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Chapter 007: The Plague Has No Good Medicine

"I'm right, the general is here, what's the matter? Please tell me—" The elder came out of the kitchen, entered the living room, went up to bow, raised his thumbs on his hands, responded with the manners of the Qin people, "General, please sit!"

"I am Zhao Tuo, deputy general of the State Guard. The tens of thousands of soldiers brought by this general were unfortunately infected with the plague. Many people had blisters on their hands and feet, and their bodies were constantly ulcerated and pus. They felt extremely itchy. The soldiers in the army had no choice but to do anything, and the soldiers died inexplicably. The elder is a miracle doctor within a radius of hundreds of miles. I beg to save my Daqin soldiers!" The general said, "This is to thank the elders!"

The general waved his hand and the man behind moved the five big boxes to the elders, opened them all in one stroke, filled with gold, silver and jewelry, shining with golden light.

"How dare you, how dare you! There is such a strange thing, I am willing to visit you, and ask the general to take away the property-"

"No! My Daqin has rules. Once the gifts are taken, they will not be taken back. Please be sure to store them."

"Let's leave it here for the time being. If it is not cured, I will return it all." So Elder Tan followed the general out of the stilt house...

Until the dog barking completely disappeared, Jiuxiong and others came out of the cellar, stretched their waists, and relaxed their muscles and bones: "I really wanted to rush out just now and chopped off the leader of the Qin army."

"Prince, if you really come out, you will have violated the elder's plan." Luo Qian said on the side.

"If you don't know the truth, act recklessly, you will be punished if you are impulsive." Nishino said.

"I don't know how to say hello to you. The higher the martial arts skills, the less courageous you are." Jiu Xiong said after drinking another big bowl of wine.

"Your Majesty, don't drink too much." The elder's wife advised, "This wine has been aged for many years, and drinking more is not good for the body."

"Eunuch Luo, what should we do now?" Jiuxiong asked Luo Qian for the first time.

"Back to the prince, the only thing we can do at the moment is to wait for Elder Tan to come back." Luo Qian said.

A bright moon hangs high in the air, as clear as water, illuminating the ground like daylight, and the shrill cry of owls comes from time to time.

Elder Tan followed Zhao Tuo and his party to walk rapidly in the mountains and dense forests. Although the miraculous doctor was gray-haired, his memory was not old at all. He remembered the signs of every intersection he passed by, thinking: Zhao Tuo came uninvited tonight, and the plague of the Qin army must be continuing to spread. I will make plans after I go and see what I want.

Elder Tan pretended to step on the air, sprained his ankle, and sat on the ground and stopped leaving. Zhao Tuo seemed to notice Elder Tan's abnormality and asked, "Elder Tan, are you injured?"

"I'm fine." Elder Tan rubbed his ankles, stood up straight, and limped over and followed.

"Brothers, cut the bamboo quickly!" Zhao Tuo ordered. So a dozen soldiers drew out their swords, cut some bamboos, and made a temporary lifting.

"Elder Tan, please invite--" Zhao Tuo said anxiously.

"No, I can go by myself." Elder Tan pretended to refuse, and struggled to take a few more steps.

"If you go on like this, it will be dawn when you reach the camp, and there will be many soldiers who will be unable to save their lives." said a follower.

"I'm welcome to Elder Tan." Zhao Tuo helped Elder Tan to the rack.

"It's better to obey your orders than respect." Elder Tan lay on the lifting stand, several Qin soldiers were carrying it, swaying. At this time, he was happy, so that he could see the signs and trees on the side of the road more clearly. But after walking a long mountain road, the Qin army stopped and put out the torch.

"Why don't you light the fire?" Elder Tan asked, quickly pinching the pills hidden in his sleeve into powder.

"Elder Tan, there are too many wolves entering this place, and there is a fire that is very easy to be followed." Zhao Tuo turned around and responded.

"Oh, aren't the wild wolf afraid of fire?" Elder Tan asked.

"Don't ask too much, our general said yes." A soldier carrying a stretcher said. Elder Tan stopped breaking the casserole and asked to the end. An hour later, the Qin army entered an extremely secret bush.

"General, where is this?" Elder Tan said in the darkness with the faint light.

"Elder, don't ask what you shouldn't know." A sergeant walked up from behind and covered Elder Tan's eyes with a black veil. Then several people tied him with a rope, "Offend you, Elder."

The soldiers carried Elder Tan and walked for about twenty minutes, lit the torches again, and helped Elder Tan off the rack: "Now, please ask Elder Tan to walk by himself."

Elder Tan was led by a soldier, sometimes rising, sometimes going down, sometimes turning left, sometimes turning right. After walking a hundred steps, there was a dripping sound of water. Based on this, he determined that he had entered an underground cave.

"Is this cave a shortcut to Shuixin Village?" Elder Tan subconsciously counted his steps, so that the approximate length and depth of the cave could be calculated. When he counted to five hundred steps, the sergeant asked him to walk sideways and reached out to pull him. Elder Tan did as he did.

After a hundred steps, Elder Tan did not have to move forward sideways anymore. A whirlwind came from the cave, accompanied by a low chirping sound and a whirring wings. He shouted in his heart: "No, a vampire bat!"

"Be careful, this bat is poisonous." Zhao Tuo shouted.

