Just after Chinese New Year's Eve, Hou Fu handed over a post, inviting the eldest aunt and grandmother to get together in the second year of junior high school. However, the old lady contracted the wind and cold on the night of the reunion on Chinese New Year's Eve, and after rushing for days, the saddle horse was tired, and she fell ill in bed, so she ordered Jiang Hongsheng to take her two sons to the Hou Mansion to pay New Year's greetings.

Jiang Xinyao had only lived in Jiangnan in her previous life and was accustomed to the humid climate in the south. When he first arrived in the capital, he was not satisfied with the water and soil, and after Chinese New Year's Eve, he began to vomit and leak, and for three days, he did not see any improvement, and only turned the people who listened to Fengxuan's toss on their backs.

Gu Shi looked at his daughter's pale and obviously thinner face, and was distressed, and discussed with Jiang Hongsheng behind his back, wanting to set up a small kitchen for his daughter like Suzhou Mansion.

Jiang Hongsheng saw that his daughter was really weak, and he couldn't bear it, so he mentioned it to the old lady on the premise, only saying that his daughter had been weak since she was a child, and now she is seriously ill and needs to be recuperated.

The old lady is sick herself, how can she not know the benefits of a small kitchen? I didn't feel embarrassed, and I explained that everything was done according to the rules of Suzhou Prefecture.

Seeing the old lady speak, Gu immediately took out the private money for his daughter to go out to buy all kinds of fresh vegetables and fruits, and asked people to go around to inquire about the famous doctors in the capital.

Xin Yao leaned weakly on the pit and hummed. This illness is really ferocious, as if it has returned to the days when he first came to Jiang's Mansion, lying in bed all day long, doing nothing, eating and waiting for death.

Mother Li stepped forward and touched the young lady's forehead, which was a little hot, and quickly tucked the quilt.

"Miss, the second wife just sent some fresh vegetables to Miss, what Miss wants to eat, just tell Mom. Look at it, the chin is pointed, and it is hard to grow some flesh, but this pull and spit out, all of it is gone. ”

Xin Yao said weakly: "Mom, it's good to recuperate for a few days." Let the girl bring in two basins of water, this room is very hot. ”

Mother Li was busy with her hands, and her mouth was not idle, and she said: "Yingguizheng is boiling white fungus soup." The most is to clear the heat and remove the fire, but the young lady drinks more. The weather in the north is different from that in the south, where can a young lady who is like a jade person adapt? Last night. The north wind that blew all night, mixed with rain and snow, was terrifying to hear. If in the south, when did such a strong wind blow? Even snow is not common. ”

When Li's mother first arrived at the feet of the Son of Heaven, she neither saw the gold diamonds on the ground in the capital, nor how prosperous the capital was compared to Suzhou Mansion, and she was very disappointed. It's better to shout straight to the south.

Xin Yao smiled bitterly: "In the end, it is 108,000 miles away." The old lady is sick, and I am also sick, and this year is really disappointing. Father and brother can be in the house? What is Mother up to? ”

"Miss. Today, the tenth day of the first lunar month, the second master took the second master, and the third master went out to visit friends early in the morning. The eldest lady came back and talked to the old lady, and the second lady was busy entertaining. ”

"Big sister is back. Why didn't you send someone to say it beforehand? I haven't seen you for many years, and I don't know how my big sister is doing? My body, I don't fight, but I'm sick at this time. ”

Mother Li smiled: "Miss, is it possible to find a good life if you are sick?" Now that I'm in Beijing, when can't the sisters see each other? It's a long day. ”

Xin Yao said weakly: "Mom, send some snacks made by Yinggui yesterday to the eldest sister to taste." By the way, I took a leave of absence, and said that I was afraid that I would get sick, and when I got better, I would ask my eldest sister for sin. ”

Mother Li smiled: "Miss, and relax, I have already let Weiyun go to Guiyun Hall." ”

Xin Yao said angrily: "It's still my mother who knows my heart." ”

Mother Li smiled: "I have followed Miss for more than ten years." Where can you not know the temper of the young lady? ”

Xin Yao said: "Mom, the eldest sister came back alone?" ”

"How can I come back with my uncle and child. A brother, a sister. They are all talking in the old lady's room. The eldest lady has a really good life. I heard that over the years, there have only been two aunts in my aunt's house, and none of them have come out. Uncle for a month, but half a month in the eldest lady's room, it's really a good skill. ”

Jiang Xinyao had no impression of this cousin.

Soon after she followed her grandfather back to the old house, Miss Jiang got married, but she heard from her mother that the eldest sister was the smartest person, and she must have lived a good life.

The eldest brother-in-law, Feng Siyuan, was originally a well-known wealthy family in Suzhou, and spent money to donate a small official, to the generation of the eldest lady's father-in-law, the official to the Ministry of Rites, is the fourth product, although there is no real power, but it is also stable, but I heard that the children and grandchildren are not very successful.

Xin Yao thought of this and said, "Mom, we are far away in the south, where do we know the plight of the eldest sister?" A person lives in the capital, and he is unfamiliar with the place, how much bitterness and suffering. Outsiders only see her glamour, but who can see the tears behind her? ”

Mother Li said: "Miss is really soft-hearted. If you want to say bitterness, who can be bitter before Miss You? Now, who can suffer better than the second miss? There is no news at all, presumably it is a difficult life. ”

Xin Yao said softly: "Who said that if the second miss has no news, life must be sad?" I'm afraid that someone in the house has broken her heart. Maybe at this time, he is raising eyebrows with his second brother-in-law, and his husband is singing with his wife."

