Liu kicked him angrily: "How dare you talk back to your mother?"
Lili chuckled, and the others also felt their earlier tension ease in the gentle laughter.
Old Mrs. Shen earnestly pulled Lili aside and instructed her, "Your mother is right. Saving people is a good thing, but it must be done on the premise of ensuring your own safety, understand?"
Shen Jialuo hugged Houfu and said, "That's right, Li Bao, look, even Houfu is worried about you!"
Whether in agreement with Shen Jialuo or not, Houfu actually called out twice.
Shen Jialu said, "Li Bao, next time something like this happens, bring your second brother along too. Your second brother can fight tigers too!"
Liu then kicked her second son.
Shen Jiawen said, "When Houfu grows up, you can take him out with you. If anything happens, have Houfu run back to let us know!"
"Hey, I think Jarvan has a point!"
"Yes! Lili knows!" Lili felt a warmth in her heart.
After educating the children, everyone started discussing the elderly people inside.
"This person looks unfamiliar. If he were from around here, I should recognize him if he were older," said Old Man Wang.
Old Man Shen chimed in, "This wound is truly terrifying, such a deep gash. Who could have been so cruel? What grudge could they possibly hold against someone so old? This is going to land them in jail!"
Old Mrs. Shen pointed to the basket in the yard: "Didn't Lili say that's a herbalist? He's probably from a faraway place. He's come here to dig for herbs."
"I thought so too. There are many of those plants I don't recognize. I thought they were just weeds. Who knew they were medicinal herbs?"
Lili listened silently to everyone's chatter, her mind filled with doubt.
Who is this person who harbors such deep resentment towards an old man?
Or perhaps... it's not a grudge at all, but simply a matter of treating the law as air and human life as worthless?
"Uncle Chen, Village Chief Ma is here!"
After Wang Ergou helped carry the person in, he went to find the village chief. After all, the situation was so serious, and the person was a complete stranger; he should inform him.
Wang Ergou led Village Chief Ma into the courtyard, and Old Lady Shen quickly asked Liu to pour a cup of tea. Old Man Shen had already started chatting with Village Chief Ma.
While Village Chief Ma was getting information from everyone, Lili took advantage of the moment when everyone's attention was temporarily diverted and quietly returned to the small house.
Dr. Zhu was still treating the wound, and Shen Jiaqing was watching with great interest, her eyes shining brightly. She didn't even notice when Lili came in.
Lili watched silently for a while, and suddenly noticed that the old man, who had been in a coma, had somehow fallen on her.
Lili blinked, met his gaze, and smiled at the old man.
The old man's lips parted slightly, as if he was trying very hard to say something.
After confirming that he wanted to talk to her, Lili quickly ran over and whispered in his ear.
The old man spoke with difficulty, his voice trembling.
"What?"
Lili was thrilled. Could this plot point reveal some earth-shattering secret, or tell her the whereabouts of a treasure?!
"bucket……."
"Bucket? What bucket?"
"…….pain."
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Lili was taken aback, only then realizing that the old man's forehead was covered in a dense layer of sweat, and the bedding beneath him was soaked.
The old man was as pale as paper, with large beads of sweat rolling down his forehead. He clenched his teeth, and the muscles in his cheeks trembled violently, making a "crunching" sound, as if he wanted to grind his teeth to pieces to resist the excruciating pain in his waist.
Dr. Zhu's hands kept moving: "This painkiller isn't very effective..."
The old man uttered a few more words: "Datura stramonium..."
"Daphne?" Lili quickly realized and asked, "Is it a pain reliever? Is it in that basket?"
The old man nodded with difficulty, his voice barely audible, clearly in great pain.
"I'll go get it!"
Lili ran outside and started rummaging through the basket of herbs on her back, muttering to herself as she did so.
"Daphne, daphne, but what is daphne? What does daphne look like?"
"this!"
Shen Jiaqing grabbed a small pink flower: "Datura is also known as datura flower, and it has anesthetic and sedative effects!"
Lili was overjoyed: "Then hurry up and take it inside!"
Shen Jiaqing clearly knew how to make the datura flower work for him, and had already found a container and a stick in the room to start grinding the datura flower.
While grinding, Shen Jiaqing asked Doctor Zhu, "But datura flowers are poisonous, and I don't know how to extract datura flower extract. Uncle Zhu, do you know how?"
Dr. Zhu was quite troubled: "I can do it, but it takes time. Once the extraction is complete, we won't need to spend any more money."
"quick……."
The old man's weak voice rang out again, and Lili immediately understood: "He said he has a plan, just apply it now!"
The old man silently gave her a thumbs up.
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After another round of panic and chaos, Doctor Zhu wiped his forehead and finally caught his breath.
"How is it, Dr. Zhu? How is the situation?"
Ever since they saw the two children rush out to grab a herb and go inside, the people outside have been keeping a close eye on what was happening inside.
Seeing that Dr. Zhu had stopped and the old man's wound had been bandaged, Village Chief Ma hurriedly came in to inquire.
“Village Chief,” Doctor Zhu stood up and said to the group, “He should have passed the first hurdle. I’ll prescribe some oral medicine later, and he also needs some topical medicine. These next two days are crucial, so you must keep a close eye on his condition. If he gets a fever, come to me immediately.”
The Shen family carefully noted it down, and Old Mrs. Shen took out five taels of silver that she had prepared and gave it to him: "Dr. Zhu, this is the consultation fee. If it's not enough, I'll get more."
Dr. Zhu packed up his medicine box and waved his hand, "Don't worry about the consultation fee, let's talk about it after he's better."
As he spoke, Dr. Zhu wiped his sweat and walked out, saying, "Alright, alright, I'm going back to eat now. You guys keep an eye on him."
Old Mrs. Shen thanked him repeatedly, and Old Mr. Shen personally saw Doctor Zhu out.
Village Chief Ma breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the person was not in immediate danger.
“This isn’t from our neighborhood, is it? I don’t recognize an elderly person of this age,” said Village Chief Ma.
Old Mrs. Shen told him what Lili had said: "They were probably gathering herbs and ended up here. I don't know which heartless person would dare to do such a thing!"
Village Chief Ma was also very worried. The person who did this was clearly aiming to kill someone. In broad daylight, under the clear sky, someone dared to be so audacious. Such a thing had never happened before in Xinghua Village.
The worst that could happen was like Aunt Li, where people would curse and fight in the street, but no one had ever died!
Now this has happened, and we don't even know who did it.
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