Chapter 47:
“Luo Niangzi, your poison is hard to cure. In other words, you have a gu, a blood gu. You need to find the antidote!”
Blood gu, as the name implies, is a type of gu technique, also witchcraft!
It comes from Miao territory. You need to find an expert in this field!
“What?”
“Also, you said you have a daughter. I’m afraid she has that blood gu in her body too!”
“No, Doctor Du, Miaomiao is different from me. She’s very thin, not fat like me. There must be something special about her, right? She definitely doesn’t have it, right?”
“Hard to say. After all, the blood gu in your body is the mother gu. Your daughter is still young. Maybe in not too long, it will slowly onset, and she’ll get fat too…”
“What?”
She remembered that in the past two days, Miaomiao looked a bit rounder from being fed well. She thought it was her own credit. No, it must have nothing to do with this gu poison!
“This old man is powerless for now, but I can prescribe some medicine from the apothecary to temporarily condition the blood deficiency and other issues caused by your miscarriage!”
Luo Zhi’er was stunned. Doctor Du was indeed an experienced old doctor; he even saw through her miscarriage!
“Don’t be surprised. It’ll be hard for you to get pregnant again. Even if you accidentally conceive in the future, you’ll miscarry. For now, take good care of your own body. Cough… don’t get pregnant again. Otherwise, not even the immortals can save you!”
“Got it, Doctor Du!”
Doctor Du wrote the prescription for her and said, “For your condition, I don’t think it’s good, but this old man will keep an eye out for things in this area. You should look for an expert yourself…”
“Best to quickly find an old person who rears gu! Perhaps, they can save your life!”
Doctor Du had at least pointed her in the right direction. “Gu rearer?”
Where in Taoyuan Town is there a gu rearer?
This was really headache-inducing…
With her mood at rock bottom and utterly dejected, Luo Zhi’er went to the counter to get her medicine. She had originally wanted to lose weight, but now she had to save her life first!
“Wah wah wah!”
The baby’s cry caught Luo Zhi’er’s attention. It was An Ge’er. His mother had come in to buy medicine at the front desk, her eyes red from crying…
At the place where medicine was being grabbed, she pleaded: “Waiter, can you make it cheaper and give me some of the ointment from this prescription first? I’ll scrape together the silver for the rest next time…”
“Eldest sister-in-law, this ointment is three hundred thirty wen. Giving it to you for three hundred wen is already a special price. How can it be cheaper?”
The medicine boy said helplessly!
“Waiter, I beg you… just sell it to me!”
She had no choice. Her mother-in-law, upon hearing it cost ten taels of silver, cursed her out fiercely and said the apothecary was ripping people off. She left without looking back, grumbling!
“Sister, An Ge’er is so pitiful!”
“Sister, what’s going on? Where’s An Ge’er’s milk?”
Speaking of her mother-in-law, Brother An’s mother couldn’t hold back anymore and grabbed her, sobbing bitterly!
“She went back. She thinks An Ge’er costs too much silver. She can choose not to believe it and delay, but I can’t watch An Ge’er suffer, turn into a blind child who can never see the world again!”
“Sister, what should I do? Even doing embroidery work has nearly ruined my eyes, and I’ve only secretly saved two hundred wen. My An Ge’er, what should I do?”
Her maternal family wouldn’t give her ten taels of silver either. A married daughter is like spilled water. She had married for her oldest brother’s marriage exchange in the first place!
Luo Zhi’er looked at her, her heart aching too, especially An Ge’er’s pair of clear eyes gazing at her, which made her heart hurt terribly!
“Sister, let me see An Ge’er’s prescription!”
Brother An’s mother shakily handed the prescription to her. Luo Zhi’er glanced at it and passed it to the medicine boy.
“Waiter, fill the medicine from this prescription, plus one from my prescription. I’ll pay for these silver!”
“Well… alright!”
The waiter looked at her, took the prescription, and started picking the medicine.
Brother An’s mother looked shocked, her eyes brimming with tears as she gazed at Luo Zhi’er: “Sister, you… how do you have…”
She thought better and didn’t say it that way.
“I really don’t know what to say! I never expected… meeting you is truly An Ge’er’s good fortune.”
Her original intent was to have nowhere to vent. She never imagined that Luo Zhi’er, dressed plainly like a village woman, could help pay such a large amount of silver…
Even rich people wouldn’t want to be such a sucker!
“I’ll kneel to you. Thank you! I’ll smash pots and sell iron to pay you back the silver as soon as possible!”
Luo Zhi’er quickly helped her up: “Sister, why say these things? An Ge’er’s health is most important. Don’t tell your mother-in-law about this first. Take the medicine home and use it on An Ge’er… that’s the most important. As for the silver… I’m not in a hurry. Take your time!”
Brother An’s mother felt like she had met a living bodhisattva. How could there be such a person?
“Sister, I’m called Lan Xiang. My home is in Tongtian Village, at the foot of Mahuang Gully!”
“Tongtian Village?”
Isn’t that the same village as her mother-in-law Zhou Shi? Her husband’s family name is Qiu, called Qiu Yangqing, a scholar.
“I see!”
“Right, Lan Xiang sister, here’s six hundred wen. With the two hundred wen you have, you should be able to buy an ewe that gives milk!”
“No, Zhi’er sister, how can I take more of your silver?”
“Lan Xiang sister, just take it. I just heard Doctor Du say An Ge’er needs to drink milk. Since you have no breast milk, sheep milk is fine too. Listen to me. Find time to buy a sheep for An Ge’er to raise and squeeze some sheep milk for him to drink!”
“His little body will surely become healthy and strong!”
“Eh, sister, thank you so much. I don’t know how to repay you…”
Lan Xiang said, her eyes moist.
“Hehe, An Ge’er doing well is what makes me, Luo Zhi’er, happiest! I like this kid a lot. Look how tiger-headed he is; he’s sure to make something of himself in the future!”
After getting the medicine, Lan Xiang left the apothecary gratefully. Luo Zhi’er got her medicine and left too…
Li Sanmao looked around at the doorway a few times. Seeing Luo Zhi’er greet and bid farewell to that woman, who looked full of gratitude, he waited until Lan Xiang left before coming up: “Wife, who is she?”
“She’s from Tongtian Village, called Lan Xiang. She just helped me hold my spot!”
Li Sanmao nodded, paused, and said: “Oh, then what were you two tussling about at the counter?”
“Her mother-in-law wouldn’t give silver for her child’s medicine. She was crying and begging the waiter to sell it cheaper. Seeing An Ge’er so pitiful, I lent her some silver to buy medicine for my brother!”
“Got it, wife. Let’s go home!”
Li Sanmao looked at the sky; the sun was setting in the west…
“Husband, you’re not angry I lent silver to someone else?”
Luo Zhi’er gazed steadily at his face and said calmly.
Li Sanmao bent down to squat and carry the bamboo basket, then paused: “Wife, don’t I know what kind of person you are? You’re just like your father-in-law, always ready to help others. Besides, it’s silver you earned yourself. If you want to, I have nothing to say…”
“Husband, you’re so good!”
Li Sanmao hadn’t even asked how much she lent or when to repay. If it were someone else, there’d probably be trouble today…
“Hehe, you know it. Right, wife, what did the doctor say? Did you explain your condition clearly?”
Luo Zhi’er paused. “He prescribed some medicine to condition the body. I’ll condition it first!”
“Oh, that’s good!”
Li Sanmao thought it was some women’s issues left from her miscarriage. Since medicine was prescribed, they could go home and decoct it to drink!
