Chapter 21： Doctor

Soon after Zhenbeihou left, Shen Zhuo let people find the doctor named Shi Helin. He had an appointment with the doctor to see Su Wanniang's mother. Shen Wen also wanted to see this famous person in medical history in the future, so he would go home with Su Wanniang.

To take care of Shen Wen, Shen Xiang accompanied Su Wanniang, led the "fat boy" Shen Wen, and Su Chuanya, the younger brother of Su Wanniang who often came to the mansion, and went into the little girl where Su Wanniang's mother lived, surrounded by several guards. courtyard.

When the neighbors saw it, they all felt that the child in this family was terrible. Once back home, the young lady in the Houfu and the guards accompanied him.

When they entered the door, a woman hired by Su Wanniang helped Su Wanniang's mother to sit up. Su Wanniang said hurriedly, "Mother, don't worry. You have seen the two ladies before."

Su Wanniang's mother gasped and said, "The courtesy cannot be abandoned, the ladies are courteous."

Shen Xiang was always bold and didn't care about this. I've seen it before, and hurriedly replied, "Madam, don't have to be polite, just lie down." After Shen Wen bowed, he saw Su Wanniang's mother's complexion pale and worse than last time. , Secretly glanced at Su Wanniang. Su Chuanya immediately sat next to her mother, looking very obedient.

After a while, the guard said that the doctor had come.

Two people came in at the gate, one in his forties, with a bald forehead, a goatee, and a bit of eye-to-eye. The other is a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy with short eyebrows and small eyes, and an ordinary appearance.

Entering the door, seeing Shen Xiang, both of them were taken aback. Shen Xiang was wearing her favorite red short dress with a short sword hanging from her waist.

The middle-aged man lied and said: "Shi Helin in the next." He said.

The young man immediately followed Shi Li and said, "I will increase in the next paragraph." He learned Shi Helin's tone, and he looked very mature, but with a Jiangnan accent, he was anxious and fast.

Shen Wen almost exclaimed: Duan Zeng! Although the famous doctors of this era have not left any works, legendary stories about him always appear in novels. Said he is a medical genius all-rounder, the department of internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and orthopedics...Anyway, he is the expert who can get rid of the disease. But will he be this kid? Isn't he the same name and surname?

Shen Xiang nodded, clasped his fist and said, "I am the eldest daughter of Zhenbeihou, please help the doctor to check this lady's illness."

Su Wanniang also went up to salute and said, "This is my mother, thank you for being a doctor."

Shi Helin looked at Su Wanniang's dress, and sighed for a while: "Zhenbei Hou Mansion is so kind and righteous..."

Duan Zeng said to the side: "Don't be flattering, take a look, don't cure it then."

Shi Helin said angrily: "Why do you see that I can't cure it, I haven't seen it yet! Are you such an apprentice!"

Duan Zeng said: "I am not your apprentice, you said last time, you don't have me as an apprentice at all!"

Shi Helin sat down by the bed and said, "I told you to clean the whole house, why didn't you do it?"

Duan Zeng said: "That's because you treated me as a girl, so naturally it doesn't count!"

Shi Helin was still quarreling, but her hand was already on Su Wanniang's mother's wrist, her face sank and she stopped talking. He pulsed for a while, then asked Su Wanniang's mother's other wrist, also numbered for a long time, looked at Su Wanniang's mother's face, and sighed.

Duan Zeng leaned over and said, "It's me!" Shi Helin said nothing, got up and walked away.

Duan Zeng also signaled his pulse, frowned and thought for a while, turned his head and asked Shi Helin: "Master, how are you going to treat it?"

Shi Helin pointed his index finger to his nose: "I am now your master! Ah! What do you mean by treating you... come out!"

The two people walked out the door together in other stunned bystanders. Shen Wen was curious, and followed them into the yard, only to see them walking out all the way to the gate. Shen Xiang and Su Wanniang also followed.

