Chapter 36: Crying
The crown prince was critically ill, and Fu Yuchen, the second-ranked heir cultivated by Emperor Yong'an, fell into a coma, and Bianjing, the capital of the Great Liang Kingdom, suddenly fell into a panic that there was no successor to the throne.
People have rumored that the founding emperor of the Great Liang Dynasty forced his grandson Emperor Zhou Ai to death that year, so the Fu royal family got retribution and wanted to cut off his children and grandchildren!
Emperor Yong'an made three orders in front of the prince's sickbed, one was to cure the illness of Fu Yuchen, the training envoy of the Gyeonggi regiment, and reward him with 500 taels of gold; Another order is to take the entrance examination for the Guozijian in advance and double the number of places; The third decree is that the whole country will be exempted from taxation for one year, and the elderly who have reached the age of 60 will be rewarded with ten taels of silver.
Xu Cancan didn't know all of this, and she had been concentrating on class.
Because there was a guest in Xu's house yesterday, she only took one class, so today Xu Cancan took five classes in a row, and when she returned home, it was already the middle of the month.
The family was still waiting for Xu Cancan to have dinner, and when they saw her come back, they started to set the meal.
It was a little hot in the house, so Xu Wang's family ordered Ding's mother and Xiaoxiang to put the food under the grape trellis in the yard.
For dinner, he only made four dishes, namely stir-fried loofah, tiger skin chili, cold cucumber and garlic eggplant, all of which are Xu Cancan's favorite hometown dishes in Wanzhou.
Xu Cancan was overjoyed, tasted all four dishes, and found that they were all the dishes made by his mother, so he looked at his mother with surprise and joy: "Mother, what did you do?" It's delicious! "After Xu Wang's family entered Beijing, because he was busy with family affairs, he never cooked in person, and Ding's mother was in charge of the cooking. Ding's mother cooks authentic Bianjing cuisine, Xu Cancan thinks it is delicious, but she still misses her hometown cuisine.
Xu Wangshi saw that she liked it, so he laughed first, and then deliberately put on a straight face: "Don't you also do it, why do you want your mother and me to do it?" ”
Xu Cancan ate several big mouthfuls first, and then said: "I will do it, I will do it, and dinner will be waiting for me tomorrow!" ”
Xu Wang got up and handed her a bowl of jingmen soup and handed it over: "Let's talk about it when you are free!" ”
Xu Cancan didn't speak, but in his heart, he had already begun to plan to cook a table of dishes for his father and younger brother to eat.
After dinner, Xu Cancan entered his father's bedroom and looked for books on Xu Shunhe's bookshelf with a candlestick. She remembered that her father had a copy of "Cai's Family Food" at his father's place.
was busy with sweat on her face, she didn't find "Cai's Family Diet", but found a copy of "Zhongjing Medicinal Diet".
Xu Cancan hurriedly took the book and showed it to his father, who was sitting at the table of the Eight Immortals in the hall and drinking tea: "Dad, is this "Zhongjing Medicinal Diet" really written by Zhang Zhongjing? ”
Xu Shunhe saw that his daughter's face was sweaty, so he pulled Xu Cancan in front of him with one hand, and took a short-range bamboo fan with the other hand to fan Xu Cancan.
Xu Cancan felt a lot cooler, and leaned over to his father: "Dad, is it all?" ”
"Probably not!" Xu Shunhe picked up the white porcelain teacup and fed Xu Cancan a sip, "Many of the dishes mentioned in "Zhongjing Medicinal Diet" only appeared after the Tang Dynasty, such as a wolfberry stewed pigeon, which was not available in the Han Dynasty at all! ”
Xu Cancan stood in front of his father, lying on the table of the Eight Immortals flipping through the books and reading.
Xu Shunhe was afraid that she would be hot, so he stretched out his right arm and went around Xu Cancan's back to fan her.
Xu Cancan looked at it for a while, looked up at him and said, "Daddy, there is a stewed pork belly with mung beans here, saying that it can detoxify and prevent acne!" ”
Xu Shunhe nodded: "This specializes in treating the kind of pox on the young man's face!" ”
"Ah, it turns out to cure pimples!" Xu Cancan looked at his father with sparkling eyes, "This book is weird and interesting, give it to me!" ”
"I'm good for you!" Xu Shunhe fanned her with a smile, and picked up the teacup again and let Xu Cancan take a sip, "I still have a few medicinal foods on the shelf, take them all!" ”
The tea taste is slightly bitter, but the aftertaste is sweet, Xu Cancan tasted the Xinyang hair tip that is the best one, so he asked Xu Shunhe with a smile: "Dad, where did you get such a good hair tip?" ”
"I'll ask your uncle what he wants!" Xu Shunhe was triumphant, "Your uncle said that it was a tribute tea specially for the emperor!" ”
Xu Cancan suddenly remembered that the palace concubines who had fallen out of favor or were unfavored in the palace fighting literature he had seen in his previous life couldn't even drink the end of tea, and he couldn't help but feel a little gloomy in his heart.
