It was not only his face but also his lofty and noble temperament that fascinated others. He seemed to be a sword to be unsheathed. Even if he stood still, he looked scary.
The man wore a white gown with dark patterns and had a jade belt on his waist, which demonstrated he was slender and straight. Despite this, Su Muge thought his white gown was like a battle robe because of the formidable ambiance.
Xia Houmo looked ahead, without giving a glimpse to Su Muge without any rest.
Hua Zheng wore a sweet smile on her dainty face the moment she saw Xia Houmo and said, “Your Royal Highness, were you OK last night?”
“Is everything done?” Xia Houmo ignored Hua Zheng’s inquiry and said to his bodyguard.
“Your Royal Highness, everything is OK.”
“Start off.”
What Xia Houmo said made Su Muge returned to herself. She thought that man didn’t know a little about romance and didn’t have any tenderness toward
“Oh, she was still alive.” The Taoist priest reached Su Muge’s nose tip and sensed that she was alive.Looking at Su Muge who was comatose, the Taoist priest hesitated and frowned. “It’s not my fault, but you are comatose.” He reached his hand to her waist and got her money, weighing them up.“Lady, earlier death, better life.” Guima put the money away and was about to leave. Suddenly, he was caught by someone.He looked back and saw Su Muge had been awake!“Give it back to me!” Su Muge stared at Guima with her light eyes. Her fingertips whitened due to grasping him tightly.Zhao and her previous body had been bullied by An for many years and Zhao was born in a peasant family, so she didn’t have much own dowry. Even if she had some, she gave Su Lun to let him take the examination in the capital. The twenty-liang silver in the purse was all Zhao’s private savings. Without this money, she would not starve to death. But n
“I saved you. Is it appropriate to treat me like that?” Guima lit a torch and put the basket on a huge stone. Su Muge sat down before the fire. “You saved me?”He was exposed but he was not angry. “Yes, I saved you.”Guima took some food from the basket and threw them to her.Su Muge didn’t know how long she had been here and she was starving. So she just picked up the steamed bun and ate it, regardless of it being dirty.Guima sat opposite to her and asked, “where were you poisoned?”Su Muge had a bite of the steamed bun and looked up at him with her clear eyes which were full of puzzles.“Poison, what poison? Am I poisoned?” Fear appears in her eyes. “So, am I dying soon?”Guima was puzzled when seeing she was ignorant and fearful.“You didn’t know you were poisoned?”Su Muge shook her head woodenly.“Why were you driving the carriage in t
Su Muge looked at the yard and frowned.As the night approached, it’s so dark in the yard, quiet and weird, which was incompatible with the ascending smoke in the surroundings. Su Muge opened the fence gate. There was nothing but three old adobe houses in the yard.An gave Zhao and Muge silver worth three liang a month just for effect. Zhao kept one liang for her use and the rest would be saved secretly. She had been sending at least ten liang to Zhang every year.Su Muge knew that Zhang had three sons and two daughters and they were all married. They had more than ten acres of land. Zhao told Muge that her uncles were not useless. Her third uncle was a farmer, and the other two uncles worked at the town and had monthly income. Moreover, Zhao sent money to them every year. It’s not difficult for them to build several good houses. Puzzled by this, Su Muge pushed the door of the main room and smelled an acrid stink tha
“Sister Su, my mom asked me to bring some hot water for you.” Erya said with a string of copper coins in hand. Erya knew Zhang’s situation. Her mother also gave Zhang some porridge secretly out of pity.“My mom told me we couldn’t take this money. Sister Su, please keep it.”Su Muge didn’t receive it. “This is for you, please take it. I need your help after a while.”“If there’s anything you need, just say.”Considering Zhang’s situation, Su Muge didn’t stand on ceremony so she told her what she needed. Leaving Erya to look after Su Muge, she went to the end of the village with Hutou and asked the only barefoot doctor in the village for some medicine for Zhang. Zhang’s leg had begun to rot. The rotten meat must be cut out, or the leg would be useless. She was poisoned but she did not dare to use her power on the palm since she had not grasped the use of it herself.It was late after everyth
With her lips slightly raised up, Su Muge managed to smile, but there was no such emotion in her eyes. It was such a pity that her emotion was ignored by those people because they were overwhelmed by the things she possibly had brought back.“I left all the things in town. I’ll bring them to grandma when I go back.”Now that they had got the answer, the Zhao families dispersed after a few more casual words with Su Muge.Zhao Ming offered to accommodate her by letting her share a bedroom with his eldest daughter but was refused. He was told that she had to take care of Zhang. “Do you know what good stuff has your little sister brought us? Dalang is going to make a proposal, and a gift from the city will be perfect with dignity.” Wang went back to her room, and the greed on her face was too obvious to cover.Zhao Shun was sitting aside, and those words reminded him of that dirty yet delicate face of Su Muge.
It was almost noon when they arrived in town. Su Muge first went to the pharmacy to buy medicine and then bought some warm winter clothes for Zhang. With all those done, she returned to the town gate, waiting for Zhao Dalang. Soon Zhao Dalang returned with a jar of liquor and a basket.He put them away on the cart, groped up and down in his clothes for the oiled paper bag, and handed it over to Su Muge. “It’s already afternoon. You must be hungry, right? I bought you a dough cake made from distillers’ grains. It’s sweet.”Shopping for grandma was Su Muge’s top priority, so she forgot to eat something for lunch. It would still take about another one or two hours before they could get back, and she didn’t want to be hungry in this long trip. She reached out her hands and took over the bag as Zhao Dalang was looking at her, expectantly and carefully.“Thank you very much.”Zhao Dalang burst into laughter as he gave it to
“My Lord, Madam, we’re useless servants and deserve to die. We failed our duty to protect the eldest Miss.”In the central room of the Su Mansion, two maids, three bodyguards and a carriage driver were making kowtows with deep grief on their faces. They were the servants who had escorted Su Muge to the Zhao family in Nancheng prefecture.An frowned with worries. “My Lord, what should we do? If anything bad happened to that child, Muge...”Su Lun didn’t look well, either, with his face in pale. It was not Su Muge’s situation that he was concerned about, but the fact that he had lost one of his chess pieces, which was stifling.“You useless things! You couldn’t even protect the eldest Miss. What’s the point of keeping you in the mansion!” Su Lun shouted out with anger.“My Lord, please have mercy on us. We were passing a wood when it was getting dark. We wanted to go to the nearest inn as soon as possible, but the eldest
Su Muge first felt the pulse of the old lady, and found that her heart was beating very fast, and her pulse was slippery, which indicated that her sickness was caused by the phlegm. She then put her head on the old lady’s chest and listened for a while. She vaguely heard some sounds of breathing like snoring.When she had finished checking the old lady’s coating on the tongue, she was affirmative that the phlegm in her chest was the essential problem. Once the damp-phlegm was stuck in one’s vessels, a person could easily be stifled to death.She quickly took out the two silver needles with her, sterilized them with the flame on the small table, pulled aside the front part of the robe on the old lady, and pricked the needles in.The maid watched all those in astonishment. Speaking of acupuncture, people in the state of Chu also did this to the patients. However, due to various body conditions, the acupoints and meridians were very difficult to r