Last night, a rainstorm suddenly hit, the rain was like a hammer hitting the window frame, thunder rumbled, and the wind blew. In the morning, the rainstorm subsided, and the rain outside the window was smoky, especially the leaves of the canna next to the hanging flower gate were particularly shiny. Only by slowly savoring this scenery can you perceive the meaning of the quiet breeze.

Yao Niang took a deep breath and felt refreshed.

But a pretty girl came in from outside and said disapprovingly: "Fifth Lady, you have just recovered from your illness, you must not catch a cold. If you catch a cold again, you will have to drink bitter juice."

This girl was about fifteen or sixteen years old. Her name was Yinrong. She originally served Yu Shi, and was later sent by Yu Shi to serve Yao Niang.

Yao Niang smiled and said, "I understand, Sister Yinrong. Don't blame Baiying and Baizhi. I just wanted to take a look outside."

Baiying and Baizhi were both bought from outside. I heard that they had learned the rules and regulations from human traffickers for a year before entering the mansion. I heard that if Yao Niang had not been in a hurry to come back, they would have been able to choose the children carefully at home.

"When you get better, you'll have a chance to see it. When we go to Beijing in the future, our Luo family has a large house with five courtyards in Beijing, with pavilions, terraces, halls, corridors and boats." Yinrong was also proud of it when she mentioned it.

The Luo family has been officials for generations, so the mansion built by several generations is naturally very extraordinary.

Yinrong has been teaching Yaoniang to speak Mandarin these past few days. Yaoniang intends to speed up her pace in learning, so she learns much faster. Yinrong doesn't know the reason, but she feels that Fifth Lady is worthy of being a real daughter and learns things much faster.

If she can't learn Mandarin, she won't be able to communicate with the people in the mansion. What's more, her skin is now slightly dark and she has cold sweat scars. Yu also hopes that Yao Niang can be nursed back to health so that she can go out and meet people.

Otherwise, if the servants saw how honorable the master was, it would seem that the real daughter was worse than the fake one.

As they were talking, a young woman came in. She was slim and charming, wearing a blue shirt with a wide collar. Her silver embroidered shoes were slightly wet from the rain outside.

Yao Niang quickly stood up and called out, "Sister-in-law."

It turned out that this person was Fan, the wife of Luo Jingxi, the eldest son of the eldest house. Fan came from a scholarly family in Gaoping. Her father was also a Jinshi, and she was the same year as his father Luo Zhizheng. She treated Yao Niang very well and came to see her three times a day.

In fact, Yao Niang no longer remembers Fan very clearly, because her impression seems to be that Fan died the next year, and the next year her eldest brother Luo Jingxi married another woman.

The girls in the Luo family are ranked according to the clan, but the grandfathers are ranked according to their own rooms. Luo Jingxi is the eldest son of the eldest room, and Yao Niang and others call him big brother.

Mrs. Fan smiled and said, "I'm here to bring you some ginseng soup. Ginseng soup is great for strengthening your body and qi. There are also some candied fruits. If you feel your mouth is tasteless, you can take one or two. Just don't eat too much, or you'll easily develop phlegm."

Although Fan was only a little thinner, she was obviously very healthy. How could she suddenly die next year?

It was also because of Fan's death that the family held a funeral. His younger brother Jinghao was held by his wet nurse and was playing by the lake. Unfortunately, he fell into the lake and drowned.

Yao Niang thanked her and said, "It's raining outside, sister-in-law, just ask a maid to bring it over. Although I like you to accompany me, I can't bear to see you endure the wind and rain."

Fan was surprised that the fifth sister could speak Mandarin so well in just a few days. She was really smart, but she didn't show it on her face. She even accompanied Yao Niang to drink ginseng soup.

After Yao Niang drank the ginseng soup while pinching her nose, Fan touched her head and said, "Little Yao Niang, please grow up safely!"

These words made Yao Niang's nose sore for no reason. She couldn't remember what Fan was like in her previous life. After being reborn in this life, apart from Yu, Fan was the one who treated her the best.

After the rain stopped and the sky cleared, at dinner time, Yu came over with a little boy. He was carrying a lantern. He had long and thick eyelashes, big grape-like eyes, and milky white skin. He was very adorable.

"Mother Yao, your brother insisted on giving you a gift." Yu smiled.

