NOVEL NEXT Chapter 89 Her father is sick
Early in the morning, the Lu family was unusually noisy.
Lu Songli was still asleep when she was woken up by Mo Bing. After she woke up, she looked out the window and saw that it was still dark. Was it only the fifth watch?
After being here for so long, Lu Songli finally learned to judge the time of the day by the sky.
"What's the matter? Tell me." Lu Songli sat up and took the clothes she handed over and put them on. She was sure that something urgent had happened, otherwise Mo Bing would not wake her up at this time.
"The master is sick."
"My father is sick? Have you invited a doctor?" Lu Songli heard this and got off the bed faster.
"Madam has asked someone to take a letter to the palace to invite the imperial physician."
Yes, her father could invite an imperial physician, "Call them in, I need to change clothes, and be quick!"
"Yes——"
During this period, Lu Songli asked about her father's symptoms. The preliminary judgment should be that the internal yang qi is deficient and then the external wind and cold are affected. The specific judgment needs to be made in person.
About a quarter of an hour later, Lv Songli had finished washing, dressed neatly, and set off for the main courtyard.
As Lv Songli walked, she secretly cursed herself for being careless.
During this period, her father must have been under great psychological pressure. Too many things happened during this period. Although she was on the side to make plans for many things, her father was the main force. Facing the destruction plan of the Xie and Zhao families against their Lv family, although the father and daughter had deduced a counterattack plan, he was the pillar of the family and the main executor. Facing the unknown result, he must have been under great pressure.
In addition, as the saying goes, accompanying the emperor is like accompanying a tiger. Her father has been meeting the emperor too many times recently. It can be said that her father has been tense and his spirit has been in a state of high concentration and tension.
He is already forty years old and is no longer young.
Now that Xie Zhan has said the words of truce in person, it means that the fight between their Lv family and the Xie and Zhao families has come to an end. When he breathes a sigh of relief and feels tired, won't his body protest? In addition, the body's defenses were scattered, and then the cold was caught, so the disease naturally came fiercely.
When Lu Songli arrived at the main courtyard, she happened to meet Lu Mingzhi who came in a hurry. The brother and sister didn't say much and went in directly.
At this time, the imperial physician had not arrived, but Doctor Zhou was close. He had already arrived at Lu's house and had already treated her father and prescribed medicine.
Her father was lying on the couch, covered with a thick quilt, his face was flushed, his lips were dry, and his forehead was covered with a wet towel.
She went forward to take his pulse, which was similar to her previous judgment.
Lu Songli covered her father with a quilt, took her mother out of the bedroom, and let her father have a good rest.
"Dad, didn't you feel a little uncomfortable the past two days?" Lu Songli asked. The body is yang-deficient, and it is a symptom of cold. Her father's pulse is weak, and he is tired and sleepy, which shows that his yang is weak.
Jiang replied, "Yes. At first it was just a minor cold, and your father didn't take it seriously after drinking ginger soup. But in the second half of the night, your father's condition suddenly became serious. The most important thing is that your father's voice is hoarse and he can't speak anymore."
Her father was suddenly mute, which was caused by the severe cold attacking the lungs and kidneys, blocking the orifices and tunnels above and blocking the kidney qi below. "It's okay, mother, don't worry, dad will definitely get better after seeing the doctor and taking medicine."
Jiang nodded when she heard it, "That's good, that's good." When she found this, she was scared enough. The child's father thought that there was something wrong with his throat and he would not be able to speak in the future. He was so scared that his face turned pale.
Lv Songli took her father's pulse, looked at the prescription prescribed by Doctor Zhou, and judged that it was basically symptomatic. Her father had yang deficiency and external infection, and the symptoms of both external and internal coldness should be treated simultaneously with yang-boosting and external-clearing.
After thinking about it, she added two herbs, Atractylodes and Angelica dahurica.
Her father kept groaning and couldn't sleep well. When asked, he told them with great effort that his whole body ached. Lu Songli knew that this was limb aches caused by dampness in the meridians. Adding two herbs, Atractylodes lancea and Angelica dahurica, could remove dampness, dredge the meridians and relieve pain.
She wanted her father to suffer less.
