This reason convinced the aunt immediately. She nodded and said, "You did the right thing. If you are really captured and sent to fight, and you don't know if you can come back alive, won't your family be cut off?"
Li Shichu thought to himself, I am an orphan, and my parents don’t even know who I am. Who should I pass the incense to? No need! Even if it were to be passed down, it would be passed down to Dr. Li, the master who raised her.
"Yes, yes, aunt, why did you leave your hometown and where are you going?" Li Shichu nodded and asked.
The aunt took a breath and said, "It's a drought. There is no harvest in the fields. If you stay at home, you will starve to death. You might as well go out to beg for food. As for where to go? I don't know. It doesn't matter where you go."
Li Shichu understood very well that refugees these days have today but no tomorrow. Who knows which will come first, death or tomorrow?
While the two of them were still chatting, a young man who was as thin as a bamboo pole suddenly rushed over from the front. His face was so dirty that he couldn't see clearly. With her wrist, she begged: "Doctor Li, please save my sister!"
Li Shichu looked at him and did not refuse. While running forward with her, he asked him: "What's going on with your sister?"
"My sister first had a high fever, then she started having stomachaches, and then she had diarrhea. She hadn't eaten much recently, and all she had in her bowels was blood. Doctor, you must beg her..." The boy with a bamboo pole begged while wiping his tears. Li Shichu.
Li Shichu said: "I will try my best."
Not long after running, the boy with the bamboo pole took Li Shichu to a small slope. His sister was lying on a pile of hay, with two worn-out bundles next to her.
As soon as Li Shichu walked in, he smelled a strong stench emanating from the little girl, like the stench of rotting flesh.
The bamboo pole boy suppressed his shame and apologized to Li Shichu: "Sorry, my sister loves to be clean. She is just sick and can't control her body..."
"Wipe her face clean. I want to see her face and lip color." Li Shichu ordered.
The boy with the bamboo pole quickly took out a clean piece of clothing from the ragged bag and wiped his sister's face.
"It doesn't matter. As a doctor, I've seen this situation many times." Li Shichu shook his head and said, and then he didn't dislike it. He directly grabbed the little girl's skinny wrist and took her pulse.
When the thin bluish-white face was revealed, Li Shichu was stunned for a moment because she realized that this little face she had seen a few months ago was that of Bai Xiaoya who was bullied by a group of children near Mr. Wang's house.
Unexpectedly, the brother and sister actually escaped, but they were not lucky enough to be ill. If they fell ill during the escape, they would have a narrow escape.
Li Shichu was just surprised, and then he treated the two of them as ordinary people. He looked at Bai Xiaoya's face and lip color, then looked at the tongue coating, and then carefully asked the bamboo pole boy about his sister's diet and excrement in recent days. .
After understanding it, Li Shichu came to the conclusion: "Your sister has dysentery."
When the bamboo pole boy heard this, his face suddenly lost color. He suppressed the grief in his heart and asked Li Shichu with a little hope: "Doctor, you will be able to save my sister, right? Your medical skills are so good, you must have a way... ...Please save her, she is still so young..."
The boy with the bamboo pole had been fleeing with the refugees for so long, and naturally he had heard how difficult it was to cure dysentery, especially on the escape route when there was a lack of medicine.
"Don't worry, this is not a difficult disease to treat. Just pay attention to hygiene and take medicine on time. She got this disease because she ate unclean food or drank dirty water." Li Shichu comforted him, and the bamboo pole boy listened. Sure enough, it's not that sad anymore.
"But my sister and I eat and drink the same thing, so why am I okay?" The boy asked again doubtfully.
"Probably because your body's resistance is stronger than your sister's. Your sister's body is already weak and she eats unclean food, so she is naturally more susceptible to disease than you." Li Shichu explained.
Dysentery is actually very easy to treat if it is contracted in later generations. However, in ancient times when medical skills were not very developed and treatment was based solely on sight, hearing, hearing, and inquiring, it would not be easy. However, this was not a problem for Li Shichu. She took out a pill. She stuffed it into Bai Xiaoya's mouth, and then said to her brother: "She still needs to take medicine. You should find a way to find medicine for her."
"Thank you doctor, I will take my sister to buy medicine. I hope you can give me a prescription for my sister." The boy with the bamboo pole said gratefully to Li Shichu.
When Li Shichu heard this, he was a little surprised. He didn't expect him to be so decisive, so he readily gave him a prescription.
The young man took the prescription, took out a few coins from the broken bag, and said, "I, I don't have much money right now, and I still have to buy medicine for my sister, so I can only pay these medical fees. I'm sorry..."
Li Shichu waved his hand and said, "No, I won't charge you for the consultation. Please take your sister and leave."
The young man only hesitated for a while, then stopped worrying, and then said to Li Shichu solemnly: "I will remember your kindness. If my sister and I can survive in the future, we will definitely repay you. By the way, my sister's name is Bai." Xiaoya, my name is Bai He."
When Li Shichu saw him saying this, he did not refuse his kindness and said, "Okay, I will remember it."
The young man then carefully carried his sister on his back, then picked up two tattered bundles. Finally, he took a deep look at Li Shichu and left quickly without looking back.
Li Shichu looked at his bamboo pole-like figure, but he was walking so fast with a child and two bags on his back, and couldn't help but marvel at his physique.
After the brother and sister had been gone for a long time, Li Shichu suddenly remembered that the name Baihe was not an unknown person in this world!
She said that it felt a bit familiar. It turned out to be because Bai He would become a general in the future. He was the person who followed the hero and heroine and made great achievements in battle.
But now this future great hero is still on the run.
This should be the time for him to escape from his uncle and aunt's house with his sister.
But his sister didn't show up later, so she probably died of illness today.
Li Shichu lamented that in these troubled times, life is like an ant, and it is really difficult to live.
Bai He must have resolutely joined the resistance army because his sister, whom he depended on for life, was gone and he was left alone.
Li Shichu thought about the future general for a while and felt that it was worth it to make him owe her a favor. She could let him protect her in the future.
Bai He's luck was pretty good. He carried his sister on his back and walked for more than three hours. He finally arrived at a lively village and town, and immediately went to a drug store to buy medicine.
Bai Xiaoya's life should not be cut off. After taking the medicine, her condition slowly improved and she finally escaped from the hell gate.
