Mama Tang picked up the bleeding little hand and said in a lost voice: "How did this hurt?" Where did the spikes come from? ”

He Angelica wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his other hand, shook his head and did not speak.

Mama Tang was so anxious that she couldn't do anything, and suddenly remembered that the third lady had always been in love with the magnolia loose flower gauze dress just now, could it be ...... Thinking of this, Mama Tang suddenly grabbed the gauze on the table and shook it open. "Slap, smack, smack", dozens of fine spikes were shaken on the table. Mama Tang's face turned pale and she whispered, "What kind of thorn is this?" How can there be thorns in clothes? ”

He Angelica raised his injured hand to his eyes, studied it, and said, "This thorn is tough in texture, with fine white hairs at the tip, if I am not mistaken, it should be the thorn of passionflower cactus." ”

"Passionflower cactus?" Mama Tang remembered that she had seen that kind of thorny plant in the yard of the second lady, but how could the clothes sent by the second miss be stained with the spikes in her yard? Mama Tang's face kept changing, and finally apologized to He Angelica: "Damn, damn!" I remembered that when the maid was passing through the garden with her clothes in her hands, she fell and spilled the clothes on her hands, which must have been stained at that time! The old slave didn't find out in time, and he also injured the third miss's hand, it's really damned, please punish the third miss! ”

Mama Tang has a high status in Luofu, as if she is half a master, and even the ladies in the mansion are very respectful when they see her. Only in front of the old lady, Mama Tang called herself an old slave, and now she apologized to He Angelica like this, and treated He Angelica, a superfluous person in Luofu, as a serious master, and asked He Angelica to punish herself, of course He Angelica would not kick her nose in the face. After all, she knew that this matter had nothing to do with Mama Tang's money.

He Angelica took off a handkerchief on the front button, pinched the spikes off his hand, and said while bandaging the wound: "How can you blame Mama Tang for this?" Buttercup was too careless, she didn't fall anywhere, right? ”

Mama Tang shook her head: "She's fine, when she goes back, the old slave will definitely discipline her well and let her get rid of her hairy habits." ”

"Forget it, I've only been punctured a little bit, so I won't be punished again. Thinking that I have gone home for a trip, from my ancestors to my second aunt and second sister, my heart is really uneasy......" He Angelica said, suddenly throwing away the handkerchief with a strange expression, and then scratching his right hand with his left hand, and then scratching his left hand with his right hand, looking very itchy.

A layer of sweat broke out on Mama Tang's forehead, and she hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"I—I don't know, my hands are itchy all of a sudden, maybe there are mosquitoes in the house...... Well, you don't know, there are many flowers and trees in the Taoist temple, and it's not strange that there are a few mosquitoes in late autumn. It's really rude, let you laugh. He Angelica's tone was a little embarrassed, but his subordinates scratched more and more, and finally the back of the snow-white slender hand was scratched red. As if still itching, the two hands rubbed back and forth with each other, and some new blood beads flowed out of the fingers that had just been injured, rubbing the back of the hand, wrist and arm, looking a little horrible. He Angelica grabbed his shoulder again, and gradually there was a tendency to spread upward.

Mama Tang couldn't bear to see it, and stopped: "No, you can't scratch it anymore!" If you scratch it again, it will break, and then you will have a scar! Saying that, she wanted to reach out and grab He Angelica's arm to stop her from scratching any further.

He Angelica was so frightened that he took two steps back, waved his hand and said, "Ah okay, then I won't scratch it, Mama, don't come to touch me, in case it infects you, it will be troublesome!" As she spoke, she switched to a clapp, and a pair of small hands patted back and forth on herself.

"Contagion?" Mama Tang frowned and asked, "Why is it still contagious?" Third Miss, didn't you say that it was bitten by a mosquito? In my opinion, it doesn't look like a mosquito bite, what the hell is going on? ”

He Angelica was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then she lowered her head again and again, and her expression behind the veil was obscure.

Several possibilities flashed through Mama Tang's mind, and finally sighed: "Third Miss, the old lady and I both know that you have suffered a lot this time, and I want to cherish you more, but you hold things in your heart and don't say anything, I can't help you if I want to?" Tell me, are you ...... What strange illness do you have? That's why you cover your face with a veil and itch all over your body? ”

"Sick?" He Angelica's voice was full of surprise, "I only have some nasal congestion, where did I get sick?" ”

"Then you are ...... now" Mama Tang looked into her eyes, only to see that the pair of bright eyes seemed to be able to speak, revealing all kinds of emotions of surprise, hesitation and grievance.

He Angelica frowned, was silent for a moment, and finally raised his hand, pointed to the ivory silk coat on the table, and said with a little crying: "I touched the little coat and dirty pants just now, and then I began to itch, and the itchy feeling was born from the bones, very much like ......"

"Like what?" Mama Tang stared at her closely, and her weather-beaten eyes, which were no longer clear, revealed the majesty and essence that young women did not have.

"It's very similar to an itchy powder called 'Diao Yam'." He Angelica timidly met that gaze and whispered, "A few months ago, the fourth sister accidentally sprinkled this itch powder on my collar, and then she apologized to me sadly, saying that this is an itchy powder called 'Diao Yam', which will itch for a whole day after being stained, and there is no way to resolve it...... At that time, I was as itchy as I am now, scratching my body all over with blood...... Because the most itchy place is the chest, I really didn't dare to go to the doctor, and finally itched day and night, and it took two or three days to get better, and I still remember this kind of itching in my bones......"

