Wen Renyang's face rarely turned red. He had never felt ashamed before. However, he was always a good boy. "I've read a lot in books, but I've never seen the real thing. If Fourth Sister tells me about it once, I'll remember it."
Xiaocao nodded in understanding, then raised his chin, "Starting from your left hand side..." Xiaocao told him everything.
Wen Renyang listened carefully, and after Xiaocao finished speaking, he quickly picked out what needed to be ground, which was completely different from his slow pace just now.
Xiaocao chuckled. His mother and sister both said that he had a good memory, and it seemed that it was indeed not bad.
However, during the grinding process, Wen Renyang became clumsy again. He almost lost his hands several times even though he was just grinding in the mortar. However, despite this, he still pursed his lips and worked very seriously. It was exactly as he expected. Although this younger brother was obsessed with studying, he would always take the tasks assigned to him seriously.
Xiaocao watched leisurely, however, the maids standing by felt distressed and wanted to go forward to help him finish it. However, when they had the intention to do so, Xiaocao coughed lightly and looked over with indifferent eyes. The maids were startled and then stood still obediently.
Some people are usually good-tempered, but once they get serious, they can't help but become timid. Even the strongest aura can be timidated, not to mention these maids who don't have any aura at all.
Xiao Cao saw Wen Renyang knock over the mortar for the third time, the medicine spilled out, and his fingers were hit by the mortar. He walked forward helplessly, "Okay, stop it. Let me see your hand." When the maid was in a hurry to find the medicine, Xiao Cao was like nothing happened. His fingers were a little red, and there might be bruises later. "It's okay."
Wen Renyang originally felt severe pain, but seeing Xiaocao's nonchalant look, he felt that if he said it hurt, people would think he was being hypocritical, so he endured it silently. However, he still felt a little aggrieved in his heart.
Xiaocao took out the daily medical box, took out some things from the bottom, fiddled with it for a while, and quickly made a "Band-Aid", which she then put on Wenren Yang's finger.
All the grievances disappeared in an instant. Wen Renyang originally felt pain and heat, but in an instant it became cool and the pain was relieved a lot. He moved his fingers and found it was just a thin layer. There was no need to wrap it with silk thread, so it was not a hindrance.
Xiaocao reached out and poked Wenren Yang's forehead.
Wen Renyang looked up at her in confusion, his eyes really like that of a child.
"Xiao Si, it's a good thing you follow your parents' orders and the matchmaker's words, otherwise, I don't think you will even be able to find a wife in your life." Xiao Cao teased.
Wen Renyang looked at Xiao Cao quietly, his eyes still clear, but filled with silent accusations.
"I am lazy, I don't know how to distinguish grains, and I don't like to go out. Which girl would like me?"
"Many girls are in love with me." Wen Renyang's voice was gentle, as if he was just stating a fact, but his response seemed a little faster.
"Am I in love with you, or am I in love with your ability to read?" Xiaocao smiled.
Wen Renyang opened his mouth, wanting to give a strong rebuttal, but he knew that what his fourth sister said was true. He had once overheard a girl discussing him at his maternal grandparents' house, and apart from the fact that he could read, he didn't seem to be very likable.
Xiao Cao touched Wen Renyang's head as if he were a child, smiling, "After you get married, be nice to your wife."
Wen Renyang nodded slowly, "As it should be."
Xiaocao knew that Wenren Yang didn't understand what she meant. What he called good was probably just out of respect for his wife.
Her younger brother, to some extent, is a giant baby who needs someone to take care of him in every aspect. Fortunately, he was born in a wealthy family and has servants to serve him. If he was born in an ordinary family, he would definitely be despised to death. Of course, ordinary families cannot raise a person with such a temperament because the conditions do not allow it.
Based on this, as long as his wife doesn't have someone else in her heart, she can basically love him well and doesn't mind raising him as a son. What Xiaocao said was good because she hoped there would be no one else between them.
Xiaocao didn't know whether there was really no problem in the relationship between her parents, but in her opinion, even if her mother really didn't care about those concubines, as long as there was a third person between the couple, unless there was no affection at all, how could there be no gap at all? They were getting along well, which indirectly proved that her mother had high emotional intelligence and means. Of course, the key lies in her father, who prevented the concubines from causing any trouble.
But her brother's personality is such that he has low emotional intelligence. As long as people with low emotional intelligence stick to their principles, there will be no problems in many things. But if someone pretends to be good in front of him but does all kinds of things behind his back, then there will most likely be problems between the couple.
So he told Xiaocao that it would be best if his younger brother did not have concubines or other sexual intercourse with him.
It's hard to say now. Maybe I can give him some advice after we get more familiar with each other. In Xiaocao's opinion, there should be nothing wrong with her brother. As long as she tells him that having too many women will cause troubles and affect his studies, he will probably avoid such things. Maybe I should talk to his mother. I just don't know what her mother will think. This person has serious double standards. A woman does not want her husband to take a concubine, but she doesn't want her son to do so.
Xiaocao handled all the medicines skillfully. This time Wenren Yang just watched from the side, because Xiaocao was talking to him and he did not "daydream".
"Is Fourth Sister's medical skills very impressive?"
"not bad."
“When did you start learning?”
"When I was first educated, I used my adoptive father's medical books."
"That's at least fourteen or fifteen years."
Xiaocao smiled but said nothing. If you really want to count it carefully, it should be more than twenty years.
In this way, the two siblings spent quite a bit of time together. After escaping from her mother's "clutches", Wen Renying also ran over happily. From time to time, her laughter could be heard, as well as various expressions of disgust and criticism towards Wen Renyang.
In the afternoon, everything was ready, and Xiaocao started to make pills for Madam Wenren. Without Wenren Yang and Wenren Ying, the maids did what they could - the maids had heard from Han that they would basically be the ones to do these things in the future, so, if they wanted to gain the trust of the new master, they had to at least get to know all kinds of medicinal materials and learn how to handle them. In fact, it wouldn't do them any harm to learn more about these things, so they all put in their best efforts and didn't want to fall behind - a bottle of pills for Madam Wenren was delivered early.
Old Madam Wenren didn't expect Xiaocao to prepare the pills so quickly. She opened the bottle stopper and sniffed it. It actually smelled like fruit. The original strong smell of medicine that made people want to nausea was now very slight. This smell did not cause any discomfort. Old Madam Wenren felt a little subtle and inexplicably felt that she was being coaxed like a child.
What she didn't know was that she wasn't the first person to feel this way.