The maid in the front hall tried to persuade her.
Luqiao knew the danger of smallpox. Back then, her young lady declared she had smallpox in order to leave Beijing without being discovered. Immediately, the whole house was quarantined. For more than a month, no one came to visit her, no matter who she was acquainted with!
After Luqiao heard this, she became anxious and rushed straight to the underground secret room.
"Ma'am, you can't go in!" Ling Xiang stopped her at the door of the secret room.
"Why don't you let me in?!" Luqiao stomped her feet angrily. She has a good background as a servant girl, but now she is the nominal hostess of the Xia Mansion, why can't she even order a little maidservant? !
"The master said that anyone in the Xia Mansion can enter, except Madam." Ling Xiang replied coldly, "Madam, you must know your identity. You are forced to marry the master by circumstances. In the end, you are just How can a maid in Prince Gong's mansion be worthy of my master?!"
"You!" Lu Qiao was so angry that her face turned green.
Ling Xiang continued, "Ma'am, you should know that smallpox is extremely dangerous. If someone from the Xia Mansion dies, it is also for the Xia Mansion. If you are an unknown teacher, if you get sick and die... what is it?!"
"I..." Luqiao usually prides herself on being eloquent, but unexpectedly, she was choked up twice by this girl, and she was speechless, "I don't want you to care! You are not my master, whether I die or not is in the way." is you?!"
She couldn't say no, so naturally she didn't want to give up, she rushed forward with her arms crossed, and knocked that bad girl Ling Xiang into the air with one blow, and then she flashed into the secret room as if the soles of her feet had been oiled.
"Is it Ling Xiang?" Xia Qinglan heard the movement, and casually tore off the towel covering the baby's forehead and handed it over, turning her back to her, "Change the towel."
Without saying a word, Lu Qiao took the towel, dipped it in the well water beside her, twisted it a little, then walked over, and took the child away from Xia Qinglan's hand, "Come on!"
It's just that I didn't see him overnight, and the baby's face was already covered with chickenpox, and his complexion looked particularly frightening.
Xia Qinglan was exhausted all night, extremely exhausted, her expression was almost in a daze, and she suddenly woke up when she heard Luqiao's voice, "It's you?! Why are you here? My officer has ordered that from today onwards, this secret room... you don't need to use it anymore. !"
Lu Qiao ignored him, and put the baby with closed eyes on the cot, then probed its head and said, "It's very hot, you need to cool down immediately."
She glanced at the thick clothes wrapped around the baby, and frowned in displeasure. Is this going to suffocate it? !
"I'm cooling it down," Xia Qinglan said while pointing to the basin of well water.
"Not enough." Luqiao made a decisive decision, untied the swaddle directly, took off all the clothes on the baby, and then cut the towel into seven pieces with scissors, and put them on the child's forehead, neck dimples on both sides, creaking dimples on both sides and A piece was applied to the hollows of the thighs on both sides.
Xia Qinglan only knew that if she had a fever, she should cover her sweat. She had never seen this method of cooling down before, so she was so frightened that she hurriedly stopped, "It's just a child, don't mess around!"
Luqiao saw the vigilance in his eyes all at once, and his heart was poked by him just like that.
What is he afraid of? !
Afraid that she would hurt his own son? !
Ah! Lu Qiao couldn't help but sneer at Xia Qinglan in her heart, ah Xia Qinglan, your fear is very reasonable, after all I'm just a stepmother! A stepmother who is not favored and still occupies the position of mistress!