"Big girl is studying in the room." Mrs. Lu immediately said, "I'll let her come here."
"No need," Imperial Physician Lu immediately stopped her and said, "Let her continue studying. After the Chinese New Year, let her study with her brothers. I will send her to the Imperial Medical Office later."
Mrs. Lu opened her mouth wide in surprise, and found her own voice after a while, "Well, how can this work, she will be twelve years old, and she can already start talking about kissing..."
"What do you want to do so early? A girl can get married after she turns eighteen, and it's just right for her to go to the Imperial Medical Office at twelve. After five years of physical therapy, she graduates at seventeen. She can just go to the Imperial Hospital or other local medical offices and work for two or three years. Get married after you have stabilized your heels." Imperial Physician Lu said to her with a serious face, "Women marry early and give birth early, which is not good for their health."
Mrs. Lu: ... But you didn't say that before.
Imperial Physician Lu used to think that she would meet her daughter at the age of twelve, see each other for two or three years, get engaged before reaching the age, and then choose a date after two years, get married when she turns eighteen, and have children just right.
This... why did it suddenly change
Imperial Physician Lu looked at Mrs. Lu seriously and said, "Don't underestimate women, they can also honor their ancestors."
He felt that his immediate boss was about to become a woman.
Although Zhou Man's grade has always been slightly higher than his, but that was in the Chongwen Museum, and in the Imperial Hospital, the two of them were of the same grade. Interference, and occasional cooperation is to follow Xiao Yuanzheng's orders.
But there was no moment like today where Imperial Physician Lu clearly felt the gap between him and Zhou Man. This gap was not a gap in medical skills, but a gap in politics.
For the former, Imperial Physician Lu can still work hard, at least he also has diseases that he is good at treating, and he is not afraid to look at Zhou Man who is more powerful than him;
For the latter, with the promotion of the Imperial Medical Office and the increasing contact with officials in the DPRK and China, Imperial Physician Lu has given up struggling, but he can tell from today's letter that Zhou Man is more than capable in this regard.
Although he didn't want to admit it, in the past few years of working with Zhou Man, Imperial Physician Lu, some deeply rooted concepts have already collapsed into scum.
This is still the case with Imperial Physician Lu, let alone Xiao Yuanzheng, who is barely enlightened.
He put Zhou Man's letter away and couldn't help sighing.
Only then did Mrs. Xiao collect the New Year's goods from Liu and Lu's family, and came over to bring him tea. Seeing this, she asked, "What's the matter?"
Xiao Yuanzheng said: "I'm thinking about when I will be an official."
Mrs. Xiao was taken aback, and quickly asked, "What do you mean? What's wrong with you? Or something happened in the palace?"
Imperial physicians are also high-risk occupations, because the identities of patients are usually unusual. If there is a medical accident or other man-made medical accidents, it is usually the imperial physician who is responsible, so Madam Xiao will not be scared.
Xiao Yuan was busy saying: "Don't worry, I'm thinking about giving way to someone."
Mrs. Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, and said angrily, "What are you thinking about, talking about medical skills, qualifications in the Imperial Hospital, and achievements in the Imperial Medical Office, who can make you step aside?"
Xiao Yuanzheng sighed and said: "The back wave, the back wave of the Yangtze River pushes the front wave, and my front wave can't become a stubborn stone blocking the way."
In the past few years, the construction and development of the Tai Medical Department, he really felt that his brain and mind were not enough.
But he was also reluctant to part with the official position and the power he had acquired, so he looked conflicted.
Mrs. Xiao couldn't help asking, "Who is Hou Lang?"
Xiao Yuan raised his eyes and glanced at her and said, "Zhou Man, now Man Tai Medical Office and Tai Hospital can be called the back wave, and who can take pictures of me, the front wave, who else but her?"
Although he considers himself a front wave, not everyone can get him, Xiao Yuanzheng still has some confidence in this.
Mrs. Xiao and Zhou Man didn't get along very often, and she didn't have the feeling of Xiao Yuanzheng. She frowned and asked, "Isn't she a woman? It's fine to be an imperial physician, but she can also be a court official and order?"
Xiao Yuanzheng: "Why not?"
Mrs. Xiao: "Why is it possible? Didn't you say that she was just a female doctor when she first entered the imperial hospital?"
Xiao Yuan was silent, and said after a while: "It's different now..."
Mrs. Xiao just stared at him, pinched the flesh on his arm after a while and said: "I don't care, anyway, if you don't make a mistake, you can't take the initiative to resign, hear?"
She said: "The few children in the family are useless, at least you have to wait until the grandchildren are older to raise them, otherwise what will our Xiao family do in the future?"
Xiao Yuan was thinking for a while, and said after a while: "Let the girls in the family study with their brothers."
"How old are they? Five, six, seven or eight years old, and they are about to learn knitting."
Xiao Yuanzheng insisted: "Let them study! They will learn whatever their brothers learn."
Mrs. Xiao said angrily: "Their brothers not only have to follow your eldest son to recite medicinal soup recipes, but also study classics and history collections from the invited gentleman."
"Learn!" Xiao Yuan said, "They also follow suit!"
Madam Xiao looked at Xiao Yuanzheng in surprise.
Xiao Yuanzheng said earnestly: "There is no way, look at our sons, have they learned my medical skills? Although the grandchildren are still young, I have watched them for the past two years and they are not particularly smart. talented."
Xiao Yuanzheng actually felt that his talent was quite good, otherwise he would not have stood out from the crowd of imperial physicians at a young age and became the hospital principal, um, although there were also reasons for his mentor.
But his mentor will value him because of his talent.
So how did his brood not inherit his talent
Xiao Yuanzheng glanced at Mrs. Xiao thoughtfully.
Mrs. Xiao: ...
It is said that a son is like a mother and a daughter is like a father. What if the grandchildren can inherit it from generation to generation
Like a grandson like a grandmother, a granddaughter like a grandfather...
If the grandsons are still not successful, but the granddaughters happen to inherit his talent, there is nothing wrong with them going to the future.
He persuaded his wife earnestly, "In the future, the granddaughter will have a bright future, so it is better than the grandson-in-law, right?"
He said: "Even to help the family, the granddaughter must be more caring than the grandson-in-law."
Mrs. Xiao: "...you still want them to be high officials?"
Xiao Yuanzheng: "Although my feet are a little floating now, as long as I think about Zhou Man, I will step on the ground again."
He said to Mrs. Xiao with a serious face: "I'm serious, don't underestimate Zhou Man, the next order of the Imperial Medical Administration and the director of the Imperial Hospital must be him."
Mrs. Xiao's heart beat violently and she finally stopped talking.
At this time, the crown prince had just finished reading Zhou Man's letter. He looked at the two prescriptions that fell out of the envelope, and read the letter back and forth again.
He thought about it, deduced it in his mind, and had to admit that her proposal was more perfect. Even if the royal family was absurd in the future, there would still be people staring at this pharmacy, so there would be no major problems.
The prince picked up the prescription and went to the Taiji Hall to find the emperor, "Father, Zhou Man sent the prescription."