Yu Jiao remembered that Mother Liu said that her grandmother's cough was cured by a prescription given by the imperial physician Wang in the palace, so she thought it must be the doctor in front of her.
Wang Min stared at Yu Jiao, frowned, and said with an unhappy look, "Why are you wearing a face scarf? Is it because you can't see people?"
The ugly boy Li Jing, who was standing next to Yu Jiao holding a medical box, suddenly contracted his pupils under the mask when he heard the voice, and he looked up at Wang Min abruptly.
Yu Jiao smiled faintly and looked at Wang Min coldly, "Do you know why Huangdi, the founder of medicine, wrote the Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine?"
Although Wang Min didn't know what Yu Jiao was trying to say, he still replied, "Of course, it's to allow future generations to inherit the lost knowledge and pass on the medical skills."
"Why did Laozi write the Tao Te Ching?" Yu Jiao continued to ask.
Wang Min said impatiently, "The works of our ancestors are meant for future generations to study! You are a woman who has no idea what you are talking about. Madam Wu invited you here to see a doctor, not to test me on these messed up things!"
"So you also know that I'm here for a consultation." Yu Jiao looked cold and said sarcastically, "Huangdi wrote the Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine because he wanted to, Laozi wrote the Tao Te Ching because he wanted to, and I wear a face scarf because I want to. Does it have anything to do with you?"
As soon as Yu Jiao finished speaking, Yu Fuling beside her burst out laughing, and even Madam Wu covered her mouth with a handkerchief and laughed silently.
Wang Min didn't expect that a wild girl from the country would dare to ridicule him so openly, and his face quickly darkened.
Mrs. Wu did not wait for him to get angry and quickly tried to smooth things over, "It is inconvenient for a woman to practice medicine, and wearing a face scarf is also for convenience."
She walked forward and held Yu Jiao's hand, "Stop talking nonsense. Doctor, go check on my third brother's wife. She has been feeling worse these past two days and has unbearable abdominal pain."
Madam Wu led Yu Jiao into the side room. Considering the privacy of the inner house, Chen Guan was afraid that the Third Madam might not want outsiders to see her current appearance, so she did not follow them in and sat down on a chair in the outer room.
Li Jing was a man, so naturally he was not allowed to enter. He handed the medical box to Yu Fuling and stayed in the outer room with Chen Guan, occasionally looking up and glancing at Wang Min.
After the maid came in to serve tea, Shen Guan glanced at Wang Min who was sitting still, and said calmly, "Female Doctor Yu was specially invited by Madam Wu. Imperial Doctor Wang, you are highly respected and often visit various nobles. I have seen you very kind in the past, but today I have seen the majesty of the Imperial Hospital."
After hearing these meaningful words, Wang Min coughed lightly with an unnatural expression and said vaguely, "Miss Shen, you are too serious. I just saw that this female doctor was young and covered her face, so I was worried that her medical skills were not good enough and that she would harm Madam Wu San."
Shen Guan glanced at him and said unceremoniously, “You are over fifty years old and are often said to have superb medical skills, but why did I hear from Madam Wu that you had no way to treat the dead fetus in Madam San’s belly?”
Wang Min's face turned red and white, but he could only hold his anger and dared not to lose his temper.
Li Jing stood aside, listening to the two people talking quietly, and became more and more certain of one thing in his heart.
In the side room, Yu Jiao checked the pulse of Madam Wu San who was lying on the bed, asked her to undress, and carefully felt her abdomen. She looked up and asked, "What kind of poison did Madam Wu San take? Can the poison be cured?"
Madam Wu said hurriedly, "Doctor Wang said that if the poison is normal, it will not harm the female body, but once the woman is pregnant, the poison will be discharged into the fetus in the abdomen, resulting in a dead fetus, and the woman will not be able to give birth to a live baby."
Madam Wu San, who was lying on the bed with a haggard face, had veins bulging on the back of her hands. She grabbed the quilt and asked in a loud voice while trying to hold back the pain in her stomach, "Doctor, can I still be saved?"
Her abdomen was very large and she was seven months pregnant. Even if she took abortion drugs, the dead fetus that had already formed could not be expelled. If Mrs. Wu San was in good health and could hold on for another month or so and take labor-inducing medicine, she might be able to expel the dead fetus.
But judging from her pulse just now, Mrs. Wu San obviously could not hold on until that time, otherwise Doctor Wang would not be so helpless.
"You can be saved." Yu Jiao said in a steady voice, "But I need to operate on your stomach, which will leave a scar."
Madam Wu said hurriedly, "It doesn't matter as long as my cousin's life can be saved."
"Can I talk to you for a moment?" Yu Jiao said.
Madam Wu asked the maid to keep an eye on the Third Madam, followed Yu Jiao out of the wing room, and invited her into the second room.
"You should be aware of Madam Wu's situation. If she doesn't perform a cesarean section to remove the dead fetus, she won't last long." Yu Jiao said straight to the point, "The imperial physician outside should have told you that there is no way to remove the dead fetus from Madam Wu's belly. You came to me because you were desperate."
Madam Wu nodded and said with a tired look on her face, "Doctor Yu, we really have no other choice. As long as you can save my cousin's life, I will give you any consultation fee."
Mrs. San is the cousin of Mrs. Da Wu. After Mrs. Da Wu married Wu Yi, she saw that his official position was getting higher and higher, and he was appointed as the Right Councillor of the Ministry of Public Security. However, Mrs. Da's family had not made any progress in recent years. In order to bind the Wu family firmly, her family arranged for her cousin to marry the third master of the Wu family.
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