The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 1087 - 166 Rename

Chapter 1087: Chapter 166 Rename

Manbao hopped off the carriage, carrying her basket on her back, turned around, and waved to Bai Shan and Bai Erlang, who were still on the vehicle, before entering Jishi Hall under their watchful gaze.

Bai Shan waited for her to enter, then lowered the curtains and said, "Let’s go."

The carriage then started towards the Imperial Academy.

The pharmacy had just opened, and the patients hadn’t arrived yet. Manbao put her things down and organized them. After looking around, she took out a thick volume of legal code from her basket and began to read.

Doctor Ding, who came over for a visit, was astonished and asked, "Young Doctor Zhou, are you reading legal texts?"

Manbao nodded and stood up to offer Doctor Ding a seat.

Doctor Ding didn’t sit down. Instead, he asked curiously, "Why the switch to legal texts? Didn’t you use to read medical books?"

Manbao sighed, "It’s my teacher’s requirement. I’m just looking at a few pages; there’s no other way. Things have been too busy lately, and I can’t squeeze out any time for it, so I have to take this chance to read."

Doctor Ding nodded but then felt something was amiss. Aren’t they supposed to be doctors? Why were they reading legal texts?

Just as Doctor Ding was about to leave in a daze, he suddenly remembered something and turned back to say, "Oh right, after you left at noon yesterday, the Cheng Family sent an invitation. They want you to come for a house visit today to see a patient. The head manager asked whether you could make it."

Manbao asked curiously, "Who are the Cheng Family?"

"The State Duke Su’s household," replied Doctor Ding. "This time, it’s their Second Madam who needs consultation. It’s more convenient for you to enter the inner quarters. The head manager suggested if you could go, he would have a medicine boy accompany you later for easier access. As usual, you will take all the consultation fees, and the medicines will be taken from our pharmacy."

"Then do they have medicines in their storeroom?"

Doctor Ding chuckled, "Even better. If your treatment is effective, most likely they’ll restock their medicines from our pharmacy later on."

This was one of the reasons why pharmacies liked it when their attending doctors made house calls during their free time.

Ultimately, the main profit of a pharmacy still came from the sale of medicines.

Manbao nodded to show she understood and said, "I’ll go."

Doctor Ding nodded and left. As he was lifting the curtain to head out, he saw someone crouched outside. The man was startled and awkwardly looked up at Doctor Ding with a naive smile.

Then he sidestepped to let Doctor Ding pass by, and as soon as Doctor Ding was gone, he hurriedly pulled Liuniang, who was with him, inside.

Doctor Ding turned to look back and asked Ding, a shop assistant nearby, "What is Shi Dalang up to?"

Ding glanced once and said immediately, "He’s here to see Young Doctor Zhou. He always comes early, as if afraid to bump into someone. Just now, as soon as he arrived, he started eavesdropping. I had already reminded him that you were inside, but he still pressed on to listen. I thought you and Young Doctor Zhou wouldn’t be discussing any secrets, so I didn’t bother to stop him."

They would usually discuss confidential matters in the backyard—who would discuss things that shouldn’t be told to others in an examination room separated just by a curtain?

Even walls have ears, let alone a curtain.

Doctor Ding had never seen such blatant eavesdropping under the watchful eyes of everyone.

He shook his head and, seeing more patients beginning to fill the main hall, returned to his own examination room.

Manbao saw the couple squeezing in and closed the book, "It’s Dou Dalang and Liuniang. Please, take a seat."

Dou Dalang smiled ingratiatingly and sat down with his wife, then said to Young Doctor Zhou, "Could you please check my wife and see if she is pregnant?"

Liuniang shyly extended her hand.

Manbao, while taking her pulse, said, "It couldn’t have been that quick, could it?"

After feeling her pulse for a while, she smiled and said, "You’re not pregnant."

"But her period is late," Dou Dalang was somewhat anxious.

"A delay of a few days is normal," Manbao assured Liuniang, "Given your condition, it’s normal if it’s within seven days. I just checked, and your health has improved these past two months. I’ll prescribe you another prescription to take home, and after you’ve finished it, you can stop. Afterwards, maintain your nutrition, and you’ll be in a good state to prepare for pregnancy."

She wrote a prescription for Liuniang and then turned to Dou Dalang, whose face looked upset, "Let me check your pulse."

Dull and dejected, Dou Dalang stretched out his hand, and after Manbao felt his pulse for a while, she said, "There’s improvement, but you need to continue taking medicine. Also, don’t stress out too much."

"Easy for you to say, I’ll be twenty-five after the New Year," Dou Dalang complained with a gloomy face, "My cousin is younger than me, and his kids are already running around..."

"What can you do, you’ve got this condition," Manbao said, "Also, try to minimize sexual intercourse while taking the medicine. Start with this prescription, and come back later for a different one."

Manbao wrote a prescription for Dou Dalang and then asked him to go out to get the medicine.

But Dou Dalang didn’t leave, holding the prescription hesitantly he asked, "Young Doctor Zhou, I’ve heard people outside calling you a miraculous young doctor, so my condition can be cured, right?"

Manbao replied, "We’re doctors, and we treat illnesses. But like my mother says, having children is also a matter of fate. I can only tell you that as of now, there is an 80% chance to cure your condition. An 80% success rate is quite high. But if you waste that chance yourself, it’s as if I never said anything."

Dou Dalang stood there stunned and asked, "How do I not waste it?"

"It’s simple. Just follow the doctor’s advice: take the medicine, go to bed early at night, get up early in the morning, and reduce sexual activity." Manbao waved her hand, "You can go now."

Still, Dou Dalang didn’t leave and whispered, "Young Doctor Zhou, you haven’t told anyone about my medical records, have you?"

Manbao: "...No, we are doctors, not idle gossips hanging around on the streets. Besides, you’ve been using an alias, what are you afraid of?"

Dou Dalang smiled awkwardly, "Right, I, I want to change my name back."

Manbao found this rather curious and inquired, "Why suddenly change it back?"

Dou Dalang swallowed and said in a low voice, "I just suddenly feel it’s not quite right to use someone else’s name for treatment. Actually, my surname is Shi, just call me Shi Dalang from now on."

"Sure thing." Manbao quickly made a note next to Dou Dalang’s name, then wrote the name Shi Dalang.

Shi Dalang then took the two prescriptions down to pay and get the medication, asking his wife to stay behind and build a rapport with Young Doctor Zhou.

He felt that if they had a good relationship with the doctor, she would be more open-hearted.

But Manbao only had one heart and set of lungs, and it was obviously not possible for her to literally give them to them. Since Liuniang found out that the infertility wasn’t her fault, she was no longer in such a rush, so as soon as her husband left, she began to chat leisurely with Manbao.

In fact, she was telling Manbao why Dou Dalang, oh no, Shi Dalang had decided to change his name back.

"The person who brought us to see the doctor was our family’s old auntie; Dou Dalang is her eldest grandson. I don’t know who told her, but she found out that during the visits to the pharmacy, my husband used Dou Dalang’s name. Our old auntie came knocking on our door."

Manbao couldn’t help but laugh out loud, giving Liuniang a thumbs up, "Actually, your husband is kind of amusing."

Liuniang smiled and said, "Young Doctor Zhou really likes to joke, what’s amusing about him? He’s just someone who bends under soft pressure but hardens up at home."