Chapter 275 Baoyu Seeks Medicine
As Daiyu spoke, she jumped off the sofa.
"Granny, Baoyu asked me for a favor today, and I agreed."
"Oh, that's rare. Didn't you hate him the most for being all effeminate and lacking any masculinity?"
Yuan Hongqu is no longer worried that Daiyu and Baoyu will become a couple in the future.
The two are now on completely different levels. Jia Zheng is urging Baoyu to make studying his profession and to strive for official rank.
Daiyu seems to have followed the path of Baoyu in the original work. Yuan Hongqu only guided her in terms of morality, but never restricted her in other aspects.
The labels of "rich and idle" and "busy with nothing to do" have now become Daiyu's labels.
"He seems a bit silly now. His second uncle forces him to study every day, and he's almost turning into a bookworm. He's also changed his frivolous habits and has become more responsible," Daiyu said quite aptly.
"You actually admire him?" Yuan Hongqu asked rhetorically.
"My second uncle hoped his son would become a dragon, and Baoyu was at least more motivated than before, so the family didn't turn into chaos."
After reading the original novel, Daiyu compared the Baoyu in the book with the Baoyu of today and felt that the current Baoyu was more in line with the image of a scion of a noble family and would not bring disaster to the family.
That's her maternal grandmother's house. If something happens to that family, should she help them or not?
Helping them would mean going against the imperial power, but not helping them would be something I couldn't bear to do.
Although Daiyu didn't care about how others viewed her, if she wanted to live a more comfortable life, she should plan ahead a little in advance. Her future days wouldn't be difficult!
For example, let Jia Baoyu, this phoenix egg, study hard and not do anything shocking or unconventional.
Whenever she went to the Rongguo Mansion to pay her respects to her second uncle, she would subtly mention that she had been visiting and had heard about which family's young master was an excellent writer, or which family's young master had passed the preliminary imperial examination at the tender age of ten. Furthermore, when she went to pay her respects to the Empress, she would hear that the Emperor had bestowed a reward upon a certain family because their descendants were well-educated and had been raised with great skill, thus winning the Emperor's favor...
Almost every time, different words would come out. After hearing them, Jia Zheng would look at his own child and give Baoyu more homework the next day.
Baoyu thought that it was because the old lady would call him over almost every time Lin Daiyu came to play, which would delay his studies, so the master would give him extra lessons.
Later, Jia Baoyu discovered that even if he didn't come over and just stayed in the study to study, he would still have extra homework after Lin Daiyu came over.
The matter that Baoyu asked Daiyu for today was related to his studies.
Lately, he has been feeling that his vision is not clear; he can only see things in front of him, and he can't see anything further away.
The imperial physician was summoned and said that he had overused his eyes and might have developed nearsightedness. He said that if he did not take proper care of himself, it would only get worse.
However, even after the imperial physician prescribed a medicine and he took it, Baoyu did not feel any improvement; on the contrary, his condition worsened.
The second master did not relax his demands on him at all, saying that how could someone so young start to be "shortsighted"? He must be pretending to be lazy and trying not to study.
Baoyu ran to the old lady and asked her to help persuade the second master.
Grandmother Jia felt that Baoyu was working hard, and if this continued, the family's reputation might be improved.
Just before Baoyu came to see her, Jia Zheng happened to have come by as well. He said that Baoyu hadn't been paying attention lately and couldn't even make up good lies. He said that his eyesight was failing, but who would believe that someone who had only read so little could have such bad eyesight?
Therefore, when Baoyu came over, Grandmother Jia teased him and then advised him to study hard.
Baoyu was on the verge of tears, but Grandmother Jia felt that she might have gone too far and exposed Baoyu's lie, making him lose face.
Grandmother Jia then gave him a bottle of eye drops, saying that these were specially prepared by someone for your sister Lin, and that just one drop would make your eyes feel incredibly cool and comfortable.
Now that she uses these eye drops, she doesn't even need to wear her reading glasses anymore. Her eyes are clear and she can see everything very clearly.
Baoyu took the medicine and returned to his study dejectedly.
He figured that since it was sent by Lin Daiyu, he might as well give it a try.
Unexpectedly, after applying the eye drops, he felt as if the clouds had been cleared from his eyes, and his vision became clear immediately.
He used that bottle of eye drops for half a month. Although his eyes did not fully recover, they were almost completely healed.
Today he asked Daiyu for some eye drops, because he still needs to study, and his eyes might not be able to see clearly again at any time, so he needs to always have these eye drops on hand.
This is nothing special; it's just a little ginseng hydrosol with added borneol, borax, and other ingredients.
Originally, it was used by Yuan Hongqu to apply to Daiyu's eyes, but later she felt that applying it to the eyes was too troublesome, so she simply made it into a more convenient eye drop.
"Granny, such a good product should be added to ginseng products and placed in Sister Feng's pharmacy. There are many scholars in the capital, and there must be many people who need this kind of eye drops."
Daiyu took out a box of eye drops. Inside the box were small glass bottles with narrow, long openings, making it easy to put the eye drops into her eyes.
"I don't know if this is considered medicine or cosmetic, but I'll just use it myself." Yuan Hongqu had no intention of mass-producing this product.
Don't be fooled by this small bottle. In fact, apart from the bottle being made outside, all the materials inside are produced in the space.
This eye drop definitely won't work if it's mass-produced.
Daiyu was just saying it casually. Recently, she had been getting closer to Wang Xifeng, and she had been influenced by what she saw and heard.
When Granny Yuan said no, she didn't care much. If Wang Xifeng had heard this, she would definitely have tried to get it onto the counter for sale.
"Now that you've given him the eye drops, don't keep pushing him so hard lately. Jia Baoyu might have developed pseudomyopia. If you keep working so hard, it might become real myopia."
Since eye drops can relieve the symptoms, it's probably not true nearsightedness.
Yuan Hongqu thought to herself, "These glasses are as thick as pancakes these days. If Jia Baoyu were wearing such glasses, it would be ridiculous."
Upon hearing this, Daiyu smiled and said,
"Granny, I can't control my second uncle's thoughts. I've been very busy lately and haven't had time to pay my respects to him. I suppose it's because my eldest sister has become a virtuous concubine and needs a capable brother, which is why my second uncle has become so strict with Baoyu's studies."
"Well, you didn't go to pay your respects, and all those 'Hundred Schools of Thought' lectures have vanished. You don't openly offer any advice, but you've certainly been doing all that behind the scenes, haven't you?" Yuan Hongqu said helplessly.
"Are you determined to make sure Jia Baoyu gets a career in government and the economy? Do you really want him to experience what it's like to be a parasite on officialdom?"
Daiyu just laughed when she heard this, a very smug laugh.
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