[Pride and Prejudice] Rich Lady

The old doctor’s talk is very interesting, he is well-informed, loves to read Ming Dynasty scripts and Shakespeare, and also dislikes the Gothic style that is currently popular in Britain. He said: “Except for the wilderness, there are ruins of old castles, gloomy and dry. Yes, most of them are man-made, and the monsters that appear are at most only a ghost or something. There is no flesh and blood, rich and beautiful like our ghosts." There are many ghosts, fox demons, fairies, and Shuras.

The old man opened the chatter box, but it was not easy to close it, and he chatted a lot.

"What did he say?" Mrs. Bennet couldn't understand, but seeing her daughter and the doctor smiling, it didn't seem like a bad thing.

Elizabeth whispered: "It's nothing, Mom. The medicine boy has already gone to dispense the medicine, let's wait for a while."

The old doctor didn't just talk funny because she was an Englishman who could speak and write Chinese characters. In fact, the old doctor's eyes were poisonous. He wanted to know if Elizabeth had a book that recorded the prescription.

After talking for a long time, the old doctor stopped chatting, he was very surprised, this foreign girl looks young, she has a lot of knowledge, and she doesn't reveal anything when she speaks.

"The old man's surname is Xue, and he was born in a world-renowned doctor. He is my "shanggong" doctor in Ming Dynasty." The old doctor Xue stroked his beard, retracted the temptation, and said bluntly: "I think your prescription is very good, and I want to report it to the doctor. Let’s go to the Nursing Prescription Bureau of the Imperial Medical Office. Although you didn’t draw up this prescription, it’s because of you that I let this old man know that this old man is not greedy for your credit, and will give you money in real money?”

"This is all subsections. The important thing is that the old man wants to know if you remember other prescriptions, or do you have a book that records the prescriptions?"

Elizabeth laughed, and instead of answering, asked, "What do Doctor Xue mean by 'Shanggong', 'Emperor Medical Office', and 'Nursing Prescription Bureau'?" Kind of a family of doctors, but since when did this doctor have a class?

Langzhong Xue was taken aback, but he didn't expect that the question was not about the price, but about these things. He immediately replied: "The Imperial Medical Office is the general office of the Ming Dynasty that specializes in medicine. There are two departments, the Medical Office and the Pharmacy Bureau. There are separate offices under the Medical Office. There are thirteen departments including Dafangmai, Xiaofangmai, women, and sores: All doctors, regardless of their backgrounds, doctors, bell doctors, and witch doctors, must obtain a rating from the official medical school established by the yamen before they can prescribe medicine. It is divided into the Bureau of Medicinal Materials and the Bureau of Prescriptions: the Bureau of Medicinal Materials is in charge of the world's medicines, and the grades of good and bad are determined; the Bureau of Pharmacy records the medical prescriptions of the world, in case there is a pity that the ancient secret recipes are lost."

"As for 'shanggong', it is the rating given by the yamen to doctors. There are great doctors, great workers, upper workers, middle workers, and lower workers. Great doctors and great workers are rare. You can record your name, place of origin, He was born in the Great Ming Medical Book, and he can engrave characters and set up monuments to be admired by future generations." Xue Shanggong is very proud: "After two years, I will return to my Ming Dynasty, and then I will be able to participate in the evaluation of Dagong. If I am lucky, I will not Bear the inheritance of the Xue family."

Elizabeth's eyes widened. This pattern had never appeared in her previous life.In fact, there are many famous doctors of Chinese medicine, but there are also many fake ones. As a result, the Chinese medicine she saw in her previous life has always been lukewarm, and people trust Western medicine more.

"But the secret recipe is not kept by each family, and you are all willing to share your own recipe with others?" Elizabeth asked dryly, she couldn't believe it.

"Narrow!" The old doctor Xue stopped stroking his beard, and said with a blank look: "It is because of your self-preservation that many secret recipes and effective techniques have been lost. In order to minimize this situation, in the past 200 years, there have been a large number of physicians signed by the Imperial Physicians, and there are even more supervisory officials in charge of political affairs. In our Ming Dynasty, there were rare shortages of doctors and medicines, and none of them were involved in the epidemic that spread to the entire province. break out."

After a pause, the old doctor reluctantly explained: "The medical prescriptions of the Pharmacy Bureau are not easy to consult. Writing medical books, teaching children... There are many detailed rules, and only those who have contributed are eligible to view different proven prescriptions. Besides, your family's secret recipes are good, but others' are not bad. The head of the family, why not do it?"

"...Little friend, do you understand?" The old doctor Xue changed the subject and asked again: "Then can you tell me what I just said?"

Elizabeth barely suppressed her emotions, nodded and replied, "I really don't remember where I read it, but I was curious at the time, so I went back and wrote down a few prescriptions. If it's useful to Dr. Xue, I can write it down for you to read?"

Hearing that Dr. Xue was happy, he didn't expect much at all, something is better than nothing.He was not in a hurry anymore, and asked with a smile: "Little friend, why didn't you ask me how much gold and silver I took to thank you? You must know that in our Daming, this is very valuable, and the reward from the Medical Department alone is not a small amount." Nah."

"Don't you guys pay attention to 'a gentleman loves money, and get it in a proper way'? This is not a prescription I wrote, but I got it by chance." Besides, you said that you want gold and silver rewards, I still what?The more you haggle, the more annoying you get. If you have the skills, it’s better to get close. There may be many ways——Da Ming’s ship docks in London almost every week, and the goods on the ship are divided up before they leave the dock. There is only one Ming Dynasty pharmacy in the whole of London, and the pharmacy has far more contacts than expected, and it is better to save some favors than money.

