Wang Yuantai hid the prescription behind his back, and said angrily: "It's better to have a prescription than nothing, alas, a dead horse should be a live horse doctor." After speaking, he shouted to a patrolling soldier in the distance: "Hey, Zhao Dacheng, come here!" ”

The patrol soldier named Zhao Dacheng trotted over all the way and saluted: "Wang Sige, what are your orders?" ”

Wang Yuantai solemnly handed him the prescription and said, "This is the prescription offered by Li Hao Xiaolang, it is said to be able to treat the plague, you send it to Imperial Doctor Liu, let him decoct the medicine according to the prescription, and feed it to the two sons of the Hu Cun Zheng family." ”

Li Hao reminded: "Let him fry a little more, and also give Hu Cunzheng and his daughter-in-law a little drink, this decoction has an epidemic prevention effect." ”

Zhao Dacheng was shocked when he heard this, and felt that the prescription in his hand was no longer a prescription, but a treasure of the world, he gently folded him up and closed it in the palm of his hand, and said solemnly: "Wang Sige rest assured, even if his subordinates lose their lives, they will protect this prescription." ”

Li Hao couldn't help but want to laugh when he heard it, he just sent a letter in this spittoon village, which was as tragic as going to the battlefield.

After Zhao Dacheng's impassioned speech, he went to deliver the prescription, the location is under a big willow tree in the village, originally this is the open space for the village to dry grain collectively, also known as the grain field, but now more than a dozen tents have been erected on the grain field, the official sergeant and the doctor live here, in the willow tree to the south of the place a hundred zhang away, there are also a few small white tents, that is the isolation zone, all the people who have suffered from the plague or have been in contact with the plague patients, will be taken there for isolation, at this moment Hu Laohan's family is there.

About ten feet outside the tent, four or five soldiers were patrolling, and no one was allowed to approach, and no one was allowed to come out.

When Zhao Dacheng gave the prescription to Imperial Physician Liu, Imperial Physician Liu snorted disdainfully: "Nonsense, how can there be any prescription for the plague in this world, and there must be a charlatan who wants to take advantage of the plague to make a fortune, this kind of person should be punished with capital punishment!" ”

Doctor Cao on the side heard the words and persuaded: "Elder Liu doesn't need to be angry, we can't do anything about this plague at the moment, since someone has offered a prescription, it doesn't hurt for us to try, if the prescription is ineffective, it will not be too late to punish the crime at that time." ”

"Brother Cao is right." Dr. Hong, who has a gentle temperament, agreed, "Let's try the prescription first, and then ask the guilt, if we don't even try the prescription and punish others, it will inevitably fall into the mouth." ”

Although Imperial Physician Liu thought that this prescription was deceiving, he also knew that what Dr. Cao said was reasonable, so he sighed helplessly: "Okay, Cen Er, take the prescription and decoct the medicine." ”

"Yes, Master." A fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy stepped forward to take the prescription from Zhao Dacheng's hand and went to another tent to grab the medicine and decoction the medicine.

About half an hour later, that is, an hour, Cen Er, a disciple of Imperial Physician Liu, came to report that the medicine had been decocted, Dr. Liu waved his hand, and did not say anything more, Cen Er understood, this was for him to send to the patient, so he withdrew from the tent, filled four bowls of soup and medicine, put it in the food box, and sent it to the isolation area.

Cen Er naturally didn't dare to go deep into the isolation area, but handed the food box to the soldiers guarding outside, and the soldiers carried the food box to a place four zhang away from the isolation tent, took out the medicine bowl, put one every three zhang, lined up, and then retreated to the original place, and shouted at the isolation tent: "Come out and get the soup!" ”

After a while, I saw Hu Dashan and Hu Laohan and his wife get out of the tent one after another, Hu Dashan and Hu Xiaohai have been diagnosed with plague, so the two live together, Hu Laohan and his wife live in different tents, as soon as they get out of the tent, Hu Laohan is so excited that he burst into tears, and Liu cried directly: "Dashan, Dashan, are you okay, Xiaohai is okay......" said and wanted to run towards Hu Dashan.

