Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 408

"Mother, it is the greatest kindness you have shown me by bringing me into this world. Right now, my son can forget about everything else, and just want to stay in front of mother and show some filial piety to my son."

Accompany you through the last period of this life...

Wending kept the latter sentence in his heart and couldn't bear to say it.

Concubine Yun nodded lightly in relief, and the corners of her eyes became wet again after being greatly relieved.

"Mother, my boy is going to go down the mountain tomorrow. What would you like to eat? My boy will I buy it for you?"

Wending suppressed the grief in his heart, and asked Princess Yun with a forced smile.

"Mother has nothing to worry about, you go and take care of your own affairs, don't worry about mother." Princess Yun said leniently.

"Mother, don't you often talk about the delicious peach cakes in Zhixiangfang in the city?"

"Mother is drinking the medicine right now, it's better not to take it, so as not to affect the efficacy of the medicine."

"Eat a little, it's okay. Ding, if you have anything to do, just tell me and I'll do it for you. It just so happens that the medicinal materials are almost used up. I plan to go down the mountain and go to the city to get the medicine tomorrow."

Before Princess Yun could answer, Wen Qing, who was behind Wending, rushed to speak.

Wen Ding glanced sideways at Wen Qing and frowned slightly.

When I rushed back to Yunzhou in a hurry, I only brought a few guards with me.Because Hanshan Temple is the place where Niangqing practiced, there is still a teacher and several young nuns living in the nunnery in the front yard.

It was inconvenient for Wending to bring those guards up the mountain, so he placed them in Yunzhou City.This trip down the mountain is to find a few of them, let them go back to look at the sea, and see what's going on with Jinxi, why he sent her five or six carrier pigeons in succession, and she wondered No reply at all.

"Other matters, the future will last forever. On the side of the princess, no one can miss you right now! Whatever you want to do, tell me, and I promise to do it properly."

Wen Qing saw that Wending was hesitant, and continued, while speaking, his eyes inadvertently glanced at Princess Yun, and Wending frowned even tighter.

Mother was already dying of illness, and according to Wen Qing's diagnosis, she still had less than three months to live.In other words, he and his mother only had three months left to get along with each other.

Wending's frown slowly eased, and finally gave up the idea of ​​going down the mountain, shaking his head and said: "It's nothing serious, forget it!"

……

It rained all night, and early in the morning, in the alley behind the inn, there was the sound of yelling and selling.Jin Xi pushed open the back window, and in the wet long alley paved with bluestone slabs, there was a little girl with a bun, about seven or eight years old, holding a handful of apricot blossoms in her arms and selling them.

Red, pink and white flowers are full of flowers and branches, lively and exuberant.The simple smiling face of the little girl behind the flowers echoes it, and it is the most pleasing scene Jin Xi has seen this morning.

The door of the wing room behind him was knocked lightly, and Ah Cai's voice came in in a low voice. He heard the movement in this room, so he came here, because today he made an appointment to visit the big and small people near Yunzhou City one by one. nunnery.

Jin Xi hurried over and opened the door, Ah Cai carried the steaming soy milk bought from outside, bulging in the oil paper bag, and handed it to Jin Xi.

After receiving the breakfast, he smiled, turned around and walked quickly to the table to open it quickly, and the tangy aroma penetrated into his nostrils.

"Fried dough sticks, flower rolls, siu mai, wow, Ah Cai, you are so kind, and you also brought chicken soup buns, this is the best one for me!" Jin Xi burst into a smile.

Ah Cai scratched his ears a little embarrassedly, followed Jin Xi into the room.

Jin Xi grabbed a chicken juice bag and ate it in small bites, looked at Ah Cai, and asked in surprise, "Why do you always keep that hand behind your back?"

Ah Cai's expression was a little embarrassed, he took out his hand slowly, and a few flower branches stood out in Jin Xi's field of vision, and there were enchanting but elegant apricot blossoms blooming on the flower branches.

The petals are fresh and tender, with rain and dew, and the stamens are budding, revealing their fragrance.In the air that filled the room, a faint fragrance suddenly permeated.

