Mint returned to Jiang's house, and when she entered the door, she felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong, and the servants who came and went were a little happy, and pulled a question casually, and the little maid smiled and said: "The second master has made up for the shortage, and the second wife will reward it." "Jing's hands are loose, a rough little girl like her has got 200 yuan, which is more than a month's rule.

"What do you make up for so much?"

The little maid didn't know so much, tilted her head and thought about it: "It seems that she is in charge of salt, and she can't remember what the official is." ”

Mint saw that she couldn't tell her, so she let her go, and went back to the east side courtyard to see Taohua.

When I entered the house, I saw Taohua cutting her hair in the mirror, and when she came back, she smiled and said, "It just so happens that you are back, come with me to say hello to the second aunt." The second uncle made up for the same lifting of the salt class lifting division, and he was also promoted to a higher level. "Wen Linlang's loose rank was originally the seventh grade, but the same promotion was from the sixth grade, it is not easy to change from the scattered rank to the real lack, and it can be upgraded to one level, no wonder Jing's wants to make a big reward.

Mint hurriedly washed her hands and went up to help her comb her hair, while explaining her errand first, and then asked, "Why is the second master so happy?" ”

Taohua said with a smile: "I heard that it was General Lu who spoke in front of the emperor. A few days ago, the emperor received an excerpt from outside Beijing and the price of salt was high, so he transferred someone from the salt department in Beijing to ask, but who knew that the answer was a mess. The emperor was annoyed, so he called a few people who were waiting to fill the vacancy. The second uncle has been a businessman over the years, and has traveled to many places, although he is selling medicine, the local price of salt, rice and silk is also known. The emperor listened to the second uncle's good answer, saying that these people in Beijing are not as good as a businessman who ran away, so he immediately wiped out the original Tongti and asked the second uncle to take office, and said that the eldest uncle is also conscientious in the household department, which shows that our family is a good teacher. I heard that I also gave something to the eldest sister in the palace. ”

Although Jiang Zhu was promoted this time, Jiang Jun also received a word of praise from the emperor, and specially ordered Jiang Meihua's silk and satin jewelry, which was a great joy, so Jing's such a big reward, Xiao's was not very sour, and the people dared to show their joy, and they didn't have to accept the reward of the second wife, and they had to taboo the eldest wife.

Taohua combed her hair and changed her clothes, and took Jiang Bohua to the west side courtyard to say goodbye. Several girls had already arrived, Jing's face was full of smiles, and when he saw Jiang Bohua, he beckoned him to come over, and took a jade pendant in his arms and hung it on his collar. Taohua saw that although the jade pendant was not big, it was a green jade with excellent texture, carved with five sheep Kaitai, which was Jiang Bohua's genus, and couldn't help but say: "The second aunt is too expensive." He's a child, how to wear such a good thing. ”

Jing smiled: "By chance, I remembered that it was in line with Bai Ge'er's appearance, so I took it to him to wear." Even if you don't wear a collar in the future, it's good to make a pendant. Pinched Jiang Bohua's little face and smiled, "My good girl, born so smart and obedient, how can people not like it?" ”

Jiang Xinghua sat quietly on the side, Taohua sat next to her in order, and listened to her whisper: "Third sister, do you know that the eldest sister in the palace also received the emperor's reward?" Mrs. wants to take us into the palace to see the big sister. "At this time in her previous life, Taohua seems to have already entered the palace for the second time, why haven't she believed it until now?

Taohua wanted to push it when she heard that she had entered the palace. The prescription she wrote has been sent to Jiang Meihua, Jiang Meihua's illness, as long as she can relax and exercise well, it is nothing at all, if she refuses to follow the doctor's instructions, then others can't do anything, it doesn't have much to do with whether she can enter the palace or not.

"Big sister, this is also a happy event, but it's not good to make a big show? It was only natural for my wife to go to see her daughter, and it was a bit ostentatious for us to go. "It's not promotion.

