The woman saw that her gentle expression had changed, and thought that she didn't want to listen to herself, so she immediately lowered her head again and sobbed and wiped her tears, and choked up: "If there is a way, my mother doesn't want to make it difficult for you again, but the money you gave last time has been used up by the doctor, and your brother is ...... Now I'm too sick to look like a person...... He is the only lifeline of our Wen family! If this is gone, my mother won't be able to live...... I don't even have the face to see your father who is under the Nine Springs......"

Ga? How did she come up with a sick brother again! Or the Wen family? That Rou'er must be Ruhua's name when she was at home, gentle and gentle, and her name is exactly the same as her own! Could it be that this is the reason why she crossed over to Ruhua? For a while, a thousand thoughts floated through Gentle's heart, but she couldn't think of anything to comfort the woman in front of her who was crying miserably.

"Mother knows that I can't stand you, after your father went, the family was so poor that they didn't even have rice to put in the pot, so they had to sell you to Zhao's mansion as a maid...... And now you have spent all the money that you have prepared for your own redemption...... But mother, this is also helpless! I just beg you, no matter where you borrow two more money, save your brother first, and then get up early and do more work in the dark, and help you pay back the borrowed money, can you make it? ”

The more she cried, the more she grieved, but at last she made her intention clear intermittently, and she suddenly realized why she was so poor that there was only a silver-plated hairpin left on her body. It is estimated that she climbed into the bed of the old man of Zhao Mansion, and she was not forced by anyone, but voluntarily dedicated, just thinking that she could be accepted as a concubine by the old man of Zhao Mansion, so that she would have the spare strength to help her family, even if she couldn't be a concubine, she would be a big girl in the room, and she would be coquettish to the old man of Zhao Mansion, and she could ask for a few taels of silver to save her brother! It's a pity that this girl, who has suffered all her life, was beaten to death before she could finish her heart, if this woman knew that she was now standing in front of her, she was just a stranger who borrowed her daughter's body, and she didn't know how desperate and sad she would be!

Thinking about it this way, Gentle felt more sympathetic to Ruhua's plight, she really wanted to help Ruhua fulfill her wish and save her brother, and also wanted to help the woman in front of her who was crying endlessly, oppressed by a cruel life and almost desperate, but, with her current popularity in the Zhao Mansion, it was already good to be able to avoid white eyes, who would be willing to lend her money? You can't learn to be like a flower and climb the bed of the old man of Zhao Mansion, right? No, she can't do this kind of thing at all, let alone relying on her fate and all her hopes on an unreliable man, and the final result can only be disappointment! She would never do such a stupid thing!

"Rou'er......" The woman saw that she was silent for a long time and did not speak, so she had to wipe her tears and timidly spoke again: "Mother can only count on you now......

Looking at her old and withered face gently, as well as her red eyes from crying, she couldn't help but sigh and asked, "How much does it cost to treat my brother?" ”

The woman lowered her head, as if she did not dare to meet the gentle gaze, and only after a while did she squirm her lips and said, "It costs a lot of money to ask a doctor to come to the door, and it costs three or four hundred dollars to catch the side medicine...... I guess I have to borrow four or five dollars to barely make ......."

Is it really enough? Gentle is very suspicious, such as Hua used to be a maid in the upper room, and there are five hundred months of money a month, plus the reward received, the redemption money saved by ordinary people should be a lot, not all of them have been taken to the water, according to this, her brother's illness is simply a bottomless pit, and I don't know how much money to invest to fill it, if it is cured, it will be enough, if it is not cured, then the living will really be dragged to death! It seems that the problem of not being able to afford a doctor and not being able to afford to be sick is not only in the world she lives in.

"Mother knows that she wants a lot of money, and you have nowhere to get it for a while, but ...... Can you think of a penny or two first, and help the emergency...... "The woman said, and began to cry again.

Seeing that she regarded herself as the only object she could rely on, she couldn't help but feel a little self-pitying, at this point, who could she rely on? Unconsciously shook his head, and brought the poured water to the woman: "Let's drink saliva first, I want to think about money." ”

Hearing the gentle consent, the woman's tearful eyes also revealed a touch of joy, and while taking the water she brought and drinking two sips, she muttered to herself: "Your brother is saved!" Your brother is saved! My mother knows that as long as I invite a doctor twice more and drink a few medicines, he will slowly get better! ”

There were many difficult diseases in ancient times, and the medical level was poor, so it was really hard to say whether it would be good to take a few medicines, and frowned gently: "The doctor didn't say it, what kind of disease did my brother have?" ”

"It is said that it is edema, so that you can eat wood fragrance and drink it, just because there is ginseng in this medicine, it is expensive."

It's expensive enough! Wen Rou has been in this world for nearly a month, knowing that the prices here are cheap, and a penny is enough for a poor family of three to spend for half a month, so that her brother can eat a penny in three days, enough for her to work tirelessly for a year now! But if there is a disease, it must be cured, Gentle is not distressed that he takes medicine expensive, but it is strange that he has taken medicine for so long, why has he not been cured, listening to the woman's tone, it seems that the disease is getting worse and worse, it can't be a doctor's misdiagnosis, right?

She was puzzled in her heart, so she asked, "Is the doctor reliable?" How sick is my brother now? ”

"It's the famous Dr. Li in the east of the city, it should be reliable, right? Your brother is now swollen all over his body, and often vomits, fever, and diarrhea, and the doctor says that this is the edema of yin, and it is best to eat wood incense and drink qi. The woman's tone was very sad when she spoke of her son's illness.

Gently listened to the doubts in my heart, why are the keywords of this disease so familiar? Unconsciously blurted out and asked, "Are your eyelids swollen?" Eating is not normal? ”

The woman was stunned for a moment, lowered her head and thought about it: "It's swollen, Gang'er has never had much appetite, and always says that she doesn't want to eat." ”

Hearing her say this, she stood up from the kang suddenly, frowning and looking down in thought. She still remembers the chef course she used to take, and the funny nutrition lecturer once gave a detailed explanation of nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals, and talked about the lack of protein in the human body, often experiencing edema around the body, edema of the eyelids and low-hanging parts of the body, hair breakage and loss, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms, and also took the example of the big-headed doll incident caused by inferior milk powder not long ago, so she was particularly impressed. Could it be that Brother Hua's illness is actually malnutrition caused by a severe lack of protein and some other nutrients?

"Rou'er, what's wrong with you?" The woman was taken aback when she saw the strange behavior of gentleness, and she stood up on the kang table.

"I ......" Wen Rou was very conflicted at the moment, and she didn't know whether she should tell the woman her judgment, but she was just a cook, not a doctor, and she didn't know anything about medical science at all. But what if you don't say it, it's really the quack doctor's misdiagnosis, so what if you cut off Ruhua's brother's life?