sister-in-law

Chapter 225 The Plague Is Rampant
A large amount of construction materials were piled up around Yicheng, and Gu Zhang began to select skilled craftsmen from the army to build houses.

In view of the small population in Yicheng, Su Ruoli specially drew them a blueprint and asked them to build a modern apartment-like house according to the plan.

A city of Yi is divided into several areas, rows of neat buildings, several residential areas interspersed with shop facades, and various entertainment venues.Of course, she didn't forget to build a small medical clinic for herself.

In the future, there will be more people here, and doctors who treat people will be indispensable.She decided to imitate the modern hospital in Yicheng and build a fully functional hospital capable of performing major surgeries.

And she is the first dean.

At that time, take in a few more apprentices and recruit some young girls to be nurses.

In addition, she also wants to build a library in the central area, which can enrich the people living here to read books and pass the leisure time.

Every night, lying in bed, she fantasizes that one day, Yicheng can also be built into a modern metropolis.

Gu Zhang was really resolute. Once he had the building materials and manpower, he immediately started to build the house.

With a lot of people and strength, and sufficient things, the house was built quickly.

Longxi has always been dry, and the refugees continued to pour in. Gu Zhang recruited some young and middle-aged people to build houses and take care of two meals a day.For these refugees who have no food to eat, this is already a great joy.

They worked tremblingly and worked hard without complaint, which really relieved Gu Zhang a lot.

Su Ruoli thought that this could be regarded as "relief with work", but she didn't expect that such a method would exist in this era.

However, Gu Zhang definitely didn't know the word, if she said it, this guy would have to think about it for several days.

Gu Zhang is busier every day. In addition to patrolling the military camp, he also takes a certain amount of time to go around Yicheng every day. Su Ruoli is also not idle. Quite tacit understanding.

With the increasing number of refugees, Gu Zhang is also under pressure.More people is a good thing, but food and housing are big problems.He can only let people mine more mines, smelt ironware, and sell them to barbarians and merchants in exchange for some edible things.

Seeing that the day of spring plowing came, Gu Zhang allocated the seed grain and cattle to the military households in the field, and watched them plant them one after another in the open wasteland, and he let go of his heart.

Chunhuaqiushi, only farming can harvest!

But there are unpredictable things in the sky, and people have misfortunes and blessings!
Just when Gu Zhang and Su Ruoli breathed a sigh of relief, a plague suddenly spread among the refugees fleeing famine.

Perhaps it was because of the severe drought in Longxi that caused starvation everywhere. Those dead bodies were not buried in time or no one bothered to bury them at all, so they were just dumped in the wilderness. With the arrival of spring, the weather was warmer and the bodies gradually rotted.

The seeds of the plague spread slowly, and those refugees were naturally infected when they passed by, and now they are all gathered in Yicheng, a small town, with a dense population, and the infection speed is faster, just like wildfire in the wasteland , Burned all over Yicheng overnight.

When Gu Zhang received the report, two refugees had already died unknowingly while working.

At first he thought it was tired, but later he took Su Ruoli over to have a look, and Su Ruoli felt something was wrong.

The faces of the two dead people were purple and swollen, their mouths and noses were bleeding, and when they opened their eyelids, they could see bloodshot eyes. They definitely did not die from fatigue.

What's more, the work of building a house is not so tiring for ordinary young adults.

After Su Ruoli inspected the two dead bodies, he immediately got up and washed his hands with soup, and then said anxiously to Gu Zhang, "These two people cannot be buried in the ground, they must be cremated. In addition, you quickly call these refugees over, I want one An investigation!"

Seeing that her expression was serious, unlike her usual demure and gentle appearance, Gu Zhang knew that there must be something inside, and hurriedly asked, "What kind of emergency did these two people have? Why are you so serious?"

"It's hard to say, wait until you have seen the refugees before making a judgment!" Su Ruoli said to Gu Zhang with his small hands. There are so many soldiers in front of them, if they hear the news, it may cause unnecessary panic.

Gu Zhang nodded and asked for the family members of the refugees to be cremated.

When they heard that the bodies of their relatives were going to be burned, how could these refugees be willing?
But he dared not announce loudly that he died of the plague. How could those refugees want to?
Noisily saying that Gu Zhang's subordinates are black-hearted, exhausted him to death, and deliberately burned him for fear of causing a lawsuit. This is to destroy the body and wipe out the traces...

Originally they came here to seek food, but now that they are dead, they speak of Gu Zhang as abhorrent, which really makes people's hearts warm.

If it weren't for Su Ruoli not to let Gu Zhang speak out, Gu Zhang's personal guard, Chen Niu'er, would have yelled out the truth long ago.

After arguing for a while, it was best to give ten taels of silver to solve the problem.

After the matter was over, Su Ruoli asked Gu Zhang to lead him to the refugee group. The refugees gathered were mixed, old and young.

Just in case, Su Ruoli asked Gu Zhang to boil a large pot of mung bean water. Everyone drank a large bowl first, covered their mouths and noses with white gauze, and ate the detoxification pills she prepared before they could drink. Dare to go to the refugees.

She took the two Sanyuantang buddies to check one by one and make records.

