Early this morning, the Lu family was unusually noisy.
Lu Songli was still asleep when she was woken up by Mo Bing. After she woke up, she looked out the window and it was still dark. Was it only the fifth hour?
After traveling for so long, Lu Songli finally learned to judge the time of day by the color of the sky.
"What's the matter? Tell me." Lu Songli sat up, took the clothes she handed and put them on her body. She was sure something urgent had happened, otherwise Mo Bing wouldn't have woken her up at this time.
"Master is sick."
"My father is sick? Have you called a doctor?" Hearing this, Lu Songli moved to bed even faster.
"Madam has already sent someone to take the post and go to the palace to invite the imperial doctor."
Yes, her father can hire a doctor, "Call them in, I want to change clothes, and I have to do it quickly!"
"yes--"
During this period, Lu Songli asked about her father's symptoms. The preliminary judgment was that it was a sign of internal Yang Qi deficiency and external wind and cold. The specific diagnosis could only be made by seeing someone.
About a quarter of an hour later, Lu Songli had washed up, dressed neatly, and set off for the main courtyard.
As Lu Songli walked away, she cursed herself for being careless.
During this time, her father must have been under a lot of psychological pressure. So many things happened during this period. Although she was on the sidelines to give advice on many things, the main force of output was always her father. Faced with the Xie and Zhao family's plan to destroy their Lu family, although the father and daughter had deduced a counterattack plan, he was the backbone of the family and the main executor. Facing the unknown results, he must be under a lot of pressure.
In addition, as the saying goes, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. Her father has been spending too many days attending meetings recently. It can be said that her father has been tense and in a state of high concentration and tension.
He is already forty and is no longer young.
Now that Xie Zhan personally said the words of truce, indicating that the fight between the Lu family and the Xie Zhao family has come to an end, the sigh in his heart relaxed, and as soon as he felt tired, didn't his body protest? Coupled with the evacuation of the body's defenses and the exposure to external wind and cold, the disease will naturally come with a vengeance.
When Lu Songli arrived at the main courtyard, she happened to meet Lu Mingzhi who was rushing over. The two siblings went in without saying much.
The imperial doctor had not arrived at this time, but Doctor Zhou was very close. He had already arrived at the Lu family, and had already diagnosed and treated her father and prescribed medicine.
Her father was lying on the couch, covered with a thick quilt, his face flushed, his lips dry, and his forehead covered with a wet handkerchief.
She stepped forward and took his pulse, which was similar to her previous judgment.
Lu Songli covered her father with a quilt and took her mother out of the bedroom, letting her father have a good rest.
"Dad, have you been feeling a little unwell the past two days?" Lu Songli asked. Yang deficiency in the body causes symptoms of wind and cold again. Her father's pulse was weak and he was tired and sleepy, which showed that his yang energy was weak.
Jiang replied, "Yes. It was just a slight cold at first, and your father didn't take it seriously after drinking the ginger soup. But in the middle of the night, your father suddenly became seriously ill. The most important thing is, Your father’s voice is hoarse and he can’t speak anymore.”
Her father is violently mute. This is caused by the severe cold attacking the lungs and kidneys, suffocating the upper orifice tunnels and closing the kidney qi at the lower end. "It's okay, mother, don't worry. Dad will definitely be fine after seeing a doctor and taking medicine."
When Mrs. Jiang heard this, she nodded, "That's good, that's good." When she discovered this, she was frightened. The child's father thought that there was something wrong with his voice and that he would be unable to speak in the future. He was so frightened that his face turned gray.
Lu Songli took her father's pulse, then looked at the prescription prescribed by Dr. Zhou, and judged that it was basically symptomatic. Her father had a symptom of yang deficiency caused by external factors, with both exterior and interior being cold. She should help the yang and relieve the exterior. parallel.
After thinking about it, she added two herbs, Atractylodes and Duhuo.
Her father kept humming and was restless in his sleep. When asked, he told them with great effort that his whole body ached. Lu Songli knew that this was the soreness of the limbs caused by dampness in the meridians. Adding Atractylodes and Duhuo could remove the dampness, unblock meridians and relieve pain.
She wanted her father to suffer less.
"Daughter, is this okay?" Seeing her change the recipe, Mrs. Jiang was a little scared.
