Chapter 585 Illness
Dayan Qianhao's nineteenth year, he was born in Dingmao, the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the day of the stems and branches, Bingxu, it is advisable to meditate, introspect, and pray for blessings, and avoid traveling, trading, breaking ground, and getting married. .
South of the Central Plains, Wanbao Gaoguan Beach.
This place is bordered by the Hongjiang River to the north and the Qingxu Mountains to the south. The rivers and mountains run parallel to each other, each stretching for thousands of miles. This is why Chang'an Beach is named. It is the most fertile area in the Central Plains, with thousands of hectares of fertile farmland and hundreds of towns. fall.
For the people of Dayan, apart from the capital city of the "Land of Ten Thousand Treasures" and Shu, the "Land of Abundance", the Chang'an Beach area is the richest and most desirable place.
Liang Guangchang, a doctor, moved with his family to the Chang'an Beach area when he was young and settled in Anyue City here.
Decades have passed now, and he has already reached half a hundred years old from the little boy he was.
Liang Guangchang is very grateful for his parents' decision. When there was a severe drought in his hometown in northern Hebei, he gritted his teeth and traveled thousands of miles to come here.
He learned medical skills as an apprentice here, and it took him nearly thirty years to become a famous miracle doctor within a hundred miles. He had his own house, his own big medical clinic, and was a mere apprentice. There are dozens of people, and they have children and grandchildren... It can be said that they live a happy life.
But in the past month, Liang Guangchang has been very tired.
Very tired.
His face was covered with a cloth and his eyes wearily looked out the carriage window.
The heavy snow was floating like goose feathers, the ground outside the window was made of silver bricks, and the villages in the distance were covered with snow. In his eyes, the white bumps looked like tombs.
"Doctor Liang."
At this time, the curtain of the carriage was opened, and a man with his face covered with cloth poked his head in and called out: "Tianshou Village is coming."
Liang Guangchang nodded and said nothing.
The man driving the car outside... is a clerk in Anyue City Government Office.
And he, the "Miracle Doctor Liang", followed the government officials to Tianshou Village before dawn today, just for one thing... to treat illnesses.
No, to be precise, it is a disease.
In the past month, diseases have been spreading in Chang'an Beach.
As a miracle doctor known to everyone within a hundred miles, Liang Guangchang was naturally invited by the government to participate in diagnosis.
It’s just that during this period of time, he has traveled to too many places and seen too many patients, and even his iron-clad body cannot hold on. What’s more, he has no talent for cultivation at all and is already too exhausted.
On the official road outside Tianshou Village, a procession of horse-drawn carriages slowly passed through the snow and drove into the village.
In the village, figures walked out one after another, with expectations in their eyes, surrounding the convoy.
Liang Guangchang got out of the carriage with the help of the clerk. When he looked back, he saw that his disciples had also jumped down from the carriage behind and rushed over with medicine boxes in their hands.
He looked at the people in the village again.
The old man is holding a crutch, the woman is holding the child, and the man is holding his back.
They all coughed in unison, and their faces and hands were covered with strange "shells". Those shells were like scabs formed after large-scale injuries to the skin. Short fluff.
Liang Guangchang sighed secretly.
"Doctor Liang?" The clerk heard him sigh and asked casually: "How is it?"
"Let's set up the clinic table first."
Liang Guangchang waved to his apprentices: "Hurry up, don't wait...A Song, you and Xiao Lu set up the table together, A De, A Shi, you guys Let's boil the medicine first."
After that, he looked at the clerk and said in a hoarse voice: "My lord, please talk to the villagers and line up, and those who are seriously ill will be treated first. , The young and old are treated first.”
“No problem, leave it to me.” The clerk raised his hand and said loudly: “Everyone! I am from Anyue City Yamen. People! Our Lord Magistrate has invited Divine Doctor Liang! Your disease has been cured!”
When they heard that Divine Doctor Liang was here, the eyes of all the villagers lit up, and some even cried with joy!
"Thank you, Mr. Qingtian!"
"Doctor Liang! Take a look at my mother! She is dying!"
"It's saved, we're saved!"
The villagers began to crowd in this direction. The clerks covered their faces with one hand and shouted loudly to keep them in order. There were other government clerks in the carriage convoy who also rushed over.
Liang Guangchang sighed deeply.
But he knew that these people... their death was not far away.
He had never heard of the disease currently prevalent in Long Beach in the past few decades.
So natural...there is no way to diagnose and treat it.
This disease was named "dirty stone disease" by him. The patients will develop weird shells all over their bodies. But what they don't know is that these shells will not only grow on their skin, but also on their skin. It will take root in their guts.
They cough because this kind of "dirty stone" has grown in their lungs.
It won't be long before these "dirty stones" completely fill their internal organs.
They may die from suffocation due to stones in their lungs; they may die from severe pain due to stones in their kidneys and livers; perhaps...
This kind of There are countless ways to kill people with dirty stones. Liang Guangchang spent five days studying hard for five days a month ago, and dissected the bodies of several sick and deceased people. Only then did he finally determine that the disease was transmitted through breathing, and found a method that could soften dirty stones. Medicinal decoction can also make dirty stones fall off.
But... the shedding is only temporary.
Now that one month has passed, several of the first patients in his medical clinic who were "cured" by him have once again given birth to new dirty stones.
Moreover, the new dirty stone is even more fierce and terrifying!
The night before Liang Guangchang came to Tianshou Village, the patients were already bedridden.
