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

Dazhu was the most anxious after hearing this and ran to the backyard quickly. The family members followed him and saw that the water from the well had spilled all over the floor. Erya was holding the person in her arms and pinching his Ren Zhong point, but the person didn't react even after his nose was pinched purple. He couldn't help but panic and asked Danier to call for help.

Seeing that all the family members had come over, Erya couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. She looked at Zhang anxiously and said, "Grandma, we were washing vegetables here with my cousin's wife just now, and she suddenly fainted. I thought she had been squatting for too long, so I thought pinching her Ren Zhong point would be fine, but I pinched for a long time and there was no response at all."

Erya knew that her grandfather and uncle didn’t care about anything at home, so if there was really a problem, she had to ask her grandmother Zhang!

Dazhu walked over and helped her up. Li looked at her daughter-in-law and thought for a moment that she might be too tired. So she said to Zhang, "Mother, Yingniang is not too tired. How about Dazhu and I help her back to her room to lie down and see?"

Zhang squatted down and lay on her granddaughter-in-law's chest to listen, then stood up and said, "Just lying down won't do the trick. She needs to see a doctor. She can't get better just by lying down. Her chest is beating so weakly that it's almost dead."

After saying this, he gave his order to his eldest grandson, saying decisively, "Dazhu, go and hitch up the ox cart. While it's still light, rush and take him to the town clinic!"

Mrs. Li was shocked when she heard this. In her opinion, going to the clinic meant that the person was seriously ill or dying. She hesitated and said, "Mom, this... isn't that serious, right?!"

"You are confused. This person's chest doesn't even beat strongly. How can he get better? This money cannot be saved!" Zhang said in a deep voice.

After saying that, he added: "Bring more silver!"

Dazhu hurried to get ready to harness the cart, but Daya said, "Why don't we take our mule cart over there first? Saving people is the most important thing, and we have to go back to town anyway."

Xu stopped them, saying, "You haven't had dinner yet. This is not polite. Your in-laws will blame you if they find out. We have several cars at home, and we don't need you."

Looking at this messy family, Zhang's forehead ached and she shouted, "Alright, stop arguing. Dazhu, take your wife and get in Daya and the others' cart and hurry to town. Sanlang knows the town well. Boss, go harness the ox cart and take your wife with you to see what's going on. Everyone else should do what they're supposed to do!"

Xu was about to say something, but Zhang glared at her impatiently and said, "Hurry up!"

Only then did everyone start to move!

Liu Sanlang was an enthusiastic man. Without even taking a break, he hurried to drive his mule cart to the door, and Daya also wanted to get on the cart.

When Xu saw that she really couldn't have dinner, she quickly went to the kitchen and got a big bowl of fried pork belly, put it in a basket and asked Daya to take it away. Since she didn't have dinner, she had to take something back with her, otherwise her in-laws would complain.

"Remember to free up the bowl when you go back and ask your aunt to bring it back to me," Xu reminded.

"I understand, mother. You go back. We are leaving now." Daya waved her hand and helped her cousin to support the person. Liu Sanlang waved the whip and hit the mule's back, and the car drove away quickly.

Zhang Laoda, who was harnessing the cart, was a little reluctant and complained, "I didn't feel dizzy earlier or later, but the guests are dizzy now, and we haven't even had dinner yet!"

Li was also angry. Sending the child to the hospital would definitely cost a large sum of money, and she didn't know how much it would cost. The family had saved a lot of money by tightening their belts, and now it would be wiped out in an instant.

After hearing what her husband said, she couldn't help but throw the thing in her hand on the bed and growled: "It was your mother's idea. I said just lie down, but she insisted on sending me to the hospital. It's easy for her to talk, but we still have to pay for it ourselves"!

Zhang was just outside the door, intending to secretly send some money over, as seeing a doctor wasn't easy these days. But before she even entered the room, she heard these words and was furious.

He turned his head to look around, bent down, picked up a broken pottery jar from under the wall and threw it directly under the window frame of the main room. The broken pottery jar shattered with a "crash" sound, and there was no sound in the main room at all.

Zhang was still not satisfied and cursed loudly, "You two short-lived bastards, you don't know how to appreciate kindness. I told you not to let Dazhu's wife go to pray to the Goddess of Childbirth, but did you listen to me? You guys are responsible for everything that happened today, and you still expect me to give you money? Pah! Do you have the nerve to do that? If I didn't feel sorry for my young granddaughter-in-law and couldn't bear to see her lose her life like this, I wouldn't say a word. You can decide what to do next!"

After saying that, he left. Anyway, the person had been sent to the clinic, so they had to pay the money whether they wanted to or not.

Liu Sanlang drove the mule cart very fast. The journey that usually took an hour was completed in just half an hour. Finally, they arrived before the clinic closed. Ji'an Hall was the most famous clinic in the town. Liu Sanlang saw that the patient's condition seemed quite serious and did not dare to send him to the small clinic.

