Chapter 180: Crisis (4)
The south bank of Shichahai, the palace of Dunjun, the inner courtyard.
In the mandarin duck tent, the woman's high and low moans poured out, occasionally turning into a crying coquettishness: "Eh...... Father...... Father...... Hmmm......"
Xiao Shengzi, the personal eunuch of the tenth elder brother who was waiting outside the door, listened to it, patted his heart, and breathed a sigh of relief. As soon as he turned around, he saw that the two little maids behind him were blushing and listening to the sound in a daze, he couldn't help but be a little annoyed, and shouted in a low voice: "What are you stupid about, why don't you go and prepare hot water quickly......"
The two little maids came back to their senses, their faces turned even redder, and they hurriedly ran away with their heads down.
Xiao Shengzi glanced at them, cursed in a low voice, clasped his hands together, and made a gesture to the sky with twelve points of piety, muttering in his mouth: "God bless, our master is finally fine." If I toss for a few more days, I'm afraid that my little life will be ruined......"
Before this prayer was over, I heard the ten elder brothers inside roar: "Get out!" Xiao Shengzi was scared, and secretly screamed "miserable" in his heart.
Sure enough, the tenth elder brother inside had already scolded: "His grandmother's, get out of here!" Roll as far as you want! ”
The spring tide on the face of the concubine Wang had not yet faded, and she wanted to cry very much because of her grievances, and she was still a little scared, and many extreme feelings made her originally very beautiful face distort and solidify into a strange expression. She jerked and frantically put her clothes on.
The tenth elder brother's evil fire didn't leak out, and he added a smouldering fire, and when he saw her like this again, he became more and more upset, and he came to the Wang family with his fist to smash the kang: "You fucking crying fart!" Get lost! Get out of here! ”
Wang screamed, fell off the kang, didn't care about the pain in the place where he hit his fist, couldn't even care about crying, got up three times and two times, wrapped his clothes tightly, leaned over, and ran out with his head scattered.
"Xiao Katsuko! Katsuko Ko! With the shouting of the tenth elder brother, Xiao Shengzi hurriedly came inside, and without paying attention, he tripped over the threshold and crawled into the house.
Seeing that the tenth elder brother was standing naked in front of the kang, Xiao Shengzi hurriedly reached out to get the clothes on the screen, and said carefully: "Master is angry...... Ye Xi is angry......"
The tenth elder brother pulled the dirty clothes and put them on, frowned and asked, "Where's the medicine?" ”
Xiao Shengzi was stunned: "Didn't you say that you won't take it today...... "The medicine didn't boil at all, seeing that the tenth elder brother stared, Xiao Shengzi immediately swallowed the second half of the sentence: "What about the fire...... Just ...... It's just ......."
"Tell them to hurry! I'm waiting to drink it! Brother Ten said angrily.
"Yes, yes, the slave will go and see, the master is angry, the master is angry......" Xiao Shengzi quickly waited for the tenth elder brother to get dressed, and then ran out at a trot.
* Brother Ten went around the room for more than a hundred and ten circles, and Xiao Shengzi finally came in with the medicine tremblingly.
Brother Ten picked up the bowl, very bored, frowned and looked at it for a long time before he closed his eyes and took a sip. However, soon he spit this mouthful to the ground, pointed at Xiao Shengzi, and scolded: "Bastard thing, how to boil the medicine?" How can it be compared to the bitterness of the past? ”
Xiao Shengzi really has nowhere to avenge his grievances, it is clearly the same as in the past, the medicine is not bad, how can it be bitter? But the master said that it is bitter, and it is bitter. He quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a smile: "This...... Xu is in a hurry...... This water is less, the medicinal juice is thicker, and the taste is more bitter than before...... Why don't you make a bowl for the master again? ”
Brother Ten waved his hand impatiently: "Come on, come on, I don't have the time to wait for you to boil it again." As he spoke, he picked up the bowl again, and didn't send it to his mouth for a long time, and finally put it on the table: "Grandma's, I don't drink it, go and call the doctor for me!" Let me drink this bitter medicine every day, and my illness has not improved! How the fuck is this?! Call that rabbit cub to explain it to the master! Just go! ”
Xiao Shengzi hurriedly responded and sent someone to the Tai Hospital to ask for someone.
Brother Ten was in the room, and the more he thought about it, the more depressed he became, and he threw a few more ornaments with hatred. The eunuchs and servants who were waiting were waiting outside the door or even outside the courtyard, knowing that the master was angry, and no one dared to come in and touch this moldy head.
