In the wilderness on the eastern outskirts of Wuling County, there is a villa close to mountains and rivers. The building is spacious and elegant, with bamboo and wooden roof beams, blue bricks and red tiles, which is particularly pure.
But it is undeniable that this area is remote and not close to prosperous places, and has always been regarded as a symbol of poverty by the people of the county and city.
At this time, there were several very impressive carriages parked in front of Zhuangzi. Several brave and strong guards looked coldly at some farmers coming and going at the entrance of the other village, and also looked at the large fields in front of them with contempt in their eyes.
There are some decent guards in the villa, but they are guarding everywhere, especially the main room in the attic of the main courtyard.
In the room, several nuns with broad waists and thick bodies were surrounding a nun who was as thin as a bone. They gathered around and watched the old doctor check the pulse of the woman lying on the couch.
After a while, the old doctor withdrew his hand, smoothed his white beard, and said with a serious expression, "Miss Jin, this situation is not very good."
The thin nanny raised her eyebrows, glanced at the old doctor, and with a flash of gloom, she said to him: "The girl's illness has lasted for more than a day or two. Dr. Zhai will explain it in detail."
Doctor Zhai was probably a little worried about the identity of this thin nanny, so he said angrily: "The girl has been injured since she was born, and she is weak and weak. Over the years, she has become sick with worry, and her illness is even more difficult to cure. This...
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It is always difficult for a doctor to say something that is too unpleasant. After all, he is the family doctor who is supported by his family. No matter what the identity of the other party is, or the obvious contempt of these nuns, but after all, she is also a decent girl in the family, so she still has to say it.
Be respectful.
After all, he doesn't have the support of the old lady behind him.
Therefore, words such as "you won't live long", "waiting for death soon" and "preparing a coffin" should never be said.
However, he also noticed that these nuns were not unhappy about the bad news at all, but instead looked like "it should be like this".
"In that case, please trouble Dr. Zhai to prescribe a prescription. It is always necessary to do your best."
Dr. Zhai frowned, a little embarrassed, and wanted to say something, but was pushed out by two nuns who were much fatter than him.
The thin nun looked coldly at the woman on the couch, lowered her voice, and said in a high-pitched and deliberately polite voice: "The master is worried about the girl's health, so he specially gave the girl this quiet place away from the noise for her to recover from her injuries. Why doesn't the girl show respect to the master?"
After all the hard work, I have repeatedly ruined my body. Over the past few years, my foundation has gotten worse and worse, but how can I get better?"
Her words were unpleasant to hear. Shaoyao, the personal maid who was serving her, showed anger on her face and couldn't help but said: "The girl is well raised, but she has been trapped in the house for many years. How can she feel comfortable? She..."
"Shut up! Is there a place for you to talk here?"
Nanny's eyes widened, and Shaoyao was covered with her mouth and dragged down. After that, Nanny and another nanny were left alone in the room. The latter immediately peeked outside the door, closed the door tightly, and looked at Shou
Grandma winked.
The thin nanny then stretched out her hand and grasped the weak wrist again. Her sharp nails touched the snow-white skin, and red marks immediately appeared, but she didn't care. It was like holding a piece of wood. After a while,
, she stretched her brows and smiled.
The heart pulse is weak and the breath is disordered. With a body like this, it will be difficult to live for a few more years, let alone something wrong.
After making this judgment, she was already in a comfortable mood, but suddenly she saw the drowsy woman's brows furrowed, as if she was about to wake up, and she moved slightly, sliding down the quilt.
Gai has been ill all year round, and he wears inappropriate clothes. Even the blue thin silk gauze can't cover up the exquisite snow-color, and the curves fit closely, revealing the thin but soft body under the delicate neck.
The ink spread out and entangled her. When she opened her eyes, she looked like a ghost entangled in the water and unable to breathe, weak and painful.
The thin nanny was startled, and her first reaction was: Is this the same energetic and elegant Xie Mingjin from back then?
