At the same time, the front yard of the Zhao Mansion.

Tan Miao was sitting in the pavilion in the small courtyard outside the house, holding this month's account book to calculate the monthly routine of the mansion personnel, and the girl next to her, Jin Ling, was temporarily dialed to serve her, she used to be the girl who served tea in the welfare home, she stood behind Tan Miao, and said with a smile: "The girl's handwriting is better than that of the lady." ”

Tan Miao's hand that was about to put down the pen paused slightly, glanced at Jin Ling, and said lightly: "You don't say this in the future, your wife is from a businessman's background, and I am from a poor scholarly background, so I can't compare and don't deserve to compare." ”

Jin Ling sighed, raised her hand and scratched her chin, she has also been serving Tan Miao for some time, this person is almost alone, and she is not allowed to accompany Zhang Luo when she goes in and out, looking at a good talkative and submissive appearance, she will actually see her edge after getting along for a long time, Jin Ling looked at the meticulous person who reconciled the accounts, and said: "It's better for me to accompany the girl to go out for a walk later." ”

"If you want to go, you can go, remember to come back for dinner in the evening, yesterday's menu was reported by you, whoever ordered it will eat, I have a box on the bookshelf inside, you go and get some silver yourself, if there is something fun, bring me some back." Tan Miao said lightly.

As he was talking, someone came over from Jinling in the distance, and when he walked in, he found that it was Gou Er.

"Girl, Gou Gongzi is here." Jin Ling whispered.

She raised her eyes and looked at the people who had already come along the verandah, and said, "Go and come out with a pot of hot tea, and come out with a soft cushion, he is more delicate than ordinary girls." ”

Gou Er's smiling voice came over with the trend: "Can't you say something nice if you're good to people?" ”

Tan Miao smiled undeniably and said, "Did I say something wrong?" He looked at the uninvited people: "This is the monthly case of the servants of the mansion this month, I have already counted it clearly, and Gou Gongzi is also taking a look, if there is no problem, I will follow this distribution at the beginning of the month." ”

Gou Er smiled, looked at Jin Ling laid out a soft cushion for him, sat down unhurriedly, took the tea that Tan Miao handed him personally, and continued: "I can't do this little thing well, and I will raise you to study for a few years in vain." ”

Tan Miao glanced at him and said coldly: "It is Lord Zhao and Mrs. Zhao who funded my study, and it has nothing to do with Gongzi Gou." ”

"Careful." Gou Er glanced at him.

Jin Ling stood next to him and felt that the two of them could quarrel at any time, swallowed his throat silently, and hurriedly lowered his head slightly and said, "Slave maid, go get some snacks." ”

Tan Miao watched Gou Er push a rectangular box in front of her, she opened a glance and said silently, "Please thank Madame for your kindness." She took out the tourmaline bracelet and looked at it.

Gou Er held his chin and laughed: "I thought -"

"I've been here for a short time, but I also know that you never touch these things, your lord is dedicated to officialdom, and I don't have to eat too much in the mansion to keep me, except for my wife, naturally no one will send ——"

Her words suddenly stopped.

Seeing that Gou Er had an extra white jade bracelet in her hand, she almost subconsciously took it.

Gou Er saw her excited appearance, and couldn't help but feel funny, so he said: "Don't use these things as silver in the future, you have to buy that person who hasn't left the capital yet." ”

In the past three years, Zhao Yuanzhi handed over the matter of monitoring Tan Miao to her, although Sandalwood went to Beicheng to help him do things, but he may not be in contact with the only sister, Gou Er at first went to take a look at it for ten days and half a month, this person lived in the women's private school alley, and every day in addition to reading is to read at home, or to buy vegetables at random in the alley, or to pick up some private work in Xiufang, as for the fifty taels of silver sent through his hand every month, this person is used to support the children of poor families.

It's a plain and kind girl.

Gou Er then simply went to see it once in March, May or even half a year, and found that this person was the same as at the beginning.

Gou Er immediately became suspicious, so she pulled out all the brochures that monitored her ordinary life, and found that she did the same thing almost every day, so it is very likely that this person already knew that someone was following and spying on her, and all this she did was done for him to see.

