Volume 2: Secret Realm Reincarnation Chapter 216: Shen's Doctor
In response to Shen Luoyan's somewhat rude words, Li Xuanfeng could only helplessly cover up with a smile, but of course he couldn't be polite.
He and Shen Luoyan had only known each other for a few days, and the memories in the dream could not be counted. If he took the dream seriously and thought that all this in reality was just a coincidence, then it would be pure wishful thinking.
Seeing that Li Xuanfeng did not answer, Shen Luoyan knew that this matter could not be rushed. Given Li Xuanfeng's personality, it needed to be handled step by step, so she did not talk about it any more.
"I wonder who in Miss Shen's family needs medical treatment?" Li Xuanfeng changed the subject and asked Shen Luoyan.
"It's my old housekeeper. He caught a cold." Shen Luoyan's eyes rolled and he spoke.
After hearing her words, Li Xuanfeng seemed to have guessed her intention and felt grateful.
Shen Luoyan quickly brought Li Xuanfeng to a hall, where an old man was sitting on an antique chair. His hair was completely gray and he looked to be in his sixties or seventies.
“Cough cough cough!”
Seeing Shen Luoyan coming in , the old man stood up and was about to greet her, but he suddenly coughed and immediately covered his mouth with his hands.
"Butler Zhou, there's no need to be so polite." Shen Luoyan waved his hand, not allowing the old man to pay his respects.
Butler Zhou is an old man in the mansion who watched Shen Luoyan grow up. In her heart, he is like a relative and she no longer regards him as a servant.
"Hello, young lady. Ahem."
But this week, Butler Zhou was stubborn and insisted on bowing despite his poor health.
Shen Luoyan knew Butler Zhou's character and had told him countless times, but failed to convince him, so she had no choice but to help him up.
"Butler Zhou, he is the doctor I brought with me. Let him check your illness." Shen Luoyan made way for Li Xuanfeng and began to introduce him.
"I am already half buried in the ground, young lady, you don't have to worry about this matter." Upon hearing this, Butler Zhou immediately declined.
"Xuanfeng, please show it to Butler Zhou." Shen Luoyan ignored his refusal and turned to Li Xuanfeng.
Li Xuanfeng walked to the side of Butler Zhou, opened the medicine box he had brought with him, took out the pulse pillow and placed it on the table, and said solemnly: "Butler Zhou, please place your wrist on this pulse pillow and let me take your pulse."
Seeing that Shen Luoyan and Li Xuanfeng were so insistent, Butler Zhou had no choice but to put down his wrist as he was told, calm down, and stabilize his pulse so that Li Xuanfeng could investigate.
Li Xuanfeng stretched out two fingers and pressed on Butler Zhou's wrist, feeling his pulse calmly.
Li Xuanfeng had been studying medicine with his father for several years and was very experienced in the art of taking the pulse. He withdrew his fingers in just a few breaths.
"Butler Zhou has had typhoid fever for many years, and I cannot completely cure it." Li Xuanfeng explained after pondering for a moment.
By investigating Butler Zhou's condition, he became more certain of Shen Luoyan's thoughts. Butler Zhou had been suffering from typhoid fever for a long time, and he was probably seen by many doctors.
Shen Luoyan had no idea about his medical skills, and she came here just to help him.
After hearing this, a hint of disappointment appeared on Shen Luoyan's face, but she didn't care much. Butler Zhou didn't care at all, as he had long been accustomed to the typhoid fever in his body.
"But there is no problem in alleviating Butler Zhou's condition." Li Xuanfeng continued, causing Shen Luoyan and Butler Zhou to widen their eyes slightly.
"Are you telling the truth?" Shen Luoyan asked in surprise.
She didn't have much hope in Li Xuanfeng's medical skills, and she asked him to treat Butler Zhou's typhoid fever just to find a reason to keep him by her side.
"Yes." Li Xuanfeng answered affirmatively.
"Someone, bring paper and ink." Shen Luoyan shouted, and immediately a servant brought paper and ink and placed them in front of Li Xuanfeng.
Li Xuanfeng picked up a pen and wrote down a prescription. Butler Zhou shook his head slightly after seeing it. Li Xuanfeng's prescription was exactly the same as the one prescribed by the doctor before. There was no difference at all. It could not cure his typhoid fever.
However, he did not say it out loud. Li Xuanfeng was specially invited by the young lady. If he directly said that his prescription was useless, it would be too rude.
"Your prescription is the same as the one written by other doctors. Did you forget to write down any medicinal ingredients?" Shen Luoyan also noticed that this prescription was the same as the one written by other doctors, and asked Li Xuanfeng in confusion.
Li Xuanfeng did not refute after hearing this, but opened the medicine box, took out a dried herb, handed it to Butler Zhou and said:
"Butler Zhou, this medicine should be taken three times by boiling it together with the herbs on this prescription."
The typhoid fever that Butler Zhou suffered was extremely stubborn, and ordinary medicines had no effect at all, but there was a very rare herb in Li Xuanfeng's medicine box.
The growing environment of this medicinal herb is quite special. Li Xuanfeng and his father picked it in the mountains near Taoyuan Village.
Li Xuanfeng learned about this medicine only after leaving Taoyuan Village. This medicine is an extremely rare herb in the outside world, but very common in the mountains near Taoyuan Village. He and his father Li Tang collected a lot of it.
Butler Zhou picked up the herb and examined it carefully for a moment, his cloudy eyes suddenly lit up.
He had suffered from typhoid fever for ten years and was very familiar with the medicinal herbs for treating typhoid fever, but the herb that Li Xuanfeng took out was one he had never seen before.
