Lin Rong asked: "Where have you been playing? Have you given her the medicine in the morning?"
Kingfisher said: "I've taken the medicine and had a good breakfast. Now I'm outside in the flower garden. I took the bamboo scissors and said I wanted to cut a flower outside. After picking for a long time, I thought any flower would be good. I haven't yet. It's time to make a decision. I see my young master following your whim, the county master, and loves these flowers and plants."
She still can't change much or is unwilling to change. When no one is around in private, she is always willing to call Lin Rong 'the county boss'. Lin Rong didn't care much in the past, but this time he said: "Don't call me County Lord from now on. From now on, there will be no Wuyang County Lord. You can call me sister from now on."
Kingfisher shook his head and refused: "If you don't want to call me County Lord, then you should call me girl according to the previous title when County Lord was unmarried."
Kingfisher is good at everything, but he is really stubborn when it comes to the title of master and servant. Lin Rong put on her clothes and washed herself, and sat in front of the dressing table to twist her hair. She remembered what Lu Shen said last night. She didn't know how much she had suffered from him, and she didn't want to believe it easily. She asked Jing Qin: "Has he left?"
Jing Qin naturally understood who Lin Rong was talking about and nodded: "The Lord and Marquis left in the rain at midnight yesterday. Only the guards have not left. Shen Yan also stayed behind, saying that he was guarding the young master."
Lin Rong nodded and ordered: "Invite someone to go to the county government office to see if there is a notice about the establishment of the new government. In addition, you should go to the Tao Mansion in person and ask Mr. Tao about the imperial palace's newspaper. , is there any news about the selection of a concubine?"
He paused and said, "I don't know if he has vented his anger on Mr. Tao. Even though he was implicated, he refused to say anything. You can ask the servants you know well and find out about the current situation of Tao Mansion."
Kingfisher nodded in response and just turned around. Then I saw the young master holding a handful of Luoyang flowers, throwing them into the arms of the county master, and smiled: "Mother, what beautiful flowers."
She didn't know how long she had been in the flower garden. She was smelling of flowers and grass. Lin Rong hugged her on his lap: "This is called Luoyang flower, also called silk-leaf dianthus. Later we will find a small yarrow vase and put it on your bed." On the small table by the side."
Lin Rong said, hugged Azhao and stood up. While opening the cabinet where the vase was stored, he said: "For flower arrangement and storage vase, use copper in spring and winter, porcelain in autumn and summer. For the study, it is best to choose ancient pots." , Gall bottles, Zun bottles, goblets, and stick bottles. If not, yarrow bottles, paper mallet bottles, round plain bottles, and goose-neck wall bottles can also be used reluctantly." ① "Vase Flower Book"
Ah Zhao seemed to understand, nodded, pointed to a goose-necked wall vase in the middle and said, "There is a vase like this in my father's portrait of my mother."
Lin Rong smiled and carried her out. There was a flower garden in the courtyard. Dozens of flowers and trees were planted in an orderly manner. They were lush and lush. They were irrigated by mountain springs and hidden in a lush forest of bamboos. It was quite unique as a small garden. A sense of secludedness.
Azhao asked: "Did you plant all these flowers?"
Lin Rong pointed to the flowers and trees in the garden and taught her carefully: "In spring, we plant some poppies and poppies, which are both ornamental and medicinal. At the end of spring, peonies bloom, and sometimes we plant some poppies, poppies, and poppies." Lan Zuozhi. What blooms in summer are Luoyang flowers, hollyhocks, and daisy..."
She spoke eloquently, as if she were reciting treasures from home: "In this way, flowers will bloom in this garden all year round."
Azhao didn't quite understand, so he finally said, "You know so much!"
Lin Rong touched her head and asked: "If you like it, after your illness is completely cured, I will take you to Tiantai Temple to see peonies. The peonies there are a wonder."
After having lunch with Azhao, Lin Rong was about to go to the hospital. Only Azhao was clingy at this time. He refused to stay alone in the yard, and refused to say that he wanted to go. He only held Lin Rong's hand and hummed and acted like a baby.
Lin Rong couldn't help but smile. After all, he carried her to the consulting room and asked her to sit behind the screen. However, as soon as Mr. Zhang came back, everyone came to seek medical treatment because of his name, and Lin Rong felt much more relaxed for a while.
