376: Disturbance (6 more updates)
When Wang Shaoyu mentioned that, Xie Zhinuan seriously started to think about it.
“Then I’ll write one, and you help me see if it could work!”
“Sure!”
Take Xie Yi’s cold as an example.
Xie Yi’s nose was bright red, his eyes also seemed to have reddened bloodshot, he had a slight cough, and a bit of a fever.
“The fever caused by a wind-heat type of cold, slight aversion to wind-chill, head and body aches, dry mouth with thirst, nasal congestion with turbid discharge, redness and soreness of the throat, cough, and yellow sticky phlegm.
We need herbs that release the exterior through pungency and are cooling in nature, to clear heat and detoxify!”
Xie Yi was young and certainly couldn’t handle bitter tastes, so definitely we can rule out overly bitter medicines; Rhizoma Coptidis was not even to be considered.
Xie Zhinuan wrote a prescription and asked Wang Shaoyu to help have a look.
Wang Shaoyu checked it, and whether it was the dosage of the herbs or the combination, it was comparable to that of a master’s level.
“You actually are quite good at dispensing medicines. Countless people cannot come up with such a refined prescription in their entire lives!”
“…”
Xie Zhinuan didn’t dare to accept all of Wang Shaoyu’s praise.
Just after she identified Xie Yi’s symptoms, such a prescription emerged in her mind.
It belonged to her memory, yet it didn’t seem like her memory.
“I still need to continue to work hard!”
She needed to learn how to take pulses and how to administer acupuncture.
These skills couldn’t be self-taught without guidance.
“What do you think about me setting up a stall somewhere, just to take people’s pulses and then offer some small benefits? Would people be willing to let me take their pulses?” asked Zhinuan.
“…”
Wang Shaoyu was quite surprised.
With Zhinuan’s looks, if she sat down on the street and offered to diagnose and read pulses, countless young men would probably come forward.
“I think it’s worth a try. I want to make progress in medicine and attain mastery. I need to read more pulses!”
Zhinuan said so, but she had many things to do, many things.
In the following days, she had to prepare cured ham; in another one of her houses, pig legs were already hanging up, and she had smoked a lot of bacon and made sausages – all of which were foundational to the future success of ‘Kechanglai’.
Although she didn’t have to do these tasks by hand, she needed to direct how they were done, and she had to blend the spices herself.
She needed to practice martial arts, read and memorize books in the morning and evening, and also find time to accompany Xie Yi.
“Let’s leave this matter for next year. For now, I’ll start by reading the pulses of the servants in the house!”
Xie Zhinuan took the pulses of the people in the house, which was not for free; each male servant contributed two hundred wen, while each maid gave a pair of earrings.
But they were all in good health, drinking water daily from the well enhanced with Spiritual Spring, and had no ailments.
Still, each person’s pulse felt different, and Zhinuan could sense that while reading them. She thought that when she started reading pulses on the street, she should be able to learn something from it.
“Master, master, you must come and take a look at the restaurant! There’s an old beggar at the door who refuses to leave!”
Zhinuan put down her brush and raised her eyebrows slightly, “An old beggar?”
Her restaurant was doing well; there were always leftovers at the end of the day. She instructed the staff to pack them up neatly without making a mess and distribute them to beggars at the back door. Each person could also get a bun and a bowl of thin porridge daily, so why would there be a beggar making a scene at the front door?
“Yes, that old beggar is claiming that he had stomach pain after eating our restaurant’s food, demanding you give an explanation in person!” The manager arrived in a sweat.
He had managed to land a good job with difficulty. The master was nice and generous, treating the staff kindly with neither criticism nor punishment; as long as one corrected their mistakes, the master was usually very reasonable to talk to.
He initially intended to handle the situation himself, hoping to shoo the old beggar away or if truly in pain, to take him to see a doctor. However, the old beggar was too slippery to catch.
Chapter 378