Chapter 86: Green Plum Fruit (1)
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Xu was too worried about the safety of his two sons, perhaps it was the words and deeds of Xuanping Hou that day that made the old lady depressed and difficult to resolve, and within two days of sending Wang Yicheng and Wang Yizong away, the old lady fell ill.
The old lady's illness can be very bad for all the people in the house, the men go out of Beijing on errands, and those in the capital are not idle, and this kind of thing naturally falls on the women.
The old lady of Changning Bo has a four-room daughter-in-law, and the old lady is not well-founded, so the four-room daughter-in-law naturally has to serve in front of her.
As for the aunts in each room, even if they are favored in front of men, it is not their turn to serve the old lady.
It's just that Mrs. Zhang, the wife of the big house, is pregnant, so it is naturally inconvenient to serve the sick.
The second wife, Lin, is still cultivating in the family temple and can't serve the sick.
The rest are the Fang family in the third room and the Wu family in the fourth room.
Fang's temperament is lively, and she is the daughter-in-law of the old lady's relatives, and she has always been liked by the old lady, so this errand of serving the sick is naturally inseparable from the Fang family.
The Wu family is much worse, although she is the youngest daughter-in-law in the house, but because the man is the most unruly concubine, the couple has no sense of existence in the Bofu.
When the elder Ning Bo was alive, he didn't care about this little son, and no one in the fourth old man, Wang Yifan, knew what he did on weekdays.
Or after the death of the elder Ning Bo, the current uncle Wang Yicheng accidentally discovered that although this cousin was not good at reading, he had some experience in doing business.
So he strongly advocated handing over the affairs of the Bofu to the fourth master to take full care of it, which made the status of the fourth room in the mansion improved.
With the increasing improvement of the economy of Bofu, the status of Sifang in Bofu is also rising, but Wu doesn't know whether he was born with a dull temperament, or he is used to being low-key, and he is still like a transparent person in the mansion.
The old lady is sick, and the Wu family is also a filial person, and she will take the initiative to come to Mingxin Hall every day to serve the sick.
It's just that the mouth is stupid and not smart, and the old lady looks a little disliked.
The old lady did not leave her to serve in Mingxin Hall on the grounds that her two daughters were still young and could not take care of her, and asked Wu to go back to take care of the children after asking for peace every day.
Fortunately, there is also a Wang Xiuying in the big house, who helps the Zhang family to take care of the family affairs every day, and will come to serve the old lady in front of the sick, because the day of marriage is set in March of the next year, Wang Xiuying has to embroider the dowry every day, so that Wang Xiuying has lost a lot of weight in just a few days.
Although the old lady was sick in bed, she saw the pain in her eyes and heart, and finally sent a message to let Wang Xiuying not have to come to her every day to serve, but only embroider the dowry with peace of mind.
It's just that in this way, it will be bitter for the Fang clan alone.
Although Wang Zihan, the youngest of Fang's sons, was only a little over six years old, he had already opened his eyes and followed several elder brothers into the school, so since the old lady fell ill, the Fang family stayed in the Mingxin Hall almost unclothed to serve the old lady.
Of course, it is said to be serving, and you don't have to do it yourself, at most, the medicine is decocted and brought to the front to feed the medicine, and the old lady wakes up and talks in front of her.
It's just that sick people always have a bad temper, and they always do something picky from time to time.
No, the medicine was decocted, and Fang took the medicine bowl from Yahuan's hand to feed the old lady.
I don't know if it's really hot, or if the medicine is too bitter The old lady didn't want to drink it, this time she really stared at Fang Shi with an unhappy face and lost her temper.
The Fang clan had to be cautious and coaxed.
The old and the young, the old people are like children, and the sick old people are not even as good as a child, so they have to be coaxed carefully.
Fang Shi gently blew the medicine in the spoon, and then stretched out the spoon to the old lady: "Imperial Doctor Xu explained that this medicine must be drunk while it is hot." ”
The old lady glanced at the spoon stretched out in front of her with disgust, the bitter taste of the medicine went straight to her nose, and the whole person leaned back, but she refused to open her mouth to drink the medicine.
Fang Shi was helpless, so he had to put the spoon back into the medicine bowl and give Mama Xu a look.
Mama Xu pursed her lips and smiled, took a box containing all kinds of honey-made preserved fruits from the side and sent it to Fang's hand.
With the candied fruit, the Fang clan coaxed and coaxed, and finally waited for the old lady to drink the medicine.
The old lady drank the medicine, picked up a candied fruit and put it in her mouth, looked at the candied fruit in the box, there were almost seven or eight kinds of candied fruit, and couldn't help frowning slightly and pointed to one of the fruits and said, "These fruits are all from our own shop?" It's not that the green plum fruit soaked in this way can't be astringent, why did you get it and send it to me again? ”
The old lady pointed to the fruit made of green plums, and although it didn't look as bright as the freshly picked green plums, it looked good, but anyone could see that it was green plums.
In the past, Changningbo's own fruit shop had tried to soak the green plum fruit directly with sugar water, but the fruit always had an astringent taste that was difficult to eat, and finally had to give up, and even cut down a lot of green plum trees in the Zhuangzi, leaving only a few fruit trees that were still big enough to enter the mouth, and sent them into the house every year to taste fresh.
Fang couldn't help but laugh when he saw it: "This fruit is not sent from the shop, but our Ying sister poured it out by herself." I heard that my mother has taken too much medicine these days and has no appetite, so I sent it to me and asked me to give it to my mother! ”
The old lady looked at the green plums with some disgust, it's not that the green plums really can't be seen, although they are not as delicate as the candied fruits in the fruit shop, they can still see it, but this taste is ......
As soon as she thought of the astringency of green plums, the old lady's brows tightened a little.
Fang naturally knew what the old lady was thinking, but since she dared to send this green plum to the old lady, she naturally tasted the taste, so she first put it in her mouth and ate it, and after spitting out the nucleus, she said: "Mother, don't underestimate this green plum, I don't know how Sister Ying poured it, it just doesn't have that astringency, it's refreshing and delicious!" Mother might as well try. ”
With that, he pushed the box full of fruit in front of the old lady.
Although the old lady still didn't believe it, she didn't believe it a little less when she saw that Fang's family ate a green plum in a few clicks.
Fang has always been a mouthful, and he has always had one thing to say, although she always shows that she likes Wang Xiuying on weekdays, but it is impossible to say that she deceived herself for Wang Xiuying.
What's more, this green plum is right in front of you, and the taste of how to take it yourself to taste and taste it is all known, so the old lady reached out and took one, put it in front of her eyes and looked at it, and put it in front of her nose and smelled it, I felt nothing special, but I felt that it was a little different, and I really couldn't say whether it was good or bad, so I simply put the green plum in my mouth.