Qiu Chen nodded, didn't say anything more, took Chengying and Yuegui and hurried out of Mu'en Courtyard, took a warm sedan chair, and went all the way to the second gate to change to the cui curtain brocade covered carriage, and met the two girls at the gate, Old Man Mu and Gardenia Forsythia, all the way out of the Jingbei Hou Mansion, and went to Xicheng.

One thousand taels of gold tickets, and the official silver is exchanged for ten thousand taels of snowflake official silver. There are more on the black market, sometimes more than 13,000 taels of silver.

Chengying was slightly stunned, but didn't ask anything, and immediately turned around and went back to the room, but after a while, he took out a cyan purse and held it in front of Qiu Chen with both hands: "Madam, the slave maid took 10,000 taels of silver tickets and 1,000 taels of gold tickets!" ”

It was also at this moment that Qiu Chen remembered one more thing, stopped and instructed Chengying: "Go and get 20,000 taels of silver!" ”

Two lives, worth a try.

Going to the yamen was only to find out whether or not he had committed a crime, and it was useless to deal with the woman and the child in her womb. All she wanted was to do her best to save the lives of the mother and son...... I asked for a doctor in the middle of the night yesterday, and it was only six or seven hours in the morning, and if I could catch up, maybe I could save the lives of the mother and son!

Qiu Chen glanced back at Mama Lin, shook his head and said, "I'm not going to the Yamen. ”

Mama Lin hesitated and said, "Madam, this kind of thing, just send someone to the yamen to deliver a post, where is it worth going in person......

Qiu Chen's footsteps didn't stop, and while explaining the reason for the incident to Mama Lin, he said, "You stay at home, just let Chengying and Yuegui follow." I don't have time to settle down, you meet up with Mama Chen and take care of the family...... Well, if I am good, I can come back before lunch, but if I don't...... If it doesn't go my way, I'll be able to turn back before dark today, so don't worry too much. ”

Seungying and Laurel glanced at each other, didn't say anything, hurriedly took their fur clothes and put them on, and followed closely. Mama Lin happened to come in and greeted Qiu Chen outside the blue yarn cupboard, and when she saw a few people with strange expressions, she hurriedly walked out, and hurriedly asked.

The four girls of Gardenia and Forsythia, since Qiu Chen's body has basically recovered, they have been sent to Old Man Mu in turn, and asked Old Man Mu to give him medical advice. At this moment, Qiu Chen sent someone to pass the word to Old Man Mu, and she naturally agreed, turned around and left.

Qiu Chen waved his hand, interrupted Gardenia's words, put down the tea cup in his hand, got up randomly, went to the coat rack and took the big wool cloak and put it on, and ordered in a stack: "Go ahead and invite Mr. Mu, just say that I want to go out and invite him along!" Rendezvous at the gate! ”

Gardenia didn't expect Mrs. to ask this question at all, she was slightly stunned, and nodded randomly: "Yes, but ......"

However, it was only for a moment, Qiu Chen accurately grasped the key point and asked, "Is the mother of that family still alive?" ”

When Qiu Chen heard this, he also chuckled in his heart. was lazy and crooked, but he also sat up straight all of a sudden.

Sun Langzhong is a doctor in Renhetang, good at obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics, before gardenia and forsythia girls studied medicine, many times they followed Sun Langzhong to study, there is a master-apprentice feeling. Now, knowing that Sun Langzhong was suffering, Gardenia is naturally very anxious and worried.

On that day, not long after breakfast, the children said goodbye to go to the school, Qiu Chen was about to go to the Westinghouse to visit the three little ones, Gardenia ran in from outside with a nervous expression, and suddenly saw Qiu Chen, as if he had seen a reassuring pill, and immediately replied: "Madam, it's not good, last night Sun Langzhong in our hall was invited by a family in Xicheng in the middle of the night, who knew that the woman had a difficult birth, and she was not born until dawn, and she was going to die in one corpse and two lives...... The family detained Sun Langzhong and said that they would send Sun Langzhong to the yamen! ”

However, there are always some surprises that happen. Just when Qiu Chen was staying in the house with the children nesting, something suddenly happened, which forced her to give up her temporary laziness and cheer up again.

Qiu Chen blinked, and at the same time, his nose sensitively smelled an extremely faint smell of gunpowder from Qin Zheng's body...... She changed the subject, no longer worried, no longer asked.

