Chen Xiuying watched her daughter peeking through the crack in the door, and followed her daughter's gaze. It was Liang Qi who brought the water and food.
"Hurry up, maybe it's a misdiagnosis. You've been hiding at home for so long that you've delayed treatment. This is really a big loss. Come out quickly. I'll find a doctor for you after you finish eating."
Liang Qi stood at the door carrying something, just looking inside and speaking casually.
Chen Xiuying's throat relaxed a little. Liang Qi's words gave her a glimmer of hope. Was it really a misdiagnosis? Was it even possible?
When there is a possibility, people will think of many unreasonable places and expand on them, and even feel that they may have been wrong at the beginning, which increases the possibility of hope for themselves.
Oh right! She remembered that her child's father had a fever at night. She thought it was a common cold, so she gave him the only Analgin pill she had. After taking it, his temperature kept fluctuating, and he started coughing, which became more and more severe, as if he was going to cough out his lungs, and there was even some blood in the cough.
How could a common illness cause coughing up blood? Scared, Chen Xiuying rushed to the town at around three in the morning. She arrived at the town clinic when it was still gray. At five in the morning, there was no one in the clinic. There was only one doctor on duty, and the others had not yet arrived for work.
When she saw a young man in a white coat, Chen Xiuying was too busy to care about anything else. She said, "Comrade, there's a patient at home who has been having recurring fevers and excessive sweating. I gave him some antipyretic medicine, but after the fever subsided, he came back with a high fever and was sweating profusely. What's wrong with him? Can you help take a look? Comrade, I'm worried. Can you please come faster? It could be fatal if we delay."
There was only one male doctor on duty at the health center. Chen Xiuying thought he was a doctor and told him the general situation.
A few minutes after he arrived, Chen Xiuying still remembers the look of fear in his eyes and the word "plague" he kept muttering.
Plague! No one can cure it, they can only wait to die!
The doctor covered his nose and ran away immediately with his medicine box.
Chen Xiuying was left feeling helpless. She had heard from the elders that the plague was highly contagious and there was no cure, and that she would die within a few days.
But today is already the third day. Looking at her husband lying on the kang, still unconscious, and her child weakly prying through the crack in the door, staring at the food outside, she now only feels dizzy and weak.
Could it really be a misdiagnosis? These past few days...
She didn't know what the symptoms of the plague were, she just heard the doctor say it was the plague.
"Open the door quickly, you woman are such a fool, you have no brains!" Sun Huimin was so angry that she wanted to hit someone.
Liang Qi looked at the people in the room who hadn't moved. "Everything is here. Hurry up and eat something. Only when you have enough energy can you think about other things and do other things."
After much deliberation, Chen Xiuying decided to open the door. It was a one in a million chance that she was wrong.
"Mom, I'm hungry," Chen Xiaoya stared at the food and drinks outside the door and swallowed hard.
Chen Xiuying moved, stepped forward, and opened the lock on the inside.
Liang Qi and Sun Huimin could see clearly now that their mothers had messy hair and dirty faces.
The little girl didn't dare to move when she saw the door open, and she remembered what her mother had said before, that she shouldn't contact people.
Auntie just brought food, we can’t let them get sick.
"Auntie! Please stay away so that you won't get infected." The child stared at the things in the two people's hands and did not run close even though he was very hungry and thirsty.
"Okay." The two put their things at the door and walked a little further away.
The child looked at the two aunts standing a little further away, then turned around to look at his mother.
Chen Xiuying nodded.
When the child saw the adult nod, he quickly ran out of the house and stopped by the bucket, ready to pick up the ladle and drink.
"Little girl, drink the water in that bottle. Boil the rest later before drinking, otherwise your stomach will hurt." Liang Qi said as he looked at the child's anxious look. The child had not eaten or drunk for such a long time, and he could not drink cold water.
When Xiao Ya heard her aunt's voice, she stopped awkwardly and wiped her hands on her lapels.
When she heard that it was water from a bottle, she quickly turned around and picked up the basket. She saw that it was the water bottle that her good sister Fenghuang often used. The water cork had been pulled out long ago and was only plugged in the top.
The little girl pulled out the plug effortlessly, swallowed her saliva, and didn't drink it immediately. She raised it and handed it to her mother.
Mom is even hungrier and thirstier, and so is Dad.
"Mom~Dad~" Xiao Ya held up the water bottle.
"Yaya, drink it. Mommy and Daddy will drink later." Chen Xiuying touched the child's hair that looked like a chicken coop.
Yaya, after hearing her mother say this, she could no longer think of anything else. She quickly put the bottle mouth to her mouth and gulped it down without taking a breath. The whole bottle of water was finished in less than half a minute.
Looking at her daughter's appearance, Chen Xiuying blamed herself even more. During these days when she was in a daze waiting for death, she had no time to take care of the child and was even foolish enough to not give the child food or water.
"Hui Min, leave some water in the bucket and boil the rest." Liang Qi saw that the child had not drunk enough, so he could only let Hui Min wash the pot and boil water.
"Ah! Oh, okay."
I carried the bucket of water to Chen Xiuying's kitchen. It hadn't been used for a few days and was covered in dust.
A burst of cleaning.
"Tell me what's going on," Liang Qi said, looking at Chen Xiuying and the child. "They're not sick at all! They're just weak from lack of nutrition."
"I," he said hoarsely after a long silence.
"Drink some water first, don't drink too much, this is cold water." Liang Qi handed over the ladle, which was full of water.
Chen Xiuying took the water handed to her by her friend and looked at her friend. It seemed that something was different, but she couldn’t put her finger on it. She felt at ease and had a backbone.
"Thank you," Chen Xiuying whispered, her eyes a little moist, and she took a big sip with a ladle.
Liang Qi glanced at his friend and said nothing, everything was self-explanatory.
Liang Qi watched the child take out the vegetable pancake from the basket and eat it ravenously, and walked over: "Little girl, eat slowly. After you finish eating, auntie will make you another one. Come, let auntie see."
As he said this, he took the child's free hand and took the child's pulse.
Chen Xiuying looked at her friend. Isn't this the Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis? How could she do that? She had never seen it before! She had many questions in her mind. She looked at Liang Qi who was taking the child's pulse, but she didn't bother him, even though she had many questions in her mind.
Liang Qi put down the child's dark little hand and touched the child's forehead with his big hand, but there was no fever.
"Xiaoya, do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"
"Auntie, I'm just hungry and my stomach hurts, and I feel dizzy." The child was eating the vegetable pancake in his hand, his eyes full of food. He looked at Liang Qi with his big wet eyes and continued to eat the vegetable pancake in his hand.
The child is just weak, nothing else is wrong.
Just then Chen Xiuying interrupted Liang Qi's thoughts.
"Liang Qi, aren't you afraid?" Chen Xiuying looked at Liang Qi holding the child's wrist and touching the child's forehead.
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