How could a perfectly innocent girl have red bumps down there?
A thought flashed through her mind, and Madam Meng, looking displeased, stepped forward and rolled up Meng Xin's sleeves.
Looking at her daughter's fair arms, Madam Meng almost fainted from anger.
"Xin Xin, where is your virginity mark?" Madam Meng asked patiently.
"Mother, what is a virginity mark?" Meng Xin asked fearfully, taking steps back.
"Slap!" Madam Meng slapped Meng Xin across the face.
"Dr. Jiang, could you please take me out? I have something to ask Xinxin." Madam Meng suppressed her anger and asked Jiang Hua.
"Please go ahead."
Jiang Hua pushed open the door to the inner room and went out, then closed the door again, ignoring the sounds coming from inside.
"Stepmother, how is it inside?" Jiang Jingyi asked worriedly, looking at Jiang Hua who had come out alone.
"It's alright, don't worry." Jiang Hua sat down on a chair placed in the yard.
After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the door to the inner room was opened again, and Madam Meng let Jiang Hua in, saying she would take care of it herself.
"When did it start?" Jiang Hua asked as she sat down.
"Dr. Jiang, when does it start?" Meng Xin asked timidly.
Perhaps because he had just been scolded by Madam Meng, his tone of voice was no longer as arrogant as before.
"When did you start having sex?" Jiang Hua asked.
“A month ago,” Meng Xin replied softly.
Madam Meng's expression had calmed down by now, and she was listening attentively.
"I want to hear the truth." Recalling the pulse she had just felt, Jiang Hua's voice suddenly turned cold.
"Two, two months ago." Meng Xin's voice grew softer and softer; she no longer dared to look at her mother beside her.
"When was the last time?" Jiang Hua asked again.
"Seven days ago."
"Did this happen after the previous times you had sex?"
"Yes, but it's not that serious. It started like this seven days ago," Meng Xin said, forcing herself to speak, her body even more uneasy.
Jiang Hua took out a white porcelain bottle from the medicine box, which contained medicine.
"Use the medicine in here once in the morning and once in the evening. Pour three drops into a basin of clean water each time. Use it for seven days and then come back to see me."
Jiang Hua handed the porcelain bottle to Meng Xin and explained how to use it to her again.
"Is that all? Don't we need to go to Mingdetang to get the medicine?" Madam Meng looked at the porcelain bottle in Meng Xin's hand with some doubt.
She wanted to, but Meng Xin's health wasn't suitable for taking medicine indiscriminately.
"Thank you very much, Dr. Jiang. How much will you charge for this consultation?" Madam Meng asked.
“Let’s go to Mingde Hall. Manager Shen will talk to Madam Meng about it then,” Jiang Hua replied.
"Miss Meng, I have some things I'd like to discuss with Mrs. Meng. Please wait outside for a moment."
Meng Xin hesitated, also wondering what Jiang Hua wanted to say to her mother.
"Xinxin, you go out first," Madam Meng said.
Meng Xin had no choice but to reluctantly leave the inner room.
"Dr. Jiang, is there anything else?" Madam Meng asked immediately after sitting down.
"I just took her pulse, and Miss Meng is already more than a month pregnant."
Jiang Hua's words struck Madam Meng like a thunderbolt, causing her to faint. If she hadn't been holding onto the table beside her, she would have almost passed out.
"Dr. Jiang, are you telling the truth? Could you have misread it?" Madam Meng asked again, still clinging to a sliver of hope.
“She is indeed pregnant. If Madam Meng doesn’t believe it, she can have another doctor take her pulse,” Jiang Hua repeated.
"Dr. Jiang, could you please not tell anyone about this?" As she spoke, Madam Meng took out a fifty-tael silver note from her sleeve and pushed it in front of Jiang Hua.
"We will not disclose the injured person's condition, Madam Meng, please rest assured." Jiang Hua returned the silver notes.
"However, Miss Meng's pulse is still unstable, so I didn't say it to her in front of her just now. Madam Meng, you can talk to Miss Meng about this when you get back."
"Okay, I understand." Madam Meng was relieved after hearing Jiang Hua's assurance.
On the way back, Meng Xin looked at her mother with a solemn expression, wanting to say something, but swallowed the words back down.
“Stepmother, the village chief just brought over the school enrollment notices,” Jiang Jingyi said as he stepped forward.
"Did he say anything?" Jiang Hua took the enrollment card from Jiang Jingyi, looked at it, and saw that it was indeed his name. She then returned it to him.
"Put it away carefully. I'll take you to the academy in three days. See if you need anything else, and just tell me. I'll take you to town to buy it."
“I don’t need you, stepmother. I can’t bear to leave you. I’m going to the academy, and you’ll be all alone at home.” Jiang Jingyi looked at his stepmother and said sadly.
"What's there to be reluctant about? I'm not going anywhere. Just go and study without worry. I'm waiting for you to pass the imperial examinations and support me," Jiang Hua said, ruffling his hair.
"Okay, stepmother, you stay home and wait for me. I will study hard."
...
As dawn broke and the fog had not yet lifted, Madam Xu tightly clutched a cloth bag filled with rice.
Xu was following behind them. The two of them tiptoed out with mysterious expressions.
"Old Liu, where are Grandma Xu and her daughter-in-law going so early in the morning?"
Aunt Liu was just about to go to the kitchen to make breakfast when she saw the two of them acting suspiciously, not knowing where they were going.
"They must have something to do outside. I heard they're planning to hold a banquet in the village to congratulate Xu Yaozu on entering Shifang Academy," Uncle Liu replied.
“Mother-in-law, this road is so eerie and scary.” Xu Shi followed behind Da Xu Shi with trepidation.
The two walked through a bamboo forest. Because the fog had not yet dissipated, the entire bamboo forest appeared particularly cold and damp, with water droplets condensed from the fog dripping down from time to time.
"Shut up and keep up! I told you not to dawdle in getting up, otherwise we would have arrived much earlier!" Madam Xu scolded.
The two walked for another fifteen minutes before finally emerging from the bamboo forest and seeing a blue brick house with a long line of people already waiting at the gate.
This is a famous sorceress in the surrounding villages. No one knows when she appeared in this bamboo forest, but everyone calls her the Bamboo Sorceress.
"It's all your fault! Look at this, when will it be our turn!"
Looking at the long queue, Madam Xu began to complain about Madam Xu again.
"Mother-in-law, I didn't mean to either. It's just that Da Gui stayed up too long last night," Xu explained, blushing.
"Shameless! Next time, try harder and have another son!" Madam Xu glared at her useless daughter-in-law.
After waiting for almost an hour, the two of them ate the cornbread they had brought with them when they left, before it was finally their turn.
"Bamboo Goddess, someone in our family is possessed by a ghost!" Madam Xu said impatiently as she sat down.
The old woman, who had been keeping her eyes closed, opened them and looked at the two women, Da Xu and Da Xu, with a profound and unfathomable expression, tapping her fingers lightly on the table.
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