Due to Zuo Shaoyang's absence, although Zuo Gui's father's medical skills are better than before, there is still no fundamental change in his surname, so there are no new patients to stay in the clinic. The only patients who are staying in the clinic now are Qiao Qiaoer and Shopkeeper Yu.

Qiao Qiaoer's family lived in her father's original room, and Qiao Qiaoer was sleeping in bed. Master Qiao reluctantly looked at him with a smile: "Zuo Gongzi, you can show Qiao'er quickly." ”

Hearing the voice, Qiao Qiao'er opened her eyes, saw Zuo Shaoyang, her eyes immediately widened, and she said in surprise: "Brother! You're back! Why have you been around for so long? ”

"Something is going to be stumbling up, how are you feeling now?"

"I was sick to death, my whole body was hot, I was very thirsty, I was sweating, and my wounds were very painful and hot. -- I look forward to you coming back every day to help me heal my wounds, but you don't come back, ask them, and only say that you are in trouble. Hum! ”

"Hehe, I'll look at your tongue."

Qiao Qiao'er hurriedly spit out the fragrant tongue. Zuo Shaoyang looked at it and said, "Moss Huang, your stool is not very smooth." ”

"It's not just that it's not smooth, every time you go to the thatched house, it's a crime!" Qiao Qiao'er spoke a little unobstructed in front of Zuo Shaoyang.

"Well, what about the bones? How does it feel? ”

"I can get out of bed and walk slowly, and my feet can eat some strength, but the wound hurts badly."

Zuo Shaoyang said: "I'll show you." ”

Uncovering the quilt, Qiao Qiaoer's pants had already cut off a trouser leg according to Zuo Shaoyang's requirements, so that it was easy to change the dressing. After checking, I found that the wound was still swollen and relatively obvious, and the wound still had pus secretion, and I couldn't pick back the purple-backed geranium seeds in time to give her medicine, so the wound infection was not cured, but the medicine configured earlier still played a considerable role, at least more than two months have passed, and the wound has not deteriorated very much, but it is more serious than when I first came.

Zuo Shaoyang looked at it and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I'm back, I will help you heal soon, take the medicine, your stool will be normal, and the continuous medication will be at most half a month, and the wound will heal." ”

"Really? You're not going to lie to me, are you? Qiao Qiao'er smiled sweetly.

"Of course I didn't lie to you, I didn't go wandering around for more than two months and picked up the medicine you needed. I'll prescribe you a decoction. Then rinse your wound and change the dressing. ”

"Great! My brother is back, and I am relieved. ”

Zuo Shaoyang returned to the lobby and wrote a recipe, using Coptis detoxification soup as the basic recipe, adding purple-backed geranium seeds, half-branch lotus, white-flowered snake tongue grass and raw rhubarb.

After writing the recipe, he called Ding Xiaosan over: "What did you do in the Rejuvenation Hall before?" ”

"Back to the young master, he is in charge of picking up the medicine at the counter."

"Okay, in the future, you will also be in charge of picking up medicines in the medicine cabinet."

"Yes, young master."

Zuo Shaoyang handed him the recipe: "There are a few flavors of medicine on it that are new medicines, and they are not available in other pharmacies, so I picked them back last time." With that, Zuo Shaoyang walked to the medicine cabinet, found the new medicine in a few empty medicine drawers, wrote their names respectively, pasted the label on it, and taught Ding Xiaosan to identify a few new medicines. Then the medicine was picked and tormented, and it was taken for use.

Then, Zuo Shaoyang came to the next door to check on the injuries of the shopkeeper Yu.

Shopkeeper Yu fell asleep on his side, his wife sat on a round stool next to the bed, and the two children lay on a bed next to him. Seeing Zuo Shaoyang coming in, Mrs. Yu hurriedly got up and gave a blessing: "Zuo Gongzi is here." You may be seated. "I went to the side and got a stool.

Zuo Shaoyang thanked him, looked at the empty ward, and patted the two rows of wooden beds neatly, this was played by Li Dazhuang, and the craftsmanship was really good. It's just that the wounded soldiers who stayed for treatment have all returned, and the people have also healed. With no new patients, the inpatient ward became empty and became a dedicated ward for the rest of the family.

Zuo Shaoyang glanced at Shopkeeper Yu and asked Mrs. Yu in a low voice, "Is Uncle Yu asleep?" ”

"I didn't sleep!" The shopkeeper Yu said with a loud voice, but he didn't turn around.

Zuo Shaoyang said: "How is the old man's injury?" I'll have a follow-up visit. ”

Shopkeeper Yu slowly turned around, his face was already swollen like a pig's head, Zuo Shaoyang was taken aback, after the famine began, he had seen too much of this kind of swelling, and said in a low voice: "Uncle should eat more......"

"I know, but what's the food? There are two meals of thin soup every day, which can be used as a mirror, and the wild vegetables in it can be counted! - I'm sorry, I'm in a bad mood, I lost my temper, I didn't mean to target you, but you squeezed food out of your teeth and saved our family of four, and I'm already very grateful......"

"You're welcome, uncle, I'll take a look at your leg injury first, and then find some food."

"Alas, where is there any food in the city, even the bark has been eaten. Forget it, it's better to die. ”

Zuo Shaoyang lifted the quilt and checked his injured leg, the fracture recovery was very good, he could bend and stretch freely, but it was also swollen. The other leg is crippled, atrophied and deformed.

