The prince was sick and everyone in the court and the country were worried about it.

At this time, Chen Xi's mother, Zhou, fell ill in Tingzhou Prefecture City. She had been ill for several days and couldn't afford to sleep. She was almost exhausted.

Since Su Tong's letter of grievance came back, Zhou has been ill. His family originally opened a pharmacy shop, but Xie Yuner, the doctor in the hall, was not there. Zhou had to hire a doctor from outside when he was sick, but Lu's pharmacy almost offended all the doctors inside and outside the city. When Zhou got sick, he couldn't even invite a doctor who was seeing a doctor. He also went to Ganzhou, Jiangxi next door to invite him.

The doctor had a detailed diagnosis. In fact, Zhou did not have any serious illness. He said that he was infected with wind and cold, plus a little heart disease, and a little woman's illness left after confinement. These diseases were mixed together and were confused. Every day, he was not alone in the face of the night and kept muttering.

"... The naive man must have messed with evil stars. He is so capable that we two were destined to be mother and son in our previous life. This time God is going to take him back."

The most helpless one is Zhou’s pillow, Shen Mingjun, the cheap father of Chen Xi.

When he learned that his son was imprisoned for involvement in a sales case, his wife suddenly fell ill. He had to support the whole family, taking care of his wife and a pair of children, and he had to go to the printing workshop to watch from time to time, so busy that he was not touching the ground.

In fact, since this year, business has been in a very slump.

With the rise of the printing industry in Tingzhou, the people have a rise of a book and comic strips. But the good times have not been long. Last year, the south started to have a scourge, and the farmland was a bad harvest. The people had less money on hand, and even entertainment had to be put aside for the time being. In addition, Chen Xi took the exam in the past two years and could not focus on writing books and painting new comic strips, which made the printing workshop not available in the past two years. It was just to print some New Year pictures at the end of the year to maintain the business.

The business of the pharmacy shop is also obviously declining.

Seeing that Lu's Pharmaceuticals operated substantial profits, all the pharmaceutical shops in the city started to do patent medicine business. Even the prescriptions that Lu's Pharmaceuticals, which have been strictly confidential, have gradually been explored by their peers. In an era without intellectual property protection, as long as the prescription is leaked, the profit will be diluted. In the end, it is not the efficacy of the medicine, but the price.

This time Zhou was sick, Hui Niang was too busy, so she simply closed the pharmacy.

After learning that Chen Xi was imprisoned, Hui Niang suddenly lost the motivation to do business. She handed over the silver business to the big shopkeeper she hired. As for the scattered sand inside the Chamber of Commerce, Chen Xi was missing for her planning. She could not control the jackals and tigers in the Chamber of Commerce who fought for their own interests.

"I am not afraid of being slanted by the shadow. Xiao Lang is good at learning. He is a juren who passes the exam by real skills. As long as the court distinguishes right from wrong, he will definitely give Xiao Lang a fairness. Maybe he has come out now and is studying in the Imperial Academy." Hui Niang went to the Shen family to visit Zhou, but even she felt pale and powerless when she was comforting.

Zhou did not cry or make a fuss, but just shook his head: "He is a god in the sky. He came down to earth and would eventually go back."

Hui Niang couldn't help but wipe her tears and said sadly: "It's really uncomfortable for my sister to say these words. Didn't Xiaolang train her hard? If she didn't fight for him, how could he have the chance to start a school student? How could he have the chance to get a high school student? The Shen family has to rely on her sister to support her. Not to mention that Xiaolang didn't have any problems, but her sister collapsed first."

Zhou seemed to think of something, looked out the window and said, "Yes, I haven't gone to the pharmacy for many days, Yun'er is watching the shop well, right? It's time for me to go over and help her... She is my good daughter-in-law..."

Hui Niang sighed. Her sister was thinking a lot every day, and she didn't even remember Xie Yuner going to the capital. In this state, how can she feel at ease to let Zhou go to the pharmacy again?

But Lu'er, who came with Hui Niang, mentioned: "Auntie, the young lady went to the capital to find the young master, but she hasn't come back yet."

Zhou's face became sad again. After a while, she seemed to have the strength to crawl out of the quilt, put on her clothes and went down to the ground, looking full of energy:

"I can't let him worry about the family affairs. The Shen family still needs me to support me. Sister, the pharmacy cannot be left alone."

"Sister, why don't you rest for a few more days, the business of the pharmacy is not going to be tight..."

Zhou shook his head: "No, no, I am sick, and the unscrupulous one dare not even tell Ninghua, for fear that the old lady is worried. If I have a few shortcomings and send less money back, the old lady will definitely notice the abnormality... I must hold on, silly baby... wuwu..."

Speaking of Shen Xi, Zhou couldn't help but whimper, "It's all my fault. I always beat him and scold him. He must feel that life is not easy when he descends to earth and comes to the world. Now he has to go back to heaven... I'm sorry for him..."

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With Zhou's insistence, the pharmacy reopened.

Just like before closing the door, the business was bleak, and few people came in to buy medicine a day. The customers came and bought familiar medicines. Even so, Zhou often took the medicine wrongly. Fortunately, Xiaoyu was taking care of him next to him, otherwise something would happen sooner or later.

Xiaoyu is decent in doing things, but she doesn't like to speak and is taciturn on weekdays. She can do it with ease because she only needs to calculate the accounts on weekdays, but she seems a little dull when she is a shopkeeper and communicates with customers.

