Since the lord of Nanhua rewarded a bunch of things that day, there has been no news, which made the Cao family quite disappointed, and asked in front of Taohua once, and Taohua dealt with it lightly.

"Slave maid, my wife is really a little big-hearted, don't you still want to deal with the county lord?" Mint chatted while helping Taohua Branch.

"Let her say, she's just talking." Taohua buried herself in embroidery and didn't care very much. She has already figured out Cao's temper, if she wants to let her go to the camp in front of the lord of Nanhua County, she doesn't dare at all, she just hopes that others will come forward, and it would be best to pull her again. Such a person also has the same benefit, at least when no one pouts, she can't get into any big trouble: "What is the second girl doing?" "

"The second girl heard that she was embroidering a hundred shou tents, and she was searching for various ways to write the word shou these days."

This is a birthday gift for Mrs. Jiang, and the seat screen that Taohua is embroidered now is the same. For girls, gifts to elders are naturally appropriate for needlework.

"The Baishou tent is not easy to embroider, tell the daylily, if the second girl wants to embroider at night, light two more lamps, and turn back to the account to support lamp oil, don't spoil your eyes."

"The girl is so considerate, I'm afraid of ......," Mint said halfway, swallowing back the words that followed.

"It's just for the sake of family harmony and let my father live a comfortable life. As long as they don't get into trouble, these are small things. "

Mint thought of the jade carved narcissus, and still felt uneasy.

"Daddy now knows about this, and has beaten his wife, so she doesn't dare to do it again. What's more, this matter is still pampered by Mrs. Cao Wu, and Mrs. Cao is just a fool. Taohua's words are not only to explain to Mint, but also to comfort herself, in fact, she will always think of the jade carved narcissus, otherwise she will still see Cao Shi and call Mrs. lightly, it will never be the same as before.

Mint also sighed: "The slave knows, that's what I think is—"

"Why shouldn't I." Taohua stopped the needle, moved her neck a little stiff, and nodded out the window, "But isn't there still Brother Bai'er." I will always go out in the future, and my wife is not the only one who can accompany my father in the future. "

Jiang Baihua was playing with the bellflower in the garden, and the sound of giggles kept coming into the house, and Mint looked out, but could only stop talking. But no, the Cao family has a thousand and ten thousand cases, but it is the only son born to Jiang Xi, and the second room of the Jiang family will be handed over to Jiang Bohua in the future, just for this point, Taohua can't do anything to the Cao family.

"Sister!" Jiang Bohua ran in sweaty, and plunged into Taohua's arms, "Brother Bai'er, I want to drink sour plum soup." "He was almost two years old, he spoke fluently, and his legs and feet were as strong as a small cannonball.

Taohua hurriedly moved the embroidery frame away, so as not to prick him: "You can drink sour plum soup, but you can't drink it too cold." "

Kikyo ran in with a clean handkerchief in the back: "My master, wipe the sweat first." "

Taohua stuffed the dry handkerchief into Jiang Bohua's clothes and put it on his back: "When the sweat is dry, bring him hot water to wipe his body, and be careful not to catch a cold." Peppermint to make a bowl of sour plum soup, don't make too much. "

Jiang Bohua twisted his little body and coquettishly: "Drink two bowls." "

"Nope." Taohua nodded his little nose, "That thing hurts my stomach if I drink too much." You little man, your body is delicate. "

"Delicate ......" Jiang Bohua parroted with his big eyes open, looking puzzled.

"It's just that I drank too much and had a stomachache." Momoka scares him.

Jiang Bohua immediately covered his little stomach: "It doesn't hurt!" "

"It's painful, but you have to drink medicine, it's bitter."

Jiang Bohua had that illness in June this year, and he took bitter medicine soup for several days, and he still remembers it vividly, and when he heard that he was going to take medicine, he immediately became honest, and sat down beside Taohua obediently, pointing to the pattern on the embroidery frame: "Hollyhock." "

"Yo, we even know hollyhocks? That's smart. Taohua pinched his chubby face and felt that it felt so good.

Jiang Bohua grinned: "Clear heat and detoxify." "

Taohua was pleasantly surprised: "Even you know this?" Bo Geer is amazing! "

"Daddy said that." Jiang Bohua raised his chubby face, and said to his sister very proudly, "Brother Bai remembered." "

"Clever!" Taohua kissed him hard, "Do you know what this is?" "

She planned to embroider a four-fold screen, each one foot high and half a foot wide, which belonged to a small table screen placed on the table, which could be taken apart for single use or used together. Generally, such screens are embroidered with flowers of the four seasons, with plum orchid chrysanthemum bamboo the most, or there are also peach lotus and cinnamon plum patterns. However, Taohua plans to embroider all of them into medicinal herbs.

