A team doctor came from the next village, and Jiang Xi knew about it at the first time.
Most people in the village are nice, but there are also some curious people who come to watch the fun. For two consecutive days, the number of people seeking medical treatment from Jiang Xi was a little more than before, mainly using the excuse of watching the fun.
"Doctor Jiang, didn't I hear that you were going to be the team doctor? How come you became someone else?"
"I heard that he is not from our brigade, but from the brigade next door who has been learning from the doctor for a few months."
"Our Doctor Jiang hasn't really learned from the old doctor, but he can treat patients so well. Isn't the new team doctor even better?"
While giving the injection, Jiang Xi listened to the villagers chatting. She was mentally prepared, so she felt a little disappointed, but not upset, so her face remained calm. Occasionally, when they said something exaggerated, she would even smile.
But she never got involved in these gossips and just listened to them.
Normally, no one took it seriously, but at this time, Mrs. Zhang, who came to tell her the news, thought too much. Seeing that she didn't say anything, she thought she was feeling uncomfortable, and she was a little happy. She deliberately said, "Don't mind, Doctor Jiang, we are just chatting."
Jiang Xi calmly inserted the last needle into the patient's acupuncture point, told her not to move, and then went to wash his hands, smiling and saying, "I don't mind, you guys talk about your own things."
Mrs. Zhang didn't believe it: "I know you feel bad, but it has already happened. We can't compete with the team doctor, so let's not compete. Don't worry, if we have some minor illnesses or pains, we will still come to you."
Jiang Xi nodded: "Yes, I know, Auntie, you are here to see a doctor too? What's wrong with you? I'll give you two injections?"
She picked up the thickest and longest needle and looked at each other.
Mrs. Zhang felt a chill on her back and shook her head quickly: "No, no, I don't need it."
Jiang Xi was very regretful: "It's okay, the needles have been sterilized, I can give you a shot if there's nothing wrong, especially the cervical spine. We work so hard that it's easy to compress the cervical spine, and then the blood won't flow to the brain. I think there's something wrong with your cervical spine."
Mrs. Zhang was immediately angry and asked sharply, "Are you saying that I have a bad brain?"
"What are you yelling about?!" Mother Pei came over, her voice even louder than Mrs. Zhang's, holding a spatula in her hand: "Say another word?"
Mrs. Zhang's heart sank, and she muttered, "If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me."
She snorted, turned and ran away.
Many patients who came to the yard for treatment were all laughing. Auntie Lanhua, who was being given an injection by Jiang Xi, smiled and said, "Don't worry, Xiaoxi. We all know that you are a good doctor, so we didn't go to someone else. I cured your old cold leg that couldn't be cured even in the town. I don't believe that the new team doctor is better than the doctors in the town!"
"I think so too, Doctor Jiang, don't be unhappy, we all believe in you!"
Fearing that Jiang Xi would feel uncomfortable, they expressed their opinions one after another.
Jiang Xi nodded obediently. Actually, she didn't feel uncomfortable at all. After giving an injection to the last villager who was recuperating, she went to the kitchen. Pei's mother was cooking and watching the medicine jars at the same time.
The villagers were asked to make the medicine themselves at home. The medicine soup in this medicine jar was for Pei Hejun.
When Pei's mother saw her come in, her brows softened: "Is the medicine ready? I've been watching it all the time. It's been boiling for more than an hour."
Jiang Xi took a look and saw that the soup was a dark brown color with a bitter medicinal smell. She nodded and said, "Okay, Mom, I'll take it in."
"Go ahead. Do you know how to feed the medicine? How about I do it?" Mother Pei was still a little worried.
Her son is in a vegetative state and has to eat and drink through a nasal feeding tube. It took her many attempts to learn how to do it.
Jiang Xi laughed: "Yes, don't worry."
She went in with the bowl in her hand, and passed by Auntie Lanhua who was getting a needle injection, and said, "Auntie, wait a moment. This injection will take more than 20 minutes. I'll be here right after I finish feeding you the medicine."
"I know. Go ahead and do your work." Auntie Lanhua waved her hands generously, not caring at all that her knees were full of needles.
Despite this, Jiang Xi still acted quickly.
She was very experienced in taking care of vegetative patients and helping them take medicine, so she came out in less than ten minutes. She also changed Pei Hejun's diaper and took the dirty diaper out in the basin for dirty clothes.
When Pei's father saw it, he took over and dealt with it immediately.
Jiang Xi washed his hands again and planned to wait for Auntie Lanhua's time to remove the needle.
However, before she sat down, she saw Li Aimei, who looked much more energetic, running over with a medicine jar in her hand, followed by Xishengniang, who looked furious.
