Madam Luo’s hands were constrained by Mammy Tang tightly. The itching powder in her face and hands drove her crazy and mad. She wanted to scold Luo Baishao, but she couldn’t speak due to constant yawn, sneeze and burp.
Seeing that Luo Baiqian wanted to feel the pulse for Madam Luo, Mammy Tang shook her head immediately and shouted, “Stop! First Master, it is infectious! Back off! Everybody!” Her words not only stopped Luo Baiqian successfully, but frightened Dong Xinlan who tried to support her injured body and wanted to care for Madam Luo. However, Dong Xinlan’s back-off accidentally affected her injured arms, which was so painful. But she couldn’t speak now, with tears and snivel on her face, making her uglier.
Mammy Tang was holding Madam Luo’s hands which touched the poisonous silk handkerchief. Her hands were also a little itchy. Before it became more serious, she said quickly, “First Master, take First Younger Mistress and Wei back to Liu Li Tang. You
He Danggui commanded Ning Yuan and the fake Feng Yang to jump out of the tearoom from the window. They were unwilling but did as she asked.Seeing Ning Yuan staring at her, He Danggui chuckled and apologized, “Oh, sorry. You have already known too many scandals about Luo’s Family, so you can’t see my dignified Grandma, the master of Luo’s Family, scratching her body and being embarrassed.”The fake Feng Yang jeered, “Why do you still describe it to us since you don’t want us to see it?” Ning Yuan turned to him and gave him a glance. Then he instantly shrank his neck and stood aside.He Danggui smiled and looked up at Ning Yuan, praising, “Childe Ning, I don’t expect that you are acquainted with Taoist Sage, which is really enviable. Actually, I know that Taoist Sage comes to Yangzhou City from the informers of Qiyanggong Sect. But it’s a pity that I have no chance to see him. Since we both are admirers of him, let’s disregard previous enmity, a
“As the saying goes, experience is the mother of wisdom,” He Danggui said gratefully, “Thanks to Fourth Sister’s training, I was able to invent this method for relieving itching. Dr. Wu said that it could be handed down from generation to generation. Ah, Jiugu, look at Mammy Tang,” He Danggui pointed to Mammy Tang whose limbs and head suddenly rubbed against the wall like a gecko and said softly, “The ‘Qing Liang Si Duan Jin’ imitates the movements of 4 insects. In addition to cricket, bee and butterfly, there is also the spider which Mammy Tang is demonstrating. This exercise is close to the natural life infinitely through imitation, and the whole body’s itching will spread to the natural space, so as to achieve the ultimate goal of relieving itching.”“... It was a cricket not a toad.” Feng Jiugu thought to herself. Then she asked anxiously, “Are they going to do this for about 3 days? How can Sister Luo take it?”He Danggui said proudly, “Don’t worry. Th
Madam Luo became happy immediately, “Both Shi and Jian came? It’s a pity that I can’t greet them in person. Last time when Chuanbei came to visit me with them, the elder one was only 3 or 4 years old, at the same age as Zhu. Now ten years had passed, they must have become big boys.”Mammy Tang who was out of breath also laughed, “Alas, Ms. Chuanbei had come to me before and said that both the Madam and Mistress of the West Yard of Luo’s Family wanted two Young Masters of Peng’s Family to live in their mansion. However, when she saw over 60 concubines of Lord Duheng and Lord Chuanwu of the West Yard, achoo… some of whom dressed strange clothes in types of Tang Dynasty which had a big opening in the chest, she was afraid that one of them might have an bad influence on the two Young Masters…” Madam Luo hurriedly stopped Mammy Tang from continuing with a cough. She thought it was inappropriate to speak out such words in front of Yi, a little girl.Feng Jiugu re
Seven days later, the servants’ rooms of the northern yard on the East Yard of Luo’s Mansion.Originally, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. was supposed to be the drowsiest period for the servants in a day. The servants showed little interest and yawned all the time whatever they did. But today was different. It was obvious that today was a day-off, but they refused to have a rest in their rooms. Instead, they gathered as a crowd with eight to ten people and talked excitedly about the breaking news which had happened recently. First, the current news they cared about the most-- Wang Qi’s wife, the administrator of the kitchen, fell from the power and her gambling house were also shut down! The “gambling case” only involved a small group of people who had invested or had managed it, but to those servants, who had used board wages to pay their debts to suffer from hungry, finally could eat the delicious foods. The move was welcomed by most servants of Luo’s Mansion. T
