The female Nilu Miaoxiang reluctantly drank half a bowl of extremely bitter Huoxiang Huanglian soup, uh uh nauseated, Zeng Yu said: "Don't drink it first, rest for a while, blow the wind, and rush to the front of Qishan Town in the evening to grab another dose of decoction and take it, it should be fine." ”

There is a breeze coming slowly, Zeng Yu retreated to the side to make way for the wind, and the rest of the servants also got out of the way, and the peach blossom-like face of the nun bathed in Yuan Shui came to the wind, which was more than Coptis soup to relieve the heat.

When the Lu member saw that his niece had woken up, he breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat on his head with a sweat towel, and said to Zeng Yu: "Thank you, thank you yet, haven't asked your surname yet?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "Don't be expensive, the surname is Zeng - where is Daddy Lu going, so in a hurry on a hot day?" ”

Lu Yuanwai said: "It's not far, it's almost here, it's a bit urgent, where are the scholars going to take the exam?" Yuanzhou? Oh, that's almost there, too. ”

Lu Yuanwai obviously didn't want to talk to Zeng Yu deeply, and after gossiping, he asked Zeng Yu to open a prescription to relieve the heat, Zeng Yu's pen and ink were ready-made, and he cut a small square of lead mountain paper and wrote a prescription: one and a half coins of Codonopsis, two coins of Astragalus, two coins of Rehmannia, three coins of Dendrobium, three coins of Mai Dong, one coin of Coptis chinensis, two coins of light bamboo leaves, five coins of lotus stems, two coins of Zhimu, two coins of licorice, and five coins of japonica rice——

After writing, he dried the ink, handed the recipe to Lu Yuanwai and said: "Making my niece suffer from heat stroke is one of them, and my qi and blood are also deficient. ”

Lu Yuanwai looked at the prescription written by Zeng Yu and praised: "Zeng Sheng wrote a good handwriting. He smiled again: "Zeng Sheng doesn't think that he is an old man in the countryside, and I am also a prisoner, ahem." ”

Zeng Yu hurriedly said: "Disrespectful, disrespectful." ”

Lu Yuan was colored outside, but he didn't say more, folded the prescription and was about to put it away, and the drooping girl said: "Second grandfather, my mother wants to see the prescription." ”

Lu Yuanwai went over to show Lu Miaoxiang, Zeng Yu found a place to sit in the corner and close his eyes to recuperate, it is now the end of the hour, that is, two or three o'clock in the afternoon, it is the peak of the summer, I can't hurry, I have to stay in this road pavilion to escape the heat.

The sun has set in the west, and Lu's four coachmen and four male servants are all sitting on the shady side outside the road pavilion, and in the road pavilion are Zeng Yu's master and servant, Lu Yuanwai, Yan Granny, two servants, a maidservant and Lu Miaoxiang's mother and daughter, is it really a mother and daughter?

Zeng Yu didn't believe it, the drooping girl was about twelve or thirteen years old, and her body was actually taller than that of fourteen or five-year-old girls, but her appearance was still childish, and the female nun Lu Miaoxiang was only twenty-four or five years old. But it will take a while for the hair to grow out, Lu Yuanwai said that Lu Miaoxiang is his niece, which is normal, they are all surnamed Lu, but how can the girl with a drooping hair also have the surname Lu? What does Thirteen Niang mean, ranking thirteen?

There are a lot of questions, and Zeng Yu can't ask, for fear of being crushed to death like a little ant.

