Lamp Flower Smile

The wind and snow continued in the courtyard, and the windows were closed again.

Lin Danqing sat down in front of Lu Yan, frowning slightly, and felt the pulse of the person in front of him.

After a long time, she took back her hand, looked at Lu Zhu and said suspiciously: "It's weird, there's nothing wrong."

"Don't worry," Lu Yan said, "Maybe I've slept too late these days."

Lin Danqing shook his head: "I thought you were infected with the epidemic just now."

As soon as she entered the room, she saw Lu Zhen sitting in a trance under the window. She was startled by the blood droplets flowing from the tip of his nose. Although the traditional Chinese medical officers of the Medical Officer's Hospital wear sachets with pesto-repelling incense and take pesto-repelling decoctions every day, several medical officers have unfortunately contracted the epidemic these days.

The elderly, frail, and those with existing illnesses are most vulnerable to the disease. Lin Danqing, Ji Xun and Lu Yu are still young and can be considered the least worrying medical officers among the medical officers.

"No." Seeing her serious expression, Lu Chen took the initiative to lift up his sleeves and show her: "I don't have peach spots on my body."

During the epidemic in southern Jiangsu, people infected with the disease would gradually develop red patches on their hands that looked like peach blossoms, hence the name "peach blossom spots." When the color of the spots changes from red to purple and gradually turns into "purple cloud spots", the patient gradually loses his vitality.

Before her death, Cuicui's mother had "purple cloud spots" all over her body.

The outstretched arm was pale and without any marks. Lin Danqing breathed a sigh of relief, frowned again, and held Lu Yan's arm.

"Why are you so thin?" she asked, "I can wrap around this arm with one hand."

Lu Yan has always had a slender figure. In the past, Lin Danqing thought she had the beauty and delicacy of a southern woman, but now that she looks closely, she is indeed a little too thin.

"She doesn't look good either," Lin Danqing looked at her, "much weaker than when she was in Shengjing."

Lu Yan took back his hand and put down his sleeves, "It's nothing."

"Sister Lu, please don't take your own body seriously." Lin Danqing shook his head: "The patient is very important, but you also need to rest. If you fall down first, how will you treat the epidemic for the people in southern Jiangsu. There is no reason. A nosebleed means that even if you are not suffering from an epidemic, you are definitely feeling unwell."

"I'll tell Chang Yizheng later that I won't ask you to go on duty tonight. You can rest in your dormitory for the next two days."

"No need to..."

"No need, just listen to me." She took the handkerchief and wiped the blood on Lu Zong's dress. After wiping it twice, the blood became more mottled, red and scary.

"Rest more and eat more," she said. "Anyway, Pei Yunying brought medicine and food, so we won't have enough to eat now. Do you understand?"

She spoke resolutely, and Lu Chen was silent for a while, then nodded: "Yes."

…

Perhaps Lin Danqing said something to Chang Jin, and for the next two days, Chang Jin did not allow Lu Zhuo to go to the hospital again.

The office was busy with business, so when Chang Jin found an opportunity to come over to see Lu Huan, he was very serious. He checked her pulse himself without saying anything, and asked Ji Xun to check her pulse too. He did not relax until it was confirmed that she was not infected with the epidemic. tone.

Chang Jin thought that she had a sudden nosebleed because she was overworked and weak, so he asked her to take a good rest in her dormitory. In the meantime, Duan Xiaoyan came once and brought a lot of dry food. He did his best under the current situation and reminded her to eat more to nourish her body. If she was short of food, she could ask him for help.

Lu Chen knew who he was bringing it for, so he thanked him sincerely.

There was no need for her to make the medicine packets without going to the hospital for the disease. When Lu Zhuo was staying at his place of residence, he began to write down the prescriptions for the disease.

Nowadays, in southern Jiangsu, people rely on rash to confirm whether they are infected with the epidemic. However, when the rash occurs, it is too late. The disease causes no pain at first, but gradually begins to cause body aches, fever, severe aversion to cold, and inability to move outside or inside.

Medical officials now treat the internal and external symptoms first, but the decoction only delays the deepening of the rash, and the effect is not obvious.

Lu Chen looked at the prescription, frowned and scratched out the medicinal materials on it.

Still inappropriate.

Just as he was thinking about it, Lin Danqing came in from outside.

She brushed off the snowflakes on her body, read the prescription written by Lu Xu, and read: "Sanxiao drink... Dayuan drink plus Sheng powder Sanyang meridian Bupleurum, kudzu root, Qianghuo, rhubarb..."

"The prescription for improving the flow of energy and relaxing the catharsis," she thought about it, "this prescription is very similar to the new prescription written by Dr. Chang, the medical officer of the Ji Dynasty."