She didn't want to say it to make her father feel uncomfortable, so she concentrated on reading this book "Zhongjing Medicinal Diet" in the name of the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing.
Xu Shunhe saw that his daughter was reading carefully, so he said: "Although this book is in the name of the medical saint Zhongjing, it has its own uniqueness, otherwise I wouldn't have brought it to Bianjing!" ”
Xu Cancan listened to it and looked more seriously.
Xu Wang watched Ding's mother clean up the kitchen, and then returned to the hall.
The exam was coming up in a few days, Xu Yichun hid in the room to review his homework and refused to come out, and Xu Cancan stayed in the hall with his father.
Xu Cancan looked at the book, and Xu Shun and his wife drank tea and talked.
Xu Shunhe got up and made a cup of tea for his wife.
"The emperor's list has been posted, and the emperor is looking for a famous doctor to treat Fu Yuchen, the training envoy of the Gyeonggi regiment!" Xu Shunhe smelled the fragrance of tea in the cup and said slowly.
Xu Wang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "How much is the silver reward?" "Ordinary people are still a little more interested in rewarding silver.
"It's not a bounty," Xu Shun and Le Zizi, "it's a bounty!" The bounty is five hundred taels! ”
When Xu Cancan heard that Fu Yuchen was sick, his heart was suddenly in a mess, and he hurriedly interjected and asked, "Dad, what disease did that Fu Yuchen have?" Is it serious? ”
Xu Shunhe was not in a hurry at all, and took a sip of tea before saying: "It's just that the body has too much poison, and the rain causes cold poison!" ”
Hearing the words "drenched in rain", Xu Cancan's breath stagnated, and he hurriedly asked, "Is it serious?" ”
"It's heavy, it's heavy, it's not heavy!"
Xu Cancan grabbed his father's hand: "Dad, don't sell it!" ”
Xu Shunhe's hand was a little painful by his daughter, but she was in a hurry, so she said: "For this symptom, it is not possible to use medicine alone, you must use silver needles as the mainstay, supplemented by decoction, and gradually pull out the poison in the body!" ”
When Xu Cancan heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly pulled his father's hand and shook it: "Daddy, go and treat the disease!" ”
"Wait until the bounty rises to 1,000 taels, and your father and I will go again!" Xu Shunhe smiled slyly.
Xu Cancan quietly took a deep breath and stabilized himself first. After a while, Xu Cancan pulled Xu Shunhe and shook and pulled: "Dad, don't say a thousand taels if you don't go, five hundred taels were taken away by others first!" I want a ruby head the size of a cherry! I want to buy the most popular gold thread brocade in Kyochu today! I want to buy the emerald brocade feather satin cloak sold by Cuifengzhai......" she said, and tears flowed from her eyes.
Xu Shunhe didn't expect his daughter to be so wronged, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly said: "Be good, don't cry, don't cry, daddy will go to Dingguo Mansion tomorrow!" ”
"No, you go now!" Xu Cancan pulled her father and cried, "It's too late...... Gold...... Gold...... It's gone...... Woo......"
"What's wrong with my sister?" Xu Yichun also ended the retreat and ran out.
Xu Wang's family saw his daughter crying, and he was already anxious, and looked at Xu Shunhe beggingly: "Her father ......"
There is probably no father and mother in the world who can resist the child, Xu Shunhe was frightened by his daughter's crying, and regardless of the bounty that would rise in one day, he called Chang Liu to set up the car, and he packed the medicine box and was about to go out.
At this time, Xu Cancan also felt that his acting skills were a little exaggerated, so he was embarrassed, and lowered his head and sent his father out with his mother and younger brother.
Xu Shunhe looked at his daughter's red and swollen eyes, feeling strange and distressed, he reached out and touched her head: "My eyes are swollen, go back to the house and let people get some well water and ice eyes to reduce swelling!" ”
"I know it!" Xu Cancan said in a rough voice.
"Alas, who is this girl like, she loves money so much!" Xu Shunhe was puzzled.
: Not like you! Or Xu Wangshi couldn't help laughing, "Also Xu Shunhe: ...... "The state seems to be like this......