Mrs. Zhenninghou has never liked Su Luo. Although she did not show this to the outside world, she never concealed it in the house.
The outstanding and decent son he raised is the heir apparent of the Zhenning Hou Mansion, so why should he be engaged to a commoner woman?
At first, Marquis Zhenning was grateful for the life-saving grace, and his forehead felt hot, so he made an engagement. After a few years, he calmed down and began to regret.
It's just that the words spoken by the dignified Marquis can't be ignored, not to mention that the other party has no father and no mother and has no support. If he regrets the marriage, if word spreads, it will inevitably make people poke the backbone of the Zhenning Marquis Mansion.
It wasn't that Su Luo couldn't feel the change in the atmosphere in the house, but she always remembered Chen Heng's words. She was unwilling to give up and wanted to stay together forever.
In the dead of night, she also thought that as long as Chen Heng had her in his heart, she could be her concubine.
She is a commoner woman, so how can she be blessed to be the wife of the prince?
But Chen Heng doesn't have her in his heart. It's been five years and she still hasn't.
It was windy and snowy, and Su Luo came out of Zhenninghou Mansion with Su Zimu who was all hot.
When she came, she was penniless and only had the clothes on her back. When she left, she was not too pretentious, carrying three jade pendants and two gold hairpins, both of which were ordinary and inconspicuous.
"Old man, could you please give us a ride? It's not far away, to Zhending. I'll give you this jade pendant. If you pawn it, we should get more than a dozen taels of silver."
Su Luo hugged Su Zimu. The child had a fever and her breath was coming out, burning the skin on her neck. Su Luo found an honest-looking driver from the car dealership and handed over the jade pendant in his hand.
"My brother is sick. We have to go home quickly. Prices in Kyoto are too expensive and we can't afford medical treatment."
Su Luo said it was pitiful.
The coachman was around forty, and she also had children at home. When she saw the child in her arms, his face was red in the snow, which showed that he was very burned. In addition, the jade pendant was indeed of good quality.
The coachman took the jade pendant and without asking her why she didn't exchange it for money, he opened the curtain and let the siblings get in the car.
"Miss!"
Just as Su Luo got into the car, a shout in the snow prompted her to open the car curtain and take a look. She saw Chun Xing running all the way through the wind and snow.
Su Luo's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
Could it be that the Hou family refused to let him go for the sake of face?
While Su Luo's mind was spinning, Chun Xing ran forward and saw that Su Luo and Su Zimu were both in the car. She gasped and climbed into the car, stretched out her arms from the window, and patted the carriage.
, "Let's go."
After saying that, the carriage drove off, Chun Xing smiled unsteadily at Su Luo, her eyes were filled with tears, and the tears were clearly falling, but she smiled.
"The Marquis gave the deed of sale to the slave, and the slave followed the young lady.
When the young lady left, the engagement was cancelled, and the reputation of the Zhenning Hou Mansion was harmed. The servant told the Marquis that Master Zimu was seriously ill, and the servant had been serving the young master for so many years, so he was really worried.
The servant kowtowed three times to the Marquis and said that the young lady's father had saved the Marquis' life back then, and now he was regarded as a slave to take care of the young lady and Master Zimu on behalf of the Marquis. The Marquis gave the deed of sale to the slave, and from now on the servant
Also serve the lady."
Chun Xing could say this because she risked her life.
A maid threatened the head of the family with what happened back then. Fortunately, Marquis Zhenning felt guilty now so he didn't attack her.
Su Luo stretched out her hand and rubbed Chun Xing's head. She said hoarsely and with a sour heart, "You're stupid, aren't you?"
Chun Xing rubbed her head against Su Luo's palm, "I just want to follow you."
She was a maid bought by the Zhenning Marquis Mansion, but that year she had a fever and almost burned to death, so Su Luo gave her a bowl of medicine.
Her life belongs to Su Luo.
The carriage went all the way out of the city.
Zhending is not too far from Kyoto. I left the capital in the middle of the afternoon, but when I arrived, it was already the end of Youxu.
