Chapter Twenty-Eight: Invitation to the Tea Banquet
Xing Niang does know how to deal with the world, and she is also very good at handling things, but she lacks ruthlessness and means, and she usually makes a little stumbling back, and I am afraid that she will not be able to cope with it, otherwise she will not let the stepfamily bully their master and servant to such a point.
The marriage was decided, and Xing Niang had no idea. Even the ceremony of laying geese has passed, and the next time is only one or two months, what can be done to turn the tide! And Ran Wen hid this matter, and he didn't know what his intentions were.
After Ran Yan finished bathing and came out of the bath room, he sent Wanlu to tell Sang Chen that if the embryo of the ceramic is not easy to dry, the time can be slowed down.
Then, I went to look at the food that I had put in the pile yesterday, because there were already a few things that had penicillium when I placed them, and in addition, it had spread a lot on a rainy day, and the penicillium that had grown in a day or two should be enough.
Ran Yan didn't understand why he was so unlucky, and if he grabbed one at random, it was a difficult disease like syphilis. In the face of this extremely contagious disease, any doctor who understands the situation will not sit idly by, and she is somewhat sure that she can cure it.
The onset cycle of syphilis is long, and Zixu's symptoms have reached the second stage, although it is serious, but it will not be life-threatening for the time being, but her onset time is at least more than three months, if it is not treated, it will be in great trouble when it turns into an advanced stage, and she will not be able to die for a while, and she will still be tortured while she is alive.
Ran Yan frowned and sighed, Also, the allergy rate to penicillin in the crowd is one to ten percent, that is to say, in a hundred people, at least one to ten will have an allergic reaction to it, this probability is extremely high, Ran Yan can only pray now that Yan Niang, Zixu and Hongxing are not one of them.
Chinese medicine...... In modern Chinese medicine, syphilis can be treated, but Ran Yan rarely paid attention to this disease before, and only vaguely remembered some herbs, not complete prescriptions, so she prescribed a new prescription according to medical theory, taking it internally and washing it externally, hoping it would work.
"Lady." Xing Niang saw Ran Yan in a daze under the corridor again, so she took a satin coat and put it on Ran Yan, and sat beside her, "Lady is worried about marriage?" ”
"Marriage?" Ran Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, only then did he remember that he was engaged, and when he saw Xing Niang worried, he said, "This is not a big deal, everything has to be thought of in a good way, Qin Shilang is still a young and unmarried man, and his family background is very good, it is better than being given by Aya to a person who is over half a hundred years old and has a wife and children as a concubine!" ”
Even if Ran Yan is no longer favored, she is a concubine after all, and giving it to someone else as a concubine is a slap in the face of herself. Xing Niang knew that Ran Yan's words were just words of comfort, so she smiled bitterly, "If Lang Jun is really so ruthless, we would rather go to Madame's mother's house!" ”
"There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, there is no need to worry about such things, I will handle it properly." Ran Yan added in his heart, if he had to get married, Qin Musheng agreed not to touch her, but if he didn't agree, he had to make the medicine inhumane for the time being, and then slowly seek a way to get out. But thinking about it, with Qin Musheng's amorous temperament, I'm afraid the latter is more likely.
"The lady has really grown up." Xing Niang sighed, lowered her eyes and said, "The old slave knows that he is useless, and he can't help his mother." ”
Ran Yan saw that Xing Niang's words didn't seem to be finished, so she didn't interject, just listened quietly.
Xing Niang said, "When I was in Xingyang, the maids and maids around Mrs. Lu were all assigned by Mrs. Lu, including the old slave, among the four people, the old slave was the most useless, timid, and couldn't support things, but when Mrs. got married, Mrs. Lu left the old slave to Mrs. alone." The old slave saw the suffering of the lady, but he could not help anything other than to be more loyal and protective of her. ”
In the Tang Dynasty, women would not bear their husband's surname after marriage, and it was not surprising that the Zheng family of Xingyang and the Lu family of Fanyang had been married for generations, and the surname of the main mother was Lu.
"After so many years, the old slave still hasn't grown, and now he can't help the lady except for loyalty and protection." Xing Niang said, already tears of annoyance.
Ran Yan understands that Xing Niang can clearly see the situation, and she knows who is good and who is not, but she can't think of any way to deal with it, this feeling of powerlessness is really aggrieved, and it is really better to have a black eye and feel at ease without knowing anything.
"Don't blame yourself. I said I would protect you, and now I am trying to make myself stronger by learning medicine and earning money. Trust me. Ran Yan's face was a little lifeless, but that reassuring firmness could not be doubted.
"The old slave is a believing lady!" Xing Niang wiped away her tears, suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly took out a post and a letter from her sleeve, and said, "Lady, this is the invitation and letter sent from the city this morning, you can take a look." ”
Ran Yan took the things and looked at the invitation card first, it was Yin Miaomiao, the third mother of the Yin family, who invited her to participate in the tea party, and the letter was also written by Yin Miaomiao.
