Lady Rouyao covered her mouth and looked at Lu and the three soldiers who were bitten. Four more people were bitten for no reason, and it happened in front of them. They had no way to do anything and could only watch it all happen. It was really hard to accept.
Mrs. Lu was so frightened that she almost fainted. She kept crying and crying. Her neck was bitten and was now bleeding, but she didn't care and still wanted to crawl over to touch Li Er.
Zi'an stood up and said to Rouyao, "Stop being in a daze and go get some disinfectant to clean the wound."
Rouyao stared at Zi'an blankly and said dejectedly, "Will it work? We all know it's useless."
County Lady Rouyao's words made the three bitten soldiers fall to the ground, looking at their wounds with sad expressions.
Zi'an took a look and said sternly, "Rouyao, take your people to prepare disinfectant immediately, so that everyone can survive."
A young volunteer doctor suddenly sat on the ground, holding his head and crying, "No, it's useless. We have been here for so many days, watching people die every day. It's too painful."
This is anger at one's own powerlessness, but also a kind of pity for the lost lives. These doctors are willing to enter the epidemic area and even put their own lives at risk, which shows that they are compassionate.
But they were too weak.
When the volunteer doctor started crying, the other doctors sat down dejectedly.
Rouyao also cried, "Zi'an, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have let her in. She originally just wanted to take a look, but after seeing him, she cried and begged us to let her go over and touch him. Li Er was unconscious the whole time. His mother called him twice, and he suddenly went crazy, broke free from the rope and rushed up to attack people..."
General Li looked sad and regretful. He said nothing, but just stood there woodenly, like a sculpture.
Seeing that everyone was standing still, Zi'an could not help but angrily said, "Now is not the time to discuss who is right or wrong. If even you have given up, what hope do they have? Rouyao, take your people out immediately to prepare disinfectant and clean the wounds in large quantities."
Zi'an's anger did have some effect. Rouyao pulled the doctors and rushed out, then came in with Zi'an's special disinfectant.
She opened the medicine box, where there was some arsenic. Although she knew that arsenic was not very effective as a medicine, she hoped to use it early so that it could be suppressed early, or at least slow down the onset of the disease.
After cleaning the wound, Rouyao saw Zi'an mixing medicine, and came over to take a look. She was immediately shocked, "You... do you know what this is?"
Zian said in a deep voice: "I know!"
"Are you going to poison them to death?" Princess Rouyao lowered her voice, but it was filled with rage.
Zi'an didn't even raise his head. "Just clean the wound. Don't worry about giving me the medicine."
County Lady Rouyao pulled her up and dragged her outside. Seeing this, General Li followed her out.
"What's wrong?" General Li asked.
Rouyao County Lady said angrily: "She actually wanted to poison me with arsenic."
General Li was stunned for a moment, "Really?"
Zi'an felt very tired. He should have told Murong Jie when he first came here that she should be the one making the decisions here.
She said seriously, "Yes, I used arsenic. I have clinical experience and I know that arsenic can temporarily delay the onset of the disease."
"Nonsense, arsenic is poisonous," General Li said angrily.
"Rouyao, you have studied medicine, don't you know that arsenic can be used as medicine?" Zi'an rubbed his eyebrows and asked, holding back his anger.
Rouyao said: "Yes, arsenic can be used as medicine, but now there are many medicines that can replace arsenic. Why do you have to use it? Do you know that if the dosage is not properly controlled, it will kill people? Moreover, you didn't use it as medicine just now, but directly took it. I saw that the dosage you put was a lot, enough to poison a person."
"Can't you just trust me for once?" Zi'an was also angry. She had grasped the importance of this matter just right.
"Trust you? You signed a military order to come in. If you can't cure them, you will lose your head, so you want to poison them to reduce your guilt, right?" Rouyao asked.
Zi'an's expression was cold. "Rouyao, I've been with you for a few days. When have you ever seen me not trying my best to cure people? If I poison them to death, can I be less guilty? No matter how many people die in the end, as long as I can't cure the epidemic, I will lose my head. Is it necessary for me to do this?"
General Li remembered her life-saving grace just now. If she had not pulled Li Er away, he would have been bitten long ago.
"County Princess, I believe her this time." General Li stated.
Rouyao looked at General Li in disbelief, "Do you believe her? She wants to poison those people with arsenic. We have to watch her poison them to death."
"If I don't poison them, won't they die?" Zi'an turned around and left. If only Rouyao tried to stop him, she wouldn't care. As long as General Li supported her, it would be fine, because he was the one in charge here. If he agreed, he wouldn't have sent anyone to stop her.
She returned to the ancestral hall and continued to prepare the medicine, taking into account the four people's physical conditions, and then fed them in personally.
After cleaning the wound, she scraped it open with a thin knife and squeezed out the blood. The doctor had done this before, but Zian did it again to squeeze as much infected blood out of the body as possible.
Zi'an's stubbornness made Rouyao very disappointed.
But General Li agreed, and she had no choice.
After Zi'an had done all this, she said to him coldly, "You are a vicious person and shouldn't have come here. I will go find my cousin tomorrow and ask you to get out."
Zi'an was extremely tired and didn't want to argue with her, so he turned around and left.
Rouyao returned to the ancestral hall angrily. She had studied medicine and knew that arsenic was rarely used nowadays and people generally didn't carry it with them. So what was Xia Zian's purpose in carrying poison with him
She was really disappointed, having admired her before.
It's not that she didn't believe in arsenic as medicine, but what's the point of using arsenic for this kind of epidemic? Moreover, the dosage she gave was too heavy, and there was no other medicine mixed in, just arsenic.
She looked sadly at the people who were bitten; they would die from the poison.
But by the next morning, none of the four people had died from the poison, but had fallen into a coma. Some of them had some aftereffects of taking arsenic, but none of them were serious.
Zi'an didn't sleep tonight and kept sitting outside.
Tonight was a mistake. She should have stuck to her opinion and not let Lu in.
She is a doctor and has been a military doctor for many years. She knows that once an epidemic area is established, there must be a bottom line, and this bottom line is higher than being soft-hearted.
The review only took a short while, and after it was finished, he began to take out the notes from the medicine box.
After recording what happened tonight, I also wrote down the amount of arsenic.
At dawn, Princess Rouyao came out and sat beside her, saying softly, "I'm sorry, I actually doubted you."
Zi'an held the notebook, didn't even look up, and said calmly: "It's okay."
Rouyao County Lady asked, "You are really not worried at all when you make such a heavy commitment?"
Zi'an handed her the notes and said, "Before I came to the epidemic area, I started to treat zombie patients. I didn't use arsenic for no reason. There was a person who was bitten but didn't get sick in the end. This person was Ni Rong."
"Ni Rong?" County Lady Rouyao was shocked. "He was bitten but didn't get sick?"
(End of this chapter)