In the back cover room of Zhang's house, there is a low kang.

Sannian lay weakly in the quilt, and Ernian lay on the edge of the bed, holding his cheeks to look at his sister.

"Second brother, can a bad woman really be afraid?"

"Yes." Ernian nodded his head affirmatively, "I've seen her scared of mice, it's funny." The third sister can rest assured, the second brother will be able to avenge you. ”

Sannian lowered her eyelids weakly, and her body shrank back in, "But, will the rat bite her?" ”

Ernian glared at her, "Don't be kind, just bite her to death." ”

Before Sannian could say anything, there was a sound of footsteps outside.

Today's vicious stepmother walked very fast, her steps seemed to be bigger than usual, and Sannian nervously retracted into the quilt and pretended to sleep.

Ernian's eyes turned, and he quickly climbed onto the bed, crossed his legs, and sat next to Sannian to press the quilt.

The door creaked open.

Xin Yi looked at the scene in front of him and was slightly stunned.

Yinian has grown much thinner than children of the same age, but I didn't expect that Ernian and Sannian are even thinner. Especially the youngest Sannian, like a kitten that has not been weaned, almost drowned by the quilt.

This room is the northernmost back cover room of the Zhang family. Cramped, dark, windowless, and airtight. It's worse than the children of Dalang Erlang's family, and it's not as good as the fourth, fifth and eldest girls born to Liu's own family.

"How do you sleep in this place?"

Xin Yi's tone was a little angry, not at the child, but the child instinctively guarded against and disgusted her.

Ernian replied: "It's not that you, a bad woman, are harmed." ”

Xin Yi glanced at his puffed little face, raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Ask you anything, just say anything, what nonsense?" ”

Hum! Ernian looked at the eldest brother, "You said it, when Daddy dies, he will turn into a ghost and come back to collect his footprints." The house we used to live in was too big, and we were too young to suppress the ghosts, so we would get sick. Grandma let us move out. ”

"You've made your third sister sick."

“……”

Three children squeezed into a wooden couch, and there is no decent thick quilt, such a ghost weather, what is it if it is not child abuse?

"Coax the child's trick, don't believe it in the future."

Xin Yi stepped forward and touched Sannian's forehead.

"Tell me, where does it hurt?"

Sannian was very afraid of her, her eyes were full of fear, and she refused to speak.

Xin Yi bent down to pick up the quilt, wanting to pull Sannian's little hand to check the pulse.

Ernian moved his body out, holding his breath nervously, looking forward to the ugly appearance of the vicious stepmother who ran away when she saw the mouse......

However, there was silence in the air.

Xin Yi maintained the movement of lifting the corners of the quilt, his face expressionless.

"Who did it?"

Inside the quilt was a live mouse in a bamboo cage.

Three children, you look at me, I look at you, and no one speaks. Xin Yi snorted coldly, carried the bamboo cage and shook it in front of them, killing the rat on the spot.

"Ahh Sannian screamed in fright.

One Nian and Er Nian also looked at her in unison, their faces full of astonishment.

Xin Yi threw the dead rat and the bamboo cage in the corner.

"Rats have dirt on them, no wonder they get sick."

She looked at Ernian again, "Whoever gets it back, who takes it and buries it." ”

"Humph!" Er Nian said dissatisfiedly: "Who wants to listen to you, ugly woman!" Bad woman! ”

Xin Yi's face did not change, "Don't you listen to it?" See how I clean you up. ”

Sannian poked his head out of the quilt and asked in a low voice, "Why aren't you afraid of mice?" ”

"Silly boy, I've killed more rats than you've ever seen."

Xu is Xin Yi's appearance is too "gentle", under her gaze, Er Nian was reluctant to carry a small bamboo cage out to bury the dead mice.

Xin Yi sat on the edge of the couch, calmly picked up Sannian's little hand, and touched her pulse, but his eyes fell on her forehead.

"How did you get the wound on your head?"

Sannian shivered as he avoided her gaze.

"Fight ......"

"Fight?"

