The days when I was an obstetrician and gynecologist in Chang'an

Chapter 969 Rat

Chapter 969 Rat
Having not slept for a day and a night, Li Sanniang was now directing the twenty-odd soldiers in front of her with a hoarse voice.

"Tear down all the east wing rooms of the post station! Create a three-zhang-wide open space!"

As Li Sanniang watched the soldiers move step by step, she looked down at the layout map of the post station on the long table in front of her.

This picture was obtained by Li San Niang from the post station manager through Gong Xiangwu.

This disease is extremely dangerous. Only by controlling it well from the beginning, that is, by isolating the sick and healthy people, can there be a certain possibility of reducing the mortality rate.

Therefore, after taking a look at Yumen Pass, Li Sanniang immediately decided to requisition this post station at the intersection as a quarantine zone.

By now, the cloth covering her head and neck was soaked with sweat, and stray hairs clung to her sunburnt face, clearly showing that she had suffered a lot.

Gong Xiangwu's soldiers were dismantling walls and building partitions as Li Sanniang had requested, so that the post station would be cheaper for isolating sick people.

Nearby, more than twenty physicians from the Imperial Medical Bureau branch, under He Lichun's command, were sorting and piling the transported medicinal herbs next to the stone mill in the post station courtyard.

We'll put it back into the room where the prescription was just confirmed in a little while.

In the distance, three squads of soldiers were escorting members of the An Yan caravan in batches into the newly built quarantine zone.

"Junior sister!"

The junior apprentice from Shaoyang walked briskly toward Li San Niang, carrying a rough porcelain bowl.

"I boiled Coptis chinensis in water according to your prescription, but this linen..."

The junior apprentice from Shaoyang shook out the yellow linen cloth that had just been soaked in Coptis chinensis water from the bowl, and a strong bitter smell hit Li San Niang directly in the face.

Li San Niang took the linen soaked in the medicinal juice, brought it to her nose and smelled it, then said briskly to her junior brother Shaoyang, "It's alright, it's only been a short time, this level is enough to keep him busy."

"When we have time later, we can make more medicine with sufficient efficacy."

As she said this, Li Sanniang unfolded the half-dry hemp cloth, covered her mouth and nose, and neatly tied it behind her head.

Thus, this simple "mask" covered most of her face, leaving only her bright eyes visible.

"Senior brother, did you see that?"
Wear it like this!

Everyone here who comes into contact with patients has to wear one!
Everyone must wear it!

Li San Niang's voice was resolute, carrying an unwavering determination that left no room for opposition.

Suddenly, Qiu Xiang, who had been helping Li San Niang with her work, grabbed her sleeve.

Turning around, Li Sanniang followed Qiu Xiang's directions and looked towards the entrance of the quarantine area.

Right there at the entrance, three Sogdians were shoving each other with Tang soldiers wielding knives.

Among the three Sogdians, a burly man with a full beard suddenly ripped open his collar, revealing several very noticeable black spots on his exposed chest.

"Stop him!"

Li San Niang lifted her foot and headed in that direction, but the Sogdian man had already knocked down two soldiers and was running wildly toward the sand dunes outside the pass.

An arrow pierced the air and landed firmly at the foot of the Sogdian man.

Gong Xiangwu put away his longbow on horseback, and he led a troop of cavalry to flank the area from the west.

The man looked at the arrows at his feet and knelt down in despair. He suddenly shouted in broken Mandarin, "Fire! Fire! You're going to burn us to death!"

Li San Niang, panting heavily, arrived in front of the Sogdian man along with Qiu Xiang and her junior brother from Shaoyang. Listening to the man's broken Mandarin, she found it all laughable.

Having not closed her eyes to rest for a whole day and night, Li Sanniang no longer had the energy to explain anything to this Sogdian man who couldn't even understand Chinese, let alone speak a complete and clear sentence in Chinese.

"Ishino! Shut up!"

An Yan chased after Li San Niang from the crowd and called out urgently to Shi Ye Na in Sogdian.

