Chapter 167 Not Sending It Back
"I was returning from delivering a baby when I heard crying in the woods. I went over and saw this child. She's stopped crying now, but she's still breathing!" Aunt Li said.
Many families couldn't raise their children after they were born, so they would just throw them into a mass grave. The child was clearly going to die, so they would just abandon them.
But when Aunt Li saw that she was still breathing, she took her back.
She didn't dare before, but now she has Qingqing, at least she has a life.
What if we can save them?
Lu Qingqing looked at the tumor on the child's abdomen. It was a dense network of bluish-purple veins, almost bursting open. The child's arms and legs had become as thin as bamboo poles, and all the child's nutrients had been absorbed by the tumor.
Without machine testing, and without knowing what kind of tumor it is, it's impossible to remove it given the frail little body.
Then we can only resort to conservative treatment.
"Leave it to me."
Lu Qingqing took it.
Madam Tian instinctively covered her nose with her hand and asked, "Is there any way to save him in this state?"
"Whether it can be saved or not, we have to try," Lu Qingqing said coldly.
"It's a pity it's a girl," she added.
Lu Qingqing laughed in exasperation.
It's true that people of similar character tend to make similar friends.
She remembered Feng Xiaowan saying that Li Molan had also disliked Xibao in the same way.
Lu Qingqing wanted to say that you couldn't give birth to a girl either.
I also felt that it was tasteless to rub salt in a woman's wounds.
The main problem is that there are too many people like this. In an era where men are superior to women, people's thinking has become rigid. She is just one of the many people limited by the times.
So Lu Qingqing simply said, "What's there to regret? If girls are raised well, they won't be any worse than boys when they grow up."
Madam Tian wanted to say something more, but Tian Leshan glared at her.
"Miss Lu, if there's nothing else, we'll be going now."
"No need to see me out."
Although he collaborated with Tian Leshan, it was just a collaboration.
It's impossible for us to be friends.
Lu Qingqing was well aware that the two had different values.
She carried the child to the doorway and found Feng Xiaowan, who was working.
"Sister-in-law, express some milk so I can feed this baby first."
"Oh dear! So pitiful!" Feng Xiaowan exclaimed.
"Do we even need to squeeze? I can just feed her directly! Does she even have the strength to suckle?"
Feng Xiaowan quickly got up to wash her hands.
While holding Xibao and playing, Feng's mother saw Feng Xiaowan's enthusiastic expression and opened her mouth as if to say something, but ultimately said nothing.
Lu Qingqing spoke up: "Don't feed him. We don't know if this child has any other illnesses. We don't want him to catch the illness from her."
“Yes, yes, that’s right.” Mother Feng quickly agreed.
“You express some milk, and I'll feed her. Judging from the looks of it, she can't drink much. If she can be cured, we can feed her goat milk from now on.”
Goat milk has a fat structure similar to that of breast milk and can completely replace breast milk.
The eldest sister-in-law was already doing chores and feeding Xibao, so of course she couldn't let her feed another one.
She can tell the difference between outsiders and family members!
Mother Feng: "Yes, yes, we have two sheep!"
Lu Qingqing found it amusing.
Feng Xiaowan expressed half a bowl of milk, and Lu Qingqing took the child to the pharmacy.
Mother Feng complained, "It's a good thing Qingqing is sensible. Aren't you stupid? Xibao can eat so much, and you still want to feed someone else? Do you even have that much food? You're such a bachelor!"
Feng Xiaowan: "..."
In the evening, Lu Feng brought back a two-meter-wide bed.
Now Qiaoxiu doesn't have to sleep on the floor anymore.
The patterns carved on the bed are much more intricate than before, with the addition of a bed railing. The design combines openwork and relief carvings, and is finished with red lacquer and gold accents.
It looks so beautiful and elegant!
Farmers have never seen such a nice bed before.
Qiaoxiu touched it in disbelief; could she really sleep in such a bed?
