Chapter 52: Taste

Ding Meisheng covered her face, sat on the ground for a long time and came back to her senses, grabbed the mother-in-law beside her, and said tremblingly: "Quick, quickly show me the paper on the table." β€œ

The mother-in-law quickly got up and came back, "Auntie, look." β€œ

Ding Meisheng's hands trembled, and the beige paper trembled.

"Can't, can't??" She shook her head, turned to look at her mother-in-law, and roared, "Didn't you say that Cui'er was a sensible person, didn't you say that she couldn't say it?" Look! Look!! β€œ

She smashed the paper on her mother-in-law's face and screamed, "What is this! What is it! β€œ

The mother-in-law was also confused, picked up the paper and took a look, and was so frightened that the six gods were lost.

"No, no, no!" Ding Meisheng got up and spun around the house like a headless fly, "I have to go to Mrs. Xue, yes, find her, she has a good brain, maybe there is a way." β€œ

As he spoke, he pulled up his mother-in-law and pushed it out. "You hurry up and prepare the carriage now, go to Xue Mansion, hurry up!"

"Auntie, you can't go anywhere now, let alone find Mrs. Xue!" The mother-in-law was a bystander, and said bitterly, "The master will be angry, knowing that you are going out, he will completely confirm the crime of assassinating Cui'er with you and Mrs. Xue!" β€œ

"Cui'er's little hooves are cheap, you are different," the mother-in-law pulled her to sit down and stuffed the tea into her hand, "I don't want anyone else." Think about the seventh girl, she is delicate, and I am afraid that she will not be able to live without you. β€œ

"You're right." Ding Mei returned to her physiology and said helplessly, "Then what should I do now?" The old lady is still sick, who should I beg. β€œ

"The old lady is sick," said the mother-in-law, "and if you are sick, there will be no one to support the eighth girl, and you will stay in the house honestly and don't go anywhere, and when the old lady is angry, the old slave will inquire for you." β€œ

What can I do? Even if Ding Meisheng is unwilling and aggrieved, he can only do so.

As for Yun Xiu's side, Cui'er is indeed a cheap life.

She had drunk the pill twice in the morning. I can get out of bed and walk, glad that I picked up a life, knelt under the porch and cried hoarsely, a "girl" pleading.

"It's all because the slave maid is confused, and the money is obsessed, so I got off Aunt Ding's trap, and now the vicious mother-in-law wants to kill the slave and maid." Cui'er sobbed and hiccuped, and said like a bamboo tube pouring beans, "The slave and maid told the Hou Ye everything she knew, and also signed and drew the pledge, the slave and maid are not afraid of anything else, they are afraid that they will die unjustly like Sister Chun Tao, and they will make the girl sad and ashamed." β€œ

Her voice was thin and high-pitched, like a finch in the wild, and it was very noisy.

Yun Xiu just woke up, as if he had exhausted all his strength, dizzy and groaned, instinctively grabbed the people around him, frowned and said noisy.

Ling Xiao immediately called his entourage to drive the person away, and instead helped her up, and asked in a very low voice, "Are you better?" β€œ

Yun Xiu leaned softly on his shoulder and shook his head.

Ling Xiao was full of questions: "Cui'er recruited it, saying that Ding Mei gave birth to poison, but why is the poison in the tea?" Do you run for her or for you? β€œ

"I don't know??" Yun Xiu said weakly, "Master Hou, I'm uncomfortable." β€œ

She had just walked from the Hades Palace, she was sick, she didn't see her usual appearance and charm, Ling Xiao was careful to even touch it, for fear that it would be accidentally broken.

"Drink the medicine first." He is rare to be gentle with people, "I feed you." β€œ

Yun Xiu's voice was hoarse, holding his arm and trying to sit up straight: "Don't bother Hou Ye, I'll come by myself??"

Ling Xiao didn't let it, took the medicine, turned to her back, let people lean on her arms, and fed her mouthful.

