Medicine in Song Dynasty

Chapter 197 Inside Story
Chen Mo didn't answer Su Tong's words, and fumbled for a medicine bottle to apply medicine to Shen Xiaojiu, and then wrapped it with a bandage.

It's a pity that his movements can't be called gentle at all, just the strength of applying the medicine, the kind of restraint, even a good person might break out in a cold sweat from the pain.

Su Tong watched helplessly as Shen Xiaojiu's face turned pale, beads of sweat the size of peas rolled down his forehead, but he refused to say a word, even his breathing didn't become much heavier.

Chen Mo finished the action in his hand, threw the person aside, and said to Shen Xiaojiu's two followers: "Okay, help your master away, come back tomorrow."

Shen Xiaojiu's face, which had recovered somewhat, suddenly became extremely ugly again.

Su Tong couldn't help laughing, he was originally an extremely handsome young man, but he was so frightened by Chen Mo that his color became pale, which made her, who loves beauty and cherishes flowers, feel a little distressed.

Ah Zhen cooked a few side dishes and warmed a pot of wine. Su Tong sat opposite Chen Mo and played chess while drinking.

Although Su Tong was curious, seeing that Chen Mo didn't want to talk about it, he gave up the idea of ​​getting to the bottom of it after thinking about it. After all, the grievances between Shen Xiaojiu and him had nothing to do with Su Tong.

When Chen Mo had two glasses of wine, he was full of melancholy. He poked at the food in the bowl and said, "You don't know Shen Xiaojiu's name yet, do you? His single name is Ning, and the small character is Runqing. He is the ninth in Shen's family. His parents They are all concubines, and he is also a concubine."

With just one sentence, Su Tong can figure out that Shen Xiaojiu's childhood life must not be considered happy, especially that person looks like a man with personality. Full of talent, the status of a concubine will become a curse on the head.

Chen Mo smiled wryly: "Don't look at Shen Xiaojiu as he is now, but she is actually extremely smart. She has a photographic memory since she was a child, and she can write well-known poems at the age of six. The gentlemen in the Shen family studies don't think much of the few Shen family gentlemen born out of the concubines. Teaching them is not careful, but Shen Xiaojiu's talent still makes Mr. Chen couldn't help but feel a little pity for talent, and he has taught him everything that should be taught."

Su Tong blinked his eyes - this person is too smart, I'm afraid it's not a good thing.

It is indeed not a good thing. The situation of concubines oppressing the concubines was not unheard of in the Song Dynasty. Some enlightened families did not worry about the success of the concubine's children. No matter what the concubine was, he was also a brother. In this era when the power of the family is as powerful as the sky, the better he develops , is a good thing for the whole family.

It's a pity that people are so selfish, and not all elders can be so enlightened.

The Shen family is considered to be an enlightened family, but Shen Xiaojiu's father is a concubine, and he can't marry a woman from a wealthy family. The wife he marries is not even Xiaojiabiyu, so he is naturally short-sighted, how could he let him be so oppressed by a concubine in his own life? son's head.

When the child has not grown up, the aunt wants to suppress the concubine, and the means should not be too many, especially when the concubine's mother died young.

The mother-in-law of the Shen family adopted the most brutal and unreasonable method, saying that Shen Xiaojiu was going to murder the mother-in-law, which was unfilial, and shut him up in the family temple to chant scriptures and pray for blessings to eliminate his anger, and he was not allowed to go out to meet people casually.

Outsiders may find this incident inconceivable, but in fact it is just a matter of what the aunt said. Who would outsiders meddle in the private affairs of the family for the sake of a bastard for no reason.

At that time, Shen Xiaojiu was still young, and no matter how smart he was, he was not a time traveler like Su Tong. He didn't understand people's hearts. He only wanted to ask for immortals, and he didn't want to pay attention to common things.

A six-year-old boy, without the protection of his parents, could only wait to die in the family temple. In the end, he was so hungry that he couldn't bear it, so he tried his best to escape to the back mountain to get something to eat, and then he met Chen Mo, who was in full bloom. At that time, Chen Mo was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and it was the best and most wanton period of his life. When he went out to play, he saw Shen Xiaojiu, who was pitiful but had a fierce wolf cub, so he stretched out his hand to control him. over this nonsense.

It's a pity that reality is reality, he, Chen Mo, is from the Chen family, a famous family with considerable influence, and he can't control the housework of the Shen family.

Besides, the Shen family is not made of mud, you can pinch it around as you like.

Anyway, Chen Mo caused quite a lot of trouble, and the Shen and Chen families even fought a lawsuit for a long time, but after all, he was loved by his parents. The child's face.As for the Shen family, they would not allow a concubine's daughter-in-law to mess around and ruin the good reputation of the Shen family.

After much tossing and tossing, Shen Xiaojiu's treatment has improved a lot. Chen Mo often takes the initiative to take him to the Chen's house to teach him how to read and write. It can be regarded as recruiting a small partner. The two get along very well, but it's a little surprising , Shen Xiaojiu actually abandoned literature and went to martial arts, and almost made Chen Mo mad at that time.

The Song Dynasty emphasized literature over martial arts, and Chen Mo was a master of learning. He just didn't pay much attention to the collection of classics and history, but paid more attention to miscellaneous studies, but he still felt that literature was more important than housework.

Speaking of this, Chen Mo couldn't help laughing: "I was young at the time, I was young at the time, and now I am very envious of those nimble knight-errants. Hey, a scholar who is useless is absolutely right."

Su Tong poured him a glass of wine, and said with a smile: "So, you and Shen Xiaojiu have a good relationship? Then how did it become like this?"

Su Tong was puzzled by this. Chen Mo cared about Shen Xiaojiu very much. Although Shen Xiaojiu put on a very indifferent expression at the beginning, she always listened to Chen Mo consciously or unconsciously. Several times, Su Tong She felt that Shen Xiaojiu looked at Chen Mo's expression like a very obedient, very obedient little squirrel, so cute as hell.

There must have been a wonderful story between the two.

Chen Mo was silent for a while, drank a glass of wine, and sighed: "He is indeed a bastard, he killed my little sister... My little sister is the only one, and he doesn't want to marry her, why did he want to provoke her again, my little sister loves so much , and eventually died, it was all his fault...it was his fault...no, it was my fault."

Speaking of these words, Chen Mo's voice was very soft and difficult, which made people feel unspeakably uncomfortable. Su Tong couldn't tell whether he blamed Shen Xiaojiu for not provoking his sister, or Shen Xiaojiu for not wanting to marry his sister. It's just that there must be inside information that outsiders don't know.

The two attendants who were pretending to be dumb and deaf couldn't help but have red eyes. Although they didn't dare to make a sound, they still couldn't help wiping away the tears from the corners of their eyes with their sleeves.

What's the inside story, Su Tong didn't ask in detail, Chen Mo didn't have a capacity for a thousand glasses of wine, and now he was drinking too much, and he was drunk, he asked Ah Zhen to put some clothes on him, and then went out to watch the servants pack their things.

(End of this chapter)