The Yang family ended up having a bad meal.
This Master Yang still maintains a very strong interest in Yu Jinnian, insisting that he is his fourth son Yang Bao, and as far as Yu Jinnian knows, the fourth son of the Yang family has passed away for several years, but he can't keep up with Alzheimer's People care about this matter.
The Yang family's courtyard is very spacious. Several not-so-high inner court walls divide the courtyard into several smaller courtyards for the wives, concubines and sons to live in. Each small courtyard has a front side The bedroom and a palm-sized flower bed. It was originally a quite quiet house, but it was dressed up in a nondescript way because of the Yang family's emphasis on showing off their wealth.
Yu Jinnian was dragged for a walk in the garden of Yang's residence, enjoying the moon, this master Yang didn't think it was enough, he said that he wanted to take the four treasures to drink, this scared the maids and servants who took care of Yang Jufu, his master was out of his mind It's enough to mess up when you're sober, but if you drink two more cups of wine, it's still worth it, wouldn't it be to ruin the whole house.
It was very easy for everyone to persuade him, but finally they stopped talking about drinking, so they started chatting about some irrelevant things. Yu Jinnian just made up and fooled him. He just felt exhausted physically and mentally, as if he was coaxing Tired like a child, while talking, Yang Jufu suddenly mentioned: "Si Bao, where is your mother? Haven't seen her for a long time?"
Yu Jinnian was taken aback, he didn't know where "mother" had gone, so he raised his head to look at the servants.
The servants and servants were all panic-stricken, as if this was another restricted area that could not be touched, they all hesitated to explain clearly, none of them dared to tell the truth, and some people gave Yu Jinnian a wink, telling him to say something quickly to turn this matter over . But what can he say, he is not a roundworm in Yang Jufu's stomach, he thought hard for a long time, so he returned to his old job very substandardly, saying: "It's so cold today...Master Yang, why don't you just drink some hot milk and go to sleep ?”
"That's right, master. It's a coincidence. Just now, the cook brought in a bucket of fresh milk. Master, isn't this your favorite drink?" A man who looked like a butler came and winked and called The maidservant went to warm up the milk, and he came over and rescued Yu Jinnian from Yang Jufu, and said in a good voice, "These are all buffaloes raised by the servants themselves, and the first few gave birth to cubs. The servants are filial , I know you love this mouthful, master, no, the milk was sent to the back kitchen for you not long after it was squeezed, it’s still hot!"
Yu Jinnian was also greedy for what he said, buffalo milk is a good thing, but at this time buffalo is still the main draft animal in the farm, and people prefer to drink goat milk and soy milk, but they don't think buffalo milk is so good. In fact, buffaloes produce less milk, have high milk quality, and are quite nutritious. The most important thing is that the milk is rich in frankincense, without the slight smell of goat milk.
Yu Jinnian thought of a lot of dairy snacks from buffalo milk, and his legs became weak from hunger. Even though the meal in the evening was rich in food, he was stared at by the Yang family for half an hour, so he couldn't eat it. At this time, his stomach was naturally empty, and he couldn't help but howl in his heart.
While speaking, there was a storm in the garden, the housekeeper helped Yang Jufu back to his own small courtyard, took shelter from the wind in the main hall, and took a big cloak to wear with him. Yang Jufu entered the room and sat on the main seat, talking babblingly, and wouldn't let Yu Jinnian go, but if he left his sight for even a little bit, he would make a fuss. At this time, a servant girl came back from the kitchen with warm milk, she lowered her head and walked in small steps, bringing the exquisite wooden carving plate to Yang Jufu.
While coaxing the old boy, Yu Jinnian glanced at the servant girl.
The servant girl looked neat, but unfortunately her face was yellow, her expression was very tired, her lips were tightly pressed together, the outer ring of her lips was slightly purple, and her skin was dry and unsightly, in the local dialect of Xin'an County In other words, it means "very unhydrated", that is, very unhydrated. What's more, today's weather is so gloomy and cold, she was inexplicably sweating, the bean-sized beads of sweat flowed down her forehead, sticking to the hair on her temples, and she didn't have time to wipe it, so she just bowed her waist It got worse, and the hand holding the food plate trembled timidly, as if he was very afraid of Yang Jufu.
