Not long after Zhenbei Hou left, Shen Zhuo asked someone to find the doctor named Shi Helin. He made an appointment with the doctor to see Su Wanniang's mother. Shen Wen also wanted to meet this famous person in the history of medicine in the future, so he wanted to go home with Su Wanniang.
Shen Xiang wanted to take care of Shen Wen, so he accompanied Su Wanniang, led the "fat boy" Shen Wen, and Su Chuanya, Su Wanniang's younger brother who often came to the mansion for meals, and entered the small room where Su Wanniang's mother lived surrounded by several guards. courtyard.
When the neighbors saw it, they all felt that the children in this family were terrible. Once they went home, the young lady and the guards in the Hou's mansion would accompany her.
When they entered the door, a woman hired by Su Wanniang helped Su Wanniang's mother to sit up. Su Wanniang hurriedly said, "Mother, don't worry. You have met the two ladies before."
Su Wanniang's mother gasped and said, "Courtesy cannot be broken, ladies are polite."
Shen Xiang has always been forthright, he doesn't care about these things at all, he has seen it before, he hurriedly returned the salute and said: "Madam, you don't need to be too polite, just lie down." After Shen Wen saluted, he saw that Su Wanniang's mother was pale and pale, and she was not as good as last time , secretly glanced at Su Wanniang. Su Chuanya immediately sat beside her mother, looking very obedient.
After a while, the guard said that the doctor had come.
Two people came in at the gate of the courtyard. One was in his forties, with a slightly bald forehead and a goatee. His eyes crossed a bit. The other was a young man of twelve or thirteen years old, with short eyebrows and small eyes, and an ordinary appearance.
After entering the room, seeing Shen Xiang, both of them were taken aback. Shen Xiang was wearing a short red jacket she liked, with a short sword hanging from his waist.
The middle-aged man saluted and said: "I'm Shi Helin." He pulled his tone.
The young man immediately followed Shi Li and said, "Increase in the next paragraph." He imitated Shi Helin's tone, very mature, but with a Jiangnan accent, he was anxious and fast.
Shen Wen almost exclaimed: Duan Zeng? ! Although the famous doctor of this era did not leave any writings, his legendary stories always appear in novels. It is said that he is a medical genius and all-rounder, internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and orthopedics... Anyway, he is the one who can treat diseases with his hands. But could he be this little boy? Not the same name
Shen Xiang nodded, clasped his fists and said, "I am the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Zhenbei, please help me to take care of this madam's illness."
Su Wanniang also went up to salute and said: "This is my mother, thank you Lang Zhong."
Shi Helin looked at the clothes of Su Wanniang's maid, and sighed for a moment: "The Zhenbeihou's mansion is so benevolent and righteous..."
Duan Zeng said on the side: "Don't flatter, take a look quickly, don't be cured by then."
Shi Helin said angrily: "How do you think I can't cure it? I haven't watched it yet! Is there anyone like you as an apprentice?!"
Duan Zeng said: "I'm not your apprentice, you said last time, you don't have me as an apprentice at all!"
Shi Helin sat by the bed and said, "I told you to clean the whole house, why didn't you do it?"
Duan Zeng said: "That's because you treated me as a woman, so of course it doesn't count!"
Shi Helin continued to bicker, but his hand was already on Su Wanniang's mother's wrist, his face darkened, and he stopped talking. He checked his pulse for a while, and then asked for Su Wanniang's mother's other wrist. He also checked for a long time, looked at Su Wanniang's mother's face, and sighed.
Duan Zeng leaned over and said, "It's my turn!" Shi Helin said nothing, got up and walked away.
Duan Zeng also took his pulse, frowned and thought for a while, then turned to Shi Helin and asked, "Master, how are you going to treat it?"
Shi Helin pointed to his nose with his index finger: "I have become your master now?! Ah?! What is how to cure? You... come out and say it!"
The two walked out the door together while others were stunned to watch. Curious, Shen Wen followed them into the courtyard, only to see them walking out all the way to the gate. Shen Xiang and Su Wanniang also followed.
