After all, it is thousands of miles from the northwest to the capital, and if you want to go back, you can't just go.

When you come to the northwest, you always have to bring some local products back to send to relatives and friends, and you have to send some to the palace.

Mrs. Dingbei Hou is familiar with preparing these, how to prepare for Shen Shu in previous years, this year she prepared double copies, all of them were divided, and took a sign to indicate that when the time came, as long as you sent it to the palace according to the sign, it would be right.

"These are for your mother's family, you take them back and share them yourself. Another set of head noodles is to add makeup to your sister, there are no other good things in the northwest, but this agate is not bad, don't dislike it. ”

Mrs. Dingbei Hou had already heard from Shen Shu about Taohua's future sister-in-law, as well as Jiang Yanhua's relationship with Taohua, and now everyone in the northwest did not know that she had reverted to her surname Chen.

The northwest side does produce agate, and there are those that are as colored as pomegranates, and they are indeed fresh and beautiful when inlaid with snow-white silver, but the value is not too high. Taking out such an agate head and face is indeed a little shabby in the Dingbei Hou Mansion, but it is just an in-law, and there is no need to add makeup lavishly. In addition, this face is very suitable for the Liu family's family background - after all, a poor Hanlin's wife is not very harmonious, isn't it?

"Thank you aunt for your trouble." Taohua also thinks this is very good. Liu Zhijing's incident really disgusted her, thinking that these things would eventually marry into the Liu family, she felt that it was not worth it to be for these bright red and lovely agate!

"I heard...... Are you doing acupuncture for Zhengming now? Mrs. Dingbei Hou wanted to speak and stopped, but in the end she couldn't hold back. If there is anything else in her heart now, it is Shen Shu's eye disease.

"Yes." Taohua already understood what Mrs. Dingbei Hou wanted to say, "I thought that the prince's contempt was brought about by the blood, but since my aunt has already checked it, my grandmother does not have this disease, so it may be something else." I'll try it with acupuncture first. ”

She said so frankly, Mrs. Dingbei Hou didn't know what to say. Asked her face to face if it was caused by Jiang Fang's return to the wrong medicine? If Taohua could have asked when she first came, but now that she is planting pox and building an ambulance team, how can Mrs. Dingbei Hou say this?

"That's it, your medical skills can be trusted, and Master Hou and I will entrust it to you." The nephew protects her daughter-in-law so much, what else can she, who is an aunt, say?

Of course, Taohua could hear what "Zhengming can be trusted" meant, but she didn't break it, she just smiled: "Auntie, don't worry, it's my duty to take care of the prince." "Shen Shu's eye disease is not clear at all now, so it's better not to mention it.

At this time, Shen Shu listened to fifteen words in the study in front of him: "Chen Li is for the widow named Zaohua, and the words that he was beaten by the princess also came from this Zaohua. Another woman, whose child drank Penicillium and died, was a neighbor of Jujube Flower. She had a lot of complaints about the princess, and she also spread some gossip......"

Shen Shu kept his face calm and didn't speak. If it was found out that someone deliberately instigated it, he would naturally have a thunderous means to deal with it, but now it is just two ignorant women gossiping, which makes it difficult for him to start.

Fifteen looked at Shen Shu's face and hurriedly added, "This is all before." Now that the ambulance team has saved so many people, Chen Li himself was rescued by Ding Langzhong's father and son, and he himself is not easy to say, so naturally no one listens. ”

Indeed, Chen Li is very aggrieved now. His temperament is not very easy-going, except for a limited number of people such as Sergeant Xu, he is often a little ugly with his comrades. While he was recuperating from his wounds, a few people also asked him about his beating with a stick, so that he had nothing to answer. If it is said that the princess beat her, she will inevitably be involved in Ding Langzhong, and she will be called ungrateful. If you don't say it, it will be tantamount to admitting that you have violated military discipline, and you deserve to be beaten. As a result, he didn't have the face to see anyone, and whenever someone came to visit, he covered his head and pretended to sleep, and as for Zaohua's house, he never set foot again.

"Cheaper him!" Shen Shu thought about it, but he could only blame Chen Li for being reckless. However, in other words, it is normal for colleagues to die of illness and resentment against doctors. Taohua has already taught the ten military sticks a lesson, and Shen Shu is not good enough to make trouble for no reason.

