"What does my wife eat or vomit?" Momoka walked slowly in the garden and asked Mint.

It's already the middle of February, the wind is obviously softer, the sun is warmer, and the garden is full of fresh greenery.

However, the vitality brought by this spring obviously did not envelop all people, such as the Cao family.

"Yes." Mint went to see it again yesterday, and the mood was not too good, "My wife is so thin that she is completely out of shape, although I also want to take medicine to eat, but ...... If you can't eat a few bites, you will spit it out, and you will cry in fright......"

In fact, in her opinion, Cao Shi is already completely skeleton, with only a layer of skin and bones left on his body, and everyone who sees it is afraid that they will be scared into nightmares. It's just crying, but in fact, there aren't many tears, just some sounds in the throat. It's just that the look of fear in those eyes is still vivid, and every time I look at someone, it makes my scalp blow up and my hair stand on end.

Ginkgo was too frightened to go forward, and only Olive was still waiting by the bedside. Chen Yan also kept crying, but she couldn't do anything but cry, and she wasn't even as close as the olives.

"The slave maid looked at Miss Chen's meaning, I'm afraid I'd rather go back to Wuxi at this time." Mint said, a look of disdain on her face unconsciously. That's her own mother, olives are still waiting closely, she is not as good as olives!

Momoka shook her head. She brought Chen Yan over, which did make Cao's desire to eat again, but her body rejected it. Pretending to be sick for too long, Cao's body is no longer suitable for eating, and without intravenous drip, she no longer has a channel to supplement nutrition, and can only be slowly drained...... And the fear of not being able to eat accelerates this process.

"I don't know if it's right or wrong to bring her in......" Momoka sighed softly.

"The princess naturally wants to cure her wife." Mint has a little disgust, but it is not without embarrassment, "It's all the wife's own toss...... "It's obviously a good day, but I want to pretend to be sick, and I have to pretend to be sick until now, it's really a poor person who must have something to hate, and I don't know if it's disgusting or pitiful."

"My wife is like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to last a few days." Listening to Mint's statement, Cao's spirit has begun to go out of sorts, crying without tears, which is a sign of extreme exhaustion.

Mint also sighed: "Don't think about it, princess. In a few days, our brother will come out, and the princess will think more about her brother. ”

"You all say it's a brother, what if it's a girl?" Taohua touched her belly, which looked like a watermelon, and the position of the fetus had begun to slowly move downward, and it was indeed not long before birth.

Peppermint said without thinking: "If it is a girl, like the princess, it is also excellent." The prince said so. ”

Speaking of Shen Shu, the smile on the corner of Taohua's mouth deepened. About everyone is saying that she is pregnant with a male fetus, Shen Shu is afraid that she will be disappointed if she has a daughter, but he has said more than once that it is better to give birth to a daughter for the first child, and he can help her take care of her younger brother in the future.

"How is Bai Ge'er now?" Speaking of her younger brother, Taohua thought of Jiang Bohua. These days, even if Shen Shu goes to pick it up, Jiang Bohua doesn't come out much, except to study, he is guarding the Cao family. Although he was not very old, he also understood that the Cao family did not have many days left.

Mint sighed heavily: "My brother has also lost weight." Fortunately, Aunt Lin took good care of her, and specially asked the old lady to guide her in terms of diet, and set up a small kitchen for her brother. ”

Taohua sighed lightly: "It's not a matter of killing the night. Called yam to persuade Bai Ge'er not to stay up late. "No matter how sensible Jiang Bohua is, he is only a seven or eight-year-old child, and staying up late is the most harmful to his body.

Mint said worriedly: "Yam said that she has always persuaded her, but even if my brother goes to bed, he is not at ease, and he just can't sleep after tossing and turning." ”

Taohua couldn't help but sigh again: "That's it, there are no more days left......

"Princess—" Yuzhu came in from outside the garden, her face tightly furled.

Seeing her like this, Mint said, "What's the matter again?" "Otherwise, Yuzhu would never dare to make a face in front of Taohua.