The man from Luo Xiaoguan who suffered from acute appendicitis had a fever for two days but finally managed to survive it. He himself was fine, still lying on the hospital bed unable to move. Only when the old servant in his family saw Lin Rong, he thanked Lin Rong profusely, kowtowed and wiped his tears: "My little official has this disease. I asked for a pulse and took medicine, but I spent hundreds of gold, but it still didn't work. I only saw Dr. Lin, but it only took three to five days, and it was healed with my own eyes."
Lin Rong nodded. Good doctors were hard to come by in this era. She comforted him a few words, gave him medical advice, and walked back. Ah Zhao slipped out at some point and followed her. He was a little surprised to see the old servant crying with tears all over his face.
Lin Rong hugged her and asked, "Why did you come out?"
Ah Zhao just shook his head and said nothing. Finally, when he was sleeping peacefully in the middle of the night, he lay in Lin Rong's arms and said, "You are so amazing, mother!"
Lin Rong was lying in the bed tent. After hearing these words, her hand that was fanning suddenly stopped, as if her heart was filled with something. After a long time, she whispered: "Thank you!" In those memories, she found that she had just become pregnant. Azhao's depressed mood and tossing and turning sorrow seemed to be soothed by these words, and gradually dissipated like smoke.
Kingfisher came back early the next morning. While squatting on the small table to eat, he reported back: "I went to the yamen to see it. There was a notice about the establishment of a new post, which was posted on the eight-character wall of the county yamen. I went to Tao again. Mr. Tao said that there was indeed news about the election of a concubine in the new newspaper that arrived yesterday. The government office and Jiangzhou are far apart, and there has been no news. The servants looked at it, and it was not like that. It’s fake, I’m afraid the monarch is really going to establish a new queen.”
Lin Rong felt relieved after hearing this: "If it's true, then of course it's good!"
Kingfisher looked at the young master playing on the swing outside the window and said worriedly: "If a new queen is established, the young master will call others mother. In the future, the king will have many little princes and princesses. I don't know how to treat the young master. How interested would you be?"
Lin Rong couldn't answer these words, which made her depressed, and said silently: "Azhao was raised by him himself. Even if he doesn't care about her in the future, it will be limited. He will always miss the relationship between father and daughter."
Kingfisher retorted: "How could it be possible? I heard from the old mama that the county owner was also raised by the old man who asked Xianqu to raise him, and later he was sent to Yongzhou for marriage."
The corner of Lin Rong's mouth twitched slightly, and he really couldn't help but lift the pot. After a long silence, he said: "Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Has the Tao Mansion been implicated by me?"
Jing Qin shook his head: "Don't worry, girl, the prince has not had an attack in the Tao Mansion. Mr. Tao has also been re-employed and will go to Luoyang soon. I heard that he was promoted, and when the slaves went there, the Tao Mansion was decorated with lanterns and decorations. , beaming with joy, are you having a banquet?"
Got promoted to an official position and held a big banquet? Such an abnormality made Lin Rong feel a little suspicious. He stroked the flowers and leaves in the beauty goblet and warned: "When the queen is about to choose a concubine, if there is definite news from the Zhou Mansion, please get back to me immediately."
After three or five days of this, Azhao's illness was completely cured. Remembering Lin Rong's promise that day, he clamored to go to Tiantai Temple to see the peonies, calling his mother one after another. He was so naive and well-behaved.
Although it was also dusk, Lin Rong did everything he could and ordered people to get down and prepare the boat to set off.
Just as he was about to go out, he saw senior brother Chen Yuren coming over with an exquisite glazed lamp. He saw a three or four-year-old girl in Lin Rong's arms. He was stunned and called out: "Junior sister, where are you going?"
Lin Rong smiled and replied: "The peonies at Tiantai Temple are blooming very well. I told you a few days ago that this little girl took it to heart and asked me to take her there?"
After Lin Rong finished speaking, Ah Zhao murmured in protest: "Mother, I didn't yell."
These days, wherever Lin Rong went, inside and outside the hospital, the little girl would follow her. Everyone was talking about it. Some people said they heard the little girl calling Dr. Lin’s mother, and some said she was the child of Dr. Lin’s relative. Mr. Zhang just pretended that there was no such thing, and no one dared to ask.
