At this moment, the people in the east side courtyard are not sleeping.

Cao Shi guarded a lamp for the sole of Jiang Xina's shoes, and said complainingly: "If you enter the palace as a master, you can get an official, why does the emperor make a pharmacist?" Even your uncle and grandfather got a five-grade product, Sister Tao has made such a great achievement, but the master has nothing to catch? ”

"Daddy is ordered to repair the book." Jiang Yanhua embroidered a shoe upper opposite her, and said lightly, "My sister said, my father can go anywhere from now on, and he doesn't have to kowtow when he sees an official, and he can also pay money from the official office, which is a great honor." ”

"But that's not an official after all." Cao Shi was worried, "If he gets the official, you will be the official lady, and it will be easy to handle family affairs in the future." And your uncle—"

Jiang Yanhua raised her eyebrows and interrupted her: "What uncle, Cao Wu's family plotted to kill Cheng Enbo, and they all went to death row, but it has nothing to do with our family!" ”

Cao Shi suddenly wiped away tears: "But after all, it's your uncle, he also hurt you when you were a child, and when we were kicked out by the Chen family......"

Jiang Yanhua said categorically: "Even if he treated us well in the past, we have repaid it." The matter of jade carving narcissus, as well as your mother's dowry, didn't they all subsidize them? We've done our best, we can't let them drag us down anymore! Mother, don't be confused, if you get into trouble again, I'm afraid you won't be far from being suspended. ”

These words frightened Cao, but he just sobbed lowly, and didn't dare to say any more.

Jiang Yanhua didn't care, just thought about his thoughts while embroidering, and said after a while: "Among the people who came to congratulate today, there seems to be no Liu Hanlin?" ”

Where does the Cao family know. Jiang Yanhua turned his head and instructed Poria next to him: "You go and inquire, if you want to put wine in the house these days, will you invite Liu Hanlin." As he spoke, he glanced at Poria with sharp eyes, "Keep your mouth tight, don't let people know and gossip." ”

Poria lowered her head and agreed, but secretly complained in her heart. At the beginning, she thought that the family business would be Jiang Bohua's in the future, and she would flatter the Cao family even if she offended Taohua, but she didn't expect it to become like this now, and she couldn't turn back at this moment. Thinking about it, I can only hope that Jiang Yanhua will have a good family affair in the future and bring herself over, if he stays in the Jiang family, I am afraid that he will not have a good life.

When Cao waited for Poria to go out, he said to his daughter a little timidly: "This matter - I'm afraid it's inappropriate in private, why don't you tell the master?" ”

Jiang Yanhua glared at her: "If there is a good family matter, who does my mother think Daddy will take care of first?" ”

That is naturally Taohua, Jiang Yanhua changed her surname again, and it is not the blood of the Jiang family. Cao Shi was silent, and said after a while: "Can this thing be done?" ”

"It is up to man to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen." Jiang Yanhua actually didn't know what to do in his heart, but he was very calm on the surface, "Inquire about the news first, there is always a way." ”

On the second day, the Jiang family really posted a post to relatives and friends, saying that they would have a small gathering on the second day. Xiao Shi was busy, Jiang Yuhua jumped in with a smile and said, "Mother is busy?" Who is this post for? ”

Xiao Shi poked him on the forehead: "Hippie smiley face again." I'm busy, so I'll say anything. ”

Jiang Yuhua tilted his head to look at the post written on the table: "Won't my mother send a post to Brother Liu?" ”

"Oh, it's Liu Zhijing Liu Hanlin?" Xiao Shi happily agreed after a little thought, "He is your half-master, you should be invited." "As long as it is good for his son's imperial examination, just invite one more person, what is it.

The post was sent to Liu's house, and Mrs. Liu received it, and when her son came back, she held it in front of her like a treasure: "Take a look!" ”

Liu Zhijing took it in his hand and looked at it, and also smiled: "This is a good thing." ”

"yes." Mrs. Liu's eyes lit up, "Didn't you say that you saw ...... in the garden last time?"

Liu Zhijing smiled: "Mother, what's in a hurry." I don't know who the girl is. There are several girls in the Jiang family. He patted the post on the palm of his hand and said in a deep voice, "But now it seems that Jiang Langzhong's daughter is not as good as this Jiang Pharmacist's daughter......"

