Chapter 41 Arms and Legs Are Useless
When Liang Caidie came the next night, she saw the couple with big dark circles under their eyes.
Pei Changfeng did not sleep all night and was absent-minded the whole day. He was afraid that his hopes would be shattered again.
Su Wanwan didn't sleep well either, her mind was always thinking about what would happen after Pei Changfeng's leg healed.
When his leg heals, he can take the imperial examination. If he passes, he will become a juren and have the opportunity to become an official. No matter what, she will become the wife of a juren.
The overwhelming wealth is finally coming!
Su Wanwan asked Liang Caidie excitedly, "We are ready. When will your master come to treat my husband's leg?"
Liang Caidie was frightened by her, "Wanwan, calm down."
Su Wanwan rubbed her face, but the smile on her lips was really hard to suppress. She did not forget to find an excuse for herself, "My husband's leg has been cured and he doesn't feel any pain anymore. I am happy for my husband!"
Pei Changfeng took in her smile, and his throat became hoarse as he said, "Wanwan..."
Su Wanwan turned to look at him, her eyes sparkling, "Husband, you can definitely cure your leg!"
Liang Caidie interrupted the couple's gaze and said, "If you are sure, I will bring my master here tomorrow, but some things need to wait for my master to see it in person."
The next day, still in the evening, Liang Caidie came with her master.
Her master was different from what Su Wanwan had imagined. She was a woman about forty years old, but with a rough face and wearing men's clothes. At first glance, she looked like an ordinary man.
Hu Qi looked at Su Wanwan with a smile, "Is it you who wants to treat your leg?"
Su Wanwan quickly shook her head, "It's not me, it's my husband."
Hu Qi still looked at her, "You don't need treatment?"
Su Wanwan opened her lips, as if realizing something. "I drank rat poison before and it damaged my body. I can no longer have children. Can you cure this?"
Pei Changfeng's eyes were full of pity and he lowered his head in shame.
"Oh, I can't do that," Hu Qi laughed, "Are you not ill somewhere else?"
Liang Caidie was anxious and said to Hu Qi, "Master, please stop teasing Wanwan!"
She explained to Su Wanwan again, “Don’t listen to my master’s nonsense, she just likes to tease others.”
Su Wanwan felt a little disappointed, but she also understood that it was not easy to cure a woman's childbirth. Maybe she would meet some famous doctor who could treat her in the future. She could afford to wait.
After teasing Su Wanwan for a while, Hu Qi became serious and looked at Pei Changfeng, "I heard that your leg bones were broken? Lift up your trouser legs and let me see."
Pei Changfeng pursed his lips and lifted up his left trouser leg as he was told. His calf was still purple and slightly swollen.
Hu Qi looked around and had a guess in her mind. She took out a packet of medicine from her backpack and told Liang Caidie, "Use this to boil a bucket of hot water. Remember, it's a bucket."
"knew!"
Liang Caidie went out to cook the medicine, while Su Wanwan stared at Hu Qi, feeling anxious, "Do you think my husband's leg can be cured?"
"No," Hu Qi laughed again when he saw Su Wanwan's face turn pale, "You're just kidding. I haven't touched the bones yet. I'll tell you after I finish."
Su Wanwan was a little breathless when she said this. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "Thank you for your hard work."
She looked at Pei Changfeng again, "Don't worry, husband. We must have confidence that we can cure it."
"You are optimistic," Hu Qi measured Pei Changfeng's legs with a wooden ruler, chatting with Su Wanwan without raising his head, "How long have you been married?"
This was the first time Su Wanwan saw a doctor treating a patient and chatting like this. She couldn't help but doubt the level of the person in front of her, but what Liang Caidie said was true...
"It's been two months since we got married," Su Wanwan said anxiously, "How do you think it's going?"
"Why are you in such a hurry?" Hu Qi stood up and put the ruler back into his bag. "It should be curable, but we have to wait and see after soaking it in medicine."
Pei Changfeng remained silent throughout the whole time. His eyes lit up slightly when he heard these words, but after actually meeting Hu Qi, his confidence dropped from 50% to 20%.
"No wonder you look so young," Hu Qi seemed to like Su Wanwan very much and talked to her, "I can read faces. Do you want to hear what I see from your face?"
Su Wanwan's attention was drawn a little, "What?"
She was afraid of hearing Hu Qi say that she would be poor and unlucky all her life.
Hu Qi smiled and said, "Your life is worth it."
"What do you mean?" Su Wanwan didn't understand, but seeing that Hu Qi didn't intend to explain anything, she didn't ask any more questions and ran to Pei Changfeng to accompany him.