Seeing Jiang Xi, Li Aimei seemed to have found her backbone. She handed the medicine jar to her and said, "Doctor Jiang, can you help me? My mother-in-law insisted that Xisheng and I drink this, saying that it can help us have a boy. I'm afraid that something bad will happen if I drink it. Can you tell me if this is ok to drink?"
Xisheng's mother had never expected her daughter-in-law to bring it to Jiang Xi to see. She followed him all the way and was so angry that she hit Li Aimei on the back and yelled, "How can you not drink it? That's a secret recipe for having a baby prescribed by the team doctor. One prescription costs five yuan!"
Li Aimei completely ignored her and just looked at Jiang Xi intently, her eyes full of trust and expectation.
Since she was saved by Jiang Xi that time, she came to Pei's house many times because of taking medicine. Jiang Xi felt sorry for her and told her many truths. Although they were just theoretical talks, they were all summaries of later generations and there was some truth in them.
Li Aimei also listened to it and even regarded it as the truth. Because in the beginning she believed Jiang Xi's words and resisted her mother-in-law, and her life became better. There was no reason for her to disobey. So she remembered that Jiang Xi had said that she had a weak stomach and had to be careful about what she ate and drank. Now her mother-in-law wanted her to take medicine, how could she do that?
She had finally managed to live a good life and didn't want to die anymore.
So she ignored her mother-in-law's objection and came over with the medicine jar.
"Don't worry, let me take a look." Jiang Xi took the medicine jar, sniffed it first, then went to the kitchen to get a spoon, and scooped out the medicine soup and residue inside to take a look.
She was a quiet person at work, and she remained silent during the examination.
Xisheng's mother put her hands on her hips and said with a fierce look: "You better be careful, the medicine in here is very expensive. If I spill it, you will have to pay me ten dollars!" Seeing that she didn't say anything, she laughed at her: "This is a secret recipe, what do you know?!"
Jiang Xi was annoyed by the noise, so he quietly moved to another place, dipped a little of the medicine with his fingertips and brought it to his mouth to taste it, but soon spit it out and looked at Li Aimei who had been staring at him: "It's not poisonous, you can drink it. This is just a normal tonic for the body, nourishing Yin and Yang, and it's good for the body."
Xisheng's mother was immediately very proud: "I said -"
However, before he finished speaking, Jiang Xi added a second sentence meaningfully: "But the herbs used are ordinary, and a dose of medicine can be obtained for 1.5 yuan."
Xishengniang: “?”
She laughed angrily: "You are just pretending to know something when you don't! This is someone's secret recipe, specifically used to give birth to a boy. How can you know it so easily?"
Jiang Xi handed her the medicine jar and went into his own small pharmacy.
Seeing this, Xisheng's mother slapped her thigh and cursed: "I told her she was not good enough, didn't I? But I hid myself."
Li Aimei found out that what she said was unpleasant and wanted to pull her away.
Xisheng's mother felt embarrassed and raised her hand to hit her, but before the slap landed, Li Aimei grabbed her hand and shook it away: "Have you made enough trouble? It's not like Doctor Jiang cheated you out of your money!"
"I already said I didn't cheat any money!" Xisheng's mother retorted angrily.
"It's not up to you to decide whether I cheated or not." Auntie Lanhua said with disdain. Jiang Xi was like that just now, how could she have lied? And she also had her own thoughts: "How can there be any secret recipe for giving birth to a boy these days? Otherwise, wouldn't all those officials give birth to boys?"
Mother Pei took the time to come out and say: "That's right, Mr. Guan can't do anything about it. How can a doctor from a small place like ours do that?"
There is some truth in what he said. Xisheng's mother looked surprised and doubtful.
Jiang Xi happened to come out, holding a packet of freshly picked medicine in his hand. It had not been folded yet, so he needed to hold it with both hands. On the paper were clusters of medicinal materials, freshly picked out and not mixed, so they could be seen clearly.
She smiled and said, "This is actually the medicine. It is usually used to nourish the body. I have prescribed a similar medicine to Aunt Lanhua. If you don't believe me, go get another dose of uncooked medicine and compare it."
She was very confident that the medicinal ingredients were absolutely identical. When her master tested her, he took out a medicinal soup that was countless times more complicated than this one, with the residue filtered out, and asked her to answer how many medicinal ingredients were in it. Her tongue was extremely sensitive to medicinal ingredients.
When Xisheng's mother turned her head, she saw the medicinal herbs on the paper and was choked with words.
When she got the herbs back yesterday, she had already looked at them carefully. At that time, she was also thinking about writing down what the herbs were, so that she could get them herself in the future, which might be a lot cheaper.
