Wait, have you bought the medicine I asked you to buy
Hearing his young lady's words, Wang Xiaoer, who was already walking to the door, couldn't help but stop and his face turned slightly pale.
"Why, you forgot?"
Li Shu put down the brush in her hand, glanced at Wang Xiaoer who was standing at the door with her ink-black eyes, her red lips slightly curled up, and her voice was as calm as water.
“No, no, the small one has already been bought.
Li Shu's casual glance made Wang Xiaoer at the door break out in a few drops of cold sweat. Others might not know the methods of his young lady, but he knew them all.
However, the medicine that the eldest lady asked him to buy was not an ordinary medicine. The reason why Wang Xiaoer came back late was because this medicine was hard to buy, especially the high-quality medicine without side effects on the body. He spent a lot of money to buy it from the home of a former palace maid who was released from the palace. This palace maid had served a concubine before she was released, and the prescription was obtained from this concubine.
This kind of medicine can only be trusted if it comes from the palace, after all, it has experienced the twists and turns of the harem.
Although this medicine has no side effects, it is, after all, just one medicine... ...that's why Wang Xiaoer didn't offer it voluntarily.
"Have you found out clearly?" Li Shu asked.
"I've asked clearly, and there are no side effects." Wang Xiaoer replied with his head down.
"Then leave it to Mother Zhao." Li Shu turned the cold jade bracelet on her wrist and said lightly to Wang Xiaoer.
"Well, go down, and remember to do more and talk less."
After watching Wang Xiaoer hand an exquisite little porcelain vase to Hua Mama, Li Shu said something meaningful and sent Wang Xiaoer away.
"Miss, what kind of medicine is this?"
Mother Zhao is an old lady in the Li family. She has lived in the Li family since before Li Shu was born. However, because she was a servant and a woman, Mother Zhao never had the opportunity to learn to read. She still cannot read a single word. Although the name of the medicine is on the porcelain bottle, Mother Zhao does not know what medicine is in her hand. After handing the porcelain bottle to Li Shu, Mother Zhao asked curiously.
This is an exquisite blue and white porcelain bottle with a red ribbon on it. The name of the medicine is on the ribbon. However, due to the angle, only the word "Jue" can be seen on the ribbon. The rest of the words are held in Li Shu's delicate hand and cannot be seen clearly.
Li Shu was playing with the porcelain bottle in her hands, and she raised her lips when she heard the words. "This is an excellent medicine. Haha, these doctors are so arrogant."
"After dinner, ask the kitchen staff to boil the herbs that Daddy brought back to treat colds and distribute them to everyone in the mansion. Oh, and for the maids in my room, send them directly to the courtyard."
Li Shu casually placed the exquisite blue and white porcelain vase in her hand on the table and gave instructions to Mother Zhao.
"Young lady is really a living bodhisattva. With this medicine, we don't have to worry about colds this winter. The runny nose and headache... I would like to thank you on behalf of everyone in the hospital. Young lady is really kind-hearted."
Mother Zhao was delighted when she heard this. The medicines that the master brought back were bought at a high price and were very effective. Her husband had caught a cold and was dying, but the master found out and sent a medicine over. It was not very good. After drinking the medicine and sweating, the disease was cured. Now the young lady said that she wanted to boil the medicine to prevent and treat the cold and distribute it to everyone, so Mother Zhao was so happy.
"Okay. Go down. You are all heroes of our Li family. Only if you are well will our Li family be well." Li Shu waved her hand, curled her lips and smiled sweetly, as if she was very pleased with the flattery from Mother Zhao.
Mother Zhao left happily, as if she had drunk two liang of wine. She couldn't wait to share the good news with everyone in Li's house.
Then, everyone in the Li family expressed gratitude to Li Shu.
After Mother Zhao left, Li Shu played with the exquisite blue and white porcelain vase for a while. Then she untied the red ribbon with the name of the medicine on it, walked to a brazier, and threw the red ribbon into it.
The red ribbon fluttered into the fire, rolled up in the fire, and then ignited a cluster of green flames.
