"Aheng!" Shen Zhu was slightly startled, he hugged Rao Tu and carried her into the house.

Lu Zhiming pressed the left and right pulse gates of Raotu and probed, his expression was momentarily surprised.

Shen Zhu asked anxiously, "What's the matter with her?"

Lu Zhiming shook his head, "Almost all of the toxins on my body have been cleared, but I have always been weak, due to the fatigue of the boat and the car. I will drive some warm houses, and the medicinal bath can be stopped."

Shen Zhu waited for him to write the prescription, and went outside to get the medicine in person.

Lu Zhi ordered the mountain ghost to push the palace for Rao Tu, and she quickly woke up, "Mr. Lu..."

"You are pregnant." Lu Zhiming said flatly.

Rao Tu covered her lower abdomen. Although she already had doubts, she still felt like a thunderbolt when she heard it with her own ears, "I...Didn't I say that it is impossible for me to have any more children?"

"There are no absolutes. You have been taking the prescription prescribed by the old doctor in the palace for a while, and you have also taken a lot of rare tonics, so...you have this child."

Rao Tu's thoughts were in a mess, and she was suddenly shocked: "Shen Zhu, you... did you tell him?"

"I think you may have your own plans."

"I want this child, Mr. Lu, I beg you...please help me keep the child." Rao Tu grabbed Lu Zhiming's sleeve and begged with tears in her eyes.

Lu Zhiming nodded and said, "Don't worry."

"Don't tell him, this... This is my child. I have lost it once, and I must not lose it again this time!"

"it is good."

Rao Tu was a little incoherent, "Will the poison in my body hurt the child? Is the medicated bath bad for the child, I... I can't take the medicated bath in the future."

Lu Zhiming comforted her warmly: "I'll do my best, but you have to listen to me and don't get emotional."

Rao Tu nodded again and again, "Okay, I'll listen to you, I'll listen to you. Mr. Lu, it's fortunate that you are here."

Lu Zhiming smiled slightly, "Don't get emotional."

"Hmmmm...I'm not excited..."

"Have a good night's sleep first, drink some medicated food when you wake up, and eat a little more. You eat too little all day."

Rao Tu was lying on the bed, tossing and turning, she pressed her hand gently on her lower abdomen, she was laughing and crying.

She fell asleep in a daze, as if she had only squinted for a moment, when she heard Shen Zhu's deliberately lowered voice, she suddenly opened her eyes and turned to see him standing beside the bed.

"Aheng, how are you feeling now?" Seeing her awake, he reached out and touched her forehead.

Rao Tu turned her head, "A little tired."

"Mr. Lu said that you are too weak, so you should eat more."

He said that he would let Raoda up and lean against his arms, while carrying the wild yam chicken porridge on the case to feed her. Raotu would not eat such a thing on weekdays, but now he picked up the spoon and ate it bit by bit.

Shen Zhu was a little surprised, "Why are you so good today? It's hard to coax you to eat a piece of meat on weekdays."

"I'm not in good health, I have to take care of it." Rao Tu said while eating.

Shen Zhu lowered his eyes to see her earnestly drinking porridge, somewhat relieved, but also somewhat inexplicable.

Rao Tu asked, "Are you still leaving today?"

"I've been in a hurry these days, take a rest first and leave tomorrow."

"Where are we going, Qingzhou Prefecture Yin's House?"

"Go to Gushezhou."

Rao Tu frowned, "Gu Shezhou?"

Gushezhou is a farm surrounded by the Qingzhou River. It has always produced beautiful women. Zhuangzi's "Xiaoyaoyou" said: "The mountain of Gushe is despised by gods and people, with skin like ice and snow, and Nao about like a virgin. Therefore, Gushe is used as a metaphor for beauty. There are about a hundred families on the continent, where Rao Tu lived with her grandmother before she was ten years old.

"Going to Gushezhou, do you have a place to stay?" She has never heard of her grandmother since she was married at the age of fifteen. Even her father threatened to never have her daughter again because of her stubbornness back then.

When she married Shen Zhu, she gave up everything.

She turned her head, and her cheek touched the green stubble on his chin, which was a bit piercing.

Shen Zhu didn't look into her eyes, but touched her smooth forehead with his chin, and said softly, "Gu Shezhou, Madam Xie is still alive."

Mrs. Xie is her grandmother.

Rao Tu shook his head and said, "I'm not going."

"You don't miss her?"