"Master Hou," Yun Xiu drank halfway, pushed his hand away, stared at the brown medicinal soup with lowered eyes, and said for a while, "You saved me again, the little girl has nothing to repay, I really want to follow Master Hou, I don't know if Lord Hou is willing to take it in?" β€œ

She Wu Nong spoke softly, gently glutinous, like a thin string plucking the fire in Ling Xiao's chest.

"When did I ever dislike you?" His face was calm, countless waves were churning in his heart, and the corners of his mouth couldn't suppress a smile, "Are you really willing to go back to Beijing with me?" β€œ

"Hmm." Yun Xiu nodded, "When grandmother is better, I will say goodbye to her old man." β€œ

But the old lady was so sick that she didn't get better, and Ling Xiao was worried, "At most, I will go back to Beijing in four or five days to recover my life, otherwise I will take the old lady to Yanjing to find the imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital, and you will be at ease." β€œ

Yun Xiu never expected that Zhongyi Hou would take care of her, and he was willing to take care of her mother's family, so he struggled to get up, knelt on the bed, and looked at him in surprise: "Are you really willing?" β€œ

After a pause, he felt abrupt again, "Grandmother is sick, I'm afraid I can't stand the fatigue of the boat, Master Hou is kind, and the little girl understands it." β€œ

"What's so hard about that?" Ling Xiao laughed, rubbing his thumb back and forth on her chin, "First ask the doctor if he can move the old lady, and then ask a few subordinates to carry it onto the boat, anyway, the wounded soldiers on the battlefield are all carried back, they have experience." β€œ

Yun Xiu sighed when she listened, "Can grandmother compare with a wounded soldier?" Hou Ye is really good at laughing. β€œ

Ling Xiao didn't care, he saw a lot of stomach stabbing on the battlefield, which one was not more serious than the old lady, "Anyway, leave this matter to me, you take care of your body first." β€œ

Yun Xiu finished drinking the medicine, lay down again, took his hand, remembered something and said: "That Cui'er will be handed over to Mother Fang, and then ask Mother Fang to pick a competent one to take care of me, I can't always bother Master Hou." β€œ

Ling Xiao can't wait to be in the same room with her, whether he cares about men and women, and marries her sooner or later, "You sleep in my room, you can't explain it clearly, live in peace, wait for it, I will naturally let you go." β€œ

The words are not rough, Yun Xiu is a hundred unwilling in his heart, and he can only rest obediently.

The two were talking, and the entourage was returning outside the window, and Yun Yushi came.

"Master Hou??" Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Ling Xiao.

"You go to sleep first. I'll come when I go. So saying, he tucked the corners of the quilt and got up to leave.

When Yunzhidong saw the Marquis of Zhongyi, he first saluted, and said with a somewhat flattering smile: "The little girl is stupid and has caused a lot of trouble to the Hou Ye. β€œ

Speaking of scenes, the father and daughter are in the same vein.

Ling Xiao snorted, his expression was cold: "Yun Yushi's family affairs, it is inconvenient for Ben Hou to interfere. β€œ

As he spoke, he asked someone to push Cui'er out and turned around and entered the courtyard.

Yun Zhidong looked at the guards guarding the door with a panicked face, and then looked at Cui'er with a crying face, and almost blocked himself in one breath.

Back in the study, he took a sip of tea, and just after he was relieved, the housekeeper came to report to the second head of the Xue Mansion to ask for a meeting.

Cloud Cave hated the betrayal of Xue Dong's family to the core, and refused in one bite, not to see!

"Master," the housekeeper went and returned, "the second shopkeeper said, and Xue Dongjia broke Mrs. Xue's leg and asked us what to do with Aunt Ding?" β€œ

Good things don't go out, bad things go thousands of miles, the lungs of the cloud cave are about to explode, smash the teacup, and roar: "Check!" Check it out! Who the hell sent the message to the Xue Mansion! Find out the tongue and throw it out of the house! β€œ

However, it is useless to find someone to spread fire, and the Xue family grabbed Yun Yushi's new handle, obviously the person who came was not good.

