"Okay, I'm waiting to eat your red eggs!" The woman smiled and said, "When the talented young men from our village who are going to take the exam come back, there will be a lot of fun. I'm afraid Matchmaker Wang will have to run herself to death!"
Chen Qin smiled. Chen Zhiqing had not yet been engaged. According to her and Chen Gensheng's ideas, they wanted to find him a wife from a good family as soon as possible, but Chen Zhiqing himself did not want to do that.
He wanted to take the exam to get a higher grade. The Chen family was just ordinary people. If marriage was used properly, it might be a help. With the support of his father-in-law, Chen Gensheng and his wife had no choice but to follow him.
Chen Qin returned to the courtyard and saw Chen Gensheng smoking a pipe with a sullen look on his face. She whispered to comfort him, "We don't need to compete with the Yu family."
Chen Gensheng tapped his pipe and said, "I haven't thought about these things. Do you think Yu Wulang's health was really cured by that little girl who came to get married?"
Chen Qin knew that he was looking for the old lady's illness again, "Maybe it is. Ever since the rumor spread in the village that the girl knew medicine, the Yu family has become prosperous. Otherwise, how could they have married so many nobles."
The old lady's coughing sound came from the room again. Chen Qin sighed and said, "Why don't we take mother to the Yu family for a checkup? Mother's illness can't be delayed any longer."
The old lady's health is getting worse day by day, and it is not certain whether she can survive until the announcement of Chen Zhiqing's autumn examination results.
Chen Gensheng put away his pipe and said in a muffled voice, "I will go to Yu's house and invite her over."
"Now that you're gone, please save your dignity and say more nice words, and don't get angry." Chen Qinshi advised.
Chen Gensheng handed her the pipe, walked out of the yard and went to Yu's house.
Yu Ruhai was quite surprised to see Chen Gensheng coming to his house. He smiled and politely invited Chen Gensheng to sit down and have tea. However, he was still bothered by the fact that he had personally visited Chen Gensheng to propose marriage on behalf of his fifth brother, but was rejected by Chen Gensheng.
Yu Ruhai and Chen Gensheng are a generation apart, but the old lady of the Chen family refused to even show up and directly asked Chen Gensheng to send him away, which greatly humiliated Yu Ruhai.
"Gensheng, what are you doing here?" Yu Ruhai said with a smile on his face.
Chen Gensheng did not dare to act like a village head. He first called him uncle and then said, "My mother's cough is getting worse. Last time, Chen Ying was ignorant and made Wu Lang's wife angry. I have punished her severely. I came here to ask Wu Lang's wife to come home again to cure the old lady's cough."
Because Yu Jiao and the others never mentioned this, Yu Ruhai didn't know about the quarrel between Yu Jiao and Chen Ying at the Chen family. He only remembered that Yu Jiao said last time that the Chen family looked down on female doctors.
Things change over time, and Chen Gensheng also had the time to ask for help from the Yu family. Yu Ruhai was pleased in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. He pretended to be concerned and said, "Your mother's cough hasn't been cured yet? Why has it been delayed for so long? If it turns into tuberculosis, even the Great Luo Immortal will be helpless."
"Uncle Yu is right. I have seen many doctors and taken many medicines over the years, but nothing worked. Ah Rou even asked you to prescribe medicine for her before." Chen Gensheng deliberately brought up the matter of asking Yu Ruhai to prescribe medicine, and then said, "Not long ago, I asked Doctor Jiang from Huichun Hall to see her, but it didn't work either. People in the village say that your Wulang wife is a very good doctor, more effective than the doctors at Huichun Hall. My mother's illness still needs Wulang wife to diagnose and treat her."
Hearing him praising Yu Jiao's medical skills, Yu Ruhai specifically said, "That girl has a talent for medicine. She has learned a lot from me and is quite good."
"My uncle's ancestor was a royal doctor. With your guidance, Wu Lang's wife's medical skills are naturally exquisite." Chen Gensheng looked outside the hall and said, "After talking for a while, why can't I see Wu Lang's wife?"
Yu Ruhai felt relieved by the flattery, and pretended to feel sorry, saying hypocritically, "It's really unfortunate. The Mu family's master has invited Yu Jiao to Qingzhou for a medical consultation, and I'm afraid she won't be back for a while. Your mother's illness is not good to be delayed any longer, you should go and find another doctor."
Chen Gensheng had never heard that Yu Jiao had followed Yu Wulang and the others to Qingzhou. He had wasted a lot of time talking to her and had to put on a smile. He secretly criticized Yu Ruhai, the old man, for not telling him earlier that Yu Jiao was not at home and still arguing with him.
"Wulang's wife is not at home? How about Uncle Yu, can you help my mother? I have asked all the doctors around, and I really have no other way. My mother coughs day and night, and I, as her son, cannot take her place. I feel really bad." Chen Gensheng spoke sincerely. He thought that since Yu Ruhai could brazenly say that he was the one who taught Yu Jiao medical skills, Yu Ruhai might really have some secret skills passed down from his ancestors.
His mother is already terminally ill, so he has no choice but to try his luck with Yu Ruhai.
Yu Ruhai remembered the lesson from the He family last time, and he now had different ideas. He had wanted Yu Jiao to cure Old Lady Chen's illness before in order to impress the Chen family and vent his anger about being rejected in marriage and feeling humiliated.
Now that Chen Gensheng came to his house, Yu Ruhai's anger disappeared. All his brothers had met with disaster, and he didn't want to cause any more trouble, so he said, "I'm old, and I can't diagnose patients as well as young doctors. I passed on my medical skills to Yu Jiao. Fortunately, she has a talent for medicine, and she is even better than me. She is a successful person. I am now enjoying a peaceful life and no longer seeing patients."
After hearing Yu Ruhai's high-sounding words, Chen Gensheng couldn't hold back his smile anymore and said reluctantly, "Then I'll ask Wulang's wife to see my mother when she comes back from her medical consultation."
"Okay, I'll tell her when Yu Jiao comes back." Yu Ruhai agreed, but then reminded, "Yu Jiao is listed in the family tree. She is now the daughter of the second wife, the granddaughter of our Yu family, not Wu Lang's wife. You can just call her Jiao from now on."
Chen Gensheng returned home in a rage. Seeing his cold face, Chen Qin asked carefully, "Wu Lang's wife doesn't want to see our mother? Or did the Yu family give you a hard time?"
Chen Gensheng said with a sullen face, "That girl went to Qingzhou to see patients. I thought of asking Yu Ruhai to come and tell my mother quietly, but that old man kept talking to me about this and that, saying that he would no longer see patients. He looked so proud that his tail was almost up to the sky."
Chen Qin poured him a cup of tea and said softly, "Calm down. His medical skills are useless even if he comes to treat our mother. Didn't he almost kill the old man of the He family? Why did you invite him here?"
"He said that he taught the girl from the Meng family all the medical skills. I thought maybe he really had some secret skills passed down from the Yu family's ancestors. Didn't the Yu family always say that there was an imperial physician among their ancestors?" Chen Gensheng looked worried, frowned, and sighed, "Alas, I was confused by my mother's illness."
Chen Qin walked to Chen Gensheng's side, pressed his temples, and said softly, "Don't get too angry. Yu Wulang, that short-lived ghost, can be cured. If God has eyes, he will see our filial piety and maybe he will be kind and make mother's illness better."
Little Chen Qin's mumbling could be heard from outside. It was probably because the old lady had spit on the bedding again.
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