Chapter 142: Thousand-year-old ginseng
It is fair to say that Ni Er did not deliberately poison and kill Sui's mother at that time, but wanted to use heavy doses to cure Sui's mother's illness, which is a good intention to do bad things, in modern terms, it is a medical accident caused by overconfident negligence. According to the current punishment, the maximum sentence for medical malpractice is three years in prison, and Ni Er is now disabled in both legs, which is much heavier than the criminal liability for medical malpractice in modern society.
Doctor Ni saw that his younger brother Ni Er's legs were disabled, and suddenly old tears rolled down, knowing that it must be the Sui shopkeeper who spent money to buy the soap, and it is also a common thing to beat people into cripples during executions, and there is no way to theorize at all, so he can only look at the Sui shopkeeper with grief and anger.
Shopkeeper Sui snorted coldly, a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and with the big bag of compensation things, he turned around and got off the platform.
Ni's mother was far away, she heard her son screaming miserably, and she was distressed, although the last few sticks were screamed very badly, and then she lost her voice, knowing that something was wrong, she hurriedly sent a housekeeper to check, and came back to report, saying that the second son's surname was worry-free, but her legs were only afraid of not being protected, and Ni's mother was in tears. But after thinking about it, the second son at least his surname has been saved, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune. And if you have broken legs and can't get out, you can get into less trouble, and maybe bad things will become good things.
So Ni's mother held back her tears, and then raised her eyes to search in the lively crowd, and saw Zuo Gui, Fennel, Hou Pu and others, all swept over, and finally, she saw the shrunken Liang who was hiding behind the crowd, and couldn't help but feel happy in her heart, and whispered to the personal maid next to the sedan chair to go to Liang's to invite her.
The maid told Liang in the past, Liang was a little frightened, and obviously didn't want to come, but the maid knew that the old lady must have important things to discuss when she invited her, but she was a clever person, and Liang was soft-hearted, and couldn't stand the maid's wailing and pleading, and saw that Ni's mother's palanquin was also hiding far behind the crowd, so she still followed.
When he came closer, he gave a blessing: "Is there anything wrong with the old lady?" ”
Mother Ni opened the curtain, turned sideways to give up half of the seat, and patted it with her hand: "Old sister get on the sedan chair, let's talk." ”
Liang knew that Ni's mother was okay and would not talk to him at this time, looked at her husband Zuo Gui's side, and saw that he was talking to his son, neither of them found that they were here, so they took their skirts and entered the sedan chair and sat next to Ni's mother.
Mother Ni lowered the curtain. The side face smiled reluctantly: "Old sister, your little man hasn't married yet, right?" ”
"No...... hehe," Liang sneered.
"I've been looking at it these days, your little Langzhong, he is real, kind-hearted, and has an excellent character, especially this medical skill, my son is also a little famous doctor in Hezhou, and there is nothing he can afford in Langzhong, but this time, he is really full of praise for your Xiaolangzhong, and said, if it weren't for his bearded person, he wouldn't be able to polish this old face, I really want to kowtow to your Xiaolangzhong as a teacher!"
A few words made Liang grin and smile: "The old lady is too awarded, my eldest man, is honest and good-looking, hehe......"
"No, I like it so much. Old sister, it's a pity that I gave birth to such two sons who are not promising, I didn't give birth to a daughter, my granddaughter is too young, and there is no suitable one in my relatives' family, otherwise, I would have married you this family! ”
Liang Shi was even more excited when he heard this, and rubbed his hands on his waist in front of him: "That's, it's a pity that our Dalang doesn't have this blessing." ”
"Although I can't get married, I really like the child Da Lang, so I want to say a few words to the old sister, remind me, your daughter-in-law, you have to choose a good life, don't be too accommodating, don't wronged the child. Not only is it necessary to find a person with good character, dignified and virtuous, three from four virtues, husband and children, and a good housekeeper, but also one thing that can not be ignored, it is more important than the previous ones! ”
Liang hurriedly asked, "Which one?" ”
"The right door!" Mother Ni reached out and took Liang's hand and patted it gently, "I know that your Zuo family is not an ordinary family, it is a scholarly family, with status and status. When choosing a daughter-in-law, you have to choose from a high school! It's a good match! Although you don't want to be rich and noble, you can't just find a mountain village girl or something, right? ”
This sentence said the Liang family's thoughts, Zuo Gui has always boasted of being an official eunuch family, a scholarly family, and they are such a son, to inherit the Zuo family's incense, so the requirements for the daughter-in-law are very high, and have always emphasized that it is better to lack than to abuse, seeing that the son is getting older day by day, this daughter-in-law has not yet landed, sometimes she is in a hurry to get on the fire, and her mouth is full of bubbles, but the family is too poor, don't be the daughter of a famous family, even a small family of jasper, and can't afford to marry.
Liang sighed secretly in his heart, but his face did not show it, he smiled reluctantly and nodded yes.
Mother Ni said again: "I originally had the intention to help you find one in Xiaolang, but I was afraid that the old eyes would be dizzy and inaccurate, and said that Xiaolangzhong didn't like it, so it had to be your own hard work and hand-picked by the old sister." Hehe, I have a little thing, give it to my sister you, if you like a girl, the door is like a good character, and you can't hire it for a while, you can take this thing and sell it, and marry this satisfactory daughter-in-law! ”
Liang hurriedly said: "That's not possible, our master said ......"
