17 Chapter 17
Cen Jianan had already stood up, and all the Praetorian Guards behind him set off in unison, "Lord Tan, I'm bothering you today." ”
"Don't bother, don't bother......" Tan Wei wiped his sweat and sent Cen Jianan out, "Your Highness, please, Your Highness be careful with your step, Your Highness has a problem here......" has been groveling and sent Cen Jianan out of the courtyard, "Your Highness walks slowly......"
After sending Cen Jianan away, Tan Wei shook off the sweat of his head and returned to the mansion to ask: "Find out the person who broke his tongue in front of His Royal Highness King Wulie today, and I must be punished!" ”
The two gossiping little maids were both from the second lady's house, and they cried undecently. The second lady's position was shaky in front of Tan Wei this time, and she couldn't protect it, so she could only let them receive the punishment.
Tan Baolu and Tan Wei planned to go back to their own courtyard after asking for peace, "Eh, Baolu." Tan Wei stopped her.
Tan Baolu: "Father." ”
Tan Wei said earnestly: "You tell your father the truth, what is your relationship with His Royal Highness King Wulie?" He, is he willing to take you? ”
Tan Baolu replied truthfully: "Everything is as His Royal Highness King Wulie said, the two times my daughter and him have been misunderstood. His Royal Highness King Wulie did not mean to accept the little girl as a concubine. ”
"Ah......" A hint of disappointment flashed in Tan Wei's eyes. Although Cen Canaan is very dangerous, he is the most powerful person besides the emperor after all, and if his daughter can really climb Cen Canaan, it will also help him in his official career.
But he quickly breathed a sigh of relief, standing in line in the officialdom, it was safer to stand on the side of the emperor who was born with a dragon, and getting too close to people like Cen Jianan was seeking skin with the tiger.
Tan Wei patted Tan Baolu on the shoulder and said, "Since it doesn't matter, it's better to stay away from him in the future." You have to remember your mission, your father trained you to let you into the palace. ”
Enter the palace...... Last life poison. The pain of the medicine piercing the intestines reproduced in her body very clearly, Tan Baolu subconsciously clenched her palms, and nodded obediently, "My daughter knows." ”
"That's right." Tan Wei rarely smiled at her, "How is your mother doing lately?" ”
Her mother? Tan Baolu raised her head in surprise.
"Mother, she has recently changed several medicinal herbs, and the cost is higher. I've heard that most of them have a doctor named Jack of Trades, who is very skilled in medicine, and if I find him to treat my mother's illness, maybe my mother's body will recover. The daughter has been asking someone to help find him lately, but she can't find it, if the father ......"
Tan Wei Ang pinched the back of his neck and said perfunctorily: "Where is this doctor in Dadu?" He is also a good doctor, so why haven't I heard of it? ”
Talking about Baolu was instantly silent.
Tan Wei continued: "Your mother's illness has not improved for so many years, and most of them are hopeless. ”
"Not really!" Tan Baolu retorted: "There is salvation, but it has not been good for so many years, because there is no salvation at all!" Tears welled up in her eyes, "I didn't buy the best medicine, I didn't call the best doctor......
Tan Wei didn't want to talk about it with Tan Baolu anymore, he had the intention of turning around and leaving, "It's not early, go back to the house and sleep." ”
Looking at Tan Wei's resolute expression, Tan Baolu suddenly came to his senses.
How many years, Tan Wei hasn't asked her mother a word, never stepped into her mother's door, tonight he suddenly pretended to care about their mother and daughter, is it really because of his conscience? No, not really. He just felt that her daughter was more valuable, and he changed from seeing her as a tool to seeing her as a tool to take advantage of.
People just don't change, what happened in the previous life, what will happen in this life, she shouldn't have unrealistic fantasies about talking about Wei.
Tan Baolu lowered her head and hid her indifferent gaze: "Well, my daughter has stepped back." ”
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But overnight, the weather changed dramatically. Yesterday the sun was shining brightly, and this morning a thin layer of ice floes formed on the large copper water tank in front of the door.
Tan Baolu added some charcoal fire to the coal stove with iron tongs to make the house burn warm.
Everything was as she expected, and the cold spring really came.
Time is like flowing water, always rushing in the same direction, and all she can change is a small point. She also just wants to change this bit and make a better life for herself and the people she loves.
In the room, Mrs. Xin was recuperating in bed, and Tan Ni and Tan Jie were lying at her feet like little milk dogs, and the picture was happy.
Mrs. Xin had just taken the medicine, but she coughed several times in a row, "Ahem, ahem, ahem......"
Tan Baolu said: "I'll change a few more medicinal herbs for my mother." ”
Before she found a jack of all trades, she could only spend money on expensive tonics, at least to support her mother's body.
Mrs. Xin took Tan Baolu's hand and said, "Don't spend this unjust money, my mother won't get in the way." ”
Tan Baolu shook her head desperately.
The time of the mother's illness is getting closer and closer, and the jack-of-all-trades who saved Concubine Hui in the previous life is still missing...... Could it be that in this life, you must also go through Xu Yu to find that person?
Mrs. Xin said: "Okay, okay, don't worry about your mother, you can tell your mother first, what's going on with this handkerchief in your hand?" ”
On that handkerchief, there are auspicious cloud patterns on the marquis's official robe.
