It was so dark that Qin Huai could not see anything, but he could hear Hui Niang's breathing.

Her breathing was rapid.

There is a hint of weakness in the rush.

Qin Huai took a long breath and just hoped that his experience was wrong.

When Luo Luo was Huiniang's age, she often didn't realize she had a fever. She often didn't react at all when she had a low-grade fever. When the fever reached 38 degrees, she was still alive and well. Her face was so red that her family could see it and rushed the child to the hospital.

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Of course, sometimes the opposite is very obvious.

For example, when you get food poisoning.

Qin Luo once ate something from a stall outside and got food poisoning in his stomach. He suffered from vomiting, diarrhea and fever, and died instantly.

In modern times, if a child has food poisoning and is sent to the hospital, he or she will be cured by prescribing some medicine to induce vomiting, but this time...

Qin Huai stood silently in the room, waiting for the arrival of dawn.

Chen Huihong woke up just after dawn on the second day.

Chen Huihong got up and found Hui Niang still lying on the bed, her whole body buried in the quilt, so she called her out.

"Hui Niang."

"Hui Niang?"

Chen Huihong opened the quilt and found that Hui Niang's face was red and she had no response no matter how she screamed.

Without any hesitation, Chen Huihong wrapped Huiniang in a quilt, picked her up sideways, and ran straight out, forgetting to wear cotton clothes.

At this time, people had already gotten up. When they saw Chen Huihong running on the street in single clothes and holding a quilt, they quickly pulled her family members out to see: "Miss Crazy is crazy!"

Chen Huihong went straight to the drug store. The drug store opened early. The clerk was cleaning and the doctor was picking up medicine. Seeing Chen Huihong running in with a quilt in her arms, the clerk subconsciously stretched out his hand to stop her, but he retracted his hand halfway.

"Miss Crazy, why aren't you wearing cotton-padded clothes on this cold day? Why are you running away with the quilt?" The clerk stepped forward to persuade Chen Huihong to go out, but was stunned when he found someone wrapped in the quilt, "You shouldn't have picked it up.

You want us to cure it, right? This can’t be cured.”

"She has a bad stomach." Chen Huihong carefully put down the quilt.

Only then did the waiter see clearly: "Isn't this Hui Niang? Doctor Wang, come and take a look."

After saying that, the boy went to close the door to prevent the cold wind from blowing in.

Dr. Wang, who had gray hair, quickly came over to check his pulse. Under Chen Huihong's gaze, Dr. Wang asked slowly: "Miss Crazy, what did your maid eat yesterday?"

Afraid that Chen Huihong wouldn't understand, Doctor Wang even made a gesture of eating.

"Moldy cornmeal, not steamed." Chen Huihong said.

Doctor Wang's expression suddenly changed, and he turned to ask the waiter: "Did Hui Niang go to the grain store in the west to buy cornmeal yesterday?"

While the waiter was still thinking, Chen Huihong said directly: "Yes, Hui Niang said that the cornmeal became moldy due to moisture and was sold cheaply. She picked out all the moldy parts and threw them away."

Doctor Wang didn't even have time to think about why the crazy lady was able to answer questions and answers with such quick thinking. He sighed and murmured: "It's so shameless to sell this kind of thing that eats dead people everywhere."

The waiter seemed to remember something: "Doctor Wang, did Li Er and his family die from eating cornmeal yesterday?"

"I heard them say that Mrs. Li Er was worried about the food. She didn't pick out the moldy noodles and threw them away. They were mixed with other noodles and cooked until they were mushy. Except Li Er's daughter-in-law, the whole family ate very little. She only had one bite and was fine. The rest of the family were all gone.

, not available last night.”

"And it seems that not only Li Er's family has had trouble, but more troubles have happened in the west. The owner of the grain store ran away overnight."

"What do you mean? That cornmeal will kill you if you eat it?" Chen Huihong asked the waiter.

The guy hesitated and didn't dare to say anything.

Doctor Wang took his pulse for a while, paused, and said, "Miss Crazy, I believe you can understand, so I'll just tell you."

"I'll give you a prescription first, and let the guy stay here to feed Hui Niang to induce vomiting. Then I'll prescribe you a prescription to reduce fever, but I can't guarantee whether you can survive. My medical skills are limited, little old man.

I am only 30% sure of this emergency."

"Here you go, I'll go back and find the money and give it to you." Chen Huihong said.

The doctor directed the clerk to grab the medicine. After the clerk finished grabbing the medicine, he went to the backyard to brew the medicine.

Chen Huihong looked at Huiniang, who was still dazed and unresponsive, and asked: "If the medicine doesn't work, will she die?"

Doctor Wang sighed: "I can only leave it to fate."

