My aunt, who had watched me all night, finally breathed a sigh of relief, thanks to her for this night. [I asked her to ask Liu Ming for a bottle of burning knife wine, although she didn't know why, she still listened to my cloth dipped in wine and kept wiping my hands and feet, and when I saw that I was sweating, she called warm water to wipe my body for me. I was busy going in and out all night, and I saw that she was also tired.

I asked her to rest, but she still boiled a pot of porridge for me and brought me a bowl before going to lie down in the next room.

After the fever subsided, the whole person was a lot looser, and it was indeed hungry, and a bowl of porridge quickly bottomed out. Thinking that Ah Ping would be able to leave the examination room today, his mood became happy. When he comes back, I'm going to take a shower, whether the conditions allow or not.

It is really a golden nest and a silver nest is not as good as my own kennel, I feel that the house in this big capital is not as good as my country house, there is no stove room, there is no bath room, and the first two days when I was not sick I just went into the house with water to wipe my body and change into clean clothes. But in the past two days, I have been sick, and I can't get up, let alone any washing, and I sweated all over my body at night, although my aunt helped wipe and change my underwear, but I still felt that my body was very sticky.

At noon, my aunt came to say goodbye to me, saying that she wanted to go home, I thought about it and asked Liu Ming to calculate the money for her, Liu Ming opened his mouth and still didn't say anything, and took the broken silver and paid it to the aunt.

After the people left, he hesitated and said that Uncle Mu meant to invite the aunt to come over and serve me, and I couldn't help but laugh after hearing it. In the past, when I was sick, I really needed someone to help, even if it was to hand over water; But now that his body has improved, and these things are within his ability, why do he need to let people serve him anymore?

It's not a young lady's life, where is it so delicate. Besides, when Ah Ping came back later, I didn't want outsiders to disturb us.

But I didn't see Ah Ping come back until it was dark, I want to say that the exam questions are difficult this time, and the candidates are all delayed in handing in the papers? After all, his goal is not only to pass the exam, but also to win the first place in this trial.

The body was first healed, and it didn't take long for me to be sleepy, and my brain was dull before going to sleep, and I felt like I had forgotten something.

When I woke up again, it was already dawn, but the bed next to me was empty, and there was no temperature at all, so it was obvious that Ah Ping had not returned all night. I walked out after dressing and didn't look for Liu Ming, so I couldn't ask, maybe it was because of a serious illness, when the urgent anticipation came to naught, sometimes I felt very lost, and I felt like I was banished when I was alone in this house.

When I was in a low mood, I was bored to do anything, and I felt tasteless when I was eating, and I thought of the aunt when I sat listlessly decocting medicine in the yard, and I knew that I would stay at home for two more days, at least I could have someone to talk to.

But then again, since Liu Ming originally wanted to hire the aunt to take care of her in the house for a while, why did he suddenly propose to leave? I turned my head to look at the next room, and finally remembered that I had forgotten something about my illness.

I got up and walked into the house and rummaged around, and sure enough, my star and moon Bodhi was gone.

When he stepped out of the threshold and saw that Liu Ming had just returned, he hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Where did you invite that aunt to come back?" Liu Ming was stunned and didn't understand what was going on: "I went to the market to find it." ”

His heart sank, "Then do you know her family background?" ”

Seeing Liu Ming shaking his head, I really don't know what to say, does he not understand the world or is his experience too shallow? Ask someone to come back and do things, and don't even ask who they are.

Finally, Liu Ming saw that my face was not good, and his mind turned and asked hesitantly: "Madam, have you lost anything?" ”

"I lost a string of beads."

"Then don't worry, the hired workers and vendors in the market have records, so I'll find them for you."

Liu Ming was about to turn around and leave, but was stopped by me: "I'll go with you." He immediately objected: "Madame is ill and should not go out, so let me go and make a trip, and promise to find the beads for you." ”

"I'm fine. That string of beads is very important to me, so I'd better go over with you and have a look. ”

Liu Ming couldn't resist my insistence, so he had to bring the carriage and take me out of the door. On the way, I pretended to be casual and asked, "Shouldn't Ah Ping have left the examination room yesterday?" Why haven't you come back by this time? ”

"I rushed to the exam room in the morning to ask, and Uncle Mu said that the examiner had taken an extra test."

I see, this examination system is too casual, and it is said that the test will be taken for three days but the test will be added temporarily. I complained to the examiner and had no choice but to wait. When he came to the market, Liu Ming quickly found the foreman dealer, and sure enough, there was a registration, the aunt was called Aunt Chun, and the specific address was not there, but as long as you asked in an alley, you would know who Aunt Chun was.

After inquiring around, I found a mud house in a remote corner, and I saw the figure of Aunt Chun from a distance, sitting at the door holding a child in one hand and feeding something in the other. When we approached, the panic on her face could not deceive anyone, and she was obviously a thief.