The second reaction was to secretly spit: Of course she is a disaster, just like her despicable mother!
"Girl, are you awake? It's really God's good grace, so that the old ladies won't be in vain and take the master's summons in vain."
How can a person in pain distinguish or take into account the yin and yang of others? Xie Mingjin opened his mouth slightly, as if there was charcoal in his mouth, hoarse and broken.
"Father?....Did he remember me...what...?"
The thin nun raised her eyebrows and said calmly: "I'll call the girl to go back to the county first."
"Go back?" Even though he was seriously ill, Xie Mingjin also showed joy when he heard it clearly. His pale and charming appearance became more and more tinged with warmth, and he murmured: "Father, are you going to let me go back?"
Because of the joy, there were some clear and lingering tears in my eyes.
There was coldness and ridicule in the eyes of the thin nun. She kept her superior attitude and said coolly: "Young girl can't go on the road like this now. If there is any delay due to illness on the way, how can we explain it? So no matter what the girl does,
If you want to go back, you have to take good care of yourself first. I have asked Dr. Zhai to prescribe a prescription, and the girl will just take it regularly in the future."
Having said that, she was too lazy to deal with this sick man any more, so she left alone.
The two nuns walked out of the room, and the thin nun first looked for Shaoyao who was being scolded.
There was a lot of scolding, but once the thin nun passed, the other nuns stepped aside.
Shaoyao's originally aggrieved face paused for a moment, and she rolled her eyes. Instead of being afraid of being repaired by Nanny, she smiled, lowered her voice and said flatteringly: "Aunt Zhang, do you have anything to ask?
But I obeyed your orders and kept looking at her."
So it turned out to be such a true face?
I wonder how the seriously ill patient inside would react to this scene.
Grandma Zhang snorted lightly and said harshly: "Take care of a sick person to see what you can do. The old lady just wants to know about her condition, but you have had intermittent news over the years, so we still have to come in person.
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In fact, they just wanted to make sure that Xie Mingjin was not a serious person.
One Dr. Zhai is not enough. Few people know that Grandma Zhang also knows how to read, listen, ask and understand.
But this does not prevent her from "pointing out" peony.
Shaoyao bowed and nodded, "Then...when will you call me back, Aunt Zhang? I have to be locked up in this village with her every day. She's not crazy yet, but I can hardly stand it anymore."
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"Look at her now, how long can she last? Just wait and wait for news from us..." Nanny Zhang said casually.
Shaoyao was a little curious, "The master really wants her to come back..."
Before she could finish asking, she was frightened by a fierce look from Granny Zhang, and she quickly lowered her head to chat.
Grandma Zhang didn't say much. She just asked the grandmother next to her to stuff peony with a little money and feed it to the horses. Then she went to see Dr. Zhai.
Accepted.
After struggling for a while, all the ingredients for the medicine were left behind, but a group of nuns were unwilling to stay in this remote place, and they looked down on the many farmers in the farm. They got on the carriage after being fed by the good people in the backyard with a arrogant and stern air.
gone.
Little did they know that at this time, in the attic on the second floor of the main courtyard, where they had just stayed and showed off their power as guests, the sick and dying figure on the couch had already lifted the quilt, and Shi Shiran sat up. Because of that posture, he was originally
The loose and soft silk pajamas slid down from the shoulders, half of the collarbone and downward arc were exposed, almost half-sucking and half-vomiting, and the black hair was a bit lazy, entangled with the delicacy of the melted ice and snow peaks, and disappeared.
Sharp edge, flesh and blood from the surface to the inside, elegance and lingering charm.
Wiping her forehead lightly with one hand, a thin layer of sweat stained her fingers. Her fingertips turned slightly and were wet with cold sweat. She stood up tiredly, not even bothering to gather up her clothes and belts. She walked barefoot on the wooden board, reached the partition window, and leaned against the door.
Coffin, quietly looking at the back of the tall horse neighing and galloping away in the open space in the distance.