"Old sister! You can just give it a face and accept it! Your Xiaolang helped testify, which saved my second son's life, and I only have a person to rely on in the second half of my life, I am grateful, and I think about how to repay this kindness all day long. Otherwise, my heart will never be at peace. But your lord refused to accept the gift no matter what, so I looked for you, you and I are both mothers, I was as worried about my son's marriage as you were back then, and I was also anxious because I fell in love but did not have a decent dowry, I know the pain. Da Lang is such a kind-hearted child with excellent medical skills, and he must marry a good daughter-in-law in the future, so that he is such a good person in vain, and it is not in vain that you give birth to him, old sister! ”
Liang nodded gratefully: "Yes, but our master ......"
"I know! He won't let him accept the gift, you can take it yourself, don't you let him know? ”
"But ......"
Ni's mother said: "Old sister, the daughter-in-law is the first priority, the eldest man is not young, he can't delay any longer, you and your lord are thinking about holding their grandson a day earlier, right?" Huh"
"No, I've dreamed of this day." Liang smirked, and his heart was a little loose.
"That's right! I was the same back then! "Titica" Ni's mother smiled and said, "If nothing else, just for your Zuo family's incense, it's time to find a satisfactory daughter-in-law for Da Lang!" So, old sister, you will reward me with an old face, and accept this thing without telling the master, and when you really want to worry about the bride price in the future, you will also secretly send the bride price without telling the master, and the daughter-in-law will marry the door, cook raw rice and cook rice, and then hold his grandson to compensate him. He looked at the daughter-in-law who had married so satisfied, no matter how hot it was, there would be no fire! If he is not angry, for the sake of his daughter-in-law, what can he do if he is angry for a while? Left and right are for their left family! ”
Liang nodded again and again, unable to refuse at all, hesitated for a moment, and finally hesitated to say: "What the old lady said is, then ......, then I thank the old lady for your kindness!" If I really want to find such a daughter-in-law with your auspicious words, I will invite you to a wedding wine, and let the two of them give you a toast! ”
"That's a good feeling! Then we're done! - Take it! Go back and hide now! Mother Ni put it in Liang's hand from that thing and said with a smile.
Liang agreed, took the small bag of things, and it was not easy to open it to see what it was, but he only knew that since he could marry a good daughter-in-law who was satisfied, it was worth a lot, so he carefully put it in his arms: "Thank you old lady." I'm leaving! ”
After that, Liang lifted the sedan curtain and got off the sedan chair, peeked at Zuo Gui and them, and did not look at his side, quickly covered the bag of things in his arms with his hands, lowered his head and hurriedly walked out of the yamen to the pharmacy.
She returned to the pharmacy, hid in the bedroom and closed the door, took out the bag of things, opened it and looked at it, only to find that it was a thousand-year-old ginseng that looked like a fairy with white hair! She has followed her husband to open a pharmacy for so many years, and she knows a little about medicinal materials, and she sees that the taproot of this old ginseng is short and thick, like a child's arm, and the rhizome is slender like a goose's neck, with horizontal rings and intertwined knots, ginseng whiskers fluttering, fairy wind bones, decorated with pearl dots the size of millet grains, sent to the nose, and the whole body is fragrant. I'm afraid it's been thousands of years!
The Liang family knows that this thing is expensive, let alone marrying a satisfactory daughter-in-law, even if they buy a decent house, it is more than enough to buy some maids and daughters-in-law! was full of joy, but he was afraid that Zuo Gui would not spare her if he knew about it. The room was full of wandering, thinking left and right, and it felt unsafe to hide anywhere, and after looking closely, his eyes finally fell on the toilet with paint falling in the corner of the room at the end of the big wooden bed!
Liang lifted the empty toilet, and when she got up in the morning, she had already poured out the feces and washed them. Turning it over, the bottom is empty, and I thought, it is safest to hide this old mountain ginseng here! This toilet has always been poured and washed by itself, except for convenience, the master never touches it, and other people will not touch it. No one touches it but themselves! The space at the bottom is also relatively large, so it is no problem to hide this old ginseng.
Liang found a few pieces of waterproof oilpaper, carefully wrapped the old ginseng, wrapped several layers, the earliest toilet at home was broken, she was reluctant to throw it, just came in handy, took it, took off the bottom cover, compared it and looked at it, it was a little big, quickly brought the saw saw, anyway, there is no need to see the round and not leaking, as long as it can be loaded into it to block it and not fall down.
Liang laboriously sawed the bottom of the originally round toilet bowl like a dog, sawed a hairy sweat, and finally estimated that he could barely squeeze the bottom cover of the cut toilet into the bottom of the toilet, and quickly stuffed the old mountain ginseng wrapped in oilcloth paper at the bottom of the toilet, put the bottom cover of the toilet like a dog gnaw, and smashed it into it with a hammer. Carrying the toilet and shaking it a few times, and pushing it with his hand, the new bottom cover did not move at all, so he was relieved, and he was afraid that the bottom of the toilet would be loose and leaking, so he hurriedly mentioned the kitchen, scooped the water and poured it in, filled most of the bucket, lifted it and shook it, looked at it for a while, and there was no drop of water leaking out, so he was relieved.
She put the toilet back in the corner of the bedroom, took a few steps back, wiped her hands with her apron, and looked at the painted red oil toilet in the corner with satisfaction, as if she saw her future daughter-in-law, and her heart was finally steady.
(To be continued)