Chapter 10 Xu Yu is a very nice person
Xu Wenxiu was startled.
"Yu'er, that jade button was obtained by your father after he kowtowed three times and nine times at Xiangguo Temple when you were born!"
Xu Yu had been wearing the jade button since he was a child and never took it off. It was also the only thing he took away from home when his house was ransacked.
On the way, he saw Xu Wenxiu crying so hard that he decided to give it to her temporarily as a keepsake, but now...
Xu Yu guessed what she was going to say, pursed his lips and said hoarsely, "Things are dead, they are not as important as living people."
"Give it to me."
I have no money and no one will help me.
He did not have Sang Zhixia's ability to find and identify medicines with his bare hands. The only way at this time was to pawn or sell the jade button to exchange for some silver to hire a doctor and get medicine for her.
Xu Wenxiu obviously disagreed, but she could not resist Xu Yu's insistence, so she could only give him the hidden jade button with a grimace.
Xu Yu wrung out the handkerchief and placed it on Sang Zhixia's burning forehead. He said solemnly, "I'm going out for a while. Mother, please help me keep an eye on her."
Xu Wenxiu looked at him as he strode out, wanting to say something but stopping herself. She looked at Xu Yu's coat on Sang Zhixia, stood by the bed, sighed deeply, and wrung out the water and changed the handkerchief in an unskilled manner.
In the courtyard, Second Aunt Xu saw Xu Yu's hurried steps and sneered, "See, I told you that the eldest son of the family had hidden something valuable. Xu Yu must be going to exchange it for silver!"
When the whole family was in trouble, Xu Yu acted as if nothing had happened, hiding the problem and refusing to help.
But now that Sang Zhixia is sick, this man is extremely anxious.
Second Aunt Xu grumbled and complained, "In her mother's family, she was a bastard daughter who was not wanted by anyone, but now she has become a hot commodity here with Xu Yu. This is really a rare and strange thing."
She kept mumbling with a dark face and refused to stop.
Uncle Xu rolled his eyes and said in an ambiguous tone, "Dad, Mom, this is a long-term solution for Xu Yu."
"If he only cares about the people in his own room, then where will the rest of the family stand? Things are different now than they were before, but we can't let him go unruly like this."
The couple from the third room remained silent, and it seemed that they agreed with what they said.
The old man and the old lady didn't say anything after hearing this, but their faces became inexplicably gloomy.
Seeing that the cooking time was almost right, Uncle Xu smiled without saying anything, and signaled to Aunt Xu, who still wanted to complain, not to say anything more.
When Xu Yu comes back, someone will naturally speak up.
An hour later, Xu Yu finally came back, and with him came an old doctor with white hair and beard.
The doctor reached out to feel the patient's pulse, then frowned as he took his hand back. "He looks so young, but he's obviously suffering from a lot of health problems. How could his constitution be so poor?"
Sang Zhixia was not favored when she was raised in the general's mansion. After she married Xu Yu, she was immediately exiled. She ate dry bread with cold water every day. With the constant torment after the prefix, her health naturally could not get better.
Xu Yu pursed his lips and said softly, "Is there any way to cure it?"
“Yes, there is, but…”
The old doctor hesitated, looking around at the obvious bare walls of the house, and said with a wry smile, "If you want to take good care of yourself, the money spent on the prescription alone is indispensable. You..."
"Can this be provided?"
The person in front of me looks very noble, but it is obvious that this family is poor. Can they afford the money for the medicine?
Xu Yu clutched the silver in his sleeve and said, "Just prescribe the medicine, and I'll figure out the rest."
The doctor felt much more at ease after hearing his words.
After he finished his acupuncture and prescribing medicine, he held the medical fee Xu Yu gave him and said, "The first prescription is for fever reduction. You won't need to take it again when you wake up. The second prescription is for long-term treatment. Come to me to check your pulse every two months. Take it for half a year and see how it goes."
Xu Yu smiled and nodded: "Thank you."
"Let me take you out."
The old doctor left contentedly with his medicine box on his back. When Xu Yu came back, he was met with the old lady's cold face.
"I heard that you spent three taels of silver to hire a doctor to prescribe medicine for the man in the room?"
In the past, if a mere three taels of silver fell on the ground, no one present would even bend down, but it was different now.
