Chapter 56: There are many ways to avoid pregnancy in the clinic
After putting all the luggage on the carriage, Pei Huaijin took her to the clinic to visit Qing Jian first.
Qing Jian had three knife wounds on his body, two on his chest and abdomen, and one on his leg, so he couldn't get out of bed and walk yet.
After Qiongzhi took care of him for a few days, Pei Huaijin found someone else to replace her.
After Qing Jian had a near-death experience, he lost a lot of weight in just a few days. Fortunately, he was in good spirits. He was just a little bored being confined to the bed, and was playing with his dagger out of boredom.
When Shen Youran came in, the moment she saw his emaciated appearance, tears began to fall.
Qing Jian had been leaning against the bed, but when he saw her crying, he couldn't sit still anymore. However, he didn't know how to comfort her, so he just said dryly, "Madam, I'm fine, don't cry."
Shen Youran said guiltily: "It's because of protecting me that you are injured like this..."
"I was incompetent and failed to protect you."
"You've done a great job. They just have too many people."
"My martial arts skills are not good enough..."
"I've caused you trouble..."
Pei Huaijin looked at the two people who used to argue so easily, now apologizing to each other back and forth. He felt both relieved and amused. He interrupted them, "Okay, stop apologizing. You two chat here for a while. I have something to do, so I'll be out for a moment."
Shen Youran and Pei Huaijin knew each other tacitly, and naturally knew what he was going to do when he went out: This is the largest medical clinic in the capital, and they should be able to find some ways to avoid the disease.
Danruo and Qinghe were here to accompany their girls. Shen Youran wanted to do something for Qingjian, so he stretched out his hand to ask him for a dagger, saying that he wanted to peel an apple for him to eat.
"Thank you for your kindness, young madam. I don't like eating apples." In fact, the dagger in his hand was very sharp. Qing Jian knew that she couldn't even hold a knife steadily, so naturally he didn't expect her to be able to peel an apple.
"Do you eat pears?"
Qing Jian shook his head.
"What about oranges? You must like oranges, right?" Shen Youran took an orange and wanted to peel it for him.
Qing Jian knew that she wanted to do something to make amends: "Madam, you are the master and I am the servant. It is my duty to protect you. Madam, you don't have to feel guilty because I was injured."
"I don't treat you as a servant. To me, you and Dan Ruo Qinghe are both my family." Shen Youran peeled the orange and carefully cleaned the white veins on the orange segments before handing it to him, "Here, try it..."
Qing Jian took it in a daze, and suddenly understood why her husband fell in love with her.
In the past, Qing Jian looked down on this young lady, thinking that she was lazy, stupid, and liked to make trouble for no reason. She was far inferior to the Seventh Young Lady who was dignified, polite, gentle and generous. But as time went by, he gradually felt that this young lady was also quite lovely. Although she was not worthy of her husband, fortunately she was straightforward and lively, and was quite likable.
Now, he also discovered that this young lady treated everyone warmly, regardless of their status, and was a person with a heart of purest kindness.
She is not unworthy of her husband.
From today on, Qing Jian accepted this young lady from the bottom of his heart.
Seeing that he didn't react after eating the orange, Shen Youran thought that the orange was sour and threw a slice into his mouth: "It's not sour, it's quite sweet."
Then he picked up two oranges and handed them to Danruo and Qinghe.
The three of them ate oranges and then dates, and then ate cakes. Qing Jian, who was being visited, sat quietly on the bed, listening to their chatter while using a dagger to help them peel apples and pears.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and someone poked half of their head in, saying happily, "Sister Youran, it really is you!"
Shen Youran looked back: "Sister Qingluo..."
Liang Qingluo walked in happily. "Sister Youran, I haven't seen you at Aunt Xiao's place for a while. I heard you were sick and took a long vacation. Are you here to see the doctor today?"
The only person in the Liang family who knew about her accident was Liang Xu. It seemed that Liang Xu had not revealed the truth to his sister, so Shen Youran just went along with it and said, "Yes, I haven't been feeling well, but I'm much better now."
"You seem thinner than before," Liang Qingluo had just finished saying this when he saw Qing Jian, who had become even thinner. Since they had met a few times before, they were considered acquaintances, so he asked with concern, "Ah? Are you sick too?"
Qing Jian glanced at her and didn't want to explain too much to her, so he just said "hmm".
