Chapter 41: The medicine cured the illness, and they also gained over two hundred catties of grain. ...
Li Tie beckoned Lu Xuan to come and sit down. He glanced at his grandson, who was delirious with fever, and sighed, "Almost all the children under ten in the village have fevers. We don't have a doctor in our village. Even if we go down the mountain to find one now..."
It takes at least half a day to get down the mountain from here, and even after we get there, there's no guarantee we'll find a doctor. We don't know if the children will be able to hold on.
In the past, when children in the village had high fevers, it was a very dangerous situation. If the fever could not be brought down in time, it could be fatal, or at least cause mental impairment.
"Ah Xuan, Zhang's Xiao Fu and Xiu Xiu also have fevers." Lu Qing and Lei Yan, who had gone to Zhang's house halfway, came over and said with a worried expression.
Lu Chen grabbed Lu Xuan's sleeve, his eyes red, and said, "Brother, can you save Xiao Fu?"
Li Tie took a deep breath and said earnestly, "Ah Xuan, could you please beg the gods to give us some medicine? We're willing to pay any price to save the children in the village!"
Lu Xuan started a live stream on his way here.
There weren't many people watching the live stream in the morning, only a few hundred thousand. These people watched as the villagers looked worried because of a minor fever, and couldn't help but sigh.
Every time I see ancient people acting like they were about to die just because they had a fever, I feel so lucky to live in this technologically advanced world.
[It's not just that people seem to be dying; in ancient times, fever really could kill people!]
[The family member of a streamer I used to follow died of a fever before he bound himself to the streaming system. After binding himself to the system, the streamer always regretted not binding himself sooner, and I guess he'll never be able to get over that regret.]
[I have a favorite streamer. His immediate family members are fine, but a distant relative died from a fever. Sigh.]
[Luckily, these people have streamers!]
That's right! Didn't the streamer get a lot of commonly used household medicines from the blind box draw yesterday?
Even if you don't get the items from the blind box, the first medicines you can unlock in the medical category are the ones you should always have at home. They're perfect for treating minor fevers!
Faced with the Li family's conflicted expressions—a mixture of expectation and apprehension, fearing to put him in a difficult position and also worried that the deity might perceive their anxiety and silence—Lu Xuan, just as the audience had predicted, calmly stated, "Don't worry, I have the medicine, and it won't cost you much."
"Really!?" The Li family members were overjoyed.
Lu Xuan nodded, took out the first-aid kit he had drawn yesterday, found the antipyretics, looked at the instructions, poured out a pill from the bottle and handed it to Wu Yinyin, "Give it to the child with water."
Wu Yinyin looked at the small white pills she had never seen before in her palm and subconsciously glanced at her parents-in-law.
Miao Jinfeng urged, "Don't just look at it, this is medicine given by the gods, quickly feed it to my grandson."
Li Tie handed the leftover water from last night to his daughter-in-law, "Hey!"
Without further hesitation, Wu Yinyin gently lifted her son's head, put the medicine into his mouth, and then fed him water.
Although Li Kangbao was delirious and unconscious, he still subconsciously swallowed something that had entered his mouth.
The Li family breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this. Li Tie asked Lu Xuan, "How long will it take for this medicine to take effect? How many days do we need to take it?"
Lu Xuan said, "It won't take several days, one piece will be enough, and the fever will subside in no more than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea."
The Li family was shocked. Li Jing's eyes widened as he exclaimed, "So fast!?"
In reality, the effects of interstellar drugs are even more profound than Lu Xuan described.
In just a dozen breaths, Li Kangbao's breathing became noticeably more stable, and his furrowed brows gradually relaxed.
About five minutes later, the fever completely subsided, and Li Kangbao, whose face still had a slight blush, even started snoring softly.
Li Tie exclaimed in amazement, "This medicine works so fast! It truly is a divine medicine!"
Miao Jinfeng burst into tears of joy, "It's good that the fever has gone down, it's good that it's gone down! Ah Xuan, thank you so much!"
Lu Xuan: "I'll go check on the Zhang family. Oh, and village chief, take these medicines and distribute them to the other families. Just give each of them one pill, like Li Kangbao."
