Quick Wear Dream Qiqi

That night, a tiny spark flew from the oil lamp wick, leaving a scorched mark on the account book.

Meng Qiqi paused as she held the charcoal pencil, and carefully wrote down the last payment for the medical consultation.

Just as he was about to close the account book, he suddenly felt the light shaking violently. He looked up and saw Meng Yuyu staring at the yellowed pages, her fingertips turning white from the pressure.

"Sister, what's wrong?" Meng Qiqi put down the account book and came over. On the rough rice paper was a crooked drawing of a human figure covered with red rashes, and next to it was an annotation in tiny calligraphy that read "high fever, coma, and rashes like blisters."

Meng Yuyu suddenly closed the medical book, stood up and closed the window tightly: "It's cowpox."

Her voice was deep and full of unquestionable certainty. "Although the symptoms are similar to those of smallpox, the root cause of the disease is cattle. If we diagnose and treat it as smallpox, it will only delay the disease."

Memories flooded back, and Meng Qiqi recalled the explanation of the cowpox vaccine in the modern medicine class.

The system's mechanical voice echoed in his mind at the perfect moment: "Emergency mission triggered: Develop a smallpox vaccine to control the spread of the disease. Success will unlock the ancient medical database. Failure will increase the infection rate among the entire county by 50%."

The sound of the night watchman's drum broke the silence of midnight, and a large iron pot in the backyard of the clinic was bubbling with steam.

Meng Qiqi stood on tiptoe to stir the herbal soup, and the pungent aroma of mugwort mixed with the bitter taste of Sophora flavescens and Coptis chinensis spread.

This was the preventive medicine Meng Yuyu had prescribed overnight. As she brewed it, she recalled her sister's instructions: "Make sure every household drinks it, especially those who have had contact with sick cows."

"Squeak—" The shabby wooden door was knocked open, and Zhao the Hunter, reeking of alcohol, stumbled in: "Doctor Meng! My wife...she has red spots on her body!"

Before he finished speaking, Meng Yuyu had already covered her mouth and nose with a cloth soaked in medicine, and signaled Meng Qiqi to retreat behind the screen.

Under the dim candlelight, the dense red rash on the hunter's wife's neck was shocking. The high fever made her unconscious and she kept mumbling nonsense.

"Don't panic." Meng Yuyu flipped open the pulse diagnosis book and glanced at the hunter's record from the day before. "Did your family buy a new sick cow the day before yesterday?"

Seeing the hunter nod with eyes wide open, she immediately wrote down the prescription, "Boil isatis root and honeysuckle, and take the serous fluid from the cowpox affected area..."

"What are you doing with that thing?" The hunter took a step back in fear. "Is it going to hurt someone?"

Meng Qiqi poked her head out from behind the screen and said, "Uncle, this is a life-saving method! If you inoculate people with cowpox serum, they won't get the disease!"

The news spread like wildfire.

Three days later, County Magistrate Zhao Chengye arrived on a fast horse, the hem of his official uniform stained with mud.

He jumped off his horse and grabbed Meng Yuyu's wrist: "Miss Meng! The county is in chaos, with over a hundred new patients every day!"

His eyes were bloodshot as he took out a wrinkled memorial and said, "It will take at least a month for this memorial to reach the capital, but right now..."

Meng Yuyu suddenly interrupted him: "Sir, this disease is not smallpox, but cowpox."

She unfolded a hand-drawn chart comparing symptoms. "If we treat it as smallpox, using hot and dry herbs will actually aggravate the condition."

Zhao Chengye was skeptical: "Is the vaccination method you mentioned really feasible?"

"I'm willing to test the medicine on myself," Meng Yuyu said in a resounding voice. "But I need your help, sir. Find ten cows infected with cowpox and gather twenty infected people. They must be volunteers."

That night, the atmosphere in the clinic's wing was solemn.

Meng Qiqi held the oil lamp and watched her sister carefully dip a silver needle into the cowpox serum.

As the candlelight flickered, Meng Yuyu's pale face was filled with determination as she gently inserted the needle tip into her arm.

