In the main room of the Shen family, when the imperial doctor came in, he asked about the sour and rancid smell that came to his nose.

The eldest man's face became more and more pale because of the vomiting just now, but he nodded to the imperial doctor with a light smile and said, "I'm tired." ”

Xu did not evade, Shen Rui stood beside Xu.

The Imperial Physician stepped forward to feel the pulse, and then retreated to the outer room.

"Imperial Doctor, what is our master?" Xu Shi suppressed the anxiety in his heart and asked.

The imperial doctor frowned and said: "I said last year that Shen Sikou can't stand it, and he should take good care of it; Now it is the exhaustion and injury that leads to the recurrence of the old disease. ”

Although the imperial doctor wrote a prescription, his brows still did not loosen, and he said to Xu: "Madame should still be a good student and persuade Shen Sikou ......."

Xu nodded in response, but he was extremely helpless in his heart.

It's already the end of June, and it's about to be July, which is the busy time for the criminal department's official duties.

It is only because of the practice of the national dynasty that the condemned prisoner should be beheaded after the autumn, and now is the time to review the local file.

After sending the imperial doctor away, Xu hesitated for a moment, but still asked someone to take the post of the eldest master and went to the yamen to take a three-day vacation.

Shen Rui saw Xu's worried appearance, and his heart also felt heavy.

Although the eldest master's health is not good, it is not obvious before he is promoted to the secretary of the criminal department; After being promoted to the secretary of the criminal department, it was as if he was consuming his life, and he became sick and weak.

In the words of the Imperial Doctor, it is an epilogue such as exhausting the mind and hurting the body. But Shen Rui felt that the eldest man was suffering from a decline in immunity caused by overwork, so he was sick. If you change to a healthy person, maybe you can recover your vitality after good health and conditioning, but the eldest master is congenitally deficient, and he is too old to know his fate, so this sub-health state will be urgent.

Qiao's house, Qiao's old lady's room.

"Shen Cang is really sick?" Listening to the reply, Mrs. Qiao looked sneered.

Mrs. Qiao and Mrs. Qiao glanced at each other, but they couldn't help but think about it.

The Shen family set up wine, there were many visitors, the Qiao family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fell behind, and the old lady Qiao didn't hide it from others when she wanted to see Shen Cang. If this is someone who doesn't know, it can't be said that it will connect Master Shen's illness with the Qiao family.

Mrs. Qiao was very happy, fortunately, her mother-in-law sang and did not mention the fifth brother's family affairs. Even if the Shen family doesn't like the old lady, they won't be angry with the younger generation.

Otherwise, if the old lady mentions her relatives, and Master Shen falls ill again, the Qiao family will not be able to tell.

Mrs. Qiao was angry in her heart, and she was inexplicably a little weak-hearted.

Shen Cang was entertaining guests that day, and although his complexion was a little gloomy, he was not bedridden, why did he collapse? Could it be that it was because I heard myself mention my dead mother that I lost my mind and couldn't stand it?

Mrs. Qiao thought about the rudeness of the Xu family, and she became more and more unconfident about her previous plans; However, thinking that Shen Cang may have fallen ill because of the thought of his dead mother, he felt that his hope was greatly increased.

The more Shen Cang misses his deceased mother, the more filial piety he should pay to his own aunt.

Old Mrs. Qiao's heart was hot, and she said, "Prepare a few good ginseng, and I will visit the patient tomorrow."

Mrs. Qiao was embarrassed: "Old lady, there is only half a box of ginseng beards left in the house......"

Old Madam Qiao frowned and said, "Then send someone to buy it." ”

Mrs. Qiao hesitated for a moment and said, "There are only two hundred and forty taels of silver left in the account, which is only enough for the two or three months, if it is misappropriated, the rent in the field has not yet come, this is ......"

Mrs. Qiao claims to be an old feudal monarch and has been ignoring housework for many years.

After listening to his daughter-in-law's words, the old man sighed and said, "I never expected that the family would come to this point with a difficult family......"

Mrs. Qiao was silent, and her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were relatively speechless.

Mrs. Qiao has never been at home, and looking at the appearance of her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, she only feels ridiculously tight. The Qiao family is a difficult family, but what is the difficulty of these two people? It was Gongzhong who had no money, not these two people.

Mrs. Qiao is the daughter of a eunuch, and even if she doesn't have ten miles of red makeup, she is also a Zhuangzi shop; Mrs. Qiao doesn't need to say here, when Mrs. Qiao was alive, and in the wine table of the country's priest, the grade was not high but extremely noble, so the eldest daughter-in-law was also a good family.

As long as the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law hold the dowry less tightly, the life of the Qiao family will be much better, but the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are in the same vein, and they are both masters who love to save private houses. In addition to his own dowry, it is not impossible to find a way to turn public into private.

Mrs. Qiao Er has long been unaccustomed to it, but she was taught twice by her husband.

The second master Qiao has already said that the Qiao family's family has long been left with little money left, and let the big house and the third room fight.

On the second room side, the second master has been in charge of the general affairs for decades, and it is not given for nothing, and he has already placed another property outside, but he is just waiting for the separation.

Shen Cang was sick and did not publicize it, but he was the Jiuqing of Jingtang, but whenever there was any movement, it would spread in the officialdom of the capital.

Not to mention, he was sick twice a year ago, and his spirit was slightly lacking after the year, so others would not pay attention to it, but it fell in the eyes of the two waiters in the Criminal Department.

The right waiter, He Dong, and Master Shenghe's heart was moved.

Because of what his brother did in Songjiang in the past, he was somewhat concerned about the second room of the Shen family. Unexpectedly, by chance, Master Shen became his boss.