Chen Yuren didn't quite believe it. How could his junior sister, who was highly skilled in medicine and pure and innocent, have such a big child? How could someone who even a handsome gentleman like Brother Minxing look down upon marry an ordinary person?
At this time, hearing Ah Zhao's words, Chen Yuren had to believe it even if he didn't believe it: "Junior sister, are you...really your daughter?"
Lin Rong didn't want to say anything. Azhao was leaving after all, going back to Luoyang. Just when he was about to be vague, he saw the girl looking at him with burning eyes and smiling, so she had no choice but to nod and admit: "Yes, she is my daughter. .”
Chen Yuren looked at Lin Rongzhi and sighed, holding an ancient book in his hand and said: "The books in Tianshui Pavilion are never borrowed. Brother Minxing copied a medical book for you and asked me to give it to you. Thank you for your life-saving grace." .”
Lin Rong took it and flipped through it. It turned out that it was the ancient book that he had been thinking about so much. He just copied it word by word. I'm afraid it was not easy. He was a little embarrassed: "Thank him for me. The grace of saving my life was just a joke." , you don’t need to take it seriously.”
The two stood talking for a while. Azhao got impatient and lay on Lin Rong's shoulder, whispering: "When can we leave?"
Lin Rong had no choice but to stop and carry Azhao to Tiantai Temple. It was already mid-May, and the peonies in Tiantai Temple were still in full bloom. The flowers were like small buckets. There were dozens of peonies with overlapping branches and leaves. Climb to the second floor of the temple.
The mother and daughter walked among the flowers with lanterns, whispering a few words from time to time until midnight, before returning home in a boat having fun. The boat was swaying, and the fishing fires were silent in the river. Suddenly, I met a performer singing a melodious song on the bow of the boat. Lin Rong held Ah Zhao and sat against the boat window. The cool moonlight poured in. For a moment, she didn't know whether it was the moonlight that was more beautiful or the scenery in the river that was more beautiful.
Lin Rong was not in a hurry to go back, and was still drifting in the boat. At dawn, he abandoned the boat and landed ashore.
Seeing King Jingqin already waiting there, he held a letter in his hand: "Girl, this is a letter from the sixth girl in Jiangzhou. I don't know who sent the news to her. When I heard that you were still alive, I cried bitterly." She has been ill for six months and is not feeling well."
Chapter 96
The letter was quite serious, as if it was a matter of life and death. Lin Rong was shocked when he saw it and did not dare to delay. When he rushed to Jiangzhou at starry night, it was already late at night on the second day and the gates of Jiangzhou were already closed. Such an important town in the south of the Yangtze River will not be allowed to open its doors unless there is an accident. Shen Yan rode forward, whispered to the gatekeeper, and immediately opened the city gate.
The carriage turned two streets and stopped in front of the former eldest princess's mansion. When the curtain was slightly lifted, a plaque on the main door read "Edict to build Xuanping Hou's mansion" in six characters. The three animal-headed doors were wide open. There were more than twenty servants holding bright-horned lanterns standing at the door. Standing in the middle was a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing a small bronze crown on his head and a dark silk suit on his body. Wearing a robe, he was fair and clean, but of short stature. He looked quite frail and seemed to have some deficiency.
The young man lowered his head, but the old servant next to him reminded him. Only then did he see Lin Rong opening the car curtain, and immediately took a few steps forward and saluted politely: "Cui Hao has met Sister Eleven."
Lin Rong asked him to help him out of the car and sighed: "Seventeenth brother? You are so old now!"
That young man was none other than Cui Hao, who named Lu Shenfeng the Marquis of Xuanping. When Lin Rong got married from Jiangzhou, he was no more than seven or eight years old. He hid in the small building and watched the Yongzhou wedding envoy recite a poem to encourage the bride. Downstairs After reciting a sentence, he turned back to Lin Rong, who was sitting upright in a wedding dress, and repeated the sentence, which made the family members who presented the dowry burst into laughter.
The young man seemed a little shy and was not good at talking, so he led Lin Rong inside: "Sixth sister is inside. She has already seen the doctor. He only said that she needs to rest and cannot get out of bed."
