The rich man didn't care and didn't even ask. In other words, she no longer had the energy to ask anymore. She felt that her life force was passing away and she might die in the next moment.
She had already concluded that she had given birth to a daughter and that she must have died. She woke up at noon and still hasn't heard a cry.
She was about to die. The first thing Dahua thought about was her two daughters. She felt that it was going to be over. If she died, her two daughters would definitely not survive.
The rich lady drank the medicine with an expressionless face, and thought idly that she must have committed many sins in her previous life, and she was only born as a woman in this life, but she still has not been able to give birth to a son.
And her two daughters may have committed more sins than she did, so they were born in her belly. Otherwise, they could survive in other people's homes, right?
Just as I was thinking wildly, the door was pushed open.
When the rich lady turned around and saw Zhou Man, her eyes lit up. She immediately put down the medicine bowl and came forward to please her, "Madam——"
From the neighbors who went to see the church today, we learned that the white-faced officer last night was the new magistrate of their county. Although we don’t know what the relationship between this lady and the magistrate is, we can tell from the intimate behavior of the two of them leaving together last night.
, if it’s not a wife, then it’s a concubine. Anyway, they are all big shots.
The rich lady wanted to ask her to help intercede and ask the county magistrate to be merciful and let her son back, so she was very enthusiastic and said, "Madam, please come in quickly... No, no, no, this room is dirty. Madam, please go sit in the main room."
Manbao put the big girl in his arms on the ground and asked, "Is there any porridge at home?"
The rich lady was stunned for a moment, thinking that Zhou Man was hungry, so she quickly said: "How can I let you, madam, eat porridge? Please wait for a moment, I, I will go and cook."
Man Bao smiled slightly and said: "No, just porridge. Make the porridge and oil."
The rich lady went to the kitchen confused, and Man Bao took the medicine box to see the rich lady.
The rich man still recognized her and lay on the bed without daring to move, "I remember my wife, it was my wife who saved me."
Manbao put down the medicine box, reached for her hand and put it on the pulse pillow: "What's your name?"
Speaking of which, from yesterday to now, everyone has called her the rich lady and the rich lady, but they have never called her by her real name.
The rich lady was stunned for a moment and then said: "My maiden name is Ma, and I used to have a nickname named Dahua."
Man Bao looked at her face and asked: "I see you are not very old. How old are you this year?"
Dahua couldn't help laughing when she heard her speaking like an adult to a child, "Madam, I'm nineteen."
Man Bao: "...I am still twenty, and you are younger than me."
Dahua was stunned, looked at Zhou Man's face carefully, shook his head and said: "My wife doesn't look like she is already twenty at all, she looks like she is sixteen or seventeen years old."
Man Bao doesn't think he looks young, but Dahua looks too old.
Frequent childbirth can consume a person's energy and spirit.
Man Bao felt her pulse and said to her: "I will give you an acupuncture to stop the bleeding, and I will prescribe you two more medicines to regulate qi and blood."
Dahua was a little anxious and asked: "Is the medicine expensive?"
Man Bao originally wanted to say that she would pay for the medicine, but after thinking about it, he said, "A pair of medicine is about eighty yuan."
It was an expensive medicine. Because she had suffered a serious loss and could not completely stop the bleeding at this time, two relatively expensive medicinal materials were added to it.
Dahua's expression darkened and she said: "Madam is kind, just give me an injection and I won't need any medicine."
Man Bao said: "If you don't take medicine, you won't survive this month."
Just relying on acupuncture to stop the bleeding will always cause some metrorrhagia, and the energy and blood she lost during yesterday's delivery must be replenished, otherwise her internal organs will slowly lose vitality due to blood loss.
Dahua thought for a while and then said: "But the family really has no money."
Man Bao said calmly: "My mother used to be ill and bedridden for a long time, and sometimes the family would be so poor that they couldn't find the money to buy medicine. But either they sold grain, or their brothers did hard labor, and if they squeezed in, they could always squeeze out the money for medicine."
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She glanced around their house and said, "Money is like time. You can squeeze it out if you squeeze it. It just depends on whether you want to live and whether the people around you want to live."
Dahua listened blankly.
Manbao stood up, opened the medicine box, and took out the needle bag from the inside. Seeing her looking outside blankly, he looked along and saw that Danniu and Erniu were sitting on chairs, holding a piece of Western cake in their hands.
Licking the snack carefully.
Erniu didn't understand the principle of eating good food slowly. After licking it, she found that it was very sweet and delicious. It was a good thing that she had never eaten before, so she stuffed the whole thing into her mouth and devoured it.
Xi Cing was startled, and immediately pinched her face, took the snack out of her mouth, and then gave it to her little by little while she was crying. Only then did Er Niu feel better.
Man Bao withdrew his gaze and looked blankly at Da Huadao over there: "These two children in your family are very obedient. There are many children in my family, but when they were so old, they all liked to follow their mother's butt.
If you are far away, you will cry loudly."
Dahua said: "They are very obedient."
Man Bao: "So you want to live?"
Dahua fell silent, finally gritted her teeth, and said with a burst of anger: "I want to live!"
Manbao nodded, stretched out his hand to lower the curtain to block the view from outside, untied her clothes and said, "I'll give you an acupuncture first."
Man Bao had the needle inserted and was waiting for time when the wealthy lady came in with a large bowl of white porridge, as well as a large bowl of boiled eggs and pickles. She smiled flatteringly at Zhou Man and said, "Madam, I'm surprised, there are not many things at home.
I can't prepare a good dish at the moment. These eggs are home-raised. Do you think they are still palatable? If they are palatable, I will cook two more for you."
Although she said this, her face also felt very painful.
Man Bao smiled, sat down at the table, and said to her, "Please bring me two more bowls and spoons."
The rich lady didn't know what she was going to do, but she went anyway.
Manbao divided the large bowl of porridge into two small bowls for the children, and then separated the eggs and gave them to them.
The child, who is only over one or two years old, is already very proficient in using a spoon. When he sees something to eat, his head is almost buried in the bowl and he cannot lift it up.
Manbao looked very satisfied and said to the dull rich lady: "Dahua is weak. Give her two boiled eggs every day these days. You can eat white rice porridge and boil rice oil. If you add some oil and salt,
Better.”
Dafu Niang: ...She also knows how to eat it, right? This is how gods eat it, right?
How could there be so much polished rice at home for her to make?
However, facing Zhou Man's gaze, she still forced a smile and complied.
Respond first and then talk. Only when you have a good impression can you mention the matter.
Man Bao counted the time to remove the needle from Da Hua. The rich lady saw that she couldn't even move the porridge in the bowl, and it was all eaten by the two girls. Now she knew what happened to her, so she started to follow her.
Wiping tears behind her, "Madam, my wealthy family didn't come back yesterday. The eldest and second niu couldn't see their father, so they kept crying."