Yang Jufu didn't care so much, and he didn't know if it was because he was tired of the housekeeper's persuasion. There was a rumbling sound in his throat, as if a donkey cart was rolling in it, and the loose skin on his face gradually wrinkled—as the saying goes It comes from the heart, he had a bully face when he was young, and it is impossible for him to suddenly become kind when he is old. With such a frown on his face, several crooked wrinkles and gullies appeared between his brows, making Yang Jufu look sullen. , is very vicious.
He didn't even look at the fresh milk, he raised his foot and kicked over the servant girl who came to serve.
Yu Jinnian had been beaten by Yang Jufu, and now his buttocks are still aching. His kick looked very fierce, and he was kicking on the thin and weak servant girl's lower abdomen. Hearing a cry of pain, she was kicked to the ground, and all the hot milk in the bowl was poured on her body. The milk wasn't very hot, but it couldn't stand the cold weather. The night wind from the door and the window quickly sifted through her clothes, and it was as cold as ice against her body.
The servant girl couldn't get up either, she curled up clutching her lower abdomen, she looked very painful, and the cold sweat broke out on her back again and again.
Yu Jinnian couldn't stand it any longer, got up to help the servant girl up, and said in a low voice, "Are you alright?"
"Thank you son..." The servant girl shook her head, not daring to say more.
The butler waved his hand and said casually, "Retire."
"Yes." She took a few steps back clutching her abdomen and then left the door. Her figure swayed slightly, her complexion faded to sallow in an instant, every step she took felt as painful as stepping on the tip of a knife, her thin shoulders couldn't help shaking, Walking quickly and slowly, it was easy to leave the sight of the few of them.
Although this is a family matter, Yang Jufu, as the head of the family, beats, scolds, rewards and punishes his slaves. The appearance of pain was far more than the kick he suffered, and he was a little worried whether that kick had affected other internal organs.
After knocking over the milk with his own hands, Yang Jufu lost his temper again and yelled for snow cheese.
The snowflake cheese mentioned at this time is a kind of ice food that is shaved with ice cubes, piled up into a small mountain in a flower bowl, and then topped with sweet milk. It is refreshing to have a bowl in the hot summer. , to cool off the heat and quench thirst, how can it be a cool word. But in this cold winter, there is no ice in the ice cellar. Where can I get ice for shaving, but the housekeeper can't stand Yang Jufu, a half-old fat man, beating and scolding people vigorously. The servant girl who had left for a while called back and asked her to find a way to get a bowl of ice cream.
When the maid heard this, her complexion became even worse, she turned pale for a while and almost fainted on the spot.
Yu Jinnian hurriedly helped her out and said: "Eating ice at this time will make my stomach hurt, why not make some mint custard and eat it, it's also very refreshing."
The servant girl was not relieved when he proposed to make mint custard instead, she looked at Yu Jinnian shrunkenly, and said in a low voice: "The servant girl will not control the mint and mint that the young master said..."
"Mint custard." Yu Jinnian smiled, "It's okay, I will."
Yang Jufu originally disagreed with Yu Jinnian's departure, but he reluctantly nodded when he heard that he was making cold cheese to eat.
Yu Jinnian finally escaped from the old boy's hands, naturally he ran away even if he wanted to, but he had personally promised to make mint custard, so he couldn't turn his head away unkindly, and followed that The kitchen maid came to the small kitchen behind Mr. Yang's courtyard.
Although it is called a small kitchen, although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of internal organs and all the ingredients, which are extremely rich. Yu Jinnian guessed that this Mr. Yang still has the habit of eating at night, so it has been so long since dinner time, and the stove in the small kitchen The fire in the room was still burning, very warm.
The kitchen maid led him in, and said melancholy: "My lord, what are you talking about, Bo..."
"Mint custard." Yu Jinnian smiled and repeated again.
The cook was ashamed that she couldn't even name the food correctly, so she became even more curious about how to make it, so she asked Yu Jinnian cautiously: "How do you make this?"
Yu Jinnian looked around and asked, "Actually, the method of making it is similar to that of steamed cheese with sugar, except that a refreshing mint is added... Well, do you have mint leaves here?"
The kitchen maid took out a small jar and said embarrassedly: "There is only a little mint left over from the last fruit making."
