Manbao handed her the prescriptions written during the day, "I’ve written ten prescriptions for you. The first ones have the case details and symptoms. Compared to smallpox, these ailnts are more common. You can study them."
Aynara looked at her in surprise, "Miss, do you really want to teach ? I can’t go with you."
Manbao replied, "Teaching you dicine doesn’t co with conditions, so whether you want to co with is just a choice for you. Everyone has their own things to weigh in their heart."
Manbao was sincere in teaching Aynara, so even when it got dark and everyone was getting ready to sleep, she lit an oil lamp to teach her how to feel the pulse and observe the complexion.
Zhou Liru couldn’t help but yawn, rubbing her eyes, "Aunt, let’s teach again tomorrow."
Manbao responded and told Aynara, "You can feel your own pulse when you sleep tonight. So things, the more you listen, the more insight you’ll get."
Aynara slept in the sa tent with them, but her bed was on the other side. After extinguishing the lamp, she lay on the fur, covered with a quilt, her hand resting on her pulse, staring brightly at the tent top.
In reality, she couldn’t see anything in the dark, which helped her concentrate. She felt very happy, as today felt like a dream.
Early in the morning, the kids from the Tutubu who woke up to relieve themselves also felt like it was a nightmare, except their dream was a nightmare.
Manbao was still lying in bed when suddenly there were cries outside, then the sharp cries of children. Soon, screams and crying spread, and it was everywhere.
Manbao was half-awake and got a jolt from the commotion, imdiately jumping out of bed, and called, "What’s wrong, is it a raid?"
Aynara had woken early and was nowhere to be found. Manbao got off the bed, and she and Zhou Liru quickly put on clothes. Just as she was putting on her coat, Aynara ca rushing back with a pale face from outside, "Miss, sothing happened to Dai Yi and them."
Dai Yi was Gu Lu’s apprentice. Manbao asked while putting on her coat, "What happened?"
"They, they," Aynara’s face turned white in the dim morning light, "they had lots of bugs..."
Manbao: ...
Zhou Liru also stopped what she was doing. Although she knew she shouldn’t, she shuddered and then asked, "Did it co out while they were pooping?"
Aynara nodded, looking at Manbao with fear.
Manbao leisurely put on her clothes, saying, "Oh, it’s nothing serious. Didn’t they have two bowls of dicine yesterday? It should be working."
However, Manbao considered for a mont and still asked, "Were there a lot?"
Aynara looked incredulously, "Is it because of the dicine?"
Manbao nodded, "There are worms in their stomachs. You never deworm; the vegetables you eat are often grown with cattle and sheep manure, and sotis you drink raw water. Naturally, there will be worms."
Evidently, the kids didn’t know this, and even many adults didn’t. But as a shaman, Gu Lu obviously knew. When Manbao ca out, he had already barely cald the clan.
However, his face was also pale. He turned to look at Zhou Man and stepped forward, "Miss Zhou, do you... do you want to take a look?"
Manbao really wanted to say she didn’t want to look, but seeing the dim morning light and the pale faces of Tutubu’s n and won, young and old —because it was just dawn, they had even lit a few torches.
So, with their faces illuminated by the firelight, it was particularly obvious.
Manbao paused but still nodded, "Let’s go have a look."
Bai Shan and a few others, also woken up, walked out of their tent and asked, "Go see what?"
Manbao turned back, "Worms?"
Bai Erlang, yawning, asked, "What kind of worms? Are they that serious? Let’s go take a look too." Bai Shan also wanted to follow.
Manbao said, "Worms from the stomach."
Bai Erlang imdiately halted his steps, and Bai Shan sharply turned and said, "Then you go ahead. I’ll wash up first; the teacher is also awake. I’ll go serve the teacher."
Liu Huan and the others were confused, "What happened, what happened?"
Bai Erlang grabbed him and left. What’s so interesting about worms coming out of the stomach?
He’d seen it when he was a kid.
Actually, given his and Bai Shan’s status, they weren’t supposed to see that, but there was a ti when he was carefree and didn’t want to go all the way ho from the village to take care of things. After all, isn’t it fun to play?
In any case, his playmates took care of things outdoors, so he joined them. Just at that ti, he was taking the annual bitter intestinal cleansing dicine, and then...
Since then, Bai Erlang never randomly took care of major life issues outdoors again.
Liu Huan and Yin Huo obviously knew nothing about such life matters, so they were bewilderedly pulled away by him and Bai Shan on either side.
Zhou Liru didn’t want to go either, but would Manbao let her go? She dragged her along, "Co on, you’re a doctor. You can learn a lot from looking at worms."
Zhou Liru asked, "Has Aunt specially gone to see?"
"Yes!"
She hadn’t seen them in reality, but ever since she knew there were roundworms, Teacher Mo had prepared many cultivated specins for her to observe, with various disease states.
Healthy ones were fine, just like that, but unhealthy ones or those with too many to finish...
Manbao shook her head, trying not to think further.
Dragging Zhou Liru to see the worms, Manbao eventually called a group of scared children, big and small, to feel their pulses. Finally, most were let go, but three were kept, including Dai Yi.
She said, "Your worms haven’t been fully expelled yet. You still need to continue the dicine. I’ll prescribe another one to protect your intestines."
The three older kids were trembling. The oldest, Dai Yi, was only nine years old and was nearly scared senseless today.
At this mont, his legs trembled, "Still, still more? Where are they?"
Manbao’s gaze fell on his stomach.
Dai Yi covered his stomach with his hand, bursting into tears and turning to find his master, "Master, master..."
The shaman stood rigidly, awkwardly raising a hand to pat his back and said, "You’re a warrior, you must be brave."
Dai Yi cried hard. He wanted to be a shaman, not a warrior.
Manbao, while instructing Zhou Liru to get pen and ink, told him, "Stop crying. You got this because you don’t like hygiene and always drink raw water without deworming, even though you’re so old already. I’ll leave you a prescription. In the future, take dicine once every spring, and deworm once, and you won’t have this problem."
Dai Yi cried, "I’ve never eaten any worms."
Gu Lu was also confused, "How did so many worms get into the stomach?"
"Ingested," seeing that everyone looked disgusted, she couldn’t help but laugh, "Not worms, worm eggs."
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