Thinking back to that day, the reason why Shen Youran was kidnapped was also related to sending Liang Qingluo home. If it hadn't snowed that day, and if Liang Qingluo hadn't been unable to ride back on horseback, he and Shen Youran wouldn't have had to send her home, and naturally they wouldn't have passed through that alley.
But after he woke up, he also heard Qiongzhi say that after he was seriously injured and unconscious, it was Liang Qingluo's brother Liang Xu who happened to pass by and stopped the bleeding for him in time. He also asked the Liang family's coachman to take him to the clinic, which saved his life.
Qing Jian knew that it was not Liang Qingluo’s fault that Shen Youran was abducted, but he still felt a little complicated when he saw her.
"What's wrong with you? You look a lot thinner..."
"It's nothing, it will be fine in a few days."
Qing Jian's attitude was somewhat cold, and the atmosphere was inevitably awkward. Shen Youran had no choice but to step forward to smooth things over, handing Qing Jian an apple she had just peeled. "Sister Qingluo, why are you here too? Are you here with someone to see a doctor?"
"It's my sixth brother. He accidentally strained his arm while practicing archery, so I came with him for acupuncture..."
"Really? Where is he? I'll go see him." Before, she was trapped in Songlin'ao. When Pei Huaijin came with reinforcements, the second in command dragged her as a shield. Xiao Ci and Liang Xu cooperated with each other. Xiao Ci was responsible for luring the second in command to show up, and the arrow that brushed past her cheek and killed the second in command was shot by Liang Xu.
Shen Youran had never had the chance to thank him in person. Now that she knew he was also in the clinic, she naturally wanted to go and meet him.
"It's on the second floor, I'll take you there..." Calculating the time, Sixth Brother should have finished his acupuncture by now.
This clinic has three floors. The lobby on the first floor is mainly responsible for receiving patients and dispensing medicine. The second floor has several rooms for massage, acupuncture, or treatment of injuries. The third floor is where Qing Jian is located, and it is mainly a place for patients to recuperate.
Because Sixth Brother had to take off half of his clothes for acupuncture, Liang Qingluo had to wait outside the room, and that's when he happened to see Shen Youran and the others.
There were two staircases going down from the third floor, one on the east and one on the west. Liang Qingluo ate an orange while taking Shen Youran down the western staircase. He found the acupuncture room where Sixth Brother was having surgery, knocked on the door and asked, "Sixth Brother, are you okay?"
No one in the room responded.
The two had no choice but to wait outside. After a while, they saw the man who was giving acupuncture to Liang Xu coming from the corridor and told them that the patient had left long ago.
Left a long time ago?
But Liang Qing is still here, and Liang Xu must not have left the clinic yet. He is probably looking for her all over the clinic right now.
Liang Qingluo took her arm and said, "Come on, Sister Youran, let's go look for him."
The two of them searched along the corridor on the second floor, and soon they met Liang Xu coming towards them.
He lowered his head slightly, his expression deep, and he didn't know what he was thinking. When Shen Youran and Liang Qingluo walked up to him, he stopped belatedly and looked at her in surprise: "Mrs. Shen San, you are here too?"
Every time he saw her, he would call her "Mrs. Shen San" instead of Madam Shen or Madam Pei.
Shen Youran didn't think too much about it. She smiled and said to him, "My husband and I came to see Qing Jian. We happened to meet Sister Qing Luo. I learned that you were here too, so I came to find you specially. I wanted to say thank you to you in person..."
Hearing the word "husband", Liang Xu's expression became even more subtle: "Where is Mr. Pei? Why don't I see him?"
"He has something to do right now, he should be here soon..."
“Mrs. Shen San, I just…” Liang Xu hesitated to speak.
How should he tell her? He had just seen her husband, in a room on the east side of the corridor.
He had been here for acupuncture for a long time and knew that there was a doctor sitting in a room on the east side of the second floor who specialized in treating men's hidden ailments.
He just saw Pei Huaijin go to that room.
He had no intention of prying into other people's privacy, but thinking that the other party was Shen Youran's husband, after hesitating for a long time, he walked over as if possessed by a ghost and heard a few words at the door.
Pei Huaijin's voice was almost inaudible, and he could only hear the doctor's voice intermittently.
"At such a young age...how could it be..."
"There aren't many people like you..."
"After that... there will be no offspring... within three years..."
Liang Xu was extremely surprised: He didn't expect that Pei Huaijin, who looked tall and healthy, actually... had a hidden illness?
Just now, I heard Shen Youran say that she and Pei Huaijin came to visit Qing Jian. Judging from her natural expression, it was obvious that she didn't know that her husband was suffering from a hidden illness.
