After another long pulse diagnosis, Liu Ruhai finally stopped his hand, closed his eyes slightly and sat on the side of the kang. He seemed to be deep in thought, his hands resting on his green brocade robe at his knees, but he did not speak.
Cao Xiwan couldn't help but secretly cursed him as a flatterer.
Naturally, the Marquis had ordered him not to tell her.
But she also secretly went to Maoji Tea Shop in the past two days and made an appointment with the ghost doctor Chen Ming to check her pulse, just in case she was poisoned. However, Chen Ming could not tell from the pulse pattern that she was being plotted.
"Xiaowan, go ahead."
"Yes, Lord Marquis."
She could only stand up, salute, tie up her cloak and exit the outer study room.
Before leaving the house, she quietly glanced at Manager Lian Er.
With the second manager here, she would be able to get the pulse diagnosis results sooner or later in two days.
Song Chengming stood in the room with his hands behind his hands. Her figure leaving the window was like snow falling into the dust, disappearing in an instant without any nostalgia. He could only vaguely hear the faint sound of coughing when she left.
He sighed secretly in his heart, maybe he was too careless at the beginning, maybe he shouldn't tell her his true ambition that he had buried in his heart for many years. Then she guessed that he must marry the daughter of a wealthy family.
Cao Xiwan looked at the snow outside the corridor.
She has put the past with Song Chengming behind her.
Right now, the most important thing was to find Mother Chen. She thought that Mother Chen had promised to report to Mrs. Hou to see if Dr. Feng could be given to her.
"No." Mother Chen shook her head.
It was no surprise that she was rejected by Mother Chen. The difficulty in handling the matter made Dr. Feng appear to be a clever doctor.
She was in the corridor of the main room, patting the snowflakes on her black brocade cloak, and quietly discussed with Mother Chen: "Do you want Dr. Feng to sit on both sides of the hall, even if you get double shares? I won't tell anyone." She was still on her sleeves.
, compared the numbers mysteriously, "You will also share the dividends with Mom."
"..." Mother Chen was helpless, "No."
She sighed, Mother Chen is too pedantic. They are all old people in the secret espionage circle. Can they deceive the superiors and conceal the inferiors, collude with each other, and make secret transactions behind the master's back?
For example, Liu Shusheng, the dawdling spy, has a lot of knowledge. Those who don't know better may think that he is one of the Marquis's men.
I don’t know what the big deal the Marquis has caught with this kid.
She looked at Mother Chen sympathetically. Mother Chen was also a famous senior, but she couldn't look away. She was not thick-skinned enough to dare to reach out for money.
Big job.
So after Mrs. Chen was injured, she couldn't get a big job, couldn't flatter the superior, couldn't give gifts, so she returned to the inner house?
She sighed sadly, it was okay. Someone like her, Cao Xiwan, who was as thick-skinned and clever as a errand, came back different?
"The shopkeeper of Siwei Hall is a sophisticated and cautious person." Mother Chen suddenly said, turned around and left.
"Huh?" She blinked, secretly chuckling. She straightened her expression again and showed a faint smile.
She coughed and went to Yanzhi to talk: "My back hurts, rub it for me."
Before Yan Zhi could ask any questions, Yun Zhu, the dowry girl, quietly reported to Mrs. Hou that she was ill and had a cough.
"Madam, do you want her to be moved out?"
This is a good opportunity.
Mrs. Hou muttered: "Let's see again."
Liu Ruhai was in the study outside, thinking for a long time, and then said to Marquis Nankang: "Ms. Cao is indeed a useless person."
But he still couldn't diagnose the cause of the disease. It seemed that she was deliberately concealing some secret? Liu Ruhai thought about it and glanced at Nankang Hou. Is she doing it for Song Chengming?
Song Chengming sat in the top chair with an expressionless face.
Shi Mingniang came back injured, and Nankang Hou naturally knew it very well. He saw that Cao Xiwan was living a peaceful life during this period, and did not show any signs of depression. Every day, he would either visit the house to play, or go to each room to talk to his wife.
She was too relaxed. Song Chengming actually still held a glimmer of hope in his heart.
Maybe she was a little weird and got into trouble with him, so she pretended to be sick?
