At this moment, there was another hurried footstep outside, and then the curtain was lifted.
A beautiful maid wearing a dark green satin jacket and a turquoise cotton skirt walked in and hurriedly bowed before saying, "Mother Zhu, the third wife's carriage has arrived at the gate, and the first wife is arranging for someone to go to the second one. You are greeted at the door. My aunt asked you to quickly arrange for the main room of Ziweiyuan and the east wing of the eldest lady to be cleaned up. The ground dragon is hot. Also, check whether the quilt cushion is damp, if it can't be used, hurry up Change it."
Madam Zhu was originally sitting on the little tumbler in front of the kang, and when she heard the young maid speak, she jumped up in a panic, and even the little tumbler was brought to her by her movements, making a muffled sound: "What? How can it be so fast? Didn't you say it would arrive in the evening? It's just past noon."
"Oh, what are you asking about now? The people are almost here, so hurry up." After speaking, he turned around and hurried away.
Madam Zhu hurriedly walked around the room twice, and finally stomped her feet and turned her head to confess to Ren Yaoqi, "The slave maid will go down and make arrangements first."
Madam Zhu lifted the curtain and left, and the room instantly became quiet.
Ren Yaoqi tilted his head and looked out the window, his eyes clear as water.
Perhaps because of the snow, through the thick cellophane, I could only see a gray patch outside. Although it was just after noon, it seemed like it was just dawn.
Ren Yaoqi sat quietly on the head of the kang, waiting for the movement outside. When her mother came back, she would go to the old lady's yard to say hello before returning to Ziweiyuan.
The two little girls who had been sent away by Madam Zhu came back at this time.
"Xue Li, have you seen it? The elder guards in the Yanbei Palace are really tall and brave, more powerful than the elder guards in our outer courtyard, but unfortunately they are all stern, even Han Lu next to the fourth young lady. They didn't even look up when they walked up to them."
"Yeah, the people from the Yanbei Palace had already left when I went. Have you seen the old princess? I heard that she was the daughter of the late emperor and a princess."
"Why did the princess come into our mansion for no reason? She just sent someone to send the third wife and the third young lady into the mansion. But this woman, no matter how noble she is and can't have a son, is nothing, even a princess. Make way for other women."
"This... the emperor's daughter will always be different, right?"
"What's the difference? The current King Yanbei didn't craw out from this princess' belly, but the son of Mrs. Yun Tai. If the princess can't give birth to a son, it's just like the boss doesn't make sense if it doesn't rain. In what way?"
"There's some truth to it. Let's stop talking about it, or we'll be scolded again when Mammy Zhu comes in and sees it."
"Don't worry, I saw Mammy Zhu was leading someone to clean the main house. How can I take care of us? Besides, Mammy Zhu is just a reprimand. In the hands of Mammy, that's really the end."
"Yeah, now that the third wife is back, doesn't this Ziweiyuan still have to make up her mind? Then we... "
"No way? We're not from the third wife. We and Zhu mama were given to the fifth lady by Aunt Fang."
"But… "
"Shh—someone's coming."
The outside suddenly became quiet, and there were loud footsteps in the originally quiet garden. Ren Yaoqi sat up straight and watched a figure walk by outside the window, as if heading towards the main room.
"The third wife and the third lady went to the old lady's place, and they will be back to Ziwei's courtyard in less than half an hour. You should act a little more sluggishly, and go back to the eldest lady immediately if you see what is missing."
But Ren Yaoqi waited for a long time, and no one came back, but the outside came and went to answer, and the sound of moving things was still noisy.
The medicine Ren Yaoqi used before contained tranquilizers, but after that, he couldn't bear to fall asleep, but he still had thoughts in his heart, and he woke up when he was holding the lamp.
She felt someone sitting beside her bed, and immediately opened her eyes.
A pair of candlesticks were already lit on the table in the center of the room, burning about an inch. As soon as she opened her eyes, the dim yellow light made her eyes uncomfortable, and she couldn't help tilting her head.
"Yaoqi, are you awake?" A gentle voice sounded, which made Ren Yaoqi stunned.
The man seemed to notice her discomfort, got up and moved the candlestick to the low table in the west before walking back.
"Is it better now?"
Ren Yaoqi nodded and said to the woman in front of him, "When did the aunt come?"
Although there was some backlight, she still knew the woman next to her. She was wearing a fox fur jacket with light purple embroidered orchid satin, a white pick-up skirt, her jet-black hair was pulled into a bun, and only a pair of unique styles were inserted. of gold hairpins.
The pearl earrings swayed gently under her ears, casting a small shadow on her white side face, looking at a different kind of graceful and delicate.
This is Aunt Fang, a Jiangnan woman. Her words and deeds are always elegant and gentle, like a lady from an ancient painting.
Everyone in the family said that she was not only beautiful, but also had the heart of a bodhisattva.
There used to be a few half-year-old maids in Ziwei's courtyard secretly learning how to talk and walk with Aunt Fang. They were bumped into by the third sister, Ren Yaohua. The third sister ordered Mammy Zhou to find someone to use bamboo strips to slap them hard, and their calves were slapped. He was locked in the woodshed after being bloodied with the back of his feet.
Because it was midsummer, after three days of confinement, several maids had maggots below the knees.
During the year when the mother and Ren Yaohua went to Zhuangzi, the old lady handed over the Ziweiyuan and her to Aunt Fang to take care of them.
