Chapter 34: Matchmaking

Time passed, and another two years passed, and the pear blossoms in the Taiyi Bureau were like snow, the breeze blew, and pieces were flying.

Cai Ling carried a small bench and sat next to Yu Moyan, guarding her master to read. After a while, Yu Moyan took the book and glanced at her: "What bothered you?" Tell me about it. ”

She pushed a strand of hair on her forehead that was blown by the wind behind her ear: "It turns out that Han Shanggong is Xiao Han's aunt?" I didn't expect that a serious person like Lord Shanggong would have an indecent nephew like Xiao Han. ”

"Hmm." Han Moyan closed the book and looked at her with lowered eyelashes.

She smiled and said, "Han Shanggong didn't come to the Taiyi Bureau today to see a doctor. The master often walks in the inner court, I am afraid that I don't know the people of the court, the daughter of the Ministry of Works, married the prince of Zhao Wang earlier, but the prince of the world is happy with others, so he found a reason to reconcile with the young lady. Now that the young lady is over twenty, she is still a flower and a moon, and I heard that she is still a yellow flower girl. ”

"That's what you're talking about?" Yu Moyan glanced at the pear blossom tree in the courtyard.

"Master, listen to me." Cai Ling hurriedly held on to the handle of his chair, "Han Shanggong came here today to speak for Miss Na. Do you know who that young lady has a crush on? ”

"Han Yizheng?"

"Definitely." Cai Ling showed a sly smile, "It's you, Master." ”

"Nonsense. I have never met that young lady for my teacher. He stood up.

Cai Ling hurriedly grabbed the corner of his robe, "Master, don't go." It's not a bad thing to be looked at. Besides, over the years, how many medical women and palace maids in the Imperial Medical Bureau and the inner court have coveted Master's beauty, don't we all know it? ”

"Who knows you!" Yu Moyan sat down again, and she let go.

"Although I also think that the person who marries for the second time is a little unworthy of you, Master." She asked tentatively, "But Master, do you dislike the woman who once promised to be married?" ”

"No, it won't." There was a wisp of tenderness in Yu Moyan's eyes that couldn't be hidden.

"Then Master still can't let go of Master?" Cai Ling asked.

Half a year ago, Xiaochuan told her a secret, it turned out that Yu Moyan was not Xiaochuan's biological father, her biological father was a wealthy businessman in Chang'an City, when she was two and a half years old, her father's temperament changed greatly, and then often beat and scolded her mother and daughter, once her mother was almost killed, fortunately was saved by Yu Moyan, and then her mother and daughter followed Yu Moyan to wander the rivers and lakes. After her mother died, Yu Moyan asked her to call him Daddy and took her back to Peach Blossom Valley to find her grandfather and aunt.

The two of them are not husband and wife at all, maybe the so-called deep love is just a disguise, right?

Yu Moyan pondered for a moment. "Yes. Can't put it down. ”

The brilliance in Cai Ling's eyes disappeared in an instant, but she still raised her head and asked, "Then you won't be obsessed with anyone in the future?" Although they were not husband and wife, the woman had gained his long-term sincerity, Cai Ling's heart was sour, but she only smiled slightly.

"Hmm. Not again. Yu Moyan looked ahead and didn't look at her.

Her hands hung down from the armrests of the chair, and she was about to walk into the fluttering falling flowers when Yu Moyan stopped her. She was a little pleased, and turned her head to look at him, and the manzhu sawa in front of her forehead was as red as a flame: "Master." ”

He took out a letter from his bosom and handed it to her: "This is what the Korean doctor is entrusting me to give you." ”

She took the letter and read it, a smile gradually forming on her expressionless face. Yu Moyan asked: "Do you also like Han Yizheng?" ”

She shook her head, her eyes narrowed into a slit: "I'm laughing because it's the first time I've received a love letter when I'm so old." At this time, my heart was full of gratitude to Xiao Han, so I smiled. ”

"Think again." Yu Moyan said.

"Hmm." She took the letter in her hand, raised it casually, and did not turn her head back.

In the hut, Xiao Chuan, who was already eight years old, had already come out with clear eyebrows, and asked with his cheeks, "Did you succeed?" ”

Cai Ling shook her head, and Xiao Chuan immediately frowned: "Auntie, you are really useless." Now that the Empress Dowager's condition has improved, and her father is also allowed to live out of the palace, you can't poke the window paper yet, and when he chooses a good house, he won't take you out of the palace to live together, what should you do when the time comes? ”

Cai Ling smiled: "How can this layer of window paper make the girl's house pierce?" Besides, your father can't let go of your mother in his heart. ”

"How is this possible. I was almost five years old when my mother died, and I vaguely remember my mother crying and saying a lot of words to thank my father, and the most memorable thing for me is that 'the slave has served the son for decades in this life, and I am grateful, and the son is very kind to the slave, and the slave will be a cow and a horse in the next life. Auntie, tell me, if a loving person would say such a thing when he was leaving? Ogawa looked at her faintly.

