Peng Youqin, the prefect's official, was in his thirties. He had a white face and no beard. He was a handsome man. He sat in a high position at a young age. He was elegant and peaceful, without the dignity of the court.
Because there was a female guest, Peng Youqin didn't stay long. After explaining a few words, he went to the study.
"The master is back, I will arrange the meals." Aunt Yan pretended to be happy and wanted to leave.
"Aunt Yan, you haven't paid for the consultation yet?" Lan Ling was not angry and shouted at Aunt Yan's back. Looking at her anxious look, who knew whether she was going to the kitchen or the master's study.
"You girl are really unruly. How can the magistrate's back house be short of Doctor Xiao's consultation money?" Aunt Yan was dissatisfied. She wanted to follow the master to the study to serve her, but she really forgot about Xiao Ming's consultation money.
"Little Cui'er, go to the accountant and pay Dr. Xiao two taels of silver. Don't let anyone say that our Peng Mansion doesn't pay for the consultation."
"The prefect's backyard is really messy." Jiang Xiangyuan sighed.
After coming out of Peng Mansion, Xiao Ming and Jiang Xiangyuan did not let the carriage in the house go. The two strolled on the street and discussed what they had just seen. She had seen it. This aunt was more powerful than the main lady. After all, she was still the Xu family. Nothing to come out of, not enough confidence.
It seems that Mrs. Xu, the wife of the prefect, is not having a good life. She has no son, no housekeeper power, and is being suppressed by an aunt. She must hate it in her heart. If she has a son, you can imagine what will happen to Aunt Yan. .
Jiang Xiangyuan couldn't help but shudder. Several women in the back house were fighting with each other. Women were more cruel than men. So my mother said that the rich have their own troubles, and the poor have their own troubles. troubles.
"Yeah." Xiao Ming hummed softly, not thinking as wildly as Jiang Xiangyuan. The fight in the back house depends on the man. If a man didn't have three wives and four concubines, there wouldn't be so many fights, and women wouldn't get into trouble because of competition for favor. They fought openly and secretly.
As noon approached, neither of them had lunch. Jiang Xiangyuan took Xiao Ming through the streets and bought many famous snacks for lunch.
"Go and sit at my house for a while. Mom always talks about you. Let the carriage at home take us back to the village in the afternoon." Jiang Xiangyuan finished her last bite of food, stood up, and suggested to Xiao Ming that she hadn't gone home to see her mother for several days. Now, the eldest brother has gone out to run escorts again, and the mother is very lonely at home. As for her younger brother Jiang Mingchen, she has automatically ignored him.
"Okay." Xiao Ming nodded in agreement. The last time he asked Jiang Xiangyuan's eldest brother Jiang Sihai for help, he didn't thank him properly.
"Let's go!" Jiang Xiangyuan happily pulled Xiao Ming.
"Mom, I'm back." After entering the house, Jiang Xiangyuan shouted happily, pulling Xiao Ming into the yard. Before she reached the door of her mother's room, she saw a young man walking out from the moon door on the side, looking at Jiang Xiangyuan frowned with a prickly look on her face and scolded: "What are you making a noise about? You don't understand any rules."
This young man is Jiang Mingchen, Jiang Xiangyuan's little brother.
Jiang Mingchen looked at her with dissatisfaction. Women regard tranquility as their beauty. This sister will never learn to be a quiet lady. She is not like a lady at all.
"Humph, what do you care about? I'm bringing Sister Ming back to see my mother." Jiang Xiangyuan snorted and looked at Jiang Mingchen dissatisfied. She never had a good face when facing him, and they would start to quarrel as soon as they met.
Jiang Mingchen looked at the little girl who came in with her. He did not expect that the little girl in front of him was the little sister's master. She was still a teacher at a young age. However, Jiang Mingchen's heart was not admiration for Xiao Ming but dissatisfaction. Ever since the little sister insisted on going her own way regardless of his objections, After becoming her master, she stopped paying attention to etiquette and rules, and even moved in with her master, acting like a wild girl from the countryside.
Like a master, like a disciple, it can be seen that this master is not much better, how can a girl from a good family go to study medicine.
"Hmph, it's morally corrupt." Jiang Mingchen muttered in a low voice, flicked his sleeves and turned to leave.
Xiao Ming~~~
Why does it feel like he is looking askance at her and despising her.
"That's my little brother, he's always talking nonsense! Ignore him, let's go find mother." Jiang Xiangyuan said, she always turned a deaf ear to what her little brother said.
Jiang Mingchen was a short distance away from them, so Jiang Xiangyuan didn't hear what the younger brother said, otherwise she wouldn't be as indifferent as she is now.
"Mom, I'm back."
"Oh, you monkey, I heard your voice from so far away." Jiang's mother, Mrs. Qin, came out to greet her, and she became sleepy, and was extremely happy to see her daughter return home.
"Doctor Xiao is here too, please come in and sit down." Ms. Qin was surprised to see Xiao Ming behind her daughter. She quickly greeted Xiao Ming to sit down and asked the little girl to serve tea and snacks.
"Mom, we went to see a doctor at the magistrate's house today, and we came back specifically to see you." Jiang Xiangyuan acted coquettishly next to her mother.
"Really? My daughter is really capable." Ms. Qin praised in surprise.
"It's not me, it's the master who is treating the prefect's wife."
"Mom, you know what you can do after you have only studied for a few days." Ms. Qin nodded her daughter's forehead with a doting look on her face.
"Mom, my daughter has learned very well and will be able to treat people in the future." Jiang Xiangyuan was dissatisfied.
"Mom knows, you have to study hard." Mrs. Qin said, and then said to Xiao Ming: "Doctor Xiao, please teach this monkey a lesson. If he doesn't obey, he will be beaten."
"Madam, you are serious." Xiao Ming said politely. Watching the interaction between the two, she felt indescribable envy in her heart. The deep love between Qin and Jiang Xiangyuan as mother and daughter deeply touched the dusty heartstrings in her heart.
Once upon a time, she also had a beautiful and elegant mother, but she never looked at her twice. She spent more time looking at files and computers than looking at her, and shook hands with clients more often than holding her hand.
She had dreamed countless times that her mother could hold her hand and send her to and from school. Like other children, she had watched other children have their parents accompanying them to and from school countless times, while she only had her grandfather and sometimes the nanny at home.
In just a moment, Xiao Ming came back to her senses and looked at Qin and Jiang Xiangyuan.
"Mother." Mrs. Qin and Xiao Ming were talking. They never thought that Jiang Sihai came in behind the curtain. Looking at Xiao Ming sitting in the hall, he was surprised and a little uncomfortable. He didn't expect Xiao Ming to arrive and directly Just came in.
"Brother Jiang." Xiao Ming stood up and saluted generously.
"Doctor Xiao." Jiang Sihai clasped his fists, a little embarrassed.
"Brother, when did you come back?" Jiang Xiangyuan screamed with joy when she saw her eldest brother. She rushed in front of Jiang Sihai and pulled his arm, screaming again and again. "Your eldest brother has only been back for two days. You girl, let go of your eldest brother." Mrs. Qin said, looking at her daughter and shaking her head. Her only daughter's personality is very much like a boy, but her younger son's personality is more like a girl. Son, pay attention to rules and etiquette all day long.
"I'll go sit in the study." Jiang Sihai said. Because Xiao Ming was here, men and women were different.
"Brother Jiang, stay here. Xiao Ming has something to ask of me." Xiao Ming stood up.
