Yanzhi was not there, so Cao Xiwan was busy for a while, and finally took out a set of official kiln snow porcelain that he had obtained from Jianghe.
In a round cup that resembles snowflakes, I brewed green leaves and white ginseng herbal tea, and sat down to talk.
"I tried to persuade Mr. Hou many times, but Mr. Hou didn't take it seriously. I only told Mr. Qin that he was a spy. Mr. Qin became interested."
Mother Luo was not worried about Lady Qing when she came here. She had already expected that Lady Qing knew what she was doing.
But she still had to come.
It was rare that Qin Meng had something to say to Lady Qing. She had to help him.
Anyway, that Liu Shoushi is from the north, his origin is unknown. Even if this man has excellent medical skills, he is not reliable. Maybe he has a concubine or a wife in the north!
But Qin Meng is one of his own, and he comes from a well-known and upright family who knows his roots well.
When he entered the Jinyi Guard, Cao Xiwan personally checked him thoroughly, and found nothing wrong.
In the following years, several Shangguan officials were changed, and after repeated inspections, we were able to safely let him enter the inner house and put him in front of the Marquis, right?
Where can I find such a husband? Mother Luo sighed to herself.
"How dare I fail to count? Nowadays, I am so poor that every copper penny has been broken off." She complained bitterly.
She bought a shop and spent money to support Chen Ming in making medicine in Shunyifangli.
She even buys bear skins on credit. The last time Liu Ruhai heard that she wanted to buy skins on credit, he dared to take advantage of the situation and robbed her: "I'll set up a pharmacy and you can help me take care of it. That's okay. I'll give you this amount for the month -"
He compared a number that was far more generous than hers, which made her angry to death.
It's not that she doesn't have the money, but right now she has to go out to pay several bills in a row, and it's difficult for her to have cash flow, so she just negotiates with him. She can't do it on credit. She didn't expect that he would dare to step on her head and want to be her boss.
Is she the kind of person who can be taken advantage of?
She sternly refused.
Mother Luo burst out laughing when she heard this. She asked her a few questions about opening a shop, and vaguely heard that she had bought a house and was leaving the house. It seemed that the Marquis didn't say anything?
"It's better to slow down and talk to the Marquis properly."
She nodded. Mother Luo felt relieved and slowly sipped a cup of green leaf and white ginseng tea.
Warmth flowed into her abdomen and her meridians were relaxed. Mother Luo squinted her eyes.
In the room, the charcoal fire gave off a faint fragrance of orange peel, the fur was soft, and even the sunlight outside the window was warm. Mother Luo almost wanted to sleep.
However, the young lady kept talking about money.
Mother Luo thought about it, but she had heard it from the old man from the city patrol department. When Su Jintian first came to the capital, he realized that living in the capital was not easy, but he attracted many junior brothers and sisters, who devoured him. He stretched out his hand
Borrowed a sum of money from Qingluo to support his family.
This news is probably true, but Qing Luo Biying and Qing Luo Biying do not intend to become husband and wife.
Mother Luo has been watching with cold eyes for the past few years, and she has picked up some clues, but I am afraid that the Marquis will not allow it.
Pity.
But... Luo's mother doesn't like Su Jintian.
She also often wondered how the Qingluo female ghost could become close friends with the abandoned disciples of Biying Palace.
On the contrary, when Qin Meng and his partner, Erluo's mother, were chatting, they felt that this should be the case. Thinking about it, there were countless life and death situations, and they had to support each other to survive. Cao and Su formed a strange friendship that was different from others.
But Qin Meng had to agree with Luo’s mother:
If we only look at their daily acquaintances, Qingluo and Biying, Cao Xiwan and Su Jintian are simply polar opposites in their temperaments and are incompatible with each other.
Cao Xiwan said directly: "You know, I am sick, and the cost of medicine is overwhelming. I can't keep pointing at the Marquis. I just want to open a medicine shop myself."
She took out a letter, which was written by Zhao's mother from Yanjing City, and showed it to Luo's mother.
