Autumn passed, and even the crabapple tree in front of the window like the moon, the flower had already fallen into the mud, the first winter's bleak already had a few inklings, in a flash, a month passed.
As usual, Lian Mu sat on a chair made of sour pear wood with her eyes closed. She held a string of buddhist beads in her hand as she recited Buddhist scriptures.
She picked up the pastries, placed them in her mouth, and chewed them twice before coughing. Lian Xi hurriedly walked forward and skillfully patted her back. "You, slow down."
Lian Luo's mother coughed for a while before she finally managed to catch her breath. Her cheeks flushed red, she threw the leftover pastries back into the plate and said, "What a waste of effort. It must be hard on me."
Senior Servant Song pulled open the curtain and brought in Riko water. "This is a chronic illness. Old madam, don't be anxious. The more anxious you are, the more breathless you'll be."
"Sigh …" Even her mother sighed deeply. Her eyebrows were tightly knitted together.
At this moment, Lian Xiyue stood up and asked, "Old Ancestor, can I see your hand?"
Under her mother's doubtful gaze, Lian Ru Yue took her hand and opened her palm. She thoughtfully rubbed her finger once with her abdomen, then picked up her other hand and rubbed it once before asking:
"Is Grandmother's palm and foot always cold?"
"That's right. Even if it's summer, it's still cold. Especially in the middle of the night. Those feet of yours are so cold that they can't fall asleep." Senior Servant Song answered for him.
Lian Ru Yue thoughtfully pressed down on Lian Li's palm a few times, saying, "Icy coldness in the heart and limbs is caused by the lack of channels and the cold in the liver, leading to insufficient Yang energy in the kidneys. Moreover, the colder it gets, the redder the heart in the limbs will be.
Lian's mother nodded in agreement and said, "You're right. When winter is at its coldest, it will always hurt."
"Grandmother, show your granddaughter the back of your hand." Although she didn't know what Lian Ruyue was going to do, her mother still followed her instructions.
Lian Ruyue pressed down on the crease between the back of her hand and her wrist. Lian Ruyue only felt a sharp pain, and her hand couldn't help but shrink back.
"This is the Yang Chi Acupuncture Point. The Yang Chi Point is an important acupoint that governs the circulation of blood throughout the body. If you feel pain when you press it, it means that the acupuncture points are not blocked.
After a quarter of an hour of continuous pressure, his mother felt a warm current seeping into her palm and spreading throughout her body.
Then, Lian Ruyue had Huang Cen bring over a brush, ink, and paper. She wrote something on a piece of paper, wrote it down, and handed it to Senior Servant Song, saying, "After each massage, use fresh old ginger cut silk, stir-fry ginger with a wok, and wrap it with cloth every night before you go to bed. At the same time, drink fresh ginger bubble honey water every morning, add fresh ginger and salt every night into the hot water to soak feet, hand and foot treatment, through a period of cold can be able to alleviate the effect, this is the specific usage and dosage.
At this time, even her mother felt her foot slowly warm up. Her brows relaxed as she opened her mouth, and couldn't help but say happily, "It's really effective. I feel much warmer now. I said that only Third Young Madam knows medical skills, but I never thought that Eldest Young Madam also knows it. "
"Granddaughter just likes to ponder, and seeing that third sister likes to study medical skills, she also secretly learned some. In the past, there was a girl in my yard who even fainted while on night duty, so I tried this method for her and it was much better after holding on for more than half a year."
She had lightly spoken a few sentences, but in reality, she was indeed proficient in the art of medicine in her previous life.
Lian Rou's mother suddenly felt that her eldest granddaughter was like a treasure. The more she dug, the happier she felt, so she looked at Lian Xiyue with a more loving gaze. She no longer paid attention to Lian Yanqing's words about Yue'er's scheming.
At this time, the maid, Poria Cocos, came in from outside and said, "Old Ancestor, the Third Miss is here to seek an audience with you. Yin and Yang have arrived."
This was already the one month that Lian Shiya had come to pay her respects.
When her mother, who was originally smiling merrily, heard Lian Shiya's name, her face tightened as she said, "Let her go back."
Hearing this, Poria Cocos Park resentfully prepared to reply, but Lian Ruyue stopped it.
She said to her mother, "Grandmother, Third Sister has been here for a month already, so you can be considered sincere. Why don't you meet her and listen to what she has to say?
"Yes, madame. In the past month, besides coming to the Qingan Courtyard to kneel, Third Miss has spent the rest of her time in the Mansion copying. This servant saw that she had already copied out a thick stack of books." That Poria Cocos also said, and Lian Yue couldn't help but look at her again.
Lian Rou slightly sighed and said, "It was clearly her fault. I punished her in a reasonable manner, but you all thought that I was being petty with her. I wanted to use this matter to beat her up and let her know that one shouldn't take any chances. Forget it, let her in. "
"Yes." Poria Cocos Park walked out and soon Lian Shiya walked in. When she saw Lian Ruyue, she was stunned for a moment. She had been kneeling outside the whole time, so why didn't she see Lian Ruyue come in? One had to know that the person she hated the most was this loathsome elder sister.
But now that she couldn't leave, she could only respectfully kneel on the ground with her forehead pressed to the ground. "Shiya is here to apologize to Grandmother."
She was dressed in a purple dress with a plum blossom embroidered at the heart of a chicken, white silk and bamboo leaves as the lining of the undergarment. Her collar was inlaid with dark flowers from the bamboo leaves, and at the edge of the dress, there was an exquisite green calyx plum embroidery, with a silver hairpin on her head. She exuded a simple and elegant air of tranquility.
Sure enough, when even her mother saw her makeup, she nodded and said, "Stand up and speak."
"Yes." Lian Shiya knelt up straight. Only when she looked closely did she notice that her face was slightly haggard and a layer of faint black circles appeared around her eyes. It seemed that she couldn't sleep well these few days.
After her gaze made contact with Lian Ruyue, she quickly turned away. Lian Ruyue's face floated with a faint smile. Suddenly, there was a big change. It was probably someone giving instructions from behind her back.
"You have been kneeling outside every day for a month just to beg my forgiveness?" her mother asked.
Lian Shiya forcefully held back her tears and shook her head. "It was my granddaughter's fault anyway, so I didn't dare ask grandma for forgiveness. Grandmother told me to kneel for two months, so three months was natural; my granddaughter definitely wouldn't complain. "But …"
She paused, and looked nervously at her mother with her tearful eyes. "I'm just worried that Grandmother might be mad because of me, which would be a great sin for her granddaughter, so I just want to kneel here and beg Grandmother not to hurt me. I'll continue to reflect on this matter, copy the scriptures every day, and pray for Grandmother and Father."
"Your eldest sister is a good child who understands justice. In order to gain her reputation, she suffered a lot of grievances to ensure the safety of the family, and if she didn't open her mouth to plead for mercy, I wouldn't have met you today. You have to look at her in the future and use her as an example to spur you on, do you know that?"