jdhmnovel Chapter 103 Fever
Chapter 103 Fever
Thinking of this, she felt that she had food to eat, and her dream of braised pork elbow was a bit corrupt, as others didn't even have bran to eat.
"Hey, Tao'er, you're not going to eat anymore. Come on, eat more. You haven't eaten anything all day. How can you eat so little after finally having a meal?"
She looked up and saw Xu holding Zhou Tao's bowl and stuffing it into her hands, urging her to eat more.
Zhou Tao at the side kept shaking her head, burrowing into her arms, and whispered, "No, no, no, mother, I don't want to eat anymore, I want to sleep."
Mrs. Xu slapped her in frustration and scolded her, "You ungrateful person, I told you to eat more but it's like I'm harming you, but you just sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep. How long have you been sleeping? You only ate some wild vegetables for a bowl of rice, and you can't even eat good food. Do you need these wild vegetables on weekdays?"
After saying so much, Zhou Tao still dived into Xu's arms, arched her back and closed her eyes.
Even though she was scolded, Mrs. Xu still adjusted the position so that the little girl could sleep better. This little girl was the most considerate one on weekdays, and since she was the youngest, she naturally suffered more pain.
Seeing that she fell asleep so quickly, Zhou Guo frowned and asked, "Xiao Taozi, what did you do? Why are you so sleepy?"
Mrs. Xu said quickly, "She never has a moment to rest all day. She is fearless and runs around following adults. She must be tired. Let her sleep. Save the meal for her so she can eat it when she wakes up."
Then he put another big spoonful of rice into the bowl, put some wild vegetables in it, and handed it to the eldest daughter Zhou Xing, "Here, put the lid on it, so that she won't have anything to eat when she wakes up."
Zhou Guo nodded, thinking about the girl's personality. He looked at Zhou Sulu who was standing beside him. The boy was eating with the bowl in his arms and it seemed that even if the sky fell, he couldn't lift his head from the bowl. He smiled and picked up a piece of food for him with chopsticks.
The kid didn't even raise his head and ate it silently.
Li said, "Don't worry about him. Let him eat by himself. He's just sulking."
She asked in surprise, "Why are you so upset?"
Li said, "He couldn't stay in the mountains during the day and insisted on following you down. I couldn't persuade him with kind words, so I slapped him a few times and tied him up to my side for the whole day. He ignored me all day. I don't know who he got this from. He has such a big temper and doesn't know the severity of the situation. Can you go to such a scene?"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Su started to eat rice so quickly that his chopsticks almost made fire.
Li couldn't help but stare.
Zhou Guo smiled and patted his head, then picked up another piece of food for him with chopsticks, "Eat quickly, you've been angry for so long and you're still angry. Are you planning to ignore me for the rest of your life?"
Hearing this, Zhou Su raised his head hesitantly and said aggrievedly: "I didn't see anything exciting. I only saw a few butts of horses. My sister saw it all." He pointed at Zhou Tao who was already asleep.
Li said, "My sister is older than you!"
Well, Zhou Su lost his temper after hearing this sentence. With tears in his eyes, he lowered his head and ate with big mouthfuls.
In fact, Zhou Guo felt that he was only two years older, which was not that much older.
But she immediately remembered that she was only two years older than Zhou Tao, so she shut up.
No one took it seriously and just thought that the girl was tired.
After dinner, everyone started on their journey again.
It was not until dawn that the team found a place to rest.
"Oh, mother, it's bad. Tao'er's whole body is burning. She has a fever. What should we do?" Xu's panicked voice sounded.
Everyone hurriedly got up to see.
Upon hearing this, Zhou Guo quickly got up and went over.
When they got closer, they saw the girl lying on the cart with a red face and her eyes closed. She opened her eyes with difficulty as Xu kept shaking and shouting. She looked at Xu and started to sob. Her cry sounded like a cat's meow and was extremely weak.
Mrs. Xu was so anxious that tears came down. "What should I do? When did the fever start? I was fine before I went to bed in the middle of the night. Why did I have a fever for no reason?"
After all, Huang had raised so many children, and it was common for them to have a headache or fever. She calmly ordered, "Get a basin of water to wipe her body, give her some cold water, and cover her with a blanket. She will be fine after she sweats it out. Don't panic, it's not a serious illness."
Mrs. Xu tried to calm herself down. She knew it was not a serious illness. The child had had a fever before, but at that time there were doctors to protect him. Where could she find a doctor in this remote place? For some reason, she felt very bad at the moment. She was anxious and could not do anything well.
Huang frowned as she watched, and said to Li, "Go and help her."
Li nodded and said, "Sister-in-law, let me do it. You can go and look after Xiao Tao'er."
Xu forced a smile and went to look after her daughter.
Someone looked at Zhou Guo and said, "Doesn't Miss Guo know how to make medicine? Just ask her to make one."
Yes, everyone remembered at this time that she had also prescribed medicine for people with fever.
Before Zhou Guo could say anything, Li said, "How could she prescribe any medicine? Before, there was no other way, so we had to treat it as a last resort. But now, it's different. If there's nothing, the patient will get sick. Besides, we don't know if the medicine will work."
Yes, it’s hard to tell how many people died and how many survived.
"What's going on? This child has a fever. Wasn't that a plan? Our child has a fever too."
At the same time, several other children also developed fever.
With so many children falling ill at the same time, everyone was wondering if they had provoked some unclean creature on the road and whether they needed to be dressed up.
It’s a pity that the blind man in the village who does this didn’t come.
But everyone still prepared the meal and placed it towards the way they came, muttering something to themselves.
Zhou Guo heard something intermittently... I am so sorry for disturbing the peace... Good for the children...
He muttered to himself for a long time before he stopped.
It looked like that was the case, but it seemed to be of no use. From morning to noon, the children's fever did not subside at all. They were delirious due to the fever, and the younger ones could not even open their eyes.
Now everyone was at a loss, but they didn't dare to use any medicine indiscriminately, so they could only wait.
I waited until the next day, but the fever still hadn't subsided.
Everyone is getting more and more anxious.
Huang said in a deep voice: "It seems that he was frightened. Such a young child followed the adults and saw the blood all over the ground. How could he bear it at such a young age?"
Zhou Dacang said, "That shouldn't be the case. They didn't see any bloody scenes. We had dealt with it before we carried it out."
At this time, Mrs. Xu spoke hesitantly, "Maybe... maybe she saw those damn scenes of beheading people before, and she was so scared that her face turned pale and she couldn't speak. But after a while, she was fine again, jumping around. I didn't take it seriously. I never thought, I never thought..."