At first, Aunt Chun still clenched her mouth and said that she didn't take anything, but she couldn't withstand Liu Ming's intimidation and interrogation, and she quickly recruited her. The beads in the room were hand-to-hand, and she also stole some medicine that Lang Zhong prescribed for me, because her grandson had also contracted the cold these days and had no money to invite Lang Zhong. Hearing this, I shook my head secretly, let's not talk about her unclean hands and feet, can medicine be eaten casually? The amount of medicine that adults should take is inevitably different from that of children, and because children are weak, there must be herbs that children cannot take.

And just now it is obvious that what she poured into the child was my wind and cold medicine, and the child's face was flushed, I am afraid that it was not the first time to drink it, but the effect of the medicine was not effective.

Liu Ming didn't care about anything else, just asked Aunt Nachun for my Xingyue. The answer she got was unexpected, she actually sold the bead string to a monk on the way back at noon yesterday, and got two taels of silver. Afraid that Liu Ming would not believe it, she hurriedly ran into the house and took out two taels of silver.

I stopped Liu Ming, who wanted to coerce, and asked Aunt Chun if she knew where the monk was, and she said that the monk was setting up a fortune telling stall in the bazaar, just in front of the Windward Restaurant. Before leaving, I glanced at the child in her arms, and still said more: "If the child is sick, please ask a Lang Zhong to take a look, and don't take the medicine indiscriminately." She was stunned until our carriage came out of the alley.

In front of the Windward Restaurant, the monk who set up a fortune telling stall did not take much trouble to find it.

After hearing Liu Mingdao's intentions, the monk was reluctant to sell back the bracelet, saying that the Bodhi book was related to Buddhism, and it should be washed by the Buddha ceremony and not be stained by the world. I was sitting in the carriage at the time, and when I heard this, I got out of the carriage and asserted bluntly, "You are not a true monk. ”

The monk was stunned for a moment, looked me up and down, and said, "The donor is in vain." ”

I snorted lightly and said with a smile: "You know best in your heart, first of all, why is the monk not abiding by the precepts smelling the smell of wine outside this restaurant; Secondly, setting up a stall to tell fortunes is done by Taoist priests; Third, how can a monk not burn and quit scars? ”

As early as when Aunt Chun talked about it, I was suspicious, and when I arrived at the restaurant, I took Liu Ming to ask questions and secretly observed for a while. Putting on a monk's robe, shaving his head and pretending to be a monk, is too disrespectful. The fake monk was not annoyed when I saw through it, and said with a smile: "The girl has good eyesight, all to make ends meet, since you come to my stall, why don't you sit down and count a hexagram?" ”

"I don't tell my fortune, if you ask Aunt Chun how much silver to buy the beads, we will pay you how many silver taels to redeem it."

The fake monk's eyes rolled, and he said with a smile: "Girl, don't worry, if you sit down and count the Bodhi beads and don't charge a penny, you will be returned." I wasn't fooled: "How much does it cost?" ”

Seeing him stretch out a hand, I deliberately asked, "Five cents?" He hurriedly shook his head and said eagerly, "It's five taels of silver." ”

Knowing that the other party was ripping off the bamboo, but Xingyue Bodhi was in his hand, I turned around and asked Liu Ming with his eyes, mainly because he had so much silver on him. After seeing him nod his head, I had a bottom, and without saying a word, I pulled open the chair in front of the stall and sat down.

The fake monk suddenly smiled, and his eyes narrowed into a line. He looked at my face first, then at my palm, and gradually the smile on his face was gone, and his brow furrowed. After a long while, I heard him hesitate and ask, "Has the girl experienced a catastrophe?" ”

"What counts as a catastrophe?"

"Life and death."

I shook my head, "No." He asked, seemingly disbelievingly, "Have you not been in disaster in ten years?" ”

I laughed out loud: "Who can grow up smoothly for ten years?" ”

The monk was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, he said, "I mean more serious disasters, such as serious illness and drowning. ”

My heart skipped a beat, but then I thought about the fortune teller's eight out of ten sentences, I just recovered from a serious illness, my face must not be good, he said that there is no mistake in saying that he is seriously ill, but people can convince him half of it first.

Shaking his head in denial: "Never." ”

The monk was puzzled, looked at my face and palmistry again, and muttered: "No, it should be a great catastrophe when I was young, and it is related to water, what is wrong?" ”

originally planned to calm down, but listening to the fake monk's muttering, he finally couldn't hold back: "What year did you count?" ”

"I can't determine what year it is, judging from your palmistry, the broken part of the lifeline must be a death disaster, the flood disaster should have happened six or seven years ago, and there was a serious illness after that, after this catastrophe, you will come to work, the so-called phase is born from the heart, and your face contains the air of wealth and nobility. But ......"

I knew that the fortune teller had a routine, but since I sat down, it didn't hurt to listen, so I answered him: "But what? ”

"There will be another catastrophe in recent years, although it will not harm lives, but it can be big or small, the key is how you choose."

"Oh? You mean the choices I make will change my fate? ”

The monk nodded: "It can be understood in this way, the fate of a thought changes, and turning back may not be the shore." ”