Liang Caidie quickly boiled the water. It was unknown what kind of medicine was cooked in it. There was no smell of medicine at all. Su Wanwan smelled it carefully and didn't smell anything.
Hu Qi asked Pei Changfeng to soak his left leg in the wooden barrel, and suddenly asked, "Is your hand okay?"
Pei Changfeng put his right hand back into his sleeve, "Nothing."
"As a scholar, you should take good care of your hands," Hu Qi asked Su Wanwan to make her a bowl of noodles, and found an excuse to ask Liang Caidie to leave. Then he looked at Pei Changfeng, "Does your hand hurt?"
Pei Changfeng then stretched out his hand, which was covered with tiny cuts, not big, but very deep, and every wound was painful.
Hu Qi took out a silver needle and said, "Give me your hand."
Pei Changfeng was silent for a while before he extended his hand.
If you don't look carefully, you can't see the wound on his hand at all. Even if they are holding hands, as long as Pei Changfeng can endure the pain, Su Wanwan won't feel it.
"You are quite patient," Hu Qi glanced at his shoulder and right leg again, "Yes, if this continues in two years your arms and legs will be completely useless."
Pei Changfeng pursed his lips, "How did you figure that out?"
"I have been dealing with herbal patients since I was born. If I can't see this, then haven't I lived in vain for so many years?"
Hu Qi narrowed his eyes and inserted the silver needle into a small wound on Pei Changfeng's hand. Pei Changfeng groaned, obviously in pain.
"Hold on."
Hu Qi moved his wrist and picked out a bloody bamboo thorn. It was very thin and small, but it could cause unbearable pain in the flesh and blood.
When Pei Changfeng just woke up, he had no strength in his body, but had to deal with a lot of troubles. He had no weapons and could only use sharpened bamboo sticks, which could scratch those people and also scratch him.
Hu Qi picked out three thorns after about a quarter of an hour. She frowned and said, "You are such a troublesome child. You don't take care of your body at all. How can there be a child like you? You have at least fifty or sixty wounds on your hands. Tell your wife to eat well and take care of me, otherwise I won't treat you."
Pei Changfeng looked at the bloodstains sliding down the lines on his palm and thanked him sincerely, "Senior, you have done me a favor. My husband and I will definitely do our best to thank you."
Hu Qi shook his head. When he heard Su Wanwan's footsteps, he stopped picking. He wiped them clean and put them under the fire to roast.
Pei Changfeng silently covered his hands with a handkerchief.
"Senior, your noodles are ready," Su Wanwan came in with a smile. During the quarter of an hour she spent in the kitchen, she thought carefully about Hu Qi. After all, Liang Caidie would not lie to her. She probably thought Hu Qi was just an expert. The more expert he was, the more unreliable he was. "Eat it while it's hot. There's more in the pot if you don't have enough."
The noodles were chicken soup, which Su Wanwan had specially prepared during the day to prevent Liang Caidie and her apprentice from going hungry.
"You're very thoughtful," Hu Qi smiled, "Okay, thank you very much."
"Senior, you are too kind."
After Hu Qi finished his noodles, he talked to Su Wanwan for a while. When he saw that the time was almost up, he reached into the bucket to feel for Pei Changfeng's bones.
Her expression gradually became serious. "Who did this? It's a bit difficult to deal with."
Su Wanwan's voice trembled, "As long as my husband's leg can be cured, I'm willing to do anything you ask me to do!"
"Really?" Hu Qi asked in a deep voice.
Su Wanwan nodded with tears in her eyes, "Really!"
Pei Changfeng looked at Su Wanwan, and the warmth in his heart gradually spread throughout his body.
"Okay," Hu Qi stood up, "Then I want you to eat well and take care of me. I need to eat meat every day."
Su Wanwan choked, "Then... can my husband's leg be cured?"
"Yes," Hu Qi laughed heartlessly, "It's July now, and the Autumn Examination will be held in a month. By then, I won't say that you can let your husband walk like a normal person, but at least he should be able to walk into the examination room."
Pei Changfeng looked up in disbelief, and Su Wanwan also covered her mouth.
"So soon?" Su Wanwan burst into tears and hugged Hu Qi's arm, saying, "I will definitely treat you as my own mother!"
Pei Changfeng's arms were trembling slightly. He thought that even if he could be cured, he would have to wait three years before taking part in the autumn examination.
"It seems that exams are quite troublesome for you scholars," Hu Qi stretched, "you should prepare as early as possible, but I can only say that you can walk into the examination room and pass the inspection. You will have to wait at least a year to fully recover your legs."
