Chapter 7: Listen to the Rain

Back in the Lin family's courtyard, Li Xi'er's eyes were still slightly red. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Seeing his daughter's appearance, Lin hurriedly asked his daughter to sit beside him: "What's wrong?" But who bullied you? ”

Li Xi'er didn't mention Hai's daughter, hugged Lin's arm, and said coquettishly: "Xi'er just wants to kiss her mother." ”

Lin Shi showed a smile: "Didn't you always say that you were going to play with your second brother, why did you start to think of your mother again this time?" ”

"I just want to." Li Xi'er smiled smartly.

After Lin fell ill, several famous doctors in Fujian who had been invited said that they were helpless, but in the end, she didn't even know what kind of illness she was infected.

The ancients believed that the belongings of the sick were infected with sick gas, and they were worried that the sick gas would be transmitted to others.

After Xi'er fell asleep at night, Lin asked Yuzhu and Xuemei about their daughter's situation in Li Ting.

Lin sat in front of the bed, making female red with stitches and threads, called Yuzhu and Xuemei, and said lightly: "Is Xi'er being bullied by anything today, afraid that I won't dare to talk to me if I'm worried?" ”

Yuzhu subconsciously wanted to say that Miss Wu was crying when she heard the story.

Xuemei is a lively-minded person, knowing that the story told by Li Ting is deviant, seeing that Yuzhu was about to blurt out, she hurriedly took Yuzhu's hand and said: "Fifth Miss likes the second young master very much, I really think that the second young master is my own brother, I think I came to see the second young master just eat some egg noodle soup for lunch, and I feel sad." ”

Yuzhu reacted and bowed his head silently.

Lin was silent for a moment, put down the needle and thread in his hand, and sighed: "The monthly money given to this child every month has always been the least, but it has suffered this child." That's it, I begged my mother to intercede and give Ting'er more money. ”

Xuemei thought to herself that the fifth lady knew the news, and she didn't know how happy she should be.

Lin lowered his head and continued to make needles, and said with a slow smile: "You go down first." ”

Walking out of the room, Xuemei pulled Yuzhu to the plantain in the courtyard, and made sure that there was no one around, so she communicated in a low voice.

Yuzhu looked at Xuemei with some confusion: "It's the first time I lied to Madame." ”

Xuemei nodded Yuzhu's eyebrows, "You remember, we are Yahuan, don't talk nonsense except for talking, and don't say more." You have a long memory, don't tell all the stories told by the second young master, chew the root of your tongue, and you don't know if you get into trouble. ”

"Yes, how can I have you Xuemei clever, but fortunately you are clever. Speaking of which, the story told by the second young master is really good, I think Xuemei, you also want to listen to the second young master continue to tell the story, so you can help the second young master, right? ”

Xuemei said angrily: "Obviously, you like to listen." ”

Yuzhu smiled brightly, and asked in a low voice, "Xuemei, how can Madam know that the old lady doesn't like the second young master, and still treat the second young master so well?" ”

"I'm telling you, don't tell anyone." Xuemei whispered, "If you think about it, since Madame's illness, the old man has rarely come to Madame's place, and the relationship with the young lady is not very close, but he has a very deep relationship with Aunt Du, and the sixth young master Li An is even more deeply loved by the old man." Madame is not in good health, I am afraid that she will not be able to last for many years, and the old lady is old, who will take care of the young lady at that time? ”

Yuzhu was surprised: "Madame wants the second young master to take care of Miss?" Thinking of Li Ting again, he couldn't help but smile on his cheeks, "The second young master treats Miss really well." ”

The subordinates in the house love Dai Lin very much, mainly because the Lin family treats people kindly, but when he went to the second young master, Yuzhu found that the second young master treats people more differently, in short, he is not like other young masters and young ladies who love to call people.

Xuemei felt that Yuzhu was stupid.

She suspected that Madame's thoughts were more than that, but she was afraid that she still had the idea of passing the second young master to her feet, although Miss Xi'er was a descendant, but after all, she was a girl, if the second young master became the eldest son, then she was afraid that the aunt would stir up some waves.

In the middle of the night, the sky suddenly began to rain.

The courtyard of the Li Mansion was shrouded in rain, and for a while no other sound could be heard except the sound of rain.

Many people didn't fall asleep on time that night.

Aunt Du didn't say a word, standing in front of the window where the potted plants were placed, the candlelight illuminated the room, and listened to the girl Ziling report the situation of the Lin family one by one.

