The Lucky Farmgirl-Chapter 2073 - 2048: Records

Manbao quickly shoveled down two mouthfuls of rice, then made an excuse to find a prescription and returned to her room, where she didn’t even wash up, but directly entered the teaching room.

Teacher Mo was checking her assignments from the previous two days online. Seeing her log in, he glanced at the time and, with a slight surprise, smiled, "Today you logged in twenty minutes earlier than yesterday."

Manbao said, "Teacher Mo, we have an epidemic here. Do you know about smallpox?"

Teacher Mo’s expression became serious, "Smallpox? This infectious disease was eradicated long ago; you... oh right, the time node where you are is still early, you’re still in the ancient times."

The ancient times without vaccines.

A disease that has been eradicated means it can be treated in the future. Manbao’s eyes sparkled as she asked, "How is this disease treated?"

Teacher Mo furrowed his brow, "I studied related courses in the twelfth grade, but it was only about history, without any in-depth research."

After all, it’s a virus that has been completely eradicated. Previously, there were research institutes that preserved the original smallpox virus, but later, during human migration, such things were destroyed along the way.

So now, it’s simply a piece of medical history in their time.

However, he still remembered some treatment methods, "Until it was eradicated, there was no definitive prescription or therapy; it could only be addressed by isolating the patients, aiding self-recovery, and achieving immunity resistance. Humans eradicated it by vaccinating. By ensuring that uninfected people never get infected again and completely preventing the virus’s spread, it was eliminated."

Manbao asked, "Do you have vaccines? I need to go to the epidemic area, but I haven’t had any pockmarks before."

"Vaccines specifically for smallpox?" Teacher Mo replied, "No."

Before Manbao could feel disappointed, she heard him say, "But we do have several types of comprehensive vaccines. I don’t have smallpox virus data, so I’m not sure which one is effective. You need to provide me with the smallpox vaccine."

Manbao’s spirits lifted, and she thought for a moment before saying, "I don’t have it now; I’ll have to go to Xiazhou to get it. Once you get the virus, how long will it take to determine its data?"

"Not long, just one day will be enough."

Manbao let out a sigh of relief.

Teacher Mo laughed, "Moreover, even if we don’t have a prescription for treating smallpox now, it doesn’t mean we won’t find a treatment once we get the virus data. When the virus was destroyed, medicine was not as advanced; now the times are different, and perhaps we have a drug that can be effective."

Manbao pondered for a moment and asked, "Teacher Mo, do you like the smallpox virus?"

Teacher Mo: "...I’m not very interested personally, but it’s still a disease. I’m interested in the virus data and infection records, but research costs are high; the data you provide can only offset some of the expenses."

The student-teacher duo had always been straightforward in such matters, always stating prices clearly.

Nevertheless, Teacher Mo cared for his student, suggesting, "I’ll ask around with some colleagues at the school. They might be interested. They have research labs, so if they’re willing to participate, the speed of drug development could be faster. There’s also a possibility that we’re lucky enough to have medicine on hand that can control the smallpox virus, eliminating the need for extensive research costs."

Manbao expressed understanding and then asked, "Can I trade directly with you for medicine?"

Before Teacher Mo could answer, Keke already replied, "No."

Teacher Mo also heard and paused before saying, "This stuff has too high a technological content. If you want a large quantity, it definitely won’t work. If it’s a small quantity, I can apply to upload it as teaching material..."

Manbao understood, then turned to Keke with a pleading tone, "Can it be bought in the marketplace?"

Keke searched and replied, "Depends on what medicine you need; what’s available in the marketplace can be bought, but for quality, it’s recommended to use products from the Encyclopedia Museum."

Teacher Mo furrowed his brow, thought for a moment, and said to Manbao, "Items from the Encyclopedia Museum are more expensive than those from the marketplace, but they have two benefits: One, they are directly produced by the biomedical research institute of the Encyclopedia Museum, offering better quality than the marketplace and better after-sales; Two, the variety is more complete, with some medicines having enhanced versions, or rather, the ones from the Encyclopedia Museum are standard while the marketplace ones are inferior, having slightly less efficacy."

Manbao thought of something and directly turned to Keke, "Keke, that medication for my mother..."

Keke said, "The Encyclopedia Museum’s medicine is about thirty percent more expensive than the marketplace’s. Did you have enough points to buy it at the time?"

Manbao remembered she had worked hard for many years to accumulate enough points to buy the medication.

Unable to help, Manbao glanced at her total points again, and breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing a substantial amount remaining.

Occasionally over the past one or two years, she had income. Jishi Hall occasionally sent her some live medicinal herbs, primarily because her reputation had spread.

Some herbal medicine businessmen knew Zhou Man liked living herbs, so they dug them up and delivered them in pots, not for money, only to curry favor with her.

Manbao herself was quite pleased.

She would then find methods to process these herbs in the Encyclopedia Museum, occasionally sending them one or two recipes.

Though she wasn’t skilled at processing, the families of those herbal businessmen specialized in it. Given time to ponder the recipes, they managed. As a result, more people liked gifting her fresh herbs, trimming and delivering branches in water or soil if the whole plant couldn’t be sent.

As long as they reached her still alive, she could record them. Even if already documented, she’d assess their value and list them on forums for sale, earning points over time. Aside from occasionally buying flowers, plants, and books, and spending some points on courses, she had no other expenses.

The accumulated total points were indeed considerable.

After discussing with Teacher Mo, Manbao didn’t leave; she directly went to the Encyclopedia Museum to search for records and prescriptions related to smallpox.

Teacher Mo knew more entries than she did, typing them one by one. Before long, he had bought over twenty books, searching the indexes, and circling related entries with his pen before handing them to Manbao, "Read these books first. I’ll look further and check other research institutes to see if I can find more ancient formulas."

Manbao nodded continuously, feeling satisfied with the plethora of books. With so many, surely there would be a solution?

However, once she opened the index and found the content, she was a bit dumbfounded.

There was very little recorded about smallpox. In a book as thick as two hands put together, perhaps only two or three pages documented smallpox.

And the records from Teacher Mo’s era were different from theirs. Of the three pages, one and a half wrote about smallpox’s history and etiology, half a page talked about the symptoms presentation, and only the remaining half outlined prevention, mostly prevention and little on treatment.

Prevention was straightforward; the ancients vaccinated.

Among these twenty-some books, seven or eight Manbao skimmed over had three or four with nearly identical content.

Manbao: ...

Though frustrated, she continued reading seriously, fearing she might miss something.