A life of two souls traveling through time

Chapter 384: Venereal Disease Appears in the Deep Mansion

Si Yao and Cai Yi followed the old woman from the outer hall into another quiet courtyard. There was a big peach tree in the courtyard. The peach leaves were lush and green in this season, and the green peach fruits were faintly visible among the green leaves.

A young woman wrapped tightly in silk was lying quietly on a rocking chair under the peach tree. Her plain face looked particularly weak and haggard, and she seemed depressed and listless.

Standing next to the woman was the little maid who had just appeared at the door of the Bai residence and came in to report as ordered. When she saw the old woman coming in with people, a look of joy appeared on her face again.

"Miss, that is Doctor Si Yao who is here as a traveling doctor." The old woman asked Si Yao to wait for a moment and then she came to the peach tree in the middle of the yard, bent over and smiled lovingly at the woman in the rocking chair.

The woman then raised her tired and lifeless eyes and looked past the old woman at Si Yao who was standing far away at the gate of the courtyard. Seeing such a beautiful woman was actually a doctor who traveled all over the world, she couldn't help but admire her. So even though the other party was cold and indifferent, she still smiled happily and said to the old woman: "Nurse, let this doctor come into the house to see the patient."

"Okay." The old woman responded softly, then raised her hand to help the woman up, and at the same time instructed the little maid beside her: "Please invite Doctor Si Yao in as well."

Even with the old woman's support, the woman who had stood up still staggered, and couldn't help but let out a painful groan every two steps.

"Doctor Si Yao, please come in." At this time, the little maid had also walked in front of Si Yao and said with a childish smile.

Seeing that the woman was wrapped tightly and had difficulty walking, Si Yao was worried that her illness might be contagious, so he stopped Caiyi from following him and asked her to wait outside the courtyard.

"Miss, is the doctor here?"

Inside the room, there was another woman who was slightly younger and prettier than the woman. She had disheveled black hair and was lying on the bed with a look of pain on her face. When she saw someone come in, she asked anxiously.

"It's coming, it's coming, Chunyun, don't be anxious." The old woman comforted the woman on the bed, and helped the woman to the couch by the window.

"Doctor, please check on that girl first. Her illness is more serious than mine." After the woman sat down on the couch, she smiled gently in a hoarse voice at Si Yao who had followed in.

Si Yao said nothing, and came to the young woman's bedside with her medicine box. The old woman brought a stool for her. Si Yao thanked the old woman and sat down. Then she took the young woman's hand to take her pulse, but she saw that this skinny hand had many acne of different shapes, but most of them were dark red and ulcerated like bayberry. Looking closely at her pink face, she also saw many dark red spots.

Seeing this, Si Yao couldn't help but frown slightly, and then took the patient's pulse, which was deep, thin and astringent. Then he saw that the patient's bright red tongue was also covered with sores, so he asked again: "Is there any erosion in the vulva?"

"Yes, and it's not just this one place. The muscles and bones all over my body also hurt. It's worse at night. It's simply worse than death!" Hearing Si Yao's frank question, the patient couldn't help but well up tears in his eyes. He nodded and choked.

"After all, it's better to have a female doctor. She can diagnose our illness and both parties don't need to hide anything or guess." At this time, the woman leaning against the window also coughed twice, sighed faintly, and continued to say to Si Yao: "I think the doctor already knows what kind of disease we have. This kind of lowly and dirty disease should not appear in a family like ours. So at first, no one knew and just thought it was a common women's disease. Every time we faced the doctor we found, we were mostly reluctant to talk about the lesions in our private parts. We dragged it on for half a year like this, and we didn't expect it to get worse... This damn guy is really hateful, cough cough..."

The woman was gritting her teeth as she spoke, with a look of resentment and ferocity on her face, but she soon couldn't help coughing. The old woman next to her hurriedly fed her half a cup of warm tea, and the coughing gradually stopped.

"Well, now that things have come to this, young lady, please don't get angry for no reason, or you may hurt yourself further!" The old woman put down the teacup and couldn't help but wipe her tears as she advised.

Seeing the young lady whom she had raised suffer this, she felt heartbroken.

After hearing what the woman said, the young woman on the bed burst into tears and was so heartbroken that she almost fainted. Fortunately, Si Yao was there and pinched her philtrum to wake her up.

