Chapter 31 Randomly Using Medicine, One Try and You'll Die
The evening breeze carried a faint scent of earth and a touch of coolness.
Jiang Yutang pulled her clothes tighter, clutching the bag of new clothes she had just bought from the fabric shop.
She tiptoed through the crowd, searching for the Cheng family members, occasionally avoiding the luggage on the ground and the huddled refugees.
"Excuse me, please make way."
She spoke softly, about to squeeze between two men squatting on the ground eating dry rations, when suddenly someone bumped into her hard from behind, and the cloth bag in her arms almost slipped from her grasp.
Jiang Yutang staggered and grabbed a dead tree next to her, noticing that the person who bumped into her had also stopped.
The person who bumped into her turned their head and it was Cheng Daier.
Jiang Yutang was stunned. She hadn't seen the other person for a short while, but the other person's face was ashen and he looked terrified. He seemed to have seen a savior when he saw her.
Before she could speak, Cheng Daier quickly stepped forward and grabbed her wrist. Her fingers were icy cold, but her strength was astonishing. Without another word, she pulled her towards the riverbank not far away.
"Come with me quickly!"
Her voice was urgent and sharp, with an almost frantic urgency, which drew the attention of the yamen runners and vagrants nearby.
Jiang Yutang's wrist ached from Cheng Dai'er's grip, so she pulled it back forcefully and asked through gritted teeth, "What's the rush?"
Cheng Dai'er didn't stop walking, pulling her deeper into the forest.
"Lanzhou... he bled a lot and fainted..."
Jiang Yutang gasped in shock, recalling that she hadn't cut very deep yesterday, so how could she have lost so much blood?
The two stumbled and struggled to the riverbank. Jiang Yutang looked up and saw Cheng Lanzhou lying on the grass, her face pale and bloodless, her eyes closed. Beside her, Lin was crying uncontrollably.
"Waaaah... My son..."
Their gaze fell on Cheng Lanzhou's mangled back, covered with a layer of green grass, the gauze removed and placed to one side.
Upon seeing this, Jiang Yutang flew into a rage and strode forward, demanding sharply, "What did you use on him?!"
Lin was startled and trembled, wiping away her tears as she said haltingly, "We ground this herb and applied it to Lanzhou's back. He said... he said it was a hemostatic medicine."
"Nonsense!"
With a furious shout, Jiang Yutang threw her clothes onto the grass and quickly knelt down in front of Cheng Lanzhou. Without turning her head, she said to Cheng Daier behind her, "Go find my third brother and have him bring you the bundle of medicine I packed. Be quick!"
Cheng Dai'er nodded hastily and then ran off quickly.
Do you have a handkerchief?
Lin's hands trembled as she handed over the handkerchief she had used to wipe her tears. She took the handkerchief and quickly rubbed off the herbs covering her back.
Unfortunately, some of the leaf fragments were ground too finely and stuck to the inflamed flesh, so they could only be washed off with hydrogen peroxide.
When the leaves had been mostly cleared away, Cheng Daier arrived in a hurry with Jiang Huaiyu.
"Little sister, the medicine has been brought to you."
"Thank you." Jiang Yutang took the bundle, unscrewed the bottle cap, poured the entire bottle of hydrogen peroxide behind Cheng Lanzhou, and took out cotton swabs to pick out the broken leaves that couldn't be rinsed off.
For some reason, the bleeding from the wound did not decrease, and Jiang Yutang's attempts to stop the bleeding with cotton balls were ineffective.
A large amount of blood gushed out, and Cheng Dai'er, sobbing uncontrollably, asked from behind, "Isn't this supposed to be a hemostatic drug? Why is there so much blood?"
Jiang Yutang frowned, not bothering to answer. Her hands moved quickly and nimbly as she pinched Cheng Lanzhou's jaw and fed him four Yunnan Baiyao pills. Her gaze fell on the clothes she had brought, and she remembered the wound medicine she had bought on a whim that day. With a "nothing to lose" attitude, she sprinkled half a bottle of the medicine onto the wound like cumin.
"What is this?" Lin asked.
Jiang Huaiyu took the bottle and smelled it: "Medicine for wounds."