Jiang Xinghua was a little anxious, why didn't this matter seem to be the same as before? She remembered that Taohua was quite willing to enter the palace in the past, how could she listen to this meaning, as if she didn't want to go. But I heard that the last time she entered the palace, she met the emperor, and the emperor should also want her to enter the palace to visit Jiang Meihua now, is she mistaken?

"It's a good thing. The eldest sister is in the palace, and she can't see her family, and besides, she's not in good health......"

Taohua glanced at Jiang Xinghua with some confusion: "The fourth sister is concerned about the eldest sister, it's just a matter in the palace, and it's not something we can discuss." "Since I chose to enter the palace in the first place, now don't cry and can't see my family.

Jiang Xinghua's face was slightly red, and she was in a hurry. How did she hear and think, Taohua was very disgusted with entering the palace, if, if Taohua was unwilling to enter the palace and couldn't be a concubine, then who would she rely on in the future? Do you still count on your father and mother-in-law? Let them push her into the fire pit again?

"I'm not talking about things in the palace, I just think that although the eldest sister is now noble, she always has some regrets......" Jiang Xinghua wanted to slap herself in the mouth, shouldn't she talk about the benefits in the palace, how to say it is a disadvantage, she really can't speak!

"What you gain, you must lose." Momoka replied nonchalantly.

"Yes, yes, yes." Jiang Xinghua finally found something to say, "Although the eldest sister has left home, if she is favored by the emperor, it is better than marrying someone else's family." ”

Taohua glanced at her strangely again, she really didn't see it before, Jiang Xinghua actually thought that Jiang Meihua was so good in the palace?

"The fourth sister thinks it's better for the eldest sister to marry into someone else's family like this?" entered the palace as a concubine, conceived a child and had a miscarriage, is this good?

Jiang Xinghua choked for a moment, and said busily: "The eldest sister is only Jieyu now, and her status is still low, so if she can give birth to a son and be promoted to a concubine, it will be different!" "Isn't that what Taohua was like in her previous life?

Momoka didn't want to talk to her anymore: "Oh. "I also gave birth to a son and was promoted to a concubine, and the queen didn't let you give birth at all, what can you do, hide your belly? It's just that if you are a concubine, the queen is still pressed on top of your head. It's a shame that Jiang Xinghua herself is also a concubine, and she has forgotten all the suffering she suffered at home? Or does she think it's good to be a concubine, others sit and you stand, and others eat and you watch? Oh, maybe the emperor's concubine doesn't have to make rules, and she feels more noble than ordinary concubines?

"Third sister?" Jiang Xinghua saw that Taohua didn't speak, and even turned her eyes away, she couldn't help but feel a little worried, and she didn't know where she said something wrong.

Momoka pretended not to hear. The so-called words are not speculative for more than half a sentence, and they usually talk about needlework, but I didn't expect that when it comes to marriage, everyone has different "ambitions", so don't talk about it. I thought Jiang Xinghua was strange and pitiful at home, but I didn't expect her to have this idea, and Taohua's impression of her suddenly dropped a notch.

Jing's hugged Jiang Bohua and teased him for a while, and then called Biluo: "Take my brother to the next room to eat snacks and see what he likes?" While smiling at the rest of the girls, he said, "Quansheng Zhai's dim sum, I will ask the girl to send it to you in a while, and tell me what you like to eat, and I will ask someone to buy it again." ”

Several girls quickly got up and thanked them. Jiang Danhua said: "Then we won't disturb the second aunt, let's go back first." "Originally, she came to Daoxi, there is no reason to sit for a long time, and she doesn't want to always look at Jing's pride here.

Jiang Yanhua silently followed and got up to say goodbye. She could see clearly that Jing's deliberately left Jiang Bohua for a snack, that is, to leave Taohua.

If you are looking forward to coming to the capital in the past, then Jiang Yanhua's mood these days is how depressed and depressed. The Jiang family is not her home after all, but in the Jinghai Hou Cao family, who is really related, she has been humiliated that she has not even suffered in the Jiang family. Cao could only sigh and wipe his tears, but he couldn't help at all. And she vaguely heard that Jiang Xi might take them back to Wuxi in a few days, but Taohua was asked by Mrs. Jiang to stay in the capital, and wanted to borrow the official position of the Jiang family's house to find her a family business.

