Chapter 128: The Old Man
Shen Qian smiled, "No treachery, no business!" ”
The two were silent for a while, and suddenly laughed bitterly together, and Shen Qian sighed, "I don't know why, I actually had a sense of desolation, I didn't expect that our imperial merchant Shen family would eventually lose in my hands." ”
Chen Jingfeng shook his head, "You can't say that, you just avoid its edge, and it's not defeated, your father has taken your mother to travel all over the world since you came back at the age of eighteen, he is afraid that he has long expected that the Shen family will have this day, I don't think he will blame you." ”
Shen Qian snorted, "Blame me? The two of them ran out to enjoy themselves and threw a whole bunch of messes at me, so what else did they have to blame me? ”
Chen Jingfeng couldn't help laughing, and asked again: "They haven't come back for so many years?"
"No, but I send letters back every month."
"When you get married, I'm sure they'll come back."
Shen Qian's face was a little dazed when he heard this, and Chen Jingfeng regretted it a little after speaking, which pot should not be mentioned!
At this time, Meng Xiaoran, who was "missing", was at Doctor Lin's place, accompanying him to clean up the herbs.
These herbs are the treasures of the Lin Shen Doctor, the most important thing in this mountain is the medicinal herbs, every morning the Lin Shen Doctor will carry the bamboo basket into the mountain to pick the herbs, the climate of Yunzhou is humid, warm as spring all year round, and the medicinal herbs here also grow exceptionally well.
"Xiaoran girl, you said that my apprentice is now in Yujing City? Became a miracle doctor too? Doctor Lin listened to Meng Xiaoran's words, his face was full of pride, when he left, his apprentice was only sixteen years old, still young, although his medical skills were also exquisite, but he was far from reaching the level of "divine doctor".
Now more than ten years have passed, and the young man who followed him back then has grown up and become a "miracle doctor", how can he not be proud?
Meng Xiaoran couldn't help but smile when he looked at him, "Yes, the eldest brother is now a superb doctor, and he is called a miracle doctor, there is nothing he can't cure." ”
"Hahaha, yes, it's really a good apprentice of the old man, I didn't embarrass the old man!" Doctor Lin couldn't hide the smug look on his face, and suddenly put away his smile again, looked at Meng Xiaoran and asked, "My apprentice is now twenty-seven, I don't know if I can marry a wife and have children?"
Meng Xiaoran was stunned for a moment and shook his head, "No, the eldest brother is still alone now." ”
Doctor Lin was anxious when he heard this, "What's the matter?" Still unmarried? How can this work? At his age, his children are more than ten years old, and he is still alone, hey, how can I explain to his dead father and mother in the future! ”
Seeing this, Meng Xiaoran immediately comforted him, "Doctor Lin, don't worry, the eldest brother is devoted to medical skills, so he has been delayed so far, and I only knew one thing before I left, it turns out that the eldest brother has not married because he has a sweetheart." ”
Doctor Lin's eyes lit up when he heard this, "Really? Does he have a sweetheart? ”
Meng Xiaoran nodded, "Naturally, it's true, and ah, now that person is on the eldest brother's Zhuangzi, and the eldest brother heals the wound on her face, maybe, after a while, I will go back, and the two of them will be." ”
"Really? Great, haha, then I'm relieved! Doctor Lin was very happy, and he didn't have the heart to pick up the herbs anymore, so he stood up and hurriedly ran into the house, and after a while he held a large round porcelain bottle in his hand, "Come, Xiaoran girl, this is for you!" ”
Meng Xiaoran walked over and took it, and asked with some curiosity, "Doctor Lin, what's in here?"
Doctor Lin smiled a little proudly, "This is a good thing that the old man has worked hard to develop in the past two years, it is the best for women, it can make the skin smooth as snow and the face as peach blossoms, you can come and chat with me today, and told me so many things about my apprenticeship, this lunch should be given to you as a thank you gift!" ”
Meng Xiaoran smiled, "Then I'll thank Divine Doctor Lin a lot, but I don't like to smear these things very much, it's a bit of a waste for me." ”
Doctor Lin looked at her with some disapproval, "Hey, you girl, although you are born with a good appearance, you have to thank your father, but you can't be too meticulous, a good appearance must be well protected, listen to me, clean your face every morning and evening, and apply a layer to ensure that you are more and more beautiful!" ”
After speaking, he sighed again, "The old man has been hiding in this deep mountain for so many years, he has no skills but no use, I don't know who to use this balsam, I can't be an old man and apply grease and powder, if you don't use it, you will lose it!" ”
Meng Xiaoran was obviously angry when he saw him say this, and hurriedly smiled and said, "How can you throw it away?" I don't want to throw such a good thing, just to be polite to you, if I run out of I have to ask you for it, then don't think I'm greedy! ”
Doctor Lin was satisfied, smiled and touched his beard, Meng Xiaoran stood aside and thought for a while, but finally couldn't hold back the thoughts in his heart, walked up to Doctor Lin and asked in a low voice: "Doctor Lin, you have been here for so many years, do you know how to leave this bamboo forest?"
Doctor Lin was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then immediately looked around, pulled Meng Xiaoran into his room, and asked in a low voice, "Girl, do you want to go out?"
