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Today was supposed to be the day when Xiao Tai and Guan Yunlian couple offered tea to recognize their relatives.

The Xiao family doesn't have many relatives. Xiao Shiji's father, Xiao Xiangsheng, originally had a younger brother, Xiao Ruisheng, who was the uncle of Xiao Shiji and Xiao Taihe. Instead of thinking about taking care of his sister-in-law's family of orphans and widows, he brought people over to try to fish in troubled waters and seek the family wealth left by his elder brother Xiao Xiangsheng.It was fortunate that Du Hengshuang arrived with the servants of the Du family and beat Xiao Ruisheng out of the Xiao family.

After so many years, Xiao Ruisheng didn't dare to think about his sister-in-law's family anymore, and after Xiao Shiji gained power, he completely ignored Xiao Ruisheng. Xiao Ruisheng had no choice but to work hard on Xiao Taiji, hoping to win him over. The Xiao family brothers recognized themselves as uncle again.

Who knew that Xiao Taiji was also slippery, he took advantage of it, and never said good things. Xiao Ruisheng's gifts over the years were filled with bottomless pits, so he stopped coming to the door.

So in the middle hall of the Xiao family today, there are actually only the mother-in-law Long Xiangye, Xiao Shi and the elder brother-in-law.

Long Xiangye sat at the top, Xiao Shiji took the first seat at the bottom, and Xiao Yanran sat at the bottom of Xiao Shiji.

Xiao Taiji and Guan Yunlian knelt on the ground, offering tea to Long Xiangye.

Hearing Fang Wuniang's voice, Long Xiangye frowned slightly, noticing Xiao Shiji's eyes looking over, and immediately turned to smile again, helped the hand of the big maid beside her to get up, and waited for Fang Wuniang to come in.

Although Guan Yunlian knew that there was someone like Fang Wuniang, she had never met Fang Wuniang.Hearing such a crisp and a little presumptuous voice, I felt a little uneasy, and timidly moved closer to Xiao Taiji's side.

Xiao Taiji hurriedly said: "Mother, we..." said to Long Xiangye that he and his wife were still kneeling.

"Get up, your Aunt Fang is here, why don't you hurry up and salute." Long Xiangye raised her hand gracefully, signaling Xiao Taiji and Guan Yunlian to stand up.

Xiao Shiji also stood up, feeling a little uneasy.

The joyful thing is to prevent Du Hengshuang and Fang Wuniang from doing it.He didn't say a word.

But looking at Fang Wuniang's posture, it seems that the visitor is not kind.

Xiao Shiji stood beside Long Xiangye, stretched out a hand, and held Long Xiangye's arm.

Long Xiangye patted Xiao Shiji's hand lightly, telling him not to worry.

In a blink of an eye, Fang Wuniang had brought two of them wearing dark green robes.The old man with a jade stone hanging from his waist and a hook entered the middle hall, followed by two boys in Tsing Yi, each carrying a medicine box on their backs.

Xiao Shi and his eyebrows twitched.These two old men were dressed in the attire of imperial physicians from the Imperial Medical Office.Daqi's imperial physicians were not high in rank, and the highest was only an eighth-rank official. This dark blue official robe and jade belt with a hook were exactly the configuration of an eighth-rank official.

"I've seen the two imperial physicians!" Xiao Shiji hurriedly walked over from Long Xiangye.She bowed her hands to salute the other party, and said hello to Fang Wuniang. "Aunt Lao Fang invited my mother to be a doctor."

Xiao Shiji also asked someone to invite an imperial physician to see Long Xiangye's illness, but others were soft-spoken, and the imperial physician he invited was not high enough, so he could only be regarded as a helper in the Imperial Medical Office, not as high as the two imperial physicians brought by Fang Wuniang. .

Fang Wuniang looked at Long Xiangye and clicked her tongue twice, "I didn't expect the effect of congratulations to be so good. Looking at Sister Long's appearance, she really doesn't look like someone who was about to die yesterday."

Xiao Shiji frowned.Even if others are telling the truth.But Xiao Shiji was still a little unhappy when he said so carelessly that his own mother was about to "die".

These words were very merciless, but Long Xiangye didn't seem to understand, and nodded with a smile: "It's all thanks to my second daughter-in-law. She is a person of great fortune. As soon as she came in, she took my illness with her." Alright." Then she waved to Guan Yunlian, "Come on, I met your Aunt Fang. She is also a relative of our Xiao family, and her daughter will be your sister-in-law in the future. Don't neglect her." Although the words were harsh, the tone was She was very kind, and immediately separated from Fang Wuniang.

Fang Wuniang's heart was in a panic, but she still had no choice but to fight with Long Xiang and Ye Xu, and continued to laugh: "I dare not do it. I came here today to bring two of the most capable imperial physicians from the Imperial Medical Office to give Sister Long a pulse diagnosis." Let’s see what’s going on with this disease.” As he spoke, he stepped forward, took Long Xiangye’s hand, and said earnestly, “Sister Long, you know that I’m a straightforward person, and I always say whatever I think. It's too strange to be as ill as a normal person today after dying of illness. I'm worried, if it's time to return to the light, I'd better ask the imperial physician to give him a diagnosis."

