The post stations along the official roads usually only accommodated people delivering court documents, officials traveling back and forth, and candidates going to Beijing to take imperial examinations, and did not accommodate ordinary people.
Therefore, not only is the environment quiet and peaceful, but the overall facilities are also much better than those of ordinary inns. It’s also safer.
Of course, the cost of food and accommodation is also much more expensive.
As the people and horses were exhausted, Chen Cui no longer cared about the money and settled down immediately.
Moreover, the cost of the post station outside the city is expensive, relative to a prefecture city like Qingzhou Prefecture. Compared with any inn with similar environment in the capital, this one can definitely be said to be good value for money.
Therefore, many scholars who had some spare money but were not rich enough to spend it in the capital would stay in this post station for a long time.
In the original book, Mu Yunchuan arrived in the capital with a hundred taels of royalties and settled here first.
But after staying there for a long time, his reputation as Siyuan spread. Many students who lived in the same post station came to him for advice, and the number of students came one after another, making it impossible for him to concentrate on his studies, so he changed his place of residence.
Knowing this, Shen Cui decided to let everyone settle here first. However, she did not plan to stay here for long. She thought that after a day or two, she should go into the city to rent a house.
After she made the decision, she didn't have to worry about the rest. Lao Buyu discussed and booked a room with the teenagers.
Wei Shu and Wei Xi had one room, Lao Buyu and Cui Fei had one room, Mu Erpang, Mei Ruochu and Chen Aoshuang had one room, the servants slept on a large bunk bed, and Chen Cui had a separate room.
Moreover, they specially looked at the room type and arranged Shen Cui in the middle room.
This room was not only the most spacious, but also had a screen separating the inside and outside. Moreover, if anything happened, Chen Cui only needed to call out and everyone else would be able to hear it.
After everything was arranged, the servants began to move the luggage from the carriage into the house. Chen Cui first put a deposit of ten taels at the counter and was about to arrange the meals. Seeing that her face looked really ugly, Mu Erpang helped her to the room upstairs without saying anything.
"We are not children anymore, and we have our husbands here, so we can take care of ourselves. Mom should rest first."
Not long ago was Mu Erpang's fifteenth birthday. Although he didn't celebrate his birthday in big ways every year before, Chen Cui would always follow the customs of Shuiyun Village and personally cook a bowl of longevity noodles for him and put a poached egg on it.
This time on the road, the conditions were really limited, and nothing was arranged. Chen Cui was still thinking about this, and when she entered the house, she said: "I should be able to recover after a night's rest. I will cook birthday noodles for you tomorrow morning and make up for your birthday."
Mu Erpang, the young butler, frowned and said, "It's just a birthday, it's really not worth it. You're not in good health, so nothing I eat tastes good."
Speaking of Chen Cui, one is helpless. Her original physical condition was not bad, but she was very seasick.
Of course, due to the limited technology nowadays, boats are not stable enough on the water, unless you are like Lao Buyu, who traveled around in his early years and is used to riding on boats. Most people suffer from seasickness when riding on boats.
People like Mu Erpang were also taking a boat for the first time and felt very uncomfortable after getting on the boat. Chen Cui bought seasickness medicine from the system for them to take.
As for herself, she could not take the special medicines made with interstellar technology, and could only take ordinary seasickness medicines from later generations, which had very limited effects.
Just as the mother and son settled down in the house, Wei Xi boiled some rice soup and brought it over, asking Mu Erpang to get some from behind the screen and help feed it to Shen Cui. He himself stood outside.
Chen Cui smiled weakly and said, "Before, I made rice soup for you, but now you make it for me."
Wei Xi also laughed and said, "I will answer you with what the headmaster said to me before. It's just sitting there and watching the fire. It's not tiring."
Before he finished his bowl of rice soup, Wei Shu and Shen Aoshuang came in together, followed by a middle-aged man carrying a medicine box. It was obvious that these two people had gone to ask for a doctor.
Wei Shu first asked the doctor to take Shen Cui's pulse.
The physical fitness on Chen Cui's data panel dropped by 5 points and is now 65, which is not below the passing line. She is suffering from seasickness and acclimatization, so she knows that her problem is not serious.
But in order to reassure everyone, she still obediently let the doctor see her.
Sure enough, after taking her pulse, the doctor said that she had been overworked for days, had been traveling a long way, and was not used to the climate and water. As long as she rested and recuperated for a while, she would be fine.
Everyone felt relieved and asked the servants to follow the doctor to write a prescription.
Wei Shu also spoke up at this point, "I had someone prepare horses to go into the city to get a doctor. Luckily, Brother Chen saw me and said he knew there was a village nearby with a doctor. Otherwise, we might not be able to make it back before the city gates close. But he's just a village doctor, and I don't know his medical skills. Xiao Xi and A Fei both have a basic understanding of medicine, so I'll have to show them the prescription first."
Chen Cui said, "I'm really fine. If you feel really uncomfortable, I'll take you to the city to see a doctor right away. I'm just a little seasick and a little tired. You'll feel much better tomorrow after a good night's sleep."
That being said, everyone didn't know that she might be able to see their condition in the system, so naturally they could only feel at ease after listening to the doctor's words.
At this point, Shen Cui said, "Aoshuang's family should be in the capital?"
After all, it's not just about finding a doctor this time, but also about how to change trains on the way to the capital, when to go by land, and when to go by water. The suggestions given by Chen Aoshuang are more useful than those of the servants of the Wei family who came from the capital.
