Chapter Forty-Eight: Blood Stains the Floor
"Miss Shen, this capital is not as small as your country town, there are often some people in our capital who disappear for no reason, Miss Shen, be careful!" Xu Shizi whispered in Shen Yafei's ear, the smile on his face was incomparably bright, but his voice was like the depths of hell to ask for his life.
Xie Xu Shizi reminded that the little woman felt inexhaustible. Don't worry, I won't give people the opportunity to say that you are a hard wife. Shen Yafei gently replied to the past.
Xu Shizi's face changed suddenly, and he was so terrifying that he was terrifying, and now Shen Yafei finally understood why he was the street bully that everyone in the capital feared, "This prince will never marry you!" โ
"Wait for the good news!" Shen Yafei said with a smile.
After saying that, she didn't even say goodbye and walked away with the palace maid's hand, leaving a group of people staring at her back resentfully.
When he went out of the palace gate, Shen Yafei saw a carriage made of lilac satin parked at the door, and Zhiyu and Dabao were sitting on the carriage and waiting. The driver was a man in his thirties and forties, with a strong body, broad shoulders, and thick and powerful arms. It would seem that people would think that he was either a farmer who often did rough work, or a man who had been practicing martial arts for many years. This is the old servant who has followed Shen Yafei for many years, Uncle Ji!
Shen Yafei nodded at him.
"Miss." Zhiyu and Dabao walked over and stroked Shen Yafei, probed her pulse without leaving a trace, felt that the pulse was abnormally weak, and was anxious to help her into the carriage.
"Two sisters, you can send them here, my people are here. Thank you two sisters. Shen Yafei said to the palace maids.
Dabao took out two ingots of silver from his pocket and handed them to the palace maid, "The two sisters take it for tea." โ
"Thank you, girl!" The palace maid was a little surprised to see Dabao's appearance, but she didn't show it on her face, and then said to Shen Yafei, "By the way, County Lord Minyi, Gonggong Wu has already ordered someone to inform the old slave of the County Lord's Mansion, and the County Lord can go directly now." โ
"Okay, thank you, sister."
As soon as Shen Yafei got into the carriage, she vomited a mouthful of blood, "Miss! Zhiyu screamed in worry, and Dabao hurriedly went over to help her and helped her wipe the blood stains from the corners of her mouth.
Shen Yafei said with a strong spirit: "Let's go to Princess Yuanping's Mansion!" โ
"Why?" Puzzled, he asked, "By the way, why did those two palace maids call you the county lord just now?" โ
"I left the Shen family, and the emperor gave me the title of county lord, and also gave me a mansion, so I will go over to live now. There is also an old slave in the mansion, and you have gone over and dismissed him alone, so that he cannot see me like this. After Shen Yafei tried her best to tell the most important things, the person became dazed and his consciousness began to become blurred.
Zhiyu listened to Shen Yafei's instructions, and left first.
Dabao took out the pill in his pocket and fed it to Shen Yafei, and put his big palm on her back, Shen Yafei instantly felt surrounded by a warm airflow, and the pain in her chest eased a lot.
When they went to the county lord's mansion, Zhiyu and a small servant were already waiting at the door, and as soon as they saw Dabao helping Shen Yafei get out of the car, Zhiyu came over and said, "Follow me." โ
Dabao immediately picked up Shen Yafei and kept up with Zhiyu with light skills, and the mansion was clean because someone cleaned it all year round, and Zhiyu led the two to a room. The furniture in the room is very complete, and there is a flower bottle on the table, and three peach blossoms that are only available in this season are inserted on the flower bottle. The peach blossoms are in full bloom, and it seems that they have just been picked for a few days. Presumably this room is the master bedroom where Princess Yuanping originally lived, which can also show how loyal the old slave of this princess's mansion is.
At this time, Shen Yafei couldn't support it anymore, her chest hurt so much, and blood kept gushing out of her mouth.
"Aunt Ji!" Zhiyu yelled out the door. Soon, a stout middle-aged woman, carrying a bucket of hot water in each hand, hurried out of the small kitchen at the edge of the courtyard, which fortunately had a small kitchen and a well, or she would not have died of exhaustion if she had to carry water from the main kitchen.