Mother Li couldn't help but laugh and said, "Miss, you are confusing your mother." The eldest lady has a good life, you say that she is bitter, and the second lady has no news, but you say that her husband sings and follows her wife, who is doing well and who is not having a good time? ”

Xin Yao said seriously: "Mom, you can't just look at the surface of everything. Who is doing well and who is not doing well, how can outsiders understand? Some people look peaceful and happy, but they are actually turbulent inside. Some people look at the compromises, but they may not be clear and protect themselves. So, if you live a good life or not, it only depends on the people who live your life. Just like when we were in the old house, outsiders looked at the young lady and I was very pitiful, but I didn't know that I was living like a fish in water, and now, there is no more comfortable day than the old house. ”

Mother Li smiled: "Miss is right, and everything is reasonable. My mother has lived for decades in vain, and she can't see it as thoroughly as Miss. ”

Xin Yao secretly smiled bitterly, the word thoroughly, that is how many tears it takes to write, how can you understand it thoroughly if you don't experience the world, don't understand the warmth of people, and don't see through the essence of human nature?

Xin Yao came back to her senses and said, "Where is my mother living in vain?" Look at the things around me, how can I be separated from you, mother? It is estimated that the whole master has already learned the news of my entry into Beijing, what happened to Jinjue Pavilion? No news came. Mom, Ming'er, you can help me go to the house in the east of the city. ”

"Miss, I'm thinking about this, don't worry, I can't miss Miss's big event."

While talking, Yinggui came in with the medicine, Xin Yao saw the medicine, only felt bitter in her mouth, thought about it, and said: "Mom walked to my mother, see that my mother is free, tell her about Ming'er, and my mother will definitely agree." Give her another sentence 'The strong dragon can't overpower the snake on the ground', there is a serious shortage of manpower in the house, and the few in the west are the old lady's favorites, and they can't be wronged, and they should add more people. ”

Jiang Xinyao deliberately accentuated the tone of "add more manpower". Mother Li understood, told a few words, and went to Qiushui Courtyard.

Early the next morning, Li's mother went to the house in the east of the city with the letter from the young lady. In the evening, I returned to Tingfeng Xuan.

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Just three days after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there was a death knell in the palace, and the queen mother was sick today. Emperor Su mourned in his clothes, and embellished the dynasty for five days.

According to the ancestral system, all orders are entered into the court and followed by the knight system. Edict to the world: Where there is a lord's house, no feast and music are allowed within a year, and the common people are not allowed to marry in March. On the day of mourning, the civil and military products above the third grade entered, cried in the court, and cried outside the door below the fourth grade. Twenty-one days later, the Queen Mother's coffin was sent to the imperial mausoleum for burial.

Except for the second master of the Jiang family, who fasted and stayed and cried, the rest of the people took off their crowns, wore vegetarian clothes, stayed in the house, and went out easily when they had nothing to do.

I don't know why, since the Queen Mother's illness, the capital has been raining and snowing for more than ten days, and it is freezing cold. Jiang Xinyao's first Spring Festival in Beijing was spent in the gloom of the city.

On February 28, Jin Jue Pavilion quietly opened its doors in the capital to welcome guests, and at the south gate of the imperial city lined with shops, it was low-key and could not attract anyone's attention.

On the same day, on the Furenju restaurant diagonally opposite the Jinjue Pavilion, a young man with a crown of jade chartered a private room, standing by the window, and happened to be able to see the whole picture of the Jinjue Pavilion.

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Jiang Xinyao, who has been recuperating for two months, has finally regained her tender and fair complexion, and her eyebrows are more radiant than before, as delicate as a pink lotus in June.

The days of these two months were really difficult, first she was unaccustomed to the water and soil, vomiting and leaking, and then she had a large number of pimples on her body, and even inexplicable nosebleeds, which frightened Jiang Xinyao to think that she had a terminal illness. Three meals of bitter medicine a day are the same taste as what you eat in your mouth, and it has no effect. was so anxious that Gu repeatedly scolded the quack doctor for misleading people.

Xin Yao thought hard and felt that the root cause was still in the regional difference. Congenital deficiency, coupled with sensitive constitution, the symptoms of soil and water adaptation are more severe than others. She tried hard to recall the poor medical knowledge in her previous life, and with the determination to be a dead horse and a live horse doctor, she became a Jianghu Langzhong.

First thing you wake up every morning, drink a glass of salted sugar water. Every day, I cut off tea, drink honey water instead, eat as light as possible, and make all kinds of porridge with side dishes. The room is ventilated for half an hour every day, a basin of well water is placed in each of the four corners, and the bathing on the second day is changed to a bath every day, and then the doctor prescribes a few stickers of traditional Chinese medicine to remove dampness and heat, and boils and drinks every day.

Mother Li took a handful of soil from the back garden and wrapped it in a handkerchief according to the ancient method. Xin Yao smelled about it when she had nothing to do. After more than ten days, the discomfort on my body slowly subsided. Listening to Feng Xuan, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiang Xinyao hated that her body was weak, and if she was a little better, she couldn't be idle, no matter how cold the day was, she had to walk a few laps in the garden. Slowly, there was blood on his face. God is fair, and if He gives you something, he will naturally take some of it. Xin Yao's health was unfortunately carried in God's pocket.

Seeing that his daughter's body was getting better day by day, Gu's frowns stretched and his smile was full, which made Jiang Hongsheng so happy that he rested in Gu's room for more than ten days. If it weren't for the old lady's hint, I had to go to Aunt Zhou's room a few times. (..)

( Miss Jiang Si )