The second shopkeeper is young and vigorous, and his words are not good: "Don't even affect the Xue Mansion if there is a fire in the backyard of Lord Yushi, count the silver you have taken from the owner's pocket over the years is no less than 10,000 taels, even if the owner is arrested, he is not so confused that he shakes it off, 10,000 taels, your ten heads are not enough to cut it." β€œ

There are 10,000 taels, so many? Yunzhidong himself is confused, and this dumb loss is even Coptis chinensis has to swallow.

Naturally, you have to give an account.

Second, the shopkeeper is not in a hurry. Sitting in the flower hall drinking tea and waiting for news.

Yunzhidong asked someone to escort Ding Meisheng to the ancestral hall.

"Upper family law." At the sound of an order, the muffled sound of the wooden stick hitting the flesh made people's hearts tremble.

"Sir! Master! The concubine is wronged! The concubine body is a hundred dares, and she doesn't dare to poison the eight girls! Don't dare to harm people's lives! Ding Meisheng wailed and screamed, desperately clutching the corner of the robe of the Cloud Cave.

"Don't you dare?" Yun Zhidong pulled out his robe, stood aside with his hands in his hands, and snorted coldly: "How many times have I told you that you are not allowed to associate with Mrs. Xue, you are deaf to my words, and now you still dare not say it?" β€œ

"Master, master!" Ding Meisheng cried and begged, defending herself, "The concubine was stupid and deceived by Mrs. Xue, but it is true that the eighth girl sneaked out to listen to the book!" The concubine shared the old lady's worries, so she controlled her! β€œ

"You're in control?!" Yun Zhidong suppressed his breath and exploded, "You are really in good control, how did that little bastard of the Xie family find the eight girls?!" I still want to deny it in front of black and white! Spring peach doesn't die, the eight girls can't get along with us! β€œ

Yelling hurts decency, he took a deep breath and suppressed his anger and said, "Ding Meisheng, don't think I don't know what you're doing, aren't you afraid that Xiu'er will steal Shu'er's limelight and suppress you again?" Unattainable stupidity! β€œ

Yun Zhidong pointed to himself, and then pointed outside, "How many people are waiting to see the jokes of Yunfu, their sisters are both prosperous and lossy!" Whoever marries into the Marquis of Zhongyi's Mansion is the creation of the Yun family! β€œ

said. He glared at the rough envoy: "What are you doing in a daze!" Beat! Hit hard! β€œ

Ding Meisheng looked hopeless, and said without concealment: "Cloud Cave!" You selfish man! I will give birth to children for you, and you only have your own future in your eyes! If you have read the books of the sages, you are nothing more than a treacherous villain! Reading to the belly of the dog! β€œ

The cave of the clouds was so angry that he brushed his sleeves away, and the scolding could be heard in the distance.

"That little hoof has a bad stomach! What an old lady spoils! Phew! It's all your real chapter! Cave of Clouds! You don't want to die well??"

The latter words can be imagined even if you can't hear them.

Ding Meisheng was beaten half to death, fainted in the ancestral hall and no one cared, and the second shopkeeper listened to the letter and left satisfied.

The mother-in-law who was waiting for Ding Meisheng saw that people were not very good, and she didn't dare to touch the old man's head, so she sneaked to the seventh girl's house, and now only Yun Shu can save Aunt Ding.

Yun Shu recuperated for some time, her face recovered most of her face, when she heard that Aunt Ding had an accident, she didn't even care about combing her hair, she got out of bed and ran out with her shoes, she staggered all the way, Baozhu followed behind, the master and servant went to the small courtyard where Yun Xiu lived first, and heard the mother-in-law say that she went to the front yard, and rushed to the front yard.

The two went around to the courtyard gate again, only to find that it was difficult to move an inch.

