box of hearts

Chapter 85
Sun Xiaocai felt as if there were sharp knives churning in his belly, he kept on saying "I'm sorry" to his friends, and then went back with the support of Dui Xia.Everyone only thought that he had occasional stomach troubles, but they didn't take it seriously, and continued to play cards for fun, forgiving that Sun Xiaocai would be back soon.Unexpectedly, after waiting for more than half an hour, Lan Rui, the eldest maid of Xiangxia, came out with a worried face, "Masters, Mr. Sun suffers from severe diarrhea. He has had diarrhea more than a dozen times in a while. I'm afraid he won't get better soon. Master Sun said that he doesn't have the energy to deal with it right now, and everyone doesn't need to go up to see him, just play here, and when he gets better another day, he will set up two tables of cards again to apologize to everyone."

Someone shook open the folding fan in his hand and locked his eyebrows, "It's just fine, why did you have diarrhea all of a sudden?"

Lan Rui shook her head more frequently than the fan, "I don't know, I'm afraid I just ate some iced drinks and it spoiled."

"No, we just ate them all, aren't they all good?"

"Hey, Mr. Sun may be weaker, so he was agitated for a while. Then everyone sit down, and I have to invite a doctor for Mr. Sun to take a look. Our girls are dying of anxiety."

Lan Rui went out in a hurry, and in just three or two rounds of cards, she saw that she led a middle-aged doctor with a medical kit on his shoulder and went directly to the horse building in the back hall.Duixia lived on the west end of the first floor, and the house was in a mess like a pot of porridge. The maids were fanning fans and towels, all surrounded by the big mahogany bed in the entrance room.Sun Xiaocai was lying on the bed, and after only half an afternoon, he was already a different person, his complexion was sallow, his eyes were sunken, his head was covered with bead-sized beads of sweat, he was clutching his stomach and screaming in pain.

With tears in his red eyes, Xiangxia looked this way and called urgently: "Doctor, you are here, doctor, show the master quickly, what's wrong with him?"

The doctor said a few words of comfort, then sat forward and asked to pass Sun Xiaocai's hand by the bed. After taking the pulse, he let out a "hiss" and said with great thought: "There is nothing wrong with the pulse condition." It’s really weird to have diarrhea like this. I’m sorry, I’m incompetent, and I can’t see what the strange disease is, so I have to prescribe a prescription to stop diarrhea, and take it first.”

Just at this moment, Sun Xiaocai called out "Oops" again, stretched his arms and tried to sit down, but he didn't even have any strength left, he just leaned on the pillow and panted.He asked Xia: "Are you going to pull again?" He hurriedly helped her up, and accompanied her to the clean room behind the bed step by step.Vaguely heard the sound of clattering, accompanied by the stench drifting away.In the bedroom, Lan Rui pinched her nose and pulled the doctor a few steps away, took out an ingot of broken silver and stuffed it, "You can go, thank you."

The tone is not like a patient rewarding a doctor, but like a master rewarding a slave.

The doctor is full of servants, bent over to receive the reward, "Thank you, Sister Lanrui, for your care."

Lan Rui pushed him, "Let's go quickly, hey, get another one for me."

The doctor smiled, straightened the medical box and fled away gracefully.

In this way, one doctor left, and the next one came again.From evening to night, four or five doctors came like a revolving lantern, but none of them could see why they came, and they were so angry that they jumped around and scolded Xia as "a quack doctor" and a "good-for-nothing".However, there were many callers and drinkers, and they shouted in the outfield every once in a while: "Miss Xiangxia is out of the game—" "Miss Xiangxia sees a guest—"

Although Sun Xiaocai was half-paralyzed from diarrhea, he was still awake all the time, and shouted out of breath on the bed: "Yes, to Xia, this illness is strange, and the doctors are helpless, I'm afraid it's too late. According to me, you can order a soft sedan chair to take me home, and if anything goes wrong, you won’t be able to rely on it.”

Hearing this, Duixia's tears poured down on Sun Xiaocai's body like a basin, and she wailed in a muffled voice: "My relative, how could you say such a thing? Don't mention it's just a temporary problem. What kind of intractable disease, I can't let you go elsewhere in this state. You are sweating coldly, and the wind will get worse after sitting in a sedan chair. You stay here with me. When you recover, when will you go home? "

"That's not the way to say it. You are here as a tang, how can there be any reason to raise a patient here? Besides, there are many people calling for bureaus. If you stay here and delay business, I feel uneasy."

