The wife of two taels of silver

Lin Haitang squatted down and looked at Huahua, who was sobbing in grievance, and asked with a smile: "Your name is Huahua, right?"

Huahua looked at her brother, nodded, and then burst into tears and said, "I won't leave! I want to be with my brother!"

Lin Haitang coaxed softly: "Auntie will not separate you and brother. Brother is here to treat you. Let Auntie take your pulse, okay?"

Huahua finally stopped crying. She choked up and asked, "Auntie, can my brother be cured? Will Huahua get sick again?"

Seeing the grief-stricken three-year-old girl, Lin Haitang felt a pang in her heart. She said softly but firmly, "If it can't be cured, Auntie won't leave here. Can Auntie stay with you?"

Huahua grabbed Lin Haitang's sleeve and cried loudly. It was unexpected that a little child could cry so loudly. When she cried, the little boy also cried.

Lin Haitang and Gu An had no idea what to do. No matter how they tried to persuade them, the two children kept crying.

After crying, the little boy cried and said, "Auntie, although I really hope you can cure us, it seems that our disease is really incurable. My father, mother, grandparents have all died of the disease."

The little boy was called Afeng. His father was the first person to get infected and the first to die. Later, the four adults in the family were infected one after another. In the end, only his mother was left. When his mother was about to die, she was afraid that she would die at home and infect her two children, so she ran to the street, lay down, and bit her tongue to death.

Afeng also wanted to die. He knew that he could not grow up in the current Zhanglin County, but he still had a younger sister. His sister Huahua had not been infected yet. He could not die. He still had to take care of his sister. He wanted to let his sister live one more day.

Afeng had already made up his mind that if he was about to die, he would strangle his sister to death and take her with him.

Lin Haitang held the two children's hands and said, "Since there is this disease, there must be a medicine to treat it. If it can't be cured now, it means we haven't found the right medicine. Wait for auntie. Auntie will definitely do her best to save you."

Lin Haitang didn't dare to guarantee that she could cure them. She didn't have the nerve to think that she could cure these people, but she could guarantee that she would do her best to save them.

Gu An led the horse in. The horse was left outside because he was afraid that someone would steal it and kill it for food.

At this point, not to mention eating horses, even eating people might happen.

Lin Haitang took the pulse of the two children one by one, starting with Afeng.

The situation was very bad. Lin Haitang's heart sank, but she didn't show it on her face. She pulled Afeng's arm and looked carefully at the festering wounds and asked.

"Afeng, when you first got sick, did you get acne first and then it rotted?"

A Feng shook his head and said, "It turns red first, then blisters appear in the affected area after a couple of days, and then it rots. Then it gets more and more, and it hurts all the time. It hurts so much that I can't sleep, and I want to dig out the flesh."

As Afeng spoke, he couldn't help but want to scratch the newly formed blisters: "It doesn't necessarily take two days for blisters to appear. Sometimes it takes a few hours, and sometimes it takes three days."

Lin Haitang grabbed Afeng's hand as he was about to scratch his arm and said, "Okay, Auntie gets it. Let's try not to scratch these blisters, okay?"

Seeing Afeng nod, Lin Haitang took Huahua's pulse again.

Judging from the pulse, although there are some other problems, most of them are caused by hunger in recent days and are not caused by this strange disease.

Lin Haitang asked in detail about the outbreak in Zhanglin County: "Afeng, do you know who in the city was the first to be infected with these diseases? Do you remember the day it was?"

A Feng shook his head and said, "I don't know who was the first to be infected. I only know that when the news of someone being sick spread, it was the second day of October."

Today is the tenth day of November. In just one month, the entire county has fallen.

"At first, the people who got the disease were from Xiaohuai Village. They took the patients to the clinic in the city for treatment. At that time, no one knew that the disease was contagious." Afeng wiped his tears again, his throat so sore that he could hardly make a sound.

After promising to deliver medicine to them, Lin Haitang said goodbye to Afeng and Huahua.

Lin Haitang and Gu An planned to visit the imperial physician's temporary residence.

In a deserted alley, Lin Haitang and Gu An took two horses to a space.

It was too much trouble to leave the horse outside, and Lin Haitang didn't want her horse to be eaten by anyone.

Liu Wanwan and the others were very happy to see Lin Haitang and Gu An. They hadn't seen each other for only two days, but it felt like ten days had passed.

“Sister!” Liu Wanwan saw Lin Haitang about to run over, but Lin Haitang quickly dodged and waved her hands, saying, “Don’t come over here. What if I have the virus?! We just came into contact with someone who is sick!”

Liu Wanwan stopped where she was with a frustrated look on her face.

Liu Sanyou hugged Liu Wanwan and asked, "Sister, brother-in-law, how is the situation in Zhanglin County?"

Gu An shook his head solemnly. Lin Haitang sighed and said, "It's not good. Almost everyone in the city is dead."

Zhao Xiangjun saw Lin Haitang and quickly took out a few large pancakes and buns from the pot and stuffed them into Gu An's mouths: "Master, take these. If you're hungry, remember to give some to your wife. Don't let her starve!"

Zhao Xiangjun didn't want Lin Haitang to have to fetch food, and she was also worried that Lin Haitang would be hungry. After saying these words, she felt something was wrong and quickly added: "Eat something even if you're hungry. I've brought you plenty. If it's not enough, come back for more! I'm always keeping some for you!"

Gu An nodded, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and said, "Sister-in-law, don't worry, I will take good care of Haitang."

"Yes! That's what I mean!" Zhao Xiangjun said, slapping her thigh.

Zhang Ben covered his face and gently pushed Zhao Xiangjun away, not daring to even look at Gu An.

Lin Haitang thought Zhao Xiangjun was very interesting and asked, "Where are the four children?"

"They are all asleep. They just went to bed."

Lin Haitang pulled Gu An and said, "Then let's go quickly, so they won't cry if they see us."

As soon as the words fell, the two people disappeared into space.

On the way to the temporary Imperial Medical Bureau, Lin Haitang and Gu An met a number of patients one after another. After examining each of them, Lin Haitang recorded their symptoms and the time they became ill.

During this time, four yamen runners came over to clear the streets of corpses. Lin Haitang stopped them and asked, "Sir, how many people are still alive in Zhanglin County?"

The yamen runner's eyes were filled with sorrow. He sighed deeply and replied, "No more than five hundred."

After hearing this, Lin Haitang and Gu An were silent for a while.

Finally, they arrived at the temporary imperial medical department, which was the former Huichuntang Clinic in Zhanglin County. The former doctors of Huichuntang had all died.

The court allocated a total of eleven imperial doctors, but most of them have died now, leaving only five.

The five imperial doctors originally had black hair, but after just one month in Zhanglin County, their hair had turned gray.

One of the imperial doctors saw Lin Haitang and Gu An and asked, "Are you the doctors who uncovered the notice to treat us? Thank you for your generosity. We are really at our wit's end."