"It's enough." Yu Jinnian nodded and taught her, "First of all, you have to crush the mint into fine powder, the finer the better, so that it will be softer when you drink it."
He took the earthen jar containing mint mint, poured it into a cleaned garlic mortar, and patiently pounded it into fine powder-like crumbs with a stone pestle. The kitchen maid saw that he didn't have any important orders at the moment, so she turned her head to do the work she hadn't finished. Yu Jinnian saw a few thick bones in the water basin over there, which seemed to have been chopped off not long ago, with all the muscles and bones , still revealing fresh blood.
The kitchen maid squatted next to the water basin, looked at it with a frown, seemed to sigh, rolled up her sleeves and went into the water to pick up the bones and wash them.
Yu Jinnian mashed the mint powder and put it aside for later use.
After that, heat the pot slightly, add water and sugar, and stir slowly to melt into a transparent crystal syrup. If puff pastry is the yogurt of the moment, then panna cotta is the pudding. Yu Jinnian boiled the syrup well, then took today's newly produced buffalo milk and cooked it in a pot. I have to say that the buffalo milk is indeed rich in fragrance. Yu Jinnian only remembered drinking it a few times when he was a child, but when he grew up, buffalo milk formed a complete industrial chain, but he felt that the taste in it was not as strong as when he was a child.
But maybe this is just an illusion caused by Yu Jinnian's obsession with the delicious food that he couldn't get when he was young.
The main purpose of boiling buffalo milk is to sterilize bacteria. After all, Yu Jinnian’s education made it difficult for him to drink raw milk directly. After that, the milk still needs to be cooled slowly. At this time, Yu Jinnian cracked open a fresh egg. He used the two shells of the cracked egg as a sieve bowl, and repeatedly held the egg yolk upside down to get only the egg white. He repeated this several times, and his technique was quite skillful.
After the egg whites are separated, slowly pour into the cooled milk and stir well.
At this time, we must also pay attention to the ratio of egg whites to milk—if there are too many egg whites, the milk jelly will be hard; but if there are too few egg whites, the milk will not be able to condense—Yu Jinnian roughly estimated that it was about one A bowl of milk needs to be served with an egg white, so that the steamed milk jelly is soft and firm, elastic and waxy.
After mixing the egg whites and milk, pour in the previously boiled syrup and crushed mint, stir gently and put it in a delicate and beautiful small celadon cup.
After that, it's time to steam.
After Yu Jinnian put the lid on, he suddenly heard someone groaning from behind him. Turning around, he saw the maid cleaning the flesh and bones sitting on the ground with her stomach covered, with a painful expression on her face, and she was about to curl up into a ball. He was startled , hurriedly walked over and said: "What's wrong? Stomach pain?"
The cook's face flushed, she kept shaking her head and said, "Nothing, nothing".
Why "nothing", this situation is clearly "something".
Yu Jinnian thought it was because the servant girl was timid and didn't dare to bother outsiders with her own illness, so she kept silent and said to her in relief: "Mistress, please relax, the boy is not talented, but he still knows some medical principles. If you don't mind, Can you tell me where the pain is?"
The maid raised her head and looked at the young brother with a friendly smile in front of her, her head became even lowered. She was a slave who was brought in by a slave and signed a contract of prostitution, and worked in the small kitchen all year round. Outcropping in the big courtyard, so the status in the mansion is very low. He is used to being beaten and scolded on weekdays, and occasionally he is treated tenderly by others. He is still a handsome brother, but he is not used to it, so he is even more embarrassed to open his mouth, and only vaguely says that it is an old problem and it is not a problem.
Yu Jinnian looked at her expression and didn't continue to ask. Anyway, the mint pudding still needs to be steamed for a while, so he chatted with her: "What is this meat and bone for?"
The cook said: "Our master is used to drinking a bowl of meat and bone soup every morning. The bones from the previous day were all used up, so today we have to stew it overnight, otherwise tomorrow the master will beat us again."
Yu Jinnian asked: "How long has Master Yang been like this?"
The kitchen maid was asked this question: "Ah, brother means..."
"Here." Yu Jinnian pointed to his head, "How long has this been unclear?"
