Chapter 31

"Indeed, indeed," Liu Zhongyi stroked his goat beard and nodded repeatedly. "The location of the illness seems to be in the legs, but it is actually in the waist," Lin Jiaojiao said, reaching out to touch the old lady's lower back. Jiang Mianmian, who was on the side, shouted anxiously, "You are bold! Aunt's body is not something a concubine like you can touch randomly!"

"Concubine?!" Liu Zhongyi and Guo Shi looked at her in confusion. Only Lin Jiaojiao ignored her and continued, "The fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae have been displaced for a long time and have even deformed, compressing the entire nerve, which is why the legs are painful and weak, unable to walk on the ground."

Liu Zhongyi and the old lady could not understand a word of what Lin Jiaojiao said, especially things like nerves.

"But I don't have any abnormal feelings in my waist?" The old lady was puzzled. Hearing this, Liu Zhongyi refocused his attention on the medical problem.

"Because the deformation has been there for too long, the waist muscles have become numb, so you can't perceive it," Lin Jiaojiao said, touching a scar on the old lady's lower back, "Did you have an injury to your waist before?"

"When I was young, I went to the battlefield with my husband and suffered some minor injuries, not worth mentioning." The old lady waved her hand indifferently, "Does this have anything to do with my leg ailment?"

"Of course it does!" Lin Jiaojiao said, "Is it convenient for you to turn over? I need to see the condition of your scar."

The old lady cooperated and turned over. Lin Jiaojiao lifted her clothes to look. Liu Zhongyi immediately turned his back. When Jiang Mianmian saw Lin Jiaojiao being so ignorant of etiquette, she rushed up to push Lin Jiaojiao away, "You rude concubine, how can you torment Aunt like this!"

The old lady said, "Mianmian, do not be rude. I am asking a physician to treat my illness; whatever the physician says is what it is."

Her voice sounded calm but carried an undeniable pressure. After seeing the old scars on the old lady's body, a sense of admiration arose in Lin Jiaojiao's heart. This old lady was worthy of having been on the battlefield; a heroine who did not yield to men!

After looking at the scar on the waist, Lin Jiaojiao gently covered it with the clothes, her voice becoming soft and gentle, "Your leg ailment is not difficult to cure, but it requires long-term persistence."

"Is it really not difficult to cure?" Hearing that her leg ailment could be saved, the old lady was in a great mood, "I didn't expect that at my age, there would still be a possibility of curing this leg ailment. I have lived like this for all these years, so sticking to the treatment certainly won't be a difficult task."

"First, you need daily massage to relax the stiff muscles. After the massage, apply a hot compress to soothe the nerves, then apply a fixation board to repair the displaced lumbar vertebrae, and you also need to take a few decoctions..."

"Female Physician, wait a moment," Liu Zhongyi hurriedly interrupted. He opened his medicine chest and took out a brush and paper, "Could you please say it again? I haven't recorded it yet."

Looking at Liu Zhongyi, Lin Jiaojiao inexplicably had a sense of achievement like a teacher with an obedient primary school student. She said with a smile, "Okay, I'll say it again, you must record it well."

"Are you really not a concubine, but a divine physician?" Jiang Mianmian looked at the house physician Liu Zhongyi writing furiously and was suspicious in her heart. Could it be that she had been misunderstanding all along?

"That's for sure," Guo Shi held Pei Tiezhu and began to boast, "My concubine can treat Great Luo Immortals above and Ghost Messengers and Yakshas below. Yesterday, Magistrate Song was slashed until he was covered in blood and on the verge of death, and it was my concubine who pulled him back from the gates of the Underworld!"

"Then..." Jiang Mianmian thought of the scene she had just seen of Lin Jiaojiao talking to Song Fu and Song Mu, and tentatively asked, "Then she saved Magistrate Song's life, so is Magistrate Song going to offer himself in marriage?"

"That's natural," Guo Shi had just responded when she realized something was wrong, "What did you say? Magistrate Song wants to offer himself in marriage to my concubine!"