"Little friend, you still know a gentleman. It seems that the person who taught you must be from our Daming."

Elizabeth's little abacus was crackling, and Dr. Xue was also cheerful. While giving her a pen and paper to tell her to stay silent, he ordered the shop assistant to fetch a box of silver ingots.

The old and the young are very open-minded, one doesn't care how many prescriptions are available, and the other doesn't ask how much gold and silver are.

After a while, two workers brought in a two-foot-square wooden box, and Dr. Xue handed a black wooden plaque engraved with ginseng and ganoderma to Elizabeth who was writing, "From now on, take this plaque and come to Mingzhen Hall for a diagnosis. All gold and medicine fees are free." Pointing to a ten-year-old drug boy, he said, "He taught you how to make medicine. It doesn't matter if you can't learn it for a while, I, a young apprentice, will lend you two days to take your family. Go, learn to send him back. If the family lives in this city, he can come to the door every day to make medicine."

Neither of them mentioned how many silver ingots were in that box.

Mrs. Bennet got into the carriage in a daze, she was very happy, because when the pharmacy showed them the decoction, it turned out to be a black potion.The strange taste and dark color, in her heart, mean miraculous healing and wish fulfillment.

"Oh, I'm so happy, Lizzie!" Mrs. Bennet praised her daughter. "It must be because of you that they are willing to sell this secret potion!"

"Sending you to school is the most correct and wise decision I have ever made in my life!" Mrs. Bennet completely forgot how she opposed her second daughter going to Taoris College.

"You have learned the words of the people of the Silk Kingdom, so they dare not lie to us. I know that this kind of potion is extremely rare, and they must have seen that we are not nobles so they don't want to sell it to us—you see that doctor is wearing silk clothes, I have never seen any embroidery on it. But their clothes are a bit strange, not as pretty as our English gentlemen. But I like the way the ladies dress, how beautiful!"

Mrs. Bennet was chattering, and suddenly she covered her mouth and said in surprise, "Lizzie, I don't seem to have paid. Could it be that you paid for me? Mommy's sweetheart, how much did you spend? Mommy will pay you double!"

Elizabeth could hardly speak. Ever since she got in the carriage, the reserved and dignified beautiful woman in the pharmacy at his home just now seemed to have never existed. Mrs. Bennet must have been very restrained, and she kept talking.

"Mom, didn't you see the box we brought back?" Elizabeth was puzzled.

Mrs. Bennet cried: "Of course, how could I not see, naughty little Lizzie, mother's eyes are very useful."

"Then you don't know what's inside?"

"Potion! I've heard people say that the people of Silk are like European witches hundreds of years ago. They use many strange things to make potions. The witches use hundreds of catties of materials to make a few ounces of potion. The people of Silk are the same. It's just that the witch's potion is the blood of the devil, and the people of Ersi country's potion is comparable to holy water. Good boy, it cost you a lot of money, right?" Mrs. Bennet vowed to promote her knowledge to her daughter.

The wife insisted that the other large packages of medicinal materials were tied up with twine because they couldn't fit in the box. "How thoughtful!" she said.

She took out her purse, and gave Elizabeth fifty pounds directly.Mrs. Bennet reckoned that Lizzie's private money had been spent so much that if they gave her some afterwards, it would not exceed twenty pounds at most.

'Perhaps, this is only so cheap if you eat for a few days. ’ Mrs. Bennet thought, she was a little worried, and she couldn’t always leave the housework and run to the city: “Good Lizzie, how many days can the potion made from these ingredients last?”

"Fifteen days, mother." Elizabeth didn't argue with her mother outside the pound, and she understood when she got home, "it will be the weekend after drinking, and I think I will have returned to Taurice by then. We can make an appointment at my uncle's house." , then I will accompany you to the follow-up visit."

Thinking of that strange taste, Mrs. Bennet was excited with a hint of apprehension: "Will it take a long time?"

"Maybe it won't be too long, I guess about one or two months?" Elizabeth said, "The doctor said that mother should keep a happy mood, if she is always worried, it will affect the effect."

Mrs. Bennet's heart was about to fly briskly.As soon as she thought that she would be ready to conceive in about two months, and next year, Longborn would have a male heir, and the family property would no longer need to be given to outsiders, and mother and daughter would no longer have to worry about it, so she was happy in her sleep. If you want to laugh out loud, how can you still be depressed?

Elizabeth was a bit unbearable, but she still held back her nerves. She recalled what Xue Langzhong said before they left: "Although there is no guarantee, the old man has several prescriptions for women to nurse and give birth. There is a [-]% to [-]% chance that the woman will give birth. If you are willing, you can try it after recuperating the madam's problems."

"Just thank you for those clever recipes, these few improvements will help the old man a lot."

"Whether you need it or not, you can discuss it yourself. Men and women can't guarantee it, but I can keep my wife safe." Old Doctor Xue obviously has full confidence in his own medical skills.

Elizabeth's heart fluttered violently, and she had to tell Mr. Bennet clearly that it was up to him and his mother to decide.

Elizabeth suddenly remembered what the old doctor muttered to himself, "...the biggest advantage of foreigners is that they are not so particular. This little girl can take care of her mother's childbirth..." She couldn't help but want to laugh, and then Want to know what the motherland looks like in this era, is the defense of men and women still so important?Isn't there already a female medical officer and a female head of the house?

For now, this is still a distant dream, Elizabeth thought, but one day, it may not be impossible.

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