Due to the plague, there are no celebrations for the Mid-Autumn Festival in the city. Under the background of bleak clouds, people can only hope to start winter earlier.

According to previous experiences of plague outbreaks, after late autumn and winter, the plague will gradually be controlled due to the cold weather. But this plague seems different. Although Ninghua County has been prepared to prevent plague, an epidemic still occurred in the southern Yi area around August 20th.

Now Ninghua County was completely in trouble, and every household closed its doors and tried to minimize going out, and the streets were depressed.

Shen Mingjun stayed in the Wang family and never came back every day. Zhou burned incense and worshiped Buddha all day long at home. The most important thing was to pray for the birth of the wordless person to appear and bless Yi's family with safety and safety.

Chen Xi felt that my mother's thinking was incomprehensible, and thought that the old Taoist priest could do everything and even prevent and treat plagues. This was too nonsense. However, the biggest possibility was that Zhou was dying and went to the doctor in a hurry. He just found a small temple and started worshiping the Bodhisattva, regardless of whether the small temple was the Dragon King Temple or the Land Temple.

By the end of August, Chenxi's entry and exit were limited to the small courtyard and Huiniang's pharmacy.

Although the plague broke out in the city, Hui Niang was very responsible and opened the door of the medicine shop every day to allow people to come and get medicine. This is one of the few shops in the city that are still open.

Although Chen Xi was not allowed to go to the pharmacy lobby in front of him to avoid being infected, Chen Xi still knew from the people who came to get medicine what the plague was.

To be precise, this plague is smallpox.

Before the symptomatic vaccine was discovered, smallpox was almost incurable, and the infectiousness of this virus was extremely amazing. It can be transmitted through the air and has an incubation period ranging from about seven to seventeen days. The incubation period is the most contagious, and the saliva of the virus contains the largest amount of smallpox virus.

Until the patient has scars and peels off, smallpox can still be transmitted to others through the patient, which causes the spread of smallpox virus to be almost uncontrollable.

In the current era when ordinary people have low resistance, the mortality rate of smallpox is as high as more than 50%. Even if they survive by chance, they will have rotten scars on their bodies and pockmarks on their faces, which will not be eliminated for life.

Chen Xi was born in a time when smallpox has become a historical era, but he still has enough knowledge of smallpox. The biggest characteristic of smallpox is that people who have smallpox will produce antibodies in their bodies and then become immune to smallpox.

China was the first to use vaccination to form antibodies to resist smallpox in history, but it was only during the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty, which was nearly seventy or eighty years since now, and the ones who were planted were "human acne".

The so-called "human acne" is to inoculate people who have smallpox from vaccination with people who have not gotten sick. This method is not only extremely easy to get infected, but also has poor results.

After Chen Xi learned that it was a smallpox epidemic, he calmed down.

As a human being, Chen Xi is no longer afraid of death, but he wants to protect the people around him. He is very clear that humans do not have any effective treatment for smallpox, and the best way to prevent it is to prevent it, that is, to grow cowpox. This is because after cows get smallpox, most of the antigens of the virus in their body are the same as those of smallpox virus, which can cause antibodies to smallpox in the body, but will not cause diseases to the human body.

Since the plague has spread to Ninghua County, Chen Xi feels that what he needs to do most at the moment is to find a sick cow to grow cowpox for the people around him, so that even if the virus spreads, it will have enough resistance.

Chen Xi told Zhou and Hui Niang that in ancient books, he saw that the cowpox on sick cows could have a certain preventive effect on smallpox. He thought of looking outside the city to see if he could find the cow. Hui Niang was thinking about Chen Xi's words, but Zhou was already cursing: "You little brat, now everyone in the city is hiding at home, but you are going to run out to find what cows you have? Do you feel that your life is long and you are ready to throw your life away?"

Chen Xi didn't want to lose his life in vain. On the contrary, he wanted to save his life. Not only did he save his own, but he also protected the lives of his parents, Lin Dai and even Hui Niang's family. The smallpox virus has spread to the city, and more and more people are sick. He wants to find the sick cow before the epidemic breaks out completely.

After previous tests, Chen Xi knew that Zhou would not agree to him in this area of ​​research and attempt, so he could only do it with his family. To find a sick cow with smallpox, the epidemic prevention measures must be fully prepared when going out. Since an epidemic broke out in the south of the city, he made up his mind to walk to the south of the city.

Just after lunch that day, Chen Xi slipped out. He made a simple mask to cover his mouth and nose with a silk scarf, and only his eyes were exposed on his face. Not only that, his clothes were also wrapped tightly, trying to avoid direct contact between the skin and the air.

Chen Xi left the city through the north city gate, took a small clay pot, and walked along the city wall to the south of Ninghua City.

At this time, the village in the south of Ninghua County was in extremely miserable condition, and white silks were hung at the doors of people's houses to hold funerals.

After the outbreak, the first thing is that children and the elderly with weak immunity are infected, and the frequent circulation of people in the surrounding areas of the county has caused the disease to spread on a large scale.

At first, the government sent out yamen runners to set up checkpoints on various traffic roads to prevent people from coming and going, but later the epidemic became more and more serious, and everyone was in danger of being in danger. No one dared to go to the epidemic area to work on duty again. Over time, the government let it go.