Rao Tu's eyes flickered, how could she not want to, the best time in her life was spent with her grandmother, but... It's just that she is ashamed to see the old man in her current state.

She shook her head stubbornly.

Shen Zhu said: "Mrs. Xie has two sons and a daughter. The daughter married the Xu family and gave birth to a daughter. After a few years, she died in depression."

Rao Tu pursed her lips and said nothing. He was talking about her mother. Because she was a concubine and a girl, she was never taken seriously by her father. After her mother died, her father sent her to her grandmother in Gushezhou. Family. It's a pity that Dad's main room and several concubines don't even have a daughter, let alone a son.

After she was ten years old, she was taken back as the only granddaughter of the Xu family. Who knew that within a few years after she returned, the Xu family quickly lost. When she was fifteen years old, she was well-behaved, and her father intentionally gave her to the governor's son as a concubine, but she had taken a fancy to Shen Zhu and made a private agreement with him for life. Her father was furious and removed her from the family tree.

Rao Tu couldn't help but feel hurt. Along the way, she was disliked, used, and deceived... It seems that the only one who treats her with sincerity is the kind old lady in Gushezhou.

"Mrs. Xie, is she okay?"

"The lower body was paralyzed. The two sons of the Xie family competed for the family property. The seriously ill old lady was ignored and sent to a desolate yard, leaving only a lame servant to take care of it."

Rao Tu tensed in her heart, remembering that her two uncles were both mercenary people, and the two aunts were even more conscientious than the other. She followed her grandmother when she was a child, and she was not less scorned by those two aunts. Now that my grandmother is inconvenient, the two sons must be blaming each other. There is no dutiful son in front of the bed for a long time. Who wants to take care of it?

"If you don't want to go to Gushezhou, then let's go to the governor of Qingzhou to settle down."

Rao Tu glanced at Shen Zhu, "What are you going to do about the miserable situation of the old man?"

Shen Zhu said lightly: "What can I do? Go and visit."

"Is this gone?"

"How's it going?"

"You have to give money, and you have to find someone to support you."

"How can I have any money?"

Rao Tu snorted, took out a purse from his arms, shook it, ding-dong, "You don't have silver, but you have gold."

Shen Zhu smiled, "This is my entire family. The golden nanmu carriage you rode on the way cost me 3,000 taels of silver. Your daily blood-clearing pills cost me 13,000 taels in total. At this rate, I have to go and beg for dinner."

Rao Tu couldn't help laughing, and glanced at him, "When Her Royal Highness the princess is married to the mansion, you will have an extra dowry."

Shen Zhu was stunned for a moment, then followed her words: "Isn't it enough to quench my thirst?"

Rao Tu twisted his arm in a desperate manner, "Do you really care about that dowry? Shameless."

Shen Zhu held her little face and kissed her red lips, and said dumbly, "What face do you want? My life is on you."

Rao Tuming knew what he meant, but he didn't follow up, and came up with an idea again: "If the governor of Qingzhou knows you're here, he will definitely curry favor with you. When you go to show your face to a banquet, you will definitely be able to make a big hit. Really. No, you can also buy characters on the street."

Shen Zhu sighed, "Have you lost your money?"

"I don't care, I want three thousand taels, you help me prepare."

"What do you want three thousand taels for?"

"When you don't want me anymore, I can live in peace, and I can't go to Goulan Washer anymore."

Although Rao Tu said it in a joking tone, she was sincere. Now that she has a child in her womb, everything is different. She wants to live and live well.

Shen Zhu stared at her for a long time, but stopped joking and gave a soft "um".

It was obvious that she agreed, but it made Rao Tu feel a little uncomfortable. She couldn't help but ask, "You really don't want me?"

Shen Zhu didn't speak, and rubbed her eyebrows together.

Rao Tu was a little angry and a little sad, "I don't want you, it's not that you don't want me."

The sunset is very gorgeous, and the golden brilliance spreads on the road that stretches to the sky outside the post house, making people wonder if the post road eventually leads to the Jinling City.

It should be farther away.

Shen Zhu accompanies Rao Tu in the street market. People can't see what Rao Tu looks like wearing a gauze hat, but they really look at the good-looking white-haired boy beside her.

In the cloth house, Rao Tu carefully looked at the fabrics one by one, and Shen Zhu accompanied him to watch. The shop owner kept looking at Shen Zhu's face with a very strange expression.

