Thinking that Meng Zhen's illness was not serious, Hao Cheng specially ran two more streets and invited an old doctor who looked easy to talk to. Halfway through, after hesitating for a long time, he couldn't help but ask: "Do you have any medical books on male fertility?"
Medical books must have recorded such secret matters. She thought she asked in a tactful way, but the old doctor still looked at her strangely: "Who did you say the patient was?"
Hao Cheng was stunned for a moment, then replied, "He is my distant cousin."
The old doctor swung her sleeves and said angrily, "This is about a man's reputation. Since he is not your husband, why are you asking this? I think you are a scholar, how can you have such dirty and vulgar thoughts?"
Hao Cheng was completely confused by what was said. She just wanted to study how men in this world gave birth to children. How could something so pure be considered dirty and vulgar
The old doctor must have misunderstood and blamed herself. However, considering that she still had to have patients, she had no choice but to shut up and forcibly lock the curious cat that kept scratching her heart and lungs in a cage.
Anyway, these people are unwilling to tell her. She can always find the information by going to the bookstore. There is no need to rush.
The old doctor followed Hao Cheng into the yard and carefully felt Jiang Mengzhen's pulse. Hao Cheng observed her facial expression and saw that the old doctor's expression became increasingly solemn and her half-white eyebrows trembled constantly. After she finished feeling the pulse, she asked Hao Cheng for paper and pen.
"Your brother is weak and needs to take extra care during the period of Tiankui. He also caught a cold, which is why he is like this. I will prescribe a prescription for you. If you follow this prescription first, it will definitely alleviate his symptoms."
When Hao Cheng sent the doctor to the door, the doctor whispered to her privately that the patient she was seeing today had difficulty in having children, and if she didn't take good care of herself, it would be even more difficult for her to conceive in the future.
Hao Cheng nodded to show that he understood, and sent Wang Yang to send the person out, and also brought back some medicine according to the prescription written by the doctor.
Because it was a minor illness, the consultation fee was one or two taels of silver, which was not very expensive. However, the medicine for two or three days cost as much as forty or fifty taels. They were all precious medicines, and the price of even a small amount was staggeringly high.
Dong Xue was heartbroken when she heard that the medicine cost so much money: "It's really expensive. It costs so much just to have menstrual water."
Wang Yang fanned the stove where the medicine was boiling, his face livid: "It didn't cost you any money, the master doesn't feel bad about it, why should you feel bad about it?"
Dong Xue said sarcastically: "Of course I feel bad. We worked so hard for several days, but it was wasted on a rooster that can't lay eggs."
He heard everything the doctor said just now. Hao Cheng still had to save money to buy a shop. If such a spendthrift really stayed, he would be no different from a troublemaker in his eyes.
Difficulty in having children, that's just a nice word the doctor said, to put it bluntly, isn't it that you can't have children? He didn't think Meng Zhen was much better looking than him, it was okay for the master's biological brother, but he couldn't like a distant cousin who came to seek refuge with him.
Wang Yang couldn't stand Dong Xue's harsh face, so he raised his hand high. Hao Cheng walked towards the kitchen, and the two of them immediately stopped working and sat down at their respective posts, some boiling water and some boiling medicine.
Dong Xue was afraid that Wang Yang would complain first, so she volunteered, "Master, I'll go wash the dirty clothes."
Hao Cheng nodded at him, and the latter went to the shaking well carrying the clothes that Hao Cheng and Jiang Mengzhen had taken off.
Dong Xue also thought it through. After all, Meng Zhen looked delicate and delicate, and he was the cousin of the master, so he was destined to be served. Instead of waiting for Hao Cheng to order him to do something, he might as well perform well and sell himself well in front of the master.
Wang Yang lowered his head when he saw her coming over and said, "The medicine cost forty-five taels of silver. I definitely didn't cheat you of a cent. It's just that a few precious herbs were mixed in..."
She didn't care about so many things at the time. She thought that Mr. Meng was so pitiful, so no matter how expensive the medicine was, she bought it without thinking.
Dong Xue was a bad mouth, but she was not a liar. It was definitely true that Master Meng couldn't have children. If the master didn't agree to buy medicine for Master Meng, she would be the one who would be in trouble.
Looking at the trembling maid, Hao Cheng casually comforted her: "I asked you to get the medicine. If it can cure the disease, it will cost more than forty-five taels." Although the medicine cost a lot of money, she didn't feel bad about it. There was money in Meng Zhen's small package anyway. If the medicine cost a lot, he would definitely pay for it himself. It wasn't her money.
As for whether or not she could have children, in her previous life, Hao Cheng didn't even want to get married, let alone have children. If she really liked that person, a child would be the icing on the cake, and she didn't think it mattered.
Anyway, the scholar's dead parents would not jump out of their graves to force her to continue the Hao family's bloodline. Moreover, Meng Zhen was not her husband, and whether he could have children was his business, so why should she worry about it
Shaking off the messy thoughts from her mind, she went into the small kitchen, took out some rice wine, and prepared to make a dessert that she loved in her previous life - rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice.
This dessert is very effective in relieving dysmenorrhea caused by menstrual obstruction. The doctor said that Meng Zhen fainted from the pain because of irregular menstruation, which only came once every few months, plus catching a cold.
