Kingfisher pinched her ears hard: "You little girl, what are you talking about? Is this what you can say about consummating the marriage?"
Feng Xiao nodded and asked again: "When the marriage is consummated, will the woman's voice change? I was listening below, and the voice didn't sound like the county master at all..." Feng Xiao, an innocent little girl, is fearless when she is ignorant. You can ask anything.
Kingfisher glared hard at Feng Xiao, hesitated to speak, glanced at the inner room, and whispered: "Don't talk about the master's affairs to anyone else, and don't ask."
Lin Rong came back to the yard and only soaked in the bath for half an hour. She wished she could rub off a layer of skin all over her body and pour it out elsewhere. Her chest hurt even if it was wet. She was lying on the bed with her clothes on. She could hear the girls whispering outside, and felt a burning pain in her chest. The unknown incense lingered in her nose, making her even more irritable.
She simply sat up, peeled off her little clothes, and saw that the bruises on her breasts gradually changed from the light red to dark purple, and a pair of red corals, the skin of which had been torn, was hanging crookedly. The night was getting hotter again, and the thin sweat flowed to the broken skin, making it more and more painful.
Lin Rong secretly cursed "beast" in his heart, went to the cupboard to find some cooling ointment and applied it on it. He tossed and turned all night and didn't know how long it took before he fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Hang Qing came and stood on the porch and asked Kingfisher: "It rained heavily again last night. Is Madam awake?"
Lin Rong still didn't get up at this time. Although he was very sleepy and his eyelids were swollen, he had applied medicine on his chest. He felt itchy and painful all night and couldn't sleep well at all. He simply sat on the bed and scolded Lu Shen in his heart. Ten times, still unable to understand the hatred.
Hearing Hang Qing's voice outside, he asked Feng Xiao to lead her in and hide behind the curtain: "I felt a little tired. I felt dizzy when I sat up, so I didn't get up. Miss Hang Qing came early in the morning, what's the matter?"
Hang Qing is the general manager of the inner courtyard, and Lu Shen didn't deliberately hide it from her. Naturally, he could guess what happened in the small attic by the lake. She looked at the lightly floating sky-green bed tent, feeling a little empty. She saw the woman inside chatting as usual, but her voice was slightly hoarse and her tone became more respectful. She said: "It's going to rain these days. The old lady is worried about the lack of roads. It's good to go, so I won't stay another day and will set off for Xuzhou at noon."
Lin Rong sighed, the old lady was pretty good to her, at least not much better than Lu Shen. According to her true nature, she was happy to see her off.
Of course, Lu Shen must have been there at that time. She really didn't want to see him now, so she looked weak: "My old lady wanted to eat a dish of lotus leaf and lotus porridge that I made yesterday, and she happily led others to pick lotus leaves. I'm just not up to par. I'm caught in the rain and can't get up today. I'm afraid that I'll give it to my elders after I'm sick, so I asked Miss Hangqing to plead guilty to my aunt, the old lady, because I can't see her off."
At the same time, he ordered Hang Qing to hold out several brocade boxes: "This is for the old lady. It is not expensive. It is some shoes, socks and clothes I made by myself. Although the craftsmanship is not good, it is my filial piety." In fact, Kingfisher and Fengxiao did it behind closed doors at night, and Lin Rong could only get one or two injections.
Hang Qing nodded: "Is Madam in a hurry? After lunch, I will call some doctors to come in and take a look. Even the ordinary wind and cold are uncomfortable, so it's better to use a few pictures."
Lin Rong said: "I'm a little short of breath and have no strength to walk. I'm sorry to bother you."
When Hang Qing replied, Lu Shen was eating with the old lady Gu. He frowned when he heard this, but the old lady Gu asked a few words: "Is it important?"
Hang Qing thought for a while and summarized Lin Rong's words: "Madam said she had some chest tightness and fatigue." If Lin Rong was here, he would shake her shoulders and correct her. It was shortness of breath, not chest tightness. It's shortness of breath, not chest tightness! !