Only then did Shi Helin say: "There is no rule of law!"
Duan Zeng pouted his neck: "What is no rule of law?! If you don't have rule of law, why should I call you master?!"
Shi Helin stared: "It's useless for you to call me master! Her heart pulse has weakened, and it's only a matter of time, so why talk about treatment? She must have received some care, took some good medicine, and is still in a cheerful mood. Otherwise, I went there last year!"
Su Wanniang began to cry.
Duan Zeng did not buy it: "She is still alive, she needs to be cured! One day counts as one day! Although the heart pulse is weakened, medicine can be used to nourish the liver qi. The liver is the mother of the heart. If the liver qi is stronger, the heart pulse can still last for a while. time."
Shi Helin pointed at Duan Zeng: "You know what a fart! She looks gloomy and lacks blood energy. When a person is insufficient in blood energy at the same time, he cannot replenish energy. He needs to replenish blood first, because blood is the mother of energy, otherwise it will become a dry vessel. Internal organs burned!"
Duan Zeng retorted: "Then the blood will be replenished together."
Shi Helin frowned and said, "To put it bluntly, she has too much to make up for. How can she make up for it casually? Who is the king? Who is the minister? Who is the medicine? What are her symptoms? You try to write!"
Duan Zeng said: "Too lazy to write! Tell me quickly and see if I think the same."
Shi Helin stomped his feet: "You're going to piss me off! This disease will still kill me in the end, and it just gave me a bad reputation. I don't want to treat it."
Duan Zeng said: "Yesterday those people came to beat you up. I was the one who took those sticks for you. It's still swollen. What's wrong with your bad reputation? It doesn't hurt or itch. What can you complain about? Hurry up." Speak up, otherwise I said it, and you said that what I said was the same as what you thought, and you obviously copied me!"
Shi Helin was about to jump up: "You little Douding, you are not half my age, why should I copy yours? Who picked you up from the wild? You little wolf cub..."
Shen Xiang interrupted loudly: "Please write a prescription." Seeing that both of them looked at her, Shen Xiang hesitated and said: "Anyone can write."
Shi Helin coughed, straightened the front of his chest, and said slowly: "This disease is very complicated, and the medicine is tortuous and labor-intensive, and..."
Shen Xiang waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about the treatment, the money..."
Su Wanniang cried and said, "I'll pay. If it's not enough, please ask the lady to lend it to me first, and I'll write down the IOU."
Shen Xiang said generously: "It's okay, you are my apprentice, so naturally I will pay..." Thinking that the money is actually not in his hands, he added another sentence: "I will tell my mother."
Su Wanniang shook her head, and insisted: "My mother means that I can't..."
Shen Xiang was too lazy to argue, and said to Shi Helin: "Anyway, no matter what, I will definitely pay you the money."
Shi Helin nodded with a smile and said, "That's fine, I'll write a prescription right now..."
Duan Zeng frowned: "Don't be too harsh, that little girl's mother asked her to write an IOU."
Shi Helin looked at Duan Zeng angrily: "Are you my apprentice?! Who are you helping?! Didn't you hear what the eldest lady said? She can ask Mrs. Houfu for money! That little maid really wrote an IOU, the amount It’s too big, just return it if you don’t need it in the future!”
Su Wanniang cried and said, "I...although I don't know how to pay it back...but I will definitely pay it back..."
Duan Zeng was also angry: "Listen, that lady said just now that this maid is her apprentice, and she is covering her. You are my master, why don't you take care of me?!"
Shi Helin grabbed his bun with all his strength: "I'm going to be so mad! What kind of apprentice is this?! This is a ghost!" Shen Wenxin said that it's no wonder he's going bald.
Duan Zeng said stubbornly: "What is a ghost, I am just urging you to write a prescription. You are just procrastinating. Can you write it or not? If you don't write it, I will write it!"
Shi Helin shouted: "You write! What should be the first medicine?"
Duan Zeng said decisively: "Naturally it is Astragalus!"
Shi Helin said with some regret: "Who doesn't know this! I gave you a simple question!"
