It was past Shenshi when she returned to Yang Mansion. Yulan met the old lady, who reported today's visit to the Yanqing Palace. As soon as she returned to Lujingzhai, Qian's mother called her aside mysteriously. "Looking at the beginning of May,

The eighth day of the fifth lunar month is coming soon, and that is Zong Geer's big day..." The eighth day of May is the day for the Second Young Master and the Third Young Master's court examination. If Zong Geer passes the court examination, he will be a scholar with a great reputation. This time

Yu Lan has been paying attention to his studies, but she can't help much with this kind of thing, she can only encourage him mentally.

Yulan nodded and said: "I know! I have been busy embroidering the pencil case for my third brother these days. I have already finished more than half of it. I will be able to embroider it in a few days."

Mother Qian shook her head and said: "That's not what I'm talking about!" She lowered her voice and said mysteriously: "I heard from the servants in the house that there is a real person who came down from Longhu Mountain and now lives in Ganyu Hutong.

In Xuanji Temple, Taoism is very powerful, he can call wind and rain, turn stones into gold, and the most powerful one is alchemy! It is said that he made an elixir called "Shu Feng Pill", and if you take one, a fool can become a prodigy! Nowadays, the officials in the capital are

Anyone who wants to be a scholar in other families spends a lot of money to get..." Qian's mother pointed in the direction of Hexiang Pavilion, "People are gone there too!"

Qian's mother Xu was jealous: "The second young master has his own mother's love, but the third young master does not. The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon, and my wife is taking care of the festival, Xu is not aware, Xu is unwilling to do this if she knows it

With the extra money, the eldest master doesn't care about the third young master!" He complained in a rare way, with an expression that looked like he was afraid that the third young master would not be able to become a scholar if he ran out of elixirs.

Mother Qian is good at everything, but she is superstitious. Regardless of whether she is a monk or a Taoist, she does not refuse anyone who comes, and she believes in everything. Yulan has been here for a while, and she has a deep understanding of the superstitions of the ancients - come up with a

You have to look at the almanac before doing anything, and you have to check Feng Shui no matter what you do.

This real person sounds like a charlatan at first sight. You can turn stones into gold by turning them into gold, and yet you are here to sell fake medicines? But people can’t help but believe this!

Yulan asked out of curiosity: "Mama Qian, how much does this 'Shu Feng Pill' cost per pill?"

Mother Qian held out five fingers.

"Five taels of silver?"

Mother Qian said: "It's five hundred taels of silver each! It's still priceless, and the supply exceeds demand! That's an elixir!"

Yu Lan rolled his eyes. Five hundred taels? Damn it! This is so cheating! It’s enough for ordinary people and their families to live comfortably for a lifetime.

Yu Lan breathed a sigh of relief, "It's so expensive, even if we try to raise money to help third brother buy one, we can't do anything! Mom, don't worry, third brother will definitely be admitted as a scholar even if he doesn't have the elixir."

"This is the only way!" Qian's mother sighed: "Should I send a letter to the third young master and ask him to beg the master..."

Yulan said quickly: "Mom, please don't! I don't talk about strange things and chaos. Scholars believe in the golden mean of Confucius and Mencius. If the third brother asks his father for such a thing, how will he look like in his eyes?"

Qian's mother knew what Yulan said was right, so she had to sigh again.

At this moment, in Hexiang Pavilion, Aunt Liu, her mother and her son quietly gathered together. Aunt Liu held a purple gold gourd in her hands. Chengzong and Yuxia watched eagerly as she opened the stopper and poured the water from the gourd.

As soon as a crystal-clear longan-sized ball comes out, a burst of fragrance hits your nostrils.

"Is this the 'Shu Feng Pill'? Is this thing really that amazing? Can it help me get admitted as a scholar?" Chengye asked with a hopeful look on his face. During this period, he was detained by the eldest master to study in the courtyard, and his knowledge improved quite a lot.

But when there is a shortcut in front of you, who is still willing to work hard step by step?

Yuxia said: "Look at how well it looks!"

Aunt Liu looked at the pearl-sized and crystal-clear "elixir" with a smile on her face: "Is there any fake thing that I bought for five hundred taels of silver? The servant who was sent came back and reported that the old fairy didn't pay for it at the beginning.

I am willing to sell it to us. The servant begged for it for a long time, bowed and bowed, and finally brought out the old man, and finally got this one. If it weren't for the fact that the old man was the chief minister of the dynasty, he wanted to marry the Yang family.

There is not even a single good karma."

