Chapter 196

Mrs. Liang returned home in a daze. As soon as she entered the door, she heard her mother-in-law pointing at the locust tree and scolding her in the main room. She was exhausted both physically and mentally, and everything ached. For the first time, she didn't go into the house to say hello to her and went straight back to her. of the house.

Sitting blankly in front of the bronze mirror, Madam Liang saw herself in the mirror and was shocked by her own face.

She raised her hand and touched the person in the mirror. She didn't know what she thought of and laughed.

The laughter got louder and louder...

Her body was shaking violently, as if she was crazy...

Outside the house, the noisy cursing stopped.

Madam Liang didn't care at all. She smiled and cried, covering her face and crying. Later, her eyes were blurred by tears. In her hazy vision, she saw a pair of scissors wrapped with red silk in the sewing basket.

The scissors were her dowry when she got married.

Madam Liang was the third sister who grew up one mile outside the city. She was good-looking, and as soon as she reached her age, many people came to propose marriage. When the Gu family came to propose marriage, her father saw that his family had a good fortune and agreed without even thinking about it.

Gu Sheng is the eldest son in the family, and he will inherit the tofu shop in the family. He is as white as jade and treats Madam Liang very well. Madam Liang thinks that she has married the right person.

But not long after the marriage, Gu Sheng often used the excuse that the tofu shop was busy and often stayed away from home at night. Madam Liang believed in him, and every time he came back from a night out, she would prepare sobering soup for him and squeeze his shoulders to soothe him. Every time at this time, Gu Sheng would squeeze her hand and praise her for being virtuous and kind, and for being his good wife.

Madam Liang looked away from the scissors and returned to the makeup box on the dressing table.

She opened the makeup box, which contained a dazzling array of gold and silver hairpins, which were given to her by Gu Sheng when he came back every night.

Gu Sheng also said that he did not dislike her for not having a child for several years, and said that he was not in a hurry, as long as their love as husband and wife was better than anything in the world.

It turned out that they were all lies to her. Now, looking at these things, each one is dirtier than the last. They were all done to make up for her.

...

Xu Zhai, inside the clinic.

Xu Yi lowered his eyes and washed his hands. Next to him, Ah Jin stood obediently with his eyebrows lowered, not even daring to breathe.

After a long time, so long that Ah Jin's heart almost jumped out of his throat, Xu Yi finally spoke.

He said, "Have you forgotten what I taught you before?"

"Ah Jin has not forgotten it." She gritted her teeth, knowing that Lang Jun was angry, so she stood up by herself and explained in a low voice, "I saw Mrs. Liang's scab I was suspicious, so I checked it with a handkerchief. But...because I didn't know if it was true or not, I wanted to come to Lang Jun to ask for clarification, so I forgot about it."

As she spoke, she glanced at Xu Yi from the corner of her eye. Seeing that Xu Yi still had a sullen face, he sighed and secretly exclaimed, "It's terrible."

Her husband doesn't get annoyed easily, but when it comes to medical treatment, he is more serious and careful than anyone else, and he always hates careless people.

Ah Jin quickly said: "Mr. Lang, I was wrong. Next time, no matter how important it is, I will wash my hands first. I will never let you worry."

Xu Yi said, "Purify your hands for your own sake."

Ah Jin He nodded quickly, fearing that Xu Yi would be unhappy if he was too slow.

"Ah Jin knows it, he will keep it in his heart, and he will never forget it again." Ah Jin raised his finger and promised.

Xu Yi shook his head helplessly, it was also his fault.

He thought that when Ah Jin was young and still playful, he didn't want her to have so many contacts.

In the past, when treating patients suffering from Hualiu disease, he would let Ah Jin go out instead of letting her study on the side.

This is not protecting her, but harming her.

As an apprentice, you should see and learn everything. You can't deny Ah Jin access just because there are differences between men and women.

Thinking of this, Xu Yi's heart trembled with emotion. Could it be that he had been in the Song Dynasty for so many years and had been subtly affected by it?

No, it's not.

Essentially, it was because of Ah Jin.

Xu Yi raised his eyelids to look at her and said calmly: "From today on, you have to wait by the side when encountering such a disease."

Ah Jin's eyes widened slightly: "Can I see it?"

She had wanted to see it for a long time . But the husband didn't allow it. He asked his brother, but he didn't answer. Not only did she not answer, but she also became wary of those around her. Even Erqing was warned by her brother.

