Liancheng has cleaned up the people in Huaiyuan these days.
Today, he was sitting in the corridor outside the general account room, listening to the stewards of several farms reporting that it was too cold this winter, and several farms in each farm were sick, and they had to give up some medicine. Suddenly he heard the nurse say:
In a panic, they sent someone to the second door to report that the young master had another attack after eating a bowl of thin porridge in the afternoon. It was a frightening new problem and he couldn't breathe. He was about to die.
The wet nurse and other ladies were crying around the young master. However, Mr. Hou was at the Yamen. Fortunately, even the second steward had been prepared. He jumped up and went to Song Chengfeng's Lanyuan in person and invited Liu Ruhai to come over.
Huaiyuan.
When you enter the house, there are several cedar trees. The servants live in the two wings of the front yard, and the young master lives in the back yard.
Liu Ruhai asked about symptoms along the way, frowning.
He walked hurriedly to the main room in the backyard, went up the green steps, took off his cloak, and stamped on the snow.
He carried the medicine box into the young master's room.
The wet nurse cried and looked back, as if she saw the Bodhisattva who was rescuing the suffering: "Mr. Liu - what should I do!?"
He saw the child's legs twitching, his facial features distorted, and his face like a ghost. His heart suddenly sank.
It is the young master who has this disease?
Liu Ruhai came to the capital in case someone in the capital got the same mad disease as Prince Yan, which was difficult to cure. He originally thought that he got this disease because he was unable to practice the Nine Changes of Netherworld. Later, he took over Cao Xiwan, a female ghost from Qingluo.
The neighbor gave her a detailed prescription, and he realized that his guess might be wrong.
Could it be that King Yan was poisoned or had some other strange disease? He repeatedly researched and speculated on another possibility, corpse poisoning disease.
It is easy to find such patients near cemeteries.
Yanjing City has been a place where troops have been stationed for many years. The nine vassal kings all have heavy troops to defend against foreign enemies. Now, the Mongolian army has long been pushed back to the grasslands. From time to time, one or two corpses are still found in Yanjing City.
. Rats eat corpses, and corpse plague occasionally spreads.
But if this is the case, there may not be such patients in Jinling City.
In order to confirm what he thought, he inspected various cemeteries outside Jinling City, including the mountains behind Chengfu Temple, but found no corpse plague.
But there is one exception: the cemetery.
The late emperor’s Xiaoling Mausoleum.
He spent these days in various mansions, checking on the patients who came out of Xiaoling, and the first one was the eunuch Wang's family. In fact, whether the new wife was sick, the person who was fatal was actually the adopted son of the old eunuch Wang. Relying on the face of the old eunuch Wang, he
I did some business privately and sold wood to the supervisor of Xiaoling. For several months, I went to Xiaoling every day.
As a result, his new wife, Lady Lei, fell ill.
In addition to Wang Laodang's family, Lei's family, Ping Nanbo's family, Liu Ruhai followed all the way, and now they found the Nankang Hou Mansion. They never expected that it was the young master.
The wet nurse untied the young master's clothes and he inserted eighteen silver needles in succession. The young master finally gasped and cried. The wet nurse cried with joy.
"Do you usually go out?"
"No."
"Have you had a cold these past two days, young master?"
"No, I'm keeping an eye on him. I dare not let him catch the cold. He didn't leave the yard today."
"It doesn't matter for now. Let's boil these two prescriptions." He took the prescription directly from the medicine box. He had prepared it a long time ago. He didn't expect to use it.
"Yes." The wet nurse hurriedly went.
He put two more pills into the young master's mouth, checked his pulse, and then calmed down and sat down in front of the kang.
He heard the scolding outside. Granny Map brought tea in. He took two sips of hot tea and glanced at the second steward, Lian, sitting outside the main room.
The servants in the Huaiyuan were all silent and afraid to speak.
The Marquis is not satisfied with the servants in this courtyard.
The young master's illness came very strangely at the beginning. He fell ill within two days after he went to see his wife to ask for her health. Because the young master was often sick, the wet nurse and the steward didn't report it, thinking it was a habit of winter. He just ate the same old food as before.
medicine.
Liu Ruhai came to treat her once, but she didn't expect that, as Liu Ruhai said, it would become more serious after repeated episodes.
Liancheng has already sent people to the Yamen.
Cao Xiwan and Yanzhi saw the young man Songbi in front of Liancheng from a distance and went to the front house. They knew that Liu Ruhai had prescribed the prescription.
"Let's go take a look too."
On the other side, the back door of Huaiyuan.
The ghost doctor Chen Ming hurriedly hurriedly entered the yard through the back door. He stood in the small ear room outside the kitchen, received the prescription from the wet nurse and examined it.
"It's not for treating asthma in children." He said flatly, "It's more like... poisoning. He's detoxifying?"
Mother Luo was staring at the decoction in the Huaiyuan kitchen. She answered Chen Ming. When she heard Chen Ming's words, she was surprised: "Poisoned?" Then, Chen Ming was horrified: "I can see from this recipe.
I don’t know what kind of poison the young master is."
Luo's mother was also horrified, nodded, and went to the study room. The Marquis was still waiting for a report at the Yamen.
"Hurry up and fry it." Chen Ming ordered Granny Ma.
"yes."
"Where's Madam Qing?" He didn't dare to be careless, so he followed her to the kitchen to watch someone cook the medicine, and whispered to Granny Ma.
"It's in the wife's room."
Chen Ming looked at the sky, thinking that she would secretly bring a corner of cake out of the house for him to test for drugs, and asked, "Are you sleeping?"
Granny Map was silent. Of course she had also heard that Madam Qing was slacking off in the maid's room. Unexpectedly, the news spread outside the mansion, and even Chen Ming, who did not often enter the Hou's mansion, knew about it.
She couldn't help but wholeheartedly defend the Qingluo female ghost: "She said she was sick, but I didn't look good either."
Chen Ming smiled and shook his head silently.
Cao Xiwan was still like that, he felt that he had not changed. It was still unclear whether Mr. Hou's marriage was a blessing or a curse. When she went out to find him for a drug test last time, she had already said: "What do I care about Mr. Hou? Others know that I am not good anymore."
. It is necessary to deal with him. I am afraid that Mr. Hou will not live as long as me. I have to save more money for old age while Mr. Hou is still here."
Chen Ming suppressed a smile. Seeing him like this, Granny Ma had already decided not to think too much about it, and she started to murmur in her heart.
Could it be that the ghost doctor Chen Ming and Qing Niangzi colluded to deceive Mr. Hou and Qing Niangzi to pretend to be seriously ill and take away their energy?
The argument goes, without Chen Ming's Zifu Jade Elixir Pill, it would have been impossible for Lady Qing to pretend to be such a useless person.
But Granny Ma thought again and realized that Mrs. Qing's temper was such that in front of the second steward, she would dare to despise the Marquis for his arrogance and lewdness. There was no way she would be willing to serve his wife.
In the front yard.
"Okay, second manager, are you here today?" came the pretty voice of a girl in the yard.
Liu Ruhai was in the inner room and had just given the young master a dose of medicine.
The young master's face, which was almost distorted to the point of deformation, began to calm down.
When he stopped, he heard the girl's voice and couldn't help but be startled. Is there a young girl?
In this yard, he had already seen that apart from the wet nurse and a few middle-aged maids and male servants, there were only little girls and boys under ten years old. They were playing with the young master. There were no young girls.
Then he seemed to hear another familiar woman whispering, mumbling, and seeming timid. He couldn't help but smile after the surprise, Mrs. Cao is here?