With the space cut off from the outside world, Lu Qiqi focused on treating Song Yanqing's serious injuries within the space.
After two days and two nights without food, and suffering from severe blood loss due to serious injuries, he now has a high fever.
Lu Qiqi sat on the bamboo bed in the small wooden house, looking at the pale-faced person lying on the bed.
She held a clean, dry handkerchief in her hand and gently wiped away the fine beads of sweat from Song Yanqing's temples.
She had just given Song Yanqing a dose of medicine. Fortunately, even in his unconscious state, he did not give up his will to live and was able to swallow the spoonfuls into his mouth.
Seeing that she had sweated enough, Lu Qiqi found the bundle that Song Yanqing had sent to her overnight when she was at the Feng residence.
The bundle was laid out on the square table, and Lu Qiqi, seeing the bottles and jars scattered about, began to rummage through them.
She picked and chose among precious medicines and herbs such as wound medicine, snow lotus pills, ginseng, and deer antler, setting aside all that could be used.
After she finished selecting them, she found that almost all of them could be used, but Song Yanqing's body was too weak to withstand a lot of nourishment.
Otherwise, it will not only have the opposite effect, but may also endanger lives in a critical moment.
Therefore, Lu Qiqi only took the wound medicine and the snow lotus pill. She planned to feed the remaining medicinal materials and pills to Song Yanqing when he was feeling better.
There is only daylight in the space, no night. Lu Qiqi has never had a concept of time in the space, but Song Yanqing has to pay attention to the time when taking medicine.
In order to ensure that Song Yanqing could take his medicine at the right time and that his injuries would heal faster, Lu Qiqi made a water clock for timing.
The earliest water clock was made of copper. Since there was no copper pot in the space, she made one using four wooden buckets and a bamboo tube about the size of a little finger.
The four wooden buckets are arranged in a stepped pattern, decreasing in size, and serve as the sun vessel, moon vessel, star vessel, and water receiving vessel, respectively. Small bamboo tubes are inserted into the bottom of the buckets for dripping water.
An iron rod is placed in the middle of the bottom water container, with the twelve two-hour periods marked on it, and then a floating arrow is made of bamboo strips.
When a constant flow of water flows through three wooden buckets into the receiving 'pot', the time can be determined by comparing the position of the bobber with the scale.
Using a water clock to estimate time may not be accurate, but it is much better than measuring time without any reference.
After finishing the water clock, Lu Qiqi estimated the time and then went to brew a dose of medicine for Song Yanqing.
After taking two doses of medicine, Song Yanqing still did not regain consciousness. Lu Qiqi picked up his wrist to take his pulse and check his physical condition.
However, it was discovered that something in Song Yanqing's body seemed to be resisting the medication he was currently receiving, preventing the medication for treating his injuries from being fully absorbed.
This is equivalent to a pill that is supposed to have a full dose of efficacy, but after taking it, only six-tenths of its original effect remains.
This is only because of the spiritual spring water. If it weren't for the spiritual spring water, it would be a miracle if even a third of the medicinal effects could be absorbed.
This will not only delay the recovery time of the injury, but also push the body to its limits.
Suddenly, Lu Qiqi remembered the strange and peculiar things she had discovered when she rescued Song Yanqing on the way to escape famine.
Medicinal herbs were scarce on the journey of fleeing famine, and the only thing they could use was spiritual spring water. At that time, the wound on Song Yanqing's leg had already been poisoned by someone.
Even if the spiritual spring water has detoxifying effects, it is impossible to suppress the effects of poison when taking medicine.
It seems to be another toxin in Song Yanqing's body that she was fighting against.
It now appears that Song Yanqing's sudden and persistent high fever in the military camp, despite not being injured, was also due to this poison.
However, it's not time to remove the poison yet. After thinking it over, Lu Qiqi could only think of changing his dressing and treating his injuries first, and then considering removing the poison after the injuries had healed.
Lu Qiqi released his wrist and prepared to turn Song Yanqing over.
While treating Song Yanqing's injuries, she noticed that there was almost no unscathed skin on his back, which she assumed was from the scrapes he sustained when he fell into the cave.
After finally managing to turn Song Yanqing over, Lu Qiqi was covered in sweat.
Sweat clung to her clothes, making her feel uncomfortable. She glanced at Song Yanqing, who was lying on the bed, then turned and left the room to soak in the spiritual spring water.
On the third day in the space, Lu Qiqi saw that Song Yanqing was still not awake, so she gave him a slightly stronger dose of medicine.
There were no nutritional supplements available here, and a prolonged coma would be detrimental to her recovery. Therefore, she could only resort to this method to try and wake Song Yanqing up as soon as possible.
When Song Yanqing regained consciousness, she felt something soft beneath her, as if she were lying on thick cotton, and the surroundings were not as cold and damp as in the cave.
He didn't know where he was, but his body was able to sense things.
He's not dead?
Where is he now?
Qiqi, have you already come down the mountain and escaped?
Trying to move her body, but finding herself unable to move, Song Yanqing felt the pain in her body and slowly opened her eyes.
What comes into view is a wooden wall.
Was he rescued?
Song Yanqing wanted to lower her head, but found that her head seemed to be fixed at a specific angle, and her chin was being held by something.
Just as he was struggling to get up, the door opened, and a light green skirt came into view.
He had seen this dress before; it was embroidered with delicate lotus patterns on the hem!
Song Yanqing wanted to look up at the pretty face in the silk dress, the one he had been thinking about even in his sleep.
Lu Qiqi pushed open the door and entered the room. From her angle, she couldn't see that Song Yanqing had opened his eyes.
However, one could immediately notice that the thin blanket covering Song Yanqing had been moved.
The thought of the person on the bed waking up made her hands tremble with excitement as she held the medicine. Fortunately, she was able to quickly regain her balance and prevent the ink-black medicine from spilling onto the ground.
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