Where did Mrs. Liu know anything, she only heard that the Jiang family had a pharmacist who was ordered to repair books, so she said: "In this case, you should think of a way." However, this pharmacist is not an official after all, right? ”

Liu Zhijing helped her and said: "Although he is not an official, he is a celebrity in the eyes of the emperor, and he is no worse than anyone else." Besides, this Jiang girl is good at medicine, if she can get her, wouldn't it be good for her mother to cure her old diseases? "And who doesn't need a doctor? If he really marries the wife of a miracle doctor, it will be greatly beneficial to his career in the future, imagine if his wife cures the illness of his boss, who is embarrassed to prevent him from being promoted?

After making up his mind, he was steady, patted the invitation in his hand and said: "These days are common with the third young master of the Jiang family, listen to his meaning, Jiang Langzhong has two concubines, the eldest has entered the palace, and the younger one is afraid that she will marry back to her uncle's family in the future, and there is another concubine, but she is not favored." In this way, even if I work hard over there, I can only marry a concubine, but it is better to marry this house, or the only daughter of Pharmacist Jiang. ”

Mrs. Liu has always listened to her son, so she naturally nodded: "Then what gifts should you prepare for tomorrow?" ”

"The friendship of gentlemen is as light as water." Liu Zhijing waved his hand in a dashing manner, "It is said that this Pharmacist Jiang is a person who does not admire money and power, so the emperor did not make him an official, but let him repair the book." For such people, flattery is too much and it is not interesting. I'm going to draw a picture carefully today, and I'm just going to have to do it. ”

Liu Zhijing's calligraphy and painting are indeed outstanding, he returned to the room to draw a picture of the king of medicine, and inscribed sixteen words on the side: hanging pot to help the world, wonderful hands to rejuvenate, gold is thousands, not as good as a sage. I took a look at it myself, and I was quite satisfied. At this time, it was too late to send it for framing, so I simply rolled it on plain paper, and took it to Jiang's house the next day.

Jiang Xiben doesn't like to socialize this kind of scene, not to mention that the people who came are all in-laws and friends from Changfang, he doesn't know a few people, and he is very uncomfortable sitting and listening to flattery, so it is better to go back and read the lone medical book he just borrowed.

Liu Zhijing arrived at this time, he was born with a talent, only wearing an ordinary plain blue silk straight jacket, and he was not holding such and such a congratulatory gift in his hand, but he only took a scroll of paintings, which was particularly eye-catching.

When he unfolded the painting, it was indeed a kung fu, and the medicine king collection picture was exactly what Jiang Xi wanted, and he couldn't help laughing when he looked at the inscription on it: "It's too awarded." "He doesn't love any high-ranking officials, but he does want to have a hand of fine medical skills to help the world, although now this hope does not seem to be successful, but if the book can be repaired, it is also excellent, so Liu Zhijing's painting is really right.

Liu Zhijing is a very good observer, and when he saw Jiang Xi say the award, he smiled and said: "The third master should not be polite." Although the third master did not hang the pot, but Ling Yuan is really rejuvenated, sure enough, there is a father and a daughter, and the house is worthy of the emperor's handwritten 'benevolent heirloom'. ”

The important thing is to shoot in the right place. For Jiang Xi, praising Taohua is happier than praising himself, and Liu Zhijing even praised the ancestors of the Jiang family with a word, so Jiang Xi couldn't help but be unhappy, so he talked to him immediately.

At this time, it is September, Jiang's family is not big, but there is an old laurel tree that is sixty years old, blooming flowers and fragrant floating on a street, but it is worth seeing, the small family must not set up a banquet in the garden, so as to invite people to appreciate the osmanthus flowers.

There are male guests in the front, and there are naturally female guests in the back house, and even Xiao's mother came with her daughter-in-law and granddaughter. She is Yu's sister-in-law, and her daughter-in-law is Xiao's sister-in-law.