Uncle Ji, who had gone to place the carriage, came back, walked over to help, took the bucket from her hand, and said, "Go to the kitchen and continue to boil water, and I'll get it." After Uncle Ji brought the water in, he withdrew.
At this time, Zhiyan and Dayin were holding a large wine table in their hands, and each of them came in with a large package, which exuded a strong smell of herbs, "How is Miss?" Big Silver asked.
"Still in the room, not in a good situation!" Uncle Ji replied simply.
The two pushed open the door and walked in, "What's the situation?" โ
"It's the grass that I ate." Zhiyu was concentrating on giving Shen Yafei a needle, and replied without raising his head. Dayin and Zhiyan were shocked when they heard the answer.
There was a strong smell of blood in the room, and blood kept lingering from Shen Yafei's body, dripping onto the floor, forming a pool of blood stains. It looks particularly glaring on the brownish-gray wooden floor. Shen Yafei's eyes were tightly closed, her mouth was whining in pain, her face was pale, and there was no trace of anger. They hadn't seen this for a long time, and they felt as if they had gone back to the time when they first treated Miss. At that time, the young lady was like this, her face was as pale as freshly beaten flour, and there was nothing else mixed with it, and every time she woke up, she would change back to the same way the next day. They are worried every day, always worried that one day the young lady will accidentally leave the West.
Later, after nearly three years of hard work, the situation stabilized, and by the fifth year, they knew that they finally did not have to worry about the big problems in the young lady's health. Their young lady finally lived a normal life, but now they are going to fight back to their original form?
Dayin squatted down and checked Shen Yafei's pulse, and his pulse was fine. Zhiyan took out what the two of them brought, there was a silver needle as thin as a hair, motioned for Dayin to press Shen Yafei, and then inserted the silver needle into the acupoint on Shen Yafei's neck. Then he took out a thumb-sized silver tube, put a bottle of potion into the silver tube, and then stretched the silver tube into Shen Yafei's throat, and passed the potion into Shen Yafei's stomach through the silver tube.
After about three quarters of an hour, Shen Yafei's mouth stopped bleeding, but her face was still very pale. After Zhiyu gave Shen Yafei a needle, sweat flowed out of her sideburns, and her underwear was also wet with sweat. When she stood up, her feet were numb, and if it weren't for the quick help of Da Yin, she would have fallen to the ground.
Zhiyu gasped for breath, his left hand constantly slapping his paralyzed right hand. Dayin probed Shen Yafei's pulse and went back, gave her a thumbs up, looked at her with admiration, and smiled contentedly.
Zhiyu's right hand returned to normal, and then personally probed Shen Yafei's pulse, and the whole person instantly relaxed, smiled at the other people and said, "It's not a big problem now, it's just that Miss's body may be cold and lethargic recently." So we all have to stay by her side and don't let anyone come close. Another young lady told me today that she had left the Shen Mansion, and the emperor also made her the county lord, you go and inquire about the specific situation. Inquire as soon as possible so that we can deal with the next situation. โ
"Good!" The three of them nodded in unison.
"This mansion is rewarded by the emperor? Looks really good! Da Yin said, looking around.
"Hmph, I don't know!" Dabao glanced at her with disdain, "This kind of mansion is really not good in the capital, and the location is so remote, there is no way to compare it with the Shen Mansion and those mansions we visited." It seems that this princess is not very favored. โ
Dayin just glared at her, didn't have the heart to quarrel with her, and said to her, "You don't understand that for us, it's better to be in a remote location." I'll wait and look around, if this mansion is rewarded by the emperor, so the young lady will have to live here in the future. I'm going to take a look at the environment, and if I can, we'll move the West Street Mansion here. โ
"Well, there you go." Zhiyu bowed his head at her.
"Then I'll arrange for a few people to come over and move the things we need for the next two days first. There is also the need to solve our eating problem first. Zhiyan said.
"There used to be an old slave living in this house, but I dismissed him. You go and change all the locks here. Zhiyu said to Zhiyan.
"Good!" Zhiyan replied.