When Lu Shen heard the word 'chest tightness', his expression was slightly unnatural. He turned his head and picked up a chopstick of vegetables and put it in his mouth, but he didn't take a closer look at the mutton. He never liked the fishy smell, which tasted like chewing wax.
The old lady Gu looked at Lu Shen, she was just following the trend, so what could be hidden from her? She smiled and said, "It's okay. There are other illnesses to worry about. If it's just chest tightness, you can call two Doctor, please take your pulse, I'll be fine after a few days of rest."
Lu Shen said, "When elders go out, they don't see each other off. How come there are no rules?"
The old lady Gu smiled: "It's okay, it's the biggest rule to have a son in the future." With one sentence, Lu Shen was blocked tightly and was speechless for a long time.
After finishing the meal and about to set off, it started raining heavily again. Lu Shen advised: "The rain won't stop for a while, and the road is not easy to walk. My aunt might as well set off a few days later to pay homage to Pei Linggong. This is two days.”
The old lady Gu shook her head: "I have received a lot of favors from Pei Linggong in my life. He saved me in danger many times, and he did not despise me because of my womanhood. Without him, I would not have been able to come back from Jiangzhou alive. . I can’t repay him if he’s alive, but if he’s dead, I have to sacrifice for him. You don’t have to persuade me.”
He also advised him: "I heard from Duke De that Jiangzhou sent 50,000 pieces of cloth. Although we are asking for something, we should not treat other people's daughters harshly when we take their things. We have built a good relationship for thousands of years, and her surname is Cui. I am destined to be with you."
Lu Shen has always been filial. Although he didn't agree with this, he just kept silent and did not refute.
After saying that, the old lady pedaled away regardless of the heavy rain.
In the afternoon, Hang Qingguo invited two doctors into the house to diagnose his pulse. Lin Rong changed his clothes and hid behind the curtain, put on a handkerchief, and stretched out a bright wrist full of red rash.
The two doctors took their pulses respectively, and asked about the symptoms in detail, and said, "You might as well prescribe a prescription to strengthen the spleen and smoothen the qi. Just take it and it will be fine. As for the red rash on the lady's hands, it is all due to poor spleen and stomach. If you take medicine, it will go away."
Lin Rong snorted in his heart, Chinese medicine is so sophisticated, but these quack doctors have brought a bad reputation, and said: "I had a rash yesterday, and today two girls also have a rash. Is this rash likely to spread to others?"
The doctor immediately changed his words: "Back to madam, rashes caused by poor spleen and stomach can also be serious. You can just rest for a few days and not see people or wind."
Lin Rong got what he wanted and ordered the girl to send him out. At the same time, he ordered Jing Qin and Feng Xiao: "Put away all the clothes of the princes in the inner room, and send someone to tell Hang Qing that I am very sick, and I am afraid I will have to ask the princes to go back to Zhi Geyuan." "
Hang Qing was counting the Nanzhu and brocade presented to him. He was too busy to move away. He thought for a while and didn't know what decision to make.
Liuli, the little maid next to her, said, "What are you afraid of? It's just the right reason, and it was the order from there. Even if you want to blame it, you can't blame it on your sister. I see, she is going to take Qiao. As everyone knows, the more you take Qiao, the more disgusted the prince will be? Even the eldest lady in the past..."
Hang Qing frowned and lectured loudly: "Shut up, you are getting bigger and bigger day by day, and your words are getting worse every day. Go and kneel in the room, you don't understand. If you make any mistakes, you are not allowed to get up."
Hearing this, Liuli burst into tears: "Okay, mother is gone, the eldest lady is gone, and now my sister is still scolding me for an outsider?" She turned around and ran back into the house crying.
Hang Qing sighed, and just asked the girl to remind her. She thought to herself that the monarch had indeed ordered that day to move the daily necessities over there, and then move them back when the old lady left. He also thought that the monarch did not rest at his wife's place yesterday, so he nodded hesitantly and told a few girls: "You go to the second gate and bring some young women in their prime, go and pack your things and come back."
