Emperor Kangxi: Yuyu Chengxiang

Chapter 7
Seeing that Gao Shiqier's medicine is very cheap, Han Liushi didn't have high hopes for him, so when he heard this, he lifted the curtain and entered the back room in three steps.Gao Shiqi followed in with his drunken steps slowly, picking between his teeth with his fingernails and watching.

"Mother..." Han Chunhe opened his eyes, his voice was as low as a mosquito humming, "Son... I'm tired of you old man." Han Liu's heart was full of misery and relief, joy and sadness at the same time. , couldn't stop his eyes full of tears, leaned over to tuck him in the quilt, and said softly: "He'er, it's okay now. Mother burned good incense in front of Lu Zu at night, and our family came to save lives. In a few days Good day, you have to kowtow to Mr. Gao and set up a tablet of longevity..."

Gao Shiqi saw that the mother and son were so sexual, and remembering that he lost his parents when he was young, he felt tears in his eyes.He leaned closer to the hospital bed and said with a smile: "I am not a life-saving Bodhisattva, but we have a good relationship with doctors. Your illness is caused by heart disease, and you need heart medicine to heal it. If something makes you so anxious, you have to tell your mother. Qi depression Unsmooth, and refused to say, still depressed, can I stay here and wait to save you?" Han Liu hurriedly said: "That's what you said, how did you get this disease, tell mother the truth!"

"...I'm afraid..."

"What are you afraid of, who are you afraid of?" Han Liushi asked anxiously.

"I'm afraid of mother's family law..."

There was a moment of silence in the room.Mrs. Han Liu took two steps back slowly, sat down on the chair, stunned for a long time before saying: "Idiot son, your father died early, and mother is only a seedling like you, and she is counting on you to fight for the ancestors. Teach you, you are afraid of becoming like this! Now that you are old and sensible, and you are so sick, mother... what kind of family law are you willing to use?" He wiped his tears as he said.

"I..." Han Chunhe murmured for a while, and finally said, "...It's still the same family from Zhenxitou...and Caixiu..."

"Caixiu?" Han Liu was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a long time, he asked, "Is it the girl who had hibiscus flowers on her head at the Huangliangmeng Temple Fair on July [-]th? Didn't our mother and I agree last year, don't?" That's broken—" She paused for a while, and finally the word "shoe" didn't come out.Han Chunhe nodded weakly, and said, "It's her... it's my mother who forced me to say no..."

Han Liushi didn't say anything after hearing this, she tilted her neck and thought for a while, then suddenly smiled: "Ni'er looks good. But she already has a husband's family, and she will leave the cabinet this month. There are many good girls in the world! You When you recover from your illness, let's see my mother choose one for you—you're really worthless, so that's a big deal?" "Is it because of me that she left the cabinet..." the son moaned.The old lady asked strangely: "For you?"

Gao Shiqi had already heard the eyebrows, frowned and pondered, thinking that this was really a problem.But Han Chunhe said shyly, "She...has a body."

"Oh..." Mrs. Han Liu stood up slowly, and said to herself, "It's like this, so I already have a grandson..." She stared at the big pomegranate tree outside the window and said with a smile: "My grandson can't be abused by them—I'll leave this matter to my mother!" Gao Shiqi couldn't help being surprised to hear her tone so determined, and when he looked at Han Chunhe, he was relieved, and a look appeared on his face. color.Then there were a few more loud farts—Xia Qi Tong, which is the sound of good fortune from the doctor.

After breakfast, Mrs. Han Liu asked Gao Shiqi to change into a new set of clothes. He smoked a hookah with a matchmaker and smiled, "Thanks to Mr. Gao. He is talented and knowledgeable, and has high medical ethics. How many people have come to Beijing?" , I’m not as good as you, the old lady thinks over and over again, and wants to ask you to help me again, but I don’t know if it will work?” Gao Shiqi was dressed in glamorous clothes, his face flushed from eating, and he wiped his mouth with a smile: “Old lady, what’s the matter? Tell me. "The old lady looked left and right to see if there was no one there, and whispered and gestured in Gao Shiqi's ear for a while.

"Wonderful!" Gao Shiqi nodded while listening, and applauded and laughed before he finished listening: "Gao has read a lot, but he has never done such interesting things-if you are a man, you will be a master , but it’s only for this girl, it’s a pity to use this strategy!” The old lady giggled and said, “Don’t beat my wife to death. For the sake of my son, I can only do this. I can’t help you. Of course others can do it, but it’s unavoidable to suffer a beating and a small lawsuit—for a son, and a daughter-in-law who is pregnant with a grandson, saving three people at once, this sinful virtue is enough for you to earn a Hanlin!" Gao Shiqi was delighted to hear that, took a glass of residual wine and gulped it down with a "squeak", put his hands together and said, "Success! Listen to your orders!"

