Chapter 003 Seafood Allergy

Hearing what Bai Mian said, Weng Xuhua's pupils trembled, as if he didn't believe his ears. He scolded: "This is only your first day as an apprentice. You haven't even learned a little pharmacology. How dare you say such a thing? Human lives are at stake. Do you think it's a child's game? Nonsense!"

The girl's mother didn't take Bai Mian seriously either: "You look so young, you probably haven't been working for a few days, how dare you treat people like this? Besides, even the master can't cure it, what can you, an apprentice, do?"

Hearing the noisy noise outside, Gao Jin ran out of the kitchen in a panic. Lame Brother and Little Sister Yang stood aside. The three of them were watching anxiously but could not get a word in.

Seeing that Weng Xuhua was helpless, the girl's mother sneered and pointed at his face and cursed: "You are such a quack. You dare to open a clinic when you have no ability. If anything happens to my daughter, this crappy place of yours will go bankrupt! Damn it, I shouldn't have come to this small clinic from the beginning. If the hospital in town was not too far away, I would have thought that you were closer... Forget it, I won't waste my words on you. I'll take my daughter to the hospital!"

As she spoke, the woman picked up the girl on the bed and turned to leave. Bai Mian suddenly called out to her:

"Wait, if you walk out of this door today, your daughter will be dead for sure."

"What did you say? Are you cursing my daughter to death? I'll tear your mouth to pieces!"

The woman turned around angrily and rushed forward to hit Bai Mian, but was stopped by Lame Brother.

"I'm not cursing you," Bai Mian explained calmly, "The hospital in town is really too far away. It takes at least 20 minutes to drive there. Your daughter is in a critical condition. She has difficulty breathing due to a swollen throat. If she doesn't get relief within two minutes, I'm afraid even the gods can't save her."

After hearing what Bai Mian said, the woman felt uncertain. She lost her temper and asked in a hoarse voice: "Then tell me, what should we do?"

"Let me take your pulse." Bai Mian stretched out his hand.

The woman looked Bai Mian up and down, as if she just couldn't believe that this little girl had any real ability. But things had come to this point and she had no better choice. The woman hardened her heart, gritted her teeth, stomped her feet, put the girl back on the bed, and decided to give this small clinic another chance.

The woman grabbed the child's arm and handed it to Bai Mian, but she didn't expect Bai Mian to bypass the child and directly put two fingers on the woman's pulse.

“What’s going on? The child is sick, but you are taking my pulse. Is there something wrong with your brain? I really believed your lies and still expected you to save my child…” The woman’s face changed and she was about to curse again. Bai Mian stretched out his fingers and placed them in front of his lips, making a "huh" gesture, quietly feeling the woman’s pulse.

In an instant, the woman's past experiences appeared in Bai Mian's mind.

"Oh, kid, you are really rude. How can you take the pulse of your family members?" Weng Xuhua walked forward and tried to pull Bai Mian away.

Before he could make a move, Bai Mian withdrew her fingers. She turned to the person behind her and said, "Get a basin of hot water and a towel. Hurry!"

Seeing Bai Mian's serious look, the woman didn't dare to make trouble for a moment. Everyone quieted down and prepared to see what she was going to do.

Gao Jin quickly brought a basin of hot water with a clean towel floating on it. Bai Mian reached his hand into the water, picked up the towel, and began to carefully wipe the face of the girl on the bed.

"What is this for? Preparing a will in advance?" Lame Brother muttered in a low voice, not wanting to be heard by the girl's mother, who glared at him fiercely.

"It's okay." Bai Mian wiped the child's face and threw the towel back into the basin.

"That's it?" The girl's mother looked at Bai Mian in disbelief. "You just wiped my face? I thought you had some magic medicine. If you can cure this, I'll take your last name!"

"No need to be so polite." Bai Mian said lightly. She had no intention of arguing with the girl's mother. She was just observing the girl's reaction.

"Huff...Huff..." The girl's throat gave a heavy breathing sound, which was a sign of improvement. Her eyes, which had been swollen into slits, were barely open, and her lips were no longer as purple as before.

The woman was overjoyed. She threw herself on the bed and shook the child madly: "Tongtong, can you see your mother? Talk to your mother!"

"Mom-Mom--" the girl spoke with difficulty, and it was obvious that her throat had begun to swell.