Duan Zeng asked: "Then what do you think the second flavor should be?"
Shi Helin said angrily: "How dare you test me?! Who is the master?!..."
Ignoring others, the two began to argue about what medicine should be in the prescription and how much it should be. Sometimes they blushed, and sometimes they took turns violently. Finally, they settled on a prescription. Then they walked back to the yard, entered the house, wrote down the prescription and handed it to Miss Su Wanniang.
Shi Helin, who looked a little exhausted, said: "Take this prescription for half a month first, and I will come back after half a month."
Duan Zeng said, "I'll come too."
Shi Helin didn't bother to pay attention to his appearance, and said, "The consultation fee is one tael." This is indeed a very expensive fee.
Duan Zeng frowned and said, "If you don't have any money, half the price will do."
Shi Helin gritted his teeth and looked at Duan Zeng: "Shut up! Shut up!"
Su Wanniang gave Shi Helin a tael of silver, Shi Helin immediately accepted it with a smile, while Duan Zeng frowned with an unhappy expression.
The two saluted and bid farewell, and left the house. The people inside heard Duan Zeng say: "The greedy will be poor, you shouldn't ask for more money!"
Shi Helin said: "Where do I want more? This is what you get for your work, do you understand? Besides, half of it is still yours."
Duan Zeng said, "I don't want it."
Shi Helin said: "You take it. Where in the world is there such a good master as me? How many lives have you practiced..."
Duan Zeng said: "If you are really good to me, why don't you let me go?"
Shi Helin yelled: "How old are you and you want to go out by yourself? You don't have much meat on your arms, what should you do if you are robbed? What if you are sold? What if you meet your enemies? When you grow up, I will I will definitely let you go out and practice medicine by yourself."
Duan Zeng asked, "How big is it?"
Shi Helin said: "Twenty-eight nine..."
Duan Zeng said, "I'm leaving now!"
Shi Helin yelled: "Okay, okay, is there anything you can't talk about? Don't you want to start a family? At least have a baby before leaving. I'm your master, you can't leave me alone..."
The people in the room looked at each other, and then laughed, even Su Wanniang laughed with tears in her eyes.
From then on, Shi Helin and Duan Zeng would come every half a month. According to Su Wanniang or Su Chuanya's description, the two of them would always go outside to argue before opening a prescription, and their conversations were often noisy, and there was no quiet time. Shen Wen thought that perhaps because of the strange combination of these two people, one wrote books and the other left many legends.
When the leaves were all gone, Eunuch Gu accompanied the Third Prince to see Concubine Chen Gui.
Eunuch Gu still remembers that many years ago, it was also such an early winter season, when he first met Concubine Chen, it was still Chen Zhaorong. A woman who looks like a newly blooming flower makes people feel that winter has become spring.
After so many years, even though he has seen the grown-up Concubine Chen many times, Eunuch Gu still cannot forget her appearance when she was young. Sometimes, Eunuch Gu felt that Concubine Chen Guifei had forgotten what she looked like when she was a girl, let alone the emperor.
Eunuch Gu knows that flowers cannot bloom in winter. Without herself, that woman would never have lived in the palace for so many years. However, in the end, her days had come to an end, she was full of plans, and she was not yet thirty.
He stepped into the palace gate with the third prince and saluted, Concubine Chen stood up to greet him, and as usual, asked him to sit down, but as usual, he refused and just stood by the table. In the past ten years, no matter how favored Concubine Chen Gui was, she has always treated Eunuch Gu with great courtesy. And Eunuch Gu has always been as respectful as an ordinary eunuch.
In fact, Chen Guifei has always been polite and courteous to everyone around her. Perhaps it was because she knew that her and her children's lives were in the hands of these people.
Concubine Chen Guifei asked someone to serve tea, put it at the table where Eunuch Gu was standing, and said to Eunuch Gu with a smile: "Eunuch Gu, please have some tea." Just like every time we met in the past.
Eunuch Gu didn't speak as usual, he just leaned over, pinched the cup with two fingers, brought it to his lips, but put the cup down when he was about to touch his lips.
