I rushed to the hospital again. I went there in the morning and came back in the afternoon. When the doctor saw my swollen fingers, she was also shocked.
This time, in addition to inserting an needle and draining my body, the doctor also drew blood and asked me to do some pathological tests to see if I was infected with any bacteria.
The test results won't come out until the next day at the earliest. The doctor told me to take anti-inflammatory drugs on time. Maybe I'm afraid that amoxicillin won't work for me. The doctor also prescribed me an expensive anti-inflammatory drug that comes in English.
When I returned to the hotel in the evening, he said to me, "Yunfeng, please don't go to the pit tonight. Rest at home for one night. Our main task these two days is to find the main tomb." He asked me to stay and look after the house.
In the middle of the night, my bitten finger swelled again. This time it not only swelled and oozed, but also started to hurt. This kind of pain was a paroxysmal pain, with an interval of about twenty minutes each time.
We booked a small hotel, and now there are only two guests in the hotel, me and a mole.
I knew that the Sun brothers and the boss were looking for the main tomb, so I didn't dare to disturb them. In the second half of the night, I held my swollen index finger and turned over and over in pain. I couldn't sleep at all.
I sneaked out to see if any pharmacies were open around me, and I wanted to buy some painkillers.
At that time, online shopping was not yet popular, and there was no online medicine delivery service. I was not familiar with Shunde, so I just walked north along the hotel. I asked people I met on the way if there were any open pharmacies nearby.
I inquired about it, but when I arrived, I found that the pharmacy had been closed long ago, and there was no pharmacy open 24 hours a day.
By chance, I found that the place I was in was not far from Li Jing's home in Nanshan District. It was very close. From here I could see the arch bridge on the moat.
Li Jing is a local, so I just wanted to see if they had any painkillers. If not, I would have to walk a long way to the hospital.
When I got there, I knocked on the door a few times, and it was Mother Li who opened the door for me.
"Xiao...Xiaoxiang? Why are you here so late?" Mother Li asked me in surprise.
I said, "Auntie, is Li Jing at home? I want to see if you have any painkillers. I happened to be passing by here and came to borrow some."
"Painkillers?"
"Oh, yes, yes, come with me," she led me into the house.
"Xiao Jing, are you asleep? Open the door." Mother Li knocked on the door a few times. She turned around and said to me that the medicine was in the drawer of Li Jing's room.
I was afraid of scaring others, so I kept putting my hands in my trouser pockets, so Mother Li didn't see it.
"Come on, Mom, what are you doing so late?" Li Jing, wearing Donald Duck pajamas, rubbed her eyes and opened the door for me.
"Xiang...Xiang Yunfeng? Why are you here?" Li Jing was surprised to see me.
"Your classmate asked me to borrow some painkillers. Mom remembers that there is some in the cabinet under your desk. Go and find it for Xiao Xiang. I still have water boiling in the pot, so I have to pour it into the thermos." Mother Li said to Li Jing.
After giving the instructions, he turned around and left.
Li Jing is currently wearing Donald Duck pajamas. The pajamas are not long and only cover her thighs. When she bent down to look for medicine in the drawer, I didn't dare to look at it because of the angle.
I was still a little virgin at that time, but the less I looked at me, the more embarrassed I became, and I ended up with a big red face.
"What's wrong with you? Your face is so red?" Li Jing found the painkillers and turned around to ask me in confusion.
I was just about to speak when I felt severe pain in my fingers again, as if a knife was cutting my flesh.
"No...it's nothing..." There was a lot of sweat on my painful forehead.
"I...I'm leaving!" I took the medicine bottle from Li Jing's hand and ran out of her house.
There was a faucet not far from Li Jing's house. I don't know whose it was, but there was water anyway. I drank three painkillers directly from the faucet.
After resting for a while, I still felt pain, so I took two more tablets, and then I felt less pain.
Leaning by the pool, I began to feel cold all over, my head felt heavy, my eyelids were twitching, and I had no strength at all.
At that time, I wondered if I was going to die soon. I probably was going to die.
I huddled by the edge of the pool, my teeth chattering from the cold and I was sweating all over, and then I passed out.
I didn't sleep for long at that time, and when I woke up, I found myself in Li Jing's bedroom.
"You're awake! What happened to your hand? It scared me to death! If I hadn't felt something was wrong and went out to take a look, something would have happened to you, you know?" Li Jing looked at me with a scared look on her face.
Mother Li came in with a bowl of water. She looked at me lying on the bed and asked, "Xiaoxiang, why didn't you say anything just now? What happened to your hand?"
I hesitated and said, "Auntie, my hand may have been bitten by a snake."
"Maybe he was bitten by a snake? What kind of snake?" Mother Li looked surprised.
I shook my head and said I didn't know.
"This won't work. We don't have a car. It's still far from the hospital. It's still late at night and the clinics and pharmacies are closed. Xiaoxiang, you can't delay this matter. Xiaojing, hold Xiaoxiang, let's go and let Mrs. Liu take a look.
"
Li Jing explained to me on the way that she said that Mrs. Liu was from Guangxi and was married from a Miao village in Shiwanda Mountain. Mrs. Liu had herbal medicine at home and she was good at treating poisonous snake bites. In the past, a man was bitten by a five-step snake.
I was bitten by a snake, and the hospital happened to have no five-step snake serum in stock. As a result, Mrs. Liu used her herbal medicine to cure the disease after three times and five times divided by two. But what happened to God?
It took 40 minutes to walk from Li Jing's house to Mrs. Liu's house. During this period, I had another attack. Five painkillers were still effective and I could barely bear it.
The house that Mrs. Liu lives in is very old. Li Jing said that it might be demolished as a dilapidated house after the new year. Mother Li knocked on the door for a long time before an old lady slowly opened the door for us.
Mother Li explained her purpose straight to the point. When Mother Liu heard that I had been bitten by a poisonous snake, she hurriedly called us into the house.
Mrs. Liu was in her seventies. There was a smell in her house, the smell of unwashed excrement cloth. There was an old man lying on the bed. The old man was covered with a thick quilt and he seemed to be in poor health.
After looking at my swollen finger and the two small eyes left behind after being bitten, Grandma Liu's face slowly darkened.
"Hunter, let me ask you, are you sure it was a snake that bit you? Where was it bitten?"
I definitely would not tell Li Jing in front of me that I was bitten while robbing a tomb, so I lied hesitantly and said: "I...I was bitten at home."
"Home?" Mrs. Liu stared at me and said meaningfully: "I don't think there is such a snake at home..."
Mrs. Liu waved her hand and signaled Li Jing and Li's mother to go out first. She had something to talk to me alone.
After they went out temporarily, Mrs. Liu looked at me and shook her head and said: "Hangsheng, let me make it clear that the thing that bit you was not a snake. Have you gone to the hospital? What did the doctor tell you?"
"Grandma, the doctor said earlier that I had edema. Later, the doctor asked me to draw blood and said he would do some bacterial pathology tests on me to see if it was an infection."
After hearing what I said, Grandma Liu sneered and said, "When they find out the reason, your body will almost feel cold."
"It's impossible to have such a thing at home. It doesn't even exist in the barren mountains and old forests. What bites you is a kind of earth horn fairy with white tentacles. In the Shiwan Mountains, the older generation of Miao people say that this thing is called the corpse horn fairy."