"Sister!" Meng Qiqi exclaimed, but Meng Yuyu raised her hand to stop her.

"Don't be afraid." Meng Yuyu forced a smile. "I've consulted medical books and figured out the medical principles. Cowpox and human body toxins are mutually reinforcing and counteracting. As long as the dosage is controlled well..." Her voice gradually became weaker, and fine beads of sweat oozed out of her forehead.

The next seven days seemed like a long ordeal.

Meng Qiqi stayed by her sister's side all the time, feeding her medicine on time and recording her symptoms.

When she saw that the rashes on Meng Yuyu's arms were gradually scabbing over and she did not show any symptoms of high fever or coma, she felt relieved.

At the same time, vaccination of 20 subjects was also proceeding in an orderly manner.

Under Meng Yuyu's guidance, Meng Qiqi recorded everyone's reactions in detail and compiled the data into a book.

When she saw that the vaccine recipients gradually developed antibodies and no one developed severe symptoms, she knew that they had succeeded.

"Promote vaccination immediately!" Zhao Chengye looked at the test results, his voice trembling with excitement. "I'll send people to each village to promote it!"

However, just as the epidemic prevention work was in full swing, an accident occurred.

The village matchmaker Li suddenly rushed into the clinic with a group of people, holding up talismans covered in curses and shouting, "Witch! How dare you use the dirt from the cow to harm people! My son has a high fever after the vaccination!"

The crowd became agitated, and some people shouted that they wanted to smash the clinic.

Meng Qiqi stood in front of the pharmacy door, her eyes red with anxiety: "Everyone calm down! Fever is a normal reaction and will subside in two days!"

"Swindlers!" Matchmaker Li picked up a wooden stick and started to smash the door. "If anything happens to my son, I'll fight you!"

At the critical moment, Meng Yuyu rushed out dragging her sick body.

She pulled back her sleeves, revealing the scabbed wounds. "I was the first to be vaccinated, and now I'm fine! If you don't believe me, wait until I go treat your son!"

Just as the situation was at a stalemate, Hunter Zhao suddenly pushed through the crowd and said, "Everyone, listen to me! My wife and child are both fine after the vaccination and are now full of life!"

He raised the medicine bowl in his hand and said, "The medicine prescribed by Dr. Meng cured my family of three!"

The crowd gradually quieted down.

At this time, a yamen runner came on horseback, holding high Zhao Chengye's handwritten letter: "The county magistrate has ordered! Fully cooperate with Doctor Meng in epidemic prevention. Anyone who dares to cause trouble will be punished for disturbing public order!"

After the storm subsided, the vaccination work proceeded smoothly.

A month later, when the imperial doctors sent from the capital arrived, the epidemic had been effectively controlled.

Looking at the healthy people in the village, the imperial doctors were amazed and said: "Such a miraculous skill should be reported to the emperor for a commendation!"

When Emperor Shen Qingyan's imperial edict arrived, it was spring and flowers were blooming.

The magnificent scroll unfolded, and the four large characters "The Two Miraculous Doctors" appeared in a vigorous and powerful manner.

Meng Yuyu and Meng Qiqi knelt at the entrance of the village, listening to the shrill voice of the eunuch who announced the decree: "I grant you one hundred taels of gold and a thousand acres of fertile land. I appoint Meng Yuyu as the chief physician of the Imperial Hospital, and Meng Qiqi as the bookkeeper of the Imperial Pharmacy..."

That night, the two sisters sat on the roof of the clinic and looked at the starry sky.

Meng Qiqi was playing with the jade token given by the emperor, and suddenly turned around and asked, "Sister, are you really going to the capital?"

Meng Yuyu put her arm around her shoulders and chuckled, "Silly girl, our clinic is here, and the villagers are here."

She pointed to the brightly lit village in the distance and said, "Rather than the intrigues in the palace, I would rather guard this land and the clinic we built with our own hands."

Meng Qiqi leaned on her sister's shoulder, feeling warm in her heart.