"My child really realized his mistake this time." Hongshi said pitifully, grabbing his ears, fearing that Nala would really get angry and ignore him.
Nala snorted coldly, turned to Tong Jia, who was silent, and said with forgiveness: "This is all my fault because I didn't discipline Hong Shi well, which caused my sister to be frightened. Fortunately, my sister and the child are safe, otherwise I would be in trouble all my life."
Peace of mind. Don’t worry, sister, I will definitely give you an explanation."
Tong Jia had been paying attention to Nala, and after careful observation, she found that her words and deeds did not seem to be false. Could it be that everything was just an accident?
Thinking like this, he said: "It is common for children to be playful, so there is no need to explain it so seriously. My sister was not going to tell her about this matter, but she was afraid that Hongshi would not understand the seriousness and would really do it next time.
What kind of trouble did you get into, so I took this trip at the risk of being misunderstood by my sister?"
"How could I not understand that my sister is taking so much pains. But I have decided on this matter, and there is no need for my sister to talk about it anymore." Before Tong Jia could persuade her again, she had already dismissed Hongshi and the nanny respectively.
Hongshi was banned for one month. During this month, he was not allowed to leave his room. Even if he was giving lessons, his husband would come to his room to teach. After one month, he would be tested on whether he could recite the "Thousand-Character Classic". If he could not, he would be banned for an additional month.
As for the wet nurse, Nala ordered her to be whipped twenty times before she was driven out of the palace.
After coming out of Hanyuan Residence, Tong Jia didn't say anything until she was in Lanxin Pavilion. She stroked her chest and let out a long breath. What happened today really scared her to death. If Li Wei hadn't reacted quickly, the child would no longer be with her.
In the belly, it is still unknown whether he will survive.
"Master, drink a bowl of tea to calm the panic." After Xiao'er learned about this from Huamei, he hurried to boil the tea to calm the panic, and added a few pieces of biluochun, bamboo leaves, rushes and cicadas to it to clear the mind and relieve troubles.
The effect of.
After Tong Jia finished the bowl of Jingjing tea, Huamei Fang whispered: "Master, do you want me to ask the imperial doctor to see if my little brother is okay?"
"No need." Tong Jiashi stroked her belly and said, "If something had happened, it would have happened a long time ago. How could I have survived until now." Speaking of this, she glanced at Li Wei, who was standing aside with his hands hanging down, and praised: "Today
The reason why I can stand here safely is all because of your timely response. It's very good. I saved you from the Niu Hulu clan in vain."
Li Wei bowed and said apologetically: "Master and little brother are so blessed. Even if we don't have slaves, we will be fine. I really don't dare to take credit."
"No need to apologize. I can clearly distinguish the merits and demerits." At this point, Tong Jia took off the gold bracelet on her wrist and said, "This is for you, take it."
To her surprise, Li Wei didn't answer, but said sternly: "Master has killed this slave. Now I can keep these legs to walk and jump, all because of Master's mercy; from that day on, slave has been here
I swear from the bottom of my heart that I will be loyal to the master for the rest of my life. If the master is in trouble, the slave should naturally step forward. What is the merit? So please forgive me for not being able to accept this reward."
After listening to Li Wei's heartfelt words, Tong Jia was very moved. It seemed that she was really suspicious. If Li Wei was a spy sent by Niu Hulu, he would never have stopped in front of her without thinking.
. Think about it, she took back the bracelet and said with a cheerful face: "It doesn't matter, I have remembered your loyalty. I will never treat you badly when you are doing your job." It was not until this moment that Li Wei was truly taken by her as her confidant.
"Thank you, Master." A trace of imperceptible joy flashed across Li Wei's eyes. When he straightened up, he didn't even touch the place where Hong Shi had hit him. The pain made him take a breath, and he slowly stood upright while holding on to his lower back.
.
Tong Jia looked at it and said, "I'll find a doctor to check it out later. If the root of the disease is in this waist, it won't be easy to heal."
"My slave is a lowly person, so it doesn't matter." Li Wei chuckled, then frowned and said, "There is something that I have been hesitating about, whether I should tell the master or not?"
"But it doesn't matter."
Li Wei considered his sentence carefully and said: "Brother Shi's matter... I have always felt that it was strange. Is there something else going on?"
"You mean the direct descendant of Fujin?" Tong Jia asked this question slowly, but when Li Wei acquiesced, he shook his head and said, "No, she won't harm me."
Seeing that Tong Jia was so sure, Li Wei couldn't say any more, so he just said: "Knowing people but not their hearts, the slave is also afraid that his master will be deceived."
"I know you are loyal." Tong Jiashi covered her mouth and yawned, and said to Li Wei: "I'm a little sleepy. Please help me go to the inner hall to rest for a while."
Entering the inner hall, Li Wei took off his shoes for Mr. Tong Jia and was about to get up when he suddenly noticed something under the sandalwood top cabinet next to him. He picked it up and saw that it was a four-cornered sachet. He quickly wiped off the incense sticks.
He picked up the ashes on the sachet, handed it to Tong Jia, who was already half lying on the bed, and said, "Master, your sachet has fallen."
"Mine?" Tong Jia was a little surprised, because she had never had a sachet since she was pregnant. She took this four-cornered sachet that looked a little strange and looked at it carefully for a while before suddenly saying: "I remembered it.
, I made this for my Fourth Master a few years ago. It contained some refreshing spices. My Fourth Master liked it very much and kept it with me. But later I couldn’t find it for some reason. It turned out that I had dropped it.
Got here.”
She put the sachet to the tip of her nose and smelled it. Even after several years, the sachet still exuded a faint fragrance. However, as soon as the fragrance entered her nose, Tong Jia's expression immediately changed, and she shook her hand and moved the sachet away.
Throwing it away from a distance, it looked like it was seeing some poisonous insect, snake or scorpion.
"Master, what's wrong?" Li Wei was confused by her sudden move.
Tong Jia didn't say anything, she just covered her nose and stared at the sachet. After a long time, she said to Li Wei: "Go and see if the seal of the sachet has been opened by anyone."
Li Wei picked it up and took a look and found that although the seal was neat, there were two line marks, which were obviously sewn on after being disassembled.
After hearing Li Wei's affirmative answer, Tong Jia asked him to open the sachet again and asked if there was a lump of spice inside. It smelled strong and had a pungent but cool taste.
After Li Wei tried it, he found that it was exactly what Tong Jia said, and asked curiously: "Master, what kind of spice is this?"
"What is it?" Tong Jiashi showed a smile that sent chills all over her body. She took off her shoes and walked to the half-open window. She took a deep breath of the cool breeze blowing in from the outside and said, "This thing has many names.
Being a disciple, having a lingering fragrance, and having a fragrant heart, but these names combined, there is no other name that everyone knows." Under Li Wei's puzzled eyes, she softly uttered two words, "Musk!"
Li Wei was shocked and finally understood why Tong Jia had such a reaction just now. To a pregnant woman, musk is as scary as red flowers, and they are both forbidden substances that can cause miscarriage.
"I finally understand why the fetus in Niu Hulu's belly would often appear uneasy, but I searched everything and found nothing. It turns out that the root cause is here." Tong Jia's next sentence changed.
This shocked Li Wei, but he also remembered that when Yinzhen wore this sachet, it was precisely the time when Niu Hulu became pregnant in the 45th year of Kangxi's reign.
[Author's digression]: I'm stuck. It took me a long time to grind out a chapter. Wow, I beat myself up and went back to thinking about the plot.