Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 1518 Arrival
Li Ji turned his neck stiffly, and glanced at the narrow bed behind the table out of the corner of his eye.

At this moment, he heard the creaking of his own bones.

Because the room is small, the bed is also small, which is just enough for one person to sleep, but difficult for two people to turn over.

"Did you go to bed so early?"

Li Ji looked at the map on the table, forcing himself to keep his eyes fixed, "I want to study the route again."

"Go to sleep first."

"Okay," Ying Baoyue stood up without thinking. The table was actually only one step away from the bed. She sat back on the bed, and her eyes fell on the things Li Ji bought that were piled up on the side of the bed.

"correct."

"What's wrong?!"

Sitting at the table, Li Ji was shocked when he heard the words.

"You forgot to buy something."

Did you mean this?

Li Ji's finger on the map twitched slightly, and he turned his head, "What else do you want? Is it because there is less dry food? Or is it because the clothes don't suit you?"

Ying Baoyue shook her head, quietly watching Li Ji's bundle piled up at the foot of the bed, "You forgot to get me the medicine."

Grab medicine?

Li Ji was stunned, and reached out to touch the medicine bag in his arms. He clearly remembered that Ying Baoyue's medicine bag contained various medicinal powders.

"Is there any medicinal material missing?"

"No," Ying Baoyue shook her head, and glanced at the lights rising from the street outside.

"Eight cents of whole angelica, three cents of Chuanxiong, fourteen pieces of peach kernels, five cents of dried ginger, five cents of licorice, and three cents of motherwort."

"That's all, you write a prescription, go to the medical center in the city and get it for me."

"I remember these medicines are in your medicine bag?"

Li Ji's voice stopped abruptly, and he reacted abruptly.

"Is this recipe..."

"Yeah," Ying Baoyue nodded, "it's biochemical soup."

Shenghua Decoction is a postpartum prescription, which is specially used to treat postpartum women's blood deficiency, Qi weakness, coldness, and blood stasis.

At the same time, it is suitable for postpartum women to regulate their bodies.

"After you grab the medicine, remember to ask the waiter in the shop to borrow the stove to boil the medicine. You know how to boil medicine?"

Li Ji nodded. He had studied pharmacology and had seen this prescription in the Pharmacopoeia.But he didn't expect that one day he would have to grab this medicine with a prescription and boil it himself.

But he understood why Ying Baoyue asked him to do this.

As the saying goes, there must be a complete set of acting. He told the waiter downstairs that he would take her to see the doctor. It is impossible to see the doctor, but if he does nothing tonight, it will arouse suspicion.

I have to say that Ying Baoyue is indeed thoughtful.

Li Ji took a deep breath, wrote the prescription on the table and stood up, "I'll go grab the medicine right away."

"By the way, besides the medicinal materials, I will buy a few more foods."

Ying Baoyue sat on the bed and snapped her fingers, "Red dates, chicken, longan and corn."

Li Ji was stunned, "Do you want to eat these on the way?"

Although they are not expensive things, they are not suitable for carrying as dry food on the road.

"You," Ying Baoyue smiled helplessly, "this is what women eat during confinement."

"Confinement..." Li Ji was completely stunned, not knowing what to say.

"There is nothing wrong with the things you bought before, but when other people saw them, they probably thought you were abusing me."

Ying Baoyue glanced at the stack of solid pancakes that Li Ji placed at the foot of the bed. If she remembered correctly, this person walked in carrying these things all the way in. He must have been seen by others downstairs.

"Yes, I'm sorry, I..." Li Ji stood on the ground dumbfounded, a little at a loss.

He didn't think about it at all.

What should women pay attention to during confinement?
"It's nothing." Ying Baoyue seldom saw Li Ji so dazed, and suddenly thought of teasing him, "This is what happens to the first child."

"When you become a father for the first time, you will inevitably be in a hurry."

"The other passengers downstairs must understand."

Looking at Ying Baoyue's playful eyes, Li Ji was completely speechless.

He knew she was joking, but this kind of joke had too much impact on him.

"I'm going to buy it now."

He turned around stiffly, facing the door, "What else do you want to eat?"

"It's enough, you remember not to buy too much of everything, just tie it up and carry it outside for others to see."

