Li Hong looked Sun Simiao up and down. He was really full of energy, his eyes were bright, and his gray hair even looked like he had rejuvenated his youth. There was a lot more black hair than he had in previous years.
It's just that the beard on his lower jaw is getting sparser. Fortunately, the teeth are still there. At least when talking, there is no air leakage everywhere.
Humans lose their teeth first. Humans are just like animals, but their brains are better developed than lower animals, so they become humans.
But what remains the same is that whether a person is really old or not can be roughly determined by looking at his teeth.
Li Hong looked at Sun Simiao, smiled from the bottom of his heart, and said: "Thank you very much, old god, for coming. I didn't sleep well last night and was worrying about this. I met you as soon as I went out today. Explain that this is the fate of the people of Lantian, and you are the great savior of the people of Lantian."
"So, the young master is not going to let the people of Lantian fend for themselves?" Sun Simiao lowered his voice, looked at the three people behind him, and asked.
Li Hong's eyes were full of smiles, and he said: "Old god, with what you said just now, you praised me as a nobleman of the people of Lantian. Aren't you just afraid that I would come and blockade Lantian and let them fend for themselves? However, To be honest, I didn’t have this plan from the beginning.”
"Then why do you still block it? You are only allowed in but not allowed out. Such a large formation scared the people and started to try their best to escape. They thought you were going to let them fend for themselves." Sun Simiao asked strangely.
In fact, it's not Sun Simiao's fault. The three of them went down the river. When they came here, they happened to meet a Lantian commoner who had escaped this morning. After asking in detail, it further confirmed what they heard along the way. That was The imperial court planned to abandon Lantian and let them fend for themselves.
That's why Sun Simiao saw Li Hong, as if he had seen a savior. He first used words to lift Li Hong up, blocking Li Hong's words that he wanted the people of Lantian to fend for themselves.
But if the people of Lantian were really to be left to fend for themselves, then Sun Simiao was going to risk his life to prevent the imperial court from doing such an inhumane and outrageous evil.
Li Hong laughed twice, held Sun Simiao's arm, and the two of them slowly walked in the direction of the people in front, and said: "Old god, do you really not understand? You still need to continue to make sure whether the kid wants to You want to blockade Lantian just to let them fend for themselves?”
Sun Simiao looked at Li Hong's calm eyes and pondered for a moment on his tanned and wrinkled cheeks: "No, you don't seem to be such a cruel person. Although you were cruel to Fanbang in Anxi, but I’ve never heard of you being cruel to your own people, so I don’t think you want to leave them to fend for themselves.”
Li Hong looked like he was moved to tears, grabbed Sun Simiao's lapel and pretended to cry: "The old god still understands me. I have suffered a lot of injustice these days... Eh? Why are you still laughing? "
Someone didn't feel embarrassed at all about being exposed, his expression changed as if he were reading a book, and he asked.
"It is correct that terminally ill smallpox infections spread, but if you gather them together, are you not afraid that they will spread on a larger scale? Also, the person we met just now said that the imperial court has painted every household They were painted with white paint, saying that this was to prepare for the funerals of every family and every household. It was said that the court had no time to prepare too many white cloths and was reluctant to spend the money. Now it only supports them three meals a day and waits. When did they die, and then threw them into their own homes, using the white thread to light up the fire, without even preparing a grave, this Lantian would be just another mass grave." Sun Simiao asked solemnly. I hope Li Hong can help him clear up his doubts one by one.
Li Hong was so angry that his nose was crooked. Why did this damn message spread so fast? It's true that good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles.
But Li Hong couldn't blame the people if he thought about it. After all, last night when Zong Chuke reported on the handling of the dozen deceased patients, Zong Chuke was very simple and direct. He solicited the opinions of the family members. After no one agreed, , cremation was mandatory.
Although each family was compensated a large sum of money in the end, for the people who needed to be buried with a good burial, who would it be if the court brutally burned the corpse and then gave them a handful of ashes and said it was a family member? None of them would believe it, and they would all think that the imperial court would let them fend for themselves.
But having said that, Zong Chuke cannot be blamed for this matter. Human life is a matter of concern. Leaving the body for another day will increase the chance of others being infected. In addition, he asked him to issue a military order, and Zong Chuke was busy running around. It is commendable to be able to handle this situation until now.
Li Hong still sighed heavily, but looked at the three people in front of him, one Yuan Tiangang, a young girl, and another one, who seemed to be the Lantian people who escaped this morning.