After wrapping the gauze around her neck, Jiang Yutang looked at the mountain of cotton balls piled up to the side and the gauze that had already been used up, and mischievously pinched Cheng Lanzhou.
She sighed, stood up, and went to the river to wash her hands. Cheng Daier quickly followed and asked, "How is my brother?"
"Heh." Jiang Yutang curled her lips into a cold laugh, speaking without any politeness.
"If you hadn't messed things up, he might have gotten better long ago. I don't know what you're thinking. You have no common sense and you keep messing things up every day."
Just like some netizens nowadays, when they get sick, they don't go to the doctor, but instead search for random medications online and use them indiscriminately. In the end, they still have to rely on doctors to save their lives.
Jiang Yutang grew angrier the more she thought about it. She vigorously shook the water off her hands and looked coldly at Cheng Daier and Madam Lin.
"If you're so capable, then don't bother me anymore. Even Hua Tuo isn't as good as you."
Knowing she was in the wrong, Lin lowered her head and silently agreed.
"We...we were just desperate to save lives. Lan Zhou happened to see these kinds of herbs and said he had used them when he was injured in the army camp, so..."
Cheng Daier lowered her eyes and cautiously looked at Jiang Yutang. Then she realized why Jiang Yutang was being so humble. Her family's current predicament was entirely Jiang Yutang's fault. She clenched her fists and glared at him fiercely.
Jiang Yutang looked at Cheng Daier with surprise when she saw that Cheng Daier had gotten angry halfway through her sentence.
"Auntie, you seem to have a bit too much liver fire. You should eat something to cool down."
Before the other party could react, he immediately put on a serious face, pointed at Cheng Lanzhou on the ground and sternly instructed, "Since you entrusted me to treat him, you should know to follow the doctor's orders. If you don't listen to the doctor, and you trust a person who wields a knife to test poison on yourself, it's only a matter of time before something goes wrong."
"But......"
"And another thing." Jiang Yutang pointed to the herbs beside him, scratching his head as he pondered how to explain it to them.
They might not understand if you explain it to them using modern medical terminology.
"Don't use these things indiscriminately in the future. They may indeed be effective in stopping bleeding, but everyone's constitution changes at different times. It seems that Cheng Lanzhou's constitution is no longer suited to the methods he used in the military camp. Please tell him not to do it..."
She didn't dare to say the word "death," since the ancients were very averse to it. She was afraid that if Cheng Dai'er really told her this, what if Cheng Lanzhou came to kill her?
"Sigh, in short, don't use medicine indiscriminately, otherwise I really won't be able to save him next time."
Having witnessed it firsthand, Cheng Daier and Lin Shi were much more obedient this time, and dared not refute it again. They were only worried about when Cheng Lanzhou would wake up.
"It's hard to say. He'll wake up when he wants to."
After saying that, she handed the clothes she had bought to Cheng Daier: "You asked me to bring these."
When Cheng Daier opened the piece of cloth, she saw two extremely ordinary clothes. In the past, she would never have given them a second glance, but now that she was in a situation where she couldn't be picky.
Thinking about this, I can't help but feel a sense of loss; things have changed, and people are no longer the same.
Seeing that she was staring at the clothes without saying anything, Jiang Yutang assumed that she was disgusted by them. Feeling guilty, he touched the tip of his nose and explained in a nasal tone.
“This is the best I could buy. People there mocked me as soon as they saw the chains on my feet. I went through a lot of trouble to get this.”
Cheng Daier paused, and when she looked up at Jiang Yutang, she noticed the redness in her eyes and felt a pang of guilt.
She pursed her lips and slowly spoke in a hoarse voice, "Yes, thank you. I will definitely tell Lanzhou about what happened today."
Jiang Yutang waved his hand to indicate that he didn't care, then picked up his bag and left with Jiang Huaiyu.
Watching the two figures leave, Cheng Daier's gaze returned to her clothes, and the image of Jiang Yutang secretly shedding tears when she was alone in her empty room came to mind.
At the time, she thought Jiang Yutang deserved it, but now she sees him as just a person with a tragic fate.
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