Ye Jiu casually stretched his hand out of the carriage, and soon his palm became icy cold. He then placed it on Yun Jia's forehead to cool him down physically.
Yao Yishui chuckled at her action, "Aren't you afraid of freezing your hands?"
Ye Jiu looked at her hands from side to side. "How could anything be wrong? I don't even have frostbite."
Before long, the carriage stopped in front of the clinic. Yao Yishui carried Yun Jia out of the carriage and told the coachwoman to wait for her, saying he would be right back to give her more money.
Medicine and poison are inseparable. Although she has never studied formal medicine, she is extremely skilled in using poison. She can treat patients even if there is no doctor in this clinic. The main reason is that it is convenient to get medicine from the clinic.
Upon entering the clinic, the fragrance of Chinese herbs mixed with the smell of decocted Chinese medicine wafted into Ye Jiu's nostrils. It smelled both pleasant and unpleasant, causing Ye Jiu to frown.
Winter is the season when fevers are common. The apprentice sitting at the clinic counter immediately recognized this as another fever case. While preparing the medicine, he casually said, "Dr. Zhang will be here soon. A consultation costs 50 coins. There are beds in the back room for patients to rest on, and each bed costs 10 coins."
Yao Yishui said directly, "Have Doctor Zhang come quickly, and also get a bed. Can I leave the two children here and come back to pick them up this afternoon?"
"This is not an orphanage." The apprentice placed the medicine on the scale and carefully adjusted the weight. "We do not take in children."
Yao Yishui tossed out a tael of silver, and the apprentice, upon seeing it, immediately put down the scale. His nonchalant expression vanished, replaced by a broad smile. "Honorable guest, please take care. I will certainly take good care of you."
Yao Yishui handed Yun Jia to the apprentice to hold, then squatted down and instructed Ye Jiu, "You stay here with him and keep an eye on him while he drinks his medicine. If he doesn't drink it properly and keeps thinking about throwing it away, I'll come pick you two up after I buy the house. This house is hard to buy. It's not easy to meet the owner of the house today. If it's suitable, we'll have a home here tonight."
Ye Jiu nodded obediently, waved goodbye to Yao Yishui, and followed the apprentice into the backyard.
The back room was a large room, which Ye Jiu guessed was probably formed by combining several rooms. The room was filled with beds, and a screen was placed between the beds to block the view.
A somber, sickly atmosphere permeated the room, filled with the sounds of painful groans, coughs, and weeping.
It was somewhat like a modern hospital ward, only more rudimentary. Ye Jiu was worried about hygiene; wouldn't so many patients lying together cause cross-infection?
The apprentice carried Yun Jia to an empty bed and put him on it. "Rest here for a while, I'll go and call Doctor Zhang over."
Ye Jiu looked around, found a small stool under the bed, took it out and sat down on the edge of the bed. Yun Jia seemed to have a higher fever, her cheeks were red, and she started talking nonsense.
Ye Jiu could only fan him with her hand, trying to cool him down a little.
She fanned herself while muttering, "Don't let it make you stupid."
The apprentice rushed over with Doctor Zhang in a flurry, and Ye Jiu was squeezed to the side to watch her operate.
Dr. Zhang carried a box, which was filled with various medical supplies. She felt Yun Jia's pulse, and then the apprentice took out paper and pen to write down what she said.
He was probably writing a prescription, and he was talking about things that sounded like Chinese medicine names. He mumbled a lot of things, and then Dr. Zhang packed up his things, closed his box, and rushed to see the next patient.
The apprentice didn't follow her. After writing down the prescription, she symbolically showed it to Ye Jiu. "This is the prescription given by Doctor Zhang. One dose a day for half a month. Ordinary people would be cured in seven days, but this child is congenitally weak, so Doctor Zhang used a lighter dose, which is why it's slower than for others."
After the apprentice finished explaining, without waiting to see if she remembered it or not, he put away the prescription and said, "I'll go and brew the medicine. After drinking this medicine and taking a nap, the fever will go away."
In the blink of an eye, she was the only one left by his bedside again.
Yun Jia lay on the bed, and Ye Jiu, taking advantage of his closed eyes and not knowing what she was doing, brazenly looked him over. Yun Jia had fair skin, but probably because he was weak, his complexion gave him a sickly look. He had big eyes and long, thick eyelashes. Ye Jiu felt an urge to pluck his eyelashes.
She could tell he was going to be a beauty. Ye Jiu thought about it carefully. The bigger your eyes are when you're young, the less likely you are to grow up to be ugly. With his big, beautiful eyes, she was willing to bet that he would definitely charm thousands of women in the capital in the future!
After observing for a long time, Ye Jiu suddenly realized, wait, why didn't this person even give him a handkerchief? Is he just going to do nothing while the medicine is being decocted?
She peeked out from the back doorway looking for the apprentice. Once she spotted her, she ran up to her and said, "Sister, could you give me a handkerchief? My brother might have gone crazy from the fever."
The apprentice suddenly realized, "Oh no, I was so busy I forgot about this." "Wait a minute, I'll get it done for you right away."
She hurried out and returned in less than half an incense stick's time with a basin containing a handkerchief.
"Just take the handkerchief out of the basin and put it on his forehead. Remember not to wring it dry. Wait until the handkerchief is no longer cold before putting it in the water to chill it. Do you understand?"
"Yes, I know."
"Okay, then you can come. There are too many patients; I can't take care of them all."
The apprentice disappeared from her sight again. Ye Jiu folded the handkerchief and placed it on his forehead. As soon as the cold handkerchief touched Yun Jia's forehead, he began to hum softly.
He whimpered, rolled over, found a more comfortable position, and continued sleeping.
Ye Jiu pulled the blanket tighter around him and rearranged the handkerchief, the water from which had soaked the pillow. Ye Jiu had no choice but to press him back down firmly and make him lie flat again.
After finishing everything, Ye Jiu, with nothing to do, began to guess how many beds were in the room. There was a coughing sound coming from the far right, and judging from the sound, there were four or five beds between the beds? The bed right by the door belonged to a woman, and beside her, someone, either her husband or brother, was crying. There were probably two rows of beds...
Yun Jia suddenly opened her eyes, her head still spinning. After seeing who was sitting next to the bed, she felt guilty and said, "I'm sorry, have I caused you any trouble?"
Ye Jiu nodded. Yes, she had caused her trouble. "You're not in good health, so you should stop messing around with me. It's very uncomfortable when you're sick."
Yun Jia pulled the blanket up to cover half of her face, "Please don't hate me, okay? I still want to play with you..."
Ye Jiu was puzzled by the question. "I don't hate you. Why would I hate you? We can play together once you get better."
"That's good." Yun Jia was relieved. He used to be sick all the time, and after he recovered, his friends would ignore him. They said they were afraid he would pass on his illness to them or that he would try to extort money from them while he was sick.
Ye Jiu was the first person who didn't mind his illness, he thought happily. The thought of living with Ye Jiu in the future made him even happier.
After lying there for a long time without seeing Yao Yishui, Yun Jia asked Ye Jiu, "By the way, where is Master's wife?"
"My teacher's wife went to look at houses. She said she would buy one if it was suitable, and we'll have a home tonight." Ye Jiu then repeated Yao Yishui's words, emphasizing that they should keep an eye on Yun Jia to make sure she took her medicine.
Yun Jia blushed after hearing this and pouted, "I...I'm not afraid to drink medicine."
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