Famine and Chaos: Weaving Cloth in Exile to Escape the War

In fact, the most important things to pay attention to in the prevention and control of plague are personal hygiene, environmental hygiene, and avoiding contact with plague patients and sick rats.

The first two are easy to control, but the latter is just a matter of luck.

Of course, the most important thing is still face masks.

Since there were no face masks in ancient times, Jingzhichun still had to make them.

When the time comes, you can tear off a piece of cotton cloth and make a thick mask with fine cotton wadding to wear.

Also, prepare gloves and plenty of spare clothes, change them frequently, pay attention to personal hygiene at all times, and buy a few extra bars of soap.

Although the plague had not yet spread to the Northwest, just in case, Kyoto Haru felt that the environment of the thatched hut where she lived needed to be cleaned up and disinfected at all times.

For disinfection, we'll need to buy more lime later.

Sprinkling lime water in the living environment is an effective disinfection method.

Now that the Central Plains are suffering from disaster, the rats have nothing to eat and nowhere to go, so they will scatter everywhere. No one can say for sure what will happen then. Maybe the rats will arrive before the people with the plague arrive.

Therefore, we must plan ahead for the prevention and control of plague.

Of course, you also need to pay attention to your drinking water and food.

Only drink thoroughly boiled water.

Food must be heated and cooked before eating; raw food must never be eaten.

Tableware should also be disinfected with boiling water.

We also need to buy some medicinal herbs that clear heat and detoxify.

For example, honeysuckle, indigo leaves, dandelion, scutellaria, and coptis.

You can boil some and drink it as tea. It can not only boost your immunity, but also help you cope with possible febrile diseases.

However, these medicinal herbs are mostly cold in nature, so they should not be consumed in large quantities.

They also need to make a sachet that can ward off evil spirits and be worn on their person.

You should also eat more garlic, as it has antibacterial properties...

Jing Zhichun considered it for a while and realized that the things needed here were available in ancient times, so she could just go and buy them tomorrow.

What worries them most is that if they contract the plague, all traditional Chinese medicine can do is observe the symptoms and tough it out.

Therefore, Western medicine is still more convenient.

However, she had just looked at the special medicines for treating the plague in the system, and they were all frighteningly expensive.

For example, streptomycin, an antibiotic that is a specific drug for treating plague, is traditionally considered the gold standard drug for treating plague, especially bubonic plague, but a small bottle of it costs 10000 copper coins.

Furthermore, all the effective drugs for plague that can be used, such as gentamicin, doxycycline, and fluoroquinolones, cost over 10000 yuan.

If you give up the special medicines in the system and buy Chinese medicinal herbs instead.

Traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions for treating plague require some very valuable medicinal materials, such as rhinoceros horn, bezoar, and musk, which are extremely expensive in the system's shop...

Just 10 grams of rhinoceros horn costs 600 coins...

All things considered, the prescription for buying enough Chinese medicinal herbs to treat the plague would cost 20000 coins.

Her system only has more than 7000 articles.

Not enough, it's far from good enough.

If she had known, she would have scavenged more medicinal herbs from Huichuntang.

It's too late to say anything now.

Kyoto Spring was so engrossed in watching it that she almost fainted.

Therefore, her current conclusion is that even with the system as her cheat code, she can only rely on herself to survive the plague.

Heavens above, earth below.

This is simply not giving people a way to survive.

Living in ancient times must have been terrifying.

If you get infected with any virus or something, it's a dead end.

Her only chance to save her life was to do everything she could to avoid getting infected!

Thinking of this, Kyoto Haru was wide awake.

It's too difficult, really too difficult.

Fortunately, she still had some money on hand, so she would go to the herbal medicine shop tomorrow to see if she could get all the herbs needed to treat the plague.

Actually, considering the situation in the Northwest, Jing Zhichun was really unsure about procuring all the medicinal herbs.

According to the original owner's memories, resources were extremely scarce in the Northwest region, not only in terms of food and cloth, but also in terms of medicinal herbs.

Medicinal herbs are expensive when they are scarce, and when they are expensive, they become selective in their use.

Basic heat-clearing herbs like Coptis chinensis, Scutellaria baicalensis, and Lonicera japonica are commonly found in herbal medicine shops, but they are also very expensive.

During the day, she got two doses of medicine for a cold, which cost her one tael of silver.

One can imagine how expensive the high-value medicinal materials used in prescriptions for treating plague, such as rhinoceros horn, antelope horn, top-quality bezoar, Panax notoginseng, musk, and so on, must have been.

Of course, what Kyoto Haru is worried about is not how expensive it is, but that it is not available.

What I fear most is that these valuable medicinal herbs will not be able to circulate in the market. Ordinary people will not only be unable to buy them, but they will probably never even see them. They are all monopolized by high-ranking officials and nobles.

She had once had a fleeting thought about it.

The Yang family had treated her well, and she wanted to let them know about the plague so they could prepare accordingly.

But considering her current predicament, even someone with her special abilities like hers would struggle to protect herself, let alone others…

She made empty promises to the Yang family about the disaster, but then left them with no way to resolve it. What good did this do besides increasing their panic and helplessness?

Kyoto Haru let out a long sigh as she stared at the ceiling. Life was so hard, and her head was throbbing with pain.

She turned over, deciding not to think about these things anymore, and planned to go to the pharmacy tomorrow to find out what to do next.

However, the more Kyoto Haru thought about it, the less she could sleep.

I couldn't sleep, tossing and turning, thinking too much, and my forehead and the back of my head were aching.

Kyoto Haru finally fell asleep just before dawn.

She felt like she had only closed her eyes for a short while when the waiter woke her up.

Jing Zhichun quickly got dressed and got off the kang (a heated brick bed). Yang Ersao also got up. The two of them quickly washed up and then planned to go to the pharmacy.

Before leaving, Kyoto Haru forgot to bring her cloth bag, so she went back and carried her own bundle on her back.

You have to carry this package with you at all times, because it contains about ten bullets.

She hid the pistol close to her body in her bosom.

If the bullets are lost, the gun is useless.

However, it's not necessarily true.

When she has some free time, she'll have to check the system shop to see if there are any bullets available for purchase separately.

Otherwise, if she keeps buying the same handgun and runs out of bullets, the handgun will be useless, and she'll lose a fortune.

After a short while, Jing Zhichun and Yang Ersao arrived at the shop where she had sold medicine for colds the day before.

In order to cover up the lie she told Yang Ersao yesterday, and fearing that she would be unable to handle the situation if Yang Ersao went in, Jing Zhichun told Yang Ersao to wait for her outside while she went in to get the medicinal herbs herself.

Yang Ersao didn't think much of it and nodded, then waited for Jing Zhichun at the door.