Jiang Xinghua walked out of the door behind Taohua and breathed a sigh of relief silently. She naturally saw Xiao Shi and Jiang Danhua's expressions, and she was a little happy in panic - although they were angry, they couldn't do anything to her, at least not now.

The medicine garden on this side of Xingjiao Temple is planted with some herbs commonly used in the north. The monks in the temple are quite knowledgeable in medicine, not only do the monks in their temple do not need to seek medical treatment if they are sick, but also often engage in a free clinic or something, and treat the poor people who can't afford to invite Langzhong. Therefore, a medicine garden was opened at the back of the temple to plant some honeysuckle, licorice, bupleurum, white peony and the like.

Although Xingjiao Temple is not a royal temple, but at the beginning of the Tai-Zu incident, got the assistance of Xingjiao Temple, so after the establishment of the dynasty, a large area of land around the temple was sealed to the temple, that is, a medicine garden occupies a large area, at this time the herbs bloomed, and a large area of color looks quite considerable.

However, what the old lady Jiang wanted to see was not this, and took Jiang Xi and the others to a corner of the medicine garden, and pointed: "Look, this is what the sea ship brought back." This is called pepper, and although it occupies the same word as our peppercorns, it is a different thing. It is said that its taste is spicy, its sex is hot, it can warm the stomach, dissipate cold and dampness. However, the smell of this thing is too strong, and I heard that Xingjiao Temple once wanted to use it for medicine, but few people could stand it. ”

Jiang Xi immediately became interested, and the whole person was about to bend into the fence: "It's so powerful? ”

Momoka stood there and froze—pepper! Yo, isn't this a chili pepper! By the way, the earliest record of chili peppers appeared in Gao Lian's "Zunsheng Eight Notes" in the Ming Dynasty, and it was originally used as a medicinal and ornamental plant, and was not served on the table. No wonder she has never eaten spicy dishes, she originally thought that she lived in Wuxi, and the southerners were still sweet and spicy.

"Uncle, is it possible to ask the temple for some of the seeds of this thing?" When she thought of boiled pork slices, spicy chicken, chopped pepper fish heads, etc., she felt like her saliva was going to flow out.

Old lady Jiang heard the excitement in Taohua's voice, and glanced at her a little strangely: "It should be possible." What do you want this for? Have you seen it before? ”

"I've only heard of it, but I've never seen it." Taohua opened her eyes again and said nonsense, "It seems that I heard that someone used this pepper to make a plaster, and the external application can cure cold pain in the joints." If you can get some seeds to go back to planting, you can try it. ”

Old lady Jiang likes Taohua's practical spirit of wanting to try everything: "I'll go to the monk and ask for some seeds for you." "This pepper is not widely used in Xingjiao Temple, and now planting this furrow is not so much for medicinal purposes, but to show that the temple has something foreign, to please the pilgrims to exclaim, presumably will not be stingy with a handful of seeds.

Taohua was excited, and was fantasizing about the dining table that would be immediately enriched, when she saw Old Lady Jiang take a few steps forward and greet people: "Old Ou, why are you here too?" ”

As soon as I looked up, the old man Ou I had seen at the birthday banquet a few days ago, followed by the young Ou Airlines, and a woman in a green dress and a plain skirt behind him, was walking along the path.

Old man Ou and Ou Hang were also wearing plain and unpatterned robes, and when they saw the Jiang family, they took two quick steps: "It's a coincidence." When I came to the temple today, I didn't expect to meet it here. ”

The two old men were noisy, and the people behind them were already saluting. Jiang Xi wanted to salute Old Man Ou, but the plain-clothed woman also hid behind Old Man Ou and saluted Old Lady Jiang, and then turned sideways and did not look at Jiang Xi.

Looking at her style, Taohua guessed that this must be the mother of European Airlines, the widowed daughter-in-law of the old man Ou. I thought that the family of three came to incense the deceased only son of Mr. Ou, but it happened that they ran into it.

