The routine doctors who examine the pulse of the female relatives are always elderly or grandfatherly types. This Imperial Doctor Hu is no exception; he is an old man with greying hair and good health.
Madam Yin, being from a military family, doesn't adhere to many of the formalities, and Ye Xinyan even less so. With the maids and old woman servants from both families present, there was no need for the fanfare of examining the pulse through a screen. A cloth was simply placed over Ye Xinyan's wrist.
Imperial Doctor Hu carefully observed Ye Xinyan's complexion and placed his fingers on her pulse, examining it closely.
Ye Xinyan looked at her own wrist and Imperial Doctor Hu's fingers, quite conflicted for the doctors of this era. It must be difficult to feel the pulse, right? Especially through a layer of silk, even if it was thin silk, it's still an obstruction, isn't it?
