It took five days of procrastination to sort out what happened in three days.
After finishing, Liancheng specially sent her back to the inner house from the Chunbo Corridor. She also received a gold-woven velvet muff from Liancheng and held it in her arms with satisfaction.
"Young lady, you are loyal to your wife." Liancheng smiled and rubbed his hands. A large brown velvet coat with dark flowers was enough to keep out the cold.
She thought, isn't this nonsense? No matter how good the Marquis is, he doesn't care about her now. Does the Marquis really not know that his wife has a bad temper? What's more, she is working under her now. She also wants her to give her the Buddha statue.
"Chen Ming, the ghost doctor, has made a lot of medicine for Qing Niangzi recently?"
"Yeah. I'm eating."
The second steward nodded slightly and didn't ask any more questions.
She packed up a colorful velvet jacket, a large furry back, and a muff, but she still managed to return to the house with a languid and sick look on her face. She originally wanted to ask for sick leave.
Unexpectedly, Liancheng did not go back to the second door. Instead, he found his wife, who was in charge of the Su Cai family, and they went to the main room together to greet her at the foot of the stairs.
Let her have no chance to say that she is sick.
The medicine prepared by the ghost doctor Chen Ming was based on the prescriptions of several famous doctors from the Yan Palace, including Liu Ruhai, plus the prescriptions from her side.
Newly prepared medicine.
This time, when the young master fell ill, she was cruel and asked Chen Ming to add corpse poison grass.
This medicine is a bit uncomfortable to take.
She sat cross-legged on her bed, wrapped in quilt, looking at the charcoal fire in front of the bed.
She coughed, thinking about Liancheng always beating her.
She indeed did not write down that her wife sent Mother Chen to assassinate the late Madam, so there was no mistake.
Mother Chen is a senior with more qualifications than Grandma Song, with wide connections and much knowledge.
Even in front of my wife, my wife respected Mother Chen. Otherwise, she, Cao Xiwan, would not be able to be lazy in the main room now. She would be dull and dull every day, like a fool who has lost his work and become a useless person.
She just waited for Zhan Baidao to show his true face and appear in front of her.
She doesn't need to worry about the young master's illness. It's not her anyway.
But she was idle, and wanted to see who among the eldest girls in each room wrote the [poisonous] note. She thought it would be better to leave the house.
So early on, she told the second manager that Mrs. Chen and she would also leave the house on December 12th.
Yanzhi got off duty and opened the door, bringing in a gust of cold wind that caused sparks to dance in the furnace.
"Close the door quickly." She urged quickly.
Yanzhi looked happy: "Have you heard about what the second manager Lian and our wife mentioned just now?"
Yanzhi came close to the bed and said excitedly to Cao Xiwan: "Steward Lian Er asked his wife if she wanted to go out to Chengfu Temple to enjoy the snow as mentioned by the Marquis. If there is such an arrangement, we will take care of the carriages and horses outside.
"
She frowned. Chengfu Temple is outside the city. What is going on? There must be a conspiracy.
"when?"
"On the twelfth day, I will offer incense and listen to scriptures, and then go to Sixia Lake Pier to take a boat from Mochou Lake to the Qinhuai River. In winter, I will go boating to enjoy the snow."
"It makes sense! It's very elegant to enjoy the snow in winter." She quickly agreed, saying she must go. She actually didn't want to go out of the house just with Mother Chen.
Xiliu didn't look like the girl she thought she was. It would be inappropriate if only Mother Chen was accompanying her.
Did she let Mother Chen block her and run away quickly?
Although such a plan had been planned for a long time, it seemed that the risk was not small as only Mrs. Chen was standing in the way.
It's fine now.
Cao Xiwan thought for a while, jumped out of bed, shivering and put on a fleece and fur coat. She wanted to persuade Mrs. Six to come with her.
"How are you and Mrs. Six?" Yanzhi sat by the charcoal stove and looked at the cold frost and snow outside the lattice window. She quickly burned a hand stove and brought it to her. Cao Xiwan blinked and said:
"The Sixth Master has several powerful generals under his command. Moreover, I don't know who the eldest girl Qingque and Linghua in front of the Sixth Mrs. is going to be. I'll go and ask. It will be fun to play together." After she finished speaking, she went out.
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Yan Zhi Mo Ming. She shrank like a quail in the winter. Why did she blow out her wings again?
Of course she didn't know that Cao Xiwan had made up his mind to ask Qingque and Linghua to encourage the eldest girls in each room to follow the wives.
Only then could she have some free time and play together, and find out who wrote the [poisonous] note.
Cao Xi was about to walk out of the main courtyard in the evening, but stopped. She broke a branch of red plum at the foot of the steps and planned to take it to Qingque in the Liufang Orchid Courtyard.
Qingque is good at needlepoint and loves to draw shoes. Now I don’t know if she has changed her temperament?
Yanzhi suddenly remembered something in the room and quickly chased her out. He pulled her on the corridor and whispered:
"The eldest girl in the second wife's room is called Baogai, do you remember?"
Cao Xiwan smiled. How could he not remember it? Yanzhi quickly said:
"Baogai, she made a promise earlier that she would be sent to serve the Sixth Young Master when he enters the Yamen as an errand. She asked me to ask you quietly, how long will it take for the Sixth Young Master to be on duty?"
She blinked, knowing that Bao Gai was good with Song Weiren, the sixth young master, and smiled: "I really know about this. Let's go and tell her together in the afternoon."
Yanzhi was unexpectedly happy, knowing that the Sixth Young Master was almost certain of the matter. She lowered her head and took a green pine nut candy from her purse, stuffed it into her mouth, then pulled her a few steps under the plum tree and whispered: "I see
Baogai, there is something I am hiding and I dare not ask you. I said it for her."