"Daughter, will this work?" Seeing her change the prescription, Jiang was a little scared.
Maybe it was because her daughter had always been in poor health. She used to like reading some medical books, but it was intermittent. During this period, her daughter started reading medical books again and taught herself medical skills. They also knew that her father had even helped her get a few hard-to-find medical books. Although her daughter was very smart, she shouldn't be able to learn medicine so quickly, right?
"Let Doctor Zhou take a look at this prescription with two added herbs."
"Okay." Jiang agreed quickly.
After hearing her reason for adding these two herbs, Doctor Zhou also thought it was feasible. At the same time, he was amazed in his heart that noble ladies from high-class families are smart. Compared with his apprentices, they learn medical skills much faster.
How could he know that Lu Songli had her own cheat?
In the eyes of a doctor like Doctor Zhou, the daughter of a fifth-rank official can be called a noble lady from high-class families.
Doctor Zhou felt that Lu Songli, the second daughter of the Lu family, was really smart and had a talent for learning medicine. It was a pity that such a person could not become his apprentice after all.
Just after Doctor Zhou left, the imperial physician arrived.
The imperial physician took Lu Desheng's pulse, looked at the revised prescription, nodded repeatedly, and said that this prescription was well written, and asked them to prescribe the medicine according to this prescription.
So Lu Mingzhi personally sent the imperial physician out of the house. Before leaving, Jiang's confidant nanny handed him a purse, which Doctor Zhou had also given just now, but it was not as big.
Chen Zongguan personally went to prescribe the medicine according to the prescription. After he brought the medicine back, the kitchen immediately boiled the medicine.
"I should have stopped your father from scolding your eldest brother." Jiang blamed herself.
Doctor Zhou said that her husband was depressed and emotionally unsmooth, and then he was infected with the cold without paying attention. Jiang felt that if she had let her husband vent his unhappiness before, he might not have gotten sick.
Lu Songli listened silently. She knew that her mother was worried about her father. She understood her mother's thoughts. Her husband was like this, and it was okay for the eldest son to be the punching bag.
In fact, even if her eldest brother came back, it would only be a comfort. What if her father saw the stupid side of her eldest brother when dealing with things and felt more upset? In other words, as a family, you can contribute money and effort, and look at things in a more open-minded way. Besides, her eldest brother helped at his father-in-law's house, which was also an effort to stabilize the local situation.
After the medicine was boiled, Jiang first helped Lu Desheng sit on the bedside and fed him a bowl of thick dried vegetable and minced meat porridge.
This bowl of porridge was cooked by Lv Songli herself in the kitchen. In fact, she wanted to make green vegetable and lean meat porridge, but there was hardly any green on the table in the winter. Unlike the greenhouse vegetables in later generations, green leafy vegetables can be eaten at any time, and even off-season vegetables can be eaten. She could only settle for the second best. She took some dried vegetables that were dried in autumn and soaked them in hot water, then chopped them and put them into the boiling rice porridge, and then put some lean meat marinated with wine. Don't eat any fat, fat is too greasy, her father has a light mouth and no appetite, he probably can't eat it.
This bowl of porridge smelled very fragrant, and Lv Desheng could eat it, but he only ate a little more than half a bowl, so he shook his head and said he didn't want to eat it.
Jiang didn't force him, put down the bowl, and handed him the cooler medicine.
Lv Songli watched his father stretched out his hands with difficulty and took the medicine bowl. Her mother wanted to feed him, but he didn't let her.
"Why are you making such a fuss? I'll feed you." Jiang Shi couldn't understand. He was already in such a bad condition, why did he have to carry the bowl himself?
Lu Desheng insisted, very anxiously, Madam, you don't have to be so virtuous in this matter.
Lu Songli saw clearly from the side that her father wanted to swallow it all at once.
Yes, if her mother fed her father this Chinese medicine mouthful by mouthful, it would feel so sour and refreshing.
Her father is really a little smart.
Sure enough, her father held the medicine bowl with both hands, put his mouth close to it, and then drank it all in one gulp.
Jiang Shi also came to her senses, a little amused and confused, and sympathized with him because he was sick and couldn't speak, so she didn't bother with him.