At this time, the little maid on the second gate came in to spread the word, and saw a few people standing at the gate of the courtyard and stretching their necks to listen to the sound inside, so they hurriedly paused, pulled one of them, and said, "Brother, what are you doing?" I'm sorry for you to spread a word inside, a housekeeper in the Ninth Master's Mansion asked to see our master. ”
The one who was pulled into the mouth said: "I don't have the guts, you have the courage to go back." ”
"Don't mind, brother," the little guy said with a smile, "Look at the sweat of that housekeeper's head, it must be really urgent." Go quickly, it's going to be delayed, can't you make Qi Ye lose his temper more! Besides, that's the butler of the Nine Masters' Mansion! ”
"You kid just talk nonsense, a few housekeepers in the Ninth Master's Mansion are at least accompanied by Steward Tan, and it's your turn to report the news?" The man pouted.
"It's not about those few, it's a ...... from another courtyard" Before he finished speaking, he saw Xiao Shengzi coming over there, he was busy making a thousand salutes, and said that the ninth master's housekeeper asked to see him.
Xiao Shengzi stood up and raised his hand to give a mouth to the person at the door who refused to speak: "Bastard, you dare to delay the matter of the Ninth Master?" As he spoke, he stomped his foot and walked away. Leaving the beaten little guy crying and swearing, he kept cursing "castrated" behind his back.
When the tenth elder brother heard the housekeeper from the Ninth Master's Courtyard, he knew that it was Fu Liu and Ma Duo's son. There were already two groups of people in the front who reported that the food was clean, but Fu Liu's side didn't believe it for a long time, so they called the housekeeper in immediately.
The housekeeper came in the door, knelt down and kowtowed to the tenth elder brother.
Seeing this situation, the tenth elder brother "chuckled" in his heart, frowned and waved his hand to call Xiao Shengzi down, and then said in a deep voice: "Lao Zhao, what's the matter?" ”
Steward Zhao kowtowed and said, "If you go back to the tenth master, the slave should die!" Of the eleven over there, nine were finished, and two were ...... There are two more...... Ran ......"
The tenth elder brother got up from the case, walked to Steward Zhao in two steps, raised his leg and wanted to kick him, hindering him from being the ninth brother's person, he took his feet and said angrily: "A group of waste!" How many of you are over there, huh? Dozens of you, even eleven of you can't clean up? What do you guys do?! ”
Steward Zhao kowtowed like pounding garlic: "Slaves should die, slaves should die!" It's the minions who are careless. Also...... It's also a person from the Tenth Master, it's really powerful......"
He was a little bit of a sycophant, but this sycophant was slapped on the horse's feet. The tenth elder brother was angry today, but when he heard this, he felt harsh: "Wang Ba Lamb, 'careless'?" Do you dare to be 'careless' about what the master explained? You are so bold! What's the matter, it's still up to the master? The master is amazing, you can fucking say it! ”
Steward Zhao didn't dare to answer, so he only kowtowed vigorously.
Brother Ten scolded a few more words and got angry, returned to the table and took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and then asked, "Who ran away?" Fu Liu? ”
Steward Zhao said: "No, Fuliu is dead." It was Mado and Dalin who ran. ”
The tenth elder brother shook his hand and threw the teacup to Steward Zhao's side, and scolded: "It's evil!" Ma Duo waste snacks, just a poor mouth! Dalin is still a little fart kid who hasn't grown up! Can you let these two go? ”
Steward Zhao smiled bitterly: "Don't dare to deceive the tenth master, it's really these two people who ran away." "At the moment, tell the ten elder brothers about the eleven people breaking through to the ten elder brothers.
When the guards in the courtyard were at their laxest, they suddenly jumped out of the wall from the roof and tried to escape, because the courtyard had only the front door, and the courtyard wall was high, and most of the guards were lying at the front door, and there were a few people patrolling behind, and when they heard the movement, they were a little late to run to the back.
Those people ran their own way, and also dispersed the pursuit of the people, Fu Liu is not only tall and big, but also the most poisonous and spicy one, even injured seven or eight guards in the courtyard, and finally was pierced into a hedgehog with several arrows in his body, which was desperate, this is what Steward Zhao saw with his own eyes. As for how Ma Duo and Dai Lin ran, no one knows, in short, when sorting out the corpses, nine bodies were found. Called the steward who had brought people into the courtyard earlier to count, and Ma Duo and Dai Lin were not among them.
