The eldest married as a merchant's wife

Chapter 390: Under the Roots of the Imperial City (1)
Time travels quickly, starting from Fucheng in early October, going north to Jinzhou via Qingjiangpu, and arriving at Yangukou in mid-October.It is still the end of autumn in the south, and winter has already entered the north, and the coldness hits the face as soon as you step off the pier.Take a rest in the Yangukou Inn, get your make-up done, and then take a carriage. Half a day later, you arrive at Jianling City. This is the farthest distance Xiuhe has traveled since she can remember.

The capital is spread across the land, and the hutongs are laid out in a complicated way like a chessboard, but the streets are wide, straight and clean.Wheels wheeled along Changshunmen Street all the way to look at the direction of the house, listening to jugglers, buskers, and bakery hawkers yelling, and the sound of unfamiliar Peking operas turning the corner can be heard endlessly; Look, people's faces are also unfamiliar. People in the south pay attention to whiteness and smoothness, while people in the north have harder edges and corners.The clothes I wear don't like bright colors either. Looking at the street in early winter, the color tone is like gray-black slag poured out of a coal stove, covering a person's body with a thin layer.

Everything takes away the smell of the small town in the south of the Yangtze River, such as the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus, the rumors of haunted Mei's old house, or the "creaking" feet of Jinzhi covered bridge. The sound of stepping on wood, as well as those behind-the-scenes chatter about Xiuhe and late spring...

Jishanli is a secluded alley, the autumn wind blows under the high wall without people, and the wind takes people to the end of the alley, which is a quaint old house with the smell of wood.Xiuhe stood quietly under the beams of the old wooden house, the old house was empty, she never thought of it.Earlier, she still had a trace of prayer, thinking it was late spring's nonsense or sowing, but old doctor Zeng really left with his servant in blue and the old house slave.

There is a letter lying lonely on the big black desk, perhaps because the autumn rain has dampened the air, the seal of the letter is already wrinkled, as if it is expected that someone will open it, and it saves people by itself. strength.

Old Doctor Zeng said: "The grievances and grievances in the imperial city are always unavoidable. I owed him a favor several years ago, and now he asks me to pay it back, and I really have to. I know you want to come to me, but Fang I can't give you the son, and I also want to save my life to spend my old age. The prescription was changed in May this year, and after a month's delay, I left at the end of June. But if your father's illness is not for me to heal, Originally, it could only be delayed until that time. Speaking of which, I didn’t harm him, just treat him as if I never cured him.”

The words were written in deep, strong, scrawled letters, written by old doctor Zeng. I don't know what was scribbled on the paper. It was exposed to the air for a moment, and then it burned to ashes.I don't want to leave even a little evidence.

...The prescription was changed only in May, which means that the previous prescription was correct, but it changed its nature later.Xiuhe recalled what Aunt Hong had said to herself. Aunt Hong said that before Duogan left, she had gone to see old Guan Fu, and she didn't know what she said. At that time, Aunt Hong was standing outside the hall wall, only hearing Guan Fu procrastinating. The voice pleaded: "In the end, I brought her up bit by bit with my own hands. I watched her grow from a ball of meat into a little girl, holding my hand and walking tremblingly, and suddenly called out...Dad, in a blink of an eye She was carried on the sedan chair by her brother again. This call of father has lasted for 17 years. I can’t bear to take her away suddenly like this. Wow, half of my heart is empty. If you really want to leave, you can wait After she gave birth to the child, she told me to take a look at my granddaughter before leaving..."

(End of this chapter)