Occupational sacrifice

Chapter 93

Zhang Buyi nodded and said: "Understood, then we two go first!"

Kou Mingjian hesitated for a moment when he heard the words, and said, "I heard that the epidemic is very raging, and even low-level monks are easily infected."

"I know!" Zhang Buyi paused and replied with a blank expression.

Seeing that Zhang Buyi had no intention of retreating, Kou Mingjian stopped talking and took out a map with some markings on it, saying:
"Your Excellency, you can go to these places. This is the gathering place of several famous doctors in Zhejiang Province. You can also go to Fucheng, but there has been no news from Fucheng for three days."

Zhang Buyi looked at it, put away the map, and said: "Okay, you continue to guard the gate!"

While speaking, Zhang Buyi led Zhou Shuren through the checkpoint and entered Zhejiang Province.

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Zhang Buyi and the others traveled a further distance, and according to the map, they found an official post on a pipeline that received doctors into Jinzhou.

It may be that the two did not belong to the official organization to rescue, so they did not come with the batch. When they came to the official post, it was empty, except for the errands, there was no one there.

Zhang Buyi took out his token, expressed his intention to come, and stayed for one night.

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"Master!"

"Senior Chen?"

Early the next morning, the two of them, who had had a rest for the night, bumped into Chen Lianfang who had been waiting outside for an unknown amount of time as soon as they left the official post.

"Master, why are you here?" Zhang Buyi was puzzled at first, and then asked himself and answered: "That's right, I guess most of the summer will know about such a big matter, Master, how could it be possible that you haven't received the news. "

"Let's go, let's go to the epidemic area to see what kind of road it is." Chen Lianfang said concisely with an indifferent face and no waves in the ancient well.

"Well, that's what the Shuren and I planned too!" Zhang Buyi replied.

Zhou Shuren originally wanted to say hello habitually and have a chat, but seeing Chen Lianfang's attitude, his lips moved and he didn't say the last word.

"You two officials, your horse." At this time, the official post staff led the horse out of the backyard.

Zhou Shuren looked at the two horses and the three of them, and said hesitantly, "Second Uncle, please ride with me!"

Zhang Buyi shook his head with a smile, "No need!"

While speaking, he looked down at the little fox with only one head exposed in his arms, and said, "Little guy, it's your job!"

"Chirp!"

As the little fox yelled, it crawled out from Zhang Buyi's lapel, and landed on the ground, turning into a tall white fox with a strong body and a vigorous body.

[Fate +1! 】

'This sheep is really a bit bald!After several days of various teasing, just a little bit! '

Zhang Buyi turned on his back, and under Zhou Shuren's envious eyes, he said, "Let's go!"

Immediately, the two also got on their horses and went straight to Jinzhou Mansion.

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The three of them rode forward for a while, and stopped at a village on the outskirts of the city when they were still some distance away from Jinzhou.

The village looked unusually quiet, but it wasn't deserted. Obviously, there should have been people there before.Now it is completely silent, there are dark crows on the dead trees, and unknown carrion birds hovering in the sky.

The three got off the horse, the little fox turned into the size of a palm, and slipped into Zhang Buyi's pocket.Zhou Shuren and Chen Lianfang led the horses and walked into the village carefully.

"Hmm... this smell!" As soon as they entered the village, a faint rancid smell, mixed with an inexplicable disgusting smell, rushed straight into the noses of the three of them, and Zhou Shuren couldn't help reaching out and fanning the tip of their noses fan.

"Be careful, this seems to be a kind of sickness!" At this time, Chen Lianfang's expression moved slightly, and he rarely took the initiative to remind him.

Zhou Shuren's complexion changed slightly, and his mana fluctuated slightly, cutting off direct contact with the outside world.

"quack······"

"chirp..."

The three of them stepped into the village and broke the silence of the village. Several pitch-black crows flew in all directions, and several mice the size of weasels fled with some small mice.

Zhang Buyi and Zhou Shuren opened several village houses one after another with unsightly faces, and what they saw were either some fresh bones covered with bite marks, or corpses emitting a foul smell.

A few people quickly went around the small village, but they didn't find a living person, and everyone died at home.Judging from the traces, it was quite painful before death.

"It's the Black Death!" After a long time, Chen Lianfang frowned and said after examining several corpses, "This disease shouldn't break out into such a situation normally?"

"Black Death?" Zhou Shuren looked at Chen Lianfang suspiciously, he had never heard of this disease at all.Chen Lianfang frowned and examined the corpse, ignoring Zhou Shuren.

