Chapter 8 The Miracle Doctor Arrives
"You don't have new clothes because of him," Daya said, "but I don't blame him for breaking off the engagement."
"Big sister!" Arya was unhappy about not getting the Unified Alliance, and she stamped her feet in anger, "You're still speaking for him."
"I'm not speaking for anyone, I'm just discussing the matter at hand. Hu Tou didn't dare to pull the strings today and let his mother make trouble. If he encounters other problems in the future, he will still hide behind his mother."
If she finds out early, the pain will only be temporary and she won’t have to suffer all the time.
Lu Qiniang sighed, "Now that things have come to this, let it go. I am the one who let Daya down."
She didn't expect that buying Xiao Yan in a moment of impulsiveness would affect her daughter's marriage.
"Mom, the most important thing is that we are back from the Zhou family. People outside think we were driven back, and it is human nature to flatter the powerful and look down on the weak. They have wanted to cancel the engagement for a long time, but they just found an excuse today." Daya was calm and composed, and talked about the matter at hand.
"Snob!" Erya cursed, gritting her teeth. "When I have money in the future, I'll buy you a husband who's better than Hutou and more obedient!"
Lu Qiniang: “…”
"Okay, enough talking, clean up and eat."
"I don't want to eat sweet potato porridge..." Erya looked at Lu Qinniang's face, "It's also good, it helps with bowel movements..."
When Lu Qinniang gets angry, she is very scary.
When Xiao Yan heard this, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
This family is also lively.
He thought that he should be able to pay back the money he got from selling himself and the twenty taels of silver he lost from breaking off the engagement in the future.
But before you get the money, don't make any promises.
While eating, Xiao Yan found a peeled boiled egg in his sweet potato porridge.
But there was no food in the bowls of Lu Qinniang and her daughter.
This egg suddenly became a little difficult to swallow.
Lu Qiniang was still instructing Sanya: "After dinner, go and ask Dr. Hu to come."
"Mom, are you feeling unwell again?" Erya asked hurriedly.
"If you stop irritating me, I'll feel better." Lu Qiniang scolded with a smile, and pouted at Xiao Yan, "Show it to Daddy."
That's her father too!
It must be offered as a sacrifice.
"Where do we get the money to treat his illness?" Erya was dissatisfied.
"If you don't have money, buy it on credit first. Doctor Hu is used to it." Lu Qiniang said.
Xiao Yan heard that their family was familiar with that Dr. Hu.
After dinner, Lu Qiniang had just finished washing the dishes when Doctor Hu was pulled in by San Ya.
"Saya, don't run, don't run, slow down, I'm so tired." Doctor Hu said breathlessly while running.
He carried a medicine box on his back and held a big carp in his other hand. The carp was very fresh and its scales were shining in the sun.
"Old Hu, just come. You are so polite and even carrying things." Lu Qiniang said with a smile.
"Pah, pah, pah, not only do you owe me two taels of silver for the medicine, but now you're eyeing my fish. This was given to me by someone else, and before I could even take it home, your San Ya caught it. San Ya, are you eyeing my fish?"
Doctor Hu looked to be no more than twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, which was not quite what Xiao Yan had imagined.
The loose hemp cloth collar was stained with suspicious brown medicine stains, and the messy hair was casually tied up with a half bamboo chopstick - there was a shriveled wolfberry stuck on the end of the chopstick.
Looks a bit unreliable.
"I asked you to come see me, but you're so noisy." Lu Qiniang said disdainfully, and stepped forward to take the fish. "Go ahead, I'll clean it up for you. It saves you from having to clean up again when you get back."
Doctor Hu handed the fish to her, wiped his body casually with the hand holding the fish, then lifted the curtain and walked into the room.
"Tsk tsk, General Po Lu?" He looked at Xiao Yan and said.
"Excuse me, my humble name is Xiao Yan."
"Lu Qiniang got the upper hand." Doctor Hu shook his head and said, "Here, the wrist."
Xiao Yan silently stretched out his wrist.
Doctor Hu reached out and took his pulse, thinking for a moment, "Oh, nothing's wrong, everything is fine. Lu Qi Niang, you can have children, don't worry! Just think about how to make money to support your husband."
Xiao Yan: Quack...
He was poisoned and had no strength left in his body, but he became "well" after being treated by Doctor Hu.
Maybe for him, being able to breathe is "good".
Lu Qiniang was scraping fish scales in the yard. Hearing this, she asked, "Do you think I should prescribe some medicine?"
"I'll write the prescription, do you have money to buy the medicine?"
“…There will be.”
"Pay me back first if you have money!" Doctor Hu said unhappily.
He walked out slowly and watched Lu Qiniang squatting on the ground washing fish. He hummed and said, "When my wife died, I asked you to follow me, but you refused. If you followed me, would you have fish to eat every day?"
"Bah!" Lu Qiniang spat at him, "I'll tell my sister-in-law later and see if she lets you get on the kang tonight."
"Who do you look down on?"
"you."
Doctor Hu: "Only women and villains are difficult to raise. I am leaving now."
"Wait, the fish will be ready soon."
"If you are tired of eating it, save it for your good husband to nourish him and give birth to a son soon." Doctor Hu left.
Xiao Yan thought that this Divine Doctor Hu was clearly teasing Lu Qiniang with his words.
With Lu Qin's mother's temper, she would probably get angry.
But he guessed wrong again.
Lu Qiniang was not angry, but happily prepared to stew the fish.
Xiao Yan didn't understand.
Then he asked Lu Qiniang.
"Old Hu, he's just mean-spirited but kind-hearted." Lu Qiniang served him a large piece of fish. "After his first wife died, he wanted to find a second wife. I was a new widow at the time, and someone wanted to arrange a marriage for us, but I didn't want to, so I didn't agree. He had a nephew at the time, and I felt like I was going to be a stepmother, and I didn't want to."
"Don't you want to be someone's stepmother?" Xiao Yan looked at her three adopted daughters who were sitting at the dinner table waiting for her.
"Being a stepmother is not easy. It's different from Daya and the others. Being a stepmother is like stealing someone else's father. I raised them so that they would have a mother, which is different."
Lu Qiniang poured some fish soup into the rice, "Eat more, you'll get better soon. I was the one who helped Old Hu find his current wife. Hu's sister-in-law is a good person, especially after I got sick, she often came to help. She brought Dujuan with her, and Old Hu didn't mind her. The family lived in harmony and happiness."
"She doesn't know what Divine Doctor Hu did to you before..."
"How could you not know? Do we need to hide it?" Lu Qiniang said frankly, "It's not like we're together, so why don't we keep in touch?"
There's more to the relationship between people than just the stuff between men and women.
Xiao Yan thought of what he had witnessed: the exchanges between the noble ladies at the flower viewing banquet and other blind date gatherings, and the subtle vigilance and manipulation of the concubines by the main wife in the backyard...
It seemed that in his impression, those were the vast majority of relationships between women.
There was no mutual help between Lu Qiniang and Hu Saozi in this situation.
It seems that in the lower class world, people have tried their best to survive, so it would be too pretentious to avoid suspicion.
"Doctor Hu said you are fine, so you must be fine. He is a bit careless, but his medical skills are still good." Lu Qiniang said again.
Xiao Yan said nothing.
I guess so.
After eating someone else's fish, he shut up.
Lu Qiniang returned to the dining table and sat down, and then her daughters picked up their chopsticks.
They were discussing how to make money.
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