Cao Xiwan has been busy going to her aunt's yard these past few days.
She boasted that she was good at massaging the meridians of her waist and legs. After her old aunt tried it, she saw immediate results and she could sleep peacefully for several hours every time. She didn’t feel any pain in her waist or legs.
Not only was Suyun grateful, but the second wife was also overjoyed and went to the main room to praise her in front of Mrs. Hou.
The gifts from the master and his wife in the second room were nothing more than that. The wife gained face and turned a blind eye to let her be lazy every day. That was the important thing. Moreover, she was secretly proud of the fact that medical skills were so great that she could learn them as soon as she learned them.
Although only meridian massage is as easy as this.
She went back to her room and leaned against the square pillow with green brocade heart on the bedside. The square pillow was brought from home. She yawned and flipped through her father's medical book that she also brought. She scratched the pages lightly with her fingers.
He recited some unfamiliar words that he didn't understand so that he could coax his aunt, but Yanzhi was stunned.
"Sister Cao, where are you reading?"
"Hmm." She shook her head casually.
Yanzhi was secretly envious. She had already heard from Suyun that Cao Xiwan might have a talent for medicine that no one else had, and it must have been taught by Cao's father's eyes and deeds.
Yanzhi knelt down in front of the bed, stirred the charcoal fire, and poured hot tea. Seeing her leaning on the bedside reading a medical book, Yanzhi turned around and waved her hand specifically to ask Bai Zhi and Ziyun who came to visit to speak softly and not to disturb her.
A little late.
She didn't ask Cao Xiwan to pour out the ashes of the charcoal stove. She saved a few snacks, one plate for Bai Zhi and Ziyun to eat, and one plate placed in a three-petal patterned black lacquer box and placed in Cao Xiwan's arms.
inside.
Cao Xiwan took a look and saw that there were three snacks in the box: sweet ginger slices, sweet beans, and crispy peanuts.
Huh? Yesterday, she ate a few more mouthfuls, and Yanzhi scolded her. Did she change her behavior today?
"Sister Cao is a gentle person."
She pricked her ears and heard what Yanzhi and the girls were talking about. She felt a little embarrassed. She didn't want to read this difficult medical book and wanted to doze off, but Yanzhi would definitely ask her to pour out the charcoal and wouldn't give her anything to eat.
She did.
She had no choice but to chew peanuts, hold the book in her hands, and look blankly, thinking in her mind: Liu Ruhai, a spy who is obviously proficient in everything, wants to be famous as a female pulse doctor, so of course he has set his sights on the old aunt.
She put down the book and solemnly said: "I'm going to my aunt's yard."
Yanzhi and others gathered around the charcoal fire beside the bed and smiled quickly: "Go ahead."
She pretended to have forgotten that today it was her turn to empty the ashes from the charcoal stove and ran away.
In the past two days, the young master's condition has finally stabilized.
Liu Ruhai planned to say goodbye and leave the house, so he mentioned it to Manager Lian Er.
He had been watching with cold eyes these past few days. It seemed that Marquis Nankang had no intention of holding him captive, and perhaps he was not afraid that he would say something unpleasant like "the young master of Nankang Marquis' family has been poisoned"?
Or maybe it was Liu Ruhai who had the handle in the hands of Marquis Nankang.
Liu Ruhai thought to himself, with a calm expression on his face, but he was invited over by the second master Song Chengli.
"Second Master."
"Mr. Shoushi, don't be too polite." The second master is a wealthy and idle man, and he is careful in small things. He did not invite Liu Ruhai to go directly to his birth mother's courtyard. He first took him to the outer study to meet the Marquis of Nankang.
"Mr. Liu was at Wang Laodang's house, and he also treated Wang Laodang during the cold and epidemic. Third brother, you have been ill for the past few days, so don't neglect it."
Song Chengming had indeed been suffering from wind and cold in the past few days and had been ill for a few days, but his concubine Ji Yu had something to do, so he didn't care about the minor illness.
Now that the second concubine brother said so, he also stood up and asked Liu Ruhai to check his pulse and prescribe a prescription.
The second steward, Lian, took the prescription and immediately asked the boy to set up the stove and put the medicine pot outside the plum window. The second steward, Lian, watched personally while the medicine was boiling.
Just one more dose.
Song Chengming was sweating all over. After changing his clothes, he couldn't help but smile and said: "What a miracle doctor."
"I don't dare. Mr. Hou is depressed in his heart, and it's because of the wind and cold. He needs to take some health-preserving drinks to soothe him."
"You're right."
Song Chengming was told the central issue by Liu Ruhai.
More than ten years of hard work were ruined in one fell swoop. He had carefully cultivated his confidant when he met six or seven-year-old Cao Xiwan on the street. Now that she suddenly lost her skills, where could he cultivate another one of her? Since she is a master of espionage,
Another domestic slave who can be reused and trusted?
But the reason why she quit her practice was the inexplicable "illness caused by overwork" by the imperial doctor? Or the Buddhist saying "the fate has arrived" said by the female doctor, how could he not feel depressed in his heart?
Could it be that Xiao Wan was really poisoned?
Song Chengming had a dark face.
Once the Qingluo female ghost is gone, no one can replace her, and her whole body will be affected.
Outside study room, west end room.
There are two bright and one dark outer study rooms, and the west end room is a dark room.