"I can only say that if you drink that antipyretic prescription, if you can reduce the fever before dark, you will be saved. If the fever cannot be reduced before dark, I'm afraid it will be difficult tonight..."

"Miss Crazy, I know you are kind-hearted. If you are willing to spend money, you may be able to save her by sending her to a Western hospital in the inner city, but the cost... is enough for you to buy 10 new maids."

Chen Huihong remained silent.

After 20 minutes, the waiter prepared the medicine and drank it in batches for Huiniang.

The medicine that induces vomiting is still useful. After vomiting several times, Hui Niang gradually wakes up. Doctor Wang knew that Chen Huihong must not be able to boil the medicine, so he asked Chen Huihong to take Hui Niang home first so that she would not catch a cold. Later, he asked his assistant to boil the medicine.

Okay, send it over.

Chen Huihong took Hui Niang back. As soon as she got home, she looked everywhere for copper coins and even dug out the uneaten candied fruits stuffed in the cupboard.

"Sister, what are you looking for?" Hui Niang asked weakly while lying on the bed.

"If you find something valuable, I'll take you to that hospital." Chen Huihong said.

"It's very expensive and we can't afford it." Hui Niang gasped, "It costs an ocean to see a doctor there."

"I'll borrow it."

"But if you borrow it, sister, won't everyone know that you're not crazy?"

As soon as these words came out, Chen Huihong stopped looking for something.

"This way, sister, you won't be able to go shopping in the inner city every day, and you won't be able to eat what you like, and everyone will find out that you are not a human being at all."

Chen Huihong squatted on the ground without any reaction. She quietly raised her head and looked at Hui Niang: "When did you know?"

Hui Niang smiled: "Sister, I'm not stupid either. I knew it on the first day."

"The bark is not edible at all."

"But you still ate it." Chen Huihong said.

"Because I was so hungry. Sister, you may not know that I hadn't eaten for many days at that time. I didn't dare to eat dirt. I was afraid that eating dirt would make me die alive. But I was really hungry. I couldn't even stand up.

I can’t even stand up and can only crawl on the ground.”

"I thought I was going to die, but after eating the piece of bark you gave me, I wasn't hungry anymore."

"Sister, you don't look like a refugee at all. You pretend not to be one at all. You are so rosy-cheeked and so strong. You don't have food or water, and you don't even have a jar to store water."

"And when my sister and I told you about Linxian, you didn't react at all. The place where we two met was Linxian. There was a plague in Linxian, and everyone died. The surrounding villages were deserted and people who were fleeing from the famine didn't dare to go there.

I ran away there because I was afraid of meeting someone and deliberately ran to a deserted place."

"Sister, you said you were fleeing famine, but how can a young lady from a wealthy family go to a place like that to escape famine alone?"

Chen Huihong looked at Hui Niang: "Then you still dare to follow me, aren't you afraid that I will eat you?"

Hui Niang smiled: "I'm not afraid that my parents want to eat me. How can I be afraid that you, sister, want to eat me?"

Chen Huihong was startled.

Hui Niang tried her best to sit up straight: "Actually, I have always known that when my parents fled the famine, they took me with them to bring food reserves."

"I didn't dare to sleep at night because I was afraid that my parents would replace me and eat me. One night I heard my father discussing with my mother, saying that the food had been eaten up and there was no use keeping me. He would go find someone tomorrow morning.

We discussed changing me."

"I took advantage of them to sleep and ran away overnight."

"Actually, sister, it doesn't matter even if you want to eat me. If you eat me, at least you will give me a full meal."

Chen Huihong didn't know what to say, so she could only say: "Monsters don't eat people."

"Then sister, what kind of monster are you?" Hui Niang asked.

"I am Bai?" Chen Huihong said, "According to your understanding, I am a tree demon."

"Sister, can you open the window?" Hui Niang asked.

"Doctor Wang said you should keep warm," Chen Huihong said.

"It's useless." Hui Niang shook her head, "I heard it all. Doctor Wang said that he was only 30% sure at most. He said it was only 30% but actually it was only 10%, which means that I can't be saved and can only wait to die."

Chen Huihong frowned and thought for a while: "I'll take you to the hospital."

"I can borrow money from Shopkeeper Lu."

Hui Niang shook her head.

"It takes a long time to take a rickshaw from the inner city to the outer city." Hui Niang took a few deep breaths, "I don't know if the money left at home is enough to pay for the medicine. I don't have enough money to take a rickshaw."

"Now that the snow has melted, it is even colder than when it snowed two days ago. There must be a lot of roads these days. I don't think I will be able to reach the hospital alive, so I better not waste money."

"I feel so uncomfortable."
To be continued...