Reborn in Dunhuang, I am farming and doing business in the desert

Chapter 30 Asking for Medicine

Shen Ang was working very hard when he heard someone calling him. He had to wipe his hands and go out.

Qin Yi's second uncle Qin Zhang and his wife were standing outside the yard holding their child, looking anxious.

"What's the matter?" Shen Ang became angry when he saw the Qin family, but he had to suppress his emotions and ask carefully.

After all, he is also the head of the village here. If the Qin family is robbed or something happens, he will have to step in to deal with it.

Uncle Qin suddenly knelt on the ground and begged Shen Ang through the wooden door: "Shen Tingjun, please save my daughter. She has a high fever and had a convulsion this morning."

After saying this, he kowtowed heavily.

Shen Ang frowned: "I am not a doctor, what do you mean by coming to me for help?"

Uncle Qin choked up and said, "I accidentally learned that Mr. Dong got better after taking the pills you gave me. That's why I came to you for help. Please, Mr. Shen Ting, save my daughter."

Aunt Qin Xiao, who was holding the child, also knelt down in front of Shen Ang and cried, "I beg Master Shen Ting to give me medicine. From now on, my wife and I will serve you like a slave."

"Get up quickly." Shen Ang frowned even tighter.

This couple is also pitiful. Qin Zhang has disabled legs and feet and walks with a slight limp; his wife is a little dazed because of the consecutive loss of two children.

If they lose their only child, the couple probably won't be able to survive.

But he didn't want to let everyone know that his daughter had the medicine.

While he was hesitating, Shen Zhao came out.

When she saw the living second uncle of the Qin family, she was slightly stunned.

In her previous life, Qin's second uncle and his wife died very early, as if they had passed away before she and Qin Yi got married. She almost forgot what they looked like.

"What's going on?" Shen Zhao had no ill feelings towards his second uncle Qin and his wife, because second uncle Qin didn't get along well with Qin Yi and his mother and son.

According to Qin Yi, his second uncle Qin and his wife resented his mother Yang, so they stopped interacting with his family.

But Shen Zhao learned from an insider that it was Qin Yi's mother who took Uncle Qin's part of the money and did not return it, causing Uncle Qin's two children to become sick and have no money for treatment, and eventually both died.

The child they are holding now was probably born after the death of their eldest son and daughter. The couple poured all their love and hopes into their youngest daughter.

"Let me see the child." Shen Zhao opened the wooden door and walked to Aunt Qin.

Aunt Qin was also desperate and tried every possible means to help, so she hurriedly uncovered the cloth that wrapped the child.

Shen Zhao noticed that the girl's face was red and had a few small red pimples, so he knew that she had acne, which is contagious.

During the years she was in the capital, she also sold medicinal materials to merchants from the Western Regions and often visited some pharmacies, so she naturally knew about some common diseases.

The most common diseases among children under the age of six are smallpox and lung disease. Once they are infected, half of the children cannot be cured.

Shen Zhao hurriedly took a step back, pulled his father away, and said to Uncle Qin and his wife, "Do you still have the medicine that the Western Region merchant left behind last time? I'll go look for it now. You wait first."

Having said that, he quickly returned to the room.

Shen Ang wanted to remind his daughter not to act on impulse, but Qin Zhang and his wife were still staring at her, so he had to give up.

Shen Zhao closed the door, summoned the small bronze mirror and asked directly: "Xiao Qing, how to treat a three-year-old child with chickenpox and high fever?" Xiao Qing blinked her big eyes and thought for a while, then asked: [Are you sure she has chickenpox? Do you have any relevant test reports? If not, please don't speculate on the disease at will. ]

Shen Zhao said unhappily, "There is no test report. We don't have the conditions here. You can just give me a treatment plan based on chickenpox."

[No, Xiaoqing is also bound by industry constraints and cannot give a definite treatment plan. Why don’t you search for drugs to treat chickenpox in the mall yourself? Relevant experts will give you some useful suggestions.]

Xiaoqing added: [Just because Xiaoqing gave me a little advice last time, I was given a warning. So if you have any cases again, you can buy the relevant books and read them yourself.]

Shen Zhao silently searched for some keywords, and finally found a book on universal diagnosis and treatment, and placed an order to buy it.

A copy of the National Medical Treatment Manual costs two hundred and eighty coins, which is really expensive.

However, after receiving the goods, Shen Zhao felt that it was great value for money.

Such a thick book not only contains case symptoms and treatment plans, but also comes with color pictures of related lesions. Even if you have not studied medicine, after reading this book, you can probably become a miracle doctor in the northwest.

Shen Zhao quickly searched for pediatric items in the directory and finally found the symptoms and treatment plans for chickenpox in children.

Then he bought some medicine, including children's fever-reducing medicine, some herbal powder, and a dose of antibiotics, spending another 120 coins.

After taking the medicine out, Shen Zhao said to Uncle Qin and his wife, "Fortunately, we found some medicine, but I don't know if it is suitable for your child."

Uncle Qin and his wife were pleasantly surprised. They knelt down and kowtowed to Shen Zhao again: "It's the right medicine! Thank you, Miss Shen, for the medicine!" Regardless of whether it was the right medicine or not, it was the last straw, and he didn't want to watch his child die again.

Shen Zhao handed the three kinds of medicine to them and explained them one by one:

"First, give her half a packet of antipyretic medicine. Remember not to take too much, otherwise it will be dangerous. Then use hot water to brew this herbal medicine for her to drink. Give her one packet of this medicine three times, with an interval of four hours between each dose."

"Yes, yes, we will definitely do it." Uncle Qin burst into tears, and the thin man in his thirties even choked with sobs.

Shen Zhao paused and said, "This amount of medicine costs four hundred coins in total. If you don't have it now, you can pay it back in installments later."

Two hundred and eighty coins for the books plus one hundred and twenty coins for the medicine, that’s four hundred coins total. I didn’t make a penny from them.

"I brought money." Uncle Qin took out a cloth bag from his arms, opened it layer by layer, revealing hundreds of coins inside.

He stuffed all the money into Shen Zhao's pocket and said, "Girl, take it all. I know this medicine is precious, and it must cost more than four hundred coins."

Shen Zhao's mouth twitched, but he still counted out four hundred and put them away, pushing the rest back: "We are all from the same village, how can I take more money from you?"

Uncle Qin clenched the cloth bag in his hand, kowtowed to Shen Zhao, and then left with his wife and children.

After watching the family walk away, Shen Zhao returned to the kitchen to continue teaching his parents how to make soy milk.

The second brother, Shen Heng, also got up and glanced at his sister with sleepy eyes: "Why are you so nice to the Qin guy? Do you want to be with Qin Yi again?"

"Shut up!" Mother Zhang Shanyue hit her son with a wooden spoon: "Why don't you go wash up quickly? Your father still has to go to Tingyi, and you are the laziest one, getting up at such a late hour!"

Shen Zhao poured the filtered soy milk into the large iron pot and said, "Uncle Qin has stopped communicating with Qin Yi and his mother a long time ago. Didn't you see that?"

Shen Heng picked up a branch and put it in his mouth to chew, just as if brushing his teeth, and said vaguely: "No wonder their two families live so far away, one is in the east and the other is in the west."

Shen Zhao covered the pot, squatted at the stove and lit the fire, and continued: "Second Uncle Qin knows some carpentry skills. We can ask him to make a few tables, chairs, and cabinets for us to store things."

(End of this chapter)