The dust was flying, and the carriages and horses were graceful.
The "traitor" Shaoyao came in carrying a medicine box. When he saw this scene, he was shocked and became anxious.
"Hey, girl, please stop blowing the wind. I haven't taken the medicine yet, and your symptoms haven't gone away. Why are you so casual?"
Xie Mingjin looked back at her and smiled, "You'll be fine after taking the antidote. It won't be a problem."
This is a medicine that pretends to be symptomatic, and it can be cured by taking it.
Xie Mingjin took the pills from the medicine box and took it. Not too much, and his pale and weak complexion improved a lot. If Dr. Zhai came back to check his pulse again, he would be extremely frightened.
This... is still the same feeling of "you won't live long" before!
"Although you are deceiving them, your body has been restored through hard work over the past few years. It is not as healthy as ordinary people, so you still need to take good care of it."
Shaoyao babbled and took a robe to put on Xie Mingjin, for fear that she might be seriously ill.
Xie Mingjin, who was much taller than her, was obedient and allowed her to mess around. He looked down at her little head and said jokingly: "Did my little traitor make a small fortune?"
"It's only ten taels, and I'm sending it to the beggars. If I have to cover up the girl, I won't deal with the fat guy and the thin guy."
Shaoyao hated these old ladies who had no regard for their dignity and pretended to be powerful. "If it weren't for you, my dear girl... how would they dare to do this..."
When it comes to the past, Shaoyao only talks briefly, and sometimes she can't control her mouth and bald, but she can always control it later.
That's a secret past, a scar, but you can't add salt to it.
Xie Mingjin didn't seem to care, he just smiled, and someone came to report outside the door. It was Bi Shiyi, the guard leader of the village.
Through the door, he reported: "Girl, the medicinal materials they gave us have been found. Here are the medicinal prescriptions detected by the pharmacy."
Shaoyao opened the door, took out the order, glared at it, and gave it to Xie Mingjin.
The latter looked at it, but he was not as angry as Shaoyao. He just said calmly: "On the surface, it seems to nourish blood, but in fact, it will make me weak and die earlier."
She was not asking the two of them, but seemed to be talking to herself.
The two of them didn't dare to say anything.
Outside the house, Bi Shiyi lowered his head, not looking at the people inside, and just said: "The things you told me have been done."
work?
Shaoyao was surprised and asked.
"It's nothing." Xie Mingjin pulled out the books on the bookshelf that he had not finished reading yesterday and said lightly: "I just asked Eleven to remove one or two nails from the wheel hub of their carriage."
Peony: "...."
The carriage will definitely be fine at the beginning, but it will fail halfway.
"If the carriage breaks down on the way, there is no way to go to the village or store, so many of them may have to walk to the inn...it might even overturn."
I thought of those arrogant nuns walking panting on the desolate official road with their fat and thin bodies. With their physical strength, which they had enjoyed following the old lady for all these years, they might not be able to reach the inn at night and would have to sleep in the open air.
Thinking of this, Shaoyao couldn't help but let out a long sigh and pretended to be sympathetic: "It's so pitiful... They are not young at all."
Then she didn't hold back and laughed directly.
Xie Mingjin also sighed and pretended to be aggrieved: "It's not my fault. Who asked her to pinch me?"
She touched the wrist with the red mark and smiled slightly, but when she glanced at the prescription in her hand, her smile faded.
After all these years, my grandmother still misses her.
In fact, why bother?
I don't want her to go back. In fact, she doesn't want to go back either.
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The official road has always been depressed, and the road is bumpy, but over the years there have been more and more cars and horses coming and going. Today, there is a tea shop next to the Shili Pavilion to welcome people. It is probably the first time here. I was a little curious, so a businessman asked about it.
Table of other business travelers.
Others laughed and said, "Brother, I see that he often takes Fengling Road, but he rarely takes this road."
"No, isn't it because I heard that bandits are suspected of being out recently, and they may be ambushing and intercepting them, so I just want to take a side road. I don't think everyone will take this road."
