Favorite Group’s Chubby Baby: I Have Four Big Daddies - Chapter 009

Favorite Group’s Chubby Baby: I Have Four Big Daddies
Chapter 009 – Don’t harm your patient 

Translator : Virichime
Editor : Tea
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The princess wiped the corner of her eyes with a handkerchief and reluctantly left the room.

As soon as the princess left, Nanny Si immediately slumped on the edge of the bed, wiped her forehead with her hand: “Scared me to death.”

“Nanny Si, wipe your hands with alcohol first.” Ye Qianning brought the candlestick on the table to the bedside, and then placed the silver needle on the bedside.

“Pangtuan, what are you doing?” Nanny Si was puzzled.

“The little princess has different rashes on her body. Those with pustules should be first punctured with a silver needle and then treated with cupping.” Said Ye Qianning.

-cupping is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy that uses cupping as a tool and igniting fire and pumping air to generate pressure, causing it to adsorb on the body surface, causing local blood stasis, in order to make qi and blood circulation better, reducing swelling and pain, and dispersing cold.

Nanny Si was surprised: “You want to give acupuncture? Pangtuan, don’t mess around, she is the little princess. If there is an accident, we won’t just be beaten.”

If they couldn’t cure the princess, they would only be beaten. But if they mistreated the little princess’ illness, it would be fatal.

“Just trust me.” Ye Qianning was confident: “Nanny Si, don’t just stand there. Sterilize your hands first, then give me a hand.”

Nanny Si was stunned and let out a sigh, then turned around and wiped her hands with alcohol as she said.

“It’s itchy…… It hurts, it’s itchy……” The little princess cried.

Ye Qianning’s chubby little hands held her down, and one hand went around the back of her head and gave a slight squeeze. The crying little princess suddenly fell silent.

“Pang…… Pangtuan, what did you do? Why doesn’t she move?” Nanny Si’s heart suddenly reached her throat.

If this child was killed by Pangtuan, they would have to be exterminated by the Nine Clans*……

*Nine Clans relates to relatives of the King.

“The rash will hurt more later, and I’m afraid she can’t bear it, so I let her sleep for a while. Nanny Si, you can take off her clothes.” Ye Qianning lit the candlestick, and the subtle flame swayed and ignited.

Hearing this, Nanny Si felt suspicious and always felt that today’s Pangtuan was different from usual.

Ye Qianning pricked the pustules bit by bit with a silver needle, then wiped it with a sterilized handkerchief. After it was all cleaned up, she simply performed fire moxibustion*.

*a traditional Chinese medicine therapy which consists of burning dried mugwort on particular points on the body. Indirect moxibustion holds a cigar made of moxa near the acupuncture point to heat the skin, or holds it on an acupuncture needle inserted in the skin to heat the needle.

After cleaning up a part of the pustules rash, then she moved to another part. The rash in the other part was extremely red, and the size of a needle-like rash would slowly spread all over the waist. Once the rash wraps around the body, it will be very difficult to treat. But fortunately it was not too serious yet.

Nanny Si didn’t hold onto hope at first, but after a while, she seemed to see hope. When did her Pangtuan learn medicine?

Her acupuncture and moxibustion skills were more skillful than the hands that had been busy embroidering all year round. However, she didn’t know if this would work or not.

Ye Qianning stained the brush on the table with ink, then walked to the bed and circled the areas without rashes with ink. She waited for the ink to dry before gently covering it with a blanket.

“What did you draw on her, Pangtuan?” Nanny Si was confused.

“To prevent this type of rash from spreading.”

“Ink can cure rashes too?” Nanny Si wondered.

“No, it can only prevent the rash from spreading, but it cannot eliminate it.” Ye Qianning used a very primitive method.

Strange to say, but there was a type of rash that was very unique. As long as you draw a line with ink, the rash will not spread to the other side.

Nanny Si couldn’t understand. Could ink be used in this way?

“It will take time for the rash to heal. I will write a prescription and you will give it to the princess later. Remember to use fresh herbs, grind them into juice, and apply them to the little princess four or five times a day. After three days, you will see the rash scabbing.” Ye Qianning instructed Nanny Si on how to explain to the princess and measure the herbal medicine.

Nanny Si nodded as Ye Qinniang began to write them down one by one.

Only when Ye Qianning picked up her brush did she realize that in this era, traditional Chinese characters were used, and what she wrote may not be recognized by others: “Nanny Si, you write it.”

-traditional vs simplified chinese characters

“My writing is not good.”

“It’s okay as long as others can understand it.”

“Then it’s fine.” Nanny Si took the brush.

She had attended school for a few years before and knew some Chinese characters. Ye Qianning said the name of the herbal medicine, and she picked up the brush and wrote it in a crooked way.

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