Chapter 7

Lin Jiaojiao's sleep was truly dark and dim. When she woke up, she thought she had returned to her own world in a daze. After all, in a dream, there is everything.

Lin Jiaojiao licked her tongue greedily, opened her sleepy eyes, yawned, and shouted in a slightly coquettish voice: "Mom, I want to eat claypot rice today!"

As soon as this was said, the wet nurse holding the child was scared pale and took several steps back, fearing that Lin Jiaojiao would stew the child in her arms and eat it.

Wet nurse Guo Shi was a village woman just hired by Pei Aosong.

As soon as she entered the mansion, she was taken to take care of the young master.

At first, when she saw the shriveled infant, she almost shouted the word monster.

Fortunately, in order to earn silver to support her family, she could force herself to calm down, frowning and pinching her nose to breastfeed the child.

With this breastfeeding, feelings were established. Although this little baby was a monster, he didn't cry or make trouble, so he was easy to bring.

But when Bai Zhi called her to see the Lin concubine in the mansion, this Lin concubine actually shouted in her sleep that she wanted to stew the baby and eat it, which made Guo Shi jump again.

What a female Yaksha, actually wanting to stew her own child into rice!

Guo Shi hurriedly protected the child and shouted: "Concubine, the little baby cannot be eaten!"

Lin Jiaojiao identified from her blurred vision, why is there another strange woman in this room?

Is it possible that the crazy woman, the Old Madam, sent someone to frame her again?

She rubbed her eyes again, but her brain was still like a paste. She asked vigilantly: "Who are you?"

Guo Shi stretched out her hand holding the little baby to Lin Jiaojiao, but quickly retracted it, fearing that she would swallow the child alive.

Finally, she didn't forget to introduce herself: "Concubine Lin, I am the wet nurse of the young master, Guo Shi."

Lin Jiaojiao slapped her head, remembering what Pei Aosong, that cheap husband, promised: "Oh... Guo Shi, hurry and show me the child."

Guo Shi then tremblingly held the child to her.

Lin Jiaojiao looked at the child carefully. The infant was sleeping soundly. The white greasy vernix on his body had faded a little, but his skin was still dark purple, and a pair of weak little feet were curled inward unnaturally. It was really a little...

Not cute at all.

It's really pitiful. This little baby was abandoned by his biological mother and thrown to her.

Looking at it, Lin Jiaojiao began to feel pity for this innocent infant in her heart.

She developed a determination to protect the child, and at the same time, she had a plan to condition the child's body in her heart.

She instructed Guo Shi one by one: "The milk crust on this child's head, you rub it carefully with tea seed oil every day, and it will slowly fall off."

"The problem with the child's legs, I will teach you a set of massage techniques. You massage him for an hour or two every day, and it should be able to slowly correct the deformity of the legs."

"When he gets older, I will give him acupuncture to promote the recovery of his legs."

"Yes, concubine." Although Guo Shi couldn't understand some of her words, she could still hear the concubine's concern for the child, and felt slightly relieved.

Lin Jiaojiao nodded, signaling the wet nurse to hold the child in her arms.

Lin Jiaojiao reached out and gently massaged the child's deformed legs, her heart softened a lot: "You little thing is quite unique, small and ugly, I must teach you to grow up well, we will kill gods if gods block us, and kill Buddhas if Buddhas block us."

Guo Shi stretched her neck and looked carefully, trying hard to remember the technique of Lin Jiaojiao massaging the child's legs.

When she heard this, Guo Shi sighed in her heart: This ugly baby really has a powerful mother!

Lin Jiaojiao didn't massage for long before the ugly baby woke up.

He opened a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes and looked at Lin Jiaojiao quietly, neither crying nor making trouble.

Lin Jiaojiao sneered, "Your whole body is just a little better looking in your eyes. As for your personality, it's okay not to cry or make trouble. Don't be autistic, otherwise I really can't bring you."

The more Guo Shi listened, the more strange she felt. What is autism? And why can't she bring him?

At this time, the ugly baby seemed to understand, suddenly parted his small mouth without teeth, and bloomed an unconscious smile at Lin Jiaojiao.

This smile warmed Lin Jiaojiao's heart, making her couldn't help but stick her face to the child.

"From now on, you will be called Tie Zhu. I heard that this name is easy to raise. May you be safe and sound all your life." Lin Jiaojiao held the ugly baby and set a vulgar name for the child.

"Ah, this... I'm afraid it's not appropriate, right?" Guo Shi heard this, and her face was strange. This is a young master of a royal family after all. What is the difference between the name and the name given to a child in the village?

The little baby hummed a few times, as if he was very satisfied with the name.

Lin Jiaojiao nodded with satisfaction, massaged the child's legs several times, and then told Guo Shi to hold the child to breastfeed.

"I'm tired, you take him away, where is Bai Zhi? Tell her to get me something to eat."

"Concubine Lin, I am here." Bai Zhi replied from outside the room, "The food has been kept warm for you, I will bring it to you now."

The food Bai Zhi brought, although not as good as what Lin Jiaojiao ate in the modern world, was at least acceptable.

She swept the food away, and her stomach finally had a sense of fullness.

After filling her stomach, she should consider the problem of conditioning her body.

So she asked, "Bai Zhi, did you buy the medicine I asked you to grab? I want to see it."

"I have already bought it back, concubine." Bai Zhi replied, and brought the medicine bag back and opened it for Lin Jiaojiao to see.

