Chapter 175 Showdown

Over the next five days, two or three young women came to see Li San Niang every day after hearing that there was a female doctor at the clinic.

These dozen or so women who came for treatment were mostly from well-off families living in Chang'an.

Their own families were not poor, and after marriage they had dowries and some money. In the past, they did not have the habit of going out to see doctors because they were ashamed to talk about the illness of their daughters.

Previously, I mostly described the symptoms and sent someone to the doctor's office to get some medicine to take at home. In the end, I don't know whether I got through it on my own or whether the medicine cured me.

In the bustling city, news travels fast among the women in the inner quarters, thanks in part to Hui Niang, who had come to see the doctor earlier.

Didn't Hui Niang and her mother come to Li San Niang for a consultation before? Li San Niang prescribed medicine, told them some precautions, and said that if they got better, they didn't need to come back.

Hui Niang, who had fully recovered, and her mother brought a small basket of homemade pastries to the clinic as a token of their gratitude to Li San Niang.

The mother and daughter's high-profile display at the clinic made Li San Niang feel a little embarrassed.

Finally, the snacks were shared with everyone in the clinic. Except for Dr. Li, who was still holding his, even Dr. Gao and Dr. Cui took some and ate them.

I must say, the freshly baked, crispy crust and sugary filling of these thin pancakes are quite delicious.

Furthermore, Hui Niang's mother wanted to announce to the outside world that her daughter was in good health and that it would not delay their visit next year.

Secondly, I also wanted to promote Li San Niang and tell others that there was a female doctor in this clinic.

When she met a neighbor, she praised Li San Niang's medical skills, saying that she was a woman who treated women's illnesses, and that she was a kind-hearted and good doctor. She was grateful to Li San Niang for this.

With such publicity, the word spread from one person to two, and from two to eight, and within a few days it was almost completely known within Yongpingfang.

This is why Li Sanniang has had female patients coming to her door every day in recent days, specifically asking her to put up her nameplate.

However, more than half of these dozen or so female patients had gynecological inflammation. Some had it because their husbands were unclean, some were too clean, and some, like Hui Niang, had some wealth and outsourced their clothes to the laundry lady, which is why they contracted the disease through mixed washing.

Among the remaining female patients, one of them, Yingniang, had heard that the woman who always sold her own vegetables in this alley had come to see her for a child. Although she hadn't gotten any results, she came to see Li Sanniang with the mindset of giving it a try and hoping it might work.

This woman's name was Liu Lanzhi. She had been married for eight years but had no children.

Over the years, the couple had naturally seen it all. The man was healthy; the problem lay with Liu Lanzhi herself.

Because of his concern for having offspring, the man, who would be forty in five years, told Liu Lanzhi that if he still couldn't have a child within those five years, he would have to take a concubine.

Liu Lanzhi was the man's second wife. His first wife died while giving birth to their daughter, so Liu Lanzhi was older than the man.

Of course, it was also because Liu Lanzhi's father was a wealthy merchant in Qingzhou, and dared not divorce her and remarry, so he had been tolerant of her.

Li San Niang's explanation after examining Liu Lanzhi's pulse was the same as that of many doctors Liu Lanzhi had seen before: Liu Lanzhi's qi and blood stagnation caused poor blood circulation in her uterus.

There are currently no instruments to obtain actual images, but Li San Niang deduced that Liu Lanzhi's fallopian tubes were blocked, preventing ovulation and thus causing infertility.

Furthermore, it is very likely that Liu Lanzhi has bilateral blockage.

Otherwise, after seeing so many doctors and drinking so many herbal medicines over the years, according to Liu Lanzhi, even spending a lot of money to find retired imperial physicians who were skilled in acupuncture, she still couldn't be cured and had never been able to conceive.

In the end, Liu Lanzhi still took the prescription given by Li San Niang to get the medicine, and what will happen next remains to be seen.

The other two were young girls who came because of menstrual pain. I prescribed appropriate prescriptions for each of them and gave them some instructions on daily life. I told them to come back for a follow-up check-up and they got better.

These past few days of fulfilling and satisfying work life have made Li San Niang very happy and satisfied.

So she decided to buy two roast geese to take home and eat after her shift today.

During dinner, Lu Zhu'er's enthusiasm for the roast goose leg made Li San Niang wonder if they didn't eat meat often enough, which was why the child was so happy just from gnawing on a goose leg.

However, when Li San Niang put the goose meat in her mouth, she looked just as happy as Lu Zhu'er.

This roast goose is really delicious!

It's expensive, but otherwise it's perfect.

Li San Niang secretly wished that some fellow time-traveler could get involved in animal husbandry, raising lots of chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, sheep, cattle, and so on. That would be wonderful.

After the meal, while drinking hawthorn water to aid digestion, Mr. Ke arrived, which didn't surprise Li San Niang at all.

Why didn't it feel sudden?

This was because Li San Niang had previously asked Qiu Xiang to pass on a message, inviting Mr. Bu Ke to come and have a chat.

What did you say?

Isn't this the time when Ninth Sister almost miscarried, and Third Sister Li was asked to save her, with Brother Li accompanying her to Pingkang Ward?

On that occasion, Li San Niang and Li Da Xiong discovered something amiss with Shi Hua Lou. After returning home, the two discussed it with Li's father and Li Er Xiong, and finally concluded that Shi Hua Lou should be a stronghold of the Bad People, or at least have some kind of shady connection with them.

Brother Li believed that this discovery should be made clear to Mr. Bu Ke, so that if Li San Niang went to Shi Hua Lou to rescue people again in the future, it would be easier for her.

Of course, Li San Niang invited Mr. Bu Ke for another reason: she wanted to inquire about the assassination attempt on her by the mastermind behind it all. She wondered how the search for the traitor within the Bad Guys was going, and whether they had dealt with all the spies.

Has the mastermind behind this been found, so that the sword hanging over Li San Niang's head can be solved once and for all?

"Third Sister is clever, and Brother Li is indeed highly skilled in martial arts. This Shihua Tower is indeed a stronghold of our Bad People, but it's just a place to gather some scattered information."

Suddenly, Brother Li looked at Mr. Bu Ke with an expression of sudden realization. Mr. Bu Ke was so clever; he knew what Brother Li wanted to say just by looking at his expression.

“The second brother of the Li family is right. Indeed, it was I who asked Qi Zhidie to beg Dilibier to take her and Hongniang to seek medical treatment. However, apart from Qi Zhidie, no one else in Shihua Tower knew that they were working for the Bad People, and only thought that they were wealthy merchants behind the scenes.”

Even Li Erxiong, who never showed any displeasure to others, couldn't hold back and let out a "Heh" at Mr. Bu Ke.

Mr. Bu Ke, with his eight hundred cunning schemes, would never take such a trivial matter, which is hardly even worth mentioning, to heart.

He still smiled and looked at everyone, and even picked up the small sweet cookies that Sister-in-law Li had specially made on the table to eat.

"Since Shihualou is under the name of the Bad People, I hope you will do me a favor when I go there for medical treatment in the future."

"Of course, my wife, don't worry. We have our own special route, it will definitely be safe."

"Then, regarding the second matter, have you found out who was behind the assassination attempt on me?"