Don't worry about traveling through time, she has an all-powerful senior sister to help her

Chapter 218 Why

"Why are you making such a noise? Sit down." Huang Ruyue glared at him.

Shen Chi immediately sat back on the kang. "Ever since mother passed away, Dazhuzi has been reciting Taoist scriptures frequently. If I had known earlier, I would have given all those books away."

"I am just a nominal disciple of Taoist Xuan Lingzi, and I will not become a monk." Huang Ruyue was very excited when she heard that her eldest daughter wanted to be his disciple.

"That's good, that's good. From now on, we should often take our two daughters to experience the beauty of the world, listen to books, operas, watch music, taste tea and try new things, go boating on the lake..." Shen Chi kept talking, making Huang Ruyue drowsy.

Qi, who listened outside the door for a while, shook her head and left. This son-in-law was hopeless. All he talked about was joking.

She came to the kitchen and saw Xiao Zhuzi playing with his grandson, while Da Zhuzi and his wife were busy at the stove. She shook her head again.

"Grandma."

"grandmother."

"Don't run around in the kitchen, there's food everywhere." Grandma Qi nodded to her granddaughter and grandson.

Shen Lingzhu readily followed suit and sat opposite her little cousin, holding him and teaching him how to play the game of "You clap, I clap".

Qi asked Shen Miaozhu worriedly, "Big Bamboo, is your mother really just too tired?"

My daughter didn't lose much weight, and she didn't get as tanned as my son-in-law.

"Almost. Let's wait for Senior Brother Zhiyuan to arrive and confirm the diagnosis." This was what Shen Miaozhu's pulse diagnosis showed. She was unable to diagnose the deeper cause.

She was very sure that the person her uncle invited would be Zhiyuan.

The fact was just as she expected. A quarter of an hour later, her uncle's family of three arrived with Zhiyuan.

Everyone watched Zhiyuan put his left hand and right hand together, and when he frowned slightly, they all became nervous.

Shen Lingzhu couldn't help but grab her senior sister's hand. She didn't want anything to happen to her mother.

Fortunately, Huang Ruyue fell asleep after drinking the noodle soup and did not notice the worry of the people around her.

After a while, Zhiyuan stopped taking the pulse and signaled Shen Miaozhu to follow him out.

In the courtyard, Shen Huai and his son saw everyone coming out and came forward to ask, "How is it?"

"Her body is not suited to long-distance travel due to repeated miscarriages. She is now experiencing pre-existing symptoms after sleeping outdoors.

I'm not very good at this kind of treatment, so it would be best to go to the city and see Dr. Qian at Renhetang." Zhiyuan suggested.

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Chi slapped himself twice, "I shouldn't have taken her there."

Mrs. Hu frowned. At this moment, she was completely certain that the couple's journey of thousands of miles to have a child was not as simple as just a simple one.

After a while, she apologized to Qi, saying that it was the Shen family who failed to take good care of their daughter-in-law.

How could Qi blame her? Xiao Zhuzi was less than one year old, and her daughter wanted a son, but she had two miscarriages in a row. She couldn't blame anyone else.

"Rest for a few days, then we'll go with Mom to find Doctor Qian.

He is a very good old man and we know him very well.

It was he who saved my aunt's pregnancy. Look how well she's recovered now." Shen Lingzhu broke the gloomy atmosphere.

Shen Chi paused. "Tomorrow, we'll go to the capital to see a doctor and get medicine."

"Dad, we have to wait until Mom recovers before we go." Shen Miaozhu would not let him act arbitrarily, but asked Zhiyuan to go to the main room to discuss what kind of medicinal food to use for her recovery.

Shen Lingzhu prepared some writing materials and went out to discuss with her aunt: "We can't stay at grandma's house all the time."

Mrs. Hu fully agreed: "Yes, no matter how generous your sister-in-law is, we can't keep her here.

So, you and Xianzhu go to the market and find a car with a carriage, and we'll pick the people up."

Qi had no objection to this. When the car was rented, she spread out thick bedding and watched her son-in-law carry their daughter who had just woken up into the car and leave, feeling distressed.

As a mother, she advised her daughter not to get pregnant repeatedly, but her daughter has her own pressures.

