Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable-Chapter 883 - 794: Unwilling to Be a Slave (Part 14)
But now that Qiuyi is so ill, can’t they spare a quilt to cover her? Qiuyi is still sick, just lying on the ground with a layer of dry grass, how could she not feel cold-hearted? Those who came to watch also knew they were behaving badly, and they avoided Qiushuang’s gaze with guilt.
Nangong Shuangshuang, however, didn’t care about the silent battle of glances between Qiushuang and the palace maids. She went straight over, squatted down, and took Qiuyi’s pulse. Qiuyi looked very weak, her eyes half-closed, her complexion deathly pale, her body curled up as fear and pain were etched on her face.
After checking her pulse, Nangong Shuangshuang already had an idea, but still asked, "Does your stomach hurt unbearably, and you have constant diarrhea?"
Qiuyi nodded with difficulty, her lips quavering, opened and closed twice, her voice weak, "I’ve had diarrhea many times. I felt something was wrong last night, and this morning the diarrhea started."
"Is there pus and blood in your excreta?" Nangong Shuangshuang continued to ask. Qiuyi kept nodding, becoming somewhat emotional, yet deeply fearful, she asked Nangong Shuangshuang with a sob, "Am I going to die? I’m bleeding. I don’t want to die. I beg you, save me. I don’t want to die, I really don’t want to die, wuwu..."
Nangong Shuangshuang comfortingly patted Qiuyi’s hand, smiled and said, "Don’t cry, I’m here. You won’t die, don’t worry, I can cure you."
"Really, really?!" Qiuyi stopped crying, her tear-filled eyes widened, she reached out and grabbed Nangong Shuangshuang’s hand, incredulous and asked repeatedly.
Nangong Shuangshuang nodded, reassuring Qiuyi again, "Don’t worry, I can cure your illness." Nangong Shuangshuang’s assured response calmed Qiuyi’s panic-stricken heart. As Bai Ruoyun’s palace maid, she knew that Nangong Shuangshuang had the skill to distinguish medicinal herbs from common weeds.
Like Bai Ruoyun, in Qiuyi’s heart, she was amazed by Nangong Shuangshuang’s skills. She thought that since Nangong Shuangshuang could find medicine among the weeds, then she should be able to cure her as well, she had to be able to.
After comforting Qiuyi, Nangong Shuangshuang began to ponder a prescription for dysentery. Treating dysentery is not difficult, Nangong Shuangshuang could easily list a bunch of effective herbs off the top of her head, but the difficult part was that she didn’t have any potent medicine, she could only think of quick-acting remedies.
After a brief thought, Nangong Shuangshuang said to Qiushuang, "Qiushuang, go to the kitchen and get an egg, have someone help cook it on the stove until it’s hard-boiled, be careful not to overheat it, then grind some alum into powder and bring it with the cooked egg quickly."
Actually, two grams of alum would suffice, but Nangong Shuangshuang worried that Qiushuang might not know the exact measure, so she might as well bring more for her to divide. Qiushuang didn’t ask much, she just ran out straight towards the kitchen.
After giving instructions to Qiuyi, Nangong Shuangshuang hurriedly went to the corner of the Violence Room where weeds grew, she remembered seeing a particularly lush portulaca growing there earlier, she quickly picked a few of them and then followed Qiushuang to the kitchen.
In the kitchen, Qiushuang was carefully monitoring the fire for cooking the egg, upon seeing Nangong Shuangshuang enter, she stood up thinking Nangong Shuangshuang might have forgotten something. Nangong Shuangshuang signaled Qiushuang to continue cooking the egg, while she herself found a pestle for grinding garlic, washed it, crushed the portulaca and boiled it, then added a little honey.
This honey was Bai Ruoyun’s treasure, it was a valuable commodity because there was no artificial farming, all honey was wild and hard to gather, even in the Imperial Palace, servants were not allowed to consume it freely.
The honey Bai Ruoyun had was gifted by Xiao Chun, Bai Ruoyun especially liked honey cake, and coincidentally, there was a cook in the kitchen skilled at making honey cake, so Bai Ruoyun left a small jar there to have the cook make some for her every few days.
Seeing Nangong Shuangshuang use Bai Ruoyun’s favorite honey, Qiushuang gasped in shock, but considering it was for saving Qiuyi’s life, Qiushuang decided to keep quiet and pretend she knew nothing.
Qiushuang even felt a bit lucky, thinking that it’s fortunate Aunt went to see Eunuch Xiao today and wasn’t here, otherwise, if Aunt found out later and blamed someone, she’d just claim she had eaten it secretly.
Nangong Shuangshuang, eager to save the patient, paid no attention to Qiushuang’s thoughts, she swiftly brought a bowl of the boiled portulaca juice mixed with honey to Qiuyi, urging her to drink it down first.
About a quarter of an hour later, Qiushuang came running with the carefully fire-roasted hard-boiled egg and the powdered alum, Nangong Shuangshuang measured out roughly two grams of alum powder, peeled the boiled egg, and had Qiuyi eat it with the alum powder.
Then, in combination with massage and acupuncture, whether it was a psychological effect or not, Qiuyi felt her stomach was much more comfortable after eating the egg with alum and drinking the portulaca juice with massage and acupuncture, and after a while, she felt even her spirits had lifted significantly, and her diarrhea wasn’t as severe.
After about one hour, Nangong Shuangshuang gave Qiuyi another portion of portulaca juice to drink, and then half an hour later, another boiled egg with alum. By this time, Qiuyi seemed much better, she could sit up by herself and wasn’t so weak or listless anymore, and the diarrhea had stopped too.
Later, Bai Ruoyun returned, and as soon as she got back, she learned that her chief palace maid had contracted a disease that servants generally didn’t survive if they caught, it was fatal. Bai Ruoyun was nearly scared to death by the news.
Because she feared infection, Bai Ruoyun was a person who cherished her life dearly, otherwise, she wouldn’t be holding onto Nangong Shuangshuang so tightly.
But she quickly remembered that she had Nangong Shuangshuang here, Bai Ruoyun had great trust in Nangong Shuangshuang’s medical skills at this moment, even more so than in the Imperial Physician, she immediately asked the palace maid who reported to her if Nangong Shuangshuang had gone to see Qiuyi.
Relieved by the affirmative answer, and after knowing that Qiuyi’s condition had improved, Bai Ruoyun breathed a sigh of relief, boldly went to see Qiuyi and just happened to see her in clean clothes, although still living in the storeroom, she now had a mattress and quilt.
Seeing that Qiuyi was indeed better, Bai Ruoyun sighed with relief, she hadn’t expected so many things to happen while she was away for just a little bit! But seeing Qiuyi improve, Bai Ruoyun was even more determined not to let Nangong Shuangshuang leave the Violence Room no matter what.
Seeing Bai Ruoyun, Nangong Shuangshuang took the initiative to say, "Aunt is back, earlier, in order to treat Qiuyi, I used some of Aunt’s honey, I hope Aunt can forgive me."
This time Bai Ruoyun was very generous, waving her hand, and said, "It’s alright, honey is good but can’t compare to Qiuyi’s importance, you’re free to use the honey in the kitchen, if it’s not enough, just come to me for more, I still have quite a bit in my room." Bai Ruoyun always shared her food generously with her subordinates and did not mind a bit of honey.
