Chapter 80: Cold
The weather in November is like a child's face, changing at any time. It was sunny in the morning, but suddenly a chilly wind blew at noon. Pedestrians on the street wrapped their cotton coats tightly and walked against the wind.
Qianhuan couldn't help sneezing while sitting on the small stool next to the boiler. When Mrs. Liu heard it, she asked with concern, "Qianhuan, did you catch a cold?"
Qianhuan pulled her worn cotton jacket closer and added a few more sticks of firewood to the stove under the boiler while comforting Liu: "Mom, I'm fine, don't worry."
Liu finally felt relieved after hearing this and continued to busy herself with frying her chestnuts.
In the afternoon, the temperature dropped a lot. Stir-frying chestnuts was strenuous work for Liu, and she usually sweated from the busyness. Although she didn't sweat much today, she still didn't feel cold, so she didn't feel much about the sudden drop in temperature.
Qianhuan was so cold that she stretched her hands over the flame under the boiler to keep warm. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart: It seems that the cold winter is really coming. There are still dozens of kilograms of chestnuts left that have not been sold today. I have to hold on until I sell all the chestnuts before I can go home.
Finally, all the chestnuts were sold out. Qianhuan stood up and was about to help Liu pack up the stall. Suddenly, she felt dizzy and cold all over, and then she fell down unconscious.
Upon seeing this, Liu immediately dropped what she was holding and ran over to hug her daughter. She shouted in panic, "Qianhuan, Qianhuan, wake up, don't scare your mother... wake up quickly..."
The commotion here attracted the attention of many passers-by, and everyone formed a circle and looked at the two people on the ground.
Chu Yichen was just walking out of the gate of Zuixianju Restaurant and was about to take a carriage home. When he heard the noise here, he stopped and looked sideways.
Yuanji had already noticed that there was a crowd of people around Qianhuan's stall, so he said to his young master, "Young Master, it seems that something happened at the stall selling sugar-roasted chestnuts."
"Let's go and take a look." Chu Yichen immediately walked towards the crowd.
After pushing through the crowd and walking in, Chu Yichen saw Qianhuan fainted on the ground and Liu crying beside her. He immediately stepped forward and asked, "Aunt, what happened to little brother Liang?"
"Young Master, I don't know what happened to her. She was fine this afternoon, but suddenly she fainted. What should we do..." Liu was completely confused.
"Aunt, don't worry. I will immediately send Brother Liang to the Renjitang Clinic to find a doctor for him."
After saying that, he immediately took the girl from Liu's hands and held her horizontally in his arms. Seeing a grown man holding her own daughter, Liu felt somewhat uncomfortable, but thinking of her daughter's current condition, she didn't care about the differences between men and women, and didn't say anything to stop him.
"Yuanji, help your aunt put their things into our restaurant. I'm going to go to Renjitang Clinic first."
"Yes, Master."
Chu Yichen, on the other hand, walked towards his own carriage holding the person in his arms. He did not expect that the person in his arms was so light. He easily carried the unconscious person onto his own carriage.
In the carriage, Chu Yichen laid the man flat inside. The unconscious man's face was red. Chu Yichen touched his forehead and thought: It turns out he has a fever.
Qianhuan was confused by the burning. She felt as if she was in a sea of fire. Suddenly, she felt a cool sensation on her forehead. She felt as if she had found a life-saving straw. She quickly reached out her hand to grab the coolness and then pressed it against her cheek, mumbling, "So cool, so comfortable."
Chu Yichen was speechless when he saw his hand being held against his cheek by a grown man. However, considering that he had helped his family's restaurant and now the man was a patient with a high fever, he suppressed his disgust and did not pull his hand away. He just let her hold it against his face.
Suddenly, the carriage jolted and the person lying on it was about to roll off. Chu Yichen immediately grabbed the person and held him in his arms. Only then did he feel that the body of the person under him was so soft.
The two were so close that Chu Yichen could see the fine hairs on the other's face. Chu Yichen couldn't help but start to look at the little person's face from top to bottom. Her cheeks were red, her eyes were closed, and under her high nose was a red mouth. As he looked at her, he suddenly felt a little hot all over. He couldn't help but wonder: Could it be that I was infected by Liang Xiaodi? Did I also have a fever?
After finally reaching the entrance of the clinic, Chu Yichen carried the child in his arms out of the car and immediately rushed into the clinic, shouting, "Where is the doctor? There is a patient who has fainted here. Please help."
Doctor Xu quickly asked him to put the unconscious person on the bed in a ward, and then began to take the patient's pulse with great concentration.
Chu Yichen asked nervously, "Doctor, my little brother not only fainted, but also had a high fever. I wonder what his illness is?"
When Doctor Xu heard Chu Yichen calling him "little brother", he looked up at the unconscious person. Although she was dressed like a man, he felt her pulse and found that it was clearly a woman's. Why did this man call her "little brother"?
Although Doctor Xu was extremely confused, he was not the kind of person who would meddle in other people's affairs.
He took his hand back, stroked his beard and said, "The patient has had coldness in his body since he was a child. For some reason, the patient seems to have been attacked by the evil cold in the past two days. The weather changed suddenly today, and the temperature dropped, which triggered the coldness in his body."
Actually, what Doctor Xu said about being attacked by the evil cold was because Qianhuan was chased by Wu Qiang yesterday and broke out in a hot sweat. Later, she was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat. The alternation of hot and cold also caused her body to be attacked by the evil cold. It was just that it did not break out at that time. Today, when the temperature dropped and she caught a cold, it all broke out.
"Is there any way to cure this cold?" Chu Yichen didn't expect that this small vendor actually had a cold in his body.
"Forgive my limited medical skills. The patient has had a cold for too long, and I have no way to completely cure it. I can only give her acupuncture to temporarily suppress the cold. Then I'll prescribe some medicine for her to consolidate the effect. If she can sweat a lot when she goes home tonight, her condition will be much better by tomorrow."
Doctor Xu shook his head. The girl had been suffering from the cold for too long and there was nothing he could do.
"Okay, then please give me the injection quickly, doctor." Chu Yichen urged.
"Please go out first, sir. Acupuncture requires a quiet environment."
In fact, Doctor Xu doesn't need a quiet environment. It's just that acupuncture requires taking off the patient's outer clothes and leaving only the inner clothes.
He was a doctor, and there was no distinction between men and women in front of a doctor, so it didn't matter. But the patient in front of him was clearly a girl, and he couldn't let her take off her clothes in front of a grown man.
Upon hearing this, Chu Yichen had no choice but to leave. Doctor Xu had a female medicine girl beside him. The female medicine girl helped Qianhuan take off her outer clothes, and then Doctor Xu began to give acupuncture.