As soon as Su Xiao opened the door, she was hit by a strong smell of medicine, and she instinctively held her breath.
The room was somewhat dark because the curtains were drawn during the day.
Su Xiao frowned slightly, not understanding why the curtains were drawn in broad daylight.
"Mom, I brought my sister." Jin Ling walked to the bedside, Su Xiao followed closely behind, and Huang Feiyan came in last, trying to adjust to the room.
"Auntie, my name is Su Xiaoxiao, you can call me Xiaoxiao."
"Auntie, my name is Huang Feiyan, like swallow."
"Hey, thank you for coming to see us, cough cough." The woman on the bed didn't move, trying her best to maintain a smile on her pale face.
"You're welcome, Auntie," Su Xiao replied politely, then asked, "May I take your pulse?"
There was no emotion in Jin's mother's eyes, but seeing her daughter's excited expression, she nodded, "Ahem, then I'll trouble Comrade Su."
She didn't really have high hopes, since the girl in front of her didn't look very old, but her daughter insisted, and she couldn't refuse.
Su Xiao smiled slightly, sat on the edge of the bed, and carefully took the pulse.
The room fell silent. After a long while, Su Xiao withdrew her hand and asked again, "Can I see your legs?"
Mrs. Jin nodded.
Su Xiao lifted the blanket, exposing a pair of slightly grotesque legs to the air.
Without batting an eye, she reached out and touched it, asking Jin's mother how she felt, "Can you feel anything? Does it hurt?"
Mrs. Jin was very cooperative and answered all her questions.
After a while, Su Xiao withdrew her hand, covered Jin's mother with the blanket again, and frowned, saying, "Auntie's leg is completely broken. It wasn't properly healed back then, and it's already grown crooked. If you want it to be cured now, you'll have to break it again and reattach it."
Jin's mother and Jin Ling looked surprised, interrupting each other again to continue. Thinking about this method... it seemed to make some sense. However, it sounded rather cruel.
Ignoring their expressions, Su Xiao continued, "As for the cough, it's probably pneumonia. It's because the illness has been going on for too long and the infection has become severe."
Upon hearing this, Jin Ling felt like crying. "Then, what should I do? It's all my fault."
Jin Ling felt extremely guilty. She had been seriously ill a while ago, which made things even more difficult for her already struggling family.
At that time, my mother had a cough, one or two coughs. When my brother asked her, she said she was fine and told him to take care of her first.
After she recovered, she discovered that her mother's cough was getting worse, but she had been suppressing it so that they wouldn't notice.
The family was already destitute. My brother went to the health center to ask a doctor to come to our house. The doctor also said it was pneumonia and that we needed to get treatment as soon as possible.
Even a hero can be brought down by a penny.
My brother went out to borrow money again, but I don't know if he'll be able to get it.
"Okay, don't blame yourself, Mom is fine, cough cough," Jin's mother comforted her daughter.
Su Xiao also said, "Lingling, don't worry, I have some medicinal herbs here. I'll bring them to you later. Let's boil them and drink three doses first, and then see how they go."
Jinling was overjoyed. From her sister's tone, it seemed she could cure her mother's illness, and moreover, she...
"Sister, we don't have any money at home. We have to wait for my brother to come back before we can give you the consultation fee and medicine money." Jin Ling twisted the hem of her clothes, somewhat at a loss.
"It's alright, we're neighbors, why talk about money for such a small thing? Besides, I picked all the medicinal herbs myself from the mountains, they're free." Su Xiao liked the sensible girl in front of her and was very willing to help them.
"That won't do, you absolutely have to pay," Jin Ling promised earnestly.
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