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Finally, this matter alarmed Zhu Yuanzhang, who waved his hand and ordered the Imperial Pharmacy to bring in several carts of medicinal materials to make health-preserving pills for the emperor, empress, and prince. Zhu Yuanzhang said that Doctor Xu had worked hard and had to bring in some finished medicines every month. The old man wanted to bring the warmth of his father to the princes in various places.

Xu Huizhen is now living a life worse than death at home, making meatballs every day. The smell of medicine is all over her body. It's so pickled! It was Queen Ma who stopped this crazy behavior of everyone taking medicine!

Empress Ma scolded Zhu Yuanzhang, "Today, I saw that the girl Xu who was checking my pulse was so tired that her eyes were dark! You are a bunch of bandits. That girl is honest and sincere, so you can just take advantage of her and make her do whatever she wants. This medicine is three parts poison, it's okay, why are you still scrambling to take this pill? Let the girl Xu give you a recipe for a therapeutic diet! If anyone dares to tire the girl Xu like this again in the future, I will beat him with the sole of my shoe!"

The Queen's words saved Xu Huizhen, and she finally didn't have to take medicine pills every day.

Ding felt sorry for her and made delicious food for Xu Huizhen every day to nourish her body.

Xu Huizhen started living a life where she would sleep and wake up naturally to count money with cramps in her hands.

What is Xu Huizhen doing? She is busy writing a book, combining the barefoot doctor manual to compile something that the people of the Ming Dynasty can understand. When you come to the world of the Ming Dynasty, you must leave something useful behind. Writing a book is the best way to do this, because the average life expectancy in ancient times was only in his thirties.

The infant mortality rate is even more shockingly high, and every household has children who die before they grow up.

Farm women might be working in the fields right before giving birth, and the quality of midwives is truly worrying. Take the midwives who delivered the fifth young lady of the Tang family, for example. Their hands and faces were only clean, and their fingernails were painted. The scissors used to cut the umbilical cord were only scalded with hot water, which was considered very sophisticated.

The unrefined peasant woman dared to cut the baby's umbilical cord with the rusty scissors at home. If the baby didn't get tetanus, it would be thanks to God.

The seven necessities of life are firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. In ancient times, drinking boiled water was also a big problem. Firewood had to be bought with money. In the winter in Nanjing, people got frostbite on their hands. Rich people relied on charcoal basins for heating, while poor people relied on their bodies to keep warm.

Xu Huizhen really couldn't stand the sight of waking up in the morning with carbon ash in her nose. It was too uncomfortable. The house the Li family lived in now had a stove and a kang, built with blue bricks. The remaining corn cobs in the farm were brought to the city, and everyone in the Li family, from the master to the servants, had a warm house to sleep in.

Otherwise, I really couldn't withstand the magical attacks of Jinling's winter. The quilt was so damp that it seemed like water could be wrung out of it. Covering myself with the damp quilt made me feel sick.

In ancient times, most people were infested with lice and fleas. Even the emperor couldn't afford to wash his hair every day. The reason wasn't that the emperor was short of money, but that he was afraid of death! In those days, there were no hair dryers. Washing your hair and taking a bath in the winter could easily lead to catching a cold, and in an era without antibiotics, a cold could be fatal.

The stove and kang in Xu Huizhen's house were adopted by the royal family and nobles. The emperor could now take a bath twice a week. He just had to burn the stove vigorously, wash his hair, wrap it with a cloth, lie down in the quilt, and his hair would be almost dry in half an hour.

The insect repellent powder prepared by Xu Huizhen is also very useful. Use a little when washing your hair, taking a bath, or washing clothes. There is a layer of small insects such as lice and fleas floating in the water.

The Li family's current kitchen was renovated by Xu Huizhen. Xu Huizhen spent money to have small pieces of porcelain customized in a porcelain workshop, and decorated the pitch-black kitchen to make it bright and spacious. Now the people in the kitchen have work to do. They have to wipe the tiles clean after cooking every day.

Without small critters like rats and cockroaches in the kitchen, Xu Huizhen could even eat an extra bowl of rice. The remaining tiles from Xu Huizhen's renovations were taken away from the palace to be used as samples. Zhu Yuanzhang generously ordered custom-made tiles of various colors for the imperial kitchen, inlaid with various patterns, which looked quite beautiful.

Xu Huizhen didn't even let go of the bathroom, and now the whole upper class is saying that Xu Huizhen has a hygiene disease!

Xu Huizhen, who was suffering from a convulsion of laxative disease, decided to take drastic measures and sent people to collect the surface soil from the saline-alkali land, stirred it evenly with water, filtered out the precipitated alkaline water, and boiled the alkaline blocks in a large pot and transported them back to Jinling.

Xu Huizhen wanted to make soap at home. She really couldn't stand the sanitary conditions in ancient times. People were considered good if they added some soap beans and soapberries to their hands. The soap was made from pig pancreas used by the nobles for bathing, and no matter how many spices were added, it was still sticky and disgusting.

Melt the pure white silkworm cocoons in alkaline water, add oil, stir well, and then add rose juice. Pink rose soap is ready. Xu Huizhen custom-made various lovely molds, depicting landscapes, flowers, birds, fish, and insects, and placed them in beautiful boxes. She first gave one box to the empress. She also gave a number of other gifts to noble ministers with whom she had business dealings. Reciprocity is the norm, and adding something new to the holiday gifts is a nice touch.

Empress Ma was also very fond of the small and exquisite soap, and each of the favored ladies in the palace was given a piece.

Everyone who has used it feels good. It leaves the face clean and refreshed without drying out the skin.

Xu Huizhen simply opened a workshop specializing in making soaps, creams, lotions, and other women's products. She then wholesaled them to various merchants. In ancient times, cosmetics shops were generally owned by the powerful and wealthy, and Xu Huizhen didn't want to offend anyone, so this wholesale business was also worry-free.

Even the alkali blocks produced by the Xu family workshop are bought by grocery stores. Ordinary people cannot afford soap, but they can afford alkali blocks. They are good for washing clothes, hands and hair, and their ability to remove dirt is obvious to all.

Xu Huizhen's reputation for cleanliness was now firmly established. Everyone in the noble circles knew that Doctor Xu was incredibly clean. There wasn't a speck of dust in the Li family's house, and the servants had to scrub the floor until it sparkled every day. The cleanest place was the Li Family Manor's herbal medicine room, so white it dazzled the eyes, like a snow cave. The walls and floor were paved with porcelain, and even the cracks between the bricks were scrubbed daily by the servants.

Mrs. Ding was extremely worried. Her daughter-in-law was good in every way except that she was too clean. She even put medicine tablets in the water used for washing vegetables at home. No one in the family, from the old to the young, dared to drink a sip of raw water. They had to drink boiled water even in the hot summer.

The soap was so expensive, and the people in the kitchen had to use it to wash their hands and take a bath every day. It was such a waste of resources. The old lady felt so sad when she saw it.

The house was washed from inside to outside and smelled delicious. The clothes were washed to pieces before they were worn out.

Xu Huizhen didn't want this to happen, but there was no other way. Xu Huizhen made a lot of anti-worm medicine. She found that there were white dark circles on Li Muyang's face. She gave the child two pills of anti-worm medicine, and Li Muyang expelled a lot of roundworms.

So everyone in the Li family, from top to bottom, was given two pills of anti-worm medicine. The Li family's toilet is now paved with quicklime and disinfected every day.

Xu Huizhen disappeared on her way to clean the house, and at this time the smallpox virus broke out in Guangzhou.