Song Yi

Chapter 42
Mother Pang asked nervously, "Son, what's the matter?"

Pang Xianwei said loudly in his mother's ear: "Mother, it's okay, there is an urgent business to deal with. I'll go first."

"Alright, get on with your work."

County Captain Pang walked to the bed, bent down, and lovingly touched Yu'er's thin and pretty face:
"Yu'er, take a good rest, Mr. Du is here, no problem!"

"Mmm! Master..., be careful...!" Yu'er said in a weak voice.

"Don't worry! I'll come back to accompany you after I arrange the official duties!" Pang Xianwei cupped his hands at Du Wenhao and hurried out.

Du Wenhao sat down by the bed, Second Grandma Yu'er's personal servant girl helped to flatten Second Grandma's arms, Du Wenhao put his three fingers to check her pulse, then probed her forehead with the back of his hand, looked at her face, nodded head, said:

"It's okay, grandma's illness is much better than yesterday, I will increase or decrease the prescription and continue to take it, according to the situation, grandma will be able to go to the ground in less than four or five days.

Everyone nodded happily, only Mother Pang asked with one ear:
"The son-in-law? No, no, you can't be the son-in-law. Mr. Du is a famous doctor now. How can he become the son-in-law? He will be laughed at! I won't let you! Let Yuqin marry you to your Pang family, regardless of your wealth." , Marry a chicken as a chicken, marry a dog as a dog, even if I eat chaff and vegetables with you, it is your Du family! I believe you will not treat Yuqin badly!"

Du Wenhao was slightly taken aback, and looked at Pang's mother suspiciously. Hearing that the old lady had something to say, she was referring to what she said to Pang Xianwei. Regardless of whether he has any wealth, he is willing to marry his granddaughter Pang Yuqin to him.

He glanced at Mrs. Liu again, and saw that he was smiling but not a smile. He seemed not surprised or embarrassed by the old lady's words, and he was more sure that the old lady meant it.

A pauper who can marry a daughter to him without hesitation, if he is not really optimistic about himself, no one will make such a decision, so he is full of gratitude to the old lady for her trust.

Mrs. Liu beckoned Pang Yuqin to pass, and the two muttered a few words. Mrs. Liu smiled, nodded repeatedly, and said to Du Wenhao:

"I heard from Qin'er that Mr. Du has promised her to study medicine with him?"

"Yes!"

"That's really great. I made an agreement with the old lady. If you agree to teach Qin'er to study medicine, we will use some private money to invest in your Wuweitang. By the way, let Qin'er manage it for us. Let me tell you something, since you agreed, I will go and talk to shopkeeper Lin about it."

Pang Yuqin interjected:

"Mother, shopkeeper Lin and Mr. Du just talked about the joint stock. Mr. Du used his medical skills to sell the shares and take two shares. Now Mr. Du is also half the owner of Wuweitang. He has already agreed to our shareholding, and the only thing left is shopkeeper Lin. gone."

"Oh, that's great. Sir, please prescribe a prescription for Yu'er, let's go to shopkeeper Lin and talk about the joint venture!"

The old lady kept listening with her ears sideways, and asked blankly:
"What are you talking about?"

Pang Yuqin happily whispered in the old lady's ear:
"Grandma! Mr. Du promised me to study medicine with him!"

"A good wife? Of course you will be a good wife after passing the school. You will follow your father at home and your husband after marriage!"

Pang Yuqin stomped her feet in shame, glanced at Du Wenhao, saw that he was looking at her with a half-smile, and was even more ashamed. She shook Pang's mother's arm, leaned close to her ear and said loudly:

"It's not Xian..., what is that? It's studying medicine! Now my mother is going to discuss with shopkeeper Lin about buying shares."

Now the old lady heard it clearly, and nodded again and again: "That's right! Go quickly, we've discussed it, grandma will pay for it!"

Du Wenhao just walked to the table and picked up a pen to write a prescription. Naturally, there was no ink in the inkstone, as if there was a tacit understanding, Pang Yuqin had already walked over in small steps, and began to grind the pine ink.

Smelling the faint fragrance from Pang Yuqin's body, Du Wenhao wrote a prescription crookedly, and added or subtracted the original prescription according to the improvement of the symptoms. When he picked it up, he found that Xue Fei'er was not in the room, and said strangely:

"Where's Feier?"

Pang Yuqin said: "My younger brother is always crying. Fei'er said to find a toy to amuse him, so he stopped crying. This time he hasn't come back yet."

"That's right, forget it, I'll go back and make medicine for Second Mistress, anyway, they are still waiting for me to go back for dinner."

Du Wenhao was about to leave when he heard a rush of footsteps running up the stairs, and with the sound of a rattle drum, the door was pushed open with a creak, and Xue Fei'er was shaking a rattle drum in her hand, smiling came in:

"Hee hee, here comes the fun! — Hey, Du Langzhong, are you here?"

"Yeah, I was looking for you to grab some medicine when I realized you weren't here!"

"Hmph! You only have sister Yuqin in your eyes, so you can see us!"

