Chapter 4 Inadvertently changing the fate of the Zhen family
"A letter from home urging Zai to go home for the New Year, Zai Xia has to leave!" Bai Tang found a reason.
Master Xue thought of Bai Tang's "extraordinary background", and did not dare to keep Bai Tang anymore, so he prepared a thick thank you gift.
"Sir, don't go, okay?" Xue Pan hugged Bai Tang's thighs and was reluctant to let Bai Tang leave.
"Good!" Bai Tang touched Xiao Baozi's head, "Mr. will come back to see you in the future, you have to practice hard, Mr. will teach you when he comes back." If you don't make progress, you will be punished! ”
"I'll do my best!" Xue Pan immediately let go of the hand holding Bai Tang's thigh, puffed up his small chest and replied loudly.
When Bai Tang left Jinling, there were still ten days before the New Year, and there was a lively scene everywhere. On the day of the Chinese New Year, Bai Tang arrived at a village between Suzhou and Yangzhou, experienced the atmosphere of the ancients, and saw the customs of the ancients.
There is a land temple in the village, and the villagers brought pigs' heads, three animals, incense candles, and firecrackers to burn incense in the first child. After burning incense, I went home and stopped sleeping, waiting for dawn. As soon as the day is bright, the "wealth gate" (gate) is opened, incense and candles are lit, and firecrackers are set off to "receive the new year". Then the younger generation gets up to greet the elders, and the elders give the younger generations oranges and cloud cakes, called "go to the overall situation", "step by step", and then have breakfast. After breakfast, young and middle-aged people go out to greet their neighbors, and the elderly receive the guests who come to pay New Year's greetings to their neighbors. Do not cook new meals at noon, and eat the remaining meals of Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, which is called "Alternate Year Chen". This kind of food must be eaten until the fifth day of the new year, and after the fifth day of the new year, there is a new cooking, called "Xia Sheng". The most interesting thing is that when the girl and her son-in-law go back to their parents' house to pay New Year's greetings, the son-in-law will write a rental sticker, and rent the lady's house with four copper plates as rent to live in the same room with the girl.
"There is heaven above, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below". Although it is winter, the beauty of Suzhou has been discounted to a certain extent, but the air in Suzhou in ancient times is much better than in modern times, so that Baitang, who has traveled to Suzhou in modern times, sighs that it is still a beautiful scenery that has not been polluted in ancient times. Suzhou City will hold lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, which is very lively. After dark, the lights are as bright as day, and all kinds of lanterns are dazzling. On both sides of the road, there are singing and dancing, snacks and plays, lion dances, dragon lantern dances, and stilt walking.
"It's going to be the top -- playing the name of a card." Bai Tang read out the question and asked the stall owner, "The next sentence is 'at a glance of the mountains', but the small heavy mountains?" ”
"Childe is so talented, this lamp belongs to Childe." The stall owner handed a lantern made of glass to Bai Tang.
Bai Tang happily took it, hehe, he was lucky, this riddle he had seen in modern times.
Suddenly, a discordant voice came into Bai Tang's ears: "Hurry up, this child's pretense is not from a small family, let's hurry out of the city, so as not to be found by this child's family." ”
Traffickers? Bai Tang followed the sound and looked over, only to see two men with roe heads and rats running towards a carriage with a child in their arms. The face of one of the children fell into Bai Tang's sight, and a rouge mole in the middle of the eyebrows was particularly conspicuous. Bai Tang's heart moved, and he rushed to this episode. Since he has met himself, this child always has to be saved!
The two traffickers had already carried the child into the carriage and were about to drive the carriage away, when a figure stood in front of the carriage.
"Are you looking for death?" The skinny trafficker said angrily.
Bai Tang smiled coldly: "It's you who are looking for death!" Where are you going to take these children? ”
"What kid, I don't know what you're talking about!" The thin man snorted coldly, raised his whip and slapped it hard on the horse's buttocks. Since this man is looking for his own death, don't blame him for being ruthless.
Seeing that the carriage was directly crushing towards him, Bai Tang raised his hand and gently pressed down, and the two tall horses of hundreds of pounds could no longer move their hooves, which deeply shocked the two people sitting in the front of the car.
"Toast and don't eat and drink!" Bai Tang swept the two of them off the carriage with another palm, and then dragged their accomplices from the carriage and threw them to the ground.
This move was too big to attract the attention of others, and when Bai Tang opened the curtain of the carriage, a sharp-eyed person saw several children lying in the carriage, and immediately shouted: "It's a child!" These people are human traffickers! ”
There was no need for Bai Tang to do anything more, the crowd of onlookers arrested the traffickers and sent them to the Yamen, and the children were also sent to the Yamen. Someone called a doctor to check on the children, and found that they were only drugged and woke up after a few hours of sleep. The parents who lost their children ran to the yamen to pick up their children, and they wanted to thank the person who saved their child, but they found that the person had already left. Zhen Fei Zhen Shiyin held his lost daughter and asked the onlookers about Bai Tang's appearance, and decided to draw the benefactor's appearance and ask the Zhen family's clansmen to help him find a benefactor - this Zhen Shiyin is a side branch of the Zhen family in Jinling.
Bai Tang returned to Yangzhou, she came to witness the birth of Sister Lin. February 2 is the Flower Dynasty Festival, and it is Sister Lin's birthday. As soon as Bai Tang entered Yangzhou City, he was discovered by the local snake Lin Ruhai, and Lin Ruhai personally ran to the inn to invite Bai Tang. Bai Tang was thinking about how to enter the Lin Mansion, but now he was sleepy and sent a pillow, so he would not refuse, and after pretending to be a good person, he happily followed Lin Ruhai back to the Lin Mansion.