Sure enough, Gou Er personally took the time to secretly investigate, and found that this person was actually not at all the same as the submissive appearance on the surface, he was completely a pig and a tiger, extremely clear and high, and not easy to mess with, and-

Tan Miao was looking at the bracelet that her sister gave her when she was leaving, and suddenly saw Gou Er's palm coming towards her, she looked sideways to avoid it, raised her hand to block his hand, picked up the pen next to her and almost walked towards Gou Er's face door, without mercy, Gou Er grabbed Tan Miao's arm with her backhand, and said with a smile: "Try your skills, I like to have an equal relationship, since you hold my secret, I naturally want to know your bottom line." ”

"I originally said thank you, but it doesn't seem necessary now." Tan Miao got up as she spoke, straightened her clothes, and suddenly a breeze blew, Gou Er lowered her head and coughed slightly, Tan Miao was about to leave, and said to Gou Er: "There is a difference between men and women, Gou Gongzi should go back early." ”

Gou Er smiled: "Your temperament is a dead duck with a hard mouth, since you care about people, will you die if you say it well?" He coughed against his fist and walked over to her and pulled her hand.

Tan Miao frowned, and was about to pull her hand back, her gentle eyes became cold.

Gou Er glanced at her with a smile, took out a stack of silver tickets from his sleeve and fell into her palm: "You don't want to accept Zhao Yuanzhi's favor, you can accept my favor, I will die in the future, I guess no one will remember, no one dares to take care of my money, you have to do good deeds and see how many taels you have, take this money with confidence, if you don't want to go, when I die, you can burn more paper money for me." ”

The silver Tan Miao sent by Zhao Yuanzhi over the years is useless, her savings are all left to her by Sandalwood, and she saves money to make embroidery for others, as well as for other private schools to earn money as a female gentleman, Tan Miao is very clear, her sister is subject to Zhao Yuanzhi, Zhao Yuanzhi protects her just in exchange for her sister's loyalty, she is willing to borrow here, and she just wants to hear the news of her sister.

She looked at the stack of silver tickets with a denomination of 1,000 taels in her hand, and was slightly stunned.

Jin Ling came out with a plate, looked at Gou Er, who had already left, and said: "It's a shame that the slave maid still found a cup of rock sugar Sydney white fungus soup in the pantry, and said to leave, and this account book will not be taken away to check the general ledger?" ”

Tan Miao silently turned over her sleeves and hid the thick stack of silver tickets, and said to Jin Ling: "You can take them all, just say thank you." ”

"Huh? What thanks? Jin Ling looked at the person who entered the room and was confused, looked at the things in his hand, and picked up the account book again, as if he understood something, and suddenly laughed.

She just said, I don't usually see Tan Miao who loves sweets.

Relationship Tan Miao knew that Gou Er was going to come to him to ask for the account book, so he specially prepared it?

That makes sense.

It's just, why didn't this ledger be taken away?

Jin Ling's big eyes were full of doubts, and in the end, he still took the white fungus soup and took the account book to Gou'er Courtyard.

Mama is feeding medicine to people who can't get out of bed with coughs, and Gou Er will cough for a while when she has a cough now, and Mama said, "I'm afraid it was caused by the wind just now." "Extremely distressed.

Outside, Xiao Si came in and said that Tan Miao had sent someone over.

Mama said, "Let her wait." ”

"It's fine." Gou Er leaned against the pillow and waved his hand: "Let the girl come in." ”

Jin Ling came in, and after saluting, he said: "Childe forgot to take the account book, this is the white fungus soup in our yard, Childe coughs and drinks this, our girl asked me to say thank you to Childe." ”

Gou Er's handkerchief covered her mouth and coughed, endured the sweetness in her throat and said, "Go down, your girl will come to me if you need help, and thank her for her kindness for me." ”

Waiting for the girl to leave, Mama gave the decoction to Gou Ershun, and was surprised when she took the cup of white fungus soup: "There are loquat in it, I'm afraid it won't last for more than three hours!" There is also the taste of mint powder in it, so I put my heart into it. Mama has been serving Gou Er's daily life, and after thinking about it, she said, "Childe and Miss Tan······?"