"I heard from the guys downstairs that this area of ​​Yunzhou is very popular at the moment. I just bought some copper coins left over earlier, so I bought them back and put them in bottles for you." Ah Cai stammered, before he finished speaking, he was cold His handsome face flushed red.

"If Miss likes it, keep it for fun, if you don't like it, just throw it away, it's worthless anyway. I went out first, and told Miss to call again!" After speaking, he walked out of the room in a mess.

Jin Xi looked at his back in astonishment as he ran away in a panic, and the chicken sauce bun in his mouth seemed to have lost its taste.Looking at the few apricot blossoms on the table that were obviously carefully selected, Jin Xi's smile was a bit perplexed.

This guy, obviously already told him very clearly that it is impossible for Jin Xi to give him the response he wants, but he still does this kind of behavior, can't it be that he hasn't let go yet?
I remember someone said a word before, falling in love for an instant, and then leaving in a thousand turns.It's really embarrassing, Jin Xi stroked her forehead.However, this matter should not be rushed, just wait slowly, one day Ah Cai will figure it out by himself, and then he will naturally let it go.

Thinking of this, Jin Xi's mood that had just been dull soon brightened up again, she grabbed the other breakfast and ate slowly, she had to fill her stomach, and only when she was full would she have the strength to go to Brother Wen Ding!

A quarter of an hour later, A Cai and A Gui came to Jin Xi's room after packing up. Jin Xi was already fully dressed and standing by the open window with her back to them.

Wearing a green pomegranate skirt, it outlines a slender figure.Her waist-length hair danced slightly in the morning breeze.

"Well, it's really fragrant. I've heard that the apricot blossoms in Yunzhou are famous for a long time. This fragrance is really extraordinary!"

As soon as Agui with sharp nose and sharp eyes entered the room, he gave out such admiration.

Hearing the admiration behind her, Jin Xi turned around gracefully, her delicate face without makeup, her beautiful eyes were extraordinarily clear and bright, and the corners of her mouth curled into a gentle smile.

A Cai glanced over and saw a bunch of beautiful and eye-catching apricot flowers in the white thin-necked porcelain vase by the window sill, like a shy girl bowing her head, revealing the intoxicating fragrance secretly.

No matter how beautiful the apricot blossoms are, they are not as good as the unique demeanor of the girl by the window. Ah Cai blushed and lowered his eyes, feeling a warm current in his heart.

"Are you ready? Then let's leave early!" Jin Xi put the teacup she was playing with on the window sill, and walked towards them.

"Miss, this is a topographic map of Yunzhou that we obtained last night. The black dots marked on it are the names and locations of all nunneries within a hundred miles around Yunzhou City." Agui handed the things to Jin Xi.

Jin Xi took it in surprise, and praised their speed of work, and spread it out on the table, looking at the large and small black dots on the map, and counted, there are a total of eight nunneries.

I mean, this place is close to the East China Sea, the climate is pleasant, the sea breeze is humid, and there are many pawnshops in the center of the city on the street, it seems to be a rich land of fish and rice!

Why are there so many nunneries?The women here like to become monks and practice like this?Jin Xi muttered unscrupulously in her heart, pointing her fingers at a few black dots on the topographic map, and decided: "Let's go from near to far. Today, the mission of the three of us is to visit these three nunneries, let's go!"

……

In less than half a day, Jin Xi and A Cai and A Gui visited the three nunneries near the root without stopping.

Inquiring about the situation from the little nuns in the nunnery by bribery and other small means, Agui and Acai used their expertise to almost turn over every meditation room in the three nunneries, and even the place where they went out. All over the place, no clues were found.

On the way back without success, A Gui looked depressed.Ah Cai silently followed behind Jin Xi, worried about her, and was thinking about whether to comfort her, when suddenly, she stopped.

"Let's not rush back to the inn, first accompany me to the pharmacy."

"Miss, what's wrong with you?" Ah Cai suddenly became nervous.

Jin Xi smiled and waved her hands again and again, "No, I wanted to go to the pharmacy to buy moxa sticks a long time ago, but I never cared about it."

