Cao Xiwan, in the small sitting room, took the sixth wife's pulse seriously.
Mrs. Six couldn’t stop laughing: “So you are a female doctor.”
She sighed deeply and felt that it was a bit difficult to feel the pulse as a doctor, but nothing came out.
She can master meridian massage as soon as she learns it, and she can see immediate results. I'm afraid it takes an experienced doctor many years of experience to grasp the pulse, so it can't be done quickly.
However, this can't stop her.
She put her hand away and thought about when to trap Liu Ruhai, what kind of disease could the cemetery get, and what kind of pulse was it. It was easy. After all, she came today to explain to Liu Xiaozi that he was not a wild man.
"My illness...is the result of practicing shooting?" Song Chengfeng burped several times before he dared to believe it.
The imperial doctor also said that it might be because he drank cold wine in winter.
"The footwork is too hasty. This shouldn't be the original footwork in Mr. Six's set of marksmanship."
"Good eyesight!" Mr. Six laughed endlessly. His eyes were bright, and he took out a handkerchief to wipe his sweat. His face was delighted: "Mr. Liu also knows how to shoot? Come on, tell your wife, and bring a banquet over... uh
...Mr. Liu and I are here to use it." Looking at the manager Lien Er again, "You go and tell Mr. Hou that... uh... I'm keeping him."
"Yes." Liancheng responded with a smile.
"Master Six, please take another dose of medicine and stick to this prescription, otherwise I'm afraid it will relapse in the evening."
The sixth wife in the back hall listened and quickly ordered people to cook the medicine again.
Liu Ruhai heard the sixth wife's voice. He also heard the footsteps of a woman and the slight sound of her skirts. It seemed that two women were leaving. He took a breath and became more relaxed.
He thought about it, and Madam Cao also came. Could it be that she came to explain to Mrs. Six that he, Liu Ruhai, was not a vagabond? Ordinarily, her good words for him would not be in vain?
Song Chengfeng stayed with him to eat, while the second manager, Lian Er, finished waiting at the Marquis's place, had his meal, and rushed over.
Cao Xiwan stopped him halfway.
"Qing Niangzi?" Liancheng was slightly surprised. He looked at the Bixuan verandah outside the Orchid Courtyard.
"Be careful, that's a spy." She said cautiously.
"……knew."
Lien Zhan couldn't help but smile, and then he arrived at the Sixth Master's Lan Qiyuan. He stomped off the snowflakes on his boots in the corridor and heard people talking inside. The Sixth Master was like a normal person and seemed to be fine.
Liancheng felt that Mr. Liu was very devoted to Qing Luo's illness.
However, Cao Xiwan didn't appreciate it and secretly acted as if he was guarding against others as much as he was against thieves.
Not only did she remind him, but she also reminded Qin Meng behind his back. Lian Cheng was helpless. He heard what the Marquis was talking to Qin Meng in the study just now.
She just told the four guards openly that you must keep an eye on this man if he wants to assassinate him.
But Qingluo didn't know that Mr. Hou had already investigated Liu Ruhai in great detail.
I have been checking him out a few years ago.
Liancheng was once puzzled, why did he find this person? Mr. Hou smiled and said, "Xiao Wan remembers him."
He thought that the Marquis may have long felt that he could not understand Cao Xiwan. Did she have the Marquis in her heart?
Song Chengfeng wanted to keep Liu Ruhai for a few days, and was about to ask someone to go to Liu's house to get some clothes.
Liancheng took the big shiny satin package that the boy had brought, went in and said, "This is from Uncle Ping Nan, for Mr. Liu."
"What is it?" Song Chengfeng asked curiously.
"Some clothes."
Liancheng explained that Liu Ruhai's winter clothes, leather robes, and cloaks were all gifts from Ping Nanbo's house. Today I heard that he came to Nankanghou's house, and Pingnan Bo's house sent several more decent winter clothes. They were all those.
The needlework of the embroidery girl in the border mansion.
"Don't worry, Mr. Six, our Lord Marquis has already said that he will invite Mr. Liu to visit the house every day these days. I will thank you with a lot of money."
Only then did Song Chengfeng give up.
"I still need to trouble the second manager." Liu Ruhai presented a sword with both hands. This was a gift from Song Chengfeng.
"It's a small matter." Liancheng secretly thought that Mr. Liu was wise and stepped forward to take the knife, put it away for Liu Ruhai, and sent someone back to his rented house.
He was also rewarded by the Sixth Master for being a steward, and when the girl Qingque came over, the Sixth Mrs. also rewarded her.
"So you live behind the mansion? It would be nice to come in and talk to me from time to time. I'll send someone to invite you. Don't refuse."
