"Dewdrop, go to the clothing shop outside and buy some winter clothes for Third Miss and Aunt Xu. They should fit well and be made of good quality fabric." Jiang Wei wasn't angry at Jiang Wen's attitude.
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Jiang Wei walked gracefully into Jiang Zaishui's study. "Father."
She only went into Jiang Zai Shui's study a few times before. She had seen Jiang Rou going in and out of her father's study before, and she wanted to come too.
Jiang Rou always left with a smile after coming, while she would always get scolded, so she stopped coming.
This was the first time Jiang Zai Shui had taken the initiative to let her in.
Jiang Zai Shui sat majestically in his grandfather's chair, a steaming cup of tea in front of him. Looking at his daughter standing below with a calm expression, he tentatively asked, "Is the dowry all prepared?"
Jiang Rou said she planned to break off the engagement, and Jiang Zai Shui tested whether she was telling the truth.
If she had no intention of annuling the engagement, she could secretly switch Jiang Rou into the bridal sedan chair and marry her into the Marquis's mansion on the wedding day. As long as the Marquis's mansion accepted her, everything would be easy.
Jiang Wei's personality is a bit lacking, and she's not as likable as Jiang Rou, but she's much better looking and has a better figure than Jiang Rou. Sending her to the First Prince's residence might make her more popular with the First Prince.
"Didn't Father just come from Consort Liu's place? I'm planning to break off the engagement." Jiang Wei stood there, "Does Father intend for both daughters to serve one husband?"
"Would she agree to let my sister become a concubine?"
"Father must have already been to the Marquis's residence! What did the Marquis's residence say?" Jiang Wei asked in a series of questions.
Jiang Zai Shui disliked Jiang Wei's disrespect towards him the most, and these days he found that Jiang Wei didn't take him seriously.
Jiang Zai Shui was determined not to let her annul the engagement.
“I disagree. That man doesn’t have multiple wives and concubines. The prince and your sister were just confused for a moment. Send your sister to a temple for a while, and when you are pregnant with the legitimate son, let her come back to be the prince’s concubine. The two sisters can take care of each other.” Jiang Zai Shui said this, but she was actually planning to exchange the bride.
"Besides, breaking off the engagement won't be good for your reputation. What good family will you find in the future?" He tried to appease her first.
“Take care of? Hasn’t it already extended to the bed…” Jiang Wei hadn’t finished speaking.
"How can you, a young woman, speak so rudely? That's your sister!" Jiang Zaishui angrily slammed her hand on the armrest of the chair.
Jiang Wei's lips curled into a cold smile as she stared intently at her father. The one who did the shameful thing got away with it, but she, the victim, was utterly wicked.
"The marriage and the daughter must be called off. As for whether the Marquis's mansion wants the younger sister, that's your business."
Jiang Zai Shui felt a chill run down his spine. When did his daughter become so frightening? But he was still her father, so he didn't show any fear on his face.
Jiang Wei didn't wait for Jiang Zai Shui's reply and turned to leave.
"You unfilial daughter, I am your father." Jiang Zai Shui threw a teacup at Jiang Wei's back. Just as it was about to hit Jiang Wei's back, Lian Sang grabbed it and didn't spill the tea.
Jiang Wei found it amusing, turned around and took the teacup from Lian Sang's hand, a smirk playing on her lips, "My father, do you still know you're my father? From childhood to adulthood, have you ever loved and cherished me like you have for Jiang Rou? You've always been indiscriminate, regardless of right or wrong, punishing me without any reason."
How could you not know how Aunt Liu and the others treated me? You simply don't care; I'm insignificant to you.
Now? Are you truly afraid that my reputation will be ruined and I won't find a good family, or are you planning to secretly have Jiang Rou marry into the Marquis's household in my place?
Jiang Zai Shui's pupils dilated in disbelief. "How could she know?" He hadn't told anyone about this yet.
