The front yard was crowded and busy.
The servants who serve are all walking at a trot. Those who boil water, make medicine, make vinegar, do odd jobs... Nian Shilan stood in the yard for a moment.
"Reporting to Fujin, my master is in a coma, and the imperial doctor said that he has been infected with the epidemic. I am really worried both physically and mentally, but there is nothing to do here for a while. I can only watch my master go through the disaster, and I feel really uncomfortable. How about that? I and the two princesses have gone back first and will wait for Fujin to send them." Nian Shilan took the handkerchief and wiped the tears that were not obvious.
Ulanara choked and glanced at her with an incomprehensible look. At this time, other people would be rushing to serve him, unlike Nian.
But leaving her in this courtyard, with her husband's life and death uncertain, and looking at this concubine, she felt uncomfortable.
Ulanara waved his hand: "Go and stay in your yard. Come back when the master wakes up."
Nian Shilan retreated with Hu Gege and Shu Gege.
Hu Gege looked fine, but Hu Gege had been crying for a long time, her eyes were red and her whole body was trembling slightly.
The two of them followed Nian Shilan and wanted to send Fu Jin back to Jinglan Courtyard.
Approaching the entrance of Jinglan Courtyard, Nian Shilan stopped, looked back at Hu Gege and Shu Gege, and chuckled: "Ms. Shu, your crying look makes the servants think something has happened to the master. Go back and stop following me."
Mrs. Shu was so frightened that she knelt down and was afraid to speak.
Mr. Hu lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.
Nian Shilan waved his hands impatiently and left. In his new life, he really had no time to deal with these little shrimps.
Back at Jinglan Courtyard, as soon as Nian Shilan sat down, he asked Songzhi to find Xiao Linzi and come in.
Xiao Linzi was the little eunuch Nian Shilan took in the second month after entering the palace. He was originally a horse slave who was kicked around and shouted at in the stable. He is only 12 years old this year, 3 years younger than Songzhi.
Xiao Linzi's original name was not that, and he himself did not know where his home was. He was abducted to the capital by a kidnapper.
Before he could take action, the kidnapper was hunted for kidnapping the youngest daughter of an official family. The kidnapper's conscience ached the night before he was caught, and he was kicked out of the corner where he was hiding, leaving him to fend for himself. go.
Xiao Linzi lived on the streets when he was four years old.
The ignorant toddler was picked up by a family in the dark night. He originally thought he would be able to eat well and wear warm clothes, but the family just wanted to pick up another slave and beat and scolded him at every turn.
The little child suffered a lot and was frightened every day. He didn't know if something he didn't do well would result in a severe beating.
He finally found an opportunity to run away when he was seven years old, but he was a child with no money and no place to go.
So he was the one fighting wild dogs for food on the street, he was the one who stole steamed buns from a merchant on the street corner and was knocked to the ground, and he was the one who was digging wild vegetables in the mountains without finding the beast and was almost eaten.
He was so hungry that he went out to steal on the street. He pretended to beg and approached a young man who looked well-dressed. As soon as he got the hand, before he could run away, the wild dogs that were with him in the past snatched away the food that had not been taken away. Another little beggar cried out.
He was severely beaten by the young master's servants and thrown on the street corner.
He was cold, hungry, and aching all over. It was already early winter, and he was still wearing single clothes stolen from someone else's yard, which were bitten by wild dogs and were in tatters.
Before Xiao Linzi fainted from hunger and pain, he thought he would die this time. Unexpectedly, when he woke up, he would be in a dark room with a terrible smell and the sound of horses snorting next to him.
He was startled by the horse's scent. Just as he was about to struggle to get up, he found a sharp pain in his lower body.
Xiao Linzi touched the sore spot and realized that the only little brother who was with him was gone.
He couldn't bear it any longer, so he whimpered and cried, but he couldn't cry loudly because it would stretch the wound and make it more painful.
After crying for a while, the dark door was opened, and he realized that he was in a stable. He guessed that it was a wealthy family.
A limping black figure came in through the door. Because it was against the light, it took Xiao Linzi a while to get used to it before he could clearly see the person who came in.
He was a middle-aged man with a white face and no beard. He spoke slowly and in a sharp voice: "You little bastard, you have a long life."
As he said that, the middle-aged man took out two steamed buns from his arms and threw them to the child in front of him. Xiao Linzi couldn't care about anything else. As soon as he caught the steamed buns, he wolfed them down.
But the wound was so painful that he almost gulped down the steamed buns with blood and tears. He had to swallow the steamed buns first despite the severe pain.
After Xiao Linzi swallowed the last bite of the steamed bun, the middle-aged man said: "Boy, you are lucky, you were picked up by our family. From now on, you will live a good life with our family."
Because when a middle-aged man asked him his name, he said he didn't know his own name. He only remembered that his parents called him Mumu when he was a child. He couldn't read anyway, so he only knew the sound.
The middle-aged man sneered: "Little bastard, from now on you will be called Xiao Linzi, remember? I will teach you the rules when you are able to work."
In this way, Xiao Linzi not only lost his little brother, he also had a name, food, and a place to live. After months of pain from the wound, he still had an errand.
He was just a humble little horse slave in the stable, but he was already satisfied.
It was only later that he learned that this was the residence of the emperor's son - Prince Yong's Mansion.