Meng Xiaoran nodded, "It's isolated here, although life is comfortable, but I can't stay here all the time, and I always feel like being watched, like being trapped in a huge cage, which feels very uncomfortable." ”
Divine Doctor Lin nodded and sighed, "I can understand your feelings, why am I not?" But it's hard to get out here, unless they take you out, it's hard to fly with wings, the bamboo forest outside has a poisonous miasma, not to mention the formation, the fog inside is still highly poisonous, and if you're not careful, you'll be poisoned, you must not think about going out by yourself. ”
Meng Xiaoran frowned, and finally sighed, Doctor Lin glanced at her and said, "I think that person is very different from you, if you let him take you out, it must be okay."
Doctor Lin said naturally Dongfang Shuo, Meng Xiaoran didn't speak, she was reluctant to tell him about it, there was already a gap between the two, she was afraid that if she said that she wanted to go out, she would make Dongfang Shuo think more.
But more than a month has passed, but she gradually lost her patience, her heart became more and more irritable, this calm and peaceful bamboo forest depths, she couldn't breathe, she wanted to go out, she wanted to be free.
And Dongfang Shuo has not left this bamboo forest these days, mainly because Yujing City is now in chaos, and their design to separate the Seven Princes and Shen Qian has gradually achieved results.
What they have to do at this time is to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, once the Seventh Prince Dongfang Rui can't bear to tear his face with the Shen family, then he will lose the backer of the Shen family, and it will be much easier for them to deal with the Seventh Prince at that time.
Meng Xiaoran came back from Doctor Lin's side, walked on the road absentmindedly, and a person came in front of her, she looked up, and saw the woman turn around and leave in a hurry, she was a little puzzled, and then looked at the back of the person, the more she looked, the more familiar she felt, so she immediately used light skills to chase after her.
Meng Xiaoran stopped in front of the woman, turned around and looked, a little surprised, "It's you?" ”
That woman turned out to be the Chen family of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Meng Xiaoran didn't expect to meet her here, and thought that she was burned to death in the family temple before, and now I think that it was also a plan for the golden cicada to get out of her shell at that time.
Chen Yingyue had already seen Meng Xiaoran, and when Ye Chunqiu asked her to help "Green Fu" when she was in the Prime Minister's Mansion at the beginning, she guessed that this Green Fu must have something to do with Ye Chunqiu's master, and now it is really as she thought.
Now that she has been seen, she doesn't want to hide it anymore, anyway, there is no Mrs. Xiangfu in this world now, she smiled at Meng Xiaoran, "I already knew that you were not an ordinary person, and sure enough." ”
Meng Xiaoran hooked her lips and smiled, "Now it seems that Madame is not an ordinary person, is she?" ”
Chen Yingyue's face changed, she didn't want to hear someone call her "madam" again, now she is Ye Chunqiu's person, but she followed him without a name, at first she naively thought that Ye Chunqiu had really never married as he said, who knew that he had already married and had children, and had a daughter, who was sixteen years old, but his wife was unlucky and died early.
When Chen Yingyue first came, she was made all kinds of troubles by Ye Chunqiu's daughter, in fact, it is understandable, which daughter would have a good face for a woman of unknown origin? What's more, this woman still wants to grab her mother's place.
"Don't call me Mrs. in the future, there are no Mrs. here!" After speaking, he was about to leave angrily, but was stopped by Meng Xiaoran.
"Tell me, who brought you here?"
Chen Yingyue looked at her with a displeased face, but after staying here for so long, she had already changed her habits in the Prime Minister's Mansion, even if she was treated like this, she would not be as angry as before.
"What do you care so much about? Oh, but it doesn't hurt to tell you, you will know sooner or later that Ye Chunqiu brought me here, I was a childhood sweetheart with him, he is the most important person in front of the master, and even the master has to call him "Uncle Ye". ”
Meng Xiaoran smiled, "Sure enough, it's him." ”
Chen Yingyue glanced at her, snorted and walked away, Meng Xiaoran thought about it and quietly followed her, and walked for a long time to a courtyard, it seems that this Ye Chunqiu is really not ordinary, and there can be an independent courtyard here.
She thought about it and took a step forward, wanting to go over and see, "Who?" ”
A short drink came, Meng Xiaoran couldn't help but stop, and after a while, a figure flew down from the courtyard, Meng Xiaoran looked at the middle-aged man in front of him and recognized him as Ye Chunqiu.
"Is that you?" Ye Chunqiu naturally knew her, and the vigilant look on his face was put away, "What is Miss Meng doing here here?" ”
Meng Xiaoran shook his head, "It's just that I met an old man by chance and wanted to come to visit, since Ye Gong doesn't welcome outsiders here, then I will leave." ”
Ye Chunqiu looked at the back of her leaving, his eyes flashed, and after a while, he said: "I hope that Miss Meng will not talk about any old people after he goes out, the past is gone, and people are no longer old people."
Meng Xiaoran was stunned, and then continued to walk forward, "Taught." ”
She walked all the way back the way she came, always feeling that something was wrong in her heart, but she couldn't think of what was wrong, so she frowned all the way back to her residence.