Wait a minute, did you buy the medicine I asked you to buy?
Hearing what his young lady said, Wang Xiaoer, who was already walking at the door, couldn't help but pause, and his face turned slightly pale.
"What, but you forgot?"
Li Shu put down the brush in her hand and glanced at Wang Xiaoer standing at the door with her dark eyes. Her red lips were slightly raised and her voice was as calm as water.
"No, no, I've already bought the small one.
Li Shu's casual glance caused Wang Xiaoer at the door to break out a few drops of cold sweat on his forehead. Others didn't know about his young lady's tricks, but she knew it.
It's just that the medicine that the eldest lady asked him to buy was not an ordinary medicine. The reason why Wang Xiaoer came back later was because it was difficult to buy, especially a good medicine that had no side effects on the body. He spent a lot of money to get it from a doctor.
The household bought it from the house of a former palace maid who was released from the palace. The palace lady served a concubine before she was released from the palace, and the prescription was obtained while she was in front of this concubine.
This kind of medicine can only be trusted if it is circulated in the palace. After all, it has experienced the turbulent test of the harem.
It's just that although this medicine has no side effects, it is blind after all, so Wang Xiaoer did not take the initiative to donate it.
"Have you asked clearly?" Li Shu asked.
"I asked clearly, there are no side effects." Wang Xiaoer lowered his head and replied.
"Then leave it to Mother Zhao." Li Shu turned the cold jade bracelet on her wrist and told Wang Xiaoer calmly.
"Well, go down and remember to do more and talk less."
After watching Wang Xiaoer hand a delicate small porcelain vase to Hua's mother, Li Shu said something pointedly and sent Wang Xiaoer away.
"Miss, what kind of medicine is this?"
Mother Zhao is an elder of the Li family. She has been in the Li family since Li Shu was not born. However, because she is a servant and a woman, Mother Zhao has never had the opportunity to learn to read, and she still cannot read a single big character. Although this porcelain vase
There was the name of the medicine on it, but Mother Zhao didn't know what medicine she had in her hand. After handing the porcelain bottle to Li Shu, Mother Zhao asked curiously.
This is an exquisite small blue and white porcelain bottle with a red ribbon tied on it. There is the name of the medicine on the ribbon. However, due to the angle, only the word "Jue" on the ribbon can be seen, and the rest of the words are
Li Shu's delicate jade hand was held in the palm of her hand and could not be seen clearly.
Li Shu played with the porcelain bottle in her hand and raised her lips when she heard the words, "It's a wonderful medicine. Geez, these doctors are quite loud."
"After dinner, let the cook make a pot of the herbs that my father brought back to prevent wind and cold, and share them with everyone in the house. Oh, by the way, for the sake of the girls in my room, they will be sent directly to me in the courtyard.
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Li Shu put the delicate blue and white porcelain vase on the table and gave instructions to Mother Zhao.
"Miss is really a living Buddha. With this medicine, we don't have to worry about the cold this winter. I have a runny nose and a headache. I would like to thank the lady on behalf of the people in the hospital. The lady is really kind-hearted."
When Zhao's mother heard this, her face was full of joy. The medicine the master brought back was all bought at a high price, and it was very effective. Back then, her husband had caught a cold and was about to die. It was better that the master knew about it and let people know.
A pair of medicines were sent over, but they were not very good. After drinking the medicine, I sweated and my illness was cured. Now I heard from the lady that I need to boil the medicine to prevent and treat colds and distribute it to everyone. That's why Mother Zhao is so happy.
"Okay, let's go down. You are all the heroes of our Li family. We, the Li family, are good to you." Li Shu waved her hand and raised her lips with a smile, as if the flattery of Mother Zhao was very useful.
Mother Zhao left the room happily as if she had drunk a few ounces of wine, and couldn't wait to share the good news with everyone in the Li family.
Then, everyone in the Li family expressed their gratitude to Li Shu.
After Zhao's mother left, Li Shu played with the delicate blue and white porcelain vase again, then untied the red ribbon with the name of the medicine on the vase, walked to a brazier, and threw the red ribbon into the brazier.
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The red ribbon fluttered into the fire, rolled up in the fire, and then ignited a cluster of green flames.
