Chapter 6 The Cycle of Cause and Effect
In early autumn, there is an occasional light rain in Lingjing City.
Li Dongsheng actually likes rain very much, because when it rains, he can not go out, and if he doesn't go out, he can stay at home alone, sitting leisurely in front of the window and watching the rain screen separate him from the whole world.
Of course, if you have to go out on a rainy day, it's a different story. You have to put your feet on the wet ground, not to mention, even if you have an umbrella, you can't expect the square inch of space under the umbrella to protect your dryness, plus the robes that ancient scholars all wore as a fucking standard..... Li Dongsheng really wanted to ignore the image and bring up the "skirt" like the girls in his previous life.
The reason why he had to go out was very simple, the maid Chuncao, who he had just fished out of the dungeon yesterday, had a fever.
In fact, things are not unpredictable, a maid who is only in the deep boudoir compound on weekdays suddenly suffered a catastrophe and was locked in a dungeon that is completely unsuitable for human life for an unknown number of months, and how many hardships and sins he suffered during this period must be beyond Li Dongsheng's personal imagination. When you are in the dungeon, your will may still be able to hold on to it, but once you return to a comfortable place, as soon as your body and mind relax, your body will naturally not be able to withstand it. Fever is just a trivial matter, Li Dongsheng is rich now, and it is still possible to cure a fever if he has money in ancient times, but he is afraid of falling into some disease, such as becoming a fool or something.
Well, Li Dongsheng thought about it, it's a bit inhumane to curse other people's little girls to become fools, let's become dumb, although there will be less fun in a few years, but at least there is still a voice to cooperate, for the sake of a safe little day, some insignificant sacrifices are inevitable.
Of course, the above is purely Li Dongsheng's boring obscenity on the road, he himself still has a basic moral bottom line, changed the towel for the bedridden little girl before going out, and specially went all the way to invite the best doctor in the city. What, you ask the doctor in the inner city? Do you think the doctor who lives in the inner city can treat an ordinary little maid? Well, in fact, the doctor's parents, the doctor's professionalism is still very high these days, even if the doctor in the inner city can see any disease as long as you can afford it, but this is not in line with Li Dongsheng's current identity positioning, and it is easy to have problems. Besides, the doctor he invited was really the best doctor he knew, not much worse than the imperial doctor of the emperor's old son. After all, if something goes wrong with the little girl, it's probably his fault.
Not to mention, the little girl was imprisoned because of the collapse of Loufu, and the reason why she was not sent to labor or sold but fell into prison is also very simple - Chuncao is not a registered slave of Loufu. Chuncao is actually the third son of Loufu, or the girl adopted by Mrs. Feng, the concubine of the third young master. There are not many young masters in Loufu, there are only three in total, but there are many concubines in Loufu. Just talking about Zhong Tai, the official department's Shangshulou, and his proximity to the old age did not prevent him from accepting concubines, and he had been an official for forty years, God knows how many women this dead old man had. In addition to the three sons under his knees, all of them are better than the blue, and the four of them brought back to the house with more women than Li Dongsheng knew the name in his previous life. As for whether there will be a problem if there are too many women? This is actually not, because unlike the royal bloody wind, in ancient times, the big families fought for power and profit, and the only people who really had the right to fight for three wives were one, two and three, and the concubine was not much different from ordinary slaves and maids except for relying on the favor of men when they first started. Some nobles sometimes played on the rise, and even smiled and gave each other concubines, similar to the later generations of men to give friends a game that they thought was fun. So sometimes you can't blame women for being greedy for money, if the concubines can't take advantage of the men's sexual interest to get more things for themselves, they will really get nothing when people get tired of playing.
