Aunt Gui saw that Lang Zhong's face had changed, she coughed twice and asked, "Cough, cough, Lang Zhong, what's wrong with me? A few years ago, I accidentally blew the wind, and I have been very uncomfortable. I also invited Lang Zhong a few days ago. I saw it, it was said that I contracted a cold, and I took a few medicines and took it, but it didn't help, and the cough was getting worse and worse, and I felt like my heart was going to cough up a bit."

After talking for so long, Concubine Gui started to cough again, and the cough was too severe. She covered her mouth with the handkerchief, and when she removed the handkerchief from her mouth, there were a few bloodstains on the handkerchief.

Seeing the bloodstains on the handkerchief, the sweat on the forehead of the old man was pouring out.

Aunt Gui didn't panic when she saw the blood on the handkerchief. Her daughter told her before that after using the ointment, in addition to these symptoms, her teeth would also bleed a little. It's normal, so don't worry, I'll be back After coming to Pei's house, the ointment is no longer needed. After a few days, the medicinal properties will dissipate and it will be fine.

So this handkerchief is actually blood from the teeth.

The daughter said that Yu Niang came up with it, and she asked Brother Xuan, who also thought it was okay.

It is to let her pretend to have tuberculosis. Of course, how can tuberculosis pretend to be like? When Langzhong comes to check the pulse and see the symptoms, you will know if it is not. Therefore, you must really have symptoms of tuberculosis, in order to deceive Langzhong, deceive Wen's family, and let Mrs. Wen Ken wrote a concubine letter to let her leave.

Brother Xuan is a doctor, and the ointments that she made and put it on her armpits will cause symptoms of tuberculosis, but it is not really tuberculosis, but the symptoms are exactly the same.

"Lang Zhong?" Concubine Gui held her handkerchief in a look of fear, "Cough, cough, me, why am I coughing up blood?"

"This, this..." The old man's face was white and sweating, "I, I'll go out and talk to the head of your family first, let's see if I can get you some medicine to eat."

After the old man finished speaking, he ran out with the box and came to the hospital. The old man's face was not very good-looking. The disease of the old concubine in the ear room was exactly the same as that of tuberculosis. Seeing that she lived in the ear room in such a big house, it was also very difficult. There are no other servants, and she is still an aunt. It can be seen that she is not welcomed by the family owner. She should often do some tiring and heavy work. Overwork is easy to get tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is a highly contagious disease. Although it is not as terrifying as the plague, it is also a disease that they are more afraid of.

Bai Yiniang was still standing in the courtyard. When she saw Lang Zhong coming out, she hurried over and asked, "Lang Zhong, is my sister okay? I have been coughing for almost a month now, and even after taking a few medicines, it doesn't help."

The old man said two words in a low voice, and Yiniang Bai also changed her face.

When the old man went over to the old man of the Wen family, Yiniang Bai did not hesitate at all. She went to the front room and saw Auntie Gui lying on the bed, her face pale and sickly, her eyes turned red all of a sudden.

That's a tuberculosis. I'm afraid the old man and the old lady won't care at all, and maybe someone will throw Concubine Gui out.

If the Pei family also dislikes it, what will Aunt Gui do in the future?

Aunt Bai didn't get along with the Pei family very much, so she naturally didn't believe that the Pei family would bring a patient with tuberculosis home.

Seeing Aunt Bai's expression, Aunt Gui knew that she had learned from her husband that she had tuberculosis, but she still came in.

Concubine Gui's eyes also turned red, she looked at Concubine Bai firmly, "Sister, don't worry, I'm fine."

Yiniang Bai is smart, she knows that Yiniang Bai can understand her meaning.

But she couldn't say it clearly, she just told Bai Yiniang not to worry about her.

At this moment, Yiniang Bai vaguely understood. They have been together for more than 30 years, and their relationship is better than that of many sisters. They have supported each other for so many years. She probably knows what Yiniang Gui means, but she may not have figured out what it is. The point was, but she already knew what to do.

Bai Yiniang said: "No matter what, you should rest well first. I will go to the front yard to take a look."

Aunt Gui nodded.

When Bai Yiniang left, she slowly walked towards the main courtyard from the Jiuqu corridor.

When they arrived at the main courtyard, Mrs. Wen and Mrs. Wen were both there. Their faces were not only ugly, but they were both shocked and angry. They should have learned of Concubine Gui's condition from the old man.

Seeing Aunt Bai, Mrs. Wen immediately asked, "Have you seen Aunt Gui? How is she?"

