When the fourth master saw that his mother was so angry that he fell to the ground, he was also frightened, and his heart was pounding. Although he is the most stupid and stupid on weekdays, he still knows a little bit about the big joints, he has only been on the title for a few days, if his mother suddenly has three long and two short, and then there will be some words out from the fifth room, I am afraid that the title he has just received will be a little bit unstable.

So he hurriedly ordered his confidant brother to personally invite a very famous doctor in Beijing to see the old lady. His grandmother brother was repeatedly instructed by him, and as soon as he saw Doctor He, he first stuffed a large bag of silver into someone's sleeve, and whispered a few words. The imperial doctor also often went in and out of the high gate of the Houfu, and he also knew a little about the various things in this house, so he nodded slightly.

When his grandmother brother arrived at Uncle Anyuan's mansion with the imperial doctor, he saw that the eldest master and the fifth master had also rushed back with the news, and dozens of people in the family were all waiting in Mrs. Tai's courtyard.

Mrs. Tai was still unconscious, and Yizhi was crying by her grandmother's bedside until her eyes were swollen and her voice was suffocating. Hearing that the imperial doctor had arrived, the ladies hurriedly avoided the two rooms to the west of the main house.

After Dr. He carefully diagnosed Mrs. Tai's pulse, he groaned slightly, and said: "The old lady has some spring and autumn, and her body has some kidney yin deficiency, yin deficiency and fire, and it is this summer scorching day, so it will become more and more yin deficiency and yang, and it will inevitably be a little hyperactive liver and yang, and the liver fire will be reckless." Judging from the pulse, I am afraid that I am afraid of a stroke, and I will take a medicine first, if I can wake up tomorrow, it is the disease of Dashun, and I will come to ask Mrs. Tai for a pulse prescription tomorrow. ”

Although this Imperial Doctor He shook his head and dropped his bookbag, the fifth master still had some doubts in his heart, after he got the letter, he had already found out that his mother was obviously fainted by the fourth master, how could this imperial doctor pull what yin and yang are up. But because this Imperial Doctor He is a famous miracle doctor in Beijing, this is not the time to argue about this, so he had to thank him with his brothers, send five taels of silver for the consultation, and order someone to send it out.

So what did Imperial Doctor He do, and everyone poured medicine into Mrs. Tai three times, and Mrs. Tai woke up the next morning. The joy was that everyone hurriedly sealed a red seal and then went to invite the doctor He.

At one time, Mrs. He came, and carefully diagnosed and treated Mrs. Tai, and saw that Mrs. Tai had no energy except for shortness of breath and lack of energy, and the last two fingers of the old lady's left hand could not move, and she tried to prick twice with a silver needle, but she was also completely unconscious, and there was nothing beside her.

Then Doctor He said: "The old lady is really lucky! Although the two fingers of the left hand cannot move, as long as the mind is meditated and the acupuncture points of the hands are massaged every day, the consciousness will be restored after a few days. After all, Mrs. Tai is in the Spring and Autumn Period, no matter what happens in the future, she must be calm, otherwise if she makes a big deal about the liver fire again, and the liver yang is hyperactive and causes internal wind, her symptoms will not be as slight as this time. ”

When the fourth master heard that his mother's life was fine, he smiled with joy, only to feel that Imperial Doctor He was his second benefactor, and hurriedly sent him a thick red envelope and sent him out of the house in person.

Because he was worried all night, he didn't sleep well, so he went to Aunt Liu's room to take a nap, but before he fell asleep, someone told him back and forth, saying that Mrs. Tai refused to take medicine or eat some food. Frightened, the fourth master hurriedly got up from the bed, hurriedly put on his clothes and rushed to Mrs. Tai's upper courtyard.

Mrs. Tai's bed was surrounded by a large number of people begging her for some medicine and food, and Yizhi cried so much that her eyes were swollen like walnuts, and her voice was hoarse and she begged her grandmother there. The fifth master and Su Ri's most favored grandchildren also knelt in front of the bed and begged each other. Because there were too many people inside, there was no place for him, so the eldest lord led a few children and nephews to stand under the porch outside, and kept loudly persuading Mrs. Tai to eat and drink.