So when she looked at the medicine bag at this moment, she immediately compared most of it with the herbs in her memory. There was also a small part that she didn't remember, but the quantities seemed to be about the same?
Her lips trembled and she did not dare to speak for a moment.
Until Li Aimei saw her reaction, what else did she not know? She said in disgust: "Mom, you really got fooled."
Her mother-in-law was a bother all the time. Fortunately, the doctor was not very vicious. Fortunately, she also knew Jiang Xi and was able to get someone to see her. Otherwise, if she lived with such a person, she would die sooner or later.
To Xisheng's mother, these words were like a conclusion, which shocked her heart. Thinking of the money she had given away, she took a breath, rolled her eyes, and fell backwards.
Her money!!!
Xisheng's mother was so shocked that she fainted.
Jiang Xi rushed over to check it out immediately.
I found out that she was not sick, she just had a little anemia and was overly stimulated at the time. I only needed to press her philtrum and the pain would wake her up.
Jiang Xiting didn't like this old lady who was always finding fault, so he was particularly ruthless and pressed hard on her philtrum.
“Ouch ouch!!!”
Xisheng's mother screamed and sat up again. She realized what had just happened. Her eyes turned red and she struggled to get up: "My money, that team doctor looked like a decent person, but he actually cheated me out of money? Damn it, I'm going to kill him!"
Jiang Xi said regretfully: "Do you still want this medicine? I can give it to you for 1.5 yuan."
"No, no!" How could she accept it? Xisheng's mother answered without thinking. She wanted to throw away the medicine jar, but then she thought it was worth 1.5 yuan, so she held back and rushed out of Pei's house holding the medicine jar.
A group of people stayed in Pei's yard and watched the excitement.
After the others had gone far away, Auntie Lanhua was the first to laugh out loud: "Hahahaha... Oh, I really thought it was some secret recipe for having a baby!"
"That's right, five yuan for a dose of medicine. Usually this mother is very stingy, but for the sake of her grandson, I didn't expect her to be so generous!"
"Bah, she wants a grandson all the time. How can a person like her be worthy of a grandson? Her daughter-in-law was almost forced to death." Mother Pei snorted, showing great disgust.
If she were to say, if she really loves her grandson, she should take good care of her daughter-in-law.
Her son couldn't carry the baby for ten months.
If the daughter-in-law is not good, how can the child born be good?
Seeing that everyone was about to start gossiping, Jiang Xi quickly interrupted: "In fact, whether to have a boy or a girl is determined by men. If you need to take care of the baby, you have to take care of the man. As long as women have a good body and are not sick, they can basically have children."
"Ah? Men decide whether to have a boy or a girl?" Aunt Lanhua was surprised. This was the first time she heard this theory.
Other villagers also looked over.
Jiang Xi smiled and said, "Yes, if not for men, what is their role? Pregnancy is for women, and if it is a boy or a girl, it is also decided by women, then do we need men?"
Everyone was embarrassed, but they also felt that it made some sense and looked thoughtful.
Jiang Xi took this opportunity to give them some basic knowledge about chromosomes.
If you want to torture someone, torture a man.
But this theory is a bit profound. When Auntie Lanhua and the others left after seeing the doctor, they were still confused. What chromosomes were they? Oh, I can't remember, but they remembered that it is men who decide whether to have a boy or a girl.
Not many people knew about it, but these few people told their families immediately after returning home. I don’t know whether others believed it or not, but most of the people who had been treated by Jiang Xi believed it.
So that day, several people's homes were filled with women's reproachful voices: "You always say that having more children means more blessings, and you insist that I give birth to a son. You are useless. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have so few sons!"
Their men: "..."
Jiang Xi kept his achievements and fame to himself, stretched his body, and went back to the house to lie down while the meal was not yet cooked and he had nothing to do.
This summer is really hot.
It would be nice to have an electric fan.
But electric fans are very expensive nowadays and require industrial stamps, so she can’t afford one even if she has money.
That’s right!
The system should be able to do that!
Jiang Xi turned around and looked at the person beside him. Just as he was about to reach out to hold Pei Hejun's hand, he found that this person's brows had been wrinkled without him noticing. His already thin face still looked a bit serious even when he closed his eyes and fell asleep.
What's going on?
She was puzzled, her hands kept moving, and she also took Pei Hejun's pulse: "The pulse is stable... Hmm, it seems to be a little faster than usual?"
Could it be that he is really about to wake up?
"System, what happened just now?" Jiang Xi asked.
The system quickly displayed a line of small words at the bottom: [This is what happened after I took the medicine. It's probably bitter.]
Jiang Xi: “?”