Chapter 8: Serving the Sick
In the next few days, due to overwork for several days, the old stomach pain and old disease recurred, coupled with the uncontrolled drinking a few days before the birthday, and the liver meridian was also damaged, so this stomach disease was associated with many diseases, and it was urgent, fierce and dangerous, and the house was more busy than the birthday days.
Aunt Lin originally wanted to talk to her daughter, but because of the illness of the teacher, she put it aside for the time being.
Master Shi was sick in the Treasure Pavilion the day after his birthday, and he had to recuperate here with Aunt Lin. Even Wanying was busy, but after all, it was Aunt Lin who was the busiest. All day long, he served tea and water in the inner room, and slept outside the warm pavilion at night to listen and drink.
In the past few days, Aunt Lin has lost a lot of weight. Wanying looked distressed, and was ashamed of the abruptness of her birthday. If it weren't for Yun Niang's words, Wanying would still be obsessed. It turns out that everything in this world is not as light as I imagined, and it is not clear that the word right or wrong can be said. Wanying suddenly felt that she had grown up a little.
Seeing her mother working day and night for her father, Wanying felt even more pity for her mother, and even the teacher on the sickbed saw it in her eyes and felt pity in her heart.
However, even if Aunt Lin wants to avoid right and wrong, but in the depths of right and wrong, the word 'hide' can be erased.
On this day, the master felt a little better, and the wife came over with a sad expression, took the teacher's hand and kept crying, and said sadly: "Master, Yan Ning is willing to live for 10 years, just ask the master to be safe." ”
All those present wept and listened sadly. Master Shi was also quite moved, and his wife, who had been with him for decades, although he did not give birth to a boy and a half girl for himself, but the friendship of his childhood sweetheart can be regarded as a memory hidden in his heart. Seeing that the girl who was twenty-eight years old at the time was already a woman with mottled hair in front of her in a blink of an eye, Master Shi also sighed again and again in her heart, Shaoguang was like water, and she was ruthless.
Seeing off his wife, Aunt Gao entered the warm pavilion where the teacher was recuperating. As soon as I entered the warm pavilion, my eyes kept looking up and down on the furnishings everywhere. After confirming that it was correct, he came to the side of the teacher's bed and sat down on a round stool.
The master never raised his eyelids, and Aunt Gao didn't feel embarrassed, so she pulled the round stool forward, stuck to the adult, and said, "Master, you are sick, and the slave family doesn't know how uncomfortable it is." After saying that, he also burst into tears.
Among the six wives and concubines of the teacher, the most disliked is Aunt Gao, but Aunt Gao is also one of the concubines who has been with her for the longest time except for his wife, and there is always some affection, besides, Wanyun and Wanfen have grown up. It's always for the sake of the children, and many things don't want to worry about it.
Aunt Gao saw that the master was a little moved, and became more and more attentive, reached out and grabbed the soup bowl in Aunt Lin's hand, sat down next to the master, scooped a spoonful of soup medicine, put it to her mouth, and then frowned, turned back to Aunt Lin and said: "It's so cold to bring it over, the lord has a stomach disease this time, and he doesn't change a bowl of warm ones." ”
Before Aunt Lin brought it over, she had already tried it, and it was the most warm and palatable, but Aunt Gao was embarrassed in front of the old man like this, and she couldn't justify it, so she went directly to the decoction, found a small pot carried by a plain copper porcelain fetus, poured the decoction into the teapot, and put it on the small stove where the tea was boiled in Su Ri.
Aunt Gao glanced at her mouth twice, rushed to Aunt Lin, snatched the pot and said, "Aunt Lin, that's how you serve the master?" What kind of knowledge is this bronze decoction? You'll have to give me some pointers. After speaking, he said to the tall lady waiting outside the door: "Go and get the casserole I often decoction medicine." ”
The mind that Master Shi didn't care about just now has long been disturbed by this hustle and bustle. said to Aunt Gao angrily: "That pot was sent by the Fujian general last year, and it is molded with a porcelain fetus, and it is the most suitable for boiling tea and medicine." ”
As soon as Aunt Gao heard the tone, she knew that the old man was a little partial to Aunt Lin, and she felt very uncomfortable. He didn't dare to be jealous with Aunt Lin on his face, but he just said boringly: "My lord has a good thing, and he always thinks about cherishing the Treasure Pavilion, when such a good object will be given to Huilan, and Huilan is willing to die." ”
Master Shi had frowned slightly, but Aunt Gao didn't notice it at all. Aunt Gao watched Aunt Lin come over with the medicine, and her figure was more and more graceful in a gauze simple dress, especially the eyes on her face that were as tender as water, and she looked at Master Shi with affection, and her heart had already knocked over the five-flavor bottle. I thought: "The blue sky and the white day, in front of me, I am still so bewitching, and the day when there is no one at night must be very good." ”
Looking at Master Shi in a blink of an eye, he has long been melted by this affectionate friendship. Aunt Lin respectfully handed it to Aunt Gao, and Aunt Gao took it proudly, and pretended to be a little daughter and walked to the teacher's side, handed the medicine bowl to the teacher, and said with jealousy and ridicule: "The master's illness, the coincidence of the disease, is precisely in the Cherishing Pavilion, it is difficult for Aunt Lin to get along with the master day and night this time, this blessing is not easy for others to have." ”
Master Shi had just taken the medicinal soup teacup cup handed over by Aunt Gao, and when he heard such a bastard's confused words, he was so angry that he couldn't take his breath, and poured all the warm soup on Aunt Gao with his backhand with the medicine cup.
"Get out, get out, I'm afraid I won't see you, and Lao Tzu will live a few more days. Are you reassuring that I will die early, so I am a demon here? Hurry up and wait to die! After saying that, he was a little out of breath and was about to faint.
Aunt Gao didn't know what to do, how to be so decent, the old man suddenly moved such a thunderous anger, and heard the master tell him to get out, in front of several subordinates, he also felt ashamed and indignant, with tears hanging from the corners of his eyes, and covered his mouth with a handkerchief, ready to leave the Treasure Pavilion, and just stepped out of the threshold with one foot. Master Shi drank on the bed: "Go and tell your mother's father and son as soon as possible, cut off their business of cutting off their children and grandchildren as soon as possible, and wait for me to vacate the time and settle the account with them one day." ”
When Aunt Gao heard that Master Shi pulled out her mother's brother, the shame and anger in her heart were much more frightened. Holding a handkerchief and covering his face, he took three steps and made two steps back to Dongbao Building, sitting in his bedroom, his heart was still up and down, after all, his brother's unsightly deeds, if there was no protection from the teacher, his head would have moved.
Aunt Gao cried and left the West Expedition to be hungry, the master suddenly breathed, Aunt Lin was shocked, and hurriedly called the doctor waiting in the outer courtyard to take the pulse, press the acupoints, prescribe medicine, decoction, and it was another day of tossing.
It was night, the heavy rain did not stop, to the end of the day, Wan Yingfang couldn't sleep, lying on the bed tossing and turning, recalling the things of the day, the pillow couldn't help but fall a pool of tears, resentment in her heart, but the mother looked as usual, remembering that a few days ago she was reckless to provoke her mother's anger, and her heart was not a taste. got up and threw a few benzoin tablets in the incense burner, smelling the soothing breath of the hanging silk, his thoughts gradually calmed down, but his heart was still angry. "My mother is my father's third aunt's wife, and Aunt Gao is my father's fourth aunt's wife. What's more, my mother gave birth to my brother and me, and Aunt Gao only had two daughters, so she should be more restrained. How do you think she can't get along with her mother everywhere. ”