Chapter 355: Heavy Snowfall to Disaster

“Which village are you from?” Grandma Liu sat and asked.

“We are from Potou Village.”

“Yo, that takes more than three miles from Potou Village,” Grandma Liu and her family looked at each other and frowned.

Potou Village was on the other side of the mountain, more than three miles from Xinghua Village. The road was all rugged mountain roads, and it usually took more than half an hour on foot when the weather was good.  

These two people rushed in the snowy weather and carried a person on their backs. Then how long have they been walking?

“Mother, shall I go with Du Juan to the kitchen and heat some food?”

“Yeah, go quickly, it totally escaped my mind for a while.”

Chen Xiulan and Du Zuan immediately went to the kitchen.

Seeing this, the two people hurriedly waved their hands. “No, no, we are not hungry…”

Liu Dalin patted their shoulders. “Don’t be so formal. You are in our home, not a medical clinic. Getting some food isn’t a big deal. It’s going to take Nannan a long time to treat injuries and save lives, so you still have to wait.”

The two people nodded.

How was it possible if they said they weren’t hungry? They rushed so long on the road, and snowy days were especially freezing. People would likely feel more hungry on cold days.

They were actually starving, but they were just too embarrassed to trouble others.

“I just saw it. The granny is in a critical condition. Why did you only send her here now?” Liu Erlin was curious.

They said it was an early morning injury, and the village doctors did not dare to cure her. Then they should have sent her in the morning.

The granny was so old, and her life couldn’t be dragged on for so long.

The two men’s faces showed shame, “We should have sent her early, but we were worried that the consultation money wouldn’t be enough, so we went around the village to borrow some money and delayed the time…”

The other person added, “In fact, we did not dare to send her here at first. The Little Doctor is now a County Lady. Everyone said that a County Lady is the same as an official, and may not randomly give us treatment. We hesitated for a long time before coming.”

The villagers said so. A County Lady and a County Lord could sit on an equal footing. How could such a high ranking person still be the same as before, treating the poor for the common people?

If they really sent her, they might not even step a foot on the threshold.

If they had other choices, they really wouldn’t have dared to come.

In the hearts of the commoners was a bone-deep fear of the officials.

“You’re muddled!” Grandma Liu scolded, “She’s already injured like that. What else should you worry about? What is more important than human life? Instead of sending her here, you got scared by hearsays! What\s the matter with you?!”

Her scolding made the two men feel so ashamed, they dared not say anything. 

They indeed listened to gossip and were scared.

Hearing was believing and seeing was believing, especially when human life was at stake. How could they be easily swayed by rumors?

Their tired old mother suffered so much, and almost…

There was dead silence in the small consultation room.

After protecting the granny’s heart pulse, Liu Yusheng used a special technique to feed her a special strong pill to strengthen her vitality. She diagnosed her pulse again and started to examine her injured broken leg.

The granny was wearing a pair of worn and stiff cotton pants, and when she felt them, the cotton wool inside was clumpy and hard.

Liu Yusheng immediately frowned.

She took a pair of scissors and cut her pants open. The fracture was in her calf, and her whole leg has been swollen. The purple shade on her skin was very alarming.

She stroked it with her hand, and felt bone chilling cold. It was devoid of warmth.

Xue Qinglian has been watching and found the girl almost always frowning. He thought for a moment and explored the granny’s pulse on her wrist.

“Her pulse is weak, but it has started to stabilize. It is not difficult to realign her bones, what else is wrong?” What was worth her frown?

“Her legs have been frozen,” Liu Yusheng said softly.

Her injury was one, old age was another, but what left her on the brink of death was the frostbite.

The cotton-padded jacket she wore could only cover her body, but couldn’t completely keep her out of the cold.

She shut her eyes and gently exhaled a breath of turbid air. “Xue Qinglian, feed her the hemp boiled medicine. Prepare to connect her bones.”

The granny’s frozen legs bode ill and fortune.

Because it was frozen, the speed of muscle tissue necrosis at the fracture was slowed down, which reduced the unfavorable factors for bone splicing.

Otherwise, with the treatment of the injury dragged till present; most of the time, if the bones were reconnected, it would be difficult for legs of old people his age to completely heal.

With both their medical expertise, reconnecting bones was hardly an effort.  After fixing the fracture and covering the old man who was still sleeping with a light warm quilt, Liu Yusheng walked out of the small consultation room.

She left Xue Qinglian there to watch. Anyway, he has nothing to do other than researching. Researching and keeping watch in the small consultation room were the same.

The two men had a hot meal, were wrapped in warm coats, and had recovered from the cold they had suffered on the road.

Seeing Liu Yusheng enter, the two men immediately stood up, and asked formally, “Little Divine Doctor, County Lady, how is my mother?”

“She’s still unconscious. Apart from her broken leg, she has also suffered from frostbite. She still has to recuperate for the next period of time.” Otherwise, the sequelae of frostbite alone would be unbearable for the elderly.

“So, Mother is fine? She’s saved?” The man was both ecstatic and worried. He was ecstatic because coming to Xinghua Village to find the Little Divine Doctor for treatment was right. The village doctors did not dare to treat, but the Little Divine Doctor was able to save their mother from death’s door. Their trip wasn’t in vain.

His worry was the consultation fee.

In the past, when the Little Divine Doctor treated the poor, the fee was very affordable. This was widely spread in the surrounding areas. Therefore, people preferred to come to Xinghua Village for medical treatment even if they were far away.

But the Little Divine Doctor’s status was now different, she was a County Lady.

A County Lady healed the sick; could the price be the same as before?

Not only the consultation fee, but also the recuperation of the elderly afterwards. Spending money was inevitable, so the exact estimate was simply infinite.

“Little Divine Doctor, the consultation fee…”

“The consultation fee is 50 Wen. She needs to drink three days of medicine, two doses a day, so that’s a total of 150 Wen worth of medicine.” Liu Yusheng sat down next to the fireplace. “It takes a hundred days to recover from a fracture. We’ve just reconnected her bones earlier, so she can’t be moved. Leave her here with me temporarily and come pick her up half a month later. Discuss who will be left behind to take care of the elderly.”

The man touched the 200 Wen they had begged around in his arms and froze for a long time. But after reacting, he nodded repeatedly and paid for the medicine with reddish eyes.

“Thank you, Little Divine Doctor!”

“Thank you, Little Divine Doctor!”

The two said in unison. The Little Divine Doctor of Xinghua Village hasn’t changed at all. She was how she used to be. Those rumors were all nonsense!

If they hadn’t been poor and worried that they would not receive treatment for lack of money, they would have come here on their back. How could they have waited a long time to make up their minds? Gossip misled people!

“Nannan, the old lady is in such a bad condition. Is she really okay?” Grandma Liu probed further.

When the granny was just carried in, her face was already ashen white, which scared her heart thumping.

It looked grave.

“She’s fine. She’s been freezing, that’s why she’s like that before.” She held her grandma’s hand to soothe her and then addressed the two men. “It’s snowing heavily this year, so it’s probably not only your house that’s collapsed. Uncles, can you tell me about the situation in your village and the nearby villages?”