Chapter 342: Chapter 338: Treating the Disease_1
Yingbao gently stroked Dahei’s ears and fed it a dicinal pill made from honeysuckle, atractylodes, astragalus, and ephedra.
Dahei wagged its tail even more happily and licked its young master’s hand affectionately.
Yingbao went to check on Zhang Yuying and Zhang Xiaolang, then went to inspect their well.
The water level in the well was nearly up to the brim, while the water clarity was far from ideal.
Yingbao asked her aunt to boil a pot of water and sanitize all the bowls, chopsticks, and containers in the house. After washing her hands, she finally picked so herbs from her dicine box to brew.
She did it quietly herself, replacing the boiling water with water from the Pupil Spring.
She prepared two doses of herbs in two separate pots, boiled down from five bowls of water to one. Yingbao then poured the dicinal liquid into another container for her aunt to feed to the two children.
The remaining residue was reused by Yingbao by adding so more water, boiling it slightly, then pouring it out for Hong Xiao and her aunt to drink.
Afterwards, she asked, “Aunt, how is my eldest cousin and his family?”
A couple of days ago, she had seen her eldest cousin and even brought them presents. His father-in-law family had also paid a visit to the Jiang family to congratulate Jiang Jie on his academic results as a scholar.
No one could have predicted that an epidemic would break out the very next day.
Jiang Yunniang downed a bowl of dicine in one gulp and said: “Dacheng’s family is okay. His father-in-law was alerted to sothing amiss and ca to inform us. Who could have predicted that catching a few fish could lead to such a disaster for Yuying.”
After the rainfall, floodwaters had collected in many parts of the city. A lot of fish flowed into these areas from the rivers, mostly quite large in size, so as long as half a human’s arm. Many households rolled up their trousers and went out with wooden bowls to catch the fish, Yuying and Xiaolang had also caught two fish and brought them ho. As a result, they had contracted the disease.
Yingbao continued to brew dicine, this ti using three large pots. She set up three small stoves in the courtyard and put the pots on top.
She rushed to the kitchen and filled the three pots with water in an instant before carrying them out one by one.
Seeing this, Jiang Yunniang ca over to lend a hand, “Let cook the dicine.”
Yingbao added herbs into the pot, telling her aunt, “Once you’ve finished brewing the dicine, pour it into a bamboo tube. Rember to pour it into a bowl each ti you feed Yuying and the others, half a bowl each ti, and only three tis a day.”
Jiang Yunniang nodded continuously: “I understand.”
“I’ll go to the pharmacy now to buy so more herbs.” Yingbao said and quickly went out of the courtyard.
Jiang Yunniang called out loudly: “Yingbao, let Hong Xiao accompany you.”
“No need.” Hong Xiao going with her would be inconvenient when it ca to collecting items. Yingbao could easily disguise herself with a carrying basket on her back, managing to bring back any amount of items, it was very convenient.
Yingbao hurried off to several pharmacies, but could only buy a small amount of herbs, which worried her greatly.
Following that, she ventured to the dical bureau and found it absolutely packed with patients both inside and out.
Much of the staff and students were busy brewing dicine in the back yard.
Sobody sharp-eyed recognized Yingbao and imdiately called her over, “Isn’t that a student from the Yin Yang Departnt? Hurry and co help.”
Left with no choice, Yingbao strolled over and asked, “Does the dical bureau still have any atractylodes left?”
Atractylodes, also known as xian jie, mainly treat gastrointestinal diseases. Her own estate had detoxifying herbs like honeysuckle and licorice, but they were sorely lacking in this particular herb.
Of course, they were also lacking in ephedra, but she had the Pupil Spring. As long as they had atractylodes, even without other herbs, everything should be fine.
The therapy for diseases was not about having more variety of herbs, sotis only one type was needed to cure the illness.
This man put on a stern face and scolded, “What is a student from the Yin Yang Departnt doing asking for dicinal herbs? The dicine treating this epidemic must not be allowed to leave here.”
Yingbao, seeing his stubborn attitude, didn’t bother engaging with him and turned around to leave.
She still had important work to do, she couldn’t afford to waste her ti here as a helper.