Recalled, Yin Miaomiao's friendship with her is good, at least the usual words are also speculative, and the Yin family's status in Suzhou City is second only to Qi, Ran, and Yan's three families, the Yin family has a strict family education, and the daughters raised are all Suzhou models, humble and filial, gentle and virtuous, knowledgeable, and able to go up to the hall and down to the kitchen, which is very famous in the entire Jiangnan Province. Yin Miao's temperament is naturally excellent.
Ran Yan put down the invitation, opened the letter, and glanced at it casually, it was indeed a letter written by a model, and it was really a model of tightness, the words were good words, and the words were also good words, but because it was too exemplary, there was no emotion at all.
Ran Yan said in her heart, Xu is people really didn't take her to heart.
"Yin Sanniang asked me to go to the tea party, should I go?" Ran Yan knew that there was nothing wrong with asking Xing Niang about these etiquette matters.
Xing Niang thought for a while and said, "Didn't Evening Green say that night that night that she met many noble girls in Yalanshe?" With the talent of the lady of the Yin family, the Yalan Club must be indispensable, she must know that the lady is cured, so she will send an invitation, and this matter is not easy to shirk. ”
"Then let's go." Even though Ran Yan has a cold temperament, he still has close friends in modern times, and when he arrives in Datang, he naturally hopes to find one or two like-minded friends and participate in the tea party, which is a good opportunity.
"Lady, be careful of Eighteen Niang." Xing Niang reminded.
"Hmm." Ran Yan replied lightly. Ran Meiyu is not only bitter and mean, but also vicious, but fortunately, although she is a little clever, she doesn't have too deep scheming, otherwise it would be really terrible.
The heavy rain gradually stopped, turned into a light rain, and finally returned to the gentleness of Jiangnan. The summer heat has also been poured away. At night, the lanterns on the porch swayed, and the plants and trees in the courtyard could be seen soaked in rainwater.
After Ran Yan simply finished dinner, he read a medical book under the corridor.
This medical book was given to her by Wu Xiuhe, and it is full of the pulses of various diseases. In the current medical world, prescriptions are all precious things that cannot be passed on, let alone medical books, Ran Yan knows that Wu Xiuhe and Professor She can also be regarded as dedicated.
Ran Yan sat on the round waist chair bed, with a soft cushion behind him, and his body was covered with a thin jacket, which was very comfortable. This round-waisted chair bed is like the round-waisted Taishi chair of later generations, but it has no legs and is placed directly on the floor.
On the small table on the side of him, there is a small square lamp made of Korean paper, a slender ebony frame, painted plum orchid bamboo chrysanthemum on all sides, and a small poem on each side, bright and elegant.
Just on the gentle wind and drizzle outside the corridor, it was pleasant to watch, but Wanlu led two people back.
When she got closer, Ran Yan saw clearly that it was Liu and her son Zhou Lang.
That day, Zhou Lang was blistered out of shape, Ran Yan was in a hurry to save people, and he didn't look at him carefully, at the moment, this child was born handsome, dressed in dark brown coarse linen, about twelve or thirteen years old, pointed chin, melon seed face, a pair of smart big eyes as if he could speak, if he didn't frown all the time, it was also very cute.
"Lady, sister-in-law Liu has been here many times in the morning, and you are not here." Wan Lu said as she collected the umbrella and led the mother and son into the corridor.
About seven or eight feet away from Ran Yan, Liu dragged Zhou Lang, and the two knelt down in front of Ran Yan together. Liu Shi fell to the ground and said, "The lady is the great benefactor of our mother and son, we fled to this place, the family is poor, there is no way to repay, only people, the lady saved San Lang's life, from then on, our mother and son are sent by the mother!" ”
Liu said, took out two pieces of paper from his arms, and gently placed them in front of Ran Yan, "This is the deed of sale of our mother and son." We don't want money, we beg the lady to accept it. ”
Ran Yan looked at Liu carefully, although the woman in front of her was already showing her old state, she judged that she should not be very old, at most thirty-five years old, with a calm demeanor, and she was wearing coarse linen clothes, but she couldn't hide her temperament that was very different from ordinary village women.
"Please get up first." Ran Yan stepped forward to help Liu, but she was thinking for a while, she was very short of manpower now, and it was good to have a loyal person.
As for this child, Ran Yan saw that he had been lying on the ground and didn't move, until Ran Yan said to get up, he raised his body slightly, and his beautiful lips pursed into a line, obviously, he was unwilling to be a slave.
Ran Yan thought about the countermeasures in a moment, she wanted both mother and son, but she had to submit this little guy first.