Lin Rong followed him through the Weeping Flower Gate, down the mountain corridor, and saw the old pavilion in the middle of the lake. After turning around the hand verandah, she arrived at the courtyard where Cui Qi used to live before she was married. There were three or five girls standing on the porch of the courtyard. When they opened the curtain and went in, they saw Cui Qi lying on the bed. Sitting on the edge of the bed was a man in his thirties, holding a medicine bowl and advising her: "It is proper to drink the medicine first. If you get the letter, how can you miss it in a day or two?"
Cui Qi shook his head and suddenly looked up and saw Lin Rong. He looked at her in tears and was speechless. The sitting man also saw it for a moment, put down the medicine bowl in a hurry, gave a salute, and hurried out. Lin Rong hurried forward, sat on the edge of the bed, held Cui Qi's hand, and said, "Don't cry, be careful of fetal motility."
Cui Qi burst into tears after hearing this: "How can you not cry? Eleven, how can you not cry? Where have you been in the past three years? Are you so cruel and have made me sad for so many years? If I hadn't written a letter claiming to be sick. , you are also unwilling to come back to see me, are you?"
Lin Rong could only say silently: "Sixth Sister, I...I can't help..." Then he felt Cui Qi's pulse and found that it didn't look like fetal convulsions, so he felt relieved.
Cui Qi only asked: "What can't you do?" Without waiting for Lin Rong's answer, he cried again: "The river surged that year, and everyone said it was hopeless. Don't you think we sisters will meet again in this life?"
Lin Rong only followed her words, fearing that she would be agitated, and did not dare to say sad things to provoke her. In this scene, although he endured it, he ended up crying.
However, Cui Hao was advising from the side: "This is a happy event, and you should be happy. Sixth sister must not be overly sentimental."
Cui Qi finally calmed down and dismissed the others. Just like on the night of Lin Ronglin's wedding, the sisters stayed together to talk all night.
Most of them were said by Cui Qi, and Lin Rong listened: "In the military coup in Jiangzhou, many of the male members of the direct line of the Cui family died. Those who did not die were also imprisoned in water prisons and tortured. After a few years, In the past month, the female relatives were released in custody, and they were also given back the meager income to live on. Only the men like the Seventeenth Brother actually stayed in the water prison for a year. Later... Later, His Majesty took over Luoyang, and something happened to you again. Only then Now that the Cui family has been sealed, life will become easier."
Lin Rong touched Cui Qi's rougher palms and knew what she wanted to ask. He said vaguely: "At that time, I jumped out of the window and fell into the water. I could still swim at first, but then I was washed away while holding a piece of driftwood. Downstream. Later, someone helped me, and I didn't suffer much." There was no big suffering, but there was some suffering.
She didn't want to talk more about this, so she changed the subject and asked, "I didn't hear that the sixth sister remarried along the way, and the child in her belly was..."
Cui Qi smiled and nodded: "You just saw it, Erlang of the Yuan family. I am the destined wife, how can I remarry? It's not that no one came to participate in this matter, but His Majesty only missed you and ignored you. This child is born When I come down, I will be sent away." As she spoke, she shed tears again: "Eleven, don't blame me for not being chaste and embarrassing you. Without him, I wouldn't have been able to survive your rescue in the water prison. Mine. Once a person dies, neither innocence nor honor is worth anything."
Lin Rong leaned on her shoulder: "No, this is good!" The two sisters talked for an unknown amount of time before they stopped and fell asleep lightly.
In the middle of the night, Lin Rong woke up when he heard a rustling cry. He put on his clothes and stood up. Kingfisher also came in and said, "The young master is inside. He must be awake."
Lin Rong opened the gauze curtain of the blue gauze cabinet and saw Ah Zhao lying quietly on the bed. He didn't know whether he was still asleep or already awake, crying silently. Lin Rong thought she woke up and didn't see him, and was a little scared. He hugged her and coaxed her for a while, but she didn't respond.
Ah Zhao lay in her arms for a while and then said: "Mom, I dreamed about Dad. He was covered in blood. I talked to him, but he ignored me..."
Lin Rong comforted her: "It's just a dream. Dreams are all fake. Your father is fine. Nothing happened."