"Those two ignorant women—" Shen Shu really didn't have a good way to take the two widows, "Did the son of Jujube Flower have pox?" ”

"It's planted." Fifteen immediately said, "Therefore, what she says on weekdays, everyone actually doesn't listen very much." Moreover, she just insisted that Ding Langzhong was a quack doctor and deceived the princess. But now everyone knows that Ding Langzhong is not a quack, and no one listens to this. "Ten thousand words can't compare to the facts in front of you, jujube flowers are useless even if they say that they are broken, but the dead child is a little troublesome.

"The princess has long said that penicillium drink is not something that everyone can bear, it is a medicine that is poisonous, and fighting poison with poison is a risk...... Tell them to spread the word, and as for the woman, let them go and see her from time to time in the name of the princess. "I can't beat or scold a widow, and I can't get rid of it, it's really breathtaking.

"Don't worry, the prince has already ordered her subordinates to go down, and someone is staring at her."

Shen Shu sighed: "The princess has been working hard since she came to the northwest, and she must not be discredited by a few ignorant women in the end. If it's really her who is not happy, she will report it to her aunt. "It is more appropriate for Mrs. Dingbei Hou to deal with the affairs of these women.

Fifteen answered again, and suddenly remembered something: "Dieyi is now staying in the ambulance team, the prince sees, do you want to pick someone to make up for her shortcomings?" ”

Dieyi is now the main force of the ambulance team. She was good at needlework, and now she is the fastest to learn suturing techniques, which is highly praised by Ding Langzhong. During this war, she also stitched up the injured with more serious skin injuries, and there were several military doctors who were good at internal medicine and Lang Zhong were not as good as her, not to mention those ordinary people who had no medical skills.

The people who have stitched up the wounds by her are naturally highly praised, and Dieyi herself is quite proud, and her enthusiasm for studying medicine is even higher. This time Shen Shu returned to Beijing, she was reluctant to stop her study, and she planned not to go to the capital with her.

Everyone has their own ambitions, and Dieyi's age is almost when it is time to let her go out to marry, Shen Shu naturally will not restrain her: "It's a good thing that she is willing to study medicine, so let her go." If you can really learn well, you will also be a girl in the future. As for picking people again—it doesn't have to. This time, the princess and I went back to the capital lightly, and the cicada clothes didn't have to go with us, just you and Chuyi followed. ”

Fifteen was taken aback: "Lord Wang, don't even follow the cicada clothes?" Then, who serves the prince? "This is not very decent, how can there be no big girl by the prince's side?

Shen Shu smiled: "Isn't it someone who has a princess?" After Taohua vinegared a little that day, he looked back and thought about it, and the people he was close to were nothing more than Cicada Yi and Dieyi. Although he felt that he had nothing to do with the two maids, Taohua was rarely a little jealous, and since this was the case, he simply wanted to be generous, anyway, there was no one around him. And he has been in the barracks since he was a child, so it doesn't hurt if he doesn't have a maid to serve him. Horizontal and vertical clothing, food, housing and transportation on weekdays, have their own peach blossoms.

"This-" Fifteen scratched her head, feeling that something was not right, "after all, it is the princess's person......"

"Won't the princess's people serve me?" Shen Shu waved his hand indifferently, "Besides, there is also the princess." And Cicada Yi and Dieyi are also at age, leaving them in the northwest, and letting their aunt find a good family for them, and marry out in a few years to live freely. If you go to the capital with you, you don't know when the toss back and forth will be settled. ”

Fifteen also vaguely knew that Mrs. Dingbei Hou wanted to pick Cicada Yi to be the person in Shen Shufang, but after all, the man had a wide heart, and he only felt that since the prince didn't have this mind, he blindly favored the princess, and it was also a good thing for Cicada Yi to choose a good family to marry, so he nodded and said, "I'll go and talk to her." ”

Cicada Yi is packing up in the room. On weekdays, there is always Dieyi to give her a hand, and now she is the only one left, and she thought that she would have to toss for a long time, but when she really cleaned it up, she found that there were not many things left here.

