Chapter 245 Magical Ginseng
During the year when Mr. Si was ill, he also took ginseng, but he vomited immediately after taking it, so it didn't have much effect.
"The ginseng you ate before were 20 or 30 years old. The ginseng I brought this time is different. One is fifty years old, and another is over eighty years old. You can try it first. If it doesn't work, then think of other ways." Xu Zhaoyuan hoped that Old Master Si would get better, so that he could completely repay his kindness to the Si family.
"Fifty years and eighty years? Ginseng of this age is rare. Who would bear the pain of giving it up?" Old Master Si had asked people to look for ginseng, but this place is not as vast as the mainland. After searching for a long time, they only found ginseng that was twenty or thirty years old.
He couldn't drink the ginseng he found last time, but what about this time? The ginseng of eighty years old might be of some use. Old Master Si thought randomly, if he could live, he certainly didn't want to die.
Bai Yuan was still too young and could not carry a heavy burden, so he was not at ease handing over the Si family to him.
"I bought it from people from two continents." Xu Zhaoyuan said calmly.
There were three doctors who took care of Grandpa Si, one Chinese medicine doctor and two Western medicine doctors who had studied in Europe. They checked the ginseng and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with it.
"The old gentleman couldn't eat ginseng last time. Do you want to make ginseng soup this time?" asked a doctor.
Another doctor expressed his concern, "Will the body be too weak to be nourished?"
"Then cut a piece and let the old man hold it in his mouth. In this way, if the old man can't stand it, he can spit it out, and there is no need to worry about the problem of being unable to take the tonic. What do you think?"
“I think it’s feasible.”
After some conversation, the doctors decided to cut a piece from a fifty-year-old ginseng.
It is as thin as a cicada's wing and almost transparent.
"Come on, old man, open your mouth and hold it." The doctor was very patient, as if he was coaxing a child.
Old Master Si opened his mouth obediently and put the ginseng in his mouth. Although it was only a thin piece, he couldn't eat even such a thin piece this year. If he forced himself to eat it, he would feel sick and vomit, and even vomit bile.
Old Master Si was ready to vomit. He tried his best to ignore the taste in his mouth and the contents of his mouth.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...until a minute passed, the onlookers all showed surprised looks.
Nothing happened?
Old Master Si also noticed something was wrong, but he didn't vomit. Not only did he not vomit, he even liked the taste in his mouth. He wanted to chew the food in his mouth and swallow it.
When this idea came up, Old Master Si was a little surprised. This was not his own idea, but his body's idea. Could it be that he could eat now?
Old Master Si moved his mouth slowly and chewed the thin slice of ginseng in his mouth with his few remaining teeth.
Xu Zhaoyuan, the doctor, the housekeeper and the servants beside the bed watched this scene with their eyes wide open, too nervous to speak. They watched the withered and wrinkled mouth and cheeks move, chewing for about a dozen times, and then the mouth stopped as the owner swallowed.
Swallowed it?
Are you okay?
The maid had already held the spittoon in her arms so that if the old man vomited, she could catch it in time.
The room was filled with a tense atmosphere. No one spoke, and everyone stared at the old man on the bed. Time passed unknowingly. After two or three minutes, Old Master Si took the initiative to speak, "I feel okay."
call--
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"After eating this ginseng slice, my stomach feels warm. I want to eat another slice." Old Master Si took the initiative to speak.
The three doctors looked at each other, and one of them took the initiative to speak, "Why don't we try cutting another slice?"
The other two nodded, "Okay."
So they cut another slice of ginseng, which was thicker than the previous one. When Old Master Si looked at the ginseng slice, he felt a long-lost appetite.
He took the ginseng slice and put it into his mouth. As soon as the ginseng slice was in his mouth, he began to chew it. After chewing it for more than ten times, he swallowed it.
"I don't feel any discomfort at all. On the contrary, I feel very comfortable. Now not only my stomach is warm, but my whole body is warm." Old Master Si had a smile on his face.
"Is it so magical?" Even the doctor felt surprised.
Old Master Si nodded, "This is the most comfortable I've felt in over a year. Can I take another pill?"
"No, if you take any more, I'm worried it will be counterproductive." The doctor rejected Mr. Si's request.
"Do you want to take anything else besides ginseng?" asked another doctor.
Old Master Si thought for a moment and said to the housekeeper, "Go get some food for me to see."
"I'll go right away." The butler left in a hurry. When he came back, he had a tray in his hand. There was a lot of food on the tray, including bread, porridge, and fruit.
However, before he could reach the bed, Old Master Si shouted, "Don't come near me."
The butler paused and turned around hurriedly with the things in his hand. The old man had been like this over the past year. Not to mention eating, just looking at him made his stomach uncomfortable.
"It seems that it still doesn't work." The doctor sighed.
"Being able to eat ginseng is considered progress."
"Yes, that's progress. If today's condition is good, you can take two more tablets tomorrow."
Because he brought the ginseng himself and was worried that the old man might feel unwell, Xu Zhaoyuan stayed in Si's house and did not leave.
He stayed from morning to afternoon and left before the two young masters of the Si family returned home from school.
"He doesn't want to see Yu Nan and Rui Er." Old Master Si sighed, "I don't understand. If he doesn't want to see his wife, why doesn't he even want to see his own daughter and grandchildren?"
The housekeeper remained silent. As the saying goes, if you love the house you own, you will love the people in it. The son-in-law doesn't love his wife or his daughter, so he doesn't love his daughter's children either.
"If I'm gone, will he continue to help the Si family?" Old Master Si's tone was full of helplessness and worry.
"I think so. The uncle took the initiative to send you ginseng today, which shows that he is worried about you. Apart from the young lady and her children, the uncle has no other relatives. If he doesn't help them, who will he help?" If there are other relatives, then everything will be hard to say. The housekeeper added in his heart.
Speaking of ginseng, Old Master Si's mood improved a lot. "Ginseng has good medicinal effects. My stomach has been warm all day. I wonder if those two mainlanders still have ginseng. If they do, we will pay a lot of money and buy them all."
"You can ask your uncle to ask."
"Okay, I'll ask him to ask tomorrow."
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