Xuanxia

Chapter 585 Disease

In the nineteenth year of Qianhao in Dayan, the year is Dingmao, the seventh day of the twelfth month, and the day in the Chinese zodiac is Bingxu. It is a good time to meditate quietly, reflect on oneself, and pray for blessings. It is taboo to travel, trade, break ground, or get married.

In the southern part of the Central Plains, there are many high-ranking officials on the Wanbao Beach.

This place is bordered by Hongjiang River to the north and Qingxu Mountains to the south. The rivers and mountains run parallel to each other, each stretching for thousands of miles, hence the name Chang'an Beach. This is the area with the most fertile soil in the Central Plains, with thousands of acres of fertile fields and hundreds of towns and villages.

For the people of Dayan, apart from the capital city, known as the "Land of Ten Thousand Treasures", and Shu, known as the "Land of Abundance", the Chang'an Beach area is the richest and most desirable place.

Langzhong Liang Guangchang moved to the Chang'an Beach area with his family when he was young and settled in Anyue City here.

Now, decades have passed, and he has grown from a small child to a fifty-year-old man.

Liang Guangchang was very grateful for his parents' decision. When his hometown in northern Hebei suffered a severe drought, he gritted his teeth and migrated thousands of miles to come here.

He learned medical skills from a master here, and it took him nearly thirty years to become a famous doctor within a hundred miles. He now had his own house and his own large clinic. He had dozens of apprentices, and he had children and grandchildren... He could be said to have a happy life.

But in the past month, Liang Guangchang has been very tired.

very very tired.

His face was covered with a cloth and his eyes were looking out the carriage window wearily.

The snow was floating like goose feathers, the ground outside the window was made of silver bricks and jade, and the village in the distance was covered with snow. The white ridges looked like graves in his eyes.

"Dr. Liang."

At this time, the carriage curtain was opened, and a man with a cloth covering his face poked his head in and called out, "We are almost there at Tianshou Village."

Liang Guangchang nodded and said nothing.

The man driving the car outside...is a minor official in Anyue City government office.

This "Divine Doctor Liang" had rushed to Tianshou Village with a government official before daybreak today, just for one thing... to cure illnesses.

No, to be precise, it's an epidemic.

In the past month, epidemics have broken out in Chang'an Beach.

As a well-known miracle doctor within a hundred miles, Liang Guangchang was naturally invited by the government to participate in the diagnosis.

However, during this period of time, he had traveled to too many places and seen too many patients. Even a body of iron could not bear it. What's more, he had no talent for cultivation and was already too tired.

On the official road outside Tianshou Village, a team of horse-drawn carriages slowly drove over the snow and into the village.

Figures walked out of the village, with expectation in their eyes, and surrounded the convoy.

Liang Guangchang got off the carriage with the help of the clerk. Looking back, he saw that his apprentices had also jumped down from the carriage behind, holding the medicine boxes and rushing over.

He looked at the people in the village again.

The old man was leaning on crutches, the woman was holding her child, and the man was hunched over.

They all coughed incoherently, and their faces and hands were covered with strange "shells". Those shells were like scabs formed after a large area of ​​skin injury, each one was hard and rough, with short hairs on it.

Liang Guangchang sighed secretly.

"Dr. Liang?" The clerk heard him sigh and asked in a carefree manner, "How is it?"

"Let's set up the examination table first."

Liang Guangchang waved his hands at his disciples and said, "Hurry up, don't dawdle... Ah Song, you and Xiao Lu will set up the stage together. Ah De, Ah Shi, you guys should start boiling the medicine."

After that, he looked at the clerk and said hoarsely, "Sir, please tell the villagers to line up and see the seriously ill first, and the old and young first."

"No problem, leave it to me." The clerk bowed, then immediately waved to the villagers and said loudly: "Everyone! I am from the government office in Anyue City! Our prefect has invited Dr. Liang to come! Your illness can be cured!"

When they heard that Dr. Liang was coming in person, the villagers' eyes all lit up, and some even cried for joy!

"Thank you, Lord Qingtian!"

"Dr. Liang! Please check on my mother! She is dying!"

"We are saved, we are saved!"

The villagers began to crowd over here, and the clerk quickly covered his face with a cloth with one hand and shouted at them to keep order. Some other government clerks in the carriage convoy also rushed over.

Liang Guangchang sighed deeply.

But he knew that these people... were not far from death.

He had never heard of the epidemic currently prevalent in Long Beach in the past few decades.

Then naturally... we are unable to diagnose and treat.

He named this disease "dirty stone disease". Patients would grow strange shells all over their bodies, but what they didn't know was that these shells would not only grow on their skin, but also take root in their internal organs.

They cough because this "dirty stone" has grown in their lungs.

It won't be long before these "dirty stones" completely fill their internal organs.

They might die of suffocation from stones in their lungs. They might die of excruciating pain from stones in their kidneys and livers. They might...

This kind of dirty stone has countless ways to kill people. Liang Guangchang worked day and night for five days to study it a month ago. He dissected the bodies of several patients and finally determined that this disease was transmitted through breathing. He also found a medicinal soup that can soften the dirty stone and make it fall off.

But... falling off is only temporary.

Now, a month has passed, and several of the first patients in his clinic who were "cured" by him have once again developed new stones.

Moreover, the newly generated dirty stones will be more ferocious and terrifying!
The night before Liang Guangchang came to Tianshou Village, those patients were already bedridden.

But he looked at the expectant eyes of the patients in the village...

