20. Mourning is greater than heart death
Mama Feng dragged the woman into a small bungalow in the front yard, turned around and went out to bring in a jug of water.
After the woman drank a few sips of water, she fell asleep again, Mama Feng frowned and looked at it a few times, muttered a few words in her mouth, and when she arrived, she still changed a set of clean clothes for the woman, and then honestly guarded the door. After a while, I saw Mama Wang hurrying over with the gray-haired old man Fang.
"Oh, Doctor Fang is here?"
Mama Feng smiled and thought about stepping forward to deal with a few words, but Mama Wang waved her hand angrily and said viciously,
"Don't say more, bring it in."
Mama Feng immediately silenced and led Old Man Fang into the room.
In less than a quarter of an hour, Old Man Fang walked out and took out a prescription for grabbing the medicine. Mama Wang's face was gloomy, although she was in pain with the silver, but she couldn't, so she had to leave with a sigh.
Tang Mo stood in the hut with his goosebumps in his arms and stomped his feet vigorously. It was still late summer and early autumn in the original world, but after the crossing, the season here was almost winter. Thinking of the bleak scene outside the house, Tang Mo felt that it was imperative to find a set of clothes for himself to wear as soon as possible.
The room was still very simple, but it was much better than the cold and damp firewood room just now.
The woman was lying on a small wooden bed, covered with a thin quilt, and her little face had been scrubbed clean. Tang Mo took a closer look, the woman looked very ordinary, and her face looked a little yellow due to long-term malnutrition.
Tang Mo tugged at the short-sleeved T-shirt and cropped pants he was wearing, and quietly turned his gaze to all parts of the room. There was a dilapidated cabinet on the edge of the corner, and Tang Mo walked over and pulled out a set of clean old dresses. pinched it, the fabric was a little thick, but now was not the time to pick and choose, no matter how hot it was, it was much hotter than the summer dress on her body.
As soon as Tang Mo changed his clothes, he faintly heard footsteps coming from outside, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly climbed out of the half-open window.
The door was opened, and Mama Wang walked in with a bowl of black potion.
After the woman was forced to pour a bowl of decoction medicine by Mama Wang, the complexion on her face was obviously better, and her eyes slowly opened, looking at Mama Wang who was smiling in front of her, her thin little face suddenly showed a little fear and panic,
"Thank you, Mama Wang, Qing'er has worked hard for you to take care of you."
"Yo, Third Miss, what are you talking about, being able to take care of you is a blessing that those of us who can't ask for it."
With a smile on her face, Mama Wang slowly stepped forward and tucked the corner of the quilt for Li Qing'er. Li Qing'er's face changed suddenly, and her body stiffened.
Mama Wang saw it in her eyes, a sneer flashed in her heart, and she pretended not to know the truth:
"Lord Shangshu wrote to say that I miss you, and in three days, someone will be sent to pick you up and take you home, and when the third lady arrives, don't forget to say a few more kind words for me in front of the lord and Mrs."
What the? Father is coming to pick me up? Am I not dreaming?
Li Qing'er bit her lip, a little unbelieving her ears, until she bit a faint trace of blood on her lips.
It's been ten years, a whole ten years, and I thought my father had forgotten about her daughter. Yes, how could she make her father, who was the master of the Ministry of Rites, think of this little concubine. You must know that in addition to one concubine in Shangshu Mansion, there are three concubines, and the father who has been looking forward to wanting a son has gone from green silk to gray hair, and he has not been able to expect a son to come out, and he is particularly disgusted with their daughters. What's more, she is still a concubine with a dead mother, let alone in her father's eyes. So at the beginning, my father was listening to the Taoist priest Yunyou say that only by sending a child to guard their Li family ancestral hall for life, maybe it may not be impossible to have a son in his later years, so he did not hesitate to send her to this remote and uninhabited countryside at the age of five. But now that her father has remembered to take her home, it can be seen that her father still has her daughter in his heart after all.
Li Qing'er couldn't help but show a little joy and excitement on her sallow little face when she thought about it, and Mama Wang on the side couldn't help but sneer in her heart, she really didn't know whether she was alive or dead, she was sold by her father but she had to help him count the money.
"Okay, Third Miss, Mama Feng and I still have something to do, you can rest here in peace these days, just call us if you have something."
Mama Wang said without waiting for Li Qing'er to respond, turned around and pulled Mama Feng out.
Li Qing'er was completely immersed in self-fantasy at the moment, with a sweet smile on her thin little face, not aware of the contempt on the faces of Mama Wang and Mama Feng when they left.
