Chapter 79 Chapter 79 Poisoning
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Shanping County gradually felt the bleakness of autumn and the weather began to turn cooler.
When the weather changed, Fu Wenxiao fell ill again.
But this time he was not too ill. At least he was conscious, unlike when he just got married, when he was seriously ill and mentally ill.
Doctor Xu was brought from the county by Yu Li. After checking Fu Wenxiao's pulse, he said in surprise, "Mr. Fu's health seems to be getting better."
Zhou was so anxious that she reminded him, "Doctor Xu, Xiao is sick."
A person is sick, but the doctor says he is getting better. How can this be called getting better? If he was getting better, he wouldn't be sick anymore.
Doctor Xu knew that at times like this, the emotions of the patient's family members were generally very unstable, and some of them were even so anxious that they would resort to violence.
As a doctor, I have encountered such situations too many times and have long been able to face them calmly.
What's more, he is an old man who has reached the age of 50. Facing these patients, he is more tolerant and does not care about it.
Doctor Xu smiled and said, "Look at Mr. Fu's spirits during his illness. It's rare. It shows that his health is getting better."
Zhou was stunned and turned to look at Fu Wenxiao.
I saw that he was not lying down, but sitting there, with a sickly flush on his pale face, and he was indeed awake.
When Yu Li got up in the morning, he found that his forehead was a little hot.
I guess it was because the wind blew last night and he was sitting by the window watching her practice physical skills, which caused him to start having a fever in the middle of the night.
After Yu Li found out, he quickly transferred some supernatural powers to him.
Unfortunately, her special powers were too limited to cure his illness immediately, so she had to ask the doctor to come and see him and prescribe some medicine for him.
Zhou waited anxiously for Yu to leave for the county town to call a doctor, and came to check on him from time to time.
She breathed a sigh of relief when she found out it was just a low-grade fever.
But she was not too reassured. Every time Fu Wenxiao fell ill, no matter what the condition was, she was terrified, fearing that he would not be able to survive.
After the examination, Doctor Xu did not need to prescribe any medicine. He gave the medicine bag he brought with him to Zhou and asked her to take a dose to boil the medicine.
In the past few years, he has become the doctor specifically responsible for Fu Wenxiao's health, and he knows his physical condition like the back of his hand. After learning about his condition from Yu Li, he roughly knows what medicine to prescribe for him, and he brings it to Yu Li, saving him the trouble of going to the county town to get the medicine.
Wait until he confirms Fu Wenxiao's condition. If the medicine he brings is suitable, that'll be good.
If there is any deviation, the family members will have to make an extra trip to the county town to get the medicine again.
After Zhou went to boil the medicine, Doctor Xu did not leave in a hurry. He looked at Fu Wenxiao on the bed and asked, "I wonder if Mr. Fu has taken any other medicine in the past few months?"
"No." Fu Wenxiao said calmly.
Doctor Xu pondered and said, "According to my previous speculation, your body can only last until this winter..."
Doctor Xu first met Fu Wenxiao in the spring three years ago.
It was a rainy day. A carriage brought Fu Wenxiao to the clinic. He was lying in a coma at the time. In order to treat him, Doctor Xu let him stay in the clinic for a few days and treated him wholeheartedly.
It was not until three days later that Fu Wenxiao finally woke up.
At that time, Doctor Xu felt that his physical condition was very strange. He looked like he was sick, as if he had just caught a cold, but in fact, it was not the case.
There seemed to be a lingering chill in his body, destroying it. His body became weak and cold little by little, starting from his meridians, until his internal organs were corroded by the cold and his life force was cut off.
This doesn't feel like an illness, it feels more like poisoning.
Unfortunately, he was not well-trained and could not tell what kind of poison it was, so he could only suppress it with medicine.
It could be suppressed at the beginning, but as time went on, the medicine couldn't suppress it anymore. We could only try to nourish his body so that his body could withstand the spread of the cold poison.
Of course, every time the cold poison attacks, it is the most difficult time, and it is also the time when his body is the weakest. He is prone to illness, and he will be affected by colds, fevers, etc.
At the beginning of this year, just after the Chinese New Year, Fu Wenxiao fell seriously ill again.
Doctor Xu was invited over and after examining him, he found that his body was becoming increasingly weaker and weaker. He concluded at that time that if his condition continued to deteriorate, he might not survive this winter.
Perhaps when the first snow of early winter falls, the cold snow will trigger the cold poison in his body, and all his meridians and internal organs will be frozen.
It is also the date of his death.
