Chapter 199: Treatment
After sending off the two who came with good news, Su Ning turned back to the pharmacy, first put away the basket containing eggs, then looked at that bottle of used ointment.
It wasn’t her being petty; this ointment made with spring bottom jadeite plus the secret recipe from the pharmacopoeia had effects far better than imagined.
To prevent any mishaps, it was still safer to take it back.
If it caught the old lady of the Liao family’s attention and led to an old clam producing a pearl, not only would there be big trouble, but she would also face no small trouble.
She didn’t dare underestimate the obsession and madness of Chinese people toward heirs and family lineage.
Putting the ointment back in the Space Herbal Hut, Su Ning gathered her thoughts and began cleaning up.
She tidied up inside and out, and during that time also gave medicine to two or three people who came to see a doctor.
It was cold, old people and children were weak and easily caught wind-cold, the few families that came were all for this reason, wanting either fever-reducing or cough-stopping medicine.
Western medicine worked quickly, but treated symptoms not the root; thinking of several targeted prescriptions in the pharmacopoeia, idle Su Ning suddenly wanted to make some for backup.
She acted on her thought, picking the needed Chinese medicinal materials from the Peach Blossom Spring medicine garden according to the prescription, laying them one by one in a larger winnowing basket, then starting to process and prepare them.
These simple pills were no longer difficult for her now, in the blink of an eye she had made quite a few colorful and round pills that had no medicinal scent.
For drug manufacturing, after trying so many times, whether shape or color, she was now quite nonchalant about it and no longer obsessed.
“Sister Su!”
“Sister Su, Sister Su!”
A burst of urgent shouting made Su Ning, whose mind was still immersed in the Space Herbal Hut, tremble her ten fingers, ignoring the ruined pill, she quickly withdrew.
Snot and tears streamed down the face, sleeves and trouser legs were soaked in large patches, probably from falling several times.
Frozen red and swollen little hands randomly wiped the face, the little one crying breathlessly, upon seeing the person who quickly came over, immediately reached out to grab her, opening with broken sobs.
“Whose child are you? Don’t cry, don’t cry, slowly tell sister what happened.”
“Hic~ Sister Su~”
Hiccupping, the little one tightened his grip on that warm soft hand like orange soft candy, finally slowly calming his extremely chaotic and panicked emotions.
“I, I am Xiao Gaozi of the Dong family, Sister Su my brother jumped down from Chunliu’s house yard wall, foot… foot got stabbed with glass shards, bled so much so much blood… wuwuwu~”
A six or seven-year-old child, scared by that bloody scene, just thinking about it made his whole body tremble uncontrollably.
Understanding the situation, Su Ning quickly returned to the pharmacy, picked up the medicine box marked with a red cross, hurriedly locked the door, and rushed with the little one to the scene.
When they arrived outside the side yard wall of Chunliu’s house, five or six children surrounded the injured one, their crying like a big chorus.
“Sister Su is here, make way quickly!”
“Did you tell the adults at home?”
“No, no…”
“Someone go quickly call people from the Dong family, and you few, Sister Su needs to check his wound now, everyone stay quiet, stop crying and wailing.”
With an adult, and a sister they all liked, the little radish heads suddenly had a backbone, hearing her words they all covered their mouths with hands, stopping their unstoppable crying.
The most clever one among them already ran desperately toward the Dong family with his short legs.
The injured child looked small, about ten years old, his thick patched cotton clothes already wet from the snow underneath, making his already blood-loss pale lips even turn faintly purple.
Squatting down, Su Ning carefully grabbed his injured ankle and lifted it slightly upward, to check the glass shard embedded in the sole.
The exposed end looked like the base of a bottle for soy sauce or vinegar after it shattered.
Stabbed quite deep, even the meat inside was visible, fortunately it was the meatiest part of the foot, otherwise with this depth of glass in the toes…
Opening the medicine box, besides the things taken back from the hospital, the rest were emergency medicines she prepared herself.
Using a medicine bottle with spring water to rinse the wound several times until the blood gradually stopped did she stop.
“I need to pull out this glass first to properly apply medicine, it will hurt a bit, can you bear it?”
