When the three naughty children, Zhang Shou, Zhu Ying, and Zhang Chen were lobbying and betting in An'er Hutong, the whole Kong family was in a state of panic. Mr. Kong Jiu woke up early in the morning and felt a splitting headache, but
, he really wanted to regard what happened last night as a nightmare, but after getting up, two boys came in with panic on their faces, and when they saw him, they suddenly backed away in shock.
The scene was like seeing a ghost - and he thought he was a ghost!
According to his usual habit, Mr. Kong Jiu, who was sitting on the bed, had already given orders to drag the person down and beat him severely. However, at this time, because he was worried about what happened last night, he suppressed the anger in his heart for the first time and was just annoyed.
Di shouted: "How can you be so flustered and why don't you come and change my clothes!"
"Old...Master...you...your neck!"
Hearing the word "neck", Mr. Kong Jiu's heart suddenly skipped a beat. He subconsciously reached out to touch his neck. When he found that there was nothing strange, he immediately showed his fierceness after false alarm, but the boy said it tremblingly.
The next words made him freeze: "Master, there is a handprint on your neck... on your neck!"
Master Kong Jiu felt a chill suddenly arise in his heart, and the chill suddenly spread all over his body, making his teeth chatter! He wanted to denounce the absurdity, but the frightened expressions of the two boys were not the same.
It seemed fake, so he simply got out of bed and got dressed with a straight face, but even though he pretended not to care, his movements were extremely stiff.
It wasn't until he put on some clothes and stood in front of the bronze mirror that he saw the completely abnormal marks on his neck. For a moment, he was so shocked that he took two steps back. However, even if the bronze mirror was polished frequently, it was still clear.
But the speed was really not that good, so to see what shape the mark was, he had to bite the bullet and get closer again.
When he finally saw the small handprint clearly, his whole face was almost pressed against the bronze mirror. Horrified, he touched the bruise on his neck with trembling hands, but he just touched it lightly.
When pressed, he couldn't help but let out a hiss and took a breath of cold air.
It hurts so much! It’s not fake, it wasn’t a nightmare last night, everything was real!
Master Kong Jiu felt that every pore in his body was chilling. Even though he used to pay the most attention to dignity and propriety in front of his servants, at this time he could not maintain the demeanor of a scholar-bureaucrat at all. What made him shudder even more was that one of them
The boy suddenly lost his composure and started shouting loudly.
"It's a ghost, it's really a ghost passing through! He dared to pinch the master's neck, let alone ransack the kitchen! All the food in the kitchen was emptied, whether it was live chickens, ducks, mutton, beef, eggs...
We didn’t even let those chickens and pigs get into the water, how many years have they been reincarnated by starving ghosts!”
Thinking of the fact that his surnamed Tang died of a mental illness not long after the death of his youngest son in the same year. It is said that there were scandals about heir establishment and property disputes in the family. Mr. Kong Jiu took it all as a joke at that time, but now he is completely distraught.
I'm trembling. No matter who inherits the Tang family, it's completely ruined now. It seems that they have forgotten such a child who died young. Without sacrifices and offerings, will he become a starving ghost full of resentment towards him?
With a pale face, he forced himself to calm down and drank the boy who was obviously frightened. But when he was about to interrogate the other boy, he saw that he was shaking like chaff. He knew that he could not count on these two useless people.
Guy, he could only overcome his fear and change his clothes, then put on a thick scarf to cover his neck, and then left the study without even bothering to wash up.
When Mr. Kong Jiu hurried to the kitchen, his wife Zhao had already arrived a step ahead of him. Unlike Mrs. Gu, the wife of Kong Dajun, who was good at dancing, Mrs. Zhao, the ninth wife, was not a shrewd and capable person, but rather a bit cowardly.
.At this time, she faced the messy kitchen and the messy servants. Let alone suppressing her, she was in a daze.
"This is...what the hell is going on?"
Among the four mothers who came next to me, one said that she wanted to report it to the official, but one said that she wanted to invite a monk or Taoist priest to do the ritual. One said that there must be someone in the house who was watching the robbery, so why not arrest everyone in the kitchen and have a good interrogation, but the last one said that it was better to go.
Please let me make the decision. Therefore, what Mr. Kong Jiu saw was a scene of chaos and no one taking the initiative.
He usually didn't have much affection for Zhao, a yellow-faced woman, but he just wanted to save face for his wife. Seeing this scene, he who was already in an extremely bad mood couldn't help shouting angrily: "They are all crowded here and chewing."
You tongues, all go back and do their own thing! And you...how do you, the head wife, take care of things? When I woke up early in the morning, the whole house was in a mess!"
