Deep in the Qinling Mountains.
There is a Taoist temple among the mountains and forests.
"Cough cough cough"
There was a wet towel on his forehead. Li Zhen's face was like gold paper, his forehead was hot, but his whole body was shivering with cold.
The middle-aged woman who covered her face with a veil walked into the room silently, took off the wet towel from Li Zhen's forehead, put the back of her hand on his head and touched it, frowning: "It still burns..."
Li Zhenqiang smiled: "Thank you, aunt, for saving my life."
The middle-aged woman said nothing and wiped the quilt with a towel. The quilt was covered with blood.
It was all blood coughed up by Li Zhen violently.
"How come your body is so weak? Logically speaking, after hypothermia, as long as you warm up quickly, you should recover within a few days. After all, people in this world will no longer get sick... Why are you so weak?"
The middle-aged woman said somewhat angrily.
Li Zhen gave a wry smile: "I must have owed it since I was a child."
"Give me your wrist."
Li Zhen reached out his wrist from under the quilt in confusion, but was grabbed by the middle-aged woman, who then closed his eyes and fell silent.
"Taking the pulse? You, do you know medical skills?" Li Zhen was extremely surprised.
"Shh,"
'oh. '
Li Zhen quickly silenced himself, became more curious and looked at the middle-aged woman who saved him more solemnly. I am extremely curious and always feel that this dilapidated little Taoist temple is full of mystery.
It was hard for Li Zhen to imagine how this woman found him and how she carried herself back to the Taoist temple from the river. She doesn't look strong either. Li Zhen didn't know that there was still a middle-aged man here, but he had never seen him since he woke up.
I was also surprised that there was a strange woman with medical skills hidden deep in the mountains. People who can diagnose pulse are extremely rare in the whole world. Mostly due to inheritance.
A minute later, the woman's face was extremely solemn: "Pneumonia."
"pneumonia?"
Li Zhen asked, having never heard of this disease.
'cough cough cough'
Another violent cough.
'Ah...cough, cough, cough, cough,'
I just felt like my trachea was about to burst due to coughing.
With a lick of tongue, a mouthful of blood was sprayed out by the coughing air.
The middle-aged woman looked at this scene with a look of distress in her eyes. He quickly wiped Li Zhen's blood and said, "There is a large vat of hot water here. If you feel thirsty, drink water. Drink more of this hot water."
Li Zhen looked at the tank as big as a bull's head with a wry smile. With so much water, how long will it take to drink it
After a while, the woman brought in another pipe from outside and started the simple disinfection work with ease.
"You are... Oh, aunt, you... what are you doing."
The woman ignored Li Zhen's struggle, opened a gap in the quilt, and inserted the tube.
Li Zhen looked embarrassed and quickly dodged, only to feel waves of stinging pain coming from his place, and his face turned red anxiously: "Auntie, what are you doing?"
The woman slapped Li Zhen on the head: "Don't move. I will insert a catheter for you. If you move again, it will be difficult to remove if it breaks."
"No, you..."
The woman's expression remained unchanged while she was doing it, and said: "I'm going out for a day to collect medicine in the mountains. You must drink more of this hot water. Pneumonia can make you drowsy, thirsty, and cough up blood. But you can't get out of bed. It's easy to get cold when you go to the toilet. When you want to pee, just pee under the quilt. I'll put the catheter in for you, so you don't have to worry about wetting the bed. It's just a little painful. Just bear with it."
As she spoke, the woman took the catheter out of the bed and connected it to a basin under the bed.
Li Zhen looked at the rubber pipe and his face turned red. This, this is so embarrassing... How can I urinate on the bed when I am a man? How embarrassing.
The strange thing is that after Li Zhen's initial embarrassment, he didn't have much resistance. For this middle-aged woman, he actually felt a kind of closeness from the bottom of his heart, like an elder with a cold face and a warm heart.
"Auntie, what should I call you?"
The woman glanced at him: "Drink more water."
Then he added a few more firewood to the fire and walked out quickly.
Li Zhen retreated into bed again and murmured: "Why does she cover her face with a veil?"
"strangeness."
"Why do you always feel like something is wrong with everything? Is everything so weird?"
“…”
Drowsily, he fell asleep again.
I don’t know how long I slept for, but I was woken up by a violent cough.
Li Zhen had never felt that coughing was such a painful thing. He kept coughing, causing pain in his throat, trachea, chest and abdominal cavity. My whole body hurts.
pneumonia? What is pneumonia
Are your lungs inflamed
Li Zhen had never heard of this disease.
Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean you don't have it. In fact, in the 10,000th year of the New Calendar, if Li Zhen told the top doctors that he had pneumonia. Then the doctor will declare him dead.
After I woke up in a daze, my high fever had subsided a lot, but my chest still hurt. Still coughing.
Turning his eyes, he saw the middle-aged woman sitting in front of the fire again, boiling medicine. I don’t know when I came back.
There is an empty bowl next to it with some medicinal residue in it. She must have fed herself a bowl while she was asleep.
Looking at the woman's back, Li Zhen felt warmer than ever before, lying down and just looking at her.
I have never experienced the feeling of being cared for by my elders since I was a child. Although in this mysterious Taoist temple, I met this mysterious woman and faced many mysterious unknowns. But Li Zhen wanted to ignore these for the time being. He could not care about these mysteries and just wanted to immerse himself in the hotbed of being cared for by an elder who cared about him.
The woman didn't turn around, knowing that Li Zhen was awake, she said faintly: "What are you thinking about?"
Li Zhen said inexplicably: "I'm thinking, it would be great if you were my mother."
The woman's figure paused: "Is your mother treating you badly?"
"It should be... not very good, right? I haven't seen it since I was a kid."
"What about your dad?"
"I haven't seen it either."
"Drink the medicine."
The woman didn't say anything more. She stood up and walked over with a bowl of prepared medicine. Li Zhen held his nose and drank it. Hehe Shale: "Auntie, you are a miracle doctor. This medicine has cured the disease, and I feel much better."
The woman forced a laugh and said nothing more.
He took a piece of paper with more than a dozen plants on it, and the dosage was written under each plant: "When the time comes, you can ask others to help you find these plants and make medicine for you. This disease of yours... can't be cured?" Good. These medicines will at least give you some relief."
Li Zhen nodded lightly: "Are you leaving?"
The woman asked back: "I said your disease can't be cured, aren't you desperate?"
Li Zhen smiled brightly: "What's so despairing about? Time is also destiny. If you think about it, you will be able to understand it thoroughly."
There was an inexplicable look in the woman's eyes: "Aren't you sorry?"
"Pity… "
Li Zhen's pupils suddenly shrank, staring at the woman with burning eyes, and said in a deep voice: "You mean."
The woman and Li Zhen looked at each other and said word by word: "My beloved woman, will you leave her in your dream forever? Don't you want to be able to truly embrace her one day?"
Li Zhen's eyes widened, and he immediately sat up straight, breathing heavily and said, "Please make it clear!"
The woman helped him lie down, said no more, and turned to leave.
Before leaving, he tapped his index finger on the table next to the fire. There is a note on the table.
Li Zhen watched her walk out of the door in shock, and then heard her say without looking back:
"Souls can be touched, so what does the distance of time mean? Every ordinary person is born into this world with a mission. This mission is great and glorious. Because it is the preciousness and magic of life. .”
Li Zhen quickly opened the quilt and rushed to the table, picked up the note and retracted into the quilt.
Look at it word by word.
The expression gradually became fixed and solidified.
Throwing away the ball of paper, he murmured: "There are miracles in the world all the time, so one day, I may be able to see her."
(End of chapter)