Chapter 178 Taking the prescription into the coffin
“I understand your mood. I am the ‘precious stone’, so I am a sinner among sinners.” Bai Yangbai touched the tip of He Danggui’s nose, but she dodged. He sighed suddenly, “I find that since Meng Xuan said that you should keep distance with other men, you seem to sneer at him but you don’t treat me as close as before. Hey, do you have any spare dresses for me in your classroom?” Bai Yangbai patted the robe with one sleeve cut off by Meng Xuan. This action affected his shoulder, which was pinched by Meng Xuan. He couldn’t help biting his teeth with pain. He hated Meng Xuan very much.
“I lend the dress of Qing’er to you. My dresses are not suitable for you. Hurry up and let me see how serious your injury is.” He Danggui led him through the flowers to the door of the Guqin classroom. She said, “I don’t care about Meng Xuan’s words. If I remember what others say, I will die long ago. In fact, I just have a talk with you.” When speaking, she turned back and looked at him with a smile.
“What?” Bai Yangbai rubbed the wound and looked at a section of willow in her hands naively. He asked, “What are you doing with this, girl?”
He Danggui tried the toughness of the wicker and explained to him, “Well, I heard that a real senior could kill people with flowers and leaves. Unfortunately, I throw hidden weapons without right direction, and I can’t hit people with flowers and leaves. So, I want to how deep my wicker will get into the wood...” She held the willow in her right hand and pinched a Formula of Sword in her left hand. She had stepped on the mysterious footwork to approach a willow tree in a moment. Her wrists were shaking slightly, and she waved that section of willow to the trunk on the right. Wherever the wicker came, there was a deep mark on the trunk, and even a large piece of bark around it was pulled off.
He Danggui touched the flexible wicker and looked at Bai Yangbai. She asked slowly, “Please tell me, how many times have you sneaked into Luo’s Mansion? What secrets have you heard? In addition to Madam Luo and Huai Hua, who else did you play in front of me? How many personal effects have you touched?”
Bai Yangbai’s face twitched, and he tried to calm down and said, “I’m an ascetic. It doesn’t matter to go in and out of your room occasionally. In those days, you went into my room to ask for my maintaining youth bath pitifully. Every time I boiled water for you and packed the valuables in the room. Then I went out the room focusing on my way. I locked the door and had a walk in the academy for four to six hours. You think carefully. Have I ever seen you one more time?”
“Don’t say anything else. I’ve always regarded you as the eunuch in the Imperial Palace. I don’t taboo this.” He Danggui glanced at him and said, “What I ask is why you didn’t come to look for me honestly, but to pretend to be mysterious behind me. Since you can take out the mask of Huai Hua, I think you are not pretending to be her for the first time. What’s your purpose?”
Bai Yangbai continued to explain himself, “I still remember that once, you bathed and fell asleep in my room carelessly. If I have any evil intention, you’re screwed! But when I came back and found that the situation was wrong, I went out at the first time and threw stones into the room through the transom. After throwing eight or nine stones, I woke you up. But you didn’t thank me for guarding your innocence. You also punched my face and knocked out half of my mask!”
He Danggui was angry when he mentioned this matter, “I asked you to go to sleep in another place and let me use your room for one day. I find that circling Zhenqi and regulating breath in the bath is more fluent than in the hot spring water. When I was just getting better that day, there were stones falling from the top of my head. I had to stop my most success exercise immediately. How dare you mention it?”
Bai Yangbai held his head and bowed to her. He said smilingly, “I’m afraid that you’ll find something in my room alone. You always care about my prescriptions and medicinal materials.”
He Danggui glared at him fiercely and said, “We have such a good relationship. It doesn’t matter to tell me your secret prescription, does it?”
“How good is our relationship?” Bai Yangbai waved his hand and said, “Don’t try to get close to me. You are just my master and bath friend. I can only pass this prescription to my descendants, but I’m not interested in women. So, it’s destined that I will bring it into my coffin. And don’t think about my prescription in the future. If you play tricks on me again, I will tell Quan that you admire him and let him take you away. His family is full of women, and you can’t resolve them all your life.”