"Don't talk nonsense." Gou Er took the cup of white fungus soup, shook it twice in his hand, and drank it slowly.

Mama smiled and said: "That Miss Tan looks like a person who doesn't know how to be good to people, cute and tight, looks submissive, and after getting acquainted, she rejects you thousands of miles away, proud and squeamish, this girl must have grown up with love." ”

"No, all the money earned by Sandalwood has been smashed on this sister, and she is tight, but she is not allowed to eat and dress badly." Gou Er smiled reluctantly, and said, "Mama go out first, I'll sleep for a while, Zhao Yuanzhi sent someone to ask, just say I'm fine, let him not come back to bother me." ”

Mama agreed, closed the door and beckoned Xiao Sidu to step back.

Zhao Yuanzhi listened to the sound gradually disappeared, and then suddenly coughed sharply, a mouthful of dazzling blood fell to the palm of his hand, he took a few deep breaths before he eased up, looking at the blood stains in his hand, he quickly took out a handkerchief and wiped it clean, leaned on the pillow and was silent for a long time, and after a long time, his eyes fell on the white fungus soup again.

He has always hidden his condition very well, Mu Changping gave him medicine at first to treat the symptoms and cure the root cause, but then it broke out one by one with extremely costly sequelae and side effects, plus he has been growing up in the mountains and wilderness, and his body has already precipitated some toxins that should not be there, and his physique is also different from ordinary people.

Now Mu Changping's medicine is more side effects than a cure for him.

It's just that he doesn't want his two brothers to worry about him.

If Mu Changping knew that it was his medication problem, I am afraid that this person would not want to practice medicine in this life.

He has been a wandering person since he can remember, God has mercy on him, and he has given him two people who take him as his own brother, and he can't go to ask for anything else.

He also looked for a master of this disease, and he could only drag it until he couldn't stand the painful side effects and caused pain, even if he was secretly taking the medicine now, it could only be postponed and not cured.

Gou Er coughed lightly with his fist to his lips, thinking that he came back in the middle of the night that day, but he coughed all over his body, and there was no one around, he thought that when he was going to finish playing, Tan Miao didn't know where to come out, he was still wearing a girl's clothes, and he looked at his uncomfortable appearance and said, "I'll send it back first and then find a doctor for you." ”

"Don't, you go to the cabinet next to the pillow in my room and come over for my medicine bottle, you just go, there is no one at night." Gou Er sat down against the wall, covering his mouth, but his heart, liver, spleen and lungs had to come out.

Tan Miao hesitated for a moment, then stood up, and hesitated, "I did this for you, you should have never looked at me, understand, tonight's matter, we won't poke each other's bottom." "If Zhao Yuanzhi knows that she went out privately, I'm afraid she will have to make a mistake.

Then Tan Miao found something, she wanted to leave, but she took out a handkerchief to wipe his face, and helped the person back to the yard with a stop-and-go walk.

"I don't care what you do when you go out of the house, today I will let you go and not pursue it, if there is a next time, you know the end." Gou Er sat down against the bed and looked at Tan Miao, who lit candles for her, "What happened just now, if you say a word, don't want your sister's life." ”

"None of you can guarantee my sister's life." Tan Miao turned her back to Gou Er, took a sip of tea by herself, felt a little hot, and lowered her head to blow lightly, "I didn't do anything unfavorable to the Zhao Mansion, it was a child in the alley who had a high fever and no money for treatment, I'll take a look." As she spoke, she turned around and put the teacup on the small table next to Gou Er's bed, and said lightly, "I haven't seen you tonight." ”

Gou Er moistened his mouth with the cup of tea at the right temperature, and just smiled faintly.

Gou Er retracted his thoughts, raised his hand to his forehead, and opened his eyes to look at the ceiling.

If he lived—

How did he forget, he couldn't live anymore.

God really came to play a joke on him.

He is a person who is going to die, but he has someone he likes.