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Chapter 575 Besides lead poisoning, what else?
Well water is blue?

The man who received Gretel and his party lowered their heads slightly, staring at the glass in Gretel's hand, with an extremely ugly expression on his face.The water is blue, it's not like he doesn't know about it...

Nonsense, if you really don't know, you won't send someone specially to fetch water from 20 miles away.

But the problem is, well water is blue, so what?Whether there is a problem with the well water or not, don't those poor people still have to drink it?
Besides, who can prove that their strange disease must be caused by water problems?
He was slandering in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it out of his mouth.Not only did he not dare to say it, but his waist bent down even more, with a smile on his face:

"Well... we are all rough people, that is, we are here to manage some properties under the orders of the Lord of the city. The water in this well is occasionally a little blue, and that's it. As for why it turns blue, we I don't understand..."

Reaching out and not hitting the smiling man, Gretel really couldn't do anything about him nodding and bowing like this.Elder Erwin has already sighed:
"Grete, let's take a look at these villagers first."

The villagers soon arrived in front of them.There are not many people, only the seventeenth and eighteenth, all of them are old people and children.During this period of time, most young men and women are working in fields, mines, and workshops, so it is impossible to come to see a doctor.

These old people seemed to know Elder Erwin, and they all rushed towards him.Elder Erwin spoke several times in a row, and only then did the two old men walk towards Gretel tremblingly, pulling the child.As soon as he approached, he first bent down and bowed respectfully:

"Mr. Reverend..."

"You sit, you sit."

Gretel quickly jumped up to help the other party.Carefully, with the forearm of the old woman in front, she settled down on the seat.Then he spread out the pen and paper and began to ask:
"What's your name? How old are you?"

The old woman in front of her had snow-white hair and a skinny figure. At a glance, she looked seven to eighty years old.When Gretel helped her, he didn't dare to use too much force with his hands, for fear of crushing her ulna and radius.

Even so, he still saw the old woman flinch, not knowing whether it was fear or pain.She carefully sat on the stool, her body was naturally bent forward, her back was raised high.After taking a few breaths, he answered in a low voice:
"My name is Anne, I am... 48 years old..."

Behind Gretel, Miss Yinlong gasped, obviously shocked.

Gretel showed no surprise.Poverty, hardship, the blows of life, are such marks that can be carved on a person.He patiently continued to ask:
"Where does it hurt?"

"pain……"

"Where does it hurt? How long has it been hurting?"

"My whole body hurts... my head hurts, my stomach hurts, everywhere... dizziness, nausea... it's been a year or two..."

Gretel frowned slightly.He turned his brain quickly and analyzed it in detail.When he first arrived in Guizhou, he had no clue about everything, and he could only follow the rules of medical diagnosis and come one by one:

The first is inspection.The old woman's face was pale, her lips were bloodless, and her movements were weak.It looks like anemia, but whether the anemia is due to malnutrition or other reasons, he is not sure;

The body is bent, looking like a hunchback, but again, he can't say whether it is due to old age, spinal deformation, vitamin D deficiency, ankylosing spondylitis, or other reasons;
When speaking, there was a mouthful of rotten teeth, which were obviously black...

If it is a strange disease common in the whole village, then what are the influencing factors?groundwater?mine?water pollution?

If it was the previous life, Gretel would immediately arrange for her to have a blood test.However, there is no laboratory, no reagents, nothing here.The only way to use it is--

He turned his head and touched the glass of well water.The water in the glass was slightly rippling, a little bluish, no matter how you looked at it, it was ominous.Gretel thought for a moment, concentrated slightly, and took an appraisal:

"Lead in the water?"

He took a closer look at the old woman.Lead poisoning affects the nervous system and digestive tract, as well as the blood system.So dizziness, nausea, and anemia may indeed be the cause of lead poisoning.Of course, take a closer look at:
"Old lady, open your mouth and let me take a look - don't open it so wide, bite your teeth together, let me take a look at the gums..."

Villagers of this age have really poor dental conditions, and their oral hygiene conditions are also very scratchy.Gretel looked at it for a long time, and even threw a cleansing technique into her mouth, before he barely confirmed that there was indeed a blue-gray line on the old lady's gums...

Gum lead.

The body surface signs of lead poisoning, of course, mercury poisoning will have similar symptoms.

"Teacher, these villagers are lead poisoned?"

"You can see it too?" Elder Erwin turned his head in front of a table next to him and nodded to him.The light like flowing water emitted from the hand, falling from the top of the villager's head, caressing all the way to the soles of the feet.

As the light flowed through, the villager hiccupped and spewed out a puff of unpleasant gas, and his face became a little lighter.

