He Changdi raised his eyes and looked at King Jin. In the depths of his deep eyes, there was a deep and faint grief that King Jin couldn't understand.

"Your Highness, there are some things I can't tell you yet, but I promise you that there are reasons why I can't go to the North!"

By the time He Saburo came out of the Red Mansion, it was already past noon.

King Jin stood by the window on the third floor, watching his friend's carriage disappear at the end of the street, and then he withdrew his gaze thoughtfully.

After Chu Lian had eaten the morning food, he went to the courtyard of Mrs. He to say goodbye.

Only except for Mrs. Jing Anbo, who was bedridden, was not there, and the ladies and dependents of Jing Anbo's mansion all gathered in Qinghui Hall at this time.

As soon as Chu Lian came in, Mrs. He's eyes looked over, and when she saw that she was wearing a light blue dress, she thought that He Sanlang had left the house in the morning and came to Qinghui Hall to ask for peace was also wearing a light blue robe, and Mrs. He laughed.

In addition to the two little nieces in the family, Chu Lian was the youngest, and after inviting An, he was pulled to the couch by Mrs. He.

"Lian'er, are you still used to living in the house these days?" Mrs. He spoke kindly, with the unique kindness of an old man, which made people can't help but want to get close to such an old man.

Chu Lian nodded, and looked at the old lady with a pair of moist and clear eyes, "Habit, granddaughter-in-law thank grandmother for her concern." ”

"San Lang went out early this morning, I'm afraid I won't come back in the afternoon, and at noon today, you and your sister-in-law will stay at your grandmother's place for dinner. ”

Chu Lian nodded and agreed.

After sitting in Qinghui Hall for half an hour, she and Zou went to visit Mrs. Jing Anbo's courtyard.

Before he could enter the door, he heard Mrs. Jing Anbo's violent cough.

Zou frowned, and happened to meet the eldest girl Miaozhen next to Mrs. Jing Anbo who came out to serve the medicine.

Miaozhen looked up and saw the two masters standing at the door, "Big grandma, third grandma is fine." ”

"Mother, what's going on, why does it feel worse than yesterday?" Zou asked Miaozhen with a frown.

Miaozhen frowned, "The slave doesn't know, this recipe still has some effect in the first half of the month, and Mrs. can occasionally get out of bed and walk around, but in the past few days, this recipe seems to be completely useless, and Mrs. is not good at all even if she drinks medicine." ”

Chu Lian stood beside Zou and fell into a recollection, the original book did not mention any illness that Mrs. Jing Anbo suffered, but look at this symptom, not to mention pneumonia, I am afraid that it is tuberculosis, in this era, if you have this disease, there is almost no possibility of cure, and you can only drag it with medicine.

"You go and serve the medicine, my brother and sister and I will go in to see my mother. ”

When she came out of Liu's house, Liu had already fallen asleep tiredly, her face was pale and ugly, and even if she was asleep, she looked like she had been sick and emaciated for a long time.

I heard Miaozhen say that Liu couldn't eat due to illness and hadn't eaten well for several days.

In the past, I could still eat some of the snacks of Chef Zhou of Jing'anbo's Mansion, but now Chef Zhou was burned by a fire, and Mrs. Jing'anbo didn't even have this bite to chew.

The two of them walked out of Liu's courtyard, and then turned into the small garden in the house, and each of them held a red jade bracelet in their hands. The Liu family was born in a big family, and the original dowry was very rich, and there were many good things, which was later told by the Zou family.

Chu Lian pinched the bracelet in her hand a little uncomfortably, this red bracelet is a pair, she and Zou are one by one, Chu Lian has never seen such valuable jewelry even since she was a child, although she also received a lot of good things that day, but compared with this red bracelet, it is still much worse.

Zou glanced at it, found the uneasiness on her face, and smiled, "My mother gave it, let's take it, otherwise my mother will be unhappy." ”

Chu Lian could only nod and accept it in Liu's house, at this time, it was not good to take it back and return it.

Zou handed his bracelet to the maid beside him, asked her to wrap it in a handkerchief and put it away carefully, pulled Chu Lian to walk slowly on the corridor where he had climbed wisteria, and suddenly sighed, "Actually, there are not many good things in my mother's place, and these two bracelets are probably the only few left." ”

Seeing the doubts on Chu Lian's face, Zou wanted to chat more with this new brother and sister, she waved her hand to a few maids who were waiting for her behind her, and several maids hurriedly stopped and stood in place, and Zou pulled Chu Lian away.

There were no outsiders around him, and Zou Shi spoke a little more openly, "Mother's illness, the third brother and sister must also smell one or two." ”

Although He Sanlang didn't mention it to her, Chu Lian also knew that Mrs. Jing Anbo's illness was serious, and it was also mentioned in the original book that Mrs. Jing Anbo was bedridden all year round.

Chu Lian's jaw was headed.

"My brother and sister only know one and don't know the other, and even if the palace medicine doctor is the palace doctor, there is no cure for the mother's illness, so I can only rely on special prescriptions to delay. This prescription contains a variety of precious medicinal materials, and there are a few worth of gold, although the reputation of Jing'an Bo Mansion is great, but the father is not good at housekeeping, let alone collecting money, if it is not for the simple population of our house, the expenses are also simple, and the old lady's private property is subsidized from time to time, where will there be such a day. My mother has to spend a lot of money every month to take medicine, and it was from the house at the beginning. As he spoke, Zou stretched out a slender white finger towards Chu Lian.

"One thousand taels. My mother's monthly medicine money alone costs 1,000 taels, and my father's annual salary as a general in Zhennan is 1,000 yuan, even if you count the income of the family's Zhuangzi and shops everywhere, it is only more than 1,000 yuan a month......"

Mrs. Jing Anbo's mansion provided Mrs. Jing Anbo with medicine for two years, and Mrs. Jing Anbo found Zou and asked her to remove the expenses, and the later medicine money was all from Mrs. Jing Anbo's dowry.

In the past few years, Mrs. Jing Anbo's dowry has been spent, and there is not much left.

The surname Liu family was degraded a few years ago because of the taboo of the saint, and the whole family moved out of Shengjing to settle in Luoyang.

Chu Lian was surprised when she heard this, although she had just arrived, but she listened to Xiyan's chatter on weekdays, and she still had some understanding of the prices of this Great Wu Dynasty.

Today's copper coins are still Kaiyuan Tongbao, the standard system is a thousand Wen for one tael of silver, and the money has always been a thousand Wen, not counting the fluctuation of copper and silver prices for the time being, according to the living standards of ordinary people in the Dawu Dynasty, ten taels of silver can be used for an ordinary family of three for a year.

The monthly silver of those little stewards in Jing'anbo's mansion is only one or two a month.

And Mrs. Jing Anbo will spend more than 10,000 yuan a year to take medicine, which is quite an astonishing expense!

No wonder Zou said that Mrs. Jing Anbo's dowry was left with a few pieces.

Jing Anbo's annual income is only enough for Liu to take medicine for a month.

Seeing the look of surprise in Chu Lian's eyes, Zou patted her hand, "Sister-in-law is not telling you this, not to put pressure on you, but to tell you that even if my mother is poor, she has nothing to say to our two daughters-in-law, and you must be filial to her in the future." ”