Concubine Chen Gui smiled, and said softly, "I have troubled Eunuch Gu all these years."
Eunuch Gu leaned forward and said, "It's all the emperor's orders."
Concubine Chen Gui smiled and nodded, "Eunuch Gu has worked hard from the early winter of that year to now."
Eunuch Gu bowed again expressionlessly.
Concubine Chen Gui smiled again and said to the third prince: "Eunuch Gu has also taught you a lot of martial arts over the years, remember to treat Eunuch Gu with courtesy."
Eunuch Gu hastily declined and said: "Slaves don't dare." How could the eunuch let the prince hold the teacher's etiquette
The third prince smiled and said: "Mother, don't worry, the child has always respected Eunuch Gu."
Concubine Chen Gui nodded gently again, and said with a sigh: "It is not easy for the emperor to be so sincere, and I am very pleased for my mother. You should take good care of my sister Gu in the future, she is still young and not very sensible."
The third prince felt sore, and said in a panic, "Then mother should teach her more."
Concubine Chen Gui lowered her head slightly: "Sometimes I have more energy than I want."
The third prince hurriedly said: "My son must go and talk to her, and let her listen to what mother says."
Concubine Chen Gui smiled to the third prince and said, "Elder brother is like a father, you really have grown up."
The third prince felt in a trance that there seemed to be tears in Chen Guifei's eyes, but when he looked carefully, there seemed to be no tears.
After chatting for a while, the third prince and Duke Gu announced their resignation.
Not long after, Concubine Chen Guifei began to fall ill. Usually, the emperor would visit in person. This time, the emperor just sent the imperial doctor here.
Several imperial doctors have examined her, and they all said that the imperial concubine is only feeling unwell during the season change, and has no other symptoms. But Concubine Chen Guifei became weaker and weaker, she didn't think about food, and began to be bedridden.
The third prince and the fifth princess took turns to visit and take care of them during the day, and at night, they all returned to their own palaces for the night.
The days are getting shorter and the cold is getting worse. In the middle of winter night, in the dark palace, the cold wind blew past. The wooden doors and windows creaked, as if they were opening and closing.
A black shadow flashed into Concubine Chen's bedroom, and moved silently against the wall towards Concubine Chen's bed.
The hall was silent, the black shadow didn't seem to exist at all, but Concubine Chen still sighed softly. That figure flashed out, arrived at her bedside, took out a piece of cake and a pill from his arms, put them on Concubine Chen's cheek, and then disappeared into the darkness without a sound.
Concubine Chen Guifei picked up the piece of cake, slowly put it in her mouth and ate it, and then she swallowed the pill again. In the cold night, tears streamed down Chen Guifei's haggard face.
In the days after Marquis Zhenbei left, Mrs. Yang was listless, and everything in the mansion was quite neglected. Not to mention that the various arrangements for Shen Yi's wedding were not in place yet, as the new year was approaching, the purchase of new year's goods and the arrival and departure of new year's gifts had not been implemented one by one.
The old lady had no choice but to go out in person, and distributed half of the things. Every day, she and Yang did some chores in the office, and often had to beat Yang with words. But no matter what the old lady said, Yang always answered and ignored her. She was always in a daze when she should be in a daze.
Seeing Yang's appearance like this, Shen Wen remembered that after the canonization ceremony of the crown prince in his previous life, Yang's spirit was exhausted. After the new year, he fell seriously ill and was bedridden for more than a month. After he recovered, his temper was very bad, he often scolded people, and even fought hard with the old lady. At that time, I felt that she was really unmannered as the head of the house, and the Hou Mansion was very chaotic.
That time the old lady asked Shen Xiang to help the director, but Shen Xiang had no interest. The old lady asked Shen Wen to help, and Shen Wen was annoyed by the old lady's habit of being picky and unwilling to do anything, so she half-heartedly helped to keep the accounts several times.
