Chapter 131

131 treasure Pavilion

There was no sound in the room. Sister-in-law Huiwen touched the dark to the bedside and said angrily: "Xiaobao, why don't you light the light when reading? Be careful to hurt your eyes."

There was only one kerosene lamp at home. She was too tired of oil. She would never light the lamp until it was dark. Their orphans and widowed mothers live a hard life and can save a little.

Xiao Bao is also a sensible man. He knows the hard work of his mother raising herself alone. He studies very hard on weekdays.

Xiao Bao on the bed heard his mother's voice and called "mother" in a low voice. His voice was weak. Sister-in-law Huiwen panicked and asked anxiously, "Xiaobao, what's wrong with you?"

Xiaobao said "well" and didn't speak again. Sister-in-law Huiwen trembled and touched her son's forehead. Her tentacles were hot.

She stood up in a panic and didn't know what to do. No matter how hard the day is, she is not afraid, but she is only afraid of Xiaobao's illness. This is the only blood left by her dead husband. If Xiaobao has any mistakes, how can she explain to her husband under Jiuquan?

The military doctors in the barracks are stationed down the mountain, more than ten miles away. After thinking about it, sister-in-law Huiwen ran directly to the nearest Wu family without putting on her cotton padded jacket.

"Sister-in-law, I'll go back first. "Shen Qingru smiled and touched the head of the eldest child and the second child, waved goodbye to Wu's sister-in-law. Wu's sister-in-law" um "gave her a shiny thing. Shen Qingru looked down and saw that it was a small orange lamp made of orange peel.

The little orange lamp was threaded around with fine hemp thread and carried with a small bamboo stick. Inside, there was a short candle head, emitting a soft orange light.

Seeing her looking over, sister-in-law Wu said, "it's a little dark. Use this to see the Qing Dynasty."

In fact, the carriage of the general's house was waiting for her a few hundred meters away. The Wu family was high-lying. Shen Qingru was afraid that the carriage would be inconvenient to come up, so she asked the guards of the general's house to drive down and wait for her. Just a few hundred meters away, sister-in-law Wu wanted to send her. Shen Qingru resolutely refused. Sister-in-law Wu forcibly stuffed this little orange lamp for her.

Shen Qingru thanked her and walked down with the exquisite little orange lamp. There was a rapid figure in front of her. It just hit her, and the little orange lamp in her hand fell to the ground. Shen Qingru is very depressed. She is carrying a luminous lamp in her hand. Can she be bumped by someone? Is that man so short-sighted?

"Mrs. general?" before she spoke, the man recognized her first.

Shen Qingru looked at the figure with disheveled hair and sweating face and was stunned: "sister-in-law Huiwen?" is the embarrassed woman in front of her always high and proud sister-in-law Huiwen?

Sister-in-law Huiwen wanted to smile at her, but the smile on her face was more ugly than crying. The door opened with a "squeak". Sister-in-law Wu heard the movement at the door and opened the door. Sister-in-law Huiwen, ignoring Shen Qingru on the ground, grabbed sister-in-law Wu's arm and cried, "sister-in-law, save Xiaobao. Xiaobao is burning fast."

When sister-in-law Wu saw her expression, she guessed a few points. She inquired about the situation from sister-in-law Huiwen's confused words. She immediately asked the eldest child to push out the cart for buying vegetables from the house and comforted sister-in-law Huiwen: "don't worry, I'll go to the military doctor with you."

Sister-in-law Huiwen shivered her lips and thanked her. She looked at sister-in-law Wu, who was much stronger than her, and was ready to carry Xiaobao off the bed.

"Sister-in-law Huiwen, I've learned medicine. Let me see Xiaobao first." Shen Qingru suddenly opened his mouth.

Wu's sister-in-law and Huiwen's sister-in-law were stunned. They looked at each other and heard Shen Qingru say, "it's so far from the military camp and the weather is cold. Xiaobao's wind will aggravate his condition. Let me have a look first."

Shen Qingru stepped forward and motioned to sister-in-law Huiwen to lead the way. Seeing that sister-in-law Huiwen was still standing in place, he smiled and said, "sister-in-law, I am an adult from Taihua hospital in Beijing middle normal school. My medical skills may not be worse than those of the army in the camp."

Sister-in-law Huiwen was relieved when she heard the speech and hurriedly took Shen Qingru to her home. On the way, Shen Qingru inquired about Xiaobao's symptoms. Sister-in-law Huiwen repeatedly said the words "hot head and sweating". Shen Qingru estimated that Xiaobao was probably infected with wind cold.

Sure enough, when I got to the place, I looked at Xiaobao's face and took a pulse. It was not bad as she had guessed before. Xiaobao was really infected with wind cold.

Shen Qingru prescribed several traditional Chinese medicines commonly used to treat wind and cold, such as bupleurum, and ordered sister-in-law Huiwen to go to the nearest medicine shop to get the medicine back. She also taught her to wipe Xiaobao's neck and armpit with warm water at regular intervals to cool down.

Sister-in-law Huiwen gratefully grabbed Shen Qingru's hand and burst into tears. Even Xiao Bao, who was lying in bed with a waxy yellow face, thanked her wisely.

Shen Qingru sighed secretly. Xiaobao is really too thin. He is several years older than Wu's eldest child, but his body shape is one size smaller than her. It is obviously due to malnutrition.

