Chapter 30 Chapter 30 Having a Nightmare
Feng Ling understood that the important task this time was to help Lin Si buy cotton, and he couldn't stay in the Mo Mansion for too long.
Mo Jinglian ultimately refused to go to Li County for treatment.
Zhu Shixi was a little anxious about this, but Mo Jinglian didn't believe her words.
Yao Niang held Zhu Shixi down.
Judging from the brief time I've spent with Mo Jinglian over the past few days, this Ms. Mo is indeed smart. Not only is she smart, she's also very cautious.
So the more anxious Zhu Shixi was, the weirder it seemed to her.
After all, who would be so anxious about the illness of an unrelated person? This made her even more suspicious that Zhu Shixi deliberately exaggerated the severity of the illness.
Letting nature take its course is the best solution.
When the medicine prescribed by the doctor in Shuozhou is completely ineffective, she will naturally think of Li County. Besides, Feng Ling will definitely send her letters after he returns and won't give up.
After listening to Yao Niang's idea, Zhu Shixi thought about it quietly for a moment and felt that it made a lot of sense.
When he stood up, he patted Yao Niang's shoulder and stared at her with his eyelashes fluttering, his eyes full of admiration for her.
"Sister Yao Niang, I didn't expect you to be so smart. How come I didn't think of this?"
Yao Niang rubbed her shoulders silently.
Who can tell her who they learned this habit of patting people on the shoulders from?
On the day when everyone left the Mo Mansion, Mo Jinglian went out to see them off.
Yao Niang no longer expected the other three to say anything appropriate, so she could only exchange pleasantries with Mo Jinglian.
Feng Ling held Mo Jinglian's hand tightly, tears welling in his eyes. "If you feel your condition is getting worse, you must come to Li County. I hope Madam can really cure you."
The ox cart continued to move forward.
However, Feng Ling was in low spirits and looked worried the entire time. He kept asking Zhu Shixi the same question, "Is she okay?"
Yao Niang couldn't bear it any longer, so she explained the reason to Feng Ling in detail and asked her to write more letters to Mo Jinglian after returning to Li County. In addition, Zhu Shixi told her that Mo Jinglian's illness would not worsen for the time being, and Feng Ling finally cheered up.
Zhu Shixi had been to several clinics in Shuozhou. When they arrived in Dingzhou where the wealthy businessman was, they split up. Nan Shuang accompanied Zhu Shixi to the clinic, while Feng Ling and Yao Niang went to the wealthy businessman's mansion.
In order to make the purchase of white daisy more smooth, Yao Niang changed her clothes.
As merchants are at the bottom of society in Dachen, observing people's words and expressions is basic. Yao Niang behaves in a dignified and polite manner, and it is obvious that she is a maid from a wealthy family.
According to Feng Ling and Yao Niang, their daughter loved flowers and plants. When she heard Feng Ling mention this white floribunda, she thought it was curious, so she sent Feng Ling and her maid to buy the flower.
This reveals some very important information.
This girl must be very favored.
Although I don't know where they came from, they must be from a wealthy family to have traveled such a long distance just for a flower.
The maidservant was dressed elegantly and behaved in a well-mannered manner. I'm afraid she must be an official from some family.
After analyzing these points, the wife of the wealthy merchant felt that the owner of the house who came to buy flowers was most likely someone she could not afford to offend.
He quickly sent a servant to call back the man who was away.
Faced with the rich couple's verbal temptations, Yao Niang just smiled and responded with the nonsense literature taught by Lin Si.
The wealthy couple asked, "May I know the master's surname and name? Besides the white daisy, there are other flowers in the yard. If you like them, feel free to ask for them."
The shaking lady said: "Yes."
The wealthy couple asked: "I wonder if it's a wealthy businessman or some other gentleman?"
The shaking lady: “Yes.”
Rich businessman couple:........
Unable to pry any useful information out of Yao Niang's mouth, the wealthy couple could only accept their fate. Not knowing the other party's background, they dared not refuse to sell.
Yao Niang finally saw the cotton she had been longing for.
The cotton tree was shorter than the tree had imagined, with an upright stem covered in a layer of fine grayish-white hairs that felt a bit rough to the touch. Between the branches grew palm-shaped leaves.
Before coming here, Yao Niang had brushed up on her knowledge of cotton. She knew that the cotton bolls could only produce cotton wool when they were ripe and cracked. Inside the bolls were not only cotton wool, but also flat and round seeds the size of mung beans.
Yao Niang tried hard to suppress the excitement in her heart.
It is plants like these that can save people from the cold in winter and will even replace hemp in the future.
The wealthy couple thought that Yao Niang stood silently in front of the flower tree because she regretted not seeing the white daisy in full bloom. Since the flowers had been sold and the other party was someone who did not want to reveal his identity, the wealthy couple naturally wanted to repay the favor.
