Chapter 2854 To Live
The rich girl didn't care, and didn't even ask. Or rather, she no longer had the energy to ask. She felt her vitality was fading, and she might die in the next moment.
She was certain that she had given birth to a daughter, who was definitely dead. She woke up at noon, but hadn't heard a single cry from her.
She was about to die, and the first thing Dahua thought of was her two daughters. She felt that it was the end, and if she died, her two daughters would definitely not survive either.
The wealthy lady drank the medicine expressionlessly, thinking aimlessly that she must have done a lot of evil in her previous life, which was why she was reborn as a woman in this life and couldn't give birth to a son.
And her two daughters might have done more evil than her, that's why they were born in her womb. Otherwise, if they were born in someone else's family, at least they could survive, right?
Just as I was daydreaming, the door was pushed open.
When Dafu Niang saw Zhou Man, her eyes lit up and she immediately put down the medicine bowl and came forward to flatter him, "Madam..."
I learned from the neighbors who went to watch the court today that the white-faced official last night was the new county magistrate of their county. Although I don’t know what the relationship between this lady and the county magistrate is, judging from the intimate behavior of the two of them leaving together last night, she is either his wife or his concubine. In any case, she is an important person.
Dafu Niang wanted to ask her to intercede for the county magistrate to release her son, so she was very enthusiastic, "Madam, please come in... No, no, no, this room is dirty, please go to the main hall to sit."
Manbao put the girl in his arms on the ground and asked, "Is there any porridge at home?"
Dafu Niang was stunned for a moment, thinking that Zhou Man was hungry, and hurriedly said, "How can you let Madam eat porridge? Please wait a moment, I, I will go to cook."
Manbao smiled lightly and said, "No need, just porridge will do, and we can make porridge oil."
Dafu Niang went to the kitchen in confusion, and Manbao then went to see Dafu Niang with the medicine box.
The wealthy man still recognized her and lay on the bed, not daring to move. "I remember my wife. It was my wife who saved me."
Manbao put down the medicine box, reached out and took her hand and placed it on the pulse pillow and said, "What's your name?"
It is said that from yesterday until now, everyone has been calling her the rich man and the rich lady, but has never called her real name.
The wealthy lady was stunned for a moment before she said, "My maiden name is Ma, and I used to be nicknamed Dahua."
Manbao looked at her face and asked, "I don't think you are very old. How old are you this year?"
Dahua couldn't help but laugh when she heard her speaking to a child in such an adult's tone, "My dear, I'm already nineteen."
Manbao: "...I'm still twenty, you're younger than me."
Dahua was stunned, and after carefully examining Zhou Man's face, she shook her head and said, "My wife doesn't look like she's twenty at all. She looks more like sixteen or seventeen."
Manbao didn't think he looked young, but Dahua looked too old.
Frequent childbirth can deplete a person's energy and vitality.
Manbao felt her pulse and said, "I'll give you acupuncture to stop the bleeding, and I'll prescribe two more prescriptions for regulating your qi and blood."
Dahua was a little anxious and asked, "Is the medicine expensive?"
Manbao wanted to say that she paid for the medicine, but after thinking it over, she said, "A dose of medicine costs about eighty cents."
It was a not cheap medicine, because she had suffered a serious loss and the bleeding had not been completely stopped, so two relatively expensive herbs were added to it.
Dahua's expression darkened, and she said, "My lady, please be kind. Just give me an acupuncture. No need for medicine."
Manbao said: "If you don't take medicine, you won't survive this month."
If she relies solely on acupuncture to stop bleeding, there will always be some metrorrhagia, and the qi and blood she lost during childbirth yesterday also need to be replenished, otherwise her internal organs will slowly lose vitality due to the blood loss.
Dahua thought for a moment and said, "But my family really has no money."
Manbao said calmly, "My mother was bedridden for a long time, and sometimes we were too poor to afford medicine. But we could always squeeze out money by selling grain or having my brothers do hard labor."
She glanced around their house and said, "Money is like time. If you squeeze it, you can still squeeze it out. It all depends on whether you want to live and whether the people around you want you to live."
Dahua listened blankly.
Manbao stood up, opened the medicine box, and took out the needle bag. Seeing her staring outside in a daze, he looked in the direction she was looking. Da Niu and Er Niu were sitting on the chairs, holding a piece of dessert given by Xibing and licking it carefully.
Erniu didn't understand that good things should be eaten slowly. After licking it, she found it very sweet and delicious, and it was the best thing she had ever eaten, so she stuffed the whole thing into her mouth and gobbled it up.
Xibing was startled and immediately pinched her face, picked the snack out of her mouth, and then broke it off and fed it to her bit by bit while she cried. Only then did Erniu feel better.
Manbao withdrew his gaze and looked at Dahua over there with Lengleng. He said, "Your two children are very obedient. I have many children in my family, but when they were this old, they all liked to follow their mothers around. If they were far away, they would cry loudly."
Dahua said, "They are very obedient."
Manbao: "So you want to live?"
Dahua fell silent, then gritted her teeth and said with a burst of anger in her heart: "I want to live!"
Manbao nodded, reached out to lower the curtain to block the view from outside, unbuttoned her clothes and said, "Let me give you acupuncture first."
Man Bao had finished his acupuncture and was waiting for his turn when Da Fu Niang came in with a large bowl of white porridge, a large bowl of boiled eggs and pickles. She smiled at Zhou Man ingratiatingly and said, "Excuse me, Madam. We don't have much at home and can't prepare a good meal right away. These eggs are raised at home. Do you think they are to your liking? If so, I'll boil two more for you."
Although she said that, her face also showed a pain.
Manbao smiled, sat down at the table, and said to her, "Please bring two more bowls and spoons."
Dafu Niang didn't know what she was going to do for a moment, but she went anyway.
Manbao divided the big bowl of porridge into two small bowls for the children, and then separated the eggs and gave them to them.
The child, who is only a little over one or two years old, can already use a spoon very skillfully. When he sees food, he almost buries his head in the bowl and cannot lift it up.
Manbao was very satisfied and said to the dazed Dafu Niang, "Dahua is weak. Give her two boiled eggs every day for the next few days. She can also eat white rice porridge and boil it into rice oil. It would be even better if you add some oil and salt."
Dafu Niang:...She also knows it’s good. This is how even gods would eat it, right?
Where can we get so much refined rice at home to make it for her?
However, in response to Zhou Man's gaze, she still forced a smile and agreed.
Agree to it first, and then talk about releasing the person after you have made a good impression.
Manbao calculated the time to go and remove the needles from Dahua. Dafu's mother saw that she didn't even touch the porridge in the bowl and gave it all to the two girls. Now she knew why she was in trouble, so she started to wipe her tears behind her, "Madam, my Dafu didn't come home yesterday. The eldest and second girls couldn't see their father and kept crying."
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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