After searching for a few villages, Chen Xi did not find any sign of the plowing ox, and it was probably locked up at home. Chen Xi wanted to find someone to spy on Yi Er, but he was regarded as a thief several times and was chased into chaos.

The sun sets westward, and Shenxi has no choice but to return to the city.

At this time, the streets in the south of the city were in a state of depression, but due to livelihood, there were still people setting up stalls to sell things. Chen Xi was disheartened and suddenly remembered that there was a mule and horse market beside the wall of the South Gate, so he decided to go and take a look.

This site designated by the government has an area of ​​about 20 acres and is surrounded by wooden fences. Before people arrived, people have seen someone selling cattle in the far away of Chenxi.

Killing cattle in the Ming Dynasty was illegal, but the transaction of plowing cattle was not prohibited.

Chen Xi entered the wooden fence and went straight to the cattle seller to check carefully. He found that the cow had some small herpes on it. He was overjoyed. This was the sick cow that he couldn't find.

But it’s right to think about it. Plowing ox is the hope of farmers. If they don’t get sick, how can farmers be willing to sell their plowing ox?

Several people who were preparing to buy plowing oxen were watching the cow. Suddenly someone shouted: "No, no, this is a sick cow. If you buy it home, your whole family will suffer."

After this, the onlookers immediately noticed the shocking pustules on the cow's part. Thinking about the current plague, they were immediately scared to scatter. The rest of the mules and horses sold mules and horses in the mules and horse market quickly left with their animals.

The man who sold the cattle was an honest man in his thirties. When he saw the mule and horse market, he waved his hand in a panic: "My child just died of illness. I want to sell the cattle for him to bury him. Please beg the villagers to be good and buy the cow back!"

It would be fine if you didn't say this, but it caused a bigger commotion, and there were crowds of people escaping everywhere.

Chen Xi took advantage of the chaos and came to the abdomen of the sick cow, found the part with herpes in the root of the breast, made a little slurry from the bean blister skin inside, squeezed it into a clay pot, and then quickly left the Mule and Horse Market and rushed to the home in the north of the city.

As soon as I returned to the entrance of the alley, I saw a group of yamen runners surrounding me in front of the medicine shop. Chen Xi thought something had happened. When he walked up to ask, he found out that someone in Zaoli had infected smallpox. There was no place to ask for medicine in the city. At present, only Hui Niang's medicine was open, so these people could only come here to get medicine.

"It's so bad that I'm not lucky. After I go back, I have to use the grapefruit leaves to wash the mold on my body. Lao Li is sick. It seems that we are in danger."

Chen Xi entered the medicine shop from the backyard and found that the patients who were carrying the yamen runners to ask for medicine were Li Dali, who had deducted his two taels of reward.

From the yamen runners who came to ask about medicine, Li Dali was a rude person. The south side of the city was a gathering place for secret prostitutes in the city. After the outbreak of the epidemic, he believed that he was young and strong and had strong resistance. He ran to look for flowers and willows. As a result, he would encounter ghosts when he walked on the road for a long time. I don’t know when he got sick.

Hui Niang grabbed the medicine according to the prescription prescribed by the doctor and sent the yamen runners away. She felt a little nervous.

Although she is not a doctor, she also knows that it is very easy to get sick if she has contact with patients. Smallpox is now beginning to spread on a large scale in the city, and many people have died. Even if she is not dead, she looks very miserable with acne rash on her face. She is afraid that she will get sick.

"Xiaolang, what are you doing? Didn't your mother tell you not to go out at home these two days?" Hui Niang returned to the backyard from the medicine shop and found that Chen Xi was fiddling with a small clay pot in the yard.

Chen Xi smiled and said, "My mother begged God and Buddha at home to bless my father to be safe and sound. I was so bored that I came to play with Xier."

"Go back quickly."

Sun Huiniang waved her hand, "Many people in the city get sick. Nowadays, patients in and out of the pharmacy shop frequently, which is very dangerous for your child to be in every family. If you are weak, you are most likely to get sick."

Chen Xi didn't say anything.

He didn't dare to say blatantly that he wanted to grow cowpox for Hui Niang, and no one would listen to his condom now. Chen Xi walked up to look at Hui Niang who was a little tired and asked, "Auntie, I have heard that people who have suffered this kind of plague will not get sick if they break out like this in the future, right?"

Hui Niang came to wash her hands and face by the ancient well in the backyard, and she was facing her back to Chen Xi. She nodded after hearing this: "The old man has such a saying, but those who have been sick will look ruined. Don't get sick, otherwise even if you are lucky enough to die, your face will be covered with pockmarks and will be ugly."

Chen Xi walked over with a smile, dipped the fine needle into the juice of cowpox, and gently stabbed Hui Niang's arm.

Hui Niang was wiping her face with a wash palm when she suddenly felt her arm hurt. She turned her head and saw that Chen Xi actually stabbed her with a needle.

"Oh, Xiaolang, what are you doing?"

Hui Niang stood up and glared at Chen Xi. Chen Xi smiled sly, grabbed his things and ran away. Hui Niang couldn't catch up even if she wanted to.

Chen Xi first sucked Hui Niang because he knew that Hui Niang, as the shopkeeper of the medicine shop, had the greatest chance of getting sick. He told her that it was not possible, so he could only take action first and then report.

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