Tang Mo stood behind the window and secretly eavesdropped, leaned on the edge of the window and looked at Li Qing'er, who was smugly fantasizing about a happy life in the future, and sighed silently, although it would be sad and sad to have no father, but if there was a father who sacrificed his children's happy life for his own interests, it would be better not to have it.
Li Qing'er, who was immersed in the joy of returning home to reunite with her family, waited until Tang Mo walked to the bedside and suddenly woke up,
"You, who are you?"
Tang Mo smiled wryly, thinking about what excuse to find a suitable excuse, and then listened again,
"Are you the maid sent by Mama Wang to serve me?"
This fourth lady who was abandoned by Shangshu Mansion, do you want to feel too good about yourself? Didn't you see that Mama Wang didn't look at you with her eyes, and found you a maid to serve you? This heart is really not ordinarily wide.
Tang Mo shook his head, faced Li Qing'er's gradually vigilant eyes, leaned forward and whispered:
"You don't care who I am, you just need to know that I'm the one who came to save you."
After saying this, Tang Mo couldn't help but smile in his heart, he didn't know how to live yet, and he even acted as a hero to save beauty, hey, the rhythm of death!
"Help me?"
Li Qing'er was stunned, and her mind couldn't turn around.
Save me? Why save me? Maybe Li Qing'er could still understand what "save me" means an hour earlier, indeed, at that time, she wanted someone to save her very much, but now she was not only taken back to the hut by Mama Wang and lay on the bed, but also asked Dr. Fang to come over to see her, she no longer needs anyone to save her. And three days later, her father had to take her back to her home for reunion, and this series of good things had already saved her. From now on, she is no longer a pitiful and sick orphan, she is the third lady of Shangshu Mansion with a daughter's body.
Tang Mo sighed, sat on the edge of the bed, looked at Li Qing'er's confused face with a hint of smugness, and said:
"Three days later, your father will marry you to the prince of the General's Mansion."
"Married to the prince of the General's Mansion?"
A trace of surprise flashed on Li Qing'er's face, and then a blush quietly jumped on her cheeks, and she lowered her eyes shyly, and said,
"It's hard for my father to still think about my marriage."
Well, it's because of that marriage that is going to kill you, otherwise your father can't remember having a daughter like you, okay?
"Fool, the prince is dying, and you married him to make him happy."
"Chongxi?"
Li Qing'er's eyes widened, it was not that she didn't understand the meaning of these two words, but she felt that after hearing these two words, her originally joyful heart suddenly felt a faint pain, and she turned her head slightly to the side.
"Yes, Chongxi! To put it bluntly, it is to send to death. Because that prince has only one breath left, maybe when he sees you, he can't breathe when he is excited, and he is dead, and your life is over. ”
Tang Mo stared at Li Qing'er's face, which turned from red to white, and suddenly felt that it was a little too cruel for him to tell her the truth so bluntly?
"What if, what if this rush is good?"
Li Qing'er's pale lips gasped slightly.
Well, Tang Mo really didn't calculate the probability that this situation could occur, because she felt that it was zero at all.
"In a word, you can't escape?"
A small flame erupted from Tang Mo's bright eyes, was this woman's head kicked by a donkey? It is said that the prince of the world only has one breath left, and he is not good at recuperation, but he still has a lively wedding, and it is strange if he doesn't die of trouble!
"Where can I escape?"
Li Xiangyin stared at Tang Mo with a pair of confused eyes, but a trace of sadness suddenly rose in her heart.
"It's so big in the world, where can't you escape? Don't be naïve to think that the father who sold you into the kang has relented and wants to take you back to share the joy of family? ”
Although Tang Mo was kind-hearted, he forgot the time and space she was in at this moment. This is an uncivilized feudal era, an era in which women must follow the three obediences and four virtues.
Li Qing'er shook her head without thinking about it, and said resolutely,
"The order of my parents, the words of the matchmaker, if I don't listen, it is unfilial, I won't leave."
Pedantic! Tang Mo silently spit out two words in his heart, even if he hadn't seen his man marry, it was unreasonable to even know that marrying was to send him to death but still insisted on marrying.
"I'll ask you again, that prince has one breath left, and marrying you is equivalent to going to die, even then you will marry?"
Tang Mo asked again with some unwillingness, she couldn't understand how this ancient person was brainwashed and was so stupid.
Li Qing'er was silent for a while, then raised her head and nodded at Tang Mo.
"As I said, I will never be an unfilial daughter."
After Li Qing'er said this, her face turned pale, and from her inconspicuous little face, Tang Mo still saw a trace of sadness that was greater than her heart.