The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 975 - 954: Bold (Extra for book friend "Becky"’s reward)

Chapter 975: Chapter 954: Bold (Extra for book friend "Becky"’s reward)

Liuniang waited until she had left before blushing and asking Manbao, "Young Doctor Zhou, is it really my husband’s problem?"

Manbao nodded, "Yes."

Liuniang sighed in relief and asked, "Can it really be cured?"

Manbao said, "In theory, following the doctor’s advice, it can be cured, but I can’t guarantee that you will definitely be able to conceive. Such things depend on fate."

Liuniang really wanted to get a definite answer from Manbao, but seeing that Manbao had no further comments, she could only ask another question that she had wanted to ask, "Doctor Zhou Junior, what should we be more cautious about in our daily lives?"

Manbao liked such patients because they would actively inquire about their conditions, which meant they would cooperate well. She then elaborately explained the precautions for both men and women.

Liuniang recorded everything and confirmed it again, ensuring she remembered everything before thanking Manbao and leaving.

Dou Dalang had already paid and was waiting outside with the medicine, eagerly asking as his wife came out, "What did the doctor say?"

Liuniang whispered, "The doctor said it can be cured, but we need to be careful about many things..." and she painstakingly relayed what she had noted earlier to her husband.

Hearing this, Dou Dalang felt much reassured, and his trust in the doctor increased.

A new patient entered Manbao’s consultation room, and Manbao gestured for her to sit down before taking her pulse.

Twenty days had passed, and the news about a female doctor working at Jishi Hall had already spread throughout the district. Consequently, many female patients had been lining up outside Manbao’s consultation room lately.

Additionally, as her reputation was quite good and she had cured many patients, the word of mouth had increased her fame tenfold in the district. Female patients specifically seeking her medical advice had increased so much that she even took patients from nearby pharmacies.

Thus, Manbao had become gradually busier, with her morning consultations almost fully booked.

Therefore, to better exchange medical knowledge, Manbao usually had her lunch at the pharmacy, discussing with Doctor Ding and others while eating. Occasionally, she would also bring up some cases for discussion.

Today at noon, Manbao wanted to discuss Dou Dalang’s case. She said, "I examined a patient whose complexion was slightly dim, with a white coating on his tongue, and his pulse was..."

After describing Dou Dalang’s condition, she presented her judgment and asked, "Doctor Ding, do you think my judgment is correct?"

Doctor Ding replied, "It’s correct that he has a kidney deficiency, but how did you determine that he was frail?"

Manbao shared the questions she had asked at the time along with Liuniang’s responses. Doctor Ding and Doctor Tao looked rather amused, and Young Manager Zheng, who was still eating, suddenly spat out his food.

Doctor Gu, sitting opposite him, quickly grabbed a winnowing fan that was placed beside to cover his face. The food got stopped by the fan, but the herbs that were drying in it got dumped all over Doctor Gu’s face.

Manbao turned her head in surprise, her face expressing disbelief.

Young Manager Zheng began coughing violently, stood up brushing off grains of rice from his clothing, and reached to help clean Doctor Gu, but failed to hold back another violent cough, which projected grains of rice directly from his nose onto Doctor Gu’s face.

Doctor Gu: ...

Doctor Ding and Doctor Tao tried hard to hold back their laughter, one went to pat Young Manager Zheng’s back, and the other went to clean the herbs off Doctor Gu.

Stunned, Manbao’s eyes widened in shock. When she came to her senses, she hurriedly went to help.

After several hand waves, Young Manager Zheng finally calmed down and repeatedly apologized profusely to Doctor Gu.

Doctor Gu shook his hand, quite accustomed to the incident, "It’s not your fault, not your fault..."

He looked at Manbao, sizing her up, and after a long pause, he said, "You are a young girl, such a young girl, how could you, how could you..." ask such a question?

Manbao still hadn’t developed a sense of sexual modesty at this time, and Teacher Mo had taught her since she was young that in the eyes of a doctor, patients are just patients with no distinction of gender. Their duty was to diagnose and then solve it, restoring health to the patient.

These were questions that Manbao and Teacher Mo had spent a great deal of effort researching and formulating. Previously, they hadn’t shown themselves, and Old Madam Dou had also disappeared without a trace. Manbao thought they didn’t want treatment, or perhaps they had already consulted another doctor. She felt quite sorry for a while.

She didn’t think there was anything wrong with the questions she and Teacher Mo had come up with.

But after all, she and Teacher Mo were inexperienced, so she humbly asked, "Doctor Gu, are the questions we asked not detailed enough? What else should we ask?"

Doctor Gu: "...These aren’t detailed enough? You’ve even probed thoroughly into their intimate affairs..."

He massaged his forehead with a slight headache and then glanced towards Doctor Ding and Doctor Tao.

Doctor Ding just laughed and smoothed things over, "These are detailed enough, detailed enough. Even we wouldn’t have thought to go into such detail."

Even if they asked so meticulously, would the patient really tell them whether it was good or bad?

They might even end up getting beaten up, thinking being a doctor was easy?

However, why would the patient tell Manbao such details?

Young Manager Zheng was also puzzled. The four of them looked down at Manbao, met her naive eyes, and saw her small face and petite stature; she still looked just like a child.

Doctor Ding frowned, "Could she have encountered some bad people?"

Doctor Gu also frowned and asked Manbao, "Who is the patient?"

"I can’t tell you that, I promised I wouldn’t divulge it," she replied.

Young Manager Zheng sensitively asked, "They?"

"Yes, both he and his wife."

The four of them: "...His wife was there too?"

Manbao nodded, "Yes, both the husband and wife were sick and came together for consultation, but the husband’s illness was more severe."

All four breathed a sigh of relief.

Manbao looked at Doctor Gu and asked, "Doctor Gu, Young Manager Zheng, you all are okay now?"

Both immediately replied, "We are fine, we are fine."

"That’s good. How do you think my diagnosis of the condition was?"

Doctor Gu and Doctor Tao both looked at Doctor Ding, as they were not very familiar with it.

Doctor Ding thought for a moment, asked the questions again in detail, and then nodded, "Sounds indeed like debility. What prescription did you give him?"

Manbao, well-prepared, immediately took out the prescription to show to Doctor Ding.

Doctor Ding examined it, didn’t find any faults, but he was also not very familiar with the condition, so the advice he could offer Manbao was limited. He could only share what he knew about the characteristics of the medicines.

This was the second time Manbao had encountered this condition, but it was her first time treating it. However, she had discussed it before with her brother-in-law’s grandfather—Elderly Doctor Lu, especially since her brother-in-law had a similar condition.

However, Elderly Doctor Lu said her brother-in-law was completely sterile, beyond treatment.