Chapter 629 - 485: Rhinoceros Horn (Part 3)

"What’s wrong with Mr. Guan?"

"It’s nothing, just a wind chill entering the body, nothing serious." Xia Zhu lied; Guan Biyun’s matters concerned privacy, and she wasn’t inclined to share them with outsiders.

Even if that person was her Mr. Wen.

"As long as Mr. Guan is alright." Wen Ruyu didn’t think much of it, as he didn’t have much interaction with Guan Biyun, his question was merely out of concern.

"The directive from the lord is to save Miss Yi with all our might. I’m not confident, and Mr. Lin is not around, so I had to call you over."

"If you can’t do it, how could I?" Xia Zhu gave her man a sidelong glance; she hadn’t even passed the ’physician’ exam, how could she be stronger than a middle-ranked doctor?

Despite her words, she began reaching over to take the pulse—something taught by Lin Miao. Even her movements and tone were quite similar.

As the eldest disciple of the Lin Family, naturally, she had to maintain consistency with the school.

"The pulse sign is not very optimistic." Xia Zhu frowned deeply; Su Yi’s pulse was indeed in a dangerous state.

"Ah Zhu, what should we do?"

"Lower the temperature first, then think of a plan," Xia Zhu said. "If it develops into toxemia, there will be no solution."

"I’ve tried several temperature-reducing prescriptions, but the effects were not obvious. You’ve been learning from Mr. Lin for the longest time, do you have any method to lower her temperature?"

"Acupuncture, perhaps?"

"I don’t know how to do it..." Wen Ruyu shrugged.

"Alright, I’ll do it, let’s give it a try, it’s better than doing nothing." Xia Zhu nodded; at this point, special methods were needed.

If effective, it could be promoted for use.

Xia Zhu fetched silver needles, pulling up Su Yi’s sleeve, revealing the arm dotted with rashes and pustules, a clear sign of how severe her illness was.

The first needle was inserted into the Quchi acupoint, then the person was helped up; the second needle went into the Dazhui acupoint, at the hollow under the seventh vertebra...

Su Yi’s mouth opened slightly, emitting a faint wailing sound, evidently the stimulation from the Dazhui acupoint was significant, hence the reaction.

Next, the Wai Guan, Hegu, and Sanyinjiao!

Following Lin Miao’s teachings, she pierced the needles into the memorized acupoints, while explaining their locations and functions to Wen Ruyu; the more who learn, the more strength they gain.

Stimulating acupoints to reduce fever is also a way to awaken the body’s potential; fever itself is the body’s stress response, fighting against the virus, vying for control of the body.

A moment later, Su Yi was drenched in sweat.

Usually sweating indicates the onset of fever reduction.

"A big bowl of Xia Chai Hu Tang, send it over, warm, hurry!" Seeing this, Xia Zhu immediately ordered; in fact, she had prepared this before acupuncture, with her command, the soup was brought over.

Pinching her nose, she fed Su Yi a large bowl of Xia Chai Hu Tang,

"The fever’s temporarily reduced, but if we really want to save her life, it’s best to arrange for someone to send her to my master immediately. Only there can she have a chance to be saved!" Xia Zhu wiped the sweat from her forehead and said.

"I’ll make arrangements, and transfer several critical patients together." Wen Ruyu said; since one’s being transferred, might as well send more—perhaps they all might survive?

...

"Barbarian Bull horn, here, whatever Mr. Lin needs, release it all; as long as it can save lives, whatever he wants, he gets it. I take responsibility for anything that happens!" Pei Jian boldly approved Lin Miao’s request, ordering the opening of inventories seized from Marquis Lingyang and the Ye Family.

Though rhino horn hasn’t been used medicinally, it doesn’t mean no one’s discovered its effects; drinking water from rhino horn cups has a fire-reducing, detoxifying effect.

Therefore, in the Southern Wilderness Barbarian Bull Tribe, items made from rhino horn are sacred, with older horns being more valuable.

Rhino horn is scarce, mostly used for making ornaments and rhino horn cups—not something ordinary families can possess. Grinding it into powder for medicine would be considered wasteful by many.

Moreover, these items rarely flow outside of Southern Wilderness.

Lin Miao also had a notion to look around, wondering if he could find one or two pieces in the collections of Marquis Lingyang’s Mansion and the Ye Family.

He sent Lin Mao to accompany Lin Ying there, since Lin Ying recognized rhino horn, she would naturally find it if there was any.

Su Yi’s condition should not be disclosed to outsiders, so with Wen Ruyu being occupied, Xia Zhu was entrusted with heading to the Xue Family Manor herself.

Lin Miao just took over the Xue Family Manor, and was in the process of transforming this isolation treatment point, not yet admitting "Pox Epidemic" patients.

The isolation area, living area, medicine storage, and brewing zone still needed a large purchase of living supplies, all requiring time.

Without Pei Jian’s cooperation as the lord, even if Lin Miao intended to build this isolation treatment point, it would be considerably difficult.

"Gather the able-bodied and martial artists from the villages of the Xue Family Manor tenants, hand them all over to Mr. Han, forming a temporary patrol team responsible for guarding and maintaining order at the isolation point. Additionally, rally young women, train them to cook, disinfect, and brew medicinal broth. Remember, triple wages, paid daily, with food and lodging, no delays. During work, if infected with the pox, treatments will be provided; should one unfortunately pass away, compensation and funerary expenses of two hundred silver will be given!"

A rich reward attracts courageous individuals.

At this troubled time, without spending, people couldn’t be attracted to do this work.

As soon as the notice was posted, and people were sent to widely announce it in villages.

In less than half a day, over two hundred able-bodied individuals and more than a hundred women were recruited; able-bodied individuals had a daily wage of three hundred wen, with martial arts skills it doubled, and with triple wages, each able-bodied individual could earn one silver per day, women’s wages being half, but triple was still four hundred and fifty wen.

Including food and drink, if these three hundred people worked for a month, Lin Miao would spend at least ten thousand silver.

In reality, this doesn’t mean much; ten thousand silver compared to thousands of lives, is very light.

With sufficient manpower, after brief training and division of work, intense work began.

However, before the Xue Family Manor isolation treatment point officially opened, the first batch of patients actually arrived, transferred from Dongshan City.

The situation inside the city was much more severe than outside.