Priceless: A widow with a baby asks the prince to marry again

Chapter 202: The Closure of the Female Clinic

After returning to the women's clinic, which was also their home, Liu Rusi's first thing was to look for Lin Qingzhi and Caiyun.

Mid-Autumn Festival is a scheduled holiday, with seven days off, and...there are not many patients in the women's clinic, so Liu Rusi is not worried that the business will be affected during these days.

But the woman who gave birth to twins here will have to wait a few more days before she can leave the confinement period!

Caiyun stayed at home, but Liu Rusi was afraid that a little girl like her would not be able to deal with the situation and would be too busy, so she asked Lin Qingzhi to come over and borrowed two maids from Chu Shiyu to help look after the house.

"If a child does not teach his parents, it is the father's fault."

Before entering the clinic, the sound of reading could be heard from inside.

Liu Rusi paused and walked more slowly...

There were several tables and chairs placed around the clinic, and several girls under ten years old were sitting there, imitating the beautiful handwriting on the bamboo boards stroke by stroke.

Caiyun, who has already learned all these, is doing needlework on the side. The menstrual belts sold in the women's clinic are all sewn by the girls in their spare time. Liu Rusi will pay them according to the quantity. Although it is not much, the girls enjoy doing it and regard it as a way to pass the time.

"Sister Si!" Caiyun called out in surprise.

Liu Rusi quickly made a gesture to keep quiet and gestured to the side. Caiyun immediately understood and came up quietly to hold her hand.

In the hall, Lin Qingzhi was watching the little girls writing one by one and correcting their pen-holding posture.

Perhaps the woman felt that the money she had paid should be worth it, so not long after she had lived here, she asked her two little girls to come to the clinic as well, under the pretext of letting their daughters accompany their mother, but in fact they just wanted them to help take care of the children.

Liu Rusi did not refuse. The two little girls were very well behaved and did not make any noise. Instead, Liu Rusi was afraid that they would be bored. The girls in her family all knew basic reading and writing skills, so she taught the girls to read when they were free to relieve their boredom.

Later, Lin Qingzhi found out about it, and she spontaneously taught the older girls more advanced Analects of Confucius in the morning, taught the little girl to read in the afternoon, and insisted on not asking Liu Rusi for more tuition.

It seems that Lin Qingzhi did not rest during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but simply changed all her courses into enlightenment courses.

After instructing the girls, Lin Qingzhi looked up at Liu Rusi and nodded, "You're back."

"Well, I'm back."

Liu Rusi responded with a smile and sighed in her heart. This was the life she wanted...peaceful, but solid.

"Why are there three more girls?" Liu Rusi looked at the unfamiliar little girls.

Caiyun answered, "It was their neighbor. The grandmother told everyone that we would help look after the girl for free. Originally... they stopped us from entering."

Lin Qingzhi glanced at the door and continued, "The ban was suddenly lifted a few days ago, and a neighbor sent his daughter here."

Liu Rusi was speechless. It was after she accused Chu Shiyu of stopping the clinic's patients that he changed. It was really... Alas, it's hard to put it into words...

"It's okay, just come. Those who take advantage of this are probably not very wealthy. I don't think they will send their daughters to school. If they come here to learn a few words, maybe they will have a better life in the future..."

Liu Rusi said with a helpless smile: "I originally wanted to use medical skills to improve the situation of women, but I didn't expect that the Women's Medical Hall would become a place for teaching. You are ahead of me."

"You are bogged down in trivial matters, so progress is slow."

Lin Qingzhi raised her lips slightly and said, "However, if you hadn't inspired me, I wouldn't have thought of doing these seemingly insignificant things."

Liu Rusi smiled calmly...

Lin Qingzhi had talked to her before. How many women could she treat in a female clinic? How much could she change their situations by curing their illnesses?

Liu Rusi said that she didn't know either, but it was better to do it than not to do it. From never having happened before to being rare, and then to being everywhere, there is always a process. First you have to start, and whether you can achieve it or not is a matter for later.

"There is a bargain to be made. There may be more and more girls coming here in the future. I will let this place be a girls' school for you first, and the women's clinic will be closed for a while."

Lin Qingzhi was stunned, frowned and said: "If there are more students, I will negotiate with my husband and buy another mansion nearby to use as a school. Why should we stop your female medical clinic?"

Her almond-shaped eyes drooped slightly, then raised again after a few moments.

"I have always felt guilty about my poor medical skills and have been timid. It would be better for me to practice and grow up first! Build a real reputation, become famous, and then reopen the women's clinic!"

Lin Qingzhi was still confused, and Liu Rusi smiled and said, "I still have to make time to prepare a little surprise for people... You can teach first, and I will tell you the details after lunch later."

Hearing this, Lin Qingzhi nodded, but then looked at the little girls and said, "I have been eating with them these past few days. You came back today without informing me in advance, so the two girls you borrowed have already gone to prepare the meal."

Hearing this, Liu Rusi objected and advised: "You can't just be a good person. You should at least let their families provide them with food. If they don't make the minimum effort, their families will not cherish them. What if they see that you are kind and just throw the girl to you to raise?"

...

A batch of newly made soap was placed on the shelf to mature, and Liu Rusi clapped her hands and walked out of the south chamber of the west wing.

To be honest, it was much more comfortable without Chu Shiyu around! No one would be there to make her feel "dangerous or unsafe" no matter what she did! She was able to do the whole process of making this batch of soap!

The women's clinic was closed, so naturally there were no patients, but menstrual belts, soaps and the like were sold.

First, those ladies from wealthy families who had treated gynecological diseases before found these products to be really useful and would send people to repurchase them.

Second, more and more girls are sent here for free care. They are all female relatives. Occasionally, there are a few who are embarrassed, buy something, and then think it is worth it, and recommend it to others...

We haven’t sold too many of them yet, but we’re preparing for a rainy day. We can’t wait until they’re sold out before making more.

"Madam, your letter."

The maid who brought the letter was borrowed from Prince Duan's Mansion. Although she said she borrowed it from Chu Shiyu, when Liu Rusi found out that the two girls changed their names to Xia Lian and Dong Xue before they came, she knew that it was "borrowing without returning"...

Sighing inwardly, Liu Rusi took the letter and smiled at Xia Lian, "Thank you."

Seeing the scribbled name on the letter, Liu Rusi's face lit up with joy and she couldn't wait to open the letter!

Xia Lian at the side couldn't help but murmur a little. The prince wrote a letter almost every day, and Madam Liu had never been so happy. She was even a little... annoyed...

Xia Lian was chosen because she could recognize some words, but the name on the envelope was too illegible, so she couldn't make out what was written... Her heart was pounding, and she couldn't help but ask, "Madam... Whose letter is this?"

Liu Rusi looked up at Xia Lian and thought to herself, Chu Shiyu is thousands of miles away, and there are two more spies who are willing to tell tales... Then she said generously: "It's Teacher Li Chunfu, you have also been to Hemiao Town.

Xia Lian and Dong Xue were familiar with this. When they were fighting the plague in Xingzhou City, the two maids had gone to Hemiao Town with her. However, they were illiterate at that time...

Liu Rusi learned that after Chu Shiyu returned to Beijing, he ordered that all the maids be taught to read and write...

Liu Rusi guessed that Chu Shiyu was planning to let the maids learn to a certain level, and then select them to fill in Xia and Dong...but when she proposed to borrow people, Chu Shiyu brought the matter forward.

She shook her head lightly. Chu Shiyu was almost becoming her inner demon! She was touched... and her teeth were itching!

Liu Rusi temporarily put aside her chaotic thoughts and read the letter carefully first!