Chapter 297 Red Pollen
Xia Shiming's decision quickly reached Xia Ziying's ears.
Xia Ziying took out a small piece of broken silver from the box and gave it to the little maid in front of her. "Keep staring at her. If anything happens, tell me immediately. I won't treat you badly."
The little maid took the money and lowered her eyes, "Yes, I will definitely do my job well."
After taking the money, he quickly left Xia Ziying's yard.
Xia Ziying walked to the window and cast her gaze in the direction of the courtyard where Aunt Zhang lived. Her pretty face was so gloomy that it could drip water.
Not long after, she rushed into Mrs. Xu's yard and saw Mrs. Xu who was all skinny and skinny on the fire bed. Her eyes were red and she said with tears in her eyes, "Mom, dad stopped Aunt Zhang's medicine today."< br>
Xu's body trembled, and her deep-set eyes were no longer beautiful. "What did you say? How dare that bitch instigate your father to stop taking her medicine?"
Xu was so angry that she beat the edge of the kang with her fists, "What qualifications does a lowly woman have to give birth to your father's child? You...ahem..."
Her throat was itchy, Xu coughed violently, saliva splashed everywhere, her heart ached, her liver hurt, and her lungs also hurt.
"Quick, rub my mother's back." Xia Ziying was anxious, but she took two steps back with her legs and gave up her position to the maid.
She asked with concern, "Has my mother taken her medicine on time? Why is her cough still not cured?"
"Yes, Madam takes medicine on time every day." The maid stroked Xu's chest skillfully again and again.
After a long time, Mrs. Xu finally regained her breath.
She looked at Xia Ziying and said with a weak expression, "You... go and write a letter to your aunt and ask her to come to Beijing, otherwise, my mother will die here."
"Can aunt take care of our affairs?" Xia Ziying hesitated. In her impression, the relationship between Xu and her aunt was not good.
The last time she saw her aunt, when she was seven years old, her aunt gave her a pair of silver bracelets, and her attitude towards her was cold and indifferent, and she was not close to her.
Afterwards, my mother took it over and looked at it. She saw that the bracelet was hollow and not even worth a tael of silver. She threw it on the table and said, "Huh, you still look like a miser."
At that time, Mrs. Xu's expression was one of contempt.
"If aunt doesn't care what happens, why don't you tell grandma." Xia Ziying said.
"Hmph, she dares to ignore it." Ms. Xu said viciously. The eldest sister had the handle in her hand. If she had the courage to do so, the eldest sister would not dare to ignore her matter.
"Don't let your grandmother know about Xia Zilan. Don't tell your grandmother." Otherwise, she would have written to Jiangning City long ago.
Mr. Xia is in charge of the general affairs of the Xia family and controls all the property of the Xia family. If Mr. Xia knew that she dragged Xia Zilan to death, he would not make the whole capital know about it.
When the time comes, I'm afraid she will really just end up being suspended.
After Xia Ziying returned to her room, she wrote a letter to Sister Xu, and then ordered the little maid to prepare the carriage.
An hour later, Xia Ziying took her confidant to a grocery store and bought the trust out for three taels of silver.
After coming out of the grocery store and standing on the bustling street, Xia Ziying held a deflated purse in her hands with a gloomy look on her face.
She has never been so depressed since she became sensible. When did she have less than twenty taels of silver in her purse?
But now, she only has two taels of silver left in her purse.
After these two taels of silver were used up, she would have no private money at all, and her mother was even poorer than she was. She had lost her money long ago, and her stems were cleaner than her face.
Before, grandma's letter clearly stated that she would bring 200 taels of silver every month for them to use, but in the past few months, they have not seen a penny.
Grandma actually didn't mean what she said.
Looking at the shops selling various department stores on both sides of the bustling streets, Xia Ziying wanted to go in for a stroll, have fun and then go back.
But without money, people have no confidence, just like a beggar wandering into a restaurant, feeling very depressed.
"Let's go."
After standing for a long time, Xia Ziying said dullly.
"Girl, my wife's illness is always unpleasant. Should we go to the medical clinic and ask the doctor? There happens to be a medical clinic right in front of us?"
The little maid pointed to a sign across the street, on which were written the four words "Practice medicine to help the world."
Xia Ziying glanced at the little maid, then suddenly raised her lips and smiled, "Well, not bad, then let's go over and ask."
Ever since Aunt Zhang took charge of the family, all the maids and wives in the family have been bent on pleasing Aunt Zhang. Even half of the servants they brought from Jiangning City have fallen in love with Aunt Zhang like grassroots.
As for Xu, a serious wife, no one paid much attention to her.
This time Xu's illness did not get better no matter how she took care of her, but became more and more serious. Several maids and mothers-in-law who were loyal to her and Xu all went to Aunt Zhang behind her and Xu's back.
The servants were also a little slow in serving her.
One time, she wanted to have a snack and asked the cook in the kitchen to make it, but the cook refused in every possible way. Either she said she didn't prepare honey, or she just ran out of eggs. In short, she just wouldn't make it.
