Chapter 141 That's...that's too embarrassing.
"What a jinx!"
Chen Yi paused, letting Cui'er go first.
"I'm going to get something. You and Juan'er boil some water to prepare."
"Yes, son-in-law."
After giving his instructions, Chen Yi returned to the wooden building's side room, took the acupuncture box, and put it in his pocket.
When Xiao Wuge saw him come out, he couldn't help but ask, "Brother-in-law, should we inform that Doctor Ma?"
Chen Yi replied that he didn't need it for the time being, and then walked towards Jiaxing Garden.
For most people, a minor cold or flu is nothing to worry about.
However, Xiao Wan'er has a special constitution.
Given her already fragile and easily exposed body, even a simple cold could be considered a serious illness.
Fortunately, he had previously prescribed a yang-preserving formula for Xiao Wan'er through Ma Liangcai, otherwise her condition would have only worsened.
Not long after.
When Chen Yi arrived at Jiaxing Garden, he saw Cui'er and Juan'er in a flurry of activity.
One person boiled water, while the other used a towel to wipe Xiao Wan'er's sweat.
At this moment, Xiao Wan'er was lying on the bed in a daze, sweat pouring down her forehead and two unnatural blushes on her face.
Moreover, her eyelids twitched occasionally, and her lips opened and closed, clearly indicating that she was becoming somewhat unconscious.
When Cui'er saw him appear outside the door, she was so anxious that she almost cried.
"Son-in-law, should I... should I go and inform the old master?"
"Miss, she was just awake, saying she wanted to rest, but while I was getting you here, she... she..."
Chen Yi waved his hand and lied to reassure him, "Not for now."
“The prescription that Dr. Ma gave my older sister worked quite well, so there shouldn’t be any major problems. Let me take a look first.”
As he spoke, he walked straight into the side room, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.
Under the art of observing qi.
Xiao Wan'er's body had long lost the yang energy she had accumulated from taking medicine over the past few days, and her aura was as black and shiny as ink.
Seeing this, Chen Yi stepped forward without hesitation, disregarding the proper distance between men and women, and placed his hand on her wrist.
"this……"
Seeing this scene, Cui'er and Juan'er, who were still anxious, were both stunned.
After exchanging a glance, the two tacitly fell silent.
Doctors have the hearts of parents, doctors have the hearts of parents, my son-in-law...
Let's wait until Miss wakes up to decide.
After a moment, Chen Yi's slightly furrowed brows relaxed once he was sure of Xiao Wan'er's condition.
"It's nothing serious, just a common cold."
Upon hearing this, Cui'er and Juan'er both breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."
"That puts our minds at ease."
rest assured?
Don't worry about it.
What Chen Yi just said was merely a pretext to keep them calm.
In fact, Xiao Wan'er was already showing signs of "depletion" at this moment.
If it weren't for his medical skills being sufficient and him being in the manor at the right time, Xiao Wan'er would have passed away within an hour that night.
Thinking about all this, Chen Yi instructed, "Cui'er, go get paper and pen, write down a prescription, and then go to the pharmacy to get the medicine."
"good."
After Cui'er finished writing and confirmed that everything was correct, she hurriedly left Jiaxing Garden.
Chen Yi then instructed Juan'er to open the windows for ventilation and move the stove outside to boil water.
After sending the two away.
Chen Yi looked at Xiao Wan'er on the bed, hesitated for a moment, and then whispered a few words.
Most of them used phrases like "acting expediently in an emergency" or "offending someone."
In the end, there was no response.
Upon seeing this, Chen Yi lifted the pink blanket, revealing Xiao Wan'er's body, which was only wearing a thin undergarment.
She was drenched in sweat, her simple silk undergarment soaked through, clinging tightly to her delicate body.
"cough."
Chen Yi rubbed his nose and muttered, "It smells so good."
At this moment, Xiao Wan'er felt a chill on her body and seemed to sense something. She groggily opened her eyes and looked at him.
The two looked at each other.
Chen Yi raised his hand and waved it in front of her eyes, speechless. "Big sister, can you see me?"
Xiao Wan'er's clear eyes seemed to be veiled by a hazy mist as he moved his hand slightly.
After a long while, she softly uttered, "Sister, brother-in-law?"
"Um."
"What... what's wrong with me?"
I caught a cold.
"Oh, it's a bit cold..."
"It'll be over soon, go get some sleep."
Xiao Wan'er gave a soft "hmm" and obediently closed her eyes, but she was still mumbling something in a daze.
