Chapter 1485: Appetite (Reward for the book friend "Leng Yechen")
Cui turned her head to look at the hourglass, but couldn't find it after searching for a long time, so she asked, "What time is it now?"
Manbao sank into the system and checked the time before saying, "It will be midnight in another quarter of an hour."
Cui was surprised. "I slept for nearly an hour? How come it feels like I only dozed off for a moment?"
Mrs. Tang and Manbao were also surprised. They had actually been talking non-stop for almost an hour? No wonder their mouths felt a little dry.
They both picked up their teacups and drank tea.
Cui looked at the sunlight outside and asked, "Where are my husband and the others?"
The maid waiting outside the door heard it and immediately came in to reply, "Master and the others are talking in the garden."
Cui nodded, did not let her go to ask questions, and waved her hand to let her leave.
She said to Manbao, "It's rare for me to sleep so well. I'll stay at your house for a while today."
Manbao said, "You can have dinner here too."
Cui thought for a moment and then looked at Madam Tang, who smiled and said, "I don't mind."
She is the eldest in her family except for her father-in-law, and unlike Cui, she does not have a mother-in-law under her head.
Cui and Manbao smiled and said, "Thank you for bothering me."
They had nothing to do all day, so Manbao simply asked Cui about her condition. "I see your appetite isn't very good. Is your morning sickness severe?"
Cui nodded and sighed, "I feel like vomiting when I see anything fishy or meaty."
No wonder she didn't seem to have much appetite during lunch today.
Manbao thought for a moment and said, "Shall I come up with a few recipes for you?"
Cui nodded repeatedly, "I was just about to tell you, I can't even take the medicine right now. The medicine the doctor prescribed to preserve my pregnancy, I take half a bowl and end up vomiting the whole bowl."
Manbao became worried after hearing this. "Is it that serious? Do you want acupuncture?"
Cui nodded repeatedly and couldn't help but smile, "Okay."
Manbao then said, "Just once every five days is enough. Can I come to your house?"
Cui thought for a moment and then shook her head. "I'd better come to your house. You're so busy every day, it would be tiring for you to make this extra trip."
Mrs. Tang couldn't help but laugh and said, "I'm afraid you want to come out and get some fresh air, right?"
Cui smiled and said nothing.
Manbao was naturally very happy to be able to spend less time on the road. He nodded and said, "Okay, come on, I'll ask the kitchen to make you a bowl of porridge. After you rest for a while, I'll give you acupuncture."
There is no need for Manbao to go and tell them in person. Just let them know and someone will go and notify them.
The kitchen quickly brought over a bowl of porridge with a small dish of pickled vegetables on the tray.
Cui didn't eat much at noon, and she didn't have much appetite when she saw the porridge. But after taking a mouthful of porridge and then a mouthful of pickled vegetables, her mouth started to water and her appetite increased.
She ate a bowl of porridge, looked at the bowl in her hand and remained silent for a long time.
Yingyue, the maid waiting beside her, was very happy and asked quickly, "Madam, would you like another bowl?"
Cui thought about it and nodded, then handed the bowl to her.
Yingyue looked at Manbao somewhat embarrassedly.
Manbao smiled and said, "Just go to the kitchen and get it. We don't have much else at home, but we have plenty of porridge."
Several people watched Cui eat three bowls of porridge in a row. Madam Tang closed her slightly open mouth and said, "You call this a poor appetite?"
Cui put down the bowl embarrassedly and said, "I don't know what happened, but my appetite suddenly improved."
She paused and said, "Your pickles are delicious, crisp and light, and very appetizing."
Manbao glanced at the pickled vegetables in the small bowl and said, "This is pickled by my sister-in-law. If you like it, I'll pack a jar for you to take away later. But don't just eat this dish, try some other vegetables too. If you can't stand the smell of fish, you can try some meat soup or egg soup. That's fine too."
Yingyue on the side quickly wrote it down.
Cui smiled and said, "Thank you very much. I thought this child was greedy and liked to eat other people's food."
Manbao found pen, ink and paper from the desk beside her to write the menu for her. Mrs. Tang found a fan from somewhere and gently waved it, then leaned over to watch her write.
After a while, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Your menu is quite detailed, but why do I hear that your cooking skills are average?"
Manbao said: "That's because I haven't learned it, but I can still memorize the recipe."
Mrs. Tang asked, "Do you have to memorize the recipe? Why are you memorizing this?"
Man Bao said seriously, "All herbs can be used as medicine, and of course vegetables are the same. Not only can vegetables be used as medicine, but all kinds of meat also have their own uses, which is why there is the saying that food nourishes the body. If the food is well matched, it will naturally be equivalent to a prescription, so you have to memorize the recipe."
As for cooking, she actually knows how to do it. After all, most of the dishes on the recipes require boiling and stewing, which is not difficult, as long as you don't pay attention to the taste.
Manbao was very confident about this. "Do you have to care about the taste of medicine when you take it? You can just drink it and it will taste the way it is supposed to."
Madam Tang and Madam Yang: ...
Madam Yang took out the recipe from her hand and handed it to Yingyue, saying, "Okay, let them worry about this kind of thing."
Manbao nodded.
Mrs. Tang also withdrew her gaze, fanning herself and asked, "I just saw several recipes I haven't seen before. Where did you get these recipes?"
"I exchanged it with Doctor Ning from Baohe Clinic. It's a family heirloom," Manbao said proudly. "I didn't borrow it. They gave me a copy of the recipe book with annotations."
It sounded very impressive, and Mrs. Tang asked in surprise, "What did you exchange with him?"
"A book called 'One Hundred Prescriptions' contains prescriptions for more than twenty diseases." This is a medical book divided into five volumes, but it also contains a large amount of argumentation, and each disease has different conditions and medication suggestions, so such a thick book only prints twenty prescriptions.
This medical book is her textbook. After buying the book from the encyclopedia, she simply paid points to print a few copies. She likes to use it to exchange things with others.
Now, more than half of the medical books in Manbao's library were bought from the encyclopedia. The rest, except for a few bought from bookstores, were either copied after reading through others or acquired directly.
Mrs. Tang didn't know that it was easy for her to get this medical book, so when she heard it, she couldn't help but tap her forehead and said, "Aren't you at a loss?"
Exchanging a medicinal recipe for a food recipe, even if it is a medicinal meal, is still a loss, right?
Manbao shook his head and said, "That's not how knowledge is valued. I'll tell them anyway if they ask me. It's great that I got something in return. It saves me time and I gain something."
Mrs. Tang: ...
Cui smiled and said, "You are quite open-minded."
Manbao chuckled and said, "Of course. If I can't get over this, then how much more worried must those who write, print, and distribute books be?"
In fact, what she wanted to say was that if she was already so depressed, how much more depressed would the encyclopedia library, which opened its doors to the public for people to borrow and read, be?
There is endless knowledge in there, and it can be purchased with just a few points. It would be great if they had such a library here.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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