Xu Jiang lay there in a daze until Doctor Chen fed her a bowl of bitter and fishy medicine. Then she sat up with a frown and hurriedly asked Yin Yin to bring her some water.
"Hold on for now." Doctor Chen took the water Yin Yin brought, "Drink it later."
After a while, the bitterness dissipates and I don’t want to drink it anymore.
"Girl, what do you think?" Shopkeeper Wang poked his head over and asked.
Xu Jiang waved her hands, not knowing what Doctor Chen had put in the medicine. It was so bitter that she couldn't speak.
Doctor Chen said, "She's fine. She just needs some rest." Then he frowned and looked at Xu Jiang, "It's very hot. Stay out of the sun."
Xu Jiang nodded.
"Don't overexert your liver qi, and don't stress your heart and mind. Your illness is caused by the accumulation of impatience and the summer heat, which has caused a severe flare-up."
Doctor Chen saw her red and swollen eyes, shook his head and sighed, "But even this attack is good. It helps you to calm down and dissipate the heat. But afterward, remember to calm your mind and rest, take things easy, and don't push yourself too hard."
Xu Jiang cleared her throat and finally managed to respond, "No need to bother you, Doctor Chen."
Young people are hot-tempered and have strong liver fire, so they need to vent it out.
Doctor Chen stood up and asked Liang Mo to spread out paper and grind ink. He prescribed a "Ganju Decoction with Modified Flavors" and asked Liang Mo to go get the medicine.
After he left, Xu Jiang dared to pick up the water and took a few sips to get rid of the medicinal smell in her mouth.
Shopkeeper Wang stepped forward and asked, "Sister, what happened to you?"
Xu Jiang looked at the guard uncomfortably. The guard coughed lightly and pulled his companion out.
Yinyin was still young, and Xu Jiang didn't want her to hear such dirty things, but Yinyin refused to leave and insisted on staying to fan her, so Xu Jiang let her do it.
"This is a long story, Yinyin, bring a stool for brother to sit on, and we'll talk slowly."
"I'll do it myself." Shopkeeper Wang quickly took a stool and sat aside.
Xu Jiang slowly drank half a bowl of water, and only after he felt his mind was clear did he tell the story of what had happened in the past two days.
When she finished speaking, both Shopkeeper Wang and Yin Yin looked ashen. She hurriedly comforted them, "It's a good thing. At least I'm not a rootless duckweed or a floating tree." This was also a form of self-consolation.
She looked up and around the bookstore, inevitably recalling her childhood playing games in Xu Yuan's bookstore. She said softly, "I'm very happy that he is my father, and I'm also very fortunate that he is my father."
Shopkeeper Wang's sleeves were soaked, and he asked in a low voice, "What about your mother? Do you want to go see her?"
Xu Jiang nodded and said, "If I don't go, I'm afraid I'll regret it for the rest of my life."
"Then this bookstore..."
Xu Jiang smiled and said, "Liang Mo has been with me for so long, he can handle things on his own now. If you are too busy to handle the work in the future, you can ask the two shopkeepers of Zhenxi Bookstore and Songchuang Bookstore to help share the burden."
He could actually laugh. Shopkeeper Wang couldn't help crying for Xu Jiang. Why did his sister have such a miserable life?
"What about Xu Twelve? He's done so many evil things, and we're really going to let him off so easily?"
"Evil men will be punished by their own evil, and he won't have an easy time." Xu Jiang then told the shopkeeper Wang about Xu Si's affairs, and the shopkeeper Wang praised him repeatedly.
Xu Twelve was eager to escape from the lowly class because he had had enough of the torture that the lowly class brought him, and the ones who tortured him the most were Xu Yan and Xu Si.
Xu Si was now demoted to a lowly status and sold as a slave. She bought him and gave him to Xu Twelve. How could he resist taking revenge?
But Xu Jiang knew Xu Si's character best. His father, Xu Yan, was the patriarch of the Xu family, and everyone who lived revolved around him.
He had been spoiled and domineering since childhood, and as he grew older, he followed his father's example, acting tyrannically and disregarding others. For such a person to be reduced to a lowly status and asked to recognize a slave whom he once despised and looked down upon as his master was worse than death.
If these two people are tied together, they will definitely kill each other, and they will never live in peace for the rest of their lives.
"So after finding out your biological mother's whereabouts, you're going to set off immediately?"
"Well, if it's true as Xu Twelve said, that she is seriously ill, then there is no time to delay. After we have settled the matter between the two of them tomorrow, we will prepare to leave the capital to look for her."
Xu Jiang's feelings towards Xizhi were very complicated at the moment. She had never seen her and never heard her name, but when she heard Xu Twelve talking about her, her heart couldn't help but ache, and she couldn't help but think about her and worry about her.
She didn't abandon her.
Just this one sentence was enough to make her travel thousands of miles to meet him.
Shopkeeper Wang sighed, "Brother Lou hasn't come back yet, and now you're leaving again. This Huailiu Alley will become even more deserted."
When Lou Yunchun was mentioned, Xu Jiang smiled faintly and said, "I will rush back as soon as possible. There are still so many things going on in the market. When I come back, he should be back too. Then it will be lively."
Yin Yin hesitated to speak, and after a long while she stopped fanning herself, she said, "Sister, can I go with you?"
Xu Jiang turned around and looked at her in surprise, then took her hand and said with a smile, "If you leave, who will watch the bookstore for me?"
How could a young girl like this bear the hard work and running around outside?
Yin Yin asked, "Isn't there Liang Mo?"
Xu Jiang coaxed, "There's a lot going on in the market, and Liang Mo sometimes can't take care of it all, so I have to rely on you to keep watch for me."
Yin Yin nodded, "I understand."
"What do you understand?"
"The picture book said that a helper ran away with the boss's money. Yinyin had to guard the bookstore for her sister to prevent Liang Mo from running away with the money."
Upon hearing this, Shopkeeper Wang burst into laughter.
Xu Jiang knocked her head and said, "What kind of nonsense have you read?"
As they were talking, Liang Mo came into the room carrying medicine. The three of them looked at him in unison, looking at him in confusion.
"What's wrong?"
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