Under an oil lamp.

After the doctor saw Li Qingrong's mother, his brows furrowed: "Why didn't you send the patient over earlier, the delay is so serious." ”

"Our lady took the young lady to Hanshan Temple to worship the Buddha, and she didn't say that she was unwell, and when the young lady found out, she was already like this, and she wanted to let people go down the mountain to find a doctor to watch first, but the young lady refused, so she rushed back to the city overnight." Cui'er explained in a whisper.

"You little girl has the eyesight to know that such an illness cannot be delayed." The doctor glanced at Li Qingrong in surprise, and then continued to check on Li Qingrong's mother, Su.

Li Qingrong didn't seem to hear the doctor's praise, but just looked at the doctor: "Doctor, how is my mother?" What disease do you have? ”

The doctor's attitude eased, but his brows furrowed as he saw the doctor, and he looked at Li Qingrong even more and stopped, obviously a little unbearable.

"It's okay, doctor, you said, what is the situation of my mother, I won't blame you, doctor."

The doctor hesitated, but finally spoke: "Girl, your mother's disease is an intestinal carbuncle." ”

Cui'er couldn't help but exclaim, intestinal carbuncle is a fatal disease.

Li Qingrong trembled: "Can it be saved?" ”

"Although you sent it overnight, the symptoms are already serious, I'm afraid your mother has been in pain many times, and for some reason, it seems that she has not been seen a doctor."

Li Qingrong stabilized her voice: "Can this doctor cure this disease?" ”

"I can only do my best to obey the destiny of heaven, this is still early for you." The doctor did not continue, if this was delivered late, it would be a matter of death.

Li Qingrong's body was weak, and she struggled to support her body by holding on to the table, but she nodded, and told Cui'er to take the medicine according to what the doctor said, and the doctor looked at Li Qingrong's age and sighed: "You are not familiar with the medicine, or I will boil it for you, so it will be faster, don't worry too much, if you are lucky, there is still a chance to save it." ”

"Thank you, doctor." After Li Qingrong thanked him, watched the doctor leave, then sat back beside her mother and wiped the sweat on her mother's forehead with a handkerchief: "Mother, why do you still go to Hanshan Temple since you are unwell, why don't you say a word?" ”

The pain of the carbuncle obviously consumed all of Su's strength, and Su was unable to answer at all, or perhaps, he didn't even hear the words in pain.

Li Qingrong looked at Cui'er: "The doctor said that my mother's illness should have hurt many times, didn't you notice it once." ”

Cui'er shrank for a moment, her eyes flashing slightly: "Slave, slave maid found it once, but Mrs. is reluctant to see a doctor." ”

Li Qingrong took back the handkerchief that wiped Su Shi's sweat: "Why doesn't my mother refuse to see a doctor if she is fine?" ”

Cui'er bowed her head: "This, this slave doesn't know either." ”

"You really don't know?" Li Qingrong looked at Cui'er's eyes.

Cui'er's eyes flickered.

Li Qingrong's hand hung down slightly: "It doesn't matter if you don't answer now, but if you let me know that you know, but don't say it, you will ask the people in the house to beat your board." ”

While speaking, Li Qingrong paused slightly: "Don't think that your deed is not in my mother's hands, I can't deal with you, take care of the master properly, even if I order someone to kill you, no one will say anything." ”

Cui'er's deed was not in her mother's hands, but in the capital, which she overheard about when she returned home later, but she didn't think much about it at that time.

As soon as Cui'er heard this, her face changed instantly, obviously she didn't expect Li Qingrong to know that her body deed was not in the hands of her wife, so she knelt down subconsciously: "Miss spare your life." ”

"Then tell me, what is so sad about my mother, she is so sad that she is sick and doesn't see it, and she goes to Hanshan Temple."

Cui'er burst into tears for a while: "It's not that the slave doesn't want to say it, it's really that the lady doesn't let the slave and the maid say it." ”

Speaking of this, Cui'er peeked at Li Qingrong, saw Li Qingrong's expressionless face, and wiped her tears: "Madame has been in a bad mood recently, she wanted to take you to your foreign house, but the old man was still in a poor city like Liucheng, so he had to follow all the way to Liucheng, so Madame's mood became more and more bad, I saw that Madame's face had been pale, I just thought that I was tired from the journey, but I didn't want to be sick all the time, and I blamed the slave maid for not taking good care of me." ”

Li Qingrong shook her hand: "To be specific, my mother will not be so upset that she will not see a doctor because she is afraid of hardship, and the pain of intestinal carbuncle is more terrible than hardship." ”

In the previous life, she had never heard Cui'er mention this, she was really ignorant at that time, her mother died suddenly, she only knew that she was sad, and her father couldn't take care of her, and finally sent her back to Beijing.

