Republic of China: Guandong Ginseng King

Chapter 240: One problem is solved

Wu Ergou's condition worsened rapidly. Although Doctor Chen and Doctor He tried many methods, Wu Ergou's condition was obviously getting worse.

What’s even worse is that the next day, Wu Ergou’s wife and two children also showed similar symptoms.

Soon after, a person in the village who had been in contact with Wu Ergou for a long time also developed a high fever.

Seeing that the situation was getting worse, Qu Shaoyang could only discuss with Lao Zhao and temporarily use Wu Ergou's home as a place for treatment.

Anyone with symptoms will be sent here for unified care.

At the same time, Qu Shaoyang also asked Lao Zhao to mobilize the women in the village to make masks with cotton cloth as soon as possible and have everyone wear them to minimize the risk of infection.

In the next few days, several more people fell ill in the village and were all sent here for treatment.

Chen and He adjust the prescription at any time according to each person's symptoms.

Some of the symptoms were mild and the condition was controlled after taking medicine and acupuncture, while some of the symptoms were more severe and the effect of medicine was not ideal.

On the morning of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, brothers Chen Yunzhe and Chen Yunhan and others returned driving a six-wheeled sled.

There was a large jar tied to the sled with a rope, and inside the jar was the old mustard pickle made by Doctor Chen himself and buried in Daqinggou.

Upon learning that his son had brought the things, Doctor Chen was very happy, so he took people to open the jars one by one.

Fortunately, the aged mustard greens in five of the six jars were successfully marinated.

Doctor Chen asked someone to keep a large jar and send the rest back to the Chen family in Maoer Mountain.

"Quick, give this to those patients. No matter how unpalatable it is, they must drink it."

Aged mustard greens stew is originally used to treat high fever, cough and other diseases, and Qu Shaoyang said that this thing is effective.

So Doctor Chen did not hesitate and quickly asked the patient to take the medicine.

At this time, there were already more than ten sick people in the village, so each of them was given half a bowl of aged mustard greens stew, and they just drank it down regardless of whether it tasted bad or not.

After taking two doses of aged mustard pickle at noon and in the evening, the fever disappeared in the early morning of the next day for several people with mild symptoms.

Although he was still coughing, his mental state had obviously improved.

However, the conditions of Wu Ergou's family are quite serious and there is no effect for the time being.

Especially Wu Ergou, who had already shown symptoms of coma, and the medicine was fed into his mouth by prying it open.

Wu Ergou's condition was too serious. Although Doctor Chen tried his best to treat him, he could not be saved. He died in the evening of the eighth day after his illness.

When he died, his body appeared purple and black due to extensive bleeding, bruising and necrosis, which was particularly scary.

The villagers now realized the seriousness of the matter and no longer opposed cremation.

Several young men carried Wu Ergou to a deserted place, got a lot of firewood, poured kerosene on him, and set him on fire.

Wu Ergou's wife and son also passed away two days after Wu Ergou's death, leaving behind only a little girl who was barely struggling.

Among the other villagers, only one, who was already in poor health, did not make it.

The rest of the people, under the careful treatment of Doctor Chen and others, all showed significant improvement, and Qu Shaoyang and others also breathed a sigh of relief.

This was thanks to Doctor Chen’s superb medical skills and the use of aged mustard pickles.

Thanks to the effective prevention and isolation measures, the disease did not spread further and the village was saved.

After another ten days of treatment, the mild symptoms were basically cured.

For those with more serious illnesses, the body is still a little weak, but there are no obvious symptoms. As long as they take medicine for a few more days and rest well, they will recover.

Thanks to everyone's efforts, this severe disease finally had a better outcome.

Doctor Chen left medicine for the seriously ill patients, and then everyone packed up and set off to return to Maoer Mountain. Before leaving, Lao Zhao led the whole village to see them off.

The relatives of those patients even knelt down before Doctor Chen and his colleagues to thank them for saving their lives.

While Qu Shaoyang and his team were treating patients in the village, no abnormalities were found in other places.

I thought that this wave of disease had been prevented thanks to everyone's strict prevention and control.

However, unexpectedly, on the second day after Qu Shaoyang and his team returned to Maoer Mountain, someone came to report that many patients with fever and cough had appeared in the villages of Qidaogou and Badaogou.

It turned out that there were several villages inhabited by Koreans there.

Those people were originally Koreans who crossed the border to open up wasteland. Later they settled here and never went back.

Because they live in groups, the language and customs of those villages have always maintained their previous habits.

Of course, they have been here for many years and can communicate with the people here on a daily basis.

Although these people came here to settle down, they still maintain contact with the other side of the river and have relatives there.

The security team sent people to notify each village that they were not allowed to take in people from the other side of the river. The people in these villages disagreed and thought that this was discrimination against them.

Therefore, when the relatives from the other side of the river came to seek refuge, the people of these villages not only did not drive them away, but instead kept them here and concealed the truth.

Unexpectedly, many of the people they took in were carriers of pathogens.

A few days later, some people in the village were infected and fell ill one after another.

At first, these people kept the disease a secret and did not let outsiders know, so the disease spread quickly and even affected the surrounding villages.

There are two Han Chinese villages nearby. In the past two days, some people have suffered from high fever, cough, and severe chest pain.

The villagers realized something was wrong and immediately isolated the people and investigated who they had contact with.

After careful questioning, it was discovered that they had been to a nearby Korean village in the past two days.

Now, the matter could no longer be concealed, so they quickly reported it to Maoer Mountain.

"Fuck, what a bunch of idiots." Upon hearing the news, Qu Shaoyang and others couldn't help but curse.

They worked at Wangjiang Tower for nearly twenty days, and used up most of the medicinal herbs they brought. The jar of old mustard pickle was almost finished, and they finally managed to bring the disease under control.

Unexpectedly, while one problem was solved, another one arose.

"Shaoyang, what should we do now?" Everyone looked at Qu Shaoyang and asked for his opinion.

During the process of treating the patients this time, although Doctor Chen and his colleagues made the greatest efforts, Qu Shaoyang also made an indispensable contribution.

Without him in charge of command and planning prevention and control, the epidemic would have already spread everywhere.

Right now, only a few small villages have encountered problems, and most places are very peaceful. Qu Shaoyang has made a great contribution to this.

Not only the people in the Maoershan Security Team, but the entire Maoershan, and even the surrounding villages, have absolute trust in Qu Shaoyang.

So, when something happened, everyone's first reaction was to listen to Qu Shaoyang's arrangements.

"What else can we do? We can't just watch the disease spread again." Qu Shaoyang sighed.

"Dad, I'm so sorry that you have to suffer again.

You have worked so hard for so many days, and before you can even recover, you are busy again. "

The main person in charge of curing diseases and saving lives is Doctor Chen. Qu Shaoyang is not good at this, so he can only assist from the side.

"It doesn't matter if I'm a little tired. It's my duty to cure illnesses and save lives. But we don't have enough medicinal materials. We have to arrange for someone to purchase them as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)