"The more this Lin family lives, the more they go back." When Aunt Du heard that the Lin family continued to have close contact with Li Ting, she smiled coldly and said, "Don't she know where Li Tingniang came from?" How could an old lady tolerate the child of such a woman who does not abide by women's morals! ”

Although Aunt Du said so, she was still not at ease in her heart. First, she is not in power at home, and secondly, the old lady doesn't like her very much, all she relies on is Li Yan's favor.

Aunt Du thought for a while and suddenly said, "Ziling, I tell you something." Tomorrow, you will also take An Ge'er to visit Li Ting. ”

She wanted to see what was so strange about Li Ting.

Ziling nodded: "The slave knows."

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Outside the window, the rain was still falling, and the raindrops gathered by the eaves were falling on the earth like a lullaby.

Li Ting stood alone under the eaves, thinking that the ancients had little entertainment at night, and there was nothing to do when it rained. Many literati liked to listen to the rain through the window, and wrote many popular poems. Now he has also experienced the romance of "a young man listening to the rain song upstairs, and the red light is dim".

However, he was more worried about the situation with the herbs in the yard. The herbs had just been planted, and they were at the stage when it was not easy to survive, so thinking about it, Li Ting couldn't stay any longer, so he couldn't help but put on a cloak and go to the yard to see the situation of the herbs.

Yan's mother didn't sleep either.

In the middle of the night, she would carry a lantern to inspect the door, fearing that the thieves would sneak in and steal what little money was left. It's the same today.

But the difference is that she couldn't laugh when she saw Li Ting busy in the yard in the middle of the night tonight. These days, she was already anxious to see Li Ting not going to school, and she thought that after a few days, the second young master was tired of these flowers and plants, so she obediently went back to school, where did she think that the second young master would get up in the middle of the night to take care of the flowers and plants, and he was obsessed to such a point.

In the shadow of the eaves, Yan's mother leaned slightly, looked at Li Ting in the rain, and couldn't help but secretly wipe her tears.

Li Ting carved out a mud ditch with flowing water in the medicine field, and when he came back, his hands were already full of mud, and he saw Yan's mother standing under the eaves, and said with a smile: "Yan's mother, why are you here?" ”

Mother Yan smiled reluctantly, and finally couldn't help but say, "Second Young Master, you can go to school tomorrow." ”

Li Ting just shook his head.

Seeing that Li Ting was stubborn, Yan's mother was unconsciously anxious, and actually cried: "Ting'er, before your mother left, I swore to take good care of you." Your mother promised to marry the master, not for you, you can't be sorry for your mother. Even if I'm dead, I'll take care of you as long as I'm still there. You listen to me, study hard, gain fame, become a big official, and marry a good daughter-in-law. Although I don't know a few words, I also understand the principle of diligence, what is it if you fall behind in schoolwork now, but if you don't study hard, you will never get ahead. ”

Li Ting was a little stunned.

The rain wet her face, so that Li Ting could only see her eyes full of sadness when she lowered her head. Yan's mother is not tall, but now her body is rickety, as tall as twelve-year-old Li Ting, and her expression is even more difficult to see when she lowers her head.

Li Ting thought that Li Ting was not a little enterprising, and he didn't know Yan's mother's good intentions, so he was really a little pitiful for Yan's mother, so he hurriedly hugged Yan's mother's neck and comforted: "Yan's mother, you don't have to worry about these things." ”

After a pause, Li Tingcai said with a smile: "Reading is good, but reading can't save my mother." I've never been able to understand why my mother had a serious illness and why the doctors in the city couldn't cure it. I don't want to lose any more loved ones, so I want to become a famous doctor. After I got sick, I understood it completely. ”

In this day and age, good doctors are too scarce. Ordinary diseases may take the lives of ordinary people, Li Ting said that he wanted to study medicine after a serious illness, which was convincing, Yan's mother had no doubts at all, and really thought that Li Ting suddenly wanted to study medicine because of his illness.

Yan's mother's eyes were slightly red, and after a moment of silence, she said, "You don't even have a master, how can you study medicine?" ”

Li Ting said: "Most of the ancient Chinese medicine practitioners are self-taught, starting from classics such as "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", and "Jin Kui Yaolu", diligence and studious will inevitably achieve something. ”

There are four classics of traditional Chinese medicine: "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", "Typhoid Fever" (including Typhoid Treatise + Jin Kui Yaolu), "Shennong's Materia Medica", and "Difficult Scripture". Li Ting was forced to memorize it well since he was a child, and although he didn't understand the meaning of the words at the time, he began to learn from these classics.

Mother Yan looked at Li Ting's bright eyes in the dark, and began to be silent and did not speak, and suddenly she sighed and stretched out her hand to hug Li Ting tightly.