【30】 Fortunately

Qian Yu felt sorry for his young master and cried out, "Young master, she will be fine. If anything happens, I will give her my life as compensation."

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Su Xueer struggled forward in the rain, taking one deep step and one shallow step. Her clothes were soaked and stuck to her body.

Every step I took in my injured foot caused piercing pain.

But she gritted her teeth, with only one firm belief in her heart: to save Chi Rui.

After falling countless times, Su Xueer finally made it to Jirentang with difficulty.

She was covered in mud and looked miserable. She didn't even have time to clean herself up. She knelt down in front of the drugstore owner and begged in tears, "Manager Xue, please save my husband. His leg disease has relapsed and it hurts so much."

Shopkeeper Xue was startled by Su Xueer's appearance, and quickly helped her up and said, "Miss, it's you, why do you look like this?"

Su Xueer could not care about herself. She begged, "Boss, there is no doctor nearby. Please, I will find a Taipan snake in the future and give it to you for free. Please save my husband."

"Don't worry, I'll go with you right away." Shopkeeper Xue packed up his medicine box, stood up, instructed his apprentice, and locked the shop door.

So I followed Su Xueer.

The mountain road was difficult to walk on and it was raining. In the rain, Su Xueer held an umbrella for the shopkeeper without caring about herself at all.

Shopkeeper Xue couldn't bear it any longer: "Girl, fight it yourself."

"It's alright, boss. I'm already soaked and I can't let you get wet in the rain."

"After all, I'm a man, strong and healthy. You're a girl, so you have to be careful."

Su Xueer smiled and said, "It's okay, shopkeeper. It's raining heavily, and you are already my parents. I should hold an umbrella for you."

Seeing Su Xueer's insistence, the shopkeeper nodded: "Okay, let's go quickly."

Hope lit up in Su Xueer's eyes, and she hurried back with the shopkeeper Xue.

She was extremely anxious along the way.

The rain was still falling, and the figures of Su Xueer and the drugstore owner looked so small yet so determined in the rain.

When they were almost at Chi Rui's house, Su Xue'er couldn't walk anymore because of the pain in her feet. She said to Shopkeeper Xue with a pained look on her face, "Shopkeeper Xue, please go and save my husband first. I can't walk anymore. Let me rest here for a while. You can hold your umbrella, go over the small hill ahead, and walk down another mile. When you see three mud houses, that's my home. Thank you."

Shopkeeper Xue nodded and quickened his pace towards Chi Rui's house.

Su Xueer leaned against a big tree, breathing heavily.

However, when she recovered and wanted to get up and continue walking, she found that her vision suddenly went black and she lost consciousness.

The shopkeeper carried the medicine box on his back and it was very difficult for him to get to Chi Rui's house after stumbling and falling several times.

Qianyu had been waiting at the door for a long time. "Are you the doctor my sister-in-law hired?"

After saying that, without waiting for the pharmacy owner to reply, he dragged the man into Chi Rui's house: "Quick, help my brother."

At this moment, Zhirui could no longer bear the pain and fainted, lying quietly on the kang.

Qianyu walked over and lifted the quilt, "Doctor, please take a look at my son's legs."

Shopkeeper Xue frowned, "Push his pants up."

Qianyu nodded and began to help Chi Rui lift his pants above his knees.

But Chi Rui's knee seemed to be too swollen, stuck, and he couldn't push it up at all.

"Quick, bring the scissors." Although Shopkeeper Xue runs a drugstore, his family has been practicing medicine for generations, and he himself is a doctor with superb medical skills. He sees patients in the back hall of the drugstore every day.

He knew at a glance that there was a lot of pus in Chi Rui's knee.

He cut open Chi Rui's trouser leg, then turned around and took out a pack of needles from his medicine box.

He took out an awl and said to Qianyu, "Go get some fire."

"What are you going to do?" Qianyu looked at the awl in Manager Xue's hand in confusion.

Aren't you going to give me acupuncture? Why are you using such a thick awl?

"Bleed him! His knees are festering. If the thick blood isn't drained, the muscles will rot and he might not be able to save his legs."

Qianyu was hesitating whether to believe this strange doctor.

Chi Rui said weakly: "Listen to him."

He didn't trust this strange doctor, but Su Xueer.

Because this person was found by Amelia Su.

Qianyu brought the fire, which was the only green oil lamp in their house.

The drugstore owner heated the awl over the fire.

Then he raised his hand and stabbed the needle into Chi Rui's swollen knee.

Thick blood splattered and even sprayed the pharmacy owner in the face.

Qian Yu, who was used to seeing blood and gore, took a step back in fear: "Young Master?"

Chi Rui groaned, his whole body trembling, his expression extremely weak, and he glanced around the room.

Not seeing Amelia Su, he asked with great difficulty, "Where is she?"

Fortunately, she didn't come in, otherwise she would have been scared by the horrific scene of pus and blood splattering.

Fortunately, she didn't come in, otherwise she would have felt even worse seeing how weak she was.

Fortunately, she did not see such a bloody scene.

fortunately……

Chi Rui lost consciousness again...

After Manager Xue bandaged him, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and the blood stains on his face.

Qianyu had already squatted helplessly at the foot of the wall.

He feels heartbroken.

He remembered his young master, who never uttered a single sound even after suffering so much torture in prison.

But today, I was shaking with pain all over, and I felt like I was about to break.

How much pain must he be in?

Shopkeeper Xue instructed, "It should be alright, go and make the medicine."

Qianyu wiped his face with his big hands and nodded, "Thank you, doctor. I'll go right away."

The medicine was also brought by Manager Xue. The small kitchen was leaking everywhere because of the rain.

The tears on Qianyu's face mixed with the rain blurred her vision.

I couldn't even light a fire.

Shopkeeper Xue came out of the house, saw it, sighed, and helped him light the fire.

He sighed and said, "Your brother's leg is seriously injured. His bones are all broken. It will probably cost a lot of money and time to fully recover."

Qianyu was completely frightened and couldn't hear what the pharmacy owner was saying at all.

Until dawn, the sky was foggy and the rain stopped.

The pharmacy owner was also preparing to go back.

Qianyu escorted the person to the gate of the courtyard and expressed his gratitude profusely.

He gave the only hundred bucks he had to Shopkeeper Xue.

The drugstore owner pushed the money aside and said, "Your sister-in-law has already given it, there's no need to give it."

In fact, Shopkeeper Xue is also a kind-hearted person and came to Chi Rui's house.

Seeing how poor his family was, I thought about how much money he would have to spend on treating his leg disease in the future.

Out of kindness, I waived the consultation fee and medicine fee this time.

Besides, Su Xueer often collected some herbs and gave them to their pharmacy at a discount.