Chapter 70: No physical contact between men and women
When Chen Tang heard him say that he wanted to go to a restaurant, he put down the medical records in his hand.
"Good brother, please don't bring trouble to me. The kitchen has prepared dinner. After we eat, my wife might want to talk to me again. If I go to a restaurant happily now and my wife finds out, she will scold me again."
When Qi Huaijing saw her coming over, he had already grabbed her hand, put his arm around her waist and sat down with her.
"What are you afraid of? Just say it was my idea and let her talk to me."
Chen Tang smiled and said, "My wife doesn't care whose idea it is, she just talks to me. You probably don't know, last time we gave the wife a red plum blossom, she found out that you cut it, and she praised you for being filial to everyone she met. She kept it there for more than half a month, and the branches were all wilted, but she was reluctant to throw it away. Later, the wife found out that it was my idea, and she openly and secretly criticized me for asking men to work in the heavy snow, and not knowing how to care for others."
Qi Huaijing made a "tsk" sound and put down the teacup.
"What does she know! Madam, tell me next time, just turn around and leave, don't just stand there and endure the anger like a fool - don't you know Madam? Even if I married the Seven Fairies in the sky, she would still complain that my parents' home is too far away!"
Chen Tang chuckled when he heard this and patted the back of his hand with satisfaction.
"Whatever. I wasn't really angry in the first place, but now that I've made my complaint to you and received great justice, I have even less to be angry about."
Qi Huaijing smiled and held her hand, then asked, "What are you busy doing at home today? I noticed that you didn't look very happy just now. Is there someone causing trouble?"
Chen Tang thought of today's events again, sighed secretly, stood up and walked to the desk on the east side, took the medical record that Feng Xi had just written before leaving, and handed it to him to read.
"Look at this, can you guess why?"
Qi Huaijing took a quick glance and saw the words "Anonymous, miscarriage, high fever, hoarseness", and then frowned.
"Is this something that happened in Second Brother's courtyard?"
Shen Tang nodded silently.
In this medical record, Feng Xi drew a few snails at the cause of the disease.
She deliberately used red ink to color it, making it bright red like blood.
At that time, when Chen Tang heard her ask about the snails for feeding birds in Mingfang Pavilion, he immediately thought of the red bitter snails he had seen in the countryside.
When the two of them returned to Wutong Garden from Mingfang Courtyard, she sent the maids away and personally helped Feng Xi spread out paper and grind ink to write medical records. She couldn't help but ask another question.
"I've heard people say that although the bitter snail is poisonous, if you don't eat it and just touch it when feeding the birds, it won't be a big deal."
In fact, she already had a bad guess in her mind, but she didn't want to jump to conclusions and wanted to get things clear.
Sure enough, Feng Xi stopped writing, and when he saw that there was no one around, he whispered quietly.
"Exactly. She must have swallowed more than one bitter snail alive to get so sick."
Chen Tang was shocked and speechless for a moment.
Feng Xi explained to her while drawing the snail.
"Snail is rare in the city, and locals don't have the habit of eating it. Few people even know about it, so ordinary doctors can't find the cause. I also saw it once by chance in my grandfather's medical records... That aunt probably only knew a little about it. She only knew that snail was poisonous and could cause miscarriage, but she didn't know that it was so poisonous. If she had been a few days later, she would have died."
Feng Xi patiently drew the lines of the bitter snail, then changed to red ink and carefully painted its color.
"Chen Tang, you're right. Her family has so many problems. People who are pregnant don't want children, and people who can't get pregnant always want children... Oh, it's really interesting."
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After Qi Huaijing listened to Chen Tang's explanation of the whole story, he said nothing, got up from the bed, opened the copper stove, and threw the paper into it.
A secret and horrific disaster soon burned into a thin ember in the flames.
Shen Tang didn't stop him, but just sighed.
"This is Feng Xi's medical record. She concealed her name, thinking that she might be able to save someone's life in the future..."
Qi Huaijing interrupted her.
"Never mind! It's none of our business."
When he saw the note burn to ashes, he turned back and sat down, then pinched Shen Tang's chin again, looked straight into her eyes, and instructed her word by word.
"Tang'er, don't get involved in the affairs of the West Courtyard. Just live our lives well. Remember?"
Shen Tang wanted to nod, but he was holding her too tightly, so she was unable to do so, so she simply shook her head to break free from his grip.
"Got it! I've always remembered it. If Feng Xi hadn't been invited by my second cousin to see a doctor today, I wouldn't have gone!"
Qi Huaijing loosened his hand, saw that her cheeks were red from being pinched by him, rubbed them gently, and kissed her, then he smiled.
"Just remember it. Lidong's wife is also a person with no plan in mind, but you like to associate with her... Never mind, when she comes again in the future, you can ask Bailu to send her out through the small door on the east side, so that she will not run into people in the west courtyard."
Chen Tang was a little unhappy.
"knew."
Qi Huaijing touched her head with satisfaction.
"Besides this, what else have you been busy with today? Tell me."
Chen Tang remembered that he had shown off his unique skills, and cheered up again. He told him that he was going to organize the medical records for Feng Xi.
Seeing Qi Huaijing start to frown again, Chen Tang covered his mouth before he could speak.
"Don't say it! I know what you are going to say. This is not good, that is not okay...but I have already made up my mind. No matter what you say, I will not change it. I usually don't care about your business in the shop, and you are not allowed to interfere with what I have decided. Remember! Do you! Remember!?"
Qi Huaijing really wanted to say something, but after hearing this, he just closed his eyes and indicated that he had remembered it.
Before Chen Tang let go, he was still worried and threatened him fiercely, "If you dare to say a word again this time..."
She looked down and saw the cat that had just jumped onto the kang bed. She pouted at it and said, "…Just hold Ah Zhen and sleep on this kang bed tonight!"
Qi Huaijing glanced at the ugly cat, gritted his teeth and closed his eyes.
But as soon as Shen Tang let go, he started talking again.
"I think..."
Upon hearing this, Shen Tang stood up, stuffed the cat into his arms, and turned away.
Qi Huaijing smiled, grabbed her hand, forced her to sit down, and changed the subject.
"I think that men and women should not be intimate with each other. If my wife is really angry, I would rather sleep alone than hold this cat girl in my arms."
He flicked the cat's head in disdain, and Ah Zhen meowed and ran away, turning around on the couch before nestling beside Chen Tang's legs.
Shen Tang couldn't help but laugh and patted his shoulder.
"Husband, you two can sleep as you please. Men and women should not touch each other, but you two can do it."
Qi Huaijing was stunned when he heard this.
Chen Tang waved his hand and asked him to lower his head and listen closely.
"Our A-Jen was never a cat girl, but... then it... disappeared."
After hearing the reason, Qi Huaijing looked at the ugly cat curled up beside Shen Tang's legs. He wanted to laugh for a moment, but then he felt that it was too unkind...
So, for the first time, he took the initiative to call the cat's name.
"Ah Zhen, it's okay that you're ugly, but you're also...tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk!"
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