"I asked someone to send a sum of money to Mrs. Zhao, who helped me purchase goods. Firstly, she and I have been together for a long time. I couldn't bear to part with her, and we couldn't break up. Secondly, she also has a livelihood, so she doesn't have to rely entirely on her nephew.
"
She knew everything about her family, and recounted the names of the medicinal materials she wanted to take and the names of the medicinal materials sold well in the capital. Most likely, they were medicinal materials imported from the north.
Mother Luo was interested at that time. She also needed these medicinal materials, so it would be better to buy some from Qing Luo. Mother Luo turned the snow cup in her hand and thought about it: "The prescription you first took was from Temple."
Master Li is too open-minded?"
"Isn't that true? They are from the north and like to use medicinal materials from the north. Sister Luo, I have inquired about it. Nowadays, apart from the Liu, Cheng, Yuan and Bai families, the big merchants of medicinal materials in the north have connections with the Prince of Jiubian Domain. Even if
This family of famous doctors with four surnames has withered away after several dynasties. Instead, it is the connections in the palace that control the medicines from the west and the north. Here - this is the best old ginseng."
She pointed to Luo's mother's hand, the old ginseng pieces floating in the snow cup, and a few ginseng whiskers.
"These are some old ginseng roots given to me by the Marquis. I had them cut and prepared in the Huichun Hall. In fact, aren't they also gifts from the palace over there?"
Mother Luo understood what she meant. Mother Zhao had to ask Liu Ruhai to introduce her to the medicinal materials.
"I heard that the Cheng family is the largest and they have a princess."
"I've heard about it too." Cao Xiwan nodded quickly, "Prince Zhou likes to get these herbs and medicines, and is compiling books. The concubine he married is also from a famous medical family in the north."
"I heard that almost all of my family members died in the war?"
"Really? I don't know yet. Anyway, Mother Zhao is over there. Let her find out slowly." Cao Xiwan said enthusiastically. She wanted Mother Zhao to do business in Kaifeng, where the Zhou Palace is located, which is close to the Cheng family.
Stay away from Yanjing City, "Besides, I also want to make some money. Every fifth of the Jinyi Hundred Household Offices has a doctor on duty, and the medicinal materials they use are regulated by the yamen. I have always heard Su Jintian complain that the medicine for injuries is not enough."
Okay. He has to buy another one. I think I wouldn’t dare to get into trouble with other yamen. In our yamen, there’s nothing else I wouldn’t dare to do.”
Mother Luo's eyes lit up when she heard this. This business can be done.
In the blink of an eye, she smiled. Qing Luo was trying to get her to become a shareholder. She originally thought Qing Luo was selling medicinal materials.
"The old prisoner in the palace seems to have died in the passageway between the palace walls connected to the Chengtian Gate in the palace city." Luo's mother whispered. Cao Xiwan's heart skipped a beat, as expected, otherwise why would His Majesty reprimand the Marquis of Nankang in person.
She pondered for a moment, and in her mind, the underground rivers and secret passages under Jinling City were as dense as a spider web. The passages between the palace walls used to be the end point of her monthly inspections. But the other end of this line ended at the Nankang Marquis Mansion.
The ground beneath her feet holds the secrets she keeps.
Mother Luo raised the cup to refill the tea soup and looked up at Cao Xiwan who was holding the pot. She felt she was thinking deeply, probably thinking about this matter secretly.
She was resting at home, and her complexion seemed to be getting better.
"You can't tell if you're afraid of the cold?" Luo's mother was surprised.
She smiled bitterly, saying that she had stopped taking the medicine for the past few days and was feeling better.
Mother Luo remembered that there were a few new paintings and calligraphy hanging in the duty room, which she had also found in her secret room. She said they were fake pictures of beauties, and there were some lines on them that even though she didn't understand, they were worthy of a young lady.
As the saying goes, bright red lips are as beautiful as lead.
She secretly regretted that in the past, only spies were killed and caught in the corridors of the palace walls, and the city patrol department was in the limelight. At that time, people like them from the guard department looked at it and just thought it was normal.
Now Luo's mother can't help but lament that nothing happened in the past ten years because of Qingluo's inspections. Now things have changed and people have changed, and troubles have come one after another.
She couldn't help but take a closer look at Qing Luo. Did she know what was going on in the palace?