Pei Changfeng was about to kneel, but Hu Qi quickly dodged and said, "Hey, kneel after you're cured. Don't put pressure on me."
He failed to kneel, and Su Wanwan knelt in front of Hu Qi, "Then I'll kneel first. My husband and I thank you very much, senior!"
"Alas," Hu Qi sighed, "It's good to be young. Unlike me, I am old now and my knees hurt when I kneel down."
Hu Qi stayed because she had to help Pei Changfeng treat his leg. She could stay, but Liang Caidie could not. In order to avoid being recognized and causing trouble, Liang Caidie left the next day.
"Wanwan, don't worry about me. I'm going to the village where my master used to stay. Everyone there has received my master's kindness. I'll be fine there."
Liang Xiaodie left before dawn, and Su Wanwan watched her go away before returning to the house.
Because Hu Qi was going to live there, Su Wanwan let Su Chaochao sleep in the same room with her and Pei Changfeng. She originally wanted to leave the main room for Hu Qi, but Hu Qi moved into the small utility room first.
"This is pretty good, clean, and not too big. I like sleeping in this kind of room the most."
She insisted, and Su Wanwan had no choice but to go with her.
Su Chaochao was the only one in the family who looked confused. He didn't know how he would have to sleep in the same room with his sister and brother-in-law. He hoped that his sister would not beat him in the middle of the night.
The next day, when Hu Qi came out rubbing his eyes, all the children in the yard looked over at him.
Hu Qi smiled and greeted them, "Hello, kids."
The children in the village obviously didn't think much about it. They all thought she was Su Wanwan's relative and started laughing and making noises.
Su Wanwan brought the breakfast that she had prepared for Hu Qi, "Senior, please have breakfast."
Hu Qi nodded, then sat at the door and started eating.
Su Wanwan really did have meat for Hu Qi at every meal. Even the porridge he had in the morning was minced meat porridge, which she bought from a fellow villager who went to the market in town early in the morning.
Hu Qi sat at the door of the hut with her legs crossed all day long, watching the group of children. She ate lunch and then went to sleep. After sleeping, she continued to watch until she had dinner. Then she gave Su Wanwan a prescription, "Grab thirty packets. If a packet costs more than ten cents, change to another store. You are being ripped off."
Su Wanwan naturally treated Hu Qi's words as an imperial decree.
In the evening, Su Wanwan prepared the medicine, and while Pei Changfeng was soaking his legs, Hu Qi would pick out the thorns in his hands for him. At this time, Su Wanwan would take Su Chaochao to play in the yard.
"It hurts a little today, you have to bear it," Hu Qi picked out a bamboo thorn, and this time his tone became serious, "Don't walk around casually tomorrow. Find a place to sit while the children are in class, otherwise the bone will be even more crooked."
"Don't worry, senior." Pei Changfeng looked determined. He had died once, so the pain was nothing.
Hu Qi smiled and said, "It's quite courageous, but it can't be reproduced."
Pei Changfeng's expression darkened again.
"You're kidding," Hu Qi found that teasing these kids was really fun, "I've never heard of anyone who ate rat poison and couldn't have children."
Pei Changfeng had been teased by her many times, so this time he was cautious, "Are you serious, Senior?"
Hu Qi thought for a while and said, "I don't know. Anyway, take good care of her. A woman's body needs to be taken care of. You have a good wife, you have to treat her well. It's not easy to meet someone who can be sincere to you in this life."
"That's natural. If I let Wanwan down...hiss."
Pei Changfeng took a breath.
Hu Qi picked out a thorn from his lifeline and said, "Hey, this one is really deep. If it was any later, it would have pierced into the bone, and your whole hand would have rotted away."
Pei Changfeng was sweating profusely, "Thank you, senior."
Today's leg soaking time seemed to be particularly long. Su Chaochao, who was outside the house, was almost fainted by mosquito bites. She couldn't help but ask Su Wanwan, "Sister, can we go in?"
Su Wanwan looked at him as if he were an idiot, "Aren't there two more rooms? If there are mosquitoes biting you, go to the kitchen."
Su Chaochao said "oh" and hugged her, "I want to accompany you. I know my brother-in-law is treating his leg."
"How do you know that?"
Su Chaochao wrinkled his nose and refused to say what he said when Hu Qi pinched his butt today.
Inside the house, Hu Qi frowned and poured a bottle of black powder into Pei Changfeng's hand, "Don't wash your hands today."
After pouring the medicine, she asked Pei Changfeng to lift his legs a little. She looked at them and saw that they were red. Then she took out a silver knife from her bosom and roasted it over the fire. "Bear with it."
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