Han Liu's actions were surprisingly quick.After only two days of preparation, everything was ready.In the evening of the same day, the pile of wheat oranges on the autumn field of Zhou Yuan's family in Congzhong Town suddenly caught fire, and half of the sky was burned red.How could the Zhou family, who were kept in the dark, know it was a trick?Except for the old and weak servants and women in the front and rear courtyards, they rushed out with buckets, basins, and earthen pots to put out the fire, and the big gong sifted sky-high.Caught off guard, Mrs. Han Liu led more than 30 members of her family, and riding in the chaotic crowd, they brought ten bamboo silk sedan chairs custom-made for 25 taels of silver, neatly dressed in red and green, and swarmed in from the main gate of Zhou's house. In the back hall, Caixiu, a pregnant bride, was teased and put on the sedan chair, lifted up and left.When the old women of the Zhou family came up to stop them, they were pushed back and forth by the servants holding the sedan chair with big sticks, and they had already lost their way out.

The ten light sedan chairs diverged into two roads as soon as they left the gate.All the way to the south, all the way to the west, according to the journey carefully arranged by Mr. Han and Liu.Only Gao Shiqi took a ride around Congzhong and returned to the Han Mansion. He changed to a bearer hired from the city during the day, and walked slowly northward along the official road with lights and candles on.

It didn't take a bag of cigarettes before and after the snatching of the marriage, but all the goals were achieved.Those bearers were all young and strong, they had enough food and enough money, they walked fast and steadily, divided into two parts and then divided into two parts, the farther and farther they forked, they disappeared on the forked road in the dark night.Confused by the plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain, Zhou Xiangshen thought it was kidnapped by bandits, but he found out what happened when he got home. He was so angry that he beat and scolded his servants in the courtyard, and arranged to pursue him.At dawn, only one sedan chair was intercepted, and the rest disappeared without a trace as if they had fallen into the ground.

"Bring it in!" Seeing that the sedan chair was escorted to the courtyard, Squire Zhou ordered angrily.He was a county magistrate in his early years, and he still had some official style in his speech.The child sitting next to him was wearing a big coat, his face was pale, his eyes were dazed, and he was dumbfounded and said nothing.

When the sedan chair landed, Gao Shiqi bent down and came out, seeing the situation, he was taken aback for a moment, then turned his face with a sigh, stared at Squire Zhou, and said in official Chinese that was neither south nor north, "Where is this place? I heard that Liu Tiecheng from Shandong often came to this area to harass me. I thought it was a thieves, but I almost didn’t scare you to death! What’s the matter? Why are you robbing my sedan chair, eh?”

"Who... are you?" Country gentleman Zhou never expected that there was a man inside, and he couldn't help being surprised when he saw Gao Shiqi wearing a golden bird and hugging the top of the silver seat, an out-and-out filial piety.

"You're asking who I am!" Gao Shiqi frowned, and said, "I don't even know what's going on, and I was just about to ask who your husband is!"

Squire Zhou's complexion was pale, he gritted his teeth and gave a sneer, looked at Gao Shiqi who was puzzled, and said, "What a man, he joins bandits in entering houses at night to rob women! Don't you want fame and your head?"

"Ho!" Gao Shiqi stretched his neck and sneered: "You don't even know who I am, so you dare to frame me?" Squire Zhou pointed at the sedan chair and asked, "I ask you, where did this sedan chair come from?" Gao Shiqi Looking at the sedan chair, the sedan body covered with red felt curtains, the black paint frame and the beige sedan chair, as soon as he got into the warm sedan chair, he patted his chest and replied: "Are you interrogating a thief or asking questions? I am too lazy Let me tell you! How dare you do anything to me? Could it be that the people who take the bus to Beijing can’t even sit in such a broken sedan chair?”

At this point, Squire Zhou really hesitated: Listening to his accent, this Xiaolian is definitely not from this place, and the bearers are all from Handan old bar houses. He really took a candidate for the exam by mistake, and this trouble will be big. .Zhou Xiangshen felt helpless after thinking about it, and sat down on the chair with his legs limp, staring at Gao Shiqi with a livid face.Gao Shiqi had already seen through that this old-fashioned squire was a rough-hearted person, so he couldn't help but chuckled inwardly, hardened his mouth, and ordered sharply: "Guardians, don't go north, get up the sedan chair and go back to Handan Mansion!" Who dares to stop me?" As he said, he lifted up his robe and was about to get into the sedan chair, then turned his head and sneered and said, "Master Jinshen, be sensible and walk with me, don't wait for the official ticket to come!"

"Hey..." Country gentleman Zhou panicked immediately, grabbed Gao Shiqi, held back for a long time before laughing dryly: "Misunderstood... Misunderstood... The people below are ignorant, they thought there was a little girl sitting in the sedan chair... Surprised Mr.

"I don't care about your business, I have to go." Gao Shiqi said: "This matter can't be settled, your daughter was robbed by bandits, should you block the road and rob me?" Then he struggled to get into the sedan chair .

The child was quite sensible, seeing Gao Shiqi's reluctance, he got up and blessed him, and said: "The servants startled the master for no reason, and the old lady will accuse you. Please sit down and enjoy tea!"

"That's not what I said." Seeing that the other party softened, Gao Shiqi smiled wryly, "How can I afford to lose this person!"

One sentence reminded Zhou squire, the more he felt that he couldn't let the scholar go.Zhou Xiangshen is a person of status, if this matter is publicized, how good it is, he hurriedly apologized and said with a smile: "Just now the old man was rude in a hurry, sir, please don't be offended..." As he made way to the middle hall, he asked: " Dare I ask your surname, Taifu?"

(End of this chapter)