Yu Tangsheng lay on the bed with no desire. Through the screen, he heard the chubby, smiling doctor Wang Bai, who had no beard and a fair complexion, say to Yu Wen, "It's nothing serious! She has been carefully raised in the lady's room since she was a child. Suddenly, she came out with you and ate and drank randomly. Her stomach couldn't stand it. There's no need to prescribe any medicine. Just fast for two days. Eat less spicy food in the future."
Yu Wen felt extremely regretful and bowed and nodded in agreement.
Wang Bo still remembered their family, and asked with a smile: "Is your wife's condition getting better? Don't be fooled by Old Yang's cold face, that's because he is a good doctor, and he can defeat a thousand enemies with his strength. There shouldn't be anything wrong with the prescription he prescribed."
Although it was he and Yang Douxing who went to see Chen last time, it was Yang Douxing who wrote the prescription.
Yu Wen said hurriedly: "Zhuo Jing remembers your kindness! A few days ago, I went to the temple to pray for your safety. If you two were not in your prime years, I would have wanted to set up a longevity tablet for you!"
"Hahaha!" Wang Bai laughed and said, "I don't need that. Yang Douxing is seeking fame and reputation, and he likes these things the most. Next time you meet him, you must tell him. He won't show it on his face, but he will definitely be very happy in his heart."
Intellectuals look down on each other, and there are many who try to sabotage each other.
It's hard for anyone to respond to this.
Yu Wen stammered a few words and said, "You two are both busy people. It's a blessing to see you again. It's impossible to see you often."
"That's not necessarily true." Wang Bai said with a smile, "Mrs. Pei's eldest wife has been in a bad state these days, and Yang Douxing is almost living in Lin'an. If you have anything to ask, you can go directly to Pei's house to ask for an audience."
This time, wasn’t it also the Pei family’s post that brought him here in the middle of the night?
Everyone in the Yu family was stunned, and then they became happy.
Having such a famous doctor by your side may not be of any use sometimes, but it will make you feel at ease.
Yu Wen thanked Wang Bo again and again, making him happy, and then sent Wang Bo away. When he came back, even though it was early autumn, sweat broke out on his forehead: "Ah, these celebrities are more difficult to deal with than one another."
Yu Yuan hurriedly poured a cup of tea for Yu Wen and thanked Tong Er, the shopkeeper.
Seeing that there was nothing else to do here, the shopkeeper Tong Er smiled and said goodbye: "If there is anything else, just ask the waiter in the store to pass on the message to the shop in front. We are all from the same village, and we should help each other more when we are out. Please don't be polite to me."
Yu Wen and Yu Yuan hurriedly thanked him and personally escorted Tong Er, the shopkeeper, out the door, saying, "When our daughter is better in a couple of days, I will go and thank Master Pei San again."
This is not something that Tong Er, the shopkeeper, can decide.
He agreed with a smile, said something like "it's important to take good care of the children at home", and went back to rest.
Knowing that Yu Tang was fine, Yu Wen and Yu Yuan felt relieved. Yu Yuan even teased Yu Tang, "I told you not to restrain yourself, but now you know how to control yourself, right?"
Yu Tang lay there weakly, looking at Yu Yuan.
Yu Yuan felt a little sorry for her, so he went to pour her a cup of warm water and helped her stand up to drink.
Yu Tang tightly shut his mouth and pleaded pitifully with his eldest cousin: "I have already drunk two bottles of water. If I drink more, my stomach will become a water bag."
"You deserve it!" Yu Wen laughed and said, "Who told you to be disobedient?"
Yu Tang cried out in injustice, saying, "Is it because I didn't listen or you didn't tell me. I didn't know those things were so powerful. I'm going to tell my mom when I get back that you brought me out and didn't care about me, letting me eat whatever I wanted."
"You dare!" Yu Wen really didn't want to make Chen anxious, so he said, "If you dare to say anything to your mother when you go back, I won't take you anywhere with me in the future."
Yu Tang snorted twice to show his dissatisfaction, and then made a condition to his father: "Then you can't say that I had an upset stomach at the night market when you go back."
Yu Wen was stunned.
Yu Yuan laughed and said, "Uncle, you were fooled by Atang. She didn't want you to tell others that she had an upset stomach at the night market."
Yu Wen laughed, tapped Yu Tang's forehead, and said, "Little clever boy, your eldest cousin and I have kept our mouths shut. Are you satisfied?"
"That's good enough!" Yu Tang muttered softly. He drank too much water and wanted to go to the toilet again.
Yu Wen and Yu Yuan laughed and asked the inn's proprietress to help take care of Yu Tang, then returned to their room.
After tossing and turning for most of the night, Yu Tang finally fell asleep when it was almost dawn. When she woke up, she was not only awakened by hunger, but also Yu Wen and Yu Yuan were no longer in the inn.
The proprietress was a woman in her forties with a kind and honest face. She smiled and brought her some warm water, saying, "Drink some water. When your father and your brother left, they repeatedly told us that we couldn't give you anything to eat, only warm water. Just bear with it for now, and you'll be fine tomorrow."
