Chapter 216: Lobbyist
The lights were lit in the Qianjintang in the night, and the hustle and bustle of the day on the street was gone.
Qi Yue put on a mask, gloves, and walked into the room with a "ward" lantern in his hand.
On one of the four beds lay the sick, the splinted leg hung up by the wide slabs hanging from the two beams, and the half of the bed was propped up, and the man was being served to eat, and an old man was studying the bed curiously.
"Why did you put it up?" He muttered.
Hearing footsteps, all three of them looked over.
"Qi Niangzi, you're here." The three of them hurriedly greeted each other warmly, and the old man nodded gratefully.
"What did you eat?" Qi Yue asked with a smile.
"It's according to what Qi Niangzi said, bean sprouts and bone broth." The feeding woman said.
Qi Yue sniffed.
"Well, it's really fragrant, the eldest sister has good craftsmanship." She laughed.
Where has the woman been praised like this, she suddenly blushed and didn't know what to say, this woman is good looking and capable, the key is to give people a feeling so good, as for how good she is, she can't say, anyway, she just feels willing to listen to this woman.
Why don't you want such a good woman Dingxi Houfu?
Sure enough, the rich and noble family is not something that a village woman like her can understand.
Qi Yue finished the examination of the injured, and smiled and asked a few precautions.
Outside, a disciple in charge of nursing came in to deliver medicine.
"Qi Niangzi, when will it be? Discharge? The old man asked.
"In five days." Qi Yue said.
In fact, it is best not to move this kind of injury, and it will take at least ten days and a half to stay in a modern hospital, but...
Qi Yue looked at the injured family and handed each other a look of obvious relief.
One is that everyone is not used to it, and the second is that this cost...
Qi Yue walked out of the ward and saw that Liu Pucheng's room was still lit, and he was on duty tonight.
When Qi Yue stood at the door of the house, Liu Pucheng was talking to Zhang Tong. Two people stood at the table with their chips and were calculating something.
ββ¦γ The cost of labor is enough, but the rest is still not enough..."Zhang Tong said in a low voice.
βγγ I still have a piece of land in my hometown, so I sold it first. Liu Pucheng said in a low voice.
As they said this, Qi Yue knocked on the door outside.
Seeing Qi Yue standing on the door panel, the master and apprentice hurriedly cleaned up with a little nervousness.
"Qi Niangzi, why haven't you left yet?" Liu Pucheng said.
Zhang Tong also respectfully shouted Master.
"That's it, I'm going to work hard tonight." Qi Yue said with a smile.
"You kid, you always say such kind things." Liu Pucheng shook his head and said.
Qi Yue didn't ask what they were counting, and Liu Pucheng naturally wouldn't say anything.
Qi Yue took Cuizhi out of the Qianjin Hall, and under the cover of the night, her joyful expression faded. Instead, there was a hint of amazement.
She silently looked at the starry sky, if only it were daylight twenty-four hours a day.
It's a busy day, and it's really quiet down... Unbearable loneliness.
"Qi Niangzi." Cuizhi walked beside her. I couldn't help but speak, "You're like this, aren't you tired?" β
"So?" Qi Yue hid her gloom, regained her smiling face, and looked sideways at her. "I think, being a human being always has to be tired, depending on what you say, you won't get tired of doing what you like."
Cuizhi nodded and smiled.
However, Qi Yue looked back at Qianjintang, and he was tired if he didn't have money.
It's hard to move an inch without money. It's not easy to live in ancient times without money.
In the depths of the night, the Rong'an courtyard was still brightly lit.
Chang Yuncheng put the scriptures on the table, and Su's mother waved at him.
On the kang, Xie Shi closed his eyes and seemed to be asleep.
"This is the sutra I copied for my mother, and I made offerings in front of the Buddha." Chang Yuncheng whispered to Su's mother.
Su's mother nodded. I watched him talk and stopped.
"When I leave the night after tomorrow, the family will not be disturbed, I will kowtow to my father and leave." Chang Yuncheng continued.
Mother Su's face turned pale, and Xie sat up suddenly.
"You go now, don't wait for the day after tomorrow." She raised an eyebrow and shouted.
Chang Yuncheng walked up to her. Half-kneeling next to the kang.
"Mother, take care at home. Don't be angry with your father, go out for a walk when you're bored, I'll have someone send you a letter back every month. He said.
Xie Shi gasped and looked at Chang Yuncheng deadly.
"Four years ago, you left because you married that woman, and now you are leaving because you married a wife?" She gritted her teeth.
Chang Yuncheng lowered his head and raised his head again.
"No, mother, I didn't leave because I got married or anything." He said.
I just don't want to stay in this home.
Xie sneered.
"You're going to say that now." She didn't believe it at all.
Chang Yuncheng smiled and did not argue.
"Yun Cheng, is it okay to leave after becoming a parent?" Xie Shi softened and said with pleading.
Chang Yuncheng looked at her.
"Mother, I have done what you wanted, and I ask my mother to do the same." He said.
Xie was furious again.
"So you're still for that woman?" She said coldly.
Chang Yuncheng lowered his head.
"It's not interesting to say this anymore, Mother." He said, he raised his head and grabbed Xie's sleeve, "I won't be unmarried, when I find the person I want, I will definitely get married, mother, okay?" β
Xie's expression slowed slightly.
"That Rao girl." She said again.
"Mother, she's not as good as I would like." Chang Yuncheng said simply, interrupting Xie's words.
Xie squeezed his hand.
Yes, only that woman does what you want...