Guo Shi never expected that the Dali Temple Junior Minister, Magistrate Song, would actually want to marry her concubine!

This was a huge, strange event! She had only mentioned it casually before, but it had actually come true!

Lin's household register was clearly still in the Pei Mansion. Not to mention whether the Pei Mansion would release Lin, even Zhu Geer's surname was Pei. If he changed his surname to Song in the future, it would truly be incredible!

Liu Zhongyi, who was recording, was also startled: this matter was brought up again?

Lin Jiaojiao hurriedly tapped his head, "I'm talking about the prescription, are you recording it or not! You are truly the worst student I have ever taught. Recording the prescription and still being distracted, don't ever tell anyone in the future that I have taught you!"

Liu Zhongyi shrank his neck. Lin Jiaojiao made him suddenly remember the fear of being dominated when his father taught him medicine as a child!

Every day he had to memorize medical books; if he couldn't memorize them, he would go hungry, no food to eat. If he memorized them wrong, he would get his head tapped! He couldn't slack off for a moment!

Especially that sentence from Lin Jiaojiao: Don't ever tell anyone in the future that I have taught you!

This sentence had almost become a nightmare of his childhood and youth, and now he heard it again!

He was over forty, and he actually saw the shadow of his father in Lin Jiaojiao, a young woman more than twenty years younger than him. Truly, the younger generation is to be feared!

After Lin Jiaojiao finished stating the prescription, she asked Liu Zhongyi to prepare some mugwort, then pressed and rubbed the old lady's waist and back with both hands, "It will be a bit painful, please bear with it for a moment."

"I have suffered countless injuries, I am not afraid of this little pain."

Just as the old lady finished speaking, Lin Jiaojiao pushed her lower back with both hands, and it hurt so much that she cried out, "Ah!"

In an instant, a gust of wind swept by, and a chaotic but orderly sound of footsteps from the servants of the entire General's Mansion came. The doorway suddenly darkened. Lin Jiaojiao looked back and found that more than a dozen servants in military uniforms were standing at the door. The leading servant strode into the room, "Whoosh," drew the sword from his waist, and pointed it directly at Lin Jiaojiao.

"Stop, do not be rude." The old lady shouted with great vigor, and the servants dared not take any further action.

It was just that this group of servants had a very strong sense of oppression, especially that moment just now. Not to mention Lin Jiaojiao herself, even Jiang Mianmian and Liu Zhongyi in the room had never seen such a formation, and they were so shocked they didn't dare to move.

Guo Shi tugged at Lin Jiaojiao's dress, wanting to drag her away, but at this moment, Pei Tiezhu in her arms stretched out his tender little hand and reached for the leading servant's sword!

Guo Shi hurriedly took back Pei Tiezhu's little hand and smiled apologetically, "The child is ignorant, the child is ignorant, please don't take offense, soldier."

"Retreat quickly, the Female Physician is treating my illness." The old lady was worried about the child and hurriedly wanted to turn over to dismiss the servants. Just from this turn, she felt that her movement was actually much freer.

"Eh? My waist and body are actually much more comfortable." The old lady touched her waist and back, her face full of joy, "It's as if a thousand-pound weight has been removed; it's very relaxed."

"It is because your body is sturdy. If it were someone else, I wouldn't dare to perform bone setting like this for you." Lin Jiaojiao wiped the sweat from her forehead and said.

The old lady asked Lin Jiaojiao to continue, "That bone setting of yours just now, can you do it again?"

"You don't need to perform bone setting every day," Lin Jiaojiao began to gently massage the old lady's waist and back, "That moment just now was to set your displaced lumbar vertebrae back. Performing bone setting once a day should allow your lumbar vertebrae to slowly return to their position, but you can't have them surrounding us with swords and guns every time..."

Just as she was speaking, Steward Xu suddenly knocked on the door to report, "Old Madam, the young master of the Pei family has come to visit, saying he wants to take their Lin concubine back to the Pei Mansion."