People who bleed a lot are not suitable for drinking rice dumplings with fermented rice wine, but it will definitely be beneficial to the person lying in the guest room.
Hao Cheng added clean water to the small pot. While waiting for the water to boil, he took out about one or two ounces of glutinous rice flour, added an appropriate amount of warm water and kneaded it into a glutinous rice ball. He then pulled the glutinous rice ball into thin and long strips.
After kneading the long strips into small balls, she mixed a little cornstarch water with clean water and prepared it. When the water was almost boiled, she poured all the glutinous rice balls in.
After a while, the small dumplings floated up and down with the boiling water. Hao Cheng poured in the homemade rice wine, and when the aroma of the wine filled the whole kitchen, he poured in the beaten eggs.
Before taking the dish out of the pot, she sprinkled a handful of wolfberries, served it directly in one bowl, and added some rock sugar to another bowl. For her, it was just right to rely on the sweetness of rice wine without adding anything. However, Meng Zhen liked sweets, so adding some sugar would be more to his taste.
When Hao Cheng's rice dumplings were ready, Wang Yang, who was boiling medicine outside, put down his fan and ran in: "Master, the medicine is ready. Do you want to bring it to Master Meng?"
Hao Cheng brought out a celadon bowl of rice dumplings with glutinous rice and handed it to Wang Yang, saying, "Take this over first, and take the medicine with you. Ask Dong Xue to feed him the medicine." Men and women should not touch each other, so even if Wang Yang was just a servant, he had to avoid suspicion.
After finishing the rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice, Hao Cheng went back to the small kitchen to eat her portion. But when she finished a full bowl, stretched her limbs and walked out of the kitchen, she saw Dong Xue running out of the wing room with red eyes.
Hao Cheng called him to stop, but he wiped his tears with his sleeve, looked at her and ran out of the room. She was confused, pushed open the door and went in, and saw the man who had fainted leaning on the cushion, his black and shiny hair hanging down, his very handsome face was pale, his lips were cracked and chapped, and his lips were a little pale.
The bitter-smelling Chinese medicine was placed on the cabinet beside the bed, and the steaming rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice were placed aside, and it was obvious that no one had touched them.
She sat down very good-temperedly: "The medicine prescribed by the doctor will not work well if it gets cold. Dong Xue is the only man in the mansion besides you, so I asked him to accompany you. Why did you make him angry and leave?"
It was the first time she saw Dong Xue's eyes red. She didn't know what this usually very gentle man said that was so powerful that it made Dong Xue run away crying.
Perhaps because of the abdominal pain, the other person's tone was much harsher than the person in Hao Cheng's memory: "He has a fool in his head. He doesn't allow people to say that he did something wrong? He gave me such hot medicine directly, and he was determined to burn me. Now that I caught him on the spot, he naturally wanted to escape."
Hao Cheng frowned: "Dong Xue is not that kind of person. Did you misunderstand something?" No matter how you look at it, it seems that Dong Xue was bullied by him and ran away.
Jiang Mengzhen glanced at her face and asked sarcastically, "Do you believe him or me?"
What the hell is going on? Men who have their period, no, my uncle, tend to be in a bad mood during their period. Especially when someone like him has a dull stomachache, it's impossible for him to talk to others in a friendly manner.
In her previous life, Hao Cheng had a best friend who was well-mannered, well-educated, and mature. However, once her period came, she would become spoiled, willful, and psychotic. She had a deep understanding of this and could sympathize with Jiang Mengzhen's situation to some extent.
He just rolled his eyes secretly and exhaled: "If you don't want Dong Xue to feed you, then drink the medicine yourself. Since we know each other, I will waive the consultation fee for you to recuperate here. Remember to pay me back the 45 taels of silver for the medicine."
After all, he caught a cold after waiting for her for so long, so Hao Cheng still felt a little guilty.
Not sure if he was angry with her, Jiang Mengzhen picked up the bowl of medicine, drank it all in one gulp, stood up and rushed out.
He was barefoot, wearing only a thin undershirt, and if he ran out like this, the medicine would have been wasted. And if she drove out a "weak man" who had come to her with great pain because of the pain of Tiankui, she would have no reputation left.
Hao Cheng quickly stood up from his chair, pulled the man who rushed to the door back, closed the door and blocked it, and said coldly, "What are you crazy about? I saved you in the first place, and this is how you repay me?!"
"But you also abandoned me and left me alone." Jiang Mengzhen lowered his head and his shoulders twitched. It was unclear whether he was crying or not.
Hao Cheng was speechless for a moment. She was the type who would rather be soft-hearted than hard-hearted, so she explained softly, "I don't have your identity documents. I just felt that it would be hard to explain some things to a single man and a woman meeting your family, and now you're here."
The other party was able to find this place, and her face did not look like she had been through a lot, so her identity was definitely not as simple as he said. Besides, she was not his mother, nor his wife, so of course she could not stay there to continue to take care of him.
The other party was obviously not very satisfied with her reaction. He raised his head and rushed out with all his might, just like a drunkard.
This guy is insane. Hao Cheng was really angry at his reaction, but he couldn't let him go out like this and ruin his reputation.
Since the door was closed anyway, she made up her mind and ignored the nonsense about the intimacy between men and women. She simply picked the man up by the waist and pressed him down on the bed with a bang.