At this time, Shi Helin said: "There is no rule!"

Duan Zeng scratched his neck: "What does it mean that there is no law! If you have no law, why should I call you master!"

Shi Helin stared: "It's useless to call you a master! Her heart is weakened, it's just a matter of time. She should be taken care of, and she should have taken some good medicine, and her mood is still cheerful. Otherwise, last year. Just go!"

Su Wanniang began to cry.

Duan Zeng didn’t buy it: “She’s still alive and she must be treated! One day counts as one day! Although the heart pulse is weak, you can use medicine to replenish liver qi. The liver is the mother of the heart. The liver qi is stronger, and the weak heart pulse can also support a period of time. Time."

Shi Helin pointed to Duan Zeng: "You know what a fart! She looks dim and lacks blood qi. When people are lack of blood qi at the same time, they can't replenish qi. They need to replenish blood first, because blood is the mother of qi, otherwise it will become a dry burning vessel. Internal organs burned out!"

Duan Zeng retorted: "Then the blood and energy will be supplemented."

Shi Helin frowned and said: "Speaking lightly, she can't make up for nothing. How can she make up whoever is the ruler, who is the minister and who is the drug to induce her symptoms? Try to write about her symptoms!"

Duan Zeng said: "Too lazy to write! Tell me quickly and see if it is the same as I thought."

Shi Helin stomped: "You want to **** me off! This disease is still dead in the end, and it has given me a bad reputation again, and I don't want to be cured."

Duan Zeng said: "The people who came to beat me yesterday, I took the sticks for you, and they are still swollen. You have a bad reputation and it doesn't hurt or itchy. What can you complain about? Come out, otherwise I said, and you said that what I said is the same as you thought, you obviously copied me!"

Shi Helin is about to jump up: "You little beanie, less than half my age, why did I copy you, you little wolf cub who picked you back from the wild..."

Shen Xiang interrupted loudly and said, "I would like the doctor to write a prescription." Seeing both people looked at her, Shen Xiang hesitated and said, "Anyone can write."

Shi Helin coughed, tidyed up the skirts of his chest, and said slowly: "This disease is very complicated, and the medication is tortuous, which is very troublesome, and..."

Shen Xiang waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about it, the money..."

Su Wanniang cried and said: "I will pay, if it is not enough, please ask the lady to lend me first, and I will write down the IOU."

Shen Xiang said generously: "It's okay, you are my apprentice, naturally I will pay..." When he thought that the money was not in his own hands, he added another sentence: "I'll talk to my mother."

Su Wanniang shook her head and said intently: "What my mother meant, I can't..."

Shen Xiang was too lazy to argue, and said to Shi Helin: "Anyway, no matter what, I will definitely pay you."

Shi Helin smiled and nodded and said: "That's fine, I will write a prescription..."

Duan Zeng frowned: "Don't be too cruel, the little girl's mother asked her to write an IOU."

Shi Helin looked at Duan Zeng angrily: "Are you my apprentice! Who are you helping! Didn't you hear that eldest lady said that she can ask Mrs. Hou Mansion for money! It was the little girl who really wrote the IOU, the number is too big," Just don’t need it in the future!"

Su Wanniang cried and said, "I...Although I don't know how I can pay it back...but I must pay it back..."

Duan Zeng was also angry: "Listen, the lady just said that this maid is her apprentice, and she covers her. You are my master, why don't you mean to take care of me!"

Shi Helin grabbed his hair bun and tried hard: "I'm going to be mad! What kind of apprentice is this! This is a horrible ghost!" Shen Wenxin said, no wonder he is almost bald.

Duan Zeng stubbornly said: "What is a urging ghost, I am just urging you to write a prescription. You are just delaying, if you can't write it, you can write it if you don't write it, I can write it!"

Shi Helin shouted: "You write! What should be the first medicine?"

Duan Zeng said flatly: "Naturally it is Huangqi!"

