Because it is almost the end of the year, every household is busy buying New Year's goods and giving New Year's gifts, not to mention those high-ranking families in the capital. There are countless mule carts, donkey carts, and even horse-drawn carts outside the capital to send New Year's gifts, and it is a lively scene.

This bustle is naturally divided into two kinds: ordinary and extraordinary, among the latter, the Regent Palace, the Zhongwu Marquis Mansion is naturally the leader of the first echelon.

The path leading to the back garden in the west courtyard of the palace was cleaned, and there was not even a trace of snow to be found on the green brick road.

A palace beauty is surrounded by everyone, holding the hand of a middle-aged lady next to her, walking slowly with a happy smile on her face.

"Auntie, the red plum in the house happened to bloom, you didn't see it when you were out with your father last year, but you have to have fun this year."

The middle-aged lady looked at her red dress under the snow-colored fox fur, and was about to say something with a hesitant expression, when suddenly a maid hurriedly ran over and whispered something back.

The palace beauty immediately raised her eyebrows, pulled the sleeves of the maidservant and asked again and again: "Really?" Is the prince really back? Where are the people now? He also commanded the people around him to do this, go to the small kitchen to prepare the soup, go to the second gate to wait for the letter, and muttered to himself that he was ready to prepare for tonight's dishes.

Seeing this, the middle-aged lady had no choice but to leave, but before leaving the palace, she whispered a few words to the maid who came to see her off. The latter's face turned pale when he heard this, and he quickly nodded in agreement.

This maid's name is Biyu, she is one of the four personal maids around Concubine Lin, and before she married into this palace, she had served Mrs. Zhongwu Hou for several years when she was in the Zhongwu Marquis Mansion, so she naturally knew her worries. But Mrs. wants to mention the side concubine herself, this task is very difficult to do, a few days ago Xiuyu mentioned a mouth when she matched the clothes for the side concubine, and was immediately thrown out of the courtyard by the side concubine to kneel, this is a cold winter wax moon!

Biyu returned to the west courtyard with a tangled face, and before she entered the door, she noticed a terrible low pressure, and everyone's faces were panicked, as if something big had happened.

Seeing that the situation was not good, she had to sneak back to the room to inquire about the situation, but she learned from Xiuyu that the side concubine had just taken Ginseng Tang and Xiao Langjun to the front yard to greet her, but she was scolded back by the prince, and she didn't even care about Xiao Lang's face.

Biyu was horrified, "What's going on?" ”

Xiuyu pursed her lips, "Didn't you follow today, how could you not know what that person was wearing." ”

After a pause, he pressed his already low voice to the lowest level, and squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "The prince said that concubines are not allowed to wear red, which is an old practice." ”

The wind was howling outside the window, and Biyu only felt that her heart had fallen to the bottom, and sure enough, she was still right by the old lady.

After trembling and getting through this difficult day, Biyu thought that it would be good in a few days, after all, it was the New Year, and the side concubine was going to enter the palace to go to the palace banquet at that time. Unexpectedly, a few days after the prince disappeared, he disappeared again, saying that he was out of Beijing.

So, on this day, the people in the West Courtyard listened to the sound of smashing teacups and vases for most of the day.

Concubine Lin said hatefully: "Go and check, did the people who the prince followed out of Beijing stay this time." I don't care what you do, I will pry his mouth open! I want to know where the prince has gone! ”

Su Yu, the oldest and most steady, hesitated and opened his mouth, "Master, I'm afraid this is not very appropriate, the prince has never liked others to spy on his whereabouts......"

Concubine Lin threw another ornament at the moment.

"Hmph, in the past few years, have you ever seen him run outside the capital like recently? I'm afraid that there is a good relationship outside! ”

Seeing Su Yu's embarrassed face, Biyu looked at Xiuyu who was not going to open her mouth with her eyes down, and Mei Yu, who had always been a stuffy gourd, so she had no choice but to persuade: "Master, what a noble person the prince is, what kind of woman does he have, it's just a big deal to bring him into the house to be an aunt, why do you have to work so hard to go back and forth?" Presumably you are overhearted, the New Year is approaching, although there is an assistant to Lord Sanyang, but I heard that there are envoys from the two countries to congratulate, and the Qin messengers of the previous hailstorm will also return to Beijing to report on their work, and it is common sense that the prince is busy with official business. ”

Hearing this, Concubine Lin's face softened a little.

"There's some truth to what you're saying, but I'm still not at ease. As I said, go to the front yard and take a look. If such a thing happens, hum ......"

Biyu's careful liver couldn't help but tremble twice: "Master, do you want to ......?"

