Lu Xinghe looked at him calmly.
"How much a person can accomplish depends not only on his age, but also on his talent."
After thinking about it, Xu Heng nodded, "That's right. Brother Lu was able to pass the exam at the age of nine, so Miss Chu may not be able to become a doctor at the age of nine."
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In the room, Chu Yue took Xiao Tao's pulse, then pried open Xiao Tao's mouth and looked at the tongue coating and throat.
"Tight pulse, shortness of breath, no sweat, thin white tongue coating, wind and cold attacking the lungs."
Zhang Zheng nodded, "You still overlooked something."
"Master, please speak."
"Shortness of breath, do not lie down, and chest distension. This is a deficiency of lung qi caused by a long-term lung condition that has not been cured. This little girl's illness has been delayed for a long time. If it is delayed for another day or two, I am afraid that she will die. There is nothing we can do." Zhang Zheng sighed, then picked up his pen and wrote the prescription.
Chu Yue touched Xiao Tao's face with great distress, picked up the warm water prepared on the side and wetted her lips bit by bit before feeding her.
His lips were dry, white and peeling, which showed that no one was taking care of his illness at home.
At this moment, Yun Cuihe and Wang Xuelan came into the room together.
"Yueyue, how is Xiaotao?"
"It's a bit serious, but it can be cured." Chu Yue answered while feeding her water.
"There is a foot doctor next door to your house. It's just a matter of words. Your parents are so cruel." Yun Cuihe sighed.
Looking at the skinny child, Wang Xuelan couldn't bear it, "How could such a good child make his illness so serious?"
Chu Yue sighed, "My parents don't treat us girls as human beings at all, otherwise Xiaotao wouldn't have been sick for half a month and couldn't get out of bed before calling the doctor to see her."
Wang Xuelan sighed, "What happened to the girl? Could it be that they jumped out of the stone? When I was young, I wanted to have a daughter. It's a pity that I didn't have this blessing. I just jumped up to a boy, and then I put my hope in it." In the end, your father and uncle only had one granddaughter, Yufang, and the rest were just brats."
Chu Yue smiled faintly, "Yufang is a lucky person."
Wang Xuelan strongly agrees with this point, "Isn't that right? Even if the uncles sometimes make each other blush, they still love her."
At this moment, Zhang Zheng handed the prescribed medicine to Chu Yue.
"Follow this recipe and take it three times for three consecutive days. Then buy some parsnip and boil it with scallions to make the concoction, remove the residue, mix it into the cooked japonica rice porridge and feed it to her [1]."
Chu Yue nodded, "Thank you, Master."
Lu Xinghe, who was sitting in the main room, heard the movement in the room and hurriedly got up and came to the door. He reached out and took the prescription in Chu Yue's hand, "I'll go to town to grab the medicine. Brother Xu's carriage happens to be here. I can ride a horse quickly." Go and come back quickly."
After saying that, he said hello to Xu Heng and went out.
Yun Cuihe and Wang Xuelan also left the room after seeing Chu Xiaotao. Yun Cuihe looked at Xu Heng in the hall with a smile.
"It happens that we have to cook at home, Mr. Xu, please stay in the house and have dinner."
Xu Heng hurriedly stood up, nodded and said, "Hey, I'm sorry to bother you, Auntie."
"No trouble. If Mr. Xu feels bored in the house, you can go for a walk in the yard. I'll go work first." After Yun Cuihe and Xu Heng finished speaking, they hurriedly walked out of the main room and told their two younger sons, "Xingping Xingan , go and catch a chicken from the chicken coop."
"okay."
The two brothers who were observing the carriage outside heard the sound and hurried to the chicken pen.
After giving instructions to her son, Yun Cuihe went to the kitchen to boil water and later killed the chicken so that it could be scalded and plucked.
Xu Heng saw two children, Lu Xingping and Lu Xingan, catching chickens. He hurriedly walked over to help, but he heard Lu Xingping say, "Mr. Xu, it's better not to come over. The chicken coop is dirty. Carefully make your clothes dirty."
"It's okay, I'm here to help you." Xu Heng rolled up his sleeves and followed the two brothers into the chicken coop. "I'm about the same age as your eldest brother. If you don't mind, you can call me big brother."
Lu Xingping and Lu Xingan looked at each other. The eldest brother had not made many friends in these years. Since he was recognized by the eldest brother, it was appropriate for them to call him eldest brother, so they all said, "Brother Xu."
"Why."
Xu Heng responded with a smile.
The three of them caught the chicken together, and Lu Xingan carried the chicken wings to the kitchen. Xu Heng was a little embarrassed when he came out of the chicken pen. Not only was his gown stained with chicken feathers, but his head and face were also covered.
Because they had been in contact with him for a short time and were somewhat familiar with him, Lu Xingping pointed at him and laughed heartlessly.
"Brother Xu, did you just sneak into the chicken coop while we weren't paying attention?"
Xu Heng smiled sheepishly, "Mistake, mistake."
At this moment, Lu Yufang's voice sounded outside the hospital, "Nai, my mother asked me to call you home for dinner."
Wang Xuelan, who was chatting with Yun Cuihe in the kitchen, heard this and hurriedly responded outside, "Hey, just come."
Yun Cuihe, who was killing the chicken, said hurriedly, "Mom will eat in our house tonight, just kill the chicken."
Wang Xuelan waved her hand, "No, no, you still have so many guests here, where can I find enough food? My food is cooked over there, I'll just go back and eat."
In the courtyard, Lu Xingping shouted towards the courtyard door, "Sister Yufang, come in and sit down."
"There's no need to sit down. I have to go back to eat after I nurse." Lu Yufang walked into the yard and saw Xu Heng who was covered in chicken feathers. She thought it was funny and couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Xu Heng glanced at the girl at the entrance of the courtyard, turned around and patted the chicken feathers on her body with some embarrassment.
"Make the girl laugh."
Lu Yufang smiled and asked, "Is this young master a friend of Brother Xinghe?"
How interesting.
Lu Xingping on the side quickly replied, "Yes, Brother Xu is my friend, and my sister can also call her brother."
Lu Yufang's face turned red after hearing this.
"Isn't this bad?"
Xu Heng finally cleaned up the chicken feathers on his body, and then looked at Lu Yufang, "It doesn't matter. Xingping and Xingan also call me that. It's okay for the girl to call me big brother."
The three of them were chatting. Wang Xuelan said to Yun Cuihe and then left the room, "Yufang, let's go home."
"Hey." Yufang responded and waved her hand towards Xu Heng, "Brother Xu, we are going back."
Xu Heng nodded, "Walk slowly."
Wang Xuelan glanced in the direction of Xu Heng. Mr. Xu looked good, he was gentle, humble and polite, but he didn't know if he was married?
But after thinking about her situation, she still shook her head in denial.
Mr. Xu comes from a wealthy family, and his own family is just a farmer. He is too high-minded, and the girl will easily suffer. It is better to find someone with a similar or lower family background, so that the girl can have more confidence in her husband's family.
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【1】Recipe: 10-15 grams of saposhnikovia, 2 stalks of scallions, 50-100 grams of japonica rice, decoct the sapsip and scallions to get the concoction, remove the residue, mix it into the cooked japonica rice porridge, and take it while it is hot; mainly used for wind and cold pneumonia in children.