When the women get together, it is indispensable to gossip about the news of the East and West families in the capital. There are no outsiders here, Xiao's sister-in-law opened her mouth and threw a bomb down: "The eldest girl of the Cui family went last night." ”

It was indeed a very powerful bomb, and everyone was shocked. Because the Jiang family was busy setting up the wine, they didn't know anything about the news outside the house, and they were all startled: "The eldest girl of the Cui family? That's it? ”

"Which one else is there?" Grandma Yu sneered, "It was said that it was a sudden heat in the middle of the night the day before, but I didn't take it seriously, who knew that it wouldn't work in the morning." Mrs. Cui was afraid that the wedding would be imminent, so she didn't dare to ask for a doctor, so she invited Lang Zhong from the street. Who knew that if you take a piece of medicine, you will be gone at night. It happened that Governor Cui entered Beijing early this morning, and when he heard about it, he hurried to Nalangzhong's house, but the people had already run away. ”

"Is this the wrong medicine?" Yu couldn't help but chant the Buddha, "This is a matter of evil." ”

"Nowadays, there are many quacks, where can it be like your aunt's family?" Grandma Yu flattered and said, "However, I also heard that this matter may not be blamed on Langzhong, Miss Cui's body, I am afraid that it is a child's illness." Do you still remember, when you first entered Beijing, what did you not adapt to? ”

Who can forget this? Jing Shi was also listening on the side, his face was a little pale: "Didn't you say that it would be better later?" "She knows this best, she asked Taohua to cure it. However, after being persuaded by Jiang Lianhua once last time, the Jing family has now rested the hearts of the Cui family, and there are fewer people going to Cui's mansion, so they don't know that Cui Xiuwan is gone.

Although Yu's maiden family is also surnamed Yu, it is a side branch, so Grandma Yu's news is also half-informed, half is accurate, and half is her own guess, but here she is alive and vivid, and she takes it as true and says: "Where can it be good?" Second wife, please think about it, if you are in good health, can you have been unaccustomed to water and soil for nearly half a year, and hundreds of doctors are ineffective? Later, he said that he was fine, but he just held on - if he continued to get sick, how could this be done? What's more, a few days ago, the mother and daughter of the Cui family drove to Nanyuan again, and they may not have contracted the disease there - didn't Nanyuan have an epidemic? ”

Xiao Shi was shocked: "It can't be an epidemic, right?" "The Queen Mother almost died of malaria, and she also lost the medicine from Nanyang, if Cui Xiuwan was also infected with this disease, it would not be unusual to die.

"I don't dare to say that." Grandma Yu's ability is half-truths and half-truths, she never says any lies that can be asked to understand, and the lies she says can't be verified, so it sounds like it's true, "But Miss Cui is not in good health, so she didn't run." Now that this is enough to get married, it can't be done in the end. ”

Miss Yu said softly: "Some people say that they have been restrained ......" said that, her face turned red. Because of this, it was obviously Shen Shuke's wife, and it should not have been said by a girl who had not left the cabinet.

Yu Shi lowered his eyes and listened, and twisted the Bodhi string on his wrist: "It's also pitiful." What can I do about this family affair? ”

"I heard that Governor Cui has already told the emperor that this family matter was decided by the first emperor, and they will never dare to disobey the order." Grandma Yu sighed, "Even if Chong Ke really can't take care of it, they are willing to marry their little daughter and still get married on schedule." ”

Taohua raised her eyes and looked at her: "Grandma, did Governor Cui say in front of the emperor that Wang Ke's wife of Anjun would marry a daughter?" "What kind of wife, Cui Xiuwan's so-called violent death must be strange! These people didn't know anything, so they talked about Shen Shuke's wife. In this way, the Cui family has become an unlucky family that is loyal to the first emperor and has a dead daughter, and the fault has become Shen Shu's?

Grandma Yu was stunned for a moment, feeling that it was not easy to answer. How can there be such a thing? Isn't she gossiping, Kefu's statement has been around since ancient times, who would be so profound.

But this is now a celebrity in the eyes of the emperor, and Grandma Yu can't help but answer: "This, of course Governor Cui didn't dare to mention this, but he thought about it in his heart......"

"Is it what Governor Cui thought in his heart? So how did the big grandmother know? ”

Grandma Yu finally determined that this person was looking for fault, and couldn't help but sink her face: "That's what everyone said outside." ”

Taohua said lightly: "If you want to come to the county princess to report the funeral, there is no reason for Governor Cui to say it when she sees someone, and the person who can hear the news must be an important minister in the court, such as Yu Ge Lao." So did this come from Yu Ge Lao? ”

Several of the women in the seat whose surname is Yu or whose husband's surname is Yu changed color together. Xiao Shidang's face darkened: "Sister Tao, how can you chew on Old Yu Ge behind your back?" ”

Taohua looked back at her lightly: "Didn't this start by chewing on King Anjun?" ”

The wives of the Yu family and the daughters of the Yu family replied in their hearts at the same time: How can King Anjun compare with Yu Gelao! But I thought about it in my heart, but I couldn't say it on my lips.