Long Xiangye choked on Fang Wuniang's words "Back to the Light" and was about to vomit blood. The gentleness on her face was almost unbearable, and she laughed stiffly, "Sister Fang just loves to joke, how can anyone talk like that? She's obviously cursing people!"

Fang Wuniang pretended to be surprised, and patted her mouth, "Huh? Said I cursed people? Could it be that I was wrong? It turns out that Sister Long was not sick yesterday? Well, since she wasn't sick, why are you so happy? —— It's..." As she said that, Fang Wuniang turned her eyes to Guan Yunlian, the newlywed who was standing on the other side of Long Xiangye, deliberately stayed in her lower abdomen for a long time, and then laughed softly, "...Is it double happiness?"

Her appearance was so obvious that Guan Yunlian blushed with embarrassment, so she had to lower her head even lower.

This is to say that Guan Yunlian does not abide by women's morals, and maybe she and Xiao Taiji had an illegitimate child without getting married, so she hurried through the door and pretended to be "happy".

Guan Yunlian was very anxious, she stretched out her hand and tugged at Xiao Taiji's sleeve, asking him to say a few words for her, Xiao Taiji gave her a look of "be safe and don't be impatient", and stood beside her with a smile, not saying anything. Answer the call.

Long Xiangye's complexion also darkened, and she said displeasedly: "Mrs. Xu, please respect yourself. My second daughter-in-law comes from a good family with a strict family style. There is no remarried daughter in the family, and there is no criminal man in the family. Can you be anxious? People are in a hurry, regardless of their own reputation, but also to pray for my old lady, it is really unkind for you to say that about her!" The high-sounding words not only refuted Fang Wuniang's hint, but also insinuated that Fang Wuniang is a remarried woman, She is the unruly person.

Fang Wuniang also lowered her face, and said with a sneer: "What's the matter with remarrying? Even His Majesty encourages widowed women to remarry. Are you more powerful than His Majesty? Also. I kindly brought the imperial physician to give you a pulse, but you tried every means to evade it. But why? Could it be that your illness is fake?!"

Long Xiangye's pupils constricted suddenly, and soon returned to normal, with one hand covering his chest and the other stroking his forehead, looking precarious.

He Rui hurriedly supported Long Xiangye, and said softly: "Old lady, is there something uncomfortable?"

"I'm not feeling well, just ask the imperial physician to diagnose the pulse." Fang Wuniang waved her hand, "Qu imperial physician, please."

The old man on the left took a step forward, but Long Xiangye took a step back abruptly, and said to Xiao Shiji, "Shiji, you let this woman bully your mother like this?"

Xiao Shiji looked at it coldly for a long time, and there was a trace of doubt in his heart, and said slowly: "Mother, I also recognize these two imperial doctors. They are the best pulse in the imperial medical office, let them take a look." .Last time, I couldn’t invite them even if I wanted to.”

Long Xiangye refused to stretch out his hand.Asking Imperial Physician Qu to take a pulse, he just shook his head and said: "A man and a woman can't kiss each other. Or just hang a thread to check the pulse. I won't let other men touch me."

Physician Qu raised his head in surprise, and asked with a smile: "Diagnosing the pulse with silk? Who in Daqi has such a magical skill now? I am old and not talented, so I must worship him as my teacher and learn this magical skill."

In fact, everyone in the Tai Medical Office knows that the so-called "diagnosis of the pulse by hanging silk" is just a gimmick deliberately made by some people.Diagnosing the pulse is very difficult, if you can't take the pulse and diagnose it yourself.What else is there to do to diagnose the pulse with a silk thread? It's either a lie or a lie.To be able to diagnose the disease.That's a blind cat meeting a dead mouse.

Moreover, Daqi's medical skills emphasize "look, smell, ask and feel", without feeling the pulse, there are quite a few doctors who can make a correct diagnosis just by looking, smelling, and asking.

The two of them had been in for a while, even if Long Xiangye didn't let them take a pulse, but listening to Long Xiangye's words, watching her face, and the pace of her actions, they already knew it well.

If this woman was really sick yesterday and "was about to die", they could chop off all five fingers of the pulse-checking finger!

Xiao Shiji thought of the two imperial physicians he invited that day, because Long Xiangye refused to let them take the pulse himself, so he also played the trick of "diagnosing the pulse with a silk thread", and then said that Long Xiangye's condition was extremely serious Only then did Xiao Shiji agree to be happy.

Xiao Shiji put his hands behind his back, with a secret expression on his face.

Long Xiangye hurriedly covered her face with her sleeves, and said repeatedly: "I am a bereaved man, I live as a widow at home, and I don't see a foreigner..."