Probably because my daughter has always been in poor health, she used to like to read some medical books, but only intermittently. During this time, the daughter began to read medical books again and learned medical skills by herself. They also knew that the child's father even helped her get some hard-to-find medical books. Although my daughter is very smart, she shouldn’t be able to succeed in medicine so quickly, right?
"You can show Doctor Zhou a look at this recipe that contains two herbs."
"Okay." Jiang agreed quickly.
Dr. Zhou listened to her reasons for adding these two herbs and thought it was feasible. At the same time, he marveled in his heart that the noble girl was smart and could learn medical skills much faster than the apprentices he led.
How did he know that Lu Songli had his own plug-in?
In the eyes of doctors like Dr. Zhou, the legitimate daughter of a fifth-rank official can already be called a noble daughter.
Doctor Zhou felt that Lu Songli, the second young lady of the Lu family, was really smart and had a talent for studying medicine. It's a pity that such a person cannot become his disciple after all.
Just as Dr. Zhou left, the imperial doctor arrived.
The imperial doctor took Lu Desheng's pulse, looked at the revised prescription, nodded repeatedly, and said that this prescription was wonderful, and asked them to take the medicine according to this prescription.
So Lu Mingzhi personally escorted the imperial doctor out of the mansion. Before leaving, Jiang's confidant, nanny, handed him a purse. Doctor Zhou also gave it to him just now, but it was not that big.
Manager Chen went to grab the medicine himself according to the prescription. After grabbing the medicine, he immediately fried it in the kitchen.
"If I had known, I wouldn't have stopped your father from scolding you." Mrs. Jiang blamed herself.
Dr. Zhou said that her husband was depressed and emotionally depressed, and then he accidentally contracted an illness caused by wind and cold. Ms. Jiang felt that if her husband had been allowed to vent his unhappiness before, he might not have gotten sick.
Lu Songli listened silently, knowing that her mother felt sorry for her father. She understands her mother's thoughts. Her husband is like this, so it's okay for her eldest son to take his turn as a vent for her anger.
In fact, even if her eldest brother comes back, it is just a comfort to her heart. What if her father sees the dull side of his eldest brother in handling things and becomes even more heartbroken? Just that sentence, as a family, as long as you have money and the ability to contribute, you should be open-minded about everything. Besides, her eldest brother's help at her father-in-law's house can be regarded as an effort to stabilize the situation.
After the medicine was cooked, Mrs. Jiang helped Lu Desheng sit on the head of the bed and fed him a bowl of thick porridge with dried vegetables and minced meat.
Lu Songli went to the kitchen to cook this bowl of porridge herself. In fact, she wanted to make porridge with green vegetables and lean meat, but there was almost no green on the table in the winter here. Unlike later generations where there were greenhouse vegetables, green leafy vegetables were available at any time. You can eat everything, even out-of-season vegetables. She could only do the next best thing, soaking some dried vegetables that had been dried in autumn in hot water, then chopped them up and put them into the boiling rice porridge, and then put some minced meat marinated in wine. Don't want any fat meat. The fat meat is too greasy. Her father's mouth is bland and he has no appetite, so he probably won't be able to eat it.
This bowl of porridge smelled very fragrant to Mr. Jiang. Lu Desheng was able to eat it, but he only ate a little more than half of the bowl before he shook his head to express that he didn't want to eat it.
Jiang didn't force him, put down the bowl, and gave him the cooler medicine.
Lu Songli watched from the side as his father stretched out his hands with difficulty and took the medicine bowl. Her mother wanted to feed her, but he wouldn't let her.
"What's the trouble? I'll feed you." Mrs. Jiang couldn't understand why she still had to carry the bowl herself when others were feeling so uncomfortable?
Lu Desheng insisted, feeling very anxious, Madam, you don't have to be so virtuous in this matter.
Lu Songli could see clearly from the side that her father wanted to be bored.
Yes, if her mother fed this Chinese medicine to her father one mouthful at a time, it would feel so sour and refreshing.
Her dad is such a clever little guy.
Sure enough, her father held the medicine bowl in both hands, put it to his mouth, and drank it all in one gulp.
Mrs. Jiang also came back to her senses, a little bit dumbfounded, and understood that he was sick and unable to speak, so she stopped arguing with him.
