Of course her "illness" was not cured.
The girl locked to the bedpost was getting thinner and thinner, and the scene in front of Yuan Yuxue's eyes was changing rapidly as if it was fast-forwarded countless times.
However, the scenes were repetitive and shocking. What Yuan Yuxue saw was the girl being forced to drink bowl after bowl of thick medicine. At the beginning, she resisted and yelled angrily, and even tried to break the bowl at her mouth. In the end, she seemed to have given up the meaningless resistance and drank the medicine at her mouth with her eyes closed and brows furrowed.
She was at her wit's end.
So hungry.
The boiled medicine was very viscous, and became thicker day by day, like porridge.
But what was very puzzling was that even though she drank the medicine three times a day, she still seemed very thirsty.
His lips gradually became cracked and he started to become thin and pale.
The cheeks, which were originally slightly round, became noticeably sunken.
The girl who survived with the help of medicine became thinner as she was trapped on the bedpost and unable to move. Soon she was reduced to a bag of bones.
In such a long scene, Yuan Yuxue did not see her eating other food. She seemed to be constantly swallowing those sticky drugs in order to survive.
In this confused torture, and with those strange medicines keeping her alive, her will finally seemed to collapse from the torture.
She started crying for no reason and apologized to her relatives who kept giving her medicine.
"I was wrong, I was wrong. I'm not going crazy anymore—"
“Dad, Dad!”
She saw the hunchbacked old man who had entered the room for the first time.
Her father was holding a bowl of freshly boiled hot medicine in his hand and served it to her.
After a brief moment of daze, she stumbled over to the area where the chains could extend and swallowed the scalding medicine in a hurry.
Then she raised her head slightly, with blisters on her lips caused by the scalding liquid. She opened her huge eyes and looked at him almost pleadingly.
"I already know that I was wrong. I'm fine now. I'm well again. I'll eat fish and live well in the village. I'll never go out again, Dad..." Her lips trembled slightly. Finally, as if she was certain of something, she opened her eyes and looked at him and repeated, "I'm cured now."
She doesn't want to know the result, and doesn't want what she thinks is "right".
She just wanted to admit her mistake so that she could escape from this narrow space.
Even though it was those strange drugs, she had already drunk enough of them, to the point where she started to vomit and her stomach cramped slightly at the smell. But she still couldn't wait to pour it down her throat, as if she was craving it so much.
Old Li silently put down the pipe in his hand. The pungent smell of the burning tobacco almost covered the fishy smell of the medicine.
He lowered his head and looked at his daughter almost with pity.
When she drank all the medicine and looked up at him obediently, he put the bowl away, and there seemed to be some strange pity in his eyes.