After hearing these words, Chengye was shocked and his eyes brightened, "It would be great if it was really as magical as the old god said!"

"This treasure must be taken before the end of the game to be most effective!" Aunt Liu took the "elixir" back into the gourd with great care and re-stuffed the stopper. Then she warned the son and daughter: "We have this treasure, Third Young Master.

But it's not there. You must keep this matter a secret. Don't let the main court know about it, so as not to cause other troubles. No matter what, Brother Ye must pass the scholar examination this time, and then he can be justified

Write it in the wife's name and bear the name of the direct descendant. From now on, won't the property of the eldest family and even the entire prime minister's house belong to us?"

Brother Ye's face lit up when he heard this, and he nodded vigorously.

Inside Yi Ning's house, the eldest wife and Wu's mother were secretly discussing with the door closed.

The eldest lady took a sip of tea and asked, "Is everything arranged?"

"It's done, it's all done!" Mother Wu's face was filled with excitement. "I deliberately asked people to spread the news among the servants and make the Taoist priest so awesome - in fact, he is just a dog-skin plaster seller in the world. What is it?

God! When the other end of Hexiang Pavilion got the news, he believed it and immediately sent someone to Yuan Zhen Temple."

The eldest lady laughed so hard that she couldn't stand up straight: "The liar you found looks like a fairy. Everyone who sees it will believe it first, but the old liar can put on airs and show off. Besides, you specifically found him.

He pretended to be a steward of an official's family and went to ask for medicine. If the servant sent by Hexiang Pavilion had any knowledge, he immediately believed it! We just have to wait for the eighth day of May to see the good show!"

Mother Wu said: "When the time comes, he won't even be able to enter the examination room!"

The eldest lady sneered: "Hmph, the son of a cheap maid actually wants to be called the legitimate son! Your plan is really good! I will record it for you here!"

Mother Wu smiled and said: "It's all thanks to my wife, I don't dare to take credit!"

The eldest lady laughed for a while and sighed: "We have arranged everything. This time, it depends on Brother Zong's luck!"

For several days, Enge'er's illness became worse and worse. The fifth master was so worried that he changed several imperial doctors in succession, prescribed many prescriptions, drank a lot of decoctions, and boiled some decoctions for the nanny to drink, and passed through the nanny's milk.

Feed it to Enge'er. Later, Enge'er was just in a coma all day long. Not only did he vomit after drinking the medicine, he also stopped eating milk.

When the imperial doctors came to see her again, they all shook their heads and said, "It can't be cured." They asked the Fifth Master and his wife to make preparations in advance.

The fifth wife was so undressed that she held Engel's son in her arms day and night, crying until her tears dried up. The eldest wife also came to see him, and saw that the little child had become as thin as a handful of firewood, being held by the fifth wife.

There is too much air coming in and little air coming out of my arms, which is very pitiful.

The eldest lady looked at it happily for a while. She didn't have a son, so she wished that her sisters-in-law were all like her. In addition, the old lady had always favored this sister-in-law, and the eldest lady had long been angry. She just couldn't express her joy.

She was very uncomfortable holding it in. She just said coolly: "The fifth brother and sister should prepare for the funeral of the child as soon as possible!" A smile actually appeared at the corner of her mouth.

Yufei, Yulan, and Yuxin came with the eldest wife. Yulan sat at the bottom and secretly shouted, "Oh no."

The fifth wife was so angry that she was shaking all over. She suddenly stood up and threw a bowl of scalding tea and water on the ground. The scalding hot water almost splashed onto the eldest wife. The fifth wife shouted sternly: "Get out of here!"

The room was so quiet for a moment that you could hear a pin drop.

The eldest lady was stunned and her face turned red and blue.

The ladies, daughters-in-law, and girls in the room were all shocked. No one expected that the fifth wife, who was always gentle, dignified, steady, and polite, would lose such a temper.

"Okay! Okay! I came to see you and your son with good intentions, but you treat me with this attitude. It's really a dog biting Lu Dongbin, and you don't know a good heart!"

The fifth wife didn't speak, but looked at her coldly, exuding an aura like a lioness protecting her calf. Everyone has negative skin, and Enge'er is the fifth wife's negative skin. The eldest wife should never do this.

It should not be exposed at this time. If the fifth wife had not been in chaos, she would never have said such a thing based on her upbringing.

The eldest wife was already a little guilty, and she couldn't stand the look in the eyes of the fifth wife. She angrily shouted to the daughters: "What are you still doing sitting down? Stand up. We are not welcome in the big house here. Why are we still here?"