“Sister Su… you pull, I am a real man not afraid…”
“Good, little man, what is your name?”
“Dong… Dong Liang…”
“Dong Liang, sister will count one two three, then pull out the glass, okay?”
The gentle questioning voice inexplicably calmed Dong Liang who was tough-mouthed but panicked and trembling inside, especially when she smiled at him, it dazzled his eyes: sure enough, the most beautiful in the village is Sister Su…
“Okay.”
“One…”
“Ah——”
The scream that burst out instantly halted his secret countdown, Dong Liang couldn’t control his teary eyes.
Wuu, wasn’t it supposed to count to three?
He wasn’t psychologically prepared yet, how, how did she already do it?
Quick-sighted and nimble-fingered Su Ning pulled out the glass while he was dazed, as if not noticing the accusation in his eyes, while rinsing again with spring water she smiled and comforted, “It won’t hurt soon, bear it a bit more.”
“Ah——”
The hemostatic powder upon sprinkling instantly coagulated into tiny blood beads, until covering the entire wound, the outward surging blood immediately lost its ferocious momentum, slowly stopping.
“You lied, lied to the baby… wuwu…”
Dong Liang nearly fainted from pain, big teardrops falling, what real man bleeds but doesn’t cry?
He was still small, he needed to grow more.
“Okay okay okay, then sister will give you candy as apology.”
Taking a candy from her clothes pocket, tearing off the wrapper and stuffing it into his slightly open mouth, the little one’s cries of pain gradually weakened.
“How is it, not so painful now…”
“Liang baby, Liang Liang!”
Before finishing the words, a figure swiftly darted in beside her, crying out while picking up the child on the ground.
“His foot wound just stopped bleeding and medicated, be careful not to bump it!”
“Liang baby’s mom did you hear, be careful of the baby’s foot!”
Suddenly, many people from the Dong family came.
Dong Fusheng while speaking carefully examined his grandson’s wound, seeing it already treated, scary-looking but no more blood coming out, his heart finally settled, heavily patting his frightened chest.
“Xiao Su thank you, thank you!”
This was when having a barefoot doctor showed its benefit, without her, looking at that pool of blood on the snow, even sending to the county town hospital at fastest speed, Liang baby would definitely have little chance of survival.
So those long-tongued women still gossiped behind her back, saying she took full work points for nothing?
Truly long hair short knowledge!
“Thank you, thank you Doctor Xiao Su!”
Dong Da, whose heart had settled, followed closely with repeated bows of thanks.
“No problem, it’s what I should do, now first take little Liang home, his clothes are all wet and need changing immediately.”
“Yes, yes yes, back, going back now!”
“You melon head still standing there stunned, quickly carry Liang Liang home!”
Dong family came fast and left quickly, Dong Da hugging the child hurriedly ran back home.
People who came out hearing the commotion to watch also followed in a swarm.
Only Chunliu’s house door remained tightly closed, such a big commotion and no one came out.
“Sister Su, Chunliu they went to outer Ga Ga’s house, no one inside.”
So that’s how it was, no wonder the naughty babies climbed the wall and no one scolded to stop them.
Putting the medicine bottles placed on the snow back into the medicine box with wooden stoppers, Su Ning stood up looking at him, “Xiao Gaozi why didn’t you go home with father and mother?”
Forcefully sniffing his nose, traces of tears and snot remained on Xiao Gaozi’s little face, “They seemed to have forgotten me.”
“Let’s go, sister will take you home, and check on your brother too.”
“Mm mm!”
Bringing Xiao Gaozi to the Dong family, Dong Liang’s wet clothes were already removed, the whole little naked body stuffed into a quilt wrapped tightly.
The tired and pained little one had already closed eyes sleeping, no signs of fever for now.
Scraping off the special powder at his wound with a smooth bamboo slip, then applying ordinary powder from the medicine box and wrapping with a piece of gauze.
After all done, she gently grabbed the quilt corner to cover that little foot.
“These few days don’t eat heating things, be careful not to get it wet, if fever comes quickly find me.”
“I remember, thank you Doctor Xiao Su.”
Nodding, Su Ning carried the medicine box out of the room, upon seeing Dong Ruolan again her brows twitched.