The little boy looked at Yao Niang curiously, without any disgust. Instead, he handed over the lantern and looked at her with his big watery eyes.

Yao Niang looked at the lantern he was holding, took it with both hands, and then held his hand and said, "Thank you, brother."

Jinghao was a little shy and quickly hid behind Yu. Seeing Yaoniang holding the lamp in her hands and carefully protecting it, Yu was also relieved. She sat down and said, "I said it was raining, and your brother heard about you and wanted to come and see it, but when he really came, he was shy again."

As soon as Yu finished speaking, Jinghao started coughing. Yao Niang handed the lantern to Yinrong, walked over and patted his back gently. Her hands touched several acupoints on his back, and Jinghao suddenly coughed up phlegm in his throat.

The phlegm is yellow, which means it is a heat symptom.

Yao Niang suddenly had an idea in her mind: "Mom, my daughter is not seriously ill. Why not let my brother sleep here with me? This way you can avoid running around and getting tired."

As she spoke, she pinched Jinghao's hand, and Jinghao's little hand took the initiative to pinch hers. She took the handkerchief in her hand and pinched it into a little mouse. After folding it into a little mouse, Jinghao squinted his big round eyes, wanting it a little, but he didn't dare to speak.

Yao Niang put it in his hand and said, "I give it to you from my sister."

Jinghao shyly took it in his hand and played with it, looking very happy.

Yu, who was standing by, had heard that Yao Niang was having a hard time in the Zhong family. Mrs. Zhong had given birth to five daughters but had never given birth to a boy. She even injured herself when she gave birth to her fifth daughter. Mrs. Zhong was in a very bad situation. Not only could she not have children, she also had to use up her savings to take a concubine for her husband.

Fortunately, after he took a concubine, he had three sons. It was said that the three sons were dressed in gorgeous robes, spent money lavishly, and were all raised by Zhong. However, two of the five daughters drowned, and the other three were raised in the countryside, including Yao Niang, who was raised in the countryside all the time, was fed when she was hungry, and was almost sent to be a child bride.

Yu thought that it was probably because children from poor families had to grow up early, while children from ordinary families had to coax and take care of other children, and even light fires and wash clothes. They had to do everything.

"Mother Yao likes your brother, so let you two siblings live together." Yu's heart softened and she agreed.

Yao Niang knew that it was different when her biological mother was around. Although Yu was the second wife and had no right to interfere in the affairs of the men at home, she was still in charge of the affairs of the eldest son's wife and the clan.

Yu was afraid that Jinghao would not be used to it if he came here to rest. But she was surprised to see that Yao Niang could even coax her brother to sleep.

Yao Niang took Yu's hand and said, "Mom, when I was at the Zhong family, I had a severe cough. No one at home gave me medicine, so I cut a few slices of white radish and boiled them in water. After three days, I was cured. Mom, my brother has such a severe cough. If medicine doesn't work, you can try some folk remedies."

Originally, she should have said this after a few days when she was doing better, but when she saw Jinghao coughing so badly, Yao Niang said it first.

She thought that Yu might not listen to her words, and even thought that if Yu didn't listen, she would ask Bai Ying and Bai Zhi to have the kitchen deliver it privately.

Yu smiled and said, "Since Yao Niang said so, I will ask the doctor tomorrow. If there is no conflict, let Jinghao drink it and try it." After that, she smiled at Erzhen beside her and said, "Yao Niang is still a child, but she learns Mandarin quickly and speaks fluently."

Unexpectedly, Yu believed in her so quickly. Yao Niang suddenly felt that she was very happy.

In her previous life, she was troubled by the fact that she was fattened by Luo Jingrou. She always felt inferior because she was the ugliest among the Luo family's daughters. She rarely paid attention to the people around her. She often looked at herself and felt sorry for herself.

But actually she was really happy. When she was first brought back, she felt unfamiliar with others. It was like someone who was raised by her grandmother and felt a barrier when being brought back to live with her parents. But her mother accepted her so quickly, and her younger brother was also very kind to her.

That night, Jinghao and Yao Niang slept together. One was three or four years old, and the other was no more than six years old. There was no distinction between men and women.

Everyone thought Jinghao would cry, but unexpectedly he slept soundly. Even when he coughed at night, Yao Niang patiently patted his back and even used local materials to weave grasshoppers out of the grass outside the window.

Jinghao likes this grasshopper more than the hand-woven mouse, and even sleeps with it in his arms.