Yu Tang felt like she was about to turn into a water bag, with her stomach full of water, shaking with every move. She blocked the water from the proprietress and asked her, "Do you know where my father and brother went?"
"They said they wanted to go out for a walk." The lady boss didn't force her. She smiled and put warm water on the stool beside her bed. "They said if you wake up, you can rest in the store. They will be back in the evening."
Could it be that we are going to the master named Qian?
Yu Tang didn't dare to ask more questions, fearing that someone might notice something. He exchanged a few pleasantries with the inn's proprietress and then pretended to yawn.
The lady boss saw this and immediately stood up and said goodbye: "You can take a rest first. If you need anything, just call me."
Yu Tang thanked the boss lady, and after she left, she felt even hungrier, but unfortunately she couldn't eat.
She counted the small change her mother had secretly put in her purse without her father's knowledge before she left the house, and felt that she had suffered a huge loss this time.
With her father and brother away, she couldn't run around, so she locked herself in the inn for a long time, and suddenly felt like she was back in the cage of the Li family in her previous life. Because she had promised the Li family that she would remain faithful, she required herself to follow the rules of a widow, being careful and cautious in everything. But she kept her promise, and the Li family broke their promise... Thinking of this, the unhappiness that she had suppressed in her heart burst out like a dam, and she couldn't stop it.
She doesn't want to stay here like this.
She wants to go out for a walk.
Or find something to do for yourself.
How did she spend those depressing days in her previous life?
Make a head flower.
Yes, a hair flower.
Make various kinds of hair flowers.
When she agreed to the Li family, she thought things were too simple. She felt that life was only a few decades long and would pass in the blink of an eye. If she could repay the kindness of her great uncle's family, and one of their two families could climb ashore, what would it matter if she suffered a little? When she really started to observe chastity, she realized that life was really hard to endure. She waited from dusk to dawn, and from dawn to dusk. She sat from the morning glow to the sunset. She counted every quarter and every hour. She felt that she couldn't live like this anymore. She was very impetuous. She couldn't do anything well and didn't like to do anything. She tried growing flowers, embroidering, and making clothes, but it didn't work.
Until one year during the Dragon Boat Festival, the little maidservant of the Li family named Bai Xing secretly gave her a date red velvet flower and whispered to her: "I know you can't wear it, but you can keep it and take it out to look at it when you have nothing to do."
It was a very ordinary flower.
Made into the shape of a camellia.
But it's only the size of a wine glass.
The edges of the wire branches were not properly wrapped, revealing some rust spots.
Very rough.
When she was at her parents' house, she wouldn't even buy a pair of peaches.
But it was this flower that she took out and looked at from time to time.
The dark red date-colored, fuzzy petals actually gradually soothed her irritability.
She began to wrap silk threads around the rusty branches and use green summer cloth to make calyxes for the flowers... Later, she began to make hair flowers for the little maids.
Silk, velvet, gilded, coarse cloth, fine cloth… lilac, lilac, jasmine, peony… wine cup-sized, cup-sized, fingernail-sized… with copper beads, silver-gilt beads, glass beads… Eventually, they could make a magnolia flower that looked like a real thing and hung it on a camphor tree in June…
She spends most of her time making hair ornaments.
Yu Tang covered his face.
Since her rebirth, she felt that she should forget everything in the past just like a newborn.
Especially the habits developed in the Li Mansion.
Not only did she not touch her hair, nor did she seek revenge on the Li family, she didn't even go to visit the Ku'an Temple where she died.
But some things, once they happened, have already happened. They are engraved in her bones and melted into her blood.
She can't change it, she can't forget it.
Yu Tang wants to make a head flower.
Small, pink, petal by petal, stacked up in the shape of a camellia. Resting on it is a tiny beetle, the size of a mung bean, lifelike, lying on the pistil of the camellia, worn in her hair.
That was the style she had never worn in her previous life since Li Jun's death.
At this moment, Yu Tang was like a thirsty traveler, unable to resist the desire in his heart.
She got up and dressed.
I saw that the woman in the bronze mirror had a pair of eyes as bright as stars, so bright that they seemed to be able to illuminate the entire night sky.
She slowly inserted a pearl flower into her hair, put on her veil, and went to find the proprietress: "Is there anyone selling copper silk cloth around here? I want to make a head flower."
The proprietress knew that she was the daughter of a scholar. But most of the scholars needed women to do needlework to have food and clothing. She just looked at Yu Tang with sympathy and pointed to a small path outside the door: "Go out from here and turn left at the first crossroads. That alley sells hair combs, handkerchiefs and purses."
Not only are these things for sale, but the materials used to make them are also for sale.
There are shops that buy these things, and there are merchants who sell these things.
The proprietress thought that their family was familiar with the Pei family, so she asked a servant to go with her: "Help to move things and show the way." If she met a scoundrel, she could threaten him or call someone to help.
Yu Tang thanked him again and again, and was led out by the servant.
She spent three taels of silver and half a day to buy a lot of copper threads, gold-plated and silver-plated glass beads, and a bunch of various scraps of cloth.
After drinking some water, she sat in front of the window of the guest room and started making her hair.
Familiar tools, familiar materials, familiar colors... Yu Tang's heart calmed down. He no longer felt tired or hungry.