He Danggui was surprised and angry, “Ghosts admire that man. Even if I like pigs and dogs, I will not like him. If you dare to do so, I will kill you first and then commit suicide. I will never enter the Lord Ning’s Mansion.”
Bai Yangbai shook his shoulders and said, “Women are too terrible. You love other man desperately and want me to die together with you. I don’t want to talk with you.” With his head in his arms, he went to Liao Qing’er’s seat. He found a cotton skirt and put it on. After he came out, he looked like Huai Hua exactly. “Miss, let’s go home and fight villains.” He said with a sharp sound.
He Danggui looked at him critically, but she couldn’t find any loopholes. So, she nodded and told him, “Huai Hua went to take care of Zhenzhu who is pregnant three months ago. When you go to Tao Yao Yard, you can only smile. Don’t speak, especially to Chan Yi, or you will be suspicious.” After thinking for a second, she said, “It seems that Ms. Sun is well prepared this time. Maybe she gave Hua Yu some cold medicine and let me meet Hua Yu to find this thing accidentally. These were all the plays that Ms. Sun has rehearsed for a long time. I hate that I fell into her trap carelessly. When I get to the Luo’s Family, I will lose the first half of the game inevitably. Please don’t say something to help me. When the master speaks in the Luo’s Family, the servants are not qualified to interrupt.”
Bai Yangbai nodded excitedly and said, “I know. Let’s go to meet Sun Meiniang!”
He Danggui patted the dust and dew on her skirt and went out first. Then Bai Yangbai followed. He Danggui said, “While there is no one on the road now, you can tell me the details that Madam Luo picks Feng Yang and Guan Mo out. She wants me to be a concubine of one of them. Is it true or not? Where did you hear that? Does the Madam Luo say it personally?”
“Of course, what news in the world can’t I find out?” Bai Yangbai covered his mouth with a wry smile and said, “Madam Luo has a trusted follower named Mammy Tang who has never married in her whole life. Mammy Tang has two adopted sons and one adopted daughter, right? That adopted daughter also imitated Mammy Tang. She is nearly 30 years old but also doesn’t get married.”
“Yes. Mammy Tang’s adopted daughter is Miss Ji.” He Danggui beat the holly leaves on the roadside with the wicker in her hand. Every time when she waved it, a lot of leaves fell. And the holly was as neat as it had been cut with a long scissors.
Bai Yangbai lowered his voice and said mysteriously, “Tut-tut, it turns out that she has two lovers. Since she can’t marry both of them at the same time, they don’t get married.” Seeing He Danggui’s face was full of consternation, he further revealed, “These are all from my own ears. She gave birth to a son for each of them.”
He Danggui didn’t believe it, “Are you talking about Miss Ji’s two adopted children in infancy? She picked them up from the back lane, and we all saw it. Hey, I talk about Feng Yang and Guan Mo, why do you say Miss Ji?”
Bai Yangbai waved and said, “Take it easy. Here is the thing. Last month, I stayed in the stable of a small inn. I couldn’t sleep in the middle of the cold night. I wanted to see if there was a free room to sleep. But I saw an exciting scene. Actually, two men and one woman were making love. The woman also called one elder brother and called the other second brother. I was very shy when I saw it. After they finished, they put on their clothes and left. And I was not sleepy at that time. So, I followed them to go home. But the more I looked at that house, the more familiar it was. Wasn’t this the Luo’s Family where you lived? I heard that the woman was called Miss Ji. After I looked carefully, I realized that she was the woman in charge of Madam Luo’s warehouse. At the same time, her second brother took her to her room again. Soon, clothes were thrown out. So, I picked up her clothes and put them on. I dressed like her and stayed in front of Madam Luo for four days.”
“Four days?” He Danggui frowned and asked, “What did you hear from Madam Luo?”
Bai Yangbai approached and said, “Don’t you wonder why the Miss Ji was absent for four days? It turns out that her two brothers are both very busy. One is the head of the branch of Lu Feng Escort, and the other is the fifth-generation head of Beggars’ Organization. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. They can’t get out after entering the room...”