Under the green charcoal basin is framed a wooden shelf with four square legs, and yellow and red flames are rising in the basin. There is also a silver-white tin kettle placed on the edge of the basin, exhaling white gas and squeaking, and the whole room has a faint fragrance of ginseng.
Cao Xiwan remained calm. When she was making tea, she specially brewed two more ginseng slices for Luo's mother. Naturally, they both had old wounds and wanted to preserve their strength.
Mother Luo couldn't help but look at each other and smile with her, sighing about the years.
"What are Mr. Hou's plans?" Cao Xiwan, on the other hand, was clueless and asked Mother Luo.
"Let Su Baihu be promoted to Chengtianmen Qianhu, and send two more rounds of inspections every day."
Hearing this, Cao Xiwan nodded slightly: "He used to be impatient with these trivial things that he had to do every day."
"I heard that the old husband of the Ministry of War also wants to promote a capable disciple to this position."
"who?"
"Zi Yanbiao. He is the ex-husband of Sister Murong from your city patrol department."
"Ah? The one with the ginger face, the ugly one?" Cao Xiwan thought about it. The eldest sister Murong of the Shuangqiang Sect had been married three times. They were all well-matched military attachés who passed down their family's martial arts.
"Ha ha."
The two girls held ginseng tea and gathered around the charcoal fire. In the blue and red light of the flames, Xu Xu talked about trivial matters such as caring for the elderly, keeping warm, and taking medicine. They all wanted to leave the house on December 12 to watch the battle.
Cao Xiwan was not worried that Su Baihu would not be promoted.
She knew Zi Yan Biao. His family's marksmanship was outstanding and he was a famous general in the capital camp. He was originally a general in the old Xianggong's house. He also combined the marksmanship learned by Murong's wife's family from Shuangqiang Sect with his own family's marksmanship.
Integrated into one, he created a new spear. But this man, regardless of his sword skills, was no match for Su Jintian.
This man was dumped by his wife. He could never stop going out to collect money, hire prostitutes, and save money for his wife. Now he has found an old minister from the Ministry of War as his backer, and his tribe is running rampant in the countryside. All kinds of bad things like Chen Guzhima can never stop him.
She said: "Let him give up when the difficulty arises. This is never the case."
What does Jinyiwei do for food?
Mother Luo smiled and nodded, then put it down and talked about a few things in the palace.
It turns out that Luo's mother also heard that Mr. Wu in the palace was monitoring Qing Luo's illness and taking time off from work. However, he had been told by someone early that he wanted to recruit Qing Luo into the palace?
Mother Luo felt that this was not a good thing to ask, so she was hesitating. Cao Xiwan said cheerfully, "I originally thought that Xiliu was Fanzi."
When Luo's mother heard this, she couldn't stop laughing: "In what way do they resemble each other?"
Cao Xiwan was anxious and wanted to gossip. She was General Lou's illegitimate daughter and Su Jintian's apprentice.
The master and apprentice were of the same age. This was not good. She could tell at a glance that Xiliu liked Su Jintian. But Su Jintian only liked ladies.
But she was big-mouthed and only spoke to her enemies, so she held back.
I turned to Mother Luo and asked if, besides Mother Chen, a confidant who was born under General Lou, who was Mrs. Hou's sidekick was anyone who had been arranged by Master Hou in the past.
Mother Luo thought about it carefully and found that there was none.
"Look. There must be something wrong with this." Sure enough, it was Xiliu. Cao Xiwan was worried about it, thinking that Xiliu would definitely not help her. She held Luo's mother's hand and told her to do it when she left the house on the 12th.
Come and talk to her.
When you run away, run away together.
Mother Luo really couldn't tell. She was joking, and she was still giving serious instructions, so she agreed with a smile.
Stand up and resign.
Cao Xiwan sent him out and stood in front of the door, deep in thought. Luo's mother came here just to have a few words with Liu Ruhai for her? She couldn't let Qin Baihu misunderstand her.
When you go out and offend the people in the security department first, isn't this looking for death?
What's more, she was the one who reminded Qin Meng that Liu Ruhai was a spy.