He also shared some with Lu Qing and Lei Yan, and the process was faster when everyone worked separately.
The same procedure was followed when they arrived at the Zhang family's house: administering medicine, reducing the fever, and expressing their amazement. Old Master Zhang was so moved that he burst into tears on the spot, while Zhang Chengming was overjoyed and kept patting Lu Xuan's shoulder, thanking him incoherently.
Lu Xuan waved his hand and said, "Alright, I still have to deliver medicine to other families, so there's no need for thanks."
Because Lu Chen was worried about Zhang Dafu and Zhang Xiaofu, he stayed at the Zhang family's house, while Lu Xuan went alone to Wei Xiang's house next door to the Zhang family's house.
Her daughter, Wei Yunyun, is only three years old this year. She is naturally shy and young, so it's inevitable that she would get sick from being frightened.
Wei Xiang and Jiang Fan were overjoyed to see their daughter's complexion return to normal so quickly after taking the medicine.
"Thank you so much!" Jiang Fan, with her fair and delicate features, was full of gratitude.
Wei Xiang also sincerely thanked Lu Xuan several times, then took Jiang Fan's hand and gently comforted her, "Now you can rest assured, our Yunyun is blessed by heaven, we will definitely be able to watch her grow up safely."
Jiang Fan nodded with red eyes, "Yes! You and our daughter must stay with me, and Dad too, our whole family must be well!"
With tears in his eyes, the lame old man looked at his granddaughter and his loving daughter and son-in-law, feeling quite gratified. He turned to Lu Xuan and said, "You saved our whole family's lives when the earth dragon turned over a couple of days ago, and now you've saved Yunyun again. I really don't know how to thank you enough."
Seeing that the atmosphere had eased, the viewers in the live stream who had been hesitant to make jokes started teasing each other.
To be honest, Wei Xiang's husband really does look like a pretty boy; he's fair-skinned and doesn't look like a country bumpkin at all.
[Normally in these situations, it's the man of the house who comforts his wife, but in the Wei family, it's the other way around; Wei Xiang is the one who has to comfort him.]
He was even wiping his daughter's sweat; his husbandly charm was palpable.
[My beloved husband!]
The comment upstairs is a bit risky.
[Jiang, a married man, is in danger!]
Lu Xuan ignored the chatter in the live stream and went to the house next to the Wei family's, which was Xiong Mao's house.
Xiong Mao was a little intimidated when he saw Lu Xuan, worried that he might deliberately cause trouble or make things difficult for him, but Lu Xuan didn't say anything extra, only talking about the effects of the medicine.
Su Ying had no time to show off. She took the pills and quickly fed them to her son without any hesitation.
Seeing his son's heavy breathing gradually subside, Xiong Mao said in a muffled voice, "Thank you."
Lu Xuan accepted it readily and moved on to the next place.
After making his rounds, Lu Xuan discovered that the children had indeed developed fevers after being frightened, but the elderly were in a different situation.
Some were genuinely shocked because they were weak, while others suffered mild heatstroke because it was too hot yesterday.
This is still the result of them staying in the shade. Once they leave the Giant Tree Plaza area, even though there are many trees in the mountains that can provide shade, the probability of heatstroke will likely continue to increase as the temperature continues to rise.
Although the villagers had long believed Lu Xuan's account of the catastrophe, apart from the major earthquake they had already experienced, they didn't really have a real sense of what was going on.
It wasn't until the third day after we entered the mountains that the temperature was already this high, and I truly realized that the so-called period of catastrophe is not just one or two amazing natural disasters, but a continuous and long-term disaster.
Fortunately, they listened to Lu Xuan and went into the mountains. They couldn't imagine what a cruel scene they would have faced if they had been in the original plains.
No, perhaps many other survivors of the massive earthquake who didn't think of going into the mountains are already experiencing unimaginable disasters.
The villagers became increasingly frightened upon realizing this.
Several elders who stubbornly refused to believe in the so-called period of catastrophe before the major earthquake, and who were still whispering among themselves on the day of the earthquake, now had nothing to say to Lu Xuan.
