Chapter 94 I Don't Mind a Few More Corpses
He immediately shouted loudly: "Quick! Go find a doctor, Mom is still breathing!"
Tears welled up in Helian Rong's eyes. She wiped her tears and staggered towards Zhang San. The dust flew under her feet, as if every step was stepping on her heart.
Zhang San was sitting leisurely by the side, basking in the sun. Seeing this, he suddenly stood up and his expression became serious.
Helian Rong ran up to him breathlessly, clutching his sleeves tightly with both hands, her voice filled with tears: "Master Zhang, I beg you, please find a doctor to see my mother. She...she fainted and bled a lot!" As she spoke, her tears rolled down like beads that had broken off the string, splashing on the dust and leaving mottled marks.
Zhang San frowned when he saw this. It was not a big deal if a few people died on the way to exile, but nearly half of the people had died so far. It was too many and they had to take responsibility.
Finally, they decided to ask Niu Er, who had some knowledge of medicine in the team, to go and take a look.
Zhang San pondered for a moment, then turned around and said loudly, "Niu Er, come here!"
Niu Er was squatting not far away, fiddling with herbs with his head down. He looked up when he heard the sound and walked over with a puzzled look on his face.
"Boss, what's the matter?" Niu Er asked in a rough voice, holding a piece of herb in his hand.
Zhang San looked solemn and pointed at Helian Rong. "The old lady of the Helian family has fainted. Go over and take a look. If you can save her, save her. As for the fee, you decide it yourself."
Niu Er had only learned medicine for two years from a traveling doctor when he was a child, so he could still treat common colds, but he had to charge for treating exiled prisoners.
Niu Er nodded and his expression became serious.
He followed Helian Rong to Madam Helian, squatted down, first looked at the old lady's face carefully, then opened her eyelids to take a look, then put his hand on her wrist and began to take her pulse.
After Niu Er finished taking the pulse, his brows furrowed, and he whispered to the people from the Helian family, "The old lady's heart palpitations have relapsed, and coupled with the cold she caught in the water, her qi and blood are flowing backwards, which is why she vomited blood and fainted."
Helian Zhi felt a pang of pain when he heard this. He clenched his fists tightly, his nails digging deep into his palms, but he felt no pain at all.
Niu Er pondered for a moment and continued, "I can't do anything about this disease. I can't prescribe any medicine, so I won't ask for much for the consultation fee. Just one or two taels of silver will be fine."
Helian Rong cried out: "My mother hasn't even woken up yet, and you haven't done anything. You're charging one ounce of silver just to check her pulse. Why don't you just go and rob her?"
Niu Er's face suddenly darkened: "I'm trying to rob you now, give me the money quickly, or I'll make you pay!"
Damn it, there are actually people who dare not pay him for the medical treatment.
Helian Rong was about to say something when she saw Wang Xiaoer coming towards her with a whip, and she shrank back in fear.
"What's wrong with the old cow?"
"They just didn't want to pay me for the consultation and said I was robbing them."
Wang Xiaoer narrowed his eyes and looked at the Helian family. He lashed the ground with a whip and said coldly, "Say your words to me again, if you dare."
Helian Rong was still very afraid of the officer's whip, and looked at her elder brother Helian Zhi for help.
Helian Zhi looked at Ye Qingyu.
Ye Qingyu originally didn't want to get involved in these things, but when she met Helian Zhi's eyes, she resigned herself to her fate and took out a tael of silver and handed it to Niu Er.
"Sir, excuse me, this is your consultation fee."
Niu Er took the silver and felt a little relieved. He kindly reminded her: "If your mother's illness is treated by the doctor who took care of her before, it can still be cured!"
Helian Rong immediately grabbed Helian Zhi's sleeve and said, "Brother, the miracle doctor Xia Xing'er found to treat Mom's illness before, and she also got the medicine herself. Go find her and ask her to come see Mom and get the medicine for her."
Helian Zhi glanced at the place where the Xia family was and never retreated.
Xia Xing'er knew everything about the Helian family's situation.
Liu Youran glanced over there and said, "Xing'er, do you think the old lady of the Helian family will be okay?"
Xia Xing'er said slowly: "Mom, whether she is okay or not, what does it have to do with us?"
Liu Youran thought so too. The old hag deserved what she had ended up like this.
Her daughter had not gotten along well in her hands, and later she even wanted to see Xing'er's dowry.
What a shame!
After taking the medicine, the group rested for a while and then continued on their journey.
Because many people were ill, the team moved very slowly and did not reach the destination until dark. They could only rest in the dilapidated temples along the way.
Liu Youran and his friends set up a stove outside the dilapidated temple and started cooking dinner.
They all stayed in Liuxi Village last night and ate meals cooked by the villagers.
Tonight I finally got to eat the meal cooked by Liu Youran again, with chicken, duck, fish and meat, it was as sumptuous as it could be.
Xia Xing'er was also barbecuing with the three little ones.
Old Madam Helian was carried all the way by Helian Zhi. Helian Zhi, who was pale and out of breath, still listened to his younger sister and came to find Xia Xing'er. He really didn't want to carry his mother on his back anymore. It was too tiring.
"Xing'er, mother has fainted. I heard from my younger sister that you used to brew all the medicine for mother. Can you go and take a look?"
Xia Xing'er continued to flip the skewers in her hand without even raising her head.
The pork on the signature was fat and lean, sizzling with oil, which made Helian Zhi, who hadn't eaten meat for a long time, drool.
He wiped his face and complained in his heart, wondering why we were also exiles, but others lived such a good life and ate such delicious food.
Shouldn't he also try to build a good relationship with the officials? Not to mention a horse-drawn carriage, at least a donkey cart would be fine.
Accustomed to the hard life on the road of exile, Helian Zhi now only wants to reach the place of exile as soon as possible. A lean camel is bigger than a horse. He can develop his own power there, and one day he will make a comeback.
Thinking of the miserable state of the housekeeper today, he didn't want to confront the Xia family head-on.
This time he came to ask for help, and his attitude was as nice as it could be.
Seeing that Xia Xing'er ignored him, he continued to whisper: "Xing'er, please, go and help me look after my mother. You have called her mother for three years."
Xia Xing'er didn't even raise her head and continued to flip the skewers in her hand: "No."
"I can give you money, any amount is fine!"
"I won't go no matter how much!"
Xia Xing'er looked as if she was not willing to negotiate.
Helian Zhi begged bitterly: "Xing'er, please, if it's because we offended each other before, I will apologize to you, okay? I will kowtow to you, okay?"
Xia Xing'er looked at him coldly: "Didn't you see I was eating, or did you come here on purpose to disgust me?"
Helian Zhi: "...then can I wait until you finish eating?"
"Look, there's absolutely no way I'm going to watch. If you keep acting like this, I don't mind a few more corpses tomorrow morning!"
As soon as these words came out, Helian Zhi acted as quickly as possible, fearing that if he was late, she would get angry and kill their entire family.
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