While Kong Wang and Chen Caozhi were discussing the classics and mysticism, Xiaochan and Gillian, two women of the same age and with the same status, were also discussing the issue of the imperial court.
This is a small courtyard arranged by the Gu family for Chen Caozhi and Chen Shang to live. It is a small building with a Z-shaped civil structure. The entrance is the main hall, with wing rooms on both sides. Chen Shang lives in the east wing and Chen Shang lives in the west wing.
Cao Zhi, Xiao Chan and Chen Cao Zhi shared a room, one inside and one outside.
Gillian and Xiao Chan were sitting on their knees with a small rosewood table separated from each other. Gillian fiddled with a bunch of sachets on the table, glanced at Xiao Chan, and asked with a smile on her face: "Xiao Chan, how do you treat your husband?"
How are you?"
Xiao Chan said: "Very good, my husband is the best in the world -" Seeing a teasing look on Gillian's face, she stopped talking and was slightly shy.
Gillian said with a smile: "That's right, your husband is the most handsome man in Jiangzuo. I heard someone said that Jiangzuo Wei Jie and Chen Caozhi have already surpassed Wang Yishao's most handsome seventh son Wang Xianzhi. Look at today's
How many girls in Jiankang City have squeezed their dresses to pieces and thrown away a lot of sachets just to take a look at your young husband. The embroidery on these sachets is so exquisite, I can’t compare to—"
Xiao Chan was beaming when she heard this, but Gillian suddenly said: "Xiao Chan is so lucky. You are the only one in your family now. Such a handsome husband, you have to bear it——"
Xiao Chan was stunned for a moment, then understood what Gillian meant, her face suddenly turned red as if on fire, and she spat: "You are talking nonsense, my husband is not that kind of person!"
Gillian looked at Xiaochan with wide eyes, and after a while she asked: "You--didn't you sleep with your young master?"
Xiao Chan said, half ashamed and half annoyed: "Gillian, you are so annoying. You keep asking me why you are doing this. I know that your husband, Mr. Liu, dotes on you. Even if he has a wife at home, he will not take her out, only you."
Gillian said with some pride: "Yes, my husband likes me very much, but I'm just curious, you are Chen Langjun's personal maid, how come Chen Langjun doesn't want you to sleep with him? Does Chen Langjun hate you?
?”
Xiao Chan said angrily: "Your Mr. Liu hates you!"
Gillian smiled and said: "So your husband likes you, so why doesn't he want you to serve in the bedroom? In fact, I think, as long as a man and a woman don't hate each other, it is inevitable that they will be together for a long time.
Yes - hehe, Xiaochan is also quite pretty, with smooth skin and breasts -"
"I'm going to die!" Xiaochan slapped the back of Gillian's outstretched hand and said angrily, "I don't like hearing what you say."
However, Gillian didn't feel dissatisfied and said, "Does it mean that your young husband has a hidden illness that prevents him from——"
Xiaochan straightened her face and said coldly: "Gillian, if you keep talking nonsense, don't say a word to me again from now on!"
Seeing that Xiaochan was really annoyed, Gillian quickly smiled and said: "Sister Xiaochan, I am joking with you. Don't care about it. Don't care about it. It's too late. I'm going to see if my husband wants to go back -
—”
Xiao Chan knew that Mr. Cao Zhi was on good terms with Liu Shangzhi, and she didn't want to get into trouble with Gillian, so she said, "I'll go with my sister."
The moonlight was as bright as day, and Xiaochan and Gillian left the courtyard and walked towards Gu Kaizhi's residence nearby without carrying lanterns.
Gillian said: "Xiaochan, it's not that I'm too talkative. I think we are the master's personal servants. If we don't get favored by the master, our life will be a bit miserable -"
When these words came to Xiaochan's heart, she couldn't help but sigh slightly and remained silent.
Gillian saw Xiaochan's worried look in her eyes, smiled secretly in her heart, and said, "I'll teach you a trick, do you want to hear it?"
Xiaochan asked casually: "What?"
