After listening to the advice of the three Liu family members, Su Qingluan nodded and finally felt relieved. However, before she went to ask for a doctor, she had to go to Su Xuanhe's school to ask for leave for him.
After finishing this matter, Su Qingluan took the sesame paste cakes she bought on the roadside, took a bite of the cake and sipped the cold wind, and rushed to Huichuntang to see a doctor without stopping.
Fortunately, Su Qingluan arrived early. Seeing someone across the street coming to ask for a doctor, she took advantage of her youth and agility to run two steps quickly, and finally grabbed a chance to see the doctor. The other person who didn't run faster than her could only wait.
Su Qingluan secretly apologized to the man. After all, in this era, "cold" was no longer a minor illness. Although she was lucky enough to survive twice, who could guarantee that they would be so lucky every time?
What's more, two of the four patients at home are children with less than perfect immune systems. Su Qingluan dare not take it lightly.
The old doctor looked like an immortal, but his age was there. Su Qingluan was afraid that the old doctor would be exhausted after walking down the mountain road for more than half an hour, so she hired a donkey cart for him. Although she had the money to hire a horse carriage, a high-configuration means of transportation like a horse carriage was not something that could be purchased just by having money.
Horses themselves are a scarce resource. To translate this into modern terms, some supercars are not something you can buy just because you have money, as they are limited and require a capital verification.
Along the way, the old doctor first asked what happened yesterday, and then asked about the symptoms of these patients. Su Qingluan vaguely seemed to have returned to the experience of a doctor in her previous life checking the medical history and asking about the main complaints, and she felt a little nostalgic.
After all, she herself is a "senior patient", so she naturally has a general understanding of which details are important and which are not very important. So she mainly talked about what happened yesterday when everyone got caught in the rain and came back to drink ginger soup. She also talked about the age and gender of these people, and the symptoms she observed today.
During the question-and-answer conversation, the donkey cart had already arrived at Huaxi Village - after all, there was only one mountain road, so there was no need to worry about getting lost.
Su Qingluan lifted the curtain and told the general location of the Su family, then got back in. However, it was obvious that the donkey cart was not as stable as the horse carriage, so the two people in the carriage received a "teaching of fatigue from the journey" and decided to walk.
"Are you in good health?" Su Qingluan looked at the old doctor.
The other party sneered: "At least it's better than a skinny little girl like you."
Su Qingluan was shocked. She was now dressed in men's clothing, had no ear piercings, and hadn't had time to develop any curves. Furthermore, she was only thirteen or fourteen. If she said she was an eleven or twelve-year-old with her voice still fresh, most people would believe her.
How did this person find out?
As if he had guessed what Su Qingluan was thinking, the old doctor smiled and said, "The bone structure of men and women is different, so I knew you were a woman disguised as a man the moment I saw you."
Su Qingluan knew that there were some differences between the pelvises of men and women, but could this be seen?
For a moment, Su Qingluan felt a little in awe of the doctor, who had no idea about Chinese medicine's pulse diagnosis and medical examination because she was the one who was sick.
Next, Su Qingluan's admiration for "Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis" grew steadily, because this old doctor could not only tell everyone's bad habits by taking the pulse, but could even get a glimpse of "psychological problems" such as bad mood.
Is Chinese medicine consultation... such a magical thing?
Su Qingluan was amazed.
After asking for the diagnosis and pulse, the next step is naturally to prescribe medicine and boil the medicine soup.
Seeing that the prescriptions for the four people all contained the herb Coptis chinensis, Su Qingluan couldn't help but shed a tear of sympathy for her younger brother and sister.
...I should prepare some desserts for them while I'm boiling the medicine...Su Qingluan thought so.
So, even though she didn't have to sell offal soup, Su Qingluan was busy all day. She spent the whole day going to the town to buy medicine, and then coming back to set up the stove to boil the medicine. After all, there were four people boiling medicine three times a day, so Su Qingluan basically spent the whole day boiling medicine.
In the meantime, she also had to prepare patient meals. Su Qingluan thought to herself in a cheerful way: I was either gathered around the medicine stove or the cooking stove, at least the day was quite warm.
There was another flurry of activity while the medicine was being taken. Naturally, Su Guangfu and Yang Shi had no problem with it. They knew how hard it was to get a prescription from Huichuntang, and they weren't the type to cry and wail over a little bitter medicine. So, even Yang Shi, who was quite afraid of bitterness, just frowned, tilted her head back, and drank the medicine through her pinched nose.
But it’s different for the two little ones. Children may seldom come into contact with such outrageous-tasting food - even if their families were poor before and had to eat coarse food, the food was just dry and the taste was just too salty or bland, not particularly unacceptable.
But this time, the bitter medicine soup was so hot that even the steam felt physically irritating to the eyes.
However, Su Qingluan knew the tempers of her two younger brothers and sisters very well, so she kept provoking Su Xuanhe, and tempted Su Xueyan with various delicacies.
So the two children also pinched their noses and drank the unsmelly Chinese medicine soup.
At this time, Su Qingluan prepared the malt sugar she had bought - she had no time to make sweets because she was boiling medicine - to sweeten their mouths so that they would not be repulsed by the Thai medicine that was to follow.
As for what Su Qingluan and the Liu family, who had been selling offal soup, would eat - Madam Xi brought some pancakes, and Su Qingluan and the others each had a bowl of offal soup. The spicy taste not only awakened Su Qingluan's taste buds, who had no appetite due to her family's illness, but also warmed her whole body.
It has to be said that with the help of the Liu family, Su Qingluan's work was indeed much easier - she even had some time to post job recruitment notices.
After selling the offal from the offal stall, Liu Yunniang originally wanted to stay and help take care of the other four people in the Su family, but was stopped by Su Qingluan - what if they got sick again?
To do this again would be too much in many ways. So Su Qingluan thought about it and didn't agree.
After seeing off the Liu family in the evening, Su Qingluan packed the medicine for the four people separately, placed it on two trays outside her parents' room and her brother's room respectively, and began to enter the night watch mode.
Originally, Xiaoya Xueyan slept in the same room with her parents, but Su Xuanhe had his own room because he was a boy and had grown to be seven or eight years old.
However, now, in order to take care of the children more conveniently, Yang and her youngest daughter sleep in the main house, while Su Guangfu takes his son to the side room to rest.
As the night deepened, weak and sick people needed a lot of sleep to restore their physical strength. Soon, everyone in the house except Su Qingluan fell asleep.
Su Qingluan had originally thought of taking a quick look at everyone and taking a nap herself, fearing she wouldn't be able to make it through the next day. However, she was horrified: her sister, Su Xueyan, had a high fever again and was even—even having convulsions!
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