Cui Qi nodded at her with a smile: "How early? Speaking of fourteen years old, the actual age is already sixteen, and it will take less than two years to reach the crown. Those good girls who know the basics naturally have to settle down early. That's us. At that time, people would get engaged when they were only twelve or thirteen years old."
Lin Rong only felt that the pictures of ladies on the scroll were all similar. They only depicted gods, and could not see their specific appearance. He said: "Marriage must be what he likes."
After lunch, Lin Rong gave Cui Qi another injection, and someone from outside called back: "Miss Sixth, the second wife and the fourth girl of Yuan Mansion are here."
Cui Qi had to go out to meet guests, so Lin Rong calmed down and went outside. He read a book for a while on the table by the window. The events of the past two days passed through his mind like a revolving lantern, and he felt even more... Tired and sleepy.
I don’t know how long it took, but there was a sound of brisk footsteps, and Ah Zhao ran over from behind, holding a lotus in his hand, and threw it into Lin Rong’s lap: “Look, the newly picked lotus.”
Lin Rong smiled: "Go boating in the lotus pond?" Seeing that her shoes and socks were wet and her skirt was covered with mud, he changed her clothes and shoes.
Azhao nodded: "My father picked the lotus flowers for me. He said you also like to punt in the lotus pond."
Lin Rong's face suddenly darkened when she heard this. She had only sailed in the lotus pond once in her life. It was the time when the old aunt went to Xuanzhou. She wet her shoes and socks and was tricked into a small building by Lu Shen. …
Ah Zhao just hugged Lin Rong's neck and begged: "My uncle's little red horse is so beautiful. Can you let me ride it?"
Lin Rong shook his head: "No, you are too young to ride a horse."
Ah Zhao pouted: "But my uncle has both, and that pony is only a little taller than me." Lin Rong still shook his head firmly, and Ah Zhao snorted: "Dad will definitely agree." Then he suddenly looked at the table. There was a kite flying on the ground. She didn't know how much she was thinking about flying the kite, so she immediately put aside the matter of the little red horse and said, "Are we going to fly a kite?"
Lin Rong was about to speak when he heard Shen Yan's voice: "Master, the clothes are here."
Lin Rong turned around and saw Lu Shen who had come in at some unknown time. He was sitting on an armchair outside, holding the leftover tea that he had just placed on the table. Most of his clothes were already wet. She didn't know what Shen Mu was thinking. , didn't seem to hear Shen Yan's reply.
Not long after, Shen Yan replied again: "Master?"
Ah Zhao immediately got off Lin Rong, holding the kite in his hand, and ran out: "Dad, can you give me a little bay red horse? Let's ride the pony and fly the kite tomorrow, okay?" Seeing that Lu Shen didn't respond, he added, "Mom, go too, okay?"
Lu Shen didn't say yes or no, he touched Ah Zhao's face and asked, "How many lines of the poem I just taught you do you still remember?"
Ah Zhao suddenly hesitated. Where was her mind on this? She was thinking about picking the biggest lotus. She muttered: "Lotus can be picked in the south of the Yangtze River. Lotus leaves..." Then she really couldn't answer. She had small eyes. He was spinning around, holding the kite and running out: "Dad, I'm sleepy, I'm going to take a nap."
Lin Rong hurriedly called Kingfisher: "Follow her out quickly, don't let her get wet in the rain, prepare hot water and bathe her, otherwise she will have to cough again tomorrow."
Kingfisher responded and immediately gave chase.
Lu Shen put down the tea and turned to look at Lin Rong. He saw that she had turned her back to him and was sitting in front of the bookcase. The tulle curtain was fluttering in the wind. In the end, there was no word. He had to pick up the clothes and go behind the screen. go.
When Lin Rong saw him entering the clean room, he was about to lift the curtain and go out when he heard Lu Shen ordering from inside: "Send another pair of jade belts in."
Marquis Shen Yan was at the door. He immediately found a jade belt from the baggage and gave it to Lin Rong with both hands: "Madam."
Lin Rong stood there, feeling the fire was strong, so he suppressed it again and said coldly: "Send it in yourself."
Shen Yan lowered his head, as if he didn't dare to breathe: "Madam, I beg you to be considerate of this slave. The wound on the master's shoulder is still open, and he refuses to change the dressing or cure it. Please give me some advice, madam."
Lin Rong felt extremely confused as to why he took the belt and turned around to go behind the screen.
