Chapter 24 Excuses
Listening to the sound of the wheel going away, Shui Ling let out a long breath.
“Girl, I think that little nun is even more naive than I am, and has thick skin. I was too embarrassed to say those words out loud, but she dared to say them.”
Sister Wu and Shui Xiang and Shui Qing all covered their mouths and laughed.
Sister Wu snapped, “Hush, keep your voice down, if those people hear you, you’ll be in bad luck, and you’ll have to drag the master down with you.”
Shui Ling said, “I’m not stupid, they went far away before I dared to say anything.”
Jiang Yi shi laughed, “That precious princess is not naive, but smart. She dared to say that because she knew that her relatives would favor her even if she fooled around.”
Shui Qing said, “Yes, she is a county princess with a noble status.”
Shui Ling added, “I also found a problem, the nuns serving the Sheriff Lord are all dark and ugly. I specifically looked in the mirror, and they are even uglier than me. Is it on purpose?”
Her words again made Jiang Yishi’s few people laugh.
They didn’t say anything, but they all knew that it was definitely intentional. Li Zhenbao was unattractive and particularly mindful of this, so she definitely didn’t dare to find pretty subordinates to irritate her.
Half an hour later, one of Li Kai’s long followers returned back to the Huzhuang to send a thank you gift. He sent Jiang Yishi a silver check of two hundred taels of silver, Wu Bo a five taels silver dollar, and each of the other subordinates a one-two silver dollar.
Jiang Yishi secretly said, I did not expect that the Yong Wang Shizi is still a delicate heart of the scene. She is a girl, he is a man is not good to send objects, this kind of yellow and white things is the best gift.
Since it is a gift of thanks, Jiang Yishi will accept it, she is short of money.
Through this contact, Jiang Yishi liked that straight-talking county princess Zhenbao even more.
Her next step was to wait until the Meng family’s grandchildren returned to the Meng family estate and go cure Meng Zhimo’s illness. As for why she would suddenly cure an eye disease, the reason had already been thought of.
She called Sister Wu alone into the house, “Sister, I want to go cure Meng Shimo’s eye disease.”
Sister Wu was shocked, “Miss, how long have you only been reading, how could you possibly know how to cure diseases. Meng Shizi’s eye disease, I’ve heard that even the imperial doctors at the Imperial Hospital can’t see it, and old Duke Cheng is now spending a lot of money to hire famous doctors from all over the world.”
Jiang Yishi said, “Sister, don’t you know my nature, how could I possibly mess around, or this matter. To be honest with Sister, I burned incense and vegetarian for my father in Guanghe Temple during that time, and I had a strange encounter there …… Every night while Shui Lu was asleep, I went next door to learn medicine from him …… Before, I was afraid that Sister would be worried, and I never dared to say it. ”
Sister Wu first scolded a burst of water dew, “That little hoof dead lazy, just know sleep, sleep, the master went out all do not know, if something happens can be how to do.” She also said incredulously, “In such a short period of time, the girl has learned to cure the disease?”
Jiang Yishi said, “Well, I don’t know why, during that time my mind was especially clear, and I learned everything as soon as I could.”
Sister Wu thought for a moment and said happily, “I know, it must be the Second Master and Second Mistress blessing Second Miss in heaven, making Second Miss smarter and smarter. First, I wondered, before, the second girl was not interested in many things, but now she is stealing. Before, the second girl was like other young ladies, especially worshiping and adoring Meng San Gongzi, and then was able to reject the Meng marriage without hesitation ……”
Jiang Yishi was secretly happy, truly Sister Wu was the easiest to believe in herself. She pretended her eyes lit up and said, “Yes, I’ve never been able to figure out how I’ve suddenly gotten smarter, so it’s like this.”
Sister Wu felt even more that what she was thinking made sense, and instantly became serious, folding her hands together and saying, “Amitabha Buddha, Bodhisattva blessing, all the gods and goddesses and stargazers blessing, master and madam’s spirit in heaven blessing ……”
Jiang Yishi added, “However, the matter of me learning medicine in the middle of the night is limited to only a few of us, and must not be told.”
As long as these words didn’t reach Shui Lu’s ears, the lie wouldn’t be uncovered.
Sister Wu agreed painfully, “Of course, spreading the word would be detrimental to the girl’s reputation.”
Rain fell during the night. Jiang Yishi’s heart was unusually peaceful, finally befriended Li Zhenbao and got along quite well. His own humble position, he couldn’t stop that from happening, but he had to find a way to keep Elder Duke Meng out of that. He had also found an excuse for the fact that he could heal, and Sister Wu was still so easy to believe.
In the days that followed, Jiang Yishi still went to Zhaoming Nunnery to burn incense, and left afterward without looking for Li Zhenbao.
On the eighteenth day, she met Su Wei. She was dressed in plain clothes, with her hair caged in a monk’s hat. She is not very ugly, relatively black, nose is big, but that a few subordinates in the most beautiful one.
She took two steps forward and smiled, “Second Miss Jiang, Little Master Diet asked me to tell you that Presiding Officer Cang Silence has agreed for Little Master Diet to go to your house on the twenty-fourth day.” Her voice lowered again, “The Diet Little Master also said, letting Miss Jiang prepare two kinds of snacks with buttermilk and eggs, steaming a bowl of egg custard with sesame oil, frying a leek and egg, and dried garlic beans. It would be even better if the cook at Second Miss Jiang’s house would make a few kinds of eats she hasn’t eaten before that are made with eggs and garlic seedlings and other things.”
After saying that, Su Wei unconsciously blushed, quite embarrassed by her master’s nonchalance.
Jiang Yishi hesitantly said, “It doesn’t matter to me to make those things, I don’t know if Master Shizi knows about it?”
What if Li Zhenbao hides it from her lord and the people in the nunnery.
Su Mei understood Jiang Yishi’s concern and smiled, “My family’s Shizi master has already returned to the capital. He’ll be back in a few days, and he’ll go to your manor with Little Master Saving Food that day.”
Jiang Yishi nodded in agreement. She was a bit puzzled, Li Kai had already said that Prince Yong would send a cook to serve Li Zhenbao, his own family’s craftsmanship could still be better than the cooks in the royal residence, why did he come home to eat these things.
She does know a few kinds of desserts with cow still and eggs, all with “food” confectionery learned in the past life. She didn’t dare to eat them, and they were all eaten by Dr. Shen. But not quite dare to show in front of Li Zhenbao.
Back to the manor, she drew a few molds for Wu Bo to make out. Thinking to change the shape, change the name, and then slightly change the practice, Li Zhenbao should not see.
In the middle of the morning of the nineteenth, Jiang Xun brought Qin Mama again.
They stayed overnight and played for most of the day before leaving.
On the morning of the twenty-second, Jiang Yishi, Sister Wu and Shui Ling took a mule cart with four gift boxes of snacks to the Meng family in Linfeng Town. Yesterday morning, I heard that Mr. Meng’s grandchildren had returned to the farm.
Wu Yougui drove the cart south along a small road. The countryside road is narrow and bumpy, mules do not go much faster than people, two quarters of an hour will be there.
Mengjiazhuang than Huzhuang much more elegant, long pink wall surrounded by countless houses and green trees and flowers, not far from a small river meandering through.
The road outside the manor is wide and flat, leading directly to the official road.
The mule cart crossed the vermillion-colored gate and stopped in front of the corner gate. Several people got off, Wu You Gui knocked the door open and presented a sticker.