In the courtyard inside the Hanging Flower Gate, dozens of women wearing red and green are busy with each other, some are wiping the floor tiles, some are cutting flower branches, some are picking up fallen leaves, some are cleaning the window lattice, Xu Xiaoniang is holding a child in her arms, strolling and watching in the verandah of the West Chamber, and from time to time she will give a few words of instruction everywhere.

These women were not assigned any work to do a few days ago, they have been raised in the house, and then Xu Xiaoniang saw that Yang Ming did not use them, so she used them herself, she assigned these women to take care of the chores, clean the courtyard, and clean all parts of the inner house in a few days.

Seeing Yang Ming rushing over, the women who were working put down their work one after another, got up and bowed their heads.

"Which of you is called Qin Qicui?" Yang Ming asked the women.

"Slaves and maids are." A woman stepped forward and replied timidly.

Seeing that this woman was seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a short emerald dress, with a slender figure, and her handsome eyebrows and eyes were indeed somewhat similar to the woman kneeling and begging in the lobby outside.

"Your parents are looking for you, you quickly pack your things and go out, and go back with your parents." Yang Ming said to the woman.

There was a sudden restlessness in the crowd, and the women's eyes showed a glint of hope.

Qin Qicui hesitated, bit her lip and said, "My lord, the slave and maid will not go back, the slave and maid are willing to work here, even if they are tired and hard." ”

This is strange, Yang Ming thought that this woman would go out happily, even if she cried with joy, it was a tear of joy, but she didn't expect to get such an answer.

"Your parents are waiting in the lobby outside ............"

"My lord, the slave doesn't want to go back." Qin Qicui said firmly.

"That's not good, if you don't go back, others will think I'm imprisoning you." Yang Ming felt that this woman was simply unreasonable.

The woman's face showed a hint of sadness, and she blessed Yang Ming: "General, let the slave go back to the house and clean up." ”

"Okay, hurry up, don't let your parents wait outside for a long time." Yang Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

Taking advantage of Qin Qicui's efforts to clean up after returning to the house, Yang Ming came to Xu Ying, but saw that this little lady was wearing a newly cut brocade dress, holding a child in her arms, smiling, and graceful. ”

"Wang Xiaogongzi is writing in the house." Xu Ying said with a smile.

"This horizontal should be collected like this, the teacher said that this is called the silkworm head cocoon tail ......" In the wing, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl stood beside Wang Cheng, studying ink while guiding Wang Cheng to write.

Seeing Yang Ming and Xu Ying entering the house, the girl and Wang Cheng hurriedly got up and saluted.

Yang Ming picked up the bamboo paper on the table to draw the red writing book, and saw that the page was crookedly written, "At the beginning of people, nature is good and ......", Wang Cheng blushed: "General, I can't write well......"

"It's okay, it's only been a few days of practice and it's good to write like this." Yang Ming saw that Wang Cheng was wearing a brand-new collared robe, his hair was neatly combed, with a bundle of ribbons, and his face was a little whiter than when they met that day, just like a picture of a Mengtong from a big family, and he couldn't help but feel happy for him.

Looking at the little girl standing behind Wang Cheng, Yang Ming couldn't help but feel a wave in his heart, although this girl is young, her facial features are extremely delicate, like a pink carved jade, her skin is crystal clear, and you can faintly see a line of green tendons in the skin of her chin.

"This girl's name is Linglong, she is the youngest here, she can talk to Wang Xiaogongzi, and she knows some writing and ink, so the slave family asked her to accompany Wang Xiaogongzi to read and write." Xu Ying introduced Yang Ming.

"Oh, good." Yang Ming finally took his gaze off Linglong's face, "Then Qin Qicui has cleaned up, why is it so slow?" ”

Xu Ying was stunned, as if she had thought of something, her face suddenly changed, she handed the child in her arms to Linglong's hand, turned around and ran out of the room, rushed all the way to the west skirt room, slapped the door hard, and shouted loudly, "Open the door!" Open the door! ”

With a bang, Yang Ming hit on one side, and the door opened, but he saw Qin Qicui's body hanging on the beam of the room, and the stool under his feet fell to the ground, as if he had committed suicide.

Yang Ming was shocked, stepped forward with an arrow, didn't have time to lift up the stool, stood directly on the stool legs, hugged Qin Qicui's waist and legs and lifted them up, and put the person down.

