Pengpu Township, Gu Zhai.

Lin has suffered a head illness these days, and has stayed in his house for several days, and has never even stepped out of the courtyard gate. Lin's whole person looked like a seedling, and he didn't have the strength to speak, if he hadn't leaned on the big pillow behind him, he was afraid that the person would have been paralyzed.

Mama Liang brought Lin's medicine from the kitchen, and when she walked into the house, she heard Lin cursing the second wife Liang. If it weren't for Liang's words that stimulated Lin's that day, Lin wouldn't have committed a head disease that he hadn't committed for so many years, and this time the head disease was still menacing.

"Old lady, it's time to drink the medicine. This is a new prescription prescribed by Dr. Xiao Qin, you took the last prescription seven or eight times and did not get better, Dr. Xiao Qin changed this one, saying that you took this prescription, and within three days, your head disease will be cured. Mama Liang said, waiting for the soup in the medicine bowl to cool for a few minutes, and then handed it to Lin.

Lin took the medicine bowl handed over by Mama Liang, his hands trembled, and the medicine bowl he held looked crumbling. Mama Liang was a little worried, so it was better to feed the Lin family to drink it herself, these decoctions had been boiled for three or four hours, and they all used good medicinal materials, if they were knocked over by the Lin family, these medicines would be wasted.

"Two days ago, I asked you to write back to Chengjiang to the second master, did he reply to him?" Mama Liang fed Lin the medicine spoonful by spoonful, and Lin took a few sips, but felt bitter in his mouth, so he didn't continue to drink.

"The slave maid has already sent someone to deliver the letter to Chengjiang, and instructed the postman to deliver the letter to the second master. It's been five days, I don't know why the second master is so slow to reply to you?" Seeing that Lin couldn't drink the medicine, Mama Liang hurriedly took out two plates of dim sum from the food box on the side, one was the hawthorn cake that Lin liked to eat, and the other was the candied dates used to relieve the bitter taste of the medicine.

Lin ate a few pieces of hawthorn cake before he said: "The second and second daughter-in-law have always been affectionate, and the second daughter-in-law gave birth to two brothers and a sister for the second child, where would the second brother reprimand his own daughter-in-law for me." In vain, I have always lived in the second child's house all these years, and I have taken care of his family, but in the end I am still a group of white-eyed wolves that I can't raise! ”

"Don't say these angry words, the old lady is the biological mother of the second master, and you raised the second master since childhood, and the brother Bai born to the second master and the second wife also grew up in your house. Now that you are angry with the second wife, although the second master is hindered by the relationship between husband and wife, he will not do anything to the second wife. But if this matter reaches the ears of the ancestors of the four rooms, I am afraid that the second wife will go to the ancestral hall. Mama Liang broke open a piece of hawthorn cake and handed it to Lin.

"We have been separated from Sifang for so many years, although they are also a lineage of the ancestors of the Gu family, but they have not been in contact for so many years, they are the ancestors of Sifang, I haven't seen him for many years, and now he still needs someone to help him when he goes out, how can I expect someone like that to help me? Chunming, you're getting more and more confused. As soon as Lin's words fell, he drank the decoction that he had not finished drinking in one go.

"A few days ago, I asked someone to take a message to Sichuan, and brought it to the first lady, I told her that I was sick, and she said that she wanted to come back to see me, and it is estimated that it is a few days away, you pay attention to me." Lin Shi said, only to feel a faint pain in her forehead, so painful that she didn't open her eyes for a while.

"Old lady, the first lady grew up in your house. Although she is not the eldest master's biological girl, the eldest lady and the eldest lord used to treat her, and she was almost the same as her own sister Tang. She was raised in your house, so she got such a good family business, so she is naturally grateful to you. Seeing that Lin was starting to have a headache again, Mama Liang hurriedly lit the tranquilizer in the incense burner next to her.

These days, the Lin family has a headache and can't sleep, and they rely on these soothing incense to sleep peacefully.

"Chu Niangzi is a good child, but it's a pity that when the Yang family chose her mother-in-law's family, she chose the Dong family, a salt merchant in Sichuan. The Dong family is a well-known family of salt merchants in Sichuan, and the family not only operates the official salt of the government, but also sells private salt. There are not many rules in the house, but they are fragmentary, and there is a mother-in-law with a tricky personality, and her life has been very difficult over the years. Lin said, sighing several times in a row.

Gu Yujia, the first lady of the Gu family, is the first girl in the Gu family's room, not born to Master Gu and the Yang family, but a girl adopted by the Lin family from outside. Lin felt sorry for her unborn father, so he personally took her into his house and raised her by himself.

The first lady Gu Yujia's relatives were still told by the Lin family that the Yang family went to Sichuan, and the Dong family in Sichuan was a businessman's family, and it was a good match for their Gu family. After getting married, the mother-in-law will not dislike her daughter-in-law as a merchant girl, and then set rules for her daughter-in-law.

It's a pity that the Lin family thought too well, and never thought that the old lady of the Dong family was a girl from a scholarly family, and she had never looked down on the girl from the Shangjia family, so in the past few years when Gu Yujia first got married, she begged for a living under the old lady of the Dong family, and her life was also a little difficult.

"Don't feel sorry for the first lady, the old lady is now bitter. A few days ago, I heard that I was pregnant, and the eldest aunt felt sorry for the first lady, and personally took the first lady to live with him for a period of time, and the eldest aunt served the first lady every day. As soon as Mama Liang finished the last sentence, the next sentence quickly spit out of her mouth.

"Not only does the eldest aunt feel sorry for our first lady, but even the mean old lady of the Dong family was overjoyed when she knew that our first lady was pregnant, and she went to the temple to make a vow, and invited the monks in the temple to come to the house to do all the Dharma for a few days, and even the supplements and food in the first lady's room were piled up like a mountain."

"If Jia'er has no children in her life, then the old lady of the Dong family won't eat Jia'er alive. The old lady of the Dong family has always valued the incense of the Dong family the most, and the eldest wife of the Dong family gave birth to three children, she said that the eldest wife of the Dong family had fewer children, and finally forced the eldest wife of the Dong family to give birth to a fourth child. Lin leaned on the soft pillow and said lightly.

Suddenly, a little maid outside the house hurriedly walked in, and after saluting the Lin family, she dared to say, "Old lady, the second lady is here." He said that he knew that you were sick and came to see you. ”

"Why didn't she come to visit me when I was sick two days ago, but now that I'm almost cured, she came to see me? Go out and say to her, 'I have rested, and I will see no one.' Lin was a little impatient and waved his hand at the little maid.

"Old lady, the third girl came with the second wife, and the third girl also stewed rock sugar pears, saying that she wanted to give the old lady a taste." The little maid looked a little nervous and looked at Lin Shidao. When she first came in, Liang specially stuffed two taels of silver to her, asking her to be sure to handle this matter well, if she couldn't let Liang in, then how should she pay the errand?

"Old lady, since the third girl came with the second wife, the old lady will meet them! A few days ago, when the third girl first heard that you were sick, she often boiled medicine for you in our small kitchen alone, and told us not to tell you. Mama Liang replied truthfully.