Chapter 77 When Did You Learn It?
Colonel Jones was in a very bad mood today. His only daughter, Anne, was seriously ill, and Dr. Hoffman asked him to prepare for the worst.
He got some medicine from the hospital that he knew would not work, and drove back in frustration. As soon as he got out of the car, he was stopped by a strange woman.
"Colonel Jones, could you excuse me for a few minutes?"
Colonel Jones glanced at her coldly, "Who are you?"
Luo Jiu: "My name is Luo Jiu. I am a Chinese laborer from the Qing Dynasty. I just arrived here yesterday."
Jones was a little surprised. He had never heard any Chinese here speak English so fluently. What surprised him even more was the woman's neither humble nor arrogant attitude.
Didn't she know that in Liverpool he could crush anyone like an ant?
Jones disdained to communicate with these Chinese people. He just glanced at them lightly, turned around and walked into the building.
Luo Jiu hurriedly chased after him, "Colonel Jones, there are forty-one girls coming with us, most of them are only eight or nine years old.
I heard that you will sell them soon. Can you wait a little longer? Even wait for another year or two to let them grow up a little bit? "
Jones kept walking, his face still cold, "Why? I don't have that much food to waste on them."
Luo Jiu: "You can let them work here, whether it's at the construction site or in the kitchen. They won't eat for free. They don't need wages, which can save you more expenses."
Jones said coldly: "Your suggestion makes some sense, but I will not accept it. Their fate is to come here and be sold. I don't need to change them."
When he said this, there was no way he was discussing the lives of forty-one girls; it was as if he was handling the matter casually, as if he were dealing with stockpiled merchandise.
Luo Jiu took a deep breath. Colonel Jones was just as the rumors said. In his eyes, the lives of the Chinese were like grass.
But she wasn't about to give up. "Colonel Jones, those kids are about the same age as your daughter."
Jones suddenly stopped his hurried steps, frowned, and said in a bad tone: "People like you, what qualifications do you have to be compared with my daughter? Andre!"
Jones called Lieutenant Andre over loudly. He pointed at Luo Jiu angrily and said, "Sell this woman to a brothel in the city immediately, immediately!"
Fan Shun followed Luo Jiu, his heart sank at this moment. Although he didn't understand what they were saying, he had never seen Colonel Jones so angry.
Andre stepped forward and held Luo Jiu's shoulder. Feng Qi was about to take action when she saw Luo Jiu waving his hand in their direction, telling them not to move.
Luo Jiu looked at Jones's back and said loudly: "If you send me away, your daughter will definitely die."
Jones froze in place, motionless.
Luo Jiu continued, "They are helpless, aren't they? I am your daughter's only chance to survive."
Jones turned around and signaled Andre to let Luo Jiu go first.
He walked up to Luo Jiu and looked at this young oriental woman with a determined look in her eyes.
Jones said contemptuously: "I have never heard of how powerful your country's medical skills are. I only heard that you are good at pretending to be ghosts and like to burn incense and worship Buddha."
Luo Jiu smiled and said, "Colonel Jones, I have also heard that people here like to go to church to pray to God, which is essentially no different from burning incense and worshiping Buddha.
Our country's medical skills have been passed down for thousands of years, and the population has prospered from generation to generation. If they didn't have real skills, how did they survive?
You have lived in Liverpool for a long time, and your knowledge of Chinese medicine is probably limited to hearsay.
There is no point in talking any more. Since Western medicine has no cure, why don’t you let me take a look at your daughter?”
Jones was somewhat persuaded. Indeed, Western medicine had no other solution.
What's the old Chinese saying? It's better to let someone else heal a horse than to watch it die.
"Okay, I'll let you go for now. When can you treat my daughter?"
"Wait a minute, I'll go back and get some tools and be right back."
Luo Jiu turned around and called Feng Qi and others to go back to the dormitory. Fan Shun put away his jaw dropped in shock and trotted to catch up.
"Second in command, you can actually speak bird language? And you speak it so well? It's much better than Zhang Shoucheng, who has to use gestures and stutter. What did you say to Jones? Why is he suddenly not angry anymore?"
Luo Jiu said helplessly: "It's not that he is not angry anymore. If I can't save his daughter, he will be even angrier and may even kill me directly."
Feng Qi's eyes widened with worry. She grabbed Luo Jiu's arm and asked her quietly, "When did you learn how to heal diseases?"
Luo Jiu calmly replied: "Now."
After entering the dormitory, Luo Jiu asked Fan Shun to wait outside and closed the door immediately.
He asked Cheng Yaoyao and Zhong Jialing to use bed sheets to pull up the curtains on their bunks. Luo Jiu hid behind the curtains and immediately entered the space.
The situation was urgent, and she couldn't tell Jones that she, a Qing Dynasty person, had mastered more advanced Western medical technology. She had to use the name of traditional Chinese medicine to scare him first.
She took out the silver needles from the medicine box, opened the acupuncture point map, and quickly memorized a few acupuncture points where the patient would not die even if the needles were not inserted accurately.
Then, immediately go and look up the medical book.
These books were all collected by her from the library herself, and she would occasionally flip through them when she had nothing to do.
However, medical books were so thick that they could kill people, and they were all very healthy, so Luo Jiu did not take studying medicine as an urgent matter, but just gave it a rough understanding.
Today I heard the conversation between the white nanny in the kitchen and Mrs. Marian Jones. From their description, it seems that Miss Anne's symptoms are very similar to tuberculosis.
At that time, the medical community had not yet developed a specific drug to treat tuberculosis. If Anne really had tuberculosis, they certainly could not cure it.
But it is possible in the 21st century. Not long ago, Zhong Jialing and Cheng Yaoyao cleared out hospitals and disease control centers and obtained all the special medicines in modern medicine. The medicines they stockpiled can delay the death of cancer patients by three to five months.
Luo Jiu followed the catalog and turned to the page on tuberculosis treatment. He quickly memorized some of the causes and symptoms of the disease and then looked for medicine.
Cheng Yaoyao and Zhong Jialing were standing outside, sweating profusely. Murder and arson were common and they were very familiar with them.
This is the first time that someone has to cure a disease and save a life, but if the cure is not achieved, the patient will be beaten to death.
Feng Qi gritted his teeth and said, "It's okay. At worst, I can just fight them."
She hid the grenade on her body, with an attitude that at worst everyone would die together.
The three were waiting anxiously when Fan Shun knocked on the door outside. "Boss, Lieutenant Andre is here to urge us."
Feng Qi said angrily: "I know, let him wait for a while."
Fan Shuner groaned inwardly, "I... I can't stop it."
The dormitory door could not be locked from the inside. Fan Shuner stood at the door blocking it. When Andre frowned and raised the gun, he had to move aside.
Andre walked straight in, and Zhong Jialing immediately came up to him with a smile, "Lieutenant Andre, please wait a moment, Doctor Luo is preparing the tools."
Andre was stunned, and Fan Shuner was also stunned. Where did the fourth in command learn bird language?
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