She was afraid that she would not know when Yang's illness was minor, so she sent it out only after the Chinese New Year, so she asked Su Wanniang to go to Shen Xiang, and Shen Xiang persuaded the old lady and Yang to drop by when Shi Helin and Duan Zeng came to see Su Wanniang's mother next time. Yang looked at it.
When Shi Helin and Duan Zeng came, several children and the old lady were waiting in the hall.
After the two of them saluted, Shi Helin saw five children, large and small, standing in the hall, and praised: "The Zhenbeihou Mansion is amazing, look at these boys, all of them are magnificent..."
Duan Zeng frowned: "Are you worried that their government will not give you much money in a while?"
Shi Helin gritted his teeth angrily, seeing the old lady of the Hou Mansion sitting in the middle, he didn't quarrel with Duan Zeng.
The old lady said: "Ask the doctor to check the pulse of the lady. She has been in a bad mood recently."
Shi Helin called Sheng Nuo and stepped forward to give Yang's pulse. After calling for a while, she raised her head and said, "Madam is happy. But the fetal pulse is unstable..."
The old lady sat up straight: "What?!"
Yang Shi was also taken aback, and asked, "Does the doctor really mean it?"
Shi Helin withdrew his hand, raised his head arrogantly and said: "Of course! The joy pulse is so obvious and easy to diagnose, can it be wrong? My apprentice can diagnose it."
Duan Zeng came up with a dark face, and also called his pulse, and said: "Madam, it is best to rest in bed immediately. Madam is restless after pregnancy, liver stagnation is not exhausted..."
The old lady didn't wait for him to finish, and shouted: "Quick! Bring the spring stool! Take the lady back to the room to rest!"
Shen Yi and Shen Jian ran out immediately. After a while, two people came in carrying a spring stool, and Yang said with a wry smile: "Where is the need for this, I just came here by myself."
Shi Helin twirled his beard and said, "Ma'am, it's better to be careful. If we hadn't come here, Madam's baby might not survive the end of the year."
The old lady patted her thigh and said: "How can there be such a foolish person! This is my own child! I'm so mad!" Pointing to Yang's accompanying room, Madam Qian and a few maidservants, she said: "How do you serve me? of?"
Yang said a little ashamedly: "I didn't think much about it, I just thought..." She actually bled a little, so she thought it was a small day and missed Zhenbei Hou, so she didn't think about it.
Shen Wen and Shen Xiang helped Yang to sit on the spring stool. Shen Wen looked very carefully in his consciousness, only to see a very tiny beating buried deep in Yang's belly, and scolded himself for being careless in his heart. She usually checks her blood vessels, but she never thought of looking for signs of pregnancy. It seems that in her previous life, Yang was not sick, but because she had a miscarriage because of too much mood swings after pregnancy!
The three boys and two strong women carried Mrs. Yang back to the house to rest. The old lady said to Shi Helin and Duan Zeng: "Thank you two gentlemen, you really saved my life! My Hou Fu will never forget you." Grace!"
Duan Zeng hurriedly said: "The old lady is too much, for a doctor..."
Shi Helin interrupted: "Thank you, old lady, I will write a prescription for your lady right now..."
Duan Zeng said, "What do you want to write? Tell me first!"
In front of the old lady, Shi Helin put on airs and said: "You don't need such a simple prescription! She is depressed, and she is older, so she naturally wants to prescribe some anti-fetal and liver-relieving medicines."
Duan Zengqiang said, "That's just the same thing. Seeing that she hasn't had a good rest and meal during this time, her vitality has been hurt..."
The old lady patted her leg again: "Oh, yes! I can't eat well and sleep well! I was negligent! If something happens to this, I will regret it to death."
Duan Zeng said: "So, we should add some qi invigorating things, such as ginseng..."
The old lady hurriedly said: "Yes! Come on, take the key and get it."
Shi Helin added: "Actually, it doesn't have to be a hundred-year-old ginseng, Pseudostellaria ginseng, milder ones are fine."
Duan Zeng said: "If it is Radix Pseudostellariae, it doesn't need to be used as medicine, it can be cooked as a dish."
Shi Helin said: "It's okay to put it in the medicine, why do you always fight against me?"...