Doctor Xu sighed in his heart.
He could see that Fu Wenxiao's background was not simple. Such a brilliant person could not be cultivated by an ordinary family.
Unfortunately, he has an unfortunate fate and is destined not to live long.
However, everything seems to have changed this summer.
Whenever summer comes, it is not a good thing for Fu Wenxiao. The cold poison in his body has been spreading, and the heat has been eroding him. The alternation of cold and heat will increase the burden on his body.
Sure enough, shortly after the summer began, he was in a coma for more than half a month. Fortunately, he finally woke up, which shows that he had a strong desire to survive.
Unfortunately, no matter how strong his desire to survive was, it was useless because his body couldn't hold on.
Doctor Xu had not expected that the Fu family would find a wife for Fu Wenxiao to bring him home as a blessing for his good fortune, and this blessing seemed to have really brought about happiness.
It has been quite a while since he last came here.
This is also the reason why Doctor Xu found that his pulse had changed so much when he took his pulse this time. The coldness that was about to invade his internal organs actually showed signs of subsiding.
Doctor Xu wondered if there was some skilled doctor treating him, or if Fu Wenxiao had taken other medicine that was suitable for his condition.
Otherwise, why would his health show signs of improvement?
How strange.
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Seeing that he denied it, Doctor Xu speculated: "Could it be that Mr. Fu found some miracle doctor?"
His eyes lit up and he looked at Fu Wenxiao expectantly.
If there really is a miracle doctor, he would like to ask him about Fu Wenxiao's illness, so that if he encounters this situation again in the future, he will know how to treat it.
He practiced medicine all his life and was extremely interested in difficult and complicated diseases. Every time he encountered a case, he wanted to understand it thoroughly, record it in a book, and compile it into a medical book.
This will also benefit future generations.
Fu Wenxiao laughed, "Doctor Xu, do you think there will be a miracle doctor in a place like Qingshi Village?"
Doctor Xu hesitated for a moment, then shook his head.
A miracle doctor wouldn't come to such a remote place, would he? If a miracle doctor really came, he would definitely have heard about it in the county. Life and death are always big things. If a miracle doctor saves a dying person, the news will always spread quickly.
"Is there really no miracle doctor?"
Doctor Xu confirmed again and again, and was very disappointed when he learned that there really was no miracle doctor.
"That's strange." He looked at Fu Wenxiao, puzzled, "Why did your body suddenly get better? Could it be that the cold poison will disappear on its own after a certain period of time..."
Because he was still running a fever, Fu Wenxiao's face was slightly red and he was very clear-headed.
After hearing what Doctor Xu said, he said nothing.
Perhaps there is a "miracle doctor", but she is not a miracle doctor in the universal sense. Her special features cannot be revealed to the outside world, and he does not want to expose her to the possibility of being hurt.
After confirming that Fu Wenxiao's condition was not bad and that he only needed to take some medicine to induce sweating and lower his temperature, Doctor Xu did not stay long.
Yu Li personally saw him off and took him to the riverside pier at the entrance of the village.
On the way, Doctor Xu couldn't help but ask her, "Madam Fu, has Mr. Fu really not taken any other medicine recently?"
"No, I've always been taking the medicine you prescribed." Yu Li said, looking at him and felt that the medicine prescribed by Doctor Xu was really unpalatable.
I wonder if all medicines prescribed by doctors taste so bad.
Doctor Xu saw the foolish clarity in her eyes and knew at first glance that she was a simple and gullible young girl, which made people want to ask her some questions.
He told her that Fu Wenxiao was not going to survive the winter, and then added: "I didn't expect that when I came here this time, I found that his health was actually getting better..."
"Then he won't die, right?" Yu Li asked bluntly.
Doctor Xu said, "Of course not, but his vitality has been severely damaged. He still needs to take good care of his body in the future, otherwise it will affect his life span."
I’m afraid I won’t live long by then.
Yu Li said "oh" with a calm expression, looking as if he accepted it, but also as if he didn't.
Doctor Xu took one look at her and realized that this girl was not so easy to fool.
Yu Li sent Doctor Xu onto Wang the boat and paid four cents, asking Wang the boatman to take Doctor Xu safely to the county town.
Wang the boatman smiled and said, "Don't worry, Li Niang, I will take Doctor Xu to the county town safely."
After seeing Doctor Xu off, Yu Li also returned home.
When they met some villagers on the way, they all asked with concern whether Fu Wenxiao was sick. As long as they saw Doctor Xu coming to the village, they knew that it must be the scholar from the Fu family who was sick again.
