Chapter 1666: Cramps
Yang Heshu couldn't help but remain silent for a moment, then reached out and knocked her on the head, saying sullenly, "Don't be like your fellow student Tang, who gets suspicious the moment he sees a human. Okay, take the child inside. Thank you for your hard work guarding him tonight."
He added, "I will ask for leave for you and Xiao Yuanzheng, Kong Jijiu, tomorrow."
Manbao had no choice but to go back with the child.
She put the child on the couch and rubbed his forehead. Nanny Cui hurriedly stared at the child, and Yingyue came out after covering Cui with a quilt.
When he came out and saw Manbao rubbing his forehead, he lowered his voice and asked, "Miss Man, what's wrong with you?"
Manbao said, "It's okay. I was hit on the head by my senior. I just asked my senior sister-in-law if she fell because of the Marquis' wife."
Yingyue paused for a moment, then quickly glanced outside. Seeing that the Marquis's wife had already left with someone, she lowered her voice and said, "Miss Man, please don't tell anyone about this."
Manbao lowered his voice and said, "I'm just telling you, I know that you and Aunt Cui are both people that my sister-in-law can trust."
Nanny Cui puffed out her chest proudly, and Yingyue also smiled with some pride, because they were the only two confidants in the room, and they knew that the master and the mistress trusted Manbao, so they couldn't help but whisper to her.
"Madam's fall really has nothing to do with the Marquis' wife," Yingyue also sat on the couch and said in a low voice, "Madam fell by herself. It's my fault for not holding her up."
Aunt Cui said to Manbao, "She can't even reach into our courtyard, but she has used all sorts of methods to torment our wife."
Nanny Cui had been harboring resentment for a long time, but Cui was very strict with her subordinates and did not allow them to talk about these things outside or discuss them in the house, so she had a lot of things to say.
In her opinion, Manbao was not an outsider. She had just experienced the difficult childbirth of her wife and had a lot of pressure in her heart that she wanted to vent, so she told Manbao everything.
"When we first returned to the capital, she used her status as her mother-in-law to make our wife visit her every morning and evening. In the morning, she had to wait outside the main courtyard before she woke up. Not only did she have to help her wash and dress, but she also had to wait until she had finished her meal before leaving. And at night, needless to say, our wife had to wait until it was completely dark before she could return to the house to eat a single bite."
Manbao opened his mouth in surprise and asked, "Xiaoxue Brother Yang, don't you care?"
"Oh, my Lord, how could I have the time back then? The mess left by the Yizhou King's rebellion. As soon as I returned to Beijing, I went to the Ministry of Revenue to handle my work. I wanted to sleep in the government office every night. My wife felt sorry for me and didn't want him to be upset about the things happening in the harem, so she didn't allow us to tell him."
Nanny Cui said, "It was only after the master was busy for a while and moved back to the courtyard that he noticed it. After that, he stopped letting the lady go there, and he personally took care of her every morning and evening."
At this point, Madam Cui was still very relieved. "Master still loves our Madam very much. But the Marquis's wife is the eldest, and Madam cannot disobey her out of filial piety. Without the regular morning and evening visits, there are many other ways to make her tired. It's tiring enough for our Madam to stand and serve tea and water all day, not to mention that she falls ill every now and then, and specifically asks our Madam to take care of her..."
Aunt Cui said, "Our Madam was in good health in Luojiang County, but she and the Madam in the other room have ruined her health."
Manbao was curious, "In that room over there?"
Aunt Cui sighed, "She's our wife's maiden family. It's said that Master and Madam are a perfect match. Master feels sorry for not having a biological mother, and our Madam also lost her biological mother at a young age. It's just right that they feel sorry for each other."
Manbao: ...Can this be another explanation for being a perfect match?
But my sister-in-law sounds very pitiful.
Yingyue felt a bit hesitant to speak after hearing Nanny Cui describe their young lady so miserably. Although their young lady, no, their lady... although their lady seemed to be in a weak position, she was not as pitiful as Nanny Cui described.
Later, didn't their wife and the eldest master still make the Marquis angry? From then on, the wife took over the household affairs of the mansion, fulfilling her filial duty while preventing the Marquis and his wife from causing any trouble?
However, after looking at Miss Man, whose face was full of heartache, Yingyue said nothing.
After Aunt Cui finished complaining about everything that had happened to Cui during her year in Beijing, Manbao still hadn't forgotten his original question, "So how did my sister-in-law fall?"
Nanny Cui glanced at Yingyue who was standing beside her.
Yingyue was still terrified when she thought about it, and then she said with red eyes, "Madam was feeling sleepy after dinner and said she wanted to sleep. She changed her clothes every night before going to bed, so I helped her go in. But when she came out, she suddenly got a calf cramp and couldn't stand up. She fell straight down. I didn't hold her firmly at the beginning, I only had time to pull her up, and then I fell down with Madam in my arms."
Manbao looked Yingyue up and down, and after a moment, asked, "Are you cushioning underneath?"
"Yes, Madam was lying on her side with her back against me. I fell to the ground, and then Madam started bleeding."
Manbao rolled up his sleeves and said, "Come, come, let me show you."
Yingyue smiled and said, "I'm fine. You see, I've been running around all night, and nothing's wrong at all."
Manbao insisted on watching it.
Yingyue had no choice but to take off her clothes to show her. Except for the one lying on the couch, the only people in the room were women, so Yingyue didn't shy away.
As soon as the inner garment was taken off, Aunt Cui couldn't help but exclaimed, lowering her voice and asking, "Why is it so serious?"
After hearing this, Yingyue looked back and saw nothing.
Manbao reached out and pressed it, then asked, "Does it hurt?"
Yingyue didn't feel anything at first. When Manbao asked for the second time, she felt a dull pain, and then her whole body suddenly hurt.
She was shocked and stood there in a daze.
After checking everything, Manbao said, "You're so scared that you don't even feel the pain. Your arm is even a little dislocated, don't you feel anything?"
Yingyue was about to cry out of pain, and couldn't help crying: "Miss Man, I am in pain now."
Aunt Cui kept muttering to herself as she went to find her some medicinal wine. "You don't know the severity of the situation. You don't even know if it hurts or not. There's a big bruise on your back."
It's more than just a big bruise, it's almost turned purple. It's obviously a serious bruise.
Yingyue was petite to begin with, and she was holding Cui, a woman who was about to give birth, and she fell defenselessly onto the blue brick floor. She was lucky that no bones were broken.
Manbao saw the medicinal wine that Aunt Cui brought over, and after a moment of silence, he said, "You can't use this stuff to rub it. Just apply a cold compress for now. I don't have any ointment for you. How about this, I'll take over first, and you can send someone to Jishitang to get the ointment tomorrow."
See you at ten o'clock tonight?
This is the chapter at nine o'clock. It's updated in advance.
(End of this chapter)
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