Yun Xiu knew who was coming, she didn't say anything, Ling Xiao naturally wouldn't be nosy, Yun Shu stood at the door for a while, and seeing that no one cared about it, she took the initiative to speak: "Eighth sister, I know you are sick, I came to see you, can you come in?" β€œ

"Come in." No matter how unhappy his family was, he couldn't face his mother's family in front of the Marquis of Zhongyi, Yun Xiu got up with difficulty and asked someone to move the stool.

Yun Shu sat down and whispered, "Eighth sister, my sister wants to ask you for something." β€œ

Yun Xiu looked at her and didn't speak.

Yun Shu bit her lip and begged in a low voice, "Save my little mother." β€œ

"How does Seventh Sister want me to save it?" Yun Xiu chuckled, "I haven't recovered from poisoning, and I'm a mud bodhisattva, who can I save?" β€œ

"You??" Yun Shu glanced at the tall figure in the hall and said, "If only someone could persuade my father." β€œ

It's not a persuasion, it's an order.

Are they all counting on her to involve the Marquis of Zhongyi?

Yun Xiu stared at the face that was pale due to illness, and there was coldness in her eyes: "Seventh sister may as well say it directly, my sister can't help much, it's okay to refer to one or two." β€œ

Yun Shu understood the refusal in the words, but cheekily begged again and again: "Everyone in the house knows that the eighth sister is friendly with Hou Ye, can you beg Hou Ye for me, so as to save my little mother's life." β€œ

"When Ding Xiaoniang hurt me, did you think about letting me die?" Yun Xiu suddenly laughed, but the laughter disappeared before he reached the bottom of his eyes, "If you want to save half of your kindness, Chun Tao will die?" The seventh sister still doesn't know the ins and outs, it wasn't Chun Tao who blocked it that day, maybe it was me who died. β€œ

"How so?" Yun Shu pretended to be confused, "Gongzi Xie is a scholar, I'm afraid it was caused by a momentary mistake." People can't be resurrected after death, and the eighth sister always has to think more about the living. β€œ

A living person, Ding Meisheng? Or Aunt Xue?

Yun Xiu smiled coldly, "Seventh sister has such a big heart, my sister can't compare, don't you always say that grandmother is partial, now grandmother is sick, Ding Xiaoniang was locked up in the ancestral hall by her father, and we are even." β€œ

"You! You! Yun Shu was so choked that she couldn't speak, Huo Ran got up and bit a mouthful of silver teeth, "Little lady said that you are hard-hearted and cold-blooded, and sure enough, it's right!" β€œ

After a pause, she leaned down again and leaned into Yun Xiu's ear: "My little lady doesn't have the courage to kill, others don't know that I know very well, it's not that you use bitter meat tricks, which not only won the sympathy of the Hou Ye but also caused the little lady to fall out of favor, it is really a good way to kill two birds with one stone." β€œ

"Does Seventh Sister have any evidence?" Yun Xiu looked at her with a smile, "I don't recognize the slander." β€œ

"You!" Yun Shu snorted, "We'll see." β€œ

The two parted unhappily, Yun Xiu was accustomed to it, and asked the girl behind him to continue grate.

Ling Xiao saw the scene just now, and ran out to tease her, "Just let her go?" β€œ

Yun Xiu snorted: "She will go to her father to cry, cry, and Aunt Ding will be saved." β€œ

Ling Xiao sighed: "The girl's family just has a lot of things. β€œ

"Master Hou thinks that the girl has a lot of things, why are you still looking for the girl," Yun Xiu closed his eyes leisurely, "It's good to eat and live with the soldiers every day, and out of sight is clean." β€œ

The poison is finished, the person recovers, and the meanness returns.

Ling Xiao raised his eyebrows, feeling that he was a farmer and a snake, and he would bite him when it was hot.

It's still a beautiful snake, tsk!

***

The next day, Yun Xiu felt that her body was half better, so she didn't want to stay in the front yard, went back to her room, and took a bath.

