After the main meal, Zhang's mother asked Er Ya to bring the pot of hot chicken soup to the table. There was quite a lot of chicken soup. Red mushrooms were plentiful on the mountain this season, and stewed with chicken, they were very delicious. Some cabbage was also added, and the girls loved it.
In the end, everyone ate until they were stuffed.
Huo Xiaolong ate, yet it seemed like she hadn't eaten at all. She enjoyed the delicious food while simultaneously worrying that the meal might cause health problems for someone. After drinking a bowl of soup, she ran to the backyard, found Zhao Kai, and said...
"Uncle Zhao, I think you should go and get a doctor."
Then she saw the roast suckling pig bones and chicken soup on Zhao Kai's table. Zhang's mother had given him an extra portion.
"What's wrong, little one?"
"The water they drank yesterday was given to them by someone in my dream, and I fed it to them," the little dumpling said, pointing to the dishes on the table.
Zhao Kai chuckled and said, "You had that dream, but it didn't give you anything good, like gold, silver, or even a martial arts manual. All it gave you was a handful of water?"
After saying that, he drank the chicken soup in one gulp.
"Your mother-in-law needs to have her pulse checked. I'll send Ah Cai to fetch a doctor."
"Um!"
Hearing that a doctor was coming, Xiao Tuanzi felt a little relieved. After lunch, the girls all went upstairs to catch up on their sleep.
Just as Cen's mother returned to the room to finish putting on her little girl's tiger-head shoes, her stomach started to hurt, a sharp, stabbing pain, and she urgently needed to use the restroom.
She rushed into the toilet and relieved herself. She thought it was just because she had drunk too much chicken soup and then drank a glass of cold water that upset her stomach. But as soon as she finished cleaning up and came out of the outhouse, the pain returned.
Brothels have many rooms and many outhouses. You can't expect those gentlemen and nobles to line up to use the toilet, can you? So, a row of six outhouses was built in the brothel.
Liu Xu and Chun Ying didn't catch up on their sleep. They hadn't slept well because of the incident with Xiao Ya Dan's biological parents yesterday. They didn't want Xiao Ya Dan to leave, but as they didn't want to, it was better for the child to grow up at home than in a brothel.
The two highest earners at the brothel were discussing how to make their daughter's life better. Yesterday, they noticed that the clothes the couple wore were indeed shabby.
"If you ask me, since the little girl is so clever, we should deposit some money for her at a bank and then wait for her..."
Chunying was halfway through her story when her stomach suddenly started to hurt.
"My stomach hurts, I need to go to the bathroom first, wait for me."
Chunying rushed to the backyard and pushed the door of the outhouse, but it was locked. Cen's mother was squatting inside, her legs a little numb. She quickly ran to the guest outhouse to relieve herself, leaving Ping'er to guard outside.
"Huanlv, help me to the outhouse."
Liu Xu also started clamoring to go to the toilet, and the little maid quickly helped her to the guest latrine in the front yard. She had heard it while hanging up the clothes; there were people in the latrine in the back yard.
One after another, the girls started having stomach aches, which was no small matter, but no one suspected that it might be the little girl.
Unless she fed them poison yesterday, how could they have such a strong reaction from such a small amount of suckling pig and chicken soup? Besides, they only had diarrhea; such a large dose of laxative would have killed the pig and chicken first.
Zhang's mother never does anything stupid.
Ah Cai returned with the doctor while the building was in commotion, with thirteen or fourteen-year-old maids running around fetching water.
"What's wrong, Ping'er?"
"All the girls in the building are having stomach problems. Do you have anyone at home?"
"There's no one else in my family besides my wife."
After hearing this, Ping'er said
"I'll have Huanlu take Liuxu to your house, the outhouse is full." After saying that, the girl hurriedly ran to the front yard, she had to go and give her daughter the toilet paper.
"Huanlv, stop waiting in line. Quickly help your daughter to Ah Cai's house. It's the third house on the back street."
"I know where he lives, thank you!"
Huanlu hurriedly went upstairs and helped her daughter rush to Acai's house.
Ah Cai is a very honest man. His wife knows several of the maids in the brothel well. They always give the clothes that the girls don't wear to the waiters. These clothes are what the maids have given away. It's a pity to throw them away. They may not look very presentable on the outside, but they are all in good condition on the inside.
"Ah Cai's wife! Are you home?"
"Knock knock knock"
Huanlu knocked urgently, and her daughter was even more anxious.
Ah Cai's wife thought something had happened to her husband in the building, so she quickly opened the door and Huan Lü slipped a string of coins into her hand.
"Sister-in-law, we won't stand on ceremony with you, it's urgent, where's the outhouse?"
"After...behind"
Ah Cai's wife was completely bewildered. Huan Lü helped her daughter to the outside of the outhouse, and only after hearing the door being locked did she feel at ease guarding the door.
"What's going on here, Huanlv?"
Huanlu and Liuxu are the same type of girl, both delicate and graceful, but Huanlu grew up in a border town and has a more straightforward personality.
"I don't know what we ate today that made us sick. All the girls in the building are running to the outhouse. Brother Cai said that since you're the only one home, we came over to borrow your outhouse."
Borrowing a toilet is a rather unseemly matter; who would willingly lend out their toilet?
So Huanlu slipped a string of cash to Acai's wife, probably equivalent to Acai's monthly wages. Acai's wife refused; the couple were honest men, and few wanted to work as waiters in brothels, hence the high wages. Acai's wife trusted him; he wasn't a womanizer. So Acai went to work as a waiter in a brothel. His home was near the red-light district, and his family wasn't wealthy, living a meager existence. This job provided a livelihood for his family.
Life is getting better and better. She should be able to take good care of herself and give birth to a child for Ah Cai soon. Boy or girl, it doesn't matter, they'll love them both equally.
"What are you doing! Girl, take it back right now!"
Ah Cai's wife returned the money to Huan Lü and said...
"Oh dear, don't talk to me like that, sister-in-law. Quickly accept this, buy some good food to nourish yourself, look how thin you've gotten."
The women of the border town were much stronger than the women of Nanjing. They were tall, most of them had shapely figures, and their arms were fleshy.
"Oh, I'm skinny! You little brat, you say I'm skinny? Look at yourself, your waist is practically nonexistent!"
Huanlu, like Liuxu, is the kind of girl who can eat a lot but never gain weight. Countless girls in the building envy her. Huanlu herself is quite troubled; her own daughter comes from Jiangnan, which is understandable, but Huanlu has always been someone who can eat a lot but never gain weight.
"I had chicken soup for lunch, if you don't accept it, I'll bring you a whole old hen later."
The two started arguing at the entrance of the outhouse, and Liu Xu, who was inside, felt like she couldn't stand up anymore.
"Greening the environment"
————Bada
Liu Xu finally came out of the outhouse. She had to come out; the two of them were arguing at the door, and she was really annoyed. Besides, her legs were a little numb, so she got up to rest for a while. The main problem was her frozen bottom. This was nothing like Jiangnan; her buttocks were so cold she couldn't feel them anymore. Her upbringing made it really hard for her to talk about this.
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