Caiyi was outside the yard, listening to the crying sounds coming from the house and couldn't help but become curious, but seeing the little maid guarding the door of the wing room, she didn't dare to go forward to check, so she could only continue to sit on the stone bench in the yard and wait.

After the room was quiet, Si Yao stood up and went to the window to check on the woman. As she expected, the two of them were both infected with the syphilis, which is a disease that scares people. It is commonly known as syphilis in modern medicine. This disease was most common in ordinary brothels or private houses in ancient times, but she didn't expect that the owner of this deep house would also be infected with this disease.

"Doctor Si Yao, is this disease curable?" Seeing that Si Yao's face was still cold after the diagnosis, the old woman asked nervously in a low voice.

"It can be cured, but the poison has already formed in the bones and tendons and entered the joints, damaging the yang energy. It may be difficult to cure, and it won't be cured in three to five days." Si Yao said as he stood up, took out the disinfectant from the medicine box and wiped his hands. He then turned to the table and wrote down two prescriptions, handed them to the old woman one by one, and continued to instruct: "This one is for internal use, used to clear dampness and heat in the body, promote blood circulation and detoxify, dredge meridians and relieve pain, and add medicine to nourish the liver and kidneys; this one is for external use, boil the water one by one and let them fumigate the whole body to force out the poison in the sores on the body."

"Thank you, Doctor Si Yao!" The old woman took the two prescriptions, carefully wrote down Si Yao's instructions, then bowed and smiled with gratitude.

"Madam, it's probably too early to thank me right now." Si Yao said calmly, and then turned to the woman under the window and said, "Madam, since you already know about this disease, you should also know why you got it. That's the source. Madam, please be vigilant and take precautions. Otherwise, even if you are temporarily cured, you may get infected again."

Si Yao's words were cryptic, but the woman was no longer an inexperienced young lady, so she naturally understood the meaning of the words. She was grateful for Doctor Si Yao's kind reminder, and then sneered, then slowly raised her eyes and continued to smile at Si Yao: "Thank you Doctor Si Yao for your reminder. I was ignorant and did not take precautions before. It was only after the condition worsened in the past two months and the previous doctor's hint that I suddenly realized it. Now the source has been cut off by me. Today, we, the master and the servant, have been treated by Doctor Si Yao. If you can cure him, we will repay your life-saving grace with a token of gratitude. If you cannot cure him, it is our fate that our lives will be ruined by such an ungrateful beast!"

Seeing that the woman still refused to speak clearly, Si Yao did not ask any more questions. He asked the old woman next to him to have the two patients treated in separate rooms, and then he walked out of the house with the medicine box.

The old woman followed closely behind. Because she wanted to stay for treatment, Si Yao and Cai Yi followed the old woman to another guest room in the west courtyard.

"Doctor Si Yao, I remember that the last doctor also added wild yam and licorice to the prescription. Although the condition improved a little when taking it, it relapsed soon." On the way to the guest room, the old woman had time to look at the prescription in her hand. Her young lady had been ill for such a long time and had consulted many doctors. Although each doctor prescribed different medicines, she could naturally remember some of the repeated medicines.

"Don't worry, ma'am. The medicines in a prescription are complementary to each other. Its effectiveness cannot be judged by just one or two medicines." Si Yao replied seriously.

"I feel relieved when Doctor Si Yao said that." The old woman nodded and smiled in understanding, and then continued, "My last name is Su. The one who just talked to the doctor is my daughter, and also the owner of this Bai residence. Except for my daughter, everyone in the house calls me Su Ma. If you don't mind, you can follow suit and call me Su Ma."

"Okay, Aunt Su, we have another companion waiting outside, I wonder..."

"Don't worry, Doctor Si Yao. I will immediately arrange for that young man to stay in the guest room in the east courtyard." The old woman responded kindly before Si Yao finished asking.

"Thank you, Aunt Su." Si Yao nodded with relief and bowed slightly to the old woman.

"Doctor Si Yao, you are too polite. Now that you can save my young lady's life, I, an old woman, dare not neglect you." The old woman Su Ma returned the greeting and said with a smile.

After Su Ma gave a few more instructions, she took the prescription and asked someone to go out to the farm to get the medicine.