"I heard that you're ill, Second Brother. I was so worried that I came with Chef Liao to check on you," said Su Yuanyuan. Then she sighed. "You were fine last night. How could you fall ill so suddenly?"
Su Huaiyuan averted his gaze, hesitating to speak.
As they were talking, Chef Liao had already taken a seat on the chair. He said to Su Huaiyuan, "Please give your hand to me, Second Young Master. Let me feel your pulse."
Seeing that he had no way to refuse, Su Huaiyuan resignedly stretched out his hand.
Chef Liao placed his fingers on Su Huaiyuan's pulse. He lowered his eyes and carefully distinguished for a moment, then withdrew his hand. Su Huaiyuan thought Chef Liao was going to tell his symptoms, but to his surprise, Chef Liao turned to Su Yuanyuan the next moment and said,
"Miss, you have a try."
Under Su Huaiyuan's shocked gaze, Su Yuanyuan sat down and imitated Chef Liao in a decent manner, feeling Su Huaiyuan's pulse.
As soon as her fingers touched Su Huaiyuan's pulse, Xiao Ba transmitted Su Huaiyuan's illness to Su Yuanyuan's mind.
[Wind-cold has invaded the body. The spleen and stomach are deficient in cold. The qi and blood circulation is not smooth, resulting in stomach cramps and the downward leakage of cold qi. To put it simply, he caught a cold after he came back last night, which caused him to have diarrhea.]
This result made Su Yuanyuan rather amused.
"Well, Miss, have you noticed anything?" Chef Liao asked beside her.
Su Yuanyuan thought for a while in her heart, then replied to Chef Liao, "Second Brother's pulse seems a bit chaotic."
After saying that, she tapped on the table with her hand, exactly the rhythm of Su Huaiyuan's pulse.
Chef Liao laughed, with obvious relief in his eyes. "Miss is really smart and clever. This kind of pulse is called..."
In front of Su Huaiyuan, Chef Liao was explaining to Su Yuanyuan how to judge the pulse, and then told her what "inspection, auscultation and olfaction, inquiry, and pulse-feeling" were.
"It's not enough to just look at the pulse when diagnosing a person. One also has to observe the person's face and ask about their feelings," Chef Liao said as he turned to Su Huaiyuan. "Please open your mouth and stick out your tongue, Second Young Master, so that I and the princess can take a look."
Su Huaiyuan resignedly opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue.
Chef Liao then pulled Su Yuanyuan aside and commented on Su Huaiyuan's tongue color and coating.
And Su Huaiyuan felt that he had lost all his face at this moment. Woohoo, Yuanbao had seen his most embarrassing appearance. How could he face his little sister in the future!
In the "inquiry" part, Su Huaiyuan didn't dare to hide anything in front of Chef Liao. He said honestly, "After I came back last night, I might have been too drunk. I forgot to cover the quilt when I was sleeping. I woke up when it was already dawn. I should have caught a cold like this..."
"That's right," Chef Liao concluded. "Second Young Master is showing the symptoms of wind-cold invading the body. It's not a big problem. As long as you take the medicine and rest quietly for a few days, you'll recover."
Resting quietly for a few days meant that he couldn't teach Su Yuanyuan martial arts for these few days. Seeing her second brother looking dejected, Su Yuanyuan said with a smile, "Second Brother, don't worry. I'll ask Third Brother to accompany me. You just rest and recuperate well so that you can recover soon."
After Su Yuanyuan and Chef Liao left, Su Huaiyuan bit the corner of the quilt. "That stinky brat, Third Brother, is getting lucky!"
Su Yuanyuan was just thinking about going to find her third brother. As soon as she and Chef Liao stepped out of Su Huaiyuan's yard, they saw the servant beside Su Huaisheng already waiting outside the courtyard gate.
As soon as Chef Liao showed up, the servant immediately stepped forward. "Chef Liao, please come with me quickly. Third Young Master is ill."
Su Yuanyuan was stunned. "Why is Third Brother ill too?"
Only then did the servant notice that Su Yuanyuan was also there. He looked worried. "To answer the princess, I don't know either. When I was going to serve Third Young Master this morning, I found that he was too ill to get out of bed."
