The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 352 You come, I go.

Some people felt that the dynasty was completely beyond saving.

The entire clan withdrew from Shangdu.

There were also people who lived within two or three hundred miles of Shangdu, who brought several children from their families and headed towards Shangdu.

What is the purpose of coming to Shangdu at this time?

Could there be any doctors in the world more skilled than the imperial physicians in the palace?

The answer is, no!

The doctors in this county and prefecture were all helpless against the toad plague.

Families with substantial wealth will naturally strive to maximize their children's chances of survival.

They are coming.

Dozens of families brought hundreds of children who had contracted the toad plague.

There are currently only three masters in the palace.

The Imperial Medical Academy is no longer what it used to be.

They only see their master once every year or two. Without rewards, what can they do with that meager salary?

Many imperial physicians then became affiliated with certain medical clinics and worked as doctors.

Even more remarkably, some come from families with a long tradition in medicine.

Patients were superstitious about the title of imperial physician.

Even though their consultation fees are dozens of times higher than those of ordinary doctors, people still flock to them.

On that day, someone offered ten taels of gold to invite the best pediatric physician in the palace, surnamed Huang, to come and treat the patient.

Where is the patient?

They're patients from out of town seeking medical treatment, and they're staying at the inn!
Ok!

Seeing the sincerity of the consultation fee, Physician Huang actually went.

Upon entering the inn and seeing five or six patients with the same symptoms, he immediately exclaimed that things were not good.

He glared at the patient's family, saying, "How could you spread such a plague all the way here? You've really caused me a lot of trouble."

He works in the palace and has been in contact with such highly contagious patients, so he won't be able to serve the young emperor for a while.

"Please save our entire family. The oldest of these children is only twelve years old, and the youngest is no more than three years old. Please rest assured, no matter what the final outcome is, I am willing to pay another one hundred taels of gold as a consultation fee."

One hundred taels of gold is equivalent to one thousand taels of silver!

You can only earn this much after making house calls for half a year.

Imperial Physician Huang spoke with utmost seriousness:
"Whether or not there is a consultation fee is irrelevant. It has been many years since the plague was discovered in Shangdu. I would like to see if some of the prescriptions in the palace are effective."

Finally, Physician Huang stayed at the inn and had his attendant go to the Imperial Hospital to request a sick leave for him.

Unbeknownst to him, within seven days this year, seven of his pediatric colleagues also left the palace and were unable to return for a short period.

As imperial physicians, they all knew that such epidemics required isolation.

They dared not speak out, for fear of causing panic among the people.

The families of the patients seeking medical treatment were all quite wealthy, so they simply booked the entire courtyard of the inn.

Once the door is closed, one stays indoors.

I hope everything will be alright.

For a major epidemic like the toad plague, the palace actually had about ten prescriptions for clearing heat and detoxifying.

If two doses of this prescription don't work, then switch to the next one.

For patients over ten years old, the dosage can be increased.

The younger the patient, the more complicated the situation.

We can only treat it slowly.

In this way, the drug's effect will not be significant.
In short.

After all the commotion, some are happy while others are sad.

The imperial physicians and patients didn't leave the courtyard, but the inn still had to deliver meals and tea to them at every mealtime, and even help them brew medicine.

As a result, the toad plague virus quickly spread from these inns throughout the capital.

Even more unfortunately...

There was a pastry chef at an inn whose pastries were so famous that even the eunuchs in the palace would take a few pounds back to the palace when they left.

Eunuchs who did not rise to the rank of chief eunuch or above did not have independent residences.

A dozen or so people slept on a large communal bed. The virus spread from person to person.

It's easy.

Before the illnesses of the young eunuchs had even manifested, some of them had already come into contact with the wet nurses in the young emperor's palace.

Even inside the palace.

There's no reason why a wet nurse would need to disinfect the whole body of a baby emperor before holding him.

In less than three days, the little emperor showed obvious symptoms.

Five watch.

Before Empress Dowager Yu Linglong could even get out of bed, she heard the head eunuch kneeling on the ground report a shocking piece of news:
"You, you lackey, what did you say?"

Despite the freezing weather, the chief eunuch's forehead was dripping with sweat, his face ashen, and he said cautiously with his head down:

"Your Majesty, His Majesty seems to be unwell; his face is burning hot."

"Summon the imperial physicians! Quickly! Summon all the imperial physicians from the Imperial Hospital to me."

I can't come, I really can't come.

Upon realizing something was amiss, the chief eunuch immediately dispatched someone to the Imperial Hospital to fetch a renowned pediatrician.

However, "the seven imperial physicians in the palace pediatric department all took sick leave within seven days."

Yu Linglong was so angry she wanted to eat people.

"How dare the imperial physicians of the Imperial Medical Academy take a collective leave? What kind of leave? Even if they are too sick to get out of bed, or if their parents have died, they still have to get back to me as soon as possible."

As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly threw off the brocade quilt, grabbed the jade pillow from the head of the bed, and smashed it on the head eunuch's head.

There was a loud "bang" sound.

The jade pillow smashed the head eunuch's forehead.

The other party fell to the ground in response.

Blood was gushing out from his head.

The palace servants who were serving were terrified, while the clever ones quickly left the palace to announce the Empress Dowager's decree.

It was still dark.

Chaos ensued in the palace.

Unfortunately, the regent was not in the palace at this crucial moment.

The imperial physician Huang, who had been lingering outside the palace, was quickly summoned by the palace servants.

The palace servants' panicked appearance did not seem like they were seeking medical help for the palace eunuchs or maids.

Imperial Physician Huang slipped a gold ingot to the other party and inquired about the situation.

Upon asking, I knew in my heart that I was doomed.

The sky is falling.

The youngest and highest-ranking master in the palace has run into trouble.

My cheeks were burning and swollen, and the pain made my voice hoarse from howling.

If this isn't toad plague, then what is it?
What followed was endless fear.

In those seven days, he failed to cure the two youngest children in the patient's family!
Let him give the little emperor, who is not even a year old and whose health is not very good, strong medicine?

What would be the consequences!
If the treatment goes wrong, who's responsible?
However, if we follow the prescription and treat it slowly, it probably won't last more than seven or eight days.

Even if you act recklessly, you'll still die!

Standing upright means certain death!

Is there any way to avoid death?
Perhaps the bribe was really generous, because the palace servant whispered a clear path for him:
"Physician Huang, you should run. Before dawn, give the guards at the city gate a generous bribe and take your whole family with you."

"Then how will you explain this to the Empress Dowager when you return?"

"Why should we go back? If that young master in the palace really can't be cured, the Regent will make all the servants who serve him pay with their lives! Imperial Physician Huang, just tell me the truth, what are the chances of this illness being cured?"

Imperial Physician Huang shook his head slowly and with difficulty.

"What else is there to say? Get out of here! You're not in the palace now, you're still in the outer city. Just take your valuables and food, and escape for your life!"

"The world is so vast, where can this old man go?"

"Is it that we can't go to Youzhou, or that we can't find out the direction of the border town?"

"."

(End of this chapter)