There are tables, chairs, and couches beside the walls, which are used for cooling off in the summer. Outside the windows of the double rooms, you can see layers of vines with tangled leaves and thousands of fallen bamboos. You can imagine the green and cool feeling after summer.
Liu Ruhai sat down and opened a health prescription with a pen. He felt the scrutinizing gaze, raised his head slightly, and scanned the east corner.
Of course he knew that the guard in Dongshao Room should be Qin Meng, the Jueyan Sword, and he was on duty.
Outside the west window, there is also a golden snake sword named Granny Song.
The second master didn't know this, so he sat across from the Marquis in the study to have tea, and talked about the topic again and again. Song Chengming nodded and called the second steward: "I will clean up an elegant courtyard outside the second door and let Mr. Liu live there."
.Allocate two suitable young men to serve you."
"Yes, Lord Marquis."
Nominally, it is specially used to treat Mr. Hou's illness.
In fact, it is for my old aunt.
Manager Lian Er thought about it and went out to call Songbi and Yubi, asking them to ask a few handymen to clean the Luoyuan.
"This year is different. Everything in the courtyard has been replaced with new ones. The kang needs to be heated more."
"Yes, second manager."
In the past, two doctors who specialized in gynecology would always live in the house in Luoyuan during the winter. This was because the disease that my aunt had contracted during childbirth would cause the disease to break out in the cold weather.
Moreover, since the young master's illness has not been found out, it is natural for Mr. Liu to stay there. This will avoid rumors.
Qin Meng, who was sitting on the beam in the east corner, looked out the window and thought of these meanings. No wonder Lady Qing always said that when the Marquis takes one step, he must actually be hiding three or four steps.
The second master calmed down and asked Liu Ruhai to take care of the Marquis first.
Liu Ruhai moved his luggage from Huaiyuan to Luoyuan. The wet nurse asked two old servants to deliver it personally.
On the Luoyuan side, there are two young men in green clothes. One is called Song Bi, who was sent by the second steward.
The other one is called Suwen.
Both of them are only eleven or twelve years old. Needless to say, Songbi needs to pay attention to every move of Liu Ruhai. Suwen is the person sent here by the second master.
Su Wen was smart and diligent, and was busy cleaning the yard. The hot water was always full, and Mrs. Tang was kept warm. She even snatched away clothes and sent them to the second room for the ladies to wash.
Normally a flatterer, he went on to praise Mr. Liu's medical skills to great effect one sentence after another.
It's hard to say that Su Wen knew that my aunt relied on this gentleman for her illness, so she was naturally extremely attentive.
Songbi often stared blankly and couldn't find any work to do.
Manager Lian Er smiled: "Let him."
Songbi had no choice but to grab the medical box on his back and follow Liu Ruhai from Luoyuan every day.
Walk on the plum path, pass through the plum forest, and go up to the autumn corridor.
Liu Ruhai knew that the Nankang Marquis Mansion was the dragon's den and the nest of the Jin Yiwei. They kept their eyes on him, both covertly and covertly. But it was more relaxed than in the Huaiyuan.
The Huaiyuan was an inner house, and he knew that there had been a female master in the backyard during those days, watching behind him day and night. It seemed to be a mother named Luo.
Now, Songbi is in front of him every day, but he is far away from that old mother.
He just pretends not to know.
I go to the study room outside every day to change a prescription for the Marquis. It's just some old ginger and borneol health drinks.
Seemingly ordinary, the medicine stove and pots are not used at all, only boiling water is poured into a large silver flower cup, and the bottom of the cup is filled with ginger slices and borneol slices.
Ginger gas mixed with white mist rises, ice flakes crash, and the medicinal fragrance rises.
Mr. Hou took two or three cups a day and gradually recovered from the wind and cold.
Liu Ruhai was in the east corner, holding jade chess pieces in one hand, setting up a chess game, and holding a scroll in the other hand, slowly reading half of Lao Zhuang's "Human World": "Everyone knows the use of useful things, but they don't know the uses of useless things..."
Song Chengming sat with his eyes closed and listened for half a month. He was surprised to find that he did feel that his mood was getting better.
When he heard the light snow hitting the window again, Song Chengming felt that his chest no longer hurt.
"What a superb medical skill."
When the news spread from the mouth of Nankang Marquis, everyone in the inner palace was surprised and discussed it as an anecdote. People from Duke Li's mansion also sent people to urge him to take him over.
"Who is sick in Duke Li's house? They are calling for you all the time. It doesn't look like it's for the female family members."
When Cao Xiwan heard the news, she went out of the inner house in confusion, stopped her outside the second door, and asked Manager Lian Er.
Liancheng was surprised: "Don't you know?"
After thinking about it, she nodded knowingly: "Mr. Wang, Mr. Li Guogong's nanny? The one with a broken leg?"
That person also suffered from severe pain when his broken leg came in winter.
Mr. Wang wields a sword with nine bells and a ghost head. He is over sixty years old. Before joining the army, he was a famous gangster in the northwest. He admired Su Jintian the most in his life.
She pondered, Yang Pingcui would fight Su Jintian in a few days.
She thought to herself that 90% of the time, Liu Xiaozi had met Yang Pingcui.
Manager Lian Er said: "I'm being stared at."
She smiled and realized that Song Bi was no match for Liu Ruhai. Fortunately, Liu Ruhai might not be the assassin commanded by Zhan Baidao.
She stood on the corridor, looking up at the flying snow. She must be the first person Zhan Baidao wanted to kill.