Medicine in Song Dynasty

Chapter 53 Trouble
On this day, the continuous rain and snow finally stopped, and the sun was rarely exposed.

Su Tong had just finished checking homework for Erlang and the little Ah Yue of the Hu family, and went to the kitchen to squeeze two cups of juice from fresh fruit and add the boiled sugar juice.

Now this sugar contains too many impurities, every time Su Tong wants to use it, he has to boil it into juice and filter it.

Although there are a lot of dross, the sweet and sour fruit juice is not only liked by girls, Erlang and Ayue also like it. The situation in Rugao is complicated now, but it is not like in Kaifeng, where you can buy drinks casually.

The servant girl brought by the Hu family didn't mind making all kinds of delicacies for her little master, but Ayue didn't see how he liked it at home, but when she arrived at Su's house, she competed with Erlang for a drink, which made Hu Lingyi and him His wife, Mrs. Gu, was quite embarrassed, but Su Tong knew that it was probably the same reason that the children would eat deliciously when eating at school or kindergarten, but at home, they were coaxed by their parents and refused to eat more.

Sure enough, even if you are six or seven years old, you are still a child, and as long as you are a child, you need friends.

In the past, Ayue was at home, even though he had older brothers and sisters, but the Hu family has a lot of rules, even brothers and sisters seldom mix and mess together, and he is the youngest and sick, his older brothers and sisters have long been taught by their parents to be careful Treat him mercilessly, where would you be willing to mess around with him.

Coaxed the two children to play by themselves with fruit juice, told the maid at home, and a few servants brought by Ayue to watch them, not allowing the two of them to go out at will. After investigating these days, Su Tong drew the coastal area All kinds of topographic maps, as well as all the information that can be found, were taken out, a table was spread out, and the door of the study was locked.

Naturally, Su Tong himself doesn't understand these engineering constructions, but for the time being, prepare the materials first, calculate how long the project will be, how many bricks and stones will be needed, how many manpower will be needed, how long will the work be done every day, and when will it be completed. Anticipate where and what kind of difficulties you will encounter.

Even if what Su Tong can think of is simple and what he writes is crude, it can be regarded as a reference for Su Wencheng to ask a professional to perfect it.

What's more, just relying on Su Tong's profound mathematics and physics skills, no one would dare to say that her ideas are crude.

In fact, after nearly five days of sorting out and calculating, Su Wencheng was stunned when he saw the results that Su Tong 'shyly' presented.

In particular, Su Tong also drew a three-dimensional drawing, listing various possible data calculated from various calculations.

The winding and rugged but majestic weir appeared on the paper, and it was no longer something imagined. Even though Su Tong wrote modestly that it needed to be corrected by experts, the impact on Su Wencheng was still unimaginable.

Although he knew for a long time that his daughter was smart and learned a lot from his wife, he never expected that his family, Ah Tong, could be so patient.

Su Wencheng felt a little annoyed—it seemed that he still didn't know Shufen well enough. The wife in his impression was a talented woman who knew everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, gentle and virtuous, and a decent lady. A lady should not only be proficient in the six arts of a gentleman, but also be good at fortifications.

In his eyes, since even his daughter, who has only learned from his wife for a short time, is so powerful, how far can his wife be able to endure?
It can't be blamed that Su Wencheng didn't suspect at all where his daughter learned these things. Although he got along well with his wife Chen, it can be said that he was in harmony with each other, and he loved his wife very much, but at that time he was busy preparing for the imperial examination. , Most of the daily experiences are given to books, and there is no time to get to know his wife in detail. Except for the occasional red sleeve and sweet night reading, it can be regarded as a hobby. In fact, he knows too little about other aspects of his wife.

Besides, which father who really loves his daughter would easily doubt his daughter?
Seeing his father's performance, Su Tong couldn't laugh or cry. Fortunately, Su Wencheng is not a pedantic person. If someone else knew that his daughter went to learn such vulgar things, he would be furious to death. He only thought that his daughter was smart. Don't want anything else.

Su Wencheng packed the large pile of papers written by Su Tong in a wooden box with great care, and took them to the Yamen. He also went to Hu Lingyi to show them to a group of professionals.

Although he didn't say what the professionals had to say, but just looking at Su Wencheng's complacent expression and his increasingly busy work, he couldn't hide it after returning home. At least Su Tong's Things still come in handy.

Su Wencheng was in a hurry every day, but he lived a fulfilling life. His whole body seemed to be rejuvenated, and he was no longer the decadent look of the previous days.

Su Tong only sometimes tells him to pay attention to rest and exercise when he is too busy, and don't forget to review the books. After all, the imperial examination is the most important thing, and if you want to kill a way out of the imperial examination, in addition to knowledge and luck, Physical condition is also very important. If the health is not good, no matter how capable you are, you will not be able to show it.

Today, when Su Wencheng came home, his face was ashen.

Su Tong was taken aback, and quickly asked: "But something happened in the yamen?"

Su Wencheng was startled, seeing that his daughter was frightened, rubbed his brows and shook his head, "There is nothing wrong with the yamen, it's... hey, it was the patriarch who sent me a letter saying that your mother invited a matchmaker to go to Sun's house to help Amin." She proposed marriage to Dr. Sun Changqing, Dr. Sun, and said it was my idea, but the Sun family didn’t agree, so she went to the Sun family to mess with her.”

Su Tong was dumbfounded, and after a while he couldn't laugh or cry and said: "Mr. Liu went to Sun's house to play tricks? Does she still want A Min's reputation?"

Although I don't know the specific situation of the Sun family, but judging from the relationship between Sun Changqing and Brother Xiaoyi, I can probably guess that the Sun family is not simple, at least not comparable to their Su family.Mrs. Liu went to Sun's house to make trouble, how can she get anything good?
Su Wencheng wiped the sweat from his forehead, not daring to tell the filthy words written by the patriarch in the letter, and Liu's utterance, to his precious girl who was extremely pure in his heart.

"I don't care about Amin's reputation now. I just hope that Mrs. Liu won't make trouble anymore, otherwise, maybe I will have to ask for leave to go back. Fortunately, the patriarch has come forward to reprimand Mrs. Liu, and he also went to the Sun's family to make amends for me. I apologized and gave me a big gift, but the Sun family said it was because of my face, so I won't pursue it, and the situation is not too bad."

Su Wencheng has never regretted it as much as today. He knew that he should not give up on himself and marry an unclear woman. Marrying a wife was easy at the beginning, but now he has to pay the price for his recklessness.

Su Tong frowned, and didn't want to pay attention to Liu Shi, but seeing Liu Shi becoming more and more domineering, he couldn't be careless, otherwise, one day the disaster she caused would harm his father.

(End of this chapter)