Bab 71: Do You Know How to Concoct Poison?

After Ding Yao examined him, she nodded. "It can be cured." She asked Song Yu to bring over the medicinal herbs she had previously ground.

She wrapped twelve small packets of them in a white paper, each containing about three grams. She instructed the woman to mix honey into boiling water and consume them for three days. As the woman listened, she grew troubled. "I don't have any honey at home..." She began. In normal farming households, even sugar was a luxury item, not to mention honey.

Ding Yao took a small bowl and poured some honey from a bottle into the woman's mouth. She also added some spirit spring water. The young boy's body was fine, but he was a little weak. Ding Yao charged a hundred yuan for the medication because honey was quite expensive.