After the new year, the number of people who get sick every day is only sporadic. There are cured people out of the medical shed every day. Yang and Shu see that there are fewer people, and the other hospital is about to be emptied. All the patients were moved to another hospital.
Man Bao no longer took care of the other hospital, and concentrated on taking care of the remaining patients in the barracks. When they recovered gradually, New Year's Eve was approaching.
It is impossible to go back to Beijing for the New Year.
Man Bao was holding a hand stove, and as soon as he got out of the carriage, Yingyue welcomed him in. She said with a smile on her face, "Mr. Bai and the others are all here, we'll just wait for Miss Man."
Man Bao shrank his neck and said: "Xiazhou is really cold, much colder than the capital. Fortunately, there are many medicinal materials sent to treat the wind and cold, otherwise there will be a lot of trouble."
Yang Heshu, who was sitting by the stove and was a little drowsy, vaguely heard these words, looked up and saw her coming in wearing a cloak, and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, I would also like to thank you for being thoughtful and preparing the medicinal materials in advance. Prepare these."
This time it was a private banquet, Zhou Man had just come out of the military camp, it was a cleansing for her, and it was also a celebration, except for some uncured smallpox patients in another hospital, there were no more.
The yamen has been cleaning and checking the streets and alleys in the past two days, and no new smallpox patients have been found.
Apart from Zhou Man, he only invited Bai Shan, Bai Er, Yin You, and General Gong Shao.
He said: "Young General Gong will be here soon. He said he would like to thank you very much. The death rate of smallpox in the army is lower than that of the outside. The death rate in the medical shed you are in charge of is also the lowest."
Man Bao didn't have enough sleep for two consecutive months, and she just wanted to sleep at this time. She sat by the stove with her hand in her arms, without even taking off her cloak, and asked, "Has the data come out?"
"Not yet." It was Bai Shan who answered, "Still counting, but we have recorded all the people we can find. It will take a few days to know the exact number. But only in Xiazhou City And the total number of people under its command should not be less than 6,000, and more than 2,000 people died."
He paused and then said: "At the beginning, the spread was too wide. The city was fine, but some villages were closed. When we found it, there was not even one out of ten."
Man Bao was a little sad, and Yang Heshu felt even more painful. Xiazhou City had a total of four counties, of which Guo County under his jurisdiction was the most severely affected.
Bai Shan lowered his voice and said, "But I found that Shuofang County is not the one with the highest death rate. Of the 6,000 infected people in Xiazhou, at least 4,000 are in Xiazhou City, but the death toll in Xiazhou City is only 750. Eight people, and I inspected the countryside, so the total death toll should not exceed two hundred."
Shuofang County is Guo County of Xiazhou City, and Yang Heshu is the magistrate of Shuofang County.
In other words, outside of Shuofang County, less than 2,000 patients died, and more than 1,000 died.
This is a mortality rate of more than 50%. At first, it was okay, but later the prescription of the Tai Hospital spread, and the cure rate increased. It should not be like this.
Yang Heshu sat up straight.
There was silence in the room, and for a while, Yin said in a faint voice: "Smallpox, family extinction is possible, but the mortality rate is only about 50%, the court should be satisfied, I think they won't be too sad, It’s not like 80 to 90% of people died.”
Bai Erlang was so shocked that he couldn't speak, and he found his own voice after a while, "Then, let's forget it then?"
Bai Shan said rationally: "If you really want to question the crime, the first person to ask should be Brother Yang. The smallpox started in Shuofang County."
The fists in Yang Heshu's sleeves tightened and loosened, loosened and tightened, and Cui Shi, who brought the ingredients, looked at him worriedly.
Bai Shan reached out to take the plate containing the meat, and Man Bao also looked up at Cui Shi, and asked with a smile, "How is sister-in-law?"
Cui smiled and said, "I'm fine, I've been paying attention, so those pimples didn't leave any trace."
Man Bao nodded.
Bai Shan put the meat slices on the iron plate, the meat made a sizzling sound, and the smell of the meat drew everyone's thoughts back. He asked Yang Heshu, "Did Senior Brother Yang write the confession?"
Yang Heshu nodded, "The one in Shuofang County is already on the way, and it should arrive in the capital in two days, but the one in Xiazhou City has to wait for you to figure it out."
Bai Shan said: "My classmates and I will speed up, but it's impossible to finish before the end of the year."
"Yeah, this year is destined to be an uneven one." Yang Heshu glanced outside, and said, "The governor's house has been released from house arrest. After the Chinese New Year, I'm going back to Beijing to file a lawsuit with him. You guys have to go back to Beijing together." ?"
He put the governor under house arrest, this matter obviously cannot be settled like this;
And Niu Cishi's side would not forget about it, they must have a lawsuit to fight in front of the imperial court, and the situation in Xiazhou City also required them to make a correct match in the imperial front.
Bai Shan looked at Man Bao.
Man Bao thought for a while and then nodded, "There are not many patients in the other hospital now, and they should have results in a few days. As long as there are no new patients, we can go back."
Yin Or was a little puzzled all the time, "Why did Senior Brother Yang put Niu Cishi under house arrest?"
There was an indescribable look on Yang Heshu's face, behind his back he said that people are not real, not the true qualities of a gentleman.
"Because he's stupid!" Major General Gong strode in from the outside, took off his cloak and threw it to the servants, waved to those who were going to stand up and saluted, sat down on the stool by the stove, and said to Yang He: "You Just go back to Beijing, my father has already promised that he will write a letter to speak for you when the time comes. Hmph, so what if he is placed under house arrest, Niu Feng? The reason why he didn't question his family is because he is an official of the court."
Now not only Yin He, but even Bai Shan couldn't help being curious.
They came early and were busy on weekdays. They only occasionally learned from discussions among officials when they were investigating the origin of smallpox that it seemed that smallpox came from the governor's mansion, but no one was willing to say the specifics.
Other officials still care about the face of the governor's office, but Young General Gong doesn't. He said: "Niu Feng has a young son named Niu Kang. In September, he led people to hunt on the grassland, and ended up with a caravan from the Western Regions." When there was a conflict, he robbed an orchid by relying on his numbers."
"He brought her back to the mansion and hung out with that orchid all day long. For some reason, that orchid had a fever and was vomiting and diarrhea. The doctor who invited him thought she was not acclimatized at first, so he prescribed it for her." Fang Zi, in the end, within two days, the person developed more than a dozen acne rashes, and had a high fever, and the condition became violent, from the discovery of the acne rash to the death of the person in less than a day."
General Gong Shao said: "The doctor who saw the doctor thought it was wrong, so he said that she might be suffering from smallpox, but the Niu family called her out, and Niu Kang didn't know what to do. There was a big funeral, and all his cronies and friends went to join in the fun."
"Within two days, he developed acne himself, and people who had been in contact with that orchid also developed red acne one after another. Only then did the Niu family remember what the doctor said, so they sent someone to invite the doctor while blocking the news. General Gong Shao said bitterly: "Niu Kang didn't know the so-called, Zhi Zhi's condition was different, and he went to the Chunfeng Tower to have a banquet that day. Not only that, Niu's family didn't stop him from buying, maids and servants, It’s time to go out or go out, within five days, they went around half of Xiazhou City, and some doctors still felt bad, so they quietly reported to Changbo, and Changbo only knew about it.”