King Ning sent Lin Wanxin back to the Shen family, and the two were silent in the carriage along the way, and Lin Wanxin even twisted her head to the side to avoid King Ning's gaze. King Ning saw all her expressions in his eyes, wanting to comfort her, but he didn't know what to say.
After Lin Wanxin returned to Shen's house, she asked Luyi and Mama to help her prepare bath water, and also got a lot of flower petals. Lin Wanxin withdrew the greenery, sat alone in the bathtub, holding a bath towel, rubbing her body over and over again, no matter how she washed her, she felt dirty. Lin Wanxin asked someone to change another bucket of water, soaked in three or four buckets, her skin was red, and tears were left on her cheeks, and she could feel the stinging.
After King Ning was stopped outside the door of Shen's house by Lin Wanxin, he went back to King Ning's mansion, "Bring the wine!" King Ning said to Ning Kang.
Ning Kang obeyed the order and brought a few cans of wine, and King Ning drank one can after another, and finally got drunk directly.
This night, many people have no sleep!
When the marriage between them spread to the streets and alleys, people said that Xu Shizi and Shen Yafei were very compatible, one was a tyrannical overlord and a gentleman who was rampant from small evil to big; One is a talentless and immoral woman who lacks morality and abuses others, and she happens to smell the same, so she doesn't have to harm others anymore. But about the marriage of Chen Xi, Lin Wanxin and King Ning, everyone said that they didn't know why. King Ning once put down his words in front of many people in the capital and said, as long as Lin Wanxin is alone in this life and this life, he will never live up! Why did you marry the young lady of Chen Guogong's Mansion as the main concubine now, and still marry Miss Lin as the side concubine, what is going on? There were all kinds of speculations, but no one told them the real situation, because the emperor had already given a death order, and no one dared to spread the events of that day!
In the next month, Shen Yafei didn't come to her senses, she didn't go to the palace to thank her, and she didn't go out to greet even the person sent by the emperor to pass on the wedding date. Zhiyu told the people sent by the palace that Shen Yafei was sick. Then, the people from the palace reported to the emperor, and the emperor gave some medicinal materials and silver taels.
The Shen family's housekeeper Ma also came, saying that she wanted to send her things to the Shen family, but Zhiyu told the horse housekeeper that it would be good to throw them away, and didn't even let him in the door. Even the property given by the Shen family, Zhiyu didn't accept it, but just told Steward Ma that since he was kicked out, anything in the Shen family had nothing to do with her young lady.
Steward Ma just felt that sooner or later she would regret her current hard work, and living in the capital was not so simple. Steward Ma told General Shen and Mrs. Shen about the situation, and General Shen and Mrs. Shen said that since she didn't want it, then we didn't have to put on a hot face and give it away.
However, many people are skeptical about Shen Yafei's illness, but many people think that she is ashamed and has no face to see people and hides. It was also during this period that the capital underwent great changes.
The emperor sent a decree that all the wedding dates of King Ning and Prince Xu would be unified on the same day, and it was also on the day when the decree was issued that something shocked people in the capital.
After Xu Shizi came back from the palace that day, he felt a wave of anger in his heart, and he hated Shen Yafei to death. But now with the relationship between the two of them, he can't settle accounts with her directly. If he went to find Shen Yafei, the emperor's uncle would definitely not spare him. And as soon as the woman went back, she said that she was sick, so he couldn't just go to the door, right?
Therefore, Xu Shizi thought about it, and also pulled his friends Yang Zifeng and Chen Si to come up with an idea together, and the three of them stayed in the room for two days.
In the afternoon of this day, Xu Shizi went to the Yongchun Courtyard next to the Xianxiang Building, asked his mother to light the most famous top-brand cigarette plume in the Yongchun Courtyard, and took it to the streets of the capital for two laps. And when the two were shopping, their behavior was very intimate, according to the owner of some shops, Xu Shizi also asked the smoke feather girl to be a little heart, and stayed directly in the smoke cloud girl's room that night.
