"I'm not wronged. I eat very well," the man said hurriedly. Looking at Gu Qingtong's sweaty forehead, he paused and said, "It's much better than what I ate before."
"Of course you have to be better than before," Gu Qingtong thought about the scene when she first met him. She felt sad. Then she smiled and said, "But I have thought of a good idea. Every day when I cook for my cousin, I will make an extra portion. After my cousin leaves, I will send it to you in the backyard. Then I will come back early in the evening. I will prepare the meal before my cousin returns home and send it to you first. I will definitely not let you rely on cakes and pastries to fill your stomach anymore."
As she spoke, Gu Qingtong threw a handkerchief over and came over to wipe the man's face. Then she threw the handkerchief again and carefully wiped the wounds on his arms and ankles. When she was done, she took out realgar wine and other ointments. While dipping her hands in realgar wine, she whispered to the man, "I have to change the medicine for you. Just bear with it."
The man didn't say anything. He frowned and nodded. These days, Gu Qingtong only changed his dressing once a day, but he had so many wounds, so each dressing change took a long time, and naturally he suffered a lot. He turned his head and stretched out his hand to peel off the pillow skin, rolled it up a few times and was about to bite it in his mouth to prevent himself from making any ugly noises again, but before he put the pillow skin in his mouth, Gu Qingtong took it away with one hand.
"What..." The man looked at Gu Qingtong in surprise and was about to ask, but when he saw what Gu Qingtong was holding in his hand, he couldn't say anything. Not only that, his eyes became deep. He stared at the thing in Gu Qingtong's hand without blinking. After a long while, his eyes suddenly became wet, and then he turned his eyes away in a busy manner.
"Don't bite the pillow skin, it's dirty," Gu Qingtong said as he took out a small paper bag from his arms, opened it, took out a piece of sesame candy from it, and handed it to the man, smiling and saying, "If you're afraid of pain, bite this, it will definitely be more comfortable than the pillow skin."
The white fingers pinched a small piece of sesame candy and placed it in front of the man. The man's dry and cracked lips trembled, and then he held his breath and leaned forward, opened his mouth and bit the small piece of sesame candy. As soon as his dry and cracked lips touched the girl's slightly cool fingers, they trembled even more violently, and then he quickly shrank back and lay down on the bed obediently again.
"Let me change the medicine on your ankle first," Gu Qingtong rolled up her sleeves swiftly. She could barely be considered a half-doctor now. Although she still didn't know how to diagnose and treat, changing the medicine was a common thing for her. She rolled up the man's trouser legs, revealing the scar on his ankle. Gu Qingtong looked at the bloody wound on the ankle and couldn't help but frowned, "Why is it so badly injured? It's so hot, it's not a good thing to keep getting it back. We have to clean out the pus thoroughly."
As he spoke, Gu Qingtong poured some realgar wine on the wound, and then used the silver needles that had been heated by candlelight to remove the rotten flesh little by little. Hearing the "crunching" sound of the man's teeth gritting, Gu Qingtong also broke out in sweat, and while speeding up the movement of his hands, he hurriedly said to the man: "Hold on, it will be healed soon, it will be healed soon!"
He said that he would be healed soon, but it took nearly an incense stick of time to clean the entire wound. The man's face was extremely pale, and his whole body looked like he had been fished out of the water. He let Gu Qingtong bandage his wound while he worked roughly.
"It's done." The wound was finally bandaged and Gu Qingtong breathed a long sigh of relief.
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