Cui'er struggled.

Li Qingrong looked at Cui'er, Cui'er obviously knew something, but she was young and wanted to hide from her.

"If you don't say it, it's okay, I'll check this matter, and when my mother is done, I'll go back and get the punishment, twenty boards are obviously less for you, and then there will be forty boards." Li Qingrong opened her mouth coldly.

"The lord won't punish people like this." Hearing the forty boards, Cui'er was anxious.

"My father is always busy, my mother is not there, the back house is naturally managed by me, my temperament is not good, there is no room for sand in my eyes, since you deceive me, there is no need to keep it." Li Qingrong's voice was extremely cold.

Cui'er knew that she was afraid, and hurriedly spoke: "There is a letter from the capital, saying that the lady has followed the master for so many years, and it is just that the master has not been promoted, and the master is also put in a more remote place to be an official, saying that the lady can't manage the back house, and she can't help the master——"

Li Qingrong's hands were slightly cold, she didn't know that there was such a thing, but her father's official position was up and down, what could it have to do with her mother: "Also, if it's just this, it's just a matter of depression, how can it make my mother feel unwell?" ”

"The old lady in the capital said in the letter that since the lady can't help the old man to socialize in the back house, let useful people come and take care of the back house." Cui'er cautiously spoke.

Li Qingrong's heart couldn't help but hurt.

A few years ago, Jingzhong took care of her father through her mother, and she couldn't take care of the child carefully, so she took her young brother back to the capital.

A person who can't take care of his children, can't take care of his husband, is incompetent and useless, what face does he have to live in this world.

Without having to do anything, it makes people feel cold, discouraged, and finally hopeless to give up.

Li Qingrong closed her eyes for a while before she opened them: "Did the letter say who to send to Liucheng to take care of my father?" ”

"Aunt Zhong." Cui'er opened her mouth cautiously, mentioning these three words, obviously a little angry.

Li Qingrong looked at Cui'er: "In addition, is there anything else?" ”

Cui'er bowed her head: "It seems that you also mentioned that you are also old, and it is time to return to Beijing, so as not to be inferior to the capital in the education outside." ”

Li Qingrong's hand holding the handkerchief tightened slightly: "Can you mention when will you go back?" ”

"I said that I would leave in October, and I could go back to celebrate the New Year at home." Cui'er spoke.

All Li Qingrong's voices were all lost in October.

In the previous life, I also set off to return to Beijing in October, but at that time, it was because my mother passed away and sent my spirit back to Beijing, and I thought that I would not return to the capital in this life, but I didn't expect that this matter was decided a long time ago.

Also, the daughters of Yongning Bofu are all useful, and wherever they can be wasted outside, they naturally have to return to Beijing and pinch them in their hands.

She originally wanted to be calm for a lifetime, but since she was forced to go back in the end, this time, don't blame her for being polite.

Li Qingrong suppressed the fluctuations in her heart: "In addition, there is something else to hide from me and not tell me." ”

Li Qingrong paused slightly as she spoke, and looked at Cui'er who was kneeling on the ground: "You can think about it, I said that there is no room for sand in my eyes." ”

"It's gone." Cui'er looked at Li Qingrong, her face was slightly pale: "By the way, madam, Mrs. wants to take you to your foreign house, it seems that she wants to promise you to your uncle's second cousin, Brother Sheng." ”

Li Qingrong's hand loosened, and the handkerchief in her hand fell to the ground.

The reason why she is calm about her mother's life and death, in addition to knowing that her mother will die during this time, is because of hatred, hating her mother knowing that the capital is terrible, but she is so timid that she will die, and she does not plan for her children in advance, but she never thought that her mother had also tried, obviously, the efforts did not succeed, and then crushed the last straw, completely desperate.

Li Qingrong's hands trembled slightly, and she couldn't say a word, but at this time, the doctor's voice sounded at the door: "Miss, your mother's medicine is ready." ”

Li Qingrong took a deep breath and instructed Cui'er: "Go and bring the medicine in." ”

Fortunately, she didn't do anything wrong because of resentment, and desperately sent her mother over one day in the morning, hoping that her mother could be lucky and come back to life.