Upon hearing this, Rui Wei and the young man were taken aback at the same time, and Rui Wei also glanced at the person opposite with scrutinizing eyes, but immediately turned to look at me, as if he didn't understand the basis for what I said.

"Just now I saw that you repeatedly gave up your seat to the person in front of you and hid in the back by yourself, why?" I asked the lad.

Although it was dark, these unusual little movements of his still caught my attention.

He was stunned for a moment, and then sputtered, "This ...... I want others to be saved first. ”

"Then tell me about your symptoms again." I say.

He thought for a moment and replied, "Hmm...... Fever, body aches, chest tightness......"

I stood up, stared into his eyes and said, "If the person who has this disease drinks this prescription, the disease will be cured quickly, but if it is a healthy person who drinks it, the yang energy will be too strong, and the anger will attack the heart, and it will kill immediately!" ”

As soon as the young man heard my categorical words, his eyes immediately drifted downward, and he bowed his head and was silent.

I took a small note from Rui Wei's hand to receive the medicine, handed it to him and said, "Are you really going?" ”

He looked at the piece of paper, his face gloomy, and he never reached out to take it.

Rui Wei looked at our strange conversation and was about to say something, when the young man opposite said, "I don't think so. ”

The young man was actually the last of the group. Everyone else was busy getting their medicine and it was a bit chaotic and no one noticed what we were doing.

In other words, the biggest problem that doctors encounter when diagnosing is not how difficult the disease is, but how difficult the disease is, but that patients sometimes lie.

In this regard, Master Li often said that the important thing is not whether the patient is lying, but why he is lying.

Therefore, to a certain extent, this matter is also the same as Rui Wei's ghost hunting, many times it is a process of continuous "doubt-solving".

I sat down, and was about to ask him further about what had happened, when suddenly a man ran out from behind, stepped forward, grabbed the young man's arm, and turned back to me, "Brother Tao, this is my son Xiangdong, please, you must save him!" ”

I fixed my eyes and saw that it was the rich uncle Xu Youren.

When Xu Xiangdong saw his father, he was not as sad and joyful as other people when he saw his relatives, his face was still gloomy, and there was even a pain in his eyes that he couldn't vomit.

When I saw his reaction, I was even more puzzled, but in front of Xu Youren, it was estimated that Xu Xiangdong had no way to say anything. You have to break him up first.

So I replied to him: "Well, don't worry, his symptoms are very mild, but we are chatting here as soon as we see each other, and we will take him to take medicine in a while, so you can go and get busy first!" ”

Xu Youren was overjoyed when he heard me say this, turned around and told Xu Xiangdong a few words, and then turned back and left.

I turned to Rui Wei again and said, "It's basically okay here, you're tired too, go take a rest." ”

She immediately understood, nodded and left.

I looked back and saw that the queue to receive the medicine was still long, so I simply stood up and said to Xu Xiangdong, "Let's go together, how about it?" ”

He nodded, and we walked down the col.

After walking out of a paragraph, I never spoke, and finally Xu Xiangdong couldn't help but ask: "Tao ...... Mr. Tao, how do you know? ”

Although it was indeed normal to call a teacher or doctor "sir" in ancient times, it sounded really awkward, so I smiled and said, "Seeing that you are the same age as me, it is better to call me Tao Yong." ”

He smiled and nodded.

I continued: "You are underestimating the doctor, don't you have any of the symptoms you are talking about, I think you heard it from someone else, right?" ”

"But......" he seemed to defend himself.

"Are you trying to say that you do have a fever?" I asked.

He looked surprised.

I kindly explained, "It's true that the main reaction to illness is fever, but it has to be a high fever of 39 degrees or higher. Well, I mean, it has to burn very badly. And you, just a little low-grade fever, and if I estimate well, is it only a little bit in the afternoon to the evening, and will go away in the morning? ”

He nodded sharply, staring at me with admiration and curiosity.

"Actually, you yourself know that you have a different disease than others, right? Otherwise, you won't make it up to someone else's symptoms. I asked.

He stopped, lowered his head, was silent for a moment and nodded, "Yes, I know." ”

I stopped, but just looked at him silently, waiting for him to give his reasons.

The place where we were standing right now was the mouth of the cave I had entered before. Gentlemen are not close to danger, and people usually think that if a group of people with infectious diseases live together, they must have the same disease, and it is impossible for them to have healthy people. But this is not the case.

About five or six years ago, not long after I started working in the pharmacy, one summer, it rained so hard that the river next to the county seat flooded, and although the county town was protected by a dam, it flooded several nearby villages.

Although there were no casualties at the time, the county immediately sent a letter asking us to be ready to deal with the epidemic at any time.

Sure enough, within a few days after the water receded, more and more people came to the hospital for medical treatment, and the symptoms were acute abdominal pain, diarrhea, and severe dehydration, high fever, and other symptoms. Because there was already a red-headed document directive, this matter was quickly characterized as a malignant infectious disease, and our hospital was designated as a designated hospital for isolation treatment, and many resources from other hospitals were also mobilized to support, and the whole hospital was immediately as lively as the market, and I was not allowed to go home for many days.

