The old lady and young woman on the side also looked at them warily, but they hesitated when Man Bao went to lift the quilt and still did not stop them.
The quilt was lifted, and inside was a shivering little girl with acne all over her face.
Daji and the others were startled, and Qiqi took two steps back.
Man Bao was also taken aback, put down the quilt, took out a mask from his pocket and put it on, then lifted the quilt again to check the little girl's condition.
She was still having a fever, and not only her face, hands and feet, but also her chest and abdomen were covered with pimples. Man Bao had never seen so many pimples on a single person at such a young age.
After careful inspection, she got up and said to the young man, "It's getting dark, do you want to sleep in the open?"
The young man warned: "We will light a fire to keep out the cold."
Man Bao then said to Daji: "Let's stay here for one night too, you guys stay away with your masks on, and I'll take a look at her symptoms."
Daji and the others responded and went down to arrange a place to sleep.
The young man's family was half skeptical and half expectant and stayed behind.
Man Bao opened the bag, she still had some medicinal materials on her body, she grabbed a pair of medicine after deliberation, and then handed it to the woman to boil the medicine.
Bai Shan went to collect firewood together with the young man from their family, and when they came back with two bundles of firewood, the young man had already confided his heart to Bai Shan, knowing everything he wanted to say.
According to him, his name is Wu Xiang, and his family does live in a nearby village, not very far from Xiazhou City.
"Half a month ago, Xiazhou City was suddenly closed. It was said that there was an epidemic in the city. Things outside the city can be sent in, but things inside the city cannot be sent out, and people cannot go out." Wu Xiang wiped Tears said: "Our family lives in a village not far from the outskirts of the city. We heard that there was a shortage of vegetables in the city, so we sold the cabbage in our cellar and handed it in through the city gate. I thought it would be fine just to sell some vegetables, but who knew that the child suddenly had a fever five days ago, and then started to develop acne."
"There is an announcement in the city that if someone outside the city is also infected with smallpox, if there are too many people in a village, then the village will be closed; if there are not many people, the people will have to move to the city. How can she be willing to go to the city alone, but the village can't accommodate us anymore, so we can only go out."
Bai Shan asked, "Where can you go?"
Wu Xiang glanced at his wife and said: "We want to go to Dejing County. My father-in-law's family is there, and the city has not been closed yet. We want to take the child to the doctor, maybe it can be saved."
Bai Shan asked indifferently: "Smallpox is an epidemic, and it is highly contagious. Even your village and clan can't take you in. Can your father-in-law take you in? And once you go away, the smallpox epidemic will spread."
As soon as these words came out, Wu Xiang looked at him warily, "You, do you want to arrest us?"
Bai Shan shook his head, looked at him with pity and said: "We just came from Dejing County, you probably don't know, the imperial army has been dispatched from the capital, not only Dejing County has also been sealed off, but also the prefectures and counties to the south and west. The roads are all blocked, people going south now either avoid the mountains, or turn back to Xiazhou, but they are walking, so they are not so fast."
Wu Xiang exclaimed: "Impossible!"
"Is there anything impossible?" Bai Shan said, "The capital is full of nobles, and there are more than one million people there. Do you know how many people are more than one million?"
Wu Xiang's eyes widened.
Bai Shandao: "There are not as many people in ten Xia provinces as there are in Chang'an. As long as one smallpox patient enters, more than one million people may be infected with smallpox. Therefore, the imperial court attaches great importance to this, and has already given the way to the people. Sealed."
Facing Bai Shan's plain gaze, Wu Xiang had no choice but to believe, he couldn't help crying out, "The imperial court is telling us to die."
The old woman and the woman also felt sad and cried loudly.
Man Bao and Bai Erlang: ... It seems to be true.
Bai Shan said seriously: "That's why we're here."
Wu Xiang looked at them, sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, what's the use of them coming
Bai Shandao: "We are all from the Imperial Hospital, and the convoy of the Imperial Army and the Imperial Hospital is behind us."
Wu Xiang and his mother and wife couldn't help turning their heads to look at Guandao.
Bai Shan sighed and said: "Don't look, we are young, so we left quickly and ran here from the capital in just five days. The imperial physicians who stayed behind are all old and brought several carts of medicinal materials. Even if there is a large army to escort them, they won’t be able to leave quickly, and it will probably take three or four days to arrive.”
He softened his face and said: "Xiazhou County Magistrate Yang wrote a letter for help. His Majesty cares about the people in the epidemic area and ordered the household department to purchase a large amount of medicinal materials. Now the first batch of medicinal materials came with the imperial doctor, and there will be more in the future. "
He looked at the cart and said in a low voice: "I told you this in advance because I was able to talk with my brother. These medicinal materials are used to help the people in the epidemic area. You can still receive free medicine if you stay in Xiazhou City. I can see the imperial physician, but continue south, let alone see the doctor, you can’t even enter the city, without local household registration, it’s impossible for the county to accept you, do you want to sleep in the wild?”
The fire had already started and it wasn't so cold anymore, so Man Bao asked someone to push the cart to the side of the fire, and then pricked her a few times with a needle, so that her fever would subside a little, so that she wouldn't feel too uncomfortable.
But she didn't dare to give her antipyretics, because smallpox can only be cured if it comes out, and if you cover it, it will be fatal.
She no longer cared about Bai Shan who was still fooling around, but rolled up her sleeves and carefully looked at her pimples.
It took a long time for her to find a pimple that she had worn out. She probably couldn't help scratching it. Her wrists were tied before, probably because she was afraid that she couldn't help scratching.
Finding this frayed pimple, Man Bao took a piece of white paper and carefully took out the pimple with a needle...
The old woman and the woman on the side stared blankly, not knowing what she was doing at all.
Man Bao took this piece of paper and left, using an excuse to study the acne so that people don't get too close, then sent the paper to the teaching room, sent it directly as a teaching material, and then asked Keke to contact Teacher Mo desperately .
Teacher Mo, who was sent seven reminder messages in a row while online, silently looked up from a pile of books, received her pathogen, and went offline to study.
There is no need to find another research institute for this kind of thing, he can find out the order in his own small research lab.
At night, the little girl couldn't help crying, it was so itchy, she couldn't bear it at all.
The old woman and the woman could only hold her hand and comfort her continuously, and they couldn't help crying when they saw her suffering so much.
Man Bao picked and picked among the bundles, and finally got together a pair of medicines, boiled them and let them warm up, then asked them to use gauze dipped in the medicine liquid to scrub her.
"It's just barely stopping the itching, and it also has the effect of reducing the rash, but I don't know how effective it is. You should try it."
She looked at the two of them, frowned, and then found out two masks for them, "It's better than nothing, you haven't had acne, have you?"
The two of them took it with great gratitude and put it on like they did. Although they didn't know what it would be useful for, the nobleman and the imperial physician both did this, so it should be useful.