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Chapter 31: High Fever
Su Yin didn’t cook the meal tonight.
In Su’s mother’s words, the food she cooked was delicious, but it was too expensive.
It was okay to eat it once or twice once in a while. Su’s mother was the first to refuse to eat it every day.
Su’s mother directly cooked a pot of meat porridge, and paired it with the dry pancakes she had made before. It was the simplest thing to eat, but it was a good thing that many people wanted to eat but couldn’t.
While they were eating, Xiao Yanggui was holding three scallion pancakes.
Aunt, sister, mother asked me to bring this. It’s delicious.” As he spoke, his little eyes did not forget to take a look at what delicious food they were eating.
When he saw it was tiger meat porridge, he immediately lost interest.
After eating every day for the past two days, I am naturally not greedy.
Mother Su did not refuse and took the hand with a smile, “Thank you mother for me.”
Xiao Yanggui left happily.
A woman came with a child in her arms. When she walked up to them, she felt a little shy. She looked down at the child in her arms and plucked up the courage to step forward and ask.
Sister Chunxiang, can you give me a bowl of meat porridge on credit? My child has been weak recently, and I, I want to give her a supplement.”
The woman had already asked two families, but was rejected by both, so she could only continue to ask shamelessly.
Su Yin and the others looked at the woman. The woman was young, and the child in her arms looked to be only one or two years old. At this time, the child’s face was flushed and her eyes were tightly closed.
During the past few days on the road, Su Yin got to know everyone in Xinghua Village, but it was just acquaintance, but he did not have much contact with them, let alone familiarity with them.
The woman in front of her is Yang Daren’s daughter-in-law, Mrs. Xu, and there is also an old lady in the palace.
Not long after the couple got married, Yang Daren was drafted into the army. Within half a year, he received news that he had died in battle.
At that time, Yang Daren’s wife was already pregnant with a child. She finally gave birth to a girl.
The eldest uncles of Yang Daren’s family took this opportunity to seize the five acres of fertile land and three acres of dry land left by the orphans and widowers.
Fortunately, Yang Lizheng came forward and left two acres of fertile land for their family, and the other three acres of fertile land and dry land were divided up.
This time they came together to escape, which was the most difficult of all the refugees.
A young woman has to take care of her children and her mother-in-law, who has poor eyesight.
Su Yin heard her aunt talk about Yang Daren’s wife and admired her very much.
Mother Su quickly scooped up a bowl of meat porridge and handed it to the other party, “It’s just a bowl of porridge, it’s not for credit.”
“Thank you.” Madam Xu thanked her gratefully.
Madam Xu sat aside and gently called the child in her arms, “Niuniu, wake up, there is delicious meat porridge to drink.”
The child in her arms did not wake up.
Su Yin noticed that the baby’s face was not normal, “Aunt Xu “Can you take a look at Niuniu?”
“Okay.”
Su Yin reached out and touched the child’s forehead and cheek. “Niuniu has a high fever.”
“High fever?” Madam Xu panicked.
We were on the road all day long, and the child was very quiet lying on the cart.
Because it was daytime and the weather was so hot, we didn’t notice anything was wrong at the first time.
When resting at night, the child had no appetite and felt sleepy. He thought it was because he was hot or tired and didn’t think about it at all.
What should we do?”
“First wipe the body with a wet handkerchief to cool down the child.”
Su Yin took the child over, placed it on the straw mat, and untied the clothes wrapped around it.
“Mom, use warm water.”
“Okay.”
“Aunt Xu, fan the child.”
“Okay.” Aunt Xu responded hurriedly.
Use a handkerchief soaked in warm water to wipe the child’s neck, armpits, and front thighs to promote heat dissipation and cooling.
After wiping like this repeatedly, the temperature of Niu Niu’s body surface dropped, but not a lot.
“What’s going on?”
Yang Dashan looked at the baby lying on the straw mat, and then at Madam Xu who was wiping her tears.
“The child has a high fever. Uncle, can you help me ask which store has liquor?” Su Yin asked, feeling a sense of urgency.
He’d been reincarnated in this world for over ten years, but his knowledge of this dynasty was limited. He didn’t know if they had distilled alcohol or high-proof alcohol.
Soon, Yang Dashan returned with a jug of wine. “This is some wine from my third grandfather’s family. It’s good wine.
He’s always been reluctant to drink it. When I heard you needed it, I took it out immediately.”
Su Yin poured a little, smelled it, and took a sip to make sure it wasn’t high-proof alcohol that could be used to cool the child’s body.
He knew that to completely lower her temperature, they needed medicine.
“It can’t be used. Uncle, thank my third grandfather for me.”
Madam Xu panicked when she heard it couldn’t be used. “What should I do?”
The eldest aunt and the others gathered around, hearing the commotion. They offered a comforting solution: “When we meet the village at noon tomorrow, we’ll go to the village and find a barefoot doctor to prescribe some medicine. Let’s use warm water to cool her down tonight.”
Everyone knew the child had a severe fever. Cooling her down and waiting until tomorrow for medicine could easily lead to brain damage.
Even with brain damage, she would still be alive. But she could die from the high fever in the middle of the night.
The child was young and frail.
It was common for children to succumb to high fevers in the countryside.
In their current situation, the eldest aunt and the others could only try to remain optimistic and think about things in a positive light.
Su Yin took out a pair of medicines from his pack. When he bought supplies before, he’d considered this kind of situation they might encounter on their escape.
In ancient times, high fever was no small matter; it could kill.
Out in the wilderness, with this child burning like this, Su Yin couldn’t just let her die. He took out a pair of antipyretics from his pack.
These were included in the supplies he purchased in the county town, so he could prevent this kind of problem from happening.
“I have a pair of fever-reducing medicine here.”
Madam Xu knelt down and kowtowed to Su Yin.
Su Yin quickly helped her up. “I, I really don’t know how to thank you.”
“Auntie, get up quickly and boil the medicine for the child first. What matters now is the child.”
“Yes, yes, you are right.”
The sleeping baby girl opened her eyes. Due to malnutrition, her whole body was thin and small, and her head and eyes appeared large.
A pair of big eyes looked at Su Yin innocently, and her voice was grand and soft, “Sister, I feel bad.”
The cry of ‘sister’ softened Su Yin’s heart, and she gently stroked the little baby’s head. “You won’t feel uncomfortable after taking the medicine. When you get better, my sister will cook barbecue for you to eat.”
The little baby’s eyes sparkled at the mention of barbecue.
Su Yin’s aunt brought a bowl of porridge. It wasn’t very thick, but it was better than what Madam Xu’s family usually ate. “Give the child a sip of porridge first. Once he is full, the disease will be cured easily.”
The little one couldn’t eat meat porridge now.
“Thank you,” Madam Xu couldn’t help but thank her again.
Mother Su helped boil the medicine, reducing three bowls of water to one, cooled it down, and fed it to the child.
After the child finished drinking and went to sleep, Madam Xu insisted on carrying the child back, not wanting to trouble them any further.
Mother Su looked at the departing figure of the orphaned and widowed mother and sighed softly, “This has just begun, and the child has started to have a high fever. The further they go, the harder it will be. I’m afraid…”
The eldest aunt and the others couldn’t bear it either. They sighed.
“Daren is such a flesh and blood person. If he leaves, I’m afraid Daren’s mother will not be able to bear it.”
“Hey, they are all miserable people.”
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