"It's hard to say. Maybe your father never got your mother's sincerity, and your mother felt a little guilty about him when she was dying. ”

"My father is not good at that, my mother will never devote herself to that domestic violence man, right?" Ogawa puffed out his cheeks in anger.

"That's your father." Cai Ling sighed.

"There is only one father, and that is Yu Moyan, the world's famous painting immortal and the world's famous doctor." Ogawa was particularly resolute.

"Yes, yes, yes." Cai Ling hurriedly followed her words, "You should be proud to have such a father." ”

"Auntie, you've taken the topic away again." Ogawa stared at her.

"Ogawa. I'm afraid your father and I have no hope. If you want a stepmother, it's better to inquire about the young lady of the Ministry of Works' family, I heard that she is a gentle woman with a beautiful face and a good knowledge. Cai Ling picked up a book casually.

Xiao Chuan closed the book in her hand: "Auntie, think about it carefully, you were sick half a year ago, who stayed in front of your bed and didn't leave for a night, although I felt uncomfortable at the time, but I was also very happy to see my father turn from worry to joy." Are you thinking about it, if my father didn't have you in his heart, how could he only accept you as an apprentice? He not only taught you medical skills, but also taught you to draw by hand, and did so many things, I'm afraid you didn't want you to steal his job in the future, right? ”

Cai Ling smiled and patted the top of Xiaochuan's head: "Little girl, you're right." ”

The next day, she replied to a letter rejecting Han Yizheng's confession.

In the courtyard of the Imperial Medical Bureau, pear blossoms fluttered in the air, and Han Yi was holding the letter, looking at her shyly, opening the letterhead nervously, and the smile slowly froze on his face. She did not shy away from it, as the letter said, she wanted to be friends with each other forever.

After Doctor Han was sadly running away, she looked at his back and sighed slightly.

This kid didn't even know her true face, and thought she was deaf and dumb, but she dared to confess boldly, which really had a bit of her brainless courage back then. I hope that in the future, he can find a gentle and virtuous woman to join hands for a lifetime. She said to herself.

"Still can't put it down?" Yu Moyan, who had just returned from Ziwei Palace, saw this situation, and after approaching, he whispered in her ear.

She suddenly straightened up: "I can naturally let go of those pasts." He rejected Han because he felt that it was not appropriate for him. ”

After thinking for a moment, Cai Ling asked, "If Master doesn't dislike it, is it okay to live this life together?" ”

It was in this spring courtyard that she wore a snow-white gauze skirt and stood under the sparse pear tree, and the magpie stood on the branches, she held her head slightly high, looking forward to his answer, and also looking forward to starting another journey of life.

"Xiao Ling. Don't be serious. After only a moment's pause, he passed by her expressionlessly, and the pear blossoms were like falling snow, and she froze in place, the corners of her lips gently hooked into a wry smile.

Soon after, Yu Moyan finally accepted the request of Han Yizheng and the medical girl Zhiyun and accepted them as apprentices.

They don't have to attend pharmacology classes and anatomy classes, and Yu Moyan walks around the palace the most with Zhiyun, the woman has always admired Yu Moyan, and now she seems to have entered the pinnacle of life, showing the brightest smile whenever and wherever she is.

Han Shanggong came to be a matchmaker again, and Zhiyun crossed his waist to drive people away, saying that a heroic and merry person like her master should marry a yellow flower girl, what do you want those who marry for the second time to do? Han Shanggong frowned at her shouting, but he couldn't refute it, and left dejectedly.

Doctor Han was fighting for his aunt and reported the matter to Yu Moyan, who only smiled casually and did not blame Zhiyun.

There were rumors in the palace, all saying that Zhiyun was Imperial Doctor Yu's favorite.

"Favorite?" At night, Cai Ling drank a pot of Luo Rihong in the pavilion, as if talking to herself: "My master's favorite is only danqing and medicinal herbs." ”

"Xiao Ling." I don't know when, Yu Moyan was already standing half a foot behind her.

"Now that you're here, sit down and have a drink." She smiled, "It's a pity that I only have one wine glass here, you wait, I'll get it again." She got up and brushed him along. He suddenly grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his arms, and she was firmly on his chest when she was drunk.

She laughed twice: "Master, you are so easy for me to misunderstand. ”

"Xiao Ling. You're drunk. Stop drinking. He frowned.

"How could I get drunk? Even if you're drunk, why don't you just go back to the house and get some sleep? She broke out of his embrace, walked away, and suddenly felt that the world was spinning, but it was just a pot of Luo Rihong, which made her unsteady, and it seemed that it was not as good as before.

"Don't drink it, do you? Then I'm not going to take a trip. She sat back in the pavilion and looked at the bright moon with her cheeks back.

Yu Moyan lifted the corner of her robe and sat on the stone bench opposite her, "Xiaoling, do you really want to be with me?" ”

She looked at him with a smile, not knowing how to answer. Since she saw Shen Muchi for the last time two years ago, she saw him as a woman, and she uprooted the little reluctance in her heart. But Yu Moyan actually asked like this, if she said that she wanted to make do, would he give her charity?

has been by Yu Moyan's side all these years, he has taken good care of her, and she has never felt that she is just a touch of duckweed in the troubled times, and it is he who has given her the warmth of home. After knowing that he was going to leave the palace to set up his own mansion, she became greedy and wanted to live a stable and worry-free life with him for the rest of her life. Thinking about it left and right, I forgot that Yu Moyan may not like her.