Her daughter-in-law said, "Mom, you can come with us. The meat sales have been slow these days, and I can handle it by myself."

"No need, she has someone to look after her." Qi paused and said, "If you want to go to the county town, we can go together after we sell the meat tomorrow."

"Looking for dad." The little grandson suddenly spoke.

Qi hugged him and kissed him: "Okay, go find your father."

When she looked up again, the Shen family had already walked away.

On the other side of the carriage, Shen Lingzhu was pounding Huang Ruyue's legs: "Mom, why did you go so far?"

"I'm curious too. The one driving the carriage outside is Xianzhu. Don't worry, tell me." Mrs. Hu said with a smile. Only Shen Miaozhu listened to them quietly.

Huang Ruyue pondered for a moment and whispered, "We previously invested two thousand taels of silver in a medicinal herb merchant, but he went to Jiangyou to collect the herbs and we haven't heard from him since."

Mrs. Hu was surprised. Most of the family's annual income was spent by the master. "Where did you get the two thousand taels?"

"Jade, we found a half-carved piece of mutton-fat jade at the bottom of the stream at the foot of the mountain where we bought it.

The second master asked someone to estimate the price at 2,000 taels and sold it. He then wanted to make more money, but after investing the money, he lost contact. Huang Ruyue sighed, and then continued, "The more my husband thought about it, the angrier he got. Later, there was a rumor that the herbal medicine merchant died of illness outside.

But we have inquired carefully and found that the man is not only alive, but has also married another wife in Nanzhili. What kind of a double-edged sword is this?

"So Dad wants to go and get back the two thousand taels?" Shen Lingzhu thought about it and didn't want to be cheated out of so much money in vain. Two thousand taels was not a small amount.

Huang Ruyue nodded and said, "It just so happens that the wandering Taoist priest met a medicinal herb merchant in the south. Let's find him and pretend to believe him and go south together.

Later, the husband hired a bodyguard in Nanzhili at a high price to get the money back.

Then we continued south, and besides paying respects to the Three Pure Ones and Buddha, we also collected some precious medicinal herbs.”

She raised her hand and gestured to count, saying that it was what she earned this time.

Shen Lingzhu blinked: "This business can be done."

Mrs. Hu glared at her and said, "It cost me half my life to get it. It's not worth a cent."

Huang Ruyue smiled bitterly: "That's true. From now on, I will see patients and maybe even if I spend all the money I earn, it still won't be enough."

"No, your body needs to be taken care of. Senior brother said it's best not to reproduce in the next two years." After Shen Miaozhu finished speaking, Huang Ruyue's old face flushed.

She said embarrassedly: "Miaozhu, you are still a child."

"Doctors don't differentiate between men and women. I'm just stating the facts." Shen Miaozhu made her attitude clear. She still had to study medicine.

Mrs. Hu quickly changed the subject, saying that their house was not spacious enough, so they had to temporarily have the three of them, mother and daughter, share one room.

Huang Ruyue said, "My husband said he would rebuild the old house."

Shen Lingzhu suggested: "Don't build any pavilions or towers. I think a courtyard with two or three entrances is quite comfortable.

And it's not ostentatious, which is good for Uncle's reputation."

Behind the car, Shen Huai and Shen Chi, who were riding donkeys side by side, were also talking about building an old house.

Shen Chi no longer dared to build any fancy house: "Brother, I will follow your instructions and build it in the style of the capital. When it is finished and my wife is feeling better, I will go to Wumeng to find you."

Shen Huai waved his hand: "That's not necessary. You take good care of them at home so that I can work with peace of mind."

The two brothers did not expect that when they returned home, Shen Xianzhu would ask to accompany his father to his post. His reason was simple: "My second uncle is taking care of the family, so I will go and take care of Dad."

Mrs. Hu firmly disagreed with this, and the mother and son had some unpleasantness.

When Shen Lingzhu came to persuade his eldest brother to give in to his aunt, he said, "Xiao Zhuzi, if you knew that your second uncle had a dangerous future, wouldn't you want to accompany him and take care of him?"

She asked back: "Brother, putting aside other things, can you beat me?"