"Oh." The kitchen maid came to understand, and answered him, "It's been a few years, since Lan Niang and Fourth Master left, it's a little unclear. At first, it was just forgetful and slow in speaking. The situation became serious, and his temper became even worse. He beat and scolded people at every turn, even the second and third masters. Later, the master often ran out by himself without paying attention, and got lost in a blink of an eye... Recently, I heard that sometimes people also Can't recognize..."
Speaking of this, she secretly glanced at Yu Jinnian, and silently closed her mouth.
Yu Jinnian pretended not to have seen her move, and asked casually, pretending to be curious: "Do I look like your fourth master?"
The kitchen maid took a closer look at his appearance again, shook her head and said, "It doesn't look like much, at most, it's about the same age... Fourth master was about the same age as you, young master, when he was kicked out, and maybe a little younger than you." Son… "
As soon as the words fell, she suddenly realized that she had missed something, quickly covered her mouth, waited for the silence in the kitchen, and looked around cautiously, seeing that there was no one outside the small kitchen, she was relieved , patted his chest and said: "It scared me to death."
"Why, your fourth master is not gone, but was kicked out of the house by your master?"
"...you don't want to say it anymore. If our master and the housekeeper hear this, they will definitely beat me to death." The kitchen maid drooped her head to wash the bones, and carefully cleaned the meat and bones with a small soft-bristled brush. After washing away the blood in the crevices of the flesh and bones, a basin of reddish blood had already accumulated in the basin, and she shook her head again and said, "The housekeeper forbids us to mention this matter, it's unlucky!"
Yu Jinnian didn't like to embarrass others, so he kept his voice aside. Seeing her washing her flesh and bones with cold water, her lips were very purple, so she got up and poured a bowl of hot water, and said to her, "Get up and warm your hands. There is no one around. Keep an eye on, take a rest for a while, if you freeze yourself, the family will feel sorry for you."
The cook's nose suddenly became sore, and holding the hot water, her eyes felt dim. She has no relatives here—no, it should be said that she has no relatives in this world. Back then, she was working in a big family in her hometown, and her father and brother took away all the monthly money she earned. Fortunately, the master's family is a well-known benevolent person. Even if they die, they can live on, but after a few years of suffering like this, the great virtuous man suddenly died of illness, and the mistress couldn't support the family business by herself, so they distributed some money and dispersed them, the maidservants.
Later, the money was squandered by the father and brother, so the father sold her to the boy, saying that he would give her brother a wife in exchange for six taels of silver. After getting into Renya's cage cart, he went to Xin'an County after suffering a lot of hardships on the road, and sold it into the current Yang Mansion.
Even if life is still very hard, she is unwilling to go back to her cruel father and brother, so she can simply pretend that she doesn't have that relative and live alone is fine.
When Yu Jinnian mentioned her family today, she couldn't help but think of these old and rotten things. It's a pity that these years have passed like this. There are not many happy things, but many depressed things. There is not even a talking person around her. There is no one, and I feel uncomfortable in my heart. I want to confide in an instant, and I just want to chat with people all night.
She was originally sitting on the ground, but now her feet were numb and she wanted to change to a squatting position. Unexpectedly, when she got up, she suddenly let out an "Ouch", which made Yu Jinnian hurriedly ask her what's wrong.
"No, nothing, nothing!" The kitchen maid hastily dropped the meat and bones in her hands, frantically scrambling to wrap up her skirt, her face as red as a ripe watermelon.
Yu Jinnian looked down and saw a smear of red dyed brightly on the hem of her skirt, and after taking care of the symptoms of abdominal pain, cold sweat, pale complexion, and slight chills, he suddenly understood.
——This kitchen maid is coming to the month letter.
I am afraid that when he asked the kitchen maid what was wrong before, the other party was so shy, it was because of this reason, it was difficult to explain this matter to outsiders, not to mention that he was still a man, so naturally he could only evade and say it was okay Old problem.
The kitchen maid was so ashamed that she couldn't speak, she kept saying "I, I...", I couldn't come out, and I couldn't care about my stomachache, so I turned around and ran out to change clothes.
Yu Jinnian's expression was normal, after all, as a doctor, he didn't think there was anything to be ashamed about, so while the other party was changing clothes, he carefully thought about the kitchen maid's symptoms, and he was very sure that she had dysmenorrhea , and deduced that she should belong to the type of cold coagulation and blood stasis.