Who does a four-year-old girl fight with?

Xin Yi thought it was incredible.

"It's not the third sister's fault, it's me who fought with Tie Dan first." Yi Nian tensed his little body, and he didn't dare to look directly into Xin Yi's eyes, but he said it confidently.

"It's me. It's none of the big brother's business. Er Nian also rushed in and rushed to answer.

Xin Yi frowned slightly, his eyes looked at him lightly, "What kind of hero is in front of me?" I'm proud to lose a fight, isn't it? ”

Ernian said: "Tie Dan is twelve years old, we can't beat ......"

Sannian said: "The iron egg is taller than the big brother and stronger than the big brother. ”

Xin Yi raised her eyebrows and looked at the girl, "You also shot?" ”

Sannian shrunk his neck, "I'll bite him." ”

A four-year-old radish head dares to bite a twelve-year-old child, it's quite capable.

Xin Yi look at this, look at that.

"Why are you fighting?"

The first and second thoughts both bit their mouths and remained silent.

Sannian didn't see Xin Yi angry, and stammered: "Tie Dan said...... Said that my aunt is a broken shoe...... Say that my father is the eighth king...... said that my brother was a wild child, and that they were not born to Daddy and Niang......"

Of course, the "A-Niang" in the child's mouth does not refer to Zhang Xiaoniang, but Zhang Xun's ex-wife, the legendary elegant and dignified, and the mother of IKEA, Zhou Yihuai.

Er Nian was very indignant: "Iron eggs fart!" ”

Yi Nian clenched his little fists, "I'm going to kill him!" ”

Xin Yi laughed and patted his two little heads.

"Well said, promising."

The three children looked at her in shock.

In normal times, the vicious stepmother will either be angry and scold or sarcastically sarcastic, where will she be as kind as today?

Xin Yi seemed to be unable to see their gaze, so she told Sannian to lie down, rubbed her hands warmly, rubbed them lightly for a while on her Yingxiang, Shangxing, and shoulder wells, and then turned her head and ordered the two big ones.

"Go, bring the quilt in my room and warm your three sisters."

……

This night, Xin Yi was in chaos.

Sannian dripping on the quilt was a nosebleed, which was smashed out by the fist of the iron egg, and the little girl may have been frightened, with some fever and night sweats......

But these are the little things.

What worries Xin Yi is the child's pulse, which, according to traditional Chinese medicine, is small and soft, like silk, which is very unusual.

She fetched water, taught Yinian and Ernian to do physical cooling for the third sister, and opened the medicine bag she brought back from the Sun family's pharmacy, found the parsnip, astragalus and atractylodes from it, boiled it into a simple "Jade Screen Powder" decoction according to the dosage used by children, and then went to the stove to find a few pieces of dried ginger, boiled them with licorice, fed Sannian to drink half a bowl, and poured a big bowl herself.

There's no way, the child is thin, she is also thin, the sequelae of throwing into the river are still there, even if she has the strength to do this buff, her body is still very weak......

The Zhang family is mourning and opening the spirit, the end of the funeral shed is very lively, the copper cymbals are shaking the sky, and the bell is ringing, but there is no Zhang Xun's body in the coffin, only his clothes, and there are few people who really mourn for him in front of the spirit.

In Xin Yi's eyes, Zhang Xun is a paper man, or a "scum paper", and Xin Yi was not touched by his death.

So, on the grounds that Sannian was sick, she didn't go to guard Zhang Xun's spirit.

In the middle of the night, Sannian woke up twice with convulsions, and Xin Yi tossed a lot before he pressed down the child's high fever and leaned on the edge of the couch to rest for a while.

……

As soon as it was dawn the next day, Xin Yi entered the city and directly left Sun Huai's warning behind.

Ten miles of road, with walking, it took about half an hour, through the rows of bustling shops, Xin Yi walked to the door of the Sun family's pharmacy.

When the shopkeeper saw her, he shivered in broad daylight, and when his hand shook, the medicinal herbs were sprinkled all over the ground.

"You, why are you here again?"