It gets dark early in winter. Su Luo remembers hearing her father mention it before. There must be a Yuchuntang pharmacy opened by a retired imperial physician. In the early years, her father studied medicine and worshiped a doctor from Yuchuntang.
Dr. Huang is his teacher.
Su Zimu had a severe fever. Who was she? Chen Heng refused to help. How could she hire the imperial doctor in the palace?
There was no other way, Su Luo could only make her decision in Yuchuntang, and braved the wind and snow to come from Kyoto.
After giving Chun Xing a jade pendant and asking her to take it to a pawn shop to exchange for money, Su Luo held Su Zimu and walked around asking questions before entering the door of Yuchuntang Pharmacy.
It was Su Luo's good luck that the doctor was the old doctor who had retired from the palace.
"How many days have you been having fever?" The old doctor carefully felt Su Zimu's pulse and then rolled his eyelids to look at it.
Su Luo hurriedly held Su Zimu with one hand and let him sit firmly on her lap. With the other hand, she took out a square folded prescription from her sleeve and handed it over, "Including today, I have been burning for five days in total. I have been burning for five days.
After taking these medicines for five days, the fever has not gone away. I was in good spirits before, but now I have been falling asleep since I woke up early."
She was anxious, and Su Luo's voice was hoarse and trembling.
The old doctor is over eighty this year. She has been working in the palace for decades and has been running a medicine hall in Zhending for so many years. She has never seen anything happen.
One look at the prescription that Gu Luo took out, and combined with the child's illness, he could almost instantly conclude that the child was poisoned, not explicitly, but just a common cold, and the prescription was prescribed
There is a deadly tiger and wolf medicine inside.
The old doctor glanced at Su Luo and saw that her eyes were red and her hair was a little messy. She was a thin and frail little girl, "Where are the adults at home?"
In five years, this was the first time someone asked her about the adults in her family.
Maybe it was the grievance in her heart that was causing trouble, maybe it was the nerves she had been straining for so many years that were broken. She didn't cry when she came out of Zhenninghou's mansion, but now she shed a line of tears.
Immediately he realized that he was rude and quickly wiped it with his sleeve, "My parents both died of illness, and only my brother and I are left. Is my brother... seriously ill?"
The old doctor didn't have much expression on his face. He twirled his fingers and sighed almost invisible. He didn't mention the prescription. He just said: "It doesn't matter. Fever due to wind and cold is common. There is no need to take decoction. I am here."
There are ready-made pills. When you go back, you can dissolve them in water and take them three times a day for three days."
When Su Luo heard this, she was obviously happy, but her tears were a little blurry, "Thank you, thank you."
Just as he was talking, Chun Xing came over, paid the money, took the medicine, and left with Zimu.
There was an inn not far from the medicine hall. She asked for a B-size room. After the boy brought hot water, Su Luo immediately took the pills and fed them to Su Zimu.
Although the room in the inn is not that good, it is still warm and sheltered from the wind and rain, and the quilt is soft.
The little Su Zimu was asleep in bed, his face still red, and he would hum from time to time due to the high fever.
Su Luo twisted the handkerchief and put it on his forehead. She sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her brother for a moment. Su Zimu snorted, which made her feel a lot of pain in her heart.
Chun Xing couldn't bear Su Luo's discomfort, so she brought a cup of tea to Su Luo and said, "Miss, I just went to the pawn shop to exchange money. I heard that the King of Nanhuai is also in Zhending, and he just gave Zhending's government office this morning.
Burned."
The leader of the bullies in Kyoto, Xiao Yu, Prince of Nanhuai, is the only child of the eldest princess. The eldest princess loves the emperor and favors her nephew. She raises a really domineering and tyrannical son. It is said that he is a master who will kill people and set fire to him if he disagrees with her.
Su Luo had heard about Prince Nanhuai in the past few years at Zhenning Hou Mansion, but her thoughts were more on Chen Heng, and what she knew about this prince were only rumors.
As he was talking, there were suddenly several loud noises outside, like the sound of a chair falling to the ground, followed by a lazy tone, "I'm really used to you guys. It's your turn to dictate where I live?"