Liu Ruhai carried the consultation box on his back and came out of the second master's room again, stepping on the green tiles in the corridor.
The second master had several old problems besides food accumulation, so he simply prescribed prescriptions for them.
This second master was surprised, and he was overjoyed to admire his superb medical skills.
——The second master was just testing him.
For his mother?
"The second master's legs need to be stitched twice more by the student."
"Everything about the old and disabled body is entirely in the care of Mr. Shoushi. I'll help you tomorrow and the day after. My sixth brother, I also need to ask Mr. Shoushi to take care of me."
"Don't dare, it's a student's duty."
Liu Ruhai smiled. The more the second master tried his medical skills attentively, the more he won the favor of Marquis Nankang.
Everyone thought that the second master was in poor health.
Looking at the frost and water droplets on the eaves, he thought, he must be right, Song Chengming repeatedly used tricks to hide his illness, and for a while it was the second master who was sick. Just now Liancheng and the second master talked about it again, it seemed that the sixth master was also sick.
He had checked his pulse and found that the second master just had a minor problem. I think the sixth master had the same problem.
He watched coldly in the Marquis of Nankang's Mansion, fearing that the two masters were a little confused as to why the brother-in-law, the Marquis, suddenly cared about him.
"Please, Mr. Liu. The Marquis is still waiting for Mr. Liu."
Liu Ruhai stepped onto the corridor of the outer study room again and saw the familiar figure of Cao Xiwan. She wore a black and red satin fur cloak and went to the moon cave door of the second door.
When he smiled, she didn't bump into him, otherwise she would have warned him not to act recklessly.
"Liu Zongfeng." Qin Meng took a step sideways and cupped his hands, blocking his sight without leaving any trace.
Liu Ruhai was slightly startled and looked at him calmly.
Qin Meng was shocked. This young doctor had such formidable eyes.
No wonder Lady Qing didn’t mention anything else just now, but only reminded him:
"I heard that the second steward said that the Marquis suddenly fell ill this morning. If you invite a doctor named Liu, Mr. Qin, please be careful."
She thought that the second supervisor was not telling the truth to her now.
It's not true that the Marquis suddenly fell ill. I'm afraid it's just a cover-up.
She was too lazy to take care of it, after all, she was now the girl in the wife's room.
Madam Hou clearly doesn't like her and won't let her into the house. Of course she can't get close to Mr. Hou. Only in this way can she please Madam Hou.
She entered the courtyard of the main house, walked down the south corridor, and was about to look for the room where she lived. Her mother told her to put the parcels and the hand stove in her room. Suddenly Yanzhi poked his head out of a room and pulled the
She said: "Here."
She hurriedly entered the verandah, pulled up her skirt and sat in front of the charcoal basin to roast her feet. Unexpectedly, she heard about Xiliu from Yanzhi's mouth.
Ten days after their wedding, Mr. Hou and Mrs. Hou had a quarrel. Someone heard Mrs. Hou crying and saying:
"I won't let you out! No! You're just suspicious of me! I poisoned her! The medicine is long gone!"
"Hey, did Xiliu hear it?" Cao Xiwan was surprised.
Yanzhi quickly waved his hand, and they were in the right wing of the front yard of the main house. Yanzhi and Cao Xiwan were in the same room.
She warmed her hands and feet and hurriedly dug out the packages her mother had left here. Yanzhi also came over to help her make the bed. They shared a bed, and she and Yanzhi chatted together in the bed frame. They did not call outside.
hear.
Yanzhi lowered her voice: "Xiliu is so unlucky that she went to bring hot water when she heard the noise. Who knew it was a husband and wife quarreling. Mrs. Hou scolded her. Mr. Hou was also annoyed and slept outside. In the morning, he called Xiliu
The waiter who was changing clothes, the husband and wife were using slender willows as a raft to quarrel. How could the screwdriver not spread the word when he saw this?"
Cao Xiwan kept asking for these days and finally heard the truth.
"What did Mrs. Hou mean by what she said to Mr. Hou? What was - poisoning her?" Cao Xi made the bed in the evening, put on a thick quilt, and sat on the bed. She covered her mouth with a handkerchief and coughed slightly.
cough.
There is no heated kang in the girl's room, but there is a charcoal basin with blue and crimson flames dancing brightly in the black charcoal.
"Is it you?" Yan Zhi listened and poured another cup of warm water for her. There were red satin packages on the bedside and another blue brocade package on the cabinet. Cao Xiwan was surprised and picked up a package on the cabinet in his arms and untied it.
Looking at it, Yanzhi said that Mrs. Wu of the Cao family had put it in earlier. But she clearly only had one piece of clothing and a bedding package.
"Look at you, you brought so many medicinal materials. I thought it was just snacks that you like to eat. But when I smell it, it smells like medicinal herbs." Yanzhi sat next to her and comforted her tactfully, "It's okay, I won't tell you.
Out."
The blue brocade package was indeed not a package of medicinal materials, but there were actually more than a dozen jars of pills and snacks for oral administration. They were all gray clay jars with round bellies and small mouths. She recognized this one with a double-layer Fangsheng pattern on the rim at a glance.
Clay pots. Because there are dozens of them in Liu Ruhai’s yard, all of which are dried meat and pickles sent from his village.
Now they are all replaced by pills and pill dumplings.
Yanzhi sniffed and found that there were ginseng slices inside: "What a meticulous work. Your parents are so kind to you. Are you afraid that Cao's father made it for you? If you don't know the medicinal ingredients, you can't do it well."
Cao Xiwan glanced at her.