He Dongsheng paid special attention to the dynamics of the Shen family.

Later, by virtue of his in-laws, he pulled the Shen family's clan into the Li Party, which was also his intention, first, he did not want the Shen family's houses to work together, and second, he wanted to see how Master Shen would deal with it, and whether there would be a mistake in a hurry.

If all the heads of the Shen family work together, then the Shen family will be pressed on the head of the He family after Songjiang, and they will stand out.

I didn't think that the relationship between the Shen family's houses was really weak, not only the Zongfang and Shangshu Mansion, but also Shen Li and Shangshu Mansion.

Now the upper echelons of the capital know that although the children of the Songjiang Shen clan are successful, they are not monolithic, and the brothers in the house in Beijing are divided into several mountains. There are those who are close to the Xie Party, those who are close to the Li Party, and those who are neutral.

In the eyes of everyone, Shen Cang has become a figure of "a gentleman who is not a party".

He Dongsheng was depressed, everyone else looked at Shen Cang as neutral and not party, didn't anyone think he was a wallhead?

Shen Cang's brother-in-law is Liu Dang, and the nephews of the two clans are Xie Dang and Li Dang. On closer inspection, the third master of the Shen family and the brother of Xie Ge were friends in the same year; The second son of the Shen family and Yang Shen, a disciple of Li Gelao, are the relationship between his sister-in-law and his brother-in-law.

Under such a pull, the Shen family can attack and retreat, and they are already invincible.

He Dongsheng went to Li Ge's hometown to deliver the post.

When Li Ge saw He Dongsheng, he only said that he was too anxious.

The Shangshu of the Criminal Department is one of the Nine Qings, even if it is really vacant, it is not Li Ge Lao who can decide it. There is also He Dongsheng's qualifications are too shallow, even if Shen Cang is really due to illness, there is still a left waiter in front of him, and there is no reason to promote He Dongsheng, the right waiter.

He Dongsheng came out of Li's house in a daze, but he understood that his qualifications were shallow, not in the Criminal Department, but in the Li Party, and his qualifications were too shallow.

In the eyes of Li Ge Lao, the position of a squire is enough to send him away.

He looked in the direction of the Shen Mansion, and instead of gloating earlier, he hoped that Master Shen would get better quickly

If Master Shen insists on it for a few more years, He Dongsheng will be familiar with the affairs of the Criminal Department, and then he will think about turning to Zuo Shilang, and he will not be able to really run the Criminal Department; Otherwise, there is nothing to do with him.

The next day, Mrs. Qiao arrived at the Shen Mansion again.

But this time, she even saw Master Shen's face.

Xu Shi made it clear that there were too many guests visiting the hospital in the past two days, and Master Shen was recuperating due to illness and was really unable to entertain guests, so please be considerate.

Even if Mrs. Qiao is her own aunt, her aunt is an aunt, not a mother, and in the final analysis, she is also a guest.

No matter what others think, after three days of sick leave, Master Shen reappeared.

It was only the day before that Xu had a earnest conversation with her husband.

"It's not that I'm messing around and making the master abolish his public because of his personal interests, but I'm really worried. If the master goes on like this, it is difficult to say whether he can survive a full term...... When my father-in-law went west, the lord and the second uncle had already entered the office, and they had in-laws to help, and it was so difficult; Now that Brother Rui has just passed the hospital test, Brother Jue didn't even end the children's test, and the fourth brother is even more infant, listening to the meaning of the third uncle, even if Brother Rui has a chance to get away with the township test, it will never be enough to take the test. I only ask the lord to cherish himself, there are Lang Zhong and the chief under the Yamen of the Criminal Department, and there is a waiter, where does the master need to do his best? Master Quan, when I am a woman, I am selfish, I only care about the family, be considerate and considerate of me......" Xu said.

Looking at the white hair between his wife's temples and choking with tears, Master Shen also thought more in his heart.

As Xu said, Shen Rui is still growing up, and this family can't do without him.

Shen Cang is not a paranoid person, otherwise he would not still be able to support the Shen family after losing his father, and he would still be able to climb to the throne of Shangshu.

After returning to the yamen of the criminal department again, the official of the criminal department found that the wind direction in the yamen had changed.

No one was talking about whether Shen Shangshu would retire from illness, but they all guessed whether he valued the left waiter or the right waiter. Because Shen Shangshu has been paying great attention to Zuo Shilang recently, he has entrusted most of his official affairs to Zuo Shilang.

Only Zuo Shilang himself was depressed.

Even He Dongsheng, the right waiter who had just arrived in the Criminal Department for less than a year, "heard the wind and moved", thinking about Shen Cang's position as a scholar, not to mention Zuo Shilang, the old man of the Criminal Department?

You must know that Lu Dao is an old criminal department, and he has been promoted from the head of the criminal department for decades. If Shen Cang is really ill, then he is the one who is most likely to take over the book.

Now he is in Shen Cang's life, and he shares his worries for Shen Cang.

Shen Cang is more than half a hundred years old, but this age is considered young among Jiuqing. If the conditioning is good, if Zuo Shilang wants to take over, there will be some boiling.

The left waiter couldn't retreat, because there was still a right waiter staring at him.

When Shen Cang handed over most of the hall affairs to the left waiter, he also gave a small part to the right waiter.

If Zuo Shilang didn't know the current affairs, needless to say, He Dongsheng would definitely be reused.

Where can't He Dongsheng see Master Shen's use and checks and balances? But in the officialdom, there will be political achievements when there is something to do, and Shen Cangken gave up all the government affairs, which was also a disguised fulfillment of the two waiters.

Now the criminal department is happy, at least on the surface.

Master Shen secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and began to carefully adjust his body, and Shen Rui also started his official career here......