When Shang's mother heard the word Jingmo, her expression suddenly froze. She tilted her head as if she was recalling something. After a moment of silence, she continued: "Jingmo has a pungent taste. It can vomit blood in the epidermis. It can stop bleeding very quickly...
...Jingmo...is a good medicine for women!"
When Lin Jingmo heard this, he smiled and said, "Yes, my name is Jingmo, and I am... a good person!"
Thinking about the harm he had done to her, Lin Jingmo felt that the word "good person" was really not worthy of being mentioned.
So she crooked her eyes guiltily and said, "Mom, your hair is all knotted. Can Jingmo help you take a bath?"
Shang's mother touched her hair like a child, tilted her head and said, "Okay."
Lin Jingmo received Shang's mother's consent and shouted outside very happily: "Prepare a bathtub and hot water in the lower room for the old lady." Then he called Qiaoxiang alone: "Go find the housekeeper and tell him.
As for me, I will buy four more girls to serve the old lady."
After preparing hot water in the servant's room, Lin Jingmo took Shang's mother out and ordered the servants to tidy up Shang's mother's bedroom.
Lin Jingmo took off her clothes for Shang's mother and asked her to get into the bathtub, preparing to give her a good cleansing.
However, she found that Shang’s mother was covered with scars: these were not injuries from being beaten with a stick...
Looking more closely, it is not difficult to find that some of these scars were burned by fire, some were chopped with sharp objects, and some even caused Lin Jingmo to be unable to identify the cause.
Lin Jingmo dipped a hand towel in water and gently wiped Shang's mother's body, slowly passing over her scars.
Lin Jingmo couldn't imagine what happened to this woman to make her so scarred and even mad.
Shang Shixu's mother suffered so many injuries... What about Shang Shixu?
She only knew that Shang Shixu was a scholar from a poor family. He had no background or background before he met her. He was recommended by Lin Jingmo's father, who was the invigilator, with an article on state affairs and governance. He got the opportunity to take the imperial examination and became a temporary
He is a unique Tanhualang, but we have never heard anything about his past.
Lin Jingmo doesn't know what kind of person Shang Shixu is, just like she doesn't know her own past.
Thinking of this, Lin Jingmo looked at these shocking scars and shed tears uncontrollably. Although she didn't know what happened to this woman, she felt sorry for her.
Mother Shang turned her head, with a frightening scar on her face, and innocently frowned, then raised her hand to wipe Lin Jingmo's tears.
Lin Jingmo smiled with relief and said: "No matter what you have experienced in the past, I will treat you well from now on."
After that, he dried her body, put on new clothes, and combed her hair into a neat bun. He also asked people to go out to buy food and let her have a full meal.
After a day's hard work, Lin Jingmo gave the backyard a new look, repaired the furnishings in the courtyard, completely changed the look of Shang's mother's bedroom, and finally arranged for the new maid before returning to the main courtyard.
It was already evening when Shang Shixu returned from the Hubu Yamen. He returned to the business house and went straight to the kitchen. Through the kitchen window, he only saw Mother Li, who was taking a nap with a fan in her hand.
Unknown to Shang Shixuan, all the servants had gone to tidy up the backyard, and only Mother Li was left in the kitchen, picking out the bird's nests that she had spent all morning, and had just finished eating them. Because she got up too early in the morning, she couldn't help but fall asleep.
Shang Shixu walked into the kitchen quietly. He opened the bowl that was simmering on the stove and found that Li's mother was cooking bird's nests. Looking at the whole Shang family, except Lin Jingmo, who else could eat the bird's nests cooked by Li's mother?<
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So he took out the porcelain bottle in his arms and poured the arsenic inside: God help me, the kitchen is so deserted today, and the bird's nest cooked by Li's mother is poisonous. Even if Lin Jingmo died because of this, he would not suspect it.
Come on.
Thinking of this, he put away the porcelain bottle, walked out of the kitchen and went straight to the backyard.
Arriving at the door of the backyard, Shang Shixu's eyes suddenly filled with fear: Where is the lock on the door?
His three steps turned into five steps, he pushed open the courtyard door and rushed in. He saw that the courtyard had changed from the previous decadent scene. The pavilion in the courtyard had been repaired and intact. The stone tables and benches that had been piled up before were neatly placed in the center of the pavilion.
The old trees have also disappeared, replaced by the swaying shadows of flowers all over the courtyard...
Just as he was wondering, two little girls came out of the main room.
Shang Shixu shouted at the two of them: "Stop, who are you? How dare you come to this garden!"
The two little girls were startled, and one of them lowered his head and replied hurriedly: "The villain is the new one bought by the madam to serve the old lady."
After hearing this, Shang Shixu rushed into the inner room and saw Shang's mother in new clothes, clean and neat, with her hair newly combed into a bun, sitting on the imperial chair and playing with two cloth dolls.
When Shang's mother saw Shang Shixu coming, she didn't say anything. She just handed him the doll in her hand. He looked at the doll and was speechless for a moment.
Timing...Jingmo...
Looking around again, the whole room has changed a lot, it is clean and bright.
He understood that these were all done by Lin Jingmo.
At this time, a maid came back from outside with a cup and bowl in her hand. She saw Shang Shixu and said to Shang's mother hurriedly: "Mother Li next to Madam stewed bird's nests and ordered someone to send a bowl to me."
People eat it.”
When Shang's mother heard that it was food, she thought about taking it and eating it.
Shang Shixu grabbed the cup and bowl, rushed out and fell to the ground. He understood that this was a bird's nest that he had poisoned.
Then he said to the girl: "How many maids have come into this courtyard today?"
The little girl hurriedly replied: "There are four of them including me."
Hearing this, Shang Shixu thought thoughtfully and said with sternness in his cold eyes: "Pack up your things and get out of the backyard. Tell your madam that no one is allowed to come in from now on. I will add an extra lock. Who dares to touch the lock?"
Whoever is ready will be punished."
Several little girls quickly packed up their things and left.
Shang Shixu suddenly remembered something and stopped them again, asking: "Wait a minute, is there only one bowl of bird's nest in total?"
One of the girls replied: "Mother Li cooked two bowls, one bowl was given to the old lady, and one bowl was served to the old lady herself."
What?!
When Shang Shixu heard these words, he felt a thunderclap in his head.
He hurriedly ran out of the backyard toward the main courtyard.
Lin Jingmo had worked hard all day here, and had not slept all night last night. As soon as he entered the inner room, he lay down on the soft couch. Mother Li carried a cup of bird's nest and cooled it while walking into the house.
As soon as she entered the room and saw Lin Jingmo sleeping on the sofa, she sat next to her and said dotingly: "Second girl must be tired after working all day. Eat some bird's nest to replenish your body. This is what the little man has chosen all morning."
Bird's nest, guaranteed not to have even a single black spot."
Lin Jingmo waved his hands lazily and said: "I won't eat, I want to sleep."
Mother Li put the bird's nest on the long table beside her, stretched out her hand to pull Lin Jingmo up, and said: "Eat something before going to sleep. Mother Li, I put two spoons of sugar for the second girl. It's sweet, don't you?"
Try it?"
Lin Jingmo just had to compromise and open his mouth: "Then Mama Li, feed me, ah..."
Mother Li shook her head with a smile, picked up the bowl again and scooped out a spoonful of bird's nest, and was about to feed it to Lin Jingmo's mouth, when Shang Shixu rushed in, grabbed Mother Li's bowl and threw it on the ground.
Lin Jingmo was originally sleepy, but was startled by the crisp sound of dishes. She looked at Shang Shixu in confusion and said, "Husband... Husband, what are you doing?"