"It's not too early, you can rest and go." She lay back and said lightly, "Let the housekeeper handle the departure business, go on a big expedition, how can we leave like this, as if we can't see anyone." β
Especially at this time! It's the woman who can't see anyone, but it's not their Dingxi Hou Mansion!
Chang Yuncheng hummed and thanked his mother, but he didn't get up when he knelt.
"What else are you going to say?" Xie Shi understood him and asked.
"Yueniang's..."Chang Yuncheng opened his mouth and said, the two words Yueniang slid across his mouth, only to feel a tingling in his heart, "The dowry, give it to her." β
Xie sat up abruptly.
"Dowry? What dowry does she have! She raised her eyebrows and shouted, "Don't forget how she got into our Hou Mansion!" It's a shame that she can tell! It's a shame that you can listen to it! β
At this point, she held out her finger. Clean and neat, don't say a word of nonsense.
"Get out."
Chang Yuncheng got up and went out.
On the second day, Xie heard the news that Chang Yuncheng had sold the land under his name, and she was so angry that she scolded all the housekeepers, and was about to scold the housekeepers together, when someone came to report that the old lady Xie was coming.
Xie Shi was startled, he couldn't care about anything, and hurriedly took it out in person.
After a year, Mrs. Xie is in good spirits, but she looks older.
"Mother, why are you here? This is far away, what is there for people to call me. Xie Shi was busy helping. Worried and nervous.
Mrs. Xie entered the house on crutches.
"It's okay, I heard that you're quite lively here, so I'll come and have a look." She said.
Xie immediately looked at the girls around him. Everyone shook their heads at her, indicating that they didn't say anything.
"Don't look at it, it was Yuncheng who told me." Old Mrs. Xie sat down and said.
Xie Shi suddenly looked angry.
"Alright, sit down." Mrs. Xie said. Glancing at her, "How old are you, and when you were still a little girl, you had the temper." β
Xie sat down, his expression still indignant.
"He actually disturbed your purity, mother, you really deserve to be beaten." She said.
Old Lady Xie smiled.
"You've got your wish." She was silent for a moment and said.
Xie stood up. Looking at Mrs. Xie.
"Mother, am I just for me?" She looked sad and angry.
"Alright, alright." Old Mrs. Xie smiled and stretched out her hand to pull her. "I'm not here to accuse you, if you take a break, you will take a break, and if you drive away, you will be driven away, you are destined to be incompatible, so there is no need to wronged each other."
It still sounds a little awkward. Xie sat down next to Mrs. Xie.
"I'm here for one thing." Old Lady Xie spoke.
"Mother, please speak." Xie said.
Her expression was unprecedentedly deferential and soft, if Qi Yue was here at this time. I must have thought that Xie had changed people.
"Dowry for her." Mrs. Xie said.
Xie stood up abruptly and looked at Old Lady Xie in disbelief.
"It's not for her, it's for Yuncheng." Old Lady Xie continued, looking at Xie.
"Mother, why!" Xie Shi bit his lower lip and said.
Old Lady Xie reached out and grabbed her.
"Mei Niang, why did you give the little brother of the Wu family a bag of silver in the first place?" She said.
Xie's face changed suddenly, his body stiffened, and he looked at Old Lady Xie in a daze, his lips trembling slightly.
Old Lady Xie sighed and patted Xie's stiff hand.
"Give him that money, will you feel better and let go of it?" She continued.
Xie Shi's body trembled, and her ears echoed the words of Old Madam Xie, but behind those messy thoughts, it was the four words of the Wu family's little brother that flashed.
Brother Wu...
Xie Shi reached out and touched his face, although the skin of the tentacles was still delicate, it was no longer the original cardamom year.
The little sister of the Xie family has become the lady of the Chang family, and the little brother of the Wu family has turned into a handful of dust.
"Mother, so you know." She muttered.
Old Madam Xie sighed.
"Which child's mind can escape the eyes of a mother, just like Yun Cheng's heart, aren't you as clear as you are?" She said, smiling, and pulled Xie to sit down.
"What about Motherβ" Xie Shi whispered.
"Why didn't I say that?" Mrs. Xie took over the conversation and said with a smile, "You only have a few dollars, and for that bag of silver, you haven't bought a single thing for a few months, and you are not as good as a girl." β
Xie Shi smiled, this time she pursed her lips and smiled, and her always sharp eyebrows and eyes were a little shy.
Shy!
Less shy, more astringent.
"I've added some more to your baggage, so it's better to give it out like this." Mrs. Xie said, she looked out the door with a look of nostalgia.
Xie stood up and lowered his eyes.
"Mother, I..." She whispered, her voice dry.
"Mei'er, I've always been reluctant to do this, and I haven't been able to do it for so many years, and your heart must be the same." Old Madam Xie interrupted her and said.
Xie Shi did not speak.
"Speaking of which, Yun Cheng is more like you, very stubborn." Old Madam Xie looked at her and said with a smile.
"I don't have a sister Xianshu, and I didn't teach Yuncheng well." Xie Shi whispered.
Mrs. Xie pulled her down again.
"You are very good, Mei Niang, I owe you all my life." She said.
"No, no, mother, it's what I'm going to do, no matter what you do, you persuaded me like that at the beginning, I wanted to marry myself." Xie shook his head and said, his expression firm.
Old Madam Xie smiled.
"Give her the dowry." She changed the subject and said.
Xie Shi clenched his hands.
"Yun Cheng has her in his heart, and you know this very well." Old Madam Xie continued, looking at Xie Shi, "We can't keep her, let her have a better time outside, so that Yun Cheng's heart will be a little better, and she can let go, just like you did at the beginning." (To be continued)