Although there are few people in the medicine garden, after all, it is outside, and after the old lady Jiang is noisy, she invites the Ou family to rest in the meditation room of the Jiang family. Old Man Ou readily agreed, looked at Taohua and Jiang Xinghua and said with a smile: "These are your two granddaughters?" Sure enough, they are all born with water spirits, you are so blessed. ”

Old lady Jiang pointed at Jiang Xinghua and said, "This is my granddaughter." He pointed to Taohua again, "This is my niece and granddaughter, who is fourteen years old this year." ”

Taohua pulled Jiang Bohua's little hand and saluted, and Old Man Ou stroked his beard and smiled: "I have the demeanor of an eldest sister." ”

Old Man Jiang said a little proudly: "What's more." Her mother went early, and she is now in charge of all the housework. ”

Taohua was slightly embarrassed and continued to salute Mrs. Ou. Ou Hang's face was slightly red, and he might not often meet girls, so he also waved to Sister Taohua, and Taohua and Jiang Xinghua hurriedly returned the salute. Old Man Jiang said with a smile: "It's good for the family, you don't have to be so angry, it should be a courtesy." ”

The group walked towards the meditation room while talking. Jiang Xi hugged Jiang Bohua, a few men talked in front, and Taohua in the back had to go with Mrs. Ou. Mrs. Ou doesn't look very good, I don't know if it's because the color of the clothes on her body is too plain, her face is also a little pale, and she looks at Taohua with a smile as she walks: "I heard that I have been living in Wuxi before?" It is a good place, and the water and soil in the south of the Yangtze River support people. ”

As long as Taohua is willing, she can say a few words to anyone: "It's Wuxi." It's a small place, but the climate is milder, not as dry as Beijing. ”

Mrs. Ou smiled and said: "The land of sericulture in Wuxi, the land of fish and rice, is not a small place. She spoke unhurriedly, and her voice was very soft, which was very comfortable to listen to, "I used to pass through Suzhou, and I wanted to go and see it, but unfortunately I couldn't have time." ”

Taohua said with a smile: "When I went to Suzhou, it was almost the same as going to Wuxi, and the climate and scenery were similar." ”

Mrs. Ou nodded and smiled, "That's what I said." It's nothing else, I love the garden in the south of the Yangtze River, which is very different from the north. ”

This topic is both safe and allows people to have room to play, anyway, it is nothing more than the exquisite atmosphere in the south and the north, that's it, almost everyone can say a few words, if you haven't been there, you are also interested in listening, it is a jack-of-all-trades topic, even Jiang Xinghua said a few words.

Taohua always felt that Mrs. Ou seemed to be looking at herself all the time, and that gaze was not obvious, but she repeatedly threw herself at inadvertent times. It's not malicious or anything, it's just that it always makes her feel it, so it's a little uncomfortable.

At this moment, I have walked back to the temple, and a group of maids in the Buddha hall in front of me came out with a gorgeously dressed woman, and happened to walk opposite Taohua. The woman's lower abdomen was slightly protruding, holding the maid with one hand and her waist with the other, she was actually a pregnant woman. Taohua subconsciously gave way to the side, but the woman stopped when she saw her: "Yo, isn't this - Miss Jiang?" ”

Tao Huawei looked up in surprise and found that this woman was actually the one who showed her face in Cheng Enbo's carriage just now. At the age of about twenty, she was born pretty, but there was some anger between her eyebrows and eyes, not like a good person.

"Miss Jiang is really a noble person, it seems that she doesn't remember me for a long time." The woman's fingers pinched a light silk handkerchief, and pretended to press it on her lips, "When Miss Jiang colluded with Lang Zhong to say something about crab roe, she probably didn't think that we would see each other again, right?" ”

As soon as she mentioned the crab roe, Taohua suddenly remembered: "Are you-amber?" "The personal maid of the Lord of Nanhua, the one who uses real crab roe in the crab!