Chapter 97
Lin Rong stood by the soft curtain holding the belt, put the jade belt on the small table aside, and said coldly: "Shen Yan is getting weaker and timid, and he doesn't dare to come in even if he hands over things."
Lu Shen didn't say anything, glanced at her lightly, picked up the jade belt, and turned his back.
Lin Rong stood there and didn't care. He just warned: "Azhao is too young and we must not teach her how to ride a horse. It's not fun if she falls. Wait until she is older. She just thinks it's new and will forget about you in a day or two." Don’t answer her.”
Lu Shen just nodded lightly and asked, "Is there anything else?"
This situation seemed like she was in a hurry. Lin Rong was angry and suddenly found it funny. A smile appeared on his face and he shook his head, without saying a word. As soon as they arrived at the door, they heard Lu Shen say: "The matter in Jiangzhou has been settled, and we will take Azhao back to Luoyang tomorrow. Ask her to stay here for half a day, and I will send someone to pick her up in the evening."
Lin Rong paused and replied: "I know." He pushed the door open and walked slowly to the corridor. He didn't know where he went. He sat down on a stone bench and was stunned for a long time. He didn't know how long it had been. , heard Cui Qi's voice in the distance: "Eleven, why are you here, asking me to find you easily?"
Lin Rong finally came back to her senses. She didn't know when she sat down under the sun, but she was already sweating. Cui Qi pulled her to sit in the shade under the vines: "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Lin Rong shook his head and asked: "You are so heavy, why do you still want to entertain the female members of the Yuan family? This is not a serious marriage, just stay close to yourself."
When Cui Qi heard this, he said angrily: "I haven't left the house in the past two years, but I didn't know that His Majesty had decided to appoint Yuan Siniang as his new queen. Everyone knew it, but he kept it from our surname Cui? The imperial edict of making the queen has not yet been issued. So he treated himself as his master and asked me to come." Then he ordered the maid: "Go and call the seventeenth brother. He has been staying with your majesty these days. Does he know about the establishment of the queen? "
This scene really seemed familiar. Lin Rong smiled and slapped her: "Don't be angry, don't be angry!"
Seeing her like this, Cui Qi also smiled, nodded her forehead, and sighed: "You, you, to put it nicely, you are generous, but to put it badly, the nuns in the nunnery are three points more popular than you. Where in the world can you not care about anything?"
Lin Rong was helpless: "Sixth sister, you are so kind to comfort you, but you are talking about me?"
Cui Qi smiled: "Just ask yourself, do you not care at all and are you not unhappy at all?"
After a while, Lin Rong was about to speak, but Cui Qi stopped and stroked away the layers of green vines. He saw a graceful girl of 14 or 15 years old on the stone bridge in the distance, saluting with Lu Shen.
Lu Shenlue stretched out his hand and helped her stand up, standing there with his hands behind his back. Although his face was expressionless, he didn't know what he said to the girl. The girl smiled and then stepped aside shyly.
Lin Rong thought in his heart, Lu Shen is polite and polite in front of others, but he is really hateful!
After Lu Shen walked away and the entourage behind him also passed by the bridge, Cui Qi turned around and saw that the smile on Lin Rong's face had disappeared. Yingying looked at her and smiled: "Look, there is still a little bit of it." Are you unhappy?"
Lin Rong shook his head: "I just think this girl is a little young."
Cui Qi was silent after hearing this, waving his fan for a while, and asked seriously: "Eleven, in the past you had an embarrassing incident with His Majesty in Yongzhou. I heard about it later, but since something happened to you, who is he? I miss you every day, and I am tortured every day. Don’t blame me for being meddlesome, and don’t blame me for speaking for anyone. But now, what are your plans? "
Lin Rong didn't want to talk about Cui Qi's private matter, so he just nodded and smiled: "Oh, Sixth Sister thinks I'm annoying and wants to drive me away?"
Cui Qi shook his head: "Although you didn't say it, I can tell that when you came back from Luoyang that year, you got seriously ill. After you recovered, you felt like you were leaving this world. But who in this world is truly outside the world? As for people, even nuns and Taoist priests also want to ask for incense."
Lin Rong did not want to discuss this matter in depth, nor did he intend to discuss it with anyone. He smiled and changed the subject.
In the evening, someone came to pick up Azhao.
A-Zhao was sitting on the couch playing Nine Links. When he heard this, he raised his head and asked her: "Oh, Dad said, we are going back to Luoyang. Mother, will you go to Luoyang?"