Originally, the most natural thing was Shen Shu's clothes, but recently, Shen Shu often wore red clothes, and most of her clothes here were dark blue, all of which were old in the past, so she couldn't use them now. And the newly made clothes are almost all in Taohua's, and she only has a few freshly made middle clothes left, turning them over, and the things she packs up are just a burden.

Cicada Yi was in a daze with that burden, and came in on the fifteenth knock on the door. These four people almost grew up together, and they were less taboo when they spoke, so Fifteen didn't think much about it, and said Shen Shu's words as soon as he opened his mouth.

"The prince won't let me go to the capital?" Cicada Yi stood up in disbelief, "Why! ”

Fifteen was taken aback by her reaction: "What's wrong with you?" The prince wants Mrs. to find relatives for you and Dieyi, and you two are also of age—"

"Why did she come to find my relatives!" Cicada Yi raised her voice suddenly, "Why did the prince let her come to us!" ”

"What?" Fifteen looked at her in surprise, "We are the people chosen by the Hou Ye and Madame for the prince, and let Madame make the decisions for you and Dieyi, what's wrong?" ”

Only then did Cicada Yi react that the lady he said was Mrs. Dingbei Hou, and she couldn't help but be speechless. Fifteen couldn't help but feel a little strange when she looked at her like this, and after thinking about it, she suddenly reacted: "Who is the 'she' you just said?" "Obviously, it's not Mrs. Beihou who has been appointed.

Cicada Yi was in a state of confusion, where did he have the heart to answer him. The more Fifteen thought about it, the more wrong she felt: "Are you talking about the princess?" "Speaking of which, the princess married the princess, and the mistress of the county king's mansion is the princess, and the marriage of these maids and guards should be decided by the princess. Now the prince is ready to marry them all in the northwest, so he entrusted Mrs. Dingbei, who is familiar with the situation in the northwest, otherwise if the princess is asked to find relatives for Cicada Yi, it should also be, Cicada Yi should not say "Why let her be at the mercy of us".

"What do you mean by that? Do you think that the princess will not pick a family affair for you and Dieyi? "Fifteen is a man in the end, and I haven't thought of going deeper for a while," I have this thought, and it shouldn't be so straightforward. Besides, even if the princess doesn't want to bother more for you, there is still the prince. And I don't think the princess is that kind of person, otherwise she wouldn't have taught Dieyi medical skills wholeheartedly. ”

Cicada Yi only felt a burst of bitterness in her mouth, but she couldn't say it. Now that everything has changed, Dieyi has a look of reverence when she talks about the princess, and she only knows that she is soaking in the ambulance team every day. Fifteen even fell to the Jiang family as early as after she was diagnosed with illness in Wuxi, so that she has no one to complain about her current affairs, and she doesn't dare to sue at all - the prince obviously only has Jiang in his eyes now, where is her place?

But no matter how worried she was, she didn't expect that one day it would be Shen Shu who said that she would not take her to the capital, could it be said that she had no place in the eyes of the prince, and even the place around her?

"But, but why did the prince suddenly ......" Cicada Yi bit her lip fiercely, but she still couldn't hold back, "Isn't it, did the princess say something to the prince?" "What flaws did she have in the eyes of the Jiang family, and she provoked in front of the prince?

I really don't know about this fifteen. He wasn't there when Taohua was vinegared, and even if he was, one of his guards couldn't hear the private words spoken in the master's house. But in the end, it was the love of working together for many years, and Fifteen was a little worried about her, frowning: "What can the princess say?" What did you not do in the eyes of the princess? ”

If not, that's too much. About her to serve the prince closely, it is the biggest not!

"She wants to control the prince, so naturally I don't like it."

"Don't talk nonsense." Fifteen has also heard that some people's families are like this, the housewife entered the door, and she couldn't tolerate the people around her husband, but they were all people in the room, but Cicada Yi was not, "Besides, Dieyi also serves the prince, why didn't I see her say anything." ”

How is Dieyi the same as her? That stupid girl who has no heart has never thought about the prince. In the past, this was a good thing, but now it seems that it is better to have a shield in front of her, so as not to have to face the Jiang family alone.

