Ming Dynasty 1566

Chapter 60

"In my Hai family, there are only sons and daughters-in-law. There are no officials or wives." Haimu said, picking up a bamboo stick that was placed beside the chair.

Li Shizhen: "Madam Tai, please go ahead."

Haimu nodded.

Hai Rui: "Mother is gone."

But Hai Mu ignored Hai Rui, leaned on her stick and went straight to the side bedroom on the other side.

Watching his mother walk into the side room, Hai Rui turned his head to look at Li Shizhen, and found that Li Shizhen's eyes were fixed on him at this moment.

Hai Ruiqiang showed an embarrassed smile, and said in a low voice: "I lost my father when I was four years old, and my mother took it dry and brought me up with wet hands. The old man has not been able to enjoy the blessing of me for a day, and I feel ashamed."

Standing there, Li Shizhen stretched out a hand to Hai Rui. Hai Rui was startled for a moment, then thought that Li Shizhen wanted to get his pulse, so he turned his hand over and stretched it out.Li Shizhen didn't go to take his pulse, but took his hand and gently pulled it over, whispering in his ear: "There are no parents who are wrong in the world. But Madam can't be wronged."

Hai Rui didn't know that he would say such a thing, and looked at him not knowing how to answer.

Li Shizhen whispered again: "I have the same disease as you."

Hai Rui was startled again.

Li Shizhen continued in a low voice: "I lost my father at the age of seven, and my mother's temperament is also like this."

Hai Rui raised his head and looked at Li Shizhen with his eyes wide open.At this moment, Li Shizhen also looked at Hai Rui with wide-open eyes.

Li Shizhen: "I already know why you didn't have a son. I will teach you a recipe. Go back to the room at night and coax your wife well. You don't need to take any medicine, and you will naturally have a son." He laughed to himself.

Hai Rui could only respond with a silent wry smile.

——Hearing laughter outside, Haimu's eyes widened immediately.

At this time, she moved a bamboo chair and sat quietly in the bedroom by the door of the hall, her eyes were wide open, and her ears were obviously paying attention to the movement outside.

According to historical records, Hai Rui lived in the same room with his mother almost every night since he was a child until after he got married. , often sitting and waiting for dawn".

There was another noise in the outer hall, Haimu sat up straight suddenly, turned her head sideways, and she felt that her daughter-in-law had gone to the outer hall again.

——It was Mrs. Hai who came in, and she stopped there first when she crossed the threshold. From the corner of her head, she found that the reclining chair in the middle of the hall was empty. Stand still.

Li Shizhen didn't look at Mrs. Hai, but looked at Hai Rui.Hai Rui sat on the stool at the other side, still not speaking, not asking his wife to sit down.

——Mother Hai sat upright, listening to the movement outside.It took a long time to hear Li Shizhen's voice: "Sister-in-law, please sit down, and I will diagnose your pulse."

Then the daughter-in-law replied softly: "Yes."

Knowing that the son didn't ask his wife to sit down, Haimu's face softened a little.

——When diagnosing the pregnancy of a man and a woman, Li Shizhen always took the pulse of the couple at the same time.It was the same this time, Hai Rui stretched out his left wrist and placed it on the table, Mrs. Hai stretched out her right wrist and placed it on the table, Li Shizhen placed six fingers on both of them at the same time to judge the pulse.

Even though his mother was not in front of him, Hai Rui still lowered his eyes, and Mrs. Hai also lowered his eyes, neither of them looked directly at each other.

Li Shizhen's eyes began to look at Mrs. Hai Rui, and at this moment, she felt another feeling in her heart.However, although Mrs. Jianhai had her eyes downcast after hastily freshened up, she couldn't hide her original face. She was dignified yet delicate, and she still had the demeanor of a poet and book family despite her anxiety.

At this time, Li Shizhen fully understood that the Hai family had no heirs, and the crux of the problem was obviously not because of illness, but because Hai's mother interfered with the son-in-law's house, which made the couple's love weak.Medicine can cure disease, but not life, so he looked at Hai Rui, then at Mrs. Hai, and suddenly said, "Please raise your eyes, Mrs. Gangfeng."

——Hai Mu heard Li Shizhen's words in the outer hall, and suddenly became nervous, her eyes widened again, and her ears stood there.

——"What's the matter with you two?" Li Shizhen was angry, "Look, hear and ask, how can I treat you if you don't even open your eyes like you?"