He also warned: "Be respectful and don't be rude to Madam. Just do what Madam tells you. Don't make your own decisions."
Several girls arrived at Lin Rong's yard and saw that everything was packed away, just waiting to be moved. Guiyuan sneaked into the inner room to say hello: "What's wrong with you, madam? I see you look good, but your eyes are swollen."
Lin Rong liked her and said a few more words: "That doctor is like a doctor. He talks a lot, and I can't understand it. I just take the medicine according to the prescription." He asked her again: "When I get better. , are you going to go to the Five Mysteries Temple on the mountain to make a pilgrimage?"
Guiyuan's eyes lit up after hearing this. Usually when old ladies and ladies go to have a wedding ceremony, a girl like her has no right to follow her. She has gone out to the farthest door, and now she is back to Xuanzhou: "Mrs. Xie is thinking of me, ma'am." Take me there, I will definitely go."
It was already night when Lu Shen came back outside. Shen Yan stood at the fork in the road with a bright-horned lantern and asked, "Master, are you going back to Geyuan?"
Lu Shen didn't answer and walked to another path. When he arrived at Lin Rong's courtyard, he saw it was completely dark. The lights inside and outside the courtyard had been turned off, and the gate was locked.
Frowning, he ordered someone to open the door. When he saw that all the maids and women had turned off the lights and were sleeping inside, and not a single person was keeping watch, he thought to himself: This Cui Shiniang really doesn't take her words to heart.
After standing for a while, I saw the lights were on inside. Several girls from the Cui family put on their clothes and got up. They knelt in the corridor and reported: "I have seen the king. The lady said that she was not feeling well, so she went to bed early in the morning." It’s windy and rainy outside. I was afraid that rocks would roll into the yard, so I closed the door.”
Seeing them shrinking back, Lu Shen was so scared. He also heard that Mrs. Cui was not feeling well. He felt a little awkward, fearing that it was not discomfort but pain. He waved his hand and said, "It's okay, let her sleep."
He went to the clean room by himself. After taking a bath, he didn't find a change of clothes on the pergola. He opened his mouth and asked someone to bring it to him. It took a long time before Kingfisher replied at the door of the clean room: "Madam, today I asked people to clean it up, and Miss Hangqing ordered everyone to take it back in the afternoon. I just ordered people to go to Zhige Courtyard to get it..."
Did she ask someone to clean it up? She... asked someone to clean it up... Why did she ask someone to clean it up?
It took Lu Shen a while before he remembered that he seemed to have ordered Hang Qing like this a few days ago. He had no choice but to wear his old clothes and come out.
Walking around the screen, a small lamp with yellow tiles was lit inside. Lin Rong slept in the innermost part of the bed, closing his eyes and falling asleep, as if he didn't know what to do.
Lu Shenxing walked to the bedside and opened the orchid green bed curtains. He saw the woman wrapped in a tight thin quilt, her head tilted towards the wall, and her black hair was scattered on the peach red elastic ink pillow.
He picked up the round fan on the bed, and there happened to be a beauty sleeping on the bed. Only a small ball of embroidery thread slipped on the skirt of the beauty's clothes, and it was all white. Looking from a distance, it looked like her clothes were scattered.
Lu Shen turned the fan in his hand and asked, "Is it better?"
Lin Rong still had his eyes closed, as if in a deep sleep. He didn't want to get up to deal with him, he just wanted to get over it.
Seeing that the woman refused to speak, Lu Shen took off his shoes and went to bed, saying, "I know you're not asleep, sit up!"
This was not a discussion, but a commanding tone. Lin Rong clenched his molars and sat up. He couldn't control the expression on his face for a moment, and stared at him unkindly for a while, and then said: "I have a red rash on my body, some girls." I was also asked to pass the test, but the doctor came to see me and said that it would be very difficult to pass it on to others, and told me not to see anyone or see the wind. I was afraid that the disease would be spread to the prince, so the prince had better go back to Geyuan to sleep. "
Lu Shen ignored her call and asked again, "Are you feeling better?"