In the end, Shen Zhu had to ask, "Boss, do you see any problem with me?"

The shop owner shook his head quickly, "No problem, no problem, I just look familiar, the young master looks so good, I feel like I've seen him somewhere before."

Shen Zhu smiled and said nothing. Rao Tu pointed to a white feather forging, and a crimson yarn for the boss to wrap. After the two of them left the gate of the cloth house, after a long time, the boss patted his thigh, "Tanhua Lang?"

As for the Tanhualang who came out of Qingzhou more than ten years ago, he has seen it. Although he doesn't remember who the Tanhualang is, he remembers that day when the gongs and drums were loud and people came from the capital to announce the good news, he was far away. When I saw Shen Zhu riding on a horse, I felt that the young man was not only good at learning, but also handsome. It was a great luck for the daughter of which family to marry him.

Rao Tu and Shen Zhu walked to the inn, and Rao Tu said on the road, "If you walk around this street for a few more days, I'm afraid someone will recognize you."

Shen Zhu nodded, this time he returned to Qingzhou without approving the official document, he was considered a microservice, and it was a little troublesome to be recognized. It seems that it is better to show less in the future.

Rao Tu suddenly stopped and looked at a man standing in front of a crude drug store.

Shen Zhu looked over and saw that he was a young man of twenty-five or six years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, simple and clean, tall and thin, wearing a blue-gray cloth shirt, shivering in the cold wind, with a load of firewood beside him.

Shen Zhu asked, "Do you know this person?"

Rao Tu didn't say a word, only to see a guy sticking out of the crude drug store, leaning against the door to discuss something with the young man, it looked like he was bargaining, but obviously the drug store guy was more imposing.

Later, when the young man saw that the guy was impatient and wanted to close the door, he grabbed the guy and nodded with a painful look on his face. The guy waved his hand, stepped forward and carried the load of firewood into the house, and when he came out to return the load, he threw a packet of medicine to the man.

The young man was holding a medicine bag, carrying an empty burden and bowing his head and walked away, limping, he was actually a lame man.

Passing by Shen Zhu's side, he turned his head to the side without raising his head, and Shen Zhu suddenly stretched out his arms to stop him, "Dare to ask little brother, do you still have firewood to sell?"

The young man looked up and saw Shen Zhu, who was smiling warmly, and was a little surprised, and then smiled: "I'm sorry, sir, today's is sold out."

"I'm staying at this inn, and I can deliver it tomorrow."

The young man looked at the tall post house next to him, and said ashamedly: "This post house supplies all the best firewood. I'm afraid this villain's firewood smokes a lot. I'm afraid it won't work."

Shen Zhu took a piece of silver from his bosom and put it into the young man's empty burden, and said, "This is the fixed money. You can send a burden. I just want big smoke, and I will use it."

The young man was a little frightened, and hurriedly picked up the silver thread and sent it to Shen Zhu, "Young master needs firewood, the villain will bring it tomorrow, and a load only needs twenty cents."

"This inn often needs firewood. If you are convenient, you can send it later. One day the firewood you send will be worth the silver. I will tell the steward of the inn."

Rao Tu lifted the gauze and looked at the dazed young man. She smiled and said, "Just do as you do."

The young man was surprised when he saw Rao Tu.

"Why, I'm weird?" Rao Tu asked with a smile.

The young man shook his head blankly. How come the eyes of this beautiful lady are so similar to that of the girl named Ah Heng many years ago?

It's all a pair of peach blossom eyes! It was the peach blossom eye that he had been dreaming about for many years.

Rao Tu looked at the medicine bag he was holding and asked curiously, "Whose medicine is this?"

"Oh... yes, it's the villain's wife."

"Your wife is ill, is it serious?" It was originally a very abrupt question, but she said it, but it was as warm as the spring breeze in March.

The young man was flattered, "Madam Hui, it's a chronic illness, it's always been like this."

Rao Tu nodded, "Remember to send firewood later."

"Yes."

Shen Zhu and Rao Tu returned to the inn. Seeing her calm expression, he asked, "Which old friend is he?"

"We grew up together when we were young. At my grandmother's house, he was Jiading's son, named Li Yu."

Shen Zhu said "um", "It's not easy to remember his name."

Rao Tu ignored his sour words and murmured, "He should not be at the Xie family in Gushezhou now."

"Not necessarily, his shoes are half wet, they should have crossed the river."

"Then we may see you again."

