Lu Song wanted to go to Baicaotang to take a look. Although he knew that Feng Yuheng didn't like him, he didn't want to die like this. He had always been angry and didn't want the Lu family to end like this. He wanted to follow the Eighth Prince at the beginning, but he didn't expect that he was a heartless person. His Lu family was blind. Now he also knows how to stand on the side. If he can meet Feng Yuheng and say a few good words, what if the newly married princess softens her heart?
The Lu family used to cast a wide net, planning to marry one daughter to the Yao family, one daughter to the Sheng Palace, and another daughter to be estimated at a price. These nets were cast, and whichever fish was caught was the fish, and whoever won would not lose. But unexpectedly, in the end, all the nets were leaking, and no fish was caught, and now it has ended up like this. Lu Song has long recognized the reality. It is wrong to cast a wide net. It is a serious matter to focus on one person who is loyal to him. Unfortunately, their family no longer has a decent daughter. There is a stunning girl, but she suffers from a hidden disease. Fortunately, Lu Ping and Feng Yuheng seem to know each other and have some friendship. If they can walk the friendship route well, it will not be bad.
When the carriage was near Baicaotang, he stopped it and the driver was driven back to his house. Lu Song decided to walk the rest of the way by himself. He had heard that Baicaotang was more popular than before after its opening. In addition, this was the result of a collective petition by the people, so he also wanted to see how grand the Baicaotang was.
With this mentality in mind, Lu Song walked towards Baicaotang step by step, without any followers around him. He was like a wealthy old man in the capital who had nothing to do. Occasionally, if he met someone who recognized him, he would just wave his hand and not bother to greet them.
But he was a patient after all. He had already spent a lot of energy going to court early in the morning. Now he had to send the coachman and his followers back to the mansion. He had been walking for a long time under the scorching sun, and the feeling of chest tightness and shortness of breath came up again. He had no choice but to lean on a big tree on the street, thinking that he would feel better after a rest. He reached into his sleeve pocket again, trying to find a piece of silver to buy some tea. But before he could find the silver, he had a sudden cough. The cough was so sudden and severe that he felt like his lungs were about to be coughed out, but there was no relief. After finally stopping the last cough, he looked at the handkerchief he used to cover his mouth and found a pool of blood.
Lu Song's heart skipped a beat. It was true that he was ill, but it was the first time that he coughed up blood. Before, he just felt chest tightness, shortness of breath, and occasional dizziness. He didn't expect that he would cough up blood in the street today. For a moment, the symptoms of dizziness came again. He swayed three times and was about to fall down, but he was supported by a person who appeared beside him. It was a young man who asked him, "Lord Zuo Xiang, are you feeling unwell?"
When he heard people calling him the Left Prime Minister, Lu Song was quite happy, thinking that at least someone recognized him, so that he wouldn't faint in the street and no one would care. He quickly pulled himself together to turn his head to look, but when he saw the man's face clearly, he exclaimed, "Ah!" and said, "Isn't this the eldest son of the Ren family?"
The man who came was none other than the eldest son of General Pingnan, Ren Xifeng's elder brother, Ren Xitao. Although Ren Xitao was young, he was already the deputy commander of the Southeastern Dashun Army with 50,000 troops. The Southeastern Dashun Army had been without a commander for many years, so it could be said that although Ren Xitao was called the deputy commander, he had the same authority as the commander.
Lu Song felt that calling him "the eldest son of the Ren family" was not right, so he quickly changed his words: "It's General Ren. I am not feeling well. Thank you for your help. Otherwise, I would have fallen to the ground and embarrassed myself." The deputy commander of the southeast, General Ren Weiting, a fourth-rank general, although there was no war in the southeast, but as the left prime minister, he still remembered this title. Lu Song had some ideas about Ren Xitao for a long time. He intended to marry Lu Ping to him, but he had no way to do it. He didn't have much friendship with General Pingnan's mansion, so he couldn't get the point even if he asked someone to propose marriage. But he didn't expect to meet in this way on the street today.
Ren Xitao is an upright young man. Although his sister Xifeng has told him many times not to trust anyone easily and to be more cautious in everything, he never thinks so. He always feels that everyone has a hard time and is not a bad person for no reason. General Pingnan also knows his character, so he tries to make him have less contact with people, especially those civil servants in the court. Ren Xitao is also obedient. He rarely speaks even in court on weekdays. He gives people the impression that he is a little dull, but no one can ignore his true self. When fighting, he is not ambiguous at all.
Seeing Lu Song coughing up blood, Ren Xitao had long forgotten what his sister had told him about the Lu and Yao families. He became anxious when he saw the blood and asked, "Why are you going out alone when you are so sick? Where are the servants at home?"
Lu Song shook his head: "I just wanted to go out for a walk by myself, and didn't let the servants follow me."
"That won't do!" Ren Xitao was so anxious that he looked around, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He then stepped back and helped Lu Song, saying, "Don't worry, Zuo Xiang, Baicaotang is just ahead. Xitao will help you go there for a consultation. Vomiting blood is not a minor illness, and you can't just leave it like this." After saying that, regardless of Lu Song's objection, he supported Lu Song's upper arms and walked towards Baicaotang. He was a military general, strong and sturdy, and Lu Song couldn't get over him. He was almost carried to the door of Baicaotang, and then met the gaze of Yao An, the fourth young master of the Yao family, with a face full of embarrassment.
