Chapter 208
On the same day, Lin Baozhu and his entourage left the post house and directly sought the inn near the yamen and settled down. 【Latest chapter reading. After all, it was not early, and he was frightened during the day, and Rao is six sons did not dare to leave the city easily to continue their journey.
However, considering that the first assassination attempt was not successful, I am afraid that there will be a second time, so they can only find a relatively safe place. Although most of the post houses are managed and taken care of by the officials, they cannot avoid being opened in relatively secluded places for convenience, so they are naturally easy to start in comparison.
Now that they had settled in the bustling city and close to the government, even the high positions and powers behind the Assassins had to be cautious. After all, if you are not careful, you will be involved in the yamen, and you must know that the officials of the Yanjing Boundary Government are out-and-out royalists, once they get in front of the emperor, Rao is they have the ability to reach the sky, and they will not be able to do well in the eyes of Zhang Manhoard's return to Beijing.
Not long after a few people entered the inn, they only hurriedly ate a mouthful of food, and Lin Baozhu found that the faces of the eldest girl and Hongmei began to flush. The child who had always been chattering was very uncomfortable at this time.
She stretched out her hand and pulled the person to her side, only to let her skin under her hand be hot and hot. There was no thermometer or anything like that year, so she didn't know how many degrees the two children had burned, but she was anxious at the thought that there were no powerful antipyretics in ancient times, as if many people were still dying of fever. didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly opened the door and asked the six sons guarding the door to find a doctor to come back.
This was a chaos, and immediately she didn't let Qingqing take Hongmei to rest next door, so she just asked the guy to set up a soft couch in the house again, and then found two futons to come over.
"Little brother, I'm tired of boiling some hot water and sending it over." Seeing that Madame was busy taking care of Xiǎo Jiě and Hongmei, Qingqing hurriedly took out dozens of copper plates and handed them over, and then said, "There are two more cloth towels." ”
The guy was also very eye-catching, and he didn't say anything after taking the copper plate, and ran to the backyard again and again. After a while, he brought two basins of hot water, and Xu felt that the two cloth towels were just to be replaced, and he took two more clean ones.
With hot water, Lin Baozhu and Qingqing took care of one person and helped wipe the foreheads of the eldest girl and Hongmei with the wrung out cloth towel, and felt that the cloth towel was a little colder, so it was applied to the foreheads of the two of them.
While they were anxiously waiting here, the sixth son also invited a doctor to come over. After checking the pulse and eyes of the two of them, the doctor prescribed the medicine, and then said: "Madame, don't panic, the two of them have a fever caused by fright, and there is no big problem, and when you drink the medicine and have a good rest, it will be fine." ”
Hearing the doctor say this, Lin Baozhu still didn't dare to be careless, but out of respect for the doctor, he didn't say anything to question. Traditional Chinese medicine has been passed down since ancient times, and it is broad and profound, even if she doesn't understand it, she also knows that the mysterious Chinese medicine is sometimes not only not worse than Western medicine, but also has more subtleties.
The doctor who had just spoken saw that Lin Baozhu was still worried, and couldn't help shaking his head, and said: "There is a cloud in "Examining the Source of the Disease" that 'shocks the pulse is uncertain', and "Pulse Yi Jianmo" also says 'shaken and frightened'. This is the case with the symptoms of the two of them, and the lady said that the two of them were frightened, but they did not see the wind and cold, and there was no cold in their bodies, so the old man could conclude that the two were frightened."
Seeing that the old doctor said clearly and clearly, Lin Baozhu was a little relieved, and hurriedly leaned over to salute and thank you. After sending the old doctor away, the sixth son asked Yang Yong to personally follow him to take the medicine and boil the medicine, and he took someone to guard the door of the room, so as not to regenerate the pool. Fortunately, now that they had changed into civilian clothes, they looked like ordinary courtyard guards to outsiders, so they didn't attract the attention of Sāo Luàn.
Because the old doctor had explained in detail before, if you are not at ease, you can find some wine to wipe the forehead, armpits and chest of the big girl and Hongmei, which will also help to cool down and reduce fever. So Lin Baozhu couldn't be idle at this time, so he directly asked the guy to send two jars of spirits, and he didn't dare to wipe the big girl lightly for a moment. Of course, Qingqing also has a good way of learning to take care of the red plum on the other side of the bed.
They had just finished wiping it twice, and were taking a breath, when there was a knock on the door. Then, Yang Yong respectfully said that the medicine was boiled outside.
fed the two of them a decoction, and then Lin Baozhu personally coaxed the uncomfortable humming and chirping two people to fall asleep slowly, and then rubbed his forehead and sat up straight. Looking at Qingqing again, he was also tired, and his face was obviously in a trance, and he was also holding on, and he had not yet come out of the previous dangerous panic.
Now the eldest girl and Hongmei have drunk the antipyretic decoction and fall asleep groggyly, thinking that the old doctor has added some soothing herbs to the medicine. Seeing Qingqing's pale face at this time, her heart was also a little soft, so she pulled someone to sit down beside her, and then asked Liuzi to go to the cabinet downstairs to find a guy to ask for some food.