Even half a copper coin can make these people fight over it.
Xu Wenxiu couldn't hide her uneasiness and tugged at Xu Yu's clothes, but Xu Yu said calmly, "Yes."
What happens in one portal cannot be hidden from the eyes of others.
When the doctor was there, Aunt Xu kept peeking out of the door of the east room, and she couldn't hide it even if she wanted to.
The old lady was instantly furious: "Do you know what the situation is like now? How dare you spend money on her?!"
"That's right, we can barely make ends meet at home, and we don't know what tomorrow will be like, yet you're so generous."
After Second Aunt Xu finished her sarcastic remarks, her eyes kept searching Xu Yu's body.
"You're willing to spend three or five taels at a time. I'm afraid you still have quite a bit of money hidden on you, right? I know your eldest son is very thoughtful. I'm afraid you only want to keep the rest for yourself and don't think about others at all, right?"
Xu Wenxiu was so anxious that she was about to cry: "Second sister-in-law, how could you say that?"
"That silver is..."
"No matter where it comes from, it should be handed over to the old lady for settlement!"
Aunt Xu said unyieldingly, "Otherwise, if everyone behaves like the eldest son's wife, hiding everything, how can we live like this?"
"I think what my second sister-in-law said is right."
Aunt Xu, who was reserved and taciturn, said with a sullen face, "The old lady should be in charge of the household finances, and she should also have the final say on the money coming in and out."
"It's against the rules to allow private possession."
The old lady and the old man both had dark faces and kept silent, but almost everything that needed to be said had been said by the others.
Xu Yu curled the corners of his mouth in a mocking manner.
It's already like this, what else is there to take care of in the household chores?
All these high-sounding words are nothing more than the fear of being at a disadvantage.
He said calmly, "I had a jade buckle on me when I left the house. Today I sold it for fifty taels of silver."
The old man frowned when he heard this: "Is this the jade button your father asked for you?"
"yes."
"Confused!"
The old man finally said something less biased: "The master said that you have a bad fate, but that was what your father worked so hard to get for you. Why..."
"How could someone with such good fortune bring such a disaster to the Xu family?"
Uncle Xu said pointedly, "Now that things have come to this, it would be more practical to exchange it for silver."
"What about the remaining money? We've already hired the doctor, so the rest should be taken out, right?"
It's in front of everyone and we haven't divided the family, so we have to take it out.
But Xu Yu only took out forty taels in the end.
He said to the old lady in dissatisfaction: "Her illness is not very good, she needs medicine to take care of herself."
The old lady frowned: "Why is a bastard girl so precious?"
"Even though she was born out of wedlock, she was still my first wife, the one I, Xu Yu, married to through a formal matchmaker!"
Xu Yu had been enduring the accusations against his father, but this time he showed a rare cold expression.
Seeing this, the crowd who were forced to refuse to give in fell silent.
Xu Yu snorted and said coldly, "The Xu family is in such a state now. I don't think the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children is applicable anymore."
"Since Sang Zhixia married me, it's naturally my responsibility to protect her."
"Grandma, if you're hoping for some semblance of harmony in our family, please don't say such things anymore. I can't bear to hear them."
Xu Yu's rare toughness gave people a glimpse of the arrogance of the prince when he rode his horse to Kyoto, and also made those who were dissatisfied shut up with a bad face.
He endured it silently and submissively.
But this gentleman has had a bad temper since he was a child, and he is not someone who is easy to talk to.
Those who held grudges in their hearts left and went back into their houses. Xu Yu sat down calmly and began to try to light a fire and boil the medicine.
Xu Wenxiu held the two little ones in her arms, silently weeping as she watched the medicine jar from which smoke rose. She cried even more heartbrokenly as she looked at Xu Yu's cold and hard profile.
If the Marquis had not committed such a heinous crime, why would Xu Yu have to endure the humiliation forced upon him?
The crying voice of the water-made mother-in-law was still familiar, and the bitter smell of medicine gradually became stronger in the air.
In the east room, Sang Zhixia, who had been awake for half a day, blinked despite the aches all over his body, looking at the translucent thatched roof, sighing in his heart: It's hard to say anything else, but Xu Yu is obviously different from the rumors, and he's a pretty nice person.
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