Bai Yiniang hesitated, "Old, old lady, the boss said that my sister is suffering from tuberculosis, I, how dare I enter the ear room, I just stood outside and asked a few questions, Gui Yiniang kept coughing and didn't say a word, I'll be right here." Finally, he added, "Don't worry, my lord, I haven't gone to Aunt Gui in the past few days." The implication was that she would not be infected.

In the past few days, because Concubine Gui was coughing so badly, Mrs. Wen was afraid that she would cough into the kitchen, so she was not allowed to enter the kitchen, so she stayed in the front room to watch the door.

The old lady Wen was choked by Bai Yiniang's words.

He couldn't help but ask Lang Zhong, "Is it really a tuberculosis?"

The old man nodded, "The symptoms and the pulse are inseparable. If the old man is still worried, why don't you find another man to show the aunt in the house. I'll prescribe the medicine first, grab the medicine and come back and try it."

Madam Wen couldn't hold back, she said with a drooping face, "If there is a tuberculosis, what is the use of prescribing medicine, maybe it will be passed on to the whole government."

After finishing speaking, she went to see the old man, "Old man, if this is really a tuberculosis, what should I do?"

Mrs. Wen didn't speak, and finally sent off Langzhong and invited another Langzhong to come over to diagnose Gui Concubine's pulse.

When that Langzhong also came from the ear room, his complexion was similar to that of the previous Langzhong. The final result was also tuberculosis, and the symptoms and pulse were similar.

Grandpa Wen completely believed in her heart that Concubine Gui was a tuberculosis. It must have been hard work on the way to exile, and she didn't get a good rest after coming here, so she became a tuberculosis.

Mrs. Wen was in a hurry, "Grandpa, how can this be, let's send Concubine Gui away quickly."

You can't let the whole government accompany you to get sick.

"Nonsense." The old man said, afraid of outsiders, "If you get sick, you will throw your aunt out of the house, and let outsiders think of us?"

Mrs. Wen was unrelenting, and Mrs. Wen was troubled with a headache, and finally shouted, "Then go and call the second sister back, and take Aunt Gui to Pei's house for a while."

The second sister is the Wen family, and she ranks second among the daughters of Mrs. Wen.

Mrs. Wen pouted on the ground, "The second sister is also cruel, she hasn't come for a few days, she used to see her auntie by starching the laundry in the mansion, but since she found out that auntie was ill, she came less often, really It's because I have no dutiful son in front of the bed for a long time." Then he said to Yiniang Bai, "You can be strict with me, and when the second sister comes back, don't tell the second sister that her aunt has tuberculosis."

Aunt Bai nodded shyly.

Mrs. Wen didn't want the people from the second room to go to places like Guihua Lane to call people, so she called the third room's concubine, Wen Shuncheng, to run.

Wen Shuncheng didn't want to go, but his grandfather also spoke.

He also asked his grandfather why he was going to find his aunt, but his grandfather didn't tell him and told him to leave it alone, and hurriedly called the second aunt back.

The Wen family knew that the second sister and the Pei family lived in Osmanthus Lane.

Wen Shuncheng ran to Osmanthus Alley. He didn't know the exact location of the second aunt's house, but when he asked in the alley, the neighbors told him enthusiastically, "Going into the alley, the yard is hot, and the smell is the most fragrant. "

It's not time, Xu Qinyu is cooking fish balls in the yard.

Hearing the knock on the door, she went over and looked at the door, and found that it was a half-sized boy. She recognized it as the third room of the Wen family, but she didn't know exactly what it was called.

"Are you from the Wen family?" Xu Qinyu asked.

Wen Shuncheng smelled the fragrance and swallowed greedily, "I'm Brother Cheng, the third wife of Wen's family, the fourth sister-in-law, my grandfather asked me to call the second aunt over there, it seems that Aunt Gui is sick."

He is also thirteen and half a child this year. Although the food in the house is unpalatable, he eats a lot to keep his stomach full, but there is not much oil and water, so he is hungry after eating.

The other two families can often go out to find some oil and water to eat. The three families have no money. Occasionally, my aunt and grandmother will secretly give him a little money, but there are not many times. It should be because I am afraid that my grandmother and grandfather will find out, so I am still hungry. In the borderlands, he had never smelled such a fragrant meal.

He controlled himself not to look at the cauldron in the courtyard.

Xu Qinyu knew in her heart that Aunt Gui's symptoms should have appeared, and the Wen family hired her husband, thinking that Aunt Gui had tuberculosis, and now she would definitely not want to continue to let Aunt Gui stay at Pei's house.

But seeing this, I'm afraid I don't want to write a concubine release letter, and want Wen to bring back Concubine Gui first.