They were stubborn, but not incapable of distinguishing right from wrong. They remembered the kindness shown to them this time, including the kindness shown during the earthquake. After that, they never said a bad word about Lu Xuan again. In the future, when other disaster victims questioned Lu Xuan, they would take the lead in standing up and rebuking them.
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Many people were sick, and even after the fever subsided, their families were still worried.
The exploration team, who had been excited for most of the night, were not in the mood to go out and hunt. They all wanted to wait for the children or elders to wake up before observing them. The exploration activity was forced to be postponed until the afternoon.
After leaving the Zhang family's curtained room, Lu Chen returned to the Lu family members, his expression a mix of puzzlement and pride.
“I used to think that all the children in the village were healthy, especially Xiong Dabao. I didn’t expect that they would all get sick this time. I counted them, and I was the only one under the age of ten who wasn’t sick.”
Lu Chen was completely self-satisfied, thinking, "I'm actually this amazing!"
Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow at him, thinking to himself that the reason he wasn't sick was because he had given him calming candy the first night; otherwise, there would definitely be one more person with a fever today.
However, the little guy's proud look was rather cute, so Lu Xuan didn't point it out.
At Lu Chen's suggestion, he gave the village chief some calming medicine and asked him to make a few jugs of water for everyone in the village to drink a cup.
Just because an adult doesn't have a fever doesn't mean they're free from psychological trauma. If everyone drinks a cup, everyone can rest assured. They are all indispensable members of the family. If the pillar of the family suddenly collapses, it won't be much better than if a child gets into trouble.
After distributing the calming medicine, Li Tie breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked Lu Xuan about the price.
Li Tie said worriedly, "Such a useful medicine must be very expensive. I don't know if we can afford it."
He had clearly forgotten what Lu Xuan had said earlier about not having to pay a high price, or perhaps he thought Lu Xuan was just comforting him. This medicine was so good it was practically a miracle drug, how could it not cost much?
Lu Xuan said casually, "Five catties of grain will suffice for one dose of medicine."
Li Tie exclaimed in astonishment, "So little? How can that be! Even before the catastrophe began, medical care was expensive. Every family would have to spend several hundred coins to get sick, and for more serious cases, it could even cost several taels of silver. Five catties of grain for less than twenty coins is too cheap."
Lu Xuan said, "This medicine works very well for us, but it's just an ordinary thing for immortals, and it's not expensive to begin with. Five catties of grain will be enough."
Li Tie was skeptical: "Really?"
Although he didn't know how much Lu Xuan would have to pay to exchange medicine with a deity, he only wanted five catties of grain, so he definitely wouldn't make any profit.
Li Tie couldn't help but wonder: "You didn't subsidize it yourself, did you?"
Lu Xuan: "?"
Do I look like the Father?
A bottle of common household medicine costs 100 points. In addition to fever reducers, it contains ten kinds of medicine, including antidiarrheal medicine, digestive medicine, pain relievers, stomach medicine, etc. Each kind of medicine contains thirty pills, which means you can buy a bottle of medicine with ten points.
Ten points are only enough to buy one nutritional supplement that will keep you full for a day.
He's asking for a high price: one nutrient solution for five pounds of grain.
Because of Lu Xuan's insistence, Li Tie ultimately had no choice but to accept this meager price.
After Li Tie notified each household, he quickly gathered the grain and delivered it.
Lu Xuan didn't mention the tranquilizer, but Li Tie felt they couldn't ignore it. So, in addition to families with elderly people or children who had fevers, they also asked each family that had taken the tranquilizer to send an extra five catties of grain.
Without even having breakfast, Lu Xuan had already collected over two hundred catties of grain.
Lu Xuan: What the audience said before makes a lot of sense. He probably really didn't need to stockpile so much food in advance. At least he didn't need to buy coarse grains at all. He only went into the mountains for three days and made a net profit of a thousand catties, which was more than enough to eat.
After the medicine and food were distributed, the four members of the Lu family returned to the cave to prepare breakfast.
Just as they finished eating, the village chief, Grandpa Zhang, Li Jing, and Zhang Chengming came over together.
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