City's Best Divine Doctor-Chapter 1544 - 1543: Questioning the Old Lady

When Ma Wenwen went to interview other people, she found Ye Qiu, this young man, really interesting, and he made her feel very mysterious, so she definitely wanted to come find Ye Qiu again.

Ye Qiu went into the tent and directly treated Wen Xin, who was resting. After absorbing all the virus from her body, Ye Qiu continued to wait there.

Not long after, Han Dexi and Pang Xinhua arrived, having heard that Wen Xin had been infected with this disease.

Seeing Ye Qiu there, Han Dexi asked, "Doctor Ye, how is Nurse Wen?"

"Old Han, she’s fine now. I just treated her. After a dose of herbal medicine, she’ll recover by tomorrow."

"It’s good that she’s alright. Luckily you’re here." Han Dexi said.

Pang Xinhua was also very surprised.

He still couldn’t figure out how exactly Ye Qiu treated these patients. But after being treated by Ye Qiu, all ten-plus patients had completely recovered.

This was what shocked him, and he had already heard that this village had experienced a similar outbreak before, where many people died.

Unexpectedly, this new outbreak might be related to that previous epidemic.

Of course, these were things Ye Qiu had discovered after arriving here.

"That old woman has already gone back. I heard you cured her." Han Dexi asked.

"The old woman went back to her old house?"

"Yes, she went back, saying she feared people might steal her things."

In fact, Han Dexi and Pang Xinhua both felt very sympathetic toward her as a senior citizen living on a basic support allowance. If it weren’t for Ye Qiu and Zhou Wenting discovering her collapsed at home yesterday, she might have died there.

"I’ll go check on the elderly woman in a bit."

For now, regarding the conditions of the other patients, Ye Qiu could only therapeutically select whom to treat because he couldn’t cure everyone all at once.

If those Chinese and Western medicine doctors could find effective prescriptions to suppress the patients’ further symptoms, that would be ideal.

Because that way, Ye Qiu would have more time to treat these patients.

After Zhou Wenting and another female nurse boiled the herbal medicine and brought it for Wen Xin to drink, Ye Qiu said, "Wenting, let’s check on the elderly woman again."

Ye Qiu and Zhou Wenting left Wen Xin’s tent. As they headed to the old house on the mountain where the elderly woman lived, Ma Wenwen, who had been interviewing other medical staff and patients, quickly grabbed her camera and followed after seeing them leave.

"Doctor Ye, wait for me."

Ma Wenwen appeared very much like a cosmopolitan and fashionable young girl, and right now, she wasn’t wearing a hospital gown; she changed back into her regular clothes.

She just took a shower and, free from that odor, felt much more comfortable.

However, she still couldn’t leave the isolation zone for now since there was a fear she might carry the virus and infect others outside.

Ye Qiu stopped and looked at her, asking, "What is it?"

"Where are you going?"

"Miss Ma, we’re going to check on that elderly woman." Zhou Wenting said.

For some reason, seeing Ye Qiu act so indifferent toward Miss Ma made Zhou Wenting happy, so she held no particular feelings towards Ma Wenwen.

Of course, she noticed that Ma Wenwen was also very pretty and had great poise. Could it be that because Ye Qiu was surrounded by so many beautiful ladies, he no longer pursued any others?

Of course, Zhou Wenting couldn’t be sure if Ma Wenwen had a boyfriend, so she thought Ye Qiu probably assumed she had one, hence his attitude.

"The elderly woman? The one you and Doctor Ye saved, the senior citizen under basic support?"

Zhou Wenting nodded.

Ye Qiu and Zhou Wenting headed onwards, and recalling what Ye Qiu had mentioned in the morning, Zhou Wenting told Ma Wenwen about it, and Ma Wenwen, looking at the rocky road below, was really surprised. How could this young man know such things?

She thought what Ye Qiu said was likely true.

Halfway up the mountain, reaching the old house where the elderly woman lived, they knocked on the door and went inside to see the elderly woman indeed sitting there.

She originally had a cat and a few chickens with her, but they all died from that contagious disease, and the medical staff here had already taken them for cremation and burial.

The elderly woman recognized Ye Qiu and Zhou Wenting, and Zhou Wenting asked, "Grandma, why did you go up the mountain again when you weren’t down below?"

"I feel fine. I thought I would see my mother soon, but unexpectedly, fate held me back, and I survived." The elderly woman said with a local accent.

Though a bit hard to catch, it was still understandable.

It wasn’t really fate; she was merely lucky to have met Ye Qiu.

"Grandma, I want to learn something from you." Ye Qiu said.

"Go ahead." The elderly woman could tell these three young people were from the city and were all good kids.

"Are you the oldest in the village now?"

"There was an older one over eighty who passed a few days ago, so now I’m the oldest." Generally speaking, in modern cities, living conditions and medical facilities are much better, so the average lifespan has increased, typically above eighty.

In the rural area, despite poorer living and medical conditions, the seniors have little stress, and the air quality is better than in large cities, so living till their eighties or nineties is quite normal unless struck by something sudden like this epidemic.

"This morning, Wenting and I took a walk around the hills and found a porcelain bowl. I feel like it was left by those who used to live here. Did they move away, or did they die from the epidemic?"

The elderly woman didn’t expect such courage from this young man, wandering around the hills.

Of course, by the time she was born, the village had already few residents, though some places still had ruins.

But during her mother’s era, the village was full of houses, so the stone path just walked by Zhou Wenting was built by them, and back then, with a large population and many houses, it looked like a small town with two to three thousand or even three to four thousand people.

Surrounded by houses, these were old-fashioned homes. Her mother said when she was a teenager, an epidemic similar to the current one broke out suddenly, and a large part of the villagers got infected and died. Only a few remained, maybe a few dozens to a hundred or so. Her mother was lucky to survive.

However, the deceased mostly perished in that epidemic, and each family was left with one or two members, or none at all. Those who survived felt the village was no longer livable and moved away.

As for where they moved, the elderly woman didn’t know, for the farthest she’d ever been was the nearby small town.