Li Xianglang is simple and enthusiastic, and his wife Sister Zhang Qiao was once Wen's confidant, since he has prepared a place to live, Wen's heart is naturally more inclined to accept the kindness of their husband and wife.

Wen was willing in his heart, and of course Xie Mulin and Xie Jinzhi would not object. As for the others, they all felt that it was better to live in Li's house than to spend money to find an inn that they didn't know how to rely on, or to ask for help from a strange Wen Xuyou. Anyway, Sister Zhang Qiao is also a person they are familiar with, and she has always been kind and polite.

Only Mrs. Xie squirmed for a while, and always felt that living in the house of Wen's old servant seemed to have lost her prestige and lowered Wen's head. But the pressure of reality is here, and she can only pinch her nose and admit it, comforting herself in her heart, saying that Sister Zhang Qiao is not Wen's dowry, she should be the servant daughter of the Xie family, but she happened to be arranged to wait in Wen's house. Her Xie family's old Fengjun accepted the Xie family's old maid's help, which was a good story of the lord's mercy and servant's righteousness, and it was better than whispering to the official surnamed Wen and telling the Song family in the second room to see the joke.

Li Xianglang was relieved to see that everyone in the Xie family was willing to go with him. Seriously, this family is old and young, and he really doesn't worry about them being left alone. live in their own home, so that their husband and wife have the opportunity to repay the great kindness of the Wen family in the past.

When Xie Mulin saw that the matter was settled, he came forward to negotiate with Li Xianglang, saying that his family members were all women and children, almost all of them were weak, and several people were sick, and today they were hungry and thirsty, and they didn't have the physical strength to walk long distances. I don't know where the Li family is? If it is far away, I am afraid that I will have to rent two carriages to travel, and I asked Li Lang if he could help with it?

Li Lang smiled: "What's so difficult about this? I had already thought of it, so I booked the boat early, and when the second wife could leave, I could call the boat over immediately. ”

Boat?

Xie Mulin was stunned. Xie Yingzhen rarely leaves the house, and most of the time he goes out is in the family's carriage, so he has no such concept. And Xie Mulin learned from Xie Yingzhen's memory that this capital was not the Beijing she originally thought, but Nanjing and Jinling City, so the water transportation in the city is also quite developed. If Li Lang's family lives not far from the river, then taking a boat from under the Pearl Bridge in front of Xie's house is indeed much more convenient than taking a car.

Li Lang put down his burden, and not long after he disappeared, he brought back the boat he had booked, and sure enough, he boarded the boat at the small pier under the Pearl Bridge. Although the ship is not large, it is enough to carry the Xie family.

The captain's skills are very good, the boat is also wide and clean, everyone in the Xie family sits in the boat, there is a black canopy to cover the roof, there is no need to worry too much about the cold wind for the time being, everyone is secretly relieved.

Although I don't know what the environment of Li Langlang's family is, the eldest girl married out by the Xie family will not be so poor as a clank no matter what. Wen's has always been lenient and compassionate, and she is very good to the girls, and when she comes back to greet her during the New Year's Day when she gets married, she always has a reward. Sister Zhang Qiao comes several times a year, and the reward she gets is enough for the family to chew for a year. Li Shanglang is also a small businessman who sells needles, threads, brains, fat powder jewelry in areas where dignitaries and nobles gather all the year round, and his family is at least a little rich. In fact, as long as the Li family's house is clean, and there is no shortage of food and clothing, everyone in the Xie family feels that it is better than being imprisoned in the Xie family's house and starving.

They have really suffered for the past two days.

Xie Mulin placed his brother well, told him to take the opportunity to close his eyes and recuperate, recover his strength, and discussed with Li Xianglang, do you know which doctor with better medical skills is near his home? I'd like to ask you to check everyone's pulse. The second brother and the fourth brother are all very sick, and the fourth sister is also having a fever, so she can't ignore it. If a child's fever is not treated well, it may lead to serious consequences.

