Chapter 4: Old Dreams (Part II)

After Shen Mingzhen tried the antidote for Dr. Hu, she worked very hard to let Dr. Hu accept her as a closed disciple.

At the age of seven years and six months, he had read three major medical books and one medical book thoroughly.

Whenever she had a question she didn't understand, she would write it down in a note, and the next time Dr. Hu sent her a book, she asked Dr. Hu's attendant to hand her question to Dr. Hu.

Later, Dr. Hu tried out a drug to treat smallpox.

If smallpox is not cured, it will kill people, and no one dared to try the medicine at that time. In order to help her master solve the problem, she swallowed the pill in one gulp.

Dr. Hu was moved and finally accepted her as a beginner disciple.

From the age of seven to twelve, although she had only studied medicine for five years, Master said that she was a rare medical genius.

Therefore, whenever Master encounters a home visit, he will always record some medical records for her to read carefully and give a prescription for treatment, and she always praises a lot every time.

Shen Mingzhen thought that it should be very good for her to be a female doctor in the future. She made up her mind and went to her mother.

Mrs. Sun was embroidering in the house, and when she saw her coming, she asked someone to bring her a cup of tea: "Your father just sent someone to say that your mother should teach her the right to be a housekeeper to her aunt Zhu." ”

"Why?"

Mrs. Sun stirred her handkerchief: "Then the Zhu family has never been in charge of the middle feed, and this time I will tell your father that if she is in charge of the family, she can save at least thirty taels of expenses for the house every month." The expenses of the Shen Mansion for a month totaled more than 90 taels, most of which were also spent on the old lady and the monthly silver of the subordinates. No matter how much she saves, she will definitely not save thirty taels, so I won't stop it. ”

Mrs. Sun's meaning is very simple, Aunt Zhu in the house wants to be in charge of the house and boast to Master Shen about Haikou. But as long as she can't save so much, the lord will feel that this family is still her favor, and he will return the power of the family to her.

Shen Mingzhen didn't think so, don't say it's thirty taels, as long as the aunt doesn't spend a tael of silver, Master Shen will not return the right to take charge of the middle feed to his mother.

After all, for the father, it doesn't matter who is in charge of the family, as long as the accounts are good, the aunt is not too greedy, and the right to be a housekeeper is given to his concubine. It was his favorite woman, she wanted to be in charge, and he gave it to her.

Shen Mingzhen told her mother her inference, and Mrs. Sun was silent for a while before speaking.

She said: "My mother doesn't know what to do. ”

Since she got married, the lord didn't like her very much.

After she took care of the house, whenever there was a new income in the family, when she went to show it to him, Master Shen would smile at her. But if the harvest in Zhuangzi is not good in a certain month and she loses money, Master Shen will reproach her for why she doesn't care about the servants and housekeepers in the house.

The husband's attitude, the mother-in-law is even worse, often in the middle of the night three watches call themselves over to give her a massage, each time is more than an hour.

Mrs. Sun's hands went from sore to painful, and then to intuition. Her mother-in-law would not praise her, let alone leave her for a cup of tea.

Mrs. Sun went to find Master Shen: "Husband, since we have become relatives, isn't it good for the two of us to live with Meimei." There is a subordinate on the mother's side, so why bother often calling the concubine in the middle of the night to serve. ”

Master Shen didn't answer.

Later he said, "This is the marriage that my father has instructed us, and I have no intention of being with you, but now you and I can respect each other as guests, and you should be content." If it weren't for our family saving you with the marriage contract, you don't know where you would be at this moment. The old lady needs you, so go and give her a button. ”

Mrs. Sun returned home, she couldn't tell her feelings for Master Shen now, maybe she still had expectations, maybe she didn't even have expectations.

She said to her daughter: "Let them be, we don't want to be in charge of the family." ”

When Shen Mingzhen came back from her mother's courtyard, she saw her aunt holding the bill and passing in front of her proudly.

At the end, he poured back again: "Miss, now I am in charge." The concubine thinks that the eldest lady's monthly silver of ten taels of silver is a bit much, and it will be reduced to six taels in the future. ”

Shen Mingzhen replied: "My aunt gave her subordinates a chilled sour plum soup, and when she threw away twenty taels of silver, she didn't think it was too much, but when she came to me, it was too much?" My aunt thinks that I can't live better than the next people? ”

The other party did not answer.

But her sister-in-law Shen Mingzhu came out and shouted: "My five taels of silver a month are enough, why is my sister not enough?" ”

Shen Mingzhen's anger came up, five taels a month is enough? She wanted to see how Shen Mingzhu could use it.

Shen Mingzhen smiled, slowly took out the floating powder that she had treasured for many years from the sachet, and quickly bounced it into Shen Mingzhu's clothes.

This is the poison she developed, and it is used to deal with gangsters one day. As long as you dye it, within an hour of incense, you will itch all over your body and can't stop laughing.

The antidote is very simple, the soil poria of a hundred taels of silver and a penny in the famous pharmacy in Beijing is ground into powder and rubbed on the body.

However, this is a poison developed by her, and I am afraid that few doctors can solve it.

On the second day, before she got up, she heard the voices of her subordinates talking in a few words.

"Shen Mingzhu somehow happened last night, her body couldn't stop itchy, and she laughed vigorously, and the frightened aunt asked for a doctor before dawn."

The old man looked at it for a long time and shook his head.

"I heard that my aunt was arguing with Master Shen in the front yard, and she was about to go crazy, and she was clamoring to ask the master to help the second lady ask for a royal doctor."

When Shen Mingzhen went to visit, before she entered the door, she heard Shen Mingzhu laughing uncontrollably: "Mother, I'm so itchy, itchy and painful and I want to laugh, you can help me ask for a doctor." ”

Why didn't you get a doctor? A few famous doctors in Beijing came early in the morning, but they all left helplessly.

The only doctor who said that he had a prescription that could cure all kinds of poisons, so he quoted the price, and was beaten out by his subordinates with a broom.

Shen Mingzhen couldn't help but smile: "Auntie, my sister is not dyed with something that shouldn't be dyed." My master said that he had seen this disease before, and guess how he was cured in the end? ”

"How?"

"There is a medicinal herb transported from northern Xinjiang in the famous medical hall in Beijing, called Poria cocos, which can cure all kinds of poisons. If my aunt wants to quickly solve my sister's poison, it is better to buy it as soon as possible. ”

Before she finished speaking, she saw Aunt Zhu rushing out.

She no longer knew what happened later, but she heard that the second lady, Shen Mingzhu, was no longer itchy.

Shen Mingzhen sat in the room, calmly looking at the medical book, feeling very interesting.

For the first time, she discovered that studying medicine could not only save people, but also use medical skills to get what she wanted

The acne behind Shen Mingzhu cost Aunt Zhu at least a hundred taels of silver. She wants to see how Aunt Zhu can fill the hole in this hundred taels of silver.