Yun Duoduo quickly helped the young man who was about to kneel up. He was already weak and could not perform such a grand gesture.
She looked him up and down at his tattered clothes, which were covered in mud and leaves.
“Alas, my father and I were just going to the countryside for a stroll to relax,” Murong Qingge sighed.
"Unfortunately, we were caught in a downpour and couldn't see the road. The driver drove the carriage into a rock, and the two of us jumped out and survived by sheer luck."
"After the rain stopped, my father and I tried to find a way out of the forest, but the fog made it hard to see. We wandered around in the forest for a long time and couldn't find our way out."
"We were both very tired, so we sat down to rest under a tree, when suddenly a green snake appeared behind us."
"I was thinking of staying still and letting the snake go around, but my father caught a cold and sneezed, which startled the snake, and it bit my father."
The young man's voice grew weaker and weaker, so Yun Duoduo quickly asked, "What's your name? Where should we take you after the clinic has treated you?"
"My name is Murong Qingge. My family has a villa in Shengze, near Manyue Bridge."
He fainted after saying that.
“Near Full Moon Bridge, I know where it is,” Liao Ziwan said softly.
"Let's find a clinic first, and hurry up!"
Yun Duoduo shouted to the coachman, who then whipped the horse hard, and the group quickened their pace.
Along the way, Yun Duoduo would occasionally untie the straps tied around the old man's legs to improve blood circulation. After a few minutes of this, she would tie the straps back around the old man's legs near his heart.
Upon arriving at the nearest clinic, Shi Tou and Chu Dunshi carried the young man and his father off the carriage and into the clinic.
"Hey, what's going on?"
The elderly woman in the dark blue dress rushed forward to check on her.
"The old man was bitten by a snake, and the young man sucked the wound with his mouth. We need to prevent the venom from spreading first, and then detoxify him."
Yun Duoduo explained quickly.
“Auntie, these two have been poisoned for a while. You should go and save the younger one. Give him some antidote and he should be saved.”
"I will treat this old man. Please find two people to help me. Thank you."
The old woman in the dark blue dress nodded, gave Yun Duoduo an approving look, and instructed the apprentices in the hall to come and help.
"Is there any manure?"
Yun Duoduo asked the apprentice in black, who paused for a moment without moving.
Yun Duoduo hurriedly said, "This is snake venom. We need to treat yin with yang. Human excrement and urine have the strongest yang energy. If you have any excrement, bring it quickly! Fresh excrement is best!" The apprentice responded and hurriedly went to the backyard to fetch it.
"Bring me the silver needles, and two ropes."
Another assistant jogged over, took a silver needle from the cabinet, and picked up a hanging rope from the wall, handing it to Yun Duoduo.
Yun Duoduo untied the old man's clothes, pricked the snake bite with a silver needle, squeezed out the black blood, and tied the rope to both ends of the wound.
"Bring me sesame oil paper and candles."
Yun Duoduo gave instructions while performing her tasks.
The apprentice at the clinic tore off a piece of sesame oil paper, lit a candle, squatted down, and "twisted the sesame oil paper into a strip, then lit it with the candle to fumigate the wound."
Following Yun Duoduo's instructions, the apprentice used fire to fumigate the wound.
"The manure is here!"
Another apprentice shoveled a shovelful of manure in the backyard, filled it into a bucket, and ran into the house with the bucket. A stench hit them, and everyone covered their mouths and noses.
“Lift his leg up and let the wound soak into the dung bucket.”
The apprentice lifted the old man's leg and stuffed it into the latrine bucket.
Do you have the Detoxifying Purple Gold Pill?
The apprentice nodded, went to the medicine pot, fetched the Purple Gold Pill, and gave it to the old man.
"Alright, now we just need to wait for him to wake up."
Yun Duoduo breathed a sigh of relief, sat down on the stool to rest, and took a big gulp of the tea that the clinic owner handed her.
Seeing the bewildered looks on the faces of the apprentices who had come to help, their eyes filled with confusion, Yun Duoduo smiled and said, "Are you wondering why I'm doing this? Why am I using these things to treat this?"
Seeing the apprentices nod curiously, Yun Duoduo continued, "In the past, when we encountered patients bitten by snakes, we would usually saw off the part below the wound or smoke it out with fire."
"But this old man has been poisoned for a while, so this method won't work."
Yun Duoduo washed her hands in the copper basin and took the towel handed to her by the clinic owner: "According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, for snake bites, you can prick the wound with a needle, squeeze out the black blood, tie both ends with a rope, and soak the wound in dung. This will prevent the poison from entering the body."
"At the same time, fumigating the wound with sesame oil paper and taking Zijin Pill can detoxify the internal poison."
"I see, I've learned something new."
The apprentices bowed repeatedly to Yun Duoduo and then turned to take notes in their notebooks.
Chu Dunshi and Liao Ziwan were also stunned by what they heard and saw, completely bewildered.
"I never expected that the young master could also heal the sick and save lives!"
"Yes, Xiaoduo is really amazing."
Liao Ziwan also spoke highly of Yun Duoduo.
Ah Xiang brought over a basin of hot water and wiped the sweat from Yun Duoduo's forehead.
【That's right, our princess is incredibly capable!】
“Miss, I have already detoxified this young master. The poisoning is not severe; it will take about an incense stick's time for the poison to dissipate from his body. However, he will be a little weak.”
An older woman in a dark blue dress walked over and said to Yun Duoduo.
"Thank you, ma'am. Oh, by the way, how much silver is it, Ah Xiang? Bring me the silver."
Yun Duoduo turned to A Xiang and said, and A Xiang nodded and took the silver pouch off her waist.
"Two taels of silver will do. I've learned something new today; patients with snake venom are quite rare."
"Besides, there are no more people who have been poisoned by snakes and still survive to come to my clinic."
The old woman in dark blue took the silver from Ah Xiang and handed it to the shopkeeper. She then turned and continued, "If you don't mind, young lady, you can come to the inner room for a cup of tea while these two patients wake up."
As she spoke, she led Yun Duoduo into the inner room.
"Thank you very much, Auntie."
Yun Duoduo followed the old lady into the inner room, where they chatted about ancient and modern treatment methods and shared their medical experiences. They got along very well.
"Just call me Aunt Liu. Where are you from? You don't look like locals."
“We’re from the capital, Aunt Liu. You can just call me Xiaoduo.”
"I really can't believe that you are so young, yet your medical skills are already so remarkable!"
"It's all passed down in the family." Yun Duoduo took a big gulp of water.
"Aunt Liu, if you ever come to the capital, you can come to Huichuntang Medical Clinic to find me. Xiaoduo will treat you to some of the capital's specialties!"
"Huichuntang? Very good, very good."
Aunt Liu held Yun Duoduo's hand and liked her very much.
After a while, the apprentice lifted the curtain of the inner room and said to Granny Liu, "Master, the two of them have woken up."
"Okay, let's go take a look."
Murong Qingge had woken up, and his complexion had returned to normal, though he looked somewhat pale and weak, with fine beads of sweat on his forehead.
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