Cheng Su nodded, and put the medicine box on his back again: "I came alone, my father didn't allow me to go out, so I came secretly." They all said that my family was a medical family, but my father only valued my two brothers, and did not look at me, thinking that I was a woman, and that I would be inferior to a man, and that I would not be able to pass on his mantle in the future. But I'm going to prove to him that he's very wrong! ”

Duan Ling'er hesitated: "This road is far away, aren't you afraid of a woman on the road?" ”

Cheng Su smiled slightly: "Just now I saw how you saved the young man and deceived those three people, it was because I thought you were a little chivalrous, so you came to save this horse, when I asked you for silver, you didn't deny it, but treated this horse as your own, and gave me the silver, which shows that you are also a kind-hearted person." Since you are such a person, how can you not understand the truth of this? ”

Duan Ling'er's heart moved, and she looked at Cheng Su, Cheng Su's beautiful eyes blinked, and she said: "A chivalrous person can't stop doing chivalrous righteousness because of fear, and a doctor naturally won't stop saving the dead and helping the injured because of fear." What's more, I still have the ability to defend myself, and my father knew that I wouldn't have an accident, so he didn't send someone to follow...... Or maybe he sent someone but didn't catch up with me, and it seems that I will inevitably be beaten when I go back...... Prepare yourself some herbal creams for bruises in advance! I hope it doesn't hurt like last time, but it took seven or eight days to get better. ”

"Do you often run out alone?" Duan Ling'er raised her eyebrows.

As if she saw that she casually threw this woman on any dilapidated bed during the journey, she was full of medicinal fragrance, and with the light of benevolence in her chest, she could sleep peacefully until dawn in order to save the life and help the wounded as soon as she closed her eyes.

Cheng Su followed Duan Ling'er to stand still in front of the Duan Mansion, raised his head and looked at the gilded agarwood plaque of the Duan Mansion: "It's not often, two or three times a year!" ”

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The words were divided into two ends, and the thanks, inexplicably, were stuffed with a scroll of pictures and a letter, although I was puzzled, but thinking back to the appearance of the young man, I felt that this matter had to be investigated and understood in the long run.

Xie Ci escorted the man who took the knife back to the yamen, and the rest of the catchers were sitting in the resting room drinking tea, drinking tea and chatting, while calculating how many scattered benefits they had received in the past few days.

A few catchers glanced at Xie Ci, and they all laughed: "Xie Ci, how are you doing these days?" Look at how much we've earned? ”

Xie Ci nodded, but did not say anything.

One of his colleagues said, "Who are you arresting?" These days, we are busy and crazy for the affairs of Duan Mansion and Su Mansion, these petty thieves, please leave it to you! ”

Xie Ci still didn't answer, Jing Zhi escorted the man to the bottom of the hall, let the house be sleepy and take care of it, and went to the back of the house by himself.

After thinking about it, he found the old Zhao Tou who was drinking tea in the room: "Uncle Zhao, please do me a favor." ”

Lao Zhao, who was holding the tea cup, was stunned, leaned back in the chair, looked a little dazed, and said confusedly: "What do you need me to do?" I'll only do it on the dead. ”

Xie Ci nodded: "If you treat the living as the dead, you can ask anything." ”

When Lao Zhao followed Xie Ci to the man, when he saw the man's hand, his face turned pale, and he nodded to Xie Ci.

The man had cotton cloth stuffed in his mouth, and his eyes were extremely fierce, Xie Ci took out the portraits of Pan He's family and the people in the fire, and asked him one by one: "Do you know the people in this portrait?" ”

When the man saw the portrait, he immediately shook his head and said, "I don't know!" ”

Xie Ci's face moved, and he sighed and asked Old Zhao, "Uncle Zhao, do you have any way to get him to say?" ”

Old Zhao glanced at Xie Ci in embarrassment, and then looked at the man in a complicated way.

Old Zhao's eyes made the man feel his throat tremble suddenly.

After half a pillar of incense, Xie Ci brought the prisoner who had already fainted in fright to the Song Governor's Mansion, and the man had just received the first few moves of Lao Zhaotou's series of operations, and his body had already bent into a bow, his hands and feet were spasms, his face was already colorless, his whole body was paralyzed, and he no longer had a ruthless appearance.

Song Zhifu looked at the man who was already half-dead, frowned and stared at Xie Ci, and as Xie Ci was spoken, the expression on Song Prefect's face became more and more solemn.

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After Duan Ling'er returned home, she received Gu Changfeng's letter, Gu Changfeng's letter was really true, and it was a center, that is, to let her immediately give up the idea of business and return to the inner house.

Duan Ling'er read the letter and threw it on the table, her heart was so blocked that she had to go to the garden, but no matter where she went, the servants of the Duan Mansion had an expression like a ghost.

Duan Ling'er walked alone to the pool where she was talking to Xie Ci that day, holding a branch in her hand and drawing on the ground.

A purse.

A bewitching beauty.

A horse......

I remembered the words of encouragement on the day of thank-you, and the apprehension in my heart gradually settled.

She looked at the pool of water, and somehow suddenly remembered the annoying Gu Changfeng, and suddenly found that everything she saw was blurred, it turned out that her eyes were already full of tears, and her heart hurt for no reason, she crossed out all the pictures on the ground with her feet, and threw the stones in her hand into the pool with her hands.

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Since Duan Ling'er asked Hefeng Xiaozhu's people to send the news that he had returned to the house to Xie Ci and Xue Zheng respectively, the two of them brought back the same "good" word to Xiaozhu, and there was no news.