"Magnolia." Jiang Bohua pointed to a screen that had been embroidered and said loudly.

"When you enter the medicine, you have to call it Xinyi, which can dissipate the wind and cold." Momoka touched his little face. Spring spicy wattle, summer hollyhock, autumn lilac, winter wax plum, are all flowers that can be used in medicine.

Jiang Bohua retold it with great interest. Taohua simply told him about the medicinal properties of several common flowers, and the two sisters and brothers talked about it and learned it, and they were in high spirits, when they heard someone in the yard laugh and say, "Yo, this is lecturing." Then Mint opened the curtain, Lu Ying walked in with a smile, and as soon as she entered the door, she opened her hand to hug Brother Bai'er, "What is Brother Bai learning?" "

"Learn medicine." Jiang Bohua recognized her, and obediently opened his hand for Lu Ying to hug. Lu Yingcai quickly put it down after a while: "It's heavy again, I can't hold it, don't fall him." "

The two teased Jiang Bohua for a while, boiled hot water on the bellflower's side, and took Jiang Bohua to the side room to wipe himself and drink sour plum soup, and Taohua asked, "Why did you come here suddenly?" "

Lu Ying hesitated rarely, and Taohua couldn't help but be a little surprised: "What do you have to say, what are you doing here." "

"Taohua-" Lu Ying leaned forward and whispered, "Your family has been practicing medicine for generations, can you help me find a female doctor?" "

"Female doctor?" Taohua frowned, "What do you want the female doctor to do?" What's wrong with you? "

"It's not me-" Lu Ying looked a little embarrassed, "It's my aunt's niece in the third room, I'm going to call my cousin, she, she's been taken home by Hugh." "

"Why?"

"She-" Lu Ying blushed, "she said that she couldn't give birth, she couldn't give birth to a child." When she said these words as an unmarried girl, her ears were red before she could say them.

However, Lu Ying can't hide his words, and once the conversation box has been opened, he can't stop.

The cousin she said is called Tan Xiangluo, the daughter of the Tan family's third room, and married a Xiucai five years ago.

The Tan family's three rooms are not very promising, and the family business is far inferior to the big house where Mrs. Tan is, but she gave birth to three daughters in a row to get a son, so the son has become a treasure, and the daughter has become grass.

Tan Xiangluo's first two sisters all married out in exchange for a large dowry and stayed to subsidize the family.

The eldest sister married a merchant as a flat wife, and now that the merchant has returned to his hometown, she brought his flat wife back as well. said that it was a flat wife, and people could still be called two-headed outside, and when they brought it home, they were a concubine, how did they live, the third master and the third wife of the Tan family didn't ask at all.

The second sister got married and made a main house, but she was sick in the first two years, and she still didn't see Tan San and his wife shed a single tear.

Outsiders say that Tan Xiangluo is the luckiest among the three sisters, and she married a Xiucai surnamed Liu, but Xiucai's family is poor and she can't afford any dowry, and Tan Xiangluo's dowry is pitiful.

Who knows that this show has the ability to study, the autumn of the year before last year, the spring of last year, he actually passed all the way, and won the eighteenth Jinshi of the second class, and glorified his ancestors. Everyone said that Third Sister Tan had come out.

How do you know that it is easy to make friends and rich and easy to wife, Liu Xiucai became Liu Jinshi, and he had to be awarded an official to become Governor Liu, so the wife of this small family didn't like it. What's more, when Master Tan San heard that his son-in-law had won the office, he couldn't wait for the family to pick it up and get some glory, and wrote letters one after another, but only got the result that his daughter was divorced.