The two wrote while arguing again, and came up with a prescription.
Shi Helin gave the recipe to the old lady and said, "Eat this first, I will come back in five days..."
Duan Zeng said: "In fact, ten days is enough. You don't have to work so hard, you just need to rest more."
Shi Helin stared: "I want to come! Can you control it?!"
The old lady smiled and said: "Okay, come here, our Houfu will send a car to pick you up."
Shi Helin looked at Duan Zeng triumphantly, and Duan Zeng let out a disdainful "hum".
The old lady said: "Please seal twenty taels of silver to the doctor."
Shi Helin's eyes widened: "Twenty taels?! That's great! Thank you..."
Duan Zeng saluted solemnly and said: "Lady, this consultation fee is too high. It's just Ximai and anti-fetal medicine. It's very simple. One tael or two taels is enough. Twenty taels will do, not twenty taels."
Shi Helin pointed at Duan Zeng and stammered: "You... you... you are a picky eater! You are not my apprentice! You are here to collect debts from me!"
The old lady couldn't close her mouth with a smile, and said, "Where is this consultation fee? It's Xie Yin who saved my grandson. How valuable is my grandson's life? How can twenty taels be enough? If he is born in the future, he will come again Big rewards to both of you."
The servant smiled and offered some money, Shi Helin stretched out his hand to take the money, Duan Zeng saluted the old lady immediately, turned his head and said to Shi Helin: "Hurry up, hurry up, if you rob someone, you have to leave quickly, I'm not as thick-skinned as you, shameless!" I really can't hang on."
Everyone laughed and bid farewell to them, the old lady even asked someone to set up a car, and took the two of them home.
The old lady shook her head and sighed, rubbed her chest and said, "My fault, my fault..."
Shen Wen hurried over to beat the old lady's back, showing her great hospitality.
The old lady looked at Shen Xiang and said, "Your mother won't be able to manage the affairs, so you can help."
Shen Xiang immediately shook his head: "No, I really don't have such a brain. It's fine for you to ask me to do seventy-two sets of marksmanship, but don't ask me to keep accounts."
The old lady looked at Shen Wen beside her shoulder again, Shen Wen hurriedly smiled and said, "I'll help, I'll help, I can keep accounts."
The old lady was worried: "It seems that it will be closed in recent years, so it's not just for keeping an account."
Shen Wen pointed to Su Wanniang next to her: "Let her help, she is in charge of everything in my yard."
Su Wanniang hastily expressed her resignation, the old lady sighed and said, "It's the last thing to do, you and the second young lady come here every day to help the director."
Shen Wen said happily: "Sister Wanniang has become the manager!"
Seeing that Shen Wen was not as capable as the maids around her, and was so ignorant, the others secretly despised her.
After bidding farewell to the old lady, Shen Xiang and Shen Wen walked back together with Su Wanniang and Chun Lu. Shen Xiang said with emotion to Su Wanniang: "Look, you asked me to help you find Shi Helin to treat your mother, but in the end, he treated my mother and saved my younger brother or sister. This is what good comes back. "
Su Wanniang glanced at Shen Wen, and said humbly: "It's Madam who has great blessings."
Shen Wen held Su Wanniang's hand silently, and also felt emotional in his heart: In the previous life, Su Wanniang was not here, and her mother had passed away at this time. And her own mother would also have a miscarriage. Now, because Su Wanniang brought Shi Helin and Duan Zeng, the children who were not born in the previous life will come alive, and the future will be completely different from the previous life as Shen Wen worked hard...
When Shen Wen didn't save Su Wanniang, she felt apprehensive, but now, she was full of confidence, and the gloomy mood of Zhenbeihou's departure was swept away.
Back in the courtyard, Shen Wen asked Su Wanniang to guard the door, and he drew another picture of the difficult life and death in "Fa Yang Lun". This time, she personally wrote "Hei Xian, Bai Huo" with her left hand and asked Su Wanniang to come over and keep it carefully.
