Chapter 48: Croton Powder
Sure enough, Mama Li went in and out of the toilet from time to time, every time she ran in a hurry, and finally came out after pulling it out, her stomach was rumbling and hurting again, as if someone was pulling her intestines with her hands, and she frowned in pain, and she couldn't even say a word.
Zhao Muyu calculated the time, Mama Li had been pulling for an hour, she was always in and out of the toilet, and when she climbed out again, her whole body was weak, her eyes were dull, and her body was hot and painful.
"What's the situation, the old lady who eats the duck leg of this little slut starts to have diarrhea, is it the ghost of the little slut? The old lady doesn't have the strength to treat her now, Mom Sun, go and ask, is it the ghost of the slut? Mama Li has already collapsed, at least half of her old life, she has long been unable to pull out anything, but there is a burst of pain in her abdomen, and cold sweat breaks out all over her body, and she clearly can't pull out anything, but she still wants to squat again.
This feeling is worse than death, and she really wishes to die and save herself from suffering again.
After Mama Sun received the order, she came to Zhao Muyu's outer garden angrily, kicked off the firewood in the garden, and shouted at the house, "Little slut get out of here, did you put poison on the duck's leg to cause Mama Li to have diarrhea?" ”
The mandarin duck was a little worried on her face, but Zhao Muyu straightened up and walked towards her grandmother, the corners of her lips were coldly hooked, and she said proudly, "It was she who robbed Miss Ben's duck legs, Miss Ben didn't blame her for being disrespectful, but she dared to trouble Miss Ben!" ”
"You! Who gave you the guts to dare to scold Mama Li for being a, is it your ghost? "Mother Sun is also dumbfounded, if it is said that Zhao Muyu is a ghost, but this duck leg was robbed by Mama Li, and Zhao Muyu clearly refuses.
In this way, it shouldn't be about duck legs, but now Mama Li has something to do, and she has to plant it on her if it doesn't matter to Zhao Muyu, and she wants to use that little girl to vent her evil anger for Mama Li.
Zhao Muyu looked at her grandmother with a smile, and her eyes bloomed with peerless grace, "Just now Mama Li robbed Miss Ben of all the monthly money, why is all this money in her hands, she eats meat, and you can't even drink soup." This duck leg is also for her to monopolize, if she really values you, why don't she give you half of it. If you had been a little smarter, you wouldn't have ended up where you are today. Now Mama Li has pulled off half of her life, it is a great opportunity for you to take the position, Mama Li can loot a lot of silver taels from me before, you don't take the opportunity to take the silver taels as you already have, earn some pension money for yourself, what should you do when you are old? Who will give you money when you can't move when you're sixty or seventy? Will the government keep you then? Now she has diarrhea, it's a good time, she needs someone to buy medicine for her, but people can't move, you just have to ask her to get money to buy medicine, as for how much money is needed, isn't it all a matter of your words? ”
Zhao Muyu's words shook Mama Sun in place, and Mama Sun glared at her fiercely, "Don't try to provoke our relationship, Mama Li is our eldest sister for a day, and she has been for the rest of her life, don't want to instigate me to harm her." ”
Zhao Muyu raised her eyebrows, looked at Mama Wu, who was helping Mama Li into the house in the distance, and said with a faint smile: "Look, if you don't do it, someone is faster than you, if you are stupid, you will lose this large amount of gold and silver jewelry saved by Mama Li." She has scavenged all my mother's dowry these days, and it all adds up to a lot, enough for seven or eight people to support them comfortably. ”
Before interests, sisters' feelings are nothing, and Mama Li is also wary of those thugs, and everyone has no real feelings.
The thugs also listened to her orders because they were afraid of Mama Li, and now Mama Li was made like that by a bag of croton powder, it was a good time to take her money.
When Mama Sun saw Mama Wu flattering Mama Li, she immediately scolded the old slut in her heart, and then slapped Zhao Muyu fiercely, "Don't think that I will listen to your instigation, I will never betray my eldest sister." ”
After Sun Ma finished speaking, there was a glint in her eyes, and she hurriedly ran towards the main garden in a hurry, worried that Wu Ma would take all the benefits.
In the distance, Qian's mother, who was washing clothes in the inner garden, saw this scene, and her hands stopped washing clothes.
Because Mama Li collapsed and was almost unconscious, the inner garden had no backbone, and Sun Ma and Wu Ma quarreled over who would take the silver to buy medicine, and the inner garden immediately became a mess.