Mrs. Xie squinted at this so-called niece and daughter, and felt very upset. She is the oldest and most senior elder, and she is also very unwell, why didn't Xie Yingzhen mention her?

Xie Mulin didn't bother to pay attention to the old lady. She had already quietly asked her mother Wen, although Xie Jinzhi had always been frail, the reason why he was so sick was completely due to Mrs. Xie.

The water pavilion for banquets in the garden is not a warm place, but for the sake of banqueting guests, there are still a lot of charcoal basins, silver frost charcoal, hand stoves and foot stoves, tea, wine and snacks for eating. Mrs. Xie, Wen and Xie Jinzhi were imprisoned in the water pavilion, and there was a temporary warm pavilion to settle in, a soft couch, an arhat bed to sleep in, a charcoal basin for heating, a thin quilt to cover, a tea stove to boil hot water, and a longevity peach cake to satisfy hunger, so it can be said that the conditions were not much worse than going to the room.

But Mrs. Xie was selfish and had no foresight, thinking that after one night, the Xie family would be fine, she shouted cold, and asked the Wen family to pile up the charcoal basin and silver frost charcoal that could be collected to her side. Unexpectedly, Cao didn't consider in advance that his mother-in-law would spend the night in this place, and he didn't have much stock to prepare. After a warm night, the amount of charcoal stored has basically bottomed out, but the Xie family's captivity career continues.

Old Mrs. Xie was blind when she saw this. In order to protect herself, she moved all the bedding that could be used to herself, and only divided two thin quilts for her grandson, but she didn't think about what would happen to Wen, and instructed Wen to burn the chairs and stools in the banquet and make a fire to warm and boil water.

How strong is the furniture of the Xie family? The materials are also excellent. Do you chop wood by hand without tools? Where is this work that the weak Wen can do? If she can't do it, Mrs. Xie will naturally scold.

Xie Jinzhi is a filial son, how could he watch his mother suffer and be cold? He gave his quilt to his mother, and he did the work in her place, so that she could breathe. Seeing this, Mrs. Xie was angry in her heart, feeling that this grandson was only a nephew in name, and he was not filial and considerate enough. She simply really supported Xie Jinzhi to do the rough work, and she didn't let go of the Wen family, screaming and scolding every day, and even the soldiers guarding it felt strange.

Poor Xie Jinzhi, who was already frail, was cold for two days in the water pavilion, tired for two days, did not eat well, slept well, did not dress warmly, and had to worry about his father and sick sister who were in prison day and night, and soon fell ill. The officials of Dali Temple were arraigned, and he couldn't get up. Even if Mrs. Xie was no longer happy, she could only let Wen help herself to be interrogated. Fortunately, when Mrs. Xie was away, he took the opportunity to rest in the warm pavilion for a while, and regained a little bit of strength, so that he had the strength to walk from the garden to the gate, but he couldn't hold it anymore.

Xie Mulin only felt that their family, from Xie Pu to Xie Jinzhi and Xie Huizhi, was really bad for eight lifetimes with such an unreasonable elder as Mrs. Xie!

The boat went fast. Li Shanglang's family lives in the fish market street near the Beimen Bridge, and it didn't take long to get there by water. Li Lang got off the ship first, first deposited the goods in the teahouse next to him, and then quickly hired two children of eight or nine years old, each of whom had a penny, to deliver letters to his house and his brother's house respectively.

The purpose of sending a letter to her home is to inform Sister Zhang Qiao and ask her to come out to pick up people quickly.

The reason for sending the letter to his brother's house was because his brother Li Liu'an was a doctor, and he sat in Yan Jitang in the clothing gallery on the south side of the Beimen Bridge. And Dr. Yan of Yan Jitang is Li Liu'an's father-in-law and teacher, and he is the most famous doctor in the area of Beimen Bridge, and he is the best at treating cold and cough.