"What?" Mama Tang's face was gloomy, and she asked in disbelief, "You mean, Fourth Miss once sprinkled Diao Yam on you?" She has also heard of Diao Yam, and she has also heard that the place where this thing is most commonly used is the third-rate prostitute village in Yangzhou!

Fireworks in March down to Yangzhou, Yangzhou rich gathered, green buildings stand in a forest, painting boat Lingbo, is the place of fat powder beauty. However, there are many kinds of Qinglou, the most inferior third-rate, fourth-rate and fifth-rate prostitutes and secret doors, one of their financial routes is to buy a good family woman at a low price, and then change the good family girl into a prostitute, and finally resell it to the first-class second-rate Qinlou Chu Pavilion at a high price, and after careful packaging, it becomes a flower girl and an oiran who has doubled in value.

One of the ways that the old bustards in those prostitutes dealt with the fierce women who refused to obey was to use Diao Yam. The black-hearted bustard first used a strip of cloth to entangle the woman of the good family to be strong, so as not to bite the tender skin or bite her tongue to kill herself, and then the bustard only needs to sprinkle a small half spoonful of Diao Yam on her body, and then close it for a day and a night to let her suffer slowly.

Mama Tang is fifty-five years old this year, and she has been assisting the old lady in her early years to take charge of Zhongfang, and she thinks that she will know some of the secrets of this kind of green house if she is well-informed, but she has never really seen what kind of medicine Diao Yam is.

As a deep lady, how can Miss Fourth have Diao Yam, and how can she use it on her own sisters? This is really unbelievable, if what Miss San said is true, then she must report this matter to the old lady. She guessed that it was likely that there would be one or more slaves and evil servants by the side of the fourth miss now, which would bring the innocent fourth miss to ruin.

Mama Tang broke out in a cold sweat, not good, not good, once this matter spreads, then not only will the reputation of the fourth lady be lost, but the reputation of Luofu will also be greatly damaged! In any case, she must seal the mouth of the third lady first!

He Angelica's next action exceeded Mama Tang's expectations, only to see her suddenly bow down to Mama Tang, and shouted: "Mama, don't tell it!" ”

Mama Tang immediately stepped forward to hold her elbow, and said in surprise: "What is there to say, Third Miss, you can't worship the old slave!" ”

He Angelica stood up with tears in his eyes, and while continuing to tickle, he cried and said: "The fourth sister is one year younger than me, innocent, how could she deliberately sprinkle itching powder on me?" I think that the last time she accidentally knocked over the itch powder, it happened to fall on me, and it has been a few months, and only me and the second sister know about this matter at that time, except for the fourth sister. Please don't say it, and don't tell your ancestors! If the ancestor mistakenly thought that the fourth sister was deliberately playing tricks on me, maybe he would punish the fourth sister for copying the "Female Analects" a hundred times! When the time comes, the fourth sister and the second aunt will definitely think that I have revealed this matter to the ancestors, and the second aunt will not like me even more! ”

"What?! Second Miss is also present? She also knows about Diao Yam? Mama Tang was more touched than just now, because in her impression, the second lady was the most demure and kind lady in the entire East and West Mansions, how could she be involved in this kind of thing?

He Angelica nodded tearfully and said, "Mama Tang, listen to me, the fourth sister, she really didn't mean to turn over the itchy powder." At that time, we were all practicing calligraphy in the small study, and the fourth sister used a piece of paper to hold the powder and wanted to throw it away, but unfortunately the second sister also got up and went out, and when the fourth sister staggered by, the second sister accidentally stepped on the skirt of the fourth sister, and the fourth sister spilled the itchy powder on the paper. It's only to blame me for lowering my head to write, and I didn't avoid it in time, so I will get itchy powder and suffer hardship, and it's been a long time since the incident, I really don't want my ancestors and others to know about this anymore, and I mistakenly think that my little sex loves to turn over old accounts, and even misunderstood that my relationship with my fourth sister is not good. This is absolutely nothing, although the second aunt doesn't like me very much, but the fourth sister is very good to me, since the last incident, the fourth sister in order to apologize, almost every day let her small kitchen make a supper for me, I am really grateful to her. ”

Mama Tang asked suspiciously, "Fourth Miss makes supper for you every day?" How come I've never heard of this before? ”

"It's true, don't dare to deceive Mama!" As if afraid that she would not believe it, He Angelica described in detail, "The fourth sister told me that her mother annoyed me because of the last dinner and the matter of cutting clothes, and she was afraid that her mother would blame her if she knew that we had very good things in private, so she did not dare to use her small kitchen to cook and give it to me during the day, and she had to wait until everyone else went to sleep after the third watch, and her maid Inari could give me supper." ”

Mama Tang frowned: "Since it's already the third watch, then the third miss, you shouldn't eat anymore." Not to mention that the food accumulates in the stomach and cannot be digested, and you are a young lady who does not exercise or work, so it is very important for you to arrange your diet reasonably and maintain a good body. ”

The third lady is a concubine who was abandoned by her father's family, and without her father's protection, her life experience is not very glorious. Even if the old lady really cares for her, there is a limit to what she can help her, and when it comes to the time of marriage, the most she can do is her beauty and figure.