Mrs. Feng is one of the concubines of the third young master of Loufu, but she should be good in Loufu, at least there is a spring grass to serve herself, and Chuncao is a maid that Mrs. Feng bought from the side of the road when she was favored, so it belongs to Mrs. Feng's private property, and she has not really signed a deed of sale, which allows Chuncao to escape the original liquidation. It's a pity that even if Mrs. Feng tried her best to prove that Yin Chuncao was innocent, Chuncao still did not escape prison. Because Chuncao is a person raised by Loufu, she has no one outside who can prove her identity, and Chuncao should have been released in the end, but there is a way to leave a helpless little girl in prison, so Chuncao was kept in the dungeon until she recognized "Liu Seventeen" who approached the dungeon with dirty thoughts.
As for why she Chuncao was able to recognize "Liu Seventeen", according to Chuncao, Li Dongsheng seemed to have sneakily been to the courtyard where Mrs. Feng was when he was a current person, so he was remembered by Chuncao.
In this regard, Li Dongsheng swore to the sky that he really did not have any trace of "non-centrific" thoughts about the wives of Loufu. At that time, his mind was full of how to rely on the system to reach the peak of life, get rid of Loufu and be a free little bird, how could he have time to think about those things, and his lack of nutrition at that time did not support him to do so.
Although he did have a little impression of the title of Mrs. Feng, he Li Dongsheng dared to guarantee that it must be Chuncao, the girl, who had been in prison for too long, and her brain was confused and she remembered it wrongly, and he didn't go to peek at other people's baths. Of course, Li Dongsheng knew that he might also have some joint and several responsibility, after all, yesterday he was too concerned about the identity of the remnants of Chuncao Lou's mansion, and conducted a "meticulous and meticulous" interrogation of Chuncao, so that he ignored the fact that Chuncao itself had just gotten rid of prison.
All in all, in a word. Since he, Li Dongsheng, has encountered Chuncao, he will not really let it fend for itself. Besides, this little girl's film is actually really good.
But having said that, it's actually a bit difficult to let an old Chinese medicine doctor go all the way to see a maid, after all, a capable doctor naturally has a lot of patients on weekdays. Li Dongsheng said that he was just planning to call a primary school apprentice to follow him. In the end, there was really no way, Li Dongsheng smashed a silver dollar, and Dr. Qian was moved with compassion, saying that the little girl suffered a great disaster, and she really needed to diagnose and diagnose it well, so as to prevent any disease from falling. Dr. Qian is willing to leave, and Li Dongsheng is naturally very happy, as for the attitude problem, everyone is out to beg for a living, just right, not chilling.
However, when Li Dongsheng returned to the house, he saw Chuncao, who was lying on the bed, fainting in the yard. His heart was sudden, but he hurriedly ran over to pick it up, and then Li Dongsheng noticed that the girl also grabbed a broom in her hand. This girl is really, Li Dongsheng is angry and funny in his heart, and at the same time he is secretly annoyed, doesn't he look like those class enemies who gave people "good fortune" in his previous life? Otherwise, this girl has no teacher to roll herself.
Doctor Qian on the side is also a conscientious person in the end, and in a hurry, he knelt down on one knee without regard for decency, and immediately checked the little girl in Li Dongsheng's arms. Fortunately, after probing his snort and touching his neck vein, he made sure that Chuncao was okay for the time being, so he asked Li Dongsheng to carry him back to the house and carefully examine the boy.
Fortunately, Chuncao is really fine, and the reason why she fainted was because she was not feeling well in her yin yin and forced herself to move. Before coming, because Li Dongsheng had already roughly talked to the doctor about the symptoms of spring grass, he selected a few herbs from the herbs he brought in advance and boiled them first, and the rest of the doctors would go back and ask the guy to send them after they got it, after all, money is not a problem.
After bidding farewell to the doctor, Li Dongsheng changed the wet towel for Chuncao and looked at the firewood boiling from time to time. During the period, the guys from Penghelou came over to deliver lunch as usual, and Li Dongsheng remembered that he hadn't eaten breakfast yet, and at the same time thought that Chuncao was afraid that he wouldn't be able to eat anything at this time, so he asked the guys to go back and boil a bowl of porridge.