She had anticipated these situations and had already discussed it with the Wen family.

"Mother, someone from the Wen family is coming."

Xu Qinyu turned back and shouted towards Westinghouse.

Wen came out of the room, she was sorting fur and fabric scraps.

Last time, the bags she made with Ning Jie'er were bought the next day. Each bag was sold for one or two silver, but they were still sold.

You must know that these fur scraps are only ten pennies.

She and Sister Ning are very popular. The stitches were sewed for some reason, and they were very dense. It was impossible to tell that they were stitched together. The inside of the cloth bag was not leather, but a lining made of leftovers from large pieces of yarn.

The two fur bags were really beautiful and cute. When they were done, even Ning Jie'er and Xu Qinyu couldn't put it down.

They worked on those two bags for a few days, working slowly and meticulously.

I am planning to make a second bag at the moment.

Every time the bag is different, strive for a unique style.

This is what Xu Qinyu told Wen Shi and Ning Jie'er to be unique.

This time, it was Ning Jie'er's own style. Xu Qinyu saw it and thought it was cute.

Wen Shi came out and saw Wen Shuncheng and said, "Brother Cheng, why are you here?"

Wen Shuncheng said briefly, and Mrs. Wen frowned and said, "I have a job to do myself, okay, then I'll go over with you to have a look first."

When he arrived at Wen's house, Mrs. Wen also looked anxious, "Father, mother, why are you calling me back? There is a lot of work at home, so I have to go back quickly."

Mrs. Wen coughed, "It's like this, second sister, your aunt is not feeling well and misses you a little, so I thought, why don't you take your aunt back to live with you for a while."

Wen shi frowned, "But my house is a dilapidated yard, crowded with six people, where is the place where my aunt lives? And why is my aunt feeling uncomfortable? It seems like I had a cough a few years ago? My father has invited Lang Zhong, how is Lang Zhong? said?"

"That's right, it's just a little bit of cold, plus heart disease, so it's been bad all the time. I think I miss you too much." Mrs. Wen's eyes dodged.

Aunt Gui got tuberculosis, he just told the two sons-in-law of the eldest room and the second room, and the third room was still hiding it, and Yiniang Bai was also warned by him not to tell others, or even to tell it to others. Aunt Gui.

Wen Shi said: "Then I'll go and see my aunt first."

She lifted her foot to the ear room.

Now, Mrs. Wen, they don't go in and out from the gate, they go in and out directly from the side door.

On the way, Mrs. Wen was still trying to find an excuse to know that Concubine Gui had contracted tuberculosis, and was worried about passing it on to her family, so she was unwilling to take Aunt Gui back.

Before reaching the second room, saw Concubine Bai.

In fact, Yiniang Bai had already figured out that if Aunt Gui didn't really contract tuberculosis, then this was acting.

Who can act for? It was just for Wen's family to see.

Then this scene is not easy. It should be that Aunt Gui and the Pei family have colluded a long time ago, which means that the Pei family did not dislike Aunt Gui and wanted to take Aunt Gui away, and they wanted her to be gone. left with scruples because wanted Mrs. Wen to release the book to concubine!

So she has to be in the middle to help with this! She also hoped that the Pei family would let Concubine Gui get out of the misery as soon as possible.

Aunt Gui was much worse at Wen's house than she was.

Aunt Bai gave Wen a wink.

Wen Shi actually understood, and stepped forward and said, "Aunt Bai, why are you here? My aunt has been sick recently, and I haven't come to see her for some days. How is my aunt? What's wrong with my aunt? When I asked my father and mother, they said it was a heart attack. ."

Bai Yiniang hesitated, "No, I, I didn't go to the front room, I just passed by, and I don't know what kind of illness your aunt has, no, no, your aunt seems to have a cold, and it'll be fine if you take care of it for a while. "

"Then auntie go over and have a look with me. I remember that auntie likes to talk to you, auntie Bai."

Concubine Bai's face changed greatly, "This, this, I still have something to do, so I won't go to the front room."

Wen Shi felt strange and pulled Auntie Bai, "Auntie Bai, why has your face changed?"

The two were pulling for a while, but Mrs Wen felt that something was wrong, so she forced her to ask Yiniang Bai, and insisted that she drag her to the ear room.

Aunt Bai screamed in fright, and finally shouted, "Tuberculosis, your aunt has tuberculosis."

Wen shi naturally didn't go to the ear room, and returned to the main courtyard angrily.

