Chapter 10 Her name is Shen Qingtang
As if to confirm Ge Youan's prophecy, the little girl immediately broke out in a cold sweat, her face turned pale, and she had difficulty breathing. Despite the hot weather, her hands and feet were ice-cold and she couldn't warm them up no matter what she did.
The next second, a small, white-haired old woman carrying a basket on her back rushed up and slapped Ge Youan across the face: "Where did this vile woman come from, daring to curse my granddaughter to death!" The old woman's face was covered with age spots and wrinkles, like a dried and hard grapefruit peel. Because of her anger, her small eyes glared brightly, and as if she was still not satisfied, she slapped her several more times.
Grandma Chen was a skilled worker in the village; despite her age, she had a surprisingly strong hand. After a few slaps, Ge Youan's face was swollen like a pig's. She tried to dodge, but the people around her intentionally or unintentionally blocked her way, preventing her from leaving.
"Minmin, Ruoqi, save me!" she cried out for help, but the two pretended not to see her, acting as if they wanted to avoid her at all costs. One felt she deserved it, and the other felt she had lost face. Fortunately, Xu Cuilan hadn't lost her temper and stopped her, saying, "Mom, calm down."
Ge Youan covered her aching face and said angrily, "Hitting me won't help. I didn't say anything wrong. She..." Noticing the sparks burning in those dark eyes, she finally became afraid and swallowed hard, saying, "Unless my master comes."
Suddenly, she met Shen Qingtang's calm, unwavering eyes, and he said with certainty, "Who said there's no hope?"
Her heart skipped a beat. Could the other person really know medicine? But she quickly suppressed the thought, because it was impossible. She wanted to leave, but she stayed in the crowd. Because of the incident where she had almost killed someone by prescribing the wrong medicine, everyone disliked her, leaving a vacuum in the middle. This universally disliked treatment made Ge You'an feel wronged, and a tear welled up in her eye, which she quickly wiped away.
Shen Qingtang's eyes darted around, and she looked at the old lady carrying a basket of mugwort on her back and said, "Grandma, can I borrow your mugwort?" She pointed to Xiaohua and said, "Time is running out, I have to treat her right away."
Before Grandma Chen could speak, Xu Cuilan knelt down with a thud, tears streaming down her face, and said, "Dr. Chen, please save my daughter." She deeply regretted, "I shouldn't have doubted you." Otherwise, if she had prescribed a medicine and had it prepared at a nearby pharmacy, Xiaohua's condition wouldn't have worsened due to the delay.
Grandma Chen, with tears in her eyes, said, "Girl, use as much as you want, don't be shy, as long as you can save my granddaughter."
Shen Qingtang nodded and said, "I will." She borrowed a lighter from the crowd and then asked the woman to help her child sit up straight.
With a "whoosh," the blue flames began to flicker, and at the same time, the sound of burning mugwort crackled and popped.
Immediately afterward, a plume of white smoke rose, choking the little girl. Shen Qingtang, however, did not blink. Holding the tangled mugwort sticks, she swept them across the little girl's Kaitianmen, Tuikan Palace, Taiyangxue, Yingxiangxue, and Qingfeijing acupoints in turn. Because of the symptoms of heatstroke, she lingered for a few seconds on Renzhongxue, Dazhuixue, Heguxue, and Neiguanxue acupoints. After a few seconds, she had someone hold up the mugwort sticks and move their fingers to knead the corresponding acupoints on the little girl's body.
Everyone held their breath, watching intently, not daring to make the slightest noise, and silently praying for the little girl.
After an unknown amount of time, Xiaohua's pale face visibly regained its color. She coughed twice as if she had choked, slowly opened her eyes, looked blankly at the people gathered around her, and weakly called out, "Mom, Grandma."
A cheer immediately erupted from the crowd.
"She's awake, she's awake."
"Xiao Hua has really woken up."
"Dr. Shen is really amazing."
"Exactly, much better than some doctors."
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The doctor who was specifically named "some" was so angry that his face turned red. He wished he could disappear into the crowd immediately and hurriedly pulled Huang Minmi away.
Huang Minmi couldn't help but exclaim, "Shen Qingtang is really amazing! She actually managed to wake that little girl up." She asked herself honestly, she couldn't have done it at all.
Ge Youan said with a cold face, "She's not that good. She probably just happened to get a folk remedy for treating acute wind-heat cold by chance. It was just a blind cat catching a dead mouse."