One wants to stay in the capital, and the other wants to go back to Wuxi. It is conceivable that Taohua will be able to marry into an official family in the future, and she may only be able to find someone to marry in Wuxi. It's all girls too, even if she's worse than Taohua, it shouldn't be such a different result!

Jiang Yanhua lowered her eyes and stepped out of the west courtyard in silence. What if she is unwilling, she doesn't have an uncle and grandfather to plan for her, and she doesn't even have a chance to go out, what can she do?

When everyone left, Jing put away his smile, sighed, and owed forward: "Sister Tao, the second aunt wants to ask you for something." ”

Taohua hurriedly turned to the side: "What does the second aunt say, I can't afford it." What's more, what can I help my second aunt? "She just can't think of it.

"I heard that the prescription for Jieyu Niangniang in the palace was prescribed by you?"

"It's just that my grandfather wants to try me, let me make up a look." Momoka said vaguely, "In the end, it's still my grandfather who decides what to do." "In such a small place as the Jiang family, there are no secrets that can really be hidden.

"Don't be modest." Jing smiled again, "The old lady can let you enter the palace to check Jieyu Niangniang's pulse, which shows that you are a capable person." Although the second aunt doesn't know how to do medicine, she also knows that this is not something that everyone can do. ”

Taohua had already guessed what Jing was going to say next, it was nothing more than who she wanted her to go to see a doctor, right? Thinking of the conversation between the Jing family and the old lady Jiang in Baicaozhai last time, Taohua could even guess this candidate, it wouldn't be the Cui family, right?

"Miss Cui has not improved so far." Jing really said, "You also know that your second uncle, an official, is of course because of General Lu's help, but when he was able to meet General Lu, he was also introduced by Governor Cui. Your second uncle's business in Fuzhou is mostly taken care of by Governor Cui. Of course, they also paid no less filial piety to silver.

"This is really a bad thing for the second aunt." Jing knew when to tell the truth, "I thought I could help the Cui family, so I mentioned the old lady...... Who knows, the old lady refuses. Of course, this is also to blame on the second aunt, who agreed without asking for instructions first, and now - hey, the second aunt has put herself in the air. ”

Jing's words were funny, and although Taohua thought she was too shrewd, she couldn't help but laugh. Jing's person has this kind of ability, even if you don't like her very much, you will still find her interesting to talk and love to listen to more sentences.

"The second aunt knows that you know in your heart, unlike your sisters, who are still half-grown children--there are some things that the second aunt will not hide from you--what is the second aunt for? I don't expect your second uncle to get more help, and your second sister will also have a good marriage in the future. Jing's had already sent his daughter next door to take care of Jiang Bohua, and he had less scruples when he spoke, "Your eldest brother, he is a man, and he will fight for his future future." But your second sister, alas, if this child can be half as capable as you, I won't worry so much. ”

"The second sister is a very transparent person, but with the second aunt here, she is just a girl for a day and enjoys a day of happiness." Momoka said with a smile. Jiang Lianhua is not as childish as Jing said, but Jing's words moved her, women are always more difficult than men.

"In a few days, the second girl of the Cui family will be born, I want to take your sisters to have fun, you give Miss Cui a pulse, come back and tell the old lady, if you can open a prescription for Miss Cui, I can also have an explanation for this matter, okay?" Jing looked at Taohua with a pleading face.

Taohua really didn't want to deal with the Cui family. On the day of the festival, the secret she heard in the carriage was like a hot potato, and she was in a hurry to forget it. But Jing said earnestly, and she was not unwilling to help. Although the Jing family is shrewd, she has never calculated to damage her family, that is, such as the Cui family, although she recommended Mrs. Jiang herself, but in fact, there is no damage to Mrs. Jiang, and she is a measured person.

"Second aunt, I can only go and take a look. As you know, if you don't adapt to water and soil, sometimes it's useless to take medicine, and even if your uncle and grandfather prescribe a prescription, it may not be cured. "If you add dim sum disease, it's even more impossible.