After a few more bites in a hurry, Lin Baozhu softly asked Qingqing to rest on the soft couch for half a night, and then get up to keep vigil for her in the middle of the night. Qingqing shook her head again and again, refusing to say anything, but in the end, she couldn't resist her wife's decision, so she could only lie down on the soft couch with her head and clothes.
Originally, she was afraid that she would not be able to sleep alone, because she would always think of those shā rén scenes in her mind, and you must know that during the day, she was determined to die, and she almost never saw her father and mother again. At that time, I didn't feel so scared, but now that I think about it, I can't stop shaking.
But she didn't want to, just when she closed her eyes and was full of messy things, Madame sat on the edge of the soft couch, and gently patted her own back to soothe herself like her mother coaxed her to sleep, and unconsciously, she actually fell asleep in a daze.
When the three little ones were sleeping peacefully, Lin Baozhu sighed, and then reached out and touched the foreheads of the eldest girl and Hongmei, the temperature of the tentacles was not as hot as before, and she relaxed a little. Then he helped the two of them tuck the corners of the quilt and went to set up a cloth towel and scrub it by themselves.
I was too embarrassed when I left the post house before, and now, I just washed my hands and face in a hurry, but my body was still covered with cold sweat and my clothes were sticking to my body. After washing her hands and wiping her body again, she felt a little more comfortable, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.
When he arrived, Yang Yong knocked lightly on the door again, saying that the second bowl of soup and medicine had been boiled. Lin Baozhu looked at Qingqing, who was sleeping peacefully, and remembered that she was just a teenager, and she was so frightened, but she still insisted on taking care of the eldest girl and Hongmei with herself, which was not easy, so naturally she didn't open her mouth to wake her up.
Open the door, take the tray in Yang Yong's hand, and then reflexively close the shàng mén and enter the house. Xu is the previous decoction has a top effect, or slept in the middle of the night, the big girl and Hongmei have a little strength, this time when feeding the medicine, it is obviously much easier, although the two of them are still stunned, but they know that they have taken the initiative to swallow the medicinal juice in their mouths.
If you want to say anything else, it may be untrue, but there is one thing that makes Lin Baozhu feel distressed and relieved. It's that the big girl and the red plum have eaten too hard, and the things that have been eaten are not only astringent and rotten, so they are not exclusive to drinking medicine. Especially the eldest girl, when she saw her mother's worried look in the haze, she didn't dare to be coquettish anymore, just drank the bitter and unpalatable soup, and took advantage of some spirit to tug her mother's sleeve and comfort her mother a few words.
She actually wanted to say more, but her eyelids were very heavy, and in the end she could only mumble something like "Big girl is fine, big girl is not afraid", and fell asleep again. And the red plum is about the same.
It only took half an hour to feed this bowl of medicine, and the two of them were sweating again, and Lin Baozhu hurriedly wiped them with a new dry cloth towel. It wasn't until I saw that the flushing on the two rén miàn had gone down a little and their faces were not so embarrassed, and then they became happy.
I thought that the old doctor said that if you sweat in the middle of the night, the symptoms will basically subside, and there is nothing to worry about the fever. Now it seems that this is really the case, thinking of this, she breathed a sigh of relief, and her heavy heart finally brightened a lot.
In the end, it is a famous inn in Yanjing, even if it is late at night, the guy is also worried that there is a patient upstairs, and he came up to ask if he wants to have some night food, and there is a fire for his wife in the backyard kitchen.
Looking at the eldest girl and Hongmei, who had improved a little, thinking that the two children hadn't eaten anything before they had a fever last night, and now that they were weak, they would inevitably feel uncomfortable with an empty stomach, so she told Liuzi to let the guy boil some millet porridge earlier.
When the sixth son came back, he was still carrying a tray, with a bowl of small wontons and a small plate of dim sum on the tray, and a pot of hot tea on the side.
"Sister-in-law, thinking that my brothers have been busy all day, I followed my buddy to the kitchen to ask for some food, thinking that you didn't get a drop of water all night, so I sent you some." After a pause, he scratched his head and said, "I have already asked someone to send a letter to my eldest brother, maybe in a day or two, there will be a reply." ”
Hearing the news of her own man again, Lin Baozhu felt unspeakable grievances in her heart, but in front of her sixth son, she couldn't show anything. Nodding, after thinking about it, she instructed: "It's good that a few of you take turns to be on duty at night, don't be tired together, otherwise you won't be able to bear the iron body." After a pause, he said, "Look at what the kitchen can do now, don't be stingy, let everyone eat well, and then settle the bill with the money I gave you, and finally let everyone buy wine and eat if there is more left." If that's not enough, just talk to me. ”
Before going on the road, Lin Baozhu had given his six sons five hundred taels of silver to entangle, just to avoid any accidents on the road or trouble in the place where the money was spent. Moreover, she has never been an instigator, knowing that money should be spent on the blade, and some money can only be spent more but cannot be reluctant.