Li Niu collapsed to the ground, panting heavily. He had carried his wife all the way from the village to the kiln.
"Uncle Li, what exactly did Aunt Li eat?" Su Luo asked anxiously.
“My wife, she…she became like this after taking a folk remedy for having a child.”
Li Niu originally didn't want his wife to eat it because he thought it wasn't something a human should eat. But his wife said she wanted to have a child for him and insisted on eating it. He regretted not stopping her then and there.
"I don't know what this poison is, and I have no way to cure it either," Du Xiuyuan shook his head.
Seeing that Aunt Li was still foaming at the mouth and her body was twitching, she was afraid she would die if they waited any longer.
"Grandma, go get me the soap Yi Huan used for bathing, quick..."
"Okay!" Zhao Ruyun threw away the ink sticks and ran to the kiln to get soap.
Turning to Li Niu and Du Xiuyuan, he said, "Keep an eye on Aunt Li, and make sure she doesn't bite her tongue."
Su Luo scooped up a ladle of water with a water ladle, and Zhao Ruyun handed her a bar of soap. Su Luo only wanted to save people, so she quickly used her hands to squeeze out the soap and make soapy water.
Seeing that it was almost done, I helped Aunt Li up and poured the soapy water into her mouth.
Li Niu slapped himself several times in self-reproach, until both sides of his face were swollen.
"Wife, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. We won't have any more children. Just the two of us can live a good life. Wife, you have to hang in there."
Li Niu felt weak all over, but he was also very fortunate that he would run into Doctor Du when he came to the Wayao kiln to find Su Luo.
He used to frequently buy medicine at Ji'an Hall; it was Dr. Du who prescribed it for him.
The doctor is here too; whether my wife can hold on is up to fate.
After Su Luo finished drinking a ladle of soapy water, Aunt Li started vomiting a short while later.
"Quickly help Aunt Li up and make her vomit up all the medicine she swallowed."
Li Niu picked up Aunt Li from behind and helped her bend over to vomit. Su Luo saw what she vomited out; it was black, with something like wood ash, all powder.
"Dr. Du, can you tell what kind of poison it is now?"
Su Luo asked Du Xiuyuan, who looked at what Aunt Li had vomited, stared at it for a while, and said, "Oh no, it's a water-dripping Guanyin."
The Alocasia macrorrhiza is highly poisonous. If ingested, it can cause mild allergic reactions and foaming at the mouth, or even immediate death.
"Quick, shake Aunt Li and make her vomit everything in her stomach."
Li Niu was completely flustered; he could only do whatever Su Luo told him to do.
After seeing Aunt Li vomit up her lunch, Su Luo finally asked Li Niu to put her down.
"Dr. Du, do you have any silver needles? Use them to seal Aunt Li's acupoints to prevent the toxins from entering her heart meridian."
Su Luo also had a set of silver needles in her space, but as a doctor, Du Xiuyuan should also have silver needles on hand at all times.
"good!"
Du Xiuyuan pulled up Aunt Li's sleeve and inserted silver needles into her elbows, forearms, and collarbone.
Only after Aunt Li stopped convulsing did Du Xiuyuan finish all this before taking her pulse again.
"Fortunately, the poison in my body is under control."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Su Luo asked Li Niu again, "Uncle Li, what exactly is the folk remedy that Aunt Li is taking for conceiving? You need to tell us so we can prescribe the right treatment."
Li Niu's forehead was covered in sweat, and at forty years old, a few gray hairs had sprouted behind his ears.
“I heard from that old woman yesterday that this folk remedy contains incense ash from in front of the Guanyin Bodhisattva who grants children, as well as some herbs. She said that some people who ate these herbs got pregnant. As for the others, I don’t know.”
"Uncle Li, you don't even know what these things are, yet you dare to let Aunt Li eat them? Are you two out of your minds?"
Su Luo knew that it was no use saying anything now. The incense ash in front of the Guanyin statue was from incense that people had burned. There were several kinds of incense, and the materials used to make them were also different. How could she just eat it randomly?
And then there's the Dripping Water Guanyin, which is actually poison. Just because something has the name Guanyin in it doesn't mean it's a good thing. Sigh...
"Alright, I'll write a prescription for Aunt Li." Su Luo took the pen and paper from Yan Chuan's hand, wrote down a prescription, and handed it to Du Xiuyuan.
Du Xiuyuan read the prescription written by Su Luo. The ingredients were clearly defined, making it a good prescription for detoxification. If he were to prescribe it, he wouldn't have thought of combining the ingredients in such a way.
"Dr. Du, could you ask those two people from earlier to go to Ji'an Hall and help get the medicine?"
"Of course!" The two men were helpers at Ji'an Hall, usually responsible for moving medicinal herbs and goods. Today, Du Xiuyuan brought a cartload of gifts for his apprenticeship, so he asked the two men to help him move them.
Aunt Li was still unconscious, and Du Xiuyuan was worried about the patient, so he took the prescription Su Luo had given him and asked someone to get the medicine.
"Grandma, come help me carry Aunt Li to my bed."
Aunt Li still had silver needles stuck in her body, so Li Niu couldn't carry her inside. Su Luo could only ask Zhao Ruyun to help carry her into the kiln.
"Dr. Du, my wife will be alright, right?"
After putting Aunt Li on the bed, Li Niu grabbed Du Xiuyuan's sleeve and said that he was full of regret. After this experience, he had come to a realization: if he didn't have a child, he didn't have a child. This was his fate.
His wife can't take the medication anymore. She's been taking it for so many years and still hasn't gotten pregnant. The doctor said there's nothing wrong with either of them; it's just that they're destined to be childless. He's resigned to his fate. As long as his wife recovers, it's enough for them to stay together until they grow old.
"It will be alright, with Lady Su here." Du Xiuyuan felt that as long as Su Luo was there, she could save the person, which was why he wanted to become Su Luo's apprentice.
Zhao Ruyun wasn't surprised by anything Su Luo could do now. She couldn't help Aunt Li with anything, but she would definitely need to brew medicine for Aunt Li later.
Zhao Ruyun took out the pot she used to brew medicine for Su Luo, washed it clean, and lit the firewood. She was just waiting for the medicinal herbs to arrive before starting to brew the medicine.
Half an hour later, the medicine finally arrived. Su Luo had personally brewed it. Du Xiuyuan and Li Niu had been observing Aunt Li's condition. By the time Aunt Li woke up, the medicine was ready.
"Wife, you're awake! You scared me to death!" Li Niu was filled with unease, afraid that his wife would never wake up again.
"Uncle Li, let Aunt Li take her medicine first." Su Luo brought the medicine in.
Du Xiuyuan removed the silver needles, and these acupoints would not allow the toxins to circulate for a short period of time.
"I'll feed her, Yan Chuan's mother, thank you for today." Li Niu took the medicine bowl, and Su Luo helped Aunt Li up so she could drink the medicine.
"Where is this?" The kiln was poorly lit and a bit dark. Aunt Li had never been here before, so she was puzzled.
“Aunt Li, this is a brick kiln, you’ve been poisoned,” Su Luo said from behind Aunt Li.
"Yes, wife, thank goodness Su Luo and Doctor Du saved you today, otherwise I wouldn't know what to do." Li Niu fed Li's aunt the medicine bit by bit.
"How could I have been poisoned?"
Li Niu said bitterly, "Wife, we will never take those fertility drugs again. It's fine for just the two of us to live together."
Aunt Li finished her medicine, but she was still very weak. Su Luo helped her lie down on her bed, and Doctor Du and she left together, telling Aunt Li and the others to talk things over.
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