Chapter 176 Hope for a Cure
Xie Wanniang wouldn't be wary or even resentful of the tenants' self-help efforts, but she would eventually have to clean up this mess.
The first thing she had to do was obviously to make the land fertile again.
In addition to planting many legumes that can fertilize the fields in two years, she also wants to bring back as much farmyard manure as possible for her estate.
Humus, wood ash, poultry and livestock manure... whatever it is, as long as it's useful, bring it all to her.
She briefly explained her initial plan to Xie Daorong.
Xie Daorong nodded repeatedly, "You've thought of everything. Let's do it that way."
After discussing the future development plan for the estate, Xie Wanniang personally cooked a meal for herself and Xie Daorong.
This was Xie Daorong's first time eating Xie Wanniang's cooking. It was so delicious that after taking a bite, he couldn't concentrate on talking to Xie Wanniang anymore.
He himself only knows how to cook simple foods such as rice porridge and dumpling soup. Although his mother, sister-in-law, and younger brother and sister-in-law can cook more kinds of food, the taste is really ordinary.
After he became lame, the servant Xie Daoheng sent to take care of his daily life was just as good at cooking as the women in his household.
Occasionally, Xie Daorong would eat out, or Xie Daoheng would keep him at the old house to eat the food prepared by the cook. However, whether it was a restaurant chef or a cook hired by the Xie family's direct line, none of them could match the level of Xie Wanniang's cooking.
Xie Daorong ate heartily, which made Xie Wanniang very happy.
She wrote down some simple and easy-to-learn recipes and asked Xie Daorong to give them to the servant who was responsible for taking care of his daily life.
Xie Daorong was overjoyed. He didn't expect the servant to learn all of Xie Wanniang's skills. As long as the servant could cook the food to be 70-80% as good as the restaurant's, his quality of life would improve rapidly.
In the afternoon, Xie Wanniang, accompanied by Haitang and a group of guards, left the manor and returned to Mingfu Village. She had arranged with Xie Daorong to send Haitang and two guards with money and food later.
To Xie Daorong's surprise, not only did Haitang and the guards arrive later, but Xie Wanniang also brought him another doctor.
Doctor Chen came to give Xie Daorong a full examination. Xie Wanniang had taken the opportunity to look at Xie Daorong's medical records when he was first injured, and the doctors that Xie Daoheng hired for him were all skilled and experienced traditional Chinese medicine doctors from nearby prefectures and counties.
Unfortunately, neither Xie Wanniang nor the traditional Chinese medicine practitioners could cure him under the existing medical conditions.
His slightly lame leg will never fully recover in this lifetime.
Even so, Xie Wanniang hoped to keep Xie Daorong as healthy as possible.
Dr. Chen, who had been entrusted with the case, used his best skills to carefully examine Xie Daorong, and finally came to a surprising conclusion—he was 60% confident that he could cure Xie Daorong's infertility.
Xie Daorong was shocked because none of the doctors Xie Daoheng had hired for him had said that he could regain his fertility.
If Doctor Chen hadn't been invited by Xie Wanniang, he would have kicked the old man out as a fraud.
Dr. Chen noticed Xie Daorong's disbelief and his vague suspicion of him as a doctor. He asked in return, "Your cold symptoms are indeed severe, but you must have been taking good care of yourself with good medicine all these years, right? Especially in the last three years, apart from this leg, your other ailments should have been almost completely cured, right?"
Xie Daorong pursed his lips, and his eyes suddenly reddened.
He thought of Xie Daoheng, who had been seeking medical treatment for him. Even though he and his parents had chosen to give up, Xie Daoheng had been persistently urging him to take his medicine every day.
He appreciated Xie Daoheng's good intentions, and although he had no hope, he always cooperated. He wasn't afraid of hardship, and he drank two bowls of herbal medicine a day as if it were just strong tea with a strange taste.
Unexpectedly, Xie Daoheng's persistence over the past ten years has actually brought him hope for improvement.
What he didn't know was that the doctor who initially diagnosed him as infertile had privately told his parents and Xie Daoheng that if he used a lot of good medicine for a long time, he had a 20% chance of recovering his health.
His parents were very happy at the time, but after the doctor said that "long-term" meant a long period of more than ten years, his parents immediately lost hope.
It wasn't that they didn't love their son, but rather that they doubted the doctor's words.
After all, the world was in chaos at that time, and the doctors that Xie Daoheng could find for his clansmen were not the kind of good doctors that everyone knew and had a good reputation for.
Although Xie Daoheng himself had some knowledge of medicine, and it was a pipe dream for a quack doctor to try to fool him, his ability to roughly assess a doctor's skill level did not mean that he could see through a doctor's appearance to discern their character.
The elderly couple suspected that the doctor was trying to sell them expensive tonics, which was why he said such outrageous things.
As for Xie Daoheng's suggestion to continue treating Xie Daorong, the old couple pondered that although Xie Daoheng had some medical knowledge, there was a big difference between "some knowledge" and "expert knowledge." At this moment, Xie Daoheng was very likely just grasping at straws in desperation and had been fooled by that doctor.
On the one hand, the elderly couple did not trust the doctor, and on the other hand, their family was still at an economic level where they could barely afford to eat and stay warm. If they spent a large sum of money to buy medicine for Xie Daorong, their other children and grandchildren would not only be able to eat eggs or meat every few days, but they would probably only be able to eat rice once a day.
The old couple felt that it was really unreliable to let everyone eat chaff and wild vegetables and take out all their money to treat Xie Daorong's illness, which sounded like a hopeless case.
They had two sons, and if those two sons had sons, they could give one of them to Xie Daorong for adoption.
With this in mind, they chose to give up treatment.
However, Xie Daoheng was different from them. Of course, he did not completely believe what the doctor said, but he could see that the prescription the doctor gave for conditioning the body was indeed very beneficial to Xie Daorong's health.
Regardless of whether the coldness in his body can be completely eliminated, as long as it can reduce his suffering from the coldness, Xie Daoheng believes that the money is well spent.
He didn't tell Xie Daorong that Xie Daorong's parents had given up despite knowing there was hope. Instead, he paid for it himself and had a trusted servant brew medicine for Xie Daorong every day.
Once the situation had temporarily stabilized, he invited other renowned doctors to come and treat Xie Daorong with acupuncture, moxibustion, medicinal baths, and so on.
Xie Daoheng himself didn't know which of these methods was the most effective. He only knew that Xie Daorong was indeed slowly improving because of his unremitting efforts.
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