The person who had an accident in Dongfu was not Zhuang Xi, but the little aunt of Zhuang Xi.

At that time, Hong'er came to report the news, and Luxi carried a lantern. If you go too fast, the lights will go out before they reach the outside of the courtyard. The two girls groped their way in shock. At this moment, it is the fourth or fifth watch, and the sky and the earth are as dark as the bottom of the pot.

When I entered the courtyard, I went straight to Shouzhong.

Hong'er fell asleep in the corner of the wall wrapped in a quilt under the head door outside the inner room. Hearing the footsteps of Hong'er and Lu Xi, Lan'er blinked her eyes, but she couldn't see anyone.

Lan'er was afraid that it would be those subordinates who stole chickens and touched dogs, so she shouted in a low voice: "Which one is shameless in the middle of the night, sneak around, come out!" ”

That Hong'er and Lu Xi were almost there.

Hong'er said in a low voice: "Which sister was that night?" We are Hong'er and Luxi of Dongfu. ”

Hong'er heard the name reported, turned around and went in and came out, and saw that it was indeed true.

Hong'er's face was panicked, her forehead was sweating, and she said, "This morning and evening, our wife doesn't dare to bother the old lady." It's better to say it anyway. The little aunt came back from eating and drinking in the evening, and when she came out of a big one, she was dripping red, and by the next night it was like releasing water, and the quilt and mattress on the bed were dyed. ”

When Lan'er heard this, she returned the favor and hurriedly asked, "The old lady tossed for so long, and she only fell asleep for a short time." You're called a doctor over there? ”

Hong'er said: "I called the eldest girl's iron pestle, but I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to speak, so I didn't worry, so I asked the housekeeper to go with Si'er." I'm about to call for it. ”

Lan'er said: "Then naturally I'm not afraid." ”

Lu Xi, who was next to him, had just gone in to light the lantern by fire, and this party came out and took over the words: "Our wife is afraid that it will not be easy to explain to the old lady, so she should come to inform her." But in case the doctor doesn't work, how can it be good? I went to see it, such a big mess of blood. As he spoke, he drew with a lantern.

Lan'er motioned for the two of them to wait outside, and hurried into the inner room by herself. Inside, the Western glass lamp has been modulated, the light is as still as a bean, and the shadows of the paint are everywhere, and only the direction and route can be seen clearly. Lan'er touched Zhu'er and Mei'er's kang first, and gently shook them awake.

Zhu'er woke up first, heard that it was Lan'er, and said strangely: "I just fell asleep, what's wrong?" ”

Mei'er also woke up, walked over from the opposite kang, and said, "Do you want anyone to sleep with your hooves?" I didn't bother you that night. ”

Lan'er didn't explain anything else, and told Hong'er outside about what happened to Lu Xi's old man. After hearing this, Zhu'er and Mei'er became worried.

Thinking for half a minute, Zhu'er said: "The old lady only sleeps!" ”

Mei'er said: "If you want to wake up the old lady, you can call yourself, don't let me go, save me a while." ”

Lan'er was embarrassed. Zhu'er said: "Since the doctor is called, it should not be in the way." You let Hong'er go back with Lu Xi first. Go for it. ”

Lan'er was helpless, and only said one sentence: "It's embarrassing for people, you always let me go." So he went out to inform Hong'er and Luxi. Inside, Zhu'er and Mei'er muttered a few words in a low voice, seeing how to report to the old lady, and at this moment, the old lady coughed up.

Zhu'er and Mei'er hurriedly put on their clothes and went inside.

Zhu'er quickly served the tea, Mei'er went to serve the spittoon, and waited outside the old lady's bed. After a while, the old lady's tent moved slightly, and Meier lifted the curtain and handed the spitting cup in.

The old lady woke up with phlegm, and Zhu'er rinsed her mouth with tea. After finishing, the old lady said, "I can hear your cooing in my dreams, and you are also drunk, drunk, sleepwalking?" ”

Mei'er took the spittoir out, Zhu'er served the tea, and said with a smile: "The old lady always said that when she was young, she was on an errand in the palace and was worried about everything, and now she is still so meticulous when she is taking care of her days." ”

The old lady said, "Lan'er's girl just came in, right?" What's the matter? ”

Mei'er came and said, "The old lady's ears are like those of the wind ear fairy, and if you don't look at it, you know who it is." ”

The old lady smiled and pointed at Mei'er, laughing non-stop.

Zhu'er said: "Hong'er from Dongfu is talking to Lu Xi, so ...... My aunt is not in good health. ”

The old lady said strangely: "I only saw her drink two cups at night, and I heard that she was still drinking in the old man's room during the day, and she also twisted some gestures at this time, so she was not hypocritical, and she didn't let people sleep." ”

Zhu'er and Mei'er glanced at each other, and couldn't bear to say more.