Unfortunately, today's results are exactly the same as what the palace doctor said.
Cao Xiwan is a useless person.
The second manager, Lian Er, was in a corner, silent.
He had already made up his mind. Otherwise, Qing Luo would not have been able to use half of his wealth to give him generous gifts.
Song Chengming said for a long time: "Mr. Liu, have you ever heard of the Immortality Pill?"
When the second steward heard this, he became energetic.
After all, Cao Xiwan had repeatedly asked him to do this.
It was agreed that if she could find out about Mrs. Hou's dowry Buddha statue, she would give her another sum of money.
Lien Cheng thought that the secret was in the Marquis' heart, but he never expected Mr. Liu to say:
"Elixir of Immortality? Students have also heard in Yanjing City that this elixir is made from corpse poison grass."
"Corpse poison?" Marquis Nankang's expression remained unchanged, but as soon as his confidant Ru Liancheng saw the Marquis' finger pressing on the arm of the chair, he knew that the Marquis was shocked.
"That's true. If you're not careful with this elixir, it can make a person's... martial arts completely useless."
Marquis Nankang remained calm and clenched the handrail tightly. Liancheng already took a deep breath.
The young master was ill, and the Marquis was already displeased, but he still covered it up for Mrs. Hou again and again, not wanting to spread rumors.
Could Qingluo's matter also be related to Mrs. Hou?
Cao Xiwan didn't know that Manager Lian suspected that she was hiding the cause of Mrs. Hou's illness. She had been under suspicion for everything these days, and everyone didn't believe her and suspected her of being despicable and treacherous. She had long been used to it.
Life still has to go on.
She always believed that thinking less and worrying less would lead to great wisdom and foolishness.
When the spring breeze is in full bloom, flowers bloom in Jinling and horses ride along the long streets.
When a person is alone and haggard, he is just a slave of the same family.
If she can endure prosperity, she can endure embarrassment.
"That's okay, I'll go out and run the shop for my wife." She made up her mind to run the shop outside and take the opportunity to open her own shop.
"It doesn't matter how many days after the Winter Solstice Festival, I will wait for my wife for three days and then go out. It is also my dignity." She thought for a while.
"Okay." Mother Chen agreed.
Cao Xiwan thought that she had to find the person who sent the note. She went back to get her hand stove and foot stove, holding the small note in her sleeve, and stood quietly in the courtyard of Cao's family. Snowflakes were falling on her face, and she
He squinted his eyes and thought, it must be a battle of hundreds of swords, and he really started to take revenge.
On the fourth day of the fourth watch, the fifth day after the Winter Solstice Festival, the girl was given a feast of fish and meat in her room, and the charcoal fire was endless. And the Marquis ordered Mrs. Marquis to boil medicine in the small kitchen to treat the hidden wounds on her back.
Prepare it first.
"It turned out to be a medicine jar." Mrs. Hou asked Mother Chen in surprise.
Wenxue thought for a while and said, "She looks a little dull. She doesn't usually like to talk."
Mother Chen sighed, knowing that Qing Luo was pretending to be stupid again and was too lazy to argue with the wife's dowry girl. But she also realized that the wife wanted to move her out, but it was impossible, so she said: "Maybe he was seriously injured and his brain is stupid.
A little bit, so Lord Marquis pities her, but I think she still has it clearly in the account book."
"In that case, let her take the medicine according to her own wishes in a few days, and then go out."
Mrs. Hou did not treat her harshly, but sighed, "It's hard to make Mr. Hou unhappy over trivial matters now."
There was a charcoal basin in the room, and Cao Xi, who was on duty, slept in the maid's room. He was still too cold to sleep in the first half of the night.
She kind of missed her parents, who always kept her house warm.
In the middle of the night, as soon as she fell asleep, she was hurriedly woken up by her roommate Yanzhi. She combed her hair and dressed, swallowed two pills of Baizhen Pills, and both Yanzhi and Yanzhi took two bites of pancakes and drank warm porridge. Then they rushed to the main room.
On a winter night, the double-layered dormitory windows of Baihuatang were closed, and I vaguely saw that the lights had just been turned on in my wife's room.