Shen Zhu put his arms around her and said, "Are you looking forward to it?"

Rao Tu caught a glimpse of the sourness in his eyes, and gave a heavy "um", feeling that she was not strong enough, so she added another sentence, "It's a childhood sweetheart love."

Shen Zhu said displeasedly: "What childhood sweetheart, he is the son of Jiading, you are a young lady anyway."

Rao Tu smiled and said: "Childhood plums and bamboo horses have nothing to do with identity. Lang riding a bamboo horse and going around the bed to get green plums means... um..."

Shen Zhu impatiently listened to her explaining the meaning of "childhood sweetheart", and two cold lips domineeringly blocked her mouth.

A very tender kiss.

Rao Tu pushed him away, bowed her head and said, "I don't want it!"

"Don't what?" he asked.

Rao Tu pointed to the white feather satin fabric to change the subject, "It's a beautiful material, and the white color is suitable for making a jacket for Zhen Long. She's wearing too thin. Don't you feel bad when it freezes?"

"Well, it really hurts. What do you think is suitable for this crimson gauze?" Shen Zhu likes to follow her words these days.

Rao Tu was stunned for a moment. She felt that her fist had smashed into the cotton, and it was too deep to be pulled out. She said angrily, "Jinlong doesn't look good in red."

"I think this yarn can be used as a small apron. You will look good in it."

"Shen Zhu!" The fist stuck in the cotton was pulled out, but it was stained with cotton wool, and it was stagnant.

Shen Zhu smiled like the breeze and the moon, as if this person was not in a yellow tune just now, but recited a nine-song of Li Sao.

On the second day, when Li Yu came to the station with a load of firewood, the manager of the station paid him half a year's money and asked him to supply the station with firewood for half a year. Li Yu became more and more puzzled, and looked to thank the son and his wife, but was told that the nobleman had left early in the morning.

Li Yu had no choice but to accept the money and walked back suspiciously. On the ferry leading to Gushezhou, he spent two cents to board a ferry. Squeezed on the deck, only listened to the group of people talking, saying that Tanhualang took his wife back to Qingzhou, saying that Tanhualang was so immortal and how elegant.

Li Yu couldn't help asking the old boatman who was shaking the oars. The old boatman shook his head and said, "Not true, not true."

Li Yu asked curiously, "Why isn't it real?"

"Isn't Tanhua Lang's wife Ah Heng? I don't look like Ah Heng." The old boatman shook his head.

Li Yu sighed, "Aheng is pitiful, she has long since died of illness. Today's wife is a sequel."

The old boatman looked at the shore, the old man looked in a daze, as if he saw the woman who was squatting on the river bank many years ago, and he murmured in a hoarse voice: "Aheng, she is a good girl."

Li Yu lowered his head, his eyes blurred, yes, Ah Heng is a good girl.

When he returned to the desolate yard in Gushezhou, he was taken aback and saw a few immortal figures standing in the yard.

A tall and mighty young man, a girl with a powerful aura, a maid who has a three-point resemblance to Ah Heng, and a blind girl in purple...

Li Yu rubbed his eyes and said in a trance, "You..."

But when he saw a Taoist priest in green shirt coming out of his wife's room, Li Yu was startled, stepped forward and said angrily, "What are you doing?"

His wife Yuxiu came out of the room, "Brother Yu, this is Lu Zhenren, who is treating me."

Li Yu looked at his sickly lady, and at Lu Zhiming, who was immortal and daoist. Although this Taoist priest was dressed in ordinary clothes, there was an extraordinary air in his actions.

Knowing that he could not violate his wife, Li Yu stepped forward to support Yuxiu and asked, "What's going on?"

Yuxiu held Li Yu's hand, "Miss Aheng is back. It's at the old lady's place."

Li Yu was startled, "Miss..." He turned his head and ran to the old lady's room in the backyard. When he entered the room, he saw a lady dressed in splendid pink butterflies sitting beside the old lady, while the silver-haired Junyi The son is drinking tea.

Rao Tu looked back and smiled slightly: "Li Yu, yesterday was my clumsy eye, I didn't recognize you, don't take it offense."

Li Yu didn't know what to say, staring at Rao Tu's face in a daze.

Mrs. Xie smiled and said, "Why is this kid so stupid? This is Ah Heng, it's Ah Heng!"

Li Yu was in awe, and saw that the beautiful woman in front of her had eyes like Ah Heng, how could she still have the slightest shadow of the past?

