Out of Wansheng Gate, to the northwest, past Yangwu County, near the Bianhe River, there is a Huangzhuang.

Li Sangrou walked through the fruit groves of Huangzhuang.

This Huangzhuang is an orchard, not large, only about 400 acres.

At this moment, she was walking in a large persimmon forest.

Walking through the persimmon forest, Li Sangrou looked at the spacious and exquisite house with red walls and green tiles in front of her.

This should be the place where the second prince was born.

This piece of Huangzhuang is now under the name of the second prince, and it has long been rewarded to him.

Li Sangrou stood and looked at a group of women in a clearing far away from her, peeling persimmons, hanging them one by one, drying them to make persimmon cakes, bursts of laughter, coming with the wind from time to time.

After looking at it for a moment, Li Sangrou turned around and walked towards Yangwu County.

Back then, there was more than one person who gave birth here, and these shady births must not alarm the hospital, and it was unimaginable for people like them not to invite a midwife, and this midwife, nine times out of ten, was invited from Yangwu County.

This Zhuangzi was the Huangzhuang at that time.

To make everyone convinced that Concubine Shen Xian gave birth to a second prince, then Concubine Shen Xian's pregnancy, although her belly is empty, must start normally with those little ladies.

The six poor girls, the time when they gave birth to the child will not be very far apart, but it is extremely unlikely that they will be on the same day, and these midwives must be detained in this imperial village for a not short time.

Well, which midwives were invited at that time, it was easy to find.

Li Sangrou entered the county seat of Yangwu, and along the small streets and alleys, he looked at the tea shops or small restaurants that were engaged in the business of porters and hawkers, looking for a place for the meeting of the stable woman or the medicine woman.

This is what Nie Pozi taught her.

Most of the medicine women can deliver babies, and most of them know some herbs and will see a doctor, and when they don't deliver babies, they are medicine women.

Medicine woman and Wen Po are chaotic and close, and many places, where Wen Po gathers, is also a place where Yao Po meets.

Walking half of the city, at the door of a clean and refreshing tea shop and restaurant with a fairly good business, Li Sangrou saw the small mark and couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

Yao Po Wen Po is a female streamer in the lower nine streams, and she has seen many tea shops and restaurants that they use for parties, all of which are the cheapest and messy places.

It was the first time she had seen a tea shop as clean and generous, obviously doing a middle-class business.

"Good shopkeeper." Li Sangrou entered the teahouse and went straight to the counter to talk to the shopkeeper, "I want to invite a female doctor who can really see a doctor, I don't know which lady is this female doctor in our county?" ”

"Eldest sister, you're so polite." The shopkeeper immediately smiled, "It's Aunt Hang, she happened to be at home, she just came back, passed by here, and drank a cup of tea before going back."

Come, I'll show you how to get there. ”

The shopkeeper walked out of the counter, stood at the door of the tea shop, and pointed the way enthusiastically and carefully, "I saw that there was no silk thread shop in front, there was a small alley next to it, the alley was narrow, you look carefully, don't miss it, it is under the guise of silk thread."

Walking to the top of the alley, there is a persimmon tree in her house, a tree of red persimmons, easy to find, you can see it when you enter the alley. ”

"Thank you." Li Sangrou thanked the shopkeeper, bought a few large bags of pastries from the pastry shop next to her, and entered the alley.

The door of Aunt Hang's courtyard was not closed, Li Sangrou gently pushed the door, entered the courtyard, covered the door, her voice was not very high, and asked with a smile: "Is Aunt Hang at home?" ”

"Who?" A mother-in-law in her fifties peeked out of the kitchen next to her.

"I came from the teahouse over there, and the shopkeeper instructed me to come here to find you." Li Sangrou said with a smile as she walked forward: "I don't know what my aunt likes to eat, so I had to pick and buy a few things that are eye-catching." ”

"You're so polite!" Aunt Hang smiled, rubbed her hand back and forth on her apron, took a few large bags of pastries, and was about to go to the hall to let Li Sangrou, Li Sangrou pointed to the kitchen and smiled: "What about Auntie cooking?" I'll light a fire for you, just right, let's talk while we work. ”

"Have you eaten? If you don't eat it, I'm mixing noodles, add an extra scoop of noodles, and you can taste the noodles I rolled. Aunt Hang put the pastry in the cupboard next to her and said with a smile.

"Okay." Li Sangrou responded happily and sat down at the mouth of the stove.

"Got a sick person at home? What's going on? Aunt Hang talked to Li Sangrou while facing neatly.

"It's not that there are patients, but I want to ask you about something." Li Sangrou looked at the neat and neat Aunt Hang, and decided to go around in circles.

"You say."

"It's old. Twenty-one or two years ago, when I was just born, my family was very poor, and someone happened to be looking for a nurse and picked my mother, so my mother handed me over to my grandmother and went to make a nurse for others.

My grandmother said that the place where my mother went was the imperial village outside the city.

My grandmother said that she was holding me at that time and kept sending my mother outside the Zhuangzi, and my mother also let me eat the last milk.

For the next four or five years, my mother asked people to send money to my grandmother every year, but after that, there was no more letter.

