Zheng Xiu said no more and sat on a chair waiting for the doctor
to come. But unexpectedly, Xue Zhi came the fastest.
He walked back quickly with big strides, and Fen Ge, who went to inform him, was left far behind, so she could only jog behind with her skirt lifted.
"Ah Xiu, what's wrong with you?" Xue Zhi walked into the room and stepped forward to ask with concern.
Zheng Xiu shook her head, "It's nothing, I just felt dark in front of my eyes."
Xue Zhi frowned and turned to look at Ming Hui, "How did you take care of Madam?"
Ming Hui and Fen Ge knelt down and apologized.
Zheng Xiu waved her hand and said, "Get up." Then she looked at Xue Zhi again, "Why do you blame them? I'm fine, and they supported me when I almost fell down."
Xue Zhi's tightly frowned brows still did not relax.
As he was talking, the doctor from the mansion had already arrived.
Xue Zhi immediately asked him to come forward to treat Zheng Xiu.
The doctor wiped the sweat from his forehead. Seeing Xue Zhi's anxiety, he was a little nervous, afraid that Zheng Xiu really had some serious illness. He sat down next to Zheng Xiu and asked her to put her wrist on the pillow.
After a while, the solemn expression on the doctor's face was replaced by a smile.
"Congratulations, Second Master, Second Madam! Second Madam is not seriously ill, but is pregnant!"
Xue Zhi was ecstatic, and pulled the doctor up from the chair, "Are you telling the truth?"
The doctor almost stumbled, and quickly steadied himself and said, "I will not make a wrong diagnosis, Second Madam is indeed pregnant, and it has been almost two months."
Zheng Xiu was also surprised and said, "No way, I had my period last month."
The doctor broke away from Xue Zhi's big hand and said, "I am presumptuous to ask, Second Madam's period last month was not very regular, and it was short."
Zheng Xiu thought about it and it was indeed the case. Last month's period came a few days later than usual, and the amount was very small, only two days. She didn't take it seriously at the time, thinking that she was tired from being busy, so she was abnormal. She
nodded, and the doctor said: "Second Madam, this is 'false menstruation', which is a symptom of spotting in the early stages of pregnancy, not the real menstrual period."
"Spotting? Is this a problem?" Xue Zhi also became nervous.
The doctor said: "Second Madam has a good physical foundation, and now she is just a little weak and hot. As long as she pays attention to rest, and cooperates with me to prescribe some tonic medicine for recuperation, she will naturally be fine."
"Hurry up and prescribe it!" Xue Zhi kept urging.
The doctor went to the side to write a prescription.
Minghui and others smiled and congratulated him.
Xue Zhi's face was smiling and worried at times, and he didn't know what to do for a while, so he walked back and forth in the room.
Zheng Xiu touched her still very flat belly. She didn't expect to have her first child so soon. It came so quickly and she was not prepared at all.
Xue Zhi walked around for who knows how many times, and the doctor's room was finally opened. He immediately asked the servant to go with him to get medicine.
Just as the servant was about to leave, Xue Zhi changed his mind and said, "Forget it, I'll go myself." He told the maids to take good care of Zheng Xiu, and he followed the doctor. He even thought the doctor walked too slowly, so he simply carried him and hurried to the pharmacy.
Seeing him so nervous, Zheng Xiu felt funny and sweet.
"Madam is very happy. Do you want me to go to each room to inform them?" Minghui asked.
Zheng Xiu nodded, "Let Fen Ge and Bai Zhu go, you go get some silver and distribute it to the people in our courtyard."
Ming Hui, Fen Ge and Bai Zhu agreed and went to work.
The news soon spread to Changfeng Garden and Xiya Garden.
Princess Guihe was surprised to hear that Zheng Xiu was pregnant, "So she is pregnant? No wonder she couldn't stop eating plum cakes today!" Then she turned around and told Qiu Rui, "Let the chef clean up the small kitchen and send her the rest. And I remember that the palace rewarded some tonics before, and if there are any left, send them over." After thinking about it, she felt worried, "How can she be so thin? Let the female doctor go over and take a look and open a room for her to recuperate."
Qiu Rui agreed and immediately told someone to do it.
At Xiya Garden, Wang Hanyu heard the news and felt jealous and happy for Zheng Xiu. She also asked Mo Yun and Bitao to pack some supplements from her dowry and send them over.
Fen Ge and Bai Zhu went out for a walk and brought back a lot of things. Especially the medicinal materials sent by Princess Guihe, there were several ginseng roots as thick as thumbs.
After Xue Zhi came back from prescribing the medicine, he personally supervised people to boil the medicine. After
the medicine was boiled, he did not let anyone touch it and brought it into the house himself.
Zheng Xiu was having her pulse checked by a female doctor, so Xue Zhi put the medicine bowl aside and waited to hear what the female doctor said.
Fortunately, after the female doctor examined her, she said the same thing as the doctor in the mansion, asking her to pay more attention to rest. She also checked the prescription of the previous doctor to make sure there was no problem.
After the female doctor left, the medicine was cooled down.
Xue Zhi quickly brought the medicine forward for Zheng Xiu to drink.
The medicine tasted bitter, and Zheng Xiu felt nauseous when she smelled it.
Seeing her frown, Xue Zhi asked someone to bring a fruit plate over, and then advised her gently: "If you are afraid of bitterness, just hold your nose and drink it. Eat two candied fruits later to sweeten your mouth."
Zheng Xiu didn't want to eat candied fruits, so she asked Minghui to bring some pickled plums sent by Princess Guihe, and then she made a bitter face and drank the medicine in one gulp while enduring the bitterness. As
soon as the medicine entered her stomach, she felt nauseous and vomited.
Xue Zhi quickly held his hand to her mouth and said distressedly: "Don't spit it out, don't spit it out, you drank it with great difficulty."
Zheng Xiu swallowed her saliva for a long time, and finally suppressed the urge to vomit.
Minghui brought up the pickled plums again, and she picked up two and put them in her mouth, and finally felt better.
Seeing that it was almost time for lunch, Xue Zhi was afraid that Zheng Xiu would feel uncomfortable after sitting for too long, so he helped her lie on the bed, and without saying anything, he asked someone to clear away all the account books piled on the table.
Zheng Xiu was helped to sit on the bed, and said with a smile: "It's not that expensive. I usually sit here for a whole day and I don't seem to feel uncomfortable anywhere."
Xue Zhi said reproachfully: "You just don't take care of your body. Fortunately, you are pregnant this time. If you really get sick from overwork, what should I do?!" Then he let her lie down, helped her take off her shoes, and lifted her legs onto the bed.
Zheng Xiu had no choice but to surrender and said, "Okay, I'll lie down obediently. Can you stop nagging me? Why are you more nagging than my grandma?"
When he mentioned this, Xue Zhi also remembered and said, "Yes, I haven't sent a letter to my father-in-law yet. I'll ask someone to do it now!" After saying that, he went out in a hurry again.
Zheng Xiu looked at his back helplessly. Xue Zhi's nervous look as a new father was really funny. He was even more nervous than her, a pregnant woman.
Xue Zhi gave instructions to the people in a short while, and went back into the house. He asked Zheng Xiu concernedly, "Are you hungry? Are you tired? Are you cold?"
Zheng Xiu had eaten a lot in the morning at Changfeng Garden, and drank the soup that made her feel sick, so she was really not hungry. At this time, she was lying on the bed again, covered with a quilt, and she was not tired or cold at all.
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