But how can these words be spoken? Cicada Yi wanted to speak again and again, and finally could only say: "The princess is not a tolerant person." You and the first year of junior high school have a good fate, the Jiang family has no guards to marry, and her hand can't stretch so long. It's just that I'm from the inner house, and I'm from the Dingbei Hou Mansion, so she naturally wants to guard against me. ”

"More nonsense." Fifteen heard her say this, and felt even more unreasonable, "Why is the princess not tolerant?" Besides, this matter was mentioned by the prince, and it was also for the good of you and Dieyi. Don't think nonsense, we are all people picked out by Mrs., and Mrs. will not treat us badly, and will definitely pick a family affair for you. Don't tell anyone these words again, if the princess hears it, it really can't tolerate you. ”

Cicada Yi listened to the footsteps of fifteen and went away, suddenly lifted the burden on the bed and fell to the ground. What kind of family affairs will Mrs. Dingbei Hou pick for her? No matter how good it is, it's the same as those girls who married out in the past, there are a little shops or fields at home, and there is always enough food and clothing, but what about people? Where will she find someone like Shen Shu again?

Jiang, you are too pressing......

Taohua didn't know that she had carried a pot on her back, and it wasn't until two days later that she learned from Kikyo that Cicada Yi had been left in Dingbei Hou's Mansion.

"Some people say that the princess didn't let her go back to the capital......" Bellflower looked unhappy, "Obviously this is what the prince meant." "Why do you want to put the black cauldron on their princess's head?

"Who said that?" Mint was also a little annoyed, "She must have said it herself!" If there are a few people left, won't Mama Zheng also stay in the northwest! ”

Taohua leaned on the wall of the carriage and smiled: "What are you annoyed about, what can you do if she says it?" I just won't let her go back to the capital, who cares? "It is said that when she marries, the inner house of the county king's mansion will be under her control, how to arrange a maid, it is all up to her heart, even if this maid is an old person who serves Shen Shu, nominally she has to listen to her.

"But this-the plain princess has a name...... "Kikyo is not the eleven or twelve-year-old yellow-haired girl who doesn't understand anything, Mama Zheng sees that she will take mint in the future, and teaches her some things as soon as possible, so she will also know the stakes here." As soon as you enter the door, you don't allow people who have served the prince in front of you, and this reputation is not very good.

"Silly girl, what's this?" Momoka just laughed. Because she said a word, Shen Shu left the cicada clothes in the northwest, he can do this, what is it for her to carry a few pots, "Since the prince entrusted his aunt to pick up relatives for her, then I can't blame me for this matter." Shen Shu had already thought about it very thoughtfully, and he knew that the people around him were from the Dingbei Hou Mansion, and they were handed over to Mrs. Dingbei Hou, so naturally they would not be treated badly. In the future, even if the cicada clothes are unsatisfactory, it has nothing to do with her at all.

"What if she talks nonsense and ruins the princess's reputation?" Kikyo was a little anxious, "When I return to the capital, maybe someone will make a fuss about this, and there will be many people who have nothing to do!" "There are many people in the capital who don't like the princess.

"Yo, you can even say 'Much Ado About Nothing'." Taohua casually poked at the door of Kikyo's head, "There is growth." "This girl's hair is thin, and her head is very big, but now that she is a little older, her hair looks a little more, but unfortunately the hairline is still in place, and her brain is still very large, and it is very easy to poke it.

"Princess!" Kikyo covered her head and stomped her feet, "Mama Zheng also said that the princess has to be careful of the reputation outside." ”

Taohua smiled: "I know this." Of course, Mama Zheng's worries are reasonable, as the princess and concubine, if she has a reputation of jealousy and intolerance outside, her royal face will be disgraceful, and the queen mother and queen will have the handle to blame her.

"Those reputations don't matter to me." One is that she doesn't care about those false names, and the other is that her reputation doesn't depend on those - Lantian, Luonan, and Northwest, treating malaria, pox, and ambulance, which is the foundation of her life.