"When this white daisy blooms well, its color turns goose yellow, and the center of the flower looks like rouge, which is very beautiful." The wealthy businessman's wife praised.
It is not practical to dig out the cotton tree and bring it back. It will take almost 20 days to go back and forth, so the best option is to take the seeds from the cotton bolls.
Yao Niang took the seeds as Lin Si said and put them in a small cloth bag prepared in advance.
Yao Niang held the small cloth bag and felt as if it weighed a thousand pounds.
She would definitely plant the cotton trees carefully, and weave cotton cloth and cotton thread, so that the people of Li County could wear cotton clothes and put cotton wool in them in winter, without having to work hard to find reed fluff to put in linen.
Yao Niang gave the money and respectfully thanked the wealthy couple.
After the man left, the wealthy couple looked at each other, still wondering who had come to ask for the free stack of paper.
The wealthy merchant's wife thought for a moment and said, "I heard that the maid in yellow had a hint of the Liangzhe Road accent, but I couldn't tell from the maid in cherry red behind her."
The wealthy young man took a sip of hot tea and lowered his voice a bit: "That maid in cherry red clothes is a martial artist. You haven't noticed it, right? Ordinary people don't keep martial arts maids! I'm afraid she's from an official's family."
The wealthy merchant's wife's eyes widened. "I didn't notice that. I just saw that the maid was looking around, looking silly."
The wealthy businessman expressed his concerns, "Those white fold seeds are probably poisonous...will we get into trouble?"
The wealthy merchant's wife rolled her eyes at him and said, "Last year, when your brother's son Dalang came to play, he even put the seeds in his mouth. How could it be poisonous?"
The wealthy merchant added, "I've asked someone to find out. They're from Shuozhou. The Liangzhe Road to Shuozhou is convenient."
The two thought about it over and over but couldn't figure it out. In the end, they could only blame themselves for being the lowest-level merchants and how dare they offend others.
The wealthy businessman sighed, "We are merchants. Everyone can step on us. Dalang will never have the chance to take the imperial examination."
The wealthy merchant's wife's expression also darkened. "It's all the fault of the Zhuo family for embezzling the disaster relief money. He was a merchant who passed the imperial examination to become an official. He did such a heartless thing, and now merchants can't pass the imperial examination!"
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After seeing Feng Ling and his group off, Mo Jinglian talked with his mother and father in the study.
The Mo family has a mortal rival in the papermaking business in Shuozhou, Jiang’s Paper Mill.
The Jiang family married their daughter to the prefect's youngest son, who was full of bad habits, and immediately surpassed the Mo family paper mill.
With the protection of the prefect, the Mo family's business became increasingly difficult and they were struggling.
After the family of three finished discussing the Jiang family's affairs, the topic turned to the Lord of Anping County.
Mo Jinglian's father, Mo Yu, stroked his beard and said, "Miao Miao is right. This Anping County Lady is weird in every way. You're right not to go."
Mo Jinglian's mother, Ye Xialan, was concerned about Mo Jinglian's cough. "Has it gotten better these past two days?"
Compared to Zhu Shixi, Mo Jinglian trusted the famous doctors in Shuozhou more, and his condition had indeed improved after taking the medicine in the past few days, so he nodded.
"I only coughed a few times yesterday. I think I'm almost well."
A few days later, Mo Jing had strange dreams intermittently.
In her dream, she had been taking medicine prescribed by a famous doctor in Shuozhou. She felt better in the first few months, but her condition became worse after a year.
There is a black scene in the middle, and then the picture jumps quickly, and she died of illness.
She woke up suddenly. This was undoubtedly a very terrible nightmare.
What's even more terrifying is that she saw her grave being dug up, which was more shocking than seeing her own death.
After she dies, her grave will be dug up! How deep is the hatred and resentment? Does she have such a deep hatred for anyone?
What happened in the dream was too real. Mo Jinglian wrote down what she vaguely remembered, including that Doctor Wang would come to see her one month later and prescribe Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang for her.
The nightmare came true, and Doctor Wang really prescribed Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang.
Mo Jinglian has loved reading since she was a child. She reads everything. Some of her miscellaneous notes record that a very small number of people have precognitive dreams, and those precognitive dreams are often only fragments.
Mo Jinglian was still a little cautious just because of Doctor Wang, but the next few fragments in the dream happened one after another, although they were all insignificant little things.
Mo Jinglian:........Isn’t that so someone really wants to dig up my grave after I die?
Mo Jinglian sat at the desk, thinking of the strange Princess Anping, and thinking of Feng Ling's tearful words that going to Li County could save her life.
She picked up the pen with slight hesitation.
It's a dead end anyway, why not give it a try?
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The author has something to say: When looking up information, I found that there are more labor-saving hydraulic waterwheels, so I changed the small human-powered waterwheel in the previous article to a small hydrolysis.
It will be released tomorrow!! Friends who have read chapters 24 to 30 should not buy it again.
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