Chapter 118 Not a terminal illness
Zhou Xi was not stupid. She had gone to see a doctor when she still hadn't gotten pregnant in the third year. Of course, she had also seen the doctor at Jishidiang. This time, she didn't have much hope.
Sure enough, after asking what illness she wanted to see, the other party felt her pulse for a long time, and finally gave her the same explanation as before, and then picked up the pen to prescribe medicine for her. Zhou Xi was very hesitant, but finally couldn't help but said, "Doctor, I have been recuperating for many years and taking a lot of medicine, but I just can't get pregnant."
The doctor looked at Zhou Xi's face for a long time, then looked away and said, "It's not healed well."
Manbao stood beside his elder sister and asked, "What does it take to be cured?"
"It will be fine when her hands and feet are no longer cold in winter and her face is rosy."
That requires eating well. For example, they all look better this year than in previous years. Koko said it’s because they eat better than before.
Manbao thought to himself, it seems I need to buy more delicious food.
Seeing that her elder sister still looked unhappy, she leaned over the table and asked, "Doctor, so what you mean is that my elder sister's illness can be cured? Will she be able to have a baby after she recovers?"
No doctor would guarantee that he could cure a disease, especially something as complicated as childbirth. However, since the person asking the question was a little kid of five or six years old, the doctor would not get angry.
The doctor looked at Manbao for a while, then glanced at Zhou Erlang who was standing not far away. After a moment's hesitation, he said, "It's not necessarily the woman's fault if she can't get pregnant. Your husband is here too, why not have him come and take a look at me?"
Manbao's eyes lit up and he asked, "Doctor, are you saying that my eldest sister's illness isn't serious enough to prevent her from getting pregnant? It could also be a problem with my ex-brother-in-law?"
The doctor blinked, "Ex-brother-in-law?"
"Yes," Manbao said, "My eldest sister just got divorced, and he has become her ex-brother-in-law."
Seeing the doctor looking at her second brother, Manbao grinned, "This is my second brother!"
The doctor frowned. Divorce is a big deal, especially for a woman. If it's because she can't have children...
He pondered for a moment and then said, "Logically speaking, your illness shouldn't be that serious."
He paused, then pondered under the sharp gazes of Manbao and Zhou Xi, "Your uterus is quite cold, your yin and yang are not balanced, and your blood and qi are not keeping up. This is why it's difficult to get pregnant. But this is difficult to get pregnant, not infertility. How long have you been married?"
"Eight years."
The doctor hesitated even more and asked, "Your husband, oh, has your ex-husband come to see you?"
Zhou Xi lowered his head and said, "He doesn't think there's anything wrong with him, so he never looked into the future."
The doctor said nothing, thinking that when they were married, the other party did not come to see him, and now that they are divorced, it is even more impossible for the other party to come to see him.
The doctor could only comfort Zhou Xi, "Your illness is not terminal. Some couples have incompatible auras. Even if both of them are fine, they can't get pregnant. Take your medicine on time, keep warm, and replenish your qi and blood, and you'll be fine."
Manbao discussed with him how to replenish qi and blood, because this obviously needs to be replenished with food.
The doctor said a few words briefly and was about to send them away, but Manbao was always sociable and kept her seat. There were no patients outside at the moment, so her questions came one after another, and the doctor couldn't help but talk to her a little more.
Zhou Xi felt a little embarrassed listening to this and wanted to pull Manbao away, but Manbao comforted her and asked her to wait patiently. Then he continued to ask the doctor, "Why do we need to eat liver to replenish blood?"
Zhou Erlang, who was walking over, just happened to hear: "The liver stores blood. Your elder sister is suffering from both Qi and blood deficiency. She can stew pig liver, chicken liver, lamb liver, etc. to replenish blood."
Manbao listened carefully and asked, "What about red dates? What are red dates?"
The doctor was about to speak, but after hearing her say that she had never even seen a red date, she paused, then beckoned the medicine boy to bring a dried red date over and showed it to her, "Here, this is a red date, it's also a blood tonic."
Manbao smelled it, but Zhou Erlang and Zhou Xi recognized red dates. Seeing Manbao put it in his mouth and eat it, they couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed and quickly apologized to the doctor.
Manbao was extremely surprised and said happily, "It's sweet, so delicious!"
The doctor had originally forgotten Manbao, but seeing her so surprised, he remembered her. He couldn't help laughing, stroking his beard and said, "I remember you now. You are the shopkeeper's child. Why, haven't you been picking herbs at home lately?"
Manbao shook his head, "I didn't find any Chinese yam or Ligustrum lucidum."
The doctor stroked his beard and said happily, "It's a pity, but now you know one more medicine. If you see it in the future, remember to bring it to Jishitang."
Keke also said: "There will be red dates in the future, but the species has evolved and the original genes have been lost. If the host can include red date plants from this era, the reward points will not be less."
Manbao had already eaten the red date. She looked at the doctor with some regret, "Can you give me another one? I ate it too fast and forgot to look carefully."
The doctor couldn't help laughing again, and happily asked the medicine boy to grab a handful of red dates for her, saying with a smile: "These are for daily snacks. The red dates used as medicine have to be roasted. They are dried red dates."
Zhou Xi also pulled Manbao aside and whispered, "This grocery store sells them. Manbao, quickly return the red dates to the doctor."
Manbao didn't want to, but she didn't take it for nothing. She took out all the candies in her pocket and wrapped them one by one with oil paper.
She stuffed all of them into the doctor's hands and said with a smile, "You treat me to red dates, and I treat you to candy."
The doctor nodded with a smile and did not refuse.
Zhou Xi breathed a sigh of relief, then took the prescription to the counter to get the medicine and pay.
After leaving the medicine shop, Zhou Xi asked Zhou Erlang, "Second Brother, when did Manbao become so brave and have so much to talk about with strangers?"
Zhou Erlang was already used to it and said, "She's been very brave since she was little. When she used to play under the banyan tree with her father, she could even crawl over the knees of the elders. Have you ever seen a child dare to do that?"
But he also gained some knowledge today and understood why the youngest sister was more knowledgeable than others, because this child dared to ask.
Zhou Erlang coughed lightly and said to Zhou Xi, "Since the doctor said that liver is good for you, let's go buy some pig liver later."
Manbao immediately said, "There's also mutton. The doctor just said that mutton can also replenish qi and blood."
"I think you want to eat?"
Manbao swallowed his saliva and said, "It's delicious!"
Zhou Xi took her hand and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll buy it for you."
She looked around and asked, "Where did Shiro and the others go?"
Manbao waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "Don't worry about them, big sister, let's go buy some meat and red dates first."
Manbao had it all planned out, "Let's buy a few more. You and mom can eat three a day, and then you can live forever."
This was what Koko had just told her. People in the future said that eating three dates a day would keep you young. Apparently, this thing was very good.
Zhou Xi & Zhou Erlang: ...Are you treating red dates as cabbages?
(End of this chapter)
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