This Jing understands. In fact, she now regrets that she mentioned in front of Mrs. Cui that she asked Mrs. Jiang to diagnose her pulse, and now whether it is cured or not, she has to deal with it, even if it doesn't work, she has done her best: "As long as you go, the second aunt can confess." ”

"Then I'll give it a try. But it can't be said to be a medical practice. ”

"Don't worry, this second aunt understands." The husband has just won the official, but don't make trouble because of the old things back then, it's not to ask for help from the second room, it's to find bad luck yourself.

Because of all the inconveniences in Beijing, and because my sister was still sick, Cui Er's birthday was very simple, and she only invited the female relatives of acquaintances to come and sit. It wasn't until Taohua followed Jing into the door of Cui's house that she found that there was actually Mrs. Jiang Wen's family in this acquaintance's house.

Wen had just come out of confinement. She gave birth to a daughter, the lord of Nanhua was very dissatisfied, it happened that the little girl was a little weak, the lord of Nanhua saved the washing three, and the full moon was also done under the supervision of Jiang Junma, because there were many people who flattered her, but it was also lively.

The banquet of the Jiang family, people like the Jiang family are not enough to be invited, so the Jing family is also very surprised and a little happy to see the Wen family here. But what surprised her even more was that Wen actually greeted Taohua first: "Miss Jiang? ”

My niece actually knows Mrs. Jiang? Jing has a good memory, and suddenly remembered that on the day he just returned to the capital, Cao's meeting gift to Jiang Lianhua, the coral beads inlaid on the hairpin were said to be rewarded by the lord of Nanhua County, isn't it because of Wen's pregnancy.

Although the lord of Nanhua is not very satisfied with his granddaughter, but Wen's daughter is full of pain, speaking of his daughter, his face is full of maternal brilliance: "Very well-behaved, just a little weak, not very fond of milk, sometimes crying after feeding, and sometimes some diarrhea, the doctor has come to see, said that it is not good to use medicine...... "Even when she came to Cui's house today, she was a little reluctant to leave her daughter half a step, just because her mother's house Jinxiang Bofu used to have a relationship with Mrs. Cui's mother's family, before she was pregnant and couldn't go out, and now the confinement is out, and she has to move around."

"The child is too young to take medicine." Mrs. Cui also has a daughter who is sick and empathizes, "Maybe it's better to change to a nursing mother?" ”

Wen's brows furrowed slightly: "I've already changed two." "If I change it again, my mother-in-law will be impatient.

Tao Hua took Wen's maid Bichun to the side and spoke: "Is it that the nurse eats too well and the milk is too greasy?" Try expressing the mother's milk and putting it in a bowl, wait for a layer to form on the top, remove the milk skin, and then warm it and feed it to your child. If the child no longer has diarrhea, it means that the nursing mother has eaten too well, and the child's stomach is delicate and unbearable. ”

Bichun never dared to treat Taohua as a child, and nodded again and again after listening to it: "Go back and try according to what the girl said, if our eldest girl can be good, the slave will go and kowtow to the girl." He whispered again, "Can you also ask the girl to check the pulse of our young lady?" Our young lady is always worried during the confinement that the slave and maid are afraid of falling into some disease...... "There is still a sentence that is not easy to say, when will Wen's body conceive a child?"

Taohua smiled: "I see that the young lady looks good, you don't need to worry too much." It is better to let the young lady relax her arms and move around more than anything else. ”

Talking here, the Wen family had already said to Mrs. Cui: "Miss Jiang's medical skills are passed down from the family, and there is no harm in asking her to diagnose the pulse of the eldest girl in the house." ”

Mrs. Cui thought that Taohua was too young, don't be called by Jing's to fool her, but after listening to Wen's words at this moment, she was suspicious and went to a better place, so she turned her head and asked the maid to invite Taohua to the next room, and brought Cui Xiuwan over by herself.

Cui Xiuwan is indeed thinner than in March, her face is also yellow, and her summer clothes are thin, as if a gust of wind has blown down. Taohua carefully checked the pulse of both hands, and then asked for the prescription in front of her.