Jiang Wei knew she had guessed right from her father's expression. "I am grateful for your blood ties and respect you as my father. As long as you don't bring up anything too outrageous now, I will put the past behind me for now. If you don't believe me, Father..."
The hand holding the teacup stretched forward, then loosened its grip, and the teacup fell straight to the ground, shards of porcelain flying everywhere and water splashing.
Jiang Zai Shui's expression changed several times, becoming extremely ugly.
Jiang Wei didn't care at all and turned to leave.
The next morning, the sun rose as usual, casting a warm glow as if it had never snowed the day before.
There wasn't a trace of snow on the ground or trees, and the weather was warmer than yesterday.
Jiang Wei rode in a carriage to a three-courtyard house in the east of the city. The house was named Baicao Mansion. Anyone who didn't know the place would think that the family's surname was Baicao (meaning "hundred herbs").
Actually, there was an open space behind the courtyard that Mo Shen bought and enclosed with the courtyard. Various medicinal herbs were planted in it, including precious and rare ones as well as common ones.
Jiang Wei sat in the flower hall for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn before Doctor Mo, dressed in short clothes like an old farmer, walked in from outside.
Jiang Wei knew that he must be tending to the medicinal herbs he had planted in the yard.
She stood up and performed a junior's greeting, then gave Doctor Mo a few herbs that she had dug up from the corner of the courtyard where her mother had lived.
Jiang Wei had seen this medicine in the book "One Thousand Prescriptions for Curing Illnesses". It was called something like "Dragon King's Gallbladder" and was a very rare medicinal material.
Doctor Mo was thrilled as he looked at the herbs beside Jiang Wei. The leaves were as wide as a palm and as long as a chopstick, with a faint rose-red tinge around the edges. One of the plants had flower balls of the same color that looked like small lanterns.
Jiang Wei handed the medicinal herbs to Doctor Mo. Doctor Mo asked her where she found the Dragon King Gallbladder. He had searched for half his life and only found one, while she had several.
She gave it to him so easily; he really wondered if she didn't know its value.
Jiang Wei said that this was left by her mother before she passed away. Now it was growing in the weeds. She felt it was a pity and that it would be more valuable to send it to the divine doctor. She thought that her mother probably did not want this medicinal herb to go to waste.
She had previously perused the medical books passed down through the Mo family and recognized this item.
So they dug it out and sent it to him for medicine, and sure enough, Doctor Mo's eyes lit up.
Reluctantly holding the soil around the roots, Doctor Mo carefully examined them and found that the roots of these plants were all intact.
Doctor Mo's affection for Jiang Wei grew rapidly, and he planted the Dragon King Gallbladder in the backyard.
Jiang Wei sat in the same spot and waited for him. This time, Doctor Mo came out in a different outfit, with a young apprentice carrying a medicine box behind him.
Doctor Mo smiled kindly, stroked his beard, glanced at Jiang Wei. This girl was capable and intelligent, and he found her extremely pleasing to the eye.
It's really not worth charging so much for treating a teenager.
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A boy of about fifteen or sixteen sat at the table, his hand on the pulse pillow. His pale face was somewhat thin, and he coughed occasionally.
Doctor Mo stroked his beard and carefully examined the pulse. "It's a heart ailment, along with some coughing. Although I can't cure it completely, I'm confident I can cure about 80-90%. I guarantee you'll be almost like a normal person. As long as you don't do anything reckless, living to sixty is perfectly fine."
"Take off your clothes and lie down on the bed." Without saying much, he took out silver needles from his medicine box.
The clan chief hesitated for a moment, then called Jiang Wei aside and asked her where this doctor had come from and whether he was reliable.
Despite Jiang Wei's earnest attempts to persuade him, the clan leader remained skeptical. Although Jiang Wei meant well, he feared she had encountered a charlatan.
The doctors who had come before all said that his great-grandson would not live past twenty, but today the doctor said that he could live to sixty like a normal person, which he could hardly believe.
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