Dysmenorrhea is not a serious disease, nor is it small, but every time it occurs, it makes people feel irritable and uncontrollable. It is already considered as a sudden impulse to smash windows and doors, throw bowls and pots in a girl who has always been demure. For a small scene, no matter how extreme it is, I wish I could just cut up the messy meat in my belly and throw it away. In his previous life, every month he could see a few poor little ones who were brought to the hospital because of the pain and passed out, and he felt very sympathetic.
So this thing really has a fight with toothache-it's not a disease, but it hurts like hell!
About the time for a cup of tea, the kitchen maid came back slowly. She had already changed into a yellow-green dress, which reflected the rosy background of her face, which could be described as colorful. He poked his head at the door of the small kitchen and saw that Yu Jinnian was looking at the food in the steamer behind her back, not paying attention to her, so he mustered up the courage to go in.
I clutched my stomach and thought, what a shame.
Yu Jinnian brought out the condensed mint pudding, sprinkled a little tea powder on the white and smooth milk surface, and threw three or four small almond slices into it for decoration, but this was not a finished product either. Milk jelly, panna cotta, must be cooled before it can be called panna cotta, so I poured some cold water and put the small cup in it to soak it to cool down.
The cook took a look at the mint custard that was made, the color was light green and fresh, and it smelled of a fragrant but not greasy milky smell. It looked very similar to the custard she ate in the past, but she had this taste It was the first time I saw it, and I couldn't help admiring: "It's so beautiful."
Looking back, Yu Jinnian suddenly realized that this man had seen her monthly letter just now. This kind of secret thing about her daughter's family had been seen by a man, and she might be ashamed to see anyone tomorrow.
"Are you feeling better?"
Who would have thought that Yu Jinnian would bring up this matter again.
The kitchen maid covered her abdomen with both hands, and remembered that this brother once said that he was a doctor, so she asked doubtfully, "Are you really a doctor?"
Yu Jinnian was not too self-effacing, nodded and said: "Sit down, I will teach you how to make a simple warm palace paste, and warm palace soup."
Upon hearing this name, the maidservant thought it was some great medicine, and said in shame: "But I don't have much money, I'm afraid I can't afford the medicinal materials..."
"There are some common things here, mostly seasonings in this cabinet, nothing valuable." Yu Jinnian laughed, and washed the garlic mortar for use.
He put a small piece of ginger, a piece of scallion, a pinch of cumin, and two spoons of coarse salt into the garlic mortar, smashed it hard, then poured it out and put it in a hot pan, stir-fried it twice, and waited until it was slightly fried When there was some spicy aroma, I put it in a small dish, poured a few drops of vinegar to make a paste.
The cook was confused and said: "This, is this going to be eaten?"
How unpalatable this is, sour and spicy.
"How can it be?" Yu Jinnian explained, "After you go back later, find a clean small handkerchief, apply this paste on your navel, cover the outside with a small handkerchief, and fix it around your waist with a rope It fell. Your pain is caused by the cold condensate in the uterus. I think it is caused by the accumulation of cold air that you have been exposed to all year round, um... "
Yu Jinnian was afraid that she wouldn't understand what "Han Ning's cell palace" was, so he changed the term and described it to her: "It's like the water in this river, which flows unimpeded in spring and summer, until the weather turns from autumn to winter. When frost falls and freezes in the river channel, the water will naturally stop flowing.”
Cold congeals in the uterus, unsmooth Chong and Ren, and unfavorable blood flow, so there is cold pain in the lower abdomen, and it is often accompanied by the dark color of the moon letter, agglomeration, and the phenomenon of delayed delay of the moon letter and day; After a long time, the yang energy will be blocked again, so the body is afraid of cold and the limbs are cold.
To use the terminology in traditional Chinese medicine, it means that if there is no flow, it will cause pain, and if the pain will cause blockage.
The kitchen maid said with a confused face: "Does this mean that my stomach is also frozen?"
Yu Jinnian: "Bad, almost, that's probably what it means... In short, this umbilical patch can unblock the collaterals and relieve pain, and let your frozen stomach also bask in the sun."
