Tian Cai carried the person into the village without stopping, and met Zhang Defa as soon as he entered the village.
"What's going on?" Zhang Defa saw Tian Cai carrying someone on his back and hurried over. He immediately recognized the person on Tian Cai's back and said anxiously, "What's wrong with Qin? Come to me, I'll carry him."
"No need, uncle." Tian Cai nodded the rope that tied him to the man with his chin. "It's too troublesome to change people. Please help me open the gate in front. I can hold on for a while."
"Okay, okay, I'll go open the door right away!" Zhang Defa originally wanted to ask Tian Cai to send the person to him, but then he thought it was closer here. He didn't know what the situation was at the moment, and it would be more convenient in case he needed any medicinal herbs. So he hurriedly trotted to open the door.
Tian Cai entered the house unhindered and asked Zhang Defa to pull the examination bed away from the fire wall. Then, with his help, he untied the belt and helped the patient lean on the examination bed. Only then did he have time to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
Cai Ping had taught her before that after catching a severe cold, one should not immediately sit by the fire or go to a particularly warm place, as this would easily cause anger. The temperature needed to be raised little by little to minimize the damage.
Tian Cai went back to the house and pulled an old quilt aside. "Uncle Zhang, help him take off his wet clothes and rub his body with snow. I'll make some ginger soup to drive away the cold."
"Okay, okay, you go ahead and leave it to me." Zhang Defa waved at her and made sure that Qinling would not fall before going behind the house to fill a basin with snow.
The snow has almost melted, only some snowflakes can still be seen behind the house.
Tian Cai took out two pieces of ginger from the cupboard, cut them into small slices and put them in a pot to boil water.
After boiling it several times, Tian Cai was afraid that the man could not be saved, so she added a drop of dew into it. When she estimated that the house should be almost done, she carried it into the main room.
Zhang Defa took off the man's shirt, rubbed snow on his chest and back, and even wiped the mud marks on his face with a rag. It was only then that Tian Cai discovered that the man who lent her the bamboo basket had very good facial features.
He didn't pay attention when Zhang Defa called his name just now. What was it?
"Here, give it to me," Zhang Defa took the ginger soup from Tian Cai's hand. "I took the temperature and ordered it. Would you like to take a look?"
Tian Cai placed his hand on the exposed pale wrist and felt it for a while. "It's a bit stronger. Drinking some ginger soup should make it better."
The two of them worked together to lift the man up from the bed. Tian Cai pressed the acupoints on his neck to force him to open his tightly closed lips, and then poured the whole bowl of ginger soup into him bit by bit.
Only after putting the man back on the bed did Zhang Defa have time to ask what had happened.
Tian Cai said that he came across the man lying by the river while strolling up the mountain, and then he described the situation at that time. While speaking, he cleaned the wound on the man's forehead and bandaged it with medicine.
From the time he drank the ginger soup to the time Tian Cai finished treating his wound, it took only a short while for the man's body temperature to rise significantly. When Tian Cai covered him with her hand again, his pulse was much stronger. She smiled and said, "It's working."
Zhang Defa finally let go of the worry he had been holding since just now, and his tightly furrowed brows loosened a little. "This kid's life is already hard enough. Now he's the only child left in the Qin family. If anything happens to him, I don't know how I'm going to explain it to his father after I die. Sigh!"
As soon as Tian Cai heard that the man's surname was Qin, he knew who it was. There was only one family with the surname Qin in the village. Isn't this the person that Liu Guihua said was unlucky to his parents?
"He's definitely going to have a fever tonight. Since there's no one to take care of him at home, let him stay with me for the night. There's room for a bed anyway."
She is the village doctor and can handle any emergencies at night in a timely manner.
Zhang Defa frowned and thought for a while. Looking at the current situation in Qinling, he might not be able to handle it, and there was really no better way.
"Okay, let's keep him here for now. When he gets better, bring him to me. I'll explain everything to the villagers tomorrow to prevent anyone from gossiping about him."
After seeing Zhang Defa off, Tian Cai realized that she was already starving. She went to the kitchen and cooked a pot of sweet potato porridge, then hung the man's clothes by the fire to dry.
As for the mud on it, wait until it dries a little and knock it a little, then let him wear it back and wash it himself.
After the porridge was ready, she served herself a small dish of kimchi and started eating it with the roasted sweet potatoes left over from the day.
Before going to bed, Tian Cai gave the man some medicine for colds. She had been very busy all day and fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.
When Qin Ling opened his eyes, it was already late at night. His mind was blank and his eyes were empty.
It took him a long time to blink and realize that he was still alive?
He didn't know where he was. He moved slightly and the bed under him creaked. It was pitch black around him and there was not a trace of wind. He couldn't be in the woods.
Tian Cai opened her eyes the moment the sound came from the examination bed. In the darkness, she listened quietly for a while.
The breathing sound of the person in the main room changed, and it was confirmed that the person had woken up, so he asked, "Are you awake?"
The sudden female voice startled Qin Ling.
While he was hesitating whether to speak, Tian Cai had already gotten off the kang, put on her clothes, and walked to the table in the dark, lit the oil lamp, and walked outside. As soon as she lifted the door curtain, she met a pair of dark eyes.
The eyes that had been tightly closed before were now open. It was hard to imagine that under his messy hair, he actually had a pair of beautiful eyes.
Fan-shaped double eyelids and thick eyelashes.
"You were injured and fainted in the mountains, so I brought you back. This is my home." Tian Cai didn't expect him to respond, so after explaining everything clearly, he asked, "How do you feel now? Are you feeling unwell?"
The man lowered his eyelids, his Adam's apple moved, and he whispered hoarsely, "Thank you."
Tian Cai casually placed the dried jacket beside his bed and estimated the time. "Since you're awake, eat some porridge first and then take the medicine later."
Having said that, without waiting for him to refuse, she went to the kitchen and brought over the sweet potato porridge that had been warming in the pot.
When she came back, the man had already sat up and put on the shirt next to him, with his shoulders leaning against the wall, thinking about something.
When the man smelled the sweet aroma of the sweet potato porridge, his already empty stomach began to rebel, making gurgling sounds that were particularly obvious in the silent night.
The words of refusal that were on the tip of his tongue could not be uttered, so he quietly thanked him and took the bowl and chopsticks.
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