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Seeing her daughter's strange behavior, the mother was afraid that the doctor would dislike her, so she quickly grabbed her daughter's hand and scolded her in a low voice: "Okay, stop scratching, you're pulling your hair out."

The little girl cried, "Mommy, it itches so much, my head itches so much! Can you help me pull my hair out? It hurts so much, I feel so uncomfortable!"

Her lips turned even more purple as she cried.

"Ma'am, could you tell me about the child's condition? When did the symptoms start appearing, and what did the child do before the symptoms appeared?"

Chen Fang sighed, "I don't know either. I'm usually busy working in the fields. Daya lives with her grandma. A few days ago, she said she had lice in her hair and it was so itchy."

"I was thinking that if I had that stuff, I would just shave all my hair and clean my scalp properly, and then it would be gone."

"Later, her grandma said there was a way to fix it in one go, and told me not to shave Yaya's hair, otherwise a bald girl would look ugly, so I handed Yaya over to her grandma."

Wen Yao hummed in agreement, beckoned to the little girl, and smiled gently: "Yaya, can you tell me what medicine your grandma put on your head?"

Ya Ya shook her head: "I don't know. Grandma took the broken bowl, poured the medicine on my hair, wrapped my hair in a cloth, and told me that the little bugs would die after I washed them off."

"Then they took me to the river to wash my hair. It felt quite comfortable. They didn't catch any live bugs. Then, I don't remember when, but my head started to itch really badly, even more so than when the bugs were around."

"Hmm, come a little closer, part your hair so I can take a look."

"Okay, sister."

Wen Yao put on gloves and pulled back the child's hair. A faint smell of decay wafted out. The child's scalp was rotten in pieces, and the bloody mess was quite frightening.

Some areas were blackish. After examining the child's tongue coating and taking his pulse, he frowned and said, "This child..."

Seeing her like this, Chen Fang's heart also tightened.

"Doctor, what illness does Ya Ya have?"

"It's not an illness, it's poisoning."

"Poisoning? How could that be?"

Wen Yao gestured for her to look at the child's scalp herself, her expression serious: "Sister, take a look for yourself. Look at how badly the child's scalp has been corroded; the flesh is starting to rot."

"Also, her lips were purple. I checked her pulse and she didn't have heart disease. These are typical symptoms of poisoning."

"Do you keep any medicine in your house?"

Chen Fang looked somewhat bewildered: "As for medicine, we only have rat poison and insecticide at home. I think we only use a little bit of the pesticides we spray in the fields, mainly for cutting the weeds in the yard."

Looking at the child's pained expression, Wen Yao said, "It wasn't rat poison. If your child had eaten that, he would have died long ago."

"I just checked, and the lice in her hair aren't completely dead, they're half-dead. It's very likely that Grandma Yaya diluted some herbal medicine and poured it directly onto her hair to kill the lice."

"The medicine seeped into her bloodstream little by little through her scratched scalp. Ya Ya isn't sick; she's been poisoned."

"Sister, you need to go home and find medicine bottles right now. Take the child to the town hospital for an IV drip to detoxify faster. After detoxification, you can prescribe traditional Chinese medicine to slowly remove any remaining toxins."

Chen Fang panicked a little: "Oh, do we really have to go to the town hospital? Can't you handle this here? My Yaya can take traditional Chinese medicine. We have so much stuff at home..."

Wen Yao's face darkened: "No, this child's symptoms are already very serious. It's too late to give her medicine to detoxify her. Do you want her to die? Quickly take her to the town hospital for an IV drip to detoxify her."

"Stay in the hospital for two days, and wait until most of the poison has been eliminated before coming back to me for a check-up. I will then prescribe medicine to remove any remaining toxins. Remember, this cannot be delayed."

"As for the hair problem, let's talk about that after we save his life. We'll shave his hair off and then use ointment to slowly nourish his scalp."

When Chen Fang heard that it might be life-threatening, she panicked: "Then, then I'll go home and ask my husband for money, and then take the child to the town hospital."

Wen Yao nodded: "Take the child back and get him there by bike as soon as possible. Don't delay, the child's condition is already very dangerous."

"Okay, I understand."

She grabbed her daughter's hand and ran out.

Those waiting outside were startled by the sight: "Where are you going, Sister Chen? How is your Yaya? Is she seriously injured?"

Chen Fang waved her hand without saying anything more, and ran away with Ya Ya. After returning home, she went to ask the man for money.

"You need money? Hospitalization for detoxification? Honey, who told you that? That's ridiculous! How much would that cost?"

"Don't listen to the nonsense from that educated youth who went to the countryside. How could our child be poisoned? No way. Mother would never give the child any herbal medicine. She would never harm the child."

The old woman came out of the kitchen and nodded upon hearing this: "Yes, would I harm the child? That method has worked for others and no problems have arisen."

"Yaya, this is a minor problem. Just wash her hair more often. If you're worried, you can shave your hair. Everyone's so busy right now, who has time to take her to the hospital for detoxification or anything?"

"Okay, stop wasting money, it's alright."

Chen Fang hesitated: "But the doctor said it was very serious, that we can't delay, that Ya Ya's poisoning is quite severe, and that if we don't get detoxification immediately, her life might be in danger."

The man sawed the wood, his tone full of impatience: "Enough, stop talking. How do you know how hard it is if you don't make money? If I have to go to the hospital, I'll lose at least ten or twenty yuan."

"We don't have any money. You should save your breath and take the child to get his hair shaved off. Just wash his hair more often."

"It's just lice. I've never heard of anyone dying from lice. Don't make a fool of yourself."

Chen Fang's lips moved slightly. Thinking about her family's situation, the dowry she had promised to other families, and the fact that she was indeed anxious to deliver the goods in the next couple of days, and that her mother-in-law's medication, which she had been taking for years, was almost gone.

She was indeed too busy. Looking down at her daughter who was scratching her head, she gently coaxed her, "Yaya, just bear with it. Mom will shave your hair and wash it more to apply medicine, then it won't hurt anymore."

"When you get better, Mom will buy you candied hawthorns, okay?"

Ya Ya looked up at her, trying her best to smile: "Okay, Mom, I want to eat candied hawthorns, a big skewer."

Chen Fang sniffed: "Okay, when we get better, Mom will buy you candied hawthorns. Let's go get our hair cut, and then we'll wash it clean and apply the medicine."

"Mhm."

After Wen Yao and the others left, it was time to move on to the next person.

Others asked curiously, "Dr. Wen, what happened to Ya Ya just now? Why did Chen Fang seem so anxious? What's wrong with the child? Her hair just falls out in clumps when she grabs it."

"The child isn't sick, he's been poisoned. He has lice in his hair. Usually, you either shave his head and wash it thoroughly, or you go to the hospital to get some medicine powder to use and wrap it up to kill the lice."

"Grandma Yaya used herbal medicine, diluted, on the child. It seeped into the scalp wound, and the child was poisoned. It was quite serious. I told her to take the child to the town hospital immediately for an antidote and stay in the hospital for two days."