Mrs. Xie squinted her eyes and smiled: "The 18th female university has changed, and Ah Heng has become more beautiful. Don't talk about you, I didn't even recognize it before. But she is really Ah Heng."

Li Yudao: "But...it doesn't mean...Aheng has already..."

Rao Tu smiled and said, "Say I'm dead? Then you can treat me as if I'm back from the dead."

Mrs. Xie patted Rao Tu's head, "This girl! She speaks without restraint! Tong Yan Wuji, Tong Yan Wuji..."

The old lady repeated "Tong Yan Wuji" several times, and Rao Tu's eyes were slightly red, "Grandma, how old am I, how about Tong Yan Wuji?"

Mrs. Xie said, "Isn't a child here at my grandma's place?" She turned to look at Shen Zhu, "These years, thanks to my uncle's care and consideration, this child has been pampered a bit."

Shen Zhu thought of the old lady's words in his heart, but he was speechless for a moment.

Rao Tu said, "Don't worry, Grandma, I have had a good life these years, and he... is also very good to me."

"Where is my great-grandson and granddaughter? How many? Did you bring it back?"

Rao Tu smiled and said: "A boy, staying in Jinling, if he doesn't obey, I'm afraid he will bring back naughty and cause trouble."

"Hey... children are not like that. I should bring them back and let me see my great-grandson."

Rao Tu looked at Li Yu, who was struck by a bolt from the blue, "I want to stay here for a while, and I have already instructed the maid to clean up a few rooms. Mr. Lu and the girl in Ziyi outside are my husband's friends, and there are two others accompanying him. A maid and a bodyguard."

After realizing it, Li Yu said, "Okay, okay, I... I'll buy some tables, chairs, beds, I'm afraid it won't be enough..."

Rao Tu shook her head and said, "You don't have to prepare anything. The things that should be cleaned up have already been cleaned up. That's good."

Liu Xing and Shan Gui bought rice, noodles, oil and salt at the market, cut three catties of pork, and sold ten catties of fine wine. Bought chicken and duck and fresh and fatty fish. The two and Li Yu's wife, Yuxiu, were busy in the kitchen and quickly packed up a few hot dishes.

When the wine and dishes were all set on the table, Rao Tu asked everyone to come to the table. Liu Xing, Yang Qian, and Li Yu were not too afraid. Rao Tu pushed Shen Zhu, Shen Zhu asked to sit down, and everyone sat down.

Rao Tu smiled and said: "This is like a family eating together! Isn't it, Xianggong?"

Shen Zhu nodded politely and said, "Yes."

Mrs. Xie is sophisticated and can see that the uncle Shen Zhu is really good to Aheng, but there seems to be a gap between the two, which is vaguely strange.

After eating, Rao Tu secretly asked Lu Zhiming about Yuxiu's illness, but Lu Zhiming didn't hide it, "It seems that he was severely tortured, and he was fundamentally injured. Now he is sick and injured."

Rao Tu was puzzled and called Li Yu to ask questions. Li Yu was still confused until now, and after listening to her question, he answered 1510 times. It turned out that Yuxiu used to be the daughter of a woodcutter in the village, but was robbed by the second master, the second son of Mrs. Xie, to take her as a concubine.

The second grandmother is a powerful character, how can she tolerate this, she cried, made trouble, hanged herself, and after a while, the second master saw that there was no movement in Yuxiu's stomach, and the freshness was gone, so he left her aside and ignored her. . The second grandmother changed the law to rectify Yuxiu. She beat and scolded her whenever she disagreed. In the end, Yuxiu ran away, and the second master took someone to chase him back. He was hanged upside down on the beam for a day and a night, and he was drawn bloody with a whip.

At that time, Li Yu couldn't see it and secretly released Yuxiu. He was severely beaten by the second master, and he was lame and forced out.

After Rao Tu heard this, she sneered and said nothing. Li Yu complained: "In the past few years, I have watched them bully the old lady and force her to come to this desolate yard. Isn't it just letting the old lady fend for itself? The Xie family used to be a big family in Zhuangzi, and now they are being punished by two people. Your grandfather has ruined the family."

Just as he was talking, he heard a woman's voice outside the yard shouting: "I heard that the young lady and the uncle are back, why don't you come to see my uncle and aunt? We old people came over to look at the young lady with a cheeky face. These years have worried us badly..."