Miss Yu suddenly lowered her head and smiled, staring at Taohua with her eyes, and still said softly: "Listening to Sister Jiang's meaning, it seems that she is very familiar with King Anjun...... Speaking of which, Ge Lao is also my sister's uncle. ”

Taohua looked back at her indifferently: "Yes." After all, I have been cured of the epidemic with King Anjun in Lantian Luonan, but I have not been cured with Ge Lao. ”

No one spoke now. Yes, King Anjun just calmed down an epidemic, and when he turned around, he said that he was very kind?

Taohua looked around at the group of women surnamed Yu, and suddenly felt very bored. Similarly, being pushed by her like this, Yu Shi also felt very embarrassed, and looked at Jiang Danhua with a dry cough: "Sister Dan, take your cousin to the garden to see the osmanthus flowers, lest we talk here all the time, and your young girl's family will be impatient to listen." ”

A group of girls went out together, and Taohua was about to disappear while people were not paying attention, so she heard Jiang Xinghua beside her say: "I was busy with my wife for a day yesterday, and I haven't said hello to my sister yet." The third uncle got the emperor's will to repair the book this time, and he was named a pharmacist, which is really rare. ”

Originally, as soon as this happy event happened, she immediately wanted to go to the east side of the courtyard, but for some reason, Xiao Shi suddenly called her over, and called Li's mother next to her to star, so that she saluted and walked for a day. At the beginning, she was still young, and she gave birth to new tricks to grind her, but Li's mother was kind and pleasant, and faintly revealed that she was going to take their sisters into the palace to see Jiang Meihua, which made her a little unstable.

Since she woke up by the pool, things seem to have changed a lot. In her previous life, she lived in a simple life, and she only heard that there was an epidemic, but she didn't know which county it was, but at least Taohua definitely didn't go to treat the epidemic, that's for sure! As a result, she was confused and at a loss. It's just that although Taohua has changed so much, the Sacred Heart is the same as before, so in a daze, she can only grasp Taohua and pin her hopes on her like a vine wrapped around a tree.

Momoka nodded casually and walked forward casually with the person in front of her. Jiang Xinghua asked cautiously again: "This time the third sister has made a great contribution, why didn't the emperor reward the elder sister?" "Does the emperor like Taohua or not, will he let her enter the palace?

"The emperor has his own considerations." Taohua was casually perfunctory, but she was pondering Cui Xiuwan's death in her heart. Grandma Yu's words are nonsense, she has diagnosed Cui Xiuwan's pulse, and there is no sign of being weak since she was a child, but she just doesn't want to feel good in her heart. In this case, she didn't believe it.

If it's malaria, it's even less likely. Such an infectious disease, the Cui family is impossible to hide and not report in order to save their lives, so that a daughter who is about to become the princess of the county suddenly died.

Thinking about it, Taohua can only think of one possibility: Cui Xiuwan's private affair has been discovered! Moreover, she is likely to be pregnant, or at least broken, otherwise, the Cui family has many ways to whitewash the peace and make the wedding go ahead of schedule. Only when something happened to Cui Xiuwan that couldn't be concealed, the Cui family would leave no room for her to die directly.

Cui Xiuwan is dead? Taohua felt a little cold on her body. Were her parents forcing her to die? As soon as Governor Cui arrived in the capital, Cui Xiuwan died, which could not be just a coincidence.

In front, Jiang Danhua had already led Miss Yu to the osmanthus tree.

The osmanthus tree is located right next to the flower wall that separates the inner courtyard from the outer courtyard. The tree was in the outer courtyard, but a branch stretched over the flower wall that was just one person high and reached into the inner courtyard. So the Jiang family built a small corridor around the osmanthus tree in the outer courtyard, which was for the male guests to eat wine and enjoy the flowers, and the women in the inner courtyard could enjoy the branch that came in, which was also full of golden osmanthus flowers, and the sweet fragrance was permeated.

Miss Yu's family is just a side branch of the Yu family, and her father's official position is similar to Jiang Zhu, but the family background is actually not as thick as the Jiang family, so when I saw this osmanthus, I also liked it, and discussed with Jiang Danhua to make osmanthus sugar osmanthus wine or something, which was very speculative.