Ishino is the Sogdian man who shared the gerbil with the already deceased Kangada!
Before An Yan could say anything more, Shi Ye, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly began to cough violently. As he coughed, pink blood foam came out of his throat!
The blood sprayed onto the ground and splattered onto the yellow gravel.

The scene fell into a deathly silence.

The man who died earlier, Kang Ada, died shortly after vomiting blood!

Li Sanniang saw that An Yan's face, which was very close to Shi Ye, had been splattered with blood. Her pupils contracted sharply, and she immediately shouted, "Hold him down! Everyone, step back five paces!"

Li Sanniang immediately stepped forward and grabbed An Yan, tearing off the wine pouch from her waist—this was the strong liquor that Li Sanniang had specially asked Gong Xiangwu for this morning. "Qiu Xiang!"

Upon hearing Li San Niang's shout, Qiu Xiang immediately understood what was going on.

Qiu Xiang reached forward and tore off a strip of An Yan's shirt hem, rolled it up, and stretched it out towards Li San Niang.

Li San Niang uncorked the wine flask and poured some strong liquor onto the cloth.

Clutching the cloth soaked in strong liquor, Li Sanniang pressed it hard against An Yan's face and wiped it.

"pain!"

"If you want to live, then endure it!" After yelling at An Yan, Li San Niang shouted to the soldiers who were standing there dumbfounded, "What are you standing there for?"
"Why aren't you taking him back to the quarantine area?!"

Another day has passed, and the setting sun cast long shadows of everyone.

Standing on the makeshift platform, Li Sanniang looked at the huge pit of corpses that had only been dug two days ago and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

The soldiers poured lime into the mass grave; this lime had been recently transferred from the city's treasury.

Conada's body was burning at the bottom of the pit, and black smoke twisted and rose into the sky.

As dusk fell, Li San Niang, Qiu Xiang, and Lao Shi followed the soldiers back to the quarantine zone that had been converted from a post station.

Just as I reached the door, I heard screams suddenly coming from inside the quarantine area.

When they rushed into the house, they saw He Lichun's wrist being tightly bitten by a foreign boy.

The boy's eyes were yellowish and his face was flushed; he clearly looked like he had contracted an epidemic.

"Hold him down!"

Li San Niang had her golden needles in her fingers. She strode over and lifted the boy's clothes, causing everyone present to gasp in shock!
The boy's armpits were swollen and his skin was broken. There were also dark spots on his body!

Li San Niang inserted a needle into the boy's Hegu acupoint (an acupoint I made up), restraining his movements and causing him to fall into a deep sleep.

While Li Sanniang was helping He Lichun treat the wrist that had been bitten by the boy, Gong Xiangwu was listening to his personal guard report to him: "General!"
Three more caravans have arrived from beyond the Great Wall!
One of them said two people on their team died.

Three caravans, driven by Tang Dynasty cavalry to the outside of the quarantine zone, were unloading their goods from camels under the soldiers' shouts.

Countless torches were lit around the quarantine area, illuminating the place brightly.

A camel suddenly cried out and collapsed to the ground, crushed by the tightly bound leather bag binding its body.

The wind swept by, carrying sand grains, and a few gray-black rats darted out from among the scattered goods, disappearing into the night in the blink of an eye.

　Thank you to everyone who voted for this recommendation in March 2025!
　　SZ7074 cast 493 recommendation votes.

　　Sibao Chicken received 196 votes.

　　yuyulike cast 132 recommendation votes.

　　Dark Jellyfish cast 21 recommendation votes.

　　Sapporo cast 8 votes.

　　Lianhen Chi cast 13 recommendation votes.

　　Oscar Carol cast 16 votes of approval.

　　Coffee Cat cast 24 recommendation votes.

　　Ni Yu cast 43 recommendation votes.

　　Xidu cast 1 recommendation votes.

　　Ming Yeyu cast 153 recommendation votes.

　　Xing Ruofanchen cast 5 recommendation votes.