Concubine Lin glanced at her, took the hot towel handed over by Su Yu, wiped her hands slowly, and snorted coldly: "Kill people and kill people? Does your master seem to be such a stupid person? If there really is such a stunning beauty, I would love to take her back and match her sister! ”

At this time, Pei Baoer, who was thousands of miles away, sneezed several times in a row.

She stared at the plum petals in her hand in a daze, wondering if her nose was allergic to the smell.

The New Year is approaching, the weather is getting colder and colder, most of the people in the surrounding villages and towns have stopped their farm work, and the number of people rushing to the market these days is several times more than usual, and most of them are going to the city to buy New Year's goods. She has to take advantage of this several times a year ago to launch some "new products" that should meet the solar terms. Well, strictly speaking, it's just a little plum juice added to the rouge or lip balm of the old recipe for decoration. But who among the women who love beauty, would not want to let their faces glow with a blush and exude a charming plum fragrance?

Because of the new products launched at the beginning of this month, coupled with the stimulating effect of the wave of discount coupons sent out at the end of last month, the first half of December has not yet been completed, and the performance has exceeded half of November, which can be said to be a good situation and business is booming.

During this period, Pei Baoer also met Mrs. Lin once, and she went to see her when she gave the New Year's gift, but it was the time to sit and drink tea, but Pei Baoer always felt strange in her heart. may be suspicious in your heart, and looking at the other party's behavior is full of that meaning. For example, Mrs. Lin was particularly interested in her new products this time, and praised her for her wonderful color mixing skills without a trace, and asked her what materials she used, and so on.

Soon, though, she didn't have the heart to worry about it.

Because the little inkstone has smallpox!

At first, they thought it was a common cold and fever, after all, children have poor constitution and are prone to fever. Pei Baoer also knows that it doesn't matter if you have an ordinary fever, it is actually the immune system in the human body that is operating to sterilize. Xiao Yan'er has always been healthy because he is naughty and active, even if he has a fever, he is often fine every other night, Pei Baoer sees that he is in good spirits, and he doesn't pay much attention to it.

Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night she found that Xiao Yan'er had a red rash on her face, and the heat became higher and higher, and she was confused, and she couldn't speak clearly. She panicked all of a sudden.

Liu Yun hurriedly put on his clothes and ran to smash the courtyard gate of Old Doctor Shi, and when the latter was reluctant to be carried by him, he yawned and scolded the initiator who got himself to this ghost place in his heart. It's just that as soon as he saw Xiao Yan'er's symptoms, he immediately closed his mouth, and after touching his pulse, his face became even more solemn.

In the end, with a sympathetic face, it was announced that the child had a pimple.

Pox, also known as smallpox.

Pei Baoer was almost frightened and fainted.

In this backward era, smallpox was a very fatal disease, almost a life-threatening death. There is no vaccine, there is no specific drug, and you can only survive by will. It's okay for adults to say, but he's a child who has just turned two, and he's as fragile as a flower seedling in a greenhouse......

"Aren't you a doctor? We must have treated more cases than we have ever eaten! You're so clever and benevolent, you're sure you'll be able to get into the inkstone, aren't you? Pei Baoer grabbed Dr. Shi's sleeve directly, and almost knelt down.

Doctor Shi didn't dare to accept her worship, who knows what the consequences will be. Listening to her words, I am afraid that this little cub is not well, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for me to get out. Tsk, that's a lot to do. He was a little old man, and if he hadn't had this disease when he was a child, he wouldn't have dared to take the risk to help her be cured!

"Ahem, the old man will make a recipe first, let the child eat it. In addition, check all the people who have been in contact with children in the past few days, it is best to burn the underwear, the bed and bedding must be cleaned and disinfected, and there are ......"

Pei Bao'er nodded again and again, asked Liu Yun to prepare to grab the medicine, and began to clean up all the things in the house that might have germs like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves. Until Xiao Yan'er's clothes in the last few days were stuffed into the hearth and burned clean, her body was still trembling slightly.

She covered her face, covered her body like an ice cellar, and muttered to herself: "It's all my fault, it must have been the disease that I contracted when I took him out of the city that day." There are so many people coming and going, who knows which one brings germs......"

The hateful house leak happened to rain overnight, Liu Yun went to the rejuvenation clinic to grab medicine, and there was a lack of two flavors of medicine, clean cicada clothes and scorched silkworms. He went to other small pharmacies, and after looking for a long time, he found one of the scorched silkworms, but he couldn't find the clean cicada clothes anywhere. The pharmacy guys have prevaricated, saying that this thing has already been sold out, where can I find it in the cold winter wax moon now?