"Moxa stick?" Ah Cai was surprised.

"It's the dried wormwood, crushed into velvet, and then compressed and rolled into strips." Jin Xi talked to A Cai and A Gui while gesticulating.

Ah Cai and Ah Gui instantly understood, "Is it the kind of thing we used to light smoked mosquitoes in the summer night when we were in Changqiao Town?" Agui asked.

Ah Cai nodded at the side. He still remembered that the young lady was inspired by that kind of mosquito repellent grass, so she extracted the essence from various mosquito repellent herbs and flowers to make the Seven Star Insect Repellent Essential Oil.Some added mint, and some added snake gall. Speaking of the snake gall, he and Awang must have caught it in the ditch outside at night!
"Almost, but what I want to buy this time is not to repel mosquitoes, but to find that kind of old moxa sticks, the older the better!" Jin Xi said.

"What does Miss want it for?" Ah Cai asked.

"The family has moxa for three years, the doctor doesn't use it, of course he uses it for moxibustion." Jin Xi smiled and said.While talking, the three of them kept walking towards the city ahead, and the three pairs of eyes began to scan the streets on both sides, trying to find a larger pharmacy.

"Is it the same as acupuncture in Chinese medicine?" Ah Cai asked.

Jin Xi nodded, then shook her head, she is not a Chinese medicine practitioner, let alone acupuncture.However, fortunately, she was a top student in a sports school in her previous life. When she was a sophomore, she read a miscellaneous book of characters, and suddenly became very interested in the wonderful moxibustion skills of the protagonist in it.

For a long time, she put a lot of effort into moxibustion, and even enrolled in a cram school about moxibustion health preservation. Every weekend night, her roommates dressed up like flowers and butterflies flew out to meet her little boyfriend They spent the month before and after each other, while she sat in the cram school with a book in her arms, and followed the teacher to identify acupuncture points...

Later, for a long time, whenever she felt uncomfortable, she would try to give herself moxibustion.It's a pity that she used the new moxa from that year, and the efficacy of the medicine was far inferior to that of the old moxa. In the end, she gradually put aside that skill and directly believed in the quick and easy methods of western medicine.

After traveling here, when the food and clothing are not resolved, naturally I don't care about regaining my skills.Later, as the family business grew bigger and bigger, there was even less time to take care of those things.

This time I came to Yunzhou City, the humid climate under the southern sky made her feel a little uncomfortable, and her knees were always a little sore at night, so she thought of moxibustion.

"Miss, is it because she has worked too hard these past few days and her body is tired and weak? If so, tomorrow, Miss will rest at the inn for a day, and Ah Gui and I will go out and look for it!" Ah Cai said worriedly.

Jin Xi knew they had misunderstood, so she quickly smiled and waved her hands.

"It's okay, I'm fine. I used to want to look for that kind of grown-up old AI when I was looking at the sea, but it has been unsuccessful. This Yunzhou City is so big, I must be able to find an old old AI to bring back to Wanghai Go!" Jin Xi said.

Mrs. Sun has old and cold legs. Liang Yuzhong and Mrs. Sun have worked hard in the past few years, and they have also suffered from many diseases. Liang Yuzhong has lumbar muscle strain.Bring some old Ai back and serve the family!
While Jin Xi was preaching the many benefits of moxibustion to A Cai and A Gui, the two were also moved by it, and their previous depression subconsciously subsided a lot.

The three of them searched all the way, and asked several pharmacies, they had mugwort, but they were not old enough, Jinxi came to this big place to find something over three years old, so the three of them left the shop, and continued to search.

Finally, in a pharmacy that looked like it had three shops, Jin Xi finally found the old Ai she was looking for.After negotiating the price with the shopkeeper and paying the silver and preparing to leave, an old woman dressed as a nun entered the shop, went straight to the medicine cabinet on the other side, and handed a prescription prescribed by the doctor to the medicine collector behind the medicine cabinet. man.

Jin Xi had already stepped over the threshold of the pharmacy with one foot, suddenly, she stopped, turned her face and stared at the old nun with her hands clasped in front of the medicine cabinet over there.