The little girl in the house rubbed her pancreas for her and talked about the day before: "Girl, yesterday the seventh girl went to the study and cried for half an hour, and the old man relieved himself to save Aunt Ding, but I am afraid that the string is yellow." β€œ

Yun Xiu closed his eyes and asked, "Who did you listen to?" β€œ

"From Hui Shou Tang." The little girl was articulate, "When the lock was about to fall, the old man found the old lady and took the initiative to talk about Aunt Lin, and praised Aunt Lin as a real person." β€œ

"It's rare." Yun Xiu comfortably changed sides, "And then?" β€œ

"And Cui'er," the smile on the corner of the little girl's mouth immediately retracted, "I said that I hanged myself in the middle of the night yesterday, and this morning's mother-in-law who sprinkled and swept found that everyone was stiff, it was terrible, it was terrible." β€œ

Whether it was self-hanging or artificial, no one investigated.

Yun Xiu disdainful in her heart, and she didn't want to waste her mind on this kind of person, "You just talked about Aunt Lin, and then said." β€œ

"The girl said that it is rare," the little girl laughed again, "Don't say that the girl thinks it is rare, everyone in the house thinks it is rare, Aunt Lin will not be ingenious, and her temperament is soft, I didn't know how much I lost after eating Aunt Ding, but the old man finally opened his eyes." β€œ

Speaking of this, I found out that I lost my words: "The slave is too talkative, the girl is not strange, I won't dare next time." β€œ

"Just say what you say to my face." Yun Xiu rested her chin on the back of her hand, "It has to reach Fang's mother's ears." I can't save you. β€œ

The little girl said again and again: "Thank you for mentioning it." β€œ

Yun Xiu observed this girl for the first two days and felt that it was her duty: "You are fourteen this year? β€œ

The little girl nodded: "If you go back to the girl, you will be fourteen after the Dragon Boat Festival." β€œ

Yun Xiu: "You have been working under Mother Fang for two years?" β€œ

The little girl replied respectfully: "The slave maid entered the house at the age of eleven, and she worked as a rough maid in Huishoutang for more than half a year. β€œ

Yun Xiu listened to her good speech, "From now on, you will change your name to Chunliu, and I will serve you in the future, and after I take a bath, you will find Mother Fang, and you will say what I said." I went to the account office to re-register and moved to live in my yard. β€œ

Chunliu didn't expect the pie from the sky to fall on his head, pinching the pancreas and thanking him repeatedly.

Seeing that the end of the month was only two or three days away, Ling Xiao wanted to return to Beijing and escort the tax money sent by Yangzhou Yandao by the way, of course, Yunzhidong would not miss the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to show his merits, as long as Xue Dong's family was not exposed, the position of patrolling the salt imperial history could still sit for several years.

The front yard began to pack up, and in less than a day, several large boxes were neatly placed in the yard.

As for Yun Xiu, except for going to Hui Shoutang, there was no movement at all.

Ling Xiao waited for a long time and couldn't sit still. When it was dark, he stopped her in the verandah, "You don't plan to go with me?" β€œ

Yun Xiu knew that he was here for this: "Master Hou, grandmother is not much better, where can she withstand the toss, in case there are three long and two short on the boat, don't say that I will not be safe for the rest of my life, and the second sister who went to the capital will not be able to spare me first." β€œ

Ling Xiao already knew the answer, but he didn't give up: "So? β€œ

"So," Yun Xiu could only discuss, "or the Hou Ye will go back to the capital first, and when my grandmother is better, I will set off." β€œ

"I'm gone, are you still here?" Ling Xiao thought to himself as a dumbfounder, "The old lady can't wait for me to go, that bullshit protΓ©gΓ© is waiting for you, right?" β€œ

"Chunliu, you go back and prepare refreshments, I'm a little hungry." Yun Xiu took the girl and stayed alone.

"Master Hou--" She saw Chunliu walking away, walked to Ling Xiao's side, couldn't help but wrap around his waist, raised her head and said, "How do you know that I promise a protΓ©gΓ©?" Secretly investigated? Why are you staring at me, I'm wrong? β€œ

Her smiling eyes were picturesque, and under the light of the lantern, the orange light reflected in her brown eyes, rippling and rippling, as if hiding a small galaxy.