"It's futile and ignorant. Master is an elder in the end, and the apprentice does not dare to covet your beauty. Cai Ling said with a smile.

"Not serious." He paced up to her, hugged her around his waist, her face touched the white jade pendant on his waist, the cold touch, just to relieve the burning feeling on his face, and leaned greedily.

Until there was a clang, she turned her eyes to look, and saw Zhiyun squatting down and picking up the fragments of the porcelain jar on the ground in a panic, and said hesitantly: "The apprentice just made a bottle of white jade paste, thinking about it...... Please...... Master, you have seen it. I didn't expect ...... Senior sister is also there. ”

After Zhiyun hurriedly ran away, Cai Ling sat up straight and drank another glass of wine: "Look, it's all your fault for accepting apprentices indiscriminately." If you want to be the only one with me, I'm afraid that someone will knock on your door in the middle of the night. ”

Yu Moyan glanced at her and was silent.

She sneered, "Master, you don't have to worry too much. Zhiyun is very well-behaved and will not reveal my secrets, and besides, this veil has been worn for too long, I think that one day I should confess to the emperor and be lenient. ”

"You're drunk." Yu Moyan looked at her deeply, "Don't worry, there is a teacher in everything." ”

She was right, although Zhiyun was in a state of disbelief for two days, she never mentioned what she saw and heard that night, and the matter was over, as if everything that happened in the Weiyang Palace was lost in the dust of the years at a very fast speed.

A few days later, an urgent letter came from the northern kingdom, saying that Zhao Laozhang had contracted a vicious disease and was afraid that he would die soon. Zhao Zhaoyi was so anxious that she personally came to the Taiyi Bureau and asked her brother-in-law to save her. The two went to ask for the holy decree, and Yu Moyan would leave early the next morning.

When Cai Ling knocked on the door and entered, he saw that Zhiyun was packing his luggage for him in an orderly manner.

Cai Ling sat on one side, watching Zhiyun busy, until Xiaochuan entered the house, snatched a big piece from Zhiyun's hand, and said unevenly: "Usually Sister Song cleans up for my father." ”

Zhiyun smiled: "It's okay. I'm also your father's apprentice. ”

Xiao Chuan didn't say anything, and turned his eyes to ask for help from Cai Ling.

Cai Ling took her hand and left, and walked to the eaves, she said softly: "This is a thousand miles, except for you, none of us can be by his side, you have to take good care of him for us." ”

"Ogawa knows." The little girl nodded again and again, Cai Ling smiled and patted her shoulder, and in a blink of an eye, she saw that Yu Moyan was already standing at the other end of the corridor at some point.

"Have you explained everything to the imperial doctors?" Cai Ling greeted him.

"Hmm." He stood with his hands in his hands.

"Is there anything you want to give me? How many days does it take to dry the saffron in the yard? Do you still need to make more mugwort leaf wine for Concubine Liangxian's fetus? She asked expectantly.

He looked at her deeply, his eyes were full of tenderness, and he was speechless for a long time, and at the end, he took her hand and said, "Wait for me to come back." ”

She was slightly stunned, and she had a smile on her face in an instant, what she was most afraid of was that he would never return, after all, Zhao Chuci was not related to him, and he had no reason to commit himself to the inner court for the sake of irrelevant people.

In the early morning of that day, as soon as the white of the fish belly was revealed, she waited outside Yu Moyan's door and sent him and Xiaochuan out of the palace gate of the Taiyi Bureau, she stopped, only watching the backs of one big and one small disappear in the long Yong Alley, Xiaochuan walked a few steps and looked back at her, but Yu Moyan did not look back.

The following days passed very slowly, she would set up a stall in the hospital every three or five days to see a doctor, and the palace maids and women passed on the word of mouth, saying that the Song medicine girl was as kind as a living bodhisattva, and she was always impatient and tried her best to cure the stubborn illness of the woman who had plagued everyone for a long time. There was also a concubine who sent someone to invite, but she couldn't shirk it, and she really couldn't push it off, so Zhiyun went instead of her. After all, it is an unspeakable disease, and the concubines have tried their best to hide it, and they don't dare to say anything about it.

Every evening, she moved a small bench and sat under the pear blossom tree in the backyard and waited.

The letter was received ten days later, and Yu Moyan only said: Peace, don't read it.

Her five fingers gently stroked the yellowed letterhead, and a warm current rippled through her heart.

Ten days later, on a light rainy night in early summer, she sat in front of the window in a thin shirt and read, drowsy in the flickering candlelight.

Zhiyun knocked on her door, and she was already impatient: "Concubine Liangxian has a difficult birth, and the fetal water has flowed out for twelve hours, but the fetus does not fall, the stable women are helpless, the mother is in pain, and Your Majesty is also very anxious. ”

Two years later, she stepped out of the door of the Taiyi Bureau again.