Chapter 240: Chapter 240

Bai Susu instructed the steward to invite Elder Ming, the Imperial Physician, and others in while addressing Prime Minister Bai, "Grandfather, after the conference ended, many people suddenly contracted the same illness you have. The Imperial Physicians suspect it’s a plague. Because you are unwell, I didn’t inform you to avoid you worrying more."

"What? Plague? How could a plague break out suddenly?" Prime Minister Bai was shocked and quickly sat up from his bed.

Seeing this, Bai Susu hurried forward to help support his body.

She then said, "Don’t worry, Grandfather, I’ve already found a way to resolve the plague. If you can recover from such a severe illness, others surely can as well."

Prime Minister Bai’s expression relaxed as he exhaled, "You’re right. If you can heal this old body of mine, then surely others can be healed too."

He then looked worriedly at Bai Susu, "Do you still have that fast-acting medicine? Is there enough for so many people? The seriously ill are foreign envoys, and Da Qin can’t afford any incidents."

Otherwise, Da Qin would lose face completely.

"Rest assured, Grandfather, of course, there is still medicine. Please stay calm and try not to get too excited." Bai Susu comforted him.

At this moment, Elder Ming and others hurried in.

Upon entering and seeing Bai Susu, Elder Ming directly addressed Prime Minister Bai, "Old Bai, we are here to ask Susu about the solution to the plague. The situation is urgent, so let’s skip the pleasantries."

Hearing this, Prime Minister Bai nodded slightly.

He then saw Elder Ming and the others looking at Bai Susu with their eyes gleaming with suspicion and excitement.

"Susu, have you really found a way to solve the plague?" Elder Ming, as Bai Susu’s teacher, was the first to ask.

Bai Susu nodded leisurely, modestly saying, "I wouldn’t dare to claim I’ve found a cure for the plague. It just happened to match Grandfather’s symptoms."

"What about the prescription? Do you have a prescription?" Elder Ming asked excitedly.

Bai Susu showed a slight look of discomfort.

Seeing this, Elder Ming quickly said, "You don’t need to worry about anyone seizing your prescription. I guarantee that if it’s truly effective, no one can take away the credit that belongs to you."

Moreover, with both Prime Minister Bai and the Crown Prince backing her, who would dare take the prescription Bai Susu developed?

At this moment, Bai Susu quickly shook her head, "Teacher, you misunderstand me. As a healer, saving lives is my duty. I wouldn’t care about such vanity at a life-and-death moment."

"The difficulty lies in how I should explain the matter of the antidote to you all."

Then, she looked toward the maid Chun Tao.

Chun Tao understood and quickly brought over a rotten orange.

"Teacher, respected Imperial Physicians, please look. This rotten orange is actually the source of the antidote for this plague," Bai Susu said.

Hearing this, Elder Ming and the others couldn’t help exchanging glances. Read complete versıon only at novel·fiɾe·net

However, they didn’t immediately doubt Bai Susu but looked at the orange and quickly fell into thought.

A rotten orange is known to be poisonous, something even a three-year-old would know, so usually, they would discard moldy oranges without considering studying them.

But since ancient times, medicine and poison have been closely linked. Some things that appear poisonous might actually be remedies for certain ailments.

Bai Susu wouldn’t lie in front of them. Since she said the antidote came from the rotten orange, it implies the poison in this orange... could counteract the plague by fighting poison with poison?

On this thought, Elder Ming, having come from a family known as the Poison Doctor Family, was the first to react, "Are you saying the toxins in this moldy orange can combat the plague?"

Bai Susu, looking a bit embarrassed, nodded, "That’s correct. A few days ago, while reading the Poison Doctrine, I whimsically decided to study common poisons in daily life. It just so happened that I had an orange that had gone bad, so I used it as a research subject."

"Unexpectedly, this moldy orange truly revealed some unique characteristics to me."

With that, she took out a notebook from her medical kit and handed it to Elder Ming.

"These are some notes I kept during my study of the rotten orange’s poison. You can take a look, Teacher."

Upon hearing this, Elder Ming received Bai Susu’s notes like a treasure and quickly browsed through them.

Not long after, his eyes lit up, and he slapped his thigh, "Amazing! It’s incredible that you could notice these tiny, invisible elements, no wonder you could extract the antidote from a rotten orange!"

At this moment, Elder Ming truly regretted his past decisions.

He regretted that when he first noticed Bai Susu’s talent, his decision not to take her as a disciple because she was a girl!

This was not just a medical genius, but a brilliant researcher of poisons.

With Bai Susu’s talent, she could absolutely inherit the mantle of their Poison Doctor lineage!

He wondered if she would be willing to become his apprentice now?

Furthermore, even if Bai Susu were willing, the Crown Prince might not agree.

The more he thought about it, the more regret filled Elder Ming’s heart.

Hearing Elder Ming’s exclamation, the other Imperial Physicians quickly reached for the notes after he had finished and gathered to read them.

Being employed at the Imperial Hospital means each of them is a medical genius.

And Bai Susu’s method to extract penicillin was written simply and clearly, so they had no trouble understanding it.

After finishing it, they couldn’t help but look at Bai Susu in amazement.

Then one of them, unable to resist, asked Bai Susu, "May I ask, Miss Bai, after extracting the toxin, how did you determine the dosage?"

"Also, how did you come up with the injection method?"

After all, poison is not like medicine.

An overdose of poison can be lethal.

And according to Bai Susu’s notes, the extracted toxin is colorless, so how does she measure it?

Most importantly, their usual methods of administering medication were either orally or externally applied, but she thought of injecting it into the body.

This method... is something only some unconventional or rogue doctors employed.

Seeing their eager-to-know expressions, Bai Susu lightly coughed, "Actually, I was experimenting. I used animal testing, finding that oral administration had no effect, and external application didn’t work either, so I thought to try injecting it directly into the blood vessels."

"I came across this method in medical discussions, and surprisingly, it worked well."

She had to admit that these were all expert physicians. Faced with such Western medicine techniques, instead of doubting, they quickly understood the principles behind them and self-explained them.

But this was not surprising as these issues were child’s play for them.

Like how they had already discovered that Artemisia grass could treat malaria, although they didn’t know precisely which component was effective, they could still create effective medicine using ancient extraction methods.

She believed that giving them a hint, they could figure out penicillin’s development without needing her detailed instructions.