Chapter 54: Seeking Medical Treatment
"Assistant Teacher Wang, I really can't figure it out, what is the relationship between the iron ball and the stars?" Li Chunfeng bit the oil cake unwillingly, his eyes were still confused. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Wang Mai sighed, put the peeled egg in his hand into his bowl, and the egg instantly disappeared into the broth: "Many things, because they are used to it, will ignore its existence, just like this bowl of tofu brain, people only know that it can be made with salt and brine, but they don't delve into the reason." ”
"Neglect?" Li Chunfeng fished out the egg with a spoon, but because it was too slippery, it sank into the bowl again.
"I'm full, you eat slowly." Wang Mai got up and walked to Rou Niang to settle the bill, "There is Lao Niang." ”
"Officials don't have to be polite." Rou Niang bowed her head and bowed.
"By the way, why haven't you seen Sun Yu recently?" Wang Mai asked casually.
"My child has been on bed rest recently." Rou Niang replied softly.
"No wonder," Wang Mai frowned and looked at Rou Niang, "Since Sun Yu has been on bed rest, you should concentrate on taking care of him and not going out of the stall, it is very troublesome for the child to get sick...... Why is your face so bad? ”
Rou Niang turned her head sideways to avoid Wang Mai's gaze: "The slave family is fine. ”
"It's been ten days since I last saw Sun Yu, why haven't you gotten better?" Wang Mai asked a little puzzled, "Which doctor did you find?" If it doesn't work, change it, and you can't delay Sun Yu's condition. ”
Rou Niang lowered her head but did not speak.
"You wouldn't have failed to find a doctor, would you?" Wang Mai looked at her in surprise. Such a young child has very poor resistance, and if you don't find a doctor, a minor illness will become a major illness.
At this time, a tear slipped from the corner of her eye, falling along her fair cheeks to her jade-like neck.
"You really didn't look for a doctor?" Wang Mai was just about to get angry, when he suddenly saw her patched apron, and he suddenly understood in his heart, "Aren't you messing around?" Why don't you tell me if you don't have any money? As he spoke, he gave her his purse from his waist.
Rou Niang bit her lip and shook her head.
"Up to now, you're still a dead brain," Wang Mai was finally annoyed, "because of what bullshit men and women have to worry about." "This man is simply unreasonable, his son is dying of illness, but he still guards what kind of woman's way and does not let go. In a fit of rage, he pushed open the hidden door of Rou Niang's house and strode in.
"What are you going to do?" Rou Niang chased after her with tears in her eyes.
Li Chunfeng tilted his head and looked at the two, not knowing which play he was playing. Shaking his head, he continued to fish for his eggs. Liu Da next to him held his baby pimple treasure knife and smiled knowingly.
As soon as Wang Mai entered the room, a musty smell came to his nostrils, and he covered his nose and came to Sun Yu's bed and touched his forehead, which was terrifyingly hot.
Caring about anything else, he picked up Sun Yu, who was already in a blurred sense, and hurriedly walked out of the house, and just walked to the door, a figure bumped into him in a panic, it was Rou Niang who was chasing after him. Rou Niang didn't expect him to come out so quickly just after entering the house, and suddenly, the two bumped into each other solidly.
Rou Niang, how can a woman with a light body and weak willow weigh more than Wang Mai, a man in the prime of life, and suddenly fell to the side. Wang Mai reacted fairly quickly, and grabbed her thin waist, which avoided an accident.
Rou Niang fell into his arms, and her face suddenly stood up like a red cloud, holding on to the door frame beside her.
Wang Mai didn't have time to talk nonsense with her, so he hugged this little Sun Yu and continued to walk out, but his shirt was pulled, and his heart suddenly became angry: "What are you doing?" ”
"Where are the officials going to take the children?" Rou Niang asked anxiously.
"Of course it's to see the doctor, do you want to stay here and wait for death?" Wang Mai stepped out of the door, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the porcelain vase on the window.
A red rose is inserted in a porcelain vase. However, this rose was made of silk cloth, which was the gift that Wang Mai gave to Rou Niang before. A few days ago, in order to please her, Wang Mai really put a lot of thought into it, and he didn't dare to give too expensive gifts, for fear that she would refuse. I had to do it myself, and this rose was one of them.
Seeing the roses, Wang Mai's mood calmed down a lot, and he turned back to her and explained: "In such a hot weather, not only do you not ventilate and dissipate heat, but also make it like a stove, it is strange that his condition can get better, now you must find a doctor as soon as possible to treat him, and reduce his fever in time, otherwise he will burn his head and become a fool, or he will die at worst." I don't care if you insist on these rags or not, today I have to take Xiao Sun Yu to see the doctor. With that, he strode out of the gate.
Rou Niang gritted her teeth and chased after her with her long skirt.
"Liu Da......" Wang Mai hugged Sun Yu and shouted, "Hurry up and lead the horse, where is the nearest medical hall nearby?" ”
"Doctorate?" Liu Da stood up, looked at Sun Yu in Wang Mai's arms, and suddenly understood, and hurriedly ran to untie the horse's reins.
"You don't need to ride a horse," Rou Niang's voice came from behind her, "There is a medical clinic around the corner at the end of the street. ”
When Wang Mai heard this, he hugged Sun Yu and ran in the direction pointed by Rou Niang, ran for a while and turned the corner, and finally saw a word "medicine" hanging at the door of a shop in front of him, and hurriedly entered.