Huang Minmi, however, was unwilling to give the other party that face. She pursed her lips and said in a straight line, "Once is one thing, but does it mean twice? Senior Sister Ge, true gold is not afraid of fire." Recalling Shen Qingtang's behavior in the bookstore, she added, "I think her medical skills should be quite good as well."
Ge Youan immediately became furious and embarrassed: "Do you think my medical skills are inferior to that of that Shen Qingtang? Even my master praised my high level of comprehension."
Huang Minmi retorted calmly, "Senior Sister Ge, perhaps your medical skills are better than Shen Qingtang's now, but your character is far inferior to hers." As she spoke, a look of shame appeared on her face: "Senior Sister Ge just said not to bring trouble upon yourself unnecessarily. I admit that I was indeed intimidated by those words. I have studied medicine for so long and have a wealth of medical skills, but I dare not take responsibility to treat and save lives."
“On the contrary, Shen Qingtang dared to do it! Yes, a gentleman should not stand under a wall, but it was a living human life. If Father knew about this, he would definitely blame me for my cowardice.”
"Besides, Senior Sister Ge, you almost killed someone. You should be grateful to Shen Qingtang."
Hearing this, Ge Youan's face grew increasingly grim, and she scoffed inwardly: Grateful? She was lucky she didn't hate the other party to death.
After a long while, Shen Ruoqi, who had hurriedly found the two, sensed the tense atmosphere and opened her mouth but dared not ask a question.
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After drinking a glass of warm water to soothe her throat, the little girl became more lucid. Perhaps knowing that Shen Qingtang had saved her, she unconsciously grabbed Shen Qingtang's hand, making a gesture of unconscious dependence, and blinked her big, grape-like eyes politely, saying, "Thank you for saving me, sister."
The little girl's voice was sweet, like a lark's. Shen Qingtang touched her forehead, which was beginning to cool down, and said, "No need to thank me, healing the sick and saving lives is my duty."
After saying that, she instructed Xu Cuilan, "When you get back, make her another bowl of 'Three Roots Soup'." Seeing the woman's somewhat confused look, she explained, "The so-called 'Three Roots Soup' is made by boiling cabbage roots, scallion roots, and reed roots in water. It can promote sweating and help a cold get better faster."
Xu Cuilan said gratefully, "Dr. Shen, thank you." She quickly pulled out a handful of money from her pocket and said, "We country folk don't have much money, here, take this."
Seeing the handfuls of one-yuan and five-yuan coins in the other person's hand, Shen Qingtang shook her head and said, "No need, the mugwort is your own, I only contributed a little."
"It's getting late, I have to go back now."
Watching the other person's departing figure, Xu Cuilan couldn't help but sigh, "Dr. Shen is such a good person; he wouldn't even take the money." Suddenly, she noticed the hundred-yuan note in Xiaohua's hand and asked in surprise, "Xiaohua, where did you get this money?"
Xiao Hua scratched her head, looking confused, and said, "What my sister gave me just now was a flower, how did it turn into a hundred yuan?"
Xu Cuilan bit her lip, a wave of emotion washing over her. She looked at the white-haired old woman and said, "Mom, why don't we give the things our ancestors left here to a good person like Doctor Shen?"
"Anyway, it's just a piece of waste paper here, destined only to be used as matches."
Hearing this, a hint of softening appeared in Grandma Chen's eyes. She patted her beloved granddaughter's head, picked up her basket, and said, "I understand."
On the other side, a tall, thin man with a long face, wearing a Zhongshan suit and glasses, came running up, panting.
"Didn't you say there was a patient? Where is he?" He only ate half of his meal when he heard that a little girl had fainted.
The onlookers pointed to Xiaohua, who was now completely unharmed, and chuckled good-naturedly, saying, "Dr. Ma, you're too late. A beautiful Dr. Shen has already come to treat her."
"She's amazing. When Xiaohua fainted, she woke her up by simply fumigating her acupoints with mugwort."
"Yes, there was another woman who almost killed Xiaohua by misusing drugs, and it was she who stopped her."
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The people around him were all talking at once, but it was easy to see that they all held this doctor, Dr. Shen, in high esteem.
Ma Guoqiang pushed up his glasses, a glint of shrewdness flashing in his eyes. He was deeply impressed by the other party's composure under pressure and the brilliant idea he had come up with. Was he some little prodigy trained by a famous doctor? He asked curiously, "Do you know what this Doctor Shen's name is?"
“Chen...Chen something Tang again.”
"Does the name contain the word 'Qingba'?"
"Go away, I remember now! Her name is Shen Qingtang!"
Shen Qingtang... Ma Guoqiang murmured the name to himself, memorizing it firmly.
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