Still in Binh Duong, it is a continuation of the previous dream.

Still waking up after a break, Ah Xiu raised her hand, but she couldn't even get out of bed.

A few days ago, she went to the front yard to ask about the shopkeeper Yang, and after returning to the hospital, she began to have a fever that night.

"Zitong."

Ah Xiu screamed, and after a while, the curtain was opened, Zitong helped her get up, and asked the little maid to fetch hot water for her to freshen up.

"Has my cousin been here?"

Ah Xiu asked, looking at the wooden box on the table.

"Miss, just when you fell asleep."

Zitong said and opened the box, and took out a light gauze shawl inside to show her.

This is the second thing, Ah Xiu glanced at it roughly, it was indeed their Zhuo family's embroidery, and it was also a customized product.

It is not difficult to embroider things on ordinary shawls, but it is not possible for ordinary people to do it on light yarn.

"Let's leave it there for now."

Ah Xiu rubbed his forehead.

Zitong responded, but before putting it back, she looked at it carefully several times, and rubbed the lines on it with her hands.

At this time, the curtain of the door opened, and Du's mother came in with a bowl of black decoction.

"Zitong, I'm here, you go down first."

Du's mother put down the tray and took out the medicine and handed it to Ah Xiu.

Ah Xiu took it and drank it all, saw Zitong go down, and said: "When I return to Linjiang, the two girls around me will be released, and they will also be of age." ”

According to the usual rules of large families, the maids in the courtyard can be assigned or released when they reach twenty-two, and let them return home to fend for themselves.

Mother Du nodded and said, "I know." Without a home, some people's hearts have long been scattered. ”

The people in the room were still negotiating, but Zitong by the door curtain was shocked, and he was anxious when he thought of it.

She is not a house slave, she was sold into the house back then, and if she is released, she doesn't know where she is going, let alone what she will do for a living.

In the room, Ah Xiu and Du's mother had already talked about other things.

"There's news from the front yard."

It's been half a month since I came here, and I didn't find it, but I built a silkworm house in this place.

At the mention of this, Du's mother sighed again, "Miss, let's go back." ”

"Go back?" Ah Xiu smiled and shook her head, "Wait." ”

After a trip of thousands of miles, she didn't want to return in vain.

Originally, Ah Xiu wanted to wait for her body to move around and take people out for a walk, but she thought that in the next half month, she wouldn't even have the strength to walk out of the yard.

In the back, even if she doesn't want to go back, she has to go back.

By land, by water, it took nearly a month to walk from Binh Duong to Linjiang.

When she was seven years old, there was an accident at home, and Ah Xiu went to her aunt with her mother, and after half a month, her mother also left, leaving her an orphan girl who lived in her.

The He family has practiced medicine for generations, and is famous for its medicinal materials and medical skills, and its family has a great reputation in the south of the Yangtze River.

The eldest lord of the He family entered Beijing with his family when he was young, and now the eldest lord has entered the Tai Hospital, and the two sons inherited the ancestral business and opened a medical hall in Beijing.

Aunt Axiu's Aunt Mao married into the second master who was in charge of the He family's mundane affairs and lived in the main family of Linjiang.

The He family is well-off, and in recent years, he has been sentenced to the Tai Hospital with the former master of the Beijing Central University, and has collected dozens of embroidery rooms scattered by the Zhuo family, and now he has become rich.

Mao's niece is very good to Ah Xiu, and she has been close to her in terms of food and clothing over the years, even her own daughter can't compare.

not only rowed a large yard for her alone, but also arranged all aspects of the mother-in-law and maids.

Ah Xiu has always been grateful, but that feeling has changed inexplicably in the past two years.

Back in Linjiang, Ah Xiu's body has been very good, and when she was in Pingyang, Na Langzhong said that she was not adaptable, I think this is the reason.

This time out, Du Juan, who had been promoted to the steward's maid, was left in the courtyard to look after the house.

When the carriage for the return trip stopped at the door of He's house, Du Juan was already waiting outside with the maid.

The two sides saw another burst of cold and warmth, and Du Juan heard that she had been sick for more than a month, and her face was full of pity.

Back in the courtyard, Ah Xiu bathed and changed clothes, and was about to go to the main room to meet the old lady and aunt of the He family, but she didn't want Mao's mother to come over, bringing a lot of precious medicinal materials, and asked her not to move around, rest in the room for two days and then go over to say goodbye.

If Ah Xiu had been in the past, he would have gone even if he was sick, but now he thought about it and nodded.

"Mother Du, you go to send Mother Fu on my behalf."

Ah Xiu instructed with a smile, and when the people left, the smile gradually fell.

At this time, Du Juan approached and whispered to her, "Miss, there is something that the slave maid feels wrong. ”

Du Juan, who is already twenty-two, is no longer the little girl who is so good, her expression is calm, her lips are tightly pursed when she frowns, she has been a big girl in charge for so many years, and she has an extraordinary momentum when she concentrates.

The freckles on Du Juan's face are still there, lighter than when she was a child, but this does not affect her beautiful face, which is still the most beautiful in the Pearl Courtyard.

"What?"

didn't take Du Juan Axiu with her own ideas, this yard is too big, and it really needs someone to "watch".

Du Juan looked at the closed door, "A few days ago, the slave went out to the embroidery workshop to get the dress you had set before, and I saw a ......."

Du Juan's expression became solemn and puzzled, that person was Lang Zhong who had treated his wife at the beginning, and he heard that he was a famous doctor, but somehow he became a lame beggar.

After so many years, if Du Juan hadn't seen the birthmark on that person's hand, with that unrecognizable face, who would have recognized that person as a famous doctor in the city.

"Are you sure it's him?"

Ah Xiu's heart jumped.

She also saw Lang Zhong surnamed Jin when she was a child, that is, a famous doctor, and he was also attached to the He family medical hall, and now the main family is in full swing, how could he become a beggar?

There are some conjectures that slowly breed in Ah Xiu's brain.

When her mother came to He's house for half a month, others said that she was depressed and had no intention of continuing to live, but her mother clearly said that she would grow up with her and revive the Zhuo family at that time.

She was seven years old at the time, and in retrospect she cried and cried, and now that she looks back, everything was strange.

Before, someone told her that her mother had quarreled with her aunt before she fainted, and she didn't know what she was arguing about, but she couldn't speak from the day her mother was sick, sometimes sober and sometimes faint, and the decoction did not enter, and she went after half a month.

My mother was so painful when she died, but her illness came too suddenly and inexplicably.

"Du Juan, do you know where that person is now?"

Du Juan nodded and said in a low voice, "I'll find someone to follow." ”

The next day, Ah Xiu went to the Yunan Courtyard where Mrs. He was located, and met her aunt Mao by the way.

I haven't seen her for nearly three months, Mao pulled her red eyes, heard that she was going to the embroidery room to have a look, and made a special trip to ask the people around her to arrange a carriage.

The He family took back dozens of embroidery workshops from the fiber embroidery shop, and said that it was for the Zhuo family to reserve the industry.

Ah Xiu's travel is not restricted, but those coachmen and accompanying mothers-in-law are all members of the He family.