First Marriage (II) (M)

Seeing Du Tingxi walk out, he pulled Qiu Shi by the hand, and was just about to press her down, when he saw that she was covered with bruises, and he had no appetite. I had to close my eyes, grab Qiu's hair, and bury her face. There was no longer a wounded Qiu in his mind, but the veiled figure appeared, he wanted to pull down her veil, but he always couldn't reach it, always floating off the ground, he got a little closer, and she ran away two steps. He was very angry, he would be king, but she always despised him so much and distanced herself from him. Qiu, who was lying on his stomach, felt the change in his mood and looked up at him for some reason, Yi Heng suddenly opened his eyes and gave her a slap. Pull her onto the kang again. Qiu was still wearing the robe he had thrown at her earlier, and he grabbed it with a stab...

It wasn't until Yi Heng felt that the depression of the past few days had been completely released, and Qiu Shi was relieved, Qiu's legs kept shaking, and when he walked to the next door to clean, he fell twice in a few steps. For so many years, she had never seen Yi Heng so ferocious, and she couldn't help but be suspicious in her heart.

Yi Heng, who completely released the pressure, was in a good mood at this time, looking at Qiu's weak appearance, he smiled faintly, and specially instructed the two maids to take good care of her. Before leaving, he brought her a bag of medicinal herbs for a woman's body. Qiu's heart, which was originally a little cold due to suspicion, suddenly softened like water at this time. He touched her face that was ruddy from nourishment: "Go back and take care of it, don't think about it." The relationship between you and you since childhood is not something that outsiders can replace. You're a smart woman. ”

Opposite Jihui Zhai, upstairs in a silk shop, a window was pushed open a crack, and the people standing by the window saw Qiu Shi wearing a hat and covering up well, came out, got into an inconspicuous carriage and left, then turned back to Lu Cai, who was sitting in the house and drinking tea, and said: "She got on the car." ”

Lu Cai snorted. He has no affection for this woman, let alone a liking for it, but it's true that she's smart and useful. He thought for a while, and instructed the little servant: "You go to the place where she changed the car and wait, and then take her to the Nanshan Courtyard, let the others go to the mansion, and let them tell Mrs. that the third young grandmother has gone to the courtyard to find me." ”

In the carriage, Qiu closed his eyes, but did not fall asleep. Although the body is extremely tired, the brain cannot be quiet. She carefully recalled the details of today, and she could be sure that Yi Heng had intentions for that woman. To give her so many rewards, in addition to appeasing her, the most important thing is to make her not trouble the woman.

The car was parked in an uninhabited alley next to Xiufang Street. And when she got out of the car, it went off the other side of the alley. She walked slowly to the embroidery street, and saw a veiled woman walking out of an unopened shop opposite, and when the other party saw her, his eyes stayed on her for a while, and then he turned around and got into a car and left.

Although she couldn't see the woman's face, she remembered the driver of the car, who was the original long-term follower of the third young man of the Tang family. She saw him driving the car at the door of Yuehuaxuan the day before yesterday, and Sanshao got out of the car, and then helped out a woman wearing a veil. The figure of that woman today is very similar to that woman of that day. She took a closer look at the unopened shop, the door was unopened, and she couldn't tell what business it would be. The business is open, and she comes out of it, is this her business? It was such a coincidence that the man she liked liked liked this woman, and this woman's shop was actually opposite her own dowry shop? She has long lost the qualification to associate with that man, but she still keeps running into people and things around him, do you want to torture people so much?!

Qiu Shi shook her head, she was too tired, she didn't want to bother thinking about it now, let's go home first. So she took her baggage, which contained Yi Heng's reward, and entered a shop under her name, and just walked to the backyard to get into the car, when she saw her husband's entourage waiting for her: "Young grandmother, the third young master said to wait for you in Nanshan Courtyard." ”

"When did you go to Nanshan Courtyard?" Qiu was a little surprised. Although Lu Cai has a hidden disease, he is also a person who can write and martial arts, and he has also made friends with some powerful people. Sometimes it is not convenient to interact with them too much in the house, so I go to live in the Nanshan Courtyard under his name in the name of cultivation.

"It's noon today. There are guests from the east, I just entered Beijing today, and I will go to our Zhuangzi later, so I asked people to pick up the young grandmother and go over to live for a few days. ”

Qiu's fingers holding the burden were slightly cold: "How many days will the guests from the east stay?" ”

"Master said it's not long, five or six days."

Qiu's fingers grasped the burden and bit his lip. Her husband made her feel less lonely. In desperation, Qiu got into the car, and at the same time hugged the burden tighter on his chest, as if he wanted to get more warmth from it.

During this month, Lian'er was extremely busy, including preparing for the opening of the new Aoki Tea House, the new house needed to be cleaned up, and the Queen Mother in the palace was often summoned. Today, she happened to come to Xiufang Street to see the shops of the soon-to-be-opened Baihuatang. This shop not only sells Baihuatang's fat powder, but also prepares some ingenious women who can take care of their faces and hands for the female customers who come to the store, or dress up with the fat powder hair oil sold in the store.

