Skullcap said: "Okay, you say, I'll memorize the recipe." ”

"This can't work," Zuo Shaoyang shook his head.

"What? Are you still afraid that I will learn the formula? ”

"No, because there are a few flavors of medicine in my prescription that are not available in ordinary pharmacies, and they have to be specially concocted, or I will prepare the medicine for you, you can take it back and decoction it directly."

"Well, okay, I'll get it tomorrow morning?"

"Okay."

Zuo Shaoyang said: "Let's go back, it's almost curfew." ”

"Alas!" Huang Qin sighed, "I really want to sit by the river all night." If only you could have a house outside the city, you don't have to be afraid of curfews, and you can come out at night to see the stars and the moon, and sit by the river and listen to the river and listen to the insects. ”

"Yes, what you said reminded me that I have money to open a resort outside the city, and I will enjoy the idyllic life for people like you who seek romance."

"Okay. I'll be the first to go! ”

The two stood up and walked back as they spoke. Bypass the Seifuji Temple and go down the alley to the street. There are already lights on the street here, and Huang Qin said, "I'm leaving!" I was joking with you before, don't care! ”

Zuo Shaoyang didn't know what the joke she was referring to, so he nodded vaguely: "It's okay." Just be happy! ”

"It's a pleasure to be with you!" Huang Qin smiled mischievously, waved her hand and left.

Zuo Shaoyang was a little confused, and he couldn't understand whether there was anything in Huang Qin's last sentence. Shaking his head, he strolled back home.

Huang Qin wants this kind of medicine and medicine shop, but Rehmannia needs to be processed into mature Rehmannia, this method of concocting Rehmannia dispensing has not yet appeared in the early Tang Dynasty, and it has to be made into pills.

Zuo Shaoyang took some time to configure the pills he needed, wrapped them in paper, and then went back to sleep.

Early the next morning, Huang Qin came, Zuo Shaoyang gave him the prepared pills, Huang Qin was a little embarrassed when she received the medicine, and her face was red.

In the following days, it was the busy season of spring ploughing, and Zuo Shaoyang took Miao Peilan and Bai Zhihan to plow the fields early in the morning and did not come back until dark. He and Bai Zhihan replaced the ploughing and had a rest, but Miao Peilan never stopped from morning to night, except for drinking water and eating halfway. The speed of ploughing was still slightly faster than the two of them.

On the morning of the third day, Zuo Shaoyang was plowing the field outside Dongcheng with his second daughter, and a woman ran along the ridge in the distance, wearing a shirt with silk flowers on a white background, green makeup knee pants, and a hair tied with a tender yellow ribbon behind her head. Zuo Gongzi! ”

Zuo Shaoyang was driving the oxen to plow the field, and when he heard the shout, he straightened up and looked: "Little sister!" I'm here! ”

Sang Xiaomei came to the edge of the ridge and said anxiously: "Zuo Gongzi, please go back and save my mother?" ”

Zuo Shaoyang's heart sank: "What's wrong with your mother?" ”

"She's dying! Woo woo woo" Sang Xiaomei was so anxious that she wiped her tears.

"Is it getting worse?" Zuo Shaoyang said as he handed over the plough to Bai Zhihan, came to the ridge of the field, and put on straw sandals.

"Yes, Xue Langzhong said no, let me carry it to you and see if there is a way. Please, I know you hate my mother, to be honest, I hate her too, but if she is my mother, you ......, for my sake, save her. Sang Xiaomei saw that Miao Peilan and Bai Zhihan were looking at her, and said sadly: "Zuo Gongzi, as long as you save my mother, I, I swear to heaven that I will never pester you again in the future!" Woowoo"

Zuo Shaoyang was a little embarrassed, looked at Miao Peilan, who seemed to be smiling and looking at him, and Bai Zhihan, who had an indifferent expression, and pretended to shrug his shoulders easily: "What are you talking about, when did you pester me?" Let's go! ”

Zuo Shaoyang threw off his big stride and ran towards the city as if he was running away, and Sang Xiaomei was chasing him behind him crying. It's like the two of them have an awkward quarrel.

Ran forward a mile or two along the path by the Shijing River, saw the official road from a distance, and couldn't see Miao Peilan and them when he turned around, Zuo Shaoyang stopped, turned around and waited for Sang Xiaomei to catch up. said: "Little sister, you misunderstood, I didn't mean to hate you." ”

Sang Xiaomei stood still, chasing a little urgently, her high chest kept rising and falling, her hair was also blown by the wind, and she looked at him with tears in her eyes.

Zuo Shaoyang took her hand and said softly: "Actually, I really like you, it's just that my father and mother want me to marry a wife from a well-known scholarly family, otherwise they won't recognize my son." ”

Sang Xiaomei nodded: "I heard about the ......" The pink head hung down, and she could see her white and curvy neck.

"My father said that if I marry a wife, I can take a concubine, and they will not object to whoever is a concubine."

Sang Xiaomei raised her head and looked at him in surprise: "I don't care about the name. ”

"However, your mother has been insisting on asking for a bride price of seventy yuan before she can give you to me, which makes me very annoyed, and she says that I don't have so much money now, and even if I have, I don't want to spend money to buy a woman as a wife and concubine."

"I know. In fact, what you gave to our family to help our family survive the two-month famine has already exceeded the bride price of 70 yuan. It's just that my mother is too greedy, and she thinks that you will definitely marry me, so she refuses to give in. ”

"Yes, I've never disliked you just because of this annoyance."

