Chapter 102
Qingxi has a cold and a fever.
His whole face was as red as a shrimp.
"Tsurumaru, you're such a badass." Qingxi, lying in bed, felt a headache, hot, and uncomfortable, yet she was still thinking about what happened in the early morning. She groaned.
"Oh, yes, yes, it's my fault. I shouldn't have said I had a cold and a fever." Tsurumaru Kuninaga wrung out the towel floating in the barrel, folded it into a long strip and replaced it with the one on her forehead.
Children with fever are the most difficult to deal with. They will cry when they feel uncomfortable, and they will cry when there is no one around to accompany them. They will still cry no matter how much you say to them. He has never taken care of a child, but he has lived here for more than half a year, and he has become familiar with the people living nearby.
During this period, he heard a lot of gossip about other people's daily lives.
In this episode, he listened to many topics women talked about regarding their children.
Footsteps could be heard from the corridor outside the house. Beiming Island Xingming stood at the door with a bowl in his hand and said, "The medicine is ready. It's still a little hot. Once it cools down a bit, Tsurumaru, watch over Aki and drink it."
Qingxi's face almost turned green when she smelled the aroma of Chinese medicine wafting through the politeness. Last year during the Chinese New Year, while others enjoyed many delicious meals, she, because of her injury, had to spend the New Year with the taste of Chinese medicine in her mouth.
He pulled the quilt over his head to express his protest to the two adults.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga smiled dumbly. He grabbed the quilt and pulled it, but instead of pulling the person out, it wrapped him tighter. "Master, don't put your head under the quilt. The air won't circulate."
"I think this is good. Just leave me alone." Qingxi's muffled voice came through the quilt.
She thought Tsurumaru Kuninaga would have a conversation with her about how your body will get better without taking medicine, but he didn't.
Because he directly used his ultimate weapon against her.
He said, "Master, you really don't want to take the medicine?"
After waiting for a long time for Qingxi's response, Tsurumaru Kuninaga continued, "That's fine. Anyway, I've already asked Jiro to notify Yakuken. If there are no new wounded sent from the medical clinic, um, the disc house, he should be here soon."
Qingxi: “…”
As long as I wrap myself tightly in the quilt, no one can make me go out to drink that awful Chinese medicine.jpg
The patient with a fever refused to cooperate, and the two people who were trying to persuade him to take medicine were silent. For a moment, the room was so quiet that only the sound of breathing could be heard.
A long time passed, so long that Qingxi was about to feel suffocated by the heat inside the quilt. When she couldn't help but want to lift a corner of the quilt to let in the fresh air from outside, the sound of birds flapping their wings was heard outside the house.
As a burst of strange footsteps sounded, even Qingxi, who was hiding under the quilt, knew that another person had entered her room.
“Ah, this…”
Qingxi pricked up her ears to listen to the movement outside the quilt, but why did Tsurumaru only mumble out two words and nothing else?
What's this? Can't you say one more word?
Qingxi seemed very anxious as she could still smell the Chinese medicine through the quilt. It was the same as last time. She had the Western medicine, but she was so worried when she was about to take it.
Western medicine obviously doesn’t taste bitter and will work quickly, so why must she take Chinese medicine?!
Just when Qingxi was about to get angry, the quilt wrapped around her body was pulled away fiercely, and the darkness in front of her eyes was instantly replaced by light.
The surrounding temperature dropped and the turbid air became fresher, but Qingxi couldn't help but shiver all over.
Realizing there was someone standing behind her, she rolled over and lay flat on her back, then she faced a face that was both familiar and unfamiliar.
"Sister...?" she asked uncertainly.
Shinobu Kocho held the quilt in her arms, her eyebrows raised, her face fierce, and her voice very difficult to speak to.
She covered Qingxi with the quilt again, but when she was about to grab the edge of the quilt with both hands and prepare to cover her head with it, she reached out and slapped her on the forehead.
"Ouch, it hurts." Qingxi said weakly with physiological tears hanging from the corners of her eyes.
Ignoring the girl who had become a squeamish girl due to her high fever, Shinobu Kocho knelt down beside her, and after helping her up, she reached out to Gyoumei Gyoumei, "Master Rock Pillar, please give me the medicine."
Beimingyu Xingming followed his instructions and handed her the bowl of medicine, the temperature of which had dropped.
Shinobu Kocho took the bowl and poured the entire bowl of medicine into the girl's mouth before she could react. Her movements were so smooth, as if she had done this kind of thing of feeding medicine to people at least a thousand times before.
Seeing his master's face turning as green as spinach even with candy stuffed in his mouth, and being stared at by another girl with a look that said, "Just spit it out if you dare," Tsurumaru Kuninaga smacked his lips. "Miss Shinobu's way of feeding my master the medicine is so similar to the way Yakumo did it! Could it be that this is a technique every doctor knows? It's for those patients who don't cooperate and take their medicine."
"I have medicine. If you ask me to take western medicine, I will cooperate obediently." Qingxi protested weakly.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga looked innocent. "Well, it was Yaken who said that although Western medicine works quickly, Chinese medicine is more gentle. For the sake of your health, Master, I prescribed Chinese medicine for you."
"I don't want to suffer." Qingxi protested.
Let her take western medicine!!!
Unlike the two men, Butterfly couldn't help but slap her on the back. She said, "It's for your own good that I'm letting you drink the medicine. This time I'm the one doing it. If you don't behave, next time it'll be Mr. Yaoyan, and the next time it might be your sister."
At this point, Kocho Shinobu's tone became more subtle, "Believe me, you probably don't like being caught by your sister and nagging endlessly."
Qingxi choked, she didn't believe it.
But the expression on Shinobu Kocho's face couldn't be faked. She hugged her and asked tearfully, "How many days do I have to take the medicine this time?"
