Zhou Xiang and his wife are both in their forties. This daughter is their late-born daughter. She is only six years old this year, twenty-two years younger than her eldest son, and even four years younger than the eldest grandson of the Zhou family. She has been cherished by the couple since she was born.
The main reason is that Fangfang is impossible not to love. She has a very sweet mouth and her words of comfort are free of charge. She often makes the old couple of the Zhou family smile.
Yesterday, Zhou's eldest grandson took Fangfang to Xiaoyang Mountain. There are mostly cemeteries there. Usually, villagers don't let children go there casually, for fear that they might get hurt and lose their souls. But a group of children went there, and Fangfang had a fever when she came back in the evening.
Zhou Xiang's wife discovered it first because Fangfang was crying in her dream. She stood up and planned to hug the child to comfort her. As a result, she found that the child's forehead was burning hot. She was startled and hurriedly woke Zhou Xiang up.
Zhou Xiang's wife laid Fang Fang flat on her back, touched her forehead and armpits, and quickly asked Zhou Xiang to boil some water. "I don't know if it was because of the wind yesterday, but she suddenly had a fever."
Zhou Xiang was also very worried, but his hands did not stop moving at all. There were many children in the Zhou family, so fever was common. They also knew some simple ways to reduce fever, such as drinking more hot water, covering with a quilt to sweat, etc. The family also had antipyretic drugs bought from the health center.
Zhou Xiang's wife first gave Fangfang some warm water, but it was of no use after waiting for a while. Fangfang did not sweat, and the heat could not go away. The child's body was still burning hot.
"Take your medicine!"
Zhou Xiang's wife nodded and asked Zhou Xiang to crush the pills and pour them on a spoon, add a little water, and when the child woke up, she put the pills in her mouth.
Seeing that the medicine was ready, she went over to wake Fangfang up and coaxed her for a long time before she finally got the child to swallow the spoonful of fever-reducing medicine.
By the time it was almost dawn, Fangfang's temperature had finally dropped. The couple breathed a sigh of relief and asked their eldest daughter-in-law to prepare breakfast.
As a result, Fangfang had a fever again before we could even have breakfast, and this time the temperature was even higher than before.
Zhou Xiang's wife couldn't help crying. A high fever can be fatal, especially for Fangfang, a six-year-old child. A high fever is very dangerous.
Zhou Xiang said to his eldest daughter-in-law, "Let's go find Doctor Tian to take a look!"
The eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhou family glanced at her mother-in-law, and seeing that she did not object, she went to Tian Cai's house.
It's no wonder that she had to see her mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law didn't believe in traditional Chinese medicine. In the past, anyone in the family who was sick had to go to the clinic, and they had to take Western medicine. Even though everyone in the village said how effective Dr. Tian's medicine was, her mother-in-law wouldn't allow her family to take it.
When Zhou's eldest daughter-in-law arrived at Tian Cai's house, she saw a hemp rope hanging from the outside of the gate. There was no one at home. She was startled and quickly went to ask the nearest Luo family. Only then did she learn that they were planning to go to Qingshan Village to attend the wedding and had just left not long ago.
Then Zhou's eldest daughter-in-law ran towards the village entrance, hoping to catch up with them before they left.
Tian Cai heard about the situation from Zhou's sister-in-law on the way, and they went home together to get the medicine box. She not only took the Chinese medicine pills and the injection bag, but also the syringe and antipyretic drugs.
When Tian Cai hurried to Zhou's house, Zhou Xiang was squatting at the door of the main hall, grabbing his hair. When he saw Tian Cai coming, he hurriedly welcomed him in.
Zhou Xiang's wife stood up and made way. Tian Cai reached out and touched the little girl's forehead. It was so hot that it was burning. She took out the thermometer, shook it, and pulled aside the little girl's clothes and tucked it under her armpit.
Then she pulled a stool and sat beside the bed to feel the child's pulse. As she felt the pulse, she felt something was wrong and looked at Zhou Xiang's wife. "Is this a high fever caused by fear? Is the child scared?"
"Impossible!" Zhou Xiang's wife said sternly. After hearing this, she looked at Tian Cai and her face immediately turned bad. In fact, it was not very good just now. She rolled her eyes at Tian Cai and was about to say something but was stopped by Zhou Xiang.
Tian Caike didn't care about her expression and continued, "Since the child started to have a fever at night, where did she go during the day? What did she see? Why was she so frightened?"
Zhou Xiang was not as unconvinced by traditional Chinese medicine as his wife. When he heard what Tian Cai said, he began to think seriously. During the day, he went to chat with some old friends and didn't pay attention to where the child had gone. However, most of the time, it was his grandson Daqing who took Fangfang out to play. So he thought of asking Daqing, but as soon as he looked over, Daqing burst into tears.
Zhou Xiang's wife's expression immediately turned even uglier. "Why are you crying?"
Daqing just kept crying and shook his head and refused to say anything.
Tian Cai didn't care about the Zhou family's lawsuit. She took out the thermometer and looked at the temperature on it, 39.1℃. The most urgent thing was to reduce the fever first. It wouldn't work if it continued to burn like this.
She took off the little girl's clothes and covered her with the quilt again before opening the needle bag to disinfect it. She went over the acupuncture points to be pierced in her mind. Only after she was sure that there was no problem did Tian Cai lift the quilt.
This time she inserted the needles very slowly. She would touch the acupoints repeatedly with her hands first, and only insert the needles after making sure they were correct. Soon, Tian Cai inserted needles into Fangfang's Fengchi, Dazhui, Quchi, Hegu and other acupoints.
Then acupuncture was performed on the Shixuan point on her middle finger to let blood, and the blood that came out was black and red.
After Tian Cai finished dealing with the matter, the Zhou family also got the results of their interrogation of Daqing. They learned that he actually led his sister-in-law to the cemetery and encountered a snake there. Mrs. Zhou wanted to strangle this bad boy to death.
Zhou Xiang's wife also knew that she was in the wrong. Not only had she spoken harshly just now, but she had also misunderstood that the other person's medical skills were not good. Now she stopped talking and handed over all the negotiations with Tian Cai to Zhou Xiang.
About twenty minutes later, Tian Cai removed the needles from Fangfang's body one by one and asked Zhou Xiang's wife to put the child's clothes back on. At this time, the temperature of her body was not as hot as when she first came.
As long as the fever subsides a bit, you don't need to take the fever-reducing injection.
After a while, the temperature dropped a little, and the little girl opened her eyes drowsily, "Mom."
"Oh! My darling, you finally woke up." Zhou Xiang's wife couldn't help but hugged Fangfang and cried.
"Mom, don't worry about me. I'm fine," Fangfang wiped her mother's tears and said weakly, "I still have to take care of you and my dad in our old age. I'm sure everything will be fine!"
"Umm, umm, umm" Zhou Xiang's wife cried even harder.
Even Zhou Xiang couldn't help wiping away tears.
Tian Cai: "...Her fever has subsided. Please try to calm her down for the next few days. I'll prescribe some calming medicine for her. It will only take two days. I don't have any medicine with me. Someone please come with me to get it later."
"I'll go with you later." Mrs. Zhou said hurriedly. It was all her son's fault.
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