"It's the plague." Zhang Buyi explained.

"Plague!!! How dare the prefect of Jinzhou hide the occurrence of such a major epidemic, and not notify the imperial doctor in Shangjing to suppress it immediately?!" Zhou Shuren said in horror.

Zhang Buyi shook his head, Chen Lianfang had already got up and said: "Let's go, let's go to Fucheng to have a look."

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"Can Senior Chen do it? I heard that every time the plague breaks out, it's not the same. Only after on-site investigation, diagnosis, and multi-party consultation by the imperial doctor in Beijing can a large-scale life-saving decoction be produced." Zhou Shuren asked cautiously, worried.

Inheritance from the Zhou family, plus he has been traveling for two months, although his medical skills are already considered good, it is only for a traveling doctor.In the face of this epidemic, he has nothing to do anyway.

"Don't worry, Master has studied a lot. He has read almost all the books on Taoism and medicine in his school. I remember that there is a record of plague treatment prescription in Qianjinfang.

Although it may be different, if you find a sick person, with Master's medical skills, you should be able to treat them within a day or two at most. " Zhang Buyi said so.

"This...Second Uncle, do you think I look like someone who doesn't understand anything? Is it really that simple, and still use the Imperial Physician in Shangjing for consultation?" Zhou Shuren said speechlessly.

Zhang Buyi glanced at Zhou Shuren and said, "That's because you don't know what kind of Taoist doctor your master is."

Zhou Shuren heard the words and looked at Chen Lianfang in front of him again. Although the difference in cultivation level was not clear, but...Senior Chen should not have been ranked two yet, right?

Of course, what Zhang Buyi didn't say was that, apart from common prescriptions, because of modern medicine, his mana could completely simulate several simple and common antibiotics, such as penicillin and streptomycin.

As long as the situation is confirmed, it shouldn't be difficult for Chen Lianfang to treat him on the spot, but if he comes up with a prescription, it may not be easy to treat the whole Jinzhou.

After all, in the current Great Xia, even if Zhang Buyi simulated all the principles, it is impossible to produce large-scale antibiotics in a short time.

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Not long after, the three of them came to Jinzhou Mansion.

It was already noon, no one entered the city, and there were not many people standing guard at the gate. It seemed that they were not allowed to leave the city at all.

Zhang Buyi first threw out the token, and then revealed his identity as a doctor, and was easily released into the city.

Declining the guard's suggestion to lead the way, the three of them didn't go to the concentrated report first like those doctors who were recruited by the government, and then consulted with those doctors who didn't know what level they were, but went straight to the scene.

In fact, there was no need to look for any epidemic area. The moment they entered Jinzhou Mansion, not to mention Zhang Buyi and Chen Lianfang, even the apprentice Zhou Shuren frowned.

The three of them clearly felt that the air in Jinzhou Prefecture seemed to be abnormally turbid. This was not an illusion, but rather a sickness that was not weak.

The bustling Jinzhou Mansion has become extremely bleak in less than half a month.There are few people on the street, and there is a sense of desolation and dilapidation, even more depressed than the frontier city during the war.

Occasionally, I saw two hurrying passers-by. Other than that, the most people I saw were dying patients lying on the side of the road or leaning against their own doors, with feverish forehead, red and swollen cheeks, and constant coughing.

"How did the prefect of Jinzhou do it? How could the plague break out like this in such a short period of time, and even the entire prefecture was infected." Looking at the situation that was completely out of control, Zhou Shuren said with a frown.

Zhang Buyi remained silent, while Chen Lianfang had already begun to investigate the patients who hadn't died yet, with mana auras constantly changing, and began to try to treat them.

Seeing this, Zhou Shuren stopped talking, and started to check the patient.

"Be careful, this disease looks simple, but it broke out so quickly and swept across the whole state, I always feel that it is not simple." Zhang Buyi said to Zhou Shuren.

"I understand, Second Uncle!" Zhou Shuren nodded, his whole body was covered by a layer of mana film while the mana fluctuated all over his body, and he began to check it.

"Fever, red and swollen cheeks, cough, and tendency to bleed, it is indeed the plague!" After a while, Zhou Shuren confirmed the illness.

Noticing that Zhang Buyi and Chen Lianfang were checking on the patients and trying to cure them, he asked in surprise, "Second Uncle, you also know how to do medicine?"

Zhang Buyi gave Zhou Shuren a white look, and said: "Your second uncle, I am also from the Zhou family, and my teacher is Taoist medicine, why do you think I am not good at medicine?"