"said that Cousin Xiangluo had no children, and he contradicted his mother-in-law, and he still had a bad disease, so he came back." Lu Ying's face was flushed with anger, "Before Cousin Xiangluo got married, I also met her a few times, and she spoke softly and softly, she was the most good-tempered, how could she contradict her mother-in-law?" hateful third room, Cousin Xiangluo was taken back from leave, and she was not allowed to enter the door. My aunt couldn't see it and brought people back. The pity is thin to a handful of bones, and he still talks so shrunken. is such a soft child, saying that she contradicts her mother-in-law, the ghost will not believe it! "

"Childless, unfilial, and sick?" Taohua sneered, "Three of the seven out of the seven!" So you want to extend her medical treatment? What exactly is the disease? "

"Sister Xiangluo, she didn't say it, she just cried......" Lu Ying blushed, and saw that only she and Taohua's henchmen were in the room, so she waved her hand and motioned for them to retreat to the door, leaned on Taohua's ear and whispered, "Aunt keeps asking Sister Xiangluo, but she just cries." My aunt wouldn't let me listen, and then she talked to my mother next to me, and I listened to it and said what kind of woman's illness it was. "

Lu Ying is lively and hearty, loves to talk and laugh, but she is not a stupid sister who has no heart. Mrs. Tan talked to her confidants in marriage, they were all married women, and they spoke more presumptuously, and when Lu Ying heard them say how to talk to men about this, she thought of the female doctor.

When she was in the Lu family, she heard her grandmother talk about the ancients, saying that there were female doctors in the palace in the past, and it was more convenient for the concubines to see the sick, but the female doctors were not proficient, and then they gradually stopped using them, and they still used the imperial doctors. Therefore, when Mrs. Tan said that the woman's illness was unsightly, she thought of what her grandmother had said. It's just that since there are no longer female doctors in the palace, it is naturally more difficult for the people to find them, and the Tan family can't find them, maybe a family like the Jiang family, who has practiced medicine for generations, can know who has a female family who is proficient in medical skills.

"The woman is sick ......," Momoka sighed secretly. The two departments of women and pediatrics are the most difficult, and a large part of them are due to unclear conditions. It is difficult for a child to express his illness, and a woman is ashamed to tell about her illness, especially to a doctor who is a man. Besides, there is no distinction between men and women, and there is still a difference between men and women. Later generations can train more female doctors to solve this problem, but at this time, there are very few women studying medicine, and it is difficult to find a female doctor even in a place like the palace, let alone a commoner?

"If she's willing, I'll show her it."

"Can you?" Lu Ying's eyes suddenly lit up, "I heard that you were in the medicine hall that day, and you saw that a prescription was wrong, was it true?" Can you really treat people? "

Taohua smiled: "I can't guarantee that it will be cured, but the female doctor is hard to find, maybe at least I can hear what her disease is, and then relay it to other Langzhong, so that no one knows that she is seeking medical treatment." However, you can't tell outsiders about this, you know about my family. "

"Hey, I know!" Lu Ying nodded like a chicken pecking rice, "I'll go back and tell my cousin!" However, I always have to tell my aunt...... "Mrs. Tan is a family member, and she can't get around when she asks for medicine, not to mention anything else, Tan Xiangluo is penniless now, how can she have the money to take medicine by herself."

Lu Ying went back in the morning, and in the afternoon, the Tan family handed over a post, saying that the Tan family was going to hold an osmanthus banquet, and invited the Cao family to take their two daughters to enjoy the early osmanthus flowers the day after tomorrow.

Cao Shi was overjoyed when he received the post. Counting that she has not gone out at home for half a year, the Tan family's banquet has always been excellent, and the attendees are all local people with heads and faces, so it is very beneficial for Jiang Yanhua to show her face on such an occasion, so as soon as she received the post, she immediately rummaged through the cabinets and prepared it.

"Fortunately, the sewing shop is fast, and two sets of autumn clothes have been delivered, and they are just right to wear." Cao Shi happily took the new clothes and measured them on her daughter, "This lotus color is matching your skin color, so you will wear the golden hairpin rewarded by the county lord." You will be thirteen in the next year, and don't comb those snails anymore, my mother will comb you with a hanging bun, and you will see that she is also a big girl. Maybe the Tan family will invite the county lord, and let the county lord see what the things you are wearing are like. "

"Mother, let's ask my sister what she is wearing......" Although Jiang Yanhua was also happy, she was still more sober than Cao's.

Cao's hand stopped and glanced at Poria who was standing by the door: "You go and ask the eldest girl, how Ming'er plans to dress." "

Since Poria came to Cao's yard, although she took the monthly example of a first-class big maid, she did the chores of the little maids. Cao's eyes are not pleasing to the eye, and he doesn't want her to serve her closely, let alone take care of her own things. She went home and cried, and was scolded by her father and mother, saying that she didn't know what to do, and that it would be good to be a big maid in the wife's yard, and it would be easier to marry in the future.

