It was past the time to return to Yang's mansion. Yulan saw the old lady and the eldest lady report on today's Yanqing Palace, and as soon as she returned to Lu Jingzhai, she was mysteriously called aside by Mother Qian. "Seeing that the eighth day of the fifth month is coming, it is Brother Zong's big day...... "The eighth day of the fifth month is the trial day of the second young master and the third young master. If Brother Zong passes the hospital examination, he will be famous and talented. Yulan has been paying attention to his studies for a while, but she can't help much with this kind of thing, so she can only encourage him mentally.

Yulan nodded and said, "I know the way!" In the past few days, I have been busy embroidering the pencil case for my third brother, and I have already embroidered more than half of it, and I will be able to embroider it in a few days. ”

Mother Qian shook her head and said, "I said it's not this!" She lowered her voice, and said mysteriously: "I heard from the people in the house, saying that there is a real person on Longhu Mountain, and now he lives in the Xuanji Temple of Ganyu Hutong, and the Taoism is strong, and he can call the wind and rain, and turn stones into gold, which is alchemy!" It is said that he refined an elixir called "Shufeng Pill", and if you eat one, a fool can become a prodigy! Now all the heads of the eunuchs in Beijing who want to take the Xiucai test have sent people to beg for ......" Mother Qian pointed in the direction of Hexiang Pavilion with her finger, "There are also people over there!" ”

Mother Qian's eyes turned red when she looked at it: "The second young master has a mother's pain, but the third young master does not." This looks like the Duanyang Festival is coming, and the wife is in charge of the festival, Xu is not aware of the way, Xu is not willing to give this extra silver. The eldest master doesn't care about the third young master! It was rare to complain, with an expression of fear that the third young master would lose the elixir and fail to pass the Xiucai exam.

Mother Qian is good anywhere, it's superstition. Whether it is a monk, whether it is Sanqing or Rulai, she does not refuse to come, and believes everything. Yulan has been here for a while, and he has a deep understanding of the superstitions of the ancients - he has to turn over the yellow calendar when he goes out, and he has to look at feng shui for anything.

What kind of real person is this, as soon as you hear it, you are a charlatan, what calls for wind and rain to turn stones into gold, you can turn stones into gold, and you still come here to sell fake medicines? But if you can't stand it, the people will believe this!

Yulan asked curiously: "Mother Qian, how much is a 'Shufeng pill'?" ”

Mother Qian stretched out five fingers.

"Five taels of silver?"

Mother Qian said: "It's five hundred taels of silver!" There is also no market, and the supply exceeds demand! That's an elixir! ”

Yulan rolled her eyes. Five hundred taels? No way! This is too bad! It is enough for ordinary people to live comfortably for a lifetime.

Yulan breathed a sigh of relief, "It's so expensive, we just want to scrape together money to help the third brother buy one back, but we are also powerless!" Mom, don't worry, the third brother will definitely be admitted to Xiucai even if he doesn't have an elixir to eat. ”

"That's all there is to it!" Mother Qian sighed and said, "Shouldn't I send a letter to the third young master and ask him to beg the old master ......?"

Yulan hurriedly said: "Mom, don't! The son is silent, the strange power is confused, the scholar believes in the golden mean of Confucius and Mencius, if the third brother asks his father for such a thing, what image will his father look like? ”

Mother Qian knew that Yulan was reasonable, so she had to sigh again.

At this moment, in the Hexiang Pavilion, Aunt Liu's mother and son quietly gathered together, Aunt Liu was holding a purple gold gourd in her hand, Chengzong and Yuxia watched her open the stopper, and poured out a crystal clear longan-sized ball from the gourd, and immediately there was a burst of fragrance.

"This is the 'Shufeng Pill'? This thing is really so godly, can it help me get into Xiucai? Chengye asked with a look of hope, during this time, he was detained by the eldest master to study in the courtyard, and his knowledge has grown quite a lot. It's just that there is a shortcut in front of him, who is willing to work hard one step at a time.

