CHAPTER XLIII
Mei Sanniang didn't expect to see the boss who sold fish for several days, until now Mei Sanniang always had a bad feeling, that is, Old Man Li was dying soon, although he looked a lot ruddy and could eat things, but all the old man Li's general reactions were developing in a bad direction.
When she got home, she was; Old man Li stopped at the door of his house, and before she entered the door, she had already heard a violent cough, and she was so chilled that she couldn't help but speed up her pace.
Mei Xue at home was bunching firewood, tied together little by little, and there was a pile next to her, which seemed to have been made for a long time.
"Cher."
Mei Sanniang called softly, and then Mei Xue raised her head and looked.
"Mother."
"Mother, you're back, Liu Tao came to me today."
"It was his sister's medicine that ran out, and he also brought some food, saying that it was thanks to you for the medicine that his sister's fever subsided."
"Saving people is what I'm supposed to do. He came here for nothing today, have you asked him how his sister is doing now? ”
Mei Xue shook her head, "I don't know, he didn't say it." ”
"It's okay, wait a minute, my mother will take a look, you don't run around at home."
Mei Sanniang put on a mask and went to Liu Tao's house, and by the way, she took the food brought by Liu Tao in her hands.
After arriving at Liu Tao's house, Mei Sanniang didn't go in, she stood at the door and watched for a long time.
There was a woman in the courtyard who was carrying water, and her mouth was coughing.
It looks like a dry cough, the cough is not continuous, and the voice is not accompanied by phlegm.
She stared at the woman carefully, and read out the words "Teacher Liu" out of her mouth.
Mei Sanniang didn't know that Teacher Liu lived in their Longfeng Village before, but now when she looked, she stepped forward and stopped in front of the woman, at the same time, several dog barks sounded in the yard, Liu Tao ran out after hearing the sound, and shouted nervously: "Sister." ”
Liu Ju and Liu Tao looked at each other, and then Liu Tao's eyes fell on Mei Sanniang.
"Aunt Mei, why are you here?"
Liu Ju was not shocked at all when she looked at Mei Sanniang, but Mei Sanniang was a little surprised.
"Teacher Liu is your sister?"
Liu Tao didn't know that Mei Sanniang didn't know about his sister, so he nodded.
"Aunt Mei, I went to look for you just now, but Mei Xue said that you weren't at home, so I..."
Before Liu Tao finished speaking, Mei Sanniang interrupted.
"You can take the things yourself, your sister is sick, how can you carry water? Leave it to your sister to recover. ”
Immediately afterwards, Mei Sanniang looked at Liu Ju: "Teacher Liu, are you feeling better?" ”
Liu Ju's face looked a little ugly, as if she had just recovered from a serious illness, and her face was still white.
"It's much better, thanks to the medicine sent by Mei Xueniang, but how much is this medicine, I'll make it up to you."
Liu Ju saw that Mei Sanniang didn't want food, thinking that she was asking for money, so she took out the bits and pieces of money and handed them to Mei Sanniang.
Mei Sanniang naturally didn't take it, she told Liu Ju: "I don't want things, thank you for your heart, now your body is the time when you need these things the most, Mr. Liu, you have a good brother." ”
"By the way, please tell me what symptoms you have recently, I just took a few pairs of medicines, it is not easy to get better, this Chinese medicine ingredient is very slow to work, I have to drink several courses of treatment, this thing cures the root, so as not to leave any bane."
Liu Ju told Mei Sanniang very cooperatively: "It's a dry cough, sometimes the throat is itchy, I can't help coughing when it's itchy, and sometimes I have phlegm, but I can't cough it out, so I need to cough hard." ”
Mei Sanniang probably understood, so she asked Liu Tao to go to her house.
"You have a good rest, the children are still waiting for you to get up and teach, let Liu Tao go to my house to pick up medicine."
"Liu Tao, let's go! Let your sister have a good rest. ”
Mei Sanniang was absent-minded along the way, and she even carried her face when she went home to pick up medicine.
"Burning licorice... Orange peel..."
Mei Sanniang wrapped some more, packed these medicinal materials, and handed them over to Liu Tao.
"These medicines should be enough for your sister to drink for several days, and then come back to me when the situation comes."
"Of course, the premise is that you can trust my medical skills, and I can't guarantee that I will be able to cure your sister."
"It's just a matter of luck that the fever may go away."
Mei Sanniang had seen a news before, the woman had a high fever in the middle of the night and fell out of bed in a daze in order to get antipyretics, and slowly crawled to the door, and finally fell asleep on the ground, and when she woke up, she found that she no longer had a fever.
This kind of coincidence can happen, maybe it is Sister Liu Tao's luck.
Liu Tao looked at Mei Sanniang and showed a firm gaze: "I believe in you." ”
Mei Sanniang handed the medicine to Liu Tao.
But what she didn't know was that medicine was hard to find now, the small clinics in the town were already full of long queues, and the local hospitals were also overcrowded.
The cold in everyone's mouth has turned into the flu, and the songs in the village have not been heard in the past few days, and I can't even sleep in the middle of the night.