"Eh... It's just that I haven't seen Second Uncle do anything before, so I thought that Second Uncle, like Second Grandpa, abandoned medicine and went to literature!" Zhou Shuren said.

"Aren't you planning to give up medicine and go to literature now? It's not the same as medical skills." Zhang Buyi replied like this.

Zhou Shuren nodded and said, "That's right!"

The two stopped talking. After confirming the illness, Zhou Shuren stopped busying around and just watched Zhang Buyi and Chen Lianfang's movements quietly.

He knows the level of his medical skills. Headaches and brain fever are okay, and intractable diseases depend on luck. For this kind of epidemic, he should be honest and fight. It is his ability not to catch it!
In this way, Zhang Buyi and Chen Lianfang began to keep trying. They didn't immediately start the prescription. They first figured out the specific condition with mana.

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They walked along a street, before they finished investigating the situation, a team of policemen suddenly found Zhang Buyi and the three of them.

"Official Tong Hongqing, I have met the inspector!" The head catcher Tong Hongqing brought four policemen to Zhang Buyi and the others, and said politely.

Judging from its appearance, it should be the news delivered by the guards at the gate of the city.

Chen Lianfang didn't pay attention to the other party's plan at all, and tried to treat him on his own. Zhang Buyi looked at Tong Hongqing, the head catcher, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Tong Hongqing glanced at the three of them, and said, "This inspector looks familiar, which one does he belong to in Zhejiang Province?"

Zhang Buyi waved his hand and said, "We are not from the Inspection Department of Zhejiang Province, we came from Shu to handle the case, just happened to encounter the epidemic, so we stopped by to have a look."

Tong Hongqing thought of something when he heard the words, and asked in surprise: "Bashu wandering doctor and Confucian hero?"

Zhang Buyi paused, and said: "If you mean our uncle and nephew who are wandering around Fuzhou and Zhejiang these days, it should be it."

Tong Hongqing was overjoyed when he heard the words, and said: "I have heard about your lord's name for a long time, but I never imagined that you are still the lord of the inspection department."

Zhang Buyi's expression was indifferent, and he didn't have much desire to do business with him, so he said indifferently: "You guys have something to do, you can leave if you don't have anything to do."

"It is Master Bo who heard that several medical inspections came, and ordered the officials to invite you to the temporary medical department for consultation. After all, there are many people and many strengths.

If I had known how many people you were waiting for, Sir Bo, I would have personally invited you. "Tong Hongqing explained.

"Master Bo? Isn't the prefect of Jinzhou in charge of the city now?" Zhang Buyi questioned.

"The prefect did not survive the epidemic the day before yesterday and has passed away. The order from the Zhezhou government has not yet come down, and Wei Gongwei Zhu Bo is temporarily in charge of the big and small matters in the city." Tong Hongqing replied.

"Huo! All prefects of a prefecture were killed by this plague? So it can really infect practitioners? Even practitioners who have taken office?" Zhang Buyi raised his eyebrows, always feeling that this matter is getting more and more interesting.

"Yes, my lord, not only can it infect practitioners, but the infected practitioners will become more violent. It can take three days if it is slow, or half a day if it is fast, and the person will be gone.

Of the few local doctors in our Jinzhou City, there are only two left now, and the rest are all infected with epidemic diseases, and their conditions have changed, so they suddenly went. " Tong Hongqing replied.

"Interesting, this plague can vary from person to person..."

"Cough cough..."

Without waiting for Zhang Buyi to say anything, the patient that Chen Lianfang was treating with all his strength suddenly coughed violently, interrupting Zhang Buyi's words.His strong cough made his complexion bloodshot, and he almost died from coughing.

"Wow······"

The man coughed for a few breaths, and suddenly, as if coughing up a mouthful of thick phlegm, he spit out a lump of disgusting mucus with a strong stench.

With the spitting out of this mucus, his complexion became pale visible to the naked eye, but his whole body seemed to let go of something, and he completely relaxed, feeling relaxed for a while.

[Fate +1! 】

"Is this... a solution has been found?" Zhou Shuren looked at this scene, surprised and hesitated.

Chen Lianfang nodded and said: "I have found a preliminary solution, but it can only be used for on-site treatment. I can't do a state-wide treatment. It is a temporary solution, not a permanent solution. I still need to research a prescription."

Tong Hongqing had recovered from his daze at this moment, and said in surprise: "This lord can cure this plague?"

(End of this chapter)