"Jiang-" Yuzhu said one word and changed her words, "Miss Chen came, saying that the third lady wanted to invite the girl over to see her for the last time." ”

Mint's eyebrows suddenly knotted. The Cao family is sick like that ghost, she will be shocked when she sees it, the princess is still pregnant with a child, how can she go?

"Prepare the carriage and horses, I have to make a trip." Taohua's expression remained unchanged, she had seen a lot of endangered patients, but she didn't have anything like it, "I'll see you now, wait...... I shouldn't go either. "If Cao Shi is dead, she is a double person, but it is not appropriate to go to mourn. In this case, it's the stepmother after all, so I still have to go and see it.

Mint wanted to persuade, but when she heard the last sentence, she silently swallowed her words back. With a dying person, I can't care about anything. Besides, this is not for the Cao family, but for Jiang Bohua. If my mother is dying, my sister refuses to come to see her, and Jiang Bohua is caught in the middle, how difficult it is.

The carriage of the county king's mansion was much more spacious and comfortable than the Jiang family, Chen Yan sat in the corner, but she only felt like she was sitting on pins and needles, and it took a while to muster up the courage to say: "Sister-" Touching Mint's gaze, she quickly changed her words, "Princess-"

Momoka half-closed her eyes and didn't say anything. Chen Yan wanted to say something worriedly, but under Mint's cold gaze, she finally didn't dare to speak.

The carriage slowly arrived in front of Jiang's house, Jiang Bohua came out to greet him, the original fleshy little face had lost a lot of weight, showing the face shape inherited from Jiang Xi, at first glance it looked like a miniature version of Jiang Xi, but the expression on his face was depressed, and his little brows were also wrinkled.

Taohua touched his face lovingly: "How is Mrs. doing?" ”

Jiang Bohua was a little awkward. He was already seven years old, and his husband had taught him that men and women were not at the same table at the age of seven, and that it did not seem appropriate to be so intimate even though they were older sisters. But he was brought up by Taohua since he was a child, and he said that he was a sister, but he was more like a mother. What's more, at this time, he was full of sorrow and fear, and Taohua's warm hand stroked it, but it dispelled the fear a little. So he didn't care about anything else, and pulled Taohua's sleeve like when he was a child: "Uncle and grandfather said, mother...... It's been a few days......"

Jiang's mansion has already prepared coffins and shrouds, one is for joy, and the other is to avoid being in a hurry when things come to an end. Naturally, as far as Cao's disease is concerned, the latter is the most important. Jiang Bohua himself also understood that he had quietly looked at the shroud, the dark and heavy color, stacked thickly and placed there, revealing a cold feeling that scared him, but he couldn't explain it clearly.

Taohua sighed, and pulled him to his side with a little difficulty and hugged him: "Birth, old age, sickness and death, human nature." Mrs. - the time limit is up, send her well, and suffer less......"

Jiang Bohua's eyes were red, and he nodded, wanting to hug Taohua's waist, but he didn't dare to touch her stomach. It just so happened that the child in the belly didn't seem to like this sad scene very much at this time, and kicked Taohua and bulged up a small piece of the placket of the long jacket, which startled Jiang Bohua: "Sister, this-"

"It's your little nephew who turned over inside." Taohua took Jiang Bohua's hand and gently touched the bulging place, "These are his little feet." ”

After all, it was a child, Jiang Bohua's attention couldn't help but be attracted to the past, although he didn't dare to use force at all, he also touched it carefully: "He will turn over." "It's in the stomach.

"Absolutely." Taohua waited for the little thing's feet to retract, and then led Jiang Baihua to walk in slowly, "He will reach out and kick his feet when he is five months, and now he is about to come out, of course he will have more." ”

"But-" Jiang Baihua looked down at Taohua's belly, and felt that it wasn't really that big, "how could he turn it over?" ”

Taohua smiled: "He's still very young." When you are born, you will not be as big as a cat. ”

The Jiang family doesn't have cats, but of course Jiang Bohua has seen cats, think about the size of the cat, and then look at Taohua's belly, and finally show a little child's stupidity: "So small - was Daddy so small before?" Brother-in-law too? "Especially Shen Shu, who is tall and big, there are times when he is not as big as a cat?