Yuxia said: "Look at this appearance, it's good!" ”

Aunt Liu looked at the crystal clear "elixir" the size of the pearl, and a smile appeared on her face: "I spent five hundred taels of silver to buy something back, so is there a fake?" The old fairy was reluctant to sell it to us at first, but it was the family who begged for it, bowed and bowed, and then brought out the old lady, so he finally asked for this grain. If it weren't for the fact that people saw that the old lady was the first person to be the head of the court, and wanted to have a good relationship with the Yang family, there would be no one. ”

Hearing these words, Chengye's spirit was shocked, and his eyes lit up, "If only it was really as magical as the old fairy said!" ”

"This baby must be taken before the end of the game to be effective!" Aunt Liu cherished the "elixir" and took it back to the gourd and stuffed the stopper again. Only then did he warn a son and a daughter: "We have this baby, but the third young master doesn't have it, you must keep this matter secret, and you must not let the main courtyard know about it, so as to save yourself from causing other troubles." In any case, this time, Brother Ye must be admitted to Xiucai, and then he can be rightfully written into his wife's name and become famous. In the future, won't the big house or even the entire Xiangfu foundation be all us? ”

Brother Ye'er's face lit up when he heard this, and he nodded vigorously.

In Yining's house, the eldest lady and Wu's mother also secretly discussed behind closed doors.

The eldest lady took a sip of tea and asked, "Are all arrangements ready?" ”

"It's all right, it's all right!" Wu's mother was full of excitement. "I deliberately asked people to spread the news among the people, and blew the Taoist priest to be a god - in fact, he is just a dog skin plaster sold on the rivers and lakes, where is the fairy! Hexiang Pavilion got the news from the other side, and sure enough, he believed it and immediately sent someone to Yuanzhen Temple. ”

The eldest lady couldn't straighten up with a smile: "You found that liar who looks like a fairy wind and bones, whoever sees it will believe it for seven points first, and the old man will pretend to take a shelf." Besides, you specially found someone to pretend to be the housekeeper of the official eunuch's house, and also followed to ask for medicine, what insight can the family sent by Hexiang Pavilion have, and immediately believed it! We just have to wait for the eighth day of May to watch the show! ”

Wu's mother said: "When the time comes, he won't even be able to enter the examination room!" ”

The eldest lady sneered: "Hmph, a cheap son is delusional about being named a son-in-law!" What a good plan you have! I'm here to give you a credit! ”

Mother Wu smiled: "It's all thanks to Mrs. Fu, I don't dare to take credit!" ”

The eldest lady laughed for a while and sighed: "We have arranged everything, this time, it depends on Brother Zong'er's creation!" ”

For a few days, Enge's illness became worse and worse, and the fifth master was so anxious that he changed a few imperial doctors in a row, prescribed a lot of prescriptions, drank a lot of decoctions, and boiled a decoction for the nurse to drink, and fed Enge'er through the nurse's milk. Later, Enge'er was just drowsy and unconscious all day long, not only vomited after drinking the medicine, but also stopped eating milk.

When the imperial doctor came to see it again, they all shook their heads and said, "It can't be cured", and asked the five old men and his wife to prepare early.

The fifth wife couldn't untie her clothes, and hugged Enge'er in her arms day and night, and her tears were dry. The eldest lady also came to see it, and saw that the little child had lost weight into a handful of dry firewood, and was already in the arms of the fifth wife, and she was very pitiful.

The eldest lady looked at it for a while, she didn't have a son, and she wished that all the concubines were like her. In addition, the old lady has always favored this brother and daughter-in-law, and the eldest lady has long been angry. It's just that she can't show her joy, which makes her very uncomfortable. only said coldly: "The fifth brother and sister should prepare for the child's future as soon as possible!" The corners of his mouth actually hooked up a smile.

Yufei, Yulan, and Yuxin accompanied the eldest lady. Yulan sat down and secretly shouted badly.

The fifth lady trembled with anger, and suddenly stood up and threw a bowl of hot tea on the ground with the bowl of water, and the hot water almost splashed on the eldest lady. The fifth lady shouted: "You get out of the way for me!" ”

The room was so quiet for a moment that you could hear a pin drop.

The eldest lady was stunned, and her face turned red and blue.

A room full of wives, young ladies and daughters-in-law and girls were all stunned. No one thought that Mrs. Wu, who had always been gentle and dignified and steady, would lose her temper so much.

"Good! Good! I came to see you and your son kindly, but you used this attitude to me, it was really a dog biting Lu Dongbin, and I didn't know the hearts of good people! ”

Mrs. Fifth didn't speak, just looked at her coldly, exuding an aura like a lioness protecting a calf. Everyone has reverse scales, and Enge'er is the fifth wife's reverse scale. The eldest lady shouldn't have exposed her at this time. If it weren't for the fact that Mrs. Fifth was out of order, with her family education, she would never have said such a thing.

