Mrs. Liu is of course prepared, she has never let her two children who are in official careers worry about such matters at home.
Hearing Zhou Man's question, she gestured to Nanny Liu.
Grandma Liu came over to show them a plate of gold and silver pickles, with auspicious words such as blessing and longevity printed on it. Mrs. Liu thought they were still young, so she grabbed a handful and gave it to Man Bao, and said with a smile: " Take it to play."
Man Bao held the gold and silver lockets in his hands, and was very happy.
Mrs. Liu was talking to Nanny Liu: "All the purses from the sewing room are filled with gold and silver locks, the purses trimmed with yellow thread are packed with gold locks, and the purses trimmed with silver thread are packed with silver locks."
She said to Bai Shan and Zhou Man: "You are adults this year, and we still have red envelopes for you at home, but when you go outside, it is you who give red envelopes to others. If you are close, you will give red envelopes with yellow lines, and a little farther away." Yes, just give the silver red envelope."
Man Bao and Bai Shan nodded repeatedly, expressing their understanding.
Today is New Year's Eve, everyone in the family is busy, the three families decided to watch the night together tonight, so the meals have to be prepared together.
Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Zheng arranged things like tea, bowls and dishes. Anyway, the two walked around and found that there was nothing they could get their hands on, so Man Bao went out with a medicine box to see Mrs. Mei at ease.
Bai Shan remembered that he had mastered the moves that Jie An taught him last time, so he went to Huguo Temple with her, just in time to ask Jie An for a new move.
Jie Chen never thought that he would never let himself go during the Chinese New Year.
Man Bao went to see Mrs. Mei.
After beating the child yesterday, she took medicine, and she is no longer in pain today.
Man Bao only gave her a set of needles, and then gave her a new prescription, "Take this medicine for five days, you are confinement now, first confinement, we will see the symptoms after 30 days .”
Seeing that Mrs. Mei was not very confident, Man Bao said: "You are blocked by two Qi, the cause has been found, the next step is to make it clear, this cannot be done in a day, and you still have a cold palace. disease, in order to get pregnant, this disease must be cured.”
She said: "At least it will take half a year for the disease to be cured. If it is not smooth, it may be possible in a year or two."
Mrs. Mei was stunned, "So long? Will I still be able to have children in a year or two?"
"Why not? You'll only be twenty-five two years later, just the right age."
Mrs. Mei stopped talking, she was silent for a long time, she still felt that her father might be more reliable than her, so she said: "Doctor Zhou, why don't you show my father."
Man Bao has no opinion. Anyway, one patient is treated, and two patients are also treated. "
But Mr. Mei had an opinion, he never thought about having another child, but seeing his daughter crying, he also worried that she was too stressed, so he nodded after thinking about it.
Forget it, let's make a promise first, doesn't it depend on him whether he lives or not
But since the treatment takes so long, it would be bad to live in Huguo Temple.
Mr. Mei wanted to rent a yard to live in the capital. Man Bao heard this, thought for a while and said, "My fifth brother is familiar with the capital. Mr. Mei can ask my fifth brother if he wants to rent a house. Rent a small yard in the city."
That would make it easier for her to see a doctor.
Mr. Mei agreed and decided to look for a house first, and then move after the child was confinement.
Mr. Mei wanted to send Zhou Man down the mountain, but Man Bao refused with a smile, saying, "I'm going to visit Master Jie'an, so I'm not in a hurry to go down the mountain."
Master Jie'an wished that Zhou Man would go down the mountain immediately, because if she went down the mountain, Bai Shan would definitely go down the mountain with her.
However, neither of them was in a hurry to go home for the New Year, so they stayed in the temple until the afternoon before leaving.
When they went back, all the shops on the road were closed, and there were very few pedestrians, only a few people passing by in a hurry, and they were all eager to go home for dinner.
Man Bao opened the curtain to look, just in time to see two yamen servants coming from the other side with sticks, before he got there, he got into an alley next to him, drove two ragged beggars out with sticks, and cursed : "You're looking for death, Shantang has prepared houses for you to spend the winter, and there are still hot meals tonight, so why are you wandering around in the street? Who is so poor if you freeze to death at night? Go, go..."
While talking, he led them to the shantang in the outer city. When they passed by their carriage, one yamen servant and the other said: "It must be Ba Si's group who won't let them go. Ba Si is in charge of this area, grandma's." , now the adults can't draw their hands, wait to draw their hands to punish them, and see how long they are arrogant."
"Okay, it's almost New Year's Eve, everyone, work harder, search all these alleys, send everyone to the shantang, ask the brothers to send them off in person, and tell the stewards inside to pay attention, tonight is New Year's Eve, don't let the It’s better for people to freeze to death outside.”
Man Bao frowned and lowered the curtain, and said to Bai Shan, "I heard from the imperial doctor in the imperial hospital that one of the three major evils among the people is the gang of beggars."
Bai Shan was curious, "What about the other two evils?"
"One is corrupt officials; the other is bandits."
Bai Shan was thoughtful, "I'll ask Master Jiehan some other day, he often walks among the people, and he is a monk, so he sees things from a very different angle from ours. I can understand corrupt officials and bandits, why beg Son is also one of the three evils?"
"It's not a beggar, it's a gang of beggars."
"Is it different?"
Man Bao shook his head, "It's not the same, the fourth brother is at home, you can ask the fourth brother at night."
Zhou Zhoulang now has a group of people who used to be beggars, no, it should be said that they were refugees, and they should know more about these.
Bai Shan will be a local official in the future, the more people know about these things, the better.
When the two returned home, they saw that everyone in the family was beaming. Although the New Year should be joyous, the joy was clearly filled with excitement, so Man Bao couldn't help asking, "What's so happy?" Fang laughed and said: "Sister-in-law is back. Lizhong's (big head) daughter-in-law is happy. It's just such a coincidence. Lijun is a little uncomfortable today. Lizhong's wife showed her to see, and she is also happy. The days when the two are almost the same, father-in-law and mother-in-law I am very happy, and I am giving out red envelopes in advance at this moment."
Man Bao's eyes lit up immediately, and he dragged Bai Shan to get the red envelope.
The two squeezed up and snatched two, and said: "Father, the red envelopes given out today are not counted, and they have to be given out again tomorrow."
As soon as Old Zhou Tou heard this, he snatched back the red envelope in her hand, "Then you can resend it tomorrow, and they all agree."
Man Bao took a moment to stare, "Father, master Bai and the others will give out red envelopes tomorrow, so why don't you look at them? Today is a red envelope to celebrate Sanniang and Lijun's pregnancy, this doesn't count..."
Qian also glanced at Lao Zhou, snatched the red envelope and stuffed it to Man Bao, and said to them: "Yes, today's red envelope is not counted, and I will give you another one tomorrow."
She gave Liu Sanniang and Zhou Lijun double red envelopes, and said with a smile: "You are only pregnant, so don't tell the outside world, so as not to disturb the mother who gave birth, but we know it ourselves, so you don't want to get involved in family affairs, think less Don't worry, just rest."
Liu Sanniang and Zhou Lijun responded.