He Danggui was bored to fiddle with a box of jade beads that Mammy Tang sent and she said helplessly, “Chan Yi, don’t take these things in front of me, OK? It makes me feel dizzy!”“Third Miss, I’ll tell you what. I can sleep tight at night since I put on those sets of ghost-fighting things!” With a monster-revealing mirror on her chest, Chan Yi tied a circle of garlic around her neck. What’s more, her maid uniform was sewed several dozens of bright yellow ghost-fighting hierogram runes for luck. Every time she came to serve tea, the acrid smell came along. Chan Yi said with a smile, “Since you told me in Tu’er Town that Luo’s Family is dangerous, I have prepared those things for exorcism. I was skeptical about it originally, but since I met ‘you-know-who’ that day, I fully believed what you said.”He Danggui and Chan Yi made a covenant that they would use “you-know-who” to describe that monster when they mentioned that, for fear that it might be heard by o
“Big villain?” He Danggui raised her eyebrow.“Yeah,” Feng Yu lied with sweat on his forehead. “Don’t be cheated by her appearance. In fact, besides telling lies, she usually likes fighting, abusing, and even killing. So, you must leave her without a word as soon as meeting her. And remember not to tell her the thing that our Childe ever lived with Childe Ning in Luo’s Mansion, please!”After thinking for a while, He Danggui asked, “According to her accent, she comes from the capital… Ling Miaoyi knows Childe Feng and Childe Ning, doesn’t she? Where are they from?”Feng Yu regretted what he just said. He said immediately with his hands shaking, “No, no, no. Our Childe has never been to the capital with Childe Ning. Particularly Childe Feng is from Yangzhou. He has been to nowhere except Wudang Mountain in his all life… Though he has met Ling Miaoyi, he’s not familiar with her. They have never ever met in the capital because we hardly went out.”
He Danggui remembered that Earl Baoding Meng Shan had eleven sons. The Seventh Childe Meng Xuan should be his legitimate son, who was a Young General of the Earl Mansion. But why he was chased by imperial guards?As far as she knew, Meng Shan was brave and battle-wise. He was not only a trusted follower of the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, but also was one of the scarce founding fathers commanding a large number of troops. Liu Bowen, Lu Zhongheng, Chen Huan and others, who were labeled at the same time, were all demoted, whereas Meng Shan always kept his position in the field. Since he followed Zhu Yuanzhang, who was over-suspicious, for 30 years and was always trusted, it could be described as a marvel. It was obvious that Meng Shan was not a simple person and different from other lead soldiers.Meng Shan was a man with a full forehead, a round chin, long eyelashes and deep eyes. He must be a handsome man when he was young. It was no wonder that his son Meng Xuan
On the Go board in Xin Rong Hall, He Danggui played Go with Meng Xuan three times. In the first round, both of them experienced inadvertence, attention, solemnity, hesitation, and anxiety. Finally, the game ended in a draw.It ended in a draw? He Danggui stared at the man in front of her angrily and thought that there was really a child prodigy in the world who could combat with her on the Go board and draw a match in his teens, wasn’t there? Playing Go was one of her best skills. How could she be defeated! He Danggui thought about the match. She was perfunctory to a child in the first half of match, then she was in stalemate gradually. If she took it seriously in the beginning, she believed she could win in thirty steps!However, Meng Xuan also stared at He Danggui angrily. He actually lost the game, didn’t he? Even if he started first, he lost the game by one step! How ironic! He had lived for nineteen years in the previous life, and eleven years in this