She became anxious and complained to her father. He actually said that she was hypocritical. Since there were not enough ingredients in the kitchen, she would just eat tomorrow and she had to eat today.
Her father even scolded her and said she was ignorant. It made her so angry that her body almost caught fire.
Has she, Xia Ziying, ever been greedy for a few snacks?
What she was angry about was the cook's attitude towards her. She didn't treat her as her master at all, and she treated a mean aunt as her mistress.
The servants in the family were all bribed by Aunt Zhang, and none of them had the status of her and her mother in their eyes and hearts.
In the afternoon of the next day, Aunt Zhang personally cooked some snacks and brought them to her.
She hated Aunt Zhang. She was angry and threw the snacks on the ground. Her father happened to see her and she was scolded and punished two hundred times.
That time, she understood one thing: her and her mother's status in the family was not as important as that of her aunt.
And all this happened because her mother made an unforgivable mistake.
From then on, she began to shrink her existence as a small talker. She had to live in a low position, and even the two maids around her were wronged together.
She thought that they would betray her sooner or later like everyone else, but she didn't expect that Dan Ju turned out to be a loyal girl.
In this case, she also thought about her mother's condition.
Xia Ziying thought about this and looked at Dan Ju with a gentle look.
The master and servant entered the hospital. When the old doctor saw two little girls, he didn't take it easy and asked carefully, "Which one of you wants to see a doctor?"
"We are not here to see a doctor, no, no, we are here to see a doctor." It was the first time she went out alone on the street and the first time she came into contact with outsiders alone. Xia Ziying felt a little nervous.
"Do you want to see a doctor or not?" The old doctor became impatient when he saw that she couldn't speak clearly.
"Doctor, it's like this." The little maid spoke sharply again, "My wife is sick, but she has not recovered after taking the decoction for several months. Instead, her condition has become more serious. We came in just to ask the doctor if our wife has any symptoms. What disease is it and can it be cured? ”
"It's hard to say without seeing the patient." The old doctor stroked the beard on his chin.
"We can tell you the patient's condition." Danju said.
But the old doctor shook his head and said slowly, "The main thing to see a doctor is to look, hear and ask. The patient is not here and just listening to the condition cannot diagnose the patient's disease. There are many conditions that are the same, but the diseases are different."
Xia Ziying and Dan Ju were both stunned.
How did they know that there are so many things to do when seeing a doctor? They thought that if they explained Xu's condition in detail, the old doctor would know what kind of disease Xu had, and then see if the doctor who treated Xu had the right way to treat it. .
When the old doctor saw that the two children were silent, he suggested, "How about I accompany the two girls to the mansion."
"This..." Xia Ziying hesitated.
She originally wanted to secretly ask the doctor to go back and cure her mother's illness without telling anyone, not even her father. As long as she secretly cured her mother's illness, she would have the chance to drive away Aunt Zhang, turn defeat into victory, and continue Be her glorious legitimate daughter of the Xia family.
She didn't believe it. She was the legitimate daughter of the Xia family, and she couldn't cure a despicable concubine. As long as Aunt Zhang was gone, her mother would have the final say in everything in the family.
But now... when a doctor comes to see a doctor at home, the fee is at least five taels of silver.
But she only had two taels of silver.
The medical fee is not enough, what should I do?
Xia Ziying bit it, and after hesitating for a moment, she agreed, "Then...doctor, please pack some more medicinal materials for me."
"If you want any medicinal materials, just ask the medical boy to pack them for you. There are still patients among me. Go in first and explain a few words before I follow you."
"Please, old doctor."
Xia Ziying stood up and felt blessed.
After the old doctor went to the inner room, Xia Ziying went to the counter and said, "Weigh out 200 yuan worth of safflower powder for me."
The medical boy glanced at Xia Ziying, who was younger than him, and shouted, "Okay, wait a moment objectively, it will be wrapped up soon."
The medical boy took out a paper bag, opened a medicine dispenser, weighed three hundred grams of safflower powder neatly, and handed it to Xia Ziying, "Girl, the medicine you want has been wrapped, and it costs two hundred dollars."
Xia Ziying took the pink packet and took out a piece of broken silver from her purse. The doctor weighed it and gave her another hundred coins.
When they arrived at Xia Mansion, the carriage entered through the back door, passed through the hanging flower gate, and entered Xu's yard directly.
As soon as she walked to the door, Xia Ziying heard a coughing sound coming from inside. The violent coughing sound seemed to be coughing out Xu's heart, liver and lungs, which made Xia Ziying tremble with fear.
After a cup of tea, the old doctor checked Mrs. Xu's pulse and went to the outer room with Xia Ziying to discuss matters.
The old lady said, "Mrs. Xia's disease is caused by worries filtering out and evil fire entering the lungs, resulting in liver fire and lung excess."
"Can it be cured?"
"Recuperate quietly and be less disturbed, and the condition will recover on its own."
Xia Ziying was silent. After a while, she asked the little maid who was waiting for Mrs. Xu to bring over the prescription that Mrs. Xu was drinking and gave it to the old doctor, "Doctor, please see, is it right for my mother to drink this decoction?"
(End of chapter)