Chapter 66: Night Comes
"...What good thing?" Zhen Shiniang brought Li Qi's wife to the opposite room and joked, "My pills have been robbed. Did you give me the money?" She gave up her seat and turned around to tell Qiu Ju, "Come up.
Tea."
"Just give up on this idea!" Li Qi's wife spat, "When people look at the price of your pills, they shake their heads. I have sold less than ten pills for half a year. Yesterday, your brother Li asked me to discuss that you should just take them.
Come back." Li Qi's daughter-in-law looked at Zhen Shiniang half-jokingly and half-seriously, "It's a big business. They said that they have been married for five years and there has been no news. They asked you to come and see a doctor. As long as you can conceive a child, it doesn't matter how much money you have.
." Looking at Zhen Shiniang, "Don't you think this is pie in the sky?"
"Really?" Qiu Ju came in with tea and heard this. "Where are they?" she said again, "You have also seen Aunt Magpie. My daughter is the best at treating this kind of disease."
After eating the marrow and knowing the taste, Qiu Ju's eyes lit up when she thought of the New Year's goods delivered by Xiao Yucheng's carriage. The most important thing for these wealthy families in the city was money. If the disease was cured, just a little would be enough for them to live for half a year.
Zhen Shiniang couldn't laugh or cry.
This Qiu Ju really thinks of her as a gift girl.
"Who says it's not the case?" Li Qi's wife nodded in agreement, "Maybe someone specially named you for a visit." She looked around and lowered her voice, "Looking at the style, he should be from a wealthy family in Shangjing City, but look at it.
Sing brought three or four carriages, and a little girl who looked like a fairy came down from the top. Looking at her dress, Brother Li thought she was the daughter of some family. When he asked, he found out that she was actually a maid." He smacked his lips and said, "You think about it.
The maids are all wearing brocade, so how rich is the serious master?" Looking at Zhen Shiniang, "A wealthy family like this has endless money to spend, and the most important thing they care about is their children. This must be another official family in Beijing.
My aunt has been married for several years and has no children. She is afraid that her status will be unstable and she secretly comes out to see a doctor. If you take good care of her, she will be favored and paid a lot of money..." He said mysteriously, "These are all shady things.
If you make good use of it, you will definitely have a steady stream of money." He pulled Zhen Shiniang to stand up, "Let's go quickly, they are waiting for you."
"My slave, go get some clothes for the young lady!" Qiu Ju ran out happily.
Zhen Shiniang stepped out of the door and suddenly stood. "Sister-in-law Li said she has been married for five years?"
"Well, I have never had children." Li Qi's wife nodded.
"How many carriages do they have?"
"Three cars."
"What is that little maid wearing?"
"Long green brocade embroidered narrow coat..." Li Qi's wife thought about it carefully.
is her?
Qiu Ju suddenly remembered that Chu Xinyi's eldest maid, Chun Hong, was wearing a green brocade embroidered narrow coat. She opened her eyes wide and turned to look at Zhen Shiniang in surprise.
Remembering that Chu Xinyi had gone to Shangshu Mansion to find her, Zhen Shiniang couldn't help but laugh.
It turns out that she wanted to cure this disease.
After seeing off Li Qi's wife, Magpie turned around and started to complain. "It's true, Miss, her face was beaten into a pig's head. She definitely didn't dare to face you, so you put on makeup and covered your face to show her, and beat her hard.
Her stroke."
The left and right sides are already at odds with each other. If you don’t make money, you won’t make it in vain.
"Then it depends on who the general's successor will be?" Zhen Shiniang pulled a pillow and leaned on it lazily, looking at the window panes reflected by the white snow, and said casually, "If she hadn't been
Fu Zheng. I can help her give birth to a son and compete with the future mistress of the General's Mansion..."
…
Awakened by a fierce knock on the door, Zhen Shiniang sat up. She stretched out her hand to touch the fire and was about to hit it. After thinking about it, she put it aside.
"Miss, it seems the general is here!" Qiu Ju ran in with her clothes on.
"Are you asleep, grandma? The general is here!" Rong Sheng's voice came to mind again accompanied by a rapid knock on the door.
Nonsense, who doesn't want to sleep at this late hour?
Hearing the voice of Rong Sheng, Zhen Shiniang cursed in her heart. She saw Jian Wu Jian Wen sleeping soundly through the moonlight in front of the window, and her whole body was agitated. Go to the opposite house..."
Qiu Ju also came to her senses and immediately stepped forward to hug Jian Wu. Zhen Shiniang followed suit and picked up Jian Wen.
After settling the child, she heard the knocking on the door getting more and more urgent. Zhen Shiniang ordered Qiu Ju, "Take all the children's bedding and clothes." She grabbed the cotton-padded jacket and put it on while running out, "Here it comes, here it comes. …”
"General, okay..." Zhen Shiniang panted and opened the door, "I'm so sleepy that I kept the general waiting for a long time."
"... Real ink marks!" After saying this, Shen Zhongqing saw Zhen Shiniang busy buttoning her buttons, half of her cotton-padded coat open, her thin body shivering in the biting wind, and he immediately thought of her weight, which was as light as catkins. He frowned and said, "Why did you get out of bad health like this? Where is the maid?" I thought to myself, subconsciously reaching out my hand, then retracting it, and strode into the hospital with a black face.
"Hello, Grandma." Rongsheng bowed to Zhen Shiniang and quickly followed Shen Zhongqing.
What a bad temper!