However, it wasn't until the afternoon that Li Dongsheng's porridge and potion were hot and lying down for three times, and Chuncao finally woke up.
"You woke up, how are you feeling?" Seeing that Chuncao finally woke up, Li Dongsheng was finally relieved, and hurriedly said with concern.
"Seventeen?" However, Chuncao looked a little confused, looked at Li Dongsheng's face and seemed to be a little surprised and asked with some confusion.
Li Dongsheng also subconsciously paused, but thinking that Chuncao was now a patient, he was too lazy to care about the question of seventeen for the time being: "Yes, it's me, how are you feeling now, does your head still hurt?" Would you like to drink some water? ”
"Seventeen, are you really seventeen? You, you didn't leave me? ”
At this moment, he finally remembered that the little girl in front of him was in her previous life, maybe she was just a child who had just entered junior high school, she didn't need to get up early every day to serve people in the dark, she didn't need to be confined to Mrs. Feng's narrow yard all her life, and she didn't need to be caught in a dirty and dark dungeon and sold like a commodity.
Li Dongsheng gently held Chuncao's little hand with both hands, although this hand was light, young, and weak as if it would break when the wind blew, but this hand was also covered with calluses, wounds and chilblains: "Yes, I didn't leave you, I won't leave you, how could I leave you." ”
"Really? You really won't leave me? Chuncao is very capable, Chuncao can clean the yard, Chuncao will water flowers, boil water, grind ink, wipe the piano, Chuncao can make snacks, Chuncao can do anything, can learn anything, Chuncao is just sick now, Chuncao will be fine soon, as long as it is cloudy, no, as long as today, as long as Chuncao is sleeping, Chuncao will definitely be able to get out of bed and work at night......" Chuncao said to herself, tears continued to flow out of her red eyes along with her words, and even Li Dongsheng's heart was tightly pinched.
He strained his hands lightly, but he clenched the little hands firmly in his hands, hoping that this might bring a trace of stability to this flustered and helpless little girl: "Yes, yes, Chuncao is very capable, I am still waiting for Chuncao to clean the yard for me, water my flowers, boil water for me, and make me snacks." And ah, I have something else for you to do. I also need you to bring me bean curd to Aunt Li outside the door during the day, go to the teahouse to get snacks for me at noon, and go to Zhang Daguotou at night...... Oh, don't go out at night, just help me get the oil lamp closer while I'm reading. So, Chuncao, you have to sleep well and recuperate, and when you are well, you can move bricks for me, you know, I spent five hundred taels of silver to get you out of prison, that's five hundred taels of white silver, I can't bear to just throw you away. ”
I don't know if it was Li Dongsheng's "true feelings" or "five hundred taels" of silver that stabilized Chuncao's mind, Chuncao slowly stopped crying, she sobbed: "But, but, Chuncao can't move bricks, Chuncao can't move." ”
Li Dongsheng was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and smiled: "How do you know that you can't move, master, I plan to raise you...... If you are healthy, when you get better in the future, maybe you can pick up the big lion in front of the building. ”
Chuncao couldn't help but be amused by Li Dongsheng, she said coquettishly: "Liar, how can such a big lion move!" ”
Li Dongsheng saw that Chuncao was in a better mood, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but hook, he reached out and stroked Chuncao's head: "That's not accurate." Hungry? I prepared some gruel. ”
Chuncao looked at the table and shook her head after thinking for a while, as if she didn't have an appetite yet.
"Eat a little bit, eat a little bit to pad your stomach, and then drink the medicine."
"Medicine?"
"That's right, I will definitely ask the doctor to come to the door to prescribe the medicine for you," After speaking, Li Dongsheng looked at Chuncao, his eyes narrowed, and added: "It cost me a full four taels of silver!" ”
After speaking, Chuncao's small face was squeezed into toothpaste.