Chapter 72 Lovesickness
After the second son of the Qin family returned to the Qin Mansion, he lost his appetite and did not eat for three days.
After the servant A Shui reported to Madam Qin, he invited a doctor for Qin Er.
The whole Qin family came to visit Qin Er together, and they all thought that Qin Er was obsessed with painting again.
The doctor said, "Second Master Qin is suffering from lovesickness."
Everyone in the Qin family was shocked.
Qin Er has always been a painting fanatic, and he values painting more than his life. He has no interest in women at all. How come he suddenly fell in love with women?
Mrs. Qin was particularly angry.
Doctor Xu is an expert in medicine. Since he is so sure that his son is suffering from lovesickness, he must be right.
Mrs. Qin has already made up her mind about her son's marriage. She will definitely return to Beijing to look for a suitable match. Beiyue City is a desolate place, full of vulgar and barbaric people, and there is not a single truly wealthy family.
I didn't expect that my son would fall in love with her in this desolate place. I wonder which girl from a humble family dared to seduce my innocent second son. It's really hateful.
No wonder my son’s spending has increased dramatically recently. It turns out he spent it all on women.
We must get someone to investigate this matter later.
Qin Er's mind is now filled with the stunning paintings in the teahouse. He is so obsessed with them that he has no appetite for tea or food. This is definitely lovesickness!
It’s just that what he was thinking about was the painting, not the woman that Mrs. Qin imagined.
Really, he missed the painting in the Yinyue Teahouse particularly during these three days.
Qin Er has been obsessed with painting for many years, and his diet and sleep have been irregular. His body is already weak, and now he has not eaten for several days. He is too weak to walk.
He told Ah Shui, "Ah Shui, have someone carry me to the Yinyue Teahouse."
So the second young master Qin was carried onto a carriage by servants, and when he arrived at the Yinyue Tea House, he was carried down from the carriage and directly into the hall.
Generally, in a business place, if someone is carried in horizontally, it means that he is here to cause trouble.
So the old shopkeeper quickly asked his waiter to go to the backyard and call Jiang Yueying out.
As soon as Jiang Yueying came out, she recognized the person who was carried in. It turned out to be the person who came to her to buy a painting a few days ago.
After just a few days of not seeing him, this handsome young man has lost a lot of weight, his eye sockets are sunken, and he looks like his end is near.
However, is this young man really here to cause trouble as the old shopkeeper said?
As she was thinking, she heard Second Master Qin say in a weak voice: "Waiter, please give me four of your signature dim sum."
It is obvious that they are not here to cause trouble, but to give money.
The servant A Shui was a loyal man. When the snacks came, he saw that the second young master was concentrating on looking at the paintings on the wall, while his left hand never stopped picking up snacks from the plate and feeding them into his mouth.
The young master is eating!
The young master finally ate something.
Ah Shui saw his master eating with his own eyes, and was so moved that tears welled up in his eyes.
The young master has been hungry for three days. If he continues to be hungry, he might lose his life.
Doctor Wu said that his master was suffering from lovesickness. When Ah Shui saw that his master was staring at the paintings on the wall, he finally understood that it was the paintings in the Yinyue Teahouse that made his master miss him.
The master is quite greedy. He already has three paintings, but he still covets the fourth one.
Many of the literati in the teahouse hall knew each other.
Someone recognized the Second Young Master Qin and came over to say hello, but the Second Young Master Qin just kept staring at the painting.
Apart from the painting, I can neither see nor hear anything around me.
He truly turned a deaf ear to the world outside and focused on studying the paintings of sages.
At the same time, the news that four of the Saint of Painting's masterpieces had ended up in Beiyue City had reached the capital.
The literati and scholars in the capital heard the news and several groups have already left the city for Beiyue City.
Gu Yun from the Gu family also planned to go to Beiyue Pass with his classmates to observe the paintings of the painting saint and study at the same time.
Mrs. Gu was worried about her son and didn't want him to go to Beiyue Pass, but young people have their own ideas.
Too many restrictions on young people will have the opposite effect.
She personally handed a red envelope to her son and said, "Yun'er, the Lin family sent some silver when you got engaged. Take a hundred taels of silver with you so that you can have a good place to stay and good food on the way."
Gu Yun is the hope for the revival of the Gu family and the hope of the entire Gu clan. Now the Gu family is using all its strength to support Gu Yun.
Gu Yun did not refuse and accepted it readily.
"Mom, I'll take the banknote. I will definitely pass the imperial examination in the future. I will then help you get an imperial decree."
These words brought a smile to Mrs. Gu's face.
Although the Gu family was once one of the eight great families of the Great Yan Dynasty, it has fallen into decline and cannot even afford to hire a maid.
Mrs. Gu was actually not very old, only 39 years old, but because of her miserable life, her hair turned gray early, and her wrinkles were particularly obvious when she smiled.
This made Gu Yun feel even more distressed.
He was determined to pass the imperial examination and hire more servants so that his mother would no longer suffer.
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Wang Yuyan from the Prime Minister's Mansion is a woman of real talent and learning. She was admitted to the Jeanne d'Arc Girls' School a year ago on the basis of her own ability.
Nowadays, anyone with a bit of talent would consider himself good at painting.
Wang Yuyan was even rumored to be the most talented woman in the capital. She heard that all the talented people went to Beiyue Pass to observe the works of the painting saints, and she also wanted to go.
"Grandfather, I also want to go to Beiyue Pass."
It just so happened that her aunt married the border marshal Qin Chuan, and went to Beiyue Pass, so she could stay in Qin's mansion.
Prime Minister Wang refused without even thinking about it.
All the girls nowadays have been led astray by that girl who took the lead in buying official positions.
The entire Great Yan State is in a mess, which is really hateful.
"Girls, why are you running around everywhere? Girls should stay in the inner house. If you dare to go out, I will break your legs."
Prime Minister Wang was very thoughtful and immediately arranged for two more skillful maids to keep a close eye on Wang Yuyan.
Wang Yuyan was a person with her own ideas. She asked her maid Yingchun to secretly send a letter to Lin Baozhu, inviting her to visit the Prime Minister's Mansion.
When Lin Baozhu left, Wang Yuyan dressed up as a maid and followed Lin Baozhu out of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
The two of them got on a carriage together, fled the capital, and headed towards Beiyue Pass.
The maid Yingchun pretended to be Wang Yuyan and lay on Wang Yuyan's bed, delaying the time for the Prime Minister's Mansion to discover the truth.
At noon the next day, the old woman saw that the eldest daughter had not yet gotten up and realized something was wrong, because the eldest daughter was very regular in her daily routine and never got up too late.
The old woman walked closer to the bed to find out what was going on, and was shocked by what she saw.
It’s over, the person on the bed is not the eldest lady at all.
Could it be that the eldest lady has already quietly left the city and headed for the border?
The Prime Minister sent these two old women to be by the eldest lady's side in order to keep an eye on her and prevent her from going to Beiyue City.
Now that such a big mistake has happened, I wonder what kind of punishment I will receive.
I hope I can save my life.
Report to the Prime Minister as soon as possible, maybe we can get the young lady back.
After Prime Minister Wang received the report from the old woman, he immediately sent people out of the city to chase after him. Unfortunately, a day and a night had already passed, and it was probably difficult to catch up.
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