As the sky gradually darkened, Xu Nuo entered Madam Lu's house again: "Mom, I want to have dinner with you."
After she finished speaking, she saw Mrs. Lu holding a pen and writing something on the desk, and there was a young man sitting next to Mrs. Lu.
Xu Pingqi, her biological brother.
Lu looked over, smiled, and motioned Xu Nuo to sit down.
"Mom, you are more energetic than you were in the morning. You can even hold the pen." Xu Nuo smiled, his eyes lingering on Xu Pingqi's expressionless face for a moment.
He's just a nine-year-old kid, how come he looks so calm?
"Mom, who is he?" Xu Nuo looked at Xu Pingqi with a smile.
Mrs. Lu pushed Xu Pingqi on the back, and Xu Pingqi put down his brush, stood up, saluted, and said slowly: "Sixth Sister, I am Erlang."
"Erlang? You may have heard someone say that I don't remember the past. Don't blame me for not recognizing you." Xu Nuo smiled and tried to pat Xu Pingqi on the shoulder, but he dodged it seemingly casually.
"Sixth Sister also had no choice but to do so. I dare not blame her." Xu Pingqi curled up his lips and sat back down next to Lu.
Ping Qi stopped talking and Xu Nuo also sat down.
In my memory, Erlang always had a cold temperament. He was not as crazy and noisy as his peers. He preferred to read and write.
I wonder if he knows that his mother became mute because of him. If he knew, he might not be close to him.
After a while, the maid took three two-foot-wide food tables and arranged them in a row, and then placed the meals on them.
Xu Nuo saw three silver plates and a silver bowl on his desk, with milky white ivory chopsticks and mahogany spoons on both sides.
In the silver bowl was winter melon and mutton soup, and in the three plates were steamed crucian carp, pancakes, and gold-threaded plums.
He was silent until the maid removed the table, and then Xu Pingqi spoke: "My child still needs to review his homework, so I'll take my leave now."
Lu smiled and nodded, and after Xu Pingqi left, she asked Xu Nuo to sit closer.
Then he motioned to the maid to get the bookcase and paper and ink, and wrote: "Your aunt has allowed you to come to serve her. Mother knows your filial piety, but you are still weak. It has been colder these past two days, so you still stay in the house." Zhong, don’t come over.”
Dongmei, who was beside Lu, read the words on the paper.
After hearing this, Xu Nuo smiled and said, "My child has no one to talk to all day long. It's very boring. I'm here to accompany you, and I also want to relax."
Ms. Lu shook her head and continued writing: "I didn't expect that our six mothers can also talk about things. If you are bored, you can find a fourth mother to accompany you, or a third mother and a fifth mother."
Dongmei read the column of words again.
Xu Nuo took the pen from Lu's hand and said coquettishly: "Mom, what I told is the truth. I am not talking about the situation. I only come here at noon when the sun is the best, so I won't freeze. It takes a lot of time to write, don't worry. wrote."
Lu touched Xu Nuo's shoulder with a faint smile on her face.
After returning to the room, Xu Nuo let Chuntang take off her heavy cloak: "Do I have men's clothes?"
Chuntang paused and said, "Yes."
Even if the lady loses her memory, does she still like men's clothing?
"Take out a few sets and let me take a look."
Although my mother has a cold, she should be cured with a doctor's treatment.
The reason why my mother was so weak was probably because she was unconscious, overworked and sad. Now that I woke up, my mother's health has improved a lot in just half a day.
It's just that the throat is difficult to cure, otherwise no one in the whole government would talk about it.
Xu Liuniang returned to Suzhou at the age of ten and worked as a croupier in a gambling house owned by a man named Zhu Shang. Zhu Shang seemed to have a good relationship with a young miracle doctor.
You might as well find this miracle doctor to heal your mother's throat.
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It was still dark at the fifth watch, and Xu Nuo had already sat up from the couch.
"Madam?" Nanny Li heard the commotion outside the house and pushed the door open. She saw that the wardrobe was in a mess, and Xu Nuo, with her hair loose and wearing men's clothes, was picking up clothes from the ground and stuffing them into the wardrobe.
Xunuo turned around and smiled awkwardly: "Nothing, let Chuntang come over and tie my hair."
The loose robe concealed his original figure, and he had a pair of slender sword-shaped eyebrows, which made him look like a gentleman.
Last night, Chun Tang went out to find men's clothes. She picked a round-neck, wide-sleeved, wide-body black robe embroidered with bamboo patterns and put it on a hanger. She thought it would be easy to put on, but it took a lot of effort to put it on just now. .
Chuntang had just woken up. She was summoned by Nanny Li in a daze. Her eyes widened when she saw Xu Nuo's outfit. The previous sleepiness was swept away: "Madam, what are you going to do?"
When Grandma Li heard this, she gave Chuntang a slap in the face: "Why are you talking to the lady!"
Chuntang stuck out her tongue: "Madam, I made a mistake. I won't do it next time."
After Chuntang admitted her mistake, Grandma Li felt relieved and went to the small kitchen.
Xu Nuo coughed and said, "It doesn't matter, just feel free to be here with me. Didn't I say that I also stayed in Suzhou for a year before returning home? So I thought I could go out and have a look, maybe I could remember something."
Although Chuntang was confused, she was worried that she would say the wrong thing again, so she didn't ask any questions and picked a piece of cloth to tie up Xu Nuo's hair.
After breakfast, Nanny Li learned that Xu Nuo was going out to search for memories, and quickly stopped her: "Madam, if you want to wear men's clothes, I will never stop you. It's just that leaving the house is a big deal, and you can't be willful."
Xu Nuo knew that Nanny Li would not let her go out, and said with a grimace the words she had already thought of: "Actually, what I don't want to say is that I had a dream last night and vaguely remembered that there was a miracle doctor among the people I met before returning home. , very powerful. I thought that if I could find him to treat my mother, my mother’s illness would be cured faster.”
"this……"
Grandma Li is Lu's wet nurse. Now that Lu is seriously ill, she is very worried. Especially after learning that Lu was poisoned and mute, she is heartbroken.
If there really is a miracle doctor, she is willing to go and find it herself.
Seeing that Aunt Li had relaxed a little, Xu Nuo was secretly happy: "I'm going to take a look while it's still dark. If I can't remember where the doctor is, he'll come back and won't stay any longer. I promised to accompany him yesterday. If my mother comes to have lunch, please trust me for once."
Nanny Li looked at Xu Nuo with complicated eyes: "It's not safe for me to go out alone, I will accompany you."
"What should I do if I go out and someone comes to see me? You have to believe me, I will take care of your safety. I can just find a maid in the courtyard to guide me later." Xu Nuo said with a smile as he spoke. Then walked out.
If Nanny Li follows her out, she will definitely expose her pretense of amnesia.
Grandma Li sighed and told Chuntang: "If anyone comes, just say that I am resting and don't want others to disturb me."
Xu Nuo arrived at the courtyard and found that there were only two maids in the courtyard. I remember that one of them was called Qiyue, she was thirteen years old and had only entered Xu's house half a year ago, so she was just a rough maid. The other one is called May, twelve years old, a son of the Xu family, and a second-class maid.
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ps: In the Song Dynasty, chopsticks were called chopsticks, but in the Ming Dynasty, they were called chopsticks.
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