Kikyo blinked his eyes and was about to say something, when he heard the commotion outside, lifted the curtain and looked out, and was suddenly startled: "What's wrong?" ”

There is an official road from Yanzhou City to the capital, of course, it cannot be compared with the official road near the capital, but it is much smoother and more spacious than the ordinary road in the northwest. Since Shen Shu was going back to Beijing, the carriage naturally had to go from this road, and there was no other way. At this moment, there is a flat river on the official road, but there are thousands of people on both sides of the road, squeezing each other and standing together, and when they saw the curtain of the carriage lifted, they all shouted: "The prince and princess have a good journey." I'm going back to the Northwest to have a look. ”

These people were obviously unorganized, and their shouting was a mess, and they couldn't even hear what they were shouting if they didn't listen carefully. However, it is precisely because of this that their relationship seems so real.

Kikyo looked out stunned, and muttered after a while: "I, I seem to understand a little......" The woman of the inner house may have to seek a virtuous reputation, even if she is wronged for it, but the princess of her family is not an ordinary woman in the inner house, and she can still stand without relying on this virtuous reputation.

Although Shen Shu's arm injury was not healed, he refused to take the carriage, but rode a horse outside, and at this time, he was slightly surprised when he saw these people outside the city, and couldn't help but smile at the first and fifteenth junior high school behind him: "When I went to the capital, I didn't see so many people coming to see them off. ”

Chu Yi grabbed his hair: "This time, the prince lured the enemy with his body, and the people in the northwest also knew about it......"

Shen Shu smiled and knocked him with a horsewhip: "You don't need to make up words to coax me." "The matter of luring the enemy with oneself is known to the people in the Northwest Army, and they did not publicize it to the outside world. The reason is still the same as the original: the northwest is the land of the Dingbei Marquis's mansion, and it is also the emperor's country, and it is not a good thing that he is too famous as a county king here. Therefore, the reason why these people came to send each other was to send him the merits of fighting against the Northern Barbarians, but more to send Taohua. Seeing that some people have thick mud on their shoes, they are obviously not from Yanzhou City, and they are afraid that they came from other places.

"It is also my honor to have a wife like this." As soon as Shen Shu lifted the reins of the horse, the horse walked a few steps quickly, parallel to Taohua's carriage, passed through the people in the middle of the road, left Yanzhou City in a shout, and embarked on the road back to the capital.

There were thousands of people who came to see him off, and they stood intermittently for more than a mile, and their shouts could be heard when they walked far away. Kikyo kept looking out of the car window until she couldn't see it anymore and then reluctantly lowered the curtain and sighed, "It's a pity that I can't study medicine......"

Taohua smiled slightly: "You don't necessarily have to study medicine." Doing things for the people does not necessarily have to be practicing medicine. "This girl is not afraid of being dirty or tired, but she is born with blood sickness, and the ambulance team can't get in no matter what, this is no way.

"Even if you practice medicine, you may not be as popular as the princess." Someone outside the carriage answered, and as soon as the curtain was lifted, Shen Shu came in.

Taohua was taken aback by him - the carriage was still moving, and he obviously turned into the carriage directly from the horse: "Be careful of your injuries!" If you refuse to take the car, you want to get in the car at this time, can't you ask someone to stop first? ”

Mint and Kikyo couldn't help but laugh and hurriedly sat on the wheel, Shen Shu immediately occupied the position of the two, and fell sideways to Taohua's lap: "Yes, yes, the princess has taught me a lesson." ”

Taohua didn't have anything to do with him, and he had to be careful not to let him really touch the injury, so he said angrily: "What are you doing when you come in?" ”

Shen Shu pillowed on her lap and blinked: "I heard those people shouting the princess, let me come in and see what kind of character my princess is, who can make the northwest so supportive." ”

"Nonsense again." Taohua simply massaged the acupuncture points around his eyes, "Without you, without my uncle and aunt, why should I promote pox and build an ambulance team in the northwest?" These things can't be done in the capital. ”

"Speaking of which, I remember." Shen Shu closed his eyes and lay comfortably, "The capital has implemented the pox matter, but it is already a breakthrough, and when you return to the capital, you are afraid that you will have to get involved." What do you have to do about it, do you have a charter? ”

It was already nearly March, and although the northwest wind was still cold, there was already some fresh green on the ground. The carriage was whispered by the couple, and returned to the capital along the new green road......