Although it was a show, it was impossible to throw away these things after buying them, and even if they were pretending, they still wanted her to eat them.

Ying Baoyue was really afraid that this solid-eyed man would buy her a basket of chickens or red dates in one go.

"I see," Li Ji nodded and pushed open the door.

……

……

As the night darkened, Li Ji came back with his things.

In addition to the food that Ying Baoyue told me, there are also a few packs of medicine.

"I'm going to make medicine."

He put down his things, carried the paper bag without touching his feet, and ran downstairs again. After about an hour, he returned to the room with a bowl of black soup.

"I borrowed the stove from the kitchen downstairs," Li Ji said softly after closing the door, "everyone saw it."

This time, no one poked his spine, but he was unanimously praised by the guests in the lobby.

"Then it should be fine," Ying Baoyue reached out to take the soup in his hand.

"Wait, do you want a drink?"

Watching her put her lips on the rim of the bowl, Li Ji froze suddenly.

In order to act realistically, he put a lot of weight in this bowl of medicine.He originally thought that Ying Baoyue would find a place to dump it, but he didn't expect that she really planned to drink it.

"It took you so long to boil, how could I not drink?"

Ying Baoyue took a sip, "It's not very bitter."

It's not a question of whether it's bitter or not, Li Ji grabbed her hand, "What are you doing? Can you drink the medicine if you are not sick? You are obviously not..."

His voice was sharp, and he stared blankly at Ying Baoyue who was sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Are you..."

Ying Baoyue is very familiar with the process of confinement.

She is too good at hiding her pain, in case she really...

"What kind of eyes are you looking at?" Ying Baoyue put down the medicine bowl, and glanced helplessly at the man standing aside, "I'm not pregnant."

Is this man's imagination too rich?
Does she look like she has time to conceive?

"Sorry, I……"

Li Ji suffocated, his suspicion just now was a great insult to the girl's family.Standing by the bed, he had the urge to draw his sword and cut himself.

"It's okay," Ying Baoyue smiled, "I know why you think so."

She glanced at Li Ji's jujube eggs piled beside her.

"I know these things so well because I have seen female officials take care of confinement concubines like this in the palace."

Actually no, it was because she had taken care of women who were in confinement.

Also took care of it twice.

"Really," Li Ji nodded stiffly. He vaguely remembered that after Ying Baoyue, no children should have been born in the former Qin Palace.

Probably the children born to some low-ranking concubines are not known.

Or did Li Zhao have such experience before?
Thinking of Li Zhao, he immediately thought of the son Li Zhao often mentioned before, and his heart tightened again.

When Li Zhao met him, yes.

At this age, it is not uncommon to have children.

He had been avoiding thinking about this question before, and at the same time, he also felt that there was something wrong with the age of the son in Li Zhao's mouth.

But what if she really...

"did you……"

"What was it before?" Ying Baoyue asked back, and Li Ji realized that he actually asked.

His loathing for himself added another layer.

"It's nothing." Li Ji shook his head, but found that Ying Baoyue had already drank the medicine in the bowl.

He widened his eyes suddenly, "You!"

"It's okay," Ying Baoyue laughed, "This is a medicine for invigorating blood and promoting qi. Women who have not had a miscarriage can drink it to replenish their body."

"Really?" Li Ji breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yeah," Ying Baoyue put the bowl back on the table, and said nonchalantly, "I've never been pregnant before, but I know this."

When the question was answered, Li Ji's heart skipped a beat. Looking at her eyes that seemed to be talking, he felt mixed feelings, sweet, bitter, astringent, and sour.

She seemed to know everything, but also seemed to know nothing.

"Okay, don't think too much, go to bed early."

Ying Baoyue patted him on the shoulder, "Do you want to eat before going to bed?"

go to bed?

Standing by the table, Li Ji felt that he had fallen into a new crisis.

……

……

Just as the lights in Chongquan Town were extinguished, Ji Jiashu and the others finally walked out of Xueling Mountain.

Looking at the majestic Great Wall in front of them and the mountains beyond the Great Wall, everyone in a panic raised their heads in a daze.

Under the moonlight, the snow-capped mountains in the distance seem to be invisible at a glance.

"There, is the Xiling Snow Mountain?"

(End of this chapter)