However, Yao An had been told by Feng Yuheng before that Baicaotang was open for business. No matter who the person was, as long as they came here with injuries or illnesses, there was no reason to turn the patient away. However, the treatment of the doctor depended on the person. If they didn't like the person, were not good people, or were on the opposite side of them, then they could kill them without hesitation! No one would have a grudge against money, right?
So Yao An didn't say anything and told his staff to let the people in. But in his heart, he was thinking, does the Lu family have money? Didn't they spend all their money when the business failed? The Yao family did an investigation and cheated the Lu family until they were penniless, and then they stopped.
Ren Xifeng naturally had no idea what was going on, so he said anxiously, "Lord Lu coughed up blood on the way, and it happened to be not far from Baicaotang, so I brought him here. Come and have a look, why would a healthy person suddenly cough up blood?"
Today, Feng Yuheng was also in Baicaotang. She had just treated a trauma patient and was about to return home when she heard that Lu Song came to Baicaotang with coughing up blood. She curiously ordered someone to send Lu Song to her special clinic.
Ren Xitao helped Lu Song in. He had met Feng Yuheng before, but they were not familiar with each other. However, with Ren Xifeng's relationship, the two of them were not strangers. He saluted when he saw Feng Yuheng and called out, "Princess Yu."
Feng Yuheng smiled and said, "The general is Xifeng's elder brother, and Xifeng is my good sister. There is no need for us to be so polite. I will call you Brother Ren!" After that, she did not give the other party a chance to be polite, and asked directly, "Prime Minister Lu coughed up blood, why was it sent by Brother Ren?" While she was talking, she did not forget about Lu Song. After asking him to sit down, she immediately measured his blood pressure and listened to his heart and lungs. Coughing up blood is mostly related to the lungs. At Lu Song's age, if he is lucky, it is ordinary pneumonia, and if he is unlucky, it is lung cancer.
Ren Xifeng saw her treating Lu Song with a very novel technique, but he did not forget to answer Feng Yuheng's question. He said, "I met him by chance on the street. I saw Lu Song was holding onto a big tree and was about to fall down, so I went over to help him. As a result, I saw the blood on his handkerchief, so I quickly brought him to Baicaotang."
"Yes." Feng Yuheng nodded and didn't ask any more questions. She focused all her attention on Lu Song. The stethoscope didn't sound like lung disease, but the blood pressure was extremely high, reaching 170. She asked Lu Song: "Besides coughing up blood, what other symptoms do you usually have?"
Lu Song replied: "I have been feeling chest tightness and shortness of breath for the past month, and occasionally dizziness." After thinking about it, he said: "I still feel uncomfortable in my stomach."
Feng Yuheng nodded and told him directly without hiding anything: "I originally thought that coughing up blood was caused by lung disease, but now it seems that there is nothing wrong with the lung disease." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to pinch the pulse and soon got further confirmation: "The problem is in the stomach. If I am not mistaken, Lord Lu should have just had stomach discomfort at first, right? You don't know what's wrong with you, and you feel stressed in your heart. You don't think about anything else all day long, but think about what's wrong with your illness, right?"
Lu Song nodded: "Princess, you are right. Ever since my stomach started to feel uncomfortable, my family has invited several doctors, but they couldn't tell what was wrong. They prescribed medicine but it didn't work, so I was worried. Later, I started to have headaches and dizziness, and today I finally coughed up blood...Princess, am I...going to die?"
Feng Yuheng shook her head and said, "It's not certain yet. The initial suspicion is that something has grown in the stomach, but it's hard to say whether it's malignant or benign. We need to do a pathological analysis. However, your dizziness and shortness of breath are not a big problem. It's just that you put too much psychological pressure on yourself, which causes your blood to rise, which makes you feel dizzy. I'll prescribe some blood-lowering medicine for you later. If you have such symptoms again in the future, take the medicine as prescribed by the doctor and you will be well soon. As for your stomach..." She thought for a while and said, "You need to do a gastroscopy to take out the contents of the stomach, and then do a pathological analysis."
Lu Song didn't understand the terms she was using, but when he heard that it could be cured, he couldn't help but feel better. "Then let's do a gastroscopy!"
Feng Yuheng smiled and told him, "Lord Lu, Baicaotang is a clinic, but it is not a free clinic. You need to pay for seeing a doctor. And for now, only this princess can do the gastroscopy herself. Do you think I should write the bill now and you can go down and pay the money, or should I send the bill to Lu's house and have the servants deliver it later?"
When she mentioned money, Lu Song felt unsure again. Baicaotang always treated people differently. If a poor person was treated by a good person, the money he paid was very little, or even free. But if a rich person was treated by a bad person, how much money he would pay depended on Baicaotang's mood. Especially for those who had a grudge against Feng Yuheng, it was possible that they would go bankrupt because of an illness.
But her method of treating patients is unique. If you don't come here for treatment, it's no different from waiting to die. In the past, people were calm when they got a disease that would kill them. After all, everyone was the same. Everyone would die, and no one could cure it. But later, suddenly those so-called terminal illnesses could be cured, so people felt it was worth spending a little more money to save their lives.
The most frightening thing is that you know that the disease can be cured here, but you don't have the money to treat it. That's the saddest thing. And he, Lu Song, is now facing this kind of sadness...
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