The next day, Yingbao got up early, washed up, and went out.
Jiang Quan thought his little cousin was going back to the hospital and wanted to see her off.
"No need. I'll go to the county government office and then come back to the medical office." Yingbao didn't want her second cousin to take her there, because it would be difficult for her to take out the apple with him around.
Jiang Quan had no choice but to watch his little cousin jump and run away.
The county government office was actually not far from the county school, and Yingbao arrived there in a short while.
Seeing no one around, she took out a backpack full of apples and walked towards the gate of the county government office.
The gatekeepers at the county government gate already knew this little girl, and when they saw that she wanted to see the general, they didn't say anything and went straight in to report.
After a while, a maid came out and wanted to take Yingbao in.
Yingbao left two big apples for the two yamen runners, and then followed the old woman into the inner courtyard.
"Sister!" Jiang Jie rushed over, hugged his sister and said happily, "You're here!"
Yingbao touched his head and said, "I'll give you an apple to eat."
Jiang Jie was surprised: "Our apples have grown this big?"
"It's not ours. I bought it from outside." Yingbao put down the backpack and carried it under the eaves with her brother.
Mr. Wu and his son Wu Daozi stood under the eaves of the corridor, looking at Yingbao with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a long time, it's a rare sight today."
Ying Bao chuckled and said, "I guess the old man and Da Ling are about to finish their health-preserving pills, so I sent them here specially." Then she took out two packets of pills from her bag, one for Mr. Wu and one for Wu Shi.
Mr. Wu quickly put the medicine bag into his sleeve, stroked his beard and said, "Have you had breakfast? Would you like to take some with us?"
"Okay." Yingbao didn't hesitate and followed Mr. Wu and Wu Daozi into the living room.
Breakfast was simple, a plate of cut salted duck eggs, a plate of shredded pickled vegetables, and a plate of steamed salted fish. The staple food was rice porridge and white flour buns.
Yingbao was drinking porridge when Wu Daozi asked her, "What are you studying at the Medical Department?"
"I'm learning forbidden spells." Yingbao took a bite of the steamed bun.
Wu Daozi slowly picked up a few pickled vegetables and asked, "Why do you want to learn forbidden spells?"
Yingbao: "Because I like forbidden spells." After thinking for a while, she said, "Actually, there was a nasty ghost following me, so I had to learn forbidden spells."
Wu Daozi raised his eyes and looked at her: "Annoying ghost?"
"Yes!" Yingbao told Wu Daozi about Chen Tiantian's story: "She had originally stayed in the Qing Palace as a maid. I don't know why she suddenly came to Qinchuan County and was assigned to study medicine with me. Don't you think it's strange?"
Wu Daozi and his father looked at each other and both frowned.
It's really strange.
"So I learned the forbidden spell, humph! I don't want to be with Chen Tiantian." Ying Bao found someone to talk to, and said all her grievances in her heart: "I even suspect that she is a vixen who came here specifically to suck my energy."
Wu Daozi laughed in silence: "Vox spirits also suck men..." Suddenly he felt that he shouldn't say such things to a little girl, so he changed his words and said: "There is no such thing as a fox spirit. She just came here by chance."
Yingbao curled her lips: "It's not a coincidence."
There must be some deeper meaning behind this, so Chen Tiantian returned to Qinchuan County.
Otherwise, I can just guess whether she will enter the Yin-Yang Department.
If she finds a way to enter the Yin-Yang Department in the future, there must be a problem, a big problem.
Maybe she came close to me for a big purpose. Well, if she didn't want to absorb my energy, there was another possibility that she wanted to take away my luck.
Isn’t there a saying in storybooks that there is a son of luck and a daughter of luck
And since I have a magical cave, I must be considered a lucky girl in this world.