Mrs. Zhao got angry when she saw Mr. Kong Jiu come. Although she felt wronged, she, who had always been submissive to her husband, did not dare to argue, so she could only apologize there.
However, Mr. Kong Jiu had no time to pay attention to her, and just walked into the kitchen with a cold face. He has always believed in the gentleman who stays away from the kitchen. As soon as he entered the kitchen, the smell of various flavors mixed together hit his face.
When he came, he was almost staggered by the smoke. When he saw the messy scene, he almost couldn't stand and fell to the ground.
All the cabinets were completely open, and the lids of the jars that were used to store rice, noodles, meat and pickles, etc. were all wide open. There were all kinds of chicken feathers, vegetable leaves and other debris on the floor, as well as broken eggs. But in the end,
The scariest thing is the small bloody footprints that can be seen in many places!
"Sacrifice, he said he wanted a sacrifice, and it turned out to be true..."
Mumbling about what the other party asked for last night, Mr. Kong Jiu's last thoughts of refusing to pay disappeared and were replaced by fear from the bottom of his heart. He didn't dare to stay in this messy place at all, and he staggered.
He fell back and walked straight to the study without looking at Zhao who was waiting for him to give orders.
When he returned to the study with one foot raised and the other lowered, he only saw the two young boys standing in the yard with pale faces when he got up early. Before he even had time to ask, the two of them looked at each other as if they had met the great savior.
They rushed forward, and the one who had lost his temper before and yelled that there were fingerprints on his neck was also yelling at this time.
"Master, bloody footprints, there are two bloody footprints on your window railing!"
The last bit of luck in having a nightmare came to nothing. Mr. Kong Jiu felt like the world was spinning, and he couldn't hold himself up any longer, so he collapsed. Facing this scene, the two boys were so frightened that they couldn't even care about it.
Not wanting to meet the master, he ran out in a panic, leaving Mr. Kong Jiu lying alone in the empty yard.
When someone hurried over, Dr. Taichang had been lying on the ground for a long time, and his whole body was completely cold - of course, just literally. When people hurriedly sent the person back to the room, they found that
The person has developed a high fever.
Mrs. Zhao, who was completely confused, did not bother to blame the servants. She came over personally to attend to the illness, and at the same time hurriedly sent someone to report the news to her sister-in-law next door, Mrs. Gu. However, the reply from there was only a box of medicinal materials and Gu's message.
There is news that Mr. Shi is also bedridden.
Mrs. Gu also sent word that Scholar Kong went to the Huairou Imperial Mansion to pacify the chaos. She was worried that something might happen to her husband while he was there. In addition, she was worried about Zhu Tingfang's previous visit, so she was so worried that now even the household chores were left to her.
She really couldn't help him as he had a little daughter-in-law. If necessary, the Kong family's West Mansion would definitely provide people and resources, but they could only help so much.
That day, I witnessed a dispute between my husband and Bachelor Kong, who had always been the leader of the Kong family. Even Master Kong, who always cared about his appearance, lost his temper and even grabbed people by their collars and yelled. Even if Mrs. Zhao is a careless person,
, and also knew that his master definitely did something wrong.
She felt even worse when Mr. Kong Jiu actually started arguing with Gu about how much money he had provided to Scholar Kong over the years in front of Master Kong.
Therefore, Mrs. Gu acted like she didn't want to take any more care, and Mrs. Zhao had no choice. Without the reputation of a Confucian scholar, she couldn't invite the imperial physician in the palace, so she could only ask for a few famous doctors from the capital.
She was a good internal medicine expert, but she was invited to come, but she, who stayed by her husband's side, did not dare to let anyone come to see him.
Because, when she was waiting in front of the sick bed, she didn't know whether Mr. Kong Jiu was confused by the fever or was haunted by the evil ghost passing by that the servants were talking about privately. He actually started talking nonsense while he was having a fever, and he kept talking about the opposite.
A young man named Tang apologized and kept saying that he would prepare the sacrifices requested as soon as possible. What did he even say...I didn't want to kill you?
If the doctor heard this, wouldn't it be fatal? How could such information be given to a stranger?
Therefore, even if she managed to hire a doctor, Mrs. Zhao could only send her confidant and mother to pay the medical fee, saying that her master was fine, and then sent him away politely. As for how to reduce the fever of Mr. Kong Jiu who had a high fever.
...She could only use a cold wet towel to apply to her forehead.