Lu Yan raised his eyes: "Xinfang?"

"Yes," Lin Danqing said: "Yes, the epidemic has not been cured for a long time. We discussed changing the prescription, but this prescription was a bit bold. Brother Ding volunteered to try the medicine. He started taking one last night." She was puzzled, "I thought Doctor Ji had told you before."

Lu Zhen frowned.

Ji Xun did tell her about this before, but she also clearly expressed her disapproval. I thought at least it wouldn't be so fast, but I didn't expect that Ding Yong had already started taking it.

She stood up suddenly, picked up the medical kit and was about to go out.

Lin Danqing grabbed her: "Where are you going?"

"The place of trouble." Lu Zhu paused and said, "I'm going to see Ding Yong."

…

Lu Zhuo went to the hospital.

During the two days of rest, she stayed at her dormitory and was not outside. Cuicui saw her coming and happily talked to her.

"Previously, Doctor Chang was saying, Sister Lu, you were sick and that's why you didn't come. Are you fully recovered?"

Lu Yan said: "It's okay."

"That's good." Cuicui smiled, "I've been worried about it for a long time."

Lu Zhen raised his eyes, looked around the place, and finally saw Ding Yong's shadow. Ding Yong just raised his hand to drink a bowl of brown soup and wiped his mouth. The bowl containing the medicine was not the usual white porcelain bowl. Next to him, Ji Xun sat, lowering his head and writing down something on the paper.

Lu Chen walked to the two of them.

"Medical Officer Lu is here." Ding Yong saw her coming and hurriedly stood up to greet Lu Zhuo.

Lu Xu nodded slightly and looked at Ji Xun: "Medical Officer Ji, I have something to tell you."

Ji Xun was startled and looked at her in surprise. Without saying anything, he put down the empty bowl and followed Lu Zhu to the hut outside the camp.

A bamboo basket containing medicine bags was placed under the hut, and several guards guarded the gate of the camp. Since the last time an assassin appeared in the camp, Pei Yunying asked a few people to change the guard to avoid any unexpected accidents.

There is light snow falling outside. This winter in southern Jiangsu is extremely cold. The snow seems to have never stopped. The snow on the ground is getting thicker day by day. From a distance, the sky and the earth are white.

"Why did you let Ding Yong become the medicine man so early?" Lu Zhu stood still and spoke directly.

"Medicine man?"

Ji Xun was stunned for a moment and explained to her: "He is not a medicine man..."

"A new drug that has not been tested on humans is used on patients. What is it if it is not a drug?"

The woman's eyes were sharp. Under her gaze, Ji Xun remained in a stalemate for a long time and finally lost.

"That's not wrong." He said: "The peach blossom spots on Ding Yong's body have gradually begun to turn purple. The previous decoction was useless for him. If he doesn't quickly change to a new prescription, he will not survive for seven days."

"Yizheng and I believe that instead of delaying without hope, it is better to try another possibility." He looked at Lu Yan, "Besides, you have also seen the prescription used by Ding Yong."

New prescriptions must be tested by every epidemic relief medical officer. It will only be used until it is confirmed that no more vulnerabilities can be found at the moment.

Ji Xun said: "The prescriptions were conservative before, but now it seems that there are rumors from the outside and inside, and evil spirits are lurking in the membrane. Half outside and half inside, we should use a more powerful prescription. Didn't you once say that Tianxiong Wucitron is the best medicine? The poison is as good as the good doctor's. The diseases are ever-changing, and so are the medicines."

This is what Lu Yan once said to Ji Xun when he was in the medical hospital. At that time, he didn't take it seriously. Now he gradually accepts the truth, but she is reluctant.

"But for Ding Yong, everything is still unknown."

Ji Xun: "Yizheng and I have informed him of all possible consequences. It is Ding Yong's own choice. He knows what he will face."

Lu Zhuo raised his head suddenly: "He doesn't know."

Ji Xun was stunned.

"What will happen to the medicine man, not to mention the results of the new medicine? Maybe he will be in unbearable pain during the course of taking the medicine, maybe he will be blind and disabled, maybe he will lose his mind and become a puddle of mud without consciousness... No one can guarantee These results are not going to happen, he doesn’t know anything about it.”

The wind was blowing, and the snow was swirling in the vast sky, falling on people one by one.

Ji Xun looked at her: "Medical Officer Lu..."

Suddenly a voice came from behind: "I know."

Lu Tong paused and turned around.

Ding Yong stood behind her, clasping his hands nervously. He took a few steps forward and mustered up the courage to speak to Lu Huo: "Medical Officer Lu, I know everything."