Shi Helin said with some regret: "Who doesn't know this! I have given you a simple question!"

Duan Zeng asked: "Then what do you mean by the second taste?"

Shi Helin said angrily: "How dare you test me! Who is the master!..."

The two of them ignored the others and started arguing about what medicine should be in the prescription and how much it should be. Sometimes they were flushed and sometimes took turns violently. They finally settled on a prescription. Then they walked back to the yard, entered the house, and wrote the following. Su Wanniang.

Shi Helin, who looked a little exhausted, said: "I will take this recipe for half a month, and I will come back in half a month."

Duan Zeng said: "I'm coming too."

Shi Helin didn't bother to pay attention to him, and said: "The consultation fee is one or two." This is indeed a very expensive fee.

Duan Zeng frowned and said, "If you don't have money, half the price will do."

Shi Helin gritted his teeth and looked at Duan Zeng: "You shut up! Shut up!"

Su Wanniang took out a couple of silver to Shi Helin, Shi Helin immediately took it with a smile, Duan Zeng frowned, with an unhappy expression.

The two said goodbye and left the house. The people inside heard Duan Zeng say: "If you are greedy, you must be poor. You shouldn't ask for more money!"

Shi Helin said: "Where do I have to ask for more, this is what I have earned. If you don't understand, let me talk about it. Half of it is yours."

Duan Zeng said, "I don't want it."

Shi Helin said: "You take it. Where is there a good master like me in the world, how many lifetimes have you cultivated..."

Duan Zeng said: "If you are really good to me, why don't you let me go"

Shi Helin yelled: "You want to go out on your own when you are so old. There is not much meat on your arms. What if you are robbed and sold. What if you meet an enemy. Wait for you to be older. I will definitely let you. Go out and practice medicine."

Duan Zeng asked: "How old is it?"

Shi Helin said: "Twenty..."

Duan Zeng said: "I'm leaving now!"

Shi Helin shouted: "Well, well, if there is anything you can't say, don't you want to get married? At least have a child before leaving. If you say I'm your master, you can't leave me alone..."

The people in the room looked at each other, then all laughed, even Su Wanniang smiled in tears.

From then on, every half a month, Shi Helin and Duan Zeng will come together. According to Su Wanniang or Su Chuanya's description, the two people would always argue outside before prescribing a party. The conversation is usually noisy and there is no quiet time. Shen Wen thought that perhaps because of the strange combination of these two people, they created a book and a lot of legends.

When the leaves were all gone, Grandpa Gu accompanied the third prince to see Concubine Chen Gui.

Grandpa Gu still remembers many, many years ago, in this early winter, when he first met Concubine Chen, who was still Chen Zhaorong at that time. A woman who is like the first blooming flowers makes people illusion that winter has become spring.

After so many years, even if I saw the grown-up Concubine Chen many times, Grandpa Gu could not forget how she looked when she was young. Sometimes, Grandpa Gu felt that Chen Guifei had forgotten how she looked when she was a young girl, let alone the emperor.

Father Gu knew that flowers could not bloom in winter. Without herself, that woman would never have lived in the palace for so many years. However, in the end, her life had come to an end, and she was not even thirty years old.

He and the third prince stepped into the palace gate to salute, Chen Guifei stood up to greet him, and asked him to sit down as usual, but as usual, he refused and only stood by the table. In the past ten years, no matter how spoiled Concubine Chen Gui is, she has always been courteous to Father Gu. And Father Gu has always been as respectful as an ordinary eunuch.

In fact, Chen Guifei has always been polite and courteous to everyone around her. Maybe it was because she knew that the lives of her and her children were held in these hands.

Concubine Chen Gui let people serve tea, put it at the table where Mr. Gu was standing, and smiled and said to Mr. Gu: "Daddy Gu, please use tea." It was like every time I met in the past.

Father Gu, as usual, did not speak, only leaned over, pinched the cup with two fingers, and brought it to his lips, but when he was about to touch his lips, he put the cup down again.

