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Chapter 73 Stroke and Selling Shop

Upon hearing Master Chu's shout, Xiao Si disregarded the steamed buns and rushed out of the shop.

He ran while shouting, "Make way, make way!"

Tian Xiang heard the noise and saw him running past the shop entrance.

She was startled and had a bad feeling.

Putting down the dough in his hand, he said, "Mom, I'll go see what's wrong."

Lu Tao answered almost without hesitation, "Go."

"If there's nothing else, come back quickly."

Tian Xiang arrived at Chu Xing Restaurant and followed Master Chu's voice to find a private room on the second floor.

"Master Chu... what's wrong?"

Master Chu looked up, "Tian Xiang?...Madam has fainted..."

Tian Xiang knelt down to check on Madam Chu's condition.

Madam Chu's face was pale, her mouth was crooked, and her right hand hung limply at her side.

Tian Xiang was shocked to realize that Madam Chu's condition was not as simple as just fainting.

"Master Chu, Madam Chu's fainting is probably not as simple as it seems."

"You, you stop shaking her."

"Lay her flat on the ground."

Master Chu obediently helped Tian Xiang, and the two of them together laid Madam Chu flat on the ground.

Just then, Madam Chu suddenly started spitting out white foam, beneath which was some yellowish-green liquid with a sour, foul smell.

Tian Xiang quickly turned her head to one side so that she could spit out what was in her mouth.

However, Madam Chu ate steamed buns for lunch and didn't drink much water. What she vomited was very thick and stuck in her mouth.

When Tian Xiang was taking care of Chu Qian and Chu Yao, she often didn't have time to look for anything and would just use her hands when the babies vomited.

Now, she didn't care anymore and directly reached into Madam Chu's mouth to remove the obstruction.

Master Chu covered his mouth, not daring to look at Madam Chu, for fear that he would also vomit.

He was stunned when he saw Tian Xiang picking at it with her hands.

"Tian Xiang, you..."

Tian Xiang focused intently on picking at the food until she had removed everything from Madam Chu's mouth before she stopped.

"Do you have a needle?" she asked.

Master Chu shook his head blankly; how could a grown man like him have a needle?

Tian Xiang saw the hairpin on Madam Chu's head and immediately pulled it off.

She grabbed Madam Chu's hand, pinched her fingertips, and forcefully stabbed her with a hairpin, causing blood to gush from her fingertips.

"Tianxiang, what are you doing?" Although Master Chu was flustered and puzzled, he did not stop her.

Tian Xiang continued, poking all ten of Madam Chu's fingers until they bled.

Strangely enough, Madam Chu actually opened her eyes with a sob.

"Ugh...￥……￥%..."

But her mouth was crooked, and her words were unclear.

The person had finally woken up, and Tian Xiang breathed a sigh of relief. "Master Chu, we still can't touch her."

Looking at the disheveled Madam Chu, Tian Xiang said, "Let's wait for the doctor to arrive before we treat her properly."

Tian Xiang wiped the sweat from her forehead, stood up, and left.

Just as I got downstairs, I ran into Tian Tian who was coming over.

"Are you okay?"

Tian Xiang shook her head. "It seems like... a stroke."

Stroke?!

Tian Tian glanced at the filth on Tian Xiang's body, "Big sister, you?"

Tian Xiang smiled weakly, "I've seen the doctor treat stroke patients before, just now..."

It was quite a coincidence that she saw it at Chu Xing Restaurant.

At the time, a customer was having dinner at a restaurant when he got into an argument with his companions and, in a fit of anger, suffered a stroke.

A doctor happened to be dining at the restaurant, so he used the method of pricking the finger to release blood.

Moreover, the guest had been eating just before the stroke, so the doctor specifically instructed that his head be turned to one side to prevent him from vomiting and blocking his mouth so he couldn't breathe.

She was worried that something might happen to the guests, so she kept a close eye on them.

Unexpectedly, today... by a twist of fate, I saved Madam Chu.

Tian Tian couldn't help but sigh. Tian Xiang was truly kind. Every time Madam Chu scolded her, she was so fierce, her fingers almost poking her eyes. Yet now she could still... forgive and forget.

Xiao Si arrived in a hurry with a doctor.

"Young Madam..."

"Quickly take the doctor upstairs."

Xiao Si pulled the doctor's hand and headed upstairs...

Tian Xiang looked at the crowd of onlookers gathered at the entrance and said, "Everyone, please disperse. We're not selling steamed buns here for the time being."

The people, eager for a good show, stopped trying to dissuade them.

Upstairs, the doctor carefully examined Madam Chu's pulse, his face grave. "Madam, this is a case of stroke caused by anger attacking your heart, disrupting your blood and qi, and blocking your meridians."

The doctor took out silver needles from his medicine box and, like Tian Xiang, pinched Madam Chu's fingertips.

When he saw the bead of blood on his fingertip, he was slightly taken aback; someone had already pricked his fingertip.

No wonder Madam Chu woke up.

"Master Chu, it's fortunate that you've already bled Madam, otherwise her condition would have worsened."

The doctor put the needle back in his hand and replaced it with a new one.

Acupuncture was performed on Lady Chu's Baihui, Fengchi, and Taichong acupoints, with careful adjustment of the needle depth.

While waiting for the needles to be removed, he wrote a prescription to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, which included herbs such as chuanxiong, danshen, and red peony root.

"After the stroke, the lady needs to be carefully cared for. She should not overexert herself or get emotionally agitated."

The doctor gave instructions.

Madam Chu was still weak, but her eyes had regained some clarity.

She glanced at Master Chu, then slowly closed her eyes, seemingly with a hint of regret.

*

After the doctor left, Tian Xiang waited for a while before Xiao Si came out.

"Xiao Si, how is Madam Chu?"

Xiao Si told the truth, "The doctor said that the lady should take care of herself from now on, and should not overwork or get emotional."

He pursed his lips. "Master said... with Madam like this, he has no heart to run the restaurant anymore."

He raised the board in his hand and said, "The master wants to sell the restaurant."

"The elderly couple will leave some money for their retirement, and the rest will be given to the young master to take to Xizhou..."

"Being exiled so far away, one must have money to rely on..."

The sign in Xiao Si's hand reads "Shop for Sale"...

Qian Fulai had already told Daya and Jinghe about Chu Wang's exile to Xizhou a couple of days ago.

They all knew about it.

Xiao Si sighed. He had been working for the master and mistress since he was very young, starting from washing vegetables in the backyard and now working as a waiter...

He has worked at Chuxing Restaurant for seven or eight years.

Now that the restaurant is up for sale, he doesn't know where to go.

"Selling the shop?!" Tian Tian pulled the paddle away from Xiao Si's hand. "Madam Chu wants to sell the shop?"

Xiao Si nodded.

“I’ll buy it!” Tian Tian said.

Tian Xiang and Xiao Si both looked at her in astonishment.

"Sweetie?" Tian Xiang asked her to confirm, "Are you really going to buy the shop?"

Tian Tian nodded firmly.

Tian Xiang pulled Tian Tian aside, "Tian Tian, ​​the prices at Chu Xing Restaurant aren't cheap."

Chu Xing Restaurant is four times the size of the steamed bun shop, and it has two floors.

The steamed buns at the shop cost 150 taels, so the Chu Xing Restaurant would cost at least 800 taels.

Where would they get so much money?!