Gillian said in Xiaochan's ear: "This is the way to do it - quietly crawl onto your husband's bed at night when you are sleeping - Gegege, don't scold me, I'm leaving." Leaving Xiaochan behind, she smiled.
And ran away.
Xiaochan was angry and laughed, and cursed in a low voice: "Ajiao little slut!"
Gillian is really harmful. Xiaochan tossed and turned again that night, but she couldn't do such a shameful thing if she had to quietly crawl into Xiaolangjun's bed——
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On the morning of February 13th, Chen Caozhi was preparing to accompany Gu Kaizhi to visit Mr. Zhang Mo and Zhang Andao. As soon as he left the mansion, Hao Ji, the official secretary of the Situ Mansion, rushed there with two followers and said that Xifu Xi's guest Xi had joined the army.
Please invite Mr. Chen to meet you.
Chen Caozhi said in surprise: "Has Xi joined the army in Beijing?"
Hao Cheng said: "He came yesterday with Mr. Huan County. When I had a talk with the King of Kuaiji that night, I learned that Mr. Chen also came to Beijing on the same day, so I came to invite Mr. Chen to meet him early in the morning."
Chen Caozhi then said to Gu Kaizhi: "Changkang, then I won't accompany you to the Zhang Mansion. Instead, I would like to pay my respects to Mr. Andao. I will also pay you a visit some day."
Gu Kaizhi came to Zhang Ping and Zhang Changzong's mansion in Hengtang. Zhang Ping was an attendant and entered the Taicheng Palace early in the morning to serve as his attendant. Zhang Andao was chatting with his cousin Zhang Wenwan in the study. Lu Weirui was listening on the side and listened to Zhang Andao praising Chen Caozhi.
Painting skills, I feel both happy and sad. Chen Langjun has already reached Jiankang, but still can't meet each other——
Zhang Andao heard about Gu Kaizhi's visit and said to Zhang Wenwan: "Gu Hutou must have learned about my coming to Beijing from Chen Caozhi, and Chen Caozhi should have come with me."
Lu Weirui's heart skipped a beat and she held her breath when she heard Zhang Mo ask the official who came to report: "Didn't Qian Tang and Chen Caozhi submit the assassination letter?"
The official said: "Only Gu Langjun is waiting to see you."
Lu Weirui's face darkened and she lowered her head.
Zhang Mo went to the front hall to meet Gu Kaizhi. Mrs. Lu Zhang Wenwan looked at Lu Weirui's pitiful look with lowered eyebrows and lowered eyelashes, and her heart softened. She originally didn't want to tell her about arranging for Chen Caozhi to meet Weirui at Jiangling Lake.
I just wanted to treat it as a chance encounter, but now seeing Wei Rui's sentimental look, I couldn't help but say: "Wei Rui, this is Zhang's Mansion. It would be inconvenient for Chen Langjun to meet me if he came. My second uncle, Lu Shi, has already fallen out with my fifth brother.
If Chen Langjun knew that he was meeting you in Zhang Mansion, he would be even more furious, and the grievances between the Lu and Zhang clans would be irresolvable - don't be sad, I will go to Jiangling Lake with you in the future, and then you can see Chen Langjun.
Mr. Lang—Shh, don’t ask any more questions.”
Lu Weirui raised her head, her beautiful eyes widened, her long eyelashes trembled, and she was filled with surprise. She grabbed Zhang Wenwan's hand, kissed the back of it, and said, "Thank you, mother."
Zhang Wenwan laughed, but then frowned and said, "I don't know whether it's right or wrong to help you like this. I just can't bear to see you sad. I haven't been able to give your father a son and a half. Yesterday, your second uncle said that
There is a reason why your father divorced me."
Before Zhang Wenwan married Lu Na, he was engaged to the Zhu family of Wu County. Before they got married, the Zhu family's son died of the epidemic. Zhang Wenwan became an unmarried widow. In the next three years, he married his brother Zhang Mo as a matchmaker.