"Doctor...... Wang Mai couldn't take care of his breath, and grabbed a guy who ran away, "Where is the doctor?" Hurry up and call him out. ”
The little maid glanced at Sun Yu in Wang Mai's arms, and hurriedly ran to the back hall to call someone.
After a while, a middle-aged doctor ran out of the back hall, followed by an old Taoist priest who was over half a hundred years old. The middle-aged doctor took Sun Yu from Wang Mai's arms, tested his body temperature with the back of his hand, opened his closed eyelids, looked at the old Taoist priest and shook his head.
"How?" Wang Mai asked anxiously.
"How did you become a father?" The middle-aged doctor pointed at Wang Mai's forehead and scolded, "I'm only here to see a doctor now." ”
"He's not ......" Rou Niang and Liu Da also rushed over panting.
Wang Mai was anxious like an ant on a hot pot: "Don't say so much, hurry up and prescribe medicine." ”
The middle-aged doctor shook his head and looked at the Taoist priest: "The disciple can't do anything, please ask the ancestor to help." ”
"Hey!" When Wang Mai saw that he had entrusted Sun Yu to an old Taoist priest, he suddenly became angry, "You quack, you can't help it, you actually handed over the child to a Taoist priest who burns incense and meditates, and you let him ask God to heal him?" Give me the child, and I will not heal in your house. After speaking, he stepped forward to hug Sun Yu back.
"Who told you to please God?" The middle-aged doctor scolded, "This is my ancestor, and his medical skills are much better than mine, if you don't believe it, you can go out now, and when the time comes, you will delay the condition, and you will blame us." ”
Wang Mai quickly apologized when he heard this: "I'm sorry, then ask the Taoist chief to hurry up and take a look at the child." ”
The old Taoist priest touched Sun Yu's wrist and closed his eyes for a while, then frowned and opened his eyes: "The top priority now is to reduce the fever of this child, but ......" shook his head and sighed.
"But what?" Wang Mai asked anxiously, at this time, he really hated these people who expressed their meaning with emotions in the middle of speaking.
"If you take a normal dose, the fever will go down too slowly and too late, and if you increase the dose, the child will be too young to bear it...... Besides, he is now delirious, and it is difficult for him to take medicine. The old Taoist priest closed his eyes sadly.
"What do you mean?" Wang Mai looked at the two of them in disbelief, "Such a young child, he is less than four years old...... Anyway, you have to find a way to come out. Looking at Xiao Sun Yu's flushed face and closed eyes, Wang Mai's heart was like a knife.
Rou Niang beside her was dizzy when she heard this, and almost fell to the ground, Wang Mai hurriedly helped her to sit on the stool.
"It's not that the old Tao is unwilling to prescribe prescriptions, but you are too late to send the doctor to the hospital, delaying the opportunity, so that a minor illness becomes a major disaster." The old Taoist priest sighed.
Wang Mai couldn't bear to look at Rou Niang's sad face, turned his head to the side, but his eyes inadvertently swept to the top of the medicine cabinet, and a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind, no matter what, I have to give it a try, just use a dead horse as a live horse doctor. Turned his head and handed it to Liu Da: "You hurry up and go back and get a bag of saltpeter, I still have a can of spirits under the bed, and bring it with you, quickly." ”
Liu Da got the order and hurriedly turned around and left.
Wang Mai pointed to the medicine cabinet again: "Dare to ask the doctor how much miscanthus here?" I bought them all. ”
"What are the officials going to do?" The middle-aged doctor asked puzzled.
"Cool down, cool down the child." Wang Mai anxiously shouted, "Hurry up and give me all the manganese." ”
"This ......" The middle-aged doctor was about to refuse, but the old Taoist priest beside him patted him on the shoulder and motioned him to do what Wang Mai said.
The old Taoist priest hugged Sun Yu and looked at Wang Mai puzzled: "I don't know what way the official thought of to cool down this child." ”
"With ice and alcohol." Wang Mai explained, "Miscanthus can be used to make ice, and alcohol evaporation can also take away heat. ”
The old Taoist priest's eyes lit up: "Can miscanthus make ice?" Lao Dao has also seen the barren mountain tribe use ice and snow to reduce people's fever in winter, maybe you can give it a try. ”
The middle-aged doctor quickly brought out a small bag of manganese, but it was too little. But I can't care so much, so I'll use it first.
Wang Mai poured it all into the prepared wooden basin, and put a small bowl of water on it, the miscanthus in the pharmacy was pure enough, and the reaction speed was very fast, but after all, because there was too little, there was only a small amount of ice ballast in the bowl, and he took a piece of linen cloth and put it on Xiao Sun Yu's forehead when it was wet in ice water.
Maybe it was the stimulation of the ice water, Xiao Sun Yu's tense little face actually moved, everyone was happy, even Rou Niang cheered up and stopped her tears.
Liu Da soon returned, Wang Mai instructed him to make ice on the side, and he came to the hospital bed with the jar of high wine. This jar of high liquor is the product of many distillations, for this reason, Song Laosan still thinks he is wasteful, but he knows that in this era when there are no antibiotics, alcohol is the best thing to prevent infection, so he has already prepared a jar, but he didn't expect it to be used today for Sun Yu to reduce fever.
Unsealed the seal, poured a bowl and carefully wiped it all over Sun Yu's body, and the smell of alcohol soon overflowed the entire room.
The old Taoist priest touched Sun Yu's forehead, looked at everything he did curiously, and wanted to ask several times, but this was not the time.