"Three days." Shinobu Kocho patted Qingxi's head. "If your fever doesn't go away after three days, then you'll need to take the medicine for another four days. Three bowls a day."
Qingxi: “…”
Qingxi lost her appetite after drinking the Chinese medicine. Seeing this, Tsurumaru Kuninaga did not go to the kitchen to bring her the warm porridge.
When the two sisters met, the two men left the room, leaving the space to them.
However, before leaving, he glanced at Taici in the corridor and saw him meowing at him, trying to jump up from this side. Tsurumaru Kuninaga jumped to the corridor and picked up the cat.
As soon as Sanhua stood in the corridor with her four short legs, she trotted into Qingxi's room.
After taking a look at Taro who was circling around the head of the lying Kiyoki, Tsurumaru Kuninaga got up and left along the corridor.
"Shinobu, have you passed the Demon Slayer Corps selection?"
Only when Taro, who had been meowing around her, stopped and curled up beside her head did Qingxi have time to chat with Shinobu Kocho.
Her blue eyes moved around her body, and she sighed, "I haven't seen you for over a year, and it feels like you haven't grown up at all, Shinobu.
Is the training too strenuous? Getting up early and going to bed late every day? You probably haven't been eating well. Sister Ren, I'm not saying this, but you're a doctor too. At your age, your body is in its growth phase. If you don't eat well, your body won't absorb nutrients, and without nutrients, you won't grow taller. And if you don't grow taller, you'll be less strong than others."
Qingxi was muttering there alone in a weak and soft voice, and her half-closed eyes did not notice the face that gradually became gloomy because of her words.
"I heard that people in the West drink milk every day, so both men and women are so tall. Sister Shinobu, why don't you give it a try?" Qingxi continued. "If you think that's too much trouble, at least don't skip your meals and eat more. Don't worry about gaining weight. With the amount of exercise a ghost hunter gets every day, you won't be able to gain weight even if you want to."
After she finished speaking, Qingxi couldn't help but yawn. At this moment, the effect of the Chinese medicine took effect. Her brain, which was already uncomfortable due to the fever, was now even more confused.
Not hearing the girl's voice, Shinobu Kocho looked down at her, "Are you done?"
Qingxi's eyes were completely closed, and she hummed and nodded slightly.
The next moment, she was hit on the head again.
"Sister Shinobu, why are you hitting me?" Qingxi opened her eyes with difficulty, with a hint of grievance in her voice.
"Since you call me sister, you seem to be taking care of me." Shinobu Kocho said unhappily. "Also, you heard about my poor arm strength from Sister Kanae, right?
Although my wrist strength is not good, I have found a solution."
Having said that, her eyes were filled with pride, and she drew the Sun Blade from her waist.
Qingxi was having trouble concentrating at the moment, so she could only squint her eyes to look at the Nichirin Sword in her hand.
Shinobu Kocho's Nichirin Sword is very special. Except for the tip of the sword and the area near the hilt, the middle of the blade is empty and has no blade.
In this way, the weight of the entire Nichirin Sword will be greatly reduced, making it suitable for people like her who have insufficient wrist strength to use.
"I derived a breathing technique suitable for me, Insect Breathing, from my sister's Flower Breathing. It doesn't matter if I can't chop off a ghost's head. Ghosts are afraid of wisteria flowers, so I use the poison of wisteria flowers to deal with them.
Every move of my Insect Breathing is in conjunction with my ability to use the Nichirin Sword to pierce the poison of the wisteria flower into the demon's body."
She turned the handle of the knife, allowing Qingxi to see a small, elongated groove on the handle, where liquid could be faintly seen flowing slowly.
"This is filled with the wisteria poison I extracted." Kocho Shinobu explained, "When you encounter a demon, just hit the bottle mouth, and the wisteria poison will slide down the blade to the tip. Once the tip pierces the demon's skin, the wisteria poison will enter its body. I've tried it, and a high concentration of wisteria poison can crush a demon and kill it instantly.
With this, I passed the selection for the Demon Slayer Corps."
"And my first mission after becoming an official Demon Slayer Corps member was to be sent by my sister to visit you, Aki." At this point, Butterfly Blade smiled, but that smile looked so creepy to anyone who saw it. "So, if you are sick, just take your medicine obediently.
You are a medical professional yourself, don’t you know this basic common sense?”
Qingxi's cheek was pinched, and she argued for herself again, "I have Western medicine."
"Drink the medicine obediently!" Shinobu Kocho emphasized the last two words.
Qingxi seemed to see well-shaped characters emerging one by one on her forehead.
She looked as if she would beat her up if she said something unpleasant the next second.
"I understand." Qingxi decided to keep the question of what medicine to take vague for the time being.
"Don't try to fool me." They were both girls, and both were studying medicine. No, it should be said that Shinobu Kocho was a professional. Compared to Qingxi, an amateur, she was even more meticulous. So just by looking at her expression, she guessed what the little girl was up to. "If I find out, I won't be so nice to you next time you come over."
Qingxi's mouth twitched.
Just like now, do you think this is a good temper?
What would that look like if he got angry? He'd probably draw his Nichirin Sword and ask her to taste the power of the wisteria flower poison.
Qingxi complained in his heart, but ultimately did not refute the other party.
The medicinal effects of the Chinese medicine took a long time to dissipate in the body. Qingxi hummed twice in response, yawned twice in succession, and asked the last question.
"Sister Shinobu, will you go back to the disc room later?"
Shinobu Kocho glanced at the setting sun outside the house and said, "I'm not going back today. I won't go back until tomorrow morning after I see you finish taking the medicine."
Qingxi's face fell again.
Counting the one bowl at night and the one tomorrow morning, she still has to drink two bowls of bitter medicine soup!!!
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