Seeing Yingbao disappear in a cloud of dust, the furious doctor whipped his sleeve and went to complain to the dical official.
The dical officer was also extrely busy and had no ti to bother about such matters. He casually brushed it off with a few words and sent him away.
The kid was not even a formal student of the dical bureau, at best he was just a spiritual charlatan, and also a little disciple of Zhou Wuchang.
What could they do about it? Use so manpower to capture her and bring her back? Absurd!
Yingbao ran to several more dical halls and bought so dicinal herbs for treating the epidemic at high prices.
Seeing too many coming to buy dicines, these dical halls had collectively raised their prices.
These are heartless! Yingbao returned to her shop indignantly, then bumped into her eldest martial brother in the backyard. “Eh? Senior brother, you’ve co back.”
Zhou Hao nodded, he said: “Yingbao, the master is waiting for you at ho.”
Hearing that her master was looking for her, Yingbao hurriedly asked, “What does he want?”
“Discussing the treatnt of the epidemic.” Zhou Hao said. “Qinglong Taoist Temple has a lot of sick people there. If we don’t think of a solution soon, those people won’t be able to survive another two days and they’ll all die.”
Upon hearing this, Yingbao’s expression turned solemn.
That’s right, there was a great flood in her past life, and there was also an epidemic that had broke out then. A lot of people in the county died. The County Magistrate took extre asures, gathering many sick people on Qinglong Mountain, and afterwards even dug a large pit on the mountain, throwing the dead bodies in to incinerate them.
So it’s starting again in this life?
“Okay, I will take care of the dicine and co back imdiately.” Yingbao quickly ran into the kitchen, reached her hand into the large water vat when no one was around, instantly draining the water into a water vat in her storage space. Afterwards she filled it with water from the Pupil Spring, only then did she return to her father with Zhou Hao.
Master Zhou was indeed here, sitting in the hall, having a chat with old Mr. Wu.
Seeing Yingbao, he nodded: “Yingbao, co with to the Qinglong Taoist Temple. Many sick refugees have gone to the temple to beg for dicine, but found themselves bedridden.”
The Temple Head was almost frantic, but he couldn’t just abandon those people down the mountain, and had no choice but to ask Zhou Wuchang for help.
Yingbao blinked, asked, “Master, do you have dicine?”
Zhou Wuchang: “The only thing your master managed to purchase was five kilos of thistle, and so licorice. Everything else was sold out.”
“Thistle and licorice will suffice.” Thistle can treat the intestines and stomach, and licorice is a detoxifier. Adding Lonicera japonica would be even better.
Yingbao looked at the wicker basket by master’s feet, which was filled with oil paper wrappings.
Zhou Wuchang stood up: “Let’s go now.”
Yingbao nodded, took out so pills for her father, told them to stay ho, and assured them that she would be back soon.
But Jiang Sanlang was worried about his daughter and insisted on accompanying them.
Originally, Wei Zhan and Jiang Quan wanted to go too, but they were stopped by old Mr. Wu, who told them not to stir up trouble.
If more people went and fell ill, wouldn’t they be causing trouble for Yingbao?
Therefore, Yingbao secretly put so fruits and vegetables in her room, and went to Qinglong Taoist Temple with her father and Zhou Wuchang.
Qinglong Taoist Temple was the largest Taoist temple in the county, with dozens of Taoists inside. Now, there are a lot of refugees lying down inside and outside the temple.
The Temple Head had two outhouses dug outside beside the road, and even used mats to enclose them, making it convenient for these people.
“Taoist Zhou, you are finally back.” Seeing Zhou Wuchang returning again, bringing along his divine doctor apprentice, the Temple Head was overjoyed to tears. “You must be Yingbao, right? Co, join us in the temple.”
Seeing the fragile state of the people by the roadside, Yingbao did not waste ti, saying, “Venerable one, no need for formalities. Please get two large pots ready, I am going to decoct dicine.”
“Alright, alright!” The Temple Head was hoping that the divine doctor could cure these people as soon as possible so he could ask them to leave the mountain.
With hundreds of people here, his temple’s rice and flour disappeared day by day. He was already heartbroken. Now, one after another people were falling sick, the Temple Head felt numb all over.
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