Chapter seven hundred and forty-one Zhang Eleven hit the stroke
"Vomit~" Zhang Shiyi lay on the spittoon with a painful face and retching, but after vomiting for a long time, he only spit out a little sour water because the things in his stomach had already been spitting out. Now his face is sallow and looks extremely miserable.
"Brother Eleven, I have asked you to drink wormwood juice on time, but you just don't listen. Now you are suffering, right?" Li Xiu stood by the side with a smile. When Zhang Shiyi finished vomiting, he ordered the maid to take off the spittoon, and then personally brought a bowl of medicine juice to the other party and handed it over, "Drink this, it should be a little better!"
Zhang Shiyi was too lazy to even speak. After taking the medicine, he no longer thought the taste was strange. After drinking a few big gulps, he collapsed on the bed and gasped. After a while, he spoke unhappily: "I really regret not listening to your advice from Brother Li, but now I will suffer this crime. But Brother Li, are you sure this artemisia juice is effective?"
The natives living outside the city wall are rampant with malaria. This disease is transmitted by mosquitoes. It just so happens that the climate here on the island is humid and hot, and mosquitoes are almost everywhere. Therefore, although the corpses thrown in by the natives did not have any effect, they still caused the people in the city to get malaria. In the past two days, many people in the city wall have started to have high fevers, vomit and diarrhea, and many people have herpes in the mouths and noses. These are all typical symptoms of malaria.
Although Li Xiu asked Mr. Huang to make artemisia juice a few days ago and put it in the intersection, so that people in the city could use it at will, but the people who believe it were a minority after all. Of course, the taste of artemisia juice is too strange, so many people are unwilling to drink it again after tasting it once. As a result, those who were infected with malaria were those who did not insist on drinking artemisia juice. However, none of the few people who drank artemisia juice every day got sick. Unfortunately, Zhang Shiyi did not insist on drinking medicine because he was lucky, and now he was finally caught.
"Don't worry, the patient who had malaria a little earlier than you had already improved significantly under Mr. Huang's treatment. The only thing he used is this kind of artemisia juice, which shows that it is indeed very symptomatic for malaria. You can drink it with confidence!" Li Xiu said with confidence at this time.
Hearing Li Xiu's words, Zhang Shiyi finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although he might not die if he had malaria, it didn't feel very good. Since he started to get sick, he vomited whatever he had eaten, and even felt that life was worse than death.
The medicinal effect of artemisia juice was still very fast. At least Zhang Shiyi did not vomit anymore. Then he slept again. When he woke up again in the afternoon, he was much more energetic and could eat some liquid food. This was not only because of the medicinal effect, but the most important thing was that Zhang Shiyi was self-correcting and practicing martial arts. He was very strong in his body and naturally had strong resistance to diseases, so he recovered faster.
However, after Zhang Shiyi recovered a little, he immediately came to find Li Xiu, and then said with a smile: "Brother Li, malaria is not very common in the north, but in the south, many people die from malaria almost every year. We have prescriptions to cure malaria. In my opinion, it is better for us to join forces to sell this type of drug for treating malaria, and we will definitely make a big profit at that time!"
Hearing Zhang Shiyi's proposal, Li Xiu gave him a blank look and said, "Brother Zhang, medical skills are used to save people, not to make money. If it comes to the prescription for saving people, Master Sun Simiao and Taoist Sun have more prescriptions for saving people than me, but he will never use these prescriptions to make money. Although I am not as good as Master Sun in medicine, I don't bother with this method to make money!"
Li Xiu's righteousness made Zhang Shiyi feel ashamed. However, what he didn't know was that the reason why Li Xiu was unwilling to use the medicine of artemisia juice to make money was actually two aspects. On the one hand, he was not short of this money, and making money with life-saving medicine also had an impact on his reputation. On the other hand, the artemisia juice must be fresh, and it is also a big problem to keep this thing confidential. If it is leaked, others will definitely not be stupid. After all, the thing of artemisia can be seen everywhere in the fields, and no one will be willing to spend money to buy their own medicine.
"Brother Li, you are noble and honest. Since you are willing to use wormwood juice to earn money from the people, I want to do something with your medicine. I hope you don't mind too much, Brother Li." But at this moment, Zhang Shiyi suddenly smiled shamelessly again.
"What's the matter?" Li Xiu asked immediately.
"Hehe, malaria was originally spread among the natives outside the city. Now we have a way to treat them. In other words, the lives of those natives are in our hands. Last time, those natives actually wanted to use the plague to harm us. This time we can teach them a hard lesson!" Zhang Shiyi said with a sinister smile on his face at the end.
"What does it mean? Artemisia juice is just a good medicine to save people. You don't want to pretend to save those natives and then poison them in the medicine, right?" Li Xiu couldn't help but chill and asked when he saw Zhang Shiyi's appearance.
"Hehe, the method of poisoning is too despicable. We are all people with identities. How can we use such methods?" Zhang Shiyi smiled sinisterly again at this time, and then he told his thoughts.
The natives in the jungle are not a single piece. In fact, the natives are divided into many tribes, and they have many conflicts with each other. The leader who threw the corpse into the city last time was called Bunnon. He is one of the largest tribes nearby, but in addition to him, there are several tribes that are quite similar to him. After the spread of malaria, other tribes were also attacked by malaria, and many people died.
The Zhang family and his son have been operating in Liuqiu Island for many years. Although they have many conflicts with the natives on the island, there are also a few natives willing to interact with them. After all, Zhang Shiyi has a lot of supplies they need. This time, Zhang Shiyi plans to use artemisia juice as a bargaining chip to encourage the natives of other tribes to attack the Bunnon. At that time, they don’t have to do anything, and the Bunnon will be unable to protect himself.
In addition, Zhang Shiyi also wanted to use the treatment of malaria to enhance his weight in the hearts of the natives and lay the foundation for driving these natives in the future. After all, Liuqiu Island is sparsely populated, and the people who moved here in the late Sui Dynasty gradually moved back after the Central Plains were stable. Therefore, when he wanted to do some things on the island, he always had insufficient staff. If he could drive the natives, he would not have to worry about this problem in the future.
Li Xiu did not object to Zhang Shiyi's thoughts. Anyway, the natives were not people of the Tang Dynasty, so Zhang Shiyi could punish him anyway. In addition, he was also a little worried. Qi Niang and Li Chengdao said that they had gone to Quanzhou for a few days, but they had not come back yet. Could it be that something happened?
Chapter completed!