Lin Rong's eyes were on fire. She had just said her feelings in vain. She slid up her sleeves, revealing her red, swollen and rashy little hands and arms: "It's not healed yet."
Lu Shen lowered his eyelids, was silent for a while, and then said, "That's not what I asked!"
Lin Rong was so angry that he finally realized what he was asking about. He was silent for a long time, and neither of them spoke. For a while, they could only hear the patter of wind and rain outside. The frogs croaking in the lotus pond, I don't know if it is quiet or noisy.
The two of them had been silent for an unknown amount of time when suddenly they heard a crash, the window opened, and the candlelight on the green candle stand outside the tent was blown around by the wind for some reason. For a moment, Lu Shen's shadow in the tent grew like crazy. Standing up, Lin Rong's whole body was hidden in his shadow.
At first, he didn't think anything was wrong, but when he saw the crazy long shadow, Lin Rong felt uncomfortable all over, and hesitantly said: "No...it's okay."
For a moment, I felt that this shy little daughter-in-law's appearance was really not free and easy. As a "well-informed" modern young woman, there was no need to be like this. She added a few words and her tone was very dry: "I'll come as soon as I get back." After taking the medicine, I'm much better, I only still have some pain occasionally, thank you for your concern."
care? That's not necessarily the case. Lu Shen rubbed the jade pendant on the fan with his hand. He groaned and asked: "That place is probably a trauma between the mouth and the mouth. Ordinary soldiers are injured by swords and arrows. If they are cured, they are cured. If they are not cured, they are not cured." , you...since your area is healed, why do you still have pain occasionally?"
Lin Rong didn't answer after hearing this, and his face turned cold.
Lu Shen took out a small porcelain bottle with pink and green glaze from his sleeve: "I'll apply the medicine for you."
Lin Rong felt extremely angry and immediately refused: "Thank you sir, I don't dare to bother you. I'll do it myself."
Lu Shen glanced at her. He didn't know whether he was angry or ashamed. His whole face and neck were stained with a light crimson color. He reached out to untie Lin Rong's clothes. At this time, he had an experience. There was no need to tear the whole thing into pieces. He gently With a pull, the thin straps of the tube top were immediately untied and slid off slowly.
Lu Shen's two fingers were dipped in jasper-colored ointment, and he moistened his palms for a while, then covered them and rubbed them gently.
Lin Rong froze there, feeling the coolness on his chest. He couldn't bear it anymore, so he grabbed Lu Shen's wrist and closed his shirt: "I'll wipe it on myself."
Lu Shen tilted his head and saw that she was holding her neck, her spine was straight, her collarbone was trembling slightly, and her eyes were red. He felt even more interesting. He pressed Lin Rong's elbow lightly, and the woman loosened her hand weakly. There is nothing to stop it.
Lin Rong didn't know where he pressed. His wrist was numb and had no strength. The slightest movement made him extremely sore.
The two of them sat opposite each other on the bed. By the time Lu Shen was halfway up, Lin Rong was sweating profusely. She didn't know whether it was pain or something else. She was so weak that she leaned against the pillow, her body white and trembling.
Lu Shen just watched silently. I don't know how long it took. The sound of wind and rain outside became louder and louder, and the green candle flame became more and more erratic. With a crash, the candlestick fell down, the candle flame went out, and the tent became dark.
Seeing this, Lu Shen no longer forced himself, let go, and threw the porcelain bottle on the pillow: "On the other side, go on your own!"
Lin Rong had already applied the medicine and didn't want to apply it again. She only saw the burning look in his eyes and was afraid that he would pick something wrong. He reluctantly stood up, turned his back, applied the jasper ointment carefully, and slowly put it on. Put on your shirt.
