Ruyi usually gets up early in the morning. Even if she goes to Wanglong Pavilion to work early, she will always make a meal and leave it on the stove.
Seeing that Ruyi's door was closed, Lao Liu and Lao Qi knew that she had never gone out at all.
They knocked on the door and asked, "Sister, what's wrong with you? You're still not up at this hour? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
There was no reaction at all inside.
Lao Liu and Lao Qi were a little anxious, and regardless of taboos, they opened the door and entered Ruyi's room.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw Ruyi lying on the bed with her eyes closed and her face ashen.
Lao Liu went up and touched her head. Her forehead was burning hot, so she must be sick.
"Ruyi! Ruyi!" No matter how they shouted, Ruyi on the bed remained indifferent.
Her brows were furrowed, as if she was in great pain.
It was broken now, and Lao Liu and Lao Qi were extremely anxious. The two of them quickly reported it to the service room, hoping that the doctor from Chu Mansion would come over and give Ruyi a look.
But he was told that the doctor of the Chu Mansion was currently looking at the young master, so he couldn't care less about a mere servant.
The two of them were very anxious, so they went out to invite other doctors in Jimo. At least there was a doctor who didn't mind the long journey and was willing to follow him to see the doctor.
"Doctor, what kind of disease does my sister have? How long will it take to get better?" Lao Liu asked.
The doctor frowned, checked his pulse several times, and said, "It's strange, it's really strange."
Lao Qi said anxiously: "Doctor, what exactly is going on? Can you tell me something?"
The doctor didn't say anything. He took both of Ruyi's hands out of the bed. When he saw the wound that Ruyi had been bitten by a snake, he asked Lao Liu and Lao Qi: "Where did this wound come from?"
The sixth and seventh elders all said they knew nothing about it.
The doctor stroked his beard, pondered for a while and said, "This woman has been infected with cold and snake venom. The poisonous gas has attacked her heart and there is no cure."
"How can there be no cure for snake venom? Herbal medicine can't do it! Doctor, tell me what medicine you need. If you don't have it, we two brothers can go pick it up." Lao Liu said.
The doctor shook his head and said: "No, no! The snake venom in this woman is extraordinary. It is not an ordinary snake venom. I can't determine its toxicity."
The eyes of Lao Liu and Lao Qi were gloomy. Their sister was dead. Do they have to lose the sister they had just been with for a short time?
The doctor added: "The strange thing is that if she had been poisoned by snake venom alone, this woman should have died long ago, but she is still alive now and her breathing is stable. It seems that there is something in her body that is restraining the snake venom."
Lao Liu and Lao Qi ignited a glimmer of hope again, and asked hurriedly: "Doctor, is she still alive?"
The doctor sighed and said, "I think I have great medical skills, but when it comes to this kind of thing, I can only lament that I don't have good medical skills. I have no way, so I can only leave it to fate. If she is auspicious, there may be a glimmer of hope.
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When bidding farewell to the doctor, Lao Liu and Lao Qi asked for money, but the doctor said that he had not cured the patient, so it was better not to accept the money.
Lao Liu sent the doctor back to his hospital.
Lao Qi guarded Ruyi.
It was freezing cold in November, but Ruyi's whole body was extremely hot. There were big beads of sweat on his forehead and neck.
Lao Qi felt distressed and gently wiped her sweat with a clean handkerchief. After a while, the handkerchief was soaked.
Lao Qi put the handkerchief in the basin to wash, and when it was stirred, he felt a fishy smell coming from it.
He was startled, dropped his handkerchief, knelt down by the bed, and smelled Ruyi's scent carefully.
In addition to Ruyi's body fragrance and the smell of sweat, it was also mixed with a familiar odor that was no longer familiar to Lao Qi - this smell was clearly the smell that Xiao Wu and Cui'er emitted before they died.