Last year, my grandmother left, and since my grandmother left, I often dreamed of my grandmother and asked me to go to my mother.

I found the Huangzhuang first, saying that in the Huangzhuang, a prince was born at that time, but the first few times my aunt sent letters, they all said that they were bringing a girl, and said that they were like me, very cute. ”

Aunt Hang frowned when she heard this.

"It was Huangzhuang, and I didn't dare to inquire, so I wondered if I could find the female doctor who delivered the baby in that village and ask.

I thought that at that time, some one in the housekeeper who lived in the village, or someone else, gave birth to a girl. Alas. Li Sangrou sighed sadly, "It's just that a dead horse is a live horse doctor." ”

"What you are saying is that the royal nurse, the rules are very big, your mother is a nurse, nine times out of ten, she is in charge of things in the village or something, and they need to use it at home.

The Huangzhuang outside the city, I really invited a stable woman from our county, and I can be invited into the Huangzhuang to give birth, that is a big face, this matter, the stable woman of our county, more or less know a little, I know a little more. ”

Aunt Hang kneaded the dough, sprinkled flour, and began to roll the dough.

"At that time, a total of six were invited, and they were the best six stable women in our county.

Alas, it's a pity, in the future, only half a year, these six, just this and that, are all dead!

Alas, think about it, what a blessing it is to deliver the prince to the prince, alas, they are all unblessed people, they can't hold on, people like us are all cheap lives, not very blessed! ”

Aunt Hang said, sighing with emotion.

Li Sangrou's eyes narrowed slightly and relaxed.

Sure enough, as she thought, those who knew must have been killed.

"Then ......" Li Sangrou raised her hand and wiped it on her eyes.

"Don't be upset, you kid. I didn't tell you just now, I know a little bit better than anyone else. ”

Aunt Hang hurriedly comforted Li Sangrou.

"At that time, I invited six people, but seven people went before and after, and one of them, when he went to the Zhuangzi, it was only a night, and he fell ill first, so he had to go out of the Zhuangzi, and then he invited another one from the Zhuangzi.

The one who fell ill without fortune is still alive, and it is his wife, the shopkeeper of the tea house.

After a while, you go to the teahouse, just say what I said, let him take you to his wife to talk, you ask her, she must know who else in the village is about to give birth at that time. ”

"Thank you, auntie!" Li Sangrou's eyes sparkled.

This one fell ill overnight, interesting!

Li Sangrou ate a bowl of noodles, and talked with Aunt Hang for a while before going to the teahouse.

The shopkeeper of the teahouse listened to Li Sangrou's words, and without saying a word, he took Li Sangrou to the back of the teahouse, entered the courtyard of his own house, brought it to the door of the ear house, and said loudly: "Mother, there is an eldest sister looking for you, and Aunt Hang asked her to come." ”

"Come in."

Hearing the sound in the house, the shopkeeper smiled and said, "Go in." I'm busy, so I won't accompany you. ”

Li Sangrou thanked the shopkeeper and lifted the curtain into the ear room.

The ear house is a small Buddha hall, facing the door of the house, enshrined a half-human high white Guanyin fine porcelain statue, holding a willow branch in his hand, the eyes are slightly drooping.

An old lady in her sixties was getting up from a futon.

Li Sangrou looked at the old lady carefully: medium stature, thin and clean, in excellent spirits, the corners of her eyes were slightly drooping by wrinkles, but her eyes were black and bright.

"Excuse me." Li Sangrou owes herself.

"Don't bother, I'm an idler, you sit, let's sit and talk.

Your Aunt Hang asked you to come over, what's the matter? The old lady was kind and kind-hearted.

"I want to ask, twenty-one years ago, in February, the Huangzhuang outside the city asked someone to deliver the baby." Li Sangrou sat opposite the old lady and her voice was very soft.

The old lady looked directly at Li Sangrou, and a smile froze on her face.

"You saw something, you were frightened, you used the excuse of being sick, you escaped, and you escaped with your life." Li Sangrou's voice was lower, and at the end, she sighed.

"Who are you?" The old lady looked at Li Sangrou, her face was full of surprise and surprise, but she was not afraid of fear.

"In those days, it was not one person who gave birth to a child in Zhuangzi, but one was my aunt." Li Sangrou lowered her eyes and replied.

"You're from Anqing Mansion?" The old lady leaned forward, her voice very low.

Li Sangrou nodded hurriedly, "My surname is Zuo." ”

"Alas, I can finally grow old with peace of mind and die with peace of mind."

The old lady sighed, stood up, walked to the long case dedicated to Guanyin, pulled out a drawer on the edge of the long case, put the drawer on the ground, put her hand into the drawer hole, and after a while, picked out a small silk seal, walked back, and handed it to Li Sangrou.

"This is left by your aunt, she said that her surname is Zuo, and asked me to send this letter to Ye Anping, the uncle of the Ye family in Anqing Mansion, I didn't dare to send it, alas, let's start from the beginning."

The old lady looked sad.

"That noble man lived in the village outside the city for almost five years.

Well, let's start a little further.

I was widowed when I was young, my mother's family was poor, and my mother-in-law's family was also poor, very poor.