What are you doing here! Go away! Go back!"

She lost all her face after being attacked by the fifth wife in front of her daughter. However, she felt guilty and could not do anything to the fifth wife. Needless to say, she felt depressed in her heart. She snorted and took the lead to walk out of Ji Chunxuan.

Although Yu Lan despised the eldest lady's character, she couldn't stay alone at this time. She said hastily: "Aunt Five, if you want to be more liberal, my niece will come to see you tomorrow." Then she followed Yu Fei and Yu Xin out together.

After leaving the room, I heard the suppressed crying of the fifth wife from inside.

The next day, Yulan invited the eldest wife to go back to Green Jingzhai. As soon as she had a bite of japonica rice porridge with side dishes in the second room, the maid from Chunxuan came to announce the funeral: "The sixth young master is gone."

Yulan put down the bowl in a daze. Although he was prepared, he still felt very uncomfortable.

The medical conditions in this era were really poor, and the rate of child death was more than ten times higher than in modern times. During this period of time in ancient times, she would always hear people talking about the death of a child of an official family, but it happened to her.

Being around me, the feeling is different.

After a long time, Yulan came back to her senses and asked: "When did the child leave? Is fifth aunt okay?" She asked Xiaoyu and Xiaoyue to quickly find plain clothes and change into them.

The little girl replied truthfully: "It's the third quarter of the lunar month. The fifth wife cried so much that she fainted. She drank ginger soup for half a day before she came to Suzhou. She is very bad now."

Yulan felt sour and asked a few more questions before sending the little girl out. At this time, Xiaoyue had already brought plain clothes. Yulan went back to the bedroom to change her clothes and took off all the bright jewelry she was wearing. Ruyu cleverly

, had already changed their clothes. Yulan left Ruyue in the room and rushed to Ji Chunxuan with Ruyu.

When Qian's mother saw that Yu Lan had only taken a sip of rice porridge, she ran after her distressedly and said, "Girl, at least you can take another sip and you'll be fine!"

The weather was getting hotter, and Yulan was already a little anorexic. Thinking of a living little person, he just said no, and he was not in the mood to eat. He just said: "You just eat, Xiaoyu and I will go see the fifth aunt first."

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Before Qian's mother could be persuaded, Yu Lan had already walked out. Qian's mother had to turn around quickly and grab some sweet-scented osmanthus cake, lotus seed cake, plum blossom cake and other snacks and stuff them to Xiaoyu.

Yulan brought Xiaoyu to Jichunxuan, and the second wife had already arrived first. Seeing Yulan coming in white plain clothes with a small white flower in her hair, she couldn't help but nodded secretly. She said sadly: "

It's really pitiful, such a young child, only a little over one year old. How can the fifth brother and sister live like this?" The second wife's eyes were red. After all, she was a person with children. She felt the same way, so she wiped them with silk as she spoke.

tears.

Yulan was already feeling uncomfortable, but when she said this, she also shed tears. The two entered the west wing of the front hall, and saw Enge'er, fully clothed, lying on a small rosewood bed with his head above his head.

With the chandelier lit, the fifth wife sat at the end of the bed, her temples disheveled, her hairpin crooked, crying sadly, her voice hoarse. The fifth master sat across from her with a bewildered look on his face, with tears still on his face.

Surrounded by a large group of maids with breasts, they all lowered their heads and shed tears, and the room was full of crying.

Seeing this gesture, the second wife and Yu Lan also started crying.

The second wife cried a few times and saw that the house was in a mess. She walked up to the fifth master and comforted him: "Uncle Wu, my condolences. Why is this place so chaotic and there is no regulation? Has anyone gone to inform the in-laws?

?Have you called for Mr. Yin-Yang to come? Have you asked the craftsmen to build a coffin for the child?"

The fifth master just shook his head, and after a while he said: "Second sister-in-law, I am in a mess now, and I hope you can help me get a charter."

The second wife frowned and said: "There must be someone here to take care of things, and arrange for the maids and women below to go their own way. After a while, relatives and old friends of each family will get the news, and people will come to worship. What's the use of such chaos?"

According to the customs of Dachu, children's funerals are generally not held grandly, but for a big family like the Yang family, everything must be done according to etiquette, so Enge'er's funeral will not be hasty. As the head of the household, the eldest wife

The mistress should have stepped forward to preside, but the fifth master had already sent someone to report the eldest lady, and she has not been seen yet.
Chapter completed!