The soldiers surrounded Elder Tan in the middle and waved torches to drive away the bats that were coming to their faces. Fortunately, these Qin soldiers were all skilled in martial arts and drew their swords to slash the poisonous bats that were approaching the ground. After a series of slashes, the bats gradually retreated.

Everyone was sweating. As long as the vampire bat bit a small hole in his skin, the toxins would not have a chance to survive once they were injected into their bodies.

"Hurry, keep up--" Everyone quickly passed through the death zone, and Elder Tan kept walking upwards based on his intuition.

"Elder Tan, I feel wronged." Zhao Tuo approached and untied his black silk scarf, loosened his ties for Elder Tan, "The camp has arrived."

"The weather is dry, be careful of the fire and candle—" the updater in the camp shouted while walking, and then called for a while.

Elder Tan opened his eyes and saw that he could almost touch the moon here. The Qin army camp was full of tents, and the lights were continuous. It was obvious that there were at least thousands of tents.

"Elder Tan, please follow me." Zhao Tuo put on white silk cloth and held the torch.

Elder Tan also took out a piece of white gauze from the medicine box and covered his mouth and nose, followed Zhao Tuo into a tent. The soldiers inside were lying in a row, with light or red rashes on their hands and feet. Some of them had pus and blood flowing from their skin, and began to ulcerate and had extremely stench. Severe patients had symptoms of eyebrow loss, blindness in their eyes, and facial deformity.

"Elder Tan, is there any good medicine for this plague?" Zhao Tuo asked.

Elder Tan did not need to approach him, and he could see at a glance that the disease was not a plague, but a leprosy. He cursed in his heart: "It is a doctor who is a mortal doctor, this is a punishment from God!"

"Let me take a closer look." In order not to let Zhao Tuo see the clues, the miraculous doctor pretended to go forward and carefully examined the symptoms of more than a dozen patients, and asked, "How do you feel when Jun Ye?"

The patient was weak: "No pain or itch, numbness, dryness, and sweating."

"I can't feel the heat or pain." Some said.

Elder Tan stood up and replied, "It can be cured."

"Then the miracle doctor, please take medicine quickly-" Zhao Tuo was very excited.

"General, I just arrived in a hurry and forgot to bring medicine. Even if I brought it, there were not enough patients." Elder Tan said mysteriously.

"You have to save these poor brothers. They are born and died with me, and I brought them out of my hands." Zhao Tuo's voice was deep.

"General, don't worry. I have a secret recipe passed down from ancestors, which is specially used to treat this difficult and complicated disease." Elder Tan pretended to comfort him, "There are some folk remedies and medicines in the medicine box to relieve the condition. Please tell them to swallow it in warm water, which can ensure that you have no worries for three days."

"Thank you, Elder Tan—"

Elder Tan poured out all the bottles and jars in the medicine box and handed them to Zhao Tuo, "It's urgent to wait. I have to rush back to collect herbs overnight and say goodbye."

"Brothers, escort the elder down the mountain." Zhao Tuo came out of the tent.

"As for orders, general!" So, twenty personal guards tied Elder Tan, blindfolded their eyes, and escorted out of the camp as if they were here.

However, when Elder Tan went down the mountain this time, he felt that the sound of water was getting louder and louder. Every step was difficult, and it took a long time than in the cave.

"Elder Tan, we are here." A soldier took off the black silk scarf of the miracle doctor. "We will send you here. Please bring medicine here for three days. We will take you here."

Elder Tan opened his eyes and looked around. The east was already white. There was a deep pool of water in front of him. The waterfall flowed down from the top of the mountain. The mountain was extremely steep. He thought, "Isn't this Shuixin Village?"

Elder Tan quickly responded: "June Jun is relieved, I will come as scheduled."...

Elder Tan thought as he walked, although I took some useless folk remedies for them, how could so many Qin troops deal with it? He walked for three hours before returning to the Miao village.

As soon as he entered the vegetable garden, Jiuxiong shouted on the stilt house: "Elder Tan, where are you going? I haven't returned for a night, so I'm so anxious."

"Prince, I'll come into the house and come with you one by one." Elder Tan raised his head and replied.

In the hall of the stilt house, Elder Tan was discussing with King Katian to attack Shuixin Village. When he was about to come, Nishino was unwilling to participate and pulled Liu Qi and Luo Qi aside: "Are we going to the Qin Dynasty to find treasures? It's better not to get involved in this massacre."

Jiuxiong was so angry that he didn't beat him up: "You are still the hero of Xi, and you don't know whether you are good or evil. I've misunderstood you! If you don't go, I'll go!"

Luo Qian said, "Prince, it's not that we don't want to help the elders. If we go, our magical skills will be lost."

"Dear gods, if you don't want to go, I won't be able to do anything." Elder Tan said.

"God has the virtue of being alive, why did the elders slaughter the tens of thousands of Qin troops?" Liu Qi was puzzled.

"This is a last resort. If they don't die, we will die. Leprosy is the punishment of the god of Chiyou. I have no cure for a while, and at most it can only extend their time."

"Leprosy?" Jiuxiong smiled, "I know how to treat..."

"Speak quickly--" Elder Tan said.

"Hey, I won't say it anymore, you won't understand it if I say it." Jiu Xiong almost let it go, and he stopped talking.
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