At this time, Lao He who was outside was already crying. For Lao He, he had long regarded Su Xiaoyue as his own daughter.
How could he accept this bad news?
When he saw Zhang Bao coming, he kicked him up.
"What Liaozhou are you going to!"
"Why aren't you here watching her!?"
"What the hell did you do?!"
"You have to find a way to save her..."
"She is a poor child..."
Lao He pulled Zhang Bao's clothes and cried loudly.
Zhang Bao did not block Lao He's fist on his body. He naturally knew Lao He's feelings for Su Xiaoyue. Seeing Lao He cry like this, Zhang Bao felt even more self-blame in his heart.
"I know Uncle He."
"I will!"
Zhang Bao helped Lao He up from the ground.
"Brother Li, go to the Yamen and ask Huang Chenzhi to help contact the various prefectures and counties in Hezhou. As long as Xiaoyue's disease can be cured, it doesn't matter how much it costs or what the conditions are."
Zhang Bao turned to Li Daniu and said.
"I'd better go."
Fan Hanzhong looked at Li Daniu, who was already exhausted, and immediately walked out.
"It's okay, don't worry!"
"I will save Xiaoyue at all costs."
Zhang Bao said to everyone.
In the next day and night, Su Xiaoyue fell into coma and woke up sometimes.
The few times he woke up, Zhang Bao reluctantly fed him some gruel, but then fell asleep in Zhang Bao's arms.
Fortunately, Li Daniu's children gathered a lot of firewood, which kept the whole house warm no matter day or night.
It's already late at night.
Zhang Bao took a hard bite at the tiger's mouth, and then his sleepiness receded slightly.
He hasn't slept for three days in a row.
Coupled with the previous battle and the overnight journey, I was already exhausted.
But he didn't dare to sleep. He was afraid that Su Xiaoyue wouldn't be able to see him when she woke up. He was even more afraid that once Su Xiaoyue fell asleep, she would never wake up again.
Winter nights seem especially quiet.
The only sound in the room was Su Xiaoyue's shallow breathing.
From time to time, the sound of burning firewood could be heard outside the house, which made Zhang Bao startled.
Zhang Bao couldn't hold it any longer, so he gently came to the yard, took a handful of cold water and poured it on his face.
Seeing that Lao He hadn't slept yet, he was sitting in the kitchen in a daze, with a pot of water boiling on the stove and noodles that had been prepared next to him.
Lao He waited for Su Xiaoyue to wake up and said she was hungry, and immediately cooked noodles for her and sent them in.
It had only been two days, but Lao He's back had become rickety and his hair had turned a lot whiter.
He looked like an old man, his eyes dim and dull.
Zhang Bao sighed and walked over.
"Uncle He, let's go have a rest."
"Xiaoyue just fell asleep."
Zhang Bao said to Lao He.
"No, what if that girl wakes up and wants to eat the noodles made by her Uncle He?"
"It will be too late to cook it by then."
Lao He added a fire to the stove.
"You said...he was a good person, why did he suddenly become like this..."
"If I'm going to die, I, an old guy, will die first."
"Xiaoyue, a child who lost her parents at such a young age, was sold to our Zhang family. At that time, she was so small, skinny and weak, carrying a small broken bag, and you bastard still abused her all day long.
She never had a good day."
"Now, life is finally getting better day by day, but now it's like this..."
As Lao He spoke, he wiped away tears again.
Lao He had long since lost the hysteria he had before, but this gentle crying made him even more powerless.
Zhang Bao didn't know how to answer Lao He's question.
If possible, Zhang Bao is willing to sacrifice his own life in exchange for Xiaoyue's improvement.
But all this is impossible, and the more you think like this, the more desperate you will become.
"Have the doctors from other places not arrived yet?"
Lao He raised his head and asked.
"All the doctors near Sanhe County have seen it before, and for those doctors who are far away, it will probably take several days from the time the news spreads to the time they arrive."
"Just wait a little longer..."
Zhang Bao sighed.
At this time, Zhang Bao couldn't exert any strength and could only wait for other doctors to try.
But Zhang Bao knew.
I'm afraid...it's too late...
If treatment had been started early before, there might have been some hope, but now...
Zhang Bao held back the tears that fell and did not want to think about it any more.
Zhang Bao once thought about countless possibilities in the future, but he never thought that something like this would happen to Su Xiaoyue.
'Dong-dong-dong!'
At this moment.
There was a knock on the door outside Yueyan Restaurant.
Zhang Bao was stunned and quickly stepped forward to open the door.
But Luo Mu appeared at the door of Yueyan Restaurant in a state of embarrassment, carrying a medicine box on his back.
"grown ups!"
"I heard that my wife was sick, so I came over immediately!"
Luo Mu gasped and said.
"good!"
"good!"
"Quick, come with me!"
Zhang Bao was overjoyed. Luo Mu was a former imperial doctor and had been practicing medicine on the grassland for many years. Maybe there was hope. Zhang Bao was very upset that he had forgotten Luo Mu.
He quickly led Luo Mu back.
Luo Mu came to Su Xiaoyue's bed and looked at it with a serious look on his face.
He put his hand on Su Xiaoyue's wrist for a long time, then gently put it down and walked out with Zhang Bao.
At this time, Li Daniu and others also gathered over after hearing the commotion.
"Sir, Madam's illness is very troublesome!"
"According to my opinion, it was due to years of accumulated cold illness that left my wife's body already riddled with holes. She was also overworked and infected with wind and cold, which caused all the symptoms to burst out at once.
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"If it can be treated early, there may be hope."
"But now that the oil is almost gone and the lamp is dry, the coldness may have penetrated deeply into the body..."
Luo Mu sighed and said.
After listening to Luo Mu's words, Zhang Baoru fell into the ice cave.
The words spoken by Luo Mu, the imperial doctor, had almost sentenced Su Xiaoyue to death.
When Lao He on the side heard this, he rolled his eyes and fainted.
"Is there... is there no other way?"
Zhang Bao asked in despair.
"Maybe there is a way, but I'm not absolutely sure!"
"It's even...somewhat dangerous."
Luo Mu hesitated for a moment and said to Zhang Bao.
"Um?"
"What can I do?"
Zhang Bao asked quickly.
At this point, no matter what method, it is better than waiting to die here.
"When I was in the grassland, I learned from an old herdsman that the weather in the grassland is unpredictable. Sometimes the temperature will drop sharply, and many of their herdsmen will be directly frostbitten."
"Although he won't die immediately, the sharp cold entering his body is similar to Madam's current situation."
"At this time, the prairie people will use horse manure mixed with freshly extinguished grass ashes to wrap the person completely. Sometimes, they can save the person."
"But sometimes, they can't control the temperature inside, and they suffocate people to death."
"so……"
Luo Mu said hesitantly.
Although I have heard of this method before, Luo Mu has never tried it personally.
And strictly speaking, Su Xiaoyue's current situation is different from that of the grassland people, so Luo Mu is not sure.