"Xiaoyu should get married."

Somehow Zhou noticed this poor girl.

Xiaoyu is not a little girl. She was admitted to Ninghua at the age of fourteen. Now she is over twenty this year. If she had not signed a contract, she would have been married at this age.

Zhou and Hui Niang always wanted to marry the maids around them to a good family, but in the past two years, Shen Xi has been traveling outside to take the imperial examinations, and there is no one at home to take care of them. After all, this makes people calluse their ears, but a few girls are still busy in the pharmacy.

Hui Niang returned to the pharmacy from the Chamber of Commerce Headquarters and said she was helping, but in fact she was talking to Zhou. She sighed softly: "It's better to find a good family to marry now."

Or because something happened to Shen Xi in the capital, Hui Niang wanted to stop the business, buy more land, and be a big landlord. As for the cumbersome business, she was tired and didn't want to pay attention to it. Even the maids around her felt that she should fulfill her promise and bet her well.

Xiaoyu cried, "Grandma, aunt, I will follow you all my life and never marry."

Zhou touched Xiaoyu's head, as if he was treating his own daughter, full of compassion: "Silly girl, you are not old. When you wait a few years, you will know that there is an important man around you. When you are upset, someone will comfort you and give you a chance. He will bring you children and grandchildren around you and spend your whole life with you... Alas, my miserable silly baby..."

The speaker is unintentional, and the listener is intentional.

Zhou said this to Xiaoyu, but in such a lonely atmosphere, Hui Niang couldn't help but feel for her life experience. She also has something to be grateful for, that is, she has a daughter.

Now Lu Xier is eleven years old and is not old. However, when Shen Xi and Lin Dai are not around these days, their daughter grows up very quickly and gradually becomes the responsibility of an adult. However, Hui Niang did not dare to tell her daughter about the accident because she was afraid that her daughter would make trouble, so she was annoyed enough.

It suddenly became noisy outside, and it was very lively.

Because the medicine shop is located in the west of Tingzhou Prefecture City, a distance from the north of the city, the most prosperous and lively city, even if it is lively outside, I don’t know what happened.

Zhou looked outside and sighed: "It's always been someone else's joy and sorrow. This world is really unfair..."

Hui Niang forced a smile.

If it were normal, she would definitely joke with a good sister. You have not been happy enough in the past two years? Once you have twins, the dragon and phoenix are lucky; the eldest son was a scholar in the school entrance examination and was elected as a scholar and a juren, and was elected as a student in the capital. The mother was kind and filial, and there was a high school at home, and her husband was accompanied when she went home.

How enviable is this?

But at this time, Hui Niang couldn't even say a joke, so she tried not to mention Chen Xi in front of Zhou.

The lively sound in the distance seemed to be approaching a little, and came to the west of the city, with gongs and drums and people shouting something, but the sound was too far away to hear clearly.

So there was no business in the pharmacy. Hui Niang said to Lu'er, who was sitting next to her, "Go and see, why is it so lively outside? Is it a family to welcome the bride?"

"Okay, grandma."

Lu'er put down the dustpan and ran out all the way. After a while, the person came back, but he looked puzzled and shook his head, "Grandma, it's a bit far from us, so I can't see clearly, but it looks quite lively. Someone is carrying a sedan chair, like an official sedan chair in the yamen."

Zhou waved his hand and said, "Forget it, what do he do? It was also at this time in the first two years. Hanwa'er passed the county examination and was so lively. Oh, if I had known that he would not let him take the exam so early, the people in the officialdom were all snobbish. Seeing that Hanwa'er was young, who wouldn't bully him... Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo w

Lu'er wiped her tears: "Auntie, stop crying. If you cry, we will cry too, and I feel sad for the young master."

There was noisy outside, gongs and drums were ringing, drums and music were loud, and firecrackers were heard throughout the city, which was very lively. Near the street where the medicine shop was located, there were shadows and noises everywhere, and the buzzing sound was loud, but I couldn't hear what was being said, but the "Wuwawa" suona sound was getting closer and closer.

The more worried the more people's joys were, the most upsetting of others. Hui Niang stood up and stood up, wanting to see who was so good at choosing time, but she caused trouble when others were most sad. Before she could walk to the door, she heard people who reported to her everywhere: "...Sanyuan is the first, Sanyuan is the first..."

In a word, Hui Niang was not very steady. Although she had never participated in the imperial examination, she still heard the term "Three Yuan Di". Behind her, Zhou asked strangely: "What are you talking about outside? Is it a scholar among the husband?"

Hui Niang's heart was beating with a bad heart. She quickly turned around and said to Zhou: "Sister, it's not someone else's house, but... it may be Xiaolang... Xiaolang... He seems to have passed the exam... the first place...

Zhou looked sad: "The naive baby is still in prison. Could it be that my sister is thinking of him in her heart? Now when she hears others say someone, she thinks of him? Alas, I am the same."

Hui Niang herself was confused, could she really listened to it?

She quickly listened with her ears, but the loud noise had already covered up the shouting, and she couldn't hear clearly what it was. She couldn't help but mutter: "That's the three-yuan grade... Is it a three-yuan grade if I didn't win the Jie Yuan. Even if I win the membership and the top scorer, is it a three-yuan grade if I win?"

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