Chapter 004: There are always people out there
"Are you trying to say that my mother-in-law deliberately wanted to kill my daughter?" The woman raised this conjecture in disbelief, and then denied it herself, "That's impossible, this is too exaggerated. After all, they are related by blood. Tongtong is her granddaughter!"
Bai Mian did not comment, but only proposed another possibility: "If you had not come here today, and your daughter had unfortunately passed away, you would be sad for a while, and then start your life again. By then, you would probably have another child. In this way, your mother-in-law's wish for a second child would be realized. If you gave birth to a boy, her goal would be completely achieved."
Bai Mian's words left the woman speechless. The woman followed Bai Mian's train of thought and the more she thought about it, the more horrified she became. If that was the case, then all the care and concern her mother-in-law had shown her during this period was just a pretense. She did all this just to get close to her and then find an opportunity to kill her daughter!
"People can't be so bad..."
The woman murmured to herself, with a last bit of struggle in her heart. She tried hard to recall the details before she left the house this morning, trying to find a reason to refute Bai Mian.
"No, that doesn't make sense. My daughter has an allergic constitution, so I cook every meal myself when I'm at home. I never let anyone else do it. I made the egg noodles for breakfast today, and I bought the spicy noodles. My mother-in-law didn't even have a chance to do it!"
Bai Mian frowned and looked at the vomit on the ground:
"From the vomiting you just induced, you can tell that seafood is not put in food. After the two previous failed attempts, your mother-in-law has learned her lesson. She understands that if she eats something, she can vomit it out by gastric lavage. The chances of a successful rescue are very high, so she changed her approach."
"You know, there are more than just diet that can cause allergies."
Weng Xuhua had just finished writing the prescription and walked over to listen for a while. When he heard this, he remembered Bai Mian wiping the girl's face just now, slapped his thigh, and suddenly realized:
"I understand. The allergy is on the face!"
"No wonder my vomiting prescription didn't work. It turns out that allergens are not absorbed through the stomach and intestines, but through skin contact. No wonder, no wonder!"
After saying this, Weng Xuhua patted his chest with some fear. If he hadn't taken Bai Mian in, someone would have died in his small clinic today. What a pity for this little girl!
"Skin..." The woman repeated these two words, her pupils dilated, as if she remembered something.
This morning, after her daughter finished breakfast, she put on her daughter's shoes and prepared to take her daughter out for a walk. According to custom, the mother-in-law should have left at this time, but this morning, before leaving, the mother-in-law earnestly reminded them: "Have you applied baby cream to the child? Remember to apply baby cream before going out!"
After hearing what her mother-in-law said, the woman remembered that she had indeed forgotten to apply the cream on the child, so she hurried into the bathroom, took out the bottle of baby cream, and applied it on the child's face a few times.
"Baby cream!" The woman woke up from a dream and shouted, "I thought she was just caring about my daughter. Now I think she must have put something in the baby's face cream!"
Bai Mian nodded and smiled without saying anything.
The woman sat up from the bed and clenched her fists. "This is murder! It's so vicious. I've never seen such a vicious person. She took advantage of my inertial thinking. When it comes to allergies, everyone thinks it's caused by food, so we only treat the stomach. No one thought the problem was with the cream. Even if we find out later, we've already missed the best time to save her!"
"Does she really want my daughter to die?" the woman said through gritted teeth, "She really has good intentions!"
The woman walked a few steps in the room, getting angrier and angrier, and decided to go and settle the score with her mother-in-law face to face.
"God damn it, she almost killed my daughter. I will never let her go. I will go to her house and tear her apart right now!"
"She's not at her house," Bai Mian reminded, "If you go back to your house now, you might just bump into her."
"Hey, she doesn't have my house key. Besides, no one is at home right now, why would she go there?" The woman was puzzled for a moment, then immediately responded, "The face cream - that bottle of baby cream is still at my house, and she wants to destroy the evidence!"
"Damn it, I won't let her succeed. I'm leaving now and I must stop her before she enters my house!"
As she spoke, the woman opened the door, ran out, and hailed a taxi.
Gao Jin quickly chased after him and shouted, "Hey, your child is still here——"
The taxi had already left, and a woman's voice came through the wind: "Please take care of me first, I'll be back soon!"
The woman left, leaving everyone in Ci Xin Tang confused. The conversation just now contained too much information and they were still unable to react.
Only Bai Mian calmly picked up the prescription written by Weng Xuhua, handed it to Miss Yang, and asked her to get the medicine according to the prescription.
Lame Brother limped over and chased after Bai Mian and asked:
"What happened just now? How do you know so much about that woman's family affairs? Did you install surveillance cameras in her home?"
"I told you, it's fortune-telling." Bai Mian didn't even raise his head, and watched the temperature of the medicine with Sister Yang.
"Come on, don't talk nonsense. There is no such thing as fortune-telling in the world. Isn't it all made up to cheat people out of money?" Lame Brother looked at him with disdain. He never believed in fortune-telling. "Besides, when people tell fortunes, they need to use birth dates, bells and copper plates, and pray to gods. How can it be that simple for you to just put your hand on someone's wrist?"
"Whether it is true or false, the facts will speak for themselves." Bai Mian said lightly.
Seeing that Bai Mian had no intention of arguing with him, Lame Brother felt a little disappointed. He was even more talkative than the old man and woman at the entrance of the village, and he wished he could talk for ten hours a day. In the past, Boss Weng and his wife didn't like to talk much, and Xiao Yang was a mute, which made him feel suffocated. Now, with great difficulty, a newcomer came, but it turned out to be a mute as well.
Lame Brother turned and walked towards Weng Xuhua. He pulled Weng Xuhua and Gao Jin into the kitchen, closed the door and talked in a low voice.
"Boss, boss lady, I don't like to talk about others behind their backs, but I think you should be careful with this newcomer. How could she tell me everything about that woman the first time she met me? Maybe she's a liar, and that woman is also an actress she hired!"
Gao Jin shook his head: "Even if the woman is an actor, is the child also an actor? Who would joke about a child's life?"
Weng Xuhua also agreed: "Yes, I took the child's pulse, and she was really on the verge of death. No one dared to make such a joke, especially in a small clinic like ours that is so poor, what good is there to cheat?"
Lame Brother was a little unconvinced: "What about fortune-telling? Do you really believe that you can tell fortunes by taking a pulse?"
Weng Xuhua hesitated for a moment and did not answer immediately. He was old and knowledgeable. Since he started practicing medicine, he had met all kinds of people. He thought that there were many wonders in the world and perhaps there really were talented and extraordinary people in the world who were unknown to the public.
"There are always people who are better than you, and there are always mountains that are better than you," Weng Xuhua replied. "I will discuss this matter with her in detail tonight. Now it's working hours, so let's go out first."
The three of them opened the door and went out. Bai Mian did not ask them what they talked about inside. While they were talking, the anti-edema medicine had been prepared. Bai Mian asked Sister Yang to help Tongtong up from the bed and slowly fed her the anti-edema medicine.
After taking the medicine, Tongtong's forehead started to sweat, the redness and swelling on her face subsided a little, and the rash on her body also faded.
After lying down for a while, Tongtong's allergic reaction had mostly disappeared. The child was obviously much more comfortable. She wiped the sweat off her face with her little hands, covered herself with clothes, and fell asleep.
After taking care of Tongtong, Bai Mian returned to the mobile phone holder and took down the mobile phone on it. The situation was urgent just now and she had no time to check the live broadcast room. Now she found that the originally empty live broadcast room had been filled with barrages without her knowing when.