Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 117 The Two Houses Decide on Jingjing as Daughter-in-Law (3)
After the lunch break in the afternoon, Bai brought Niu Haoxing to the other courtyard. He only brought fruit and snacks, and did not bring any expensive gifts. He did not come to beg for help at all.

It was the first time for Ming to see Bai, the most beautiful woman in Hunan Province in the legend. His old eyes were not dazzled, and he looked at it very carefully. He nodded and praised: "It is more beautiful than the person in the painting."

Bai's Wan Er.

Sitting beside him, Mrs. Qu was secretly amazed to see that Mrs. Bai's words and demeanor were not frivolous, nor did she have any romantic aura.

Seeing He's entering the hall, Mrs. Bai immediately changed the subject, unexpectedly talking about her background.

It turned out that her father was the second place in the imperial examination, and later served as the fourth-rank servant of the Huangmen, a minister of the emperor's close servant, and later offended the elder brother of the imperial concubine who was favored by the emperor, and the whole family was beheaded.

Because of her beauty, she was replaced by a female death row prisoner before execution. She was stolen from the cell and sold to a brothel.

She is a strong-tempered person, and she is determined to show off her skills instead of her body.Seeing that she earned more money and had a better reputation without selling herself, the old bustard of the brothel agreed.

Dean Niu is a close friend with her father, and after exhausting manpower and material resources, he finally redeemed her from the brothel.The eldest son Niu Kun's third wife died of illness, and Dean Niu asked him to marry her as his fourth wife.

The four women only knew that Mrs. Bai had been raised in a brothel since she was born, but they didn't expect that she was the daughter of a former official, and her family members were all beheaded to death. Such a miserable fate.

Ming and Qu shed tears of sympathy.

He Huishu and the He family think of the He family and their own destiny, which are similar to the Bai family and the Bai family.If Qin Xionghuang and Li Bing had come one step later, they would have been sent to be official prostitutes just like the Bai family.

The two sisters wiped away their tears lightly, and they became more intimate when they looked at Bai's pitiful eyes.

In the hall the women were talking.Niu Haoxing took Li Yunxiao to play outside, and after playing for a while, he went to the pharmacy to find Li Jingjing.

The medicine room smells of light and fragrant pears and orange peels. Six iron stoves are lined up, and each stove has a black medicine pot above which is boiling light yellow juice.

Li Jingjing's forehead is neat and straight, revealing her delicate and beautiful eyebrows. She combs her buns, wears pea green clothes with a cardigan collar and ribbons, a goose yellow long skirt, and yellow forged shoes with a layered bottom. Wearing soft shoes, sitting on a foot-high stool, holding a bamboo fan in his hand, he concentrated on guarding the medicine pot on the stove.

Li Yunxiao was too familiar with the smell of this medicine, and asked with a smile: "Sister Jing, you want to make Qiuli paste again."

Li Jingjing said: "It's going to be autumn soon. I'm cooking it up and I'm going to leave it for my aunt's family to eat."

"The autumn pear ointment you made is very good. Last year, the little girls and little girls in the village ate it, and none of them coughed." Li Yunxiao wanted to ask for some for his little friend, but he asked in front of Niu Haoxing. If Li Jingjing refused, What a shame.

Niu Haoxing shyly turned around and took out something wrapped in red silk from his bosom, then turned back, presented it with both hands, and said, "Ms. Jing, I begged my grandfather and I to copy this medicine book. It's for you."

"Thank you very much." Li Jingjing's eyes flashed with astonishment, she put down the small bamboo fan, went to clean her hands, wiped them with a handkerchief, then took it, opened the red silk, inside was a book bound with white paper and white string It is a thick booklet, with the four characters "Folk Medicine Book" written in cursive on the cover.

She opened the "Folk Medicine Book", and the fonts inside were all lowercase letters, each word was as big as a melon seed, and the strokes and strokes were very neat.

Niu Haoxing was very happy to see Li Jingjing flipping through the "Book of Folk Medicine" very seriously, and it was not in vain for him to ask his grandfather for the book, so he copied it for another four full days.

Li Yunxiao asked: "Sister, is this book good?"

Li Jingjing nodded and said, "Okay. "Folk Medicine Book" records the prescriptions passed down by the people in various dynasties from ancient times to 100 years ago."

Li Yunxiao giggled and said: "Brother Niu, I gave you medicine last time, and my aunt gave me a gift. This time you copied so many words of the medicine book to thank me. Did you copy the words of the medicine book?" wrong?"

Niu Haoxing shook his head quickly, and said, "After I finished copying, I thought my mother was right with the original book. I didn't copy a word wrong."

"You really copied carefully. Let me take a look at your handwriting." Li Yunxiao leaned in front of Li Jingjing, saw more than a dozen lines of writing on the page of the booklet, and each word was neatly arranged to the same size. She scratched her head in embarrassment, and said : "Your handwriting is much better than mine."

Fortunately, it was a comparison of learning, not words.If he was comparing characters, he would have to call Niu Haoxing his brother.

Li Jingjing read a few pages and heard Li Yunxiao say that the stove was very hot, so she closed the booklet and said with a smile, "Brother Niu, you really have a heart. I like this "Folk Medicine Book" very much."

Niu Haoxing said shyly: "My grandfather still has a few medicine books in his collection. I will copy them and give them to you later."

Li Yunxiao and Niu Haoxing played in the backyard for a while, Bai's servant called Niu Haoxing back to the hall, and Bai took him away.

Li Yunxiao gestured at the thickness of the book with his fingers, and said excitedly: "Mother, Brother Niu came to thank me for sending him medicine last time. Just now he sent a hand-copied medicine book to my sister."

He smiled and asked Li Yunxiao to call Li Jingjing over. After reading the medicine books handwritten by Niu Haoxing, he said, "Sister, Dean Niu has a wide collection of books, and there are such ancient medicine books. There are no descendants in his house who know how to make medicine. He generously gave this medicine book to Jingniang."

"The words on the cover should be written by Mrs. Bai, and the small characters on the inside were written by Xinglang. This child is so young, and his handwriting is so good. He has put in a lot of effort on weekdays." He Huishu took the booklet and looked through it carefully. Every page, the mood is somewhat complicated.

Li Jingjing said: "Xiao Yazi, if you don't practice your handwriting well, you will be even less able to write well in the future. Brother Niu will not call you brother at that time."

Li Yunxiao pouted and said, "I'm going to practice calligraphy."

Qin Minye and Li Qubing left the school, washed their faces and hands first, and then went to the hall.

He Huishu smiled and said: "Ye Lang, your father will be able to move in three days. I discussed it with your grandma. We will all go back to the house on that day, and invite your aunt's family to live there for a while."

Qin Minye was a little surprised, seeing He Huishu winking, he didn't ask.Xindao: Didn't it be agreed that I will stay in the other courtyard for another ten days, and my aunt's family will go directly back to Qujia Village from the other courtyard, and then live in the mansion in early winter.How come it is ahead of schedule.

For three consecutive days, Li Shi and Bai Shi brought their youngest sons to visit the other courtyard.The two of them seemed to have discussed that Mrs. Li would come in the morning and Mrs. Bai would come in the afternoon.

On the morning of the fourth day, the butler of the Hong Mansion came to the gate of the other courtyard of the Duke’s Mansion with the post, but saw four luxurious carriages parked there. The couple went to live in the Duke's Mansion for a while, and immediately returned to the Hong Mansion to report with the post.

Mrs. Li said to herself: "General Qin's wife is really tight-lipped, I'm afraid we will find out, and ask for the address of the Li family."

She waited for Dr. Hong to talk about it as soon as he came back.

(End of this chapter)