"Really?" Sang Xiaomei's tearful phoenix eyes suddenly brightened, and she didn't even care that the farmers who were plowing the fields in the distance were looking at them from afar, and she stepped forward happily, almost clinging to him.

Zuo Shaoyang held her hand tightly: "Naturally, it's true." ”

"Then ......, what if my mother doesn't want a bride price?"

"It's not that I don't want to give a bride price, the bride price is naturally to be given, but it can only be the dowry required by the six rites, not the cost of buying and selling marriages."

Sang Xiaomei didn't care about the difference between the two, she just looked at him anxiously and said, "Well, as long as the general bride price, don't be as much as seventy, right?" - What if she agreed? ”

"She won't say yes."

"What if you say yes?" Sang Xiaomei asked persistently.

"If she agrees......" Zuo Shaoyang hesitated, but looking at Sang Xiaomei's almost desperate eyes, his heart softened, and he held her hand tightly, "Then I will accept you as a concubine, after I marry a wife." ”

"You, you're not coaxing me, are you?" Sang Xiaomei didn't know why happiness came so simply this time.

"Of course not." Zuo Shaoyang took her into his arms, and her petite and thin body trembled in his arms, like a dead leaf in the cold wind. "You are good to me, I know it. I hadn't thought about it that much before, but this time I was stuck on the top of the hill and thought about a lot of things, thinking of you, the joy of being with you, and the fact that you helped me comb my hair. The scene of us carrying water together. ”

Sang Xiaomei cried, muttering: "With your heart, I will die immediately, and I will be willing......"

Zuo Shaoyang lowered his head and kissed her lightly in the hair: "Silly girl, don't talk nonsense!" ”

"Hmm." Sang Xiaomei nodded, raised her face, full of tears, "Xue Langzhong said, my mother is only afraid that she will not be saved, you must save her, you can rest assured, if you want to save her, she will agree to your request." ”

Zuo Shaoyang smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid it's not that simple." To put it mildly, your mother wants money and doesn't want to die. ”

Sang Xiaomei wiped her tears and looked at him fixedly: "If you save my mother, my mother still refuses to let go, if you want me to marry someone else, I will never marry for the rest of my life!" -- The Emperor and the Queen of Heaven are witnesses! ”

"Little sister ......!" Zuo Shaoyang didn't know what to say, he just felt that it was superfluous to say anything at the moment.

The two of them entered the city and came to Guizhi Hall, there were many people in the lobby, the Sang family had arrived, and there were a few enthusiastic neighbors, including the princess who used to be a matchmaker. In addition, there are also Xue Langzhong and Shi Langzhong of Renshoutang, who are sitting on the chairs next to Zuo Gui's father, sighing and saying something.

The Zuo family now has some money and more patients, so the Liang family bought a few more chairs so that a distinguished guest can sit and not sit on the original squeaky and broken chair.

On the bed in the corner of the house, Sang Mu was lying on her side curled up, wheezing and coughing, a pair of fat hands kneading in front of her chest, as if she wanted to pull out something stuffed in her chest, her eyes rolled blankly, her lips were cyanosis, and her breathing was shortness like pulling bellows.

Zuo Shaoyang was shocked, but he didn't go over. He arched his hand towards Xue Langzhong and Shi Langzhong.

Xue Langzhong's master and apprentice hurriedly got up to give a salute, and Xue Langzhong looked ashamed: "Zuo Gongzi, the old man is incompetent, and he has exhausted all the methods for the old mother of the Sang family's edema, but it is still not improving, but it is even heavier, and this morning he is in a dangerous state, and he is old and incompetent, so he has brought him for help." ”

Zuo Shaoyang was not polite, just nodded, walked to the side of the small bed, the maid Cao'er brought a stool over, Zuo Shaoyang sat down, and asked, "Auntie, how do you feel?" ”

Sang Mu shook her swollen head like a dead pig's head scalded by boiling water, and hummed hard: "Uncomfortable ......, I'm going to die...... my chest is ......, and my chest is like a ......big stone, save me......"

"Can you pee out?"

"It's ok, but rarely ......"

After Zuo Shaoyang looked at his tongue, he lifted his wrist to diagnose the pulse, and the pulse was floating and counted. couldn't help but sigh, and said to Daddy Sang and the others next to him: "Auntie's disease, palpitations, cyanosis, shortness of breath, and shortness of breath can't lie down. ”

The Sang family was stunned, Sang Xiaomei's tears were pouring down, Sang Daddy's face was miserable, his lips were trembling, Sang Wazi and Huang Qin were crying loudly, although the voice was loud, but there were no tears, which made people always feel a little fake.

Sang Mu struggled and hissed, "Stop howling! The old lady is not dead! What a mourning to cry! ”

Sang Wazi and Huang Qin's voices stopped abruptly. Sang Xiaomei's tears still kept flowing. But he didn't reach out to wipe it, and tears flowed.

After Sang Mu reprimanded, she kept panting and looked at Zuo Shaoyang: "Childe, please, save me, if you save my life, I ......, I will marry my little sister to you!" The dowry ......, the dowry is only ......, as long as fifty! ”

Zuo Shaoyang glanced at Sang Xiaomei with a wry smile, and the look in his eyes was saying: How is it? That's a good guess, right? She just wants money, not her life.

Sang Xiaomei cried: "Mother! If you sell your daughter like this again, your daughter will never marry for the rest of her life! ”

(To be continued)