Chapter 554: Chapter 554: The Sick Patient (4 Updates)
Upon hearing the voice, people immediately became restless.
Xie Zhinuan dismounted from the carriage and surveyed the winding queue that stretched out, then glanced at the shops on either side that seemed to be doing better business than before. She smiled and instructed someone to open the doors of the shop.
Said to Chunyu, “Let’s begin!”
Fearing that Mrs. Jiao would be distressed upon seeing Sun Yian, she had not allowed her to come today.
Instead, she kept her at home to tidy up with Aunt Chen, and it was also a good opportunity to properly teach the maids and grannies the rules.
The first person to come in was a man in his thirties, with a face full of misery, accompanied by two other men.
When Xie Zhinuan took his pulse, her heart skipped a beat.
“…”
This is what it looks like when the disease has reached an advanced stage.
“May I take a look at your previous medical records?” she asked.
Without a word from the man, one of the others said, “My elder brother was fine before. It was just last year, we don’t know what happened, but he suddenly fainted. We summoned a doctor, who diagnosed him and he took a lot of medicine, but it did not improve!”
The medical records were placed before Xie Zhinuan.
She looked through them. They were all medicines for relieving superficial symptoms and tonifying the body, which had little effect on this man’s condition. Moreover, his body was weak and poisoned.
He must have been given a slow-acting poison while taking his regular medicines.
This was even more severe than Qin Mao’s case.
Although Qin Mao’s internal organs were deteriorating, he had been kept alive by powerful drugs, whereas this man had his internal organs completely ruined.
Even if she offered up a medicine pill, she might not be able to save him.
“Did you come here for the money?” Xie Zhinuan asked.
“No, no, no, Miss, please don’t misunderstand. We brought my elder brother all the way here just to seek a consultation with you, to see if you could prescribe a medicine!” Speaking thus, the man knelt down, “Miss, I beg you, please save my elder brother!”
“…” The sick man’s eyes reddened.
He knew all too well that his life was beyond salvation.
But since his brothers would not give up, and because he too wished to live, he had come, hoping there might be a slight chance of recovery.
“What did the other doctors say?” Xie Zhinuan asked.
“They all said there was no cure!”
“…”
Xie Zhinuan fell silent.
After contemplating for a moment, she finally said, “I can attempt to treat you, but I must speak frankly, I have been studying medicine for less than a year, my skills are not refined, and I can’t guarantee a cure. You could very well pass away in the process of my treatment!”
“I will not seek treatment!” the man quietly said.
He took hold of his brothers’ hands. “I don’t want the treatment, let’s go home!”
He then turned to Xie Zhinuan, “Thank you for your trouble!”
His two brothers’ willingness to bring him this far was satisfaction enough for him.
“Actually, your illness was not serious at the beginning; the issue was the prescriptions you were given. Someone later poisoned your medicine, which has led to your current condition. Now, you bleed with every bowel and bladder movement,” she revealed.
The man’s eyes widened.
Stunned, he looked at Xie Zhinuan, while the men by his side seemed to realize something, their faces filled with anger.
“If you are willing, I can prescribe a few medications…” Xie Zhinuan spoke up.
The man slightly shook his head, “No need!”
He let his two brothers carry him away.
Xie Zhinuan opened her mouth as if to say something, but as the man turned his head, tears rolled down his cheeks.
Xie Zhinuan sat quietly for a moment before saying to a guard by her side, “Go and see how he is!”
“Yes!”
Xie Zhinuan then continued to take the pulses of the others waiting.
Many people were there just for the money; there were two seriously ill patients. Xie Zhinuan wanted to prescribe medicine for them, but they refused, solely intent on the money.
“…”
Xie Zhinuan felt quite helpless.
She was utterly without means.
She was willing to prescribe medicines for free, even fetch the medicines herself, but people didn’t trust her.
In the end, she focused solely on taking pulses. Life and death are decreed by fate, wealth and honor are in the hands of heaven; she could not force anyone to take the medicines she prescribed.