Siheyuan: This is really immoral

Wen Lian gently patted the woman's back to help her calm down.

Although she couldn't help but get goose bumps when she thought about the other person's son's illness, she felt that the aunt in front of her was really pitiful. She was obviously not much older than her parents, but her appearance had become like this...

After the woman calmed down a bit, Lin Zhuang slowly spoke:

"The reason I asked if the child's father was here was because this matter requires the two of you to make a joint decision."

“There is one thing I need to confirm with you in advance. I will only treat you if you feel you can accept it.

"No matter what, we can cure it. We can agree to any conditions. As long as it can be cured, my son will agree to anything..."

The woman didn't care about so many things. After so many years, she finally saw a glimmer of hope. Although she had experienced hope, disappointment and despair many times before, this time, for some reason, her intuition told her that hope had really come!

It was not just their son's illness, but it had become a huge rock weighing on the hearts of both the couple, a heartache that they could not forget even for a short while no matter what.

Lin Zhuang continued, "First, the treatment methods will be cruel, and some of the things used may be unheard of by you. Second, I can't guarantee that it can be cured completely. You also know how many years this disease has tortured him. I can only guarantee that he can survive. Whether he can wake up depends on his luck. Third, there are some things needed for treatment, and you have to spend some time to find them."

Seeing that Lin Zhuang stopped talking here, the lady went over the several requests that Lin Zhuang had made in her mind again. The other ones were easy to talk about, but she was a little confused about the second point that Lin Zhuang had made.

"What does it mean that he can save his life...but I'm not sure if he can wake up?"

Facing the woman's doubts, Wen Lian looked at Lin Zhuang curiously. Could treatment methods be so cruel?

She couldn't quite understand it either.

Lin Zhuang explained to them:

"This child has been suffering from this disease for at least seven years. At the beginning, it was not very obvious, but then the disease gradually worsened. Now it is like an empty shell. While the outside is not good, the inside is really terrible."

"If I'm not mistaken, he basically spends his time lying in bed in a daze every day. The only time he's awake is when he has trouble eating. And... he's also crazy when he's awake."

The lady was crying so hard that she couldn't speak, and she told them both about the painful memory.

"Yes... this is it... I apologize for my initial neglect. I now believe that you are a miracle doctor - a former doctor. No one has ever been able to know the whole situation just by taking a pulse like you do."

"My child was curious about what his father was doing in the mountains. He sneaked into the mountains while we were resting. When we woke up from our lunch break, we found that he was gone. We thought he had gone to play with other children in the village and didn't pay much attention to it."

"But when the sun was about to set and the child still hadn't come back, we realized something was wrong, because my child had never been out so late before. Even if we had played too much... we knew it was time to go home for dinner when the sun went down."

"But by the time we realized something was wrong, it was too late. When we were looking around the village, we ran into another family. The family that often sneaked into the mountains to hunt was also looking for their son. We two families discussed it and asked around in the village. When we found out that someone in the village had last seen the two children walking towards the mountains, we felt something was wrong."

"We took this thing and searched in the mountains. There were all kinds of things in the mountains at that time, big cats, blind bears, wild boars... a snake could take their lives. We were all panicked, but we had no choice but to keep searching."

"It was completely dark but there was still no clue. The night in the mountains is not a world for humans. The rest of the people went out, and only the men in charge of the two families were still searching inside. We waited outside and waited... When we went back into the mountains at dawn, we didn't see the men in the family yet, but we saw our child lying unconscious on the side of the road."

"We checked carefully and it seemed that there were no injuries. In the end... we only found one of the two children. We originally thought that we would go back to the village to find a doctor. When the child wakes up, we will know what they have experienced and where the other child is."

"But should we say that our family is lucky or unlucky? The child was in a coma for more than half a month... When the other family had given up all hope, my child was treated by a doctor and regained consciousness for a few days. Although he could not remember clearly, he still told the general story bit by bit."

"He said they lost their way in the mountains not long after they entered, and they ran around in a hurry. They didn't encounter any ferocious beasts, but they accidentally entered a foggy area with a special color. He couldn't remember anything about what happened afterwards."

"We were a little disappointed at the time. For fog with a special color to appear in this deep mountain forest that has been deserted for many years, it must be miasma."

"Then... I have been suffering from illness until now. No matter what kind of doctor I find, the effect is minimal."

As she spoke to this point, the woman became calmer and calmer.

Lin Zhuang could understand. This scene... or even this memory, was probably echoing in his mind every hour of every day, and was constantly tormenting him.

"That's not wrong... But according to my judgment, in addition to inhaling miasma for a long time, your child may have eaten wild fruits or drank some water - an extremely rare parasitic worm eggs also entered your child's body at this time. Under normal circumstances, if it were just worm eggs, they would be corroded by human stomach acid, but the large amount of flatulence your child inhaled provided him with an environment for survival. This effect is far more than one plus one is greater than two... In the end, it reached this level."

"So your child's current condition is a combination of two... three diseases. The first is the accumulated toxins, the second is the parasites that continue to multiply throughout the body, and the third is hysteria. Why can it be two? Because hysteria is caused by the toxins of miasma."

The woman was a little bit incredulous, and pointed her finger towards the room with a trembling hand, and asked:

"You mean my baby's belly is so big that it's full of worms, not...bloating?"

Lin Zhuang was stunned. It turned out that the previous doctor had regarded this as ascites, one of the four terminal diseases in traditional Chinese medicine?

