The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 333 It’s too late
Another seven days passed in the blink of an eye.

The twenty-odd sacks of cacti we brought back are almost all used up.

The children who were in the early stages of the toad plague have fully recovered.

For children with intermediate symptoms, a full recovery is just a matter of time, which is about three more applications of the medication.

Anyway, the sixty children with the most severe symptoms have completely passed the danger period and entered a stable recovery period.

Outside the quarantine area.

After several days of anxiety, the patient's family members finally breathed a sigh of relief upon receiving the doctors' consultation response.

Throughout the entire treatment process, the health center truly did not charge them a single penny.

To know.

In the past, when faced with such a large-scale human-to-human transmission epidemic, some local officials, fearing that infecting more people would affect their careers, would directly order the sealing off of villages and the burning of the patients.

The Kansai region is so remote that even if all the children were buried alive, the news wouldn't reach the interior of the region.

But they really don't have it!
They started by giving me a medical consultation as soon as I arrived.

If you're sick, they really will treat you!

The women expressed their gratitude by prostrating themselves outside the garrison.

They kept saying they were kowtowing to General Gan, who had brought back the miraculous medicine.

I also kowtow to the doctors who examined and treated my child.

We also kowtow to the border guards who provided employment opportunities for all immigrants and shelter for women and children.

The women dared not imagine whether their children would survive if the toad plague occurred in their hometown or on the road.

How many lives can a single good medicine save?

The harmonious coexistence between the military and the people is gradually improving.

After confirming and affirming the medicinal effects of cactus, the doctors solemnly compiled its usage methods into a booklet.

No sooner had Gan Minglan returned to Hamiwei with this thin booklet and her vanguard battalion and personal guards to report to General Xiong.

Shortly after, Guazhou Guard received a distress message from Zhao Muyun, the Northwest King, sent from the border city via an urgent courier.

Guazhou Guard: "Brother, what important military situation has occurred?"

The messenger reported: "Reporting to my superior, several hundred cases of toad plague have been discovered in Huaiqing Prefecture, Lintao Prefecture, the border town, Jinzhou Pass along the way of the immigrants, and the entire Hexi Corridor a few days ago, and it is spreading rapidly! The military doctors in the border town are helpless and are seeking medical help and medicine."

Upon hearing this, the centurion and his men became anxious.

The border town is their hometown.

Who in this border town doesn't have relatives or friends around?
How many children are among these relatives!

Seeing everyone's hurried state, the messenger from the border town said with a heavy heart:
"Not to mention the tough kids in ordinary families who play outside all day, even Aunt Lü's twins in Yuan Canjiang's mansion were accidentally infected!"

The Zuo family of the border town spent a lot of money to hire doctors for the two children, but the results were minimal.

The day before his brothers arrived, General Yuan, feeling sorry for Aunt Lü who was newly pregnant, blamed the military doctors who had examined the twins for not being attentive enough, and even resorted to military law.

This is rather nonsensical!

Since the Marquis declared himself King of the Northwest, there will only be more and more military officers like the Lieutenant General.

For the sake of a fetus whose sex is still unknown, would you offend a few military doctors?
Does this mean we won't rely on others for medical treatment anymore?

The commander of the Guazhou Guard cursed under his breath.

But he said:

"Brothers, it's better to arrive at the right time than early. General Gan has just discovered a good medicine for treating toad plague, and he has just cured more than a thousand children with this medicine!"

The medicine is very good.

"We've tried it before, and we've succeeded." Upon hearing this, the messenger's gloom vanished instantly.

They made the right decision this time!
Right now, nothing is more important than having the right medicine.

He immediately demanded that several doctors involved in the treatment and the effective medicines that could cure the toad plague be taken away.

But being anxious won't help.

After the group went from Guazhou District to Flaming Mountain to retrieve the cactus and then returned to Biancheng, it took them half a month to finally return to Biancheng after exhausting dozens of horses.

But the pandemic waits for no one.

Despite the parents' orders not to let the children go out, more than 3,000 children in the five border garrisons alone were infected with the toad plague in just half a month.

The death toll reached one hundred within half a month.

After raising a child to a few years old, which parent wouldn't feel heartache?
This day.

A side courtyard of Yuan Canjiang's residence was sealed off.

The reason was that the twins born to Ms. Lü died due to ineffective treatment for toad plague.

Wasn't the courtyard where the twins used to live the site of an epidemic?
Who would dare to go?

In the early stages of her pregnancy, Ms. Lü experienced severe morning sickness. After giving birth to two children, which could not be cured by medicine, she collapsed on the kang (a heated brick bed) and could not get up.

She truly loves her two children.

All the sacrifices she made on the way to exile and after arriving in the border town were for the sake of giving her two children a better life.

Right now, she has drunk countless bitter medicines and tried every means to finally conceive a talisman.

But her children lost their lives.

Lady Lü's mind was hazy, and she forgot how many days she had been lying down.

He woke up slowly that day and was leaning against the headboard, lost in thought.

Then I heard several maids talking outside the window.

"Oh dear! Guixiang, why haven't you asked your godmother to put in a good word for you yet? I heard that the military commander's wife and the old lady of the family have already set off from Shangdu! At that time, most of us will be transferred to Huaiqing Prefecture to serve them."

“I’ve searched, I’ve searched! But my godmother and the steward of the manor can’t say anything! Who doesn’t work in front of the madam and the old lady with their heart on their shoulders? I still want to stay in the border town for the rest of my life.”

"I only hope that the madam and the others can travel at a slower pace! I would also like to stay and serve Aunt Lü. She is the lowest in status and easy to talk to. Now she is pregnant with a precious child. If she can give birth to a young master, then we will have hope for the rest of our lives."

"Poor Aunt Lü, I don't even know if she can keep this pregnancy! I heard that the master took in another one in his courtyard a few days ago."

"Alas! She was unlucky too. If the twins in that side courtyard had held on for three more days, the messenger the prince sent to Guanzhong would have brought back the life-saving medicine."

"Yes! I heard that so-and-so's kid had been unconscious for several days, barely clinging to life, but was miraculously brought back to life by that magic medicine."

"I heard that the elixir was brought back from a fiery mountain. The rocks in that mountain are so red they're practically dripping blood, and they must have quite a history! I don't know how, but the Jade-Faced Rakshasa found it."

"Yes, General Gan is truly a living bodhisattva who saves people from suffering."

Lu's mind was buzzing.

The voices of the two little girls kept reaching her ears.

There seemed to be an echo.

仙药
A miraculous medicine that can cure toad plague.
The pork beauty was discovered.
If she had come back three days earlier, just three days, her twins could have been saved!
So why did you come back three days late?
Why could he save everyone else except the eldest son and daughter of the Zuo family?
Overwhelmed with anger, Lady Lü coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Finally, the chattering maid outside the window was disturbed.

Before he fainted.

She seemed to hear her son calling her: "Mother, Mother, I'm in so much pain."

(End of this chapter)