Yingbao: "What's your name? Are there any other family members here?"
"My name is Wei Xiuxiu. Those two just now are my sisters." Wei Xiuxiu said with trembling hands: "My name is Wei Xiuxiu. I also have a child here. Please buy us both mother and daughter. ”
As he spoke, he knelt down and saluted Yingbao.
Yingbao asked her to get up: "Go and bring your child to me."
Wei Xiuxiu was overjoyed, kowtowed three times to Ying Bao, turned around and ran to the wooden cage to hold her daughter.
In the wooden cage, the two girls from before spat at her: "Bah! You are willing to humble yourself! You have disgraced your father!"
A haggard-looking woman was sitting in a wooden cage and said to Wei Xiuxiu: "Xiuxiu, your uncle said he would come to rescue us, why are you so anxious to become a human slave?"
Wei Xiuxiu hugged her three-year-old daughter tightly and said coldly: "That's not my uncle."
"What are you talking about?" the woman said dissatisfiedly: "Even if he is not your uncle, he will not care about you. Why are you so disobedient? What will happen to me and your two sisters if you leave?"
Wei Xiuxiu sneered: "What do you have to do with them? Do you want me to sell my body to keep you and my daughter safe?"
After saying that, he walked out of the wooden cage with his daughter in his arms.
Yingbao looked at Wei Xiuxiu and her daughter, then at the wooden cage, then turned around and led the slaves outside.
The clerk locked the wooden cage, followed the group of slaves with a stick, and drove the slaves to the corner to wait for the master to pay the deed.
After Yingbao paid the money and received the slave's deed of sale, he got on the carriage and went home.
The Ya people tied these slaves with ropes and sent two bullock carts to take them to Jiang's house.
Chunniang was a little surprised when her daughter bought so many servants at one time, but she thought that there was indeed a shortage of people at home, so she didn't say anything.
However, when he saw the little three-year-old girl kneeling down to him, he suddenly couldn't bear it.
It is pitiful to be a slave at such a young age.
“What’s this child’s name?” Chun Niang asked.
Wei Xiuxiu replied respectfully: "Madam, her nickname is Wenzhu."
Chunniang nodded, turned to her daughter and said, "Bao'er, please make some arrangements for them. This child is still young, so we should arrange a separate room for her mother and daughter."
Ying Bao: "Don't worry, I will make arrangements."
She named the two newly bought girls Pearl and Amber respectively, and placed them in Grandma's house to take care of Grandma's daily life.
Wei Xiuxiu was also left to my mother-in-law, and she would talk to her, do embroidery, and do some chores with her every day.
The two cooks were given to Cook Liu to serve as her assistants.
Four boys, one for the younger brother Jiang Jie, one for the second cousin, and the other two guard the gate.
The house soon became lively, and all the servants and maids took their places.
Not long after, Jiang Jie's appointment letter came down. Sure enough, he and the first and second graders in the first class entered the Hanlin Academy and served as editors of the seventh rank.
Li Xu was released to any county magistrate in other places.
Suddenly one day, two palace eunuchs came to the Jiang family to deliver oral instructions, asking Jiang Yingbao to enter the palace to meet the saint, and also asked her to bring a medicine box.
Ying Bao did not dare to neglect and immediately asked Mu Dan to follow her into the palace carrying the medicine box.
The two eunuchs glanced at Mu Dan without saying anything, and asked Master Ying Bao to get on the carriage.
Jiankang’s imperial city was not as tall as Tokyo, but it was still tall enough.
Ying Bao entered the imperial city unimpeded in a palace carriage, and then came to a palace.
After the little **** sang the report, a palace maid came out and asked Ying Bao to go in, but Mu Dan had to stay outside.
Ying Bao took the medicine box from Mu Dan and said comfortingly: "Just stand here and don't wander around, and don't be afraid. I will come out in a moment."
“Hmm.” Mu Dan stood with his hands down, his legs trembling unconsciously.