Bai Ying admired and said, "Fifth Lady, you still have a way."

"Yes, the complexion on Fifth Lady's face has recovered a lot, and the cold sweat scars have also disappeared a lot. Maybe within a month, our Fifth Lady will be able to go out and meet everyone." Bai Zhi hadn't mentioned that the lice on Yao Niang's head had also been cleaned up.

Yao Niang, who was weaving a dragonfly, paused. When she was recuperating here, she usually did not see outsiders. Only Luo Jingrou came once, and the other sisters...

Thinking of this, she suddenly remembered that she was called Yao Niang in the Zhong family and had never changed her name, but the girls in the Luo family were all of the "Shi" generation, except Luo Jingrou, who was the eldest daughter of the eldest son and was an exception and was of the "Jing" generation like the men in the family, and Yao Niang's academic name was Luo Shiwei. But on weekdays, everyone addressed each other by their rank.

But it will take some time before she can see her sisters again. In the next few days, she will cure her brother's cough.

However, after Yu consulted a doctor, the doctor said that drinking white radish water and taking medicine are not in conflict with each other, so she asked the kitchen to prepare white radish water. After drinking it for less than three days, Jinghao's cough really stopped. Not only that, his throat no longer felt swollen or painful.

Yu was just giving it a try out of her instinctive trust in her daughter, and she never thought it would actually work. She was overjoyed.

She immediately told the eldest master of the first house, Luo Zhizheng, the news. Because they were in mourning for their mother, the couple slept in separate rooms and did not sleep in the same room.

Luo Zhizheng is 38 years old this year. He is very tall but thin, with a handsome face. He is holding a brush and painting. When he was young, he studied calligraphy and painting under a famous master and is also a well-known expert.

Yu knew that he didn't like to be disturbed when he was painting, so he just stood there quietly.

If she had not happened to live in the same temple with her mother-in-law and worship Buddha, and had not saved her mother-in-law, she would not have married into the Luo family. At that time, her husband was extremely reluctant and thought that she could not take on the responsibility of a clan wife. Even after she got married, her husband often criticized her. Fortunately, she endured the humiliation and finally stood firm.

When Luo Zhizheng finished the last stroke, he saw a shadow not far away. He looked up and saw that it was Yu.

He walked forward and pulled Yu to sit on his lap, and couldn't help asking, "Why did you come just now? Someone was sent to ask you to come over a few days ago."

Yu smiled and said, "Mrs. Yao just came back and she's not feeling well. Jinghao is also coughing. I came to tell you that Mrs. Yao taught me a folk remedy that can cure Jinghao's cough and it actually stopped it."

"As for the Zhong family, I have already instructed my colleagues to give them a little warning. He has just been promoted to county magistrate, and I'm afraid his official career is over." Luo Zhizheng dismissed the man from his post as if he was saying something like good weather.

Yu said hesitantly, "Didn't they say that the woman who was replaced has already jumped into the water?"

"Hmph, he is a servant of the Zhong family. He would never take the initiative to do something like switching things up without the master's order. It's people like you, with simple minds, who easily trust others." Luo Zhizheng was very angry.

Yu lowered her head and dared not say anything more.

Just then, ground ice was delivered from outside. Luo Zhizheng brought it in, poured yogurt on it, and then placed cherries, peaches, and apricots on top.

Yu came here on her own initiative without Luo Zhizheng's instructions.

Luo Zhizheng said unhappily, "You came running over when you saw the food. Why didn't you move when I called you normally?"

He spoke in this tone, and Yu was already used to it. She smiled cautiously and finished the cup of "Su Shan" specially made by Luo Zhizheng. When it came to cooking, her husband was better than her, especially making Su Shan.

Others are gentlemen who stay away from the kitchen, but the arrogant Luo Zhizheng would make this for her, and Yu was as happy as a mouse stealing sesame oil.

Yu's expression caught Luo Zhizheng's eyes. He knew that Yu had an extremely hot body under her simple outfit, and his heart was immediately moved...

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Soon, Yu came out of the room with a slightly red face. She still had that melon-like look, but when she turned the corner, she couldn't help but curl her lips.

Although she did not have the family background of Xiao Jiang, she could still avenge her daughter.

The Zhong family swapped her daughter, causing her to suffer for many years. It is not easy for them to just find someone to take the blame.