Soon someone heard the news that Mei Sanniang had medicine, and someone came to visit, now who cares if Mei Sanniang is a doctor or not, now there is medicine as the king, and the medicine is used to hang her life first.
Knock knock~
A hurried knock sounded on the door, and after Mei Sanniang opened the door, an unfamiliar face appeared in front of the door, she was so frightened that she hurriedly prepared to close the door, but was held by the man in front of her with his hand, and then spoke in a low voice.
"Mei Sanniang, I heard that you have medicine? Can it be a selling point? ”
Mei Sanniang didn't expect that the person in front of her would come to ask for medicine, but how did this person know that she had medicine at home.
"No, I'm sorry."
As soon as Mei Sanniang refused, the other party begged again: "I know you have medicine, can you sell me a little, if you don't drink the medicine, you will cough to death." ”
Recently, a lot of people have died in the village, and Mei Sanniang can't sleep every night, she looked at the man in front of her and hesitated.
"I know you must have medicine, I have seen that Liu Tao's kid took medicine from you, before Dr. Li practiced medicine and helped many people, you, as his wife, must know that there is medicine at home."
"So please, help, I'll give you as much money as the medicine is, just to save people."
"My guy is coughing so badly."
Mei Sanniang finally asked, "Who in your family is sick?" ”
The other party saw Mei Sanniang speak, so he hurriedly said: "My father, he has been coughing badly recently, you can help." ”
Mei Sanniang asked again: "What are the symptoms?" ”
The man told Mei Sanniang: "The cough is very bad, and I coughed up blood this morning." ”
Mei Sanniang frowned, and then asked, "Is it accompanied by bloody phlegm?" ”
The man nodded, puzzled, "Is it serious?" ”
Mei Sanniang nodded, taking Chinese medicine may not be effective immediately, but it can alleviate the condition, and in this case, you should go to a big hospital instead of decocting medicine casually.
Old man Li's side, Mei Sanniang fried a few pairs of medicine for him, and asked him to go to the hospital to have a look, but Old Man Li immediately refused, the reason was very simple, it was because of the cost of medicine.
People are coughing like that, and they are still stubborn like a cow, Mei Sanniang can't help but worry, but it is impossible for her to tie up Uncle Li, so she can only decoct the medicine for Uncle Li to drink.
Uncle Li reluctantly accepted it, after all, he didn't spend money to decoct the medicine, and once he arrived at the hospital, the whole family had to take it.
Some people say that if one of the rich gets sick, the cost of medical treatment will overwhelm the family and tear it apart.
Mei Sanniang sighed, she said bluntly: "Your father's disease is better to go to a regular hospital to see, the hospital is much better than me in terms of technology, your father is coughing up blood, it is estimated that there is a problem with the lungs, and bronchitis, I can't do anything about this." ”
When the man heard this, he thought that Mei Sanniang was unwilling to administer medicine, so he knelt down and begged: "Mei Sanniang, help, I can't buy medicine now." ”
It was only a few days later that this situation had become this situation, Mei Sanniang frowned, she agreed, but she still gave the man a preventive shot in advance.
"What's your name? What do I call you? ”
"Just call me Li Gu."
Everyone is surnamed Li, and it is estimated that this nest is all from the Li family, no wonder this Li Gu will come to the door.
"Brother Li, I'm not a doctor, so I don't know if these medicines can cure diseases, I only read some books left by Zhantang, and I roughly understand it, but it's difficult to actually operate."
"So this medicine can't cure all diseases, I can only watch the medicine prescribed."
"I don't know if it can be cured."
Li Gu couldn't care so much anymore, so he promised again and again: "Okay, I understand, you can quickly give me some medicine." ”
Mei Sanniang picked up a few pairs of medicines according to her condition, and after she took out this medicine, Li Gu snatched it up, and her attitude also changed three hundred and sixty degrees.
"Mei Sanniang, thank you."
Li Gu took the medicine, and didn't say to give Mei Sanniang money, and then ran away from the yard after saying thank you, Mei Sanniang still wanted to ask for the medicine money, but the man had long since disappeared.
Mei Sanniang was even more worried, if this Li Gu went around saying that she had medicine, wouldn't it be troublesome for herself, so Mei Sanniang picked up a few more pairs of medicine for Old Man Li, and then she used a few posters to paste on the door, and also moved the cabinet to block the door of the basement.
Mei Xue didn't dare to ask when she saw this move, just now she had already heard Mei Sanniang's conversation with the man.
After Mei Sanniang did all this, she told Xue'er: "Xue'er, this basement must not be known to others." ”
Mei Xue didn't dare to ask more, just nodded silently.
"It seems that the flu has been getting worse and worse recently, and it is estimated that it has reached its peak, and this medicine is not available."
Mei Sanniang frowned and had a headache when she thought of this, just going to the town to prescribe medicine would take several hours, where did the sick person still have the strength, only young people had the strength to walk such a long way, and the patient who prescribed the medicine could not be present, so he could only prescribe the right medicine according to the ordinary prescription, as for whether it was effective...
Doctors make a lot of money, so it doesn't matter if the patient is cured or not.
It is the duty of doctors to save people, but doctors are also human beings, and they also have to live and make money.