Taohua said a word, and Lu Xuan called out first: "What do you have to do with eating melons and leg pain!" ”

Lu Xian and Mrs. Lu also showed suspicious looks on their faces. I've only heard that eating too many melons will cause diarrhea, but I haven't heard that it will hurt my legs.

Taohua smiled slightly, and said unhurriedly: "Cold melon and melon are all raw and cold foods, although they can clear heat and quench thirst, but eating too much will hurt the spleen and help dampness, and even damage the waist and legs." The old lady is a northerner and is in good health, so she does not have diarrhea when she eats melons. But because of this, it is inevitable to eat too much, and over the years, it will cause injury. It can be seen that in the last years of the previous dynasty, □□ Fei's "Sanyuan Counselor's Life Extension Book" had cases of eating too many melons to escape the summer, feeling back and leg pain after autumn, and restricted activities. ”

The Lu family looked at each other. This statement is really unheard of, but people can even say clearly where the case is listed, and it is really impossible to believe it. Lu Xian had no choice but to arch his hand and say, "Then please ask Miss Jiang to prescribe." ”

There was already a maid next to her who came with a pen and paper, and Lu Xian saw that this Jiang girl picked up the pen and waved it, with a total of one line of words: melon skin decoction, twice a day.

Lu Xian felt that his eyes were about to fall out: "What kind of recipe is this?" "Are you joking with the Lu family? Just use melon peel decoction to cure several waist and leg pain that too many doctors can't cure?

Taohua smiled: "This is just the first step. The people before were not cured because they didn't find the crux of the problem. After taking this melon skin decoction for ten days, the old lady's condition will be greatly improved, and then she will slowly recuperate with medicine - this is because the old lady has been less restrained in her diet for many years, and it is a disease. Do the math, you must take at least three months of medicine to recuperate, and you can't eat and drink arbitrarily in the future. ”

Lu Xian was still half-convinced, but Mrs. Lu couldn't help it, and repeatedly asked people to decoct the medicine, she was really tossed and couldn't do it. Although he was born in a farming family, he has been strong since he was a child, has a sweet diet, and can move freely, so he doesn't feel anything even when he works in the fields. Who knew that when he was old, he became ill when he was enjoying the happiness with his son, and he knew that the suffering of this disease was really worse than working in the fields.

The subordinates went to look for melon skins one after another. These toys are piled up in the summer, and they are not easy to find at the beginning of spring. Taohua also got up with a smile: "Eat for ten days first, and then I will come back, and then I can prescribe another prescription after checking the pulse." ”

Although she had great doubts about the effect of the melon peel, Mrs. Lu personally sent the person straight to the door, and watched the carriage before turning back. This is not a courtesy for Langzhong, but for the future princess of the county, and this princess of the county is gone, and she also used the skin to make a mess of the Lu family, Mrs. Lu is a little suspicious that the princess of the county is not here to retaliate.

The matter of melon peel really made it difficult for the Lu family to be enough. In the end, it was a small guy who ran errands on the outer door and said that the countryside would get some melons, vegetables, beans and the like to dry in the summer, and they could eat it for a winter and a spring, and maybe someone would dry the melon skin.

This sentence reminded the steward of the Lu family, and he immediately rode a horse and galloped to the grange in the suburbs to ask everywhere, and if his own Zhuangzi was not, he went to the nearby Zhuangzi with a shy face to look for it, and he really found a basket of dried cold melon skins. It turned out that these families all grew cold melons, and the good ones were naturally sold, and occasionally some of them were not good enough to be used to relieve their children's hunger. After eating the melon pulp, the melon skin is reluctant to lose it, and it is said that it can be fried as a vegetable after it is dried and put away.

The steward collected all the melon peels dried by several families, and immediately sent them back with Pegasus, and it was already the afternoon of the next day. Mrs. Lu was impatient to wait, so she immediately asked the maid to boil the soup and pour it down, and then stopped.

Lu Xuan has been staying at home, for a while she suspected that Taohua was a liar, and then she remembered that the new maid in her mother-in-law's house scolded her a few words, and Mrs. Lu persuaded her to go back, but she didn't listen. Mrs. Delu was also angry, watching her mother-in-law drink the melon skin soup, she simply ignored her daughter and threw her hand back to her room.