Azhao didn't believe it and cried softly: "Dad, he must be bleeding, he must be bleeding."
Lin Rong had no choice but to call for Shen Yan and ask, "Where is your master now? But what happened?"
Shen Yan reported through the curtain: "Back to Madam, Your Majesty went to Jiangbei to inspect the rivers the day before yesterday. In the evening, he sent a letter stating that he would return to Jiangzhou early tomorrow morning and nothing happened."
After hearing this, Ah Zhao stopped crying and just opened his fingers and counted: "One, two, three... I haven't seen my dad for six days... I miss him so much..."
Lin Rong coaxed her: "He will return to Jiangzhou tomorrow. He is not far away. Tomorrow's mother will send someone to take you to see him, okay?"
Azhao heard it and asked: "Mom, won't you come with me?"
Lin Rong only smiled and shook his head: "It's the same if A Zhao goes alone."
Ah Zhao was crying again and asked: "Why, but I want to be with you and see my father at the same time?"
Lin Rong thought for a while, touched the top of her hair, and decided to tell the truth: "Because I don't want to see him, I can only go alone."
Azhao was too young to understand, but he could feel the resistance in Lin Rong's tone, and did not ask any further. He looked at Lin Rong silently, stood up, hugged her and kissed her cheek, just like Lu Shen used to do, gently He gently stroked Lin Rong's back: "Okay, I'll go alone. I'll come back when I see my father. Don't forget that you want to take me to the Lantern Festival and fly a kite."
Lin Rong smiled: "Okay, I will never forget it," and finally sighed: "Thank you, Azhao!"
Ah Zhao tilted his head, imitating Lin Rong's tone in the past, and smiled: "You're welcome."
On the second day, after all, they were going to bed. Lin Rong and Azhao both had a bad sleep and woke up early in the morning. After all, Cui Qi was in a state of excitement last night and had some fetal motility. Lin Rong gave her acupuncture and told her, "You can't cry anymore. You have to take the medicine for a few days."
Cui Qi just smiled and said: "It's quite decent. It only hurts occasionally. You've had acupuncture and the occasional pain is gone. What's the big deal?"
Lin Rong shook his head: "Don't be careless." As he was writing the prescription aside, he suddenly heard A Zhao's laughter like silver bells outside the window, as if he was extremely happy.
While Lin Rong was writing, he asked Kingfisher: "I haven't seen you for a while. Where did A Zhao go?"
Jing Qin then replied: "After breakfast, I went with Master Seventeen to see his little red horse. As soon as I came here, I saw Junhou approaching and asked Junhou to carry it."
Lin Rong put down his pen and opened the window slightly, and saw that it was raining lightly outside. Ah Zhao was standing in a small puddle under the rockery, treading water. Every time he stepped on it, Ah Zhao let out a giggle.
Lu Shen didn't know when he arrived. He stood aside with his hands folded, silently holding a butter umbrella. Most of the umbrella was tilted towards Azhao's head. Half of his body was wet. The guards and palace guards were all standing there. Beside, don't dare to disturb. After a while, Lu Shen waved again, and Cui Hao, who was standing by the side, immediately went over. The two of them didn't know what they said. Cui Hao nodded in agreement, with an expression of being taught.
Lin Rong stood by the window and watched silently. Cui Qi brought tea over and sighed: "Seventeenth brother suffered a disadvantage when he was young. He was born thin and not very talkative. He developed a shy character and was a little timid in his behavior. I have had Your Majesty take me with you these days, and I have made a lot of progress." He asked her again: "Why don't you go down and say a word?"
Lin Rong closed the window, supported Cui Qi, and said calmly: "There is nothing left to say."
Cui Qi hesitated to speak after hearing this, and finally sighed: "We are not enemies, so how can we not have anything to say? Your Majesty has not had an easy life these past few years..."
Lin Rong didn't answer this, so Cui Qi naturally stopped mentioning it, changed the topic, and said with a smile: "You are here just in time to advise me. I don't go out often these years, but I don't know which girl to choose." Seventeenth brother is the best."
Suddenly, a maid brought in several scrolls and hung them up one by one. Lin Rong was a little surprised: "Seventeenth Brother is only fourteen years old. Isn't it too early?"