While they were fighting among themselves, Mother Qian sneaked into the house, took a bag of things out of the house, stuffed them into her pocket, and then quietly sneaked into the outer garden.
After arriving at the outer garden, she gently knocked on Zhao Muyu's door, "Second Miss, the maid is Mother Qian, I have something to do with you." ”
The mandarin duck was full of doubts, stepped forward to open the door, and saw Mother Qian looking around in a panic, as if she was worried that others would find her, "Mother Qian, Miss is reading a book, what are you looking for my Miss Family?" ”
Mother Qian handed the small package in her arms to Mandarin Duck, "I took advantage of their civil strife to take advantage of the internal strife and brought the jewelry and silver taels that Aunt Chen had put there there before to Miss Er." ”
Aunt Chen? It is the honorific title of Chen Qingxue, the mother of the second lady, in the mansion.
As soon as the mandarin duck heard this, she felt that things were not simple, so she hurriedly opened the door and welcomed Mother Qian in.
As soon as Qian's mother entered the house, she observed the bleak hut for a while, and saw Zhao Muyu sitting lazily by the window basking in the sun.
Zhao Muyu raised his eyebrows lightly and looked at Mother Qian, "Ming people don't say secret words, Mother Qian, if you don't take it early or late, if you give me my mother's things now, you must have something to ask for, so you can make a long story short." ”
Mother Qian has already determined that the second miss is different from before, and seeing that the second miss is so smart, she is more and more convinced that she has not taken refuge in the wrong person.
She bowed slowly to Zhao Muyu, gave a salute, and then put the package on the table, and when she opened it, there were more than a dozen silver ingots in the package, as well as more than a dozen pairs of jewelry, including gold and silver ornaments, jade hairpins, and hostas, although it looked like it was not much, but Zhao Muyu knew that these should be the only things that his mother left for herself.
"That was entrusted to the maid by Aunt Chen before, she knew that Mama Li and Aunt Jiang were eyeing each other, and thought that she would have this day, so she entrusted them to me, saying that she would give them to you when you grow up and get married. I see that the second miss is different now, so I will give it to you in advance, and I believe you can protect them. And I don't want anything but a place to stay. She knew that Aunt Jiang was vicious, and Mama Li was unreliable, and now that Mama Li was made like that, it must have something to do with the second miss.
The second miss is no longer the timid and fearful young lady in the past, the young lady in the past did not know a single big word, but now the young lady can read the entire pharmacopoeia, which can be used as an object to rely on.
She vaguely felt that the second miss seemed to have changed her heart, and in any case, she liked the wise and intelligent young lady more at this time.
She believes that the second miss can grow up to protect herself, and if she stays by Mama Li's side, there is only one way out, so it is better to find a way out for herself in advance and take refuge in the second miss.
Zhao Muyu lazily put down the pharmacopoeia, got up and looked at the jewelry on the table, "How can I trust you?" If you really want to take refuge in me, you might as well do something practical to show me. ”
How do you know whether these treasures were entrusted to her by her mother, or whether she had secretly embezzled them in the past.
"Okay, the maidservant is at the behest of the second lady. The maid has no other backer in the house, Mama Li is a maid all day long, today she has diarrhea, the maid is really happy, if the second lady has other instructions, you can try to arrange the maid, and the maid will do her best to do it. "Mother Qian said extremely firmly, her eyes were clear, and she didn't look like a person who could lie.
Zhao Muyu also knew Mother Qian in the past, she and Mama Li were not all the way, since she was willing to take refuge in herself, then she would use this person to test her first, if she was really loyal, she didn't care about bless her by the way.
Mama Li had diarrhea for three days, and on the afternoon of the diarrhea, her grandmother bought her medicine, but Chinese medicine is different from Western medicine and cannot be effective immediately, so even if Mama Li took the medicine, she waited for three days to relax a little.
Although she didn't have diarrhea, she still looked very bad, so she had to lie on the head of the bed to rest, as soon as she rested, she couldn't help but take the lead in bullying Zhao Muyu, and Zhao Muyu had several days of leisure.
During this time, she used the silver taels left by her mother to buy a lot of medicinal herbs, stayed in the hut and studied the pills intensively, she wanted to make some poison pills that could save her life in time, in case there was no medicine to cure when she encountered something.
That day, the autumn was crisp and the weather was fine, Zhao Muyu was tired of reading, so he took the mandarin duck to the garden to play.