I saw that this Qin Qicui's hair had been combed again, her face was rubbed with lead powder, and the short skirt she was wearing before entering the house was also replaced by a new emerald Yuehua skirt, obviously preparing to seek death.

Fortunately, she had this kind of dressing up after entering the house, and if she hanged herself as soon as she entered the house, she would have died by this time.

Xu Ying hurriedly took cold water and sprinkled it on Qin Qicui's face, then Qin Qicui woke up leisurely, and as soon as she opened her eyes, tears rained down, sobbing and crying.

"What's going on? Your father and mother are waiting outside to pick you up, but you are looking for death in the house? Yang Ming's face was ugly, and he yelled at Qin Qicui.

"General," Xu Ying pulled Yang Ming away, her eyes moist, "she was defiled by the Tartars......"

"Defiled? Do you have to die if you are defiled? How many people here haven't been ruined by the Tartar?! ”

Xu Ying's face froze for a moment, and then her eyes lit up.

"General, she's pregnant." Xu Ying sighed, "If I'm not mistaken. ”

Although the social atmosphere at the end of the Ming Dynasty was open, the concept of chastity was still very deep-rooted, if this Qin Qicui was only defiled, it would be better to cover it up, you don't say that others don't know, or pretend not to know. But if you are pregnant and your belly grows bigger day by day, you can't see anyone. If Qin Qicui follows her parents back like this today, she will inevitably be charged with insulting her family in the future, and it is possible that she will be put into a pig cage and drowned.

"How many months?" Xu Ying squatted down and asked Qin Qicui, who was kneeling on the ground.

"If you go back to the lady in charge, the slave family has ...... I haven't had my period in two months. Qin Qicui said in a voice like a mosquito.

"It's not going to be easy." Xu Ying got up and said to Yang Ming, "If the general wants to save her, he will have to delay for a few days...... It's just that I'm not too sure. ”

Ancient medicine did not have a very good way to abortion, even if it used some tiger and wolf medicine, it may not be successful, or even if it succeeds, it will be a corpse with two lives.

"The general has to think twice, if she is left now, but people will die in the mansion in the future, it will be even more difficult to explain to her parents."

"If she doesn't want this child, just stay in the house for a few days, and I'll figure out ......a way," Yang Ming thought for a while and said to Xu Ying.

"General, what can you do about such a thing as a woman?" Xu Ying said faintly.

"I have a medicine ......"

Xu Ying stared at Yang Ming with a pair of peach blossom eyes, and the expression on her face changed.

Yang Ming had experience in this kind of thing when he was in college. Yang Ming has interacted with some female soldiers and female clerks, and knows that they often have some pregnancy test paper sticks and contraceptive pills, and the so-called emergency contraceptive pill is actually a reduced amount of abortion medicine, just find a few more boxes to make up the full amount. In addition, there are whole boxes of medicines in the car, which are supplies for the military hospital, and there may also be such medicines in it.

"You see what way to let her father and mother go back first, and then come back in a few days to get someone......" Yang Ming discussed with Xu Ying and said.

"There is a way, but I am afraid that in case it ......," Xu Ying thought for a while, "I'll tell her mother the truth, I won't hurt my daughter if I am a mother." ”

"I'm sorry for you." Yang Ming nodded.

"You get up and go out with me, the general has a way to save you." Xu Ying said to Qin Qicui, who was kneeling on the ground.

The conversation between Yang Ming and Xu Ying just now Qin Qicui listened to it in her ears, Yang Ming said that there is a way, then there must be a way, these days in the mansion to hear all kinds of magical stories of Yang Ming, so that Qin Qicui unconsciously has a strong confidence in Yang Ming, and the desire to survive in her heart is ignited again.

In the lobby, the Qin couple, Liu Bixian, Ding Yousan and the sergeants were all waiting there, and there were several more bookstores under Liu Bixian, and there was a circle of ordinary people outside the lobby door, stretching their necks to look in one by one - it is a national character to like to watch the excitement. The businessmen were also pacing around the lobby, holding the official documents issued by Liu Bixian in their hands, anxiously waiting for the seal, and the business situation was like fire, so they didn't have time to care about the affairs of the Qin couple - in a sense, the businessman was the first to break away from the national nature of "spectators".

There was a commotion in the crowd, and Xu Xiaoniang came in from the back door of the lobby with her child in her arms, followed by Qin Qicui, who covered her face with her sleeves. The Qin woman rushed forward, hugged her daughter and cried bitterly, and the father was also wiping his tears vigorously on the side.

