Yu Jiao went to the old lady's courtyard, and the old lady hurriedly asked someone to bring some steamed chestnut flour cake with osmanthus sugar, which had just been made in the small kitchen and was still steaming hot.
Yu Jiao pinched a piece, tasted it, and found it soft, sweet and very delicious.
"Grandma, I came here to get some moxa sticks for Tao Ge'er's moxibustion." Yu Jiao's throat felt a little sweet after eating the cakes. She drank a cup of hot tea, only to find that everything in the room had been replaced with ginger fruit tea.
The old lady hurriedly asked Madam Liu to bring over the moxa sticks and asked, "Have you examined Tao'er's child?"
Yu Jiao nodded and told her about Tao'er's condition. Old Madam Liu was very happy to hear that Tao'er's epilepsy could be cured. When she saw Madam Liu bringing back a box of moxa sticks, she asked the maid to put the steamed chestnut flour cake with osmanthus sugar into a food box and asked Yu Jiao to take it back to eat.
"You go and do your work first, and come back when you are free in the evening. Grandmother will ask the kitchen to cook your meal." Thinking that Yu Jiao was going to see Tao Ge'er, Old Lady Liu did not keep Yu Jiao to talk any longer.
Yu Jiao stood up, bowed to the old lady, and left Baoshou Hall.
Mother Liu called a maid to help Yu Jiao get the food box and sent her back to Fufeng Pavilion.
Yu Jiao did not see Madam Liu in the yard and thought she had left.
She entered the room and put the food box on the table. She saw Tao Ge'er lying on the bed and sleeping. Liu Ziqi was sitting beside the bed. She said softly, "Grandma asked me to bring back some cakes. Big brother, would you like to try some?"
Liu Ziqi shook his head. When he went to pay his respects to his grandmother, his grandmother had asked Yu Jiao what she liked to eat. Liu Ziqi knew that this girl loved desserts, so he told his grandmother. This dessert must have been specially prepared for Yu Jiao by his grandmother by the servants in the room.
Yu Jiao glanced at the clepsydra and saw that only a quarter of an hour had passed. It was not yet time to remove the needles from Tao Ge'er. She said softly, "Big brother, I will teach you the acupuncture points for Tao Ge'er to use for moxibustion."
Yu Jiao walked to the desk where Liu Ziqi had taught Tao Ge'er to write, took out the thinnest wolf-hair brush from the pen holder, and simply drew a human acupuncture point map on the paper, emphasizing on some of the acupuncture points that Tao Ge'er needed moxibustion.
Although the acupuncture point map is intuitive, it is difficult to find the acupuncture points accurately with just one map. Yu Jiao originally thought that it would take some time to teach the big brother to identify the acupuncture points. Unexpectedly, the big brother was very smart and could accurately point out the location of each acupuncture point on his body in no time.
Yu Jiao almost doubted whether he was familiar with the locations of these acupoints.
"This is Eryin. These two acupoints need to be fumigated for a longer time when doing moxibustion." Yu Jiao said with a slightly red face.
When she was seeing patients before, she had never been shy about these things, but perhaps because Liu Ziqi was the older brother, she couldn't help feeling a little shy at this moment.
Liu Ziqi glanced at the location of the Eryin acupoint on the acupuncture point map, and saw that Yu Jiao's ears were red and her face was unusually shy, so he said considerately, "I'll remember it. If you're not sure, ask the doctor outside the clinic."
Yu Jiao breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the water clock. It was quarter of an hour. She got up and went to the bed to help Tao Ge'er remove the silver needles from his body. He was sleeping soundly. Yu Jiao removed all the needles, but he showed no signs of waking up.
"Let him sleep. I'll help him with moxibustion when he wakes up." Liu Ziqi sent Yu Jiao out of the room and said with some distress, "You've been busy all day. Go back to the courtyard and take a rest. You still have to treat your grandmother tonight."
Yu Jiao smiled slightly, "I'm not tired." In the past, there were so many patients coming to see her, and she and her senior brother were busy all day long when they were seeing patients. Now, this workload is nothing.
Not long after Yu Jiao returned to the courtyard, a servant from Fufeng Pavilion came over with a box and said to her respectfully, "Miss San, this is what the eldest young master asked me to bring to you."
Yu Jiao took the sandalwood box, opened it and saw that it was actually full of banknotes. She remembered that her elder brother had promised to give her some money to spend, and he actually asked someone to send her some money.
Yu Jiao held the box with some embarrassment. If she didn't accept it, she would be rejecting her elder brother's kindness. Although Yu Jiao didn't say anything on the way from Qingzhou, she had always seen how good Liu Ziqi was to her. He really treated her as his sister and wanted to be good to her and get close to her.
But if she accepted so many banknotes, Yu Jiao felt a little embarrassed.
Even if they are relatives, Yu Jiao is still not used to asking for money.
After the boy delivered the things, he bowed and was about to leave. Yu Jiao hurriedly called him and counted the silver notes in the box. There were five thousand taels of silver. Yu Jiao took out one thousand taels and returned the box to the boy, saying, "Take these back and tell my elder brother that if I don't have enough pocket money, I will go to my elder brother for more."
The servant had no choice but to take the box and go back to pass on the message.
When Liu Ziqi heard that Yu Jiao had accepted 1,000 taels of silver, a faint smile appeared on his face. That girl finally didn't treat him as an outsider anymore.
When the opportunity arises, he will tell Yu Jiao that the money she borrowed from Gu Yun was given by him, otherwise that silly girl would probably find ways to make money to pay Gu Yun back.
Yu Jiao went to Baoshoutang for dinner in the evening and returned to her own yard only after performing moxibustion on the old lady.
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