Su Wanniang whispered, "How much is the ancient jade necklace Xia Zi brought that I showed you last time really worth? I pawned it for twenty-five taels."
Shen Wen smiled: "That's also from her family? Her family is really rich."
Su Wanniang nodded and said, "She really did what you said. She said it was too hard to sweep the floor every day. It was still dark and her hands and feet were going to freeze off. I asked her to do sewing."
Shen Wen said "OK", and Su Wanniang said again: "You once asked me to inquire about the person who handed over the girl from the brothel to the government servants in the busy market. His name is Qi Jiulin, and he used to be in the Marquis' army."
Shen Wen heard the name familiar, and remembered that the deputy general next to Shen Yi in his previous life was named Qi Jiulin, who died with Shen Jiajun in Beijiang, so he knew that he would follow Shen Yi to leave the Marquis Mansion in the future, so he only remembered this person and did not let Su Wanniang do it again. What.
From the next day, Su Wanniang and Shen Wen went to the lobby to sit down with the old lady every morning. Taking advantage of her eight-year-old status, Shen Wen only helped keep the books and wrote a few names. However, Su Wanniang has to undertake most of the miscellaneous tasks. Under the guidance of the old lady, she prepares New Year gifts for each family, checks the income of the farm, distributes silver for the farm, etc. She is too busy to practice martial arts, and she does not have time to go back often. home to see her mother.
Because her mother's illness became more serious in winter, Su Wanniang was afraid that the hired woman would not be able to take care of her younger brother, so she often asked the guards of the Hou Mansion to pick up Su Chuanya, and she and Shen Wen stayed by the old lady's side.
Because Mrs. Yang is pregnant again, the old lady feels that life is extraordinarily beautiful. The six-year-old Su Chuanya in front of her made the old lady like it very much. She thought it could add a boyish atmosphere to the Hou Mansion. Maybe Yang's children would be boys because of this
The old lady felt that there were no too many boys, and privately she disapproved of Yang's idea of "having another daughter, so that three boys and three girls are symmetrical". But now that Mrs. Yang is recuperating, the old lady dare not say anything different to her.
Both Su Wanniang and Shen Wen were no longer in the yard, and the nurse He Shi usually didn't care about anything, so Xia Zi came out to do some activities. She usually wears brighter clothes, and she always wanders back and forth on the way between young masters and servants.
Shen Yi and Lao Guan stepped up the guard of the Hou Mansion after Yang's bedridden. He organized Shen Jian, Shen Zhuo and Shen Xiang into shifts to patrol day and night to maintain the order in the mansion. The Hou Mansion is much stricter than before.
Xia Zi usually doesn't see a few sons, so she starts to pay attention to the boys.
In this life, there is Su Wanniang in the mansion, in the eyes of the young servant, she is a truly beautiful person. After Su Wanniang was in charge, she was strict and ordered to stop it. Usually when walking on the road, he would not give anyone a single glance when he had nothing to do, and he was extremely arrogant. When the young people saw Su Wanniang, they didn't even dare to breathe out, they couldn't even raise their eyes, they wished they could lie on the ground and let her walk over.
In contrast, they looked down on Xia Zi, an overly friendly maid, and when they saw her, they smiled at themselves and pretended not to see her.
Xia Zi dangled back and forth, and finally caught Wang Zhi's eyes one day.
When the Marquis of Zhenbei left that day, Wang Zhi felt deeply fortunate: he stayed and didn’t have to go back to the desolate and poor northern Xinjiang, and he didn’t have to eat coarse grains and pickles twice a day, and sometimes he didn’t even have a sip of hot water. No need to get sore hands and feet in winter...
Hou's Mansion is such a comfortable place: the courtyard is tidy and the food is plentiful. The people who come and go, even the servants, wear unpatched clothes. Sometimes Wang Zhizhen complained for the Marquis of Zhenbei: he couldn't stay in such a good place, but he had to be stationed at the northern border.