"My dear friend, please forgive me for being so presumptuous. I don't know what kind of medicinal herb this is." Butler Zhou asked curiously.
"I found this medicine in a mountain. It is quite rare and is called Quhancao." Li Xuanfeng explained to Butler Zhou.
"Okay, then I will try your prescription." After hearing this, a hint of expectation appeared in Butler Zhou's cloudy eyes. For the typhoid fever that has been lingering in the body for a long time, even a slight relief would be great.
Coughing countless times every day is extremely uncomfortable.
Butler Zhou knew very well that it was because of the typhoid fever that forced him to resign. If he had not been in the Shen Mansion for decades and Master Shen had not had a deep affection for him, and had allowed him to stay in the mansion to recuperate, he would not know where he would be surviving now.
Then Butler Zhou left with the cold-relieving herb and the prescription and went directly to the kitchen to boil the medicine.
Because the previous doctor had also used this prescription, Steward Zhou still had the other herbs in Li Xuanfeng's prescription, and Li Xuanfeng had already given him the cold-relieving grass, so he could go directly to the kitchen to boil the medicine.
"Xuanfeng, you are so capable, why don't you stay in my house and be a doctor." Shen Luoyan's eyes seemed to be shining with dazzling brilliance, and she said to Li Xuanfeng with great anticipation.
"Thank you for your kindness, Miss Shen, but my medical skills are limited and I am not up to the task." Upon hearing this, Li Xuanfeng immediately waved his hand to decline.
Li Xuanfeng knew in his heart that Shen Luoyan asked him to come here to help him get through his current predicament, which already made him extremely grateful and he had no face to ask for more.
"I heard that Xiaoyan brought a miracle doctor?" At this moment, a steady voice suddenly came from outside the hall, making Li Xuanfeng and others look back.
I saw a middle-aged man of medium build step into the hall and walk straight towards Shen Luoyan.
When Li Xuanfeng saw the appearance of this middle-aged man, he was shocked, but he was not as shocked as when he first saw Shen Luoyan.
When Li Xuanfeng saw the middle-aged man, he already knew his name, Shen Hua.
"Dad, this is the miracle doctor I found. His name is Li Xuanfeng." Shen Luoyan introduced him to the middle-aged man in a show-off manner.
"My dear doctor, my name is Shen Hua, and I am Xiaoyan's father." The middle-aged man introduced himself to Li Xuanfeng in a friendly manner.
"I am just a village doctor. I don't deserve the title of miracle doctor." Li Xuanfeng smiled bitterly and explained to the middle-aged man.
"Xiaoyan praises you so much, you must have something outstanding. There is no need to be so modest, my friend." Shen Hua said with a smile.
"Dad, I want Xuanfeng to stay in our house and work as a doctor." Shen Luoyan suggested to Shen Hua.
"This is absolutely not possible. I am not up to the task." Li Xuanfeng waved his hand and declined again.
Shen Hua looked at Shen Luoyan deeply and noticed the strong expectation in her eyes and the look of help she cast on him. He knew his daughter very well and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"My house is indeed short of a doctor. Mr. Li is young and promising. If you don't mind, I hope you can stay in my house." Shen Hua spoke again, sincerely inviting Li Xuanfeng.
"It is a great blessing to be able to stay in your house, so I will respectfully obey your command." Li Xuanfeng agreed after pondering for a moment.
From then on, Li Xuanfeng stayed in the Shen Mansion. Shen Luoyan personally arranged a room for him, which was not too far away from her, in a courtyard next to his.
After Butler Zhou drank the prescription and the medicine made from the cold-relieving herbs, his typhoid fever was relieved a lot within half a day, and his severe cough was greatly reduced.
The news soon spread throughout the Shen Mansion, letting everyone know about Li Xuanfeng's superb medical skills. Many people in the Shen Mansion who had minor ailments came to see Li Xuanfeng.
They all had minor injuries and illnesses, not even as serious as Butler Zhou's typhoid fever, so it was not difficult for Li Xuanfeng to treat them.
In just a few days, these people's minor injuries and illnesses had healed, and they were extremely grateful to Li Xuanfeng.
After seeing Li Xuanfeng's medical skills, Shen Luoyan showed off in front of his father. Shen Hua couldn't help but nodded and did not regret his decision to accept Li Xuanfeng.
Li Xuanfeng's arrival made it much more convenient for the people in the Shen Mansion to see a doctor. Before, there was no doctor in the Shen Mansion, which made it extremely troublesome for them to see a doctor.
The owner of the Shen Mansion can also summon a doctor to see a doctor, but the servants do not have such a right. The Shen Mansion is extremely large, and it takes a lot of time to go out of the Shen Mansion to see a doctor.
As a doctor in the Shen Mansion, Li Xuanfeng is not busy. There are only a few hundred people in the Shen Mansion including servants, and very few people come to him for treatment every day.
And because of Shen Luoyan's instructions, Shen Hua paid Li Xuanfeng very well, ten taels of silver every month.
Li Xuanfeng stayed in the Shen Mansion not only to make a living, but also to figure out the dream in his mind.
In the Shen Mansion are Shen Hua and Shen Luoyan who appeared in the dream. If one wants to find out whether this dream is true or false, the Shen Mansion is the best place for the time being.
This dream is the reason why Li Xuanfeng left Taoyuan Village. He needs to figure it out thoroughly so that he can return to Taoyuan Village again.
After leaving Taoyuan Village and seeing the outside world, Li Xuanfeng finally understood how rare it was to have such harmonious life in Taoyuan Village. That was the place where he was willing to spend the rest of his life.
