In the lobby of the hospital, a woman knelt on the ground, holding an eight- or nine-year-old boy in her arms, and kept crying: "Doctor, I beg you, save my child." ”

Several doctors were separated by more than a foot and took face towels to cover their mouths and noses, and no one dared to move forward.

The old man Tu wrapped a scarf, observed the patient's condition, and took protective measures in summer and autumn to follow forward.

The boy in the woman's arms was unconscious, his body convulsed from time to time, he had a high fever, and his sweat was soaking through his clothes.

This symptom is quite strange, obviously shivering with cold, but constantly sweating, and the old man Tu frowned after checking the pulse and tongue, and the patient's spleen was abnormal.

The woman was nervous, "Doctor, does the child have smallpox?" ”

Old man Tu grabbed the patient's hand, his two pairs of fingernails turned white, and he pondered and said: "From the point of view of the symptoms, it is very similar to the symptoms of playing a pendulum, but it is different. ”

Hearing the swing, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but they didn't dare to slack off. Although the pendulum is not as severe as smallpox, it is also extremely contagious, and the disease has been around for thousands of years, and even the mode of infection has not yet been understood.

"Doctor, please save the child." The woman who couldn't stop crying knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing to Old Man Tu, "He is only nine years old, and he is the only incense in our family, so he can't die." ”

Since the onset of the child's illness, he has been helpless to even ask several doctors, let alone ask the goddess to summon the soul, the Taoist priest to exorcise ghosts, etc., but the child's illness has not improved.

The people of the village said that the child had provoked evil spirits in the mountains, and that they should arrest him and burn him to death, otherwise the whole village would suffer.

She escaped with the child on her back overnight, and she didn't dare to go home no matter how hard it was.

The woman was already penniless, and in order to show her sincerity, her head slammed to the ground, and after a few strokes, she saw red, "As long as you can cure the child, I will be a cow and a horse for you for the rest of your life." ”

Old man Tu regards money as dung, this patient is very special, his hands are very itchy.

However, the hospital is in summer and autumn, and people are doing business when they open the door, not a bodhisattva, and it is up to her to decide whether to accept it or not.

Receiving the old man's gaze, Xia Qiu was really in trouble.

The pendulum is too contagious, and there are many people in and out of the clinic every day, so it will be a big trouble if it is infected to others. Moreover, the old man is old, and she can't afford any mistakes he makes.

However, for the sake of the doctor's life, since the patient has entered the hanging pot hall, there is no reason to refuse to accept it.

Xia Qiu thought about it for a moment and asked the guys to clean up the most remote West Wing room for the treatment of sick children, and no one was allowed to enter without permission. At the same time, the medical center is disinfected with mugwort pillars, and then treated for protection.

The courtyard was quickly cleaned up, and Old Man Tu took the mother and son into the West Wing, and Xia Qiu arranged the work of the hospital and locked the courtyard door of the West Wing from the inside.

"What are you doing in here?" Seeing Xia Qiu coming in, Old Man Tu instantly became angry.

Xia Qiu smiled, "Master, it is extremely difficult to treat the pendulum, and no one knows if you have to stay up for a long time, and you can't hold it alone." Besides, I also had contact with him, so if I don't come in for quarantine, what if someone else is infected?

Brainless and stubborn, Old Man Tu can't wait to beat her.

However, it is useless to say more about the fact that they should not have come.

The woman's name is Cao Xiuzhen, and her family lives in the countryside of Shahe Town, more than 40 miles away from the county seat. The son's name is Mao Dan, and the son she looked forward to after she gave birth to eight daughters in a row, has a brutal personality since he was a child, and his friends in the village are often full of mountains and wilderness.

Since Mao Dan's illness, Cao Xiuzhen has taken care of her every step of the way, and the possibility of infection is extremely high.

Xia Qiu separated her from Maodan and lived alone in a corner room to be observed.

Old man Tu took a knife and bleed Mao Dan.

The blood is thick and has a yellowish tinge.

He immediately changed color, this is not a pendulum.

In summer and autumn, blood was measured with a silver needle, and it was not poisoning.

He really hadn't seen this kind of disease.

After the bloodletting, Mao Dan's consciousness became a little clearer, his eyes were half-open, his eyes were dodging and afraid, and his mouth was squeaky and speechless.

Old man Tu observed on the bed for a long time, and said to Xia Qiu: "Go and close the doors and windows." ”

Xia Qiu was surprised, but still did it.

Sure enough, after the doors and windows were closed, the room darkened, Mao Dan's eyes finally opened, and he looked at the strangers weakly, "Who are you?" My mother. ”

If you want to treat the disease, you have to find out the crux of the problem, Cao Xiuzhen doesn't know what to ask, she is so anxious that she can only wipe her tears, and she has to work hard from the child.

The old man Tu took out a piece of candy and gave it to the hairy egg, and the hairy egg was not afraid of being raw, so he peeled off the candy paper and stuffed it directly into his mouth.

After eating the bitter medicine for several days, now that I taste the sweetness, my hairy face is tanned, and I finally show a smile.

Old man Tu touched his head kindly, "Dandan, tell grandpa, where did you go to play before you got sick?" ”

At the mention of this, Mao Dan's expression was gloomy, and he bowed his head and said, "I stoned the only hen that laid eggs in the house to death, and roasted and ate it with my friends." My father found out about this, and beat me up, and I was afraid that he would beat me again, so I ran into the mountains and hid, and then I got lost, and it took several days to get out. ”

Mao Dan is a spoiled child, how can he bear his father's fist, and he plans to run away from home in a fit of anger.

Not wanting to be found too soon, he kept walking deep into the mountains. There are many wild fruits in the mountains, and he wants to find a place to stay for a few days, and then come out when his family is scared.

The illness will definitely not come to the door for no reason, the old man Tu guided step by step, "How did you spend the past few days in the mountains?" ”

"Eat wild fruits, roasted mushrooms, and bats......"

Bats, Xia Qiu gasped. It was full of poison, and he dared to eat it.

Mao Dan is far more daring, he also hit the snake with a stone, but the snake was not killed, and was bitten.

It's really fearless that the ignorant is fearless, the two are completely speechless, and it is even more difficult to find out the source of his illness.

"Where's the bite, let me see." If this is a bear child who is not sick, Old Man Tu will slap him earlier.

Mao Dan lifted the trouser tube of his right foot, only to see a slight tooth mark on his foot and neck, which had scabbed.

Count his fate, the snake is not poisonous.

However, another injury on his foot caught Xia Qiu's attention.

It was a scratch, probably strained by a sharp object such as a tree branch, about two inches long, and the wound was black and pus-studded.

From the perspective of external symptoms, it is quite consistent with tetanus, but from the perspective of internal symptoms, pulse and organs, it is not at all.

Xia Qiu checked his other heel and arm, etc., and found a lot of red dot bites, "What is this bite?" ”

"Mosquito bites." The swollen bag was painful and itchy, and it didn't go away for several days, and the hairy egg kept scratching it with his fingernails.

The two of them carefully observed the swollen bag, which was not bitten by an ordinary mountain mosquito, "Where did you bite it?" ”

"There is a big swamp in the mountains, and I wanted to catch fish to eat, but I was bitten."

Old man Tu felt that no matter how poisonous the mosquitoes in the swamp were, they were not the culprits of the strange disease, and the most suspicious thing was the wound on the leg that was cut through the skin.