latelenovela Chapter 145: Taking the Medicine
Chapter 145: Taking the Medicine
Chapter 145: Taking the Medicine
After the wound was treated, she slowly lowered her head. A white strip of cloth was wrapped around her neck, which looked somewhat frightening.
Looking at Jiang Ziyi, who couldn't move at all, Lu Yu frowned and carried him to the kitchen.
He went back to look at Ji Meiqing and saw that she had already picked up all the silver notes on the ground and sorted them out.
"Do you like money that much? You don't even care about your own safety." Lu Yu said helplessly, helping her up from the ground. "Go see a doctor. Don't be stubborn this time. I'm not a professional doctor, so the wound on your neck is very likely to get infected."
Ji Meiqing pouted and gave all the silver notes to Lu Yu. Then she obediently let him lead her out to find a doctor.
At this time of day, the shops were still open, and she went inside with Lu Yu. There weren't too many people inside, and after a short wait, the doctor came over. He was immediately shocked when he saw the terrifyingly large bandage wrapped around Ji Meiqing's neck.
"You...you...what is this?"
Lu Yu led her to the doctor and calmly said, "She's a little injured. Could you please take a look?"
"Okay, okay... This way please." He looked at Ji Meiqing's neck with slight surprise, and then led the two of them to the back courtyard.
When the gauze was removed, a layer of red blood had seeped through it, and it was slightly damp and not yet dry. When Lu Yu saw this, he felt a chill run down his spine.
The doctor examined her carefully, then applied the medicine he had prepared himself before bandaging her up again.
"Rest well and avoid meat. Also, avoid water, but otherwise it's fine."
The doctor breathed a sigh of relief when he felt there was no problem, but when he looked at Lu Yu's face and saw that the two of them looked unwell again, his heart tightened.
"Could you please check if she has any other ailments?" Lu Yu added.
The doctor looked at him in surprise, then at Ji Meiqing, who in turn looked at Lu Yu in surprise, but Lu Yu acted as if he hadn't seen her at all.
“I don’t want to!” she immediately refused. “I know my own body.”
"You know?" Lu Yu glanced at her, his usual easygoing nature hardening now. "You know what's wrong with you, why don't you tell me? You know what's wrong with you, why do you still refuse to see a doctor and take medicine as always?"
She shut her mouth, responding to Lu Yu with silence. Unfortunately, Lu Yu wasn't having any of it and directly summoned the doctor to her.
Ji Meiqing wanted to resist, but suddenly she couldn't move. She immediately realized what had happened and glared fiercely at Lu Yu. The latter acted as if he hadn't seen her.
The doctor wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and, enduring Ji Meiqing's resentful gaze, examined her. He took her pulse for a while before putting down his hands.
Seeing his grave expression, Lu Yu's heart tightened. "What's wrong?"
"This young lady's weakness isn't something that just started today or two ago. Why didn't she take medicine sooner?" he said angrily. Then, looking at Ji Meiqing, he scolded, "Since you know what kind of condition you are, you should have come to see a doctor sooner. Look at you, you look only eighteen or nineteen years old, but your body is like that of an eighty or ninety-year-old woman."
She lowered her head, not wanting to answer his question anymore.
Lu Yu looked at the doctor and asked, "Then what should we do?"
Upon hearing this, the doctor immediately glared and said, "What else can we do? Provide him with good food and drink, and make sure he has three meals a day. If necessary, he can also practice martial arts. In addition, he must put aside what he is doing. If this continues, he may vomit blood next time."
"Is it that serious?" she muttered, quite dissatisfied with his exaggeration. She wasn't exactly flushed, and her condition wasn't as severe as he described, so vomiting blood was impossible unless she had swallowed a needle.
"It's not serious yet!" He immediately widened his eyes. "Will it only be serious when you're about to die?"
Lu Yu glared at her and said coldly, "Shut up."
She was somewhat unwilling, but she kept quiet. She clearly didn't take their nervousness seriously.
The doctor wrote down a long list of medicine names on a piece of paper, then handed it to Lu Yu, instructing him: "Take one dose each morning and evening. It is best to avoid eating meat or fish while taking the medicine."
"No, I don't want to take medicine." Upon hearing that she couldn't eat meat, she immediately refused, determined not to agree to what was written on the prescription.
Lu Yu ignored her and paid her off, then dragged her away. Once on the street, they went to a pharmacy.
After buying several packets of medicine, he took her back. He briefly explained the situation to Grandma Mei and then entrusted the medicine to her for safekeeping.
"For the next few days, you don't need to worry about anything. Just focus on getting better."
Lu Yu gave instructions, regardless of whether he listened or not, and simply said what he needed to say.
She stormed back to her room, feeling for the first time that she couldn't control anything, and she felt that Lu Yu was serious this time.
And everything started to get out of control, and she felt a vague sense of panic.
As the doctor had advised, there was no meat on the table that evening. Looking at the table full of green vegetables, Ji Meiqing immediately lost her appetite.
Holding her chopsticks, she didn't know what to eat, so she just ate rice. Lu Yu couldn't bear to see this and put a few pieces of radish on her plate. The white radish looked very plain, so she just put it aside and continued eating.
After finishing the white rice in her bowl, she went to take a bath and go to bed.
After washing up, Lu Yu came straight over, carrying the medicine as if he had timed it perfectly. The bitter smell could be detected at the door.
Ji Meiqing looked at him, frowned, and said, "I won't drink."
"You have to drink it whether you want to or not," Lu Yu said firmly. The medicine bowl was placed in front of her. The dark soup had a bitter smell that made her stomach feel uncomfortable.
Ji Meiqing simply turned her head away from the bowl of medicine, sticking to her principles: "I said I won't drink it, and that means I won't."
The two remained silent for a moment. Seeing that she didn't seem to want to drink, Lu Yu turned away. Ji Meiqing thought he had given in, but when she saw him drinking the soup directly, she was stunned and didn't know what to say.
He put down the bowl and kissed her lips directly, pouring the medicine into her mouth. Lu Yu gently lifted her chin, making her swallow.
Ji Meiqing's mind went completely blank the whole time, but she noticed that Lu Yu's ears seemed to have turned red. She knew how hot the bright red color was without even touching them, and how shy he was.
She drank the entire bowl of soup, the bitter taste bringing tears to her eyes. This wasn't the first time she'd taken medicine; the last time, Lu Yu had to pick her up from the brink.