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Chapter 619: Universal Medicinal Powder

Zhou Chang stood beside the skinny monkey, not daring to leave, and watched his breath closely.

After a while, I confirmed that he was breathing and his breathing became gradually even, and then I breathed a sigh of relief.

After all this operation, he was about to sit down at the edge of the pit, but suddenly he felt weak all over, his eyes went dark, and he fell backwards.

"Crackling..." The room was small, and the fall knocked over the lamp oil on the table, and the cups and bowls broke onto the ground.

Zhou Chang's arm was hit by the falling oil lamp, and the oil burned him so hard that he regained consciousness immediately. When he tried to stand up, he had no strength in his hands and legs.

Perhaps someone outside heard the noise, so they knocked on the door gently. It was Elder Tao's voice: "Mr. Zhou, Mr. Zhou..."

"Please, come in..." Zhou Chang realized that he had used up all his strength and now he didn't even have the strength to speak.

Then Old Tao and his son pushed the door open, hurriedly helped Zhou Chang up, and cleaned up the floor.

Zhou Chang sat on the other side of the kang, and Mr. Tao handed her another bowl of hot water.

Zhou Chang was exhausted and thirsty after all the trouble. His hands were shaking as he took the bowl. He drank it all without caring whether it was hot or not. When he looked up, he was surprised to find that the sky outside the window had actually darkened. "What time is it?"

Tao Lao replied: "Don't panic, young master. It's probably been more than two hours. It gets dark early in the winter at this seaside."

"No... Yuan Qi... How is Yuan Qi?" Just after saving the skinny monkey from danger, Zhou Chang thought of Yuan Qi again.

Mr. Tao had no idea what Zhou Chang was talking about.

Zhou Chang, however, forced himself to stand up and walked out, stumbling and nearly falling down: "Ah... I mean my wife, how is she? I want to go see her."

Thanks to Mr. Tao for holding him up: "Sir, don't worry, but your clothes are soaked and you haven't changed them yet, why don't you change the child's clothes first."

Zhou Chang then realized that he had taken off his clean inner clothes in order to prepare the cloth strips for bandaging the skinny monkey's wound, but he had no replacement clothes at the time, so he had to put his wet outer clothes back on.

But thinking that Yuan Qi couldn't care less, he took the coat that Tao Lao's son brought, but still insisted on going out: "Okay, okay... Thank you, Tao Lao, I'll go see my wife first, and change when I come back."

Mr. Tao couldn't stop him, so he helped him go to the next house.

Zhou Chang came to Yuan Qi's kang and felt dizzy again when he sat down.

Yuan Qi lay quietly in the pit, still unconscious.

But the wet clothes on her body had been changed by Aunt Tao and her daughter Erya, and her hair and face were obviously washed clean.

Zhou Chang looked carefully and found that Yuan Qi's previously pale and bloodless face seemed to have softened a lot, but the strange blush on his cheeks became more intense, and although his breathing in his chest had obvious rise and fall, it was obviously heavy and uneven.

I didn’t know whether this was a good or bad situation. After all, I was not a doctor, and my heart was in my throat.

Staring at Yuan Qi's sleeping face, I couldn't remember clearly what the last words I said to Yuan Qi were in the cold river last night.

Originally, in her memory, Yuan Qi fainted before her, but after her consciousness fell into darkness, she seemed to hear Yuan Qi calling Prince Yi's name in her ear.

Maybe it was an illusion, or maybe Prince Yi Fengming was dreaming.

Seeing Zhou Chang unconsciously holding Yuan Qi's hand, Auntie Tao began to comfort him, "Don't worry, Mr. Zhou. I've given your wife medicine. She may have caught a cold and was frightened in the sea water. She will wake up tomorrow after a good sleep."

"Drink medicine? What kind of medicine?" Didn't they say that there was no doctor in the village and that they couldn't invite one? Zhou Chang glanced and saw a bowl with black medicine residue on the table in the corner.

Aunt Tao also saw it at the same time, so she went up to take the medicine bowl and said, "This is the powder that Mr. Tao just sent over. We call it clam bone powder here. If anyone has any disease or injury, whether it is applied externally or taken internally, this is used."

"Uh..." Zhou Chang doubted the effectiveness of this "all-purpose" powder. "Auntie Tao, what is this 'clam bone powder' made of?"

Aunt Tao counted carefully: "It contains turtle shells, cuttlefish bones, shells, and whatever else is useful that we fished out. We can dry it, fry it, or grind it into powder. Anything is fine."

It was difficult for Zhou Chang to comment, and there was no way for him to comment.

Nowadays, there is a shortage of doctors and medicines. We can only hope that this medicine powder is effective for Yuan Qi, and also for the skinny monkey's wound.

Tao Lao guessed Zhou Chang's thoughts to some extent: "Mr. Zhou, please... We don't even have a doctor in a small fishing village like ours. This is a method passed down from generation to generation. Every family uses it to treat illnesses and save lives."

I have to make do with it, it seems I have to find a solution tomorrow.

"Yes... We are very grateful for the kindness of Mr. Tao and Mrs. Tao." No matter what, the Tao family was able to provide them with a night of peace in their time of crisis. As Zhou Chang spoke, he stood up and bowed deeply.

"Sir, you don't have to do this. We are a fishing family. We will rescue anyone who falls into the water if we can." Tao Lao raised his hand to stop him, but he was still worried about Zhou Chang's wet clothes. "I see that you have been soaking in the water for a whole night, and you have been tossing and turning for a whole day. You must be exhausted. Why don't you change your clothes and have a good rest, so as not to wear yourself down. I will ask my wife to bring you food later. There is not much food in this small place, so just eat whatever you can."

Zhou Chang thanked him again and again, then returned to Shouhou's room and changed into dry clothes.

Not long after, Aunt Tao brought another bowl of rice porridge.

Zhou Chang felt hungry only when he smelled the rice porridge. After thanking him, he sat next to the skinny monkey and started eating.

There were some dried fish in the porridge, and no other side dishes, but I still enjoyed it very much.

After eating the porridge, Mr. Tao advised Zhou Chang to take a rest.

Zhou Chang couldn't let go of either side and always had to stay by their side to feel at ease.

After thinking it over, he took off the white jade crown on his head and handed it to Mr. Tao, asking him to go to the town tomorrow to pawn the money so that he could hire a decent doctor.

Mr. Tao initially refused, and even said that the person sent to report would also invite a doctor.

Zhou Chang naturally didn't trust the quack doctors in small places.

After understanding the meaning, Mr. Tao agreed, but because it was not yet the end of the first lunar month, there was no guarantee that he could invite a famous doctor in the town.

In the past, at this time, the doctors in the town were reluctant to go to a remote and poor place like theirs.

But no matter what, Zhou Chang felt relieved only when Mr. Tao agreed to help make the trip.

Then, because it gets dark early in the northern fishing village in winter, Mr. Tao arranged for his son to stay overnight at a neighbor's house. He and his wife and their daughter squeezed into one room and went to rest.

There are three rooms in Tao's house, and now Yuan Qi and Shou Hou each occupy one room, which were originally used by his son and daughter. There is another room, which is not big, and was originally occupied by the old couple, but they have to squeeze three people in.

Zhou Chang felt somewhat sorry for this, but it was useless to express his gratitude now.