Chapter 302 Difficult
Li San Niang greeted the young apprentice who was recording the events, and then took Qiu Xiang into the carriage of the woman in green.
The journey wasn't far; Li San Niang estimated it would only take a little over two quarters of an hour before the carriage slowly came to a stop.
After getting off the car, Li Sanniang looked at the plaque with the words "Jin Zhai" (Golden Residence) written on the gate and knew that this family must be rich.
Otherwise, the characters on this plaque wouldn't be painted with gold powder; it would look really beautiful, all glittering gold.
When you are still some distance from the door, you can see several women of varying ages waiting at the door.
Upon closer inspection, Li San Niang immediately noticed the difference.
The woman standing at the front, dressed in a printed silk dress, with a gold hairpin in her hair and two gold bracelets on her wrists, and looking somewhat plump, should be the lady that Lüyi mentioned during her previous consultation, namely, Madam Jin, the matriarch of the Jin family.
Standing close to Lady Jin was an older woman, presumably a servant in the household.
However, Li San Niang spotted Lü Yi standing behind Jin Niangzi with a quick glance. Behind Lü Yi were two beautiful young women, who must have been Hong Xiu and Ying Ge, whom Lü Yi had mentioned.
"Dr. Li, it's good to see you. Please come in."
"Golden Lady, are you well?"
After sitting down in the main hall, Li San Niang held the pure white porcelain cup and couldn't help but sigh in her heart, "Indeed, being a merchant is the only way to truly become rich."
"Doctor Li likes these white porcelain cups? If so, I'll give him a set later. People nowadays love teacups with flowers and plants, but I prefer these without any flowers or plants. My husband even said I have no taste."
Li San Niang was puzzled. If Jin Niangzi really had such a simple aesthetic sense, why wasn't she dressed like that in terms of headdress, jewelry, and clothing?
Jin Niangzi noticed Li San Niang's confusion and explained with a hint of helplessness, "It's all because of what the master said. If I don't dress properly, I'll embarrass him."
I have no choice; this is how I dress when I meet people, even though it's really cumbersome.
After just a few words, Li San Niang had a better understanding of Jin Niangzi's temperament.
"Lady Jin, who do you wish to see by inviting me to your door?"
As soon as Li San Niang asked the question, Jin Niangzi gave the old woman a look. The old woman waved her hand, and the four maids who were serving in the main hall bowed and left.
"Dr. Li, since Lüyi returned from her consultation, she has already told me what Dr. Li instructed. I was also worried, so I went to the backyard to ask Hongxiu and Yingge if they had any unusual symptoms."
Heaven have mercy, Yingge was already pregnant, and the master was away on business most of the year, only returning home during festivals.
This involves the matter of offspring, and I dared not act on my own initiative. So I had Lüyi take the medicine prescribed by Physician Li first, and only after the master returned home did I explain the situation clearly.
Therefore, after several days, we finally asked Dr. Li to come to our home for a consultation.
Li San Niang nodded. She couldn't control when the patients came for their treatment. As a doctor, she had said what needed to be said, and whether the patients listened or not was their business.
“Lady Jin, these syphilis sores are mostly transmitted between beds. If you ask me to make a house call today, I should take a look at everyone who is related to Lüyi.”
Lady Jin looked troubled, as if she didn't know whether to speak or not.
It was the older woman beside Lady Jin who spoke up: "Madam, Doctor Li is a physician who heals and saves lives; he would never speak carelessly."
Li San Niang quickly replied, "Don't worry, Madam Jin. As a doctor, I know the patient's condition best only to myself, and I would never tell anyone else."
Jin Niangzi glanced at the old woman, then looked to her right at the properly seated Lüyi and the others, nodded, and said to Li San Niang as if she had made up her mind, "So that San Niangzi knows..."
It turns out that when Lady Jin married into the Jin family in her early years, the Jin family's master had not yet made his fortune and had not yet been involved in the procurement of the palace's kitchen. At that time, he was just a merchant who traded goods from the north and south.
For more than ten years, Jin Niangzi stayed at home to serve her parents and take care of the children.
After serving Mr. and Mrs. Jin, Madam Jin took her three sons and followed the Jin family's master to settle in Chang'an.
Everything was fine at first; it was a case of hardship finally giving way to happiness.
However, after the young master of the Jin family rose to prominence, at the age of nearly forty, he actually began to have an affair. Although he could not openly take a concubine, he bought a young girl to live with as a maid. In reality, she was a concubine living in the backyard. As long as the people did not complain and the officials did not interfere, that was all.
Lüyi was the first young girl to be brought back.
Looking at the young girl who was only a few years older than her eldest son, what could Jin Niangzi say? She could only find a courtyard in the backyard and assign two little maids to her.
According to Jin Niangzi, "Doctor Li, these are all women from other people's families, about the same age as my eldest son. I'm already this age, and I could easily be their mother."
At my age, why would I care about love and romance anymore?
Don't laugh at me, Dr. Li, but I just think my husband is amusing himself. As a man gets older, isn't it a wonderful thing to chat with such a pretty young girl?
"I'll keep it; I'll treat it like a cat or dog."
Once there was one, there was another. After Lüyi, the young master of the Jin family brought Hongxiu and Yingge back.
"Lvyi is such a disappointment. I was thinking that if she gave birth to Xiaolang, I would help raise him and that would be a source of amusement. But unexpectedly, Yingge got pregnant first."
Li San Niang was a little embarrassed, she really didn't expect to hear this gossip about the Jin family.
"Dr. Li, the medicine you prescribed is effective for Lüyi; the plum blossom spots on her body have faded quite a bit."
"Please trouble Dr. Li to take another look at Hongxiu and Yingge, especially Yingge, who is pregnant."
Jin Niangzi understood from Li San Niang's gaze and said directly to Li San Niang, "I haven't shared a room with my master for a long time, and I don't feel any discomfort."
As for the young master, I did speak to him, but he doesn't seem to have any symptoms and doesn't want to see a female doctor, so there's nothing I can do."
Li San Niang understood, and could only find the pulse pillow and signal Lü Yi to come forward and take her pulse.
After taking her pulse, Li San Niang asked to see the plum blossom spots on Lü Yi's body. Lü Yi was not shy at all and took off her clothes right there in the main hall in front of everyone.
"Hmm, judging from this, the medicine is very effective, but if you want to be completely cured, you still need to continue taking it for a while. I'll change the prescription for you, and you can continue taking ten doses."
Then Li San Niang took the pulses of Hong Xiu and Ying Ge. When Li San Niang asked to have her body examined, Hong Xiu blushed but agreed.
What Li San Niang found terrifying was that when she asked Ying Ge's age, she found out that she had just passed the age of 15 and was already more than three months pregnant.
Seeing that Li San Niang had something to say, Lü Yi directly spoke up for Hong Xiu and Ying Ge: "Doctor Li, please speak freely. Madam treats us very well, there's nothing we can't let her know."
Li Sanniang looked at the people in front of her with embarrassment, and said helplessly to Jin Niangzi, "Although this 'plum blossom sore' manifests on the skin, there should generally be symptoms in the lower body as well."
When Lüyi came to see me that day, she took off her clothes on the bed in my consultation room to examine me.
"These beautiful women and their melodious songs?"
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