Lin Jiaojiao checked it carefully, confirmed that there was nothing that shouldn't be there, and told Bai Zhi to stay in the room and watch her boil the medicine herself.

After drinking the medicine, Lin Jiaojiao felt that she had recovered a little, and then continued to sleep.

After conditioning for more than a week, Lin Jiaojiao was much better. The wound on her head did not leave a scar, her knees were no longer swollen, and although there was still discomfort in her lower body, this was a normal symptom of the puerperium.

Thanks to Pei Aosong's frequent visits these days, the Old Madam didn't make any moths.

However, Lin Jiaojiao was still as rigorous as ever, fearing that she would die at the hands of the Old Madam for no reason.

After she felt that she had strength in her body, she got out of bed and walked several laps in the room. After adapting, she planned to go to the courtyard to walk and get some air.

Lin Jiaojiao ignored Bai Zhi's persuasion that "you can't see the wind in confinement" and walked out of the room.

The bright sunshine outside made Lin Jiaojiao almost unable to open her eyes.

Suddenly, the child's heart-piercing crying came from the courtyard separated by a wall, and Lin Jiaojiao couldn't help but look back and ask, "Bai Zhi, is the child crying?"

"No, the wet nurse just coaxed Zhu Geer to sleep." Bai Zhi looked back at the side room, which was quiet.

"Concubine Lin, the crying came from the Madam's Jinxiu Garden. I guess... I guess it's Yang Ge'er crying over there."

"Oh." Bai Zhi nodded thoughtfully.

She didn't want to care about the things over there, but she couldn't help but be curious in her heart, plus the child was the one she gave birth to with great difficulty, and he was her own flesh and blood after all. She remembered the night the child almost choked on milk and suffocated, so she prepared to go over and see.

Bai Zhi reached out to stop her, "Concubine Lin, we cannot go to the Madam's side without authorization."

Lin Jiaojiao couldn't be stopped: "Bai Zhi, you know, that child is my flesh and blood, I cannot let him die again..."

"Die again?" Bai Zhi was stunned when she heard this: "Isn't Yang Ge'er fine..."

She relaxed, and Lin Jiaojiao stepped over her and walked towards Jinxiu Garden with big strides.

Compared with the Jiaohua Garden where she lived, Jinxiu Garden was much larger.

Here, in addition to the beautiful peonies, there were various small bamboo gardens, dwarf pines, and the floor tiles were inlaid with jade, which was a scene of a small Suzhou garden.

Lin Jiaojiao couldn't help but mutter in a low voice: "Wicked rich people... that cheap husband is so rich, if I had known, I would have extorted a meal..."

"Concubine Lin, Concubine Lin," Bai Zhi ran all the way to catch up and entered Jinxiu Garden.

She saw at a glance that Lin Jiaojiao was staring at Yang Ge'er in the wet nurse's arms, and couldn't help but worry, fearing that her own concubine would offend the legal wife, and even she would be punished.

But strangely, Liu Dafu was taking Yang Ge'er's pulse, and the child was still crying, his small face flushed, and his body was covered with red rashes.

"What pulse are you taking? He has a rash all over his body at such a young age. If it's not an allergy, it's eczema," Lin Jiaojiao pointed out the root cause of Zhu Geer's crying, "His body is so itchy, and he can't speak. Besides crying, what else can he do?!"

Yang Ge'er was crying heart-piercingly, kicking the swaddling clothes away. Not only that, but his small hands were scratching his face randomly, and the crying flushed face was scratched with blood marks, which looked heartbreaking.

"Al, allergy?" Liu Shouyi didn't understand what these two words meant.

Lin Jiaojiao glanced at the flowers blooming brightly in Jinxiu Garden, "Eight out of ten, it's pollen allergy. Take the child to take a bath with water boiled with mugwort leaves and honeysuckle, and tell the wet nurse to pay attention to the food. Don't eat fish, shrimp, beef, or mutton to avoid inducing red rashes."

"This, this..." Yang Ge'er's wet nurse looked at Lin Jiaojiao and then at Liu Shouyi, "The small one did drink mutton soup yesterday. Isn't this to help with milk? Can it be wrong?"

Lin Jiaojiao suddenly got angry. She put her hands on her hips and scolded, "This child looks like he has a high allergic constitution, and you still drink mutton soup? You don't even know when you will breastfeed him to death!"

These words made the wet nurse speechless, and she looked at Liu Dafu helplessly.

"Listen to her, listen to her." Liu Shouyi nodded in agreement, "Don't worry, I will report the truth to Master Pei and the Madam."

"Hey, yes, Liu Dafu." The wet nurse then held the child and went down.

Lin Jiaojiao watched the wet nurse's back and shook her head helplessly, "Ignorance harms the child."

"Concubine Lin is right." Liu Shouyi replied, and at the same time bowed in thanks; "Thank you for your guidance, Concubine Lin. After I went back that day, I told my brother your method, and now General Lu has recovered."

"No need to thank, it's good to recover." Getting praise from a peer, Lin Jiaojiao felt quite accomplished in her heart.

However, she knew very well that the medical skills she had learned when she just finished standardized training were really not enough to look at in modern times. It was only because she was in ancient times that her little tricks became highly skilled medical skills.

If possible, she wanted to open a medicine hall and research some modern medicines to save lives and heal the wounded more conveniently.

But how can she get a medicine hall?

She was thinking, when she accidentally caught a glimpse of a figure she had never seen before, walking past behind the rockery in a hurry, and sneaking into the Jiaohua Garden where she lived.