Chapter 6

Lin Jiaojiao stared at Physician Liu weakly, feeling that all the cells in her body were shouting: I want to rest! I want postpartum care! I want to sleep!

Even a sow that has just given birth to piglets needs postpartum care for the sow, at least she needs a gap to rest and raise her body!

Not to mention the discomfort in the lower body, even the pain on her face, knees, and being abused by the old woman.

She lay on the couch, closing her eyes, just wanting to have a good sleep, and didn't even want to open her eyes to look at Liu Shouyi.

She thought that by not making a sound, she could "persuade" Liu Shouyi to retreat.

Who knew that Liu Shouyi thought she had tacitly agreed, so he bowed and said: "Concubine Lin, if you are willing to help with this favor, I can take you out of the Pei Mansion safely, and you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life."

Take me out of the Pei Mansion safely? No worries about food and clothing for the rest of my life?

Is there really such a good thing?

Lin Jiaojiao suddenly opened her eyes full of red blood, "Really?"

She looked at Liu Shouyi from head to toe again: this person looked ordinary and didn't look like someone with power and ability, so she questioned.

"You are just a house physician, how could you have such ability to take me away from here?"

Liu Shouyi knew that he was looked down upon, but this was not the first time.

But it was the first time to be looked down upon by a concubine in the Pei Mansion who had no power and was suppressed everywhere.

Forget it, forget it, he was the one asking for help first.

He lowered his head and said, "Concubine Lin, my Liu family has been practicing medicine for generations, and I still have the ability to take a concubine out of the mansion."

Lin Jiaojiao pondered this sentence carefully. Could it be that he really had some incredible connections above him?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but start imagining the "bright future" after leaving the Pei Mansion.

After going out, at the very least, she wouldn't have to worry about the old witch harming her every day.

As for how to take revenge later, a gentleman's revenge is not too late in ten years.

Lin Jiaojiao nodded slowly and replied, "... Also. How do you plan to have me help you? But let's make it clear in advance, I won't do things like murder for money."

Seeing that Lin Jiaojiao had agreed, Liu Shouyi hurriedly said: "Please rest assured, our medical family saves lives and heals the wounded, and will never do things that harm people's lives."

Lin Jiaojiao nodded, and a little calculation started in her heart: if she was made to do things that hurt heaven and reason unintentionally, then she would be the first to buckle the shit basin on this house physician's head!

Seeing Lin Jiaojiao not speaking, Liu Shouyi thought she had completely agreed.

So he continued, "My brother Liu Zhongyi works in the Zhenguo Great General's Mansion and is the house physician of the General's Mansion."

"Recently, General Lu returned to the General's Mansion, but he got a strange disease."

"What disease?" Out of the instinct of a medical student, Lin Jiaojiao became a little interested in the strange disease he mentioned.

"This strange disease is: the pulse is chaotic, diarrhea is endless, every night he has wind clusters all over his body, it is extremely itchy, his body is getting thinner day by day, and many medicines are useless..."

After listening to Liu Shouyi's narration of these things, Lin Jiaojiao immediately searched for all the course content in the university in her brain.

Although she only listened to her parents' suggestions to study medicine, she didn't miss classes during university, and even won scholarships. She could be considered an excellent physician reserve.

She went through all the subjects in her mind: allergy? Doesn't look like it, gastroenteritis? Doesn't look like it, tuberculosis? Not right, parasites...?

Right! It should be a parasitic disease!

Thinking that a great general was fighting outside, and it was in ancient times, the conditions were not good, and the food would not be very hygienic, so getting parasites was a matter of time...

As for their ineffective treatment, it was estimated that it had a lot to do with the backward medical conditions in ancient times.

But even if she knew that this general had a parasitic disease, there was no effective deworming medicine in ancient times!

Even if there was pagoda candy, it would be fine!

What on earth can kill parasites?

Lin Jiaojiao went through the subjects she had studied in her mind again, and suddenly remembered a commonly used folk deworming medicine: pumpkin seeds!

When she was a child, her mother would stir-fry some pumpkin seeds from time to time and tell her to eat them, saying they could kill roundworms!

Besides pumpkin seeds, there are betel nuts, bitter bark, Quisqualis indica, etc., etc.

Lin Jiaojiao reported these Chinese medicine names in one breath. Liu Shouyi was stunned for a moment. After he figured out the principle, he clapped his hands and suddenly realized, "So that's it! Concubine Lin is truly highly skilled in medicine! Without stepping out of the house, she could think that the Great General had a worm disease!"

Although Lin Jiaojiao had no bottom in her heart, Liu Shouyi's praise made her float soon, "That's not it, I have won the professional first scholarship."

Liu Shouyi didn't quite understand what scholarship she was talking about, but he understood the four words "professional first" very clearly.

He asked with awe, "May I ask who Concubine Lin studied under? Is it the Medicine King Mr. Sun, or the Medical Saint Physician Zhang?"

"Both, both, "The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", "Compendium of Materia Medica", etc., are all part of the exam content." Lin Jiaojiao waved her hand. Sun Simiao, Li Shizhen, etc., were all required content for the final exam of traditional Chinese medicine.

"Master, master," Liu Shouyi heard that Lin Jiaojiao had studied these medical classics and admired her from head to toe, "There are really masters among the people."

Lin Jiaojiao shrank her head modestly. She returned to the topic and asked, "Then when can you take me away from the Pei Mansion?"

Liu Shouyi stroked his beard, planning how to take her away from the Pei Mansion. But at the moment, he had no good way, so he could only say, "One month later, I will definitely find a way to take you out of the Pei Mansion."