Qiu Chen tried to ask, but Qin Zheng replied with a light smile, "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools!" ”

After Qin Zheng followed King Yong to complete the Yongding River work, he went all the way to the Ministry of Works. Let Qin Zheng, who galloped across the field, go to the Ministry of Industry to watch the craftsmen work, Qiu Chen was also worried about Qin Zheng's grievances at first, and carefully observed for a few days, but saw that Qin Zheng always went out early and returned late, and after coming back, except for a little tiredness, he didn't see a little depression, but was still very positive......

Compared with the rusty nervousness when she first entered Beijing, she can now be regarded as experienced, although she is not good at dancing with long sleeves, but she can also deal with it calmly.

It's just that because there is no excuse for the confinement period, she can't shirk it anymore because of the birthday banquet, marriage, childbirth, and even funeral affairs of the nobles in the capital.

When he was doing double confinement, Qiu Chen always thought that he must have a good time to relax after the confinement, but he really went out of the confinement, but he didn't go out. First, towards the end of the year, it is time for Zhuangzi everywhere to meet accounts, and shops and workshops are also about to meet accounts...... Before, Yufeng and Qingxing closed the warehouse and accounts, but now that Yufeng is pregnant, she can't find a replacement for the time being, so Qiu Chen took it over first, while exercising the breeze and Chunqiao to practice helping. In addition, Brother Yun and Chang'er are too young, and they can't stand the cold when they go out, and they are easy to get sick, and if they don't go out with them, they will inevitably worry, so Qiu Chen has no choice but to stay at home with peace of mind.

Qiu Chen nodded, and smiled and asked people to warm up the New Year jujube cake and eat it at night.

The laurel was brought out by Yufeng and Qingxing, and the relationship with Yufeng was naturally different. Yufeng was married for two years before and was not pregnant, Yuegui didn't secretly worry about her, this time it's okay, Sister Yufeng is pregnant, and even Sister Qingxing is not so worried. After all, the two of them had been treated by Mr. Mu before, and said that the two of them were fine, and since Sister Yufeng had a child, Sister Qingxing must not be far away.

"Returning to Mrs., I just sent Wu Lan on a trip and sent two steamed cakes. Wu Lan came back and said that Sister Yufeng was very good, Sister Yufeng had not stayed, and just now she asked Wu Lan to bring back a few New Year jujube cakes! Laurel smiled beside her and rushed to answer.

Yufeng was pregnant, Qiu Chen had been hiding it from her before giving birth, and after giving birth, she was confined, and her body recovered, so she remembered that she hadn't seen Yufeng for a long time, and when she asked, she learned that the little girl she bought back then was now pregnant with Liujia, and she was about to be a mother. After that, Qiu Chen instructed Chengying to let people pay attention to the situation on Yufeng's side, and sent people to send some fresh vegetables and fruit supplements to Yufeng from time to time.

Back in his room, Qiu Chen washed up again, sat on the warm kang by the window, took the lotus seed tea handed by Chengying, took a hot sip, breathed a sigh of relief, and then raised his eyes and said, "How is Yufeng?" ”

Since Qiu Chen was out of confinement, he changed rooms with the three children, Qiu Chen and Qin Zheng returned to the east room to settle, and the children moved into the west room according to the custom. As a rule, when the children reach the age of one, they will move to the wing room, and then move to the second courtyard in front of them. When you are six years old, you will have your own courtyard. Now, Brother Yun lives in the West Wing!

Accompanied the children to exercise and play once, and when the children fell asleep, Qiu Chen turned back to the east room.

When Qiu Chen came in, the nurse had just changed Chang'er's diaper, and the swaddling clothes had not yet been wrapped. Qiu Chen raised his hand to stop the nurse, sat next to the children, stretched out two fingers, and Chang'er immediately held the mother's fingers with her little hand, and then followed the mother's movements to sit up and soothe the gymnastics. Do gymnastics, massage the skin of the limbs...... Qiu Chen didn't need the help of the maids-in-law, he finished it for Chang'er and Jiu'er in turn, and it happened that Liang'er also woke up, fed, changed diapers, and was just in time for the trip.

After two months, the three children have grown up a lot, completely losing the thin and wrinkled appearance when they were born, one by one, the loose skin on their faces and bodies is propped up, the meat is pink and tender, and the little arms and legs are fat into lotus roots, one by one. The cheeks are also bulging, bulging and fat, basically not much different from ordinary children of the same age.