Taohua talked to Jiang Xinghua without a match, and listened absentmindedly to the sound of laughter coming from outside the wall. Under the sweet fragrance of osmanthus and the refreshing autumn sun, the creepy feeling just now slowly disappeared, and the mood gradually relaxed.

Suddenly, a child's giggling sound almost sounded above her head, and two little fat hands appeared on the wall, as if they were enough for a branch of osmanthus, and Jiang Xi shouted outside: "Brother Bai'er, come down, don't be so rude." ”

Then a man's voice smiled: "The third master doesn't have to mind, the little boy has a lively and generous temperament, which is very rare." ”

The walls of the flower wall are thin, and the sound seems to be right in front of you. Miss Yu was startled, and hurriedly pulled Jiang Danhua: "Let's go back." It sounded like a young man in his twenties, just a wall away, and she felt something was wrong.

Jiang Danhua frowned. She knew that the outer courtyard was set up here, but Jiang Bohua's laughter disturbed her conversation with Miss Yu, which made her very unhappy. She didn't like children in the first place, let alone the children in the second room, so she immediately glared at the wall in disgust, and took Miss Yu's hand and left.

Taohua couldn't help but laugh when she heard Jiang Bohua's voice. Jiang Xi felt that Jiang Bohua was also a little older, and he should go out to meet people, and it was not good to always be with women in the back house, so he took him to the front yard today. Unexpectedly, this little guy is not only not afraid of life, but also doesn't know who to pester him to lift him high to pick osmanthus flowers, which is really lively. The person who listened to this speech was an unfamiliar voice, and I think it was a guest who had come today.

She was about to stand and take a look, but Jiang Xinghua grabbed her and desperately pulled her back and forth: "Third sister, go quickly!" ”

Taohua only felt that her hands were like ice cubes, and her strength was surprisingly great, and she was pulled by her involuntarily, and turned the corner of the wall in a few steps. Jiang Lianhua didn't want to come out to enjoy any osmanthus flowers, so she naturally followed suit.

So all of a sudden, only Jiang Yanhua was left under the shade of the laurel tree. She hesitated and took two steps forward, then looked back at the wall. It happened that Jiang Bohua's chubby face was revealed, and when he saw her, he shook his little hand and shouted, "Sister! He proudly held up a branch of osmanthus to her.

Jiang Yanhua also looked up and smiled at him, and just as he was about to speak, another head popped up next to him, Liu Zhijing held Jiang Bohua with both hands, and said with a smile: "Which one do you want?" After speaking, as if he had just seen Jiang Yanhua, he coughed lightly and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry." ”

Jiang Yanhua's heart was pounding, and she bowed her head slightly and said, "It's okay." It's the naughty brother. After saying that, his face was already red, and he turned around and hurriedly left.

Liu Zhijing pinched a small sprig of osmanthus for Jiang Bohua, looked at Jiang Yanhua's slender back, and asked Jiang Bohua in a low voice: "Which sister is this?" ”

Jiang Bohua straightened his small chest: "My sister! Since he called the capital, he found that his sister had suddenly increased a lot, and he was a little unclear. So he automatically divided his original two sisters into "my sisters", while the rest of the sisters were collectively called "sisters".

Liu Zhijing understood what he meant, and for the sake of safety, he saw that Jiang Xizheng was being surrounded and talked without paying attention to him, so he asked again: "Is it your father's sister?" ”

Jiang Bohua really didn't know that Jiang Yanhua was not Jiang Xi's daughter. One is that he is too young to understand this, and the other is that Jiang Yanhua changed his surname before he was born, and no one will specifically tell him this, so in his opinion, the two sisters are the same, but he is closer to the eldest sister. After listening to Liu Zhijing's words, he nodded his little head, and added: "Brother Bai was also born by his father." ”

When Liu Zhijing heard him say this, he immediately relieved his heart. He inquired about the third room of the Jiang family, but he was just a poor Hanlin, and he didn't have any special spies under him, and the so-called inquiry was at most just to let the people in the family make friends with the Jiang family.

But the subordinates of the Jiang Mansion are very secretive about Jiang Yanhua's life experience, and Guy knows that everyone from the old lady to the eldest lady does not want anyone to mention this girl who should not be surnamed Jiang, and the Cao family and Jiang Yanhua don't go out much, so the Liu family doesn't know that Jiang Xi also has a stepdaughter.