Yu Li responded, and then added: "It's not serious this time, just a little fever, just take a few doses of medicine."
Everyone smiled and said that everything was fine. It seemed that Fu Shusheng was in better health now. But as soon as she left, they all felt sorry for her behind her back.
"Li Niang is so pitiful. She married a sickly man. No matter how rich the Fu family is, she is still a burden."
"Yes, if one day Mr. Fu... doesn't have a capable man, and the family is full of old and young, with only Li Niang as a young girl, I'm afraid she won't be able to handle it."
"Indeed, just like the man that Li Niang's eldest aunt married, no matter how bad he is, you have to put up with him! Otherwise, there will be no capable man in the family, only a few women, and one of them is lame and useless. What can they do?"
"Speaking of which, Li Niang's eldest aunt also had a miserable life. She married a man who gambled and whored with prostitutes. Whenever she had some money, she would use it to find a lover in the city. She didn't care that her wife and children at home had no food to eat. If you didn't give her money, she would beat and scold her. How pitiful..."
"It would have been better if Li Niang's eldest aunt hadn't married that guy surnamed Sun."
"There's nothing we can do about it. The Sun family gave the most betrothal gifts back then, so Li Niang's grandmother would definitely choose the one with the most betrothal gifts. She doesn't care what kind of person the other person is. Isn't that how all women get through life anyway?"
"If I were to marry a man like this, I'd rather marry a sickly woman."
"That's true..."
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Yu Li was unaware of what the villagers were talking about. When he was almost home, he met a thin, dark man.
He stood by the road, looking at the Fu family not far away, and waved at her, "Li Niang, come here."
"Uncle Ergou." Yu Li called out to him.
Gradually she was able to match the people in this village with her memory. She knew that Uncle Ergou was an honest man just like Yu Laoer. However, he was luckier than Yu Laoer. He did not have a biased mother, and his wife was very fierce. No one dared to bully their family.
Uncle Ergou said, "Mother Li, the night before the Mid-Autumn Festival, three yamen runners came to our village and asked me where the Fu family was..."
He felt a little guilty when he said this.
He didn't know what the three yamen runners wanted to do with the Fu family, and he felt a little guilty for not having the courage to inform the Fu family.
He didn't sleep well that night.
Fortunately, the next day, he went around to the Fu family to take a look and asked his wife to pay attention. He learned that the Fu family was the same as usual. Zhou was still taking clothes to the river to wash in the morning. It seemed that nothing was wrong. He finally felt relieved.
Their family didn't tell anyone about this.
Thinking about it afterwards, he felt that the three yamen runners looked ferocious and he didn't know what they were doing here.
When he met Yu Li now, he wanted to ask her and express his guilt to her at the same time.
After hearing this, Yu Li waved at him and said, "It's okay. Actually, they are here to give me something."
It's just sending things, and they are sending themselves to her door to be beaten.
Uncle Ergou looked at her blankly, very surprised, "What are you sending?" How could a yamen runner actually send her something?
Yu Li said calmly, "It's a Mid-Autumn Festival gift."
"Ah? Could it be that the Fu family knows the bailiffs in the county town?" This was all Uncle Ergou could think of.
Yu Li nodded, "Yes."
Yu Li said this because he wanted to add some capital to the Fu family and let people know that the Fu family knew the yamen runners in the county.
If one day in the future she goes out to suppress bandits and is not at home, she will not be afraid of anyone bullying her mother-in-law.
My mother-in-law is too gentle and always thinks the best of others, which makes her suffer losses easily.
Fortunately, she didn't like dealing with the villagers. The Fu family's fields were rented to the villagers for cultivation, so she didn't have to argue with others over trivial matters.
Even so, my mother-in-law is occasionally bullied.
This won’t do. Her mother-in-law is so nice, how can she be bullied?
Whenever she thought about her mother-in-law, Yan Hui, Yan Sheng and others being bullied when she was not at home, she felt that she should do something just in case.
It’s unknown when Fu Wenxiao’s illness will be cured, so we can’t rely on him.
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Fu Wenxiao drank the medicine, took another nap, and when he woke up, he was sweating all over and his fever had finally subsided.
As the temperature on his face dropped, his face looked pale, his hair was disheveled, and he looked a rare bit decadent, with a sickly weird feeling.
Yu Li looked at him and said seriously, "The doctor said that even if you recover from your illness, your life span will be affected. When you recover, you must practice physical exercises to strengthen your body. Not only will you not get sick again, but you will also be able to prolong your life."