"Medical Officer Ji told me that no one knows what the results will be if the new medicine is used. But even if I don't use the new medicine, I won't live long." He stretched out his hand to roll up his sleeves, revealing the scars on his arms, where the red spots were gradually deepening. It was much thicker than what Lu Zong saw last time, gradually turning towards purple.

"I'm going to die anyway, so why not try the new medicine. I want to spend more time with Cuicui."

Ding Yong looked at the door of the fusuo. Cuicui was playing with the charcoal in the brazier. Seeing him looking at her, she waved to her father. Ding Yong also smiled and waved to his daughter, then turned to look at Lu Shun.

"Even if it doesn't work, at least I can get some more experience. When you develop an antidote in the future, you might be able to help, and Cuicui can also use it."

Ding Yong laughed and said, "I'm not as powerful as Medical Officer Lu thinks. To be honest, it's just for Cuicui."

His tone was sincere, and he bowed to Lu Yan: "Medical Officer Lu, I am really willing."

It's snowing heavily.

More snowflakes fell on Ding Yong's head, and he couldn't tell the difference between snow and white hair.

There was silence all around, except for the soft sound of snowflakes falling to the ground.

Lu Zhen looked at the people in the snow for a long time, then lowered his eyes and said, "I understand."

"Great!" The man became happy and bowed gratefully to her a few more times. As if he finally breathed a sigh of relief, he cast a grateful glance at Ji Xun.

"Dad -" Cuicui called him on the other end, and Ding Yong said hello to Lu Zhu and walked towards the door of the house. Lu Zhen looked at his back for a long time, turned around and left without saying a word.

"Medical Officer Lu." Ji Xun chased after him.

"Is there something wrong with you?" he asked.

Lu Zhuo didn't stop: "What does Medical Officer Ji mean?"

"You are extremely cautious about trying new medicines. But the prescriptions you used to make medicines in the medical hospital were always bold. This move is different from your past."

Lu Yan said: "People will always change. Didn't Medical Officer Ji also advise me to be conservative in my medical practice before?"

"But trying new drugs is a stop-gap measure and should not be strongly opposed to it based on your rationality."

Lu Zhuo stopped and faced him.

"Medical Officer Ji," she said: "The epidemic evil will come from the outside and inside again, or spread from outside to inside, maybe it will happen again and again. This new medicine is added with a thick and flat substance, which is poisonous. You and I, all my colleagues, No cure has been found for the thick and flat poison. Even if the new medicine can temporarily suppress the peach spots on Ding Yong's body, once it relapses, he will not be able to survive at the same time as the thick and flat poison attacks."

"Even if you hold on for a while, going back and forth, and continuing to use it, your body will be damaged. Ding Yong has never been a medicine man in the past. Is it really appropriate to treat him with something that even the medical officers don't know about its efficacy?"

Ji Xun was speechless.

Lu Yan rarely spoke so much.

When she was in the medical hospital, most of the time when she was not on duty, she would quietly read medical books by herself in the corner.

Even when he came to Sunan, he looked indifferent to everything. A patient in the hospital once secretly told Lin Danqing that she often felt that Lu Meng was indifferent to others. Even when the government officials took away new corpses every day, she just looked indifferent, as if she was used to it.

She is like a thin fallen leaf, floating in the water, drifting with the current.

Only the attitude towards this matter is fierce.

The falling snow fell silently on the two of them, and they faced each other in silence in the vast snow.

In the distance, another person came and stopped suddenly when they saw the two of them.

Duan Xiaoyan grabbed Pei Yunying's sleeve and said, "Brother, it's Ji Xun and Medical Officer Lu!"

Pei Yunying: "I saw it."

"Why is there something wrong with my expression?" Duan Xiaoyan looked at his words, "It seems like we are quarreling. Are we going to add fuel to the fire?"

Pei Yunying was impatient: "Shut up."

Duan Xiaoyan carefully kept his mouth shut.

He stood in the snow and wind, looking at the people in the distance calmly.

Further away, Ji Xun's expression moved slightly, he stared at the person in front of him and said tentatively: "Medical Officer Lu."

"You...are you hiding something from us?"

"If you have something to hide, you can tell me, I won't tell anyone else," he said.

Ji Xun always felt something was wrong.

If a person behaves differently than usual, there must be a reason for it. However, he knows too little about Lu Shen. Thinking about it now, except that she once sat in a restaurant on West Street, he knows nothing about the rest.

Lu Tong paused and said, "No."

"But……"

"Medical Officer Ji." A voice suddenly came in from the side. Ji Xun turned his head and saw Pei Yunying walking slowly from the other side.

Pei Yunying walked up to the two of them, glanced at Lu Huan, then turned around and said calmly to Ji Xun: "Servant Duan suddenly feels unwell. If you are here, please ask Medical Officer Ji to take a look at him."

