Faced with Zhao Qian's warm affection, Li Wei hesitated this time. She heard the voices of Shujia and Li Xing getting closer and closer, so she hurriedly raised the letter in her hand to the candle, and the paper immediately burned as soon as it touched the sparks. By the time Li Xing and Shujia entered the house, she had already packed away the ashes.
Shujia and Li Xing walked hand in hand, Shujia looked really happy.
"Mother, my aunt brought me many interesting things."
"I'm very happy. You two still have to go to school together tomorrow. I will test your homework later."
Shujia has gained a lot of confidence these days since she entered school, and she is no longer afraid of taking the exam. Instead, she asked Li Wei: "When will my mother, Sister Caizhi, come in and teach me medicine?"
Li smiled and said: "It should be soon. Are you so impatient?"
"Yes, I just want to learn from you."
"Then Caizhi asked you to watch "Suwen" and "Lingshu" before, have you read them?"
"After reading it, I can't recognize all the words on it, and I can't understand it. It always feels like a book from heaven."
"Don't be in a hurry, just follow and learn slowly."
Lu Caizhi was born in a family of medicine, and she had the ability to treat illnesses and save lives. She was a rare talented woman in this era. Looking at the entire Daqi, there are probably not a few capable women like Lu Caizhi. However, due to the limitations of the times, it is difficult for women to get on the performance stage and realize their value. I don’t know how many Lu Caizhi were buried.
Lu Caizhi has outstanding medical skills and is a rare talent. She had heard in the early years that the daughters of the Lu family were extremely outstanding. In addition to Lu Caizhi, a capable woman with outstanding medical skills, the Lu family also had Lu Caiping. She heard that Caiping was already proficient in poetry at a young age and had started reading Confucian classics since she was a child. There is nothing Lu Caiping can't do at playing piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and singing, especially a beautiful article that would make even a man feel inferior.
Most of the capital knows the name of such a talented person, but there is no place for her to be used. It is said that she got married just after she turned fifteen, but her life was not very good. She was married in less than two years. She was disliked by her mother-in-law because her husband secretly kept an illegitimate wife. During the period of marriage, she had nothing to do. Her life in her husband's family was very depressing. Naturally, a talented woman's thoughts are different from others. When her husband betrayed her, her mother-in-law When she was partial, she wrote a letter of divorce to her husband, proposing to divorce him. This matter was quite a big deal. I had only seen divorced wives, but it was unheard of to divorce husbands. Li Wei was not sure what the final verdict was in the yamen, but Lu Caiping did move out of her husband's house later.
Therefore, this incident seemed a bit shocking at the time. Her husband's family could no longer stay, but her parents' family felt that Lu Caiping had lost the Lu family's face and did not accept her.
Lu Caiping went to live in her dowry village, singing to the wind and moonlight all day long, and living a very comfortable life.
Li Wei suddenly remembered this person and wanted to meet him. Now is the time to employ people. If Lu Caiping is really talented, this can be used to promote her.
So when Lu Caizhi came to the palace for the second time, she talked about this matter with Caizhi.
Caizhi was a little surprised when she heard the Queen Mother's request: "But my sister has long since lost sight of worldly affairs. She competes with a group of literati and poets every day by reciting poems, and often travels. I don't know where she is now."
"Oh? That's interesting. Tell your father for me and find a way to contact your sister and tell her that the Queen Mother wants to see her."
Although Caizhi didn't know what the Queen Mother wanted to see her rebellious sister, she still agreed to help spread the word.
Caizhi came to the palace to accompany the Ninth Princess and teach her some medical knowledge in her spare time. Shujia was really interested in this and formally worshipped Caizhi as her teacher and studied with her wholeheartedly. Li Xing still followed Madam Su to learn needlework. Things in the palace were relatively peaceful.
The Hui Medical Department has officially started operations, and it is said that people who come to see the doctor have to queue up every day. As a result, there is a shortage of doctors. Li Wei asked the officials in charge of the Hui Medical Department to recruit a group of suitable doctors from the private sector, and the court would provide them with salaries.
Two days before the Double Ninth Festival, the temple owner of Sanqing Temple came to the palace to deliver a talisman, and Li Wei left the temple owner of Qingyuan Temple to sit in Chongqing Palace. The Qingyuan temple owner mentioned that the weather has been cool recently and the leaves on the mountains have turned yellow, making it suitable for hiking and overlooking.
Li Wei was moved by the words of the temple master, so he told her, "Okay, let's go to Sanqing Temple for a few days during the Double Ninth Festival. It's not much fun to be bored in the palace all day long."
The news that Li Wei wanted to see Lu Caiping reached Du Yu's ears. It was originally a trivial matter that the Queen Mother wanted to see someone, but who was Lu Caiping? The Queen Mother would actually be interested in such a person. Du Yu couldn't guess what the Queen Mother was going to do, but he kept this little thing in mind.
When leaving the palace for a few days, Li Wei still brought Li Xing, Shujia, and even Cai Zhi with him this time. Some of the young girls around him were also lively.
On the afternoon of the eighth day of the lunar month, the carriages and horses entered Sanqing Temple. As soon as he got off the sedan, Li Wei saw the tall ginkgo tree in the courtyard of Sanqingguan. At this time, the ginkgo tree had slowly turned yellow. Paired with the blue sky and white clouds, this touch of warm yellow makes people feel warm inside.
Shujia followed the little Taoist nun in the temple to pick up ginkgo fruits, chirping like a bird out of its cage. It seems that he has been bored in the palace for a long time.
Li Wei turned around and saw Li Xing standing there smiling at the people running in the yard and asked, "Aren't you going to play with them?"
Li Xing said nervously: "I am a big girl and I don't want to play with the children."
Li Wei just smiled when he heard it.
At night, Lu Caizhi went to bring her specially prepared foot soaking water, which was added with dried herbs and a handful of safflower.
"Your Majesty, if you soak in this, your hands and feet will be extremely warm all winter long and you won't be afraid of the cold anymore."
Li smiled and said: "I'm not a few years older than you, and I usually pay attention to physical exercise, so I'm not that afraid of the cold. But thank you for doing these for me. My body is warm and I can sleep sweetly at night."
In Sanqing Temple, Li Wei asked Li Xing to sleep next to her.
The two sisters were lying on the bed and talking about their father's illness. Li Wei also looked away: "Our father's illness will not be cured for a while. As long as we can survive this winter, maybe we won't be afraid when spring next year comes."
Li Xing asked nervously: "Queen Mother, will my father die from this?"
Li Wei was silent for a while before saying: "I can't tell, but he is very likely to leave at any time in this state. You have to be mentally prepared."
Li Xing felt very depressed when he heard Li Wei say again: "Our medical level is too poor and there are not enough medical staff, so the average life expectancy is low. Only by developing the medical field well can we improve the quality of life and extend people's life span." ”
Before Li Wei was about to fall asleep, Li Xing whispered in his ear: "Queen Mother, when will the prince come back?"
"Did you miss him?"
Li Xing said shyly: "Don't laugh at me, Queen Mother. I'm just asking."
Li Wei said: "Maybe there are still a few months."
(End of chapter)