Mint laughed out loud behind him, Taohua also laughed, pinched Jiang Bohua's face, and felt that the feel was not as good as before: "You used to be so young, and now you haven't grown up." In a few years, I'll be as tall as my father. "Jiang Bohua started to practice martial arts with Shen Shu, he is indeed taller, and the boy originally developed later, according to this trend, he will definitely be taller than Jiang Xi in the future.

"It's just that you have to eat well and sleep well." Taohua touched her brother's slimmed down face again, "It's my wife, I don't want to see you like this now." ”

The yam that came out with him lowered his head, thinking that his wife might not really think so. Although the Cao family values this son, the way she values it is that she can't wait to detain Jiang Bohua by her side all the time, so she won't consider whether he eats and sleeps well.

But everyone is going to die, and she is still Jiang Bohua's mother-in-law, Yam will not say anything more, but only bows her head and leads Taohua to the main courtyard.

Jiang Xi came back from the northeast and has been revising the "Compendium of Herbal Medicine" at home, and he is also guarding the main courtyard at this time, with ginkgo standing beside him.

Bai Guo had changed into a woman's makeup, wearing a simple lake blue plain silk jacket, and there was a dark red scar on his right cheek that stretched across half of his face, although his skin was slightly tanned, it still looked very conspicuous. However, she didn't seem to care, not only did she not cover it with a thick layer of powder, but she didn't even deliberately turn her head to hide the scar when she stood there.

Seeing Taohua, Bai Guo saluted behind Jiang Xi's back, looking respectful, but did not come forward to talk. Taohua only nodded to her, and said to Jiang Xi: "Daddy, what's going on now?" ”

Jiang Xi's demeanor was also a little sad. After all, they are also a husband and wife for seven or eight years, although the Cao family has become more and more difficult for him to accept, and even hates each other, but people are dying, and those bad deeds will inevitably fade away, leaving only the supple and considerate when they first got married.

"I'm afraid it won't work...... You, go and see. Jiang Xi glanced at Chen Yan, pulled Taohua to the side, and said in a low voice, "She kept saying that Sister Yan hadn't arranged it yet...... "Calling Taohua is for Chen Yan, if you say that the Cao family has a thousand, it can be regarded as a mother's heart for Chen Yan."

Taohua said lightly: "I'll go talk to her." "Since Chen Yan has left the Jiang family, she will never arrange Chen Yan's family affairs again, the Cao family is about to die, it looks really pitiful, but to put it cruelly, how many patients she sent away in the hospital in her previous life are much more pitiful than the Cao family who made herself die. When I see more, my heart will always be a little harder.

Cao Shi was lying on the bed, a clip covering her, and she couldn't see the ups and downs. The high pillow was no longer needed, only a rolled up cloth cloth under her head. A lot of hair had fallen out, leaving only a thin layer scattered on the bed, lined with a sallow skeletal face, and if it weren't for the eyes still half-open, it would really make people think that this was a mortuary.

"Sister Tao-" Cao Shi moved, and a hoarse voice came from his throat, "You, you're still here......"

Taohua held her waist and sat down on the chair next to the bed: "I'll come to see Mrs." ”

"Yes, come to see me, the last one, right?" Cao's voice was like a rusty door shaft, and it was about to stop when it turned.

Taohua did not deny it: "I know that my wife misses Bai Ge'er. But don't worry, my wife is my brother, and I will naturally take care of it. ”

"Then, and-" Cao's head actually raised a little, and looked at Taohua earnestly, "Sister Yan, she, she is also you, your sister." ”

"Sister Yan'er's surname is Chen." Taohua said lightly, "I have prepared a dowry for her, and I have done enough for her." ”

"But, but she ...... now" Cao Shi was so anxious that he raised his head a little more, "Sister Tao, you just help her again, one last time." ”

"Heli is already the last time." Taohua's voice was flat, but her tone was resolute, "For the sake of my wife giving birth to an heir for the Jiang family, I will make another promise: if Sister Yan has any major events that hurt her body and died in the future, I can help her again." If my wife wants to use this promise to arrange marriage for her, then I will never ask whether she is dead or alive after marriage. Take your own pick. ”

Cao's eyes widened, but he couldn't speak. She really wanted to choose the latter, if Taohua came forward to arrange family affairs for Chen Yan now, she would definitely be able to marry into the official eunuch's family. However, thinking about Chen Yan's fate in the Liu family, she didn't dare to say it. If Chen Yan falls to that point in the future, Taohua doesn't care, won't she have to be tossed to death?

