Shen's house has been hounded into an iron barrel that is not broken. The legendary Sixth Prince who "will return soon" is still floating in the legend, and has not yet returned to Yangzhou. According to Zhan Yue, when the imperial court changes, the Sixth Prince has to stay in Beijing for a while to appease the big and small officials before he can come to Yangzhou to marry the princess. In other words, the Sixth Prince had to clean up the rebels in the court who dared to disobey the party before returning to Yangzhou to clean up the rich Shen family.
Fortunately, my family can still enjoy themselves. Even if they can’t go out, they can play the light and yin. My aunts and aunts are shuffling cards in the house, day and night. . It just hurts two people.
Bearing the brunt is the chef in charge of cooking in the kitchen. In the past, hundreds of people in the Shen family relied on him to feed them with a spoon, and they were quite respected and respected. After frying for a few days, the master became a comprador. Although his rank has dropped, his position as a comprador is quite oily. Now it's so easy to put on the chef's hat and take the spatula again. I don't want the Shen family to be trapped by the soldiers again. Those alive inside can't get out, and those alive outside can't get in. Those alive include not only people, birds, Insects, ants, and beasts, including chickens, ducks, fish, radishes and potatoes, all of them could not enter the gate of the Shen family. Every day, the food was ordered by Zhan Guard from the restaurant in the city, and then he personally led a group of tough soldiers to bring it in.
In this way, the master can be regarded as completely idle, and it has become a decoration when it is idle in the kitchen. This made the master very worried, and he was afraid that he would be driven out of Shenmen to return to his old home in a few days, so he came to me for two consecutive days to express his worries. I politely reassured him that the Shen family would never drive him back to his hometown in Mengjiang to herd sheep, and promised him that he would be paid a lot.
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Now I can see the doorway, there is nothing impossible in this world, only unexpected things, surprises are everywhere. Take a long-term view, no one can offend, especially the chef in charge, let alone the other, let’s look at today’s Sixth Prince is a living example. A dozen days ago, Pei Yanzhen was cooking in my kitchen, but in a blink of an eye, he changed his mind. Aspiring to the throne of the king, it can be seen that the feng shui on the head of the Shen family stove is very good, and the fortune is very prosperous. No matter where the hero comes from, it is not clear that this master master will become a commander and general in the future.
In the world, only the ex-husband and the cook are difficult to support. Absolutely not guilty.
In addition to this master, there is another person in the family who is very anxious, that is, the little brother is sinking. My father doesn't restrict the children very much, and the aunties let the two younger brothers free. In other words, Shen Zai is like a little donkey that is used to stocking. I can't wait to scratch the wall and plan the hoofs and step on the white board at the door to rush out the guards who are lined up in a row.
On the first day of the ban, Shen Zai tried to sneak out over the wall, but he was caught by the fiery-eyed Zhan Yue and brought back in despair. A day later, Shen Shui dived into the backyard pond again, and in a whimsical way, he tried to drill out through a water hole that connects the pond with the outside river. He was so frightened by the two soldiers stationed on the side of the small river that he choked back. At this point, Shen Zai completely understood how strictly the Sixth Prince protects the Shen family, so he played with the cat in the boudoir courtyard, making the cat annoy him, and when he saw Shen Zai, he took a detour.
Seeing that Shen Zai was no longer making a fuss, I also felt relieved. At night, I sat beside the bed and looked in the mirror and took off my head. The lotus flowers in the pond are reflected, and the mirrors are spread all over the place, and the stalks of clear pink and green stalks are rendered without ink. Seeing this beautiful scenery, I don't know why, I suddenly feel very good, and I think that maybe I won't sleep again today, I don't know, I take off my shoes and go to bed to brew sleepiness.
I heard a thudding sound, which was not real. I looked out the window and continued to brew. I was a little dozed off, but a shrill cry rang out from the window: "No, the second young master is drowning. !"
I hurriedly sat up from the bed, put on some clothes and rushed to the courtyard. When I got to the edge of the pond, I saw that the nurses at home had scooped up the sink and paddled the water towards the shore. The concubines from all the houses gathered in chaos from all sides. The nursing home's arms were as soft as a willow and pale, so I hurriedly stepped forward to stop my aunt, and asked the nursing home to squeeze out the water that had sunk in my chest and lungs.
It turned out that Shen Zaizhi couldn't sit still. The eleven-year-old boy was very active. When he saw lotus flowers in full bloom in the pond at night, he wanted to climb and break a branch to honor his mother. Duo, I thought that by hooking the porch column with one hand and picking it off with one hand, I would be able to capture it, but I never thought that the moss under my feet slipped and fell into the water. For a while, I panicked, and the mud pool was full of mud and choked my nose and mouth.