She sat in the room for a while, and then saw Lu Xian come back with a calm face, and the maid who followed her glanced at her vigorously, and said a word in the shape of her mouth.

Mrs. Lu could see that this maid was saying that Lu Xian did not go to Mrs. Lu when she came back. Lu Xian is filial, no matter how tired he is when he comes back from the yamen every day, the first thing he must do is to go to Mrs. Lu to say hello, and then he will come back to change his clothes. I didn't even go to Mrs. Lu's place today, so it can be seen that there is something big.

The maid took the tea, and tiptoed back, Mrs. Lu personally went over to take off Lu Xian's official uniform, and asked, "Master, what's the matter?" ”

Lu Xian's face was so heavy that he seemed to be able to scrape a layer of frost, and he sat on the chair without saying a word for a long time, and after a long time, he saw that there were no outsiders in the room, so he took Mrs. Lu's hand and whispered: "I don't know, what is the old man going to do now." ”

He mentioned Yu Ge Lao with one mouth, which startled Mrs. Lu, and hurriedly went to the door to ask his henchmen to guard the door, and then came in and asked, "What did Ge Lao do?" ”

Lu Xian was full of worries, and he didn't dare to tell his colleagues outside, so only Mrs. Lu, the pillow person, could speak, and after hesitating for a moment, he said: "I got the news, the two county orders that were killed in Shandong not only concealed the disaster and did not report it, but also collected taxes according to the harvest year, and those who couldn't collect it were arrested and put in prison, so they forced the people to rebel." Actually, there is nothing about the Red Lotus Sect here. The Red Lotus Sect exists in the local area, but it is said that it only teaches people to recite scriptures for good fortune and longevity, and there is no rebellion. ”

Mrs. Rao Shilu also knows a little about government affairs, and she didn't react for a while when she heard this, and asked with a slightly dazed voice: "That-" So what?

Lu Xian saw that she didn't understand, and took her hand and tightened it: "If the Red Lotus Sect is spoken, it was Ge Lao who let her out!" The news was actually delivered as early as a year ago, and the elder of the pavilion did not report to the emperor until the year later. ”

Mrs. Lu was taken aback: "This, this is a bully-" This is a bully!

But she said one word, and I didn't think it was interesting anymore. The emperor can be made the crown prince and ascend the throne as the emperor, all of which rely on the power of the queen mother and the Yu family, so this half of the court is the power of the Yu family, and the emperor is going to retreat. It's been like this for ten years, if you want to talk about bullying the emperor - well, at least Yu Ge Lao has always pressed the emperor intentionally or unintentionally, and how can the officials really not have a word of lies about the emperor? It's really not interesting for the elder to say anything about bullying the king.

Lu Xian's face was a little dazed: "This, this is not just a bully...... "If you want to hide something from the emperor, or sometimes go against the emperor's will, he has not done this kind of thing. The emperor is young, and he doesn't know the hardships below, how many things can't be expected to be judged and dealt with by the elder cabinet with the overall situation first?

For example, the pharmacist who the emperor wanted to seal last time was obviously a person who was rejected by the previous emperors, and the emperor sealed it again, what is it? Isn't it just for Jiang Jieyu's miscarriage in the palace, the queen is a little suspicious, and the emperor will promote the Jiang family and support Jiang Jieyu. But if the eldest son is not a concubine, the emperor will not think of how much trouble there will be in the future.

In short, since Lu Xian joined the party, he has always felt that he is not following the wrong person. Although I always heard someone say that the Yu family is arrogant and bullies the monarch with ministers, in his opinion, Yu Ge Lao is very capable in handling political affairs, and he is much better than the young emperor. For the sake of the world, is it better to hand over the government to experienced and capable ministers, or to let the emperor run around without experience? The results are obvious.

However, this time this incident really made Lu Xian a little incomprehensible.

"Elder Ge sent Yu Rui out to quell the rebellion of the Red Lotus Sect. This, this is a killing spree! "If the officials had reported the news of the disaster a few years ago, the emperor would have sent someone to deal with it immediately, and perhaps it would not have caused such a big incident as it did later. However, now, an official who has forced the people to rebel has become a Red Lotus Sect with ulterior motives to take the opportunity to rebel, so this head is indispensable.