After sending the three people away, Qiu Chen washed up and changed into a clean half-used dress, and then went to the West House to see the three children. Seeing that Chang'er and Jiu'er were playing happily, Liang'er slept soundly, completely unmoved by the babbling of her brother and sister.

After the discussion was completed, several people chattered about the details of the party, and also had refreshments, Chang Jiayi remembered the young son at home, and was the first to get up and say goodbye. Wang Jingshu and Song Xi'er also thought about going back to write posts and send posts to the women, but they couldn't stay any longer, so they made an exception and left at the first moment.

"Hehe, okay, that's it, I can't delay!"

Song Xi'er rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "If you wait for the melons and vegetables in the greenhouse to mature, Sister Yang will send someone to send us a letter, and we can't delay things if it doesn't snow!" ”

Qiu Chen glanced at her and said with disgust: "What I said, except for the heavy rain this autumn, it has been a good harmony of wind and rain, and after the winter, it has also rained twice...... Well, yesterday the grandmothers also said, look at the weather, the warmth is a little abnormal, it is a sign of snow! ”

Chang Jiayi said with a smile: "If this is not beautiful, what can I do if it doesn't snow in winter!" ”

Wang Jingshu smiled slightly and said: "Seeing that it should snow in November, I don't think we will set a date early this time, just look at the beauty of the sky, the first snow is the period of gathering, how about it?" ”

"Hey, it's going to snow on the barbecue and shabu-shabu!" Song Xi'er cheered.

Qiu Chen naturally didn't object, so he said with a smile: "Didn't you just say that you want to go to the greenhouse to pick melons and fruits, in another ten days, it will be almost in November, when the time comes, I will ask for another deer, and the deer breasts are pickled early and waiting for you, let's barbecue and shabu-shabu." After eating and drinking, you play with the girls, and you are comfortable playing for a day. ”

As soon as Chang Jiayi's words came out, everyone praised them for being kind.

Without waiting for Qiu Chen to respond, Chang Jiayi said with a smile: "Although, they can't get together a few times a year, even if we are alone, it won't cost much silver." But just as Sister Jingshu said, there are no rules, there must be rules for doing things. You don't need to say more, for the first two times, you and I will each be hosts. In the future, you will also be alone for a while, back and forth, and the cycle will start again and again, and you will be fair! ”

Wang Jingshu and Song Xi'er looked at each other, and Wang Jingshu said: "The two sisters are kind, but there must be a rule for doing things." Let's start a general affairs club, which is for the big guys to get together and learn from each other, where can the two sisters always pay for it...... Sister Yang is spacious here, and she is not looking for another place to go, so when the time comes, Sister Yang will be indispensable to take care of it, as for the cost, when the time comes, our sisters will make a list, and they will all have the money, and they have to give it to their sister to prepare for it! ”

After the personnel list was decided, Qiu Chen looked at Chang Jiayi and said with a smile: "The two of us are in charge of the house, and you don't need to pay attention to all the general affairs, you are only responsible for inviting people for the next post, and then think about each program." ”

Subsequently, several people discussed adding a few candidates, and the discussion was determined, and in the end, there were more than a dozen people, so they gave up. There are too many people to be noisy and not easy to control; The number of people is too small and too deserted, and a dozen or so are just right.

Qiu Chen and Wang Jingshu had no opinion, and Song Xi'er didn't like to bother, so she simply agreed.

Chang Jiayi's sister-in-law is a concubine, the biological mother was originally a girl next to the eldest princess, and the eldest princess gave the horse a maid to make a room, and she has served her with dedication for nearly ten years, and the eldest princess gave her a daughter. It is the only daughter of the eldest princess's house, after giving birth, she was raised under the knee of the eldest princess, because the eldest princess only has one son, and she also loves this concubine daughter, and she is carefully raised, and she is not only outstanding in appearance, but also excellent in temperament and etiquette.