This made Ah Jin even more curious about what kind of Hualiu disease those people had.

If Xu Yi knew what she was thinking, he would definitely smile and say to her: You are going to be disappointed.

That picture is not pretty.

No need to be scolded, Ah Jin immediately became active, twisting the handkerchief, tidying up the desk, and pouring the honeysuckle dew from the wash basin.

After she came back, she saw what Xu Yi was writing before sitting back on the case, so she came over quietly.

"Lang Jun, um..." Ah Jin asked in a low voice, "Is Madam Liang's disease really transmitted from her husband?"

Xu Yi said: "There is a certain probability."

Ah Jin was confused: "Lang Jun is not sure either. "Then you said earlier that carriers can also infect wives and concubines. Did you tell Madam Liang specifically?"

Xu Yi did not deny it. He recorded Madam Liang's medical records and the prescriptions he prescribed.

After that, he clarified Ah Jin's doubts: "There is no absolute thing in the world, right or wrong, and Mrs. Liang's officials have to come to see the doctor."

Ah Jin rolled his eyes and said with meaning: "I think he is He won't come."

Xu Yi smiled coldly, and he had the same idea.

But many times, you will still guess wrong. For example, it's not that Gu Sheng doesn't want to come, it's that he can't come.

...

Gu Sheng sat in a sedan chair and wandered back home.

After he walked in the door, his mother invited him into the room to talk. Gu Sheng was confused, but didn't think much about it.

"Mom, are you looking for me?" Gu Sheng sat on the chair and smiled at the maid serving his mother, "Why are you standing there? Pour me a cup of tea." The

maid had a shy face, apricot cheeks and peach cheeks. I went to pour him some tea.

When Gu Sheng took the tea, he didn't forget to take the opportunity to touch it.

Gu Sheng's mother seemed not to notice, the old god was coiling Buddhist beads on the ground, and after he finished drinking tea, he opened his eyes and said to her son: "Do you know where the Liang family went today? "

"After breakfast, she said she was feeling ill and wanted to see a doctor." Gu Sheng didn't care much and asked, "Mom, I've fallen in love with something in the past few days. Unfortunately, my hands are a little tight. Can you Give me a little extra."

His mother snorted and asked the maid to get twenty strings of money for the husband.

"It's the same for you. I wanted that person in the first place. I think he was a bad person. His stomach hasn't moved in a few years." After his mother finished complaining, she saw that his mind was elsewhere and said, "If not, let Juan'er go." In your room."

Juan'er is another maid in her room, with a pretty appearance and average status.

Before she finished speaking, the maid Yin Qiao standing behind her turned pale and looked at Gu Sheng timidly.

Gu Sheng coughed lightly and made a wry smile: "Mom, it's not that you don't know, this matter requires the consent of the Liang family."

"You were just stunned by her! Don't you think about yourself? "His mother said, feeling even more disgusted with this eldest daughter-in-law.

Gu Sheng, however, kept his mouth shut and did not answer, as if he had been told the truth.

His mother was so angry that she scolded him for a while, then she complained that her chest felt uncomfortable and she couldn't bear to see him like this, so she sent him out.

Gu Sheng stood up and saluted hesitantly, shouting: "Mom, calm down, I'll come see you later." He winked at Yinqiao.

Not long after he left the house, Yin Qiao found an excuse to go to the courtyard hut and meet Gu Sheng.

When Gu Sheng saw her coming, he couldn't wait to get in touch with her. The two hugged each other and soon became a ball.

"Oh...Gu Sheng, please be gentler..." Yinqiao couldn't bear it anymore, and she shouted coquettishly.

How could Gu Sheng bear this, so he pushed harder.

Later, he was licking the lower part of her collarbone with unfinished thoughts, his palms were moving back and forth on her waist, and he said with a smile: "What, why did the old lady say these things again? What did the Liang family do?"

Yinqiao bit her lip. , and then said after a while: "Ms. Liang didn't come to say hello when she came back. The old lady got angry, and then...she seemed to be crying and laughing in the room, which was really scary."

"Hi." Gu Sheng regained his interest and stopped. Folding her open robe, she said absently, "What does she have to be afraid of? You are just timid."

Yinqiao took the opportunity to say coquettishly: "Gu Sheng, you said you wanted to make me your aunt, but it cannot be Juan'er."

Gu Sheng He patted her cheek and said with a smile: "My dear Yinqiao, you can only be my aunt, no one can get past you."