The eldest lady was already a little weak-hearted, she couldn't stand the eyes of the fifth wife, and shouted angrily to her daughters: "What are you still sitting for, stand up for me, we are not welcome here, what are you doing here!" Let's go! Go back! ”

In front of her daughter, she was attacked by Mrs. Five, and she lost face, but she was weak in her heart, and she couldn't take Mrs. Five, so it goes without saying that she is depressed. snorted, and took the lead to walk out of Chunxuan.

Although Yulan didn't despise the eldest lady as a person, it was inconvenient to stay alone at this time, so she hurriedly said: "The fifth aunt wants to open some, and my niece will come to see you tomorrow." "Just come out with Yufei Yuxin behind him.

When I went out of the room, I heard the suppressed cry of Mrs. Five.

On the second day, Yulan invited the eldest lady to return to Lujingzhai, and just after eating a bite of japonica rice porridge with side dishes, there was a Chunxuan maid who came to report the funeral: "The sixth young master is gone." ”

Yulan put down the bowl in a daze, although she had been prepared, she still felt very uncomfortable.

In this era, the medical conditions are so poor that the rate of child death is more than ten times higher than in modern times. During this time when she came to ancient times, she always heard people say that the child of an official eunuch died young, but it happened to her side vividly, but the feeling was different.

After a long time, Yulan came back to his senses and asked, "When will the child leave?" Is Aunt Fifth okay? While asking Xiaoyu Xiaoyue to find a plain clothes to change into.

The little girl replied truthfully: "It's the third quarter of the first month." The fifth wife fainted from crying, and poured ginger soup for a long time before Su Province, which is very bad now. ”

Yulan's heart was sour, and she asked a few more words before sending the little girl out. At this time, Xiaoyue had already brought plain clothes, Yulan returned to the bedroom to change her clothes, and took all the bright jewelry she was wearing. Yulan stayed in the Ruyue room and rushed to Chunxuan with Ruyu.

Seeing that Yulan only drank a mouthful of rice porridge, Mother Qian caught up with her distressed and said, "The girl has to take another bite of the past, and she can't make a mistake!" ”

The weather is getting hotter, Yulan is already a little anorexic, and he thinks of a living villain who just says no, it's gone, and he is not in the mood to eat. only said: "You just have to eat, Xiaoyu and I will go to see Aunt Fifth first." ”

Mother Qian still needs to be persuaded, and Yulan has already walked out. Mother Qian had to hurriedly turn around and take some osmanthus cakes, lotus seed cakes, plum blossom cakes and other snacks for Xiaoyu.

Yulan took Xiaoyu to Hechunxuan, and the second wife had already come first. Seeing Yulan coming over in a white plain suit with a small white flower on her head, she couldn't help but nod secretly. "It's really pitiful," said mourning, "that such a child is only a little more than a year old. How do these five siblings live and suffer? The second wife's eyes were red, after all, she was a child, and she felt a little empathy, so she wiped her tears with a silk as she spoke.

Yulan was already uncomfortable, and when she said this, she also shed tears. The two entered the west wing of the front hall, and saw Enge'er dressed neatly lying on a small rosewood bed. With a lantern lit above her head, Mrs. Fifth sat at the end of the bed, her temples scattered, her hairpins crooked, mournful and weeping, and her voice was dumb. The fifth master sat opposite him with a blank face, and the tears on his face were not dry.

There was a large group of □ maids around the side, all of whom bowed their heads and wept, and the room was full of crying.

The second wife and Yulan also cried when they saw this situation.

The second wife cried a few times, and when she saw that the house was in a mess, she walked up to the fifth master and comforted her: "The fifth uncle's festival is so chaotic, and there is no charter." Can someone inform your in-laws? Can you go and ask someone to find Mr. Yin and Yang? Can you ask the craftsman to make a coffin for the child? ”

The fifth master just shook his head, and after a while, he said, "Second sister-in-law, I'm in a mess now, and I hope you can help me get a charter." ”

The second wife frowned and said: "There must always be someone here to take care of things, and arrange for the maids and women to go their own way, and after a while, the relatives and old friends of the family will get the news, and they will definitely make people come to worship, how can it be good to have such a mess?" ”

According to the customs of Da Chu, children's funerals are generally not large, but in a big family like the Yang family, everything must be done according to the etiquette, and Enge'er's funeral will not be very hasty. As the head of the house, the eldest lady should come forward to preside, but the fifth master had already sent someone to report to the eldest wife, and she has not seen anyone yet.

Yesterday, the eldest wife and the fifth wife had a quarrel, and the second wife naturally knew about it, and of course she understood why the eldest lady entrusted Danaqiao. I couldn't help but secretly sigh that she didn't have eyes.

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