"This woman is..."
"You answer the old Taoist's questions first." At Sun Simiao's age, even if Li Zhi met, his etiquette would only be more thoughtful than Li Hong's, so it was normal for Sun Simiao to interrupt Li Hong's words.
Li Hong glanced at the old antique with a serious expression speechlessly, and had to explain: "The white paste covering the walls, the poultry enclosure, the road or the corners is lime powder, which is a kind of disinfectant. Thing, you should know that this is not something to prepare for their funeral. As for the deceased being cremated, I was afraid of infecting other people from the deceased. Before I came here yesterday, I had already ordered Zong Chuke and the kid. The medical camps were explained county by county, village by village, and village by village.”
Li Hong spread his hands, looked at the silent Sun Simiao, and had to continue: "There are too few people who are literate. I thought about printing some leaflets and giving them to every household, but how many people can understand them? How many people can read them? After a person is terminally ill with smallpox, will he bother to read those leaflets? Will he then say that the court does not do anything, does not come up with practical measures, does not send people, but sends a piece of paper to every household? Is this contempt for people’s lives?”
Shaking his head, Li Hong continued to talk and said: "Smallpox is a terminal disease. People avoid it and regard it as a scourge. Now I am not trying to reason with them. The truth cannot be explained clearly, so I can only take tough measures to treat them." They gather together, and after half a month, if no symptoms are found, they will be allowed to go home, and the home will be disinfected, so there is no need to worry. As for those who already have symptoms... "
"What do you need Lao Dao to do? Even if it is Lao Dao's life, Lao Dao is not ambiguous." Sun Simiao said plausibly and firmly.
"Tsk, what are you talking about? Boy, do I have the courage? I once read an ancient book and just flipped through it. The specific method is not recorded in the book, but I vaguely remember that it said, Cowpox can cure smallpox. After being injected into the human body, although there will be some slight abnormalities, they will disappear after three to five days. Smallpox will also be cured within half a month. Pustules on the body or face will disappear. The scabs will slowly form and fall off naturally, and there will just be some pockmarks on the face." Li Hong hurriedly explained to Sun Simiao, fearing that the old man would turn away if he didn't like it.
As for the matter of his apprentice being imprisoned by him, Li Hong, who felt guilty, had no plans to tell the old man now. He would wait until the epidemic here stabilized. If the old man turned against him at that time, he would not be able to catch up with him.
Sun Simiao pondered for a long time. After seeing Li Hong's eyes staring at the woman's figure, he patted Li Hong's shoulder angrily and asked: "Is this true? What ancient book is it? Have you ever brought it with you? On your body? Can you let me take a look?"
Li Hong was stumped at this time. He had read very few ancient books. Even with his status as the tenth generation, he could not find one that Sun Simiao had not read, and it had to be related to medicine. .
If I just mentioned a book... that's right, the old man didn't know it anyway, so someone touched his chin and pretended to be thoughtful and said: "This ancient book is an only one. I can't lend it to you, and I don't know where to throw it." I guess I can’t find it.”
"There must be a book title, right? You tell me the title of the book, and I will think about it and see if there is anything I missed in the collection of books." Sun Simiao was very serious. As long as it was about healing and saving people, Lao Taoer became a stick. Muscles.
Li Hong blinked and stroked his chin, biting his lips from time to time and said lightly: "The name of this ancient book is also very strange. It's called "Baidu". I wonder if you have heard of it?"
After finishing speaking, Li Hong came up to Sun Simiao, blinked his eyes, and looked at the old man with a serious face. He was thinking about whether there was this ancient book named "Baidu" in his collection of books.
I thought to myself, if you can find this "Baidu" more than a thousand years later, I will cut off my head and give it to you immediately.
"I've never heard of it. It seems that few people can see this ancient book. I'll go to the Imperial College one day to look for it. By the way, talking about cowpox, so you sealed off the pasture outside the city?"
"Yes, it is said that there are many cows there, so we can use local materials. The boy is deeply afraid that those cows will be killed by the common people, so he protects them first." Li Hong replied.
Sun Simiao looked at his innocent expression, and involuntarily, regardless of whether it was disrespectful or not, he stretched out his index finger and tapped Li Hong in the air, and sighed: "You, you, you are still not steady in doing things."
"What's wrong?" Li Hong became even more confused, but after the confusion, his eyes were a little more surprised, because the tall back turned around, like a fairy, which made Li Hong almost forget that there was someone beside him. There is an old man.
(End of chapter)