Concubine Chen Gui smiled and said softly: "These years, I have troubled Father Gu."

Grandpa Gu leaned forward and said, "It's all orders from the emperor."

Concubine Chen nodded with a smile and said, "From the early winter of that year to the present, Grandpa Gu has worked hard."

Father Gu leaned again blankly.

Concubine Chen Gui smiled and said to the three princes: "Duke Gu has also taught you a lot of martial arts over the years, so remember to treat him with courtesy."

Grandpa Gu hurriedly declined and said: "The slave and maidservant dare not." How did the **** let the prince hold the teacher ceremony?

The third prince smiled and said: "Mother don't worry, the child has always respected Father Gu."

Concubine Chen Gui nodded gently again, and said with a sigh: "It is not easy for the emperor to be sincere, and I am very pleased for my mother. You should take good care of your sister in the future, she is still young and not very sensible."

The third prince felt sour, and said with some confusion: "Then mother should teach her more."

Concubine Chen Gui lowered her head slightly: "Sometimes I have more than my heart but I don't have enough energy."

The third prince said hurriedly: "The child must go and talk about her, let her listen to her mother."

Concubine Chen Gui smiled to the three princes and said: "The eldest brother is like a father, you really have grown up."

The third prince felt in a daze that Chen Guifei seemed to have tears in her eyes, but when she looked closely, it seemed that there were no tears.

After chatting for a while, the third prince and Gu Gong announced their resignation.

Not long after, Chen Guifei began to fall ill. As usual, the emperor would visit in person. This time, the emperor only sent an imperial doctor to come.

Several imperial physicians have said that the imperial concubine is only unwell when changing seasons and has no other symptoms. However, Concubine Chen became weaker and weaker, did not think about food, and became bedridden.

The three princes and the fifth princesses took turns to visit and take care of each other during the day. At night, they would return to their palaces for the night.

The days are getting shorter and shorter, and the cold is getting worse. In the middle of the winter night, in the dark palace, the cold wind passed. The wooden doors and windows creaked as if they were opening and closing.

A dark shadow flashed into the palace of Concubine Chen, and moved silently against the wall to the bed of Concubine Chen.

There was silence in the hall, and the dark shadow didn't seem to exist at all, but Chen Guifei still sighed softly. The figure flashed out, reached her bedside, took a cake and a pill from her arms, put them on Chen Guifei's cheek, and then silently disappeared into the darkness.

Concubine Chen Gui picked up the cake and slowly put it in her mouth to eat, then she put the pill in her mouth again. In the cold night, a ray of tears shed on Chen Guifei's haggard face.

The Yang family was listless in the days after Zhenbeihou left, and everything in the mansion was quite negligent. Not to mention that the various arrangements regarding Shen Yi's wedding were not yet in place. When the New Year's Eve came, the purchase of New Year's goods and the exchange and delivery of New Year gifts were not implemented one by one.

The old lady had to go out in person, divided up half of the things, and took care of chores with Yang in the office every day, often beating Yang with words. But no matter what the old lady said, Yang did not answer on her behalf. He should be stupefied as a child, too lazy to speak and not to speak, forcing the old lady to help answer, several times the old lady was depressed enough.

When Shen Wen saw Yang's appearance, he remembered that after the canonization ceremony of the previous prince, Yang was mentally exhausted. After the Chinese New Year, he fell seriously ill and stayed in bed for more than a month. After he got better, he had a bad temper. He often scolded people and had a fight with the old lady. At that time, I felt that she was really innocent as the mistress of the house, and the Hou Mansion was very chaotic.

That time the old lady asked Shen Xiang to help the director, but Shen Xiang was not interested. The old lady asked Shen Wen to help. Shen Wen troubled the old lady's usual habit of probing and unwilling to take care of it. She half-heartedly helped to record several accounts.