"Miss, what's the matter?" Agui asked in a low voice.

Jin Xi raised her hand to signal, Agui hurriedly stood at the door of the shop to ensure that no one could get out, while Jin Xi turned and walked towards the old nun over there, her brows slightly surprised.

According to the prescription, the clerk behind the medicine cabinet skillfully grasped and wrapped all kinds of medicinal materials. When the old nun was about to reach out to pick it up, someone suddenly patted her shoulder. She turned her head in surprise and saw the When the surprised and delicate face of the girl on her shoulder appeared, the old nun's hand shook, and all the herbs were spilled on the ground.

"Mother Xiang, it's really you?" Jin Xi shouted out in surprise after a brief shock.

When her mother-in-law was in Sunjiagou, she cured Jin Xi of a cold with homemade modern western medicine, which aroused Jin Xi's suspicion that she was also a fellow traveler.However, in the face of Jinxi's inquiry, Xiang's mother-in-law showed extreme repulsion and dodge, and even packed up and saluted and left Sunjiagou secretly that night.

The people in Sunjiagou were all amazed at where mother-in-law Xiang had gone, and they had been talking about this topic for a long time.Jin Xi also has deeper doubts in her heart, the more she avoids her mother-in-law, the more she proves that Jin Xi's guess is correct, and her mother-in-law's identity is very problematic.

It's just that I didn't expect to meet Granny Xiang in Yunzhou, thousands of miles away. But, why is she dressed like this old nun?
Just when Jinxi's hometown is about to burst into tears when he sees the fellow, Xiang's mother-in-law shows the usual avoidance.

She raised her yellow-brown sleeves to cover her face in a panic, and said repeatedly: "The benefactor has admitted the wrong person, the poor nun is not what you call a mother-in-law, excuse me!" If you don't go up and take care of the medicinal materials scattered on the ground and the surprised eyes of other people in the shop, you will flee to the door of the shop.

There was Agui blocking the way, Xiang Popo couldn't escape.

"Ha, it's really you, an old druggie. Hey, why are you hiding? Our lady is not your enemy!" Agui shouted dissatisfiedly.

Mother-in-law Xiang looked anxious, she didn't give up and ran away, Jin Xi held her forehead and said loudly: "Forget it, maybe I'm really dazzled, Agui, let this master go, don't make things difficult for her."

Agui hesitated for a moment, Xiang Po Po slid under Agui's armpit like a loach, then ran away after rubbing oil on the soles of her feet. I couldn't find my figure anymore.

Agui followed Jinxi and stood on the bustling street, and asked in a daze, "Miss, are you really delusional and mistaken?"

No way, Miss has never made such a mistake.

Jin Xi looked at the endless street in front of her, and said with a half-smile, "Oh, it's definitely her."

"Why did Miss let her slip away?" Agui was puzzled.

"I can't slip away, Ah Cai has already followed." Jin Xi said.

What?Agui turned his head, only to belatedly realize that Acai, who had been closely beside Jinxi, had disappeared when Jinxi went to pat the old nun on the back.Ah Gui came to his senses in an instant. It turned out that the young lady was holding back!
"The one who is dressed as a nun to her mother-in-law and sneaks around must be hiding something, Jin Xi frowned and thought to herself.

Nun dress up?nunnery?Jin Xi suddenly thought of something, her eyebrows twitched, she hurriedly turned around and went into the pharmacy, and asked the clerk who fetched the medicine for her mother-in-law.

Sure enough, the prescription to the mother-in-law was still in the hands of the guy and he didn't have time to return it to her.

Jin Xi knows that such a large pharmacy has its own reputation, and generally will not easily reveal the condition of patients.Therefore, Jin Xi will definitely not be able to get the prescription list that was handed down to her mother-in-law.

Jin Xi patted A Gui on the shoulder, and whispered something in his ear, A Gui understood, and hurried to the medicine cabinet, while Jin Xi left the pharmacy.

After a while, Agui came out in high spirits, and handed a list to Jin Xi, which was a rubbing copy.