“What did you hear from Madam Luo?” They would arrive at the gate of the academy, and the sedan chair of the Luo’s Family could be seen from a distance. He Danggui couldn’t bear to interrupt Bai Yangbai finally. She said angrily, “Don’t mind other’s business. Miss Ji is one of the few good women in the Luo’s Family. Is it strange that she has lovers and sons when she is 28 or 29 years old? It’s really disrespectful to overhear. Did Madam Luo mention my marriage?”
Bai Yangbai touched his nose dully and said, “You are so anxious, as if you would like to go to the bridal sedan chair tomorrow. You are so calm about that a woman has two lovers. I see that you have the potential to develop towards her. In the days when I pretended to be her, I intercepted an unofficial engagement letter from Guan Mo accidentally. He said that he would like to marry you as the first concubine. Although Madam Luo didn’t see it, Guan Mo let his mother, Mrs. Liao came here. She took the many boxes of fat crabs and said that she would like to appreciate chrysanthemums with Madam Luo. However, during the meal, she mentioned your name five times and didn’t say anything about chrysanthemum.
He Danggui frowned and said, “Mrs. Liao? Isn’t Qing’er’s first aunt? It’s just a small thing that her son wants to have a concubine. Just sending a matchmaker is enough. Why did she come here in person?”
“You’re charming. Everyone loves you, even the woman.” Bai Yangbai guessed, “You often go to Liao’s Mansion to find that fat girl for the night. Haven’t you met Mrs. Liao? Could it have been that she had any affection for you at that time? When the fat girl chatted with her aunt, did she say a lot of good things about you?”
He Danggui shook her head and said, “I’ve never seen Mrs. Liao before. I heard that she doesn’t like liveliness. It’s very rare for Guan’s younger generation to pay respects to her. She went to Luo’s Mansion to propose marriage last month...” He Danggui thought for a moment and opened her eyes wide suddenly. She said, “Last month, Guan Yun was broken off the marital engagement by Duan Xiaolou. Then Guan Yun’s mother came to ask me to be Guan Mo’s concubine! She wanted to vent her anger for Guan Yun. She blamed me for this! How did Madam Luo reply to Mrs. Liao?”
“Don’t worry! Madam Luo rejected her on the spot.” Bai Yangbai pat her shoulder and said smilingly, “Madam Luo said that although your identity is poor, you are smart and cute. When a pretty girl of humble birth marries into a rich family, she will be a concubine. The status of Luo’s Family and Guan’s Family are almost the same. Even if a Miss from Luo’s Family would marry into Guan’s Family, she should be the Junior Wife at least. Mrs. Liao said she would like to think about it again. In this way, your marriage will be shelved if the two people don’t talk about it anymore.”
He Danggui looked a little anxious. She said, “If they fail to talk once, there will be a second time. If Mrs. Liao has a grudge against me, how can she be reluctant to take out the position of a Junior Wife in front of her hatred? I heard Qing’er said that Guan Yun is the most loved one for her aunt!”
Bai Yangbai said, “It’s OK. If it is unfortunate that they reach an agreement on letting you marry into Guan’s Family, Guan Mo is fond of you, even if Mrs. Liao doesn’t like you. Just now he dove into the ice water to save you. It is said that all his concubines can’t compare with the eunuch who was presented to him as a gift. Maybe he, like Feng Yang, pretends to like the eunuch. In fact, he is in love with you secretly and keeps his integrity for you. Besides, he is also a good-looking man. You’d better marry him. Anyway, you won’t marry Duan Xiaolou.”
He Danggui was silent. She whipped the holly by the wicker, and the holly was split from the middle.
Bai Yangbai scratched his face. It was a consolation, but he couldn’t help taunting her. Now, seeing her stubborn appearance, he felt a little embarrassed. He said a serious tone, “In fact, Meng Xuan’s method is quite good. Even if you can prevent Guan’s Family for a time, maybe Wu’s Family and Zong’s Family will appear next time. How many times can you prevent it? Let Meng Xuan go to Luo’s Family to propose marriage to you!”
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