She was afraid that Yang's disease would not be known when it was subtle, so she asked Su Wanniang to go to Shen Xiang during the Chinese New Year, and Shen Xiang persuaded the old lady and Yang, and next time Shi Helin and Duan Zeng came to see Su Wanniang's mother. Young's take a look.

When Shi Helin and Duan Zeng arrived, several children and old ladies were waiting in the hall.

After the two people saluted, Shi Helin saw five children standing in the hall, large and small, and exclaimed: "Zhenbei Hou Mansion is amazing. Look at these boys, they are all very powerful..."

Duan Zeng frowned: "Are you worried that their mansion will not give much money for a while"

Shi Helin gritted his teeth with anger and did not quarrel with Duan Zeng when he saw the old lady of the Hou Mansion sitting in the middle.

The old lady said: "Ask the doctor to check the pulse of the wife. She has been in low spirits recently."

Shi Helin called the sono, and stepped forward as Yang's pulse. After a while, he raised his head and said: "Madam is happy. But the fetal vein is unstable..."

The old lady sat up straight: "What!"

Yang's was also taken aback, and asked: "The doctor is serious."

Shi Helin withdrew his hand, raised his head arrogantly and said, "Of course! The happy pulse is so obvious and easy to diagnose, can it be wrong that my apprentice can diagnose it."

Duan Zeng came up with a black face, also signaled the lower pulse, and said: "Madam's best to stay in bed immediately. Madam is uneasy after pregnancy, and the liver is not weak..."

The old lady didn't wait for him to finish, she shouted: "Quick! Bring the spring bench! Carry the lady back to the room to rest!"

Shen Yi and Shen Jian ran out immediately. After a while, two people came in carrying a spring bench, and Yang said with a wry smile: "Where I need this, I just came here by myself."

Shi Helin twisted his beard and said: "Madam is better to be careful. If it weren't for us to come, Madam's birth would probably not be guaranteed for the new year."

The old lady patted her thigh and said, "How can there be such a confused person! This is my own child! I am so mad!" Pointing to Yang's companion room Qian Angtu, father, Shau Jue Dong Dan Mou, and thievery. This lotus root model Jun

Yang said with some shame: "I didn't think much, I just thought..." She actually had a little blood in the middle, so when it was a small day, and thinking about Zhenbeihou, she didn't think elsewhere.

Shen Wen and Shen Xiang helped Yang's sit on the spring bench, and Shen Wen looked very carefully in consciousness, only to see a very small beating buried deep in Yang's belly, cursing himself carelessly in his heart. She usually looks at the blood, but she didn't expect to see the signs of pregnancy. It seems that Yang was not ill in the previous life, but because of the emotional fluctuations after pregnancy, he miscarried!

Three boys and two powerful women carried the Yang family back to the house to rest. The old lady said to Shi Helin and Duan Zeng: "Thank you two doctors, it's really help! I will definitely not forget yours. Kindness!"

Duan Zeng hurriedly said: "The old lady is overwhelmed, for the healer..."

Shi Helin interrupted: "Thank you, old lady, I will write a prescription for your lady now..."

Duan Zeng said, "Tell me what you want to write first!"

In front of the old lady, Shi Helin said with a shelf: "Such a simple prescription does not need you! She is depressed, and when she is older, she naturally wants to prescribe some antifetal and liver-relieving medicine."

Duan Zengjing said, "It's just the same. She looked at her without taking a good rest and eating during this period of time, and her vitality was hurt..."

The old lady slapped her legs again: "Oh, yes! Can't eat well and sleep well! I was negligent! If something goes wrong, I will regret it."

Duan Zeng said: "So, we should add some qi supplements, such as ginseng..."

The old lady hurriedly said, "Yes! Quick, get the key and get it."

Shi Helin added: "Actually, it doesn't have to be a century-old ginseng. It doesn't have to be a ginseng. A milder ginseng is fine."

Duan Zeng said: "If it is Taizi ginseng, you don't need to use it as medicine, just cook it."