The soldiers in the distance opened their bows and arrows one after another, shouting loudly: "Stop quickly, or you will be shot on the spot!" ”

Liu was frightened by this cheer, and no longer dared to move forward, he could only wipe his tears and cry, Hu Dashan saw his parents like this, thinking of the tragic situation of his family being infected with the plague, he couldn't help but cry, but he didn't forget to comfort his parents: "Dad, mother, I'm fine, Xiaohai is fine, but I don't have any strength in my body, we all take medicine obediently, I heard that this is the medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor, that is Lang Zhong who gave the emperor a cure, is the most powerful Lang Zhong in the world, we will be fine soon......"

Those soldiers were also very sympathetic to the tragic situation of their families, but they were soldiers who had been on the battlefield, and they had already trained their hearts and stones, and they knew the horror of the plague, and urged them loudly: "Quickly take the medicine and go back to drink, don't stay outside for too long!" ”

When Hu Dashan heard this, he went over to get two bowls of medicine first, and returned to the tent, Hu Laohan and Liu also went to get the medicine bowls one after the other, they naturally knew that the plague could not be cured, but for the sake of such a little hope, they still drank the medicine after going back.

Hu Xiaohai is only ten years old this year, which is the age of fun, but now he can only lie on the grass with all his body weak, his body and face are covered with gray spots, terrifying and terrifying, and these spots have appeared on Hu Dashan's arms.

Hu Xiaohai was unable to get out of bed and walk, and the medicine was fed by Hu Dashan, Hu Xiaohai finished drinking the medicine, looked up at Hu Dashan, and said with a guilty face: "Brother, I'm sorry, I caused you to get sick too." ”

Hu Dashan squeezed out a smile: "Stupid, you are my brother, how can you harm me, don't talk nonsense." ”

Hu Xiaohai leisurely looked at the sunlight that came in through the gap in the tent, and asked leisurely: "Brother, are we going to die?" ”

Hu Dashan was shocked, tears poured out again, he was still afraid of death after all, after all, he was only twelve years old, and the best years of his life had not yet begun, and it was about to end.

"Brother, you're crying." Hu Xiaohai looked up and saw Hu Dashan in tears.

Hu Dashan wiped away his tears and said with a forced smile: "Brother didn't cry, it's just that the sand blew into his eyes, you go to bed first, this is the medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor, it is very smart, and you will be fine when you wake up from sleep." ”

"Hmm." Hu Xiaohai, who has always been naughty, finally became well-behaved at the moment of life and death, lay down and closed his eyes and began to sleep, in fact, he was not sleepy at all, not sleepy at all, because he had slept for five hours, but he knew that his brother would be very tired to take care of himself, and if he slept by himself, he would make him easier.

But I don't know what's going on, he lay down for a while, really a little sleepy, and before he knew it, he fell asleep.

When Hu Xiaohai woke up, it was already evening, and the tent was getting darker and darker, he slowly got up and found that his body had some strength, not as weak as in the morning.

At this moment, Hu Dashan was resting on another wooden couch, he seemed to have had some bad dreams, his brows were furrowed all the time, Hu Xiaohai saw that his brother was frowning in his sleep, and the guilt in his heart was deeper, and he couldn't help but have a thought when he was young: I hurt our family, I am a disaster.

Hu Xiaohai, who had never experienced anything, got out of bed lightly, put on rag shoes, and tiptoed out of the tent.

As soon as he stepped out of the tent, the patrol soldiers outside spotted him, and immediately someone raised their bows and arrows at him, and shouted coldly: "Plague patient, do not move around at will, go back!" ”

Hu Xiaohai gritted his teeth, mustered up all his courage, and walked towards those soldiers, he was looking for death!

"Looking for death" is usually used to curse people, but not here, he just really wants to die, but he has no tools to commit suicide, nor does he have the courage to commit suicide, only to kill himself with the help of the hands of these soldiers, he thinks this is his own punishment, a ten-year-old child has such thoughts, can not help but make people feel sad and respectable.