He was assigned to Shen Jian's side, and when he thought that one day Shen Jian would go to the north, he felt uncomfortable in advance. Besides, although Shen Jian is a peaceful person, he is lukewarm and doesn't take care of him very much. He remembered Hou Ye said that he and Geng Biao were tougher than the young masters in the Hou's mansion, and felt that Shen Jian didn't really take what Hou Ye said to heart, and didn't pay enough attention to him!
Sometimes he could see Geng Biao next to the eldest son Shen Yi. The two of them are fellow villagers here, and they should keep in touch frequently, but Geng Biao is very busy and has no time to meet Wang Zhi at all. Wherever Shen Yi went, practicing martial arts during the day and patrolling at night, Geng Biao followed him every step of the way.
In contrast, Shen Jian often danced sword alone in the courtyard for an hour or two, not letting anyone in. Usually, he also likes to play chess with his younger brother Shen Zhuo. As soon as the two of them sat down, they pushed everyone away, and no one would let them go forward, saying that they would disturb them.
Moreover, Shen Jian likes writing and ink, while Wang Zhi can't read. Although Shen Jian taught him a few words, he found it too difficult to remember. So when Shen Jian was reading and writing, he was naturally not by his side.
On the other hand, Geng Biao was also illiterate. When Shen Yi entered the library, he could follow him in, and finally helped Shen Yi move a book out.
In this way, Wang Zhi always felt that he was not really close to Shen Jian, as "companion" as Hou Ye said.
The same child who survived the Northern Cold and was sent to the Marquis Mansion, Wang Zhi thinks that Geng Biao is obviously more important, and he still looks dumb. People used to say that he is not as smart as himself! Wang Zhi deeply felt the injustice, and lamented that fate tricked people, maybe he would not be so neglected if he followed the eldest son. As a result, a layer of dissatisfaction with Shen Jian arose in his heart.
Just as Wang Zhi was strolling in the yard with a sense of loss, he raised his eyes and saw a young girl smiling kindly at him. This girl was bought by Lord Hou when they were about to enter the city. At that time, she cried so much that she looked very pitiful. Later in the living room, she only looked at the ground, and she nervously waited for Master Hou's arrangement, naturally she didn't meet her eyes. But at this moment, the girl's eyes were full of affection, and she was staring at her own eyes.
Wang Zhi's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly understood what it meant to "pretend to have a rabbit in his heart" as he had heard it said before. His face was flushed red, and he stopped in his tracks, feeling a little overwhelmed.
Xia Zi finally found someone who looked at her directly and responded, and was very happy. She walked lightly, with the smell of incense on her sleeves. Wang Zhi became even more nervous, and his palms were sweating.
Xia Zi stopped one step in front of Wang Zhi, turned her face halfway, raised her eyes slightly, glanced at Wang Zhi from the side, and said softly, "Brother Wang Zhi, how are you?"
Wang Zhi covered his pinching hands with his sleeves, calmed himself down, took a deep breath, looked at Xia Zi, imitated Shen Jian's tone and said with a smile: "Thank you for your inquiry, my lady, may I ask your name?" ? You can also call me sister in the future."
He knew her name, and the servants mentioned that the girl who entered the mansion with them was named Xia Zi, which sounded like "blind", and everyone laughed. But he asked this question to appear polite. After all, the two of them had never spoken before, and Wang Zhi thought he was very smart.
Xia Zi blushed slightly, and said softly: "My slave, Xia Zi, is from the second lady's yard..."
Wang Zhi followed Shen Jian's example and saluted, and said: "I'm with the second son..." He stopped intentionally, one was the second young lady and the other was the second young master, did this count as a predestined relationship
Xia Zi seemed to have thought of something, her face turned even redder, she nodded shyly, turned around and walked away slowly, and looked back at Wang Zhi after a few steps.
Wang Zhi looked melancholy at Xia Zi's figure walking away, such a good girl was given such a bad name, and was teased behind the back by the boys. He had never heard the phrase "the same people who have fallen in the end of the world", but if he had heard of it, he would definitely quote it to describe his state of mind without hesitation at this moment. Wang Zhi silently decided in his heart that he would look for opportunities to meet this girl in the future, and see what he could do to help her, so that she would like him too.