Ling Xiao was stunned, and only after a while did he say in a rough voice: "Bold!" Let go! β€œ

"Don't let go." Yun Xiu blinked, leaned on his shoulder, and laughed in his voice, "You just eat the taste, and you're worried that I will marry someone else." Master Hou, you are a man, how can a man's heart be the size of a needle's nose, my grandmother has handed me over to you, and I will never break my word. β€œ

"Then who knows." Ling Xiao didn't look over, he felt a fire in his belly hit the cotton, "You promised to go with me before." Dare to say no, and bear the consequences. β€œ

After finishing speaking, he pulled away the arm wrapped around his waist and left without looking back.

When he returned to the front yard, Ling Xiao figured out that something was wrong, why was he led by the nose?

He immediately called his entourage and took out a mutton fat jade plate engraved with the word "Ling" from his arms, "Take it to the Ye family to take charge of." β€œ

The retinue was ordered to retreat.

Before and after less than a cup of tea, the big shopkeeper of Jiu'an Hall came on horseback, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, he presented the jade plaque with both hands, and bowed down: "The villain doesn't know that the Hou Ye came to Yangzhou, and he is guilty of missing the welcome!" Sin! β€œ

Ling Xiao retrieved the mutton fat jade. Said indifferently: "Get up and speak." β€œ

The big shopkeeper got up and said respectfully: "I don't know that the Hou Ye came here for public and private purposes this time, the old lady of the Yun family has a very good relationship with the little mother, but she didn't mention a word, it was the Ye family's negligence." β€œ

"You don't have to be polite." Ling Xiao didn't want to listen to nonsense, "I'll just ask you, how is Old Lady Yun's health?" Is it possible to sail into Beijing? β€œ

"This??" The big shopkeeper knew that the old lady was not lightly ill, but he also understood the voice of Zhongyi Hou, and considered it again and again, "If you don't let the two doctors from Jiu'an Hall go with you and take the letter to the capital by the way, just wait for the old lady to arrive safely, and my father will definitely take the eldest brother to treat it together." β€œ

Ling Xiao was very satisfied: "The method is feasible, can it ensure that nothing goes wrong?" β€œ

The big shopkeeper cleverly avoided the positive answer, "Master Hou, the doctor is benevolent, the doctor of Jiu'an Hall does not dare to smash his signboard, and he will definitely do his best." β€œ

"Okay," Ling Xiao waved his hand, "You tell Yun Yushi exactly what Fang Cai said, and ask him to call me back." β€œ

Yun Zhidong has a handle in the hand of Zhongyi Hou, and he is sincerely afraid to run and nod in agreement, how dare he say a word.

Since the head of the family agreed, Hui Shoutang not only arranged for the two doctors to stay, but also began to pack up.

In this way, whether Yun Xiu goes to the capital or not, he has to go.

Chunliu cleaned up early in the morning and talked about the gossip in various courtyards, "Girl, the master seems to have the idea of continuing Aunt Lin's chord." β€œ

Yun Xiu raised her eyes and looked at her: "Who did you listen to?" β€œ

"The mother-in-law said this," Chunliu folded one piece of clothing and picked up another, "and said that the old man often interrogated the little third master's homework, unlike before, he always scolded the little third master." β€œ

Speaking of this, she remembered something again, "By the way, by the way, Aunt Lin is also packing up in her house, and it looks like she wants to go with us." β€œ

It's a strange thing, "She came with us?" What eyebrows? β€œ

"I said I was taking care of an old lady." Chunliu said in a similar way, "After all, you are a girl, you can't be a girl, Aunt Lin is different, she is an aunt and a daughter-in-law, isn't it natural for a daughter-in-law to take care of her mother-in-law in the world?" β€œ

As he was talking, he said that Cao Cao Cao had arrived, and the girl outside the house said, "Girl, Aunt Lin is here." β€œ

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