Before I knew it, I was almost at the house of the prefect’s wife.

At the intersection of a corridor, Lin Xirou saw a familiar figure peeking out from behind the rockery ahead.

That was Fu Sanniang.

Fu Sanniang seemed to have something to say to her.

He looked confused and hesitant.

Lin Xirou gently pulled Tian Erya's sleeve and motioned for her to take Li Yu ahead.

Tian Erya didn't know what she was going to do, but she still did it.

Li Yu was looking at the magistrate's back house curiously, and he didn't care when someone else followed him.

Lin Xirou deliberately stayed a few steps behind to avoid Li Yu.

After Li Yu and Tian Erya walked around a flower wall, Fu Sanniang quickly walked up to Lin Xirou, "Hey, aren't you the female doctor invited by the house?"

She pretended not to know Lin Xirou and stopped her to ask.

In the small garden on the side, there are women sweeping the floor.

This was what she purposely told the servants of the magistrate's family.

Lin Xirou nodded, "Yes, what can you do?"

Fu Sanniang took Lin Xirou's hand, quickly stuffed the copied letter into Lin Xirou's hand, and said with a smile, "Oh, I want to ask you if you have any Xiaoshi pills. I seem to have eaten Jishi."

As he spoke, he took a few pennies from his wallet and pretended to buy pills.

Lin Xirou nodded, "Yes, I'll show it to you first."

She took Fu Sanniang's wrist, felt for his pulse, and quickly stuffed the few pennies back into Fu Sanniang's hand. This woman would never suffer a loss.

Money cannot be collected.

"I have a little bit of food accumulation, so take some pills." Lin Xirou took a bottle of pills from the cloth bag and gave it to Fu Sanniang.

Fu Sanniang took it in her hand and smelled it, "Thank you very much."

Afraid that Li Yu would chase her and recognize her, Fu Sanniang took the pills and left in a hurry.

When the two women sweeping the floor saw Fu Sanniang stopping her to ask for medicine, they also came over and asked Lin Xirou if she had any rheumatism ointments or headache patches.

"Our monthly salary is not much, Mrs. Lin, can you charge less for medicine?" The two women doing menial work laughed.

These ointment patches themselves are not expensive. Lin Xirou smiled and said, "I happen to have a lot, so I'll give them to you cheaply, two patches for ten cents."

This is indeed half cheaper than outside.

The two were overjoyed and each bought four stickers.

After sending away the two women, Lin Xirou walked towards Tian Erya and the others.

The woman who was leading the way came up and said with a smile, "Ms. Lin, why are you lagging behind?"

"Just now, a few people at home asked me to buy pills and plasters, which delayed me for some time." Lin Xirou explained.

The mother-in-law glanced at the sweepers, but without saying anything, she led Lin Xirou, Tian Erya, and Li Yu to join them, and sent them all the way to the courtyard of the magistrate's wife.

The courtyard is very quiet today, just like the first time I came here. Only the maids and women are working quietly, and there are no other children from other ladies' families making noises.

Thinking of the prefect's wife's worries, Lin Xirou reminded Li Yu in a low voice not to be noisy and talkative, but to be quiet and well-behaved.

Li Yu nodded obediently, "I understand, mother."

When Cuiyu saw Lin Xirou and the others coming, she smiled and led them to the main room, "Madam, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

When they arrived at the main room, Lin Xirou saw that the prefect's wife was fully dressed and looked better than usual. She was quietly watching the girls play chess.

"Mom, who is the prefect's wife?" Li Yu looked at the seven or eight people in the room and pulled Lin Xirou's sleeve.

Lin Xirou, "..."

This bastard kid just told me not to talk too much. Why did he forget it as soon as he walked in?

"Yu'er, come and meet the prefect's wife." Lin Xirou looked embarrassed, and led Li Yu to the prefect's wife and led him to salute.

The prefect's wife didn't care. She smiled and waved to Li Yu, "Come here." Li Yu walked over generously and sat down next to the prefect's wife.

"What's your name? How old are you?" The prefect's wife touched Li Yu's little face and asked kindly.

"My name is Mu Yu, I am three years old."

"Muyu?" The prefect's wife looked at the wooden fish on the table and was slightly startled.

"It's not this wooden fish, it's that wooden elm." Li Yu waved her hands hurriedly.

The prefect's wife looked at Lin Xirou with a confused look on her face.

Lin Xirou knew that many people would misunderstand this name.

Now Mu Yu is a "wooden fish", in the future he will be Li Yu or a "carp".

The unreliable Li Shen didn't take his son's name seriously.

"Mrs. Magistrate, my husband's surname is Mu, and the child's single name is Yu, which is the elm of the elm tree, Muyu." Lin Xirou explained.

The prefect's wife suddenly realized and laughed, "So that's the name."

Li Yu talked a lot, and even held the magistrate's wife's hand, gesturing on her hand how to write the word "elm".

Lin Xirou held her forehead, but the child had forgotten all her words. This did not mean that the prefect's wife was an outsider.

Fortunately, the prefect's wife did not look angry. She kept talking to Li Yu in a friendly manner, and even ordered people to bring fruits and snacks, and also asked people to bring some toys.

Two people, one old and one young, were eating and playing together.

The prefect's wife had not smiled for a long time, and she was in a good mood today, which also made the girls and grandmothers feel a lot happier.

Lin Xirou quietly avoided the other girls and women and opened the note that Fu Sanniang had thrust into her.

Lin Xirou opened her eyes wide when she saw the content on the note.

The guest Fu Sanniang is serving is the Minister of Household Affairs?
Are you colluding with Wang Zhifu, who has money and food?

It seems that things are not simple.

This matter needs to be investigated by Li Shen and Bai Yu.

She hastily stuffed the note into her purse and hid it.

When she turned around, Lin Xirou saw the three ladies from the day before entering the courtyard with several children.

The children rushed towards the main room with joy.

The sound was so loud that several birds flew into the air in shock.

Lin Xirou walked over quickly and said, "Hello, madam."

Mrs. Wang Er looked at her calmly and kept walking, "I heard that you brought the child here. Where is he? Let us take a look."

"My rebellious child, how dare you let the madam come and see it in person?"

"You're overthinking. I'm not here to see your son. I'm here to see the prefect's wife. I heard your son is here, so I stopped by to take a look. The prefect's wife is ill, and your child is rebellious. Don't let him rush into you. Madam Magistrate, you can’t afford the punishment.”

Tian Erya turned red with anger and did not dare to refute.

Lin Xirou laughed sarcastically in her heart. She said humbly, "Child, this Second Madam Wang actually climbed up the pole?"

"The child was specially invited by the prefect's wife. If he is really rebellious, the prefect's wife will not hug him and feed him, so Mrs. Wang will not have to worry about it." Lin Xirou was not used to Mrs. Wang's temper.

"You...are impudent!" Mrs. Wang's eyebrows were raised.

But at this moment, the girl screamed, "Third Young Master! Third Young Master, what's wrong with you?"

Mrs. Wang's second wife looked towards the main room, her face immediately turned pale.

She screamed and rushed into the house, "Uncle!"

"Mom, Uncle An's throat is stuck on the fruit. What should I do? Mom?" Another older boy started crying anxiously.

The other girls and women were also in a panic, but they didn't know what to do.


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