Of course, she couldn't directly scold the two elders of the Wen family, but she just cried a little bit blaming her father and mother for hiding her aunt's tuberculosis, and said, "Even if I want to take my aunt back home, it won't work, the family is full of children, My aunt took it back, what if I passed the disease to the children at home? Besides, this is also the head of Brother Xuan, and I can't be the master."

After speaking, Mr. Wen also returned from the side door.

Even if she was worried about Concubine Gui, she knew that she could only bear it now.

Mrs. Wen and Mrs. Wen didn't know how Mrs. Wen knew that Concubine Gui had tuberculosis.

Seeing Yiniang Bai standing outside the hospital hesitating, she called in and asked, and it was really Yiniang Bai who said it.

Bai Yiniang cried: "Second sister insists on dragging me to the front room, the old lady and the old lady don't dare to go there, how dare I go there..."

Madam Wen almost died of anger, "How does your life compare to ours? If you can't send Concubine Gui away, just serve her every day!"

Concubine Bai muttered, "Anyway, Concubine Gui is the second sister's concubine, the tuberculosis is so terrible, if Concubine Gui stays in the mansion for a while, the chances of contracting tuberculosis in the mansion will be one more point. It's better to write a concubine book. Throw Aunt Gui to the door of Pei's house."

The old man was hesitant, and finally didn't speak.

But there was no idea for a while, and no one in the palace was willing to go to the penthouse.

Wen Shi returned home and told the family about the progress, but her heart was still pounding, "Fortunately, Concubine Bai helped me, Concubine Bai should know that she was pretending to be sick, but she should not know the specific situation. of."

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Wen hurriedly said, "Don't worry about Yu Niang, brother Xuan, Concubine Bai and Concubine Gui have a very good relationship, and Mrs. Wen didn't know that they had a good relationship in private." When she was a child, Concubine Bai used to Be nice and gentle with her.

It looks like it should be Wenfu's Concubine Bai who also contributed a lot.

Wen's family also briefly talked about the situation of the third bedroom, and knowing that the third bedroom was different from the other second bedroom, Xu Qinyu couldn't help but sigh, adversity sees the truth, but she also hopes that the third bedroom of Wen's family will go well in the future, and hope that it can be divided in the future. Home, otherwise Sanfang stays in Wen's house, isn't he a servant who works.

Pei Weixuan said slowly: "Now we can only wait, it should be within a few days, the Wen family will be anxious."

Xu Qinyu nodded in agreement, and now he can only wait, as long as Mrs. Wen wrote the concubine release book and got the concubine release book, everything is easy to say, even if you turn your face at that time.

...

The Wen family was in a state of turmoil. At night, the third room cooked food, and the whole family couldn't eat it.

At this moment, Wen's family basically knew about Concubine Gui contracting tuberculosis. Wen Yunling frowned, knowing that Wen Shuncheng went to Pei's house in the afternoon and asked him, "What did you see your fourth sister-in-law doing at home? No?"

She just thought it was a little weird.

"It's nothing." Wen Shuncheng pretended to be stupid, "I just saw the fourth sister-in-law cooking fish in a big pot, and the yard was full of fish scales and viscera, which smelled very fishy." He didn't tell Wen's family that the fourth sister-in-law did The things are fragrant and fragrant.

As soon as these words came out, Wen Yunling had no appetite at all, and was a little nauseated.

They were eating when suddenly there were two coughs outside, and Aunt Gui's weak voice, "Old lady, old lady, I'm so hungry, cough cough..."

The expressions of Wen's family members changed greatly in fright, Mrs. Wen screamed, "Why did she come here?"

Aunt Bai said weakly: "No one brought her food, Aunt Gui seems to have not eaten all day."

"You won't send her some food!" Mrs. Wen was so angry that she was about to faint.

Aunt Bai stopped talking.

The old lady Wen also turned pale, and finally said to Aunt Bai, "You, hurry up and prepare something to eat for her."

He shouted to the outside again, "Don't come in, wait outside first."

Aunt Gui didn't really go in to scare them, she stood outside and waited.

Aunt Bai packed some food, went out and put it under the veranda, and asked Aunt Gui to come and get it by herself.

Aunt Gui came over to take the food box, bent her back, coughed and went back to the ear room.

After a few days like this, it was Auntie Bai who brought the food to Aunt Gui, and it was the old master Wen who forcibly asked, and Aunt Bai did not dare to go too far to deliver the food to Aunt Gui, so she put the food box under the corridor and hurried back .

This is still not a solution, Mr. Wen and Mrs. Wen are going to die of worry.

Mrs. Wen even suggested that Aunt Gui be carried directly to Pei's house.