The noise in the house naturally alerted the guards outside the hospital, so I immediately asked Zhan Yue to find a doctor to take a look at Shen Zai. Zhan Yue seemed to frown and hesitated for a moment, seeing the little aunt who was holding Bai Shushu and Shen Zai weeping, she finally agreed, and the speed was fast. After a while, an old doctor came to the door, holding a mustache for Shen Zai. After taking my pulse, I said, "It's not a big problem. Prescribe the prescription for expelling cold qi. Decoction three times a day and eat it for two days." I also comforted my auntie, "Don't panic, auntie, I have experience with this drowning incident. , as long as the stagnant water is cleared out, I can guarantee Xiaoguanxiao will be alive again tomorrow morning." After receiving the words of the old doctor and me, the aunt wiped away her tears and felt a little relieved.
No one could have predicted that this newly blooming lily was just the beginning. The blooming period of the lotus is not short but not necessarily long. However, the manchi lily has not yet bloomed, but the Shen family has turned upside down. .
Shen had a fever on the second day after falling into the water. After the doctor prescribed antipyretics and decoction, the fever subsided, but there was a problem of coughing. At first, it was only a cough and a cough. My family didn't care about it, so I didn't call a doctor. After a few days, my complexion was better than before, my cheeks were always red and lips were red, but I always said I was tired, not as active and active as before, and my appetite was getting smaller. . The little aunt thought that he was really noisy, so she just told him to take a rest when he heard that he was tired.
As time went on, a few concubines and I also began to cough slightly, and we always felt a sense of lingering tiredness like the upper body of a sleepy worm. Every afternoon, I get a tidal wave of fever, and my palms and feet are also hot. My aunts complained that it was too hot this summer, but I always suspected that I had a fever. The green warbler pressed my forehead, but there was no real fever. , then give up.
Now, calling Langzhong is no better than before, he always has to pass the exhibition, and this exhibition guard must have received the ear of his family's sixth prince and told him not to let the Shen family have any contact with outsiders, so he always looked suspicious and inquiring. Xiao Zai had a fever. He personally touched Xiao Zai's forehead and confirmed that it was hot enough to boil an egg. He just went to the doctor. When Lang Zhong asked the doctor, the battle was even more remarkable. There was a circle of iron-clad guards around the bed. Pressing the hilt of the knife, the anti-thief generally stares at the every move of the people in the house, especially Na Langzhong, such a battle is really unblessed. Therefore, the family members do not want to bother the whiteboards at the door to ask the doctor even if they have some coughs. Moreover, some minor ailments do not really need to see the doctor to drink medicine to heal, and they often disappear after a delay.
The family coughed one after another, dragged it until the guards who delivered the meal couldn't even look down, and told Zhan Yue, and only then did a doctor come to see the doctor. As soon as the bang fell down, when the pulse was finished, his face became even more worrying, and he seemed uneasy. After checking the pulse several times, he confirmed the diagnosis with a solemn expression: "Little son, this is suffering from tuberculosis."
The sky was clear and clear outside the house, and the five thunderbolts inside the house were deafening. For a time, the color of the sky and the earth changed suddenly. The little aunt shook the bedpost, "Tuberculosis..."
I stared blankly at Na Langzhong, then turned my head and asked Zhan Yue, "Where did you invite this barefoot quack doctor who runs around the world?"
The quack doctor ignored my words, and only frowned and looked around, "Several ladies and young ladies also need to check their pulse."
Zhan Yue also seemed to be stunned by these two words, he just stared at the doctor, his face darkened.
In one night, Zhanyue went to almost all the medical clinics in Yangzhou city. Well-known, marketable, famous doctors and quack doctors all invited into Shen's house. After looking at them one by one, there was only one conclusion - the young son of the Shen family was infected with tuberculosis. A aunt and a young lady also contracted tuberculosis.
From the scrutiny statements made by these doctors, either implicitly or euphemistically, straightforwardly or ramblingly, I learned one thing—the terminally ill, unable to recover, the only option is to prepare a coffin for the funeral and wait for death.
I don't know how many days have passed in the dark, maybe it is very long, it looks as long as the "unday" in the mouth of the sixth prince, or it may be very short, as short as the dew marriage between Song Xiyuan and me. All I know is that now I am not afraid of the dark night, but only the sunrise. Every day when the sun rises, people come down to report the mourning.
On the first day, Xiaozai went. The next day, my aunt went. The third day, the fourth day, the fifth day... Several aunties were reluctant to leave the little aunt alone in the underground and could not find a card and a partner, so they went one after another... It was too fast to be sad, and there was no real feeling.
The coffin was prepared long ago at home, first-class golden nanmu, and the tomb of the Shen family was dug long ago. It was very large. When my mother passed by in the early years, my father took me into the mausoleum to see it. At the bottom of the cold, all the coffins of the Shen family were buried in it. Dad said, "The Shen family lives in the same room and dies in the same cave."
I was wearing hemp and filial piety, but I couldn’t say goodbye to my younger brother and aunts. I could only lie on the bed half-awake and half-dream in anger. The dream was bizarre, and I woke up occasionally. Every time I opened my eyes, I saw a different doctor. , Lu Ying always stood by the side silently weeping and speechless. If Zhan Yue saw that I was awake, he would often see the needles being turned over and over again with only one sentence: "Miss Shen, hold on, the Sixth Prince will be back soon!"
I can't help but wonder, what's the difference between "no day" and "soon"