After Dazhu carried the patient in, a pharmacist came forward and asked about the situation. Then he placed the patient on the bed in the compartment and went to the backyard to call a doctor.

After a while, a middle-aged doctor came in followed by the medicine boy. If Zhang Laoer was here, he would find that this was an acquaintance. It was Doctor Qu who was in charge of selling herbal medicine at Ji'antang before.

Doctor Qu reached out and carefully felt the patient's pulse, then looked at the patient's face, then lifted his eyelids to take a look, and finally began to apply acupuncture. After everything was done, he breathed a sigh of relief and said thoughtfully, "The patient's condition is not too good."

Dazhu stood aside, his hands clenched tightly, his heart in his throat, and asked nervously, "Doctor, what's going on? Can my wife be saved?"

Doctor Qu took a look at the men's clothing before asking, "While you're not wealthy, your clothes are decent enough. You shouldn't be starving at home. However, your wife's pulse indicates a weak spleen and stomach, stagnant liver qi, and insufficient kidney qi. Coupled with the fatigue from squatting for so long, she fainted suddenly."

Dazhu was confused and didn't quite understand what he heard, so he asked, "No, doctor, just tell me what disease this is and whether it can be cured. We are all rough people and don't understand what you are talking about."

Doctor Qu rolled his eyes at Dazhu before continuing, "Why are you so anxious? I haven't finished what I was saying yet! Simply put, the patient was hungry, and coupled with the stress and lack of sleep, his body was severely depleted, so he fainted. But don't worry, with two or three years of proper care, he will recover."

Doctor Qu wrote a prescription and handed it over. "Prescribe the medicine according to this prescription. Boil three bowls of water into one bowl. Take it twice a day."

Dazhu nodded repeatedly and hurriedly took the prescription to get the medicine. But he didn't expect that he would spend more than one or two taels of medicine just to get a month's supply. It was even more expensive than eating meat! Dazhu was heartbroken and thought that his mother would definitely scold him if she found out.

After thinking about it, people are definitely more important. Forget it, just curse!

When Dazhu finished taking the medicine and went into the compartment, he was surprised to see his wife wake up. He said excitedly, "Yingniang, you're awake?"

Yingniang was still a little confused, and it took her a while to realize that she was in a clinic. Seeing her husband carrying two large bags of medicine, she forced herself to sit up and said in panic, "I'm not sick and don't need to take medicine. Why are you giving me so many medicines? I'll leave now!"

Doctor Qu quickly had the medicine boy help the man up and said angrily, "Hurry and lie down! How can you be so careless about your body? Although this isn't an emergency, you're seriously depleted and your heart and veins are weak. If you don't take good care of yourself, you won't live more than two years if you continue like this! Thank goodness your husband still remembered to bring you to the clinic today."

Yingniang noticed that it was indeed somewhere else and asked anxiously, "Can I still have a child?"

Doctor Qu was stunned when he heard this, and he couldn't help but sigh inwardly. He said in a soothing voice, "You haven't had your period in the past two months, right? This is actually caused by your body's Qi deficiency. Don't be impatient! You can have your period again after your body has recovered. You are still young!"

Yingniang wasn't comforted by this. Her mother-in-law had been anxious to have a grandchild, and she was anxious too, so she'd followed her mother-in-law's instructions and asked her sister-in-law to accompany her to Guiyuan Temple to pray to Guanyin for a child. She'd drank so much talismanic water that she was almost vomiting, but she'd gritted her teeth and persevered for the sake of the child, not stopping for a single day. Now the doctor said we had to wait another two years, which she couldn't accept, and her mother-in-law probably wouldn't accept it either...

Dazhu was a little surprised when he heard this. He hadn't thought of this yet, but he felt that they must rescue the person first, so he immediately said, "Thank you, doctor. We will definitely take the medicine on time!"

"Well, after you finish taking the medicine, you can slowly replenish your body with food. Eat more eggs and meat, so you can recover faster."

"Oh, I got it!" Dazhu nodded and sent Doctor Qu away.

At this time, Daya said, "Brother Dazhu, it's nothing. I'll let Sanlang stay here with you. I'll go back and put the things away and bring you some food. My cousin's wife needs to rest for a while!"

Dazhu waved his hand and refused: "No, let's go home and eat. We'll leave after Yingniang has rested. My parents will probably be here soon."

At this moment, a noisy sound suddenly came from the pharmacy outside, accompanied by a woman's sharp cry: "Where is the doctor, doctor!"

Daya felt that the voice was familiar, so she opened the curtain and saw that it was her aunt. Then she looked at the man next to her, who was covering his head. Wasn't he her uncle?

At this time, Uncle Xu's head was broken, looking very miserable, with blood flowing out from between his fingers. There were several men following him, grabbing Uncle Xu's collar and refusing to let go.