As soon as he entered the Lin Mansion, Lin Ruhai was almost hit by someone who ran out of it.
"Lin San, what are you panicking about? What about the rules? Lin Ruhai shouted.
Lin San saw Lin Ruhai's eyes light up, and hurriedly said, "Master, it's great that you're back!" Madame, Madame is about to give birth! ”
"Madame is going to give birth?" Lin Ruhai was so surprised that he raised his feet and was about to walk to the inner courtyard. As soon as he took two steps, he stopped thinking that he still had guests.
Bai Tang smiled slightly: "Your lady's production is important, Brother Lin, please take care of yourself!" ”
"Thank you Brother Bai Xian for your understanding, Lin San, take Bai Gongzi to Dangui Courtyard and entertain Bai Gongzi well." Lin Ruhai instructed his subordinates to entertain Bai Tang, and there was wind under his feet, so he went to wait outside the delivery room. This is the child that Lin Ruhai has been looking forward to for many years, and he is very worried.
After sending away the people of the Lin family who repeatedly expressed their rudeness, Bai Tang pretended to rest, stayed in the room alone, and actually sneaked to the top of the tree where Jia Min was hospitalized, waiting for Sister Lin to be born.
Jia Min is the first child, and the birth is very difficult, and the life has been painful for a day and a night, and the child has not yet been born. Bai Tang yawned, looked at the prospective father under the tree, and then looked at the dark and gloomy sky, and couldn't help but sympathize with Lin Ruhai: There is still something to wait!
The morning star rose with bursts of fragrance, the sky grew brighter and brighter, and the fragrance became more and more intense, like a hundred flowers blooming, and when the first rays of sunlight broke through the clouds and fell to the ground, the fragrance reached its peak, and a baby's cry came from the room.
"Born, born!"
After a while, a mother-in-law came out to give Lin Ru a poster.
"Congratulations, my lord, Madame gave birth to a daughter!" The mother-in-law is not the Lin family, and it is inevitable that she will be a little apprehensive when she announces the good news.
"Good! Good! Reward, ten taels of silver per person! Lin Ruhai said loudly, although he also hopes to have a son, but his daughter is also his bloodline, not to mention that if his wife can give birth to the first child, she can give birth to the second child, and it is not bad to bloom first and then bear fruit!
"Thank you, Lord Lin!" The mother-in-law was very happy, it would be good to go to the rich and noble house to deliver the baby, and the reward would be enough for her family to live for a few months.
"Oh no, Madame is bleeding heavily!" Panicked screams could be heard from inside the delivery room.
"Hurry up and ask the doctor to stop the bleeding for Madame!"
The Lin family had already invited the best doctor in Yangzhou City to sit in the town, and after the doctor entered the delivery room, he shook his head and came out after a while: "Lord Lin, please forgive the old man for being a shallow learner." Madame, ......"
There's just no way! Lin Ruhai had not yet escaped from the joy of his daughter's birth and was about to face the situation of his wife's imminent death, and under the joy and sorrow, he almost couldn't vomit and fainted.
"Doctor, please save my wife no matter what!"
"The old man has done his best!" The old doctor frowned and said, "The old man can use the medicine of the tiger and wolf to help Mrs. get through this crisis, but it will damage Mrs. Zun too much, not only will she not have any more pregnancies in the future, but her age will also be damaged!" ”
Can't have any more children? Will it be short-lived? How so? Lin Ruhai was hit hard and took a few steps back, unwilling to accept this result.
"Sir!" Lin San hurriedly supported Lin Ruhai, "Last time, Mrs. almost had a miscarriage and ate Bai Gongzi's pill, do you want to ask Bai Gongzi for one again?" ”
"Brother Bai Xian? Yes, Brother Bai Xian has medicine, and he will definitely be able to save his wife! Lin Ruhai broke free from Lin San and ran out violently.
Lin San followed behind him and shouted loudly: "Master, you ran in the wrong direction!" Tangui-in Temple is on the left! ”
Bai Tang took the first step back to Dangui Courtyard to wait for the rabbit, she didn't know how to save people, but she had Pei Yuan Dan in her hand to cultivate vitality, and red medicine to heal injuries and replenish blood, which should be useful. After a while, Lin Ruhai ran to Dangui Courtyard.
"Brother Lin, what's going on?" Bai Tang pretended not to know what to do and asked [Lin Ruhai, who was out of breath when he ran away.]
"Brother Bai Xian, do you still have the pill you gave my wife last time?" Lin Ruhai grabbed Bai Tang's arm and asked.
"Pei Yuandan, there is something, but there is not much!" Bai Tang said with concern, "But does my sister-in-law need it?" ”
Lin Ruhai nodded: "My wife lost a lot of blood after giving birth, and her life is in danger, I have the cheekiness to ask my brother Xian for another Peiyuan Dan." ”
"This ......" Bai Tang frowned.
"I also know that this Pei Yuan Dan must be very valuable, I will pay a lot of money to buy it from the virtuous brother, and I will never treat the virtuous brother badly!" Lin Ruhai hurriedly said.
"Brother Lin, you misunderstood, how could the younger brother collect money from Brother Lin, it's not that he is reluctant to take the pill, but he thinks of his sister-in-law's symptoms, and I'm afraid that a Peiyuan pill won't be able to help my sister-in-law. I also have a bottle of safflower dew here, which can be used with Pei Yuandan to give to my sister-in-law. ”
After speaking, Bai Tang handed the red medicine to Lin Ruhai along with Pei Yuan Dan.
"Thank you, Brother Xian!" Li Ruhai was grateful.