If this person can only live to forty years old, that would be too short.
Fu Wenxiao agreed with a smile.
Yu Li continued, "There are also Yan Hui and Yan Sheng. They will be five years old next year and they will also need to practice."
Children are weak and prone to illness, so they also need to practice, and they can practice as early as five years old. Her three younger sisters also need to practice, and she will draw pictures in the future and let them practice at home.
Fu Wenxiao looked at her with a smile, and when he saw that she had arranged everything, he said that he would listen to her.
Then he asked again: "Mom, do you want to practice?"
She showed hesitation on her face. "Well, it depends on whether Mom wants to practice or not. If Mom feels too tired, it's okay if she doesn't practice."
At worst, when Zhou gets older, she can use her special powers to regulate her body.
With her around, Zhou will surely live a long life.
Fu Wenxiao looked a little strange. He looked at her and had to admit that in Li Niang's heart, her mother was the most important.
Although I had long noticed that she was more partial to Zhou, I never expected her to be so biased.
However, when he thought about how much she valued food and how Zhou would cook delicious food for her, he understood a little.
It seems that he will have to learn cooking in the future.
He felt that he was quite smart and should be able to learn it, right?
Yu Li didn't know what Fu Wenxiao was thinking. After the medicine was ready, she watched him drink it, then let him have a good rest while she went to the main room to eat.
After dinner, Yu Jin, Yu Yin and Yu Zhu came over.
When the three sisters heard that Fu Wenxiao was ill, they came to visit their brother-in-law and gave them some persimmons grown in their backyard. These persimmons were ripened with orange stalks and were particularly crisp, sweet and delicious.
Zhou invited them in with a smile, poured them some water, washed the persimmons they brought, and then peeled a persimmon for Yu Li.
It was Yu Li’s first time eating persimmon, and he loved it as soon as he took a bite.
"I picked these with my second and third sisters," Yuzhu said happily, "Persimmons grown from the bush are the sweetest and most delicious."
Yu Li nodded in agreement, "It is indeed delicious."
Yu Li ate several persimmons in a row and couldn't stop. However, Zhou said that persimmons are cold in nature and asked her not to eat too many.
Yu Li agreed verbally.
After Zhou left, she couldn't help but peel another one and eat it.
Seeing that she loved to eat them, the Yu Jin sisters whispered, "Big sister, we picked a lot and put them in a small jar. When they are ripe, we will send them to you."
"OK."
Yu Li nodded happily, took the snacks from the cupboard and let his sisters have some.
The sisters sat together eating snacks and chatting.
"Sister, how is your brother-in-law?" Yu Jin asked with concern.
Yu Li said: "It's just a cold, it's nothing."
"That's good!"
The three sisters were relieved, for they were afraid that their brother-in-law would die one day and their eldest sister would become a widow. Although being a widow was nothing and did not affect their eldest sister's power, there were always people who would say unpleasant things.
Besides, Aunt Zhou is such a kind person, and they don’t want her to be sad and see her son die before her.
Knowing that Fu Wenxiao was fine, the three sisters felt relieved.
It's a rare opportunity for me to come here to see my elder sister, so I wasn't in a hurry to leave. I sat down with her to eat and chat, and then we talked about things in the county.
"Sister, recently many managers at the dock have been replaced by the county magistrate." Yu Jin's eyes sparkled, "They are all the managers who exploited people severely. I heard that they were all put in jail. It seems that they want to find out how much money they have embezzled and what bad things they have done."
Yu Yin and Yu Zhu stared at her with wide eyes, curiously.
Yu Li ate persimmons without saying a word.
She knew all these things. Sometimes when she met Ge Yayi and his men on the road, they would say a few words to her to let her know the situation.
Because Xuan Huaiqing personally went to raise the matter with Magistrate Zhang, Magistrate Zhang did not dare to offend the young general of the Xuan family, fearing that he would send people to investigate, so he had to take drastic measures to rectify the dock.
As for the rectification of official administration, there is no news yet.
I don't know whether Xuan Huaiqing is too busy to do it or Magistrate Zhang doesn't have the courage to do it.
"The situation at the dock has improved now. The porters can get a lot of money every day. Now that they have money, they are more generous in buying things. We don't even have enough rice balls to sell..."
Yu Jin was very distressed when he said this.
She felt that this was not a good way to go. It felt terrible not being able to make money. However, the amount of coarse-grain rice that she and her mother could bring to the county town was limited, so there was no way she could sell more even if she wanted to.
Thinking of something, Yu Jin asked Yu Li: "Sister, what do you think about me renting a house in the county town?"