"yes, that's me." Amber raised her head, her eyes full of hatred, "At the beginning, I was hurt by the girl. ”

"That's a strange thing to say." Taohua frowned, "Isn't the dish used by the county lord crab roe served by someone?" As for what is going on with this crab roe, I don't know as an outsider, but if I want to come to the county lord, I can naturally find out. ”

At that time, Su Lao Langzhong only pointed out that the crab roe was hindered by the illness of the Nanhua County Lord, and the excessive amount of crab roe was indeed used in the dish, and then how the Nanhua County Lord interrogated his own subordinates, Taohua and Su Lao Langzhong did not inquire at all - the less they knew about other people's private affairs, the safer they were. Looking at Amber like this, she must not be in the Jiang family, but how did she get to Cheng Enbo's house, was she sent by the Lord of Nanhua? But this qiē is all Amber's own doing, so what does it have to do with others?

Amber's five fingers pinched the handkerchief tightly, looking at Taohua's healthy and flushed face in the sun, and she couldn't wait to pounce on it and grab it fiercely. When she served by the side of the lord of Nanhua, she fell in love with the personable Jiang Wu. Wen's infertility for several years, the lord of Nanhua became more and more dissatisfied, and the desire in her heart became greater and greater, until that day in Huishan Temple, when the lord of Nanhua asked her to worship the Bodhisattva, it reached the highest peak.

If it weren't for Taohua seeing that Wen was pregnant, as long as she kowtowed in front of the Buddha, this position would be decided. When she returned to the capital, Wen was naturally pregnant and couldn't serve her husband, wouldn't it be her chance at that time? But Taohua's sentence of "Congratulations to Mrs. Jiang" broke all the qiē.

She hated the child in Wen's belly, if she didn't have this child, the Lord of Nanhua would definitely give her to Jiang Wu. But with this child, even the lord of Nanhua seemed to have forgotten about her, and only cared about revolving around the "grandson".

Hate and resent, she gradually lost her mind, and when she came back to her senses, it was this Jiang Taohua again, who came over with something and revealed the truth. Obviously, she had already knocked over all the dishes at that time, why did this girl surnamed Jiang be so shrewd and ran out to taste that dish!

The lord of Nanhua was furious. If it weren't for Wen's pregnancy, maybe she would have been killed on the spot. As a result, the county lord of Nanhua did not kill her, but asked someone to sell her into the dusty land.

Although he has been sold as a maid since he was a child, the Jiang family is a wealthy family, and after becoming a first-class maid, he is also clothed and fed, and there are no unruly things, Amber occasionally hears a few words from the mouths of the little maids, and only thinks it is ridiculous, but he never knows how terrible it is. By the time she was in the middle of it, she quickly collapsed.

The days in the Red Mansion were the nightmare of her life. Fortunately, God still took pity on her, and less than 20 days after entering, she met Cheng Enbo.

Cheng Enbo Yu Sirui returned to his hometown to sweep his father's grave during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The ancestral home of the Yu family is Yancheng, although there are not many people from the original clan now, but the ancestral hall is still there. Yu Sirui returned to his hometown this time, one to sweep the tomb, and the other to repair the ancestral hall. As soon as he was done, he was immersed in the gentle countryside of Jiangnan people and didn't want to leave.

From Yancheng to Yangzhou, then Nanjing Zhenjiang, and finally in the red building, I ordered the amber that was listed at the beginning. Of course, by that time she had already changed her name to Rouge.

Rouge is a native of the Northland, tall and fit, and the Jiangnan thin horse are two flavors, but there are also some local merchants who are willing to comb the silver to fight for the first night.

For Si Rui, he spent all day in the capital in the dust, and it was not unusual for a woman like Rouge to see many times. Helplessly, this person has always loved to win in the flowers and willows, even if it is a sow that is launched, he can't let others take the lead.

These Nanshang people are all shrewd people, and Yu Sirui's style is from Beijing, so they are not ordinary people. The so-called people do not fight with officials, and businessmen are even more reluctant to offend people for no reason, so Yu Sirui took the lead and hugged the beauty.

Rouge naturally knows about Cheng Enboqi's people. Yu Sirui is the nephew of the Queen Mother, and the Lord of Nanhua is the adopted daughter of the Queen Mother. When Yu Sirui was □□ years old, the Queen Mother thought about marrying the Lord of Nanhua to him. It's just that at that time, his reputation for being a gentleman came out, and the lord of Nanhua naturally refused, but he took a fancy to Jiangjun Ma, secretly begged the first emperor, and made a holy decree to marry.