Lu Na lost his wife. Zhang Wenwan was twenty-three years old at that time and Lu Na was thirty. They were very happy together after marriage. However, they were unable to have children for twelve years after their marriage. Three years ago, Lu Changsheng passed away. Lu Na
With no heir, Zhang Wenwan's pressure suddenly increased and she often felt guilty. Yesterday, Lu Shi said that she wanted Lu Na to divorce her. Although her fifth brother Zhang Mo supported her at the time, thinking about it afterwards, she couldn't help but feel sad——
Lu Weirui said quickly: "How could this happen? Daddy is such a good person. He has never had an argument with Aunt Zhang. He respects and loves Aunt Zhang. The second uncle's words were just angry. Aunt Zhang does not need to take them seriously."
Zhang Wenwan lightly flicked Lu Weirui's delicate cheek with his fingers, and said with a smile: "You little thing, you called me mother when you begged me, and now you call me Aunt Zhang."
Lu Weirui's face turned red and she said: "It's not like that. It's just that sometimes I got agitated and blurted out the word mother - mother, didn't you let Chen Langjun cure you of your acclimatization problem in the past two days?
I haven’t seen my mother feel any discomfort at all.”
Mrs. Lu Zhang Wenwan said happily: "Yes, Chen Langjun is really good at studying."
Lu Weirui said: "Mother, what Weirui wants to say is, why not ask Mr. Chen to treat mother's infertility. If you can -"
"Don't say it." Mrs. Lu Zhang Wenwan's face turned red and she said angrily, "What is this? Tell others too!"
Lu Weirui didn't dare to say anything.
Mrs. Lu Zhang Wenren was really moved when Lu Weirui said this. It would be great if she could give birth to a son and a half daughters for Lu Na.
In ancient times, being a doctor was a lowly profession, but that refers to those who practice medicine as their profession. Great celebrities like Ge Hong and the masters of the Taoist Danding sect became more and more famous because of their superb medical skills. No matter what era, saving lives and healing the wounded are always admired by others.
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Xi Chao accompanied Huan Ji to marry Sima Daofu, the princess of Xin'an County, the eldest daughter of King Sima Yu of Kuaiji. He lived in the courtyard of Situ Mansion. When he learned that Chen Caozhi had arrived in Jiankang, and heard that thousands of people were crowded to see Chen Caozhi, he
I couldn't help but smile and thought to myself: "Chen Cao Zhi's success was certainly the result of Chen Cao Zhi's own efforts. It was also an important reason why Wang Shao and other Nandu clans were behind it. Wang Shao wanted to help Lu Wan.
She was angry when she refused to marry the Wang family of Langya, but she never thought that Xie Daoyun, a girl from the Xie family of Chen County who was in the same family as the Wang family of Langya, had a crush on Chen Caozhi. Once this news came out, Jiankang City would be in turmoil, and the gentry from the north and the south would be
Huan Da Sima was very interested in this matter and once said that if it is grasped well, it will be an excellent opportunity——"
It has been two years since Xi Chao learned about the affair between Chen Caozhi and Xie Daoyun from Jia Bi. Because Chen Caozhi had not entered Jiankang, the matter had been hidden. Now, Chen Caozhi has entered Jiankang and is famous.
Great news, everything is just as Xi Chao envisioned for Chen Caozhi. The time has come for Chen Caozhi to serve in the Xifu, but when will Xie Daoyun's affairs be made known to the world? The timing of this is mysterious. If it is not done well, Chen Caozhi will
With his reputation ruined, Huan Da Sima's plan will also come to nothing, so for the time being, it is better not to act rashly and wait and see how things get better. Chen Caozhi is in Jiankang, and he will inevitably meet Xie Daoyun. Let's see how Chen Caozhi handles the complicated disputes.
Is there a relationship between Lu and Xie's two daughters? It's a fish and a bear's paw, give up one or have both? It's hard to get both, so isn't Lu Shi already furious?
At this time, officials from the Situ Mansion came to report that Qian Tang and Chen Caozhi had arrived.
Xi Chao put down the "New Meanings of Laozi" in his hand and said: "Please."