The girl who wears fast

Chapter 1085 Promoted to a Concubine's Loyal Maid (5)

"Lonicera, there is no one in the world who can be relied on forever." Shi Chu couldn't help but want to puncture her naive thoughts, "Even the parents who gave birth to me could sell me for money, so how could they expect to have nothing to do with me?" Can a man without blood relationship be my reliance? Have you never seen a poor woman who was beaten by her husband and even sold?"

Liandong was stunned by her words and fell silent. After a while, she came to her senses and quickly said: "Our master is the princess, she will support us, and our husband's family doesn't dare Offending the master..."

Shi Chu chuckled and said: "You are right, the master will indeed support us, but she can support us once, twice or even three times, but can she support us for the rest of her life? Even if she can, then Are you ashamed to trouble the master over and over again because of your own family affairs?"

Lonicera was speechless again by her rebuttal.

Shi Chu took advantage of the victory to pursue, and continued: "And, think about it, can a marriage that needs the support of the master really be happy? Even if the husband dares not treat you badly because he is afraid of the master, but he is willing to treat you well and he is forced to treat you with complaints." Hello, do you think that is the real happiness?"

Shi Chu's words were like a bolt from the blue, giving Lian Dong a blow to the head, and her mind was cleared like never before, she suddenly realized: "Du Xiang, you are right, because you are afraid of the master, you can't wait to treat me well. Kindness is false, I don't care."

Liandong was lost in thought by Shi Chu's words, and no longer cared about Shi Chu's marriage or not.

In the following days, Gui Yunlai continued to be made things difficult by Mrs. An Dinghou, asking her to take a concubine for her husband, but Gui Yunlai withstood the pressure. After Zhang Qishan learned that his wife was embarrassed by the wooden utensil, he ran to quarrel with his mother very angrily. Once in a fight, Mrs. An Dinghou was so angry that she repeatedly scolded Gui Yunlai as a vixen, and scolded Zhang Qishan for marrying a daughter-in-law and forgetting her mother. So urgent.

Of course, she also hoped to give birth to a child for her husband as soon as possible, so that her position in the Andinghou Mansion would be more stable, so she began to seek medical advice everywhere, hoping to recuperate her body and get pregnant earlier.

At the beginning, she had been a maidservant for a period of time. Although the work was not heavy and her master treated her well, she was not willing to be a slave, so she never gave up looking for an opportunity to leave the Hou's mansion and redeem herself as a slave. civilian.

Soon, the opportunity she was waiting for came.

A strange disease suddenly appeared in the capital. People who got the disease would have fever and headache at first, and then develop abscesses on their faces and bodies. It will leave very obvious scars, and it is almost impossible to cure. This means that once you get this disease, even if you survived, it will be disfigured.

No matter men, women, old or young, as long as they are human, they will not care about their appearance. Therefore, even though the fatality rate of this disease is not high, but because of the disfigurement, people in the capital will turn pale when they hear the disease and avoid it like snakes and scorpions. It is better to isolate the sick people far away.

It's a pity that although the fatality rate of this disease is not high, the transmission speed is very fast. In just seven or eight days, hundreds of people have already developed symptoms, and the number of people who are sick is still increasing, which makes people in the capital panic. People from rich and noble families left Beijing urgently to avoid the epidemic.

The high-ranking officials who had to stay in the capital wished they had a doctor on their hands, and the palace even sent the imperial physicians around, ordering them to quickly find a cure.

This kind of weird disease has never happened before. Even if the imperial physicians spend all their time studying and forgetting to eat and sleep, they can't find a cure in just a few days. Sick people appeared in the mansions of dignitaries and dignitaries.

Andinghou's Mansion was no exception. Even though Mrs. Andinghou and Shizifei ordered the servants in the mansion not to communicate with outsiders unless necessary, they took precautions and finally failed to prevent the epidemic from appearing in Andinghou's Mansion.

A maidservant in the kitchen first developed a fever and headache, and then soon developed abscesses on her face and body. Everyone saw that this was the plague?So suddenly everyone in the mansion panicked, for fear that they would be infected if they were not calm.

In the end, Hou An Ding ordered the patient to be transferred to a village in the outskirts to recuperate, and those who might be infected were also sent away.

As for the master's yard, the guards are even stricter. After all, this disease can disfigure one's appearance. For ordinary people, disfigurement may be unsightly, but as long as it doesn't affect people's lives, they don't have to worry too much about it.

But for the masters of those rich and noble families, disfigurement is a very serious matter. If the male master is disfigured, his official career will be cut off. The emperor will not want a disfigured courtier; If she falls out of favor with her husband, if she is an unmarried girl, her life-long event will be ruined, and she will never even think about marrying a good husband-in-law in this life.

Ever since Shi Chu knew about the epidemic, she immediately realized that she could use the epidemic to escape from the Andinghou Mansion, especially when the servants of the Andinghou Mansion were also infected. He took out the medicine with similar symptoms to this epidemic, and took it for himself without hesitation.

So when he started to have a fever, Shi Chu said to Lonicera with a face of panic: "Lonicera, I seem to have a fever, do you think I may also be infected with the disease?"

Liandong was startled, her face turned pale immediately, she still wanted to touch Shi Chu's forehead and take her temperature, but Shi Chu hurriedly avoided her hand and said in fear: "Liandong, don't touch me, in case Is it really a disease? I can't infect you, so stay away from me quickly..."

Lonicera's eyes turned red: "Impossible, you haven't been out of the mansion, and you haven't interacted with the few infected people in the mansion. How could you be infected with that kind of disease? Don't worry, maybe your fever is just an ordinary cold. ?”

Shi Chu smiled wryly and shook his head, and said: "Lonicera, don't comfort me. I'm sick and can't be near the master anymore. Please tell the master that I want to take leave to recuperate in the village. If I'm lucky enough to be able to I have recovered, and the master does not despise me, then I will come back and continue to serve the master. If I am really disfigured, then I will not come back and stain the eyes of the master. I hope the master will be merciful and let me redeem myself and leave the house. ..."

What Shi Chu said was sincere, and if she wanted to leave the Hou's mansion without leaving any excuses, she had to do a good job of superficiality.

Sure enough, upon hearing her words, Liandong groaned suddenly, crying with tears streaming down his face: "Du Xiang! No, you must be fine. We agreed to serve the master together for the rest of our lives..."

(End of this chapter)