Besides, Taohua looked reluctant, if she intentionally told Chen Yan a bad family matter...... Countless thoughts surged in Cao's heart for a while, rushing around in her heart, hitting her heart and making her heart beat wildly, and her eyes bloomed. In a trance, I saw that Taohua had already gotten up and gone out, but it was Chen Yan who came in.

Chen Yan listened with the door in the outhouse, although Taohua's voice was not loud, but the room was so quiet that she could hear the needle, she also listened □□to what she said, and couldn't help but be disappointed and sad, seeing Cao's appearance, tears suddenly fell: "Mother-how is this good?" "Could it be that she finally came to the capital, and in the end she still has to go back and marry the man who is almost forty years old? No, if the Cao family goes now, she will have to keep filial piety for three years!

Cao reluctantly raised his hand to touch his daughter's hair, but before his hand stretched out, he was tightly grasped by Chen Yan: "Mother, you, you have to cheer up, you have to get better!" "She is almost seventeen years old, and if she keeps filial piety for another three years, she will be a twenty-year-old girl, and when the time comes, I am afraid that it will not be easy to find such a man who is almost forty years old! At that time in Wuxi, why didn't she agree to this family affair? If you had married at that time, you don't have to be afraid now.

"I-" Cao Shi wanted to say something, but the words stuck in his throat, and he only felt that his body was weak, as if he had fallen from a high place and sank into the darkness......

When Taohua came out of Cao's house, she heard Chen Yan crying inside, and couldn't help but shake her head slightly. Cao Shi just breathed a sigh of relief, and now that he has seen her, he is afraid that he will fall into a coma. It won't be long before she dies in a coma, and there is no point in resuscitating her.

"Sister Tao-" Jiang Xi obviously understood this, and looked at Taohua with slightly red eyes, "Your wife, she is ......"

Taohua held her father's arm: "Dad, mourn." "Jiang Xi is a soft-hearted person after all, Cao's departure, I'm afraid he will be sad for a few days, in fact, looking at his current appearance, it is far from the radiant appearance when he just came back from the Northeast.

"Hey, Daddy knows, Daddy knows." Jiang Xi sighed, saying that he knew, but he couldn't help but say, "I think when she first came to our house...... and Sister Yan'er's child, how well-behaved and filial she was at that time...... "How did it become like this?"

"Master-" Bai Guo interrupted Jiang Xi's memories at the right time, "Grandma is a person with a double body, so she can't stand in this courtyard for a long time......"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Jiang Xi was reminded by her, so he left the previous little things behind, "Quick, go and sit in the house." W- when were you born? "Even though it's a father and daughter, it's a little uncomfortable to ask this kind of question.

Taohua nodded slightly to Bai Guo and helped Jiang Xi out of the main courtyard. With Baiguo, at least Jiang Xi will live more comfortably in the future than before.

As Taohua expected, Cao's coma passed, and he never woke up, and went at noon the next day.

Now Jiang Xi is also a celebrity in the capital, and the mother of the head of the Jiang Mansion has passed away, and there are many people who come to mourn. Taohua didn't go back, only Shen Shu went to put on a stick of incense instead of his wife, and comforted Jiang Bohua, who was wearing linen and filial piety, and then returned to the county king's mansion.

"After Qiqi, the coffin is back to the south, I think it is better to take Bai Ge'er over and live for a few days." Shen Shu returned to the county king's mansion, and changed his clothes as usual before entering Taohua's house, "At that time, you should also be born." ”

Cao's coffin will be sent back to the ancestral grave of the Jiang family in Wuxi for burial, and Chen Yan will return the coffin to the south to guard filial piety in his Zhuangzi. As for which path she will take in the future, except for Jiang Bohua, no one in the Jiang family will probably care anymore.

