The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 200 - 189: Fever Subsides (Additional update with 165,000 recommendation votes from Yunqi)

Chapter 200: Chapter 189: Fever Subsides (Additional update with 165,000 recommendation votes from Yunqi)

"This is an emergency," the doctor hastily opened his medicine box to retrieve medicines for them, saying, "Boil three bowls of water down to one bowl, use high heat."

At such an urgent time, there was no room to mind reducing the heat for a slow simmer.

Only then did the doctor take a needle to give Manbao acupuncture to reduce her fever. If she continued to burn like this, she wouldn’t die but would certainly be left senseless.

The child’s fever was quite severe, her lips turning pale, her little body trembling. Ms. Qian covered her with a blanket, lifting her clothes for the doctor to insert the needle.

Old Zhou was so annoyed with himself he wished he could slap his own face.

They were busy until the sun rose, and only then did Manbao, with her eyes tightly shut, start to cry out. The breath she exhaled was hot, and her voice was feeble. Ms. Qian reached to touch her back and felt a hand covered with water, at which she couldn’t help but break into tears, hugging her tightly, and cooing, "There, there, you’ve sweat it out, our Manbao will be all right now."

Manbao whined in discomfort, crying with closed eyes, "There’s a wolf... "

"No, there’s not, where’s the wolf? Mum’s here, it wouldn’t dare come... "

"Yes, yes," Old Zhou hurriedly said, "Dad’s here too, if it does come, I’ll knock it dead. Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid."

The doctor looked at Manbao’s tongue coating again and said, "Now that she’s sweating, she’ll get better. Just keep her carefully covered, change out with a few dry towels, so she doesn’t reabsorb the sweat, and she’ll be fine."

After packing away his medicine box, the doctor left them with two doses of medicine, one for each day, and each dose could be cooked twice.

Shouldering his medicine box, he then turned to Old Zhou and said, "Don’t scare the child unnecessarily. Children under eight can’t take much, they’re especially sensitive to being frightened, and you went out of your way to scare her..."

Old Zhou, shamefaced, nodded and bowed vigorously in assent, saw the senior doctor out the door respectfully, and then had Zhou ErLang take the man back to Dali Village with great deference on the plank cart.

Manbao had sweated profusely, and Ms. Qian kept feeding her warm water to replenish her fluids until Manbao’s hair was soaked and she was groaning in discomfort, stretching out her little legs to kick off the blanket.

Ms. Qian, who dared not let her kick off the blanket, kept a tight hold on it and said, "Wait a little longer. When you stop sweating, Mum will change your clothes."

And then she tried to offer her more water to drink.

Manbao had drunk a lot and didn’t want more, so she turned her head away, whimpering, "No more, no more..."

"Just a little bit more," Ms. Qian said, "You’ve sweat so much, and your fever hasn’t completely broken. You need to drink a little bit more."

Manbao was unwilling, closing her lips tight against drinking.

Keke couldn’t hold back and said, "I advise the host to drink water. Your temperature is still at 37.8 degrees, and previously you went up to 39.8 degrees, which is extremely dangerous."

Keke had been on edge up to now, terrified that the host might pass away before getting the chance to grow up. During the moments when she lost consciousness, Keke had already searched the marketplace for fever-reducing medicine, ready to purchase on her behalf if her vital signs triggered an alarm.

Fortunately, the situation had not worsened to that extent.

Given the vast difference between future medications and current technology, even a single fever-reducing pill required an enormous amount of points.

Although the host had enough points to afford it, she would certainly feel the pinch afterward.

Therefore, Keke straightforwardly said, "If the host’s fever doesn’t subside, causing a relapse, you may have to purchase medicine from the marketplace. Do you know how many points a fever-reducing pill costs?"

Keke very promptly displayed the search page for her to see.

Manbao, with her eyes tightly closed, opened her eyes feeling wronged, and upon seeing the points, she got up from the bed, and with the help of Ms. Qian, drank all the warm water in the bowl.

Ms. Qian, though unsure why she suddenly became cooperative, was happy nonetheless and whispered soothingly, "Our Manbao is really a good, obedient child. Once you drink the water, you’ll feel better soon."

Not yet seven years old, Manbao already felt the burden of worrying about expenses, which was truly too hard.

Entertaining a rare wish not to grow up, Manbao sorrowfully drank another half bowl of water before signaling that she needed to pee by holding her stomach.

Ms. Qian wrapped her up in her own coat and carried her to the toilet. When the sunlight began to stream through the windows, Manbao’s fever finally subsided.

Ms. Qian allowed her to bathe inside the house and then tucked her into bed, cautious not to let her catch a chill.

Even her breakfast was served in bed.

Perhaps because Manbao had always been frail since she was young, or perhaps because her illness had frightened them, the Zhou family treated her very gingerly.

They specially made her lean meat porridge but didn’t allow her to leave the bed. Only after they were sure she had fully recovered in the evening did they allow her to stand at the doorway of the main hall for a while.

But not long after dinner, she was tucked back inside her room, and the next day, she was still unable to attend school.

Thus, Bai Shanbao came to visit her, bringing a box of pastries.

Fearing that she might pass the illness to the young master of the Bai family, Ms. Qian didn’t let Bai Shanbao into the room. Instead, they spoke through a window.

Bai Shanbao just happened to see Junior Ms. Qian carrying in a bowl of dark medicine, so he sympathetically said to Manbao, "You are really pitiful; you still have to take medicine for a few more days, huh?"

Manbao, accustomed to taking medicine, replied, "I feel better, but my mother and the rest think I’m not. But my medicine only lasts until today; tomorrow, I have to go to school."

"What if they don’t let you out?" asked Bai Shanbao, evidently speaking from experience, "They’ll lock you up in the house."

"Then I’ll run away. Will you help me then?"

"Sure," Bai Shanbao got excited and asked, "How are you going to escape?"

Unfortunately, before they could plan, Junior Ms. Qian brought the medicine to the bedside, and Manbao had to drink her medicine before they could discuss their grand escape plan.

It turned out to be unnecessary, for the next day before Manbao could run away, Ms. Qian broached the subject of sending her to school, "You’ve been absent for two days; it’s time you went back to school today."

Unable to run away but still able to go to school, Manbao and Bai Shanbao were somewhat disappointed. Nevertheless, following this event, Manbao had become much more obedient, keeping her regrets to herself.

Although she had been feverish for just one day, the Zhou family did not take her condition lightly, followed the doctor’s advice to the letter, and avoided giving her fishy, spicy, or greasy food. Thus, for a week straight, although Manbao ate fine meals, her meat was only minced lean meat, with more vegetables included. This was a difficult adjustment for Manbao, who had not lacked for rich food over the past year, to the point that even the daily, disliked egg water seemed tasty now.

Even Mr. Zhuang noticed his little apprentice looked much paler and was extra considerate of her in her studies, not assigning her homework for several days straight.

Only when her complexion was rosy again and she was lively and bouncing around did the family relax their restrictions, and she finally had the chance to ask Fifth Brother what had caused their trouble in the first place.

Zhou Wulang looked towards Zhou Liulang.

Zhou Liulang squirmed a bit and said, "It’s a long story."

Zhou Silang rolled his eyes and said, "What’s there to be long about? We were only out for half a day; how long could it have gotten?"

He said to Manbao, "Don’t ask him. Daliang already told me all about it. This kid went out and bragged about how he captured a rhizomys. Others didn’t believe him, so he claimed that even you could catch one by yourself, how could he not?"

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