Hai Rui raised his eyes to look at Li Shizhen, and Mrs. Hai also raised her eyes slowly, not daring to look directly at her.

Li Shizhen: "I don't want you to look at me, you each look into each other's eyes."

Hai Rui couldn't see Li Shizhen's painstaking efforts and intentions in his eyes, so he shifted his eyes knowingly and looked into his wife's eyes.Although Mrs. Hai also shifted her gaze to Hai Rui, she only looked down the bridge of his nose.

"Don't watch it!" Li Shizhen stood up and said loudly, "As a couple, you dare not look at each other. If you can't have a son, that's something no doctor can do. Let me tell you, you Hai's family is the only one." Do you want any heirs!"

——Mother Hai stood up abruptly, with the air of a battle between man and nature, hesitated for a moment, and finally walked out the door.

—— Seeing Mother Hai come out suddenly, Hai Rui stood up immediately, and Mrs. Hai also stood up immediately.

Mother Hai walked over step by step, looking at Li Shizhen who was standing there with a stern face: "Mr. You don't look at it, what do you mean!"

Mrs. Hai lowered her head even more, and replied softly: "It's my daughter-in-law who made a mistake, mother-in-law, don't be angry."

Haimu: "Why am I angry? I haven't raised my head and looked at your husband."

Mrs. Hai looked like she was raising her head, which was harder than lifting a mountain. She slowly looked at Hai Rui.

At this moment, Hai Rui felt uncomfortable, and looked at his wife.

Mrs. Hai's eyes finally met her husband's. She couldn't bear the sudden sadness in her heart anymore, and tears slowly filled her eyes.

"Look if you are angry!" Mother Hai was angry, "In front of Doctor Li, why did you suffer wronged and shed tears!"

Mrs. Hai tried her best not to let the tears come out again, and replied slowly: "Mother-in-law, daughter-in-law didn't shed tears, it's because the wind blows the dust and blinded the eyes." As she spoke, she hurriedly took out a handkerchief from her waist and wiped it gently. print eyes.

Mother Hai sighed: "Mr. Li, you have seen it all. With her like this, how can my Haimen have children?"

Right and wrong are beyond words, Li Shizhen had an idea in her mind, and looked at Haimu: "Mrs. Tai, the younger generation already has a prescription. They can listen to me. My Mrs. Bao Tai will definitely be able to have a grandson within two years."

Haimu's eyes lit up: "Then ask the imperial doctor to prescribe a prescription."

Li Shizhen: "However, they all have to do what I say."

Haimu: "This is natural."

Li Shizhen: "Brother Gangfeng, Mrs. Sister-in-law, look into each other's eyes again."

Hai Rui and Mrs. Hai looked at Haimu slowly at the same time.

Haimu beat the bamboo stick on the brick floor: "The imperial doctor asked you to look at each other, what are you looking at me for?"

Only then did Hai Rui and Mrs. Hai look at each other again.

Li Shizhen: "Look, don't turn your eyes away."

The two of them just watched.

Li Shizhen: "Okay. Listen to me later. Smile."

The two were stunned again.

Li Shizhen: "Laugh!"

Hai Ruiqiang smiled, his face still stiff.

Li Shizhen looked at Mrs. Hai again: "Sister-in-law, hurry up and laugh."

Mrs. Hai didn't dare to laugh, but was urged by Li Shizhen, and seeing Hai Rui's strange appearance when she smiled, she couldn't help but actually laughed.

"Good! Good smile!" Li Shizhen praised loudly, "Brother Gangfeng, please smile more."

Hai Rui also smiled more naturally.

Suddenly, Li Shizhen burst out laughing loudly, shaking the room!

Haimu was startled.

Hai Rui and Mrs. Hai were also dumbfounded, and looked at the laughing Li Shizhen with a suppressed smile.

Another burst of crisp laughter also sounded outside the door, and Hai Rui's daughter also laughed while lying on the door.

Mother Hai immediately glared at her granddaughter, and the younger daughter immediately stopped laughing and ran away timidly.

Li Shizhen was still laughing, and Haimu turned her head to look at the laughing imperial doctor.

Li Shizhen slowly stopped laughing: "Okay. Brother Gangfeng, Mrs. Sister-in-law, those of you who are supposed to be officials should go to be officials, and those who should be cooking should be cooking. I will write prescriptions for you together with Mrs. Tai."