The ointment was very thick, and after wiping it, my hands were sticky. Only Lu Shen was sleeping outside, and Lin Rong couldn't step over him to clean his hands outside. He grabbed a handful on the tent and turned over as usual. Facing the wall, I silently scolded Lu Shen countless times. At this time, the hatred was so strong that the remaining sadness in his heart disappeared without a trace.
Suddenly, he remembered that in the nightmare he often had, it seemed that Lu Shen died from an arrow wound in his prime. Lin Rong thought about it for a long time, hoping that the dream would be effective, preferably tomorrow, and call Lu Shen immediately. It would be better to die. Ah Q thought about it for a long time, and the pain and itchiness on his chest was relieved by most of it. I don't know how long it took, but he felt sleepy and slowly fell asleep.
Lu Shen went out to sleep with his hands on his hands. When he saw the woman lying beside him obediently, he thought to himself: This Cui Shiniang is not useless at all. At least, she is not as disgusting as her father.
Chapter 23
Lin Rong had a very bad sleep in the first half of the night and was drowsy. He dreamed of a woman in brocade clothes sitting in a pavilion with her back to him in the mist, peeling lychees and asking the maid next to her: "How about that one?"
The maid shook her head: "Grandma, don't worry. Madam has spoken, but are you still kneeling in the ancestral hall?"
The woman in brocade clothes smiled and said: "She is a legitimate daughter of a high family. She doesn't know anything about the general affairs. She can only recite a few lines of sour Zou Zou's poems and her eyes are above her head. When the old lady dies, her happy life will also come to an end. It's gone." He said an ouch and protected his stomach: "Kicked me again."
The maid on the side hurriedly put a cloak on the woman in brocade clothes: "Grandma Feng, be careful. Even though there are two young masters, this baby is still a brother, so that's good."
The maid asked: "Do we want..."
The woman in brocade clothes shook her head: "If you have a heart to guard against others and a heart to do no harm to others, you don't have to be such a villain, there will naturally be people..."
Lin Rong already understood that this was a dream, and wanted to go to the pavilion in the middle of the lake to see what the two people looked like, but the fog was so heavy that he couldn't find the way.
Lin Rong walked around the shore and turned to the front of the woman, only to see her face hidden in the heavy fog. She heard her smile sweetly, pointed at Lin Rong and said, "Hey, why are you standing in the water? The water here is so deep. It reaches your waist."
Lin Rong suddenly woke up, her lower abdomen hurt, and her waist felt wet. She counted the days - menstruation was coming.
She sat up and saw that the silk sheets under her body were soaked red with blood, and even the brocade quilt was stained with blood. He glanced at Lu Shen on the other side of the bed in the moonlight, and saw a hand under his head. Even when he was asleep, his expression on his face was still so annoying.
Not caring whether she woke him or not, Lin Rong wrapped herself in a quilt, stepped over from Lu Shen's feet, and knocked on the window of the blue gauze cabinet outside. After a while, Feng Xiao asked with sleepy eyes: "County Lord, What's wrong?"
Lin Rong whispered: "Last time I taught you how to put the menstrual belt made of cotton after boiling water. Bring it to me in the clean room and bring another basin of hot water."
Feng Xiao didn't react: "County Master, are you menstruating?"
Lin Rong said angrily: "Nonsense."
Lin Rong finished changing in the clean room and came out to ask Feng Xiao, "What time is it?" Feng Xiao looked at the hourglass in the corner and said, "It's just past the time when I was ugly."
Lin Rong groaned and sat on the small stool at the door of the clean room without moving. Feng Xiao asked: "Master, are you not going to bed? Even if Junhou gets up at the same time, it will still be early."
Lin Rong pointed inside: "It's also on the bed."
Lin Rong felt embarrassed, but Feng Xiao was afraid: "How can this be good? The Lord is still inside. What if he gets angry when he sees these filthy and unknown things? It's war time again, and people say it's the most taboo. That’s it.”