Old Mrs. Wen glared at her, "Who will carry it? You carry it? Or let the third room carry it? Look who is willing to carry it! Even if it is carried, the Pei family is willing to carry it? She is my concubine after all, when the time comes If I ran to the government and made a fuss, I would be the one who would be ashamed."

Mrs. Wen said with a worried face, "Then tell me, what should I do?"

Tuberculosis is highly contagious, and it can't die for a while, and some people can survive for a year or two before dying.

Aunt Bai thought for a while, "Master, Mrs. Madam, I think it's better to tell Aunt Gui that she has tuberculosis and let her choose. If she stays at the house, everyone is afraid of her and doesn't care about her. I'm afraid there is no way out. If you give the concubine release letter and give some medical expenses, let her go back to Pei's house by herself. When she gets the concubine release letter, she wants to go to Pei's house by herself and let her daughter and grandson take care of it. It is definitely better than staying in the mansion As long as Aunt Gui is willing to stay in the Pei family, it will be useless even if the Pei family sues the government."

After giving the concubine release letter, Aunt Gui has nothing to do with the Pei family.

Mrs. Wen nodded immediately after listening. She was not kind to Aunt Gui in the past. She was afraid that Aunt Gui would know that she had tuberculosis and would die if she stayed at the house. Maybe she would go to Pei's house to survive.

Even if you are forced, you must force Aunt Gui away. Now Mrs. Wen thinks that Aunt Gui is a plague god, and she just wants to send her away quickly. .

In the end, Mrs. Wen also decided to tell Aunt Gui the truth, depending on her own choice.

He went to the ear room himself, of course, he didn't go to the ear room, but he called Aunt Gui twice while standing under the veranda in the distance.

Aunt Gui came out of her ear, she was extremely old, her face was full of dimples, her waist was hunched, her figure was thin, and she was still coughing. It was impossible to pretend this symptom!

The old lady Wen stood far away and told Aunt Gui about her tuberculosis, and finally said that if she was willing, she would give some money and a concubine letter to let her go back to Pei's house. If you can get better, this is of course a lie to Aunt Gui, the tuberculosis can only wait for death.

After hearing this, Aunt Gui cried sadly. In the end, she didn't directly agree to Mrs. Wen to take the concubine release letter and leave, but only said to let her think about it all night.

Both Mrs. Wen and Mrs. Wen were very anxious.

Mrs. Wen even scolded Aunt Gui while she was sleeping.

Fortunately, the next morning, Aunt Gui asked Aunt Bai to tell Mrs. Wen that she was willing to take the money and the concubine release letter to leave.

Old Master Wen wrote down two letters of letting go of concubines, both of which were stamped with his own fingerprints, and returned twenty taels of silver, and asked Aunt Bai to send the two letters of letting go of concubines and the silver to the penthouse.

Seeing the two ingots and twelve taels of silver, Aunt Bai felt disdainful and dismissed the beggar.

Over the years, he has made a lot of money through his second sister as the queen.

But Aunt Gui was finally able to leave.

Bai Yiniang took Yinzi and Fang Concubine to the concubine.

When Concubine Gui came out, she put the abandonment book and money on the ground, asked her to put her handprint on it, took one of the concubine books and left.

Concubine Bai backed away, Concubine Gui stepped forward and pressed her handprint on the two concubinage books, folded one of them and put it on her body, and put the money on her body, and finally left the Wen house.

Before leaving, Concubine Gui glanced at Concubine Bai with tears in her eyes.

The same is true for Auntie Bai. It's great that Auntie Gui can finally leave this disgusting house.

I hope that one day, their three rooms can be separated smoothly, and she can leave this broken place.

...

In Osmanthus Lane, Xu Qinyu was washing his fat intestines just after eating the morning meal.

Before the meal, butcher Tian came over to deliver three pieces of water, and then took away her braised fat intestines, so that his wife could sell them at the sauce meat stall.

The braised fat sausage sells very well. Three pieces of braised sausage are about 178 catties every day, and they can be sold out. Xu Qinyu does not plan to sell more. , you can only buy it early the next day.

Uncle Ganghe also brought over the fish.

Now she doesn't have to go to Butcher Tian and Uncle He to buy water and fish, they are all delivered directly to Osmanthus Lane, which saves her a lot of effort.

While cleaning the fat intestines with the fourth brother by the well, Xu Qinyu saw the fourth brother raised his eyes, looked out of the yard and said, "Grandma is back."

Xu Qinyu had a happy expression on her face, wiped her hands at will, and went to open the courtyard door. She really saw an old figure walking slowly towards this side in the alley.