Zhang Chi thought he was asleep, so he reached out and pushed him gently.
"Old Xu, Old Xu, get up and eat."
After a while, without hearing any response, Zhang Chi came to the other side, stretched out his hand to open the car door, and called out to Lao Xu a few more times.
Seeing that Lao Xu had no response, he was shocked, so he stretched out his hand and tried it in front of Lao Xu's nostrils. When Zhang Chi put his fingers in front of Lao Xu's nostrils and felt him breathing, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Just for a moment, Zhang Chi thought that Lao Xu was suddenly going to drive west of his family's ranch.
"Old Xu, it's time to get up and eat." Zhang Chi reached out and patted Old Xu on the forehead.
Zhang Chi's hand touched Lao Xu's forehead, and he felt that Lao Xu's head was very hot. He stretched out his hand and tried it. Sure enough, he found that Lao Xu's forehead was obviously hotter than his own.
Lao Xu has a fever!
Zhang Chi reached out and pushed Lao Xu while continuing to shout: "Lao Xu, Lao Xu."
Only then did Lao Xu react. He opened his eyes and said to Zhang Chi with a distressed look on his face: "You can eat it. I feel very uncomfortable right now...".
"Are you okay if you have a fever? Wait a minute, I'll go find some medicine for you and make you some ginger soup or something." Zhang Chi said this and went back.
"What's wrong with Mr. Xu?"
Aunt Lu asked immediately when she saw Zhang Chi's hurry.
"Old Xu has a slight fever, but it doesn't look too serious. I'll find some medicine for him to take, and I'll make some ginger soup for him to drink, and he'll be fine after a good sleep," Zhang Chi said.
When Aunt Lu heard this, she laughed and said: "I have medicine here. Don't go back to the house to get it. Lao Chen, go and make a bowl of ginger soup. Remember to use old ginger, not young ginger. Forget it, it's still me.
Come on. I have a few kilograms of old ginger hidden here, it is the most effective for this kind of disease."
Aunt Lu has encountered this kind of situation too many times. Everyone is working on the construction site. It is normal to have colds and fevers. Aunt Lu has been cooking here for so many years, and she is almost ready.
He has become half a doctor.
A group of old men live together, no matter how rough the life, but Aunt Lu is different. She is always a careful person, and she is usually willing to take care of the workers. Therefore, Aunt Lu is equivalent to the big sister who knows everything on the construction site.
You can't go to the hospital for this matter. In hospitals here in the United States, if you just have a fever or something, they won't care about you too much. Generally speaking, they will just let you go home and carry it. Even if you ask for a doctor's appointment, you will wait until the appointment arrives.
Doctor, you don't know what to do with your minor illness.
Therefore, as soon as a worker suffers from minor illnesses such as eye fever or fever, everyone immediately treats the headache and foot pain.
Now that Lao Xu has a fever, he should treat it according to the fever method first. If it really doesn't get better, it won't be too late to send him to the hospital tomorrow.
Aunt Lu found the medicine and put the medicine and water into Zhang Chi's hand: "You go and give the medicine to Boss Xu. I will bring the ginger soup over later. Get these two things. Tomorrow
Usually there will be no problem in the morning.”
Zhang Chi nodded after hearing this, then came to Lao Xu's car with medicine and water, opened the door, and said to Lao Xu: "Lao Xu, come here and take the medicine."
Seeing that Lao Xu ignored him, Zhang Chi put the water on the car and then pulled Lao Xu up.
Old Xu Xianzhi was a little confused, and his whole head was a little unclear. When he heard Zhang Chi wanted to give him medicine, he subconsciously opened his mouth.
While opening his mouth, his eyes remained closed.
Seeing Lao Xu's appearance, Zhang Chi thought for a moment, added a small amount of gourd pulp to Lao Xu's water glass, then fed the medicine into Lao Xu's mouth, gave him two mouthfuls of water, and asked him to put it in his mouth.
The medicine was taken down and he continued to lie down.
Take the cup and return to the dining car.
Aunt Lu saw it and asked, "Have you given the medicine yet?"
Seeing Zhang Chi nodded, Aunt Lu said again: "Wait a moment, the ginger water will be ready soon."
Zhang Chi said: "I'm not in a hurry."
While Zhang Chi was waiting for the ginger soup to be ready, Melika came over. She saw Zhang Chi standing next to the dining car and asked with a strange look: "I asked you to come over to see Lao Xu for dinner, why are you staying here?
Are you on the side? Where is Mr. Xu?"
"Lao Xu is sick and has a slight fever. He is lying in the car now. If I hadn't found out, he might have had to stay up all night by himself tonight," Zhang Chi said.
When Melika heard that Lao Xu had a fever, she was surprised and asked: "Why did you suddenly have a fever? Wasn't it fine this afternoon?"
"Yes, you even took off your clothes and went into the water to catch fish with me," Zhang Chi said.
When Melika heard this, she thought, "Hey guys, I finally found the root cause of the fever."
The current Amber Town has not yet reached the warmest time of the year. The highest temperature in Amber Town is around 20 degrees Celsius. It cannot get any hotter. When it reaches 20 degrees Celsius, it is often
It’s July and August of the year, and it’s not yet July or August, so the highest temperature during the day is just over ten degrees.