Yanzhi is also a child born in the same family. Although she is not usually close to her, this girl is close to Suyun. Naturally, she heard from Suyun that her body is not as good as before.
"Don't worry. Sister Suyun said that you are a good person and asked me to take care of you. She said that you are used to working in the study outside. When you go back to the inner house, you feel sad. Usually you just want to learn some medicine and want to please your wife. Like this
, easily bullied.”
She pondered, did she look like a silly girl in Suyun's eyes?
Although she thinks less and worries less now, and doesn't fight or kill, she naturally doesn't bother to worry about it, and her life is prolonged.
But it seems that the inner house and the yamen are still different.
She always thought that even if she was a cripple, she would still be a smart and clever girl when she returned to the inner house. After reading medical books for a few days, she would massage her aunt's meridians. Her back pain was better, and she felt that it was more comfortable to lie down and sleep.
Keep praising her.
If this is done in the yamen, the superior officer will see it and appreciate her, and this should also be the case in the inner house.
Isn't that what her father is like? The old lady likes her father very much.
"Sister Suyun said that you are not as clever as Mr. Cao. No one dares to look down upon Mr. Cao when he walks into the inner house."
She listened silently.
That is, her father was slacking off from work, taking advantage of the old lady's influence and being treated leniently by the Marquis. The chief steward and the other stewards pretended not to notice.
"You are not as good as Aunt Wu. I know Aunt Wu as the most diligent person. She never drinks alcohol at night.
I don’t play cards either.” Yanzhi pursed her lips and smiled.
She took out a dozen clay pots from the package and placed them one after another on the bed. She thought:
That was, her mother only served as a lookout for other people's drinking and gambling games. Every time she turned around, she was the one caught.
Yanzhi also held her hand and sighed: "We have never been as good as our parents in this life. My mother often said that my young lady's body is a slave's life, she is lazy and greedy. She can't bear the hardships, shirks the easy and shirks the heavy, and likes the easy things.
What? I have no master in my eyes. Thanks to my fate, my parents are here in this house. Sister Cao, we are all the same, it will be fine."
Cao Xiwan felt that she was not lazy at all. When any wild master came to the capital, the Marquis always said: Xiaowan, go and let him know what the rules are under the feet of the emperor in the capital.
She was the one who did the most important and tiring things in the yamen. She never shied away from the easy and daunted when she was chasing down the rebels in the underground river. Cao Xiwan thought.
She suddenly woke up.
Does she have a temperament like her mother? She is easy to bully?
"Sister Xiaowan, you are just like Aunt Wu. You are a good-natured person."
"..."
A bolt from the blue. She was shocked.
"If they hadn't said that you were a capable person in the study, I wouldn't have believed that you talked back to my wife the first time you came back." Yanzhi covered her mouth and kept laughing, and then asked quietly, "Sister Xiaowan, you don't like Hou.
Master? They all said you wanted to be my aunt, but you didn’t agree? Master Hou is very elegant, even though he is a little older than us..."
She looked at Yanzhi. She was the most beautiful girl in the Hou family, with a straightforward and cheerful temper. Mrs. Hou also liked her quite a lot.
I guess Mrs. Hou saw that Yanzhi would not seduce Mr. Hou quietly.
"Sister Xiaowan, how did you get sick?" Yanzhi's eyes were uneasy.
"I'm not poisoned..." She tilted her head and thought. In fact, there was no poison in Madam's tea, but the small note in her sleeve said "poisoned." She had to be careful.
She couldn't tell others about this for the time being.
"That's good. My wife is a rich lady after all. I don't know what the quarrel with the Marquis is about." Yanzhi felt relieved.
In the Marquis of Nankang's Mansion, there has never been a case of a slave being poisoned to death by his master.
Cao Xiwan opened the jade bottle she carried with her, took two pills of medicine, and looked at the dozens of clay pots on the bed. She was thinking about the famous doctor Liu Xiaozi, who always looked at her with confused and suspicious eyes. Today, there were still people at the corner gate.
I asked, "Is it convenient to take medicine in the mansion?"
She lowered her head and opened several jars, and looked at them with confused and suspicious eyes. There were ginseng slices, polygonum multiflorum slices, smilax dumplings and other tonics. The slices inside were all neatly priced for one penny. The medicine dumplings also cost a penny.
One pill.
She originally just asked her mother to help her prepare some old ginseng slices.
After all, it is inconvenient to take tonics and make porridge in the house.
Her mother has this kind of care, but she doesn't know much about medicine. The twelve jars of medicine here can be taken orally, and they can also be put into porridge.
Her father is not that careful.
She tilted her head and thought for a moment, could it be that Liu Ruhai had made it and given it to her mother? She had always told her mother that it was inconvenient to have an old problem when she was cold in the winter, so it would be better to spend a few extra bucks to have others do things than to have an old problem.
The more powerful you are, the stronger you are. If you are like my old aunt and grandma, who can't walk even in the winter, wouldn't you be at a disadvantage?
It seems that her mother paid Liu Ruhai to do this? She didn't hear her mother talk about the accounts.
She immediately got a plain silver hairpin and carefully poked it in the medicine jar. It didn't look like it was poisonous.
Liu Xiaozi was so attentive when he had nothing to do. Could it be that he was ordered by Mrs. Hou to spy on her?
Is she poisoned without knowing it?
Cao Xiwan suspected for the first time that he had underestimated Mrs. Hou.
When Liu Ruhai stepped into the outer study to meet the Marquis, she couldn't help but remember that she forgot to give her the antifreeze oil in the medicine box.