Of course, she also knew that such antipyretic treatments would not cure the root cause, so she would have to send her confidants outside to find doctors who dared to prescribe prescriptions without seeing the doctor, and then go to the medicine hall to get medicines with antipyretic prescriptions to treat the cold that penetrates the bones.
However, she felt that this would not let Master Kong Jiu's nonsense leak out. What she didn't expect was that the concubines in the backyard were all worried that Master Kong Jiu would become ill, so they all tried their best to find out the news. 1
They couldn't sit still when they heard that she had invited a doctor but then sent him away and went to the medicine hall to get some medicine, also using some unknown prescription prescribed by the Pheasant Doctor.
When Mr. Kong Jiu is here, they are concubines wearing gold and silver. But when Mr. Kong Jiu is not around, as long as Zhao, the mistress of the house, says "sell", they will be kicked out immediately. By then, none of the expensive hairpins and jewelry will belong to them.
, not even a single piece of clothing left!
So, after the seven or eight maids and concubines gathered together, they rushed to the main room together, regardless of Zhao's prohibition. When they arrived at the courtyard gate, they didn't care, and they all burst into tears. This yelling master, what are you doing?
The illness was so miserable that the one cried and complained that his wife was reluctant to call a doctor, the other said that he was willing to use jewelry as jewelry for the doctor, and the other shouted that the husband and wife are birds in the same forest, and they will fly separately when disaster strikes.
When Zhao heard the sound, she was angry and anxious. For a moment, she ignored Master Kong Jiu, who had a high fever in bed and was not awake. She hurriedly went out and scolded her. As a result, she, who had always been unable to calm down, was no match for these shrews. She was beaten every time she came and went.
I can't stand it but I can't get off the stage.
And she didn't dare to let anyone else take care of her husband in the house, leaving only a trustworthy confidant, her mother. As a result, this mother heard about the one-sided battle outside, and she didn't even care about Mr. Kong Jiu on the bed, and hurried directly.
Go out to help the fight. At this moment, Master Kong Jiu is really lying on the bed without anyone caring about him. When he wakes up in a daze, he can only listen to the scolding and fighting outside.
He wanted to make a sound, but his throat was dry and hoarse, and his voice was as weak as a mosquito's cry. He wanted to move his body and sit up, but from his fingers to his toes, there was no place to listen to him. He could hear and see, but he couldn't.
Even though it only lasted for a short while, he felt as if he was going crazy.
He even feared that the ghost from the underworld last night had put a curse on him, so that he ended up in such a miserable state overnight.
Just when Mr. Kong Jiu was about to go crazy, the sound of banging bells and banging things came from outside the door. He shuddered and regained a little bit of his rationality. Then he heard a burst of noise and footsteps. After a while, there was a smile on his face.
The tearful Mrs. Zhao appeared angrily in front of him. When their eyes met, he saw that Mrs. Zhao was shocked at first, then ecstatic, and suddenly rushed over.
"Master, are you awake!" Ms. Zhao was full of grievances and wanted to complain, especially because those gorgeous little bitches had just slandered her and wanted Master Kong Jiu's life. She was even more angry and hateful. Therefore, she forgot
Mr. Kong Jiu had just woken up, and poured out all the nonsense he had just said through the bamboo tube like beans.
She emptied her heart of frustration, but Master Kong Jiu was so frightened that his heart was completely clenched. You know, for this fatal matter, not only did he kill the guy who hired a murderer to kill him.
He tried his best to eliminate every one of the remaining insiders in the past two or three years.
I thought I would be able to sit back and relax for the rest of my life, but last night a murderous ghost came out, and today he has a high fever and talks nonsense! Fortunately, the person who heard it was Zhao. If it were those concubines who used sex to serve people, wouldn't he be doomed?
No, no, no, even Mrs. Zhao is not foolproof. He has never paid much attention to this yellow-faced woman. God knows if people hate him to the core, so they use this as an excuse not to find a doctor for him!
Master Kong Jiu took a deep breath and moved his lips to say something, at least to appease Ms. Zhao, even if she really disposed of those concubines he liked very much in the past, but even if he tried his best, he still couldn't.
I couldn't utter a complete sentence. But at this moment, a mother rushed in in a panic at such an inopportune moment.
"Madam, madam, it's not good! Mr. Zhu, who is in charge of the Five Cities Military and Horse Department, is here. He said he wanted to see the master. We said that the master was sick. The family sent people to Taichang Temple to ask for leave, but this didn't stop us.
He, those little hooves have all gone to complain to Master Zhu, what should we do?"
Not only Mr. Kong Jiu, but also Mrs. Zhao felt a cold air rushing straight to her forehead, and for a moment, she was so cold that her whole body shivered.