After coaxing her, he planned to see what Mrs. Liang had done.

"Madam, I'm back." Gu Sheng opened the door and saw the darkness in the room. He said "Huh" and asked her why she didn't light the lamp.

"There is no shortage of this clear oil at home. If mother tells you, just say that I asked you to light it." Gu Sheng said this and went to get the fire stick to light the oil lamp.

He turned around and saw Madam Liang sitting beside the bed.

Gu Sheng came over and sat next to her, put his arm around her shoulders, smiled and asked with concern: "I heard that you went out to see the doctor?"

At this time, Mrs. Liang moved and asked him in a low voice: "Gu Sir, I have something to ask you. Can you answer me sincerely?"

Gu Sheng was stunned for a moment and said, "Madam, when did I stop telling the truth?"

Madam Liang's eyes were crying a lot. This will change. She was so raw that she didn't pay attention to Gu Sheng's sweet words. She only asked, "Have you gone to a restaurant to have fun?"

"..."

Gu Sheng was startled and jumped up from the bed, his face full of disbelief: "Madam, what are you saying? What are you talking about? How can I go to the fireworks willow field? Besides, I am so happy with my wife, how can I care about that bitch who has slept with so many people?"

At this point, Gu said Sheng then realized that he had said the wrong thing, but when he looked at Madam Liang, she seemed unmoved.

Could it be that someone was gossiping in front of her?

He thought about Yinqiao's performance today, and subconsciously thought it was her. This bitch still wanted to be an aunt, but she was just coaxing.

He thought this, but his eyes were different, as if he was aggrieved by Madam Liang's words. After speaking, he said angrily that Madam Liang was humiliating him.

"I have always wanted to treat you well, but you actually doubted my husband. This...this..."

He slapped his palm on the table, extremely angry.

Madam Liang watched his every move, but she was thinking in her heart that she was so confused before, why did she believe his coaxing words. As long as Gu Sheng made such a gesture, she would blame herself.

But...

Madam Liang took out two handkerchiefs and placed them in front of him.

"Who do you think this belongs to?"

Gu Sheng said subconsciously: "Who else could it be besides yours?"

Madam Liang stared at him: "Look carefully again."

Gu Sheng looked carefully and saw this The two veils... did not belong to Madam Liang, but he had forgotten where they came from. Maybe some goblin stuffed it into his arms while he wasn't paying attention, and Madam Liang looked at it.

"Isn't this yours?" Gu Sheng said in surprise, "You have a lot of handkerchiefs, I can't even remember which ones they are. If it's not yours, who else could it be?"

"There are only two serving mothers in our house. I even dismissed the eldest girl for you."

"Madam, I have done so much for you, why do you still doubt me?"

"..." Madam Liang smiled coldly when she saw him like this.

"You are doing me a favor. You know I went to see a doctor today. What did the doctor say?" Madam Liang's chest was heaving, and her suppressed emotions completely exploded.

She raised the hidden scissors and faced Gu Sheng's face.

Gu Shengguai screamed and was frightened by the sharp scissors pressed against his throat.

"Madam, what do you mean?" Gu Sheng looked around in panic, and became even more panicked when he saw that there was nothing in the room that he could get his hands on.

Madam Liang said, "I said, I want to hear your true words."

"Everything I said is true." Gu Sheng shouted, regretting that he had asked his mother-in-law not to follow him when he entered the house just now.

Gu Sheng advised: "Madam, please put this thing down first. This thing hurts people. If you accidentally cut your neck, it will be bad." The more he spoke, the more his legs shook.

Madam Liang suddenly went to pull off his pants. Seeing the softness and appearance of the place, she smiled bitterly.

Sure enough...it's really him.

It was the person in front of her that made her suffer so much.

"Your mother scolded me for not being able to have children. I thought it was because of me that I could bear to drink no matter how bitter the medicine was. I never doubted you."

Madam Liang smiled brightly, her tears slowly falling, and continued: "I just found out today that you are having an affair with Yinqiao and Juan'er in the old lady's house. Why are you looking at me like this? They didn't tell me secretly, These two veils belong to them."

She took the scissors, thinking that she would be dead, but she didn't want to take stock of her belongings, but she found a box she had never seen before.

The box contained many handkerchiefs with rouge and gouache, forty-six in total.

There were two of them inside. She had seen them on Yinqiao and Juaner, and then she understood that Gu Sheng was not only doing things outside, but he was also acting like this under her eyes.