The lord of Nanhua actually hated Yu Sirui in his heart, and after this incident, he avoided Yu Sirui, so although Rouge had heard of the name of Cheng Enbo for a long time, he had not met him. Now that she meets her, she clearly knows that this is her lifesaver, and it is the best one.

It should be said that Rouge's method is not very clever, and she also revealed that she is the maid of the Nanhua County Lord, but she just said that she was selfish about the crab roe in order to let the Nanhua County Lord eat more. If this method were to be changed, it would definitely be farther away from this hot potato--you didn't see the person who sold her in the first place, so you didn't dare to sell her directly into the Qinglou in Wuxi, but sold her to Zhenjiang--but it happened to be Si Rui's effect.

The Queen Mother intended to match back then, and Yu Sirui knew about it. In fact, he was not very satisfied with the lord of Nanhua, thinking that she was not beautiful enough, but when he knew that the lord of Nanhua was not satisfied with him either, something was wrong in his heart. Needless to say, many people have this kind of "I can do without you, you can't do without me" mentality, so if the lord of Nanhua County is not happy, he will be more happy.

With this mentality, Yu Sirui ransomed Rouge and prepared to bring her back to the capital, and when she got the opportunity, she could show herself in front of the Nanhua County Lord, presumably the Nanhua County Lord would be very unhappy.

Maybe it's because rouge is not extremely Tailai, or maybe it's because she is really suitable for childbirth, and within a few months of returning to the capital, she was diagnosed with a happy pulse.

Now she can be regarded as a step to the sky. When Yu Sirui was twenty years old, the Queen Mother personally acted as a matchmaker, and chose a lady as his wife, and the woman's family was forced by the power of the Yu Half Dynasty to agree with tears. As a result, after Yu Sirui got married, he still lingered in the flowers, and even his wife's dowry maid had to touch it, making the family uncomfortable.

His wife was a mild-mannered person, but she couldn't fight such scoundrels, and died of depression after three years of marriage.

The queen mother naturally didn't care about the pain of the woman's family, and soon married Yu Sirui again, but this one didn't necessarily have a good fate, and she was easily pregnant five years later, but she was bumped by a girl from Yu Sirui's new na, and she had a bloody collapse. Although the girl was killed, the housemother was also a corpse with two lives.

After that, there were school-age girls in the capital who saw Yu Sirui fearless as a snake and scorpion, and within a year after the death of Mrs. Yu, there were suddenly more men and women in the capital, and some people had to quickly choose a husband for their daughter to marry in order to avoid the scourge of Yu Sirui's wife after her filial piety was full.

However, Yu Sirui himself didn't want to remarry. Of course, he is not trying to harm people less, but he feels that he is not beautiful even to marry two terms, and he is extremely uncomfortable to manage his head and feet, so he simply doesn't want it. Of course the Queen Mother refused, but her nephew was already in her first year, and it was the time when the first emperor died, and the Queen Mother was busy with other things, so she couldn't take care of him.

As for Yu Sirui's mother-in-law, she passed away three years ago, and no one in the family cared about him. In this way, for one year, two years, ten years and eight years, there has been no hostess in Chengenbo's mansion, and Yu Sirui feels freer. The fly in the ointment is that he also doesn't have a son.

Not having a son is a big problem for a man in his forties. Yu Sirui no longer has a heart or lungs, and he has to think about this matter - not to say anything about unfilial piety, but to whom does he pass on this business? has no son-in-law, even if he gives birth to a concubine, according to his face in front of the queen mother, he can attack the lord. You can't give this business to someone else, right?

The backyard of Chengenbo's Mansion is full of flowers, there are six or seven aunts, and there are dozens of girls in the room, not including the folk girls he robbed and then sent back, nor the honest maids who were forced by him to jump into the well and hang themselves. However, there are so many women, only two or three have ever been pregnant, and I don't know if they were hacked or they spent too much energy trying to compete for favor all day long, except for his second wife, who was seven months pregnant, and the rest of them had miscarriages at four or five months.

