Outside the palace gate, Zhong Xu, the uncle of the Zhong family, greeted him from afar, inexplicably glanced at the fourth prince who was angrily rejecting people thousands of miles away, turned his head to the second prince and grinned: "Brother-in-law." ”

The second prince nodded, motioned for Zhong Xu to follow, and the two got into the carriage and went all the way back to the second prince's mansion. Zhong Xu followed behind the second prince step by step, swept around with his afterglow, took out a small box from his sleeve, and handed it to the second prince with a flushed face: "Brother-in-law, this box was brought by my father to me, saying that it has several excellent medicinal ......."

"Well, thank you dad for me." The second prince hummed as usual, took the box and handed it to the little maid in the hall, raised his hand to bring tea up, beckoned Zhong Xu to sit down, and asked very gently, "Has your father allowed you to end this year's Spring Festival?" ”

"Accurate!" The blush on Zhong Xu's face dissipated a little when he heard this, smiled brightly, nodded his head, and responded in a high-spirited manner, "Father said that I have been arrogant in the past two years, and I am afraid that I will be too proud, so let me try it this year, just to compete with students from all over the world, and let me know that the sky is high and the earth is thick." It's just a comparison, anyway, I didn't think about being under the top three! ”

"It's a good thing that you have this confidence!" The second prince smiled and patted Zhong Xu's shoulder, got up and instructed, "Your sister talks about you in front of me every day, and it just so happens that you came over today, go and see your sister, so as to save her from chattering." ”

Zhong Xu responded to the words of the second prince with a smile, got up and said goodbye to the second prince, and then was led to the courtyard of the second prince, Concubine Zhong, by the housekeeper of the inner courtyard of the palace.

When the second princess heard the report, she hurriedly led Zhong Xu into the house, and when they met, she couldn't help but smile and count: "Look at you, it's still cold this day, why do you wear so little?" As he spoke, he turned around and motioned to the girl, who brought the ginger soup.

Zhong Xu hurriedly waved his hand, touched his nose with some embarrassment, and said embarrassedly: "Sister, don't let them be busy, I'm such a big person......"

The second princess laughed out loud when she heard this, waved her hand and let the girls in the room retreat, leaving only the girl who served her all the year round, signaling Zhong Xu to sit down, took a sip of tea, and watched Zhong Xu stunned for a while, before putting down the teacup, and asked gently: "Father can punish you these days?" ”

"No penalty!" Zhong Xu coughed embarrassedly, looking at the second princess's smile that couldn't help but smile, he couldn't help but raise his voice and argue, "My father has been so busy these days that his feet don't touch the ground, and he just handed me an envoy today-"

Halfway through the words, Zhong Xu suddenly realized that he had missed his mouth, and swallowed back the words after he was busy, choked and coughed a few times, and in the smiling eyes of the second princess, his face gradually turned red, and he explained vaguely: "It's just a few flavors of medicine, my sister has been married to my brother-in-law for so many years, and I don't have any heirs, my father is worried about ......."

The smile on the face of the second princess froze slightly, a trace of loneliness and self-deprecation quickly crossed between her eyebrows, and her voice gently comforted Zhong Xu: "Okay, I know!" Don't hide it. I know that my father is for my good, but my children are fate, and I don't have this blessing. You tell my father not to cāo for me, what should be mine is mine, no, I don't force it. ”

Zhong Xu glanced at the second princess hesitantly, and opened his mouth again and again, but he didn't know how to persuade him, so he nodded solemnly, and was silent for a moment, after all, he was still a little unbearable, and he considered and persuaded: "Sister, don't worry, I think my brother-in-law is very good to my sister, and there will always be ...... heirs."

"Okay, you're a man who hasn't married, don't be ashamed to tell me this?" The second princess glared at Zhong Xu with a smile, raised her head and motioned to the old lady beside her to take a long box that had been prepared earlier, handed it to Zhong Xu, and instructed carefully, "This is a century-old ginseng that was rewarded by the former grandfather, the most important thing is to nourish qi and blood, you can bring it back to your father, just say that this is my filial piety to him as a daughter, please don't worry too much about fatigue, take care of your body." Everything else is empty talk, and our Zhong family doesn't need those false names now. ”

Zhong Xu did not doubt him, took the box, nodded with a smile, and talked with the second princess for a while, seeing that the second prince was tired, he said goodbye and withdrew, and was still led out of the inner courtyard by the previous housekeeper, and went to the study to talk back to the second prince, then got into the carriage at the second gate, returned to Zhong's house all the way, and found the household Shangshu Zhong Jing in the outer study 1510 replied to the words of the second prince and the second princess.

In the second prince's mansion, Zhong leaned against the door, watching Zhong Xu's figure out of the courtyard from a distance, the smile on his face fell, his eyes were more indifferent, and he looked at the branches in the courtyard that began to show green dots, and only after a long time did he turn around and gather his clothes, and smiled in a sparse and self-deprecating tone, as if he was talking to himself, and as if he was sighing to the old lady beside him: "It's someone else's, it's always someone else's, so what?" Back then, the words behind the ...... were very light, and as soon as the wind blew, they dispersed, and they were so vague that even the people next to them couldn't hear clearly.

The old lady followed behind the second princess with bated breath and didn't answer a word.

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After the early dynasty, the Chongning Marquis Mansion was full of people coming and going, some colleagues from the DPRK and China came to express regret and condolences, and there were also petty officials who attached to the Zhou family who came to inquire about the situation cautiously and anxiously, mixed with many people who gloated in the name of visiting, and some of them entered the door to see the jokes without concealment, and even the people from Yushitai went to two.