She evaded left and right, but refused to let the two imperial physicians diagnose the pulse.

Seeing that Xiao Shiji didn't speak, Fang Wuniang said to him seriously: "Brother Ji, it's not that I'm embarrassing your mother. To tell you the truth, I'm very worried about your mother's condition. I'm afraid that she will deliberately hide it in order not to make you feel sad. illness."

Only then did Xiao Shiji feel a little moved, he lowered his hands and asked, "Why?"

Du Hengshuang came in with a calm voice in his coldness: "Brother Ji, don't blame my mother, I'll tell you."

Xiao Shiji turned his head and saw Du Hengshuang walking into the middle hall of Xiao's house with his maid Zhihua calmly.

The half-arms with green and ruyi seams, the light yellow Fangsheng long skirt with a waist, and the purple double forest silk drape with smoke cages on both arms, standing gracefully on the bluestone square bricks, as moving as the famous peonies of Yao, Huang, Wei and Zi in bud. .

Xiao Shiji looked at Du Hengshuang deeply, and listened to her quietly.

"Brother and brother, you have been running around all these years. In the eight years, you have spent a total of one year in Chang'an. Do you know how many happy marriages there have been in Chang'an City in the past eight years?"

Xiao Shiji was taken aback, then shook his head in amazement, "How would I know this? What does this have to do with my mother's illness?"

Du Hengshuang glanced at Long Xiangye worriedly, and said softly, "In the past eight years, there have been 38 weddings in Chang'an. Thirty of them happened within three days after the wedding. Passed away. There were five other cases, and the person who was ecstatic lived for half a year and passed away."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Xiao Shiji sincerely, "Brother Ji, don't be careless, don't look overjoyed, Auntie is fine, just think that her illness is really cured. Whether it is cured or not, you still have to Listen to the doctor's diagnosis."

Xiao Shiji's heart sank when he heard it, and he felt that Du Hengshuang's words were very reasonable.

He also knew that most people wouldn't come up with the trick of celebrating happiness unless they had no other choice.It's just that he really hasn't investigated it. It turns out that the possibility of Chongxi recovering from his "disease" is so low.

Xiao Shiji looked at Long Xiangye with some concern, and said in a deep voice: "Mother, Aunt Fang and Shuang'er are right, this matter should not be ignored. Since the imperial physician is here today, mother should let the imperial physician cut the pulse. ——Otherwise, I will be restless all my life." The last sentence contained a hint of threat.

Long Xiangye understood what Xiao Shiji meant, and knew that the eldest son would doubt his "illness" if the imperial physician was not allowed to take a pulse today.

If Du Hengshuang and Fang Wuniang, a mother and daughter, hadn't disrupted the situation, how could she have faced such a situation?

Long Xiangye's face suddenly turned white again, she pursed her lips, pointed at Xiao Shiji tremblingly and said, "You don't believe me?"

Seeing this, Du Hengshuang knelt down to Long Xiangye with a plop, raised his head and begged, "Auntie, don't blame Jigege, he is worried about your body, you can't hide your illness from the doctor. - Chongxi can make you feel good, But it can't get rid of the root cause of your illness. Shuang'er knows that aunt loves Shuang'er and doesn't want Shuang'er to make things difficult, so she didn't let Shuang'er know about Chongxi, but she wronged the little lady of the Guan family. She can marry Chongxi because of her aunt's illness. Entering Xiao's house, I ask Auntie to give Shuang'er a chance to fulfill her filial piety." He kowtowed several times to Long Xiangye.

Seeing this, Xiao Shiji was ashamed, he couldn't care less about the crowds in the middle hall, he bent down and forced Du Hengshuang into a hug, and said with regret: "Shuang'er, you don't have to be like this, it's my fault..."

Du Hengshuang hurriedly shook his head and said, "Brother and brother, we are all human beings with the same filial piety. We have been engaged since we were young, how can I not know your filial piety?" If you want to be filial, you should also give me a chance. How can I feel at ease if the little lady of the Guan family is to suffer on my behalf? And how can you be at ease, brother?"

Xiao Shiji was speechless for a while, but held Du Hengshuang's hand tightly, fearing that she would leave his side.

Long Xiangye watched Du Hengshuang singing and fighting over there, and hummed softly in her heart, secretly thinking that Fang Wuniang was a firecracker, and she would hit it at any point.Her daughter Du Hengshuang is able to bend and stretch, her scheming is too deep...

Guan Yunlian raised her head quickly, cast a glance at Du Hengshuang, and was immediately dazzled by the green color that was about to splash out on the emerald green lotus hairpin on her head.

"Then there are still three survivors?" Xiao Taiji suddenly smiled and took over the conversation.

"It is true that there are three other incidents that have survived. But it turned out that these three incidents were not really 'Chongxi'." Du Hengshuang's voice was cold and tinged with the sound of an ice-cold, and June Tian sounded like drinking ice brew. , very cool.

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