Sister-in-law Huiwen is noble and unwilling to accept other people's help, but Xiaobao is still a child. She can't eat bran and swallow vegetables with her all the time. Shen Qingru tried to persuade a few words, but he didn't know where to start, and silently turned away his sight.

In the corner was a basket full of embroidery work. Shen Qingru picked up an embroidered handkerchief. He just felt that the composition and creativity of the handkerchief were no worse than that of the famous shop in Beijing. He couldn't help asking, "sister-in-law Huiwen, have you learned to draw? These patterns are very novel and beautiful."

Sister-in-law Huiwen was slightly stunned and nodded nervously: "I learned a little. When I was a child, I lived in the capital with my parents. My mother was proficient in painting, so I studied with her for two years, but I didn't learn well..."

A father who is an official and a mother who is proficient in painting... Sister-in-law Huiwen is also a young lady of a small official family. No wonder she has the noble character of a scholar. If it wasn't for love, how could I turn against my family and marry away to such a bitter and cold place. Unfortunately, her husband died early, and sister-in-law Huiwen, who had no contact with her family for a long time, did not want to go back to the capital, so she had to spend a hard time with her son in the frontier fortress.

It can only be said that fortune makes people.

"How much can this handkerchief cost?" Shen Qingru asked casually.

Sister-in-law Huiwen looked at it for a long time and said with a red face, "one... Ten copper coins."

Ten coppers?

Shen Qingru's eyes widened. Any handkerchief in the Shasi Pavilion in the capital can sell for five Liang silver. The embroidery work is not as exquisite as this. This handkerchief is only worth ten copper coins?

"Who are these sold to?" Shen Qingru grabbed a brocade handkerchief and looked at sister-in-law Huiwen suspiciously.

According to sister-in-law Huiwen, her embroidery was sold to a shop called zhenbaoge in the city. The display cabinets in the shop appreciate her craftsmanship very much. They once said that sister-in-law Huiwen will accept as much as she has.

When sister-in-law Huiwen spoke, her eyes glittered with gratitude, and Shen Qingru was speechless. The price given by Zhenbao Pavilion is less than 1% of that in Beijing. Sister-in-law Huiwen's exquisite embroidery is cheap cabbage.

But it is not easy for the frontier fortress to find such a shop willing to accept embroidery. Sister-in-law Huiwen has no other advantages and can only make some needlework. Without this shop, she would have no chance to make a living.

Shen Qingru thought for a moment and asked, "who is the boss of this store?"

Sister-in-law Huiwen shook her head. She only sells embroidery. She doesn't care who the buyer is.

"Did he say who to sell your embroidery to?"

Sister-in-law Huiwen didn't know anything about these. She only knew that nearby residents often sold their own brocade and fired pottery to Zhenbao Pavilion. There is no market for these goods in the frontier fortress, but Zhenbao Pavilion does not refuse anyone.

Shen Qingru is curious about this store called zhenbaoge. If he can open such a big store in the frontier fortress, he must be a person with identity and background. What made her more curious was that Zhenbao Pavilion received so many embroidery, brocade and porcelain goods that could not be sold in the frontier fortress. Where did they go?

These things are expensive in the capital, but if they are transported from the frontier fortress to the capital, the freight alone will cost a lot of money and make little money. Zhenbao Pavilion bought these goods with a large amount of money, which must not be used to lose money.

She thought about it and didn't come up with a reason, so she had to mention sister-in-law Huiwen's Embroidery basket and promised to help her sell it at a higher price. Sister-in-law Huiwen answered nervously and selected several embroiderers from the basket to give them to Shen Qingru.

Shen Qingru hesitated slightly, took the embroidered handkerchief in sister-in-law Huiwen's hand, took off a silk wrapped lotus bracelet from her wrist and stuffed it into sister-in-law Huiwen's hand: "like my sister-in-law, I never want other people's things for nothing."

Sister-in-law Huiwen was about to give way. Shen Qingru stuffed the bracelet into her arms and strode out of the door.

In the evening, when Huo Qijun returned home, it was already Zishi. He gently pushed open the door, but saw Shen Qingru smiling at him with a pair of bright eyes open.

"Why haven't you slept today?" he sat by the bed, his fingers gently stroking the cloud like hair scattered by his pillow.

Shen Qingru smiled: "wait for you."

As soon as Huo Qijun picked his sword eyebrow, the hand that originally stroked her hair moved to her face: "say it, what's the matter?"

Shen Qingru was stunned, but he heard his husband say slowly: "wait for me, you must ask me something. You are not so virtuous at ordinary times."

She skimmed her mouth, angrily stretched out a hand from the quilt, opened the annoying hand, turned her back to Huo Qijun and signaled that she was too lazy to pay attention to him.

A pleasant low smile came from behind, the sound of men's boots faded away, and a sound of water came from the bathroom.

Shen Qingru turned over and stared at the roof in a daze. After a while, Huo Qijun came back with a burst of wet water vapor. Shen Qingru quickly turned back and continued to turn his back to him.

There was a silence in the room. Just when Shen Qingru couldn't help turning her head, a bony hand suddenly fell on the pillow. The owner of the hand was bending over and looking at her, and the warm thin lip gently stuck to her neck: "madam, can you make room for your husband?"

Shen Qingru was stunned and looked up. Huo Qijun was leaning over and smiling at her. His loose clothes were not tied tightly, revealing his strong chest. His thin lips with beautiful shape were rubbing against her ears. The warm and humid breath made her tremble uncontrollably.