allonlinenovel Chapter 293: Rude Methods of Seeking Medical Treatment
Chapter 293: Rude Methods of Seeking Medical Treatment
In late autumn and early winter, the wind is howling, cold smoke is curling up over the lake, and the wild geese have already returned south amid the dead trees and yellow grass.
In the southwest of Jingsong State, a carriage shuttled smoothly through the green and quiet bamboo forest. Zeng Si, wearing a white robe, sat in front of the carriage holding the reins. His fair and clear face looked particularly haggard, and there were faint deep wrinkles between his eyebrows.
In the carriage, Honghua was leaning against the window with her eyes closed. She was dressed in black, but her charm could not be concealed. However, her face looked a little tired, and there were a few more white hairs on her temples. Her left hand was hanging down, tightly holding her sister Xuanyu's right hand.
At this time, Xuanyu had shed the murderous aura shrouded by the black shadow and returned to her elegant outfit of bamboo green. Her eyes were closed and she was unconscious. Her once beautiful face was now as thin as paper, withered and lifeless, which was really heartbreaking to see.
Ten days ago, after taking the Huagong Pill in front of Youmei, the leader of the Yingmen, Huanyu hurriedly took the seriously injured Zeng Si away from the Yingmen. Fortunately, when her sister appeared, the Huagong Pill in her body began to take effect. For a moment, her whole body felt like it was cut by knives and bitten by insects, and then gradually it became like peeling skin and cramps, making Huanyu feel so painful that she wanted to die. As her whole body power dissipated, her weak body finally couldn't withstand the pain of the Huagong Pill, and she fainted, and has not woken up to this day.
After Huanyu fell into a coma, Honghua and Zengsi left Xiyue Kingdom and passed through Mocheng of Jingsong Kingdom. They found a shop named Li in Jiangnan and ordered the shop owner to send a letter to Li Yunye. Shop owner Feng naturally did not recognize Honghua, but seeing that this woman looked difficult to deal with, he had to do it.
"Cough cough."
At this moment, two slight coughs suddenly sounded in the carriage, and Yan Yu slowly opened her eyes.
"Sister, are you awake?" Honghua was also awakened. Seeing that her sister finally woke up, her eyes turned red and tears silently rolled down her cheeks.
"Don't you always hate tears? How can you tolerate having that on your face?" Seeing her sister crying for her, Huan Yu was touched but quickly lowered her eyes. She looked at her hand being tightly held by her sister and couldn't help feeling warm. However, she still uttered the same mocking words as before.
"Does your body still hurt?" For the first time, Honghua did not retort to her sister's sarcasm. She just glared at her, wiped the tears from her face, helped her up, and asked with concern.
"Much better, I can still bear it for now, but my whole body is cold again." Yan Yu snuggled in her sister's arms, murmured weakly. She could endure the numbness and pain like ants biting her body, but the bone-chilling cold made her shiver all over.
"It's early winter now, and it's a bit cold in the south." Honghua hugged his sister tighter, trying his best to warm her with the warmth from his body.
"What conditions did you agree to from Youmei for me?" Yan Yu continued to ask weakly.
"The formula of the secret medicine Gu Xin plus the Southern Frontier of Zhuying Sect." Now that his sister has completely returned to him, Honghua has no intention of hiding it from her, so he smiled faintly and answered truthfully.
"The secret medicine of the Poisonous Insect Valley is going to be given away so easily?" Xuan Yuxu frowned and felt guilty.
"If my secret medicine is gone, I can create another one, but I only have one sister. Which is more important? It's obvious." Honghua smiled disapprovingly.
"It's not just the secret medicine, right? Even the Poisonous Insect Valley will serve the Shadow Gate." Yan Yu continued to worry. She naively thought that she could get out of the Shadow Gate on her own, but now the price is not only that she has become a waste, but her sister will also be controlled by the Shadow Gate from now on. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but smile at her former arrogance.
"You are the only relative I have in this world. For you, all this is worth it." Honghua raised her hand and gently tidied her sister's hair, smiling gently.
Yanyu couldn't help but let a faint smile appear on her lips, her eyes slightly closed, tears rolling down from the corners of her eyes.
Zeng Si, who was driving the carriage outside, listened to the conversation between the two sisters inside and couldn't help crying for joy. After ten days, she finally woke up.
"Are we going back to Southern Xinjiang now?" After a moment of silence, Yan Yu asked again.
"I heard that a doctor with great medical skills appeared in the southwest of Jingsong Country. Let's go and try to see if he can heal your body."
After listening to this, Xuanyu nodded silently. She was tired from talking so much that she fell asleep again in her sister's arms.
