Tang Shiyue took a long breath in anger, and trotted all the way to find the village doctor.
She had been busy all day, and she was young and weak. She ran all the way here with Xiao Yao in her arms. She was so tired that she was out of breath and couldn't even stand firmly when she said, "Doctor, my sister is sick, please help!"
The village doctor stood up calmly and wiped his hands.
The village doctor's surname is Chen. He is over 50 years old, has a goatee, is thin, and looks like a scholar. It is said that this village doctor used to be a doctor in the town, but later he offended someone and returned to his hometown to become a village doctor. His medical skills are very good.
He sat down and calmly felt Xiao Yaoer's pulse. As soon as he touched her hand, he said, "Why did you wait until your condition was so serious to bring him here? If it had been a little later, we could have collected the body right away!"
The words were unpleasant to hear, but Tang Shiyue didn't care to be angry at the moment: "I went up the mountain and just came back. Doctor Chen, what do you think is the best way to deal with it?"
The village doctor felt the pulse, examined the baby carefully, lifted up his clothes and pressed his stomach before saying, "It's not good! He's had a fever for at least four or five hours, and the baby is too young! It's too late! It's not going to work!"
Tang Shiyue said: "Please, use whatever medicine you have! You must save my sister!"
"Just use it." The village doctor raised his eyelids and said, "You are so arrogant. Can you afford the money?"
Tang Shiyue was anxious and realized something: "How much silver do you need?"
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The village doctor looked at her coldly with a pair of narrow eyes: "Your mother asks me to come over every few days to see her, and every time I write a prescription but don't take the medicine. Although we are all fellow villagers and I don't charge for consultation fees, it's not possible to do this every day. And you, although you are better now, you were also ill in the beginning. Your grandmother is always stingy, I don't know how much you owe me..."
Taking advantage of others’ misfortune!
He is clearly taking advantage of the situation!
Tang Shiyue lowered her eyes, hiding the cold light in them, and begged in a low voice: "Doctor Chen, illness cannot wait, can you treat my sister first?"
"What's the hurry?" The village doctor said, "I'm not saying this to settle old scores with you, I'm just telling you that from now on, you can't take advantage of me! Given your sister's current condition, I can tell you straight away that even if she's sent to the town clinic, they will definitely use a method of clearing the bowels and relieving heat... After one dose of the medicine, it will clear the bowels, relieve the heat, and the fever will go away. It's effective right away, and you're still thanking him! In fact, this move will harm the body of a child of this age, and it will take years for her to recover!"
He washed his hands slowly as he spoke: "My medical skills are not very good, but you won't find anyone better than me. I have two methods. One is what I just said, to clear the bowels and dissipate heat. It only costs two hundred coins. After that, all those warming and tonic medicines will be of little use. You don't have to ask her to drink them. I won't cheat you of your money. The other method is to induce sweating and dissipate the evil, so that the evil heat can be expelled, supplemented with other methods. Although it is a little slower, it will never hurt the child's foundation. I will only charge you three taels of silver."
Tang Shiyue had been observing his expression.
Taking advantage of others' misfortune is certain.
But he was extremely confident when he talked about his medical methods. He probably didn't lie in this regard. At most, he was just selling cheap medicine at a high price.
Tang Shiyue lowered her eyes, her voice seemed to be filled with tears: "Doctor Chen, although I still have a little money on hand, my brother will soon have to pay the tuition. Even if we don't eat or drink, we still have to pay the tuition. Please understand."
"I understand you, do you understand me?" The village doctor sneered. He thought for a moment, then pinched his beard and said, "How about this? I'll only charge you for the medicine, two taels of silver. I heard that you're good at hunting rabbits, so I'll give you five rabbits!"
Seeing Xiao Yaoer's face flushed with fever and her hands and feet twitching from time to time, Tang Shiyue felt very distressed. She really didn't have time to argue with him, so she lowered her head and agreed.
The village doctor waited for her to take out the silver and even wrote an IOU, stating that Tang Shiyue owed him five wild rabbits and had to pay him back within ten days. If she couldn't pay back the money, he would add one rabbit every two days. He also asked her to press her fingerprint.
Seeing that he was taking his time, Tang Shiyue felt both hateful and anxious, but she could only grit her teeth, keep calm and wait.
The village doctor put away the IOU and began to treat Xiao Yaoer. Fortunately, he had a lot of medicine at home and his wife was a skilled helper. He also used wine and needles to assist, and looked very skilled and confident.
Wang had come in at some point and sat beside her, sobbing. Tang Shiyue just watched quietly until the village doctor stopped and she drank the medicine. She felt that her fever had subsided a little. The village doctor then said, "Okay, she will stay with me tonight. One of you can stay to take care of her."
Tang Shiyue nodded, "I'll stay and take care of it." She looked at Wang calmly, "Mother, go back early."
Wang cried twice more before she went back home crying. It was already late at night and she could still hear the crying even when she was quite far away. The village doctor couldn't help but said, "She's crying like this. If you don't know, you would think the child is dead!"
Tang Shiyue didn't say anything, just lowered her head and listened to the village doctor's instructions.
After the village doctor gave his instructions, he closed the door and went to sleep. Tang Shiyue touched his younger sister's forehead from time to time, and saw her humming like a puppy, obviously in pain, and he felt distressed.
Wang is really a top-notch person. Xiaoyaoer has always been obedient and worry-free. She doesn't need to be coaxed at all. She just needs to take care of her. Even this, she can't do it! Xiaoyaoer had a fever for a whole day because of her words! If it was a little later, she might have really burned to death!
So, what the hell is the use of such a mother!? Is she just adding to the trouble?
But no matter whether it is useful or not, whether it causes trouble or not, she can't touch her because she is her biological mother.
Tang Shiyue gritted her teeth, lowered her eyes, took a deep breath, and put the question aside for the time being.
Fortunately, the villagers only knew that she sold the snake tongue grass for ten taels of silver, and no one knew about the eight taels that Grandma Sun gave her. She had spent more than five taels on sundries that day, and now she had spent another two taels. In everyone's eyes, she had no money.
Therefore, you must be careful in the future, no matter what you sell, don’t go with the villagers. A trivial matter will spread all over the city, and even a village doctor will take advantage of the situation to rob!
Of course she can get rich, and she must get rich, but not at this stage. Now, in the eyes of others, she must be difficult and miserable before she can move on to the next step!
But the town was too far away, and it would be difficult for her to go there quietly without going with the villagers...
She suddenly thought of Qi Jing again. How did he usually go to town? He was good at martial arts, so he must have walked there. Otherwise, if she got something in the future, she could ask him to help sell it? And give him a commission?
She still had a lot of things to think about, but her young body couldn't hold on any longer. Her eyelids kept drooping and she fell asleep before she knew it.
When the village doctor and his wife got up in the morning, Xiao Yao'er's fever had subsided. She opened her eyes drowsily and called her, "Sister."
Tang Shiyue hummed, asked a few questions in a low voice, and saw the village doctor lighting a fire to cook porridge, so she went over and said, "Madam Chen, please add more rice and give two bowls to me and my sister. If you make any food, give us some too."
The village doctor rolled her eyes and said, "Young lady, we have to pay to buy rice. Our head of the family is too weak to grow crops. Villagers always delay seeing a doctor. Life is so…"
Tang Shiyue said calmly: "We'll give you money."
"... Life is really hard... huh?" The village doctor's wife came back to her senses and said a little embarrassedly, then smiled and said, "Okay, I'll add more rice and make Hu pancakes this morning. You can come with us, young lady."
Tang Shiyue thanked him lightly.
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