The sound was intermittent and barely audible.
"Sister, brother-in-law, can you tell me... that poem, that lyric, is it about me?"
"I...I hope it's not, yet I also hope..."
"hope……"
Xiao Wan'er didn't say what she hoped for before falling into a deep sleep again.
Chen Yi looked at that haggard yet endearing face, remained silent for a moment, and then sighed.
"That poem was indeed written for you."
As he spoke, Chen Yi calmed himself down, took out silver needles from his pocket, and began to perform acupuncture on her.
Thirteen needles were inserted in succession, each one sealing the point where her breath was dissipating.
Then, he used his true energy as a supplement to carefully comb through Xiao Wan'er's acupoints and meridians.
He only stopped when the cold aura on Xiao Wan'er's body dissipated and yang energy began to emerge during the Qi Observation Technique, and her breathing gradually stabilized.
Chen Yi put away the silver needles and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Just as I was about to cover Xiao Wan'er with the blanket, I heard Juan'er's trembling voice behind me:
"Aunt, Uncle, you, you, you, you..."
Chen Yi glanced back, then calmly stood up and said, "I just took my elder sister's pulse again."
"Only then did I realize why her condition was not improving."
He paused briefly, then his tone turned serious: "Look, her clothes are soaked through. How can this be allowed to happen?"
Upon hearing this, Juan'er looked at him suspiciously, then at Xiao Wan'er, whose breathing had calmed and whose complexion had improved considerably, and quickly bowed in greeting.
"Please forgive me, sir. Juan'er didn't know things would turn out this way, Juan'er..."
Chen Yi snorted and walked past her, ordering, "Stop talking nonsense and quickly change your older sister into some dry clothes."
"Yes, yes, Juan'er will change the young lady's clothes right away."
Upon hearing the door close behind him, Chen Yi, who had been keeping a straight face, couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness... thank goodness I can think fast."
"Otherwise, if things go wrong, I'll probably end up with a charge of defiling my sister-in-law."
"If I did it, I'll take the blame."
"The key is that I didn't do anything."
Chen Yi glanced back, then sat down in a nearby pavilion to wait for Cui'er to return with the medicine.
At least Xiao Wan'er is safe and sound.
As for the future...
Who can predict what will happen in the future?
...
After noon, the scorching sun shone down, and the cicadas chirped incessantly in Jiaxing Garden.
That's the downside of a yard with shady trees.
It happens both day and night, and if the windows aren't closed, sometimes the noise is so loud it can wake someone who's fast asleep.
Xiao Wan'er was then awakened by the sound of cicadas chirping.
She opened her eyes groggily, her mind telling her she was in a room.
She turned around, propped herself up with her left hand, and then used her right hand to prop herself up on the bed as she looked around.
Slightly dehydrated, she subconsciously licked her lips. "What happened to me?"
Xiao Wan'er hasn't been sick for a long time.
Or rather, apart from her extreme cold ailment, she had almost no other illnesses.
It took her a while to recall that she had caught a cold.
"Is it all better now?"
Xiao Wan'er touched her face, feeling a slight warmth, then looked down at her body. After confirming that nothing was wrong, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
She remembered that when she was a child, an old woman at the Wumeng Mountain Taoist temple once told her that she must never get sick.
Given her health, even minor illnesses or accidents could be fatal to her.
"fortunately……"
Xiao Wan'er patted her chest as if she had just recovered from the shock, which was a way of comforting herself.
She had known about her ailment for a long time and had long since become accustomed to it.
Therefore, she takes a very detached view of life and death, and only hopes to live each day to the fullest.
While avoiding causing trouble for others, I can also do what I can to help.
Fortunately, she has been doing very well so far.
Thinking of this, Xiao Wan'er smiled slightly, "Fortunately."
Then she got up, got out of bed, and got dressed.
She didn't call Cui'er or Juan'er, but instead put on a long skirt, woolen trousers, and a short jacket all by herself.
After thinking for a moment, Xiao Wan'er opened the cabinet again, looked at the several clean and neatly folded cloaks, and took one out to put on.
After getting dressed, she looked at herself in the bronze mirror and said, "I still look better this way."
Against the backdrop of the fur collar of her cloak, her pale face, tinged with a slight blush, still revealed a hint of fragility.
Her breath was soft and weak, but her face was beautiful, like the moon hiding its face and flowers blushing, like autumn waves carrying water.
