent him back, but he was unconscious...

Looking out of the window, the dark blue night is already dotted with stars all over the sky, like a bright and gorgeous cloak draped in the sky, with strands of starry tassels hanging faintly.

Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, but luckily he didn't sleep until dawn.

"Master..."

Li Jing felt that this was considered private, so of course he should call Master, holding his arm and half leaning on his shoulder: "You have been sleeping for a long time..."

An ominous premonition welled up in Wu Yi's heart: "What time is it now? How long have I been asleep?"

Li Jing rested his chin and calculated carefully: "It's the second watch, you're asleep..."

He counted with his fingers for a long time, and came up with a general answer——

"About twelve hours."

"Then...how did I get here?"

If Shen Hanshan brought him here, he would be too ashamed of his teacher. I hope that some discerning servant saw him lying on Shen Hanshan's table...

"It was His Royal Highness who brought you here."

Li Jing interrupted the thoughts in his mind flatly: "His Royal Highness asked me to leave you a sentence-he heard that you had blood disease in the early years, and told you to cherish your health and rest in the future. Patient, delayed his own body."

Wu Yi's face turned red when he heard this, and Li Jing's words immediately cut his confused mood to pieces—now he still has nothing to worry about, he just wants to cover himself with the blanket and suffocate himself to death.

From the west courtyard to the east courtyard, not to mention others, Xu Ziwen and Wu Xu's eyes must have seen it, not to mention the servants of the Wang family who came and went, maybe even those ten pairs of dog eyes must have seen it!

He had tasted the power of rumors in Yuanzhou, and if there were any more rumors, it would be really hard to explain.

Just when he was about to bury himself in the quilt like a turtle, a person broke into the door in a hurry, and he was taken out of the quilt without saying anything first.

"Have you gotten enough sleep?"

Shen Hanshan glanced sideways, not because he was his student, he was extra magnanimous, pulled Wu Yi out of the bed with one hand, and held a copy of "Urgent Preparations behind the Elbow" in the other hand, and angrily asked Wu Yi to settle the score.

"Look, look what this is!" His face was full of disgust.

Wu Yi took a look, and his blushing face immediately turned into cooked shrimp.

Shen Hanshan held a good medical book, which was stained by his saliva when he fell asleep. Even the handwriting on smallpox was blurred. If you don't look carefully, you can't read Clear the handwriting.

Wu Yi subconsciously swallowed his saliva, and was about to make an apology when Shen Hanshan had already thrown away the book and put it on his case.

"It's a pity that this book is "Empty Preparations behind the Elbow" written by Sun Xianren himself. How did you ruin it?" He waved his sleeves, as if he was very regretful, "Keep it for yourself, I don't want it. No, no more!"

While mocking him, Shen Hanshan had already given Wu Yi the best gift since he started his career - the medical scriptures annotated by Sun Xianren himself. This is a good thing that many disciples are eager to snatch and put on the incense table!

Wu Yi knew that his teacher was the most ruthless person, so if he wanted to send this book, he had to arrange a meal for him first.

To outsiders, his skin is thicker than the city wall, but only he himself knows the truth. Dr. Shen, who looks unkempt and unruly, has such a thin skin that he can break it with a single poke!

He just complained about these words in his heart, how dare he make Shen Hanshan angry on the surface.

He obediently thanked his teacher, settled down Li Jing who was supposed to be sleeping, and tidied up his appearance before following Shen Hanshan out the door again.

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Shen Hanshan walked together and explained to him many things that happened that day.

There have been letters from Chang'an reporting back. Fortunately, no smallpox epidemic has been found in other places except Meizhou. Because the royal tomb was closed and locked in time, the scope of smallpox infection was temporarily controlled within the territory of Meizhou.

And the nearly 81 households were checked one by one, and it was confirmed that there were [-] households with smallpox. All of them had subsidized the food and locked the gate of the courtyard. People from outside go in, strictly guard against it, and must not allow the infection to go out.

Among the ten dogs that Xu Ziwen and Wu Xu took care of, five had been inoculated with pox, and one of them had already developed pox and was still having a high fever. Go on, still a little spirit for the time being.

"This dog does have a lot less pox than a child with smallpox, you see."

The dog that Shen Hanshan pointed at happened to be the aggressive leading dog that day, and at this moment, he also lost his arrogant and ferocious posture that day, lying on the ground with his tongue stretched out, panting to dissipate heat.

Wu Yi took a closer look and found that the smallpox pimples on the dog were sparse, except for two more on the face, which were not spread all over the body like the children with the disease. Presumably, using the diluted pox pulp to vaccinate the pox would be somewhat effective for the time being.

The next step is to observe the life and death of this dog.

Wu Yi looked down at this big half-dead wolfdog, and prayed silently in his heart, you must live on.

The two master and apprentice looked at a dying dog for a long time, and then Shen Hanshan said lightly: "Vaccinate the pox to prevent pox, this method is really very clever."

"The teacher is rude."

Wu Yi is also really helpless. This method, which became common sense 1000 years later, was indeed too advanced 1000 years ago.Not to mention Shen Hanshan, even if he himself heard this idea from others, he couldn't help but wonder where that person came from.

What's more, he has arsenic to cure blood disease, and closed drainage to treat pneumothorax. It doesn't look like a young student who just entered this field can have the ability.

Unless he is gifted, if there is divine help, then there must be an expert behind him.