Brother Ten frowned when he heard this, this matter is really tricky, the two dead people on the roster are now running all over the street, if it falls into anyone's hands...... Damn, the Ninth Brother is gone, and there is no one to discuss!
Brother Ten smashed his fist on the table, making Steward Zhao tremble.
Brother Ten said in a deep voice: "You get up first, go back to the yard and search carefully, maybe you are hiding somewhere, and you haven't run out." ”
Steward Zhao responded with his mouth, but he was bitter in his heart, he naturally dared to report after searching and not finding it. But now there is no way.
Brother Ten ignored what he thought, and immediately called Xiao Shengzi to come in, and ordered: "Immediately send someone to the door of Ma Duo and Dai Lin Laozi's house to guard, and bring me back when you see someone." ”
Xiao Shengzi nodded in response, and just as he was about to withdraw, he was stopped by the tenth elder brother.
Brother Ten hesitated for a moment, as if he had made up his mind, gritted his teeth and said, "Send someone who understands it, and your hands must be clean." To live to see people, to die to see corpses. ”
Xiao Shengzi held his breath for an instant, but quickly lowered his eyelids, answered, and retreated. Steward Zhao also took his leave.
Brother Ten leaned his head back on the back of the chair, rubbed his temples with both hands, and thought about what happened next, but he heard footsteps in front of the door, it was Xiao Shengzi who went and returned.
"Master, it's arranged." Xiao Shengzi replied.
"Got it." Brother Ten waved his hand impatiently.
Xiao Shengzi said again: "There is also Fang Caiye who asked someone to go to the Tai Hospital to ask for a ...... doctor."
Only then did the tenth elder brother sit up straight and said, "Call him in." ”
Xiao Shengzi said: "No, master, that imperial doctor...... Didn't invite ...... The people from the hospital said that he had been sick for a few days, and when he went to his house, there was no one, and the neighbors said that their family had left the city before......"
Brother Ten looked at Xiao Shengzi blankly, lost his mind for half an hour, and then squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Go to Niu Hulu Mansion...... Please ask my uncle, Master Yin De, to recommend a trustworthy old lady doctor to come over......"
Until Xiao Shengzi withdrew for a long time, Brother Ten still hadn't recovered from his stunnedness. You must know that the previous imperial doctor often treated the Eighth Elder Brother and the Ninth Elder Brother's Mansion, but now, he has run away...... Ten Elder Brother's heart turned over a few times, his relationship with Eighth Elder Brother and Ninth Elder Brother was not an ordinary brother, the fate of several people had already been screwed together, Ten Elder Brother did not believe that they would harm him, besides, they had no reason to harm him at this time.
Did someone intervene in with them? Tai Doctor? Or did the people around you change their medicines? Brother Jiu is right, it's time to sort out the house. Brother Ten slowly closed his eyes, and sifted through suspicious people in his mind, but he didn't have a clue.
In the end, he decided to wait for Brother Jiu to come back, and now the top priority is to know what is wrong with his inaction, don't be fine, but be too healed by this!
The old lady doctor invited her, repeatedly diagnosed the pulse of the tenth elder brother, and looked at the previous prescription and medicine residue, and thought for a long time before she said cautiously: "If you go back to the tenth master, this medicine has not been changed, nor has it been deceived by the wrong prescription." It's just that the previous gentleman took the path of supplementing yang, although it is not wrong, but it is too much, and it hurts the kidneys, which is said to be more yang than usual, and yin is often insufficient......"
Brother Ten interrupted his long analysis of his condition and only asked about the results.
The old lady hesitated for a moment before she swallowed and said: "It's okay on the side, but it hurts the kidneys, and I'm afraid that the heirs of the ten masters will ...... It's tougher. ”
The tenth elder brother was stunned immediately, and he didn't speak for a long time.
The old lady's palms were also full of sweat, and she couldn't help complaining in her heart that she was too talkative, she had been poor all her life, what she said, and what she couldn't say, isn't it clear? Just thinking about the close relationship between the tenth master and Niu Hulu Mansion, he lost his sense of proportion, which was afraid that he would cause death.
The old lady doctor has lived for more than seventy years, and he is used to seeing life and death, not too afraid, but afraid of affecting his children and grandchildren, so he secretly glanced at the tenth elder brother, and sure enough, his face was full of hideousness, and his body exuded a strong killing intent. The old lady doctor sighed in his heart, thinking about how to die cheaply, and thinking of ways to save his children and grandchildren.
(To be continued)