A large pile of crepe, small fans, small lanterns, and small hanging screens were decorated on the walls, and the window glass was pasted with a few birds cut out of colored flower paper, and some transparent pictures, boating on the river, bright girls with flowers on the terrace, and dwarfs in black walking in a row in the snow. The bed was also replaced, an ivory round princess bed, with a lace satin jacquard four-piece set, fluffy and soft, looking like a large cake with a slight bulge; A powder-blue circular gauze tent hung from it; The bedside table next to it, as well as all the cabinets, tables, chairs, and dressers, have elegant and smooth curved designs and intricate carved decorations, also in ivory white, and the metal handles and decorative parts are painted in powder blue. The floor was littered with dolls, animal toys that were more than a person tall, and a small swing rack.

Gao Yi had already started to prepare for this princess room, he originally planned to use pink as the main color, but he never found a pink gauze tent, and the pink furniture did not look very good, so he finally chose a white and pink blue color.

Gao Yi's eyes wandered around the room again, and found no obvious mistakes, he rubbed his hands in satisfaction and closed the door.

Seeing that the time was almost up, he came down from the upper floor, sat down in the small drawing-room and waited for a while, and then paced restlessly, and finally simply walked out of the house and waited under the porch.

Behind him, the entire small building was brightly lit, and the outdoor pool, indoor pool, and target house above the indoor pool in the south wing had been built. There is a half-height difference between the indoor pool and the outdoor pool, and the water gushes out from the dragon head wall on the side of the indoor pool and flows into the outdoor pool. The blinds of the indoor pool were all rolled up, and in the light, the two pools sparkled as if sparks were shining.

A puff of smoke and dust rose from the arc lamp at the end of the barracks road, and soon a horse-drawn carriage drove out of the smoke and flew towards the small building.

After the door opened, the first to come down was Minna, the wife of McPherson's second brother-in-law, Jonny McElhorn, and Miss McBride sat in the carriage with red eyes.

"What's wrong, I can't go out to play, so I'm crying?"

"No, I just feel sad when I think of deceiving my aunt, I'm so bad, I will definitely be punished by God in the future!"

"Don't be stupid, of course not, if you want to be punished, it will be punished on my head, I am the one who came up with the idea, and the person who made the specific arrangement is also me, you are just a little lamb that fell into the hands of bad people, and it is the purest little lamb."

It is not easy to stay alone and not go to Lushan. First of all, there must be a reasonable excuse, it is not difficult to find an excuse, as long as you get sick at the right time, for example, acute gastroenteritis that often occurs in summer because of the diet is easy to spoil, and the vomiting and diarrhea are not suitable for travel at all, and the duration is long, at least about a week. More importantly, although the disease was violent, it was not fatal, and it would not be so serious that Lian Jisheng would have to give up going to Lushan to attend an important meeting.

However, although it is simple, as long as you pretend to have a stomachache, go to the bathroom a few more times, and then take a dose of vomiting medicine, and really vomit once, it is very perfect. However, even if medicine in 1903 was not as advanced as later generations, it was by no means impossible to diagnose even simple gastroenteritis.

There is a special doctor at the Chinese and Western Girls' School, Mr. Davis, who can directly prescribe some medicine for minor illnesses, and if it is a serious illness, he will arrange for him to go to the hospital for further diagnosis.

It is impossible for this Dr. Davis to be bought, so Gao Yi thought of a way to cut off the contact between the school and him, and the phone was directly cut off through the people in the telephone bureau.

After Dr. Davis couldn't be contacted, Lian Jisheng's choice at this time was nothing more than two things, one was to call the hospital to ask the doctor to come to the hospital, and the other was to take the car to the hospital to see a doctor. If you choose to call a doctor, it is relatively easy to deal with, no matter which hospital you go to when you make the call, the last thing you will hear will only be a hospital called Baoren opened by a German doctor on Baike Road. No matter which hospital the other party actually wants to contact, Baoren Hospital will agree. When the German doctor came to the door, he could pretend that it was a misunderstanding caused by the operator's mistake, but he came and came, and as a doctor, the patient naturally wanted to see it. Lian Jisheng and the others are on the afternoon boat, and they can't stand the toss in time, and at least ninety percent of them are likely to agree with the German doctor's treatment. In the unlikely event that Lian Jisheng refused to allow the German doctor to treat him, Miss McBride would then pretend to have an acute attack, giving the German doctor a chance to "have to" intervene.

