An ugly girl starts off, then becomes a beauty

After dinner, Sang Ling was invited to Yanshuiju by the servants around Gao Heng.

"Can I see what's happening to your face?"

Doctor Gao was talking in the front while Sang Ling was being helped by a lady to take off his shoes.

Come to think of it, she hadn't seen her cousin for several days - he was busy, seeing patients everywhere during the day, and Sang Ling had to go to school, so the two of them didn't have the same schedule.

Gao Heng was also concerned about his cousin's illness. He knew he hadn't seen her for a few days, so he called her over today when he was free.

"A pimple appeared behind my ear a few days ago. It was a little itchy, but it disappeared when I woke up today. Now I can't even feel it anymore." She found a mat by the window and knelt down carefully.

She looked at herself in the bronze mirror opposite her. Although she was much thinner than when she came, she still looked like a small mountain. The center line of her gown always slanted when she moved. Her progress was actually only relative to herself.

A feeling of loss immediately spread over my heart, but it only lasted for a short moment before I smiled in relief: progress is all about comparing yourself with yourself.

He looked away and took a look at the pharmacy. This was a room converted from a smoke and water residence. It was not very large, but was filled with books and medicinal herbs. To the west was a medicine cabinet that stretched the entire height of the wall, and to the east was a bookshelf with bamboo slips and silk books piled in the grids. Bamboo slips and silk were also scattered on the floor and the desk.

This person must be a researcher, she thought quietly. Then Gao Heng looked back at her and said, "You've lost weight." He looked around for a while and then squatted down in front of the bookshelf.

"What are you looking for?" she couldn't help asking after looking for a while.

"How come the booklet that records your medical condition is gone?" Doctor Gao turned to the ground and fumbled for a while before picking it up from the crack. "It finally fell here."

Her heart suddenly ached, as if a warm breeze had blown over her. "You still remember my condition?"

"Yes." The person in front patted the dust off the bamboo, spread it out to confirm that it was correct, and then walked over.

After all this, the once elegant gentleman had a few strands of hair hanging down from his forehead, and a little sweat appeared on his tall nose. Looking closely, there was even a speck of dust on the left side of his face.

But he seemed not to notice it at all, and was still concentrating on looking at the paper.

Sang Ling looked away awkwardly, "Why don't you send anyone to clean up?"

"I often need to use these things. When the subordinates come to clean them, I can't find them anymore." Doctor Gao finally raised his head from the bamboo slips and stared at Sang Ling's face again.

He looked very carefully, as if he had no other thoughts except observing the condition. Sang Ling's breathing became heavier, and she couldn't help swallowing. Her voice trembled, "Is it much better?"

Who said Gao Heng was really good-looking? With a high nose and deep eyes, if you look closely, she looks like an ancient Greek statue. It must be that in this era, men disdain to make a living by relying on beauty. Otherwise, in her era, someone like Gao Heng would have been an idol.

She suddenly remembered what her aunt had said a few days ago, saying that the county official Zhou family took the initiative to propose marriage for their daughter. In fact, if it weren't for the accidental murder case, Gao Heng should have been married at his current age. In the country, men of this age all have several wives and concubines and a lot of children.

If we go by the average age of people in this era, Dr. Gao can be considered an old bachelor. Thinking of this, my heart gradually calmed down, but I couldn't help laughing.

"You look much better. Did you have diarrhea in the past few days?" Doctor Gao didn't pay attention and carefully compared the records on the bamboo slips.

This - how should she answer?

"Yes." She hesitated for a moment before answering in a low voice, "It has been like this for a few days."

"Well," Gao Heng said, and went to the medicine cabinet again, "The medicine I prescribed those days is exactly what causes diarrhea. You have been suffering from this disease for a long time, so I have to use two strong medicines to get rid of it completely."

He grabbed a handful of herbs from the drawer above his head, and grabbed two handfuls from each of the two boxes on the left, weighed them on a pole, chopped them up with scissors, and divided them into daily portions. Sang Ling didn't need to worry about the whole process. The servants in Yanshuiju boiled the medicine and sent it to Hanning Garden. Ya Nu took it and placed it on her table. She was only responsible for getting it into her stomach.

Wait until one course of treatment is over before seeing Dr. Gao in person.

In this way, there is no need to worry about the face not recovering well.

"You seem to have lost a lot of weight, but are you still active at night?" Gao Heng asked again.

In the two months since entering Gao's house, Sang Ling's body shape has indeed changed significantly. Although he still looks like a little fat boy now, he is not as fat as he was last year - at that time he was so fat that even his neck could not be seen, and when he walked to the door, his body was almost as wide as half the door.

She scratched the back of her neck and laughed awkwardly, "Well, I can't get up."

At the right time, the breeze from the corridor blew up the bamboo curtain in front of the window. The person in front of her turned around under the moonlight and smiled at her, "You look good now. You don't need to lose weight anymore."

My cousin’s laughter was a little low and hoarse, and his eyebrows and eyes were curved when he laughed, like a silver moon in the mountains, with a faint herbal fragrance.

But she knew that he was just trying to coax her. What was right about that? She was not satisfied with herself just now. Compared with other girls, her body was still thick. Moreover, she had grown taller in the past two months. She was half a head taller than Ya Nu. If she wanted to grow taller, she would have to continue to lose weight.

Tall people are most afraid of being fat, as a little flesh will make them look strong, so they need to be thinner, at least to be able to wear a long skirt with curved hems and show off their willow waist. She just smiled and did not refute Gao Heng's words in public.

After a moment of silence, the candle oil in the copper lamp popped slightly. Dr. Gao's eyes were still on the scale and he changed the subject, "Mother said this morning that she would buy you some new clothes."

Sang Ling answered quickly, "My aunt asked me before dinner, and she also mentioned you, cousin, and said she wanted to buy you a few more pairs of shoes."

Then he opened his mouth and laughed twice, "Why are you adding these to me?"

"You have to go out every day, visiting patients at their homes, so you must have worn out a few pairs of shoes, right?"

Gao Heng couldn't help but shook his head helplessly, "She is just finding ways to criticize me."

It is true that mother and son are connected by heart. Gao Heng also knows his mother's thoughts. It is not easy for Sang Ling to say too much. Distance does not separate relatives. Now that she is in the Gao family, she has only to maintain the relationship between the two and keep silent about other things.

Seeing Gao Heng still smiling, she thought there was nothing more to talk about and was about to get up and say goodbye, but she saw him raising his eyebrows and looking at her.

"How's your menstrual flow? Is it regular?"

To be honest, Sang Ling herself didn't care about these questions and answers. Except for the times when she couldn't help but act infatuated with Gao Heng's handsome face, the rest of the time when the two of them were together, she just treated him as a doctor.

Patients have no gender barriers when facing their attending physicians.

But... at this moment, there were still a few servants waiting by the door and window. Gao Heng suddenly asked this question, and she really looked young, so she answered in a low voice, "The last time was the Spring Dragon Festival, the time before that was the New Year, and the time before that... was probably last autumn."

There was no specific date at all, and because the interval was so long, even she had forgotten it.

She also knew that this was not normal after all.

"Is there never a fixed time?" Doctor Gao's face was calm, and he didn't look uncomfortable at all.

He has the quality of being a doctor.

She just said "hmm", and then saw the person opposite her turned around and went to the medicine cabinet to pick up medicine.

He remembered something halfway through and turned to her, "It's getting late. You should go back first and drink today's medicine. I'll boil some for you in a few days and send it to you."