Chapter 25 only on the affinity
Hearing Si Si say this, Dong’er and her husband were overjoyed, thinking of the difficulties the family had suffered over the past year because of this disease, Dong’er couldn’t help but pick up the corner of her sleeve and carefully wipe the corners of her eyes.
Fan Xian let Dong’er ready pen and ink, after a little thought, they wrote a prescription, examined twice, to confirm that there is no problem, before blowing dry with his mouth to give her, instructed to be sure to dispense the medication on time, and then do not begrudge the silver.
Dong’er answered with a slight smile.
Fan Xian looked at her expression, and knew that this sister would not necessarily listen to her words, and could not help but get angry again, saying, “Where is the reasoning behind the bitterness?”
Dong’er only smiled gratefully, and didn’t pick up the words. Fan Xian was angry and bitter, today the weather was hot, Fan Xian only wore a single coat, and was in Tanyu state, not too worried, so he didn’t have a medicine box on him, and said to Si Si, “When you go back in the evening, remember to remind me to pick up a few medicinal pills.”
He then turned his head to Dong’er’s male cousin and said gently, “Maixin’er, this medicine should be taken often, it’s just that Tanyu State doesn’t estimate that the medicine can be dispensed well, so when I go back to Kyoto in a few days, your family will follow me. You are the head of the family after all, I have to ask you first to see if there’s anything you can’t let go of in Tanyuzhou.”
Mai Xin’er opened his mouth wide, half unable to say anything, he knew what young master meant by this sentence, his own family followed young master to Kyoto, where there will still be a bitter life, just …… he coughed twice, and turned his enquiring eyes to Dong’er.
Si Si watched coldly from the sidelines and couldn’t help but smile slightly, his own young master is this kind of temperament, when it comes to close women girls are always tough, and it’s impossible to force Dong’er’s sister how to do it, so he had to start from Mai.
Dong’er where do not know Fan Xian’s meaning, sighed, said: ”Young master has prescribed a prescription, I think it must be good …… Dong’er promises you, never borrow Guili again, these years, you sent more than a hundred taels of silver to the family, I also promise you to take them all out and use … …In this Tanyu city, more than a hundred taels of silver can be used to live a good life, so don’t worry about it.”
Si Si looked at Fan Xian’s face and encouraged from the side, “That pill is something that can’t be dispensed even with money… even if young master had searched for a herb store in Kyoto to dispense it, would he still have the time to send it back to you from a thousand miles?”
Dong’er gave her a difficult look and said, “What kind of pill requires so much effort?”
Fan Xian shook his head from the side and said with a smile, “Do you still remember that ugly-looking teaching teacher in the mansion back then?”
When Dong’er heard this, she immediately thought of a messy mop of hair and eyes that flashed green like a hungry wolf, and subconsciously winced, covering her mouth in disgust, “What’s the point of mentioning Mr. Fei? Back then, a few of us were scared just looking at him.”
“This medicine was formulated by Mr. Fei,” said Fan Xian with a loud laugh, “Although his old man was born ugly, you know that he was the famous Fei Jie Fei in the Daqing Dynasty.”
Dong’er was shocked, she didn’t know until today that the teacher who looked like a lecher had such a big identity, but once she thought about her young master’s life, she was able to accept it.
Fan Xian turned back to Sangong Dong’er and said with a smile, “Prepare for the matter of going to the capital with me.”
Sangong Dong’er was loyal and honest, but didn’t have much of an opinion, so he subconsciously let out a hmmm as he listened to Fan Xian’s decisive words.
Paradoxically, Dong’er snorted coldly and glared at him, and Mai Xin’er hurriedly stopped talking.
Watching this scene, Fan Xian couldn’t help but smile, it seemed that in this family, Dong’er was the one who really spoke powerfully.
“Get well and recuperate from your illness, why are you worrying blindly?” Dong’er shouted at her man in a bad mood, got up and pulled Fan Xian and Si Si out of the bedroom, and sat down in the center hall.
They drank two courses of tea and made some slight small talk, only no matter how stern Fan Xian was, but regarding the proposal to go to Kyoto, Dong’er was just forcefully silent, refusing to open her mouth and respond.
Fan Xian looked at the woman’s face and couldn’t help but sigh, thinking that such a gentle sister, turned out to have such an obstinate side.
