"Today is the third dose of medicine for you. After drinking it, I won't take it tomorrow."
Ye Chuqiu handed them the bitter soup, and when he saw their frowning expressions, he said lightly.
She felt that she was looking for trouble now, taking medicine every day, which could not cure people, but if she didn't, she was afraid that they would die of illness on the road, so she could only hang like this.
"Sister-in-law, I think your decoction is very good, and we are willing to drink it." Lin Qingyun said quickly.
"Yes, we are willing to drink." Li Youmei also said.
They were afraid that Ye Chuqiu would give up on them if they didn't take the medicine. If she really didn't care about them, Li Youmei felt that her family would definitely not survive.
"I don't know if this medicine will have any effect on you."
Ye Chuqiu said helplessly, "To tell you the truth, I prepared this medicine myself, it's not some earthly medicine. What if you really take it badly?"
"It doesn't matter, sister-in-law, we believe you. If Chen Sanniang takes the pills you took out before, won't she be fine?" Li Youmei said quickly.
"I don't even believe in myself now." Ye Chuqiu shook his head, looked up at the sky, and sighed longly.
I'm really tired, let's destroy it.
"Sister-in-law, it takes time to cure diseases and save people, right? You can't just drink medicine and be cured right? Maybe our illness is too serious, and your medicinal materials have alleviated many of our symptoms."
Li Youmei didn't care about scalding it, picked up the medicine in the bowl and poured it into her mouth. While pouring it, she said: "If we don't drink your soup, we might be like those... those corpses on the roadside, and we will die of illness long ago.
Already."
After listening to her words, Ye Chuqiu thought about the people he met on the road and suddenly realized, "Could it be that what you are suffering from is really not an ordinary disease, but a plague?"
"plague?"
As soon as they heard this word, everyone immediately stepped back in fright. The younger children started crying loudly, "I've been infected with the plague. I'm not going to die soon, am I?"
"Actually, I had a hunch that so many of us are sick. If it's not a plague, then what is it?"
Li Youmei became calm now, and she stepped forward to reassure everyone, "Don't be afraid, your aunt's medicine can cure us before we die."
She is so confident, but Ye Chuqiu is not so confident. She hugs her knees and looks up at the sky. She is just a waste. She is not a master of medicine and poison, nor a mercenary or special forces. She is just an ordinary person.
.
Even though she tried hard secretly, she was still helpless in the face of their diseases after working hard for so long.
Ye Chuqiu turned a deaf ear to the sobbing of the children. The sky above her head was like a heavy curtain, covering her heavily, making her feel very depressed.
The world is so big, there is a sky beyond the sky, and people are just a drop in the ocean. What is the purpose of living?
"Mom, please leave us alone and go on your own."
At this time, Lin Dahu's voice pulled her back from this internal conflict.
"Yes, mother, if we are infected in the future, it will be a sin."
Seeing that Ye Chuqiu was in a bad mood, Lin Erhu also said something cautiously.
"I will take good care of my younger brothers and sisters, and I will try my best to keep them alive. Mom, you haven't been infected with the plague yet, so you should stay away from us." Lin Dahu said again.
"Stop thinking so wildly. Let's all go and rest."
Ye Chuqiu waved his hands towards them.
How can life have so much meaning? Life is just for the sake of living, because only living can be called life.
And she, they, are all life.
Ye Chuqiu lowered her head. Under the light of the bonfire, she discovered that there was a newly grown wild grass at her feet.
She couldn't help but laugh.
Every living being is very tired if he wants to live in this world.
People have only seen the gorgeous flowers. Who has paid attention to the moment when it worked hard to accumulate nutrients under the dark soil and dug upwards until it finally broke through the thick soil with its soft body and emerged from the ground?
?
It spent so much effort just to get to the ground, blow in the wind and bask in the sun.
Even if a weed works so hard, how can it give up due to setbacks when no one is born?
"Give me a good rest and stop mumbling. I will give you a new prescription tomorrow. It will definitely cure your illness. Don't talk about those who are dying."
Ye Chuqiu turned around and said something to the tent, then walked to the fire, took out the medical book, and read it over.
Previously, Ye Chuqiu judged that they had dysentery based on their symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea. He mainly followed the methods of treating dysentery in medical books and made a decoction of kudzu root, coptis, atractylodes, etc. for them to drink.
After they drank it, their symptoms did improve, but they always relapsed the next afternoon.
Ye Chuqiu thought at first that her prescription was not working correctly, but now she has changed her mind. Maybe it is not that her method is not working correctly, but it is an environmental problem?
She read the medical book again, and it said that dysentery is a contagious disease, and people should pay attention to hygiene. However, the environment along their journey was so bad that they couldn't pay attention to hygiene at all, especially when they went out to use the toilet.
They are all in groups.
Ye Chuqiu suddenly thought of something else. When she went to the toilet, she always used the toilet paper signed by the system, but what did Li Youmei and others use?
Nowadays, for cleaning underneath, we use something called a scraper. The scraper is made of bamboo strips and can be reused after being washed.
If they still use scrapers, will that cause cross infection?
On this road, the scraper blades couldn't be cleaned, so how did they do it?
Ye Chuqiu felt that she had grasped the crux of the problem, so she immediately showed Hehua and their tents and asked them this.
Unexpectedly, Ye Chuqiu would ask this topic. Zhao Hehua and others felt shy and hesitant, but Ye Chuqiu's face was serious, "Please stop hesitating, this question is very important."
"We sometimes use branches and leaves broken off trees." Zhao Hehua answered.
"Before we were in the woods, there were many branches and leaves. After leaving the woods, we used scrapers. Anyway, there was water everywhere on the road. After using it, just wash it with water." Li Youmei also said.
"Oh my God."
After hearing this, Ye Chuqiu covered his forehead with his hands, "You may be infected with the plague. The plague is contagious. You all know that the disease enters through the mouth, but the disease can also enter from other places, do you know?
Although you have washed this scraper, the virus on it, that is, the poison from the plague god, is still there. I used decoction to kill the virus for you. As a result, you used this scraper and became infected again. Isn't this repeated?
"
Ye Chuqiu explained it to them in words they could understand, and they immediately understood. Li Youmei understood, "No wonder we can't always get better."
"Next, you must pay more attention to hygiene. You must drink boiled water, drink water from your own kettle, and use your own bowl when eating. Don't get confused. Also, everyone should try to keep distance and cough.
Don't face others," Ye Chuqiu explained again.
"But sister-in-law, we all sleep together at night, what should we do?" Li Youmei said again.
"Then let's all stop sleeping together." Ye Chuqiu said, "It's not cold even when the sun is out these days. We all work together around the campfire."
"Okay, I agree." In order to survive, no one had any objections to this.
Immediately afterwards, Ye Chuqiu asked them to tell Lin Dahu and the others what she said, and asked them to supervise them and make sure they pay attention to hygiene and take it seriously.
On the next day, Ye Chuqiu left them for a while for an excuse. When she came back, she reluctantly gave them each a roll of toilet paper and told them that she had just exchanged it for them with a businessman, and they would use this in the future.
Clean up.
Although they were very curious about toilet paper, they didn't ask any more questions and just nodded in agreement.
Perhaps it was because she asked them to practice good hygiene, or perhaps because her decoction worked. After two days, their symptoms were greatly reduced. Lin Dahu and others, who were relatively strong, basically had no serious problems. After waiting
On the third day, their illnesses were really cured.
Ye Chuqiu was overjoyed. Their illness was cured, which solved her problem. Another thing was that according to the guidance on the map, they were not far from Dunchuan. This was really a clearing of the clouds.