Duan Xiaoyan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he cried out, holding his stomach, "Oh, yes, I have a headache when I woke up early today."

This exaggerated action made Ji Xun frown. Just as he was about to speak, Lu Xun nodded to the two of them and turned around to leave.

Ji Xun still wanted to follow, but Pei Yunying turned slightly sideways, blocked in front of him, and said with a smile: "Medical Officer Ji?"

But he stopped him.

Seeing Lu Zhuo walking further and further away, Ji Xun withdrew his gaze and looked at Pei Yunying.

There was a smile on the other person's lips, but his eyes were indifferent.

After a moment of stalemate, Duan Xiaoyan stepped forward and thrust his arm into Ji Xun's hand: "Medical Officer Ji, come on, please feel my pulse first."

…

Lu Chen returned to his place of residence.

The new drug scandal passed quickly, and she became busy again in the next few days.

Ding Yong changed the prescription, but the thick and flat taste of the medicine always made her feel uncomfortable, so she read medical books day and night, hoping to get some new methods from the medical books.

However, what is surprising is that Ding Yong's disease is getting lighter day by day.

On the third day of taking the new medicine, the red spots on Ding Yong's arms did not get darker. On the fifth day, they looked a little lighter than the previous days. On the seventh day, the faded red marks were very obvious. By the ninth day, On the same day, only a little light red remained in the peach blossom spots.

Cuicui was overjoyed and hugged Ding Yong's neck to express her gratitude to all the medical officers.

"The peach blossom spots on my father's body have faded a lot. My father is about to recover. Dr. Chang told me earlier that when he recovers, he will give new medicine to all the patients in the hospital. Cai Xiancheng also said that we are the god of plague in southern Jiangsu. It’s almost time to leave, the epidemic is about to end!”

All the patients in the hospital were very happy about Ding Yong's improvement.

The new medicine is effective, which means that there is hope for everything. No one wants to wake up and become a dead body in the execution ground. The rashes on the body and hands that become darker day by day always make people anxious.

Cuicui hid in Ding Yong's arms and smiled with crooked eyebrows, handing Lu Zhu a newly made grasshopper.

"My father and I have already learned how to weave grasshoppers. When spring comes and the banks of the Sunan River are covered with green grass, we will use fresh grass to weave them. The green grasshoppers can still jump. I and my uncles, aunts and uncles in Fushuo We agreed that I will go to the temple entrance to sell grasshoppers, and everyone will come to support me!"

She spoke clearly and had a sweet laugh, and everyone in Fusuo couldn't help but laugh at her.

Ding Yong also laughed, looked at the medical officers surrounding everyone, and said softly: "Thank you all for your life-saving grace. If there is an opportunity in the future, the Ding family will definitely repay the favor."

The medical officers all said what they were doing, dispersed, and continued busy with their unfinished business.

Lu Zhen also breathed a sigh of relief.

She had been worried that the efficacy of the new medicine was unknown and might cause other harm to Ding Yong. Now it seems that everything is getting better. After a few more days of observation, you can try to use this medicine on other patients in the hospital.

With the improvement, the patients are relieved and the medical officers have new motivation. Cai Fang was even more motivated, thinking about adding a few more wells where the decoction would be put in after the new medicine was successful.

At night, when there was no one in the dormitory, Lu Zhuo sat under the lamp and pulled out a booklet from the medical box.

Ever since the day Lin Danqing caught her with a nosebleed, Lu Zhuo had told Chang Jin that he had been sleeping lightly recently and wanted to sleep alone, so Chang Jin left a room for her.

It was quiet inside and outside the house at this moment, and Lu Chen spread the album on the table.

The book was not too thick, and she had already written half of it. Under the dim light, she picked up her pen and carefully added a few strokes to the book.

After finishing writing, Lu Chen put down his pen, picked up the booklet in his hand, and flipped through a few pages, gradually becoming lost in thought.

Until there was a "bang——" sound, the door was violently banged. Lu Zhuo was startled, and quickly closed the book with quick eyes and stuffed it into the wooden drawer under his hand.

"Sister Lu!"

The one who came back was Lin Danqing. She seemed to have just run back from outside, with snowflakes falling all over her head. She gasped and said, "It's not good!"

Lu Yan asked: "What happened?"

"Ding Yong, something happened to Ding Yong!"

Lin Danqing's face was ugly: "It was fine during the day. When he fell asleep at night, Cuicui called out that his father was having convulsions. The night medical officer went to see him, and Ding Yong started to vomit blood."

"The peach blossom spots on his body... turned into purple! In just a short moment, they turned into purple cloud spots!"