On the left side of the second courtyard of Liufu, a row is the residence of the aunts and wives, divided into an independent small courtyard, in which all the aunts and wives of Liu Dingmao live.

Liu Dingmao was a scholar and usually keen on vassal elegance, so he inscribed the names of these small courtyards, wrote them on fan-shaped door plates, and inlaid them on the brick walls of their respective doors.

The first small courtyard is called Mu Fengju, which was originally the residence of the eldest aunt, but the aunt died too early, and the house has been empty.

Since Aunt Jiu's wife became pregnant, Mu Fengju has been favored more and more day by day, and there are more people who come and go to visit and move around, and this place has become more and more lively day by day.

In the evening, Mu Fengju was crowded with women, except for Mu Fengju's four or five rough mothers-in-law, two big maids who were waiting closely, four little maids who were working outside, and now there were a few more midwives, the most conspicuous of which was Wang Qiaoshou's numb face like the soles of his shoes. She is short, fat, and has a pair of small feet and hands, and it is said that the reason why she can be very famous among the many stable women on the ground in Lingzhou Mansion is because of her dexterous little hands.

On the carved wooden bed, the layers of bed curtains hung low, and under the light, the body lay under the covers, moaning higher than the other.

That is the ninth aunt's wife who is about to give birth, Liu Li's family, and Li Wanjiao.

"Lan Xiang, hasn't Dr. Xie come yet? You go to the front door again to see, did Steward Liu send someone to urge him?"

Li endured the pain and raised his head to urge his maid ring.

A clever big girl just came in from outside, frowned when she heard the words, looked at the outsiders in the room, a little hesitant, Li saw her concerns, and suddenly became angry: "What's the matter, you say it quickly, what are you still talking about when your eyebrows are burned?"

Lan Xiang stomped her feet, "If you go back to your master, please go and invite, but I heard that it is not Dr. Xie who was invited, but Dr. Jin, the new doctor from Jirentang." Steward Liu said that it was the eldest wife's idea, and it is rumored that this Dr. Jin has good medical skills and is good at obstetrics and gynecology, so the eldest lady ......"

She didn't dare to say more in the back, and her voice became quieter and quieter.

Li was so angry that he pounded the head of the bed with his fist, accidentally knocked his bones by the wood, gritted his teeth and turned over, he didn't care about his stomachache, and looked at a few people underground with tears in his eyes.

Sitting on the ground are all the aunts and wives of Master Liu, except for the eldest aunt who died early, the fifth aunt who died in childbirth, and the seventh aunt who has always been on good terms with the ninth aunt, the rest of the sisters came, and their servants also followed, but they didn't dare to enter the house, crowded at the door and muttered and whispered.

Everyone else is okay, the fourth aunt is too bold, she has always been quick to talk, she coughed, and coughed up a sneer: "Doctor Jin, why have we never heard of it?" We have always seen a doctor and invited Xie Yulin of Huairentang, and Mr. Xie has already become acquaintances from top to bottom of the house, everyone knows that Mr. Xie has already done his best to treat us as his own relatives, this rashly changed the doctor, and he doesn't know the details, sister, don't worry, we don't feel at ease, and besides, since you are pregnant, Mr. Xie is taking the pulse to protect the fetus. ”

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Mrs. Eighth Aunt wore a pair of coral pendant earrings on her ears, as soon as the person moved, the pendant trembled in the slender and delicate white neck, and her voice was as tender and green as the good coral pendant, delicate and watery, "Oh, this woman gave birth to a child is to pass the ghost gate, I said sister, you must not be careless, we have a hard life, one by one is either a difficult birth or a miscarriage, I look forward to my sister You will add a healthy son to the master." ”

Li ignored the fourth and eighth aunts, and set his sights on the third aunt alone.

The third aunt has a pink and white face, small eyes, and pointed eyebrows, and she frowns tightly many times, as if the whole world owes her eight dollars. There are fine wrinkles hanging on the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, and she looks like a woman who has been soaked in the bitter water of life for a long time.

The third aunt is too introverted and calm-hearted, and she is more than ordinary women at critical moments.

