Reappearance of witchcraft
In Xinglin Hall, Shi Yanqing stood aside and watched as a man took the pulse of a newly-wed woman.
He stroked his long beard, shook his head, and spoke slowly and calmly, "Internal cold is blocking the flow of blood, making menstruation difficult. It's difficult to get pregnant."
After hearing this, the newlywed woman immediately pleaded, "Doctor Xu, do you have any solution?"
Xuanyu Jin nodded slowly, picked up his pen and wrote down the prescription on the paper: "Let's do this. Madam, first take a few doses of medicine to regulate your body and expel the coldness from your body. Then, take the Xinglintang's unique pills. It won't be long before good news comes."
"Thank you, Doctor Xu. I'll listen to you!" The newlywed woman immediately looked happy and excitedly held the hand of the woman next to her.
After the two left, Shi Yanqing sat down at the table, put her hand on the pulse pillow and let Xuanyujin feel her pulse.
"Doctor Xu, I've heard that you're an excellent doctor. My husband and I have been married for over a year, but we haven't gotten pregnant yet. Could you please tell me when I can get pregnant?"
Shi Yanqing wiped the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, his eyebrows drooping, looking melancholy and sad.
Her gesture was also intended to test his abilities and find out his true background. To see if he was the quack that the old lady's grandson had described him as.
Manyu withdrew his hand from taking the pulse and spoke in a rather meaningful tone, "Madam is in good health and has no illness. If you haven't conceived, it may be because the time has not come yet. You may as well be patient and wait. You will eventually conceive."
Hearing this, Shi Yanqing withdrew her hand from the pulse pillow. She nodded gently, ready to say a few words of thanks and leave.
After all, this test was purely on her whim and might have been offensive to many people.
But before she could say anything, she saw Xuanyujin smile mysteriously, "Of course, Madam, you came here because you trust me. I will do my best to help you get pregnant."
"Doctor Xu, do you have any solution?" Shi Yanqing felt something was wrong and asked.
Xuanyujin nodded, his tone affirmative. "In the past few years, I have developed a pill. It only takes half a month to get pregnant. Women in the county who have difficulty conceiving have come to me for treatment. I'm sure Madam knows this too."
"That's right."
"Then please ask Doctor Xu to prescribe medicine."
Shi Yanqing lowered her eyes to hide the deep thought in them. She had been a doctor for many years, but she had never heard of any pill that could easily lead to conception. However...
What exactly is Doctor Xu up to?
After walking out of Xinglin Hall, Shi Yanqing had very little silver left. She was holding a small medicine bottle in her hand, which contained many unique pills - worth thirty taels.
Since he had no money, Shi Yanqing had no mood to look after the shop.
What she wanted to do most now was to find out what the formula in the pills was.
A fire was lit on the small medicine stove, and Shi Yanqing placed a tea bowl filled with water on it. After the water slowly boiled, he poured a pill into the water.
She stared at the pill in the water without blinking, and when the beeswax layer on the surface gradually melted, the white water turned light yellow.
The water surface was bubbling constantly and white steam was rising.
When the water in the tea bowl was almost boiled through, Shi Yanqing picked up the tea bowl with wooden tongs and placed it on the table beside him, then used water to extinguish the fire in the medicine furnace.
At this time, there was a layer of brown-yellow semi-solidified substance at the bottom of the tea bowl, and an irregular round object the size of a millet.
Seeing this irregular round body, Shi Yanqing frowned slightly, and his guess was confirmed.
These are frozen insect eggs.
Shi Yanqing used a silver needle to poke the insect eggs in the tea bowl, but saw no signs of waking up.
An idea flashed through her mind, and she took out a silver needle, pierced her fingertip, and squeezed out a drop of blood.
The bright red blood covers the eggs and dissolves in the brownish-yellow semi-coagulant.
In less than a breath, the curled-up body of the insect egg stretched out, changing from a round body to a long strip.
"Madam, what is this?!" Tan Ye, who was guarding nearby, couldn't help but exclaimed after seeing it.
It’s no wonder that Dan Ye reacted like this. Yan Qing told her at the beginning that this pill was to help women get pregnant.
At that time, Dan Ye only thought that his young lady wanted to find out the ingredients of the pills so that she could learn a thing or two.
Now she saw a bug in the pill and was really scared.
After all, this is something that is imported!
Shi Yanqing spoke to comfort his maid: "Don't be afraid. This insect won't kill anyone."
But after she finished speaking, Dan Ye's face froze and he became even more frightened.
Seeing this, Shi Yanqing smiled helplessly, poked the insect's body with the silver needle in his hand, and explained: "This insect is called a rabbit worm. Medical records show that it is indeed used to help women conceive."
Dan Ye: "But I have never heard of such a thing before. It is really unbelievable."
"Could it be that this is the same source as what happened to Young Master Hangui last time?"
Shi Yanqing nodded: "That's their method."
When Dan Ye got a positive answer, her face changed. She turned her head to look at the closed door, and saw that there was no one outside, so she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Miss, this is too dangerous! We must tell the old lady."
Seeing that Dan Ye had changed her frightened address, Shi Yanqing stood up and walked to her. He stretched out his hand and pinched her cheek gently: "Don't be afraid, I will write a letter to tell grandma. But not now. At least we need to find out the truth behind this matter, so that grandma won't worry about us all the time."