"Miss is generous. Although the prescription list was temporarily taken by their shopkeeper for safekeeping, the guy couldn't help but have a good memory, and he had already memorized the name of the medicine on it."

Jin Xi looked at another copy of the list in her hand with satisfaction, and smiled, money can turn ghosts around!

"Then what kind of illness is this prescription used to treat? Did the guy tell you?" Jin Xi asked again.

"As I said, it is used to clear the lungs and relieve coughs, and to calm the nerves."

Jin Xi pondered for a while, and had a general idea in her mind, quickly accepted the order, and said to A Gui: "Well, let's go back to the inn and wait for A Cai's news!"

An hour later, just as the genius was getting dark, Ah Cai went back to the inn, drenched in sweat.

Jin Xi fetched a basin of water and asked him to wipe his face first, but he didn't care, he wanted to finish the follow-up results first.

"Miss's guess is right. That woman really has a ghost. She didn't go to other medicine shops to catch her medicine when it was overturned. She ran away with her head sullen. I followed her out of the city, fifty miles to the west, and came to a mountain. At the foot, I heard the sound of the evening bell faintly coming from the mountainside in the distance."

Jin Xi's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she quickly spread out the topographic map and searched for it with her fingers.

Hanshan Temple?Went to Hanshan Temple to mother-in-law?

Jin Xi narrowed her eyes slightly, tapped lightly with her fingers on the topographic map spread out in front of her, but her mind was running fast.

Those modern Western medicine concepts of Xiang Popo and those mentioned by Wen Qing cannot be just a mere coincidence.Jin Xi couldn't help linking the two of them together, perhaps, there was a connection between the two that they didn't know about.

Thinking of Wenqing, then thinking of Wending, Princess Yun is a monk and she dresses up as a nun to her mother-in-law. Could it be said that Xiangma's medicine was bought for Wending's mother, Princess Yun?
Jin Xi's eyes light up suddenly, these past few days, she suddenly seems to see a clear and clear main line.

"Cai, get ready, let's set off overnight to Hanshan Temple!"

……

In a secluded small courtyard in the backyard of Hanshan Temple, Wending was still waiting beside Princess Yun's bed in his clothes.He took out a small spittoon under the bed and stroked Princess Yun's thin back.

Seeing Princess Yun coughing one after another, her face was flushed and she was out of breath, Wending turned his face away in distress.

He has always been proud of what he does, proud of being a strong martial artist. However, when he saw his mother who was lingering in the bed and was tortured by the illness, Wending felt that he Extraordinarily powerless.

At this time, all his hopes were placed on Wen Qing, who possessed superb medical skills.

Concubine Yun finished her medicine yesterday, and she originally planned to go grab the medicine today, but Grandma Xiang just wanted to go down the mountain to buy needles and threads, so she asked Ying to go down the mountain.

But on the way back to the mountain to her mother-in-law, she accidentally stepped on a stone and almost fell under the cliff, and lost the medicine.

Wen Qing came over to plead guilty to Princess Yun and Wending, and explained that he would go down the mountain immediately to get medicine for Princess Yun at dawn.

"Ding'er, don't blame Wen Qing and Granny Xiang. During the period of my illness, I was also thanks to their careful care." After coughing for a while, Princess Yun stroked her chest and panted to persuade Wen Ding.

Because Wending got angry earlier and kicked Dr. Wenqing.

"Back then, on the way to Wanghai, my mother was unfortunately ill. Fortunately, I met Dr. Wenqing and Granny Xiang. During the few days before you came to my side, Dr. Wenqing was just like you, waiting on me in untidy clothes. In front of me. I also rely on my mother-in-law to take care of my clothes, shoes and socks, as well as my tea and water."

"Although Grandma Xiang is healthy and healthy, she was used to living in the mountains before, but she is an old man after all, so don't bother Granny Xiang with the matter of taking medicine in the future." Princess Yun earnestly persuaded Wen Dingdao, weak His eyes were full of kindness and generosity. Wending listened, and couldn't bear to fulfill Ni Niang's wish, so he nodded silently. Then Princess Yun grinned, and raised her hand to gently touch Wending's face. Loving and caring.

(End of this chapter)