"It's better to wait until I'm done with confinement." Taohua sighed, "There is still a father at home, and there is still someone to accompany him." ”

While the husband and wife were talking, Yuzhu came in from outside: "Lord, princess, someone from the palace said that the queen mother fell down the stone steps." ”

"The Queen Mother?" Momoka raised her eyebrows in surprise. I don't know how many palace attendants are around the queen mother, how can she fall down the stone steps?

Yuzhu nodded hurriedly: "Yes." However, the Queen Mother didn't seem to be injured, saying that Lu Jieyu was desperate to block in front of the Queen Mother, and she fell and injured her leg, and the Queen Mother fell on her, but it was no big deal. ”

Shen Shu sneered, Taohua was stunned, and then understood: "This is the reason why the Queen Mother gave Ying'er a promotion?" "The most noble people in the palace are none other than the emperor and queen mother, Lu Ying has the credit of sacrificing his life to save the driver, and it is justified to be promoted to the next level.

"Common tricks." Shen Shu said disdainfully, "I originally thought that Lu Jieyu was from Jiangnan, and I wanted her to play a trick to save people in the lotus pond." At this time, the water was still cold, and no one dared to really fall into the water. ”

Taohua almost laughed when he said it, and hurriedly held back: "Let's go into the palace and take a look." The Queen Mother was frightened after all. Besides, I have to look at Ying'er's leg injury to rest assured. ”

Shen Shu shrugged his shoulders: "The Queen Mother must be overly frightened now, and as for Lu Jieyu's injury, the Imperial Doctor will definitely say something more serious." ”

Taohua couldn't help but smile and got up to change her clothes: "Then let's go and see if you're right." ”

Shen Shu was obviously a prophetic emperor, because everything was exactly what he said.

In the Shouxian Palace, the Queen Mother wore a forehead wipe on her head, leaning on the pillow, looking overly frightened. The palace people next to him knelt on the ground, and Qingyu, led by her, was replying to the queen: "Slaves and maids should be damned, I didn't expect that some moss on the stone steps had not been removed, which made the queen mother slip her feet...... Fortunately, Lu Jieyu reacted quickly, otherwise, the slaves and maids would not be redeemed......"

The queen raised her eyebrows and said, "Now that Lu Jieyu has sprained her foot, you are not wrong?" Lu Jieyu is the one who gave the emperor a prince, if she has three long and two short, you will also die and cannot be redeemed! ”

The Queen Mother half-closed her eyes and said weakly: "What happened to the Lu family?" ”

The queen hurriedly said: "The imperial doctor is treating him. Although the sprain is not light, she is young and will be fine if she recovers. ”

"It's thanks to her today, otherwise—" the Queen Mother sighed, "I want to reward her." ”

"After saving the mother, this is naturally a heavy reward." The queen looked upright, "Those gold, silver and jewelry are not rare, the meaning of the daughter-in-law, it is rare for her to be so filial and loyal, she should be commended, it is better to promote her to be a cultivator." ”

"Promotion?" The Queen Mother opened her eyes, "This is a little ......"

Taohua sat aside, watching the corner of the Queen Mother's eyes drift to her side, and knew that it was time for her to speak: "The well-being of the queen mother is more important than anything else, Lu Jieyu deserves to be rewarded for making such a great achievement." This is also a warning to the world that the royal family attaches so much importance to loyalty and filial piety. ”

Taohua herself felt numb when she said this, but as Lu Ying's best friend, she should speak for her as a matter of course.

The corners of the queen's mouth twitched in displeasure. Although this was arranged a long time ago, the Queen Mother called the Jiang family into the palace, originally to let her speak for the Lu family. However, she felt uncomfortable when she heard Jiang Shi speak, and she almost wanted to do anything about promotion.

However, this is not the time for her to be petty, and the queen had to suppress the unhappiness in her heart, and said with a straight face: "What Princess Anjun said is true." After a few days, the Japanese palace told the six palaces and promoted Lu Jieyu to repair the ceremony. In the future, if there are people as loyal and filial as her, this palace will also reward her! ”