Doctor Shi also made a difficulty, "This cicada clothes has the best effect on wind and heat, and it is cheaper." Otherwise, the old man would have wanted to use ...... Hey, forget it, and try it first with burdock seeds. ”

Pei Baoer had no choice but to accept it. They are small families, even if they rent a carriage to go to other places to find medicine, they can't afford to delay back and forth, not to mention that there may not be this medicine in other places, and it is just a waste of time to go.

Seeing Xiao Yan'er talking nonsense in a coma, shouting hot for a while, cold for a while, and wanting to reach out to scratch her face, Pei Baoer's heart was about to break.

She could only choke back tears and find strips of cloth to tie her hands, otherwise, even if this disease was cured, she would have to leave a lot of pitted scars on her face and body in the future.

Dani also offered: "I seem to have had smallpox before, my mother said that she used wine to wipe her body at that time, she wiped it for several nights, and forced me to drink two large bowls, and then I really got better~"

Pei Baoer touched her head sadly, this is also a big child. This folk remedy is actually not very scientific, and it may be useful for ordinary fever, but rubbing one's body with wine in the case of high fever is taboo, and it is likely to backfire. Not to mention the smallpox virus, if a bottle of spirits could solve it, modern scientists would not have to go to such great lengths to research a vaccine to eradicate it.

Fortunately, smallpox is a one-time cure and lifelong immunity, no matter what era it is. With Dani to help take care of her, Pei Baoer at least won't even have a chance to breathe. As for Liu Yun, since he had never had a pox, just in case, he was "pushed" to live in the next room again.

This time, Xiao Yan'er's illness was menacing, more dangerous than Pei Bao'er's cold last month, the whole family was worried, two people who could take care of people went to be nurses and nannies, and the main workload of the small workshop could only fall on Liu Yun.

To tell the truth, although Liu Yun painted a first-hand beauty picture, he is very professional in color discrimination and careful, but his talent in fat adjustment and powder is not as good as Dani. Therefore, he is usually sent by Pei Baoer to do all kinds of grinding and grinding work, when it comes to the deployment of this step, which one to add first, which one to add later, he can't remember whether he is alive or dead, and Pei Baoer is unwilling to write down the recipe, which is too unsafe.

As a result, the production efficiency of Liu's small workshop has declined greatly.

Two days later, when Qingmei came to pick up the goods, she found that the number was wrong, only enough for a small half of the list. In particular, the sales of eyeshadow cream in the store have increased significantly recently, because the inventory was low before, and now there is a trend of being out of stock.

Pei Baoer was helpless, but she lacked skills, so she had to promise Qingmei that she would give her a few more days, even if she stayed up all night, she would get things out.

Qingmei saw that Pei Bao'er was absent-minded, and her whole heart was full of the seriously ill child, and she couldn't say anything, so after turning around and returning to the Lin family, she went to change her clothes first before reporting to Mrs. Lin.

At this time, the latter was gracefully asking the little maid to dig out the emollient oil in the porcelain box to massage her hands, and when she saw Qingmei's affairs, she pointed to another small box on the case: "You come and try this." ”

Seeing that Mrs. Lin was very interested, she swallowed the words of Qingmei to her mouth first, and picked up the small box with kindness and looked at the patterns printed on it.

"This, isn't this the makeup powder in our shop? Is this a reward for the slave? ”

Mrs. Lin smiled and said nothing, "You open it first, try it to see if it works." ”

Qingmei was a little suspicious in her heart, but she had to do what she said. When I first opened it, the texture of the powder paste inside didn't seem to be so delicate, but the tone and aroma were very similar. Just a touch of the back of her hand, she immediately noticed the difference, the texture was really a little rough compared to what was sold in the shop.

"This, shouldn't it be ......?"

Mrs. Lin smiled with satisfaction, "You girl is finally smart, this is just using the shell in the shop and loading the makeup powder prepared by Yuan Wulang." What do you think? ”

Qingmei considered the wording in her heart, and then euphemistically said that although it is somewhat similar, the sense of use is still a little worse. Seeing that Mrs. Lin was not annoyed, she took the opportunity to report that Pei Niangzi's young son was sick, the family was busy, and the supply was not timely.

Mrs. Lin's face was slightly condensed, and she waved her hand, signaling the maid who wiped her hands to step back, and then snorted coldly.

"I knew she alone wasn't reliable. You go to the shop first to calculate with Lao Qin, the stock is still enough to sell for a few days. If she wants to break the chain for me before the end of the year, don't blame me for being ruthless! ”

Qingmei hurriedly retreated, and trotted out to run errands.

Pei Baoer didn't know anything about her partner's plans, and she was standing in front of the window at this time, looking impatiently at an "uninvited guest" standing in the cold wind.

"Mishi-sama, are you idle?"