Chapter 18 House fighting is like a business war
Mama Cui took Liu Su to the young man. "Say hello to Young Master Xue Xue."
As soon as he got close to Liu Su, he smelled a faint medicinal fragrance coming from the young man named Xue Xue.
"It's Mama Cui, please do it." Xue Xue put down the teacup in her hand and raised her head. The voice was very low, and it seemed very weak.
Liu Su's eyes drooped and swept over Xue Xue's legs. It stands to reason that the legs that have not walked for a long time should be thin and the muscles should be atrophied. But now it is indeed edematous severely, like a deformed person with obesity in the lower body.
Liu Su knew in his heart that this young man should be the one who was fed the poison of the horse. Seeing that this young man's age is obviously older than the eldest young master in this mansion. But he just avoided being poisoned in this remote courtyard.
Hey, this ancient house fight is really terrible. Thinking about the information he had just received from his second aunt's wife, Liu Su felt a chill. You can't do anything to be this ancient backhouse woman.
"Mama Cui, I'm sorry, can I drink saliva." Liu Su's voice sounded suddenly, and there seemed to be some embarrassment on his face.
Mama Cui was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted. "It's the old body who is negligent, Miss Liu, wait a minute, I'll bring you a bowl of water."
"It's the old slave who has neglected the two. Come. Mama Cui, I'll lead you over. Zhou Bo hurriedly stood up and led the way.
"Young Master Xue Xue, don't eat the food sent by Mrs. in the future, and find a way to find Doctor Su. Doctor Su is in Qingshan Town. After Liu Su and the others left, they took a few steps closer and said in a low voice.
After speaking, Liu Su retreated back to the same place and lowered his head. It doesn't matter what the young man's reaction is after hearing it. Seems inexplicably well-behaved and obedient.
Xue Xue raised her head suddenly, her eyes flashing with surprise and hope. But he saw that the bold little girl just now was far away from him at this time, and stood there with her head bowed as if nothing had happened.
"What's your name?" Xue Xue asked curiously.
"Back to Master Xue, my father and mother named me Su, surnamed Liu." Liu Su replied in a regular manner.
"Liu Su, people are not as good as their name." Xue Xue seemed to have an understanding.
"Miss Liu, give it, the water is coming." Mama Cui's voice sounded behind her.
"Thank you, Mama Cui" Liu Su turned around, smiled sweetly at Mama Cui, and took the cup of water.
"I'm going to inspect the flowers and trees in this courtyard. Trouble Mama Cui. Liu Su handed the water cup back to Mama Cui and said.
I don't know if it's because of the owner of this courtyard, or because the house is not taken seriously. There are very few plants in the yard, and they are all common. The most blooming is a large cluster of moon flowers in the corner of the courtyard.
Liu Su was very quick with his hands and feet, and he inspected the plants in the yard in less than two quarters of an hour. Maybe it's because there are few plants in the yard, there are few people, and the place is biased. On the contrary, it has become the place with the least insect infestation in the house.
"Mama Cui. I've checked it out on my side. ”
"Young Master Xue, I'm sorry, the slave and maid will retire first." Mama Cui bowed down and saluted the young man.
The boy did not look up or speak. Uncle Zhou next to him saw this situation and hurriedly said, "Mama Cui, you have worked hard for this trip." Let the old slave send you. ”
Liu Su bowed to the young man with Mama Cui, and walked out of the remote courtyard with him.
"Mama Cui, I want to go to the back garden now and transplant a few flowers and plants."
"The eldest young master has an explanation for this matter, Miss Liu is at will."
Liu Su came to the back garden and first went to the crevice of the rockery to collect some quinoa, and then went to the firethorn to dig a small branch. Subsequently, cosmos, orchid Jianlan, Hui orchid, plain orchid, and spring orchid were collected separately.
After Liu Su's collection was completed, Liu's father and Zhao Yi also completed the inspection work. After the three of them converged, they said goodbye to Steward Fu. "Steward Fu, the three of us need to go home first tomorrow, and I will come over again the day after tomorrow to kill insects for the second time. Looking at today's situation, if you kill it again, you can basically clean up all the remaining insects. Liu's father explained.
"Master Liu, thank you so much. Then, you take this first. Don't worry, this is this time, and there will be more next time. If we can kill all the worms, our lord will have a reward. ”
"It's not the same as what I said at the beginning, which requires so much wages." Father Liu was a little embarrassed and didn't want to take the money.
"If it weren't for you this time. All these orchids of our lord were thrown away. And it also requires you to go back and forth to Liushui County many times. This is the way it should be, so don't shirk it. Steward Fu stuffed the silver into Liu's father's hand.
"Master Fu is really a good official who loves the people like a son. I will definitely do my best. Father Liu said gratefully.
When Liu's father and the three returned to the inn, it was already dinner time. The shopkeeper stopped Liu Su. "Miss Liu, this is my brother sent it today, saying that it was agreed with you, look at it, which ones you can want."
When Liu Su heard this, his spirit immediately lifted up. "Uncle Shopkeeper, thank you so much. I'll take a look at the flowers first. ”
The shopkeeper handed a bamboo basket to Liu Su, and Liu Su took the bamboo basket and picked it up on the empty table in the lobby.
Seedlings or branches of 20 kinds of herbs such as ginseng, coptis, forsythia, honeysuckle, radix radix, cinnamon branch, jute, hay, kudzu, bupleurum, banxia, codonopsis, etc.
Liu Su wrapped the selected herbs in a handkerchief and returned the bamboo basket to the shopkeeper.
"Look, Uncle Shopkeeper, I picked 20 kinds of herbs together, which is 10 taels of silver, you take it. Help me say thank you to your brother. ”
"Miss Liu, you're welcome." The shopkeeper said with a smile and a wave of his hand.
"Uncle shopkeeper, I'll go back to the room first, and trouble Uncle Shopkeeper to serve us some food." Liu Su saw Zhao Yi waiting on the side and pulled him to the room.
"No problem, the old rule, three dishes and one soup, I'll serve it to you right away."
After the three of them had dinner, Liu Su pulled Zhao Yi to make an emergency treatment of the plants transplanted in the Fu Mansion and the herbs he had just selected.
I called for hot water and took a comfortable bath. Sitting on the bed,
Liu Su thought about what happened this afternoon, and felt a little emotional. In that seemingly gorgeous and wealthy Fu Mansion, whether it is the wife in charge, or the favored second aunt's wife, or the poisoned half-naked Xue boy, or even the biggest master of the Fu Mansion, Fu Sanye. Each is alive with its own mask. If you want to talk about Fu Sanye, he doesn't know these cats in the house at all, Liu Su thinks it's impossible. Maybe it's just living in an illusion for a long time, hypnotizing yourself, that's true.
Otherwise, it doesn't make sense, why Xue Xue is still alive, and Mrs. Fu will not have been poisoned for more than 10 years, nor has she poisoned Xue to death. And the second aunt's wife's acacia beans will not become something that Fu Sanye often wears.
Maybe this is the survival mode of a large family, everyone is on guard against each other and suspicious. Even the next generation of children are under the influence of their parents and begin to fight at their age.
Hey, the ancient house fight is really no worse than the modern business war, and even the age has been lowered.
Liu Su is once again glad that the family he has devoted himself to has a simple population and few rights and wrongs.
After thinking for a while, Liu Su lay down.
Early the next morning, the three of them had a simple breakfast. It was Liu's father who drove the carriage when he came and left Liushui County.