Wait, did you get the medicine I asked you to get?
Hearing this sentence from his own young lady, Wang Xiao Er, who was already walking in the doorway, couldn’t help but pause in his steps, his face turning slightly white.
“Why, but did you forget?”
Li Shu put down the brush in her hand and glanced at Wang Xiao Er standing at the door with her dark ink-like eyes, her point-red vermilion lips slightly hooked up, her voice as flat as water.
“No, no, Xiao Er has already bought it.
Li Shu’s casual glance, but it made a few drops of cold sweat emerge from the forehead of Wang Xiao Er at the doorway, his own young lady’s tactics, other people don’t know, but he knows.
Just Miss let herself buy the medicine, but is not the general medicine, Wang Xiao Er reason to come back later, also because this medicine is not good to buy, especially on the body without side effects of the best medicine, spend a lot of money from a family released from the palace of the former courtesan home to buy, this courtesan was released before serving a consort, the prescription is in the consort’s heel when the time to get.
This kind of medicine is also only the palace out of the only trustworthy, after all, experienced the treacherous test of the harem.
Just this medicine despite no side effects, but after all is a taste so Wang Xiaoyi did not take the initiative to offer it out.
“Asked clearly?” Li Shu asked.
“Asked clearly, there are no side effects.” Wang Xiao Er lowered his head and replied.
“Then give it to Mama Zhao.” Li Shu turned the cold jade bracelet on her wrist and faintly instructed Wang Xiao Er.
“Well, you go down, remember to do more work and talk less.”
After watching Wang Xiao Er handing a delicate little porcelain vase to Mama Hua, Li Shu said with a meaningful meaning and sent Wang Xiao Er out.
“Miss, what kind of medicine is this?”
Zhao mama was an old man in the Li family, she had been in the Li family since before Li Shu was born, but because she was a servant and a woman, Zhao mama had never had the chance to learn to read and write, and still could not read a single word to this day, although there was the name of the medicine on this porcelain vase. Although the name of the medicine was on the vase, Zhao mama did not know what medicine she was holding. After handing over the porcelain bottle to Li Shu, Zhao mama asked curiously.
It was a small delicate blue and white porcelain vase with a red ribbon tied on it, and the name of the medicine was on the ribbon. However, because of the angle, one could only see the word “absolute” on the ribbon, and the rest of the words were held in Li Shu’s delicate hand, making it difficult to read.
Li Shu was playing with the porcelain vase in her hand, and the corners of her mouth hooked up at the words. “Extremely good medicine, giggle, these daiyoukai all have quite a big mouth.”
“After dinner, let the back kitchen bring back the herbs that father brought back to combat wind and cold, boil a pot and distribute it to all the people in the mansion to drink, oh yes the share of the maid in my room, just send it directly to me to the courtyard.”
Li Shu casually placed the exquisite small blue and white porcelain vase in her hand onto the table and instructed Zhao Mama.
“Miss is truly a living Buddha, with this medicine. We don’t have to worry about wind chill this winter, that runny nose and headache I thank Miss on behalf of the people in the courtyard, Miss is really kind-hearted.”
Zhao mother sniffed, full of joy, the master brought back the medicine can be a big price to buy back, the effect is very good, when her man is the wind cold, see are dying, or the master knows let a pair of medicine sent over, not good. Drinking the medicine and sweating, the disease is well. Now listen to the lady said, to prevent the wind cold medicine boiled and distributed to everyone to drink, so Zhao mother will be so happy.
“Alright. Go down, all of you are our Li family’s meritocracy, our Li family is only good when you are good.” Li Shu waved her hand, hooked her lips and smiled sweetly, as if she was very flattered by Zhao Mama’s pat on the back.
Zhao mama retreated happily as if she had drunk two or two small wines. She couldn’t wait to share the good news to the people of the Li Mansion.
Then, the entire Li family was filled with voices of gratitude towards Li Shu.
After Zhao Mama left, Li Shu played with the exquisite blue and white porcelain vase for a little while longer, then untied the red ribbon with the name of the medicine tied on the vase, walked to a fire pit, and threw the red ribbon into the fire pit.
The red ribbon fluttered down into the fire, curled up in the fire, and then ignited a cluster of green embers.