"You know everything?" Gu Sheng was completely panicked.

Madam Liang was the eldest daughter of the family. When he saw that she was beautiful and had a similar family background, she wanted to use her status as the eldest son to make more money.

His mother also agreed, thinking that marrying a sister from such a family would be a good thing. As a result, Mrs. Liang was so rigid that she was not happy at all during sex. Later, Mrs. Liang had not been pregnant for three years, and her mother was even more disgusted when she saw her. Gu Sheng did not want to divorce his wife, so he thought about raising a few outside, and if they gave birth, he would bring them back to her to raise.

Later, he found out that none of the several outer rooms he had raised could give birth to children, and even got sick...

Gu Sheng refused to admit it: "Those are not mine. How did I know that the veils of these two slaves would be in your hands?" In here? Madam, if you ask me like this, is it possible that you have something secret in your heart, and you accidentally got some disease, so you can slander me?"

He said while observing Madam Liang's face. When she suddenly turned pale, she knew she was right.

"It seems I was right. I should have known a long time ago that the carpenter who came to the house to do work that day was flirting with you. It turns out that you two have been having an affair for a long time."

Madam Liang looked in a daze, seeing that he was becoming less and less human. Even more heartbroken.

She smiled sadly and said, "So that's what you had in mind. You knew you had the disease a long time ago, but you brought it to me."

Gu Sheng intensified his efforts, pushed away her trembling arm holding the scissors, and said sarcastically. : "It's just nonsense. Where did my illness come from? It's you, an unruly bitch. Now that you are sick, you are worse than a dog."

He pushed away Madam Liang in front of him. Madam Liang couldn't help but Cha was pushed to the ground by him.

Gu Sheng sneered coldly: "That's all, I won't humiliate you. If you still have shame, you should swallow this matter back in your stomach, so as not to shout out and ruin the reputation of our Gu family."

After that, he took a step forward , and he was about to leave complacently.

Madam Liang's mind was buzzing, and her face became even more disgusting.

The next moment, Madam Liang suddenly rushed over, threatening to die with him.

"Ah——"

Gu Sheng was stabbed in the arm, and his face was hideous in pain. He covered his injured arm and kicked Madam Liang hard in the abdomen.

"Well -" Madam Liang bit her lip, her arms were shaking with pain in her abdomen, she clutched his sleeves with her hands, and rushed towards him again.

She had no hope in this life. Even if she died, she would drag Gu Sheng with her.

When Gu Sheng saw this, he was finally scared. He kicked Madam Liang hard and shouted in panic: "Someone is coming, someone is killing someone, someone is coming...ah..."

Suddenly, he felt severe pain in his lower body, and he was frightened. Looking down, he saw a lot of blood oozing out from under him.

Madam Liang's hand holding the scissors trembled. She was kicked so hard that her eyesight turned black and she couldn't see clearly. She could only stab forward instinctively.

"Hahahaha...hahahahahaha...retribution, all retribution..."

Madam Liang let go of the scissors and lay on the ground laughing maniacally.

The people outside slammed the door open and screamed in shock when they saw this scene.

...

The next day, Xu Yi felt a little weird when he saw that Madam Liang didn't come to clean the scab on her groin.

He seemed to feel something and called Ah Jin.

"Go to Gu's house on Ertiao Street and inquire about the situation." Xu Yi said, "If you see Mrs. Liang, ask her to come. Her disease is in the early stages and she can be cured with good treatment." "

Yes." Ah Jin nodded.

Not long after she left, she hurriedly left and returned.

Ah Jin shouted with a pale face: "Lang Jun, something happened to Madam Liang."

Xu Yi felt nervous and asked, "What's the matter?"

"After Madam Liang left yesterday, she cut her wrists and committed suicide at night." Ah Jin thought of Madam Liang. She looked so lost when she left that I thought she was just sad and didn't expect such a thing to happen.

Xu Yi's eyelashes trembled slightly. He closed his eyes and asked, "Besides this matter? What about the Gu family?"

A Jin shook his head. The Gu family invited a doctor last night, but nothing happened after that. I heard that Mrs. Liang today They were buried hastily without even a proper funeral.

Xu Yi felt that there was something fishy here. After thinking about it, he asked A Xu to come over and ask him to inquire.

"From the Gu family?" A Xu frowned and thought, and suddenly thought of something, "The doctor the Gu family invited last night was Dr. Wu from the Miaoshou Pavilion."