Lin Rong refused to lie to her: "I probably won't go to Luoyang."
Azhao burst into tears immediately: "Why?" Then he remembered what she said about not wanting to see his father, and said in a tearful voice: "Can you not see my father and just be with me?"
She was making trouble again and refused to leave, so Lin Rong had to agree to her: "If I have time, I will definitely go to Luoyang to see you."
After coaxing her for a while, she couldn't stop crying. Finally, she cried and asked the wet nurse to take her away.
When Lu Shen returned to the palace in Jiangzhou, Ah Zhao was still angry and sat silently on the couch, playing with the small blocks Lin Rong made for her. When he saw Lu Shen come back, he only glanced at him. Unlike the past, when he jumped up to hug his neck and called daddy, he ignored him.
Lu Shen asked someone to take care of his outer robe, and quietly read a book beside him, occasionally taking apart the well-folded building blocks. Azhao ignored him at first, then divided half of the food and piled it on Lu Shen's side. Seeing that he was still making trouble, he pouted and became angry, and he shed tears of grievance. It's just not like usual. He had already spoken out all his grievances, waiting for Lu Shen to ask: "Okay, who provoked you, and you didn't even pay attention to dad when he came back?"
Ah Zhao then asked with sobs: "Why didn't you take my mother back to Luoyang with us? Didn't you say that we were here to pick her up? You don't mean what you say. You clearly promised me before you came here?"
Lu Shen put down the book and said calmly: "She doesn't want to go back!"
Azhao asked again: "Why don't you want to go back?" Luoyang is her home and the place where she grew up. She still doesn't understand why her mother doesn't want to go back?
Lu Shen was silent: "I did something wrong and she refused to forgive me."
Will my father do something wrong too? Ah Zhaofa was stunned and forgot to cry, so he asked: "Then...then did you apologize? My uncle said that if you do something wrong, you have to apologize..."
Azhao looked at Lu Shen with a pair of purple jade grape-like eyes, making him speechless for a moment, and said for a long time: "Let's just apologize!"
Ah Zhao was a little discouraged when he heard this and said, "Is it so serious? It's useless to apologize?" He sat there with his head tilted and thought for a long time, and said, "If that doesn't work, please beg her. Wait until she is happy. Then, please beg her, maybe she will forgive you. Last time I wanted to see peonies, I begged my mother twice, and she agreed to it."
Lu Shen looked at his daughter and said nothing. Ah Zhao shook his hand: "Dad, did you hear me?"
Lu Shen lowered his eyes, turned over another page of the book, and said calmly: "Let's talk about it in a few days."
On the second day, Cui Haogong did not change the itinerary after all. Cui Haogong sent Lu Shen's car out of the city gate. When he came back, it was already noon, and he respectfully reported to his two sisters.
Lin Rong just pretended that nothing happened, but Cui Qi asked: "Did you really leave the city without leaving any words or instructions?"
Cui Hao just shook his head: "Your Majesty ordered me to study hard and not to neglect my studies."
Cui Qi sighed and finally let Lin Rong go: "Okay, you want to go to Tianshui Pavilion. I won't stop you. Ask someone to escort you there. Just don't be too late."
Lin Rong finally got his wish, and took the post from Xuanping Hou Mansion and entered Tianshui Pavilion, which he had longed for for a long time. The book pavilion is quite large, with a collection of nearly 40,000 books. It was built by Taifu Jiang, a great scholar from Jiangdong.
No one is allowed to come in and out of the pavilion. Only books can be borrowed and read in the reception hall. After reading, they are returned immediately and no one is allowed to take them out of the pavilion. I don't know whether it was the post from Xuanping Houfu or the document given by Lu Shen that worked. The owner of the house created a quiet room for Lin Rong to read books.
Lin Rong looked at it and copied down the subtle points and doubtful points. He didn't know how long it took, or how many hours, or how long it took. When Lin Rong raised his head, he saw the beautiful scenery outside the quiet room, with the setting sun slanting on the lake. After being stunned for a while, she suddenly saw a man in green standing over there. When Lin Rong looked over, he held his hands in greeting with her, and there was a pot of flowers beside him.
Lin Rong put down his pen, opened the door and came out, nodding in greeting: "Mr. Jiang, why are you here?"