On the burning ribbon, one could vaguely see the character “子”, or perhaps it was the character “好 “which was burned off first next to the character “女”, but it turned to ashes in a flash. It was impossible to find out what the character was.
Li Shu quietly stood in front of the fire pot, watching the red ribbon burn into ashes, before she sat down at the table again with her small hands behind her back.
Not long after, the little bun maid, Painter, came with a food box, bobbing and weaving.
“Miss, this tofu crucian carp soup is fragrant.” The little bun maid placed the food in the food box on the table and offered her own young lady her courtesy.
“Fragrant? Then it’s you who stole the food oh?” Li Shu walked to the bun little maid, stretched out her slender jade hand and scratched on the tip of the bun little maid’s nose, hooked up her cherry lips and joked.
“No, no, Painter didn’t steal food.” The bun little maid sniffed and busily shook her head.
“Oh, without stealing food how do you know the soup can be fragrant?” Li Shu hooked her cherry lips and asked again.
“Ah?” The little bun maid wrinkled her bun face in thought, then said with a sudden realisation, “Miss, you can smell the smell.”
“Only just remembered, you’re so stupid.” Li Shu knocked the bun little maid’s head, then said with great mercy, “Eating fish can make one smart, I can’t finish such a big serving of carp soup, you take a small bowl to make up for it.”
“Miss, I’m not stupid.” The bun little maid covered her head and bulged her bun face in aggression.
After having dinner, the entire Li Mansion was filled with a smell of herbal medicine, but every servant of the Li Mansion was full of gratitude for the bowl of herbal medicine to combat wind-cold distributed to each person’s hand from the back kitchen and drank it all, even the bottom of the bowl slurped it all up, which was the medicine that the master spent a high price to buy from an old godly doctor in the south.
The Li family’s eldest young lady’s boudoir is also placed in five bowls of medicine, is smoking hot.
Li Shu’s personal maid, Little Maid Baozi, and the other three personal maids were also in Li Shu’s boudoir.
“With the cold weather and excessive yin qi, it is easiest to suffer from wind chill. This is the thickest bowls I asked the back kitchen to specially keep, it’s the best for dispersing wind and cold, and promoting lung qi. You all are the young lady I serve by my side, go and drink the medicine, lest you get wind-cold over the sickly qi over by then.”
Li Shu leaning against the embroidered bed, wearing a purple nightgown, hair hanging on both sides, before going to sleep has gone to the hairpin, natural go to the grooming, innocent and pretty face hangs and Xi’s smile, watery eyes slightly narrowed.
“Thank you miss.”
Several small maids joyfully thanked Li Shu, just now the courtyard up and down are drinking Chinese medicine to combat wind and cold, only not theirs, thought they had forgotten them, the original Miss has been thinking of them, but also left them the best bowls of Chinese medicine it. Miss is so nice, several little maids are full of gratitude to Li Shu.
Moved, the maids drank the Chinese medicine while it was still hot.
Li Shu looked at the several little maids about to drink it, nodded with satisfaction, then said to the bun little maid, “Painting, bring me the last bowl, when I finish reading this scroll, I will drink it as well.”
The bun little maid obediently brought the last bowl of soup medicine to Li Shu and placed it on the bedside table.
“Well, all of you go down, I don’t need to serve here. After drinking this medicine, sweating in bed is best.”
Li Shu waved her hand, letting the several little maids go back to their respective rooms.
After the little maids had all left, Li Shu got out of bed and carried the bowl of soup medicine on the table and poured it into the potted plant in the room, then got into bed as if nothing had happened and continued to read.
The scroll in Li Shu’s hands was the Biography of Cao Cao, and on the scroll she was looking at was the section on Cao Cao’s accidental killing of Lv Bo She, and the last sentence on the page was Cao Cao’s famous line, “I would rather teach the world to lose the people in the world, than to ask the people in the world to lose me.
“Even if I lose the world, I will not lose the king; I wish that the king’s heart is like my heart.”
Li Shu put down the Biography of Cao Cao and opened a volume of Jiang Cheng Zi that was sandwiched between someone’s dragons and phoenixes, reading it several times before turning out the light and going to sleep