A few coughs came from the bedroom, and Fan Xian listened, lowered his voice a bit, and said softly, “Sister Dong’er, back then, before you got married, I took you to secretly look at Mai Ge’er, and it was because you saw the right eyes that I didn’t pay any attention to this. …… Back then, I also asked clearly, Mai Ge’er’s parents had died since she was a child, and she was loyal and honest, and she was very good in this world. Loyalty and honesty, in this Tanyu city also did not have a Ma Li trouble three relatives, I think after the marriage to you must be good, I can not worry.”
This is the truth, when Dong’er got married, Fan Xian was only eleven years old, but also secretly observed for a long time, before he was assured that his eldest maid would be promised to the Mai family.
Dong’er rubbed her reddened hands somewhat nervously, and said with a slight shyness, “He’s also good to me nowadays……. Young master, the person you fancy, how bad could it be?”
“Since you don’t have any relatives in Tanyu, why are you unwilling to follow me to Kyoto? I got it wrong back then.” Fan Xian reminisced, “Putting you on the outside wouldn’t necessarily make your life any more peaceful?”
Not waiting for Dong’er to speak, he continued, “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of you in Kyoto. You can continue to open your tofu store, but if you’re right next to me, we’ll be able to take care of each other.”
Fan Xian did not need Dong’er to take care of anything, the meaning of this statement was clear and ruthless.
Si Si also advised, “Yes, Sister Dong’er, do you know that when young master went to Kyoto, the first business he started was a tofu store, and now the royal families in Kyoto all eat our tofu.”
Fan Xian’s eyebrows twitched and he smiled bitterly, thinking to himself that what this niece was saying, why did it sound so awkward.
Si Si smiled and continued, “If you go, won’t this tofu sell better.”
Dong’er hesitated for a moment and then said, “Young master’s meaning, in fact, Dong’er’s heart understands and appreciates it, just …… Dong’er really doesn’t want to go to Kyoto.”
“Why?” Fan Xian asked with a frown.
Dong’er thought for a moment, an extremely gentle smile suddenly flashed across her face as she slowly said, “After living in Tanyuzhou for a long time, who would want to leave their home? Besides, although Kyoto is good, but the place is too big, I am afraid to go to the heart …… again, also do not want to trouble young master old to take care of their own.”
“There’s no devil in Kyoto, what’s there to be panicked about?” Si Si cooed from the side.
Dong’er covered her mouth and laughed, “Who’s like you girl, you’ve been a bold thief since you were a child.”
While talking, suddenly a childish clear voice came from outside the courtyard, Dong’er’s face suddenly became more and more gentle, got up and walked to the door, looking out.
At this time the sun has risen to the middle of the sky, blazing sunlight rubbing the edge of the eaves shot down, fell on the woman’s still beautiful face, the light suddenly became gentle, the woman’s expression looks so quiet and satisfied.
The little girl who was playing outside came back.
Dong’er led her own daughter into the house and pointed to Fan Xian, who was sitting in the center, and said, “Call the young master.”
Fan Xian looked at the little girl that Sister Dong’er was holding in her hands, and a genuine smile floated up on his face. In a flash of more than two years, this girl’s brows had already unfolded, the clear beauty she inherited from her mother was beginning to catch people’s eyes, and the childishness between her brows was even more pitiful, especially the pair of bony turning, soulful, incomparable eyes that were looking at herself curiously.
“Still call uncle.” Fan Xian reached out, took the little girl into his arms, looked at the somewhat nervous and uneasy her, and said with a smile, “Haven’t seen you for a few years, why don’t you recognize little uncle?”
The little girl lifted her face, looked at Fan Xian’s beautiful face, inclined her head to think for a while, then suddenly smiled cheekily and said, “Little uncle, where have you been playing?”
Just as Fan Xian is Dong’er hugged big, Fan Xian when he was a teenager often in the tofu store hanging around, this child is also hugged many times, and he is spoiled, love, often buy some small things to this girl, so the little girl family to this “little uncle” impression is particularly deep, although the age is still small, but remember clearly.
“Nine years old, right?” Fan Xian scrutinized the face of the little girl in his arms and asked Dong’er.
Dong’er laughed gently, “Young master has a good memory, he’ll be ten years old in a few months.”
Fan Xian looked at the large cloth pocket on the little girl, lifted her over his head and weighed her, and said with satisfaction, “The body is not weak, but the little girl’s family, don’t go outside all day to go crazy, at such a young age, Dong’er, you shouldn’t let her do things, and suffer our family’s maid.”
