When it was her turn, Doctor Song still remembered this plump young woman. After taking her pulse, he said, "Young lady, you're recovering well. Have you been taking the medicine I prescribed on time?"
"It must be good. The doctor's medical skills are so good, and I'm a coward who's afraid of dying, so I have to obediently take my medicine on time."
Doctor Song was amused by her and laughed heartily: "You are quite an interesting person, young lady. That's good. If you can think things through, you won't overthink things."
Doctor Song asked her about her recent health, and Xiao Yunying answered him one by one.
Doctor Song wrote out a new prescription: "The young lady has lost a lot of weight recently."
"Dr. Song said that being too fat is bad, so I have been controlling my food intake, eating less oily and salty food, and exercising more to lose weight healthily."
“The young lady’s vocabulary is novel, but the reasoning is correct.” Doctor Song put down his brush and let the ink dry: “Two doses of the new medicine a day. Drink it for ten days first, and then come back for a follow-up visit.”
Are you coming again?!
Xiao Yunying said with a bitter face, "Why did you increase the dosage?"
Doctor Song smiled and said, "Your health is the most important thing, young lady. Once you've recovered, you don't need to drink it anymore. Go get your medicine over there."
"Thank you very much, Dr. Song."
Xiao Yunying went to the counter to wait for someone to dispense her medicine when someone called her name.
"Miss Xiao?"
Xiao Yunying turned around, and the man said with delight, "Young master, look, it really is Miss Xiao."
Xiao Yunying greeted him, "Young Master Chen, what a coincidence."
Chen Yuancheng walked over: "Miss Xiao, did you come to the clinic because you were feeling unwell?"
"It's nothing, just some medicine to regulate your body. Is Young Master Chen feeling unwell?"
Ling Qi handed the prescription to the apprentice who was dispensing medicine: "Young master, you're here to get medicine too."
Chen Yuancheng didn't want to talk much about his physical condition, so he covered his mouth with his fist and coughed lightly: "The injury on your head still left a scar."
Xiao Yunying guiltily touched the tiny dent on her head, about the size of a grain of rice.
She only used the ointment Chen Yuancheng gave her a few times to fool her mother; she didn't use it every day. Whenever her mother asked, she would say she had used it, but if her mother didn't ask, she would completely forget about it.
Fortunately, because she was taking Chinese medicine and was on a diet, she avoided spicy, stimulating, and oily foods, and kept her diet light. After the scab fell off, there was no melanin deposition, leaving only a faint indentation that was not noticeable unless you looked closely.
Xiao Yunying said, "Once you chip off a small piece of flesh, no amount of medicine will make it grow back."
Chen Yuancheng was meticulous; how could he miss the guilty look that flashed in her eyes?
He didn't press further: "Miss Xiao has lost quite a bit of weight recently."
Xiao Yunying smoothed her clothes and smiled sincerely: "Right? Don't I look better now that I've lost weight?"
Only after she finished speaking did she realize that this wasn't modern times, and she shouldn't say such things to a man so casually.
To her surprise, Chen Yuancheng sincerely replied, "Yes, it looks even better than it did a while ago."
Being praised so earnestly by Chen Yuancheng, Xiao Yunying felt her face burning: "The doctor said that being too fat is bad for my health. For the sake of my health, I have to lose weight."
“Miss Xiao is right. Compared to a healthy body, appearance is nothing.”
"It wasn't me who said it, it was the doctor."
"Then the doctor is right."
Xiao Yunying's medicine was all prepared, twenty doses totaling thirteen taels and six mace.
He pretended to take out a ten-tael and a five-tael silver ingot from his pocket and handed it over, waiting for change.
Fiddled with the paper package in his hand, he thought to himself that the reason why people in ancient times died of illness was not only because of the low level of medical care, but more so because they could not afford medicine.
When Chen Yuancheng handed over the silver, she was even more amazed.
He spent nearly forty taels of silver on the same twenty doses of medicine.
Xiao Yunying couldn't help but wonder what illness he had.
Curiosity aside, she didn't have a penchant for prying into other people's private lives. Leaving the clinic, she pointed to the oxcart parked nearby and asked:
"Young Master Chen, my family just killed a big tiger, would you like it?"
Ling Qi was surprised: "Did your family hunt this big tiger? Young Master mentioned it when he saw it earlier."
Chen Yuancheng said, "Let's go take a look."
A crowd of onlookers had gathered around the oxcart. Xiao Yunying squeezed through with difficulty, and Xiao Yunsong took her medicine: "Little sister, what did the doctor say about your health?"
"The recovery is going well. Continue taking the medication and come back for a follow-up appointment after you finish the course."
Ling Qi helped Chen Yuancheng squeeze in, and then took a closer look at the tiger's ruptured belly: "Young Master, the tiger skin is damaged."
"It's alright."
Xiao Yunying introduced the two sides to each other: "Father, this is the eldest son of the Chen family, the nobleman who bought my snow fungus before, and that is Young Master Chen's little sister, Lingqi."
"Young Master Chen, this is my father, my eldest brother, and my second eldest brother."
Chen Yuancheng bowed to Xiao Shanhai with a junior's greeting: "I am Chen Yuancheng. I bought some snow fungus from Miss Xiao before. I am not a distinguished person."
Xiao Shanhai, a rough man, didn't understand these etiquettes, so he returned the greeting with a fist and palm salute commonly used by martial artists: "Young Master Chen, you are too kind."
Xiao Yunying couldn't bear to watch the two awkwardly return the greeting: "Father, Young Master Chen has come to see Dachong."
Xiao Shanhai stepped aside: "Go ahead and look around."
Xiao Yunbai put the medicine packet in the car and walked over, saying, "Young Master Chen, this tiger was just killed by my younger sister this morning. She dragged it down the mountain and brought it over immediately. Feel it, it's still warm."
Xiao Shanhai glared at his stupid son: "Yunbai, go and watch the oxcart."
"Big brother is watching."
"You and your older brother watch together."
Xiao Shanhai's eyes widened in shock, and Xiao Yunbai dared not say anything, obediently returning to Xiao Yunsong's side.
Xiao Shanhai said, "Young Master Chen, don't listen to my son's nonsense. The tiger wasn't killed by my daughter. She doesn't have that ability. It fell off the cliff and bled to death because its belly was stuck in a tree stump. My daughter found out about it."
Chen Yuancheng didn't ask about the specifics, but said, "Uncle Xiao, my family wants this tiger. Could you please deliver it to our house?"
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