The two masters in the house fell, and Mrs. Zheng, who had been purifying her heart and worshipping the Buddha, had to come out, and instructed the people in the family to politely welcome the people who came to comfort and look strange, and set up a few tables in the hall, politely greeted everyone, thanked the ministers for their "care" for their master, and from time to time took a gap to order people to quickly serve tea and water.

It wasn't until Imperial Physician Li was half-dragged into the mansion by the steward of the Chongning Hou Mansion that Mrs. Zheng apologized to everyone and thanked Imperial Physician Li: "Thank you Lord Li for this trip, our master's illness is really strange, and the doctors outside can't see the reason, and I am helpless, so I can only bother you." The family is ignorant, and they are a little impatient, so please take care of them. ”

Imperial Physician Li held back the anger in his stomach, and in front of the ministers who were watching the excitement, it was not easy to have a seizure when Mrs. Zheng said this, so he had to swallow that little bit of anger back, frowned, and bowed his hand to Mrs. Zheng, which was considered to be a return of the courtesy: "Madame is serious, the old man is also a doctor, and it is the old man's duty to treat diseases and save people." It's just that the ugly words are ahead, and the old man is only a shallow learner, and whether he can cure the Hou Ye's illness or not is also up to fate. ”

"This is natural, I am grateful that Master Li can come this time!" Mrs. Zheng's face was full of gratitude, and she hurriedly thanked Imperial Physician Li, and instructed the maid in the family to serve all the adults, and then personally led Imperial Physician Li to the West Courtyard.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the crowd in the hall saw Imperial Physician Li frowning and turning out of the arch, as if something unclean was chasing after him, and waved his hands indiscriminately as he walked: "This sick old man can't be cured!" Madame, please be smart. After pausing for a moment, looking at the dark crowd in the hall, Fang frowned and said, "All the adults should disperse first, Hou Ye's illness is not yet determined, in case it will be ...... to pass people."

The people who were still waiting to see the strange were suddenly shocked, and then reacted, their faces changed, and they hurriedly patted their clothes and walked out, and before they walked out of the door, they saw a pretty girl running out of nowhere, hugging Imperial Doctor Li's feet and begging: "My lord, please show our wife too......

"What madame?" Imperial Physician Li raised his eyebrows and broke away from the girl, shaking his beard and responding angrily, "Your lady is so good, what does the old man think?" ”

The girl was glared at by Imperial Doctor Li, and immediately panicked, and hurriedly explained: "It's not this lady, our lady's surname is Wen ......."

Imperial Doctor Li was already angry, and he had never had a good impression of the people in the Chongning Hou Mansion, so he didn't allow the girl to say more, so he reprimanded with a cold face: "Get out of the way!" Where is the old man waiting for a bunch of patients, but he doesn't have the leisure to know what kind of lady you are! After that, he motioned to the accompanying medicine boy to drag the person away and walked out of the house angrily.

A group of people walked out of the gate of the Chongning Marquis Mansion in a huge manner, startling the people who were originally sticking out their heads and brains outside to avoid onlookers, and when they inquired again, they were immediately happy again. In less than half an hour's effort, the news that Chongning Hou Zhou Guangye got a strange disease medicine stone without a doctor spread all over the streets and alleys of the capital, and everyone speculated that Chongning Hou had offended which way the immortals, and which door he had recruited.

Like the people on the street, there was also a group of people from the Wangmei Courtyard of the Lu Mansion, Chen Ping squeezed his eyebrows and followed Lu Wan back to the situation of the Chongning Hou Mansion, and at the end he couldn't help but smile and said: "Girl, look, do you want to send the antidote over?" ”

"What to send?" Lu Wan glanced at Chen Ping funny, she never thought that there was such a person around Wei Ping, with Chen Ping's temperament, I am afraid that I have been holding back for a long time by Wei Ping's side all these years, and at this time, when I talk about the matter of pit people, my face is full of excitement, I don't look like a martial arts master, but like a ruffian, "If you want an antidote, let the people of the Zhou family go to Jingfeng Pharmacy to buy it by themselves!" And - this is the only one, and it will not be obsolete! ”

Chen Ping's eyes suddenly lit up, and he nodded his head hurriedly and responded: "I understand the girl's words, I'll go to Zhou Tai." ”

Lu Wan glanced at Chen Ping appreciatively, looked at Chen Ping's excited and excited face, and compared the situation of Wei Ji on weekdays, laughed happily, and only after a long time did he hold back his smile, and instructed Yumo to take a few shops and Zhuangzi's account details sent by Tan's shopkeeper, and just turned two pages, but saw that the chief steward Lai arrived at the gate of the courtyard and was talking to Lu Zhi.

After a while, Lu Zhi ran over with his skirt, and replied with wide eyes: "Girl, the master asked you to go to the study......

Lu Wan nodded, smiled soothingly at the green branch, and instructed Yumo to follow, and the two went out of the courtyard and entered the Weinan Courtyard with Steward Lai. When they arrived at the door of the study, Yumo and Lai Da Steward both stopped, and when they saw Lu Wan entering the house, they lightly closed the door.

"Daddy looking for me?" Lu Wan smiled very brightly, and poured a cup of tea for her father while smiling and flattering, looking at Lu Chenghui's unhappy face, she asked first, "Is it for the Zhou family?" ”