Dong’er smiled and said, “I don’t want to let her do anything, she’s back from school.”
Fan Xian turned his eyes to look at her curiously, and smoothly put the little girl down on the ground.
The little girl obediently gave Si Si a salute, Si Si only then painfully pulled her little cheeks, will Fan Xian has long been a good gift out, stuffed into her hands.
The little girl glanced at her mother and got permission before happily taking the gift, rubbing her slightly sore face on one side and saying to her mother on the other, “Mother, I’m going to boil medicine for father.”
Dong’er gave her a pitying look and nodded.
The little girl jumped and gleefully entered the inner room holding the gift.
Looking at this scene, coupled with the previous sentence, Fan Xian suddenly looked at Dong’er’s sister in a different light, being able to teach such a sensible little child, Dong’er is really not simple – although there are many noble ladies in the Kingdom of Qing who go to the clan school when they are young, and there are even private schools for women in Kyoto, in the private world, the status of girls is still extremely low, and as for the schooling of girls, the status of girls is still extremely low, and as for the schooling of girls, the status of girls is still extremely low. But in the civil society, the status of girls is still extremely low, as for going to school to read, it is even more have not heard of things.
Sister Dong’er was actually able to let her own daughter go to school, and this kind of vigor is not comparable to that of ordinary women.
Fan Xian looked at her and said appreciatively, “You’ve done well, this child must read on.”
Dong’er smiled gently and said after thinking for a while, “It’s just that she is a girl after all, although she knows that it’s always good to recognize more words and understand some reasoning, she doesn’t know what to do in the future.”
“What to do?” Fan Xian laughed out loud and said, “With me as her brother-in-law here, all over the world, she can do whatever she wants!”
This was a promise, and Dong’er was overjoyed, but knowing that her young master didn’t like to curtsy, she just gave him a grateful look.
Fan Xian then said seriously, “Don’t make any promises of marriage, even if you want to marry, you have to let me know first.”
Dong’er nodded with a contented smile.
After some small talk, it was time for the midday meal, and Dong’er said with difficulty, “Young master, please sit down, I’ll go and get ready.”
Fan Xian knew that if he ate at her home, it would certainly be a lot of hustle and bustle, and he might have to borrow some ingredients from his neighbors, so he hurriedly blocked: “Eat naturally to eat at your home, just don’t be so troublesome …… to eat the tofu rice that you used to make in previous years.”
Dong’er suddenly ouch, holding her forehead irritated said, “There is no point pulp, set aside in the store, I’m afraid I can’t eat.”
Fan Xian smiled and said, “Did you forget that I brought two grams?”
After some busy work, Sangha Dong’er was also helped out of the bedroom by the little girl. Although he hadn’t yet used the medicine that Fan Xian had prepared, when he had consulted and treated him earlier, Fan Xian had already channeled a natural true qi from Tianyi into it, so Mai Xin’er’s spirit at this time appeared to be quite a bit better.
The whole house gathered around the kang and had a lively meal of tofu and rice.
Dong’er’s family was a bit upset, but Fan Xian ate happily, looking at Dong’er’s motherly appearance, he knew that Dong’er could be happy after all, and didn’t necessarily need to follow him to Kyoto.
“Little uncle, is Kyoto fun?” The little girl stared with big eyes, holding a big rice bowl, using her long chopsticks to dig into the soft tofu mixed rice on one side, while asking with incomparable curiosity.
“Kyoto is not fun.” Fan Xian put down his bowl and looked at the little girl and said seriously, “It’s very not fun …… but if you don’t go and play a little, how can you know? Do you want to go see your little uncle later?”
“Yes!” The little girl said cheerfully.
Returning to the Earl’s Mansion, he spoke with Wan’er about today’s events, and Wan’er, a girl who couldn’t help but redden her eyes as she listened to Fan Xian’s narration, and when she heard that Dong’er insisted that she wouldn’t go to Kyoto, her heart even added a point of respect to it.
Out of the door, Fan Xian stretched his waist, rubbed his somewhat full stomach, and gently clapped his palms.
A shadow slowly emerged from the sunlight beside the porch column.
Nowadays, the tiger guards knew Fan Xian’s temper and his strength, so they no longer followed him as closely as they did in previous years, and only this shadow, after driving back the Ninth Grade Swordmen of Dong Yi City, became attached to Fan Xian again.
Fan Xian looked at him sideways and said, “Is it annoying to follow me like this every day?”
