In the end, Mrs. Xu generously gave Xiaosong two dollars and asked him to take Xiaobai to buy candies. She also told him: "Bring a piece back to your sister! Don't eat them all! Otherwise, I'll spank you!"

Xiaosong clutched the money, covered his butt with one hand, and ran quickly: "I know!"

Xiaobai Pidianpian followed behind and couldn't catch up.

Zhang Sijiu couldn't help laughing.

Mrs. Xu collected the money and began to deal with the ingredients with great enthusiasm.

His posture was like that of a clockwork machine. Not only was his movements quick, but he was also full of energy, and he even hummed a ditty!

Zhang Sijiu listened to the nonsense tune and couldn't hear the tune at all. He snickered and followed the work.

But I recited the herbal medicine silently in my heart.

What should you do if you don’t have enough time? Then multitask while working! After all, cleaning the internal organs doesn’t require brains!

It was at this time that Zhaoyin ran over panting.

Before she opened her mouth, Zhang Sijiu looked up and saw her red eyes.

But Zhaoyin did not cry, but said breathlessly: "Jiuniang, my mother seems to be dying. Please help me take a look."

Zhang Sijiu was stunned, put down the things in his hands involuntarily, and stood up.

She was a little confused: Why is Zhaoyinniang not okay? It's only been a few days, and Zhaoyin didn't come to her in the past two days. Logically speaking, it shouldn't be serious...

With such chaotic thoughts in his mind, Zhang Sijiu wiped his hands, turned around and said to Mrs. Xu: "Second Aunt, let me go and take a look."

As a result, Ms. Xu had already put down her things and stood up, with a serious look on her face: "In this situation, what can you, a dollhouse, do to help? I'll go take a look."

If it really doesn't work, don't scare Jiuniang.

With Xu's thoughts in mind, she walked faster than Zhang Sijiu.

Zhang Sijiu and Zhaoyin quickly followed.

On the way, Zhang Sijiu only had time to ask Zhaoyin: "Did your mother take her medicine on time? Did she treat the wound as I told her?"

Zhao Yin nodded with red eyes: "It's all taken care of. I went out in the morning and everything was fine, but when I came back, something was wrong. My sister said that my mother slept all day, and when I touched her head, it felt very hot! And I

She shouldn’t be yelled at——”

The two of them were talking, but their feet were not delayed at all.

Soon the group arrived at Zhaoyin's house.

Zhao Yinniang was lying on the bed, her face was sallow, and she had lost weight. She was not fat to begin with, but looking at it now, her eye sockets were sunken, and the shape of her facial bones could be seen.

Clearly.

The sanitary conditions in the house are indeed much better than when Zhang Sijiu came to take a look last time.

And there is still a faint smell of mugwort left.

Even the quilt is clean.

Mrs. Xu stepped forward and first stretched out her hand to feel Zhao Yinniang's breath.

Zhang Sijiu didn't have time to complain about this primitive method, so he simply took Zhao Yinniang's hand and put his fingers on Zhao Yinniang's wrist.

It still took some time for Zhang Sijiu to feel Zhao Yinniang's pulse.

Zhao Yinniang's pulse rate is already very low.

Moreover, the beating force was obviously weak.

However, the temperature of the tentacles is actually low.

this……

Zhang Sijiu remembered what Cheng Wanli said: patients who have been sick for a long time and are weak will have a pulse that is not only slow but also weak when they are about to die.

The situation of Zhao Yin Niang is simply consistent to the extreme.

From the perspective of Western medicine: Zhao Yinniang's blood pressure is very low and her heart rate is also falling. This indicates that she may have reached the stage of heart failure.

This is most likely a systemic infection causing body organ failure.

As for body temperature... when the immune system is completely unable to resist, the temperature will naturally drop.

Coupled with blood loss and other conditions, the temperature may even be lower than normal body temperature.

These are all very bad situations.

Zhang Sijiu's heart slowly sank.

Mrs. Xu finally felt Zhao Yinniang's weak breathing at this moment, and breathed a long sigh of relief: "There is still energy. Zhao Yin, where are your grandma and your father?"

Zhaoyin shook his head with difficulty: "My grandma went to my uncle's house. My father... went to sell millet."

When he said the last words, Zhaoyin lowered his head and finally couldn't help but shed tears.

Mrs. Xu was stunned and blurted out: "Sold the just-harvested millet? Then what will you eat in the second half of the year?"

Zhaoyin's family didn't have much land. After harvesting the millet, there was almost nothing left except for what the family needed to eat for a year.

If we want to sell it, we will definitely not have enough food rations!

Zhaoyin wiped his eyes and gave a wry smile: "Eat wheat rice, eat cakes. Anyway, as long as you can eat until the wheat is harvested. If you can't... you can eat something else. This is how I have been living for the past few years."

For a moment, Mrs. Xu didn't know what to say.

The life of the Zhaoyin family... is not much better than during the famine!

No wonder Zhao Yin Niang is so weak, no wonder Zhao Yin sister also looks sallow and skinny!

Although the life of the Zhang family is not that good, and Zhang Sijiu and Xiaosong Xiaobai are not fat, at least they do not eat wild vegetables. Moreover, the food is not enough, mainly because the family has a large population but not enough land.

In the past two years, as Zhang Sijiu's father's business situation has improved, the Zhang family's life has also gradually improved.

It's just that something unexpected happened suddenly, and all of a sudden his family's financial resources were wiped out, and he returned to a state of abject poverty.

"Then does your mother still have money in her hand? In this case, we need to hire a doctor -" Mrs. Xu retracted her thoughts and said this with a complicated expression.

Zhang Sijiu shook his head slightly and interrupted Xu: "It's useless. Doctor Cheng has come to see it. He said at that time that if it doesn't get better after taking medicine, then there is nothing he can do. He can only leave it to fate.

"

She walked around Xu and walked to Zhao Yin's bedside. She turned around and asked Zhao Yin: "What's your mother's name?"

"Zhu Peach Blossom." Zhao Yin thought for a moment before remembering.

The next second, both Zhao Yin and Mrs. Xu saw Zhang Sijiu slap Zhao Yinniang's face roughly, and then shouted her name loudly: "Zhu Taohua, Zhu Taohua! Can you hear me? Zhu Taohua!"

The sound of "pah pah pah" made Mrs. Xu's eyelids jump: Could Jiuniang be taking the opportunity to take revenge?

Zhaoyin was also shocked: Is this... really good?

Zhang Sijiu was not aware of this at all. Instead, he kept shouting louder and louder: "Zhu Taohua! Zhu Taohua!"

Not to mention, Zhao Yinniang, also known as Zhu Taohua, was really photographed and slowly opened her eyelids.

Even that sallow face seemed to have a hint of rosiness.

"Zhu Taohua, don't sleep! Get up and take medicine!" Zhang Sijiu saw that Zhu Taohua was about to close her eyes again, so he patted her twice more, and even leaned close to her ear to shout.

Zhu Taohua finally couldn't bear it anymore and opened her eyes completely.

But it was obvious that he was still a little slow to react. It took a while before his pupils started to focus.

Then he saw Zhang Sijiu at a glance.

If there is anyone in this world who has left the deepest psychological shadow on Zhu Taohua, it must be Zhang Sijiu.
Chapter completed!