A life of two souls traveling through time

Chapter 295: No cure for any disease, only mediocre doctors can kill people

The next day, at dawn, Si Yao quietly walked out of the north room and looked around the farmyard. It was already dark outside when she woke up last night, and she didn't know what she was in. Following the sound of gurgling water, she came to the farmyard again. Looking at the morning birds singing outside the yard and the foggy wilderness and forest, she couldn't help but frown.

Although according to the woman Honghua, Xiaolu should not be in any danger now that he is with the prince's people, he is inevitably worried about being abducted without any word. However, in this strange place, with the woman watching, and Si Yao, as a doctor, naturally couldn't bear to abandon the patient who still needed treatment, so he had no choice but to look for Xiaolu alone.

Then she changed her mind and thought that if she could get rid of the prince's eyes with the help of these three mysterious people, it might not be a bad thing. So, looking at the mountain stream in front of her and the mist in the morning, Si Yao's mood was not as heavy as before.

It was early winter and the fields were clear and cold. Si Yao did not stay by the river for long. Just when she turned around to go back to the farmyard, she was surprised to see Zeng Si in white standing at the gate, looking at her expressionlessly.

"Don't worry, I won't run away until Miss Yanyu gets better." There was a hint of helplessness in Si Yao's cold eyes. Even if she wanted to escape, she had to have someone lead her, otherwise she wouldn't know where to escape with her poor direction.

After hearing Si Yao's words, Zeng Sixi felt relieved. He bowed to her and turned around silently to go back to the farmyard.

Si Yao followed into the farmyard. The owner of the farmyard was a kind old lady. Perhaps because she was hard of hearing, she was also very taciturn. From last night till now, every time she was seen, she was busy in the kitchen. Si Yao had not seen the other one yet, but she learned from Hong Hua that he was a scholar with eye disease.

"Miss, would you like some chestnuts? They're freshly steamed." Si Yao was about to go back to the house, but saw the old woman coming out of the kitchen with a bowl of steaming chestnuts and smiling at her kindly.

At the same time, a young man, whose eyes were covered with cloth but still as gentle as the moon, walked out steadily from the kitchen with the help of a bamboo stick. Although he did not open his mouth, a gentle and beautiful curve appeared at the corner of his mouth, as comfortable as the breeze and the bright moon, making people ignore the eye disease on his face.

Doctors are compassionate and naturally want to show concern for patients, so Si Yao did not refuse the old woman. She sat under the eaves outside the kitchen with the young man and started peeling chestnuts.

"Although chestnuts are good for the stomach and spleen, it is not advisable to eat too many on an empty stomach." Si Yao reminded the man next to her while peeling chestnuts in her hand.

"Thank you for the reminder, doctor." The young man was about to put the peeled chestnuts into his mouth, but after hearing Si Yao's words, he immediately took the chestnuts from his mouth and smiled at Si Yao. But then he thought that it would not be a big deal since he had only eaten a few, so he hurriedly lowered his head and finished the chestnuts in his hand.

Seeing the man beside her eating a chestnut with a guilty look on his face, Si Yao inadvertently smiled, but soon realized her mistake and returned to her usual coldness, asking:

"This is where?"

"This place is called Taozhu Village. Five or six miles east is An County." The young man replied in a gentle voice.

"How far is it from Xiapi Town?"

"Xia Pi Town? Never heard of it." The young man thought for a moment, shook his head, and said, "I'll ask Aunt Liang for you later."

"Aren't you mother and son?" Si Yao looked at the young man in surprise.

"Aunt Liang is a maid who grew up with my mother. My parents died early, and she never married. She has taken care of me with all the hardships. We are not mother and son, but we are as close as mother and son." The young man smiled gently.

Although Si Yao still had some doubts, she did not continue to inquire.

"My name is Fu Qingli. The blue sky is always high and never leaves us. May I know your name, doctor?" The two were silent for a moment, and then the man spoke slowly again.

"Si Yao."

"Yao? But it's the Yao in Yaoqin."

"Ah."

"Si Yao, what a nice name." Fu Qingli smiled and murmured to himself.

"Let me see your eye disease."

As Si Yao spoke, she raised her hand to remove the cloth from the other person's face, but Fu Qingli hurriedly dodged.

"I know you are the doctor who was abducted by them. I accidentally overheard what you said in your room last night. They don't look easy to deal with. You should focus on treating the patient in the room first." Fu Qingli knew that he was being rude, so he raised his hand and bowed to Si Yao quickly, then moved closer to her and whispered.

"Thank you for thinking of me." Si Yao looked at Fu Qingli gratefully, but the other party's understanding did remind her that although Yan Yu was a sensible girl, her sister was very moody and weird. If she made her unhappy again, wouldn't it implicate Fu Qingli?

"Anyway, I've been blind for three years. I've seen many doctors and none of them worked. I'm used to it and I'm not in a hurry." Fu Qingli still smiled, but the smile was mixed with a lot of bitterness.

It would be a lie to say he wasn't anxious. He was just trying to comfort Si Yao. Besides, the woman who came yesterday was very fierce. He didn't want this kind doctor to be bullied by that fierce woman again.

"How did you get this eye disease?" Si Yao could naturally see Fu Qingli's forced smile, but did not expose it. Instead, she looked at the cloth on his face and continued to ask.

Speaking of his eye disease, Fu Qingli couldn't help but sigh, and then told Si Yao:

It turned out that in order to pass the imperial examination, Fu Qingli forgot to eat and sleep every day, and studied hard day and night. Who knew that staying up late all day would hurt his eyes unknowingly. At first, his eyes were just red, swollen and itchy, and he didn't care. But in less than half a month, the whites of his eyes turned red and his eyes began to hurt. Aunt Liang was scared and quickly called a doctor for him.

The doctor took one look and said it was liver fire, so he wrote a prescription full of bitter and cold fever-reducing medicines. But after taking it for a few days, it not only did not cure the eye disease, but it worsened. Later, the doctor said it was wind-cold entering the body, and he needed to dispel the cold, so he wrote a sweat-inducing medicine. After Fu Qingli drank it, he sweated all over his body, causing loss of body fluids, and his eyes became even more red and swollen.

So the next day, Aunt Liang went to find the doctor again, but the doctor had disappeared. She had no choice but to find another doctor. However, this doctor only used a silver needle to puncture the blood clots in Fu Qingli's eyes and did not know how to use medicine. Although the bloodletting made his eyes better, it did not cure the disease.

They sought medical treatment everywhere but to no avail. Just when they were at their wits' end, the doctor who had disappeared earlier suddenly appeared and said that he had thought of a new way to treat the disease. He explained that the medicine he had prescribed previously must have been in insufficient dosage and had not been effective, and that this time he would have to increase the dosage to clear away heat and detoxify.

Aunt Liang was already worried about Fu Qingli's difficult-to-treat eye disease, and Fu Qingli was also obsessed with the imperial examination, so he tried every possible means and trusted this doctor again. However, he did not expect that Fu Qingli became completely blind after taking only two doses of medicine. Seeing this, the doctor made an excuse and ran away.

Things don't always go as planned, and Fu Qingli was completely unable to take the imperial examination due to his blindness. He was heartbroken and regretted that he had easily believed the medical liar, but things had come to this point, and no amount of regret could help.

There is no good prescription that can cure any disease, and a quack doctor is one who kills people without being noticed.

After hearing about what happened to Fu Qingli, Si Yao felt sorry for him, but at the same time she couldn't help but hate the existence of such mediocre doctors who misdiagnose and harm people.