Who knew that Lin Jiaojiao would say firmly: "No!"

Liu Shouyi opened his eyes wide and looked at her with some disbelief, "Could it be that you don't—"

Before Liu Shouyi could finish, Lin Jiaojiao grabbed and said, "Half a month, at most half a month!"

"This..." Liu Shouyi looked at her with difficulty, "In half a month, you won't have finished your confinement."

Lin Jiaojiao had her own ideas. Leave after confinement? I'm afraid that before confinement, she would have been poisoned to death by that dead old woman.

A trace of essence flashed in her eyes, and she threatened: "Half a month, if you don't get me out of the Pei Mansion within half a month, I will poison everyone in the Pei Mansion, and then buckle the pot on your head. Anyway, the only one who knows medicine in the entire Pei Mansion is you."

This made Liu Shouyi break out in a cold sweat on his back. Looking at Lin Jiaojiao again, the other party had a sinister smile on her face.

"The decoction given by that old woman yesterday added such a large amount of safflower, don't think I don't know the reason?"

Lin Jiaojiao's words made Liu Shouyi, who had been practicing medicine for more than twenty years, tremble.

He wanted to quibble, but didn't know where to start, and even stuttered when he spoke: "Small... small doesn't know, just a few days ago the Old Madam asked, asked how to use medicine for women giving birth..."

"Okay, I'll put this matter aside for now. If there is such a thing in the future..."

"I will definitely make the entire Pei Mansion, and your entire Liu family, whatever medical family, be buried with me." Lin Jiaojiao said this with a trace of gnashing hatred in it.

Liu Shouyi felt his neck cold, as if Lin Jiaojiao had already put a knife on his neck. He nodded in horror, "Yes, yes, yes..."

Seeing that he agreed, Lin Jiaojiao closed her eyes and lay back on the couch, issuing an order to evict the guest: "I'm tired, you go busy."

"Yes." Liu Shouyi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and then exited.

In addition to horror, Liu Shouyi couldn't stop admiring Lin Jiaojiao's highly skilled medical skills and extensive knowledge in his heart, and she had even read the long-lost "Compendium of Materia Medica".

After Liu Shouyi left, Lin Jiaojiao finally gained a moment of peace. She called Bai Zhi to guard her bed, telling her to wake her up if there was any movement, and then fell into a deep sleep.

On the other side, Nanny Qingyin, who was covered in soup and water, changed her clothes and returned to serve by the Old Madam's side.

It was called serving, but it was actually complaining.

While she was taking down the Old Madam's hair bun, she said without changing her expression, "Old Madam, this decoction spilled on the old servant's body, and it is a minor matter to scald the old servant, but this is a rejection of your face!"

The Old Madam examined the wrinkled face in the bronze mirror, and her originally unhappy mood became even gloomier at this moment.

Nanny Qingyin saw the Old Madam's expression and knew that the matter was half successful, so she added fuel to the fire, "This Concubine Lin doesn't know what kind of love potion she gave the master, and she even called the house physician to treat her."

When the Old Madam heard this, she felt even more troubled.

I don't know why, but some things that made her extremely annoyed were turned over.

She seemed to see herself who was not favored by her husband when she was young, "Qingyin, do you think that vixen is a little like that Liu Yunyan back then?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Nanny Qingyin nodded like a garlic, "When Liu Yunyan was rescued from the Southern Frontier by the master back then, she looked like a charming fox spirit. If it weren't for her using witchcraft, the master would never have..."

That's right, otherwise why would she hate Lin Jiaojiao so much?

Her origin is unknown, maybe she is a woman from the Southern Frontier...

The Old Madam thought of this, and the coldness in her eyes became even worse.

Back then, Pei Yichuan was fascinated by Liu Yunyan all day long, regardless of day and night, and even showed her the military defense map—

Until Liu Yunyan intended to steal the map and was discovered by herself, caught on the spot, and sent to the Dali Temple for disposal, otherwise the entire Dakang Dynasty would be in danger!

But her husband Pei Yichuan ran around day and night, just wanting to save Liu Yunyan. Fortunately, her brother was an official in the court and remonstrated with the Emperor to death, sentencing Liu Yunyan to death by a thousand cuts.

On the day of the execution at the vegetable market, Pei Yichuan ran to beg the executioner to change the death by a thousand cuts to beheading, to give Liu Yunyan a quick death.

The executioner naturally wouldn't listen to him, and Liu Yunyan looked more like she had lost her mind, laughing at the sky throughout the execution, cursing the Dakang Dynasty.

At the moment she finally stopped breathing, Liu Yunyan gave Pei Yichuan a miserable smile, "I'm sorry, the only person I failed in this life is you, and the child in my womb..."

Pei Yichuan vomited blood and fainted on the spot. After being brought back to the mansion by the servants and waking up, he locked himself in the room where he had been intimate with Liu Yunyan all day long. No matter who came forward, even the child Pei Aosong went to call father, he didn't respond.

In the end, Pei Yichuan didn't know his sleeping clothes, and passed away in less than half a month, leaving a mess of the Pei Mansion, which was hard managed by her, Su Jinghua, a widow.

It was not easy for the Pei Mansion to gradually rise, and Pei Aosong, the mixed kid, married a woman of unknown identity back as a concubine. This concubine not only fascinated her son, but also knew witchcraft that could bring people back to life!

That Lin Jiaojiao, if she is not a woman from the Southern Frontier, who else could she be!

No, absolutely cannot let her son Pei Aosong follow his father's old path.

"Qingyin, dress me up, I want to see my brother."