The shadow considered this very seriously for a moment and said, “It is indeed annoying.”
Fan Xian smiled and said, “Doesn’t it bother you to follow a cripple?”
The Shadow replied directly, “The cripple is surrounded by beautiful women.”
Fan Xian gasped and shook his head hopelessly, “You’ve seen it during the day today, what do you think about Mai Xin’er’s illness?”
“Since there was no sign of it before, and he’s in good health, he shouldn’t be so sick.” Shadow whispered, “It should be a case of suffering a traumatic injury and then contracting the disease.”
Fan Xian nodded in silence, this judgment was extremely close to what he had found out from his personal treatment, and after a long while he calmly said, “It’s not convenient for me to ask them about this to their faces, and with Dong’er’s temperament of being round on the outside and square on the inside, I’m afraid that he’ll refuse to talk about it as well. This Tanyu city dare not give me face people …… do not exist yet, so this matter is also estimated to be a misunderstanding, you go to check, give each other a little lesson on the line.”
“No dead people.” Fan Xian set the boundaries as he said calmly, “It was kicked with a foot, you kick it with a foot as well, and kick it until that person can’t get out of bed for three years.”
Shadow inclined his head to look at him and said after a long time, “You’re asking me to kick someone?”
The tone was a bit odd. Indeed, this is the leader of the Assassin Gang of the Supervisory Academy, the most powerful assassin in the world, and it’s surprising that Fan Xian would order him …… to go kick someone because of a little crap in a small remote state?
“The ability to kill people, you’re the best in the world.” Fan Xian smiled gently and patted him on the shoulder, “I’m sure the ability to kick people won’t be bad either, hard work.”
The shadow had nothing to say and fell back into the darkness.
He came to his grandmother’s bedroom, and according to the rules of previous years, he saluted and greeted her in a practical manner, and then he told the story of how he had gone to see Dong’er today. Fan Xian is clear, in Tanyu State this ground child, there is really nothing that can be hidden from the grandmother, so the heart …… is vaguely somewhat uncomfortable, grandmother should be aware of their own thoughts, how to bear to let their own big maiden in the city to suffer from this kind of dirty gas, and even their own malefactor was bullied to the bed.
Looking at Fan Xian’s expression, the old lady knew what was in his heart and said with a smile, “Complaining about me in your heart?”
“I don’t dare.” Fan Xian said this, but his tone was a bit hard and fast.
The old lady looked at her grandson’s rare display of this kind of gambling look, couldn’t help but laugh, and told the original story of the matter, it turned out to be the former state governor’s son somehow, looked at Dong’er, just that the son wasn’t a fool, of course, he wouldn’t use force in the city of Tanya state in front of the count’s mansion, but just went to the tofu store there to salivate and pester him.
Dong’er by his pestering can not, but the other side and did not use what is too underhanded means, so have to endure.
But women can tolerate, women’s men always can not tolerate, Mai Ge’er finally one day broke out of the man’s small universe, will be that son of a good beating.
This thing naturally became a big deal, after all, the father of the gentleman is the current state guards, although the body bones of the male Dong’er also strong, but the good man does not match the many fists, was knocked to the ground, but also was admitted to the prison, but also the old lady issued a message, the state guards did not continue to entangle.
But that’s the way it is, Mai was kicked in the chest, and in the prison suffered some wet and cold air, then fell sick, has been lying in bed.
Listening to the grandmother’s account, Fan Xian’s face was calm, knowing the cause of this matter, he also understood why Dong’er was silent, in the end, this matter is still Mai Ge’er’s first move, and …… although the people of Tanyuzhou all know their relationship with Dong’er’s family, but in the eyes of the world… … even in the eyes of the grandmother, after all, Dong’er is just a big maid ring that has long been kicked out of the house, is a subordinate, while the other party is the state guard’s son, the difference in class is always here, there is such a result, full of Tanyu people will not feel that the Fan family did not do well, on the contrary, they will feel that the Fan family is a very big favor to help Dong’er’s family.
But Fan Xian wouldn’t think like that, in his mind, the division of the crowd was never based on class.
It was only about affinity.
The old lady looked at his thoughtful expression and couldn’t help but open her mouth to ask, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing?” Fan Xian looked up and said with a smile, “I’ll have someone go kick that gentleman’s ass as well.”
The old lady was stunned, then smiled and said, “Then kick him, as you please.”