Lin Yinan looked closely and saw that the woman was carrying a huge basket on her back and the man was holding a child in his arms.
"Third Madam, are Doctor Lü and Doctor Lin here?" Yun Yi stopped in front of Lin Yinan and bowed to her.
As the couple approached, Lin Yinan saw that the child the man was holding was extremely thin, with an unnatural red flush on his cheeks.
Upon hearing Yun Yi call Lin Yinan "Madam," the man guessed that she was in charge. Holding the child, he knelt down in front of her with a thud. Even on the hard bluestone slab, Lin Yinan felt pain for him.
The man knelt down, and the woman, with her back hunched, followed suit.
"What's wrong?" Lin Yinan quickly took two steps back and asked.
"Madam, please save my child! He's had a fever for days, and we've tried so many things, but nothing works," the woman pleaded, tears streaming down her face.
Yun leaned closer and whispered in her ear, "They are mountain people who fled to the mountains."
Lin Yinan understood the situation and quickly said, "Get up. Yun Wu is in the backyard. Come with me."
It's been raining these past few days, and many people have caught a chill from the rain. The amount of medicinal herbs needed has been quite large, so doctors Lü and Lin took advantage of the good weather and went up the mountain early in the morning to collect herbs.
Yunwu was drying the herbs he had collected during his patrols in the backyard.
Yunwu had the man carry the child to a wooden bed in the consultation room of doctors Lü and Lin, and took the child's thin little hand to take his pulse.
The couple stared wide-eyed, not daring to breathe.
After settling the couple in, Yun Yi hurriedly left to report the matter to Yun Ye.
After a while, Yun Wu listened to the pulse and looked at the couple, "Has the child been caught in the rain?"
The couple looked at each other, and the wife nodded hurriedly, "The hail destroyed the house, and we were soaked all night."
Lin Yinan stared at them, and the couple lowered their heads in shame.
"The child was attacked by wind and cold, which caused fever and chills. I first gave him acupuncture, then prescribed oral medicine to see if it could reduce the fever."
Yun Wu sat at the table, writing a prescription. "How old is the child?"
The woman whispered, "She's five years old."
Lin Yinan was stunned. The child looked no more than three years old, but was actually five.
After Yunwu finished writing, he personally picked out the medicine from the medicine cabinet in the room, and handed it to the woman.
"There's a small room next door where you can boil medicine. Take the medicine there and boil it."
After briefly instructing the woman on how to decoct the medicine, Yunwu took out his silver needle pouch and carefully wiped it with a clean handkerchief.
“Take off his clothes,” he said to the man.
The man obediently stepped forward to help the child take off his clothes.
As the child's clothes were removed, perhaps because she was about to become a mother, Lin Yinan felt a pang of sadness. The tiny child was just skin and bones.
"How did you get so thin?" Yun Wu frowned in displeasure.
The man wrung his hands nervously. "When my wife was pregnant with him, the Japanese pirates came. We didn't have time to take anything and hurriedly fled to the mountains. My wife gave birth to him prematurely, and she didn't have enough breast milk. The conditions on the mountain were also bad, so..."
The man turned his face away, covered his eyes with his palm, and trembled.
It's all because he's such a useless father!
In a small room next to the pharmacy, a woman was also sobbing softly.
While waiting, Lin Yinan left the pharmacy and went to the front dining hall to tell Zhang to make two extra bowls of rice to send to the couple.
How long are they going to stay here?
It wasn't that Zhang was heartless; she was just a little distressed about the grain, since the fields hadn't been planted yet.
Lin Yinan: "The child will leave once he wakes up."
As for whether the child can survive, it depends on his parents' abilities. Although she felt sorry for the child, she was powerless to help.
She thought, "I probably won't survive."
In the evening, Lin Yinan went to the pharmacy again to see the child.
The child's fever did not subside even after taking the medicine.
In the afternoon, doctors Lü and Lin also examined the child and both shook their heads, saying that the child would likely not make it through the night.
Dr. Lü meant that the child was too thin and weak, and the medicine he was given was completely ineffective.
The couple stood beside their child, utterly distraught, their faces showing not only grief but also numbness.
They had long anticipated this day would come, ever since their child was born.
Lin Yinan returned to her room, took out the children's fever reducer she had stockpiled in the modern world from her spatial storage, and poured a bottle of glucose into a porcelain bottle.
When they arrived at the pharmacy again, Yun Wu was there to keep watch, but neither Doctor Lü nor Doctor Lin were there.
“I have a bottle of family-inherited medicine that might work for him. Would you like to give it a try?” Lin Yinan said in a cool voice.
She's someone who's survived the apocalypse. No matter how tough life was in the mountains, it's truly a shame that the couple raised their child like this!
But at this moment, she was overwhelmed with compassion and wanted to save this poor, innocent little life.
The woman stiffly turned to look at Lin Yinan. Before the man could speak, she hurriedly said, "Try! I must try! Please, Madam, save my child."
Yun Wu came over to help, knowing that the Third Madam always had some strange ancestral medicines.
"Pry open his mouth."
Lin Yinan unscrewed the antipyretic, took out a dropper, and squeezed it into the child's mouth. The child was still conscious of swallowing, and quickly swallowed the antipyretic.
It was the first time the three of them had seen the red liquid. Although they were curious, none of them asked any questions.
"You need to administer this medicine to him in three doses. The medicine is very expensive, so don't take it out."
Lin Yinan handed the woman the glucose bottle.
The glucose would have been more effective if injected intravenously, but children's veins are naturally thin, and even in a prosperous society, inexperienced nurses cannot always get the needle in place on the first try.
Lin Yinan, who is not a medical professional, felt that she did not have the ability to treat her child who had become so thin.
He took the fever reducer and drank some glucose to replenish his electrolytes. As for whether he will wake up, we can only leave it to fate.
"Thank you, Madam!"
The couple knelt down and kowtowed several times to Lin Yinan.
night.
The dark night enveloped the earth, the starlight was dim, and the sky looked like a giant beast with its mouth wide open.
Lin Yinan stood by the window, quietly watching the swaying shadows of the trees outside.
She remembered that at the beginning of the apocalypse, all the water and electricity were cut off, and it took her a long time to get used to the days without water, electricity, and any light at night.
Later on, even when the house was surrounded by zombies, she was able to fall asleep peacefully amidst their howls and screams.
Chika was sewing baby clothes by the dim candlelight.
"Qianxia, stop doing that, be careful of your eyes," Lin Yinan advised. At this time, she probably didn't have glasses yet.
Qianxia looked up and smiled slightly at her, "It'll be done soon, just two more injections."
After offering his advice, Lin Yinan turned away and stopped talking, becoming lost in her own thoughts.
She was thinking about what she needed to do next.
Lost in thought, he put on an extra coat.
Qianxia had put away her sewing basket at some point and brought her clothes.
Lin Yinan's brows relaxed. "Qianxia, it's late. You should go back and rest!"
"But young master..."
Lin Yinan smiled faintly, "The son-in-law is back."
As soon as she finished speaking, Yun Mo pushed open the door and entered.
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