Ding Yousan stood in the crowd and watched this scene, his eyes straight. After waiting in the lobby for a long time, the main owner has not come out, which aroused his strong curiosity, and when someone came out, he was still holding the pipa and half covering her face, the little woman lowered her head, and her emerald sleeves covered her face, Ding Yousan could only see her neatly combed black oily hair, and the shiny pearl of her sideburns. When the mother and daughter hugged each other and cried, the sleeves of their clothes hung down, and they saw half of their faces, the delicate pink and white of the lead powder, which set off the cinnabar on the lips.

"Okay, the family is reunited, let's all go back." Xu Xiaoniang said to everyone with a smile.

The man surnamed Qin turned to the crowd and made a reunion gesture, and the crowd gradually dispersed.

Several businessmen surrounded him, with a smile on their faces, and bowed down to hand the official paper to Xu Ying.

In the west wing, the windows are bright and clean, the furniture of Huanghuali is placed in a staggered manner, and the flowers inserted in the vase are set off to bring out the elegance of the interior.

"Have you told her parents?" At the crescent table by the window, Yang Ming took the tea offered by Xu Ying, took a sip, and asked.

"Well, her mother is reasonable."

"Where's she?"

"I moved to the east podium, and I asked Zhang's second sister-in-law to watch her." Zhang's second sister-in-law is one of the servant women in the house, only she and several other servants can enter the Hanging Flower Gate, and the other servants and all the male servants are not allowed to enter the inner house at will.

"Zhang's second sister-in-law is careful, and she has given birth to a child, so I let her live in the east podium for the past few days......"

"Well, that's good." Yang Ming nodded and said, "I've been too busy these days, but I forgot about it." ”

"When this matter is settled, I want Mr. Liu to issue a notice so that these women who have families will be taken out."

"The general said to forget, that is to forget." Xu Ying looked at Yang Ming with a smile.

"Of course I forgot—did I still deliberately keep them......" Yang Ming felt a little annoyed and said to Xu Ying with a straight face.

"Yes. The slave family knows that the general has a lot of opportunities, so how can he have time to care about us little women......"

Yang Ming was speechless.

After searching the car parked in the backyard, Yang Ming returned to the West Wing with a plastic bag. Xu Ying has never been involved in the iron car, iron cannon and things on the car, and Yang Ming went to the car to find things, and she has been waiting in the west wing.

Yang Ming handed over the RU486 (Western medicine name) found in the car to Xu Ying, and repeatedly told her how to use it, but when Xu Ying took the medicine and was about to go out, Yang Ming stopped her again.

"No, I'll have to go by myself." The laws of the previous world still affect Yang Ming, and the lessons of being expelled from college are memories that he will never erase.

"If the general wants to go in person, then go in person." Xu Ying still had that faint tone.

The two came to a room in the east podium together, Qin Qicui lay on the bed and fell asleep on her side, and a simple middle-aged servant woman accompanied her in the room.

"Second sister-in-law Zhang, you go out first." Xu Ying instructed the servant.

"You go out too." Yang Ming said to Xu Ying.

Xu Ying was stunned, turned around and went out, and closed the door.

"Miss Qin, I'm your doctor now." Yang Ming said to Qin Qicui solemnly, "Are you sure you don't want to carry the child?" ”

"The pregnancy should be less than 40 days, and you have the right to decide whether to keep it or give it up."

Qin Qicui burst into tears.

"Miss Qin, you think about it, now please answer me......"

After another burst of crying, Qin Qicui struggled to get up from the bed and knelt on the ground.

"Don't cry yet, tell me yes or no."

He was answered by more intense weeping.

"Fuck!"

Yang Ming couldn't bear it anymore, he slammed open the door and shouted, "Xu Ying, ...... you come here"

The women working in the yard all looked over from afar, and they didn't know what was going on, so Xu Ying, who was standing in the nearby verandah, hurriedly came over.

"Xu Ying, you ask her, whether you want it or not, and make it clear to Lao Tzu."

"Also, when I get up tomorrow morning, all the women are not allowed to go to the toilet, and I want a medical check-up!"

"Not allowed to go to the toilet? Medical check-up? Xu Ying looked at Yang Ming with wide eyes, "General, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Don't ask, you just notify it like this, if there are disobedient people, they will be severely punished!" Yang Ming said angrily.