Nan Yi sat by the pond and said she liked lotus flowers. There wasn't much to do in the Tongzhou manor, so Xiao Shunzi, worried that his master would be bored, found someone to dig a pond in a low-lying area, divert water, and plant lotus roots.
She said she wanted to eat grapes, so the young eunuch ran himself ragged to find the best grape varieties and planted them all along the courtyard wall so that his mistress could pick grapes and eat them as soon as she reached out.
Nan Yi had been sitting for less than a quarter of an hour when Yiren came over and said that the goods had arrived. "Ninth Master has sent two hundred sheep, and another three hundred will be delivered in succession. The cattle will arrive in about a month."
"Yes, I want them slaughtered properly. I only want the meat. Also, keep a few alive. I want to drink fresh milk," Nan Yi said.
"I understand." Yiren added a note to her small notebook and then said, "At Xiaozhuangtou's place, the sixth batch of chickens and ducks is about to be released. There are nearly two thousand chicken and duck eggs left. Should we bring them all over as well?"
"Bring it over and put it in the warehouse. As for Li Yi, tell him that I want to eat the crab meat buns from Yuanyanglou and ask him to buy more."
Yiren also wrote it down, her brow furrowing slightly. Crab meat buns, one hundred or two hundred?
Nan glanced at her notebook. "Two hundred. Buy all the other delicious food you see."
Yiren added another sentence: "Several other foods."
These past two years, she hasn't been wasting her time at the manor. Didn't Yinzhen say she was crazy? Well, she went crazy to show him.
With plenty of silver in hand, hundreds of thousands of silver notes lying around, she suddenly started spending money extravagantly after she was able to walk again.
She bought up large tracts of land in Tongzhou and hired people to cultivate it, but she didn't sell a single grain of grain.
Not only in this aspect, but she also likes to hoard large quantities of any food, any edible food.
Once, she said she wanted to eat roast duck, so she asked Xiaoshunzi to buy it. When she said she wanted a hundred, Xiaoshunzi thought he had misheard.
Nan Yi repeated it three times, and Xiao Shunzi left in a daze. Upon receiving the news, the Ninth Prince ordered the restaurant's kitchen to prepare a hundred roast ducks overnight and send them to her without saying a word.
There was nothing else to it. Whether it was to make her happy, or because Nan Yi's words about being hungry that day had upset her, or because he felt sorry for her, as long as she asked, he would do everything he could to satisfy her.
“Yi Ren, I really want to eat fish. I wish we lived by the sea,” Nan Yi suddenly said.
Yiren paused for a moment, then thought for a moment and said, "How about we have Shunzi dig a few more ponds and we raise fish?"
"Sure, but I still want to eat fresh big fish and shrimp from the sea. That kind of deliciousness can't be raised here."
Too.
Since settling in Tongzhou, apart from the master who remains thin and frail, everyone below has become plump and healthy.
There was a mistress who was always busy preparing food, but she herself couldn't eat much, which benefited the people serving her.
"Cough, cough, it's already March, damn it, the weather's gotten cold again." Nan Yi coughed twice, rubbing his mouth, and pulled his clothes tighter as he walked into the yard.
Yiren scolded, "You never listen to your servant. It's so cold outside. You'll easily catch a cold if you sit outside in the wind."
Nan smiled and said, "I forgot for a moment. I asked Granny Zhao to make ginger tea. I don't want to drink the bitter medicine prescribed by Doctor Wu and kill someone."
At dinner time, there was a small bowl of rice and a large bowl of medicine. No matter how much Nan Yi threw a tantrum, Yi Ren's hand holding the medicine never trembled.
Nan Yi had no choice but to force himself to drink a small sip. The medicine was too bitter, and his stomach couldn't take it. He vomited immediately, even throwing up all the food he had eaten. Yi Ren felt sorry for her master and her eyes were filled with tears.
The meal was brought back, but the mistress couldn't eat anything. She drank a couple of mouthfuls of porridge and then lay down. When they called her again, she was already fast asleep.
Yiren silently shed tears, cleaned up the mess in the room, and took a rag to sit down on the steps outside.
Xiao Shunzi brought over a food box and called her to come inside for a meal. Yiren got up, and the two went inside. Xiao Shunzi noticed Yiren's red eyes and asked softly, "What's wrong? You were fine this morning."
"She just threw up and went to sleep without eating anything." Yiren said, her lips trembling and her voice choked with sobs. "Shunzi, what's wrong with our mistress? She used to be so healthy, so talkative and cheerful, eating four or five meals a day, her stomach was like a bottomless pit, and she always said she wasn't full. Now, she eats like she's eating cat food."
Xiao Shunzi sighed softly, "What can be wrong? Master's problem is a heartache." As he said this, Xiao Shunzi felt resentment towards his master. Although it was disrespectful, he just couldn't help it.
The mistress's family has been destroyed, and instead of comforting her, the master has abandoned her alone in Tongzhou and ignored her completely.
They also told outsiders that their master was so heartbroken that his old illness flared up and he was in a daze, so he had to stay in Tongzhou to recuperate.
What do you mean by "mentally confused"? Isn't this telling outsiders that Master Tong has become a madwoman? Master Tong has suffered repeated blows; how could she possibly bear it? It's no wonder her health has collapsed.
What a good person my master is, yet good people don't get good rewards.
"Master likes stuffed tofu and eight-treasure duck gizzards from Huyuelou Restaurant. Li Er is good at light footwork, so have him make a trip there first thing tomorrow morning. As long as you can eat, Master is fine. Don't worry. You've been busy all day, so eat quickly. It won't taste good if it gets cold."
Yi Ren wiped her eyes, nodded, and picked up the bowl that Xiao Shunzi handed her to eat.
The next day, Li went to buy crab roe buns and took the opportunity to report to her master about the situation in Tongzhou. Upon learning that she was ill again, Yinzhen's brows furrowed so deeply they could have killed a mosquito.
For two years, he never went to Tongzhou, nor did he dare to see her, yet he knew clearly what she did in Tongzhou.
The words of the Divine Physician Wu still echoed in my ears: a mental illness requires a mental cure. A divine physician can cure the disease, but not the fate. When she herself wanted to give up, even a celestial being descending to earth could not persuade her.
Tong was passively resisting him; she hated him and wanted to give her life for the Tong family. Her health couldn't continue like this.
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