For ordinary people, hiring a wet nurse is highly unlikely.
After thinking for a while, Gu Youyou said, "How about I have Qin Changlin find some cow’s milk to feed the child? Don’t worry, at four months old, it’s okay to wean off breast milk. From now on, just feed cow’s milk."
There wasn’t a precedent here for children being raised on cow’s milk, and Gu Xiaolian was shocked upon hearing this. She anxiously exclaimed, "How could this be possible? What if the child grows up looking like a cow..."
Gu Youyou was speechless. It was the same logic as believing that a child would be born with a split lip if a pregnant woman ate rabbit meat.
It must be said, Gu Xiaolian’s imagination was indeed vast.
She said, "Don’t worry, the child won’t turn out looking like a cow!"
"Oh, my! Looking like a cow at least means healthy and strong, which is definitely better than being skinny and scrawny from drinking your milk!"
Perhaps it was the last remark that persuaded her, and Gu Xiaolian finally agreed with a mix of sorrowful cries and sighs.
Gu Youyou told her to go back, pack some stuff, and bring a few changes of clothes over.
She arranged a bed for her.
Without the need to breastfeed, who knows if the child left in her grandmother’s care would starve to death.
Gu Youyou’s concept of hospital treatment was not so easily accepted by everyone. If someone in their house was too sick to rise, they still preferred to invite the doctor over to their homes.
Yet, when the doctor visited the home, all he did was take a look and then prescribe some medicine, and that was it. How could this compare to the benefits of being a hospitalized patient with a doctor on hand to rescue at any moment?
Helpless against such backwardness, Gu Youyou could only watch in distress.
There were now two patients in her hospital ward, one was Gu Xiaolian with her daughter, and the other was the young lady from the Fo Family.
She didn’t have anything serious; her primary reason for being there was to indulge in her fanciful infatuation.
Anyway, since there were enough beds and she had plenty of silver, Gu Youyou let it be.
She might have been indifferent, but Yue Rujing, who was seriously harassed by Fo Youmeng, could not afford such nonchalance.
"Gu Youyou, I’m asking you if you plan to manage this at all. You actually let in a woman with a mental illness, thinking Jisheng Hall isn’t chaotic enough, huh?"
Gu Youyou, looking unhurried, gazed at the ledger and said indifferently, "Having a mental illness is still an illness. What’s wrong with her paying for her treatment? Besides, as a medicine assistant, what does it matter to you what kind of patients I admit? Can you control it?"
"Hey! You—you—you..." Yue Rujing was indignant, his heart filled with bitterness. Had he known he’d be stuck with such a job coming here to see his junior fellow, he wouldn’t have come even if killed.
"You’re simply unreasonable. Could it be that you deliberately brought in Fo Youmeng just to annoy me?"
Gu Youyou looked at him with disdain and said, "To deal with someone as incompetent as you, do I need to find someone to help me?"
Yue Rujing: "...What does ’incompetent’ mean?"
Gu Youyou appeared impatient. It was the end of the month, and there were a pile of ledgers and prescriptions to sort out. She looked at Yue Rujing, her face clearly expressing her unwillingness to explain, and said, "Alright, stop complaining about the patients when you’ve not done your work properly. If you don’t do a good job for me, I’ll fire you!"
"Out immediately, and without my permission, do not enter my consultation room."
In his heart, Yue Rujing was crying. He didn’t even have to wait for Xuanzong’s people to come; he now particularly wished he could knock Gu Youyou unconscious with a chop of his hand and take her away.
Attending to her was more demanding than serving a demanding master.
The key point was, she was just a village girl; how could she act so high and mighty?
Seeing Yue Rujing leave with his head drooping, Qin Changlin patted his shoulder and consoled him, "Sister Youyou dislikes it the most when someone talks to her about trivial matters while she’s busy. Yue Brother, you just happened to catch her at a bad time."