But he had just overheard this incident, so how could he tell her about it?
Liang Xu hesitated for a moment, but decided to help Pei Huaijin hide it temporarily: Maybe this disease can be cured in the future.
"Mr. Liang, what happened to you just now?" Shen Youran saw that he fell silent halfway through his words, with a sullen face, not knowing what he was thinking.
"It's okay," Liang Xu casually made up a lame excuse, "I couldn't find my ninth sister just now, and I didn't expect she was with you."
"I heard from Qingluo that you strained your arm while practicing archery, but your archery skills are already very good, so why do you still train so hard?"
"Next month, envoys from the vassal states will come to the court. His Majesty plans to host a banquet at the Southern Imperial Courtyard. We will be accompanying them in archery, so we've been training more recently..."
"Is that so?" Shen Youran couldn't help much with this matter, and could only offer words of encouragement. "Then you should pay more attention to yourself and combine work and rest. I believe that your archery skills are outstanding, so there will be no problem then."
"Well, I'll take your good words." Liang Xu was worried that if he stayed any longer, he would see Pei Huaijin. Thinking that he had accidentally pried into his secret, Liang Xu was a little afraid to face him. So before he appeared, he said goodbye to Shen Youran, "I still have to go back to training. Madam Shen San, I'll take my sister back first."
"Okay, take care."
"Sister Youran," Liang Qingluo said, feeling a bit reluctant to leave before they could even say a few words to her. "The weather has been getting increasingly cold lately, and Aunt Xiao is planning to give us a holiday. Are you busy lately? If not, can I come visit you?"
"I don't have anything to do, so you're welcome to come see me. However, I might be out of the house occasionally recently, so before you come, remember to send me a note at the Shen Mansion a day in advance, so as not to miss it..."
"Shen Mansion?" Liang Qingluo thought she had said something wrong. "Don't you live in Pei Mansion?"
"I plan to stay at my parents' house for a few days, so I should be in the Shen Mansion for the next half month."
Go back to my parents' home? Stay for another half month?
Can a married woman return to her parents' home and live there for so long?
Could something have happened?
Liang Qingluo wanted to say a few more words of concern, but the corridor of the clinic was bustling with people coming and going, and it was not a suitable place for conversation after all. Sixth Brother was in a hurry to go back to training, so Liang Qingluo had no choice but to say, "Okay, I'll give you the invitation another day."
Shen Youran watched the brother and sister go downstairs. When they reached the door of the clinic, they turned around and waved to her, then disappeared into the long street.
She was also planning to go back to the third floor to find Dan Ruo Qinghe and the others.
Pei Huaijin came behind her without her knowing when, and when she turned around, she bumped into him.
He frowned slightly and took a breath, as if she had hurt him somewhere.
"What's wrong?" Shen Youran thought he was pretending and asked mischievously, "Why are you suddenly so weak?"
Pei Huaijin lowered his head and gestured for her to look three inches below his abdomen. "I just asked my husband about ways to avoid pregnancy. There are many, and I chose one that will solve the problem once and for all." Shen Youran glanced around, fortunately no one was passing by at the moment, and then glared at him. "Can't you wait until we get back to talk about this?"
Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, Pei Huaijin briefly explained to her, "The doctor inserted a soft needle into my body, and you just bumped into the spot where I inserted the needle."
"Burying needles? What kind of needles?"
Pei Huaijin whispered in her ear: "After the contraceptive shot is implanted, you won't need to take contraceptive pills anymore."
When he was in the doctor's room just now, the doctor heard that he wanted to avoid having children and was puzzled: "You are so young, it's the best time to have children, why don't you want to?"
Later, seeing that he insisted on choosing the acupuncture method of contraception, he sighed and said, "There are not many men as considerate to their wives as you are..." The doctor said that most men would choose to let their wives take contraceptive pills or wear fish bladders during intercourse, but those methods are not complete solutions and there is still a possibility of pregnancy.
Acupuncture is the most effective method of all avoidance methods.
The needle insertion wasn't difficult, just a little painful. The doctor finished quickly and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, after the needle is inserted, you won't have children. If you change your mind later, you can take it out within three years. It won't affect your ability to have children..."
This method was exactly what Pei Huaijin wanted.
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The author has something to say: I really can’t bear to let my sister take contraceptive pills, so I invented the needle-burying method, which is equivalent to giving the male protagonist a vasectomy. Hehe [covering his face and peeking]
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