The journey of the only child of a peasant family to take the imperial examination

Finally, I was lucky. While the medicine boy was getting the medicine, someone with a similar condition came to see me. The affected area was on his knee, and he came to see me because he could no longer bear it. He had difficulty walking and his symptoms were very serious.

The patient was accompanied by his elderly father and brother. The old man kept asking, "Doctor, my son is still young. He must not become disabled. Please take a good look at him!"

"I will do my best, don't worry," the old doctor is very experienced in dealing with patients and their families, and because of his age, his words make people feel very reliable.

After bringing the patient to the small compartment, the old doctor asked Zhang Ping'an to follow him in, and asked the medicine boy to give the patient a bowl of knockout drug. After seeing that the patient had fallen asleep, he washed his hands, wiped the wound with a handkerchief soaked in white wine, and then picked up a narrow dagger and slowly cut the wound. In an instant, yellow-white pus flowed out, mixed with blood.

The medicine boy was there to help, holding a small spittoon.

After the pus stopped flowing, the old doctor began to squeeze hard around the wound towards the center, and a lot of residual pus spurted out, and the wound deflated instantly.

Just when the accompanying father and son thought the wound was healed, the old doctor took a dagger, warmed it over the fire, and began to scrape the rotten flesh around the wound. The pain was so intense that the patient, who was still unconscious, was awakened by the pain. He groaned continuously, but could not move. He broke out in a cold sweat and cried out weakly, "Dad, brother, I don't want to be treated anymore. It hurts so much!"

He still wanted to struggle after saying that, and the old doctor quickly said, "Hold him down quickly, don't let him move. Hey, it will be troublesome without Ma Fei San!"

The accompanying father and son rushed forward to help, and the old father comforted him, "Son, just bear with it!"

After a while, the old doctor scraped away all the rotten flesh, revealing the bright red wound. He then began to apply medicine. Without even looking up, he said to Zhang Pingan, "See? You have to scrape it to this extent before you can apply medicine. Otherwise, it won't heal."

Zhang Pingan bowed and said, "I understand, thank you, doctor!"

After bandaging and washing his hands, the old doctor prescribed the same prescription of Hongteng Baijiang Decoction for the patient. In the end, the patient was carried back by his brother. He had indeed suffered a lot.

Zhang Ping'an bought enough clean cotton cloth, medicinal powder, knockout drug, and the most important Hongteng Baijiang Decoction at the clinic, and then hurried back.

It was still early when we left the city, and the sun was still hanging in the sky, dispelling a bit of the winter chill.

Zhang Pingan returned to the forest where his family was staying. Jin Bao's mother quickly asked, "Pingan, is there any solution?"

"I asked the doctor for some medicine, and he also roughly told me how to treat it. Whether I can get better in the end depends on my physical condition. Let's give it a try," Zhang Pingan replied.

After finishing the meal, he handed the Red Vine and Patrinia Soup packet to the female relatives to boil first, and then warned a few people in advance: "It will be very painful. You should take some knockout drugs first. It will feel better after you fall asleep."

After that, he mixed a bowl of soup with hot water for each of them. Uncle Xu and the other two drank it without saying a word and soon fell asleep.

Zhang Pingan said quickly, "Let's make it quick. I'll take care of my uncle, and you, the eldest brother-in-law, will take care of Jinbao's father. Brother Jiangsheng, you take care of my second brother-in-law. Let's wash our hands first, then wipe the wound with white wine. Finally, use a red-hot dagger to cut open the wound, squeeze out the pus, scrape off the rotten flesh, apply medicine and bandage it. If you don't have a dagger, use a kitchen knife."

"Okay," Brother Liu nodded, and then said, "Why did you suddenly call me Brother Jiang Sheng? I'm not used to it."

Zhang Pingan smiled and said, "It's easier to tell them apart this way. Otherwise, it would be easy to confuse you with Dalang every time I call you that."

The three of them followed the steps to squeeze out all the pus and scrape off all the rotten flesh with a knife. All three woke up in pain, especially Uncle Xu, whose condition was the most serious. He had the most rotten flesh scraped off, and a big hole was left after scraping. He was shaking with pain.

When they were finally done, his whole body looked like it had been pulled out of the water. Shen wiped the sweat off her man's face with a handkerchief in pain.

All I can do now is leave it to fate. The old doctor said that as long as there is no fever, there will be no big problem and the wound will heal on its own.

After dark, Zhang Pingan stood up and said, "Let's go!"

They have been staying up all night recently, and the others have gotten used to it and started to get up too.

The three people who had just been treated were still very weak and had no strength in their bodies. Zhang Laoer pulled them on a mule cart so that they could at least catch their breath and rest for a while.

Only then did Shen realize her daughter was missing, and she called out softly to the surroundings, "Lotus, Lotus, where are you? We're leaving!"

She didn't dare shout too loudly for fear of alerting other refugees nearby. During this period of time, Shen had learned to keep a low profile.

After shouting several times with no one answering, Shen said angrily, "This damn girl is making me so angry. Where did she go? She was right next to me just now!?"

After asking the others, Zhu Zhu bit his hand and said, "It seems that my cousin went to the woods to relieve herself."

As soon as he finished speaking, a hoarse male voice came from the distant woods: "I know where she is. Give me ten kilograms of food and I will take you to find her."

This sudden sound immediately made everyone alert.

Shen was also a little hesitant. She had already known how terrible these refugees were during this period of time.

Seeing no response, the other party continued, "If you don't have ten pounds, just give me a few bread. I'm starving. Please give me some food, and I'll take you to find her."

It was easy to take out a few pancakes. After all, she was the daughter she had raised for so many years. Shen hesitated again.

Zhang Pingan asked, "When did you see her?"

The other party thought for a moment and said in a hoarse voice, "About an hour ago. I think you were making medicine for a patient at that time."

Shen was surprised: "It's been so long, how come I didn't notice it?"

Uncle Xu forced himself to stand up and cursed, "What have you been busy with, wife? You didn't even look after your daughter. You didn't even notice she was missing for so long!"

Shen cried out, "She's grown up already. I've told her several times not to leave us. She didn't listen to me. What can I do? Besides, you've been badly injured. I have to take care of you. And now you're blaming me. I feel so wronged!"

Uncle Xu's two sons, both of whom were still unmarried, tried to persuade him, saying, "It's just a few cakes. My eldest brother and I can just save some and eat less. We can give some to others and find our sister!"

Looking at the couple blaming each other, Zhang Pingan was speechless!

After thinking for a moment, he said calmly: "Let's go, let's continue on our journey!"

Shen was stunned for a moment when she heard this: "Aren't you going to help find it?"

"It's dark now, the forest is deep, and cousin Hehua has been missing for so long. It's very dangerous. I can't take risks with so many people," Zhang Pingan said calmly.

Moreover, he suspected that this was a bait, and it would be safest to leave immediately.

Shen stood still, protesting silently, her heart torn between her conscience and her own desires. Mainly because she felt that a few cakes would be a good deal if she could get her daughter back. Otherwise, it would be such a loss for her to raise her daughter for more than ten years and get nothing in return!