Xiao Wan'er looked at herself in the bronze mirror, but instead of admiring her appearance, she remembered what Chen Yi had said the other day—be careful of catching a cold.
A smile played on her lips. "You jinx."
It seemed like anger but wasn't anger, it seemed like joy but wasn't joy.
Overall, she was in a good mood.
Just as Xiao Wan'er was about to get up and leave the room to go out and take a look, she heard a gasp from the corridor outside the door.
"real?"
"Did the young master really pull back the blanket covering the young lady?"
Son-in-law? Blanket?
Xiao Wan'er blinked, then moved closer, and heard Juan'er explain:
"Don't misunderstand."
"I also thought the young master was doing something bad to the young lady."
"But when I was changing the young lady's clothes, I realized that the young master was right."
"You and I covered the young lady with such a thick blanket, and she was soaked in sweat. Her condition won't get better."
"If the young master hadn't pulled back the covers, the young lady's illness wouldn't have gotten better."
"Oh, I see. I misunderstood my son-in-law."
"However, it's not good for this to get out. It's fine as long as it's just you and me who know."
"Don't worry, I'm very tight-lipped..."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Wan'er felt a tightness in her chest, and instinctively cupped her hands in front of her chest to prevent her wildly beating heart from jumping out.
Her face flushed pink, not just from embarrassment.
There was also some annoyance, or some other thought.
Amidst a mix of emotions, only one thought echoed in her mind: "My brother-in-law... he pulled off my blanket, pulled off my blanket..."
Then, wouldn't that mean I was wearing that undergarment, and... and... I was...
He read it all?
Xiao Wan'er had been in charge of the pharmacy for so long that she knew a bit about medicine.
I've never heard of needing to uncover the blankets to dissipate heat when you catch a cold; the idea is to keep the blankets tight and sweat it out so you can recover faster.
"Brother-in-law, he... he shouldn't be like this."
Just as she was feeling embarrassed and annoyed, fragments of memories surfaced in Xiao Wan'er's mind again.
As if in a hazy dream, she dreamt that she was lying on a bed with Chen Yi sitting beside her.
They were talking in fits and starts.
What was said?
It seems to be referring to that poem.
In the dim light, she seemed to hear her brother-in-law's gentle voice say, "That was indeed written for you."
"..."
Xiao Wan'er's mind went blank for a moment, and the embarrassment and anger on her face disappeared.
Or rather, the annoyance was gone, leaving only a blush of embarrassment.
Was that a dream?
It must have been a dream, right?
Otherwise, that would be too embarrassing.
Just then, Cui'er and Juan'er pushed open the door and came in. When they saw her appearance, they were startled, thinking that she was still not well.
"Miss, are you...are you alright?"
"Should we summon Doctor Ma?"
Hearing the sound, Xiao Wan'er struggled to come to her senses, bit her lip, and shook her head, "I, I'm fine."
"No need to see a doctor, just give me a glass of water."
Cui'er hurriedly went out to the living room to pour water.
Juan'er helped her back to the bed and sat her down. "Miss, you scared Juan'er to death. You must rest well and not catch a cold again."
Xiao Wan'er composed herself and looked at her quietly, saying, "You really need to rest; you can't catch a cold."
Juan'er said happily, "Fortunately, the young master knows some medicine, otherwise Cui'er and I would not know what to do."
Does he know medicine?
Xiao Wan'er thought for a moment before asking, "Tell me what happened after I fell into a coma."
Juan'er, without suspecting anything, quickly recounted what had happened.
Just as she and Cui'er had agreed, she didn't reveal that Chen Yi had pulled off the covers.
After listening, Xiao Wan'er took a sip of water. "That's all?"
Juan'er and Cui'er exchanged a glance and nodded somewhat guiltily.
"Yes, yes, after that your illness was cured, and now you're awake."
Xiao Wan'er glanced at them with a complicated expression, then asked no more questions.
"Where is my brother-in-law?"
"They've gone back. I heard that someone from Guiyun Academy came to discuss with the young master about teaching tomorrow."
"Oh, then go and prepare some food, I'm hungry."
After everyone had left.
Xiao Wan'er sat there blankly for a moment, her face changing color from pale to pink to flushed, reflecting her fluctuating emotions.
After a long while, she got up and went to the window, her face glowing white in the bright sunlight.
She gazed in the direction of Chunhe Garden, only one thought remaining in her mind:
My brother-in-law, he'd better really know medicine.
Otherwise, otherwise...
(End of this chapter)
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