It took Mrs. Lu a long time to understand: "The master is saying, Yu Ge Lao is this-is it intentional?" ”

Lu Xian looked at her straightly, his lips moved, and he didn't know what to say.

When he first got the news, he didn't want to believe it at all, but when he thought of Yu Rui leading the troops out, he couldn't help but waver. Others may not know, but he knows that Yu Ge Lao once invited General Lu to drink before he left Beijing, and I heard that he wanted to marry a granddaughter to General Lu's youngest son, but General Lu politely declined on the grounds that the child was too young to be virtuous and foolish, and he was afraid that he would delay the Yu family girl by rashly making an order.

Lu Xian somewhat guessed this matter, it was fake that Yu Ge Lao wanted to marry General Lu, and it was true that he wanted him to promote Yu Rui. After all, General Lu's temper is known to everyone, and he obviously doesn't ask anything except to fight against the Japanese and protect the people, so the emperor can use him with confidence.

But Yu Rui has not moved since then, which means that General Lu not only declined his relatives, but even Yu Rui refused to bring him to his army.

If you talk about other guards, Yu Ge Lao is not unable to stuff people into them, but now there is no war except for the southeast, northwest and northwest, and all the guards are a little idle, and Yu Rui has no credit to go, but he is far away from the capital, and it will be difficult to come back.

As a result, at this time, the Red Lotus Sect instigated the disaster victims to rebel, and Yu Rui seized this opportunity and set out on the expedition. In this way, when he comes back from counterinsurgency, he will not be able to run away with a single credit. Where to go when the time comes, it depends on Yu Ge's efforts.

At that time, Lu Xian felt that this method was good, and instigated the victims to rebel, which must be killed! Especially if you dare to spread the words that the emperor's succession is not right, if you don't kill it, will you keep it for the New Year?

However, when I thought about it at that time, I only felt cold air on my back when I put it today. released false news, and said that the officials forced the people to rebel as a deliberate rebellion, Yu Ge Lao - is this planning to use the people's neck blood to give Yu Rui a military feat? Yu Ge Lao, how could he do such a thing?

This incident was like a stick, hitting Lu Xian's head firmly, beating him a little stunned.

Mrs. Lu saw that her husband's face was pale, so she was so frightened that she quickly patted him on the back and stroked his chest, and picked up the tea that was not too hot: "Master, take a sip to calm down." ”

Lu Xian took it blankly and took a sip, but he couldn't tell whether it was cold or hot: "You say, how can Elder Ge be so patient?" "He was born in a farmer's family, and although his family was quite passable, he knew very well how hard it was for those tenant farmers who didn't even have a field to live, and a natural disaster could ruin their family. Now that it is a natural disaster, not only will they not be compensated, but they will also be charged with rebellion? This, this can't be what Yu Ge Lao did, right?

Mrs. Lu said tentatively: "Maybe the elder is also deceived by the subordinates?" ”

Lu Xian saw that his wife didn't speak, and Mrs. Lu could only smile bitterly. Also, the news was pressed by Yu Ge Lao from the year before the year to the year, saying that he was blinded, and the ghost believed it.

The husband and wife sat facing each other for a while, and Lu Xiancai said listlessly: "I'll go and say hello to my mother." ”

Mrs. Lu watched him go out, shook her head, and sighed. She still understands her husband, Lu Xian is keen on eunuchs, and he does not do very authentic things with Guang Tongchen on weekdays, but he has no courage for evil, and he is also diligent and capable in public affairs, especially he is very respectful of the fact that the elder Ge boldly supported the first emperor in the previous dynasty and assisted the first emperor to govern the world later, otherwise there are many people in the party who want to be this right waiter, why did Yu Ge Lao promote Lu Xian?

However, the more it was admired at the beginning, the more shocked it is now? Mrs. Lu shook her head again, she knew that Lu Xian did not have the courage to be evil, but she really didn't know that he still had such a small vulnerable place in his heart, and he still had such feelings for those peasants.

Mrs. Lu sat for a long time, and she didn't know what she could do about it. She was born as an official eunuch and knew a little about the affairs of the court, and what Yu Ge Lao did was neither unprecedented nor unprecedented, but Yu Ge Lao himself had indeed never done anything like that before. Now that this is all of a sudden, is it because Yu Ge Lao has finally revealed his true nature after many years of disguise, or is his temperament changing as he gets older?

