Chapter 2370 I'm Not Hungry
There are three checkpoints in the imperial farm. At the last checkpoint, no one is allowed to enter or exit except people from the Imperial Hospital. Once people who need to undergo the smallpox vaccination experiment move in, they are not allowed to leave unless they are sure that they have recovered from the smallpox.
Rooms have been built inside. They are not for individual accommodation, but rather for six people in one room. There are about fifty newly built rooms.
Now half of the people have moved in, including the subjects selected to be vaccinated and slaves waiting for orders.
The Imperial Medical Service built a courtyard here. The main hall was the place for meetings, and on the left and right sides were the pharmacy and clinic. It was fully equipped with basically everything needed.
The east and west wings are living quarters. If Xiao Yuanzheng and others come to check, they have to change clothes here when entering and leaving.
However, Manbao did not live in this courtyard, but in a small courtyard next door, where there were several maids waiting to be dispatched. Manbao lived in the main courtyard with his two maids.
The courtyard wall is very low. There is no other way. The house was built in a hurry. Such a large house was built in half a month. How high can the courtyard wall be?
Anyway, Manbao could see what was happening in the next yard just by standing in the yard, and Doctor Lu could naturally see what was happening in the next yard too. He turned his head and saw Zhou Man's two maids carrying out large and small bags of things from the carriage. One maid even unloaded a jar of something from the back of the carriage, which looked like a pickle jar.
Doctor Lu shook his beard and couldn't help but said, "Doctor Zhou, we're here to see a doctor, not for a spring outing. Why are you bringing so many things?"
Manbao was sizing up the courtyard where he would be living for the better part of a year. Hearing this, he turned to glance at Doctor Lu and simply leaned over the wall to watch his carriage. "It's because you're here to see a doctor that I need to prepare more things. If it were a spring outing, I wouldn't have to prepare so much."
She said, "We can buy things if we need them during a spring outing, but there's nowhere to buy them here. Doctor Lu, a group of test subjects are going through the process of vaccination, smallpox outbreak, and recovery to see if they can resist smallpox. It takes at least twelve days, so we can't go out for at least twelve days. Didn't your family prepare food, drink, and clothes for you?"
Doctor Lu also brought a long-time attendant with him, who also took down two large bags from the carriage. One contained his own clothes, and the other contained Doctor Lu's clothes. The rest were gone.
Manbao naturally saw it too, and she understood instantly. She looked at Doctor Lu with sympathy and patted her chest and said, "Doctor Lu, don't worry. I, I will treat you to some steamed pork with rice flour made by my sister-in-law tonight. How about that?"
Doctor Lu clearly didn't mean that, but under Zhou Man's gaze, everything he said now seemed jealous, so he got angry and turned around and left.
Manbao leaned against the wall and watched him go into the house angrily.
Manbao looked sympathetic and sighed, "It's not easy for Doctor Lu either. He's already old, with parents above him, brothers in the middle, and a wife and children below him. And yet, when he went on a business trip during the first month of the year, his family didn't even prepare any chicken or duck meat for him. Sigh..."
Jiulan brought two wooden basins over and said, "Miss Man, look, these are the wooden basins prepared in the house. Do you want us to bring them from home, or do you want new ones?"
"Take the ones you brought from home. I'm used to them. Give the new ones to the maids in the courtyard. If you have any, keep them. They should be useful in the ward area in the back."
Jiulan responded and asked, "Madam, what would you like for lunch? I'll prepare it now. I just checked and the kitchen seems to be well stocked."
"It's all fine. You can prepare it as you like. But you can have a snack first," Manbao said, "Take out the snacks Bai Shan bought and heat up a plate. I'll share it with Doctor Lu later."
This amount exceeded Bai Shan's requirements, but Jiulan hesitated for a moment, thinking that it was not much for two people, so she went to heat it up.
Doctor Lu was in his prime and didn't like sweet food, so the whole plate of snacks ended up in Manbao's stomach.
Manbao took a sip of tea and rinsed his mouth briefly before wiping his fingers. He looked outside and asked, "Why haven't Xiao Yuanzheng and the others arrived yet?"
Doctor Lu was sitting at the next table, looking through a list. He glanced at her and said, "I thought Doctor Zhou was so focused on snacks that he had forgotten about his official duties."
Manbao said, "I'm just being prepared. It looks like Dean Xiao and the others will definitely be late. If we go to inspect the wards then, I'm afraid they might not be able to come out after 3 p.m., so I'm eating something in advance so I don't panic."
Manbao glanced at the empty plate and said to Doctor Lu, "I just offered you food, but you didn't want to eat it."
Doctor Lu snorted and asked, "Do you want her to invite you?"
Which imperial physician doesn't keep a couple of snacks and candies in his purse, just in case he doesn't have any food?
Dean Xiao and his team arrived half an hour later than expected. He didn't explain, but instead looked around their yard and nodded, saying, "Alright, let's go see the patient."
The patients had been sent to the ward two days in advance, and were being treated according to Zhou Man's previous practice.
I just gradually added some meat and eggs, and provided them with enough rice and flour to keep them from going hungry.
Today, Xiao Yuanzheng and the others came here to take the pulses of each person one by one and screen out those who are not suitable for vaccination.
There was no need to even write down the prescription. Xiao Yuanzheng and the others just took a handful of bamboo sticks and started. After taking the pulse, they would nod if it was suitable. If not, they would give the other person a bamboo stick. The person could take the bamboo stick to report to the manager and then leave.
It was just taking the patient's pulse and asking some questions, so everyone was quite fast. However, no matter how fast they were, there were so many people. Just as Manbao said, they didn't finish the examination until Wei Noon.
The doctors were all a little hungry, so they took advantage of the time to take out some snacks while changing wards. Seeing Zhou Man energetically going straight to the next ward, Doctor Liu pulled her aside and asked, "Didn't you prepare any snacks with you?"
Doctor Liu reluctantly gave her a piece and said, "Here's one for you."
Manbao took a look at the snack in his hand. It was the dry dough cake, which was recognized by the Imperial Hospital as the best pastry to relieve hunger and dizziness.
It is made of layer upon layer of compressed flour. Apart from being unpalatable and abrasive to the teeth, there is nothing wrong with it.
The kitchen of the Imperial Hospital produced them in batches, and the imperial doctors could take as much as they wanted. When Manbao first entered the Imperial Hospital, he was ignorant and stuffed a lot of cake into his pocket. Later he found out that a piece of cake was only a little when you bit it in your mouth, but if you put it in a bowl and soak it in water, a piece the size of half a child's palm could make a bowl of soup.
It is very effective in satisfying hunger. One piece will keep you full, and two pieces will definitely make you full.
When Manbao saw this piece, he immediately shook his head and refused, and took two steps back. "Thank you, Doctor Liu, I'm not hungry yet."
Doctor Lu floated past her and said, "Of course she's not hungry. She just finished a plate of snacks at noon."
See you at 2 p.m.
For the monthly ticket, go for it——
It's the last day. If you still have monthly tickets, look at me. If you keep them after 12 o'clock in the evening, they will expire. So look at me.
(End of this chapter)
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