Guo Shao asked the county magistrate to confirm the identity of Wushan Bailao and treated her with courtesy when they met, mainly to show his sincerity and friendly attitude; then he left two personal soldiers to assist Wushan Bailao in treating the wounded and then said goodbye.
The young lady whispered: "As expected, a tall tree attracts the wind. Now, two tails are staring at us." Third Aunt estimated that she would be forced to go to treat the illness of her good friend. The sick person would not be in Tokyo.
Bai Lao frowned and said: What sick friend is in Tokyo? Lan'er came from the north and knew the general of Zhou.
The young lady called Lan'er was Lu Lan. She suddenly said angrily: If you don't know that Marshal Guo, he is a disaster star. He is called Guo Pocheng. Wherever he goes, the city will be broken. I must be blind to know him. Lu Lan pondered for a moment and said: Because Wushan Bailao is very famous, Marshal Guo said that a good friend is sick, so he is looking for my third aunt everywhere. I am afraid that his good friend from Tokyo is in Tokyo and my third aunt will have to go a long way to get treatment.
I'm not going anywhere. Bai Lao hurriedly said, Wushan Bai Lao is not me, if he wants to find someone, he should look for you.
Lu Lan said helplessly: "I treat patients. When they ask me where I am from, I say that my third aunt from the Bai family in Baishuwan is surnamed Bai and that I am the only female doctor in that place. Of course, they thought it was you." She said in a tender voice, "Third aunt, I have taken great pains to cure others and brought honor to you."
Grandma Bai said seriously: How about I ask my father to come to the city and explain to the elders in the city that I am not the Grandma Bai of Wushan, and clear up the matter.
Lu Lan said: Forget it, it's too much trouble. I'm just a girl, what's the point of having that title? It doesn't matter who people think it is, just think of it as my way of repaying the kindness of my third aunt's family for taking us in.
We are relatives, what's the point of talking about favors and grudges, said Bai Lao.
Lu Lan's mother's surname was Bai. Her family originally lived in Youzhou, but her mother was kidnapped by the Khitans a few years ago, so the Lu family moved to Zhuozhou to avoid disaster. At the beginning of last year, the Zhou Dynasty launched a northern expedition, and the Zhou army stationed in Zhuozhou, so Guo Shao lived in the home of Dr. Lu.
Guo Shao massacred thousands of Liao cavalry in Zhuozhou. Later, the Zhou army retreated. People were afraid that Liao would massacre Zhuozhou in revenge, so many people in the city fled. The Lu family also packed up their belongings and fled south in the chaos. Doctor Lu first went to Xiangzhou, Hebei to seek refuge with his daughter's uncle Bai's family. He found that his uncle's family was already depopulated, so the Bai family took Doctor Lu back to his hometown, Baishuwan, Wushan County.
Doctor Lu was old, and after a lot of torture his body could no longer bear it and he passed away, so Lu Lan was taken in by the Bai family.
She has been practicing medicine with her father since she was young, and has a solid foundation. She discovered a large number of lost medical classics and medicinal materials that could not be found in the north in the Bai family, and she learned and used them at the same time. In diagnosis, she tried new methods learned from the medical classics, and they worked every time. Her medical skills improved, and she cured many difficult and complicated diseases that other doctors were helpless to treat. It seems that her third aunt is indeed mediocre in talent. She has kept so many ancestral books, but has not achieved much.
When Lu Lan first arrived in Wushan, she was unfamiliar with the place and her third aunt treated her best, so she had the best relationship with Grandma Bai and often followed Grandma Bai to practice medicine. Grandma Bai looked a bit like Lu Lan's mother, so Lu Lan really took care of her like her own mother.
She has gradually gotten used to life in Wushan. Her mother used to speak the Shu dialect, and Lu Lan can speak both accents. Now, there is not much difference between her and the locals.
At noon, the two returned to the Bai family's medicine shop to eat. Lu Lan couldn't cover her face while eating, so she took off her hat and veil, and her swollen face was exposed.
Grandma Bai took a look and couldn't hold her breath, so she started coughing.
Lu Lan wanted to make an expression to show her emotions, but her face was swollen and she couldn't show any expression. She could only put the food on the table and eat with her third aunt.