"How dare you." He bowed and said goodbye. He saw that Song Chengfeng had no guests in front of him and no one was playing with him. Unlike the second master's courtyard, there were three or four old men who were not working as officials, playing chess, appreciating paintings, writing poems and reading with him.
Wen, I think there is an old lady and my mother-in-law in the house, and there are several brothers and sisters-in-law below, so he can't help but do as he pleases.
Song Chengfeng quietly pulled Lien Cheng along: "Third brother has arranged for me to take up a military position. I think what about letting Mr. Liu go with us? Let him find a future as well."
Manager Lian Er could only agree to inquire about the matter from the Marquis, and then left in disgust.
Thinking that the Sixth Master admires Mr. Liu so much, it is natural that Mr. Liu can win over people. This shows that Cao Xiwan is a powerful person. Liu Ruhai would visit the Cao family in the back alley from time to time, giving chickens, ducks, fish, meat, and silk and satin.
Liancheng naturally had news, but based on how attentive Liu Ruhai was and how the Cao family's father helped him introduce him to the officials of various governments to practice medicine, this daughter only brought him oil and salt.
When Liancheng and Liu Ruhai left Lanyuan together, they first walked along the rockery verandah. Liancheng glanced around vaguely, and sure enough, he saw Cao Xiwan standing at the corner.
Is Qing Luo still doubting him? Manager Lian Er couldn't help but look at Liu Ruhai again.
After getting off the rockery, this man was walking in the folding corridor, elegant and handsome, with a posture like a cedar tree.
The young man from the Hou Mansion who was carrying the parcel at the back was clearly a handsome young man who had been selected. Compared with Liu Ruhai, he looked like a deer-headed man.
Liancheng thought, Master Six is a fool. Should a person like Mr. Liu take up a military position? He should join the palace as an imperial doctor.
After all, the Marquis said:
"Although this Liu Ruhai has some relationship with the Prince's Palace of Jiubian Domain, he has a big grudge against the Prince's Palace. He may not be able to be used by me."
"Is this so? Mr. Hou." He couldn't believe it when he heard it.
The Marquis smiled and said: "The concubine of the King of Zhou is the Cheng family, and she was originally his cousin. The Liu and Cheng families have been married for generations. If the concubine Cheng was not detained in the Prince of Zhou's palace, he would not come out of the palace of the Prince of Zhou.
For worship."
Liancheng wondered, what does the Marquis mean by this? Could it be that Concubine Cheng and Liu Ruhai were engaged before?
"Yes, but Prince Zhou doesn't know." The Marquis smiled.
The second manager Lian hadn't told Cao Xiwan yet, he thought, it was none of Qingluo's business.
After all, she returned to her inner house to retire.
Cao Xiwan looked in the direction of Liancheng and Liu Ruhai from a distance, not going to the outer study, but to Huaiyuan.
That is the yard of the young master Ji Yu, the concubine of the Marquis.
After thinking about it in her mind, she whispered to Granny Ma beside her:
"Is Chen Baihu here?"
"I've been here a long time ago."
Cao Xiwan asked about the ghost doctor Chen Ming.
Manager Lian Er personally sent Liu Ruhai to Huaiyuan and said, "Mr. Liu needs to take more care of the young master's illness. If he has no choice, he may have to stay in the mansion for a few days."
"It doesn't matter. I originally lived close by, so I can take care of things with ease."
Liu Ruhai followed him into the gatehouse in front of the courtyard, and waited in the gatehouse first. Hearing Liancheng go in and call the old servant guarding the courtyard, he whispered: "Call someone out, Lao Mo, you and Mapo watch carefully."
"yes."
After a while, all the servants inside hurriedly came out and stood on the two corridors of the front yard, trembling with fear.
"Sir, please sit here for now..." Liancheng whispered, "The Marquis said it, which made you laugh."
"Where." Liu Ruhai understood and sat in the concierge, pretending that he didn't know what was going on in the courtyard.
He looked through the window at the falling snow outside the courtyard.
What is the Marquis of Nankang afraid of? Is he afraid that if a doctor is invited into the house to treat the concubine, some people will suspect that Mrs. Hou poisoned the concubine?
Mrs. Hou knew her husband's intentions, how could she not be moved?
He recalled that in his study outside, he saw with his own eyes the tacit understanding between Cao Xiwan and Marquis Nankang, which was by no means comparable to that of an ordinary master and servant.
The relationship between Lady Cao and Song Chengming is not weak after all.
But Liu Ruhai also touched his medicine box. There were two bottles of medicinal oil he made himself, which he wanted to give to her.