"Thank God, oh my God, I was so scared just now..." The woman covered her face with her hands, extremely emotional.

"Don't move her, let her rest for a while," Bai Mian reminded the woman, then raised his head and said to Weng Xuhua, "Master, now you can go back and continue writing the prescription for swelling. This child still needs it."

"Oh, okay, okay." Weng Xuhua watched Bai Mian's operation in amazement, and was slow to come back to his senses. It was not until Bai Mian reminded him that he returned to his desk and continued to write the prescription.

"By the way," the woman asked Bai Mian after she was excited, "Why did you come to check my pulse just now? And why did Tongtong just wipe her face and it was fine?"

"I wasn't checking your pulse just now, I was telling your fortune."

Bai Mian sat up and told everything he had calculated.

"You and your current husband met through an introduction. There is no love between you. After you became pregnant, your husband went to work in the capital, leaving you alone in Qingshui Town to live a widow-like life."

The woman was right about what Bai Mian said, but she was still a little unconvinced: "For this kind of thing, I can ask my neighbors and they will tell me. It's not necessarily something you calculated. Besides, this has nothing to do with Tongtong's allergy!"

Bai Mian ignored her and continued slowly, "After you gave birth to the child, a fierce conflict broke out between your mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Your mother-in-law wanted a son, and she kept urging you to have a second child, but you didn't want to go through the pain of childbirth again, so you insisted on not having one. You quarreled every day, and your father-in-law and husband said nothing and let your mother-in-law put pressure on you."

"After you quarreled for a while, you decided to live separately from your parents-in-law, so you moved out with your daughter. Since then, you have been much quieter. The strange thing is that after you moved out with your daughter, your mother-in-law seemed to have changed her personality. She started to pay extra attention to your daughter, came to visit you every now and then, and never mentioned having a second child again."

When Bai Mian said this, the woman began to believe it a little: "How do you know? This is all our family affairs. Even if you ask, you can't find out so much. Yes, just like you said, after I took Tongtong away, my mother-in-law began to miss Tongtong. You said, after all, this is the child's grandmother. It would be inappropriate for me to stop them from meeting, right? So every time she comes to visit, I will invite her to have a meal."

"As for the second child, she really hasn't mentioned it in recent times. Maybe she has finally figured it out. It's a different era now, why does she still want to have a son?"

Bai Mian shook his head: "No, she just changed her strategy."

"Change of strategy?" The woman didn't understand.

Bai Mian asked, "Since your daughter was born, how many times has she had seafood allergies?"

Woman: "Not counting this time, it's two times."

Bai Mian: "Under what circumstances did the two attacks occur?"

The woman thought for a moment and said, "Well, the first time it happened was when the kids next door came to visit me and brought a bag of snacks. While I was busy doing housework, the two kids shared the snacks. It turned out that there was a bag of dried shrimp in the snacks, and our Tongtong ate it. She had an allergic reaction on the spot, and I had to send her to the hospital to have her stomach washed before she was saved."

"The second time was when we were having dinner at the hotel. It was Tongtong's birthday and the hotel gave her a bowl of longevity noodles. I gave it to her, but she had an allergic reaction after eating it. I sent her to the hospital for gastric lavage. The doctor later said that seafood was detected in her vomit. I don't know where the seafood came from in the longevity noodles. I think the hotel's pot must be unclean. They cooked noodles after the seafood. Damn the hotel, my daughter suffered in vain!"

"Then it happened this time. I took Tongtong for a walk here and she suddenly had a seizure. This place is too far from the hospital in town, so we had no choice but to come to your clinic. I was really scared just now. Fortunately, the child is fine!"

The woman wanted to continue complaining, but Bai Mian interrupted her and said directly:

"Think carefully, the first two times plus this time, a total of three times, each time the child had an allergic attack, did the child's grandmother come to visit you?"

The woman was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Yes, my mother-in-law was there when the neighbor's kid came to visit for the first time. She was also in the hotel when we celebrated our second birthday. This time, she came to our house yesterday and stayed overnight. She left this morning. What's wrong? Could it be -"

The woman's voice suddenly stopped and she calmed down, as if she finally realized something.

"Could it be... Could it be..." The expression on her face gradually became extremely terrified.