Xin Yi looked at him as a thief and chuckled.

"Grab the medicine."

The shopkeeper's scalp was numb, but he knew that she was not a ghost, and he was not as scared as he was last night.

He called a guy to greet the customer, personally invited Xin Yi to the side, and whispered, "Grandma, didn't you say you spared me?" Why is it still ghostly......"

"If you don't forgive, doesn't that depend on my mood?"

Xin Yi glanced at the counter and smiled lazily with his arms folded.

"Have you changed all the herbs?"

The shopkeeper shushed and looked around, for fear of asking others to listen, "I changed some, but it's too late to change all of them." I'll clean up when the night closes......"

"Hmm." Xin Yi raised his eyelids and said in an indifferent tone, "Sell it to me at a discount." ”

"Huh?" The shopkeeper's eyes lit up, and then he drooped down again, "Little Ancestor, don't tease me." I don't dare to sell this kind of medicinal herb anymore. 我发誓，从今往后改过自新，药铺里只卖好药材……”

Xin Yi smiled slightly, "Don't want money? That's best, I'll take it for you. ”

“……”

The shopkeeper looked at her in surprise, unable to speak, unable to cry, with a bitter face.

Xin Yi raised his eyebrows and glanced at the busy pharmacy.

"Borrow a pen and paper, I'll write a prescription and grab a few pairs of medicines to go back."

"The little lady can actually prescribe a prescription?"

Xin Yi glanced at him, smiling rather than smiling.

The shopkeeper laughed dryly, didn't ask any more questions, invited Xin Yi to sit down in front of the medical case on the side, and personally polished the ink for her.

Xin Yi's eyes moved slightly, and he didn't go to get the brush, but was attracted by a copy of the "Bianjing Mansion Newspaper" on the table.

Di Bao was originally an official document edited by the Jinsoyuan, which was centrally managed and published by the imperial court, disclosing some major events similar to scientific expeditions, military successes, sacrifices, major cases, the emperor's holy decrees, the marriages of the emperor's relatives or princely ministers, obituaries, etc., and then gradually sank, and the strange things of the people and the strange rumors of the government and the opposition were all involved.

With the continuous improvement of the printing press, the demand for information among the people in the market expanded, and gradually, tabloids were everywhere. Of course, there are many fake newspapers like her.

The official ban did not stop, and slowly let it develop.

That's right, this newspaper is a fake publication.

In addition to Zhang Xun's death, Xin Yi also saw two pieces of news.

One is: "The imperial court issued the "Brief Prescription for the Public", and gave it to all roads, states, and counties to guide medical officials to treat people's diseases. ”

The other is: "In the winter moon of the third year of Huang You, Pengxing is now in the southeast, green and bright like a firefly, as big as two buckets." Si Tian said that it is related to the fortune of the country, and it is unlucky. ”

Winter Moon Dingsi?

Xin Yi pinched his knuckles, reading and counting.

"Multiply five by four nine plus days, the interval between two months is thirty days, one and two self-add the whole less one, three, five, seven, eighty, and ......"

Ding Ji is the tenth day of the first month of winter.

It was the day she crossed over.

The shopkeeper was confused.

"What are you talking about?"

This is a mantra that can push the dry branch of the day without almanac, and of course it can't be explained by the shopkeeper.

Xin Yi pursed his lips and smiled, quickly wrote two prescriptions, and pushed them to the shopkeeper together with the newspaper.

"Use this newspaper to help me pack the herbs."

“……”

"Also, pack the inferior medicinal materials that have been replaced, and I'll take them to help you deal with them."

"This ......" the shopkeeper's eyes wandered, obviously unwilling.

Xin Yi didn't know what kind of virtue he was, snorted, and knocked on the table with his hand.

"Refusal? Then we'll see you in Kaifeng Mansion. ”

The shopkeeper's flesh hurt to death, but last night I saw with my own eyes that the king of Guangling County called this aunt "sister-in-law", and the relationship was extraordinary. It was kindness that people didn't report him on the spot, where did he dare to play tricks?