Jinghan sent Guoping to the town to deliver some wild vegetables back to the Xu family and then buy some meat to bring back. It looked like they wouldn't be able to make dumplings today. They would have to wait until tomorrow. Meanwhile, Zhiming had also written a list, instructing Guoping to pick up some medicinal materials since the ones on the mountain were ultimately not comprehensive enough. Suddenly, Jinghan remembered something and also asked Guoping to buy some saltpeter.
By dusk, the person they had rescued began to develop a fever. It made sense, given the wounds on his body and having been soaked in water, there was bound to be bacterial infection. In this era, without antibiotics, when someone had a fever, they could only endure it. Zhiming boiled some medicine and, together with Wencheng, managed to feed it to the patient. Wencheng could only dampen a cloth with cold water and apply it to the man's forehead.