Poria didn't dare to say that she was degraded by Taohua because of the affairs of the warehouse. One of the parents is a servant of the Jiang family, and Jiang Xi is the most loyal, but if she knows that she opened the eldest girl's treasury privately, causing the former wife's dowry to be stolen and replaced, I am afraid she will have to be beaten first. Second, she lost the eldest girl's things, but the eldest girl did not sell her or degrade her out of the yard to do chores, but let her continue to hold the monthly routine of a first-class maid, and the errands of her parents and younger brothers at home were not affected. This is all grace, no matter where she goes, people have to say that Taohua is benevolent, if she has any dissatisfaction, she will only be said to be ignorant.

Poria has bitterness and can't be said. She is lazy, she was in charge of Taohua's treasury at the beginning, she took a lot of silver every month, her work was leisurely, and from time to time there were bits and pieces such as snacks and handkerchiefs. Now that he has entered the Cao family's courtyard, he has to do all the work. The Cao family left Qingguo and Song's mother here, and only made up for her, so there were more things to do. Bai Guo has to be served closely, and the rough work that cannot be seen by the eyes is naturally handed over to her. Cao's eyes were not pleasing to the eye, her hands were tight, and there was no additional reward at all. Poria now only feels as if she has gone from heaven to earth, and she regrets it.

Taohua's yard is still the same as it was, and as soon as Poria entered the door, she saw the bellflower taking Jiang Baihua to count the small pomegranate fruits under the pomegranate tree and play. I haven't seen it for a few months, and the bellflower has grown a little bigger, no longer wearing the green cloth clothes and pants of the little maids, but wearing the sandalwood jacket of the first-class big girl, and some of the thinning hair is combed up in a regular manner, which is not what it used to be.

Poria was as sour as if she had knocked over the vinegar jar in the kitchen, but she had to smile and say, "Sister Kikyo, is the girl in the house?" "

In the past, when she saw the bellflower, her eyes were facing the sky, and she had brought the word sister, and the bellflower was stunned for a moment before she reacted, and said, "The girl is doing needlework in the house." Sister come here, what's the matter with my wife? "

"Yes." Poria walked into the house with Xiaoxiao, and saw Taohua lying on the embroidery frame, so she hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, and said Cao's words.

Taohua stopped and groaned for a while, and said, "The things that the county lord rewards are valuable, so let's keep them for the New Year or go to Beijing to wear them." The second girl wears the lotus color dress very well, not only to change the bun, but also to comb the hair hanging, just wear the pair of gold flowers that I played during the Chinese New Year this year. "What is the identity of the county lord of Nanhua, the Tan family is just a squire's family, how can it be possible to invite the lord of Nanhua to come over?

Taohua could guess that Mrs. Tan was just trying to create a chance for her and Tan Xiangluo to meet, and it was estimated that there would not be a few people invited to the osmanthus banquet, and if the Cao family and Jiang Yanhua were dressed too grandly, they would be disappointed at that time.

During the Chinese New Year, Jiang Xi took out the private money he had saved and gave each of his two daughters a pair of red gold Ruyi Ganoderma lucidum flowers, Taohua's inlaid with agate stone, and Jiang Yanhua's inlaid with turquoise. The two sisters comb the same hairstyle and wear the same Huadian to go out, which is also very decent. Big families pay attention to the fact that every time they go out, the clothes and accessories can't be the same, Taohua doesn't think the Jiang family can afford such a pomp, the jewelry style and weight of the New Year are very acceptable, and it doesn't hurt to wear it twice.

Poria smiled with her, and wanted to say something more, but Taohua threaded the needle again and stopped looking at her. Instead, Mint raised her eyelids and glanced at her and said, "Sister Poria is anything else?" "

"No, it's nothing...... Poria said this, but she stood still at her feet, and after a while she knelt down, "Girl, slave maid, slave maid is a lard blinded to her heart, so she did such a foolish thing." Ask the girl to spare the slave and the maid, and let the slave and maid come back on an errand. "

Taohua didn't raise her eyes: "Mrs. wronged you on an errand?" "

"No, no, the slave doesn't dare—"

"Since you are not wronged, you can be your errand." Taohua never planned to call Poria back. At the beginning, Poria was lazy, but it was for the sake of her Lao Tzu's loyalty. But when she sees the wind and rudder like this, she can't stay by her side at all. Such a person, even if she is allowed to come back again, the next time something happens, she will still vote for the side that she thinks is advantageous.

Poria knelt for a while, and when she saw Taohua embroidering mint threads, as if there was no one like her in the house, she had to get up and walk out with heavy steps.