My mother-in-law's family has a distant cousin, who is a medicine woman, and she has never been married in her life, and they all say that she is a stone girl, she is not a stone girl, she is just not married.

I gave birth to Dalang, which was the birth that my cousin gave me.

My cousin and my mother-in-law were incompatible, and they quarreled when we met, but they treated me very well, and they also hurt my husband, and they earned money from other people's medical treatments, and often bought some delicious food, and when they came to my door, they asked me to go out and get it.

I gave it back, and I had to rush to the courtyard gate and shout at the top of my voice: Don't give your mother food, she will rot her mouth if she eats! ”

The old lady said, her eyes full of nostalgia, and a gentle smile appeared on her face.

"Later, I was widowed, and after eating the last meal, my cousin asked me to learn to be a medicine woman with her, and my cousin said: If you don't remarry, you have to learn a craft, don't care about the reputation of the three aunts and six women, we have to live first."

I told my mother-in-law, who wiped her tears and didn't speak.

I began to learn to be a medicine woman from my cousin.

I can't see a doctor and treat a doctor, but I can learn to deliver a baby, and it's only a year or two, and my cousin is not as good as me.

My cousin said: I have that kind of midwifery skills, it's enough, don't learn to treat the disease, concentrate on midwifery. I concentrated on being a stable woman.

In the Zhuangzi outside the city, the noble man had just arrived in the Zhuangzi, and it was only a month before I knew that it was my cousin who came to gossip with me, and I knew it.

At that time, no one in the city knew that there were nobles living in the village outside the city.

The cousin was a medicine woman, and her reputation has been resounding to Xiangfu County.

As soon as the noble man moved into the Zhuangzi, someone came to invite his cousin to see a doctor for the nobleman.

My cousin told me: The noble man's lower body is rotten and swollen, and it is very miserable.

Alas, this lower body is swollen, and it is common for poor families, and it is rare for nobles.

My cousin was the best at treating the swelling of the lower body, and I lived in the village for a month, and gave the noble man a fumigation bath every day. That is, every day fumigation medicinal bath, they would have been there a long time ago. ”

The old lady paused, looked out the window unfocused, and then continued: "It will only be three or four days after returning from me, and my cousin will die, drowning in a small ditch outside the city. ”

Li Sangrou sighed lowly.

"Alas. Later, I heard that in the Zhuangzi outside the city, there lived the concubine of the prince, and the prince often came, and many people had seen and touched it, and those who met it had to be rewarded.

Later, one day, a few stewards came to Zhuangzi and said that they wanted to invite Wen Po.

I was good at my craft, so I was named by them, a total of six, and a car pulled into Zhuangzi.

At that time, I didn't think much about it, but I didn't have much peace in my heart, and at night, when they were all asleep, I couldn't sleep, and I tossed and turned for fear of waking them, so I came out and sat at the door.

At that time, there was a little girl, eighteen or nineteen years old, very thin, like a frightened mouse, hiding behind the rockery, waving at me vigorously.

I thought it was a ghost! I was bold enough to walk over.

The little girl knelt down in front of me and stuffed me with the letter, and a silver ticket of one thousand taels.

The girl said, "Let me quickly find an excuse to escape, saying that if I pick up the birth and meet people, no one will be able to live, and they will all have to die, so let me run away quickly."

The girl also said that they are from Anqing Mansion, and her girl's surname is Zuo, so after I escaped, I went to Anqing Mansion and handed over this letter to Uncle Ye of Anji, Ye Anping, and said that Uncle Ye will definitely thank me again, I just want 100,000 silver, and Uncle Ye will also give it to me.

Alas.

It just so happened that I caught a cold and was frightened during the night, and the next day I got hot, and I escaped with my life.

Later, they all died, and there was not a single one left.

Later, you also know, it was the second prince.

I didn't dare to go to Anqing Mansion, I didn't dare to go anywhere, and no one dared to say anything.

Alas, what if you go? That's the emperor, the mother, the prince.

I'm sorry for that girl. ”

The old lady tilted her head slightly and closed her eyes.

"Today's words, this letter, you are worthy of her. Thank you. Li Sangrou stood up, put the letter away, and bent her knees to the end at the old lady.

"It's ten thousand taels of silver." Li Sangrou stood up and took out a silver ticket of 10,000 taels.

"You take it back! I have been greatly grateful.

This teahouse, as well as the two or three hundred acres of land outside the city, were all bought with the 1,000 taels of silver, little by little.

Originally, I couldn't live in peace when I died, but now, I finally didn't live up to that girl, and this letter was finally delivered to the Zuo family, and I can feel at ease.

Take any more of your money, and I will not be able to live in peace again. ”

The old lady resolutely stuffed the silver ticket back.

"Thank you. Don't worry, I will definitely hand over this letter to Uncle Ye Anping Ye. "Li Sangrou didn't let it go any more, took back the silver ticket, bent his knees and thanked him again." It's like it never happened. ”

"I know, the girl too, it's time to pass, just go over, it's all fate, what's the way." The old lady stood up and sighed.

"Well, you stay, I'm leaving." Li Sangrou left the old lady and went out.