This is a beehive, eat more. Lu Lan advised, I just want this little beehive, look at my face, it's in such a state, the bees have given up, I jumped into the stream and they didn't leave, buzzing on the water
It would have been better if she didn't say it. Once she said it, Bai Lao couldn't help laughing so hard that she couldn't breathe: I don't like sweets, especially this kind of thing, don't try it in the future.
Lu Lan said: "Since I gave my life for it, please eat it, it will be good for you." She whispered, "Third Aunt is not even thirty years old, but her skin seems to be prematurely aged, and her breasts are sagging like that. She really needs to take good care of herself."
After hearing this, Bai Lao felt sad and unhappy and remained silent.
Lu Lan didn't say anything more. Bai Lao stirred the fish soup with chopsticks and said: Why are there only fish heads
It was originally fish head soup, and this is specially made chicken skin. I bought a chicken together with the aunt next door. She wants the meat and I want the skin. Lu Lan said seriously, believe me, if you eat more of these things, maybe Third Aunt's will swell up again. After she said that, she gestured exaggeratedly on her chest.
As she spoke, she cracked the fish meat with chopsticks and sucked up a mouthful of the sticky fish brain.
Bai Lao's mouth twitched: something like snot
Third aunt, really, can't you just say it out? Lu Lan looked at the fish head in the bowl unhappily, her eyes narrowed into slits. She wanted to be angry but she looked smiling.
Grandma Bai said: The snot that a child has is the kind that can be exhaled into his mouth, just like you inhale it.
Lu Lan was completely at a loss, and said angrily: I just eat snot, and my breasts will become bigger and smoother after eating it, and they won't become deflated
The two of them didn't care about seniority when they were together and they finished their meal while bickering with each other.
Lu Lan returned to her room and took out two gold buttons from her bosom. She said to herself: It's really strange that there are still people in this world who like to give others belt buttons as gifts.
There were two buttons, one of which was used as a payment for accommodation when Guo Shao lived in Zhuozhou at the beginning of last year, and the other was the reward for returning his letter this morning. Lu Lan played with it in her hand for a while. The two items should not be produced in the same place, and the workmanship and style are completely different.
She lazily lay down on the bed, tapping two buttons unconsciously for fun. Then she thought of the letters she had picked up last night, which she had read word by word with the light on. For a moment, she felt very nervous and a little angry.
What does his business have to do with me? Lu Lan muttered to herself, thinking: I want to marry someone like my father. My mother lived a good life before, and she needs to live in a peaceful and stable place, not like her mother was in Youzhou, where she was kidnapped by someone.
Thinking of Guo Shao, she whispered: I can't afford to provoke him, and I don't want to provoke him.
Lu Lan has been through some things and has become more aggressive and rational. In fact, she has always cared more about realistic things.
When she was twelve or thirteen years old, she suddenly became very hardworking and memorized many books, working harder than the scholars who were taking the imperial examination. Her idea was very simple, but it seems funny now. At that time, her family lived in the countryside of Youzhou, and most of the people around her were farmers and herders in the wind and sun; women also worked in the fields.
Lu Lan thought at that time that when she grew up and got married, she would work like those women, getting tanned and ugly. She thought about it seriously for a long time and thought that if she could make money by treating patients like her father, she would not have to work, so she started to memorize books very hard. What a ridiculous motivation, studying medicine is not for the purpose of saving lives, but because she doesn't want to work in the fields.
But now Lu Lan recalled that although the original idea was ridiculous, it didn't seem to be wrong; at least she had some ability to support herself now, otherwise the Bai family might not have despised her if they had kept her for a longer time. If you marry someone, there are too many men who are unreliable. If you trust the wrong person, you will regret it for the rest of your life. She was abandoned like the third aunt, and was wronged after giving birth. Her hair turned completely white; her skin became loose and she had no beauty. Men despised her. Now the third aunt wants to remarry, but she can't find anyone she likes.
But in this world, if there is no man in the family, once the elders pass away, the family may not be able to survive.
Lu Lan lay there with her mind wandering, reminding herself to keep her eyes open and not trust the wrong person. Then she fell into a daze and took a nap.