The Great Zhou had just quelled the foreign invasion and re-deployed its troops. After the Empress Dowager returned to the court, she attached great importance to the soldiers. The status of the soldiers rose rapidly, so they also worked much harder in military affairs.
Qingzhou Prefecture sent people to the military camp to ask for help. General Yang, the commander of Zhaozhou, asked for the detailed reasons and how many people were on the other side. He told them all the reinforcements sent by the prefect. General Yang also discussed with the generals in the army and believed that these one or two thousand bandits knew that Prince Qin Zhou of Beimo had come to Da Zhou, so they wanted to make a fortune in Qingzhou under her name.
He immediately selected his troops and led 3,000 men to Qingzhou that day. If he could capture these bandits, he would have made a great contribution.
It was a coincidence that General Yang was an old subordinate of Murong Jie. He had gone on an expedition to the Northern Desert with Murong Jie some time ago. After the army returned to the court and was redistributed, he went to Zhaozhou to reorganize the Zhaozhou military camp.
The soldiers moved extremely quickly and did not rest along the way. They only stopped to eat some dry food and drink some water before continuing on their journey.
It is faster to travel from Zhaozhou to Qingzhou by water, but if 3,000 people set out by water, many warships will have to be deployed. With so many bandits, they will definitely have people on the dock to monitor them, and the warships cannot be invisible. If the news leaks out, the bandits will loot Qingzhou and escape without a trace, which would be bad.
In the back court of Qingzhou, the prefect finally found a reliable doctor this time. This doctor was passing by and came when he saw a notice posted in Qingzhou city seeking famous doctors.
The doctor knew acupuncture and after diagnosing Zi'an, he immediately started giving him acupuncture.
"How is it?" Qin Zhou saw that he was different from the previous doctors. The previous ones basically shook their heads immediately after making a diagnosis. Although they wrote prescriptions, they were only for external injuries. And because Zi'an was pregnant, they didn't dare to prescribe any medicine.
This doctor knew how to use needles. In the eyes of Qin Zhou, who knew nothing about medicine, he was a miracle doctor.
"Sir, this lady is seriously injured. The wound on her back is festering and inflamed. She is also pregnant. It is not appropriate to use medicine. Acupuncture is the only option. Of course, it is not completely impossible to use medicine. If it can be used externally, it is better than taking it orally."
Qin Zhou nodded repeatedly, "Then, is your life safe?"
The doctor shook his head. "It's hard to say. If she's fine, she wouldn't have not woken up for so many days. But if she's completely hopeless, that's not the case either. It all depends on her luck."
He wrote a prescription and said to Qin Zhou, "This is a prescription for cleaning wounds. It is used to remove blood and pus and curb inflammation. The injury cannot get any worse, otherwise your life will be in danger."
When Qin Zhou heard this, he hurriedly asked someone to boil medicine.
After treating Zi'an, Qin Zhou brought the doctor to Murong Jie's room.
The doctor examined Murong Jie's injuries, took his pulse, and then began to frown.
"How is it?" Qin Zhou saw that the doctor was not so nervous just now. It seemed that Murong Jie's injury was much more serious than Zi'an's.
The doctor looked up and said in a somewhat strange tone, "I have been practicing medicine for many years, and this is not the first time I have seen such a serious injury. However, the ones I have seen before were all corpses. How long has he been unconscious?"
"Five days." Qin Zhou replied with a sinking heart.
The doctor couldn't help but wonder, "Five days? How can he survive five days with such injuries? That's really strange. His injury is on the left chest, at the heart. How can he survive if his heart is injured? Strange, strange..."
After a pause, he said, "Miracle. Miracle."
Qin Zhou didn't quite understand, "What does the doctor mean?"
Qin Zhou was very respectful to doctors. She didn't say a bad word to the one in front of her or the doctors who shook their heads and waved their hands before. Naturally, it was because they were all Zi'an's colleagues.
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"His injuries are so severe that ordinary people can't survive."
Qin Zhou thought for a moment, "Do you mean that he is dead?"
Qin Zhou felt that he had asked a very insightful question, because the doctor said that the patient would not survive with such a serious injury.
The doctor rolled his eyes at her and said, "Of course he's not dead. If he were dead, how could he have a pulse?"
Qin Zhou said awkwardly: "So what do you think, can it be saved or not?"
The doctor said: "It's hard to say, I can only do my best."
The doctor looked at Murong Jie and said several times, "It's a miracle, a miracle."
Qin Zhou waited for him to write a prescription before asking, "May I ask your name, doctor? Where are you from? Where did you practice medicine in the past?"
"My name is Wu Yanzu, I'm from Guangzhou. As for my medical practice, I don't have a fixed place. I treat patients wherever I go."
Qin Zhou thought that since the man traveled all over the world, he must be very capable, and nodded in admiration.
Ah Jing said, "Isn't that a barefoot doctor?"
The doctor glanced at Ah Jing calmly and said, "A barefoot doctor is still a doctor."
Qin Zhou's forehead was dark. Barefoot doctor? What real skills do ordinary barefoot doctors have? They just know a little bit of tricks to treat runny noses or insect bites
I thought he was so powerful just now, but unexpectedly he was just a barefoot doctor who traveled around the country.
Qin Zhou was very disappointed and didn't know whether he should let Zi'an wash off the potions.
Wu Yanzu seemed to have seen through her thoughts and said, "If you don't believe me, I can't do anything about it. But if the lady's injury is not treated quickly, she will die within two days."
Qin Zhou remembered that when he used the needle just now, his gestures were very skillful. She had seen Zi'an use the needle and the movements were probably similar. Anyway, there were no good doctors now, so she might as well give it a try. If she found nothing wrong, she would stop using it immediately. Anyway, the medicine didn't need to be taken, it was just for washing the wound.
She asked the yamen's legal advisor to arrange for Wu Yanzu to stay in the back yamen and be on call at any time.
As for cleaning the wound, she did not ask anyone else to do it, nor did she ask Wu Yanzu to help. After all, although Wu Yanzu was in his forties or fifties, he was still a man after all and he needed to avoid suspicion.
The wound was cleaned and, under the guidance of Doctor Wu Yanzu, the pus was scraped off the wound, and it was re-bandaged. Then Zi'an was asked to lie on her side, because she was pregnant now, and neither lying on her stomach nor lying on her back was appropriate.
After cleaning the wound, Wu Yanzu gave Zi'an acupuncture again. This time, he gave acupuncture on his forehead and temple. Qin Zhou knew that these two acupoints were very important, so he stared at Wu Yanzu without blinking.
After Wu Yanzu finished the acupuncture, he said to Qin Zhou, "Madam will wake up in about an hour."
"Really?" Qin Zhou was overjoyed.
Ah Jing asked cautiously, "What if he doesn't wake up in an hour?"
Wu Yanzu rolled his eyes at him and said, "Then wait another hour!"
…
Wu Yanzu, the barefoot doctor, is quite capable.
In less than an hour, Zi'an woke up.
The moment Qin Zhou saw Zi'an's eyelashes flutter, he was overjoyed and said, "Reward, reward!"
Wu Yanzu looked relaxed and contented, but he was secretly delighted.
Just reward.
For those who wander around the world, it is not easy to make a living on the edge of a knife. If they can't cure the disease, they will be beaten with a stick and sent away with a pair of big knives.
(End of this chapter)