"That's probably not because of the bandits."
"Hey, brother, what do you mean?"
"It's just because this place is under the jurisdiction of the Little Saint Villa."
But no one knows exactly what its secrets are.
Including what kind of person is the owner who lives in the village and almost never goes out.
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The Little Sage's Villa sounds very rich, but any old man with some geographical knowledge in Wuling County knows that it is just a poor and remote rural farm. It was once glorious for our ancestors, but it has been in depression for who knows how many generations.
The older generation are always stubborn and unwilling to recognize new things. They are also unwilling to change their understanding of Little Saint Villa, and they have not tried to understand it.
Those nuns also had the same idea. Even though the agriculture in the farm was very busy and prosperous, they didn't notice it because what they had been interested in in these years was only the prosperity and excitement of the county and the grace and wealth of the aristocratic families.
Where can I see this place?
However, many traveling businessmen are sensitive and well aware of the energy of this small villa, with its peaceful passage and prosperous trade, it is actually the first choice for businessmen.
At this time, in the large study room of the little sage's villa, the master of the village was arranging spies to investigate the affairs of the county.
What was it that made her grandmother change her obscurity over the years and suddenly send people to test it, even going through the trouble of traveling to bring so many precious medicinal materials to her?
But before the spies went out, someone suddenly came to the village to report.
Someone is here again.
This time it was the person sent by her father.
The purpose was exactly the same, to summon her back to the county town.
But it was not as good as her grandmother who sent people to inquire carefully. This group of people only gave information and then left without even seeing Xie Mingjin.
Shaoyao was originally happy, but soon felt that something was not right. She hesitated: "Girl, now it seems that the master intends to let you go back. The old lady is unwilling and wants to strike first, but..."
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"But no matter what the old lady does, she can never hide it from the master, but he still let these people come over. It can be seen that the master is really filial to the old lady and cannot bear disobedience, and he no longer values ​​Xie Mingjin as he used to."
On the other side, the car really overturned halfway, and two of the nuns broke their bones. After crying and howling, everyone trudged hard and finally reached the town and spent money to hire a new carriage. The nuns who were complaining at first suspected that Xie Mingjin had done it.
But I don't think so. Either they have planted spies like Shaoyao in Zhuangzi, or they are guards raised by their own clan, guarding Zhuangzi with all their hearts, and will never let Xie Mingjin leave. The latter is like a bird in a cage, who would be willing to do it for her
work?
What's more, she is really seriously ill and will not die soon.
However, after this conversation, after working together to gather their opinions, they once again became firm on one thing.
Xie Mingjin has been the abandoned son of the Xie family since he was exiled and imprisoned by his master to this villa four years ago.
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"I not only allowed my grandmother's people to come, but also sent a special team of people here. The former was either sure that I could deal with my grandmother's people, but this seemed superfluous. My father never liked doing unnecessary work. Or he wanted my grandmother's people to come.
People can successfully stop me. But no matter which way it is, combined with what they do next, it seems that they don't want me to go back, but they have to let me go back."
Previously, Grandma Zhang also asked her to return to the county town first.
Since it is the first move, is there also a second move?
The place she really wants to go to is definitely not the county town.
Even her father had to be coerced by that force and had to do it as a last resort?
Xie Mingjin tapped his fingers on the table and looked at Bi Shiyi, "Eleven, you were sent by my father to guard me. What do you think?"
Those mothers could not imagine that the people who were looking after her would do things for her. As long as they did not violate her father's original order, as long as the benefits she gave were enough, and as long as her father had not taken away her surname, they would always do it.
He lowered his head to her.
"I don't dare." Bi Shiyi lowered his head and refused to express his position.
Xie Mingjin didn't embarrass him, he just smiled, very lightly, like the wind outside the window.
"It's hard to disobey your father's orders, so go ahead."
She stood up, raised her sleeves lightly, and looked out.
"By the way, take that Mr. Xu with you."
Chapter completed!