Mrs. Yu next to her said that the shopkeeper Yu was already able to get out of bed and walk slowly on crutches.

Zuo Shaoyang said: "The fracture is recovering well. In two more days, the external retainer can be removed. ”

Zuo Shaoyang returned to the pharmacy from the detention ward, and saw a fat man walking out slowly from inside, and when he looked closely, he was actually not a fat man, but swollen, his face was swollen, his gray beard was sparse, he was panting step by step, carrying a basket on his back, holding a bamboo basket in his hand, covered with a blue cloth. This hand was held by a child, but it was Zhi'er, the father's new apprentice. His eyes were full of sorrow.

Zuo Shaoyang saw that this swollen fat man was very familiar, and couldn't help but take a few more looks.

The man also stopped, slowly raising his swollen head to look at him, both of them stunned. This middle-aged man who is swollen like a big fat man is the famous Dr. Ni in Hezhou!

When Dr. Ni saw Zuo Shaoyang, he smiled reluctantly, and it was not easy to give up the basket in his hand, so he nodded with a bow: "Zuo Gongzi!" ”

"Is it Dr. Ni?" Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly arched his hand and said, "You ......, why is it swollen like this?" ”

Dr. Ni smiled reluctantly, but didn't say anything.

Zuo Shaoyang was anxious, he knew that if a person had no food at all, he would die within seven to ten days, and the external manifestation was generally to be emaciated quickly, and then his body would fail and die. However, if it is a state of semi-starvation, it will not die quickly, but after a long period of starvation, the person will first lose weight, then edema, then emaciation, then edema, and after several times, finally die of heart failure.

The swelling caused by starvation is easy to treat, and as long as you continue to eat normally, it will heal quickly, but this treatment is almost impossible to achieve nowadays.

Dr. Ni is now this kind of edema, at least he has experienced this kind of emaciation to edema several times, he has to go up the mountain every day to collect medicine to change gruel, his physical strength has been exhausted, judging from his current weak situation, I am afraid that he will never be able to experience such a toss again. It's likely that you won't be able to wait for the next time you're emaciated and you'll die.

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly took his hand and said, "Doctor Ni, you can't do this, come in, I'll show you!" ”

Dr. Ni knew that his edema could not be solved by decoction, so he smiled bitterly: "I heard that you went up the mountain to collect medicine more than two months ago and never came back, so I'm quite worried about you, are you okay?" ”

"It's okay, I'm fine, your matter is big, you're afraid that you won't live for a few days! Follow me! - Zhi'er, help your father into the house! Reaching out to take the basket in his hand, holding him with one hand, Zhi'er laboriously supported her father on the other side, returned to the lobby, and went straight to the kitchen.

Here is a small pot of gruel made from grain brought down from the mountains just now, with ginseng added. Zuo Shaoyang took a bowl and handed it to Dr. Ni: "Come, eat!" ”

Dr. Ni looked at him in surprise: "This ......"

"Needless to say, if you don't eat again, you'll really starve to death! You die, what will happen to your old mother and paralyzed brother? I can tell you, your son is enough trouble with us, don't you want to wait for you to die, let us take care of the two of them, take care of yourself alive! ”

Dr. Ni was stunned for a moment, his eyes slowly became moist and hot, and he reached over tremblingly, took the bowl of porridge, and didn't use a spoon, just put it to his mouth and drank it.

Zhi'er gently tugged at Dr. Ni's sleeve: "Dad, I'm hungry ......."

Dr. Ni hurriedly handed over the remaining half bowl of porridge. was stopped by Zuo Shaoyang: "Doctor Ni, this porridge is for you to save your life, if you want to say hungry, everyone is hungry, but this porridge is for those who need it most." Zhi'er can still withstand it now, you can rest assured, he won't eat this bowl of porridge, he won't starve to death, if you don't eat it, you won't be able to survive! ”

Zhi'er also understood, and hurriedly retracted her hand.

Dr. Ni touched his son's head: "Don't worry! Zhi'er, with your master and your senior brother, you won't starve to death. In any case, remember the kindness of your master and brother. ”

Zhi'er nodded, but his eyes looked at the bowl of porridge in his hand, Dr. Ni drank two more mouthfuls of gruel, his eyes were red, he sighed, and said: "If I knew that there was today, I wouldn't have studied medicine, I would have bought fields to farm, and there was food to eat, which was better than anything else!" ”

"Yes, survival is the first need of man!" Zuo Shaoyang smiled.

"It's not just to live, now that the price of food is so high, if there is a good environment, farming is definitely the most profitable way to make a living!" Dr. Ni said.

"Yes, I have a lot of fields in my hands, and some of them were given to me by you, so no one planted them."

Doctor Ni said: "Your Zuo family has been putting medicine porridge to help the people for more than a month, saving the lives of many people, as long as the battle is over, you ascend to the top and invite everyone to rent your family's land, I think there will be many people who have received the favor of your family to rent it." It's only fifty acres, and if it's ten times more, it is estimated that it can be rented out! ”

Zuo Shaoyang's heart moved when he heard this: "Really? ”

"Of course it's true, when I was collecting medicine for porridge, I heard a lot of good things about your family, and they all said that if you survive this famine, you must repay your family well."

(To be continued)