But I can understand that "臌" is what later generations call ascites, which means the belly keeps getting bigger. The symptoms are similar to the little boy in front of me, so I asked casually:

"When you went to see the doctor, your stomach had gotten bigger, but it didn't have the blue veins on the surface now?"

The woman nodded repeatedly, becoming more and more convinced that Lin Zhuang was the real miracle doctor.

Lin Zhuang sighed, "There were some good doctors who treated your son before, but your son had a mixture of symptoms, and the early symptoms were not as obvious as they are now, so there may have been a misdiagnosis or an unclear diagnosis... Otherwise, he might have been cured long ago."

The woman no longer thought about what might happen. Nothing was more important than whether her son could really be cured.

"Then...how should we treat it?"

Lin Zhuang frowned and said, "Let's talk about it when the kid's father comes back."

"Okay, the boy's father will be back before lunch at the latest."

The woman said with great confidence that when it comes to hunting, her man has never lost to anyone.

And I wasn't in a hurry this time. After all, my emotions had stabilized. I had survived several years, so half a day wasn't a big deal.

Wen Lian also asked curiously: "He will be back at noon. When did Uncle Zhan go into the mountains?"

"I went in early yesterday morning. I brought all the equipment with me this time...no problem will occur."

Before anyone could speak, Lin Zhuang was the first to hear the noise coming from the yard.

After a while, a burly man with a big black bag on his back walked in.

The man was dusty and looked haggard.

The first thing he noticed when he came in was Wen Lian and Lin Zhuang. After years of hunting, he always had an inexplicable sixth sense.

Although Lin Zhuang in front of him was very young, he felt that this was the miracle doctor brought by Wen Lian.

Confirmed: "Xiao Lian... who is this?"

Afterwards, Wen Lian formally introduced Lianzhuang to him.

Uncle Zhan didn't bother to put down the things behind him. He hurried over and put his hands on his pants. He wiped them again and again, then stretched out his hand to Lin Zhuang and said respectfully:

"Lin... Divine Doctor, I have brought back the things you wanted in good condition. I can't bring the deer back by myself, so I will take the things and transport it back in smaller batches later... Then, the whole deer will be yours."

Lin Zhuang waved his hand and said, "We agreed that we only want antlers, so we only want antlers... But it would be even better if we could have some venison for dinner later."

“Hahahaha——” Seeing Lin Zhuang’s humor, the man also laughed heartily, “I’ll feed you enough!”

The man in charge of the household came, and the woman hurriedly repeated what Lin Zhuang had just said.

The man was silent for a moment, then he stopped hesitating, knelt on one knee in front of Lin Zhuang, put his hand on his chest and said:

"No matter what, we will treat him... even if the final result is the worst... as long as you do your best, I, Zhan Shengfeng, will never blame you!"

Lin Zhuang was stunned, and the woman next to him also understood what he meant. She grabbed her man and looked at him with tears in her eyes.

Zhan Shengfeng just patted her hand lightly and said in a deep voice:

"How many years has Xiaofeng been like this? His condition is getting worse... We can't keep lying to ourselves. A few years ago, someone in the village suggested to us that if it really doesn't work, we should just let the child go. At that time, we both disagreed. We searched everywhere from famous doctors to barefoot doctors in the mountains... But how long can we keep lying to ourselves?"

"If the treatment is successful this time, I will thank Doctor Lin very much. If it is not successful..."

He stopped talking here, but everyone understood his meaning.

"As the saying goes, do your best and leave the rest to fate."

After all, he is a man who hunts in the mountains all year round and always walks side by side with danger. The more critical the moment, the calmer he is.

Thinking carefully, he asked Lin Zhuang: "Doctor Lin, what is the raw material for treating the disease you are talking about...?"

"The five poisonous animals... as well as foxes, roosters over six years old, blood charcoal, Qi snakes, and some common medicinal materials, such as realgar..."

As his son had been treating patients for so many years, Zhan Shengfeng felt that he was half a doctor. However, when he heard what Lin Zhuang said, his brows twitched uncontrollably.

The five poisons... the big rooster, realgar, he could barely understand them, after all, they were things he knew.

The main thing is...

"Fox? What are Bloody Charcoal and Qi Snake...???"

"The fox must be alive and cannot lose too much blood. The blood charcoal is made from calcined healthy human hair. As for the dried body of Agkistrodon acutus... it's not easy to get it yourself. Ask an experienced Chinese doctor. Maybe he will have it at home." Lin Zhuang explained to him carefully.

The eyes of the woman and Wen Lian next to them had already widened.

What is this? Why does it sound so creepy?!

Lin Zhuang noticed their expressions and explained: "These bugs are like trees that have taken root in your son's body. If you don't kill even one of them, your son will become like this again in a few years. Even gods can't save him!"

"The Five Poisons are used to fight poison with poison, don't worry... The rooster must be over six years old and cannot be a sickly one; the fox must be caught alive."

Zhan Shengfeng's temples twitched constantly. If it were someone else, he would think that the person in front of him was definitely a liar.

But he always believed in his intuition, and... he believed that Father Wen, his good brother for so many years, would not lie to him.

It’s just that the fox…is really hard to deal with right now.

Lin Zhuang saw through his thoughts and said, "The fox is not in a hurry. How many days will it take you to catch it?"

Zhan Shengfeng smiled bitterly. If he were alone, it would probably take him a long time to find it.

However, his son's hope of recovery is imminent, so he is willing to sacrifice his many years of favors.

Ask those old guys to come out and look for it! I still don’t believe we can’t find it!

He said in a deep voice: "Three days at the fastest, seven days at the slowest!"