Mei'er said: "Old lady, it was Zhu'er who was afraid of startling you, so she didn't dare to say anything bad." I'll be a wicked person, and I'll tell you, that little aunt is very red and dyed a bed. ”

The old lady opened her mouth to say "ah", and the rest listened to Mei'er: "Zhu'er let them go back." I was going to invite the old lady, but don't we think you just go to sleep? I didn't say it. ”

The old lady said, "Did you ask someone to go out and ask for a doctor?" ”

Zhu'er said: "I've gone." ”

The old lady was more at ease, and when she was about to go to sleep again, she remembered something, and said, "Put on your clothes, and go and see." ”

Zhu'er was stunned for a moment and said, "The dew is heavy, old lady, why don't you go over at dawn?" ”

The old lady got up to ask for shoes to wear, Mei'er found clothes, and ordered Lan'er to call the mother-in-law who was worthy of carrying the sedan chair.

The old lady replied to Zhu'er like this: "I'm looking for something that is not good, let's go and take a look." It doesn't matter either. ”

In this way, the old lady got on the sedan chair, and a few women who carried the sedan chair walked quickly to carry her to the outside of the aunt's house in the south side of the East Mansion, and Zhu'er and Mei'er followed behind, feeling a little uneasy.

The old lady got out of the sedan chair and heard the sound of killing pigs coming from the house, crying and shouting. Hearing the Qin family, Aunt Xi, Zhuang Hu and other people and mother-in-law beside me was relieved.

The girl outside the door wanted to pass it through, but the old lady signaled that she didn't need to. Zhu'er and Mei'er helped them in. When I got inside, I saw a group of people led by the Qin family gathered around the bed, and the mother-in-law and the girl went in and out of the hot water basin, basin after basin of blood water and pure water. Aunt Xi was far away in the corner, hunched over and vomited.

Seeing that it was the old lady who came, Aunt Xi greeted her at first, but before the words could be spoken, she was sick to her stomach again, and ran outside and vomited.

Qin waited to come back to his senses and surrounded the old lady.

When I saw my little aunt here, I saw unkempt and messy hair, her face was as white as the moon, her face was hideous, her lips were bloody, and she looked like she was going to live or die, which really made people feel cold. Qin asked his mother-in-law to open the quilt, and saw that there was a pool of new and old coagulated blood coming out of the hot air inside the quilt.

The old lady was anxious and signaled to quickly put down the quilt: "Don't catch a cold again." He turned his head to Qin: "Has the doctor arrived?" ”

Qin shook his head and asked the girl to go outside the door again, the girl went, and just left and came back with good news that the doctor was here.

The little aunt on the bed heard the doctor, and struggled and shouted: "Old lady, I am in pain......

The old lady said to the little aunt: "The doctor will be here soon, you have to bear with it." Let's all go out. Seeing the girls serving tea, they were angry, and Zhengse said angrily: "When, don't think about it, this is the time to eat tea?" Hurry up and change the sugar water and eggs, and add a thick ginger soup. Go! ”

The girl who served the tea was bluffed by the old lady, and the tea was unstable, and she went out trembling.

The rest of the people went out of the house with the old lady and sat down outside the hall. After a while, the doctor came.

The doctor gave the old lady a salute and followed the mother-in-law into the room.

The old lady said to the Qin family: "Good and decent, what's wrong?" ”

Qin said: "I don't know, maybe I drank too much." Stomach aches. It's good to come back, and start making trouble next night. There was a lot of blood on the third watch, and I came over after listening to it. At first, I thought it was a matter of the letter period, so I didn't pay attention to it. ”

The old lady sighed, "I thought the same thing, so I came to take a look." ”

The meaning of the words accused the Qin family of not caring enough, and the Qin family knew that the old lady was to blame, but fortunately she didn't speak directly in public, otherwise she really couldn't raise her head.

Zhuang Hu said: "Mrs. is also very anxious, drinking at night, and coming back with a headache." ”

The old lady looked disdainful, and didn't target anyone, and said: "It stands to reason that I won't come, so you guys will be filial to me, let me lie down for a while." Unexpectedly, you have a large family, dozens of people, and you can't take care of all of them. ”

As she spoke, Aunt Xi, who had vomited outside first, came in, silent, very uneasy and shrunk behind the person. When the old lady saw it, she couldn't help but dislike it.

Zhuang Hu saw that the old lady disliked Aunt Xi, so he said, "Auntie just got blood, and she vomited for a while." ”

The old lady said: "If you can't see it, don't come to see it, there are not many patients, you are sick, and it makes the people inside uneasy." ”

Zhuang Hu heard the old lady say this, his face couldn't hold back, and he glanced at Aunt Xi with great disgust.