But when we chatted in private, Master Li told me that in fact, in the eyes of Chinese medicine, those people don't have the same disease at all.

Even if it is assumed that they are all infected with the same virus, because everyone is still immune, the situation may be different, and in this case, it is generally necessary to separate the treatment according to the symptoms.

The scientific name of diarrhea is "diarrhea", excluding the situation of complication with other diseases, and there are three main soup recipes that can be used in the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever".

If the stool is not smelly, watery, and contains undigested food, it is called Hanli. It is caused by insufficient gastrointestinal motility and decreased digestive function, and "Guizhi ginseng soup" is used;

If the stool is very sticky, but the stomach does not hurt much, use "kudzu qin soup";

Once the profit is accompanied by severe colic, or even a burning sensation after defecation, "skullcap soup" is used.

Among the patients who came to see the doctor this time, most of them were skullcap soup disease, so many people were infected at the same time, it is estimated that it is indeed related to the mass reproduction of bacteria and viruses after the flood, but there are also many of them Geqinlian soup disease and Guizhi ginseng soup disease, and even some people just accidentally ate bad stomach, and did not reach the point of diarrhea, and were also involved in treating it as an infectious disease.

When I looked at Xu Xiangdong's complexion, it was so pale that it seemed to have no blood, not like the physiognomy shown by high fever, but like a manifestation of kidney qi deficiency, yin deficiency and low fever. Also, you can hear other symptoms from others, but who is okay to discuss their own stool with others.

At first, I only thought that he was mistaken for the plague, but looking at his hesitant and speechless expression, it seemed that it was not so simple. I simply tested the words, and sure enough, he deliberately mixed in here!

I saw his drooping fists clenched, as if he had made a big decision, and said, "I...... I want to protect everyone. ”

I was surprised by this answer and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

But he immediately said eagerly: "What I told you, can you keep it a secret?" ”

To be honest, I don't like to listen to this kind of thing, either you don't tell me, or don't let me keep it secret, you can't say it if you know, you can't stand this kind of torture, why do you want to pull me to enjoy it?

But my life was at stake, so I had to reluctantly nod my head.

"Actually, the disease started this spring." His gaze was far away, and his gaze was full of sorrow.

"We tried a lot to save people, but we couldn't save them. In order not to let the plague spread, just ......" he paused. Because of the rumors I had heard before, I felt like I had a premonition that he was going to say something, and I immediately got goosebumps on my body.

He continued: "...... Those few people were buried in this ditch. ”

I was stunned and muttered, "You guys...... Kill them? ”

This unuttered sentence irritated him at once, and he squatted down with his hand over his face, and his sobbing voice was very clear in the calm col.

"So ......," he said, weeping, "so I said that I also had the plague...... So that Daddy can no longer be wrong, and I'd rather die...... I don't want to do any more iniquity. ”

I stood there looking at him and felt cold.

In the face of an existential crisis, how cold people's hearts will become really makes me shudder.

What makes me even more sad is that those people could have been immortal. I looked into the distance, and I could faintly see the light of the fire, which was a fire that everyone had made to boil medicine, and it was a fire full of hope that many people would live. Looking around, if the souls of these dead people are still alive, what kind of regret and grief will they feel?

But can I blame this young man in front of me? Although he missed it, the lives of these villagers now are largely saved by him with his life, isn't it?

Am I qualified to judge Xu Youren? As the head of the village, when a few lives and hundreds of lives are weighed on the scales, who can make the perfect choice?

So I just watched the young man's tears of remorse so quietly, and said not a word.

By the time we returned to the crowd, most of them had already drunk the medicine, because I suggested that they find a well-ventilated place to recuperate, and Xu Youren had already called on everyone to set up another grass hut outside the col, and also prepared food, drink, and clothing, which was very well arranged.

Rui Wei, Wang Shaoting, and Father Yan were finally busy and walked over to me. I just smiled and said, "It's hard, it's hard!" I can't tell you how many emotions I feel in my heart.

By the next morning, except for a few people who still had some problems and needed to continue taking medicine, the rest of the people had their fever and were fine. I instructed some precautions for follow-up recuperation, and I was almost ready to let go and continue on the road.

After experiencing this incident, Xu Youren changed his previous cold and vigilant attitude, became smiling, and repeatedly kept us to stay for a few more days, and the villagers also hugged each other, thanked Dade, and sent a bunch of things to express their gratitude to us.

It took us half a day to walk to the entrance of the village and say goodbye to everyone.

Just as I was about to turn away, a voice next to me suddenly caught my attention. He said: "It's just a medical fairy in the world, the same as the legendary holy aunt!" ”

I couldn't help but turn around and walk towards him and ask, "Who is the Holy Aunt?" ”