Hearing this description, the kitchen maid couldn't help but chuckle, and her expression gradually relaxed.
So Yu Jinnian continued: "Every time I guess the monthly letter is coming, I apply it for a few days, apply it in the morning and wash it off when I go to bed at night. If possible, it's best to apply it every time. If you really don't have time , so I make some in advance every month and store them in small jars, and reheat them before applying them, the same thing. If you use them like this four or five times, your pain will get better.”
The kitchen maid was stunned when she heard this, and she couldn't believe that he used some spices from the kitchen to make a medicine, and this medicine could also cure her illness that had been in pain for many years.
However, for the disease of dysmenorrhea, it is not enough to make up for it. If you want to cure it, you need to change your lifestyle. For example, girls with cold uterus should stop eating raw and cold products and try to avoid Touch cold water, or blow cold wind! But these are very extravagant things for the servants of the kitchen, so Yu Jinnian just mentioned it briefly, and didn't say much.
The kitchen maid was curiously observing the umbilical paste, so Yu Jinnian made ginger and jujube brown sugar water with her, and also ordered a few acupuncture points on his own legs - such as Diji, Xuehai, and Sanyinjiao, and patiently taught her how to press them Kneading can relieve pain.
Holding the warm ginger date brown sugar water in the palm of her hand, the kitchen maid was very touched by this thoughtfulness. Her own mother left early, and no one taught her what a monthly letter is. When she came, she was lost. In a daze, I still learned this from the girls in the same village. Later, whenever I was in pain, no one complained, and I didn't know what to do, so I could only endure it silently.
Who would have thought that a young man like him would know more about Yuexin than a girl like her. The kitchen maid was surprised, and gradually became close to Yu Jinnian, and it was not like the love between a man and a woman. , but feel that he is more considerate like a relative... an old mother.
After carefully listening to the "old mother" Yu Jinnian's teaching, and chatting with him about other things, the kitchen maid couldn't help sighing: "It's been a while since I talked to anyone happily. When Lan Niang was still here, she often talked to us The servants talk together, and Lan Niang can remember us every new year. Sigh, Lan Niang is such a good person, how can she be a civet cat spirit... "
"River, raccoon spirit?" Yu Jinnian blinked in surprise as if he had heard something extraordinary.
"Hush!" The kitchen maid wished she could cover his mouth, and quickly waved her hand to signal him not to be so loud.
Yu Jinnian suddenly remembered that on the day of the Cold Clothes Festival, on the way to Fengbo Temple, he seemed to hear two young men in front of him say something about the second master and the third master wife, and said, "I was caught by an evil spirit, and none of them escaped", and what Words such as "monsters are wreaking havoc on the world", now that Pinpin is brought up, it seems that they are talking about the Yang family's troubles.
"I'm telling you quietly, don't talk about it!"
Yu Jinnian nodded obediently, moved the little cockroach and sat in front of the water basin, and listened to the kitchen maid talking about it, as if he was already a friend of women. There is still such a thing" and so on, after going back and forth, I also understood this matter.
It was about a woman named Lan Niang, who was originally the daughter of a local rich man, but for some reason, the family had a business dispute with Mr. Yang, and there was a real quarrel for a while. Yang Jufu fell in love with Lanniang's beauty, so he proposed Nalanniang as a concubine. Lanniang's father was very conscientious and refused to sell the daughter to pay off the debt. However, Lanniang's family was no match for the insidious Yang Jufu, and eventually the family property was swallowed up by the Yang family. It is said that Lan Niang was also robbed into the mansion and became Yang Jufu's seventh concubine.
Lanniang was soft-tempered and submissive, and after being taken captive as the seventh aunt, she honestly accepted her fate and gave birth to a son with Yang Jufu, Yang Bao, the fourth son of the Yang family.
Yang Da died too early, Yang Erqin was not smart, Yang San was ignorant and incompetent, in such a big Yang family, only the fourth son Yang Bao was raised by Lan Niang to be polite, knowledgeable and demeanor like everyone else, the little one He can recite poems and compose poems at an early age, and his mind is so bright that he is not like the Yang family. What's more, this son is considered an old man, and he inherited Lan Niang's delicate appearance, so he soon became the treasure of Yang Jufu, and he even said repeatedly that he wanted to hand over the Yang family business to Yang Baolai to inherit.
