The village beauty and me!

Chen Huan was also somewhat surprised when he saw the patient in front of him.

He was quite certain that the girl was not pregnant; she simply had a large belly.

Judging from his complexion, he was not only in pain, but was already in a critical condition, and his life was in danger at any moment.

Her family members looked worried. "We've already been to the town hospital, but they couldn't find anything wrong with her."

"They said we should go to a big hospital in the province for surgery, but we don't even know which way the hospital in the city is located, and we don't have much money, so we can only bring the person back."

"I heard that Doctor Zhao from Lotus Village is very famous, so I asked you to come and help me."

Zhao Liping shook her head repeatedly, "The town hospital is right. This kind of symptom really needs to be treated in the provincial hospital, where there is complete equipment and many experts."

Upon hearing Zhao Liping decline, the woman on the sickbed looked even more gloomy, and her relatives all lowered their heads and sighed.

"It can be cured." Chen Huan stared at the woman's face for a while and gave a very confident answer.

"What did you say?"

"What do you do?" The patient's relatives looked at Chen Huan with a questioning gaze.

Zhao Liping also had a strange expression, but she immediately introduced him, "This is my teacher. He taught me my medical skills."

As for whether it can be cured...

Before Zhao Liping could finish speaking, the girl's relatives knelt down and said, "No matter what you do, as long as you can save my daughter, you will be our family's greatest benefactors."

"We are willing to serve you like an ox or a horse in return."

Chen Huan quickly pulled the person up, "There's no need for that."

"Those who study medicine should naturally save lives and heal the wounded."

"There are some things I need to make clear before I start treating the illness. In order to better understand the symptoms and causes, I may have to be a little offensive."

The woman on the hospital bed slowly nodded. "I'm in so much pain right now. There's no such thing as being offensive. Saving my life is more important than anything else."

Chen Huan replied, "Let's keep the relatives out for now. If you trust them, leave this to me."

The female patient's parents exchanged a glance, then quickly left, closing the door behind them.

Chen Huan slowly lifted the thin blanket.

On such a hot day, it was already strange that the female patient was covered with a blanket.

  

Once the lid was lifted, the reason immediately became clear.

"How could this have happened?" Zhao Liping looked at the female patient's swollen belly and was so frightened that she almost screamed.

Even if a normal person's belly is swollen, at most the skin will be stretched tighter or the blood vessels will be visible.

But what appeared before them was a fist-sized pattern resembling a ghost face that had materialized on its belly.

No wonder the patient's family kept being evasive, not saying what the specific symptoms were, only saying that it hurt their stomach.

No wonder when we went to town, people didn't even dare to accept our packages.

"Chen Huan, can you do it?" This was the first question that came to Zhao Liping's mind.

Having practiced medicine in Lotus Village for so many years, Zhao Liping has encountered almost everything.

Many patients and their relatives are extremely respectful and polite to doctors before treatment.

But if the illness isn't cured, or if the symptoms accidentally worsen, then it will immediately turn into a completely different person.

Once you get entangled in such a medical dispute, the trouble is simply endless.

The main problem is that the symptoms I'm experiencing are terrifying; it feels like I'm possessed.

Chen Huan frowned, his expression grave, and did not respond to Zhao Liping's question.

Instead, he looked up at the female patient and asked, "Could you tell me what you did before you developed abdominal symptoms?"

The woman suddenly looked embarrassed, fidgeting and stammering.

Chen Huan frowned even more. "I'm not here to pry into your privacy, and I have no interest in that."

"You need to know that I'm here to save your life, so I must know every detail about you before and after you got sick."

"Do you understand what I mean?"

The woman bit her lip, then finally nodded. "I understand."

"Before my stomach started hurting, my boyfriend and I did 'that' by the river outside the village."

At this point, a blush briefly appeared on the woman's face, and her shy expression became even more pronounced.

As someone who's been through it all, I, Chen Huan and Zhao Liping, certainly know what this woman meant by what she did by the river.

"And then?" Chen Huan tried to keep his expression calm.

Meanwhile, Zhao Liping, standing next to her, inadvertently revealed a gossipy expression.

"Then, that night when I got back, I felt uncomfortable in my stomach, and it became bloated the next day."

"At first, I only thought that I caught a cold from doing that kind of thing by the river, but this scary thing gradually grew on my stomach, which scared my boyfriend so much that he ran away." The female patient couldn't help but cry as she said this.

"What a scumbag," Zhao Liping muttered under her breath.

After a moment's thought, Chen Huan said, "Could you please explain in more detail?"

The woman reached up and fiddled with the corner of the blanket. "How embarrassing! How can I go into details about something like this? It's just a routine."

Chen Huan coughed twice. "I'm not talking about that detail. What I want to know is your exact location at the time, the surrounding environment, and whether there was anything unusual."

The woman thought for a moment, then slowly replied, "My boyfriend even went for a swim on a soft sandy beach by the river."

"We're usually pretty conservative, but that day after he got ashore, for some reason, he became incredibly excited and insisted on..."

"I remember the place where he swam; there was a clump of purple seaweed floating on the water, and it seemed quite bright even late at night."

"If there's anything special about it, it's my boyfriend. That time... he had exceptional stamina, and I almost couldn't keep up."

As Zhao Liping listened from the side, her face grew increasingly flushed.

He couldn't help but glare at Chen Huan, wondering if this frivolous guy was deliberately trying to pry into other people's privacy.

What do these so-called details have to do with seeing a doctor?

Chen Huan nodded. "I understand. Thank you for explaining."

"I think I know the cause of the illness."

"The root of the problem lies with your boyfriend; he's the one who got you pregnant."

Zhao Liping couldn't help but step on Chen Huan's foot and whispered, "Look at how you're speaking, is that even human language?"

Chen Huan said with a serious expression, "When I say 'getting pregnant,' I mean the current symptoms, nothing else."

"That clump of purple seaweed you mentioned, does it still have a unique fragrance, but no fish, shrimp, or crabs dare to approach it?"

The woman thought for a moment, then nodded. "Yes, I found it strange at the time. I grew up in the village and have been to the river countless times, but I've never seen water plants like that before."

"There was indeed a smell like stewed meat. There should have been many small fish and shrimp there, but I didn't see a single one."

"Doctor, what exactly happened?"

"Is there any hope for me?"

Chen Huan reached out and rubbed his chin, replying with certainty, "With me, there's definitely hope."

"But before that, I have to go to that river you mentioned and find out what's causing the harm."