Chapter 638: A Half-Baked Doctor (5)
This reason really convinced the old lady immediately. She nodded and said, "You did the right thing. If you were really caught and sent to fight, you wouldn't know if you could come back alive. Wouldn't your family be cut off from the incense?"
Li Shichu thought, I am an orphan, I don’t even know who my parents are, who should I pass on my teachings to? No need! Even if I want to pass on my teachings, I should pass them on to my master, Doctor Li, who raised me.
"Yes, yes, Auntie, why are you leaving your hometown and where are you going?" Li Shichu nodded and asked.
The old lady took a deep breath and said, "It's a drought. There's no harvest in the fields. If I stay at home, I'll starve to death. I might as well go out and beg for food. As for where to go? I don't know. I'll just go wherever I can."
Li Shichu understood very well. These days, refugees are living today but not tomorrow. Who knows which will come first, death or tomorrow?
While the two of them were still chatting, a young man with a dirty face and as thin as a bamboo pole suddenly rushed over from the front. He ran to Li Shichu in a panic, grabbed her wrist without giving her any explanation, and begged, "Doctor Li, please save my sister!"
Li Shichu looked at him and did not refuse. He ran after her and asked him, "What's going on with your sister?"
"My sister first had a high fever, then she started to have stomachache and then diarrhea. She hasn't eaten anything recently, and her stool was full of blood. Doctor, you must ask her for help..." The thin boy wiped his tears while begging Li Shichu.
Li Shichu said: "I will try my best."
After running for a while, the bamboo boy brought Li Shichu to a small hillock. His sister was lying on a pile of hay with two tattered bundles beside her.
As soon as Li Shichu walked a little closer, he smelled a strong stench coming from the little girl, like the stench of rotten meat.
The skinny boy suppressed his shame and apologized to Li Shichu: "I'm sorry, my sister is very clean, she just got sick and couldn't control her body..."
"Wipe her face clean. I want to see the color of her complexion and lips." Li Shichu ordered.
The young boy quickly took out a clean piece of clothing from his torn bag and started to wipe his sister's face.
"It's okay, doctor. I've seen this kind of situation many times." Li Shichu shook his head and said, without any disgust, he directly grabbed the little girl's skinny wrist and took her pulse.
When the pale, thin face appeared, Li Shichu was stunned for a moment, because she found that she had seen this little face a few months ago. It was the little girl Bai who was bullied by a group of children near Mr. Wang's house.
Unexpectedly, the brother and sister actually escaped, but their luck was not good enough. They fell ill during the escape and almost died.
Li Shichu was just surprised for a moment and then treated the two of them as ordinary people. He looked at Bai Xiaoya's face and lip color, then looked at her tongue coating, and carefully asked the bamboo boy about the specific details of his sister's diet and excrement in recent days.
After understanding the situation, Li Shichu came to the conclusion: "Your sister has dysentery."
When the bamboo-skinned boy heard this, his face immediately lost color. He suppressed the grief in his heart and asked Li Shichu with a glimmer of hope: "Doctor, you can definitely save my sister, right? You are such a good doctor, you must have a way... Please save her, she is still so young..."
The bamboo boy had been fleeing with the refugees for so long, so he had naturally heard how difficult it was to cure dysentery, especially on the road of escape where there was a lack of medicine.
"Don't worry, this is not a difficult disease to cure. Just pay attention to hygiene and take medicine on time. She got this disease because she ate unclean food or drank dirty water." Li Shichu comforted him, and the bamboo boy was not so sad after hearing that.
"But my sister and I eat and drink the same things, so why am I fine?" the boy asked again puzzled.
"It's probably because your body's resistance is stronger than your sister's. Your sister's body is weak to begin with, and she has eaten unclean things, so she is naturally more susceptible to illness than you." Li Shichu explained.
Dysentery is a disease that is easy to treat in later generations. However, it is not easy in ancient times when medical technology is not very developed and patients can only be diagnosed by observation, smell, questioning and palpation. However, this is not a problem for Li Shichu. She took out a pill and stuffed it into Bai Xiaoya's mouth, then said to her brother, "She still needs to take medicine. You should find a way to get her some."
"Thank you, doctor. I will take my sister to buy medicine. I hope you can give my sister a prescription." The bamboo boy said to Li Shichu gratefully.
When Li Shichu heard this, he was a little surprised. He didn't expect him to be so decisive, so he readily gave him a prescription.
The young man took the prescription, took out a few copper coins from his torn bag, and said, "I don't have much money right now, and I have to buy medicine for my sister, so I can only pay these consultation fees. I'm sorry..."
Li Shichu waved his hand and said, "No, I won't charge you for the consultation. Please take your sister away."
The young man hesitated for only a moment, then stopped struggling, and said to Li Shichu solemnly: "I will remember your kindness. If my sister and I can survive in the future, we will definitely repay you. By the way, my sister's name is Bai Xiaoya, and my name is Bai He."
When Li Shichu saw him say this, he did not reject his kindness and said, "Okay, I'll remember it."
The young man then carefully carried his sister on his back, picked up the two torn bags, and finally looked at Li Shichu deeply, then left quickly without looking back.
Li Shichu looked at his bamboo-like figure, yet he could walk so fast while carrying a child and two bags, and couldn't help but marvel at his physique.
After the brother and sister had been gone for a long time, Li Shichu suddenly remembered that the name Bai He was not an unknown person in this world!
She said that it sounded familiar to her. It turned out that Baihe would become a great general in the future and was the one who followed the male and female protagonists and made great military achievements.
But now this future great hero is still on the run.
This should be the time when he and his sister escaped from his uncle and aunt's house.
But his sister didn't show up later. Maybe she died of illness today.
Li Shichu sighed a little, thinking that in these chaotic times, life is like an ant and it is so difficult to survive.
Baihe probably decided to join the resistance army because his sister, who he depended on for everything, was gone and he was left alone.
Li Shichu thought about the future general for a while and felt that it was worth it for him to owe her a favor. She could let him protect her in the future.
Bai He was lucky. He carried his sister on his back for more than three hours and finally arrived at a bustling village. He immediately went to a pharmacy to buy medicine.
Bai Xiaoya was not destined to die. After taking the medicine, her condition gradually improved and she finally escaped from the gates of hell.
(End of this chapter)
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