So, did Chen Tiantian want to seize his cave? Or did she want to seize his luck so that she could rise to prominence
After Mr. Wu finished his porridge and rice, he put down his bowl and chopsticks and said to Ying Bao, "Since you have studied Yin and Yang, you should read more about Lie Yi Zhuan or Xuan Guai Lu, or read Tai Ping Guang Ji. The mysteries in them may help you solve your doubts."
Last time, an old friend in Beijing wrote to me, saying that the Xiao family had asked the Imperial Astronomical Observatory to calculate the star fortune for a young girl, and it was finally calculated that the girl was the lucky star of the King of Dai. But for some reason, the Xiao family sent the girl back to her hometown.
Now it seems that the girl should be Chen Tiantian mentioned by Yingbao.
Yingbao nodded: "Yeah." She really needed to read more books about ghosts and monsters to find out the strange things.
Being reborn is definitely a strange story, and owning a cave is even more bizarre.
But Chen Tiantian sticks to me like a dog-skin plaster. There must be something fishy going on.
And the script in her head made her even more terrified.
If you are not careful, you will probably fall into someone's trap.
If these words could not be told to outsiders, she would have wanted to ask Mr. Wu for advice on what was going on.
After breakfast, Wu Daozi rummaged around in his study for a while, found a few books on ghost stories, and gave them to Ying Bao, asking her to take them back to the hospital to read.
Then he said, "Yingbao, I may have to resign and return to Beijing to resume my post at the end of this year. At that time, my father will take Jiang Jie to study abroad, and send him back to take the county exam when he is eight years old."
"Are you leaving?" Yingbao opened her eyes wide, feeling a little sad.
Wu Daozi patted her head and said, "Well, my term of office has expired and I have to leave. Xiaoyingbao, I haven't thanked you for curing my illness yet."
Now the tumor on Wu Daozi's neck has disappeared. He looks energetic and elegant. He looks much younger than in previous years and does not look like a man in his thirties at all.
This is all thanks to the health-preserving pills Yingbao gave him.
"You're welcome. We haven't thanked Mr. Wu for teaching my brother." To be honest, Mr. Wu and Wu Daozi gave more to their family.
It was precisely because of the protection of the county magistrate that no one dared to covet her shop in Qinchuan County, that she dared to challenge Xiao Mo, and that her family was able to develop peacefully in Chuanhe Town until now.
Her younger brother Jiang Jie is more likely to enter the official career and become a high-ranking official because of Mr. Wu's teachings.
Wu Daozi smiled and said nothing more.
His father worked so hard to teach the child that he wished he could impart all he had learned in his life to him. The child was also very smart. He could learn whatever he was taught and could apply what he had learned to other situations. He was much better than himself when he was a child. The old father wished he could retrain this disobedient son in his stomach.
Alas, tears well up in my eyes just thinking about it, so I’d rather not talk about it.
Seeing that it was getting late, Yingbao said goodbye to Wu Daozi and Mr. Wu and left.
Wu Daozi asked his servant Wu Rui to take the little girl back to the hospital in a carriage.
After returning to the hospital, Yingbao quietly went to the Yin-Yang Department classroom, but as expected, she did not see her master.
She knew that Master Zhou was going to the Taoist temple to perform a ritual today, so she didn't come back in the morning and went to the county government office without any worries.
Sitting at the desk, he took out the book on forbidden spells and read aloud, glancing out the window from time to time.
Then the second senior brother staggered in, and when he saw her he glared at her: "Where did you go this morning? Why didn't you come to do the morning class?"
"I didn't go anywhere." Yingbao said seriously while holding a book, "I went to wash clothes."
Zhang Min expressed his disbelief: "Humph! You broke the rules!"
“I didn’t!” He only had a bowl of porridge and a steamed bun in the morning, and didn’t even dare to eat the salted duck egg. How did he know that he had violated the precepts
Zhang Min sat across the table from her and said, "You have violated the precept of lying! Humph! I was practicing Yu Bu by the river early in the morning, and I didn't even see you washing clothes."