On the burning ribbon, you can vaguely see the word "子", maybe the word "好" was burned first, maybe next to "女", but it turned into ashes in an instant, and it is impossible to find out.
What is the word?
Li Shu stood quietly in front of the brazier, watching the red ribbon burn to ashes, and then sat down at the table again with her little hands on her back.
Not long after, Hua'er, Baozi's little maid, came jolting over holding a food box.
"Miss, this tofu and crucian carp soup is delicious." The little maid of Baozi put the food in the food box on the table and showed her courtesy to her young lady.
"It's delicious? Did you eat it secretly?" Li Shu walked up to the little maid Baozi, stretched out her delicate hand and scratched the tip of the little maid Baozi's nose, raising her cherry lips and jokingly said.
"No, no, Hua'er didn't eat it secretly." Hearing this, the little maid Baozi shook her head hurriedly.
"Oh, how do you know the soup is delicious if you didn't eat it secretly?" Li Shu raised her lips and asked again.
"Ah?" The little maid Baozi wrinkled her face and thought for a moment, then said with sudden realization, "Miss, you can smell it."
"I just remembered that you are really stupid." Li Shu knocked the little maid Baozi on the forehead, and then said compassionately, "Eating fish can make you smart. I can't finish such a large portion of crucian carp soup.
You can get a small bowl and replenish it."
"Miss, I'm not stupid." The little maid Baozi covered her forehead and raised her bun face in grievance.
After dinner, the entire Li Mansion was filled with the smell of Chinese medicine, but every servant of the Li Mansion gratefully drank the bowl of Chinese herbal medicine that the kitchen distributed to each person to prevent wind and cold, and then drank it all.
Even the bottom of the bowl was slurped clean. This was medicine that I bought at a high price from an old miracle doctor in the south.
There are also five medicine bowls placed in the boudoir of the eldest lady of the Li family, which are steaming.
Li Shu's personal maid, Baozi, and three other personal maids were also in Li Shu's boudoir.
"It's cold and the ground is freezing, and the yin energy is too heavy, so you are most likely to suffer from wind and cold. These are the strongest bowls I asked the chef to keep specially, which are best for dispelling wind and cold and clearing up lung qi. You are all young ladies, I
Those who are waiting beside you, go and drink the medicine, lest you catch wind and cold and get over the illness."
Li Shu was leaning on the embroidery bed, wearing a purple nightgown, her hair hanging on both sides. Before going to bed, she had removed her hairpins and trimmed them naturally. She had a Hexi smile on her innocent and pretty face, and her watery eyes were slightly narrowed.
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"Thank you, miss."
Several little maids happily thanked Li Shu. Just now, everyone in the courtyard was drinking traditional Chinese medicine to prevent wind and cold. They were the only ones who didn't have any. They thought they had forgotten them. It turned out that the young lady had been thinking of them and left some for them.
The best bowls of Chinese medicine. The lady is so kind, and the little maids are full of gratitude to Li Shu.
So moved, several little maids drank the Chinese medicine while it was hot.
Li Shu looked at the few maids who were about to drink them all, nodded with satisfaction, and then said to the little maid Baozi, "Hua'er, bring me the last bowl, and I will drink it after I finish reading this volume."
The little maid Baozi obediently brought the last bowl of soup to Li Shu and placed it on the bedside table.
"Well, you all go down, I don't have to wait for you anymore. After drinking this medicine, it's best to sweat in bed."
Li Shu waved her hand and asked the little maids to go back to their rooms.
After all the maids left, Li Shu got out of bed, took a bowl of soup on the table and poured it into a potted plant in the room, then went to bed and continued reading as if nothing had happened.
The volume in Li Shu's hand was "The Biography of Cao Cao". The volume she was looking at was the section about Cao Cao accidentally killing Lu Boshe. The last sentence on this page was Cao Cao's famous saying, "I would rather teach me to betray the people of the world than cry out."
Everyone in the world has failed me.
"Even if I fail the world, I will not fail you. I only hope that your heart will be like my heart."
Li Shu put down "The Biography of Cao Cao" and opened a volume of "Jiangchengzi" with someone's dragon and phoenix dancing between them. She read it several times before turning off the lights and going to sleep. (To be continued)