If you are a guest from a good family and can afford the carriage and horse fare, these female masters also provide door-to-door service. Although there are many maids and women around the women of large families, not every maid and woman knows acupuncture points, let alone Lian'er to train them in maintenance techniques. What's more, there is her special formula for face protection. These female masters have all practiced internal skills since they were children in Baihuatang, and they all have a foundation for massage and acupuncture, which can make some internal strength and ingenuity, and the effect is completely different. Lian'er also taught them some common sense of basic pulse diagnosis and complexion, and according to the preliminary judgment, they chose those with different medicinal properties among several different ointments for operation. This is something that ordinary maids can't do.

These people were originally female guards and messenger guards on standby. When there is no task in ordinary times, you need to cover up the identity of some ordinary people. Lian'er felt that it was better to give them an upright identity to go out of the capital on various occasions. And they have kung fu, go in and out of big families, and they are not afraid of bad intentions. It's just that what I didn't expect was that these female masters were extremely sought-after in the capital later, and large families scrambled to make appointments for their door-to-door services. Later, even Chen Biyan sighed that Baihuatang's letter newspaper went to another level because of this small business. A few years later, some disciples of Baihuatang sent letters and newspapers many times, avoiding many conspiracies and sabotage by foreign feudal lords in the capital and some large towns, and saving hundreds of people from harm. That's for later.

The business has not yet been done in the capital or even in the Great Zhou, so the top and bottom are very hidden before the opening. The merchants in the adjacent shop knew that it had been rented by a group of women, thinking that the women had opened an embroidery workshop. Many people secretly went to see it when they were decorating, and they felt that it didn't look like a simple embroidery workshop. There is a shop in front, but there are a lot of shelves, but there are three courtyards in the back, and many people speculate whether these women will live here in the future?

But fortunately, the proprietress who came to rent the shop was the proprietress who did the flower seedling business on Xinglong Street, so everyone was wondering if the flower seedling shop was going to open a branch here. It's serious business. Most of the embroidery street is the place where the embroidery workshop in the capital and the shops related to the silk and satin shops are concentrated. For example, Qiu's shop here is a silk shop. The people who come to shop are all women from all over the family. The atmosphere of the Great Zhou is relatively open, and women don't have to be confined to the backyard all day long, they can come out and move around freely if they have an appointment with a confidant, or bring a maid and a wife. Of course, the prerequisite is that the place to go is relatively safe. Therefore, the bosses are very concerned about the new business, lest there are any immoral or unstable factors that will affect the female customers to come shopping.

The day after tomorrow, the shop will open, although all the female generals are very capable, Lian'er still doesn't feel at ease to come and see. When she came out of the shop, she saw Qiu coming out of the alley opposite. Although she didn't know Qiu, Qiu's clothes looked like a big family. Women from large families rarely walk the streets alone, even in places like Embroidery Street, where women are concentrated. As a healer, she could see at a glance what the look on Qiu's face meant. The sky was blue, and she was still walking around outside after the big event, so she couldn't help but look at her twice. But I didn't take it to heart, after all, I didn't know each other. She also had to rush into the palace to deliver things to the Queen Mother.

Although the shop opened the day after tomorrow, and the new products were only on the shelves on that day, good things must be honored to the Queen Mother to avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble. Moreover, the things given to the Queen Mother are not ordinary products on the market, and a lot of good medicinal materials are specially added. Some of them are based on the samples she prepared for the Queen Mother back then, and add new formulas that she has researched in recent years. When Chen Mural picked up the orange blossom mutton fat paste she paid tribute to and touched it comfortably in her hand, the familiar sweet fragrance permeated the main hall of Chunhui Palace, and the old queen mother also scolded her with a smile: "You bad girl, and you use things to seduce my wife." Before, you tossed those things here, and the old woman used them smoothly, but since you left, the things sent by the hospital don't feel good. Today, my conscience has finally been discovered. ”

Lian'er, at this time, recovered the image of Zhou's Wanning, lowered her head and smiled: "It's not like I'm rushing to make a new product for you when I come back, I just made it this morning, and I'm rushing to send it to you." ”

Zuo Qing, who was beside the Queen Mother, said with a smile: "Sister Zhou doesn't know, the Queen Mother is rare for you to concoct those things back then." Since you left, those things have been used up one after another, and in the end there were only a few packs of incense, so Niangniang asked us to use the best silk bags, and sealed them with a closed porcelain altar, collected them, and kept them for thought. ”

Wan Ning and the Queen Mother's eyes were a little moist. Wanning hurriedly asked people to take two porcelain altars, although they were only white and simple porcelain altars, one was carefully tied with a red ribbon on the lid, and the other was a faint aroma from the inside, so that people knew that the contents were very valuable.