Shi Helin said: "It's okay to put medicine, why do you always fight against me"...

The two people wrote while arguing again, and came up with a recipe.

Shi Helin gave the prescription to the old lady and said: "Eat this first, I'll come again in five days..."

Duan Zeng said: "Actually, ten days will do. You don't have to be so diligent, just take more rest."

Shi Helin stared: "I want to come! Can you control it!"

The old lady smiled and said: "Well, come here, we Hou Mansion will send a car to pick you up."

Shi Helin desperately looked at Duan Zeng, and Duan Zeng hummed disdainfully.

The old lady said: "Please seal twenty taels of silver to the doctor."

Shi Helin widened his eyes: "Twenty taels! Great! Thanks a lot..."

Duan Zeng solemnly saluted: "Old lady, this diagnosis is too expensive. It's just the fetal pulse and antifetal medicine. It's very simple. One or two is enough. Twenty texts are fine, not twenty taels."

Shi Helin pointed to Duan Zeng stuttering: "You...you...you are the one who eats inside and out! You are not my apprentice! You are here to collect debts from me!"

The old lady couldn’t close her mouth with a smile, and said, “Where is the consultation fee for Xie Yin who saved my grandson. How valuable is my grandson’s life? Bit."

The servant smiled and held up a few notes of silver. Shi Helin reached out and took the silver. Duan Zeng immediately saluted the old lady, turned his head and said to Shi Helin: "Go fast, go quickly, if you rob someone, you must go quickly. I don’t have the cheeky face of yours. I really can't hang on."

Everyone laughed and said goodbye to them. The old lady even let the car set up and sent the two people home.

The old lady shook her head and sighed, stroking her chest and said, "My fault, my fault..."

Shen Wen hurriedly went over to beat the old lady on the back, showing great hospitality.

The old lady looked at Shen Xiang and said, "Your mother can no longer be in charge. Come and help."

Shen Xiang immediately shook his head: "No, I really don't have this brain. You let me do 72 sets of spears, but don't let me keep the account."

The old lady looked at Shen Wen next to her shoulders again. Shen Wen smiled and said: "I'll help, I'll help, I can keep accounts."

The old lady worries: "It seems that it will be closed in recent years, not just to keep an account."

Shen Wen pointed to Su Wanniang next to her: "Let her help, she is in charge of everything in my yard."

Su Wanniang hurriedly declined, and the old lady sighed: "It's all right when things happen. You follow the second lady every day to help the director."

Shen Wen said happily: "Sister Wanniang has become a steward!"

Others saw that Shen Wen was not as capable as the maid beside him, and was so ignorant that they secretly despised her.

After bidding farewell to the old lady, Shen Xiang and Shen Wen walked back together with Su Wanniang and Chun Lu. Shen Xiang said to Su Wanniang with emotion: "Look, you asked me to help you find Shi Helin to treat your mother, but in the end, he diagnosed my mother and saved my younger brother or sister. This is kindness. "

Su Wanniang glanced at Shen Wen and said modestly: "It's Mrs. Fuze who is profound."

Shen Wen held Su Wanniang's hand silently, and also sighed in his heart: In the previous life, Su Wanniang was not here, and her mother had passed away at this time. And his mother will also miscarry. Now, because Su Wanniang brought Shi Helin and Duan Zeng, children who were not born in the previous life will come alive, and the future will become completely different from the previous life just like Shen Wen's efforts...

Shen Wen was worried when she didn't save Su Wanniang, but now, she was full of confidence, and she was wiped out by the gloomy mood of Zhenbeihou leaving.

Back in the yard, Shen Wen asked Su Wanniang to guard the door, and drew another difficult round of life and death in "Fayang". This time, she personally wrote "Hei Xian, Bai Huo" in the left hand, and then asked Su Wanniang to come over and collect it.

Su Wanniang whispered: "The ancient jade necklace that Xia Zi brought to you last time is really worth a lot of money. I became twenty-five taels."