Yingbao walked into the palace and saw a group of palace maids surrounding a beautiful woman. This woman was covered in silk and had a head full of pearls. She looked magnificent. The **** leading the way said: "This is our concubine Shu, why don't you bow quickly?"
Yingbao gave a blessing to the woman in front of him: "Jiang Yingbao, a commoner girl, has seen Concubine Shu."
Concubine Shu looked at her with a smile and waved, "Come closer and let me take a look."
Yingbao had no choice but to step forward and salute again.
"Oh, what a beauty." Concubine Shu chuckled, pulled Ying Bao over and said, "I once heard your majesty say that he has a female apprentice who is very skilled in medicine. Today I have asked for an edict to declare you Come into the palace and take a pulse."
"I would like to share my worries for you." Ying Bao was relieved and looked at Concubine Shu eagerly: "Please stretch out your wrist."
Concubine Shu did not hesitate and put her wrist on the Kang table.
Ying Bao took her pulse and found out that she was pregnant. "Your Majesty, you are pregnant."
Concubine Shu nodded: "It's been five months. I invited you here this time because I want to ask if my baby is a boy or a girl."
Yingbao took back her hand and said, "I'm sorry, but women's medical skills are shallow and they can't diagnose men and women."
A palace maid next to her said dissatisfiedly: "How come you can't diagnose? Even His Majesty said you have superb medical skills, but if you diagnose a man and a woman, what's the difficulty?"
Ying Bao glanced at the palace maid, not wanting to argue with an idiot.
Seeing the girl's face darken, Concubine Shu smiled and said, "Even the imperial doctor can't diagnose her. Zhuzhu, you can't blame her randomly. Miss Jiang, Zhuzhu is impatient, so please bear with me."
Ying Bao laughed and said, "Concubine Shu is joking. A commoner's daughter is just a commoner. If she talks about treating her with anything, she would be a disgrace to a commoner's daughter."
Concubine Shu looked a little embarrassed and immediately ordered the palace maid: "Quickly bring the things I prepared and give them to Miss Jiang."
A palace maid came over with a box and opened it in front of Ying Bao.
I saw ten golden gold ingots inside, each of which was no less than ten taels.
Ying Bao took a step back and saluted with clasped fists: "A civilian girl has done nothing. She has no merit and no reward. She does not deserve these rewards."
Concubine Shu smiled and said: "Miss Jiang, what you said is wrong. I will give birth in five months, and I will ask the young lady to come and help."
Ying Bao frowned slightly, feeling a little unhappy.
I am not a medical woman from a royal hospital, how can I enter the palace to deliver babies to these noble people?
If something goes wrong, won't your whole family be in trouble?
But if you refuse now, you will definitely offend Concubine Shu.
My cheap master doesn’t have a queen yet. It’s estimated that these concubines all want to get ahead and give birth to the emperor’s eldest son.
While giving birth to children, they must be wishing that other people's children would die young. They often travel to and from the court, and they may become someone's scapegoat.
Alas, what a disaster.
“Little lady, hurry up and continue!” the palace man urged.
Ying Bao gritted his teeth and took the heavy wooden box. "Thank you, Concubine Shu."
At this moment, someone outside sang: "The Holy Spirit is coming!"
Concubine Shu immediately stood up, straightened her temples happily, and walked towards the entrance of the palace to greet her.
Ying Bao followed with the box in hand.
A bright yellow figure walked in, and the maids knelt on the ground.
Yingbao did not kneel down, but just put down the wooden box and saluted the emperor with cupped fists.
Concubine Shu held her arm around the emperor and said coquettishly: "Your Majesty, why did you come here? I have been waiting for you for more than ten days."
Zhou Wuchang smiled, patted her arm and said, "I'm busy with things these days, so I finally found some free time today."
As he spoke, his eyes fell on the standing girl, "Are you Ying Bao?"
Yingbao immediately replied: "Yes, master, don't you know your apprentice?"