General doctor's wife

Chapter 1
In the third year of Changshun, the snow seemed to be falling extraordinarily heavily.There is a vast expanse of whiteness between the sky and the earth, which reflects the cleanliness of the capital city.

"Miss Qin, are you home?" Outside the door creaked by the wind, a lady with a child in her arms shouted anxiously.

The howling north wind blew across the woman's flushed cheeks mercilessly, but she didn't care at all. She just lowered her head and tightly wrapped the quilt around the child, and then looked up into the yard.

"Squeak~" The door opened, and a woman in plain clothes came out. She stood at the door, looked out, and said, "Aunt Zhou, come in."

Hearing what she said, the aunt of the Zhou family immediately pushed the door open and walked in, and hurriedly said, "Miss Qin's family, take a look, my little treasure started to burn all over last night, I, I don't know what to do, You must save my little treasure."

The woman lifted the thick curtain and motioned for Aunt Zhou to put Xiaobao on the chair in the main room.

She looked down at Xiao Bao's flushed face, stretched out her hand to test the temperature of the child's forehead, and said decisively to Aunt Zhou's family, "Loosen the quilt and open the skirt."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and took a black porcelain jar, and poured out a bowl full of wine exuding a strong aroma.

She was holding the wine bowl in one hand and the white handkerchief in the other, and seeing Aunt Zhou standing there hesitantly, she couldn't help frowning.

"Aunt Zhou, listen to me if you want to save your son's life. Hurry up, high fever will easily damage the heart." The cold voice interrupted Aunt Zhou's hesitation.Aunt Zhou gritted her teeth, quickly loosened the quilt wrapped outside, and opened Xiaobao's skirt.

The woman handed the bowl and handkerchief to Aunt Zhou's family: "Wet the handkerchief with wine, and wipe his armpits, palms and feet."

Aunt Zhou quickly took the bowl and handkerchief, and wiped her son's armpits with a little force.

The woman turned around and took a few silver needles, and gently pricked Xiaobao's Quchi and Fengchi acupoints.

"Wipe it for a while, and when the fever subsides, I'll prescribe a few more medicines, and you can cook it at home." The woman took out a handkerchief again, wiped her hands gently, and turned to look at the heavy snow blowing outside.

The aunt of the Zhou family wiped it for a while, and saw that her son's temperature had dropped by half, she was pleasantly surprised, and began to talk more.

"It's not easy to go out in such heavy snow, Miss Qin, are you still visiting the doctor today?"

"No." The faint answer came, and Aunt Zhou didn't feel embarrassed. The neighbors in the neighborhood knew that the lady of the Qin family was good at medicine, but except for a few words when she was treating patients, she hardly spoke on weekdays.

"Well, at Caishikou at noon today, the general who killed the Tartars will be asked to be executed. It would be great if such a heavy snow can be delayed for a few days. Cut it..."

The lady of the Qin family, who had always been silent, suddenly turned her head: "Who do you think will be executed?"

Seeing that she was interested, the aunt of the Zhou family hurriedly explained in detail: "It is General Pingxi who killed 30 Tartars in the west. I don't know what he did. He will be executed at noon today. Both the top and bottom will be asked and beheaded together."

The woman leaned against the window frame with a pale face, feeling that all her strength had been drained from her body.

Seeing the woman's appearance, Zhou's aunt asked a little uneasy: "Miss Qin, you, are you okay?"

After a long while, the woman stood still with the window lattice, took off the silver needle on Xiaobao's body, walked to the table, and wrote down the prescription with a pen.

Aunt Zhou's family hugged the child and walked out thankfully, and said that she would come back tomorrow to pay the consultation fee.

"Tomorrow?" The woman repeated with a low smile, but she didn't know that tears were streaming down her face.

In the inner room, the woman is carefully adorning herself in front of the bronze mirror. A red plum is tapped between the eyebrows drawn by Qingdai, and rouge is lightly applied to make her cheeks look like a viburnum that has just opened.

The long hair that was once praised as brocade was combed into an upside-down bun again. On the head, he inserted his favorite gold hairpin obliquely, adorned with thin silver thread beaded tassels, and the ruby ​​earrings on the ears swayed and shone.

Wearing a bright red dress with thousands of petals and chrysanthemum patterns, and a pleated moon skirt with pine flowers, she has a graceful and calm demeanor, just like before.

She stood in front of the door looking at the snow for a while, then picked up the bamboo umbrella by the door, and walked towards the entrance of the vegetable market step by step.

The entrance of the vegetable market was densely packed with spectators. On the temporary execution ground, a row of executioners stood naked in the heavy snow, with fierce faces.

In front of them, a row of people kneeling with bowed heads.

The lady Li who only knows how to dress up beautifully to compete with others, the gentle and pleasant Aunt Wen who is admired by His Majesty for being good at calligraphy and painting, the orchid who is of foreign blood and good at singing and dancing, the loyal mother Liu and Maisui...

Is this even the maids and mother-in-law in the mansion not to be spared...

Then why, none of the relatives saw it?

"Execution!" The woman didn't hear what the supervisor said, until the last two words came out, the woman staggered, stumbled and pushed away the crowd, and walked forward.

What about that person?Is he there?
When she squeezed to the front, she saw white snowflakes soaked by hot blood.

The snow seemed to be falling harder. Amidst the crowd's discussion, the bright traces on the ground were covered up again, and it seemed to have returned to a clean state.

But only those who have seen it with their own eyes will know how disgusting the filth hidden underneath is.

"Take a prisoner, Lu Chengan."

The whole body of the woman couldn't help trembling, she suddenly raised her head, and stared closely at the tall man in a thin jacket in front of her.

The heavy bracelets and shackles did not bend his body even a little bit, and his face was calm, as if he had spent countless idle afternoons watching her drying medicinal herbs and reading medical books.

Lu Chengan raised his head and looked at the crowd calmly, until he saw the familiar figure, his heart tightened suddenly.

"Qin Ranran..." he murmured.

Qin Ranran seemed to have heard his call, so she lifted her skirt and ran towards him.

"Stop!" Two officers and soldiers stopped her with their knives drawn.

"Your Majesty has an order. The prisoner, Lu Chengan, colluded with foreign thieves, intending to force the palace to rebel. There are tunnels hidden in the palace, and there are a lot of illegal weapons. He will be executed immediately!"

Lu Chengan fixed his eyes on the tear-stained Qin Ranran, as if he wanted to carve her into his eyes.

Knife up.

Knife falls.

After turning those eyes around a few times, they still looked closely at Qin Ranran's direction.

"I know, I know everything..." Qin Ranran fell to the ground and muttered to herself.

The next day.

"Miss Qin, are you home? Our little treasure is ready, thank you so much." Aunt Zhou knocked on the dilapidated wooden door.

After not getting a response for a long time, Aunt Zhou pushed the door open and walked in when she saw that the door was ajar.

Inside the room, a figure in a wedding dress lay motionless on the table.

"Miss Qin, are you still up? It's such a cold day, don't catch cold." Aunt Zhou stepped forward and pushed the figure.

Hands hang down helplessly.

The dazzling bright red on her lips made Aunt Zhou's breathing stagnate.

"what……"

(End of this chapter)