Cen Canaan tore half of the fabric to her, although the edges were torn, but an auspicious cloud pattern in the center was still intact. She cut off the auspicious cloud with scissors, and then put a square handkerchief on the auspicious cloud, so that a complete handkerchief could be made with one sewing.
"I ......" Tan Baolu was inexplicably a little weak-hearted, and said, "It's nothing?" It's just a handkerchief. ”
Mrs. Xin laughed and quipped, "This cloud looks like it was cut from other fabrics, whose clothes are it?" ”
Tan Baolu scratched her head and said, "It's just a rag that I picked up, I saw that the material was very good, so I threw it away, it's a pity." ”
Mrs. Xin said, "It's really not a lover? ”
Tan Baolu couldn't cry or laugh: "Mother, what are you talking about?" She leaned on Mrs. Xin's side and said coquettishly, "I don't want a lover, and I don't want to get married, I want to accompany my mother, rely on my mother, and never leave." ”
Mrs. Xin laughed, tears in her eyes. She knows her own body that most of the time she won't survive the spring flowers. Mrs. Xin touched Tan Baolu's cheek with pity and said, "What nonsense, my Bao'er will definitely be able to marry someone who truly loves her in this life." ”
Someone who truly loves each other?
Tan Baolu closed her eyes.
What exactly is love?
He Dongyan said that she loved so many women, and then killed all of them alive. Tan Wei said that she loved her mother, and then abandoned her in the backyard when her mother was sick, ignoring it and leaving her to fend for herself.
Is this love?
Then she would rather not.
However, she also remembered the person with auspicious clouds on her body......
As he was talking, Zhou's mother's cheerful voice came from outside the door: "Madam, three girls!" ”
"It's Zhou's mother, Zhou's mother is back!" Tan Baolu hurriedly pulled the bolt of the door and opened the door to greet her, "Why don't you stay at home for a few more days?" How cold it is! Come in and warm up. ”
"Can't stay, can't stay!" Zhou's mother sighed at the palm of her hand and rubbed her hand that was almost frozen, "It's cold this day, and I can't rest assured." I am afraid of a few small illnesses, and I am afraid of my wife's bone headache. Is Madame's body okay? ”
"Ahem......" There were two more low coughs from the hospital bed, and Mrs. Xin smiled and said, "I'm fine." ”
Zhou's mother brought a large bamboo basket from home, moved it in, and said, "Third girl, it's really thanks to you!" ”
Tan Baolu smiled and asked, "What blessing is mine?" ”
Zhou's mother said: "Thanks to the reminder of the third girl a few days ago, as soon as I went back this time, I opened the waterway in the field and rebuilt the arch shed!" ”
Tan Baolu's eyes lit up, "Yes! ”
Zhou's mother said: "At first, the house next door to me saw that I was busy, and laughed at me, saying that I was looking for nothing, but they couldn't be idle when they watched it, and they built a shed together!" This time it was cold in spring, and I heard that the seedlings in the neighboring villages were frozen, but the seedlings in our village were not hurt at all! ”
Tan Baolu was also overjoyed and said, "That's great! ”
"Quack, quack!" From the bamboo basket brought by Zhou's mother's house, there was a sudden creaking sound.
Tan Ni and Tan Jie hurriedly leaned over when they heard the sound, and asked curiously, "Mother Zhou, what is in the bamboo basket?" ”
Zhou's mother smiled and said, "You can open it and take a look." ”
Tan Ni and Tan Jie took each other's hands and worked together to lift the lid of the bamboo basket.
"Quack, quack!"
The bamboo basket contained two yellow, fluffy ducklings.
"Duck, it's a duckling!" Tanni was so excited that she screamed and stomped her feet again.
Zhou's mother grabbed a fluffy duckling and came out, and Tan Ni hurriedly opened her palm. Zhou's mother put the duckling on Tan Ni's palm, the duck was about the size of Tan Ni's palm, and the bright red duck webs stepped on it, quacking on her palm.
"It's so cute!" Tan Ni said happily.
Zhou's mother said: "The third girl asked me to go back this time, it simply saved my family's life, the third girl treated me well, I really want to repay the third girl." But my family is poor, and I can't get anything good. It just so happened that the ducks at home had just given birth to a litter of ducklings, and the ducklings had grown up, and they could eat and lay duck eggs. ”
Tan Ni blinked her big watery eyes and begged, "Sister, can we not eat it?" It's so cute......"
Tan Baolu also came over and looked at the duckling with Tan Ni and Tan Jie, "Do you want to keep it?" ”
Tan Ni nodded vigorously: "Hmm! ”
Tan Baolu said without thinking: "Okay, then keep it." But my sister's ugly words are ahead, your own ducklings are raised by yourself, you have to feed it on time and bathe it......"
"Good, good!" Tan Ni and Tan Jie's cheeks flushed with excitement, "I'll definitely take care of them!" ”
Tan Baolu couldn't help but laugh, touched the heads of the two children, and said, "Okay, let's play." ”
Tan Ni and Tan Jie happily hugged the duckling and ran to the pond.
At this time, someone from the front yard came to report and said, "Third girl, the eldest young master is back!" ”
Tan Baolu's eyes lit up, and he immediately ran out, "My brother is back!" ”