"I'll draw it for you tomorrow," Liang Qi said as he walked out of the east room.
Xiaoyue had just changed her pants when Doctor Hu arrived. Xiaoyue quickly ushered Doctor Hu into the house. After taking her pulse, Doctor Hu pondered for a long time and added ginseng to the original prescription. After handing the prescription to Xiaoyue, he said, "Sanlin's wife is too weak. Use this prescription for ten days. I will come back to take her pulse again after that to see if the prescription needs to be changed."
Then, with an apologetic tone, he said to Xiaoyue, "The prescription is a bit expensive. One dose of medicine needs to be decocted three times, one dose per day. If it lasts for ten days, it will cost two taels of silver."
Lu Xiaomei, Li Lei, and Liang Qi, who were all on the kang (heated brick bed), were all startled.
Seeing the expressions on everyone's faces, Physician Hu knew that this medicine would be fine for wealthy families, but it would be a problem for a young woman like Xiaoyue who had no resources. After thinking for a moment, he said:
"The ginseng of Sanlin's wife has to be over twenty years old to be effective. If you cut a slice of twenty-year-old ginseng, it will cost two taels of silver. The only thing I can buy is the ginseng rootlets."
"So, one dose of medicine still costs five hundred coins. But when I arrived in this village, I saw that Xiaoyue was kind and righteous in everything she did, so I just charged her the cost of the medicine."
Hearing the price, Xiaoyue's legs started to hurt again, but she had to save Lu Xiaomei. Xiaoyue took out five taels of silver from her pocket and handed it to Li Lei, saying, "Take Doctor Hu back and bring the medicine back with the prescription."
After seeing off Physician Hu,
Seeing that Xiaoyue still wanted to go out, Liang Qi said with a displeased expression, "It's getting dark, and it's snowing heavily outside. What are you going to do?"
“I need to find someone. I’m not good enough. I’m okay at making the lining of the clothes, but Li Qianqian can’t finish it all by herself in another month. So I need to find someone quickly.”
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