Mrs. Tai just closed her eyes tightly and ignored no one until she heard the news that the fourth master was coming, so she opened her eyes and said slowly: "You all go down, let me ask the new uncle for a few things, if the uncle agrees, I can't say that my wife wants to live a few more days, if the new uncle doesn't agree, my wife is alive and there is no more fun!" ”

When everyone heard these heavy words, they couldn't help but look at each other a little, and finally looked at the fourth master together.

Seeing that everyone was not moving, Mrs. Tai couldn't help but raise her voice a little and said: "I haven't breathed yet, so they don't listen to me one by one, but everyone wants to be angry with me?" ”

Everyone hurriedly retreated, leaving only the fourth master in the room.

The fourth master had no choice but to step forward and say, "Why doesn't my mother eat or take medicine?" If the food doesn't suit your taste, just let the kitchen remake it. It's just that although this medicine is bitter, you can't stop eating it, my son begs you, old man, just pity the poor son, hurry up and use this medicine, food, and food! ”

Mrs. Tai closed her eyes again, and sighed faintly: "Uncle is right, where is it that I pity you, but it is my old woman who wants my uncle to be pitiful?" Uncle is now the head of this family, even my wife and son have to live according to my uncle's filial piety, I now ask you a few things, if you allow me, I will eliminate this hunger strike, otherwise, I will die immediately! ”

As soon as the fourth master heard her mother say this dead word, his heart began to panic, what he was most afraid of now was that his mother had three long and two short. hurriedly said: "What does the mother want her son to do, just tell me, don't say a few things, even thousands, tens of thousands, and my son has nothing to do." ”

"Since you say so, then the first thing is not to give Sister Zhi to the son of the left minister, can you do it?" Mrs. Tai said lightly.

"This--I'm afraid it's a little unacceptable! The left prime minister is now in power, if he uses up the power of others but does not marry his daughter, but retreats from his family, it is really a bit of that ......, inappropriate, if it annoys others, I am afraid that it will bring trouble to the house! ”

Mrs. Tai also knew that with the current situation of the left minister, most of the family affairs secretly set by the fourth master would not change, but she couldn't help but ask. Because he said: "In this case, then you should give Sister Zhi more dowry." The rules in our house, where a concubine marries, the public pays a dowry of 10,000 taels of silver, you just said that the left prime minister is in power and opposition, marrying into such a prominent court, and going to be the eldest daughter-in-law, this dowry must not be too simple. It is better to add a dowry of 10,000 taels of silver to her from the public school, for a total of 20,000 taels. ”

"And your niece Yihui, she is the daughter of the earl's concubine, and her mother has already set her cousin for her, the son of the Xing'an family. If she marries into such a high-ranking family, the dowry cannot be too small, and she has to add another 10,000 taels of silver to the dowry. ”

This added 10,000 taels to the left and 10,000 taels to the right, which made the four old men feel a lot of pain in their hearts. But his mother had already left the words there, did he dare to disobey? His mother dared to go on a hunger strike to show him immediately. I had to reluctantly agree first, the day when these two girls came out of the cabinet was still early, and I had to wait for another year or two to talk about it, and the 20,000 taels of silver didn't have to be given out so quickly.

I didn't want his mother to follow suit, so I said, "I don't believe that this money can be saved in your hands, so you first spend a total of 40,000 taels of dowry silver from the treasury of her sisters and children, and exchange them for silver tickets to store them on my side, and I will collect them for them first, so that when I really use these silver to buy dowries, I can't find a single child, but I am wrong." ”

The fourth old man was suddenly anxious, he had already looked at the general ledger, and knew that the total amount of cash accumulated in the house was only 70,000 taels, and his mother asked for more than half of it, so that he could not feel distressed. Busy said: "Look what Mother said about this?" I will never be in my mother's eyes again, and I will never agree to my mother and then break my promise to spend the dowry of my daughter and niece. Besides, this silver is stored in the general ledger of the zài treasury, and it is not possible to use it lightly, even if I want to spend it, I can't get it, why should my mother worry so much, and when they leave the cabinet, the son must take out this silver for them to buy a dowry. ”

"No matter how nice you say this at this time, if you really can't take it out at that time, can I still send my uncle to see the official? Cease! Cease! Cease! Instead of being so angry with you that you lost your life at that time, it is better for me to simply kick my legs now, and save myself the many poignant places that will be seen the day after tomorrow. The old lady said that, then turned inward and ignored the fourth master.