This man was in his twenties and was exactly what Chen Yuren called Brother Minxing. He picked up the pot of flowers and said: "Last month, I went to Gusu and other places for a banquet. I saw a garden that seemed to be growing the mandala that Doctor Lin mentioned. The flowers, the shapes of the flowers and leaves are somewhat similar, so I wanted to send them to you. But as soon as I got home, I heard someone said that you had come to my uncle's Tianshui Pavilion, so I rushed over. "
Lin Rong had only seen it in modern brochures. After many years, he was not sure. He thought of making some medicine to try, but he was not polite at the moment. He took the flower and thanked him with a smile.
Jiang Minxing was truly a humble gentleman and said, "I, Dr. Xie Lin, should be the one to save my life." He didn't bother him much, said a few words, and then left.
Lu Shen's car didn't go very fast, and it was only fifty or sixty miles a day. As soon as it got dark, he stopped at the post station to rest. Ah Zhao had been in labor for a whole day, but Lin Rong didn't come to see her off. She cried for half an hour and was sleeping soundly when she asked Lu Shen to take her down from the carriage.
Lu Shen had washed up and was about to go to bed when he saw Shen Yan reporting outside the window: "Master, Madam went to Tianshui Pavilion at noon today and read medical books there all afternoon. Later, she met Taifu Jiang's nephew, and the two of them seemed like We are old acquaintances, we joked a bit and gave Madam a pot of flowers."
He paused as he spoke: "My people made inquiries and said that Mr. Jiang, who was eighteen years old, drowned while out for fun, and his wife saved him."
Lu Shen's eyes twitched when he heard this. The person who asked her to save him from drowning must have jumped into the river and was soaked. He was either holding him or dragging him. Lu Shen sat there for a long time, feeling more and more uncomfortable in his chest. He even joked a few words. What could he talk about and laugh about?
He suddenly stood up and knocked down the tea cup, which suddenly woke up Ah Zhao beside him. He sat up and rubbed his eyes: "Dad?"
Lu Shen hugged Azhao and said, "Let's go back to Jiangzhou, okay?"
As soon as Ah Zhao heard this, he immediately became energetic: "Are you going to ask your mother to return to Luoyang?"
The corner of Lu Shen's mouth twitched: "I'm going to pick it up, not begging!"
Chapter 98
When Lin Rong returned to Xuanpinghou Mansion from Tianshui Pavilion, it was already nightfall. Cui Qi was waiting for her and had not yet gone to bed. When he saw her coming back, he hurriedly ordered people to set the meal and picked up the dishes for her. Send people all over the city to look for you?"
Lin Rong took a sip of shrimp ball and chicken skin soup: "I forgot the time while reading. When I raised my head, it was dark. No one in the pavilion urged me to leave. There were only seven or eight pages left in the book, so I just finished reading it and then came back. He then reached out to check Cui Qi's pulse and said, "Don't be tired even if there is no fetal movement."
Cui Qi smiled and asked tentatively: "You are in Jiangzhou, and you can go to the Water Pavilion that day whenever you want, and you are not in a hurry. Read a book at night and watch carefully."
Lin Rong said: "Sixth sister, I will leave in a few days."
Cui Qi's eyes immediately turned red: "Isn't it possible to stay here for a few more days in such a hurry?"
Lin Rong said seriously: "Sixth sister, Cui Shiniang has passed away. This is not a place where I should stay longer."
Cui Qi held the handkerchief and wiped the corners of his eyes: "In the future, I will take a boat to see you. It's not far away, a day or two's journey." He then served Lin Rong with dishes: "Use more, the food at home is better than It’s stronger outside.”
Lin Rong felt sentimental for a moment and smiled: "Sixth sister really loves me and can't bear to persuade me anymore."
Hearing this, Cui Qi smiled, then burst into tears. He reached out to touch Lin Rong's face: "If you feel good about it, I will be happy for you." He said many words and gave many instructions, including clothes and jewelry. After they had moved a lot of things, they took the list and explained it to Lin Rong one by one. Finally, he sighed: "These things are not even half of what you had when you got married. Mrs. Cui is worse than before."
Lin Rong only smiled: "I am just a little doctor. I usually wear green clothes and coarse cloth, and even silk in summer. I usually either treat people and check their pulses, or go to the fields to see the medicinal materials grown by farmers. If the weather is good, If you go looking for medicinal materials in the surrounding mountains, you won't be able to go down from the mountain for several days. Where can you use these gold hairpins, jade bracelets, silk and satin?"