"Stop! Otherwise we shoot arrows! The soldier scolded loudly, but it was useless, Hu Xiaohai gritted his teeth, step by step, he could feel his legs trembling, just a simple walk, but exhausted all his courage and strength, even those soldiers were shocked, they didn't know what this kid wanted to do.

"Xiaohai! Come back! Hu Dashan was awakened by the shouting just now, rushed out of the tent, and saw that Hu Xiaohai actually made a move to find death, so he rushed up with a shout and threw Hu Xiaohai to the ground.

Hu Xiaohai struggled hard, and shouted to himself: "Let me die, I hurt you, I'm sorry for my father, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for you, I'm all harmed, everyone in our family will die......" He said at the end, and he couldn't cry.

Hu Dashan finally held him down, and suddenly asked in shock: "Xiaohai, where did you get so much strength?" ”

When Hu Xiaohai was asked by him, he forgot to cry, wiped his tears and said, "I'm so energetic." ”

"That's not what I meant!" Hu Dashan thought about the wording for a while, and then asked, "Aren't you weak because of the plague, you can't get out of bed and walk, how can you have the strength now?" ”

Hu Xiaohai shook his head ignorantly: "I don't know." ”

At this moment, three officials came from afar with a few food boxes, and Lao Yuan said loudly: "It's time to eat, it's time for dinner." ”

Three soldiers greeted him, took the food box and ran back, leaving two food boxes for dinner, and the other three were sent to the tent area, which was the dinner of the Hu family's four people, and one of the food boxes was the medicine they should drink.

Hu Dashan and Hu Xiaohai took away a food box, took away two bowls of soup and medicine, and after a while, Hu Laohan and Liu came out and brought them back to the tent.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, not long after the patrol soldiers changed their guards, they heard Hu Dashan's voice coming from the tent: "Great, Xiaohai, the plague on our body has faded!" ”

Then I saw Hu Dashan excitedly rushing out of the tent and shouting at the tent more than ten feet away: "Dad, mother, the plague on our body has faded!" ”

This sentence is like throwing a stone into the calm river, splashing layers of ripples, Hu Laohan and Liu Shi all rushed out of the tent excitedly, standing at the door and excitedly asking long and short questions, while the soldiers who had just changed shifts looked confused, and the leading soldier asked one of the brothers to report the situation to Imperial Doctor Liu.

This side is very close to the medical tent, as soon as Imperial Doctor Liu and the other two doctors heard about this, they hurriedly put down the things in their hands, hurriedly put on epidemic prevention equipment, and rushed to the quarantine area in a hurry.

Imperial Physician Liu interrupted their chat, walked closer, and carefully observed Hu Xiaohai, and found that most of the plague on his body had subsided, and the color had become much lighter, which was a sign that the epidemic was weakening.

Doctor Liu was excited, stepped forward a few steps, came to Hu Xiaohai, grabbed his wrist to check the pulse, Hu Xiaohai saw that he was a doctor, and asked him with a wink: "Old man, is my illness about to be cured?" ”

After a while, Imperial Physician Liu suddenly let go of Hu Xiaohai's hand, his eyes lit up, and he said to himself excitedly: "That medicine really works!" It worked! ”

After saying that, he ran all the way back, shouting as he ran: "It's done!" It's done! This medicine really works! ”

When Dr. Cao and Dr. Hong heard this, they were so excited that they burst into tears, and they shouted in unison: "Great, great, saved!" The people of Datang are saved! ”

After Imperial Physician Liu ran in front of them, he first explained to Cen Er: "Decoction more of this medicine, change it to three doses a day for them, and at the same time, give this medicine to the village soldiers and villagers, if there is an epidemic, it can be prevented." ”

"Yes! Master! "Cen Erjaw leader ordered.

Doctor Hong thought for a moment and proposed, "Imperial Doctor Liu, since this decoction is so magical, let's go up and report it." ”

Imperial Physician Liu thought about it carefully, and said slowly: "It's still too early to ask for credit, let's wait for a day or two, and see what the follow-up effect is. ”

Hong Cao and the others nodded when they heard this, and secretly sighed that Imperial Doctor Liu was really a person in the officialdom, and he was much more profound than them in this way, and he saw it more thoroughly than them.