Sure enough, she found a chair and sat down, and slowly looked at Aunt Jiu's sharp belly like a big watermelon," Although our Liu family is a big family, brocade clothes and jade food, in the eyes of outsiders is a good life, eating and drinking spicy, there is no shortage of food and clothing, in fact, only we know how this day is, just take this child as an example, you all know, the house has not been able to support men, I myself broke two male fetuses, the three sons of the fourth sister did not live, the fifth sister in the belly of the male or female was not born and died of a corpse and two lives, the eighth sister you, even three children are male fetuses, but unfortunately none of them were saved. If it weren't for the aunt who exchanged her life for Brother Wan'er's life, the master would not even have a stupid son under his knees today. ”

Her voice was slow and heavy, and the room was stunned. In fact, who would not know such a thing, and it is not a secret, and it cannot be hidden. But the third aunt said it word by word, and everyone here was in a cold sweat.

Li's face turned pale for a while.

She stretched out her hand and tore the curtain at the head of the bed, and yelled at Lan Xiang: "Go and tell Mrs. Sù, I don't want to change doctors, I want Xie Yulin, if I don't invite Xie Yulin, I won't give birth to this child, I'll wait for the master to come back and regenerate!"

This sentence was shouted, and she had already rushed to the table with a big belly and swept it around, and the teacups, teapots, vases, and ping-pong screamed and rolled to the ground.

Lan Xiang stumbled away.

As soon as Lan Xiang walked out of Chen's room with her front feet, Liu's mother walked in with a head of snow. As soon as she entered, Lan Mei walked softly to the door. Mother Liu has light steps, and she doesn't need to be notified when she enters the house, she always comes like a shadow, and she leaves when she leaves, as if she doesn't hold any important position in this Liu Mansion, but Lan Mei knows that she must have something important to tell Mrs. Sù when she comes, and at this time it is best for her to guard the door, and don't let idle people and others come to disturb her.

The candle flame burned on and off the silver-bronze candlestick.

Sure enough, she refused to use the people of Jirentang. ”

Chen's voice was calm.

The candle flame danced on Liu's mother's fat white face.

Mother Liu didn't say anything, her eyebrows jumped.

It was she herself who cried and shouted to use Mr. Xie, and the whole room was a witness. Chen looked at the candle flame, his eyes were leisurely, as if he was thinking about some distant past, "Since when did these women of the master become so stubborn, one after another, they would rather die in childbirth without the doctors I took the trouble to ask for them, and only recognize Mr. Xie's medical skills." Alas, I really hope that my lord will have a healthy and intelligent son born alive in this world. ”

Liu's mother's eyebrows jumped again.

Chen suddenly raised his voice: "Lan Mei, you send a message, ask Steward Liu to invite Mr. Xie, the snow is slippery, ask Steward Liu to personally set up a car to invite." ”

In a hurry, Lan Mei went.

Chen suddenly turned around and grabbed Liu's mother's hand.

Mother Liu stood upright, no surprise.

Chen's voice was so low that only the two of them could hear it.

"Wang Qiaoshou has ordered it, right? Make sure nothing goes wrong. You know we can't afford to lose. ”

Liu's mother's voice seemed to come from an invisible darkness: "Don't worry, it's foolproof, she doesn't dare to joke with her family's lives." ”

Chen suddenly let out a breath, suddenly let go of his hand, as if he was very tired, and wiped a handful of hair that was a little messy on his forehead, "Thank you." She looked at the people under the candle flame and said.

Mother Liu didn't speak, the curtain moved, and a cold air rushed in, and she had already gone out.

Chan rolled over and walked into the cubicle next to the bedroom, where a small bodhisattva was enshrined, and she lit incense, knelt firmly on a small futon, and began a long prayer.

In the room in the corner courtyard, Lancao lit the lamp, and looked at the rice bowl on the table by the light, the bowl was empty, she was surprised, and before she could speak, Lanhua was already waiting on the side: "Sister Lancao, you went out just now, I fed the bird's nest to the little grandmother for you, she ate so deliciously, there was no soup left at the bottom of the bowl, and finally licked the edge of the bowl." Do you say it's a little grandmother?"