The girl with the drooping hair and Lu Miao were muttering softly, and the girl said: "Mother, just lie down, what's so embarrassing about this, do you know how to do it." ”

Presumably Lu Miao's thoughts were because there was Zeng Yu's master and servant inside, and he felt indecent when he was lying down, but he was dizzy and couldn't sit still-

Zeng Yu was empathetic and said, "It's better to lie down and rest, and avoid it below-Sixi, let's go sit outside." ”

Lu Miao hurriedly said: "Zeng Gongzi, you don't have to go out. ”

The girl said: "Mother, you are lying down, you don't have to go out of the house if you lie down, he said that he wanted to avoid it because you refused to lie down, this is blocked by Yan's mother-in-law, and Zeng Gongzi doesn't look this way——"

Lu Miaoxiang said lightly: "You don't have to say a word." "I struggled to lie down on my side, facing the wall of the pavilion, but I didn't know how graceful my position was.

The girl glanced at Granny Yan, the old woman had been busy for a while, and she was also sleepy at this time, so she sat there and dozed off, and the girl walked over and said to Lu Yuanwai: "Second grandfather, my mother wants me to ask Zeng Gongzi a few words——"

Lu Yuanwai coughed twice and said, "What's the matter, tell me, I'll ask." ”

Lu Miao, who was lying on her side facing the wall, called, "Xiaozi, come here." ”

The girl sat back next to Lu Miaoxiang and whispered something, and the Lu Yuan drank a few sips of herbal tea, and when he saw Zeng Yu sitting upright, he was also sleepy, and he was old and fat and addicted to sleep, so he quickly snored when he sat there.

The girl got up quietly again, ignored the servants and maidservants, walked straight to Zeng Yu, and whispered: "Zeng Gongzi, Zeng Gongzi-"

Zeng Yu opened his eyes and saw a delicate girl's face, with slender eyebrows, no pretense of modification, big and watery eyes, and fresh lips. ”

Zeng Yu smiled and said: "I was delayed in Fuzhou for a few days, what a coincidence, I met Miss Lu again." ”

The girl smiled softly and nodded: "Yes, what a coincidence, and thanks to meeting Zeng Shusheng, otherwise it would not be good for my mother to be sick in this place where there is no village and no store, my mother is okay now, right?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "It's best to rest for two days, you can't be in such a hurry on this hot day, your mother - is it Miss's mother?" ”

The girl's beautiful eyebrows moved slightly, then her eyebrows frowned, and she said, "It's my aunt, my own mother died ten years ago." ”

Zeng Yu said: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked Miss about this. "I was relieved, it turned out that Lu Miaoxiang was the aunt of this girl, and many places in Jiangxi called her aunt aunt, which was the same as the title of the concubine in the north.

The girl said with a smile: "Zeng Shusheng, what are you sorry for, it's none of your business, I don't remember anything about my mother, my aunt treats me very well." He added: "We are in Jieqiao Village, Fenyi County, and my second grandfather said that there are still 80 miles from here, and I originally planned to arrive before dark tomorrow——"

"Xiaozi, Xiaozi—"

Lu Miao wanted to call the girl back, presumably telling the girl not to talk more, and the girl didn't come over to talk to Zeng Yu again, but Zeng Yu's heart was already turbulent:

Jieqiao Village, Fenyi County, isn't this the hometown of Yan Song, the first assistant of the cabinet today, Yan Song's name is Jiexi, that Jiexi is a stream in Jieqiao Village, is this girl named Xiaozi and Lu Miaoxiang have anything to do with Yan Song's family, the girl Xiaozi said that her surname is Lu, from her mother's surname, which is very rare, and the vicious old woman is surnamed Yan, they live in the hometown of Lu Jiuyuan, Qingtian, Jinxi, and now they are hurrying to Fenyi, what is the matter?

- Now it is the thirty-ninth year of Jiajing, in Zeng Yu's memory, Yan Song seems to be about to fall, Yan Song's genius son Yan Shifan fell earlier than his father, it should be in this or two years, the Yan family building will fall, if Lu Miaoxiang and Xiaozizhen have a close relationship with Yan Song's family, it will definitely follow bad luck, Yan Song went to work, Yan Shifan was beheaded, and all the huge family property of the Yan family was copied and returned to the official, and decades of glory and wealth, fame and fortune were empty in a blink of an eye.

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