Several prescriptions are similar, although there have been changes, but they are not far from the general direction of thinning the liver and regulating the stomach, Taohua took these prescriptions and pondered for a while, Mrs. Cui was already a little anxious: "But what's wrong?" ”

"It's not bad." Taohua looked at Cui Xiuwan and said slowly, "Madam, please forgive me for being blunt, Miss Cui is sick in her heart." "Fang Zi is right, but Cui Xiuwan is always bad, with Mrs. Cui staring, she shouldn't be without medicine, then there is only one reason - heart disease.

If it were someone else, she might have to hesitate, but Taohua heard a secret - I don't know if it was fortunate or unfortunate - today's pulse diagnosis confirmed her guess, where Cui Xiuwan is not adaptable, it is clear that she doesn't want to marry Shen Shu, and she is worried and thoughtful, which caused this illness. Thinking about hurting the spleen, sad lungs, the body naturally can't get better.

"Miss Cui, these days, do you still have a cough?"

When Mrs. Cui heard the three words "sick in her heart", she was so uncomfortable. She has also discovered now that her daughter really doesn't seem to want to marry Shen Shu, but this is a family affair set by the first emperor, if it is exposed, not to mention what impact it has on the Cui family, Cui Xiuwan alone will not have a good reputation.

“…… Be. Mrs. Cui wanted to deny what Taohua said, but Cui Xiuwan did start coughing these days, could it be that she had added a new problem? In the end, it was the love of her daughter that prevailed, and Mrs. Cui could only admit, "What's going on?" ”

Taohua pondered her words: "Miss Cui has lived in the southern coast for a long time, and she is not suitable for inland water and soil, and she will definitely stay away from her parents when she gets married, so it is inevitable to worry in her heart." ”

Mrs. Cui exhaled softly, fortunately, this girl is young, and she will only speculate with the heart of a boudoir daughter, thinking that Cui Xiuwan is afraid of marrying far away. This explanation is reasonable, and it will not cause any damage to the Cui family if it is said, but it seems that Cui Xiuwan is attached to her parents and has filial piety.

"Then, these recipes ......"

"There is nothing wrong with the previous formula, but it is necessary for Miss Cui to let go of her arms to be effective. Now that I have added a cough, I will draw up another prescription, which not only soothes the liver and strengthens the spleen, but also moistens the lungs. Taohua raised her eyes to look at Cui Xiuwan, "It's not that I'm alarmist, thinking hurtful, but big or small." Miss Cui was only a minor symptom at first, but she has been injured so far. If you don't take it personally, it will become a serious illness if you continue to procrastinate. ”

Mrs. Cui was taken aback: "Is it really so strict?" ”

Taohua thought for a while: "Madam, body and mind are one. Madame must have also experienced that if she is unwell, she will be a little depressed. Miss Cui is depressed and hurtful, and if she is weak, her heart is even more depressed, and in this cycle, her condition will inevitably deteriorate. If the disease cannot be cured, what can be done? ”

"So what to do?" Mrs. Cui was a little panicked. She can't say the words of a vicious circle, but the reason is very clear.

"Get out and about a lot and evacuate your mood." Taohua wrote a list like flying, "Heart disease still needs heart medicine." "To be honest, if you don't solve the problem that Cui Xiuwan doesn't want to marry Shen Shu, it's useless to take any medicine.

Mrs. Cui was so worried that she reluctantly smiled: "Thank you, Miss Jiang." He motioned to the maid to take a pair of coral bracelets and put them on Taohua with her own hands, "The things over there in Guangdong, this color is that you girls look good when you wear them, so let's play with them." ”

Taohua thought that this was a bit deserved, but this thing may be more of a hush money: "Madame is too polite." I am also a daughter, and it is common for me to be reluctant to stay away from my parents. It's just that Miss Cui will be the princess, and with such a good marriage, parents will feel at ease. Miss Cui thought about this, and she could let go of her arms. ”

Mrs. Cui secretly thought that this girl didn't look very old, and her speech was high-sounding, and the smile on her face was more sincere: "You are right, this child is reluctant to be in the family." "No matter what the outside says, that's why.