And if Lian Jisheng made the second choice and personally took McBride to see a doctor by car, according to Gao Yi's arrangement, the carriage would have an accident immediately after driving out of the school gate, and the German doctor from Baoren Hospital would appear at the right time under the banner of checking whether anyone was injured in the accident. At this time, as long as Miss McBride pretends to have a bad stomach pain, she will naturally be carried into the nearest school for diagnosis.

The next progress depends on the German doctor's on-the-spot performance, and he has to pass on at least three messages to Lian Jisheng, one is that this disease will not kill people, as long as it will be raised for a week; Second, long-distance travel is absolutely inappropriate; Thirdly, it is best to be hospitalized because the inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract hinders the absorption of water, and the patient is prone to dehydration, and he happens to know a new treatment that can replace the water lost by the body by giving a sling injection.

Of these three informations, the first and second are crucial, and they have to do with whether Miss McBride can stay alone, and the third point can be achieved just right, because it can give Miss McBride the best excuse to leave the school supervision, otherwise she will continue to pretend to be sick for a week before she can find an excuse to come out of the school—because Lian Jisheng will definitely arrange a caretaker for McBride.

One of the most critical figures in this series of arrangements is the doctor. First of all, the appearance should be good, so that Lian Jisheng can rest assured at first sight; secondly, it is necessary to lie and not change the color, which most doctors cannot do, and the group of doctors in this era is generally relatively upright; Thirdly, it is better for the person to know how to get a sling, otherwise it will be difficult to find an excuse why he must go to the hospital instead of taking care of him at home. At this time, the hanging needle is not a big road goods, although it was invented in the thirties of the nineteenth century, but not many people use it. In fact, it was not until after World War II that hanging needles became widespread, and before that, injections were intramuscular injections directly into the buttocks.

The German doctor Gao Yi found was named Baolong, who was once a military doctor of the German East Asian Fleet, and after being discharged from the army, he practiced medicine in Shanghai, and built two shacks on Baike Road, which was still a wasteland at that time, to treat the poor Chinese people, and was widely praised. Later, with the financial support of a friend, a two-story brick and wood building was built, with an outpatient clinic on the ground floor and a 12-bed ward on the second floor.

Gao Yi found Baolong through Wilson's connections, and when Baolong's hospital was still a shack, it was inevitably harassed by some social forces, and Wilson helped him a few times. And people like Baolong, who became famous by good deeds and finally made a fortune, rarely have a brainless mind that does not know how to be flexible, and after Gao Yi agreed to fund him with a batch of medicines and medical equipment, he agreed to Gao Yi's request.

Baolong did a very good job, not only persuaded Lian Jisheng to leave McBride alone, but also moved her to let McBride be hospitalized. This is not only the credit given by Baolong's words, but also the bonus points brought by his reputation, in fact, his Baoren Hospital Lian Jisheng knows that missionaries are always more sensitive to charitable institutions.

At the invitation of Baolong, even Jisheng personally inspected his hospital, and everything else was fine, but she was not very satisfied with the ward, it was too small, and the patients in it were basically poor.

But Gao Yi had already prepared for this, and at this time Jonny's wife Minna appeared. The reason why Minna was chosen over Macpherson's wife Emily was because the Macphersons were too upright to lie, while Minna was very flexible, and Jonny was also a bold and old-fashioned guy.

Minna is the patron of the hospital and volunteered to provide care for the hospital, even willing to let patients stay in her home to recuperate. So Lian Jisheng went to Minna's house again - this home is naturally arranged by Gao Yi - they are three concubines living together, the house is very large, it is three Chinese-style apartments connected together, the three families have a total of more than a dozen children, and the husband is an upright police officer, no matter how you look at it, it is a typical model family. Her niece is taken care of by this family, which is far better than finding a random teacher in the school to take care of, you know, the backbone of the school will go to the meeting in Lushan this time, and it is impossible for her to let her trusted subordinates stay for personal matters.

So Lian Jisheng finally put his mind at ease and entrusted his niece to Minna's family, and he embarked on a journey west to Lushan, without even finding a teacher at school to supervise him. And as soon as Lian Jisheng's river boat was on fire, Minna took Miss McBride to Gao Yi's den.

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On the night of August 17, Gao Yi's bedroom.

"Here? Is this swing secure? ”

"Of course, it's custom-made!"

“……”

“……”

"Why didn't you tell me when you came?"

"Hee-hee, disappointed?"

"No...... I'm just disappointed that I won't be able to teach you to swim tomorrow. ”

"Then I'll learn to drive tomorrow, and I can shoot guns."

"Well, do whatever you say, everything is up to you."