If it is the former, it is probably because Yu Ge Lao thinks that pushing Yu Rui up is an important thing and it is worth doing. But if it is the latter, whose temperament changes greatly after old age, Mrs. Lu feels that this is not a good omen......

After Lu Xian went to greet Mrs. Lu, he never talked about it again when he came back. Just a few days later, news came back from Shandong, saying that Yu Rui had won the first battle after passing, exterminated the two bandit villages in the mountains, and was now searching for the Red Lotus Sect in all directions, in order to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, so as not to cause a resurgence.

When the news came back, the court and the Chinese praised Yu Rui's ability, and Mrs. Lu found that Lu Xian was even more silent. In the past, after the affairs of the yamen were done, I had to find an opportunity to go to Yu Ge Lao to say a few words, but these days I went home after the yamen, under the guise of serving my mother, and I didn't go anywhere.

Fortunately, Mrs. Lu's leg disease is indeed improving significantly day by day. On the third day of drinking this melon peel soup, she felt that her waist and legs were much easier, and the pain was lighter. On the seventh day, I felt that the cool air swishing into the cracks of my bones was gone. Therefore, on the tenth day, Mrs. Lu got up, and shouted for someone to take a car to Jiang's house to pick up people.

The Jiang family has been very busy these days. The dowry gift of the Liu family has been sent, and it is really very frugal, but it is better than the list sent before, and a few things have been added to the list sent before, according to the number of gifts, there are all that should be there, but there is no need to have it, but there is none.

Cao and Jiang Yanhua accepted the dowry without saying a word of complaint, and agreed with the matchmaker on the date of the invitation.

The invitation period is that the man plans the marriage date, and then prepares the gift to inform the woman's family and asks the woman to agree. Of course, this wedding date is actually before the invitation date, everyone has already understood each other's meaning, whether to get married early or a few years later, or the woman is not agreeable, will you call back? Is that a marriage or a feud?

But this time, Cao really didn't have any ideas. Originally, she was afraid that something would happen to the Jiang family, so she wished that Jiang Yanhua would marry off immediately. Now that I look at it, not only is it okay, Taohua has also become the future princess of the county, and I am a little reluctant to Jiang Yanhua, after all, she is only fourteen, and she is not even in her prime.

Jiang Xi and Taohua's father and daughter will not say a word about this. Since Taohua kindly reminded Jiang Yanhua that day that she was back, she didn't even enter Cao's yard these days. Jiang Xi was naturally looking for his own daughter, and the Cao family discussed this matter with him, and he only said one sentence: "You are in charge." ”

Cao knew that he had offended the pillars of the family, and he was so anxious to cry in private. Jiang Yanhua also regretted it in her heart, but this time she made a mistake, and she refused to apologize to Taohua, and said that the marriage date would be set by the Liu family, and she would rely on them sooner or later. At this time, the Cao family was reluctant, and the mother and daughter had a few words because of this.

These things have been quietly spread to Taohua. The main reason is that she feels that Jiang Yanhua has changed a little bit since she entered the capital, and she has lost weight in the past few days, but her eyes are as bright as ghost fire, and occasionally she will be startled when she sees it.

Momoka listened to it. If she still had a little sisterhood with Jiang Yanhua before, now it has almost worn off, they have no blood relationship, and now the only connection is Jiang Bohua.

Besides, Taohua has a lot of things to do. The Ministry of Rites has begun to draw up the days of the six rites, and Qintian will supervise the auspicious period, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will also send someone to measure it, so as to make the dress and other things of the princess of the county.

was so busy, when the Lu family's carriage came to pick it up, Taohua remembered that today was the day to go for a follow-up visit.

Old Madam Lu's spirit was much better than ten days ago, her face was originally haggard and yellow because of insomnia, and she smiled when she saw Taohua: "This melon skin soup is really god!" I can now walk without being carried around. ”

Any doctor will be happy to see that the patient he treats is getting better, even if the patient they don't really like.

