There is a maid in the house who has received a family training today. That girl is usually very valued by the master, but today she was punished very badly, and the sound of screaming when she was punished spread throughout the Ye Mansion.

However, although the subordinates sympathized with the girl, it did not affect their loyalty and respect for the head of the family. The servants of the pharmacist's family are a little different from the servants in the ordinary mansion, they all need to have a certain ability to defend right and wrong, and they are more united, and the mistake that the girl made this time is indeed the punishment.

Although the lunch time was delayed, the servants in the house were very discerning and had the right time, and when Ye Nunuo, who was covered in sweat, finished bathing and just came out of the bathroom, the news that the meal was ready from the kitchen also arrived.

The warm water washed away the sweat stains on his body, and the clothes that were half soaked with sweat have been replaced. The tense body is soothed by the hot water, and the dry clothes that have just been changed into naturally exude a fresh smell of honey locust, and the smell is refreshing.

However, there was always a taut string in Yenuo's heart that could not be relaxed.

When she came out of the bathroom and greeted the servant who was waiting at the door, she did not immediately go to the hall to eat, but went straight to her father's bedroom.

Walking slowly on the gravel path, a ray of sunlight fell on her head and shoulders, and she suddenly felt a slight bitterness in her mouth.

She walked straight into her father's bedroom, but as she stepped through the door, she paused timidly before she walked up to the inner room again. It wasn't until she walked to her father's bedside that she stopped and crouched down.

Squatting close to her father's face, she stared at his face for a long time. When she could see the abnormal pale of his lips on his face, the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes and the fine lines like fishing nets on his face, her eyes were filled with tears unconsciously.

She had just intended to come to see her father quietly, and never disturb his father's rest, but when tears just slipped from her eyes, warmth slid across her face. She couldn't help but sob.

Ye Nuonuo subconsciously quickly bit her lip and raised her hand to cover her mouth, but her half-uncontrollable sobbing still woke up her father.

Ye Zhengming slowly opened his eyes, "It's Nuo'er." After saying this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He had just opened his eyes when he was dazzled by the meridian sunlight shining in from outside the open door, and the brightness of the sunlight reminded him of the time of day. After squinting slightly, he said softly: "It's noon, has the servant in the back kitchen cooked?" ”

Yeno nodded and did not speak.

"When the meal is ready, you will eat." Ye Zhengming didn't ask again, only said this short sentence, and then kowtowed his eyelids again.

Seeing this, Ye Nuonuo hurriedly asked, "Isn't my father going to have lunch?" The kitchen servant came and shouted just now. The meal is ready. ”

Ye Zhengming opened his eyes again and said softly: "You go eat, now you have to grow your body." I can't miss a meal, so it's okay for me to eat later. ”

"I can't eat it." Ye Nuonuo lowered his head, and his voice was out of tune.

Ye Zhengming could hear the suppressed sobbing in his daughter's tone when she spoke. When Ye Nuonuo lowered his eyes, two large tears rolled down, which were also seen by him. He would have had something to say. But I couldn't really say it.

He slowly sat up from the bed, and the injury he had just received from the palm he was slapped by Wu Shu was involved, which made him frown. Slowly breathing a long sigh of relief to calm the tearing pain in his chest and abdomen, he said gently: "If what happened just now scares you, you must tell me." ”

Ye Nuonuo slowly raised his head and looked up slightly at his father who sat up. She pursed her lips and said in a slightly trembling voice, "No'er has never seen her father like this. ”

Ye Zhengming's eyes moved when he heard this, but he didn't say anything immediately. Just raised his hand resting on the outside of the bed. Yeno understood, stood up and sat down on the edge of the bed, pressing his father's shoulder. Because she was so close, she could smell the slightly fishy smell of the dried bits of red on her father's placket, and her heart couldn't help but tremble again.

Ye Zhengming stretched out his left hand. Slipping through her daughter's back and putting it on her left shoulder, he tightened her grip a bit. Then he said softly: "My father is very confident in his medical skills, you are my daughter, and you should not have to doubt it, so there is no need to be afraid of anything." ”

Ye Nuonuo nodded, but she quickly shook her head again, turned her face to look at her father, and said with a puzzled expression: "Father has to diagnose many patients every day, if the father needs to treat more patients in this way, then is the father always like this, how can the daughter not worry?" ”

"I see what you mean." Ye Zhengming raised his hand and gently rubbed his daughter's hair, then said with a smile: "That injured girl is different from other patients, for her, I have a reason to save her." ”

"What reason?" Ye Nuonuo blurted out and asked, and the expression on his face became serious.

Ye Zhengming also looked at his daughter very seriously, and said word by word: "I won't sue you for this reason now, I need to wait for you to grow up a little more, and then I will tell you that you can understand." ”

"Oh......" Ye Nuonuo lowered his eyebrows and thought for a moment, and suddenly remembered something, and said: "When I saw my father meet that strange-faced uncle, it seems that I have known him for a long time, and it is not for this reason that I ......"

