Mrs. Han Wu was a little disappointed. Today is the third day after the operation, and she is still in pain, but she can already see the scar on her stomach when Man Bao is applying the medicine. She thinks it is ugly.
Although she knew in her heart that she couldn't ask for too much, after all, she survived the inevitable situation, but she still felt that the scar was ugly.
Seeing her gloomy look, Man Bao comforted her and said, "Don't worry, take good care of it, the injury will heal faster, and when you go back and apply the ointment from the first half of the year, it will fade away."
Man Bao was sure that Li's house was doing a good job, so he walked away and agreed to come back tomorrow.
Before Mrs. Han Wu was completely out of danger, she had to come and see her every day.
After leaving Li's mansion, Man Bao didn't bother to go back to Jishitang, and said directly: "Let's go to the imperial city, I have to go to the palace."
Xiao Shao was startled, "I want to go too?"
"No, just send me to the gate of the palace. You have to take it back to repay the bill settled by the Li family. I'll let the people in the palace take me home later."
Xiao Shao breathed a sigh of relief.
Man Bao refused the queen to enter the palace.
The queen has already prepared the list of female doctors in the current imperial hospital. Man Bao's refusal was obviously not in her plan, but she was just stunned for a moment and asked with a smile, "Why don't you want to?"
Of course, Man Bao couldn't say it directly, so he said: "My lady, your concubine's hospital is really good, but my ability is indeed limited, and I still can't open it to teach students."
Queen: "You don't have to belittle yourself. Your Majesty and I have seen your medical skills. Not only my illness, but also the prince's illness, you have a clue. Xiao Yuanzheng praised your medical skills very much."
Man Bao said: "That's Xiao Yuan being polite, I still have a lot of medical skills to learn."
"You can also learn from the imperial physicians in the imperial hospital when you come to the palace."
But Man Bao shook his head with a smile, and said: "Madam, if the imperial physicians are really willing to teach them all, how can the female doctors have been in the palace for many years and can't learn to diagnose the pulse and prescribe prescriptions?"
The queen was silent.
Man Bao said: "They are willing to show me their medical skills because I have something to return. I have learned medical skills from them, and they have gained more from me."
"But I didn't teach them by hand, and they didn't teach me by hand. After the knowledge is given out, how much you can learn and how much you can comprehend depends on each person's talent and hard work." Man Bao said: "And I can have these things. Talking to them all depends on the fact that I have seen all kinds of diseases outside, and then take the trouble to study them. If I don’t have all kinds of folk cases, and I can’t come up with various medical skills and prescriptions that they don’t know, and I enter the imperial hospital. Seeing me again, I am afraid that I will not be the little doctor Zhou who can communicate, but a colleague who will compete with them on the same stage."
The queen understood Man Bao's meaning, "Are you afraid that you will be excluded?"
Man Bao paused, then shook his head and said, "I'm afraid I've forgotten my original intention."
The queen raised her eyebrows, "But the Women's Hospital must have a female doctor to preside over it, otherwise why bother to set it up? But in the entire Great Jin Dynasty, you are the only female doctor whose medical skills can handle this responsibility."
Man Bao said: "If you don't worry, Madam, it's better to let Dr. Liu study with me. She is very savvy and knows a lot of pharmacology and medicine. She will be a teacher after three to five years of study."
The queen laughed, "Ms. Liu is just a person, what's the use?"
She paused and said, "I found twelve medical girls for you, and I wanted you to enter the palace to teach them."
After thinking for a while, Man Bao shook his head, "Twelve people are too many, I only bring Dr. Liu with me."
The queen raised her eyebrows.
Man Bao took the opportunity to say: "Your Majesty, you set up a women's hospital in the palace, and then the concubines and princesses in the harem get sick, should I ask for a male imperial doctor or a female imperial doctor?"
The Queen laughed and said, "Of course it's up to them, it also depends on their condition."
"But if they can all work in imperial hospitals, how can female imperial physicians be released to the public?" Man Bao asked: "When the time comes, will the imperial court set up local medical offices, or let them open their own medical clinics? Or place an order in another pharmacy?"
The queen laughed and said, "I want to assign them to the local pharmacy to place orders for consultation. At that time, not only the pharmacy will give them a penny, but the imperial court will also give them a piece of money."
"It sounds good, but how do you choose this place? Is it up to the female concubine's hospital, or do they choose?" Man Bao continued to ask, "What if you don't want to leave Beijing to become a female doctor in a local place after you finish your studies?"
Naturally, there was a way not to go. Except for the first batch of births who were medical women, she decided to select the rest of the births from the palace.
Or select female relatives from the criminal records to train them. These people can be directly incorporated into the craftsman's register, and they will naturally follow the imperial court's orders.
It is also an honor for the first batch of medical women to stay in Beijing to teach students.
But the queen looked down at Man Bao, who was still young, and didn't tell her this, but comforted her: "Don't worry, the court can come up with countermeasures."
Man Bao tilted his head and glanced suspiciously at the queen. After a pause, he still shook his head, "Madam, let's discuss it later, or would you let Dr. Liu study with me first?"
The queen did not force her, and nodded with a smile, "Alright, then I will let Dr. Liu go home today, and she will study with you from now on."
The queen paused and then asked with a smile, "I heard people say that you only consult for half a day, right?"
Man Bao nodded, "I only consulted doctors in Jishitang for half a day, but there are always outpatient cases, so I spent most of the day seeing a doctor."
The queen said: "Don't let Dr. Liu be too lazy when teaching her, or let her serve by your side and listen to your teachings sooner or later?"
Man Bao shuddered and shook his head again and again, "Forget it, I didn't accept her as an apprentice, I just taught her a lesson, I am still a student myself, how can I accept an apprentice?"
It's scary to think about being served by someone like a husband in front of your husband, she doesn't want to do that.
The queen laughed, and said to Aunt Shang: "Okay, you can send little doctor Zhou out, by the way, didn't the princess send two pots of chrysanthemums last time, although they haven't bloomed yet, I think the leaves are pretty good, obviously It’s grown well, and I heard it’s a rare flower, so go pick a pot and give it to Doctor Zhou.”
He said again: "There are also fox furs that the Duke sent last time. I asked someone to pick a few and reward her together."
Aunt Shang agrees.
Then the queen said to Man Bao: "Now the weather is getting colder and colder, and you often run outside. You took the fox fur to make a fox fur to wear, and it will be warmer."
Man Bao would never turn down their rewards, and accepted them after saluting and thanking them.
Aunt Shang sighed slightly when she saw it, and couldn't help reminding her when she sent Manbao out, "Little Doctor Zhou, you are too courageous. Your Majesty has an invitation, how can you refuse it again and again?"
Man Bao blinked, "Can't you refuse?"
Aunt Shang: "... This is my mother's good nature. If I meet another master, I won't be so easy to talk to."
Not to mention the rewards, it would be nice if you could not ask for guilt.