The couple stopped when they walked from the hall to the backyard.Hai Rui looked at his wife and said, "Prepare some wine and dinner, and leave Imperial Physician Li here to eat with mother."

Mrs. Hai's gaze stayed on Hai Rui's face for a while, then she immediately looked away, and said in a low voice, "There are only tofu and some vegetables, but no wine."

Hai Rui: "I'll go outside and ask them to buy a jug of wine, you should hurry up and cook."

"Understood." Mrs. Hai immediately walked towards the small door on the side of the yard.

Hai Rui walked to the courtyard door leading to the back hall, opened the door, and found Tian Youlu standing there alone, holding a food basket in his hand, Hai Rui immediately smiled when he saw it.

Hai Rui frowned: "Cheng Tian, ​​what are you doing?"

Tian Youlu quickly replied: "Master, this is not for you, it's time for dinner, this is for Imperial Physician Li."

Hai Rui frowned and looked at the food basket.

Tian Youlu: "Don't worry, the county lord, knowing that the county lord's family respects Islam, there is only one fish, one plate of beef, and one pot of rice wine here."

At this time, Hai Rui felt a touch of emotion in his heart, and smiled at Tian Youlu: "I'm sorry for your trouble. Doctor Li eats at my house, so I should treat him naturally." After speaking, he stretched out his hand and prepared to pay for the money on his body. Suddenly remembering that some of the copper coins left over from the journey had been handed over to my mother, I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and said, "Deduct it from my salary. Remember it."

Tian Youlu was really moved: "Your Majesty, we all know you are upright. But Doctor Li was invited by our county to rescue the victims, and the food should be paid for by the government."

"He is seeing a doctor for my family today." Hai Rui took the food basket, "This meal will be deducted from my salary, so remember." He was about to turn around, but suddenly stopped, and asked Tian Youlu: "Would you like me?" I left for a few days and forgot to ask you, did your father pick it up?"

Tian Youlu answered Zhengyan: "Tai Zun, I took it back a few days ago."

Hai Rui: "Is your Madam okay with your father-in-law?"

Tian Youlu's face darkened immediately: "That's a slut, she still throws cups and bowls, the humble job has already sent her back to her mother's house."

Hai Rui sighed, "Let's enlighten slowly." Then he turned and walked back.

"County Honor." Tian Youlu stopped him again.

Hai Rui stopped again and looked at him: "What else is there?"

Tian Youlu hesitated for a moment, then said: "It's nothing, the county lord can go and accompany Li Taiyi."

Hai Rui looked at him: "Speak up if you have something to say."

Then Tian Youlu said: "Someone from the province came to sit in the back hall, urging our county to deliver the first batch of raw silk produced by mulberry seedlings to the province immediately."

Hai Rui's face immediately became serious: "The mulberry seedlings have just sprouted, and they came to produce silk. Tell him, just say that there is no silk yet."

Tian Youlu: "I can't hide it anymore."

Hai Rui: "What do you say?"

Tian Youlu: "When the people from the province came, they happened to meet hundreds of people who brought the first reel of raw silk to the yamen to give to Li Taiyi, saying that it was to thank Li Li for saving his life. They saw it."

Hai Rui pondered for a moment: "You go to the back hall first, and I'll be right there." Then he picked up the food basket and walked towards the back hall.

Tian Youlu also hurried outside.

As soon as he walked from the back house to the screen of the back door of the back hall, Hai Rui heard loud voices in the back hall and stopped in his tracks.

It was Tian Youlu's voice: "Going on a mission, our grand lord is letting Imperial Physician Li see a doctor, please wait a moment."

Another voice: "It's important whether he is seeing a doctor or on an errand! Tell him to come out immediately!"

Hai Rui walked around the screen and walked into the back hall: "What's the matter?"

The clerk stood up when he saw Hai Rui: "It's good that Hai Zhi County is here. You know that Hu Butang and General Qi fought against the Japanese pirates in front. Now the province must immediately send the army's salary there. All counties have Pay the grain, pay the money. You are a disaster-stricken county, and the province wants you to send all the first batch of raw silk produced by mulberry seedlings this year to the province immediately, so that it can be used for silk weaving in the workshops of the weaving bureau. It's a document, you can read it yourself." After speaking, he handed an official document to Hai Rui, and Gu Zi sat down and drank tea there.

Hai Rui took the paper and opened it to read it.After reading it, he glanced at the clerk first, then handed the official document to Tian Youlu: "Cheng Tian, ​​please take a look too." Then he sat down on the chair in the middle and closed his eyes.

