Chapter 93

In this era, men are superior to women, women are virtuous if they have no talent, and women have limited space to survive.

Jiang Shuyue could only give the woman some simple advice.

Jiang Shuyue wrote a prescription for the woman, prepared the medicine and told her how to use it.

"Miss, I see you are recruiting female doctors here, I want to send my eldest daughter to learn female medicine, my Jing'er is twelve years old, smart and educated, do you think it's okay?"

It was Jiang Shuyue's words that it would be better for a woman to be independent that reminded her.

She would never let her daughter live the same life as her when she grew up. She knew that her husband had bought a prostitute back from the brothel, but she couldn't be angry and noisy.

Jiang Shuyue looked at the woman's clothes, "Madam's family is well-off. If you can convince your family when you go home, my clinic is always open to welcome you to send your daughter here."

There are few female doctors in the palace and their status is not low, and there are few real female doctors among the people.

There are not many maids and women in the backyards of wealthy families who have a little knowledge of medicine.

Most women from wealthy families rarely show their faces in public, and Jiang Shuyue wrote the notice with a try-it attitude.

The wild geese leave their voices behind, and the wind leaves its traces behind. She did her best to do something.

The woman took a deep breath, her eyes firm, "Please leave a place for my Jing'er, I will definitely send her here tomorrow."

Seeing the woman disappear in the crowd when she went out, Qiuju glanced at the chair where the woman had just sat, "Miss, will her disease be contagious?"

"It's possible. If her body secretions soaked through her skirt and stayed where she sat, if someone sat down at this time, there would be a risk of infection. Don't worry, I made a disinfectant."

Jiang Shuyue said as she went into a room in the backyard and took out a small-necked porcelain bottle.

She took off the cork and poured some on the chair, wiped it with a piece of cotton cloth, and then threw the cotton cloth into the wooden barrel used to hold garbage.

The action was neat and tidy.

Jiang Shuyue came out again after washing her hands. Qiuju said, "Miss, you can just let me do this job from now on."

"Yesterday, I was worried about these cotton cloths. It turns out that you are very useful."

Soon, several patients came in one after another.

Qiuju had just sent the patients out when she saw a woman in cotton cloth leading a little girl about twelve or thirteen years old standing timidly at the door.

"Excuse me, little girl, are you really going to accept a female medical apprentice?" The woman took the little girl and bowed to Qiuju.

"It's true. Please come in."

Qiuju smiled, and the little girl's nervous expression relaxed a lot. She said to Qiuju crisply, "Thank you, sister."

Jiang Shuyue came out from behind the screen.

The little girl had beautiful eyebrows and eyes. Under her curved eyebrows, a pair of big watery eyes were smart and lively. At first glance, she was a smart girl.

"This is my little girl."

"Greetings, little girl."

The woman hurriedly took the little girl and bowed to Jiang Shuyue again.

Seeing Jiang Shuyue, the girl's timidity disappeared, and she felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy.

She smiled brightly at Jiang Shuyue, "Master, you look like a fairy from a painting."

This sentence made Qiuju and Jiang Shuyue couldn't help laughing.

"Little girl, what's your name? Fairies can save people. If you study medicine well, you will also be a fairy in the future." Jiang Shuyue's voice was as warm as spring breeze.

The woman was overjoyed, "Miss, are you willing to accept Erniu?"

"Thank you, Master. Erniu will definitely study medicine with you." Before the woman shouted, the girl knelt down and kowtowed.

Jiang Shuyue grabbed her arm and said, "Don't kneel. Doctors are most particular about hygiene. The ground is always dirty. When you study medicine with me, you will not have to kneel except when you see the emperor."

"Well, Erniu will listen to Master."

The woman was so excited that she didn't know what to do. Jiang Shuyue asked the woman, "Does Erniu have any other name?"

The woman shook her head, "I can't read a single word. Her father died early. She is the second child in the family. I am used to calling her Erniu."

Erniu raised her little face, "Master, my father's surname is Yin. Can you give Erniu a name?"

When she said the surname, Jiang Shuyue's mind instinctively popped up Yinqiao.

"Then call it Yinqiao. Yinqiao clears heat and detoxifies. It's a good name."

"Thank you, Master. I like this name." The little girl looked at Jiang Shuyue with stars in her eyes, and her admiration was beyond words.

"Thank you for naming Erniu, it's nice and easy to remember."

Jiang Shuyue asked the mother and daughter to sit down. After a conversation, she learned that Yinqiao's home was not far from here.

Yinqiao's mother made a living by taking embroidery work. Because she was good at embroidery, she made a lot of money by taking wedding dresses from wealthy families.

It was also able to support Yinqiao's brother to study. Yinqiao was smart, and her brother taught her to read and she could read and write "Three Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Names".

Jiang Shuyue immediately said to Yinqiao, "The monthly silver will be temporarily set at two taels per month. It depends on who learns well. The monthly silver will increase year by year."

"If you can be independent in the future, you can also share dividends every month."

"Your home is close, the clinic will provide lunch at noon, you can go home after the clinic closes, and come to the clinic before 3:30 the next day."

The little girl nodded happily and didn't know what to say.

With the silver, she can reduce the burden on her mother, and her mother will no longer have to stay up late to do embroidery work.

I can go home every day and continue to study with my brother. This life is so good.

Qiuju sent Yinqiao's mother away, and Yinqiao stayed to start identifying medicinal herbs.

The little girl is really smart. When she identified the medicinal herbs, she even picked them up and sniffed them.

It was almost noon, and there was a restaurant not far from the clinic.

Just when Jiang Shuyue was about to ask Qiuju to order food, Nangong Zeyue came with Suisui.

"Come in quickly, put everything on the table, and come back to collect the dishes in an hour."

Jiang Shuyue then saw clearly that there were two servants carrying food boxes behind Nangong Zeyue.

Suisui was about to pounce on Jiang Shuyue, but saw Yinqiao staring at him with joy.

He resisted the urge to call his mother and touched his stomach with his little hand.

Jiang Shuyue went up to him, picked him up and put him on the chair next to her, "Is Suisui hungry?"

"Yeah! I went to a few places with Uncle Nangong, and I'm a little hungry."

Thinking that it was inconvenient for Yinqiao to eat at the same table with herself and Nangong Zeyue, Jiang Shuyue asked Qiuju to divide the food into two tables.

"Today is the opening day, I can't help, I know you don't have time to go back home to eat." Nangong Zeyue picked up the bowl and filled Jiang Shuyue with a bowl of black chicken soup.

Then she put another chicken leg into the bowl in front of Sui Sui.

Jiang Shuyue took a sip of soup, touched Sui Sui's head and said, "Eat more, go home and take a nap later. There is no ice basin in the clinic, and it is hotter than at home."

She said to Nangong Zeyue again, "Don't come to deliver food tomorrow. I'll ask Qiuju to go to the restaurant next door to order food, which is convenient."

The food in the restaurant here is freshly made, and it is not much different from home.

Unlike modern times, most of the dishes in restaurants are pre-prepared dishes with preservatives in assembly line operations, and only a small part is cooked by the chef.

Nangong Zeyue agreed very readily, "Okay, it happens that I have something to do tomorrow."

"What do you have to do?" Jiang Shuyue was curious. This person who was so idle had something to do?

Nangong Zeyue smiled mysteriously, "I'll tell you when it's done."