Shen Wen smiled: "That's also her family, her family is really rich."

Su Wanniang nodded and said: "She is really like what you said, saying that it is too hard to sweep the floor every day. It's still dark, and her hands and feet are freezing. I'll let her do needlework."

Shen Wen said "Okay," Su Wanniang said again: "You once asked me to inquire about the man who handed over the brothel girl to the servants in the busy market. His name is Qi Jiulin, who used to be in the Hou Ye's army."

Shen Wen heard the name familiar, and remembered that the vice general next to Shen Yi in the previous life was Qi Jiulin. He and Shen Jiajun died in northern Xinjiang. He knew that he would follow Shen Yi to leave the Hou Mansion in the future, so he only remembered this person and did not let Su Wanniang do it what.

From the next day, Su Wanniang and Shen Wen went to the hall to board with the old lady every morning. Shen Wen used his eight-year-old identity to only help keep accounts and write a few names. Su Wanniang has to take on most of the chores. Under the guidance of the old lady, she prepares New Year gifts for each family, checks the income of the farm, allocates silver for the farm, etc., so busy that she has no time to practice martial arts, and no time to return often. See her mother at home.

Because her mother's illness got worse in winter, Su Wanniang was afraid that the hired woman could not take care of her younger brother, so she often asked the guards of the Hou Mansion to pick up Su Chuanya and guard the old lady with Shen Wen.

The old lady felt that life was exceptionally beautiful because Yang was pregnant again. There are six-year-old Su Chuanya in front of me. The old lady likes it very much. She thinks it can add a boyish atmosphere to the Hou Mansion. Perhaps the children of the Yang family are boys because of this.

The old lady feels that there are not too many boys, and privately disagrees with Yang's view that he wants to "have another daughter so that three men and three women are symmetrical". But now the Yang family is resting, the old lady dare not say anything to her with different opinions.

Su Wanniang and Shen Wen are no longer in the yard, and the nurse He usually doesn't care about anything, and Xia Zi comes out to move. She usually wears brighter clothes, and she always wanders back and forth on the way the young servants go back and forth.

After Yang was in bed, Shen Yi and Laoguan stepped up the guards of the Hou Mansion. He arranged both Shen Jian, Shen Zhuo and Shen Xiang on shifts, patrolling day and night to maintain the order of the mansion, but the Hou Mansion was much stricter than before.

Xia Zi usually didn't see a few young men, so he began to pay attention to the young men.

In this world, there is Su Wanniang in the mansion, and in the eyes of the young servant servant, that is a truly beautiful character. After Su Wanniang took care of the matter, she was strict and ordered a ban. I usually walk on the road, and I don't give a straight eye to people when it's okay. I'm so arrogant. When the young people saw Su Wanniang, they didn't even dare to let out the air, and couldn't lift their eyes. They couldn't wait to let her step over on the ground.

In contrast, they looked down on Xia Zi, an overly friendly maid, and smiled at herself when she saw her, pretending not to see her.

Xia Zi dangled and finally caught Wang Zhi's eyes one day.

When he left Zhenbeihou that day, Wang Zhi felt deeply grateful: he stayed and didn't have to go back to the cold and poor northern Xinjiang, he didn't have to eat coarse grains and pickles twice a day, sometimes he didn't even have a bite of hot water. Don’t get sores on your hands and feet in winter...

Houfu is such a comfortable place: the courtyard is tidy and the food is plentiful. People who come and go, even the little servants, are wearing unpatched clothes. Sometimes Wang Zhizhen called Qu for Zhenbeihou: I can't stay in such a good place, but he has to stay at the border gate in the north.

He was assigned to Shen Jian, and he felt uncomfortable in advance when he thought that one day Shen Jian would also go to the north. Moreover, although Shen Jian is peaceful, he is neither lukewarm nor warm, and does not take care of him very much. He remembered that Lord Hou said at the time that he and Geng Biao were tougher than the princes in the Hou Mansion. He felt that Shen Jian did not really put the words of Lord Hou at ease and did not pay enough attention to him!