After hearing this, Xu Yi sat on the chair thoughtfully. This matter is related to the patient. Regarding privacy, given Wu Guanshan's medical ethics, he would not disclose the patient's privacy at will.

"That's it." Xu Yi put his forehead on his palm and sighed softly, "Let's leave it as it is."

A Xu and A Jin looked at each other and walked out honestly.

Not long after, Xu Yi got up and came to the main room. Yan Quyue was learning to make a nvhong in the house. When he saw him coming, she showed him the half-made nvwen.

"Did you see anything?" Yan Quyue asked with a smile. "I have been embroidering for several days and I haven't shown it to anyone else."

Xu Yi was not very interested, but he smiled when he saw Yan Quyue. , took the embroidery booth and looked at it carefully, and then guessed: "Is it the Tiger King?"

Yan Quyue said: "I guessed wrong, it's Xiao Huang."

Xu Yi curled his lips with a smile, what he wanted to say, Yan Quyue Suddenly she took his hand and asked softly: "What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing." Xu Yi raised his eyes.

Yan Quyue said: "You have frowned like that, and you still say it's okay."

Xu Yi knew that he couldn't hide it from her, but he didn't want to bother her with this kind of thing, so he said, "It's a medical matter, so don't mention it ." ."

Yan Quyue rubbed his eyebrows and said with a smile: "I don't think so. Come and give me some guidance. I don't really look like Xiao Huang."

Xu Yi shook his head with a smile.

Yan Quyue looked at the left and right sides, not believing that her level was so poor, and said, "I've been learning female celebrities for two months!"

Xu Yi thought for a while and said, "I'll give it a try."

" You know how?" Yan Quyue was shocked.

Xu Yi said: "No, but I can learn it."

Yan Quyue looked at him with a smile but not a smile and said: "I have never seen a man learn from female celebrities. Do you really want to learn it, are you not afraid of others laughing at you?"

Xu Yi said He said: "Although nvhong has the word "female" in it, it is not necessarily that only women can learn it. Just like there are men and women who study medicine."

He said he wanted to learn, but he actually started to learn it.

The next day, Yan Quyue began to teach him how to separate and thread threads, and which embroidery method to use.

Yan Quyue was not a qualified embroidery master. She lost patience after teaching him twice. She no longer wanted to teach Xu Yi, but wanted to learn to catch fish.

"You don't like to eat fish. I have learned to catch fish. When I go out next spring, I can catch fish by myself." Yan Quyue is looking forward to the arrival of spring.

Xu Yi laughed and said, "Then A Xu will teach you. A Xu can catch fish."

He ignored Yan Quyue. She had no relatives here and only followed a few of them. Seeing that she was interested in fishing, he Go to Master Ji and ask him to make several sets of fishing gear suitable for Yan Quyue.

Then, he asked Mrs. Lin to arrange for a tailor to make several convenient narrow-sleeved skirts so that it would be more convenient for Yan Quyue to go fishing at the river.

Master Yan Quyue had the fishing equipment and happily followed A Xu out.

As for the female embroidery that Xu Yi learned, the clinic was already so busy that even before she had finished embroidering Tiger King's ears.

Within a few days, even A Xu, who taught Yan Quyue how to fish, came back to the clinic to help.

The weather is getting colder and colder day by day. More and more patients come to Xu's house to see a doctor and are suffering from cold.

They look down on illness and only start to see doctors when it is serious.

Most of these patients came here because they heard that Xu Yi charged less for medical treatment.

Yan Quyue came to the clinic for a few days and felt unbearable. She came to ask Xu Yi: "If we don't like it, we can build a shed outside the yard and give the poor people some clothes to keep out the cold."

Xu Yi listened . , shook his head and said: "This is a good idea, but we don't have many clothes to keep out the cold at home. I'm afraid it will be too late to collect them at this time."

Yan Quyue looked at him and asked: "Do you have other ideas?"

Xu He nodded and said: "In the past, I would go to the countryside for free clinics, but this time, I think your idea is good. Let's build a shed outside the yard and deliver cold-repelling pills and ginger soup."

With these two things, the people at the bottom can There is a greater chance of surviving the cold of winter.

They can't do this alone, it's too conspicuous, and their money is limited.

Xu Yi knew the population of Yanting County very well. Except for wealthy families, less than 70% of the people could afford to eat, and at least 30% of the people were struggling to survive.