The dumb aunt looked at her quietly.

She suddenly felt a little weak, knowing that she couldn't hear what she said, so she simply used sign language to play dumb language, and at the same time glared at her fiercely, which meant that she was coaxing and threatening, that is, to make the dumb aunt admit that she had eaten the things in the bowl.

Lancao's eyes looked at the dumb aunt, she didn't believe that the little grandmother who had just woken up could eat such a bowl of bird's nest in one go, so the little grandmother's injury was not in the way, and her appetite could be so good.

Lancao is even more suspicious, how could Orchid suddenly be so kind, take the initiative to feed the little grandmother, hasn't she been very dissatisfied since she followed the little grandmother, either lazy and slippery or in front of the little grandmother pointed at the chicken and scolded the dog, scolded and scolded, and she bullied the little grandmother is dumb and couldn't hear anything.

Orchids and orchids both looked at the little grandmother.

The dumb aunt nodded, pointed to her throat, and then to her stomach, nodded slightly, and then closed her eyes, as if she was very tired and tired, but this action just now made her extremely tired.

Lan Cao's heart fell to the ground, she was immediately very happy, and went to fold the quilt for the little grandmother, while taking care of herself and chattering, "It's really good to eat a bowl of bird's nest in one meal, which shows that the little grandmother's body will get better soon, and the wound on the head will no longer bleed, if Mr. Xie comes, I will take a risk to ask him, please come and take a look again, yesterday he said that the little grandma you are too injured, too much blood, incurable, if you save in vain, you will always be in a coma, and then you can't be saved." But little grandma, you have a big life, with the blessing of the Bodhisattva, don't you wake up again, Mr. Xie will prescribe medicine for us when you wake up. ”

She was like a verbose old mother, nagging and talking a lot about the family, and Orchid had already gone to sleep in the next room. She sighed, this orchid, since she came to the little grandmother, she has been unreasonable, she doesn't serve the master during the day, and she never wants to go to night at night, so she can only accompany the little grandmother to spend the night.

The house was too cold, only the kang was hot, but it was impossible for them to go to the master's kang as subordinates, so the blue grass could only wrap the cotton jacket on her body, blowing hot air and holding her hands while sitting on the side of the kang and preparing to continue to sew the little grandmother's torn gown, but unfortunately it was too cold, her hands were frozen, and she couldn't pinch the needle. She simply blew out the lamp, curled up into her futon, leaned her back against the edge of the kang, and shivered to sleep.

In a daze, a pair of hands groped on the face, these hands were small, hard, cool, with calluses that had been worn out for a long time, uncovered the bedding wrapped in the blue grass, tried to hold her, but couldn't hold it, the blue grass woke up, called the little grandma is you, got up and lit the lamp, under the light, sure enough, it was the little grandmother, the little face was still quiet, and there was no trace of sadness and joy, but she had already thrown her futon pillow onto the kang, pulled the blue grass up, and pointed to the kang to push her up.

Lancao understood what the little grandmother meant, but she was startled, and waved her hand again and again, she was a subordinate, how dare she go to the master's kang.

But the little grandmother stared at her, a pair of eyes were dark and gloomy, dark, as if bottomless, reflecting the candle flame of the night, she quietly looked at the handsome little girl in front of her, her eyes have been like this since she woke up, clear, quiet, as if she has been immersed in a distant place, that is a place that few people do not know and cannot reach.

Lancao couldn't resist her, so she could only obediently climb onto the kang, but she only dared to curl up on the side of the kang, and the dumb aunt got on the kang by herself, pulled the pillow of Lancao and put it together with her own pillow, and then fell asleep gently first.

Lancao blew the lamp and gently slept next to the little grandmother, this little thin body has been very cold, Lancao suddenly had an impulse to hug the little grandmother under the cover of the night, of course she didn't dare, just thought about it in her heart. In the dark, Lancao quietly shed tears, and the kang was warm, and her heart was even warmer.