Thousands of refugees stood there neatly waiting for her to check, and Su Ruoli worked tirelessly, looking at each one from the face, eyes, and tongue coating, and asked the two assistants to record them while watching.

After working for a long time, she found that dozens of refugees had flushed faces, chest tightness, coughing, and shortness of breath.

From the looks of it, I thought it was caused by the wind and cold, but Su Ruoli didn't dare to be careless.

The initial symptoms of the plague are very similar to the flu. If you are careless, it may lead to a large-scale outbreak. Not to mention the thousands of refugees, even the [-] troops may be infected.

At that time, there is no cure.

The more she looked at the back, the more dignified her face became, and her expression was extraordinarily solemn.

Gu Zhang, who could see that he was waiting for Xin'er, felt as if a big stone had been crushed in his heart. Judging by Li'er's appearance, this illness is very dangerous?
Otherwise, with Li'er's medical skills, she has cured so many difficult and miscellaneous diseases, and I have never seen such a cold and serious look on her face!

There are too many people, so we have to check one by one, and isolate as soon as there are signs.

Su Ruoli was so busy that he didn't even have time to eat lunch, and it was not until the shadow of the sun was setting in the west that he could barely screen out these refugees.

She herself was so tired that her legs and feet were sore and dizzy.

Back in the tent, Gu Zhang wanted to help her to lie on the bed to rest, but she didn't care, and went to write the prescription first, brushed it up for a while, and handed it to Gu Zhang.

When Gu Zhang took the prescription and looked at it, it said several herbs: paeonol 10g, raw gypsum 30g, mast charcoal 10g, licorice 3g, bamboo leaves 5g, rhinoceros horn (buffalo horn) 20g, scrophulariaceae 10g, forsythia 10g, raw ground 10g, Scutellaria baicalensis 10g, Radix Paeoniae Rubra 10g, Platycodon grandiflorum 10 into powder, take with warm water, twice a day.

"This prescription is also called Qingwenbaidu powder, try it first and see if it works?" Su Ruoli raised her eyes and rubbed her forehead, and said wearily.

Gu Zhang stepped forward to rub her shoulders, frowned and said, "I'm afraid there are not many medicines in stock, and these may not be complete!"

Su Ruoli leaned comfortably on his body, relaxed her whole body, let out a sigh of relief, and said, "First call the medical officer accompanying the army to ask, and I can figure out what is missing."

Gu Zhang raised his voice and shouted, "Come here!"

The guard outside immediately agreed and stood at the door waiting for orders.

"Go and call Dr. Sun!" Gu Zhang ordered loudly, and the guards responded and turned around immediately.

After a while, Medical Officer Sun hurried over and saluted in the outer room, "I wonder what the general ordered me to come here?"

Gu Zhang got up and showed him the prescription, "Do you still have these medicines in Curry? What's missing?"

Doctor Sun took a quick glance at the unattractive brush characters, and it took him a long time to recognize some simplified characters before he could master them.

After reading it, he stroked his beard and shook his head and said, "This is supposed to clear away heat and detoxify? Danpi, raw gypsum, mast charcoal, licorice, bamboo leaves, Scrophulariaceae, forsythia, platycodon grandiflorum, but not the rest."

After finishing speaking, he seemed to have come to his senses, and asked Gu Zhang nervously, "Could it be that the general is sick?"

Gu Zhang quickly shook his head, "No, it's those refugees, they don't look very good."

Doctor Sun is also a member of the Imperial Hospital, and he has made a lot of achievements in medical skills. If he hadn't been so unsophisticated, he wouldn't have been sent to follow Gu Zhang to this desolate place.

When Gu Zhang said this, he understood a little bit, and his expression changed a little bit, before he cautiously probed, "Could there be a plague in the refugee's place?"

Due to underdeveloped medical skills and backward medical conditions, people at that time were very afraid of the plague. Once it spread, the consequences would be disastrous.

Doctor Sun also said in a very low voice, but Gu Zhang just nodded slightly, which was regarded as an answer.

His old face suddenly turned pale with fright, and he put his palms together and said "Buddha", "It's terrible, if this can't be controlled, our military camp will..."

Although he didn't say the rest, Gu Zhang could hear it.

After hearing what he said, Su Ruoli came out from the room and looked at him earnestly, "Doctor Sun, this matter must not be spread, otherwise it will be even more troublesome if the morale of the army is shaken."

When Medical Officer Sun saw Su Ruoli coming out, although she was wearing a thin military uniform, he was old and well-informed, so he knew who this was.

Staring at the medicine house again, he asked suspiciously, "Could it be that Madam wrote this prescription?"

Before Su Ruoli could speak, Gu Zhang smiled proudly, "Of course, I can't do it anyway."

Doctor Sun's eyes immediately shone, "I didn't expect Madam to know the art of Qihuang. This prescription is very appropriate after reading it."

This old doctor in ancient times was affirmed, Su Ruoli was also very happy, and hurriedly replied humbly, "Doctor Sun will carefully consider it and see if there are any mistakes?"

"No, very good." Doctor Sun said while stroking his beard, with smiles in his eyes.I didn't expect their general's wife to be so capable. Even if it was him, he might not be able to come up with this prescription.

In fact, how did he know that Su Ruoli had borrowed thousands of years of medical achievements from the ancients.

(End of this chapter)