The night was as cool as water, and Fulai Inn was quiet.
In the private room, Xiao Qi took out the tea leaves brought from the Zhenguo Duke's mansion and made tea for the young master.
Gu Xuan was sitting in front of the case, and the prescription he was holding in his hand was the one Li Yan had prescribed at Yaoxiangtang that day.
Xiao Qi brought the tea over and only glanced at it. The iron pen and the silver hook were penetrating into the wood.
"Miss Li's handwriting is really beautiful." Xiao Qi couldn't help but sigh.
Xiaoqi remembered that Li Yan was using her left hand at that time, and she didn't expect that the girl's left hand could not write any less well.
The ladies in the boudoir in the capital often held poetry gatherings, and several ladies from the Zhenguo Palace also often attended such events.
Occasionally, I would bring back some good calligraphy paintings from poetry gatherings, and Xiao Qi had seen a few of them.
I have never seen any girl with handwriting as good as Miss Li.
Young ladies in Beijing are accustomed to using plum-blossom regular script, and their handwriting is elegant and compact.
Li Yan's calligraphy is free and elegant, and majestic.
"It's rare that you didn't say anything to slander her." After hearing his words, Gu Xuan smiled in his eyes.
The little girl's handwriting is so good that Xiao Qi can't tell lies with her eyes closed.
You can see the young master's smiling eyes, why does he think he is so mean-mouthed!
He wanted to draw the young master's attention away from Miss Li, not to get along with them.
"Sir, have some tea." Xiao Qi offered a cup of tea.
"Let it go first and bring the rosewood box." Gu Xuan ordered calmly.
Xiao Qi was confused, but still obeyed the young master's instructions and got the rosewood box.
I thought the young master asked him to get the rosewood box to put some precious things.
Unexpectedly, the prescription written by Li Yan was put in it by the young master Zhenzhi, and he also turned down the flap and locked it.
"Put it away carefully." After completing this series of actions, the young man picked up the teacup and drank tea leisurely.
Xiaoqi, "......"
Totally confused.
Is this prescription worth collecting?
Xiao Qi also wants to ask the young master if he plans to use this recipe for the old lady?
But looking at the young man with his eyes lowered and thinking in front of the window, Xiao Qi thought, forget it, the young master will never harm his grandmother.
He had better put his things away first.
...........
The sound of rain outside the window seemed to be getting louder.
At this time, Li Yan was lying on the couch in the back room with Jin Jue, with Li Yan sleeping inside and the little girl sleeping outside.
The two of them lay there for a while, unable to sleep due to the thunderstorm, and started chatting.
"Miss, do we have to go out to look for that Taoist Master Fuyun tomorrow?"
"I'm not going." In the little girl's surprised eyes, Li Yan said, "This matter has been decided, there is no need to worry about it anymore."
Li Yan looked out the window with dark eyes, "We still need to collect more herbs. After the heavy rain, the plague may spread again."
In the darkness, the girl's faint sigh was heard, "When this plague comes, I don't know how many innocent people will die. Our abilities are limited, so we can only do as much as we can."
Jin Jue was horrified, the young lady knew things like a god, and after several times, Jin Jue had already regarded her words as golden rules.
If it is true as the lady said, wouldn't it mean that just after the drought, there will be a new wave?
"I'll make the medicine when the time comes." The girl's sudden words really startled Jin Jue. These words sounded more frightening to her than the thunder outside.
Jin Jue's eyelids twitched and he said anxiously, "Miss, you can't even distinguish the medicinal materials, how do you make medicine?"
Cold sweat broke out on the little girl's back, and she persuaded in a panic, "We can't save people, so let's not harm them."
The young lady is just trying to bluff people, but if she wants to harm people, Jin Jue will feel guilty about it.
"If I said that in the past three months, I have read all the books in the house, would you believe it?" The room was dark, and the girl's expression was difficult to distinguish.
There are many strange and rare books on the wall cabinet of Meixiangju. Some of them were found by the mistress, Divine Doctor Cai. There are detailed annotations on them, which are some of the mistress’s experiences after reading them.
At that time, the mistress once said with emotion that as long as one or two things in the book are learned, most of the diseases in the world can be cured.
At that time, Jin Jue smiled and asked, "You have such superb skills, but you are not as good as this person who wrote the book."
The mistress only said eight words, "I feel sorry for myself, so far behind."
In the eyes of the world, the mistress is just like Hua Tuo in this world. She has been obsessed with medical skills all her life. She studied such medical books with great concentration, forgetting to eat and sleep.
What a miraculous medical skill that even she can't match.
It was just a pity that he did not understand the secrets in the book during his lifetime.
"If I said that I have not only read all of these books, but also understand the essence of them, would you believe me?" In the dark night, the girl's eyes were astonishingly bright.
Her words were more powerful than words that washed away the little girl's already sluggish brain.
She subconsciously said, "How is that possible?"
The little maid opened her eyes wide with a bewildered look on her face.
Li Yan nodded her forehead and said with a smile, "You forgot, your lady has supernatural powers."
Jin Jue came to his senses and said with a dumbfounded smile, "Yes, why did you forget, the young lady is very powerful."
Seeing that she believed her, Li Yan smiled and continued to lie, "That's right. Before, Miss, I just didn't like reading."
"It's different now. I've read more books, and now that I have supernatural powers, I can learn things that I didn't know before."
"You don't have to be too surprised. Otherwise, miss, I would have the courage to pray for rain? It's all because of these strange books."
After the young lady recovered from illness three months ago, many of her habits have indeed changed.
Before, her mistress had not even looked at the strange books that her mistress had found.
After that, things were different. I found the ancient books collected by my mistress and put them in Meixiangju. I read them often without talking about them.
He often took her to bookshops and bought a lot of books of all kinds.
No wonder those sour scholars are usually crazy, but it seems that reading is really useful.
The little girl believed her words deeply, "Miss, I also want to read these strange books with you, and I also want to develop more skills."
She doesn't have any supernatural powers, nor does she have magical powers like the young lady, but she can learn from the young lady by reading books.
"Okay." The girl's eyes were bright in the darkness.
The little girl is really easy to coax.
After this time, she no longer had to bother explaining her abnormality to the little girl.
Before Li Yan was reborn, she actually lived in another world for more than twenty years. It was another strange and bizarre world.
No one would believe her if she told her story, and everyone would just treat her as an alien.
People of this era were sincerely afraid of ghosts and ghosts. If they didn't know anything about it, they would tie her to the altar and burn her alive.
Li Yan would not be stupid enough to tell this secret.
As for the rumors about the blooming of redbud flowers and the appearance of the goddess, they are all her work.
She needs to find a convincing reason for her magic.
Now that everyone is convinced, she can rest easy!
............
It rained heavily for another three days in the counties and counties, and then it stopped.
The old shopkeeper's illness also recovered, and Li Yan invited him back to Yaoxiangtang again.
There are some new medicinal materials in the shop. If an epidemic breaks out, these medicines will be far from enough.
Before dawn, Li Yan took kumquats and went out to collect medicine.
At sunset and dusk, when Li Yan came back with the bamboo basket and the little girl on her back, there were guests in the Yaoxiang Hall who had been waiting for her for a long time.