"Big brother, you're amazing!" Lu Qingqing exclaimed.
The carving skills this time are a huge improvement over the previous ones!
Big brother learns so fast!
Even Old Man Lu couldn't help but nod in agreement.
He never imagined that his son would acquire the carving skills that he could never obtain in his entire life so easily.
This was the first time Lu Feng had been praised like this by Lu Qingqing, and he was so happy he felt like he was floating on air.
"I have to thank Mr. Xu for the book; it explains things very clearly."
That book was so precious! He only learned a little bit from it.
"I'll have to thank him properly another day."
"Thank you, thank you very much." Feng Xiaowan also touched the big bed, clearly delighted with it.
The vines on top look real, and they appear very graceful.
“Brother, we don’t need any more wood right now. Why don’t you buy some more and replace the wood in your house with a new one?” Lu Qingqing suggested.
"Oh? Our bed is still fine!"
"It's too small. A big bed is more comfortable. We'll also install bed rails so that Xibao won't fall off."
How could Xibao have fallen? She was in the middle, and he was there to stop her!
As Lu Feng pondered this, he began to understand.
Who says Xi Bao has to be in the middle?
"Hmm, then let's make another one."
Feng Xiaowan's eyes lit up with joy.
The bed legs are thick, the planks are thick, wide and sturdy, so it certainly won't creak when you turn over, right?
She pressed her hands on the bed and shook it.
It didn't make a sound.
Hehe, I won't have to worry about disturbing Xibao when I turn over anymore.
"Hmm... Stop shaking me..." Lu Feng pulled her aside.
What are you doing?
Feng Xiaowan was puzzled.
...
That night, Lu Qingqing and Qiaoxiu slept in the big bed.
Including that tiny baby girl who barely takes up a foot of space.
Throughout the night, Lu Qingqing kept an eye on the baby girl and heard Qiaoxiu muttering in her sleep, "Hehe, hehe," in the middle of the night.
The essence of tumors is stagnation. According to traditional Chinese medicine, tumors are caused by qi stagnation, phlegm stasis, dampness and toxin obstruction, and deficiency of vital energy.
Therefore, the treatment of this disease should start from two aspects: phlegm and dampness and blood stasis.
Over two days, Lu Qingqing changed several prescriptions before finally settling on one.
According to the "Records of Famous Physicians", Fritillaria is mainly used for "abdominal masses" and has the effect of resolving phlegm and dispersing nodules.
Angelica sinensis can invigorate blood and nourish blood.
Sophora flavescens can clear heat, detoxify, and remove dampness.
According to the Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, Sophora flavescens itself can treat abdominal distension and lumps, and has the effects of resolving blood stasis and expelling phlegm.
The three herbs combined in this formula work to resolve blood stasis, eliminate phlegm, and detoxify, thus aligning with the pathogenesis of tumors.
Lu Qingqing prepared the medicine into powder and ointment for internal use and external application.
Two more days passed, and the tumor in the baby girl's abdomen seemed to have shrunk a bit and was no longer so firm.
"Is this the right treatment?" Feng Xiaowan squeezed out another half bowl of milk.
The baby girl drank the milk, and her cries, which had started as a kitten's whimper, grew a little louder.
She's in pain!
"Yes, it's fine once the tumor has shrunk away," Lu Qingqing said.
"I wonder whose house it is. Will they send it back after it's healed?"
Lu Qingqing didn't know either.
Who knows what kind of people that family is? They abandoned their child before it even died, and it seems they didn't even call a doctor. They're so heartless.
"Have Aunt Li inquire around. If that family isn't suitable, then we won't send them back."
She cured him, so why should that family benefit from it?
Why not find this child a good family?
Feng Xiaowan nodded.
Looking at the silver orchid hairpin in her hair, Lu Qingqing remembered the large pearl.
She took it out and asked, "Sister-in-law, what kind of jewelry do you think can be made from these pearls?"
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