Tian Youlu took the official document, knowing in his heart that there was another quarrel, so he held the official document, looked at it slowly, pretended to be thinking, and waited for Hai Rui to speak.

"Finished?" Hai Rui opened his eyes.

Tian Youlu: "Go back to the county magistrate, I'm done."

Hai Rui: "Do you think it's possible or impossible for the province to ask us in Chun'an to give birth to silk?"

Tian Youlu looked at the roof, seemed to be thinking seriously there, and said after a long time: "Sang seedlings have just grown, how can there be raw silk..."

"Whether there is raw silk or not, we all saw it." The clerk stood up abruptly, "Haizhi County, this is a military affairs! When I came, Master Zheng and Master He personally said, five days, at most five days, you have to Send the first batch of raw silk to the workshop of the Yamen of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau."

"The workshop in the Yamen of the Weaving Bureau?" Hai Rui no longer went around in circles, and no longer made things difficult for Tian Youlu. He looked at the clerk, "Which workshop is in the Yamen of the Weaving Bureau!"

Of course, the clerk had known Hai Rui's reputation for a long time, and he was a little apprehensive when he saw his sudden attack, but he came with the documents from the two highest yamen in the province, so he was very confident: "The workshop of the Yamen of the Weaving Bureau is The workshop of the Yamen of the Weaving Bureau, what other workshop?"

Hai Rui: "As far as I know, the silk of Jiangnan Weaving Bureau used to be woven in Shen Yishi's workshop, and now Shen Yishi's workshop has been copied by order. This official document tells us, Chun'an, to send the raw silk there .Is it true that Shen Yishi's workshop has been unsealed by order?"

The clerk: "I just want to inform you about this matter. The governor's office and the chief envoy's office have sold Shen Yishi's workshop to a silk merchant in Huizhou for a price, and now they are waiting for the raw silk to be put on the shelves. Haizhi County, I will deliver the documents , The paperwork has been delivered, you can decide whether you want to send the raw silk or not. I still have to go to Jiande. Farewell." After finishing speaking, he turned and walked out.

Tian Youlu immediately stood up, and was about to see the clerk off, but when he saw Hai Rui was still sitting upright, he stood there again, holding the official document in his hand, and looked at Hai Rui: "Master, do you want me to bring someone down to collect the clerk?" raw silk?"

Hai Rui: "What kind of raw silk do you want?"

Tian Youlu: "The governor's yamen and the chief envoy's yamen gave us five days?"

Hai Rui stood up: "Press the official document. After five days of pressing, this official document will become a piece of waste paper."

Tian Youlu was puzzled: "Master, how can the official documents in the province become waste paper..."

Hai Rui: "I'll find out in a few days. You go and persuade the people outside the county government office who sent raw silk to go back. Tell them that they don't want raw silk after Li Taiyi has taken it."

Tian Youlu: "Yes."

The 120 looms in Shen Yishi's workshop were still making loud noises. The only difference was that at the time, there were soldiers from the inspector's office standing at the door on both sides of the weaving room.Zheng Michang and He Maocai took Yang Jinshui and led several big silk merchants from Huizhou to this workshop.A group of people walked to the wide aisle in the middle of the loom and stood still.

"Take a look! Everyone can take a look first. The silk woven here is used for the palace and sold to foreign merchants. The weaved silk is all top-quality, and the price is affordable!" He Maocai said loudly.

Several silk merchants went to several looms and looked carefully.

Shen Yishi's home was confiscated, but the workshop could not stop.Zheng Michang and He Maocai sent a large number of people to various counties to urge the payment of raw silk, and at the same time invited these Huizhou weavers, and planned to sell Shen Yishi's 25 workshops and 50 looms to them respectively.Once this matter is negotiated, the urgently needed military pay for the war ahead and the [-] pieces of silk sold to Xiyang this year will be settled.Therefore, there was also the action of sending people to Chun'an and Jiande in the previous section to urge the production of raw silk.Of course, they didn't know that the new governor Zhao Zhenji and Jin Yiwei who arrested them were already at the post station only [-] miles away from Hangzhou, and they would be imprisoned in a few hours.

There were three chairs placed above the living room. Zheng Michang came in with Yang Jinshui, took a step forward, and brushed the middle chair with his sleeve: "Elder-in-law, please sit down."

(End of this chapter)