Xue Fei'er deliberately ignored him, shaking the rattle, walked to the little young master who was being held by the nanny, and rattled the rattle:
"Hee hee, isn't it nice? Don't cry anymore, listen to the rattle... don't cry, the rattle sounds good, listen to..., still cry! I won't listen to you if you still cry!...Listen! It sounds good Yeah!...why are you still crying..."

That little guy was only a few months old, so he couldn't understand her words, he just kept crying hysterically, ignoring the rattle in Xue Fei'er's hand.

Du Wenhao came over, took a look, frowned slightly, and said:

"The child seems to be sick, sit down and let me have a look."

The nurse hurriedly hugged the child and sat down on the stool, and unwrapped the swaddle. Du Wenhao wanted to see the child's tongue coating, but the child was twisting and crying, and he couldn't see it at all.

Du Wenhao had no choice but to take the pulse for him, but the baby's arm was not much bigger than an adult's thumb, and it was very short. Du Wenhao put three fingers together, directly from the wrist to the elbow, and he couldn't find the pulse for a long time. Twisting and waving her little hands.

Du Wenhao tossed until his head was sweating, but he still couldn't handle the child.

I didn't see a doctor for infants and young children in my uncle's pharmacy before, but now I realize that seeing a doctor for infants and young children is simply a kind of pain.

Since ancient times, pediatrics has been called "dumb department", because children's pulse is difficult to see, it is difficult to distinguish syndromes by pulse diagnosis, and they are crying, laughing, abnormal and unstable, and it is difficult to understand the disease by inspection.

Children's speech is not trustworthy, and their internal organs are weak, and troubles will arise if the medicine is used improperly.

So many doctors are reluctant to treat children.

When there was no plan, someone opened the door and came in, cheerfully said: "Come on! The prescription is here!"

The person who came was the shopkeeper Song of the Hengxiang Inn.

Xue Fei'er said: "Father! What prescription did you find?"

Shopkeeper Song shook a small piece of yellow paper in his hand: "That's it, stick it on the side of the road, and the child will be ready soon!"

"What? Show me!"

Xue Fei'er took it, and saw that the front of the yellow paper read:

the emperor,
rehmannia yellow,
There is a crying Yelang in my family,
Passing gentleman read it again,
Sleep till dawn!

Turn over the back, but it is a charm painted with cinnabar.Xue Fei'er giggled and said, "Father, what is this?"

"It's the sleeping talisman I begged for the young master from the Town God's Temple!"

"Does it work?"

"Of course it works. Taoist Zhang from the Town God's Temple has a very high morality! I heard that many children have used this prescription, and they will stop crying all night immediately!"

Mrs. Liu said happily: "Oh, thank you so much, shopkeeper Song, you really have a heart. Hurry up and take it, post it on the street!"

The maid on the side quickly agreed, came over to take the charm and went out to post it.

Shopkeeper Song proudly caressed his fat belly, He Lele said:
"It's a great face for me that Mr. County Captain can come down to my inn. Naturally, I have to find a way to take care of me. After learning that the young master always cries at night, I thought of this method, which is very effective. , so I asked for it."

Xue Feier asked Du Wenhao in a low voice: "Hey, do you think this method will work?"

"Hey, if this works, what are we doctors doing?"

Shopkeeper Song happily said:
"Mr. Du, you can't say that. A doctor is a doctor, and the Tao is the Tao. The doctor cures the body, and the law cures the soul. The child has lost his soul, so he needs to stick a soul-calling talisman to summon the soul, or he encounters unclean things. It is necessary to use people's mouths to help dispel evil, these are not things that doctors can cure."

"Really? If it's just night crying, the doctor can treat it, but...hehe, I'm not very good at treating children's illnesses, so I dare not prescribe drugs indiscriminately.

Seeing a genius doctor during the day does not charge money to see the stagnant disease for the child. The pulse is accurate, the observation is careful, the method is unique, and the syndrome differentiation is accurate, which is admirable.This miraculous doctor is indeed unique in diagnosing and treating infant diseases, why not ask him to treat them? "

Mrs. Liu said: "It's not a serious problem for this child to cry at night, so don't bother the genius doctor. Since shopkeeper Song has asked for a sleeping talisman from the Town God's Temple, let's try it first, maybe it will be all right. That's all right, let's do it like this for now." Let's take care of Yu'er and the old lady, Qin'er and I will go to Wuweitang to discuss the partnership."

Xue Feier wondered: "What joint stock?"

Mrs. Liu told the story with a smile, Xue Feier immediately understood, looked at Pang Yuqin with a strange face, and said to Du Wenhao with a grin:

"So that's how it is, Du Langzhong, sister Yuqin is studying medicine with you, you have to be taught seriously, and when the time comes, the red sleeves will add fragrance, don't be careless! Hee hee hee..."

"Damn girl! Looking for a beating!" Pang Yuqin chased and tried to pinch Xue Fei'er, but Xue Fei'er giggled and hid around Mrs. Liu.

Liu said with a smile: "It's alright, alright! Don't make trouble, your aunt is still sick in bed! Hurry up and make an agreement to come back early, let's go!"

Then Pang Yuqin stopped, gave Xue Fei'er a hard look, and followed Liu Shi and Du Wenhao out the door.

"I'll go too! Wait for me!"

Xue Fei'er also chased them out.

(End of this chapter)