Ruyi came back from Xue's mansion, but the news brought was not very good, the young man rescued by Xue Zheng was in a coma all night, and Xue Zheng didn't dare to find a doctor for him to see, but he didn't know what to do.

Duan Ling'er got up early the next day, and first wrote a letter ordering Ruyi to return to Fuzhuang, telling Shen and Duan Yu that he would be delayed in Yangzhou City for another two days.

Ruyi was still a little angry that the master climbed over the wall and left himself there yesterday, and later heard that the master suffered from ecstasy incense when he was not there, and he was even more worried and angry, and said to Duan Ling'er: "Master! You can't do that nonsense again! ”

Duan Ling'er comforted her, and urged Ruyi to immediately go out of Duan's mansion to deliver a letter to Zhuangzi.

After sending Ruyi away, Duan Ling'er looked at the gradually brightening sky, and thought that she should still go and ask Cheng Su, who was temporarily living in Duan's Mansion, for a patch of herbs, so that she could take the jujube red horse.

As soon as I approached the eldest lady's room, I felt the heat gushing out of the room, mixing with the heat outside the house.

"Madam, the Nine Girls have come to see you." The maids of the eldest lady stood still outside the door and said respectfully inside.

Duan Xiao's voice came from inside: "Please come in, Sister Nine."

Duan Ling'er raised her feet and entered the door.

The slaves and maids who served the eldest lady blessed Duan Ling'er and retreated out of the door, and the moment the door closed, Duan Ling'er was so hot that the sweat on his forehead dripped into his neck.

I haven't seen the eldest lady for a few days, her lips are pale, and she looks sick.

Duan Xiao was waiting beside him, and Cheng Su was sitting on the edge of the bed, constantly giving needles to the eldest lady.

When the eldest lady saw Duan Ling'er coming in, her body that was originally lying on the bed turned to the side, and she reached out to remove the heavy mutton fat jade hairpin from her bun, and lowered her head full of black hair.

It doesn't seem to mind Duan Ling'er.

"Sister Ling'er sit."

Duan Ling'er looked at the eldest lady's face, and then placed her gaze on the leaves of the acacia tree outside the window that were first green and then gradually turned into a thick green.

The eldest lady looked at Duan Ling'er for a while, and then opened her mouth: "At a young age, it's really not easy, it's not simple. ”

Duan Ling'er looked at the face of the eldest lady that she had memorized by heart for more than 70 years, and respectfully: "Why is my mother sick?" ”

The eldest lady smiled slightly, looked at Duan Ling'er with a pair of eyes, and naturally stretched out her arm and grabbed her hand, but Duan Ling'er quietly withdrew her hand and politely folded her hand back on her lap.

The eldest lady coughed lightly, and the closeness in her eyes was gone, Duan Ling'er was obviously unwilling to use it for herself.

The eldest lady lowered her head and took a sip of tea, and the balance in her heart was tilted to the other side as to whether to charge Duan Ling'er for her own use.

After Cheng Su gave the eldest lady the needle, he said calmly: "Madame is no longer in trouble, and she will not have such a headache in the future." ”

"Good work." The eldest lady raised her hand, and Duan Xiao opened the small wooden box in her hand, which was full of a box of silver ingots.

Cheng Su glanced at the wooden box and frowned: "This is too much." ”

"Treat my mother, naturally, so much." Duan Xiao supported the eldest lady, as if the other party was his biological mother, and gently stroked her chest.

didn't even glance at Duan Ling'er who was on the side.

"Since Madame is no longer in the way, Cheng Su has also retired." Cheng Su picked up the wooden box and saluted, Duan Ling'er also stood up and saluted the eldest lady: "Ling'er sent Dr. Cheng out of the house." ”

Cheng Su looked at Duan Ling'er, who had already removed the yarn, and after knowing Duan Ling'er's intention, he quickly wrote a recipe and handed it over: "Your horse is already well, and you don't need me to heal it anymore." I heard that you disobeyed your elders at a young age, which disturbed the peace of the entire Duan Mansion, and I am the most annoyed by the struggle in the inner house, so it is better to leave you as soon as possible. ”

Duan Ling'er smiled slightly: "Doctor Cheng didn't say goodbye to his father, in order to pursue the benevolence of saving lives and helping the wounded, I pursue my own heart, why must I be disobedient to the elders, is it to disturb the peace in the house?" ”

Yes, no inner house can escape instigation and provocation, they all have the desire to perceive people's hearts, and they all have a tense relationship because of the difference between blood and concubines.

If it involves the honor and disgrace of the harem and the previous dynasty, the undercurrent in this house will be much more turbulent than it seems on the surface.

Duan Ling'er had no intention of getting involved in the unnecessary turmoil, she and Cheng Su stood quietly at the gate of the mansion, looking at the petals blooming under the corridor from a distance, and those petals were full of undried water droplets.

Cheng Suyi shook his hand: "The matter of the house is annoying, no matter what, it is the business of your house, it has nothing to do with me, I don't want to waste time here, I finally came out once, and I have to find someone who really needs my healing." ”

"If there is such a person in front of you, would you like to go?" Duan Ling'er stared at Cheng Su, and before Cheng Su could speak, she saw a girl dressed in turquoise stepping on the wet bluestone brick floor and coming from afar.

When I got closer, I saw that the golden threads on her tuanhua moonflower skirt were shining brightly, and the corners of her skirt were densely tied.