She knew that Yanzhi and Baogai were cousins, so she asked, "What's wrong?"
"Her menstruation is irregular. It comes once in March or April, and it lasts for half a month."
"Hey, you have to be careful."
"Who says it's not the case? I've had this disease since I was a child, and I've long wanted to ask a good doctor to take a look. Last time, Bao Gai mentioned to me that Dr. Liu was good at female veins. I said he was the neighbor of Sister Cao's house. Bao Gai mentioned it to me last time.
You're so coy, I knew I wanted to ask you for help, but I couldn't say it."
Front house.
Outside the Chunbo Corridor, the wintersweets are beginning to decline.
Under the corridors and among the rocks in the ditches, topaz daffodils were blooming fragrantly.
The sixth master, Song Chengfeng, also became interested in leaving the mansion and leisurely walked to the outer study to discuss with the Marquis.
Behind him, Brother Luan, the young man, carried a water stove.
There is a hole in the middle of the big tin stove, where charcoal is burning. On the sides of the hole are kettles, filled with gurgling warm water. The only lid of the kettle is a small jar, and inside is a long-necked celadon wine bottle.
While the wine was warm and fragrant all the way, Song Chengfeng and Liu Ruhai arrived at the outer study together.
"Third brother, have some warm wine. My brother's new fragrance."
"You are very elegant." Nankang Hou smiled and stood up to greet him.
The boys in the outer study quietly came in and set up a mother-of-pearl wine table, placed three sets of wine cups and food utensils, and put on three boxes to go with the wine and food.
Liu Ruhai found a set of kiln porcelain among the food dishes, secretly thinking that this must be Madam Hou's preference. As expected, the Marquis of Nankang married a wife and followed Madam Hou.
Song Chengfeng would not go to the Three Treasures Hall without anything to do, and would talk about serious matters first.
It turned out that Liu Ruhai was planning to resign and go home, and also to the Sixth Master. The Sixth Master came to the Marquis specifically to ask.
"Second brother, there must be some difficulty there."
Song Chengming sighed: "Not really."
It turned out that the old aunt felt that her health had been much better recently. She was a cautious person, and because she and the old lady were two aunts but they did not get along well. She was born in a small family and became a concubine, so she was stronger in every way. She refused to hire a new doctor.
Go to the inner house to see a doctor.
There is nothing the second master can do.
While the brothers were talking, Liu Ruhai was playing with a wine cup next to him. At first, he vaguely heard from Master Six that a girl in the house who knew medicine went to see the old aunt from time to time to massage her meridians.
Rarely effective.
The second master also praised the sixth brother: "I heard a long time ago that her father could prescribe prescriptions and perform acupuncture as soon as he read a medical book. I didn't expect this girl to be able to do it."
Liu Ruhai smiled and said nothing, he knew who it was.
When it comes to debating meridians and identifying acupuncture points, who can compare to Qingluo Nvgui?
She probably didn't want him to stay in the house for a long time.
I don't even want him to enter the inner house.
At this time, Cao Xiwan left the house through the corner door. Before she went to see Mrs. Six, she made an appointment with Mrs. Lei.
The restaurant in Shunyifang has Liu Ruhai's shop, and opposite the restaurant is a shop under the name of Mrs. Lei.
She thought, it's not her fault for being suspicious of this guy. He was actually suspicious.
Mrs. Lei's house was very close and she came over in a few steps. She sat behind the shop and looked at Cao Xiwan in surprise: "You want to sell this shop?"
"I heard that my wife is ill, and she seems to be in good health. We just met to discuss it today." She smiled and said, "We, the sixth wife, have been talking about my wife."
Mrs. Lei did meet Cao Xiwan in the Hou Mansion, and heard that she was managing several shops owned by Mrs. Hou in the mansion, but from what she said, she wanted to buy this shop.
"You want to open a shop?"
"No, it was converted into a residence." She compared the two shops she was looking at in her hand. Sure enough, the old shopkeeper of Siweiting whom she recruited last time had the insight and said that this shop is suitable for residences. The shop in the south of the city should be opened.
better.
This coincides with her.
She also felt that it would be better to live in Shunyifang. After all, there was the underground river of Jinling City below the shop, and she passed under Lei Niangzi's window. In the past, this area was the end point of the City Inspection Division's inspections, and further ahead was the Chengtian Gate of the Palace City.
"Oh." Madam Lei couldn't help but laugh. She converted a shop in a good location into a residence. It's not just Shunyifang. After all, although it is prosperous, it is quieter here. "This will cost a lot. Madam Cao's family is not thin."
"Exactly, I'm not short of money either. So I want to discuss with my wife whether we should open a shop together?" She smiled. In fact, she was short of money right now. But after waiting these days, she couldn't let this man go.
Mrs. Lei is considered a person of true temperament, but she has never asked Liu Ruhai to see a doctor again. She is a woman who is not fascinated by male lust. She can judge the situation and the situation. And she has clever methods.
Nowadays, Mr. Wang dislikes that his heir does not know anything, and he spends his days and nights outside. He never leaves the house. It is far inferior to this daughter-in-law who takes charge of the middle class, takes care of his father-in-law's basic necessities, and keeps a clear account of his money.
When he is old and ill, who will he rely on? Do he count on this heir?
Mr. Wang gave half of his seven or eight shops and two farms to Mrs. Lei to take care of. He started discussing everything with his daughter-in-law.
And Cao Xiwan had already found out clearly that among the shops in the Shunyifang area, the best ones were from Wang Laodang's.
The ghost doctor Chen Ming needs a quiet place to make medicine.