On the burning ribbon, one can vaguely see the word "子", or perhaps the word "好" was burned first, or maybe the "女" next to it, but it turned to ashes in an instant, and it is impossible to find out what the word is.
Li Shu stood quietly in front of the brazier, watching the red ribbon burn to ashes, then she sat down at the table again with her hands behind her back.
Not long after, Baozi's maid Huaer came over, staggering with a food box in her hands.
"Miss, this tofu and crucian carp soup is delicious." Baozi, the little maid, placed the food in the lunch box on the table and showed her courtesy to her young lady.
"It smells so good? You must have eaten it secretly, right?" Li Shu walked up to the little maid named Baozi, stretched out her slender hand to touch the tip of her nose, and joked with her cherry lips raised.
"No, no, Huaer didn't cheat." Upon hearing this, the little maid Baozi hurriedly shook her head.
"Oh, how do you know the soup is delicious if you didn't eat it secretly?" Li Shu asked again with her cherry lips hooked.
"Ah?" The chubby little maid frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly realized and said, "Miss, you can smell it."
"I just remembered that you are so stupid." Li Shu tapped the little maid Baozi on the forehead, and then said compassionately, "Eating fish can make people smart. I can't finish such a large crucian carp soup. You can take a small bowl to make up for it."
"Miss, I'm not stupid." The chubby little maid covered her forehead with her hands and puffed up her face in grievance.
After dinner, the whole Li Mansion was filled with the smell of Chinese medicine, but every servant in the Li Mansion drank up the bowl of Chinese herbal medicine for preventing and treating colds distributed by the kitchen with gratitude, even slurping up the bottom of the bowl. This was the medicine that the master bought from an old doctor in the south at a high price.
There were also five medicine bowls in the boudoir of the eldest daughter of the Li family, which were steaming.
Li Shu's personal maid Baozi and three other personal maids were also in Li Shu's boudoir.
"It's freezing cold, and the yin energy is too heavy, so it's easy to catch a cold. I asked the kitchen to specially reserve a few bowls of the strongest medicine, which is the best for dispelling wind and cold and clearing the lungs. You are all serving me, the young lady, so go and drink the medicine, so that you won't catch a cold and get sick."
Li Shu was leaning against the embroidered bed, wearing a purple nightgown, with her hair hanging on both sides. She had removed her hairpins before going to bed, leaving her hair naturally undressed. Her innocent and pretty face was wearing a gentle smile, and her watery eyes were slightly narrowed.
"Thank you, Miss."
Several maids thanked Li Shu happily. Just now, everyone in the courtyard was drinking Chinese medicine to prevent and treat colds, but they were the only ones not there. They thought they were forgotten. It turned out that the young lady had been thinking about them and had left the best bowls of Chinese medicine for them. The young lady was so kind. Several maids were full of gratitude to Li Shu.
Moved by this, several maids drank the Chinese medicine while it was hot.
Li Shu watched as the maids were about to finish their drinks, nodded in satisfaction, and then said to the maid named Baozi, "Hua'er, bring me the last bowl. I'll drink it after I finish reading this volume."
The little maid Baozi obediently brought the last bowl of medicine to Li Shu and placed it on the bedside table.
"Well, you all can go down. I don't need to serve you here. After taking this medicine, it's best to sweat on the bed."
Li Shu waved her hand and asked the maids to go back to their rooms.
After the maids left, Li Shu got out of bed, took a bowl of medicine on the table and poured it into the potted plants in the room, then went back to bed and continued reading as if nothing had happened.
The book in Li Shu's hand was "The Biography of Cao Cao". The volume she was reading was the section where Cao Cao mistakenly killed Lü Bushe. The last sentence of the page was Cao Cao's famous saying, "I would rather let the world betray me than let the world betray me."
"Even if I let down the world, I will not let you down. I only hope that your heart is like mine."
Li Shu put down the "Cao Cao Biography" and opened a volume of "Jiang Cheng Zi" written by someone else. She read it several times before turning off the light and going to bed. (To be continued.)