"What?"
Before Yu Li could say anything, his two sisters were stunned.
They had never thought that they could rent a house in the county town, so when they heard her suddenly mention it, they instinctively couldn't believe it.
Yu Jin said, "We have to carry the grain rice to the county town every day. It costs eight cents to take a boat, which costs more than two hundred cents a month. Moreover, the amount of grain we can carry is limited, so we can't sell more even if we want to... Why not rent a house in the county town? It doesn't have to be too big, just a small house will do. Then we can make more grain rice every day, and also make other food to sell..."
Yu Jin's eyes lit up when he said this.
Food is the most important thing for people. You can make money by eating three meals a day.
She found that as long as she was willing to work hard, it was very easy to make money in the county town. In addition, there was no exploitation at the dock, and the yamen runners and managers did not dare to eat without paying, so her business even improved.
Yu Li listened silently, and when she finished speaking, he said, "That's great, just do it if you want to."
She didn't know how to do business, but seeing that her sister was doing well, she naturally supported her.
Yu Jin said happily, "Since you said so, I'll go find a house when I have time."
Yu Li: "You can ask Ge Yayi and others for help."
Yu Jin hesitated, "Isn't it bad?"
She didn't know that her sister had gone to suppress bandits on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and that her sister had beaten the three yamen runners into submission. She wished she could worship her sister as a bodhisattva, and was always afraid that people would know that her sister had beaten Manager Cui. Every time she met Yamen Ge and the others, she didn't dare to talk to them, for fear that people would find out that she knew them.
"It's okay, just go and look for it." Yu Li said casually.
After hearing what she said, Yu Jin said that he would go find them when he had time.
Yu Yin and Yu Zhu were extremely surprised as they listened to their two sisters talking.
The eldest and second sisters actually know the yamen runners?
So awesome!
Yu Jin pinched their faces and said with a smile, "Don't tell anyone about this."
There are advantages and disadvantages to knowing the yamen runners, so it’s better not to let anyone know for now.
Both sisters were obedient and nodded nicely.
Yu Jin couldn't help but smile.
Since she went to the county town to do business, the more she saw and experienced, the more confident she became, and the more she dared to think and act.
No one knows how much money she has made. It looks like a small business and she earns money through hard work, but in fact, this business is quite profitable.
Grains are not valuable, and they are grown by ourselves. Offal is not valuable either. Only spices and sugar are more expensive. However, the spices do not need to be too complicated, a few will be enough. We can even pick star anise and bay leaves in the mountains, dry them and keep them for later use. We don't have to buy them.
This can make more money than you think.
Otherwise, Yu Jin would not have come up with the idea of renting a house in the county town. At that time, he could study more food, sell it for a few more hours, and earn more money.
As it got dark, Yu Jin and her two sisters left.
Yu Li personally saw them out.
When leaving the Fu family, Yu Jin thought of something and said, "Sister, I heard that two cousins from my uncle's family are sick."
Yu Li: “Hmm?”
"Someone from the village went to the city and met my uncle, and then he came back and told my grandparents. My grandparents were so anxious that they took Sister Qin to the city to visit my cousin the next day. But they didn't expect that only my grandparents came back, and Sister Qin didn't come back..."
Speaking of this, Yu Jin found it funny.
Although no one knew why Yuqin stayed in the county town and didn't come back, but after Yuqin left, no one from the eldest branch of the family was left in the village. Only the old couple had to take care of the eldest branch's land, and they were almost exhausted.
These days, Old Mrs. Yu has been scolding Chen and Yu Qin at home every day.
But no matter how much she scolded them, it was of no use. They just wouldn't come back. They didn't even want the crops in the fields. Anyway, they wouldn't starve to death if they didn't come back to harvest.
The old couple felt sorry for the crops in the fields, so they had to ask people to help with the harvest.
Yu Li didn't say anything, nor did she tell her sisters that she was the culprit who made Yu Jingde and his brother sick.
However, apart from scolding Chen's mother and daughter, Old Lady Yu did not scold her indirectly. It was probably because Yu Jingde and his brothers were too proud to tell their family the reason for their illness.
Yu Jin said: "But it's really strange. I don't know what disease they have. Why did they get sick at the same time? I heard that they have been in a bad temper recently. Grandma said that they have suffered a lot, and they scolded uncle and aunt, saying that they, as parents, did not take good care of the children and caused the two cousins to get sick. Even if they have a bad temper and want to scold people, they asked uncle and aunt to be patient..."
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