Otherwise the journey time will not be shortened to within one month.
It can be seen that Shen Aoshuang is very familiar with this area of the capital.
Shen Cui had already seen it, and when she saw that Shen Aoshuang didn't mention it, she deliberately didn't ask.
Now that the capital city was within reach, Chen Aoshuang was originally preparing to find an opportunity to explain the situation to everyone, but he had kept it a secret from everyone for so long that he didn't know where to start.
While he was grateful for Chen Cui's consideration, he nodded and said, "Shanzhang is right. My family's ancestral home is in Qingzhou Prefecture, but my elders have already settled down in the capital..."
Just as he was talking about this, the waiter came over and knocked on the door, asking, "Is Mr. Shen here? Your family is looking for you downstairs."
Chen Aoshuang stopped talking and followed the waiter downstairs.
After he left, Wei Shu said, "It was said that Brother Shen's temperament is different from that of ordinary people, so his family environment should not be bad either."
Shen Cui nodded in agreement. After all, in the past two years, Shen Aoshuang's board and lodging expenses had been paid to her on time, without a penny less.
However, Chen Aoshuang had always been very secretive about the situation at home and never mentioned it on his own initiative, so after this sentence, no one continued to explore it, just thinking that it would not be too late to find out when he was willing to talk about it.
Soon, Chen Aoshuang came back with an embarrassed look on his face, "My grandfather came to see me. He heard that the headmaster was ill, and he wanted to check the headmaster's pulse."
Everyone, including Shen Cui, suddenly realized that the Shen family in the capital was a medical family.
Such an old doctor must be much more skilled than the one Wei Shu and his team had temporarily invited from a nearby village.
After all, it was a meeting with students' parents, so the proper etiquette had to be observed. Chen Cui asked Mu Erpang to help her get off the bed, but Mu Erpang refused and let her sit on the bed. He acted as her human pillow and helped her sit up straight.
Soon, Shen Aoshuang went out to inform them, and an ordinary-looking, short old man walked in with his hands behind his back.
The old man looked to be in his seventies, older than Chen Cui had imagined, but his eyes were extremely clear without a trace of cloudiness.
After returning from the Lu Ming Banquet, the young men described Shangshu Wang's eyes as sharp, as if all the cunning tricks in the world could be seen through him.
Chen Cui listened to their description and thought it was just an exaggeration.
After meeting this old man today, Shen Cui realized that there really are such shrewd and sharp eyes in this world, which make people dare not play tricks when they see them.
But she hadn't done anything wrong, so she didn't feel guilty. She just said apologetically, "Please take a seat, old man. I'm not feeling well today and can't entertain you in person. I'm sorry for neglecting you. Please forgive me."
Old Master Shen said "No" succinctly, his voice full of energy, unable to tell whether he was happy or angry. Although he didn't deliberately put on a stern face and his expression could be described as kind, his whole demeanor... How to put it, anyway, ever since he came in, the teenagers unconsciously lowered their breathing.
Shen Aoshuang moved a chair for him and placed it in front of the bed. Old Master Shen lifted his robe and sat down.
Shen Cui stretched out her wrist, and he also stretched out two fingers to touch it.
After a long time, there was no response from Old Master Shen.
Although the doctor had just examined Shen Cui and confirmed that she was fine, the doctor looked only in his forties, far from having the demeanor of an otherworldly master like Old Master Shen.
Seeing him like this, everyone couldn't help but think, could it be that the village doctor had made a mistake in the diagnosis just now, and was there really something wrong with the headmaster's health?
They didn't dare to disturb Old Master Shen's serious pulse diagnosis, and finally Shen Cui asked herself, "How is it?"
Old Master Shen shook his head calmly and sighed. Shen Cui felt that Mu Erpang's breathing was stagnant, but she saw him withdraw his hand and muttered, "I can't get it out. It's different from what I read in the medical book."
Having said that... everyone looked at Chen Aoshuang, who was so embarrassed that she wished she could find a hole to hide in.
A quarter of an hour ago, Shen Aoshuang saw his grandfather, and the reunion of grandfather and grandson was naturally very exciting.
However, the Shen family has always been reserved in expressing their kinship, so when the grandfather and grandson met, their emotions fluctuated unusually, but they didn't show anything on their faces. Old Master Shen said calmly: "You are a bit like me in my youth. You are half-crippled but you actually passed the imperial examination and became the top scholar. You have not disgraced our family's reputation."
Chen Aoshuang was not arrogant. "It was all thanks to the headmaster who took care of my health. If I were still like before, I would have dropped out of the prefectural school long ago."
Shen Aoshuang had already informed him of many details in her letter home, so there was no need to elaborate on them at this time.
After saying these two sentences, Old Master Shen proposed to meet Shen Cui, the head of Cuiwei Mountain.
Chen Aoshuang said in embarrassment: "Our headmaster is not feeling well, and it is getting late now. He probably doesn't want to see guests now. How about next time..."
"Next time? I don't even know when I'll be free next time."
Old Master Shen put his hands behind his back, his eyes flashed, and he thought of a memorial, "Go and tell her that I want to feel her pulse, and she should come to see me."
Therefore, Old Master Shen did not know any medical skills at all. At most, he had read a few medical books because of Shen Aoshuang's illness in his early years, but he was always busy and had no time to study, so he could not even know the basics.
But he didn't say he wanted to cure Shen Cui, he just said he wanted to feel her pulse. Did he do it? It has been done, but if no symptoms are found after the operation, what’s the problem?
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