It's raining, it's been falling.

Until nightfall, the sound of rain was still pouring outside the window. Ran'er and Qinglian gradually fell asleep in the sound of the rain.

When it was almost dawn, he was awakened by the barking of rhubarb and black. Because it was at night, Ran'er and Qinglian didn't dare to come out lightly. Through the crack in the door, I vaguely saw that Rhubarb and Little Black were standing in the door and calling outside, looking at the direction of the pond. Ran Er and Qinglian thought to themselves, the lotus roots in the pond were basically dug up years ago, and the fish fry were only put in a year ago, so there should be no thieves to patronize them. The two sisters hid behind the door and summed it up, since there was nothing to steal, it was better to wait for dawn. In the middle of the night, it was too dangerous for the two little girls to go out.

Rhubarb and Blackie kept barking, and in the silence of the night, their voices wore far away. It didn't take long for the sisters to hear Uncle Cheng's shout.

"Ran'er, Lian'er, what's wrong?"

Hearing that Uncle Cheng was coming, the two sisters opened the door, lit a lantern left by their mother, and walked to the door of the fence courtyard. At this time, Li Cheng also arrived with a lantern.

"Uncle Cheng, Rhubarb and Xiao Hei seem to be screaming at the pond, we didn't dare to go over to look, and we don't know what happened."

"Then go over and have a look, it's going to be dawn."

With Li Cheng as their companion, the sisters were no longer afraid, and followed behind Li Cheng with lanterns. At this time, Rhubarb and Little Black passed the three of them at once and ran straight to the pavilion on the edge of the pond. When he got to the pavilion, he barked at the pavilion. When Ran'er and Qinglian followed Li Cheng to the pavilion, they saw a person lying on the stone table in the pavilion. Li Cheng shouted to the people in the pavilion:

"What kind of person is it, who doesn't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you doing here?"

I asked twice, but I didn't hear the man's answer, and I didn't even see the man move. Li Cheng took a few steps forward and came to the pavilion, and the Ran'er sisters also followed. Through the light, I vaguely saw a man in his forties and fifties. The dress is very shabby, the cheeks are thin, and the sideburns are already a little gray. The man's lips seemed to move, as if he were talking, but he could not hear what was said. Li Cheng stretched out his hand to help him up, but found that the person's body was soft, and accidentally touched the other party's wrist, Li Cheng felt a little hot.

"Are you sick?"

I saw that the man's lips moved, and his head seemed to nod slightly.

"Uncle Cheng, it seems that he is sick. Let's carry him to the house and ask Lang Zhong to take a look first. Otherwise, in this kind of weather, if you lie here for half a day, even good people can't stand it. ”

"It's okay, it's about to dawn, carry him to the house first, and I'll invite Langzhong."

Li Cheng handed the lantern in his hand to Ran'er, squatted down, and carried the man on his back. And he said to the man:

"Come home with us first, and I'll invite you to Lang Zhong later."

When I came to Ran'er's house, I first put it in the west room, where Qinglian had never lived. At this time, the rain has stopped, the sky is still overcast, it is estimated that it should be the end of the end of the year, the beginning of the month, and the outside is already a little cloudy. After Li Cheng went to invite Lang Zhong, Ran'er and Qinglian first boiled a pot of boiling water, mixed it with brown sugar, and washed it away, and served it to the man to drink. The man struggled for a moment, as if trying to reach out and take the bowl, but halfway through it hung limply. Ran Er had to take a small wooden spoon and feed him one bite at a time. After feeding a bowl of brown sugar water, the sky was already bright, and Li Cheng led Lang Zhong to arrive.

After drinking a bowl of brown sugar water, the man seemed to have some strength, and with a hoarse voice, he said in a weak voice:

"Excuse me."

Li Langzhong stepped forward, sat on the edge of the kang, carefully checked the pulse, and touched the man's forehead. said to Li Cheng and Ran'er:

"It's typhoid fever, it's not a day or two, it's very serious. I'm afraid I won't be able to raise it for three or two months. ”

"I, I, I'll take a break, I'll go, don't bother you."

After listening to Li Langzhong's words, the man spoke intermittently.

"Second Uncle Li, please give him an injection first, reduce the fever, and then prescribe a prescription, and I will grab the medicine later." Now that you've met, you can't just look at it. ”

Everyone's thoughts are similar to Ran'er, seeing that people are so sick, if they don't save them, they can't help it. Li Langzhong took out the silver needle from the medicine box, as it was when he gave Ran'er the needle last time, it was still Hegu, Quchi, Parkway, Sun, Dazhu, and Zusanli, but there was one more acupuncture point: Sanyinjiao. After the needle, I sat down and prescribed the prescription again. Li Cheng took it, and was about to grab the medicine, but this time Ran'er didn't want him to spend any more money, so he stopped Li Cheng, asked Qinglian to take a tael of silver, and forced it into Li Cheng's hand, before saying:

"Ran'er cooks at home, and waits for my uncle to come back and eat with Uncle Li."

At this time, the patient had already fallen asleep on the kang, Li Langzhong, Ran'er, and Qinglian came to the east room, and Li Langzhong asked Ran'er:

"What is Ran'er going to do?"

"When he has a fever, eats something, and has strength, ask first. Always make things clear before you make plans. ”

"It's for the best. It's not right to see death and not save it, and it's not good to save anyone no matter who it is. ”

Two quarters of an hour later, Li Lang got the needle, checked his temperature again, and saw that the man was still asleep. He said to Ran'er:

"It seems that after a long journey, I felt a cold on the road, and I haven't done any conditioning, and I have been getting worse every day, and my condition has worsened when I walked here, and then I passed out in your pavilion. Wait for another injection in the afternoon, drink some medicine, and the fever should be able to go away tomorrow morning. ”

After speaking, Li Langzhong was about to go back, but Ran'er hurriedly stopped him.

"Second Uncle Li, Uncle Cheng is coming back soon, wait for Uncle Cheng to come back, have breakfast and then leave."

Li Cheng went to Yangzhuang to grab medicine, and it took more than half an hour to go back and forth. When they came back, Ran'er and Qinglian had already made breakfast and boiled Chinese medicine for that person. When Ran'er arrived in the west with the medicine, the man had already sat up, and when he saw Ran'er taking the medicine in, he was about to get off the kang and wanted to give Ran'er a gift.

"Uncle, don't move yet, wait until you drink the medicine, eat something, it's not too late to say something."

"Thank you, little sister."

watched him finish drinking the medicine, and brought a bowl of gruel, a plate of pickled bamboo shoots, a bowl of rice, and a plate of scrambled eggs, and put them on the table next to the kang, and then came outside to accompany Uncle Cheng and Li Langzhong to have breakfast together.

"Ran'er, it is estimated that he will not get better for a while, I am afraid that it will be inconvenient for you two sisters, so it is better to go to my uncle's house."

"Uncle's house is not spacious, so in the afternoon, it is okay to let the uncle live in two rooms on the west side."

After breakfast, a few people came to the west. The man drank the medicine, ate breakfast again, and was much better. Seeing everyone coming in, he put on his shoes and went down to the kang, saluted Li Langzhong and Li Cheng again and again, and wanted to salute the two sisters Ran'er, but Ran'er and Qinglian avoided it.

"Thank you to the two eldest brothers and the two little sisters for saving their lives. In Yao Wenlin, Xiakang City, looking for his father for thousands of miles, he was anxious, he hurried a few more miles, he didn't want to miss the stay, and he fell ill in your place in the middle of the night, causing trouble to everyone. ”