Sometimes he could see Geng Biao beside Shen Yi, the eldest son. The two are regarded as fellows here, so they should be in contact frequently, but Geng Biao is very busy and has no time to meet with Wang Zhi. Wherever Shen Yi went, practicing martial arts during the day, and patrolling at night, Geng Biao followed him without leaving a step.

In contrast, Shen Jian often danced his sword in the yard alone for an hour or two without letting people in. Usually, he likes to play chess with his younger brother Shen Zhuo. As soon as the two of them sit down, they will be separated, and no one will come forward, saying that they will be disturbed.

Moreover, Shen Jian likes writing and writing, but Wang Zhi cannot read words. Although Shen Jian taught him a few words, he found it too difficult to remember. Therefore, when Shen Jian is reading and writing, he is naturally not waiting for him.

Looking back at Geng Biao, he was clearly illiterate. Shen Yi entered the library, he could also follow in, and finally helped Shen Yi move a book out.

In this way, Wang Zhi always felt that he was not really close to Shen Jian and "companioned" as Hou Ye said.

The same child who survived the Northern Cold Land and was sent to the Hou Mansion, Wang Zhi believes that Geng Biao is obviously more reused, and he is still dumb. People used to say that he was not as smart as himself! Wang Zhi was deeply injustice, and he sighed that his fate was tricking others. Maybe he wouldn't be so left out of the cold after he followed the eldest son. As a result, there was a dissatisfaction with Shen Jian in his heart.

Just as Wang Zhi was strolling in the yard with a sense of disappointment, he raised his eyes and saw a young girl showing him a cordial smile. This girl was bought by Master Hou when they were about to enter the city. At that time, she cried so much that she looked very pitiful. Later in the hall, she only looked at the ground and waited nervously for Master Hou's arrangement. Naturally, she never met her eyes. But at this time, the girl's eyes were full of affection, and she was staring into her own eyes.

Wang Zhi's heart jumped, and he suddenly understood what it meant by "a rabbit in my heart" that people had said before. His face flushed, and he stopped, feeling a little at a loss.

Xia Zi finally found someone who looked at her and reacted, and was happy. She walked lightly, smelling of incense on her sleeves. Wang Zhi became more nervous, his palms sweating.

Xia Zi stopped at a step in front of Wang Zhi, turned his face halfway, raised his eyes slightly, and glanced at Wang Zhi diagonally from the side, and said softly, "Brother Wang Zhi, good."

Wang Zhi covered his pinching hands with his sleeves and calmed himself down. He took a deep breath and looked at Xia Zi. He imitated Shen Jian's tone and smiled and said, "Thank you for your inquiry. May I ask your name? I will call my sister in the future."

He knew her name, and the little servants mentioned that the girl who entered the mansion with them was named Xia Zi. It sounded like a "blind man," and everyone laughed a lot. But asking like this is to appear polite. After all, the two have never spoken before, and Wang Zhi feels very smart.

Xia Zi's face flushed slightly, and she whispered: "Xia Zi from the slave house is from the second lady's yard..."

Wang Zhi bowed in the manner of Shen Jian, and said, "I'm following the second son..." He stopped intentionally. One is the second young lady and the other is the second son. Does this count as fate?

Xia Zi seemed to have thought of something too, her face flushed even more, and she nodded shyly, turned and walked away slowly, and looked back at Wang Zhi after a few steps.

Wang Zhi melancholy watched Xia Zi's figure walking away. Such a good girl gave such a bad name and was teased by the servants. He has never heard the phrase "the same person is a fallen man from the end of the world", but if he has heard it, he will definitely quote him without hesitation at this moment to describe his state of mind. Wang Zhi silently decided in his heart that he would look for opportunities to see this girl frequently in the future, and see what could help her, so that she would like him too.