In a deep alley of a small town, Si Yao and Xiao Lu were invited to the home of a young man. On the couch in the west room of the courtyard sat an old woman with white hair. The woman had a thin upper body but two thick cotton-padded clothes on her lower body. Her whole body seemed to be divided into two parts, experiencing different seasons.
"Mom, I asked a bell doctor to come and see you." After entering the room, the man squatted in front of his mother and said with a smile.
"Why are you spending money to hire a doctor again? It's okay, mother. It's not easy for you to sell buns every day. You have to save money. Your grandson will go to school next year." The white-haired old woman looked to be in her seventies. It was obvious that her eyesight and ears were not very sharp. She only reacted when her son came to her. When she heard her son looking for a doctor for her, she immediately frowned and gave instructions.
"There's still a year left, don't worry. You can definitely earn the money for school, don't worry." The man seemed to be accustomed to what his mother said, so he held his mother's hand and smiled bitterly, then looked up at Si Yao and sighed:
"Three months ago, my mother fell down at the door of our house. Since then, she often feels hot and cold. Her upper body is afraid of heat, but her legs and feet are afraid of cold. It's very strange."
Si Yao didn't say much. After putting the medicine box on the table beside her, she took the pulse of the white-haired old woman. The pulse was weak. After a few more questions, she learned that the old woman had dry mouth and tongue but did not want to drink. This confirmed that there was no evil fire in the body, but the dry mouth was caused by insufficient body fluid. She also often had chest tightness and heat, many dreams and little sleep at night, but loose stools in her lower body, cold pain in the abdomen, especially the waist and legs were extremely afraid of cold.
"Auntie has spleen and kidney deficiency. The lack of kidney qi causes the yin and yang to not rise and fall, and the cold and heat to block each other. This is why you have the symptoms of heat on the upper body and cold on the lower body. It's not a very serious disease." After confirming the diagnosis, Si Yao came to the side and wrote out a prescription.
"Deficiency of spleen and kidney?" The man was relieved when he heard this, but then he couldn't help but frowned and said angrily: "Last time, the doctor said that my mother had yin deficiency and heat, but the prescription he prescribed made my mother have diarrhea instead."
"The fever you are experiencing can indeed easily mislead diagnosis." Si Yao explained carefully after handing the prescription to the other party.
After the old woman took the medicine, her chest tightness and irritability were relieved a lot, and she felt sleepy as she felt relaxed. After helping the old woman fall asleep, the bun shop owner wanted to keep Si Yao and Xiao Lu for lunch as it was noon, but the two declined.
"We've been out for several months, why haven't we reached Qile City yet? Did we take the wrong road?" Leaving the alley, the two continued to walk out of the town. Si Yao looked up at the early winter sky and asked puzzledly.
"But the route on the map that the master gave us is correct...how about...I'll go and ask around later?" Seeing that Sister Si Yao finally doubted the route, Xiaolu's face froze for a moment with guilt, then he took out the map and pretended to be confused.
Si Yao herself was a person with poor directions, so she naturally couldn't understand the map. Seeing Xiaolu looked serious, she didn't think much about it and didn't ask any more questions.
"Excuse me, who among you is the doctor?" As the two of them walked out of the town, they saw a charming woman in black clothes blocking their way.
"It's me." This time, Si Yao took the lead in blocking the path behind him and replied to the woman in black.
Medicine and poison have been inseparable since ancient times. Although Si Yao didn't know who this woman was or what she wanted to do, she could vaguely feel the poison in her body even though she was several feet away.
"Yes, it's rare to have such a capable female doctor, and she's also a beauty." The woman in black looked at Si Yao in front of her with an appreciative smile, and quickly walked closer.
"This lady is looking for our Miss Yao..." Xiaolu was not an ordinary medicine boy, so he naturally realized that the woman in black was not an ordinary person, so he protected Si Yao behind him again. However, he was caught off guard just as he opened his mouth, and was ambushed by a handful of medicine powder by the woman.
"Xiaolu!" Shocked to see Xiaolu faint, Si Yao hurriedly supported him.
"Don't worry, that's just a sleeping pill, it's not poisonous. He will wake up naturally in two hours." The woman in black clothes smiled at Si Yao.
"What do you want to do?" Si Yao frowned and asked with a cold face.
"What else can we do by asking Doctor Ling? Of course, we can cure diseases and save lives." The woman in black clothes smiled charmingly and unexpectedly threw a handful of medicine powder at Si Yao.
"I'm sorry, young lady. Although my way of seeking medical treatment is a bit rude, it can save you a lot of trouble." The woman in black clothes looked at Si Yao who fell in her arms and sighed in a hypocritical manner.