At that time, Yang Er and Yang Sanju had married and were nearly thirty years old, while Yang Baocai was only thirteen or fourteen years old. Yang Cai and Yang Jin have long been fighting for this family property, and they are inseparable. Suddenly, Yang Baolai, who they don't pay attention to at all, pops up, and this one stone stirs up thousands of waves. The backyard of the Yang family turned into a mess.
Later, Yang Jufu was overwhelmed by the disturbance, and said like an old fool, whoever gave birth to a son will inherit the business.
This is great, the family who used to be conscientious in house fighting, suddenly began to conscientiously give birth to a son.
But one or two years have passed, let alone a son, this family has not even been able to conceive a single egg.
However, the kitchen maid also said that when she was first sold into the mansion, Mrs. Zhao of the third room seemed to be pregnant with one. It is said that she specially invited an expert to divination, and concluded that this child must be a fat boy. This Mrs. Zhao was originally pregnant. Xu Xu, after she got pregnant, she would stay out of the house and concentrate on raising the baby... But I don't know what happened later, but the miscarriage was gone.
From then on, Mrs. Zhao suffered a severe loss of vitality, and she seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar, and she didn't have a good face with anyone.
And according to gossip from unknown sources, Mrs. Zhao's miscarriage is still related to the fourth master. Outsiders don't know the right and wrong. They only know that it happened, and the second and fourth families are at odds with each other Like an enemy, he is cold-faced when meeting.
Later, it was something the kitchen maid saw with her own eyes.
It is said that it was the Obon Festival that year, when Lan Niang went to the temple to burn incense and pay respects to the Buddha, but a shabby old man popped out to stop her car, sang and danced, pointed at Lan Niang and said that she was lying on her back. There is a civet cat, but everyone's eyes are sharp. Wherever they saw Lanniang with a civet cat, some servants got out of the car and went to scare people.
Unexpectedly, the old Daoist was so powerful, he suddenly broke through the servant's defense, rushed to the sedan chair and "baldly" spat out something.
When everyone saw it, it was an eyeball dug out of something, it was disgusting, and this is not over, I saw that the old man also took out a pig urine bubble from his cloth pocket, with a stick in it. Soaked in chicken blood, laughed and raised his hand and splashed Lan Niang all over. Lan Niang was frightened silly on the spot, and it took a long time to recover.
This matter could have ended with "that's a lunatic", but who would have thought that after the Yulan basin festival, some strange things would start to happen in Yang's mansion. First, the starling raised by the second master was killed by something unknown, And his death was miserable, his head was severed, his skin was skinned and he was thrown at the gate of the courtyard. After that, the aunt in the third master's room said that when she got up to drink water to quench her thirst in the middle of the night, she saw someone running past the window paper, and she went out to see, but there was no one, only a green-eyed and fang-toothed civet cat jumping on the wall .
Afterwards, the big kitchen in the mansion also said that they had new raw meat missing one after another, half of the bucket of uncoagulated duck blood they bought to make blood tofu was inexplicably missing, and there were civet cat blood paw prints on the ground.
So someone thought of the crazy old Taoist that they met that day, and rumors began to circulate in the mansion that Lan Niang was a raccoon spirit. Although this matter is weird, Yang Jufu is a bold man with high skills. He did not know how many gamblers' legs were discounted when he was young, and he was never afraid of retribution when he did bad things. Ban Jiading kept vigil and killed all the cats in the surrounding area.
Originally thought that the matter of killing the cat should be over, but it turned out to be contrary to expectations, and the strange things in Yang's mansion did not decrease but increased, and became more and more serious. Things have developed to such an extent that Yang Jufu, who is not afraid of anything, can't help feeling suspicious, and gradually alienates Lan Niang, and even sends people to find the crazy old Taoist who poured chicken blood that day, and secretly invites people back one by one. Without telling Lan Niang, he tried to get rid of the demon.
It's okay if this method is not practiced, but once it is done, it will cause shocking and terrifying things.
The old Taoist actually tore Lan Niang who was still asleep out of the bed, and found a baby skin from under her mattress!