Zhen Shiniang turned around and looked at his tall and mighty back. In the moonlight, he looked like an evil figure. She couldn't help but cursed in her heart. She felt the biting cold wind and hurriedly followed him.
After packing Jian Wu Jianwen's things, Qiu Ju had just lit the lamp. When she turned around, Shen Zhongqing had entered the room with a blue and black face. Shocked by the evil aura coming towards her, Qiu Ju knelt down and said, "...man is The slave's beating has nothing to do with the lady. If the general wants to punish him, he will punish the slave!" He broke in in the middle of the night, he must have vented his anger on Chu Xinyi.
He also knew that he was a slave, so he allowed his master to open the door in the cold wind with disheveled clothes!
Glancing at Qiu Ju coldly, Shen Zhongqing's face turned even darker.
Qiu Ju shivered.
"...You really can't move the pearl in your palm. I just gave Aunt Chu a beating." Seeing that Shen Zhongqing was having trouble getting along with a ten-year-old child, Zhen Shiniang sighed in her heart and pulled her up. "...You are the orphan I picked up, not the slave of the general's mansion. There is no need to kneel down, just go out."
"Miss!" Qiu Ju glanced at Shen Zhongqing secretly, not daring to leave.
"Brother Wen and Brother Wu are still in the opposite room." Zhen Shiniang mouthed to her and said loudly, "Qiu Ju, don't worry, the general is an eternal hero and will not hit women."
Who says heroes don’t hit women!
Seeing Qiu Ju ducking out like a civet cat, Shen Zhongqing's veins popped up on his forehead. He was about to get angry, but his irritable mood was diluted for no reason by this cunning and obviously flattering tone.
While he was distracted, Zhen Shiniang closed the door without leaving a trace and separated Qiu Ju's back.
"General, please sit down." She stepped forward and pulled out a chair for Shen Zhongqing and touched the pot on the table. "The water is a little cold. I'm going to boil a pot for the general to heat it up." She opened the door and tried to hide out.
This guy is too angry, so I'd better wait until he calms down before coming in.
"No, I'll leave in a moment." Hearing Shen Zhongqing's cold voice, Zhen Shiniang sighed and turned back.
"Slave, go ahead." Rong Sheng took the pot and took the opportunity to walk out.
"Why punish Aunt Chu?" Seeing that she didn't speak, Zhen Shiniang sat quietly without saying a word. Shen Zhongqing's anger couldn't help but rise a little bit again, and finally couldn't help but break the silence.
"She shot the magpie."
Zhen Shiniang's voice was light and had a sense of matter-of-factness.
"The magpie is just a slave!" Shen Zhongqing's voice slowed down again. He looked at Zhen Shiniang sarcastically, "...can't she even punish a slave?"
Chu Xinyi is also a slave!
Zhen Shiniang was also very angry, but she just thought about it in her heart. She didn't dare to yell at him. Zhen Shiniang coughed and said, "I am the general's legitimate wife, can't I punish even an aunt? "
"You..." Shen Zhongqing, who always pays attention to rules, couldn't help but froze.
Abandoned for five years, he almost forgot that she was still the mistress of his backyard. He never thought that Zhen Shiniang would dare to interfere in the affairs of his inner courtyard as his head wife. But think about it carefully, Zhen Shiniang is It was a fact that he was marrying his legitimate wife, there was nothing wrong with what she said, and the punishment of the concubine by the legitimate wife was a matter in the backyard. As the head of the family, he really had no position to speak, let alone support the concubine.
"Still..." He was thinking a lot, but Zhen Shiniang didn't give him a chance to think. She said word by word, "The general came here late at night and mobilized troops like this just to spoil his concubine and destroy his wife!" The last four The words are spelled very hard.
Zhen Shiniang faced Shen Zhongqing's piercing gaze and looked at him boldly.
Shen Zhongqing's eyes flickered to the side, feeling slightly weak.
Suddenly seeing Chu Xinyi being beaten like that, under his mother's anger and coercion, he rushed over overnight without saying a word, just to take the opportunity to end it with her. Now that she said this, if he really did it tonight To use this incident to force her to make peace with her would be to comply with the theory of spoiling a concubine and destroying her wife. If she really caused mischief and caused trouble to the government, it would be really difficult to deal with it.
At least, in order to block Youyou's mouth, he could no longer correct Chu Xinyi.
Thinking of Zhen Shiniang's former cunning and arrogant nature, Shen Zhongqing felt a little nervous, and her aura became obviously weaker, "No matter what, she is always the aunt in charge of the general's palace."
Seeing that he softened, Zhen Shiniang stopped. She sighed quietly, "If I hit someone else, I would always give her three points of face and not care about it." The topic changed, "Magpie is different, she is She is a twin, kneeling in the snow on a cold day, she is nothing more than a corpse with two lives. In the eyes of the general, she is just a slave, with a life like an ant, and she will die when she dies, but to my concubine, she is a lifesaver. My benefactor, four years ago I was seriously ill and my life was hanging by a thread. If she hadn't been there to take care of me, I would have passed away to the underworld long ago. I... this life is hers."
Thinking of the bitter past, Zhen Shiniang's gentle eyes were filled with mist and mist, which made Shen Zhongqing's heart tremble.
The air suddenly became silent.
After a long time, Shen Zhongqing shook his head, "... Yi'er is gentle and virtuous, how could she let a magpie kneel on the snow?" This was not what Chu Xinyi and Chunhong said before they came.
This means she lied!
Chapter completed!