Taohua is the same, seeing that Mrs. Lu is so energetic, she can't help but smile slightly: "This is also that the weather is warm now, and the symptoms will naturally be reduced, and the old lady can't be bad for raw medicine because of this." ”

Old Madam Lu stretched out her hand to let her diagnose her pulse, and said with a smile: "Then how can I take it, I will take it how you say to take medicine." ”

Mrs. Lu was waiting for her mother-in-law beside her, and she hurriedly received a few flattering words, and asked someone to pour tea: "This is an authentic Mengding stone flower, brought by relatives from Jiannan, but I don't know if Miss Jiang is used to drinking it." ”

If she still had doubts about Taohua's medical skills before, and thought that maybe it was a coincidence, or maybe there was an old man from the Jiang family who had been a doctor behind her back, then curing Mrs. Lu overturned all her previous thoughts. The old man of the Jiang family has never seen Mrs. Lu, and it is impossible to know that Mrs. Lu loves to eat melons, so with the blind melon skin, Mrs. Lu's illness has disappeared most, which is definitely Taohua's own credit.

Mrs. Lu's idea was to ask Taohua to diagnose Lu Xuan's pulse, and see why there has been no movement for so many years, and whether she can prescribe some medicine to recuperate. But she didn't know how to speak for a while, she must know that Taohua's diagnosis and treatment of Mrs. Lu was still exchanged for a promise from Lu Xian in the future, but it was not something that Mrs. Lu could erase with a few words with a smile. Not to mention that she had already asked her subordinates, in Xingshan Temple that day, but Lu Xuan wanted to send the two girls of the Jiang family to the official, and no one would forget this matter so easily.

Speaking of being a person, Mrs. Lu is not much taller than Lu Xuan. She didn't say a word about Lu Xuan, but gave Taohua half a catty of montage stone flowers, and made an appointment to invite her to come back in ten days. Only by building a good relationship can you ask for someone, right?

Taohua didn't know Mrs. Lu's mind yet, but she still liked this half catty of tea - Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Xi both loved tea, but the price of good tea like Mengding Shihua was too expensive, and both of them were reluctant to drink it. The prospect of the family paid tribute to Mrs. Jiang with six kinds of good tea, but there were no montex stone flowers in it.

Mint saw that she was happy, and said with a smile in the carriage: "The slave maid looks at this Mrs. Lu as a very shrewd person. If you have a good relationship with the girl, in the future, the girl really wants Lu Shilang to fulfill that promise, and I am afraid that I will be embarrassed to open my mouth. ”

Taohua smiled: "I didn't plan to ask him to do anything, but there is this thing hanging there, and if he wants to do anything in the future, he will have to weigh it first." This promise is like a cross, as long as it keeps pressing on Lu Xian's head, he has to bend down.

The master and servant were laughing in a low voice, when a horse neighed outside the carriage, and the carriage suddenly shook violently, throwing the two of them forward together. Taohua reacted quickly, grabbed the seat, and finally didn't slap her face on the opposite compartment wall. Peppermint was more upside down, and just as she wanted to get up and change her hand stove, she fell backwards entirely, but fortunately fell on the seat, only to hit her head on the carriage.

"What's going on!" Mint couldn't care about the Venus in front of him, so he reluctantly got up to lift the curtain, but was held down by Taohua, and moved to the car door to look, only to see Sanqi pulling the reins of the horse, but there was a person lying under the horse's hooves.

"Girl, this man came out of there by himself and hit the front of our carriage!" Sanqi was also scared to death. He was not very fast, but the man came out in a rampage, startled the horse, and fell there without moving. What if someone dies?

"Girl, you go back first, slave and maid—" Before Mint finished speaking, Taohua jumped out of the car: "Don't panic first, I'll see." ”

The man on the ground, dressed in a half-used silk robe, lay motionless on the stone floor, his face covered with his hair scattered, and he looked a little shocking indeed. However, as soon as Taohua squatted down, she smelled a strong smell of wine, and when she reached out to take her pulse, she was a little sure in her heart - this was a drunkard.

There was a horseshoe print printed on the drunkard's robe, probably at the thigh level, Taohua reached out and pressed it gently, and was a little more sure - the leg bone was fine, it seemed that the horse's hoof kicked not heavily, this person was lying still now, most likely not falling, but drunk.

Sanqi also ran over, stretched out his hand to pull the man's hair away, and wanted to slap his face: "Wake up, wake up!" How are you? ”

As soon as her hair was brushed away, Taohua was stunned for a moment, and this face looked a little familiar. She thought for a while, and then pulled out a name from her memory - Yu Ling, the young man with a prickly voice in the hunting ground!