Chapter 31: Strange Things
Not to mention that Zeng Rong and Zeng Hua each returned to their respective places anxiously, and said that after they left, Mrs. Xu also ordered someone to send her grandson back to the room, and she asked the Master of Nothingness about the two sisters.
The Master of Nothingness knows everything and speaks endlessly, but after all, he is an outsider, and he doesn't know much about worldly things, so he only knows that Zeng Rong jumped into the lake and was rescued, and that she separated from that family with the help of the patriarch and moved to live in the academy, and now she lives by collecting medicine.
Regarding Ouyang Si's paragraph, the master did not mention it, first, this is just a rumor, he is an outsider who does not want to get involved in this kind of right and wrong; Second, after all, this involves the reputation of the two parties, and he can't do this kind of thing that destroys people's reputation.
As for the rest, he is not clear.
Mrs. Xu saw that she couldn't ask the key thing from the master of nothingness, so she respectfully sent the master out, and then, she ordered the two mothers-in-law to change into coarse cloth clothes and go to Zeng's village to inquire about Zeng Rong's family, she wanted to know whether Zeng Rong was telling the truth, what kind of people Zeng Rong's parents were, what kind of predicament this family was facing, and most importantly, she wanted to know what kind of person Zeng Rong was in the mouth of outsiders.
In addition, Mrs. Xu also sent two people to the embroidery shop in the town, she remembered that Zeng Rong said that she could embroider and wanted to enter the largest embroidery workshop in the capital, but the largest embroidery workshop in the capital was so easy to enter? Most of the embroidery girls in it were collected by them from all over the south of the Yangtze River, which one is not extraordinary?
Zeng Rong, a small village girl who does not leave home, why did she boast that Haikou wanted to enter the largest embroidery workshop in the capital?
While waiting, Mrs. Xu sat on the side of her grandson's bed, only caring about her grandson's injuries and the pair of sisters, she didn't have time to ask her grandson in detail why he was bitten by the snake and how he met the sisters.
"Grandmother, my grandson really saw that you were asleep, and felt a little stuffy, so he went to the yard for a walk, but he happened to see the side door, and he wanted to sneak out and come back after a circle, but he knew that he was so obscure."
When he came out of the small door, he saw a stream at the bottom of the mountain, so he wanted to go to the stream to play in the water, and when he was about to walk to the stream, he happened to see a cluster of raspberries on the ground, and he was just about to reach out to pick it, when a snake suddenly sprang out of the grass, he was so frightened that he turned around and ran, and then, he felt numbness and pain in his ankle, and he knew that he must have been bitten by a snake.
Seriously, if the little girl hadn't arrived in time, he would have fainted, and if no one found him fainting there for a long time, the consequences would have been absolutely unimaginable.
Another point is that he only heard from the sister later that the one he was going to pick was not a raspberry at all, but a thing called snake bubble fruit that was very similar to raspberries, and it was grown from snake grass and could be used to treat snake bites, but it could not be eaten, because snakes like to hide in it and can easily get their saliva.
Therefore, even if he hadn't been bitten by a snake today, he might have eaten this snake bubble fruit stained with poisonous snake saliva.
So, on the other hand, he was lucky to run into the sisters.
"Grandmother, you can help them, buy them and take them home, our family can't afford to raise them, you see, my sister knows a little bit of literature and ink, can embroider, and general needlework is definitely not a problem, although my sister is small, she can understand herbal medicine and a little medical science, isn't it good for such a person to stay by my side and be a maid?" Xu Jing pulled her grandmother's clothes and was coquettish.
"I'm afraid that the sister is a high-spirited person, and may not be willing to stay in our house, you didn't hear her say that she wants to enter the largest embroidery workshop in the capital." Old Madam Xu shook her head.
If these two people were willing to sell themselves to the Xu family, she couldn't ask for it, just now she paid careful attention to it, these two sisters don't look like they are poor people in the village, but they look very refreshing, their hair is neatly combed, and although the clothes on their bodies are patches and patches, they are very clean, and there is no dirty mud on their outstretched hands.
Judging from these points, he is a neat and clean person, and it is suitable to be a maid, and there is also a lack of two people to serve around the left and right grandsons.
The problem is that this sister made it clear that she was going to enter the embroidery workshop, and it was also the largest embroidery workshop in the capital, the embroidery workshop, no, she didn't say that she was going to the capital at all, how did this little girl know that she was going to the capital, obviously she would also speak a local dialect here.
Also, how did she conclude that she could help her enter the largest embroidery workshop in the capital, could it be that she already knew her identity?
asked Xu Jing, Xu Jing also shook his head, he remembered very clearly, he didn't say a few words to this sister, but chatted with his sister for a while, but he also asked his sister about the situation of her family, and his sister didn't ask him anything.
"That's weird." Old Madam Xu pondered for a moment, "That's it, it must have been your Granny Ding and Granny Tang who said it." ”
"Grandmother, there is another strange thing, the sister, saw that I was bitten by a snake, actually cried, I asked her why she was crying, she said she was afraid, but the snake was gone, what is she afraid of, there is no reason to be a sister, but a sister is afraid of crying, right?" Ten-year-old Xu Jing can also think about some simple questions.
"Afraid of crying? So how does she treat your wounds? ”
"It's not her, it's that sister who helped me get it, this sister just helped me mash the medicine, and also helped me hold two handfuls of water to rinse the wound, and it was this sister who really saved me."
This confused Mrs. Xu.
A six-year-old girl actually knows how to save people, but this sister can only stand aside and cry, how can she think about it?
At this time, Mrs. Xu also remembered the way her sister pulled her to cry bitterly, and it could be seen that it was a real cry, not a bluff fake cry.
What is so sad about this little girl, and why is she so rude to see her?
Also, why did she cry to Xu Jing, a ten-year-old child?
Could it be that she has something in mind about her grandson that she shouldn't have?
If that were the case, she would never have taken her into Beijing.
While the grandfather and grandson were talking, Zi Su came in and replied, saying that the doctor who was looking for him in the town had come, and the old lady was busy bringing people in.
It turned out that when she learned that her grandson was bitten by a snake, Mrs. Xu ordered someone to invite Master Void and also ordered someone to ask for a doctor in the town, because she was afraid that Master Void would not know how to detoxify snake venom.
It is also a coincidence, it happened to be the owner of Jimintang, surnamed Wu, Dr. Wu checked Xu Jing's wounds, and also looked at the medicine on his feet, and finally gave Xu Jing a pulse, and came to the conclusion that it was treated in a timely and proper manner, and it would be fine if he took two doses of medicine.