"One is my sister-in-law Yunhui, everyone knows each other, and she has a gentle and lovely temperament. One is Princess Fu's cousin Tang Lanxi, thirteen years old this year, just returned to the capital from Liaodong a few days ago, I met twice, it was a rare gentleness, and her appearance was also outstanding. It's not that I'm boasting, my cousin's daughter's appearance can be compared to Jingshu and Xi'er, they are all first-class talents. It is said that a one-handed barbecue is a stunt. ”

Qiu Chen looked at Wang Jingshu and Song Xi'er, and said with a smile: "You just say it!" ”

"The Zheng sisters are good. is still and moving, but you can see that they are not the kind of twisted and stingy! Chang Jiayi expressed her opinion, and Wang Jingshu and Song Xi'er also nodded in agreement. Immediately, Chang Jiayi also smiled and said, "If you are virtuous and don't avoid relatives, then I also recommend the two." ”

Because of Qiu Chen's relationship, Chang Jiayi, Wang Jingshu, and Song Xi'er have all met the Zheng family sisters, and they have met in Jingbei Houfu. Thinking about it at this time, the three of them looked at each other, and they all smiled in unison.

The relationship between Zheng Jiyu, the head of the household department, and Qin Xiuyi, the Duke of Liangguo, is more deed, and the two families are naturally courteous, so if there is anything on the side of Jingbei Houfu, or the courtesy and favor, the Zheng family has never been left behind, and the head of the household department Zheng Jiyu has a good character, thoughtful, and has been honored by the emperor for several years. Mrs. Zheng Niu is gentle, kind and kind, and helpful and reminded Qiu Chen. What's more critical is that Qiu Chen, the two girls of the Zheng family, have seen them, although their appearance is not particularly outstanding, their character is really good, but the Zheng family's family education is rigorous, Mrs. Zheng Niu does not like publicity, and the daughters are not very old, so they rarely go out to socialize, which makes the two daughters relatively unfamiliar in the Jingli noble circle.

"No matter how much effort I put into it alone, it is inevitable that I will be biased." Qiu Chen replied with a smile, and Song Xi'er didn't care, nodding casually. Qiu Chen then turned his gaze back to Chang Jiayi and Wang Jingshu, and said, "The two daughters of Master Zheng of the Hubu Shangshu, the eldest daughter Lizhu and the second daughter Huizhu, one is thirteen years old and the other is twelve years old. Huizhu is good at music, lively and lovely, and I especially like my dim sum here......"

Chang Jiayi and Wang Jingshu naturally raised their heads to listen, and Song Xi'er said naturally: "Sister Yang is still wrong in looking at people, you can see it, just pull it in, where you can still use it." ”

After eating ginger and milk, Qiu Chen took the warm water and rinsed his mouth, then took the red date lotus seed tea again and drank it slowly, while speaking: "Speaking of candidates, I have two people, you can consider it when you say it." ”

Qiu Chen shook his head with a smile and continued to eat snacks. Song Xi'er said that the improvement of dry skin is only the credit of milk, she also gave her two cans of honey hydrating mask, and also taught her to put water bowls and two fish tanks in the house...... The microclimate in the room has improved, it is less dry, and the dryness of the skin has naturally improved.

Song Xi'er held the silver spoon in her mouth, and when she heard this, she immediately raised her eyebrows and shouted: "Hmm, so that's the case...... I said, I have entered the winter this year, and I feel that my face is not so dry, and it is much moisturized! ”

Qiu Chen swallowed the snack in his mouth and said with a smile: "If you want to eat, eat more, whether it is goat's milk, milk, or mare's milk, it is very beneficial, in addition to nourishing the viscera, spleen and stomach, it is also quite good for the skin." With regular use, the skin will be more delicate and smooth...... You all know that children have good skin, but they are called 'milk skin', which shows this! ”

Song Xi'er also picked a spoonful and put it in her mouth, and after swallowing it, she sighed: "That is, Sister Yang has a clever mind to come up with such a good thing." In the past, I never touched milk, whether it was goat's milk or cow's milk...... I always feel that it is very fishy, and it is difficult to eat at all. After Sister Yang's whimsy, this milk taste is so cute! ”

Wang Jingshu covered her lips with a smile, took the small bowl handed by Chengying, pinched the delicate little silver spoon and picked a little bit and put it into her mouth, and tasted the deliciousness.

These words, except for the first sentence of praise, the following are all what Qiu Chen said at the beginning, and it is difficult for Song Xi'er to remember clearly, so he repeated it almost word for word.

Song Xi'er put aside the little distress just now, and said with a smile: "This kind of weather, it is the most suitable to eat this, not to mention the fragrance, eat it to warm the spleen and stomach, and dissipate the cold......"

The girls brought a snack, which was served in a small bowl of shadow green, like clotted fat and frozen jade, revealing a faint milky fragrance and spicy ginger taste.