"Grandma!", Haizi screamed.
The kids who were about to leave stopped in their tracks and turned around to see the old woman sitting on the ground leaning against Haizi. Her eyes were closed and she was gasping for air. Her face turned white and her lips were black and blue.
Haizi burst into tears in anxiety, his hands trying to help the old woman up.
"Don't move her!", Liu Yusheng yelled and ran over to take the old woman's pulse.
The crowd was shocked and they froze in place.
Only Liu Zhixia immediately followed and waited to see if there was anything he could do to help.
When Liu Yusheng felt her pulse and pressed on a few acupuncture points on the grandma's body, the grandma's face slightly improved and she slowly opened her eyes. Only then did Chen Changdong snap out of his shock. "Damn, we forgot that my cousin is a little miracle doctor!"
They took what they heard for granted and since they hadn't witnessed it with their own eyes, they didn't really take the rumor to heart.
But seeing it with their own eyes, it was a different story, a different taste.
Shocking.
A seven year old girl has just been weaned according to some boorish men of their village!
The person who diagnosed and rescued someone with calmness and grace in every move, and the little child who laughed with them just now were like two different people!
"Help her lie down on the bed and open the window for ventilation."
The teenagers made the bed and lifted the grandma. Although they were clumsy, they were always careful and meticulous.
Haizi waited until the grandma was lying down before walking to Liu Yusheng ashen-faced. "Nannan, what is my grandmother's illness?"
"Pulmonary abscess. In layman's terms, it's lung abscess with symptoms of coughing, purulent sputum, and chest pain. If not treated in time, it will contract many complications, and in severe cases, it will endanger life."
Hearing that it was life-threatening, Haizi's face went completely white and bloodless. "Yes, yes. The town doctor also said it was a lung abscess. I wanted to ask more details, but I couldn't understand everything they said. I-Nannan, can you cure it? Please save my grandma! I'll pay you the consultation fee back when I make my money, please …"
"I can cure her." The little girl smiled at the terrified and helpless boy. Her faint smile, however, brought a calming magic. "Don't panic, it'll be fine."
"Hmm, yes, everything will be fine!", the teenager choked.
Many years later, the teenager became a wealthy man with a handful of state transportation hubs. When he stood tall overlooking the lights in thousands of houses, he still remembered that at the moment when he was most scared and helpless in his youth, a little girl smiled at him and said, "Do not panic, it will be fine."
"Do you have a pen and paper? I'll write a prescription. You should follow the prescription and take the medicine for a few days."
"I have it at home. I'll get it!" The young man immediately ran out and quickly came back, holding paper, ink, brush and inkstone in his hands.
The grandma's lung ulcerated abscess was already very serious. If it wasn't treated immediately, the lobe of her lung would soon fail and die, which would then infect other organs with ulcers.
Good medicine was required to treat it.
Liu Yusheng's gaze swept over the nearly empty home. She frowned thoughtfully before she began to write down the prescription on the blank sheets of paper, three in all.
"Take this prescription for three days. After three days, the color of the phlegm turns pale, then switch to the second prescription for seven days. After seven days, if her cough starts to disappear, then grab the third prescription.", after a pause, "When you get to town and pick up Grandma, I'll find time to diagnose her pulse again."
"Okay, okay, thank you Nannan." At this moment, Haizi's mind was on buying medicine, and couldn't be bothered to take care of Liu Yusheng. Looking at the long list of herbs on the prescription, he gritted his teeth, went back to the house to rummage for a purse and ran out. "Dong, I'll go to town first to buy the medicine, and thank you properly later!"
"The town is so far away. How are you going to get there by running?! Haizi, you'd better go to the village doctor first. The herbs are cheaper there than in town. If you can buy it there, then head to town later!"
Hearing this, Haizi turned and ran.
While the teenagers stayed in the house to help take care of the old woman, Liu Yusheng walked out of the room and went to the kitchen to scoop water and clean her hands.
Along the way, she filled the water tank with some spiritual spring water.
The boys thought that it would take at least two hours for Haizi to return from his medicine hunt, but by the time they had pacified the grandma and were ready to sit in the courtyard, they froze one by one when they saw him coming in.
Not only were they stunned, even Haizi was walking in daze, as if he was sleepwalking.
Chen Changdong's heart sank. "Haizi, what's wrong? Don't you have enough money? Or couldn't you get a ride?"
"No." Hai Zi shook his head, dully holding up the medicine bag in his hand. "I bought the medicine back for a couple of … 26 Wen."
It was so cheap he couldn't believe it.
He was completely ready to empty his house, but lo and behold, 26 Wen!
"…"
"… Did Nanan prescribe the wrong medicine?" The last time the town doctor prescribed a medicine to Haizi's grandmother, Chen Changdong knew that a pair of medicines cost 160 Wen.
A medicine worth 26 Wen was too cheap, right?
Could a serious illness really be cured with this … medicine?
Liu Yusheng came out of the kitchen and looked at the confused looks of the teenagers and smiled. "I removed the expensive herbs from the prescription and replaced them with cheap herbs with similar medicinal properties instead. An alternative for 26 Wen, it's about the same price. Just decoct the medicine now that you're back."
"Nannan, can you still replace medicinal herbs?"
"Yes. Even though the herbs are replaced, the efficacy isn't much worse." It was just that removing the expensive for simple herbs tested the prescriber's familiarity with the medicinal properties of the various herbs.
Haizi had come out of his dream and looked deeply at Liu Yusheng. She prescribed medicine in this manner; she must have taken his family situation into consideration.
"I'm going to decoct the medicine!" He would trust her.
Kindhearted people would never make fun of other people's lives.
It was already past lunch time when they left Haizi's house.
"There's no going back without a scolding. You two will hide behind me later. I'll take care of the storm!" Chen Changdong acted as if he was on the road to death.
He got a big eye roll from Lu Zhixia.
The little girl, on the other hand, pursed her lips and laughed. "Okay, I definitely won't come out to share your misery."
Tilting his head, Cheng Changdong looked somewhat complicatedly at the little child that only reached his waist. She was obviously his cousin, and he had seen her several times, but he didn't really seem to know her until today.
"Nannan, let me ask you a question. Why are you helping Haizi so much? Didn't it ever occur to you that it would likely be strenuous and unrewarding?"
"My grandfather taught me from a young age to be kind and helpful to others. It's not to gain anything, but just to have a clear conscience." The girl's smile was serene. "Then again, it's only a matter of raising a hand for me, but it can get someone out of their immediate predicament. So why wouldn't I do it?"
After a pause, she blinked at Chen Changdong. "My medical skills are really good."
After saying that, the little girl held her brother's hand and cheerfully walked ahead.
Behind them, Chen Changdong stared at the girl's cheerful back and paused for a while before stretching his legs to catch up.
"Wait for me, let's go home together!"