Su Yuanyuan and Chef Liao looked at each other, then they walked towards Su Huaisheng's yard together.
Su Huaiyuan's yard and Su Huaisheng's yard were very close. They only had to walk a few steps to get there. Before they entered the house, Su Yuanyuan could already hear her third brother's continuous sneezing.
As Chef Liao walked, he said to Su Yuanyuan, "Third Young Master's symptoms also seem to be the evidence of wind-cold invading the body. The manifestations are completely different from Second Young Master's. Later, the princess can try to feel Third Young Master's pulse again."
Su Yuanyuan nodded seriously and said to Xiao Ba in her heart,
[I didn't expect Chef Liao to be so meticulous. With such a teacher, I'm sure I'll be able to reveal to the world that I know medical skills soon.]
When he saw Su Yuanyuan in his own room, Su Huaisheng's reaction was exactly the same as Su Huaiyuan's. His eyes were even rounder than Su Huaiyuan's.
But after he came to his senses, he looked anxious. "Yuanbao, you... Achoo! Achoo! You should go out quickly. Third Brother is ill. I don't want to pass the illness to you."
Su Yuanyuan said, "Don't worry, Third Brother. I'm in good health. I won't get ill easily. But you, you were fine last night. Why are you ill today?"
Su Huaisheng first showed an embarrassed expression, then he took out something from under the pillow and handed it to Su Yuanyuan. "After I came back last night, I suddenly got interested and carved this."
It was a jade hairpin carved in the shape of a lotus leaf. The head of the hairpin was a green and shiny lotus leaf. The stretched leaves looked as if they had just been picked from the lotus pond, making people feel refreshed.
However...
Su Huaisheng scratched his head. "In order to carve this hairpin, I stayed up all night, so I accidentally caught a cold."
Su Yuanyuan: "..." Sure enough, he was worthy of being her third brother. This was really something he could do.
This time, Chef Liao completely gave the opportunity of feeling the pulse to Su Yuanyuan. Su Yuanyuan followed the example and felt Su Huaisheng's pulse, then described it to Chef Liao.
Su Huaisheng was no less surprised than Su Huaiyuan. "Yuanbao, when did you learn how to diagnose and treat diseases? Did you learn it when your soul was wandering outside?"
Chef Liao said, "In order to ensure that Madam can give birth safely this time, the princess has been learning medical skills from me since yesterday. Today is the first day. However... the princess's talent is higher than I imagined. I've been practicing medicine for many years, but I've never seen such a student who can understand things so quickly."
As he was talking, Chef Liao couldn't help but praise.
So she had just started learning. Su Huaisheng heaved a sigh of relief.
Seeing her third brother's reaction, Su Yuanyuan couldn't help but secretly sigh that her plan to learn medical skills from Chef Liao was really right. Using the excuse of learning when her soul was wandering outside again would seem too fake.
Su Huaisheng and Su Huaiyuan both had the symptoms of wind-cold invading the body, but their manifestations were completely different. This was exactly what made Su Yuanyuan feel amazing. After writing the prescription and giving it to the servant to decoct the medicine, Chef Liao retreated and planned to go back to the kitchen to make breakfast.
For a moment, only the siblings were left in the room.
"Third Brother, you can carve jade at any time, but you only have one body. You're not allowed to do this again in the future," Su Yuanyuan scolded with her hands on her hips.
Su Huaisheng scratched his head and smiled shyly. "The Qin Appreciation Banquet is over, and Tianbaozhai is about to open. I just wanted to finish carving this hairpin as soon as possible before it opened."
After repeatedly ordering Su Huaisheng to rest well and not to do anything, Su Yuanyuan left Su Huaisheng's yard.
After all this commotion, the sky was already bright. It was already the end of Chenshi.
Squatting by the roadside, Su Yuanyuan played with the stones on the ground with a stick and sighed. "Well, now both Second Brother and Third Brother are ill. Sister-in-law is pregnant. No one can teach me martial arts anymore."
Xiao Ba said, [There's a ready-made sparring partner in the mansion. Look, he's standing behind you now.]