But he looked at the expectant eyes of the patients in the village in front of him...
Liang Guangchang shook his head and sighed again.
He knew that the more contact he had with patients, the greater his chance of contracting lithiasis, but he really couldn't protect himself wisely... All he could do was to let them live as long as possible. , even if it is only a few days, those few days are enough to say goodbye to your loved ones.
He is known as a "miracle doctor" not just because of his superb medical skills.
Soon, the consultation table was set up. Liang Guangchang sat down behind the consultation table, and there was already a long queue in the village. "Master."
An apprentice whispered in Liang Guangchang's ear: "Why didn't you call Senior Brother and the others to come today?"
Liang Guangchang glared at him. : "You know nothing! Go to work quickly! Didn't you listen to those villagers? There is a patient who can't get out of bed! Help him to carry it!"
"Oh..."
The apprentice made a grievance and walked away angrily.
Liang Guangchang tightened the cloth on his face, shook his head, and began to put on gloves for himself.
What he didn't say was... By letting you miss the opportunity to come into contact with lithiasis, you may not be so easily infected with the disease...
But at this moment, Suddenly there was an exclamation from the other side of the village!
"Blind bear! A blind bear has broken into the village!"
"Bear! It's really a bear, such a big bear!"
Hearing this, Liang Guangchang was shocked and guarded him The little official on the side also stared: "How is it possible? There are bears only in Qingxu Mountain. How far is Qingxu Mountain from here?!"
But nothing came of it, and after a while, they I saw several villagers running staggeringly, and behind them, there was a huge black bear, chasing after them!
It was nearly ten feet tall, taller than two adults put together, and its shoulders were wide enough to run a horse. When it collided, it easily broke the brick wall of the village house, and dumped a large amount of snow. Not only did it fail to suppress it, but it actually made it even crazier.
"Hunter! Hunter! Are there any hunters in the village?!" the clerk yelled.
A villager trembled and said: "Wang, Wang Orion and his family have fallen ill a long time ago!"
The clerk was stunned for a moment and shouted: "Then why are you still standing there? Run!”
For a while, Tianshou Village was in chaos.
The big black bear ran wildly through the village, pounced on people it saw, and soon knocked down several people.
What's worse is that it was obviously not looking for food... After knocking down those people, it didn't bite at all. It just used its huge bear paw to beat the people to bloody pulp, and then went after the next person.
The villagers fled in confusion. The clerk and a medical apprentice also helped Liang Guangchang and walked to the carriage.
But they didn't take a few steps when they saw several villagers snatching the horses from the carriage, lying on the carriage and running away.
When the apprentice saw this, he cursed several times. Suddenly, several people lost their center of gravity and fell at the same time - it turned out that several fleeing villagers had knocked them down.
Liang Guangchang had been exhausted and uncomfortable during this period. After being hit like this, his whole body fell to the ground hard and his shoulder made a crack. He suddenly felt cold and knew that his shoulder was broken.
This was the critical moment...
The clerk got up quickly and tried to help him, but his shoulder was pulled, causing him to scream in pain, and the clerk was suddenly too frightened to move.
The next second, the clerk turned his head stiffly.
Less than five steps away, a huge black bear was lying on all fours, breathing from its mouth.
“Kekekekeke……”
The clerk's teeth were chattering and his whole body was shaking. Finally, he couldn't hold it in any longer and turned around and ran away!
Liang Guangchang lay on the ground and stretched out his hand to his apprentice in vain.
His apprentice, who was less than sixteen years old, was already crying with tears on his face, his legs were shaking, and he had no ability to support his master.
The black bear came with heavy footsteps, and Liang Guangchang could already smell the fishy wind coming out of its mouth.
"I...will you tell me today?"
He suddenly became enlightened.
Liang Guangchang looked at the black bear, his eyes suddenly paused.
Dirty stones.
He saw the dirty stone.
The fur of this black bear is covered with dirty stones!
Even one of its eyes was covered with dirty stones. The large patches of dirty stones caused its hair to fall out and become bald... This is also the reason why it went crazy!
Liang Guangchang smiled bitterly and understood.
It turns out that this disease can be transmitted even to wild animals!
Under normal circumstances, of course this black bear would not come here... But it was sick, half dead in pain, and had already lost its mind. Somehow, it came all the way from Qingxu Mountain to Tianshou Village.
“I have already prepared myself to die from this illness.”
Liang Guangchang murmured: "Now it seems that your guess... is not bad?"
The black bear had already stood in front of him, letting out a heart-stopping low whimpering sound, like being angry, but also like It's a cry for help.
But in the end, it just raised its palm and slapped Liang Guangchang!
At the moment before his death, Liang Guangchang felt as if he had been doused with cold water. He was so awake that he could not even feel the pain in his shoulder.
He stared wide-eyed as the terrifying bear's paw hit him.
But the next moment, a cold light slanted through the sky!
The light tore through the wind and snow, hurting the eyes, silently penetrated one side of the black bear's head, and then penetrated from the other side of its head, bringing blood and nailing it firmly into the ground. middle.
That's an arrow.
An iron arrow.
The black bear fell to the ground with a crash, throwing up large amounts of snow and dust.
Liang Guangchang and his apprentice twisted their stiff necks and stared back, following the arrows.
On a rooftop not far away, there were two figures.
They seemed to be a man and a woman. They were dressed very similarly. They also covered their faces with cloths. They were also carrying a knife and a big bow...
(End of this chapter)