Because the heir is difficult, so Rouge was diagnosed as pregnant, and she was immediately praised to the sky, not only immediately got the position of an aunt, but also all the offerings were good, she was really wearing silk and satin, eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, sleeping until three poles in the sun, and the next people were shouting for warmth, from a material level, it has completely met or even exceeded her previous expectations.

However, as the saying goes, people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, and it is said that what people lack is what they want most. Rouge used to want to be an aunt in Jiang Wu, give birth to a son and a half daughter for him, and enjoy the glory in peace. Now two-thirds of this wish has been fulfilled, and the remaining third is particularly desirable. Yes, she misses Jiang Wu.

Although the Earl of Cheng'en is high, it is a pity that he is not Jiang Wu. Don't say that he is seven or eight years older, just say that the appearance he has soaked in the wine cannot be compared with the handsome and dignified Jiang Wu at all. Rouge touched his stomach more than once in the middle of the night and thought: If this child is Jiang Wu's, how good would it be?

The more she thought about it, the more she hated. Since she was able to conceive Yu Sirui's child so quickly, if she had arrived in Jiang Wu's room, she would definitely be able to conceive Jiang Wu's flesh and blood soon, so how happy should she be today?

But who can blame this fate now? Blame the Wen clan for not being pregnant, blame the lord of Nanhua for ignoring the love of master and servant? It's weird, what can it be, can it still take revenge? Of course not. But there is one person who may retaliate, that is, the big girl of the Jiang family who diagnosed the happy pulse of the Wen family and disturbed her good things! As long as she gives birth to Cheng Enbo's eldest son and gains a firm foothold in Cheng Enbo's mansion, she may be able to take advantage of Cheng Enbo's momentum - the only regret is that the Jiang family is in Wuxi.

Rouge never expected to see Taohua in the capital. Because several babies in Chengenbo Mansion are gone in four or five months, and now her fetus is almost four months old, Yu Sirui thinks about it, and still thinks that it is safer to come to Xingjiao Temple to worship the Bodhisattva.

The Bodhisattva blesses the fetus if it works, this remains to be observed later, but now Rouge feels that the Bodhisattva is at least good to her, no, the enemy has been sent to the eyes, not to report at this time, but when?

"Alas-" The month's training in the Red Mansion was still effective, Rouge only thought about it for a moment, then bent down with his stomach in his arms, and the maids and women next to him suddenly became anxious: "Auntie, what's wrong with Auntie?" There was even a clever point at Taohua, "It's that she shocked her aunt's fetal gas, hurry up and arrest her!" ”

This time there was a mess, and Mrs. Jiang and others were in front, only to hear that there was chaos in the back, and I saw two maids rushing up to catch Taohua. Mrs. Ou on the side had been pushed away, Jiang Xinghua's face turned pale with fright, and she stood there not knowing what to do.

Of course, Momoka wouldn't just stand there and let them catch it. These maids are all serving indoors, and that idea is probably enough to serve tea and collect clothes, and ask them to bring the little maids to wash their faces, and at most they only carry the basin from the door to the room, and complain about a sore wrist.

Taohua is not the kind of person who doesn't pick up the horizontal needle and doesn't take the vertical line. The Jiang family has few people, and many things are done by themselves. And Jiang Xi doesn't care about these things, Taohua cooks on weekdays, grows some herbs by himself, and even goes to the medicine hall to help move the medicine oil and wine jars, and his strength is even greater than that of these deputy ladies. Before the two maids' hands stretched out, she grabbed one of the arms and squeezed them hard at the end of her elbows, and the maids suddenly felt that one of their arms was itchy and numb, and with a sigh, she was pushed by Taohua to the other. Hearing a plop, the two rolled to one place, and the four embroidered shoes kicked around, unable to get up for a while.

Jiang Xi shoved Jiang Bohua into his uncle's hand and was about to run over, but he heard someone shouting, and then four or five people in blue satin clothes came over with a middle-aged man, and blocked him on the periphery.

Rouge wiped his eyes with a handkerchief, and burst into tears: "Uncle-"