Aunt Xi smiled and apologized: "It's all a family, and you have to climb over, don't you mean that you are a family?" ”

The old lady snorted and did not speak. After a while, the doctor came out and greeted him with a smile.

The doctor curtsied his knees and said, "Happy old lady, you have to add another grandson." ”

The old lady heard the good news, and she was so happy that she didn't know how, so she got busy and invited her to sit down and invite tea. The doctor didn't dare, stood and shirked, and after drawing up a party, he said: "Fortunately, it's timely, it's a little later, I'm afraid it won't be useful." ”

Seeing such a risk, the old lady raised the doctor: "Fortunately, there is a doctor's hand, otherwise, this daughter-in-law will not be distressed to death." "Because I asked the butler to prepare ten taels of silver for the doctor, I repeatedly asked him to come and see it every day.

At the end, the old lady asked the doctor, "Why does it hurt like this now?" ”

The doctor smiled and said, "I just asked the aunt in the room, have you eaten anything?" Said that they had a drink in the evening. Although this is not a big taboo, it is also necessary to pay attention to it. She said, 'It's been a month since I wanted to throw up.' Eat some hawthorn slices and old chilled grapes. I made some sour wine every day'. ”

The old lady liked to say, "Isn't this the reason for the joy?" ”

The doctor said, "That's what it means." ”

The old lady asked again: "Then why did it cause the big red?" ”

The doctor said: "I ate sour wine during the day, and ate fruit wine and white wine at night, one yin and one yang, one cool and one warm, one tight and one put, blood accumulated in the palace, and it should be so." ”

The old lady woke up: "Yes, yes, I changed the wine twice in the evening, and the first one was to drink some white, and then I was afraid that the ambassador would not be able to do it, so I asked the girl to change the fruit wine." ”

The doctor said: "Wine should not be mixed and eaten, and a healthy man can't reach an altar and a half, let alone a pregnant woman?" Moreover, the hawthorn is even more inedible, which can make the uterine pregnancy pierce the slippery fetus, and when the fetus is unstable, do not eat more. Grapes and honey are not edible. In addition, there are many quacks in the capital, advocating milk during pregnancy, so that you can eat more papaya in advance, this method is the fault of the wrong, the papaya is a cool thing, and it can't be touched. ”

After listening to this, the old lady and everyone suddenly realized.

Qin said: "According to the doctor's meaning, what should I eat?" ”

The doctor said: "According to my method, I can ensure the health of pregnant women." One is the prescription I have prepared, and I will take medicine according to this; The second is to pay attention to the diet, chicken is the general election, soup is the mainstay, aged clay pot, fine fire, plus Shanxi white vinegar, Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar, Fujian old vinegar, and Baoning vinegar, stew. Add more ginger slices to it, and when it is cooked, knock in a fresh egg from the first chicken. Eat for a month, and it won't get in the way. In the future, if you have children, you will be healthy, white and intelligent. ”

When the old lady heard this, she was not happy, according to the doctor's intentions, she must be a boy. At this time, he didn't ask any more questions, and he knew that he was happy.

After the doctor left, the old lady entered the room with joy, changed her previous appearance, held the little aunt's hand, and said, "Amitabha, ancestors bless." If another boy is added, there will be hope in Dongfu! You are the great hero of Dongfu. ”

The Qin family was also very happy, and forgot to shed tears. The old lady was talking to the little aunt with Caifeng and Rili, turned around and said sharply to Aunt Qin and Xi: "The doctor said that it was a full month, why don't you tell me?" Live when I'm furnishings? You are only allowed to be happy with yourselves, but not me? ”

The Qin family was wronged, and she didn't know it.

Aunt Xi was not as forbearant as the Qin family, and said: "Some people say that we can only know with us, but we don't know, take a shadow and tell the old lady, what has happened." ”

Zhuang Hu deeply sweated for Aunt Xi, and when she spoke, no matter the occasion or seniority, her head was a mess, who made it up without distinguishing it, she deserved to be with the second wife all the way, who would be willing to see her?

Zhuang Hu was afraid that her aunt Xi would speak, so she diverted and said, "Congratulations to the old lady for her joy." ”

The crowd agreed.

The old lady smiled, overjoyed, and said yes again and again. And so they kept watch till the light of day. The old lady made up her mind to set up a banquet in a few days to celebrate. The girl Zhu'er was clever and reminded the old lady and said: "The fifth girl's birthday is on the 25th, if you don't rush to one place, you will be happy!" ”

This was the old lady's heart, and it was decided like this. On the other day, at the words of the old lady, the little aunt was happy, and informed the wives of the various houses, and said about the banquet. Unexpectedly, when it reached the Cao family in Beifu, the Cao family couldn't sit still.