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Chapter 19
When Li Heng asked about the preparation method, Shen You replied:
“The healthy version isn’t difficult to make. It uses tea leaves, milk, and sugar. It’s just that the taste differs slightly.”
She had tried it before but eventually resorted to ordering takeout honestly.
“What’s the important matter you mentioned earlier?”
When it came to business, Shen You was serious!
Li Heng put his milk tea down and spoke solemnly,
“I’ve received word that plague has appeared in two southern towns. Local residents are fleeing to the capital, causing widespread panic. The capital is now under lockdown. Do you have any solutions here?”
What he didn’t mention was that rumors were already spreading in the capital that he, Li Heng, had dealings with evil spirits and acted against heaven’s will, thus bringing calamity upon Great Qi.
Simply ridiculous.
The medicine Shopkeeper Shen had given him could save lives, and the grain from her shop had been consumed by disaster victims in Yunzhou.
This was merely borrowing the words of sorcerers to bring him down.
Shen You looked at Li Heng’s expectant gaze and found herself in a difficult position this time.
She didn’t know what disease it was, nor was she a doctor.
Nevertheless, she asked about the symptoms and transmission routes.
It sounded like dysentery, which could spread through daily contact.
She had a friend studying medicine—this one was real, although she barely passed her graduation defense.
Shen You quickly messaged her friend who was interning at a county hospital. Before long, she replied.
She said that the symptoms seemed similar, but without proper examination, she couldn’t make a definitive diagnosis. If it was dysentery, antibiotics would be needed.
Shen You then asked about Great Qi’s measures for plague prevention and control. After hearing them, she could only say: they were quite terrible.
Great Qi’s craftsmanship wasn’t poor, because from the items previously sent, one could see Song Dynasty standards. However, their living conditions and plague prevention measures were far inferior.
The Song Dynasty had already established isolation facilities and pharmaceutical bureaus, while Great Qi was seeking sorcerers to perform rituals.
“I can’t diagnose illnesses, and I’m uncertain whether the medicines here can cure it.” She said honestly.
“But I can organize some proper prevention and control methods for you—water purification, avoiding contact with infected items—these can protect the physicians’ safety.”
“Thank you.” Li Heng thought about it. “When you say uncertain whether it can cure, does that mean you have medicine?”
Shen You said seriously: “Medicine can’t be taken carelessly.”
“The cephalosporin I gave you last time, the kind that can’t be used with alcohol, might work. You could find a severely ill patient who cannot be cured, yet has a strong will to live and is willing to take risks, then try a small dose.”
Using a small amount of antibiotics, as long as there wasn’t any allergy, even if it didn’t cure, wouldn’t cause significant harm to the body.
If cured, they could live.
“However, I currently cannot provide large quantities of this medicine.”
Buying a large batch of antibiotics today would mean getting arrested tomorrow.
Great Qi’s main issue was still prevention and control—keeping the number of infected people under control.
Shen You had just looked up several ancient prescriptions for dysentery, which compared to what Li Heng brought were roughly similar, just with different names. They should also be useful for mild cases.
If antibiotics could really cure it, then once the situation was controlled, providing them first to severe patients should work well.
Bodies that had never used antibiotics would respond well to small doses.
“Thank you for your trouble, Miss.”
Just as Li Heng was about to ask about the price, Shen You spoke first,
“This time, you’ll give fifty taels of gold as a deposit first. If the methods I organize and the things I give you don’t work, then you needn’t give the remainder.”
Taking too much money while failing to handle matters properly would result in store management value deductions.
Making money was one thing, but she couldn’t engage in swindling and cheating.
Li Heng nodded, looking deeply at Shen You across from him.
She clearly could have demanded a higher price, as she had absolute control over transactions in this shop.
Even if the exchanged items proved useless, as long as she wished, he couldn’t even enter the shop, let alone seek accountability.
This showed that a gentleman loved wealth but acquired it through proper means.
After accepting Li Heng’s gold ingots, Shen You arranged to meet him tomorrow at this same time to collect the items.
After he left the shop with his half-cup of milk tea, she closed the shop and used the cleaning function to tidy up the mess on the table.
Then she began planning material procurement.
After the shop upgrade, the system procurement also had an additional option that could be activated: alcohol or antibiotics.
She chose antibiotics.
But looking at the heartless system’s pricing, she was completely stunned.
Two boxes cost one tael of gold, with a maximum purchase limit of ten taels of gold worth.
She decided to wait for Li Heng’s feedback before buying, choosing not to purchase now. Converting the fifty taels of gold from the system yielded 600,000 yuan.
This was sufficient for buying items and shipping costs.
Local merchants included several medical equipment dealers. She would purchase medical gloves, masks, and large containers of disinfectant spray separately.
Fortunately, it wasn’t a highly contagious plague—these items were mainly for physicians’ use.
The demand wasn’t very large, so it wouldn’t attract attention.
For outdoor water disinfection tablets, buying more wouldn’t matter.
She went directly to wholesale shops and bought two cases.
As for the most difficult item, the antibiotics, she planned to drive to several pharmacies tomorrow to prepare as much as possible.
Even if it wasn’t needed this time, it might be useful in the future.
After organizing the list, she still needed to find materials to see how the Song Dynasty specifically handled prevention and control, then combine it with modern measures.
Ancient action capacity and resources were insufficient, so copying modern methods might not be implementable.
For this, She messaged Xu Jiayan for advice.
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The organizing took several hours, and when she checked the time again, it was already 1 AM.
When she started printing, she used the second-level shop’s translation function to convert it into Great Qi script.
After finishing work, she shut down the computer and rested.
The next morning at 10 AM, she went out across two districts and used cash to buy dozens of boxes of antibiotics.
And to avoid appearing too conspicuous, she also got some cold medicine and anti-inflammatory drugs.
She specifically chose pharmacies with promotions like “buy 6 get 1 free” and “free gifts over 188 yuan”, although the staff looked at her like she was a sucker.
After being busy outside for most of the day, she returned at 4 PM to collect packages.
Then after checking everything, she waited to deliver them.
Shen You sat in her rocking chair, browsing house-hunting apps on her phone. She’d had this idea for several days.
She wanted to buy a small house in a nice environment in Jiangcheng under her own name, so that when her father retired, her parents could live there.
From then on, they’d be far from those plastic relatives at home.
A message notification popped up on the page. She switched over to accept the voice call.
What was bound to come still came. Wu Zhenyun said the gathering was set for this weekend evening. And as if afraid Shen You wouldn’t go, she asked first,
“You won’t say you’re too busy to go, will you?”
“I’ll go. Send me the hotel location.” Shen You smiled.
Shortly after hanging up, an address appeared in the group chat.
Shen You glanced at it twice, then continued watching videos while eating the beef ramen in her bowl.
At 8 PM, Li Heng and Zhong Jing came to the shop.
Seeing the current courtyard, Zhong Jing’s expression of amazement was identical to Li Heng’s yesterday.
He thought he’d entered too forcefully and gone through the wrong door, almost backing out to re-enter.
Shen You led them to the storage room and explained how to use these items.
“Such a small tablet can purify such a large bottle of water?” Zhong Jing was surprised.
Shen You nodded affirmatively.
She had done her homework, specifically selecting outdoor drinking water disinfection tablets with certification marks, which cost more.
“Your Highness, this thing is excellent!” Zhong Jing said excitedly.