The news spread throughout the capital in an instant. Although this young prince is uninhibited, he has always been clean and self-loving, how could he get together with a top brand of Yongchun Courtyard, or not long after the emperor gave him a marriage? Is Xu Shizi dissatisfied with this marriage? But if you are not satisfied, with the degree of love of the Queen Mother for him, it is not impossible to cancel it, so why not cancel the marriage? It's really a thought-provoking thing.
"Axu, what are you doing?" After hearing the rumors outside, Lord Pi broke into his son's room and asked. He couldn't imagine his son going to such a bad place and spending a night with such a woman.
"Father." Xu Shizi raised his head and looked at his father with an anxious face, he was nearly forty years old, and the years had not left too many marks on his face, but he had become more mature and flavorful. Since a few years ago, after some things happened at home, Prince Pi didn't care about government affairs, and stayed at home all day long with Princess Li, without so many worries, and the nourishment of love, I feel younger and younger. This kind of appearance is far from being comparable to Xu Shizi, Xu Shizi shook his head secretly, does his own prince father know that he looks like this, and his own son will have low self-esteem.
"Don't be a hippie smiley at me, tell me what you did on the street yesterday? And how could you stay in ยทยทยทยทยทยท last night What kind of place to live? "I can't call it a courtyard, it's a place of immorality anyway.
"Father, I didn't stay there last night." Xu Shizi said.
"So where have you been? You don't know how upset we would be to hear that? Especially your mother cried when she heard this. Thinking of his beloved concubine's sad appearance, Lord Pi couldn't help but feel distressed again. He understands that Xu Shizi must be dissatisfied with the marriage by doing this, but according to what Concubine Ai said, even if he is dissatisfied, he can't practice himself like this, if he really meets someone he likes in the future, what should people do? Isn't that the only way to live this life is to be alone? At this time, the prince did not regard Shen Yafei as his daughter-in-law who had not passed the door.
"I slipped back in the middle of the night last night, I don't believe you asked Chenglin. I'm definitely not going to spend the night in that kind of place. Xu Shizi said, "I just want that woman to be unable to hold her head up in front of the people in the capital." Father, don't worry, I have my own way of doing things. โ
"Are you measured? If you are measured, you won't make your mother sad. Go and explain it to your mother yourself! The Lord said.
"Father." Xu Shizi looked at the prince pitifully, he was most afraid of his mother's tears, he was worried that he would be drowned by his mother's tears before he could speak.
"Okay, I'll make it clear to her, but you're going to come with me." The prince was deflated by the pleading gaze of the prince, and reluctantly agreed.
So, the two fathers and sons trembled and explained for a long time in front of Princess Li, and even coaxed and deceived Princess Li, so that Princess Li's tears could be stopped.
"Report any actions in the future, and don't go too far." The Emperor warned before the prince left.
These things were very lively in the capital, but the county lord's mansion was unusually quiet, because the master of the county lord's mansion was still lying in bed. After a month's medical rescue, Shen Yafei woke up many times in the middle, and then fainted back, and now she is finally fully awake. It's just that her body was too tired and she lost too much blood on her body, so Shen Yafei didn't have the strength to stand up at all, so she had to lie on the bed.
Zhiyan also took advantage of this month to install all the people in the county lord's mansion with people he trusted, and also renovated the inside of the county lord's mansion, except for the main courtyard used by Shen Yafei for recuperation, all the other places were renovated, of course, using his own people.
Dayin inspected the county lord's mansion and found that the county lord's mansion was backed by a mountain, so she proposed to buy the back mountain directly, and plant the back mountain with the herbs she needed and raise some snakes and scorpions that she liked. After obtaining Shen Yafei's approval, Dayin also moved the silver blood grass he brought back to Beijing to the back mountain.
Uncle Ji took the opportunity to buy a lot of goods into the pharmacy, more in and less out, and the extra herbs would be taken to the county lord's mansion for a few girls to study.
Several people were very busy, but they were busy, and soon found that they had less and less money in their hands. Zhiyu paid attention to other things, and put the pills that Dayin had researched in the past few months into the Nangtian Building and sold them, which caused a rush in the capital for a while. The recovered money filled the account book, and then Zhiyan and Zhiyu felt a lot more relieved.