"You're not entirely right, but it's a bit of a hit." Regarding this matter, Ye Zhengming only said one sentence and then closed his mouth. After stopping the topic a little stiffly, he let go of the hand on his daughter's shoulder, lifted the thin quilt and got out of bed, and said, "I'd better accompany you to dinner." ”

"Okay." A happy smile finally appeared on Ye Nuonuo's face, she jumped off the edge of the bed, quickly took off a robe hanging on the stand next to the bed, handed it to her father, and then went out of the house with him.

Mo Ye's side had already sent two meals to him, but he didn't know if Mo Ye could eat at this moment. Despite this, Wu Shu still stayed by Mo Ye's bedside and dined with Ye's father and daughter in the front hall. He only asked the servant who had sent the meal to come back and bring a message to Ye Zhengming, saying that he wanted to guard Mo Ye, so he didn't come.

Regarding Wu Shu's verbal reason for not coming to the front hall, in fact, Ye Zhengming had another idea in his heart, he guessed that Wu Shu was worried that his face would affect everyone's appetite, and he could not care, but Wu Shu did not forget that Ye Nuonuo was still a child. Regarding this point, no matter how uncertain it is, Ye Zhengming will be grateful to Wu Shu here.

This ill-fated man, the slightest tenderness in his heart has always been there.

At the dinner table, Ye Zhengming asked his daughter how she met Wu Shu and Mo Ye, and how she thought of bringing strangers home.

This time, Ye Nuonuo didn't dare to deceive any more, and said everything truthfully, even some of the little Jiujiu in her heart didn't hide a word. Fortunately, this time my father didn't get angry much, in his words, it was a physical discord, and he didn't have the strength to get angry. Despite this, Yeno shivered in front of his father's reward at the dinner table.

What Yeno remembers most clearly during the meal was not the taste of the food, but the pain left on her forehead by her father's fingers, and the two sighs that her father muttered to himself.

One sighs "fate", and the other sighs "providence".

Ye Nuonuo could feel full of confusion about his father's behavior of repeatedly sighing these two words several times in a confused expression, but his father was unwilling to explain a word to her.

After lunch, my father did not immediately go back to bed and lie down, but moved a chair and sat in the backyard.

This house is a rare one in the Higashi District of Kyoto, it is a house that sits on the east and faces west, and it can be regarded as facing away from the gate of the East Castle. When he first moved into this house, Ye Zhengming asked people to modify its structure slightly, so that this house almost has two sides, yin and yang.

When the sun rises in the morning, the first thing the sun shines on is the bedroom area where the owner of the back house rests. Under the prompting of this natural light, even Ye Nuonuo, who is a child's heart, does not have the habit of sleeping in bed.

In the afternoon, when the sun sets in the west, the main hall and the study are filled with sunlight. The sun makes it less difficult for Ye Zhengming to feel sleepy when he reads in the study in the afternoon, and whenever the hot summer comes, the west sun that can make the walls of the whole house hot will not burn the back house, and when he rests at night, the back house bedroom can also be cooler.

Ye Zhengming's life style can be regarded as the most simple among the nine imperial doctors of the Taiyi Bureau. But his simplicity is only his appearance, and those who have lived in his house must be able to understand that this imperial doctor, who specializes in minor illnesses and miscellaneous diseases, is very particular about the location of his house, and he is also very regular in terms of diet and clothing.

However, Ye Zhengming has been settled in Kyoto for nearly ten years, and the guests who actually come to his house to stay overnight are really not satisfied with a slap, and there are really not many people who can understand this.

After Ye Zhengming sat alone in the backyard for a while, his daughter Ye Nuonuo also moved a small bench and sat down beside him. It didn't take long for Ye Zhengming, who was a father, to feel that she seemed a little unusually silent today.

At this point, the sun overhead will move obliquely behind the ridge of the main roof, and the sunlight will fill the west-facing vestibule, and the backyard will also be flooded, but with much less of the sharpness of direct sunlight. Most of the sunlight in the backyard is reflected from the surrounding walls after several turnovers, and in this kind of sunlight that has stained the water chestnut, it is easy for people to get sleepy.

Ye Zhengming closed his eyes and pretended to sleep for a while, and when he opened his eyes, he subconsciously sat on the side and watched his daughter who had been silent for a long time.

I saw Ye Nono, who was sitting on a low stool, with his back bent, his arms bent, his elbows resting on his knees, and his palms turned over to hold his cheeks. Because it was not in the right place, her back was arched like a small shrimp ball, and her head sank so badly that it seemed to be not supported by her neck, but was held up by a crescent disc made of her own hands.