With a temperature of more than ten degrees and a small breeze blowing, the body temperature was much lower than the actual temperature, so Lao Xu took off his clothes and jumped into the pond to catch fish. There was no problem in catching fish, because the water temperature would not change much.
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In other words, the water is not too cold, but if you come out with water droplets on your body and the wind blows, it will be hard to say.
And Lao Xu did the same, catching the fish and showing off, and Zhang Chi immediately put on neutral gear. The guy stood in the wind for a long time in his wet trousers.
Zhang Chi could bear it standing like this, because he was young, in his twenties, and his small body was about the same age as a stove, but how could Lao Xu bear this? How old is he?
, my body has started to go downhill. It would be strange to stand so wet in the air and not catch a cold or have a fever.
"You still have the nerve to say that if you didn't take Lao Xu into the water to catch fish, he might not have a fever," Melika said to Zhang Chi, with a slight complaint in her tone.
After hearing this, Zhang Chi realized that Lao Xu's fever might really be related to the fact that the two of them went to the pond to catch fish in the afternoon. Otherwise, where would he catch the cold?
"It seems like it really has something to do with me."
Zhang Chi scratched his head after hearing this, a little embarrassed, but this embarrassment quickly disappeared, because he had just poured some gourd pulp into Lao Xu, and felt that it was evened out after two times.
Zhang Chi has never been sick, and he has no idea whether gourd pulp is of any use to him. But for ordinary minor illnesses, such as cattle and horses getting sick, Zhang Chi can either throw them into the gourd or feed him some gourd pulp, and they will be fine.
Fast.
Zhang Chi had never used it himself, but he thought it would be similar to using it on people, so he decided to give it a try while Lao Xu had a fever.
Everyone can understand this situation. Zhang Chi is just such a person, and he always has a selfless spirit when conducting experiments. Besides, even if the gourd pulp has no effect, it will not kill anyone, and there is not much risk in using it on Lao Xu.
If it were a good neighbor of his own, Zhang Chi probably would not have added gourd pulp, red crane tops, a sprig of wormwood on the snow, love flowers, etc.
"You can't blame Zhang Chi for this. Mr. Xu is like a big child sometimes, he loves to play and make trouble. If someone is willing to accompany him crazy, he must be very crazy. This time it is good
Yes, once when we were building a house in North Carolina, he went skiing with someone, and he almost lost half of his face. It swelled for several days..."
Aunt Lu talked about Lao Xu’s past embarrassing things.
As she talked, the ginger soup in Aunt Lu's pot was ready. Aunt Lu opened the lid of the pot and looked at the ginger soup with brown sugar. She felt that it was almost ready, so she stretched out the ginger slices in the handle.
He took it out and poured a pot of ginger soup into a large bowl.
The large bowl was made of enamel, but only half of the bowl was filled with ginger soup. Aunt Lu put the bowl of ginger soup into the bucket, so that the temperature of the ginger soup could be slightly lowered by using the water temperature.
It didn't float in the water for long. After a minute or two, Aunt Lu picked up the bowl from the water and walked towards Lao Xu's car.
At this time, Lao Xu's energy was much better than when Zhang Chi came just now. Just now he was still looking depressed, he couldn't even bother to open his eyelids, and his whole body was like a dead snake.
But now, although I am not very energetic, at least my eyes are open. Although I am lost in the lake and cannot focus on the light, and I look like I am about to collapse in the wind, I now know that I feel uncomfortable.
"Ouch, my head feels like it's going to split open, and my head feels big... Sister Lu, what's wrong with me?"
Seeing Aunt Lu, Lao Xu acted like a child meeting an adult, and he was actually a little bit coquettish. Of course, it didn't mean much, but it definitely did. Zhang Chi could see it.
Aunt Lu helped Lao Xu sit up, and then put the ginger soup to his mouth: "Drink some of the ginger soup. After drinking it, you will sweat. You will be fine tomorrow."
When Lao Xu saw Zhang Chi, he glanced at him and started drinking ginger soup.
It has to be said that Aunt Lu's old ginger soup is very powerful. After a bowl of ginger soup, there were already dense beads of sweat on Lao Xu's forehead.
"Close the car door and have a good rest," Aunt Lu said.
When Zhang Chi and Melika heard this, they had to go back to the house to eat.
The couple originally planned to invite Lao Xu to have a drink together, but now that Lao Xu is in such a dead state, how can the two of them have the nerve to drink? What is the meaning of drinking at this time, to celebrate Lao Xu's illness?
After the meal, the couple watched a TV program together for a while. It was not a serious program, but when I thought about it carefully, I realized that the program was quite silly. It was just a silly program.
But Zhang Chi and Melika watched until the end of the show.
The only good thing about this kind of silly program is that it can make you laugh. It's just fun. It's nothing profound, it doesn't require any education, and it doesn't have any affection. It's just pure stupidity. People who watch the program just have to giggle.
Just when the two of them had just finished watching the show, a voice suddenly came from behind them.
"Is there anything to eat? I'm starving!"
The two of them were startled, and turned around to take a closer look at the person behind them. Only then did they realize who it wasn't Lao Xu!