Liang Guangchang shook his head and sighed again.

He knew that the more he came into contact with patients, the greater the chance that he would be infected with zotalolithiasis, but he really couldn't protect himself... All he could do was to let them live as long as possible, even if it was only for a few days. Those few days would be enough for them to say goodbye to their loved ones.

The reason why he was called a "miracle doctor" was not just because of his superb medical skills.

Soon, the diagnosis table was set up, Liang Guangchang sat behind the table, and a long line of people from the village had formed. "Master."

An apprentice whispered in Liang Guangchang's ear: "Why didn't you call the senior brother and others to come today?"

Liang Guangchang glared at him and said, "You know nothing! Get back to work! Didn't you hear what the villagers said? There's a patient who can't get out of bed! Hurry up and help carry him over!"

"Oh……"

The apprentice uttered an grievance and walked away angrily.

Liang Guangchang tightened the mask on his face, shook his head, and began to put on gloves.

What he didn't say was... if he could avoid your chances of coming into contact with the disease, then you might not be so easily infected...

But at this moment, a cry of surprise suddenly came from the other side of the village!
"Blind bear! A blind bear has broken into the village!"

"Bear! It's really a bear. What a big bear!"

Liang Guangchang was shocked when he heard this, and the clerk guarding him also stared: "How is it possible? There are only bears on Qingxu Mountain. How far is Qingxu Mountain from here?!"

But there is no smoke without fire. After a while, they saw several villagers stumbling and stumbling towards them, and behind them, there was a huge black bear chasing them!

It was nearly ten feet tall, taller than two adults put together, with shoulders broad enough for a horse to run on. It easily broke the brick walls of the village houses when it charged. Large amounts of snow poured on it, but instead of crushing it, it made it even crazier.

"Hunter! Hunter! Are there any hunters in the village?!" the clerk yelled.

A villager said in a trembling voice: "Wang, Wang the Hunter and his family have been ill for a long time!"

The clerk was stunned for a moment, then shouted, "What are you still standing there for? Run!"

For a time, Tianshou Village was in chaos.

The big black bear rushed around the village madly, pouncing on anyone it saw, and soon knocked down several people.

What's worse is that it was obviously not looking for food... After knocking those people down, it didn't bite them at all. It just used its huge bear paws to beat them into a bloody mess, and then went on to chase the next person.

The villagers fled in a panic, and the clerk and an apprentice from the medical clinic helped Liang Guangchang up and walked towards the carriage.

But before they had taken a few steps, they saw several villagers snatching the horses from the carriage and running away on top of them.

Upon seeing this, the apprentice cursed loudly, and several people suddenly lost their balance and fell down at the same time - it turned out that several fleeing villagers knocked them down.

Liang Guangchang had been feeling tired and unwell for a while, and after being hit like this, he fell heavily to the ground with his shoulder making a cracking sound. He suddenly felt a chill in his heart, realizing that his shoulder was fractured.

This is a fatal time...

The clerk quickly got up and tried to help him, but he pulled his shoulder, causing him to scream in pain. The clerk was so frightened that he dared not move.

The next second, the clerk turned his head stiffly.

Less than five steps away, a huge black bear was on all fours, breathing heavily from its mouth.

"Gluck cluck cluck..."

The clerk's teeth started to chatter and his whole body was shaking. Finally, he couldn't hold it in any longer and turned around and ran away!
Liang Guangchang fell to the ground and stretched out his hand to his apprentice in vain.

His apprentice, who was less than sixteen years old, had already cried with tears all over his face, his legs were shaking constantly, and he was not able to support his master at all.

The black bear came towards them with heavy footsteps, and Liang Guangchang could already smell the fishy air coming out of its mouth.

"Is this old man going to give his all today?"

He suddenly realized something.

Liang Guangchang looked at the black bear and his eyes suddenly paused.

Dirty stone.

He saw the dirty stone.

This black bear's fur is covered with dirty stones!
One of its eyes was even covered with dirty stones, and large patches of dirty stones caused its hair to fall out and become bald... This was also the reason why it went crazy!
Liang Guangchang smiled bitterly and understood.

It turns out that this disease can even be transmitted to wild animals!

Under normal circumstances, this black bear would certainly not come here... But it was sick, in so much pain, and had already lost its mind. Somehow it came all the way from Qingxu Mountain to Tianshou Village.

"I have already prepared to die from this disease."

Liang Guangchang murmured, "Now it seems that my guess...is not bad?"

The black bear had stood in front of him, making a heart-pounding low whimpering sound, as if it was angry or crying for help.

But in the end, it just raised its hand and slapped Liang Guangchang!

At the moment before his death, Liang Guangchang felt as if he was drenched in cold water. He was so clear-headed that he could not even feel the pain in his shoulder.

He stared with wide eyes, watching the terrifying bear paw coming towards him.

But the next moment, a cold light came obliquely through the air!

The light tore through the wind and snow, stung the eyes, and silently penetrated into one side of the black bear's head, and then came out from the other side of its head, carrying blood and nailing it firmly into the ground.

That's an arrow.

An iron arrow.

The black bear fell to the ground with a loud bang, raising a large cloud of snow and dust.

Liang Guangchang and his apprentice twisted their stiff necks, widened their eyes, and looked around in the direction of the arrow.

There were two figures on a roof not far away.

It seemed to be a man and a woman, dressed very similarly, both covered their faces with cloth, and both carried a knife and held a large bow...

(End of this chapter)