The fourth old man was worried that his mother would die of hunger strike if she really died, and the flesh was painful, and the 40,000 taels of silver would be given away before she could cover it in her arms. After struggling for a long time, I turned around more than a dozen times in front of Mrs. Tai's bed, but in the end, I still agreed with the root of my teeth. "Since the mother could not trust her son in this way, the son went to the treasury and withdrew the money so that he could bring it to his mother, according to his mother's wishes." After saying that, he went out angrily, and went to Curry to withdraw silver for huàn silver tickets.

He also wanted to delay for a few more days, not wanting that after he left, the lady still didn't drink or eat, and then he knew that his wife was determined not to see the silver ticket and not eat. After all, I was afraid that his old lady would be hungry for a long time, and she would have some other problems, and I was afraid that the fifth master would take the opportunity to make some demon moths again, so I had to quickly exchange silver for silver. In less than two hours, he exchanged the gold and silver stored in the treasury for a silver ticket of 40,000 taels of silver, and put it in two small boxes and personally carried it to Mrs. Tai's upper room.

It's just that the fourth master is unwilling, hugging the two boxes in his arms and muttering: "When my mother asked for the silver in this library, I remembered that I am now the head of the family, but how can the head of the family not live in the main courtyard now, and even the right to steward is not in our room?" ”

Mrs. Tai knew that he was just trying to bargain, but he also had to give him some benefits, and he should not be forced to go too far, otherwise he would not get along well in the future, so she said: "Your second sister-in-law is the most polite, she told me yesterday that she would move out of the main courtyard to make room for you, if it wasn't for Sister Zhi'er's business, I would have called you over and ordered you to prepare for the relocation." It's just that this housekeeper, your daughter-in-law is not well yet, and she has never been in charge of the house, and Su Ri is not a talented person, how can she provoke the responsibility of feeding this family? When she recovers, let her learn some ways of managing the family with Mrs. Fifth first, and then Mrs. Fifth will take care of it first. ”

When the fourth old man heard that the old lady finally allowed him to move to the main courtyard, he was somewhat comforted. Only then did he let go of his hand, although he was reluctant to give up, he still handed over the two boxes of silver tickets to Mrs. Tai's personal maid Su Yun, and counted them one by one. Seeing that the number was correct, Mrs. Tai ordered to take a bowl of tea to moisten her mouth.

The fourth old man hurriedly brought a bowl of porridge and was about to serve his mother's meal, but he heard the old lady say, "That's it, how dare I work for my uncle to serve me?" You've been busy for a day, so go back and rest, it's better to let that kid in Yizhi do your filial piety for you than to honor me personally. ”

Mrs. Fang took away her son, Yizhi rushed in, threw herself on the side of the bed, and was about to take the porridge bowl to feed her grandmother to drink porridge herself, but the old lady shook her head, pulled her to her, and said with tears in her eyes: "Girl Zhi, grandmother has hurt you in vain all these years!" In vain, you were raised in front of me since you were a child, but when you got to such a critical place, my grandmother had no way at all, and I watched you being promised such a family thing by your bastard father. ”

After Yizhi learned that her father had allowed her to be crippled, although she was also sad and unhappy, she was not more serious than the illness of her grandmother in front of her, so she only cared about serving her grandmother. At this time, when she heard her grandmother's words again, the grievances and grievances that had been accumulated in her heart for so many years all turned into unstoppable tears, rolling down.

I heard her cry: "What does this have to do with my grandmother, it's all my bad life, such a father?" I didn't have my mother when I was three years old, and if it weren't for my grandmother's kindness to take me in and raise me by my side, I'm afraid that I would have been rubbed to death if I stayed in the fourth room. In my heart, only my grandmother treated me well, and I didn't know anything else! ”

Mrs. Tai also wept and said, "Good boy, grandmother finally didn't hurt you in vain." Then he pointed out to her the small box next to the bed, "Here is the dowry silver that grandmother desperately fought for you, a total of 20,000 taels of silver tickets, and I will let your fifth aunt take this silver to buy you a dowry." ”

Yizhi was busy thanking her grandmother for her kindness again and again, but she was faintly worried in her heart, afraid that for the extra 10,000 taels of dowry silver she had, she didn't know how many things would happen the day after tomorrow!