She took the bookkeeper, opened the curtain of the east room and asked, "Mom, is the door opposite rented to a candidate who is taking the exam?"
"Your father brought him from the street - he was a scholar. He gave up Confucianism and studied medicine after failing to pass the exam. Your father ran around and begged the Sixth Young Master to be the guarantor."
"..." She knew that her family had ruined her renting a house.
Her father would be fooled even if he met a fake beggar on the street.
Back then, this father could accidentally lose her when she was three or four years old.
Let her live alone in Yanjing City.
If the Marquis hadn't met her, she would have starved to death outside.
She sighed.
She went back to the house to pack her luggage, put on a short knife, and prepared to go out.
As usual, she went to the kitchen, squatted, stirred the fire, and picked vegetables.
Help your mother cook together.
After the meal was steaming, she said, "I'm going to stay in the temple for a few days and collect the bills."
"Didn't you say you can't go? Xiaowan, your aunt is here today. Have you told the chief steward about your cousin?"
"Ask dad to tell you. Didn't he go to the chief steward's house to treat his second son?" Cousin Ting Niang wanted to enter the Hou Mansion, but she still needed the consent of the chief steward.
"How is it the same now?" Mother Cao sighed, "Now the chief steward can ask the imperial doctor to see a doctor just by posting a message. Your father and he have only this little ability for a lifetime. We only have a few acquaintances in the house.
Believe him and ask him to give you some injections and sell some cooked pills. Now his face is not as good as yours. Xiao Wan, has the Marquis told you... about your marriage? "
Mother Cao stirred the soup pot with a long-handled spoon and looked at her daughter hesitantly.
Cao Xiwan and Cao's mother have sextally similar faces, not to mention their looks. What's different from her mother's are her eyes. Madam Wu's eyes are gentler, while her biological daughter's eyes hide a turbulence.
She squatted and poked the fire, enduring her impatience.
No matter how her mother asked her about her marriage, she said nothing. After a while, after picking the vegetables, she got up and went back to her room.
Even though her mother was angry with her for being tight-lipped, she didn't dare to speak.
After all, I lost the child in the first place and felt sorry for my daughter.
And when my daughter came back, she put her hands on her hips and asked, "Did you throw me away on purpose?"
"no!"
"Have you given birth to a younger brother?"
"No, my son, you are my biological child... I only have you as my child..." The mother cried so hard that her heart broke, and the daughter looked suspicious. She could only think that this child must have been eaten outside if he had a weird temper.
bitter.
Cao Xiwan was walking in the yard when he was stopped by someone. It was his father who had just returned: "Stand still, I will check your pulse."
"…What to do?"
"Just now, I went to call Liu Xiucai across the street. I planned to ask him to come over and have dinner with me."
She held back her annoyance, rolled her eyes and listened.
"He said that when he met you home today, he said that you seemed to have fallen down on your foot and asked me to set your bone. His medical skills are far inferior to mine, and I knew it was not the case when I heard it. You are walking in vain.
, lack of vitality. I just saw that you seemed to be ill for a long time."
She thought, she finally found out. She has been sick for a year.
She lost her power and became a useless person.
one Year.
She was impatient: "No need to diagnose, I know it well."
"Nonsense! What on earth were you planning in the Marquis's room? Tell me the truth."
Dad dragged her into the east room, sat down and stared at her.
Mother was setting the table in the hall, and when she came to sit down and heard this sentence, Mrs. Wu's face gradually changed, and she couldn't help but think more. Mother Cao stood up in shock: "You, Xiaowan, aren't you?"
She's not pregnant. She sighed.
"...I'm just ill. Please check my pulse." She sighed, lest they cause trouble. She became the Marquis's maid, and after serving in the study for so many years, she should have a title as his aunt.
.
"I am not the Marquis's wife."
"..." Both parents were silent.
Neither her parents believed it, so she got used to the rumors in the house.
Even if her parents didn't think so, would there still be those talkative uncles and aunts who didn't want her to be their little wife?
It's also her fault that she didn't share any of the benefits with her relatives during these years of studying abroad.
In fact, she just didn't like those uncles.
Furthermore, she glared at her own father, making her suspicious of her own daughter? Why didn't she want to think about the chance encounter? How could he dare to lure the spy to a neighbor's house to rent a house as soon as they met?
Liu Ruhai is next door.
Sit quietly late at night.
Listening to the voices of neighbors across the wall, she seemed not to be close to her parents.
He remembered that when he was a child, she lived like a ghost in the cemetery, washing clothes and eating by herself when she was six or seven years old.
She was not sold by the kidnappers?
Moreover, every day she could see through his childhood disguise. Not only the clothes, but also the disguise.
With his childhood medical skills, it is not difficult to make a bottle of disguise water. It can change at least three to four points of appearance.
And she was only six or seven years old at the time.
Sure enough, at that time, Song Chengming could see her special talent at a glance?
He thought for a while, thinking that he might as well prepare some gifts and make more friends with Cao's father.
If you go to her home for dinner, you should be able to meet her in a harmonious way.
She saw her own father come in with a box of bacon and said it was the medical fee received by Scholar Liu across the street, so she gave him half of it.
She then knew that her father would have to invite the spies over for dinner during the Double Ninth Festival in September.
She was too lazy to care.
The Hou Mansion was preparing to marry a new wife. Although it was not stated explicitly, Cao Xiwan knew that she did not need to work in the manor as an errand at this time, so as not to be an eyesore.
She then planned to stay in a monastery for a few days and perform Buddhist rituals for the deceased by fighting a hundred swords.
Cao's father refused and kept his daughter at home and checked her pulse for three consecutive days.
My father is a half-baked doctor. He used to study in the grand master's house. He read several medical books by himself and gradually learned to read. He helped with minor illnesses and pains and he also had twenty or thirty years of medical experience.
"What's going on? You don't have enough energy and are very weak."
After reading medical books for several days, Cao's father found out that something was wrong. "Xiao Wan, you... your pulse looks like a serious illness, a serious illness!"
"Well." She was not in the mood to comfort her parents, "The Marquis asked the imperial doctor to take a look at it. He also prepared medicine for me on time." She had already prepared it and took out a bottle of medicine and put it on the table. This bottle of medicine alone,
It’s worth seventy or eighty taels, and I need to eat two bottles a month.
She has been taking it for a year.
At the moment, she was only worried about the future medical expenses. She used her savings to give generous gifts to the second steward and several of the Marquis' confidants, and also took care of the stewards and aunts in the house. Besides, she also wanted to give her confidants a chance.
Settlement allowance.
Relying on the Marquis is not a long-term solution. Maybe working as an errand for the wife is also a way.
"Dad, Mom, I will never be able to live without medicine. I have some savings and want to open a drug store. Dad will be the doctor and Mom will take care of the accounts. This fulfills Dad's wish. Mom doesn't have to spend the night in the Marquis' Mansion.
, and besides, we won’t just sit back and have nothing.”
She hid this sentence in her heart, but looking at her parents, she finally swallowed the idea back in her stomach.
She thought, this can't be done.
My parents are soft-hearted. The money she has given to the family over the years has been enough to open several shops. But what happened? My parents were all scattered like philanthropic children. How could those uncles not come when they heard there was business?
What’s the point of blending?
The little money she has left in her hand now is for her parents because she is afraid that she will die in a few years.
As for Liu Xiucai, the tenant opposite, she didn't bother to pay attention.
Patrolling the back alleys of the Hou Mansion is an errand of the Jinyi Guards.
As for her father, it would be strange not to be fooled. She glared at him, thinking about his old grudges, and held back.