The Lucky Farmgirl

"This is an emergency," the doctor hastily opened his medicine box to retrieve medicines for them, saying, "Boil three bowls of water down to one bowl, use high heat."

At such an urgent time, there was no room to mind reducing the heat for a slow simmer.

Only then did the doctor take a needle to give Manbao acupuncture to reduce her fever. If she continued to burn like this, she wouldn’t die but would certainly be left senseless.

The child’s fever was quite severe, her lips turning pale, her little body trembling. Ms. Qian covered her with a blanket, lifting her clothes for the doctor to insert the needle.

Old Zhou was so annoyed with himself he wished he could slap his own face.

They were busy until the sun rose, and only then did Manbao, with her eyes tightly shut, start to cry out. The breath she exhaled was hot, and her voice was feeble. Ms. Qian reached to touch her back and felt a hand covered with water, at which she couldn’t help but break into tears, hugging her tightly, and cooing, "There, there, you’ve sweat it out, our Manbao will be all right now."

Manbao whined in discomfort, crying with closed eyes, "There’s a wolf... "

"No, there’s not, where’s the wolf? Mum’s here, it wouldn’t dare come... "

"Yes, yes," Old Zhou hurriedly said, "Dad’s here too, if it does come, I’ll knock it dead. Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid."

The doctor looked at Manbao’s tongue coating again and said, "Now that she’s sweating, she’ll get better. Just keep her carefully covered, change out with a few dry towels, so she doesn’t reabsorb the sweat, and she’ll be fine."

After packing away his medicine box, the doctor left them with two doses of medicine, one for each day, and each dose could be cooked twice.