Five years ago, when Shi Yanqing and Dan Ye were practicing medicine outside, Dan Ye was accidentally abducted by a witch doctor and knocked unconscious. After being rescued, she remained unconscious with only many small wounds on her body.
At that time, the Medical Immortal had not died yet. Shi Yanqing brought Dan Ye back to the Medical Immortal Valley. With the treatment of his master, it took three days to help Dan Ye escape danger and wake her up.
Since then, Danye has been extremely afraid of insects, the smaller the insects, the more afraid he is of them.
"Then Miss must bring me with her when she investigates." Dan Ye's expression kept changing, and then he made up his mind and said.
Shi Yanqing was silent for a moment, but finally agreed.
As the name suggests, rabbit worms have extremely strong reproductive abilities like rabbits.
The original origin is unknown, but the first person to discover and use it was a witch doctor.
Shi Yanqing opened the medical book compiled by the witch doctor that he borrowed from his uncle. The rustling sound of paper echoed in the quiet room, and soon the page stopped at the page that recorded the rabbit worm.
[Rabbit worms have a strong reproductive ability. They can be used as medicine to help women conceive.]
However, those with rabbit worms should not eat rabbit meat. Eating it won't be life-threatening, but it can be addictive. It can be used to control the behavior of others.
[My good friend said that purple spirit grass can cure the rabbit worm addiction, but purple spirit grass is a secret medicine of witch doctors and is difficult to find.]
When Shi Yanqing saw that there was a solution, his originally worried and anxious mood eased a little.
She closed the book, took out the letter paper, and wanted to write a letter to ask her uncle if he knew what the purple spirit grass looked like and where it usually grew.
"Danye, send the letter quickly."
Dan Ye took the sealed letter and said, "Yes, I will go right away."
Seeing Dan Ye leave, Shi Yanqing stood up and walked out of the desk, took out a palm-sized wooden box from the secret compartment of the dressing table, and when he opened it, there was a stack of silver bills, land deeds and small change inside.
The prices in Yunshui County were not high, and renting a shop cost a maximum of five taels of silver per month. Shi Yanqing took out all the silver coins from the wooden box, a total of thirty taels.
She put the wooden box back into the secret compartment, opened the door and was about to go out when she saw Liu Niang walking towards her through the hanging flower door.
"Madam, someone delivered a letter and a gift outside the door."
Shi Yanqing took the visiting card from Liu Niang's hand, opened it and looked at the name at the signature - Lin Mao.
"Has the person who delivered the post left?"
Liu Niang lowered her eyebrows and replied, "I haven't accepted the gift yet, and that person hasn't left yet."
Hearing this, Shi Yanqing glanced at Liu Niang approvingly and walked out: "Well done. Next time, if anyone comes to give me a gift, I won't accept any."
Liu Niang: "Yes."
Outside the gate, a middle-aged man in a gray silk gown stood with his back to the street, his eyes fixed on the closed gate.
At this time, the door was opened from the inside.
The middle-aged man straightened his expression and put on a flattering smile: "I am taking the liberty of delivering a letter to your house. Please don't blame me, Madam."
"Are you the Lin family's housekeeper?"
Shi Yanqing had just heard gossip about Mr. Lin on the street yesterday, and today he received a visiting invitation from the Lin family.
She thought to herself that she should bring Han Gui out to join in the fun.
The middle-aged man lowered his eyebrows and said, "Madam, I am Lin Zhong, the steward of the Lin family."
"My master has been ill recently. Yesterday, he learned that the county magistrate had taken office, but due to health reasons, he was unable to visit him in person. He had to prepare a gift and send this servant to come."
"Please forgive me, my Lord the County Magistrate and his wife."
Shi Yanqing nodded slightly. "Master Lin is seriously ill, but he still thinks of my master. My master and I will naturally not blame him. But my master is not at home, so I can't decide to accept this gift."
"Butler Lin, I'll accept the invitation. You can take the gift back. When my master returns from duty, I'll tell him the truth."
Lin Zhong hesitated: "But..."
Shi Yanqing smiled and said, "After all, I am a woman without an official rank and cannot be the master of the county magistrate. I hope Steward Lin will not insist on this."
"Well," Lin Zhong hesitated, then bowed and said, "I'll take the gift back first and won't bother Madam anymore."
After Lin Zhong left in the carriage, Shi Yanqing and Liu Niang entered the gate, and Qingping behind the door closed it.
"Liu Niang, go prepare lunch now. I'll go to the government office and take it to Hanzhang later." Shi Yanqing said to Liu Niang who was following him, "You don't need to prepare too much. Just prepare a serving of four-happiness meatballs and honey-glazed shrimps, and a bowl of black plum soup."
"Yes, I'll go right away." Liu Niang waited for a few seconds, and when she saw that Shi Yanqing had nothing else to say, she turned and left.
So many things have happened in the past two days, and Shi Yanqing is feeling very complicated.
The unknown witchcraft on Liu Anan's body and the rabbit worms in many of the pills that were sold out, both of these things had the shadow of the witch doctor behind them.
Perhaps Wonton Grandma’s illness is also related to the witch doctor, this thought suddenly flashed through Shi Yanqing’s mind.
She sighed, temporarily putting her thoughts aside, then returned to her room and changed into a Bixia Yanluo Qiyun dress. She also asked Dan Ye to re-comb her hair and put on a set of pearl and white jade headdress.
She was going to deliver food to the yamen later. The hair Zhou Hanzhang had combed for her in the morning wasn't actually very pretty.
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