In the impression of the previous life, this Aunt Fang seemed to be obedient to her and took great care of her. Even her own daughter, the ninth sister Ren Yaoying, hated her because of this.
"Not long after you came, I saw you sweating all over. Is it hot?" A cool palm was placed on her forehead.
Ren Yaoqi didn't move: "Well."
Aunt Fang sighed softly: "Why didn't you say it was hot? You kept screaming cold when you were just sick, and you were shivering from the cold under the three-layer quilt, so I asked people to move you to the kang. Now you are not afraid of the cold anymore. , it should be almost healed. I'll have the bed tidied up later, so let's sleep on the bed tonight, and it's more spacious. "
Ren Yaoqi nodded.
Fang Auntie looked at her for a while, and said after deliberation: "Yao Qi, your mother and third sister are back, I am afraid that my aunt will not be able to intervene in the affairs of the yard in the future, so you will follow your third sister more in the future. She You have a high temperament and please the elders. If you still screw with her everywhere, you will suffer. As for the lady... Actually, you can't blame the lady, you know when you were born... In short, it's not that she doesn't care about the lady. Yours, after all, you are also her daughter, but Miss San is the eldest daughter, so Madam will inevitably rely on her more."
Aunt Fang persuaded her softly, her voice was slow, although she spoke northern dialect, but if you listened carefully, you could still hear some southern accents, soft and sweet.
Ren Yaoqi tried hard to imagine how he would react to these words if he followed his childhood temperament, but his face remained calm.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Aunt Fang stretched out her hand to adjust the quilt for her, and said, "After a few days, I will go and see the wife and the third lady. I just touched your forehead and it was still hot, the lady and the third lady. The horses and chariots over there will be settled, so you can rest for now. I will order someone to change the bed for you?"
Mother and third sister have returned to the yard? Ren Yaoqi nodded.
Auntie Fang got up and went out, and her soft commanding voice came from outside the curtain.
After a while, the two maids came in with the quilt and walked to the canopy bed to the north and started to make the bed.
The canopy bed hadn't been slept in for a while. It was a little damp. Fortunately, the ground dragon was burned in the room, and the newly replaced quilt was dry. Even so, compared to the hot kang, it was still much colder.
The body is hot and sweating at first, and then suddenly it is cold and sweating. In fact, it is very easy to catch a cold. I don't know if Fang Auntie knows it.
Ren Yaoqi asked the little maid named Qingmei to get a few small hand stoves, put them in the bed and covered them, and then asked them to get a set of dry underwear, and then go to the smoker to heat up.
Qingmei and another maid, Xue Li, whispered: "First, it was too hot, and now it is too cold. The fifth and third misses are really sisters, and they are used to tossing people."
"Shh - don't say that in the future, the guy from the east wing is back..."
Ren Yaoqi didn't hear the complaints from the maids, and when the bed was hot, she asked the maids to wait for her to change into close-fitting clothes, and helped her to sleep on the bed.
After being covered by the small stove for a long time, the heat on the bed is almost the same as the temperature on the kang.
Not long after lying down, someone came in with a medicine bowl.
"Miss Fifth, it's time to drink the medicine." A young woman's voice whispered.
When Ren Yaoqi opened his eyes, he saw the beautiful woman in a dark green satin jacket and azurite cotton skirt who had come to look for Zhu Mama before. She was a big maid named Kumquat beside Aunt Fang.
"Didn't you say you want to change the recipe?" Ren Yaoqi sat on the head of the bed with the help of Kumquat, and glanced at the medicine bowl.
Kumquat had a smile on his face: "Take this dose and then change it. My aunt originally invited the doctor to come, but she was stopped by Zhou mama halfway to see the third lady and the third lady. After the doctor went to the old lady to reply, she was called The steward is gone. Auntie said that she will go to invite a doctor for you tomorrow."
"Mother is she sick?"
Kumquat glanced at Ren Yaoqi when he heard this, and smiled: "The third lady and the third lady have been on the road for a day, and it is icy and snowy outside. I think I am worried about the cold. Fifth lady, the medicine is getting cold, so hurry up. Have you drunk?"
The medicine bowl was brought to her mouth, Ren Yaoqi's brows could not help frowning slightly, this was not the medicine she took before.
Although the recipe I ate before was tepid, it was symptomatic, but this bowl of medicine was changed to several herbs.
After she left the Ren family, she read a lot of books with Mr. Pei, not to mention the history books, the art of war, the laws and astrology, and Buddhist scriptures.
All things in the world are based on mutual growth and mutual restraint. The properties of herbs are divided into yin and yang balance, and the diseases are divided into cold, heat, dampness and dryness.
The right medicine not only needs to know the meridian, trend, ups and downs, ups and downs of the medicine, and compatibility with each other, but also needs to know the five elements to produce grams and the seven emotions to harmonize.
On the contrary, it is a taboo to use drugs.
For example, there was a flavor of aconitum in the prescription she used to take, which was a low-grade medicine and was poisonous. However, it can also become a good medicine after being made into a medicine with proper compatibility. In addition to Aconitum in this bowl of medicine today, there is also a taste of Pinellia. It is harmless to use them separately, but it is a taboo to use them together.
In addition, there are several medicinal herbs that are incompatible with each other, so if she drinks this medicine, although it will not hurt the root of her body immediately, the disease that has been almost healed will be delayed for a few days. .