The next morning, Dong Zao got up and didn't see Jiang He in the house, so he hurried to the yard, only to see Jiang He still sitting there.
Dong Zao was terrified. Had he been sitting in the yard all night? She hurried forward and squatted down to look at Jiang He.
Dongzao was not one of the four maids who came with the dowry, so she was not very clear about the past events. However, this time Jiang He and Lu Shiqing had a quarrel and eventually divorced. Dongzao and Chuntao had heard some rumors and probably knew that their master had a past with Shen Zhaoming, who was famous in Kyoto.
Yesterday, Shen Zhaoming got married. Dong Zao vaguely understood that her master was feeling depressed. She squatted and said to Jiang He, "Miss, come in and lie down for a while. Your health is very important."
After hesitating for a long time, she continued, "In theory, this is not what I should say, but Miss, sometimes how we live our lives is not what we want, but we can still try our best to live a good life.
Everyone said that Lord Shen was imprisoned in some dark place for decades. He must have suffered a lot at that time.
I don’t know when I will be able to come back, or if I will ever be able to come back. Maybe I will die outside.
But he came too.
Miss, no one knows what will happen in the future... Please don't think about the past."
Jiang He looked over. She looked at Dong Zao and spoke with difficulty: "Dong Zao, I understand the truth, but... I don't know what happened. It's not that I couldn't bear it before, but I suddenly couldn't bear it anymore... those days."
It was like suddenly remembering how beautiful I used to be, and those wonderful days, and then looking at my miserable life now...
Dong Zao helped Jiang He lie down in the house. Feeling that Jiang He's hands were cold, he hurried to boil a pot of hot water and heated up another pot of porridge.
Jiang He managed to eat something and fell into a drowsy sleep, but then his whole body started to feel hot and he had a fever.
After Dongzao found out, he wanted to go to the pharmacy to buy some medicine, but he was afraid that no one was watching over the young lady.
After thinking about it, I went to my neighbor's door and knocked on it. I could clearly hear someone next door in the yard, but now I've been knocking on the door for a long time and no one opened it. What's going on?
Dong Zao was extremely anxious. He knocked harder and harder, and even leaned on the door from time to time to see if there was anyone coming in. Why didn't he see anyone coming?
Suddenly, there was a sound of a door bolt being pulled from inside. Dong Zao didn't even see anyone through the crack in the door. The door suddenly opened, and he fell forward before he could get out.
The person who came to open the door was caught off guard and fell hard under the weight of Dongzao.
Both of them got up somewhat awkwardly. Dong Zao saw that the person coming was a servant of the same age as her. Logically speaking, if such a big man walked over, there shouldn't be enough space through the crack in the door to miss such a big man, right?
She hadn't figured out what was going on yet, so she decided to get the business done first. She apologized to the man and explained that she was the neighbor next door, and her daughter was sick, but she was the only one there and couldn't leave, so she wanted to ask him for help and ask him to go to the clinic to ask for a doctor.
After talking a lot, Dongzao said, "If there's no doctor available at the clinic right now, you can buy some fever-reducing medicine."
The servant said, "Wait a moment, I'll go ask my master." He went into the house and came out a moment later, saying, "Okay, I'll make the trip for you."
Dongzao hurriedly pulled out his purse from his waist and said, "Here are two taels of silver. I think it should be enough to ask a doctor to prescribe some medicine. You can do whatever you want. If there is less, I will give you more when you come back."
The boy took the purse and said, "I understand." Then he went out with Dongzao.
Since they left the house together, Dong Zao couldn't help but ask, "How did you get here? Why didn't I see you through the crack in the door? Otherwise, you wouldn't have fallen like that."
The servant said, "Our master used to be a soldier. If someone knocked on the door, he would have us sneak along the wall to the side of the door and then pull out the bolt, so people outside couldn't see us through the crack in the door."
Dongzao laughed and said, "That's interesting."
The two said goodbye, Dongzao went back to the house to take care of Jiang He, and the servant went to call a doctor and buy medicine.
Dong Zao saw that Jiang He had a high fever, so he wiped him with a wet towel to cool him down.
The servant called a doctor and helped to prepare the medicine according to the prescription. Seeing that Dongzao was too busy, he simply helped her boil the medicine and watch the fire here.
After a while, they suddenly heard some knocking on the courtyard wall. The servant said to Dongzao, "I'll go back first. You take care of the fire yourself." After that, he ran away.
After a while, the boy knocked on the door again. It turned out that he brought two bowls of noodles and said to Dongzao, "Since you are too busy, I will cook for you as well."
Dongzao was grateful and thanked him quickly.
Jiang He was sleeping soundly at this moment. Dong Zao finished his noodles and put the other bowl in the steamer with a lid to keep warm. He asked him again, "Why did you run so fast when you heard knocking on the wall just now?"
The servant laughed and said, "The different knocks of my master have different meanings. The three short knocks and two long knocks just now mean that he is angry! Cook!"
Dongzao laughed so hard that he fell over. He then asked the boy's name and learned that his name was Yupei.
By the evening, Jiang He's fever had subsided and he became much more alert.
After eating some noodle soup, I leaned back on the bed and watched Dongzao busying around. I listened to Dongzao talk about how Yupei next door opened the door by sliding against the wall, and how his husband told Yupei that he was angry! Cooking!
Hearing Dongzao laughing uncontrollably.
Jiang He also smiled.
Chuntao had a porter deliver some food and fabrics. She said it was sent by Shen Zhaoshu, who probably didn't know the young lady no longer lived there. The items were obviously for the whole family, the host and hostess, and the two children.
The two children were very happy because there were many things that the school needed, and there were ready-made clothes and shoes suitable for them.
A note from Chuntao was delivered with the goods, saying that she had taken the things the children needed to buy, but she had tried several times but still couldn't buy everything.
It was difficult for her to raise two children by herself. There were many things she didn't understand, and since they were only girls, no one paid much attention to her when she asked too many questions. The two children became increasingly silent, saying nothing when she asked them, and then, when she asked more, they said it was okay and that they should just go home.
The things the Shangshu's wife sent her were complete sets of pens, both for painting and calligraphy. There were also papers of all sizes and specifications, suitable for Chinese painting, ink painting, and regular script. The Chinese painting pigments filled a large, heavy wooden box. There were also different inks, inkstones, and paperweights... The two children were delighted to see what they had been looking for.
Shen Zhaoshu still remembered the last time she sent the drunk Lu Shiqing home. When she was leaving, she saw the brother and sister hiding behind the door watching what was going on. The look in their eyes made her feel sad for some reason.
She also thought of her and her brother Zhaoming after their mother was forced to go to Yunlan Temple.
As the school was about to start, she bought a lot of things the children needed, including clothes and shoes, and sent them to them.
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