Mrs. Zhao, who came to observe the Fa, immediately passed out from crying, and screamed that it was her own son who died before she was born. Dang even pounced on Lan Niang to kill Lan Niang, crying and asking Lan Niang to return her son's life. The four servants couldn't hold back, and they were making a fuss. Blessings are unparalleled, misfortunes never come singly, the matter of the baby skin has not been clarified, and then Yang San's aunt found a naked and strong servant from under the bed in the side room.
What a show.
Lan Niang is cowardly, seeing this, but she can't say anything except crying, Yang Bao defended Lan Niang a few words, but it became the hot oil poured on the fire—Gain's adulterer's family member cried and confessed , he and Lan Niang have been in harmony with each other more than ten years ago. Based on such calculations, it is almost exactly the age of Yang Bao. In this way, it is difficult to say whether Yang Bao is of the blood of the Yang family.
What is the most unbearable thing for a man? It wasn't that the beloved concubine turned out to be a monster, but that his son was not of his own kind, and any man would be driven mad by this matter.
What's more, this kind of ridiculous thing was put on the table by a generation of bully Yang Jufu. How could he bear it? Even if he wanted to tie Lan Niang up and sink into the pond, Yang Bao rushed forward and begged Yang Jufu to trust Lan Niang and let Lan Niang go. But Yang Jufu pushed him to the side of the flower pond, and fell straight over.
Speaking of this, the kitchen maid repeatedly lamented: "Later, the elder said that Lan Niang was a monster who caused harm to the world, and she should not be easily settled. He must be repressed in the Taoist temple so as not to harm the world. So even if the master No matter how angry she was, she still handed over Lan Niang and the fourth elder brother to the elder... Now, I don't know what happened to them..."
This story was so weird that Yu Jinnian was speechless, and he didn't know how to evaluate it. If he said it was an excerpt, he would have to clap his hands and shout bloody wonderful, but it turned out to be a true story, which made people dumbfounded.
He was speechless for a moment, and could only say again: "There is such a thing..."
The kitchen maid nodded and said in agreement: "Who says it's not?"
Immediately afterwards, the two sighed at the same time: "Oh."
The two of them were talking for a while, their heads were depressed, and Yu Jinnian suddenly remembered his mint pudding, and went to deliver it, but the servant reported that Master Yang had already fallen asleep. The housekeeper was quite a kind person, he went straight to trouble Yu Jinnian all night, and gave him a small jewelry box inlaid with pearls, which contained a pair of Wenwan walnuts for him to play with, and said that he would send him a sedan chair to take him home.
How could Yu Jinnian know how to play with walnuts, and he declined several times, but the housekeeper was quite unhappy, as if he felt that Yu Jinnian was very disrespectful to him. Yu Jinnian didn't like the Yang family's way of showing off their wealth, but he still accepted the little jewelry box.
As soon as I received the jewelry box, I heard someone from the concierge say that a noble young man with an orchid temperament has come to the door, saying that his younger brother is a guest at our house and is coming to pick him up, he said in confusion : "Did you find the wrong door?"
When Yu Jinnian heard it, he immediately raised his hands and said, "I, I, I! That's my elder brother! Take me there!"
After walking two steps, I saw him running back plopping again—almost forgot to take away the turmeric powder jar and shrimp paste I brought!
The concierge looked Yu Jinnian up and down, inside and out, but he still felt a little disgusted, thinking how such a noble son could have such an ordinary younger brother.
In the end, he led the man to the porter's room, and there really was one. I saw this ordinary young man hopped out of the gate of the Yang Mansion, opened his hands, and flung himself into the arms of the noble young man like a butterfly, with a soft voice. Shouted "Brother".
The concierge was so frightened that he had a toothache.
Ji Hong was also worried that the boy would be made things difficult by the people of the Yang family, seeing that he came out intact, holding a jewelry box that was not something he could afford. As soon as the heart hanging in his chest fell, he was staggered by the young man, and finally stopped, and listening to his calling was so annoying, as if honey had been smeared on his mouth. Ji Hong couldn't help but thumped in his heart, and questioned: "... What bad thing did you do again? Didn't you beat him up?"
Yu Jinnian smiled and said, "Little Butterfly misses you."
small butterfly…
Ji Hong turned his head to look carefully at Yu Jinnian, and wondered if the people from the Yang family had beaten the boy up.