"Is it really lead poisoning?"

Cerilla kept frowning and watched from the sidelines, helping the old man and coaxing the child.Seeing Gretel cast a spell here, she immediately poked her head:
"So, just use the detoxification technique?"

"Uh……"

Gretel responded vaguely.Like lead poisoning, but not quite...

Before he could explain, Cerilla had already rushed out happily, the healing technique in her hand was flashing white, and she called their names one by one:

"Detox! Detox! Continue to detox!"

Miss Yinlong looked delicate and cute, and in terms of spellcasting level, she was much better than Elder Erwin.The detoxification skill fell quickly, and in the blink of an eye, everyone in the village had a share, and none of them was free.

There were voices of gratitude one after another.Old people and children, everyone looked a little more relaxed.Celera raised a happy smile:

"Hey... that's fine, isn't it?"

"...It's not that easy." Gretel and Elder Erwin glanced at each other while slowly shaking their heads.At least, lead pollution won't turn the groundwater blue, and lead poisoning won't cause the villagers pain all over their bodies.

What the city lord said before was that they had a strange disease, and it hurt everywhere...

He smiled at the old woman again.Stretching her arms slightly, she gently stopped her movement of getting up:
"Old lady, please sit down, let me take another look... um..."

[Endless Ink Pen] quietly walked around behind the old woman.Gretel turned on the X-ray magic, glanced over, and immediately felt something was wrong.

The bones look... not quite right.On closer inspection, the ribs, especially the ends, have significantly lower bone density.Looking at the long bones of the limbs, the density is generally loose, the cortical bone is thinned, the bone marrow cavity is widened, and the trabecular bone is scarce.

There is a strip of dense shadow at the end of the long bone, which is the lead line caused by lead poisoning.However, a decrease in bone density is not something that lead poisoning can cause.

"...Teacher, besides the lead mine, what other mines are there?"

The version the city owner told him was that there was a silver mine here, but the output was already very small.There are also some other ores, which have been packaged to others, and several workshops have been opened here.He doesn't know the specific situation...

Anyway, the entire valley, together with the surrounding hills, have already been rented out.Open a mine, open a few workshops, and hire a few villagers to add some income to them, right?

"I'm not too sure." Elder Erwin shook his head slightly. "Although the identification technique tells me that it's the lead problem, the release of the detoxification technique can't completely solve their ailments... Let's go up and have a look together?"

Gretel followed him to his feet.After discussing with Apa, Silvermoon Deer knelt down and asked him to climb on the deer's back.Everyone went to the mining area on the ridge together, and the other three walked on foot, much lighter and more flexible than his footsteps.

The further up he went, the worse Elvin's expression became.Gretel, too, has a heavy heart:

The lush and lush mountains, like open wounds, exposed several hills.The greenery is gone, the trees are gone, and the large and small ores have a gray-black metallic luster, covering the entire mountain.

The stream at the foot of the mountain meanders and flows to the village.By the stream, ants-like crowds are busy, dragging baskets of stones to the water's edge, and then carrying the stones away from the stream.With Gretel's meager smelting knowledge, they are probably washing ore?
"That's how pollution comes about." Elder Erwin said softly.Gretel nodded heavily, without saying a word:
From ore sand to stream water, from stream water to groundwater.It then spreads to the surrounding soil, is absorbed by plants, and is enriched in plants, animals, and human bodies.That's why Elder Erwin says that all nature is sick.

After walking for a while, the yellow smoke rose straight to the sky.Suddenly a gust of wind blew, Cerilla wrinkled her nose and sneezed hard:

"Ah Choo! This...what does it smell like!"

An unpleasant sour smell, mixed with the smell of rotten eggs, made people cry.Gretel was fast, and threw a bubble spell to himself, Apa, and Bernard respectively, frowning:
It's the smell of sulfur.Sulphides are needed to extract minerals... There are many kinds in my impression, and he can't say which ones will pollute the land, but the sulphides themselves are enough...

They climbed over the mountains and ran all the way to the entrance of the mine.The entrance was narrow and dark, allowing only one or two people to come in and out with ore on their backs. The dark-faced miners were carrying heavy ore, almost crawling on the ground.Gretel rushed forward and quickly shot an identification technique——

"Galena, sphalerite, quartzite, calcite..."

Gretel still has to think hard about the specific composition and molecular formula of these ores; however, there are two elements that can't be wrong——

"This is a lead-zinc mine! Among the lead-zinc mines, the most likely to be associated, the most likely to cause large-scale pollution, and damage human health, yes, it is..."

That's right, it's this thing!

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