"Don't worry, I've already sent someone to tell my mother that I won't go anywhere tonight, and I'll ask that girl Feng Qin to take care of me. To tell you the truth, in this situation, you really went back home, without you for a moment. With the news of my recovery, I don’t have the heart to do business any more, I just wish I could replace you with this body. So you let me serve you with my own hands in front of my eyes, I’m afraid I can feel more at ease. Okay, you just rest Come on, don't talk so much, it's a waste of energy."

Sun Xiaocai saw that he spoke so sincerely to Xia, his heart was filled with [-]% gratitude, and he felt that he really couldn't hold on, so he stopped holding on, and just closed his eyes and gasped for breath.

That night, Xiangxia didn't sleep or eat, and didn't even take a bite of porridge. When Sun Xiaocai wanted to have diarrhea, she personally helped him to use the toilet. Sun Xiaocai was lying down, and she just sat and watched without moving.In the early hours of the morning, Sun Xiaocai opened his eyes in a daze, only to see that Duixia was still lying on the bedside, staring at him obsessively.

He raised his hand tremblingly, wetting tears for her, "You should also sleep for a while."

Xiangxia held him with both hands, and placed it next to her face, "I'm not sleepy, you just need to sleep, sleep enough, maybe tomorrow will be fine?" She smiled tearfully, Li Li under the candle The appearance is like a flower like a moon, and the infinite tenderness in it is like a wife like a mother.

On this day, Dui Xia suffered a lot, while her sister Die Xian enjoyed all the happiness.

After noon, he followed his good friend Cao Zhimu to the gold shop next to Huaiya Hall, and happened to meet Xiao Zhao, the lover of Qingtian's personal eldest girl Mu Yun, sitting at the counter there.Die Xian wanted to take care of him, and no one else wanted him. He only asked Xiao Zhao to serve him by name.Xiao Zhao holds a velvet silver plate, holding a dozen or so emerald rings, some are gold, some are silver, some are plain, some are engraved, and some are inlaid with precious stones.Die Xian pointed to him and asked him which one was good, Xiao Zhao was clumsy and could only laugh, "Either one is good."

Die Xian gave him a dark look, "Of course they are all good, but the best one must be the most expensive, I can't tell which one it is, is it this one?"

Xiao Zhao didn't know whether he was pretending to be stupid or really stupid, so he just smiled naively, "It doesn't mean that the most expensive one is the best one, everyone has different eyes, it just depends on what the girl likes, and the one I like is the most expensive one." OK."

Die Xian met someone so clueless, rolled her eyes to the back of her head, and bluntly knocked on the table, "Tsk, just tell me, which one is the most expensive?"

Xiao Zhao couldn't see that she was angry at himself, so he picked out a large gold ring from the plate, "If it's expensive, this one is the most expensive, and the other ones are only seven or eighty taels. One piece costs exactly 80 taels."

Cao Zhimu also leaned forward to look at the ring with Diexian. It was a wide gold hoop with a safety buckle engraved. Three small flower holders were inlaid with a piece of oily emerald in the middle, and the two corners were inlaid. There is a piece of sea sapphire and a piece of rose amethyst, which are luxurious and eye-catching.With a smile on Diexian's face, she took it and put it on her finger, "Yo, I wear it just right, it looks like it was custom-made for me." She then raised her hand to appreciate the sun, "The head of the water is good, and the workmanship is also good. It's fine, it's just too expensive, alas..." Sighing, she wanted to take it off her hand with a look of reluctance.

Cao Zhimu stepped aside, "As long as you think it's good, the price is nothing, you don't have to take it off, just wear it, I think it fits well with these two crystal rings on your hand." With a polite face, "Let's take the things away first, and the money will be delivered tomorrow."

Xiao Zhao and the ladies and gentlemen in Huaihua Hutong were all acquainted, and credit was always a matter of one word, so he immediately got up and said "OK to go".

Die Xian was dressed up in a coquettish way this day, and with the new ring, she became more and more beautiful.After riding in a mule cart with Cao Zhimu, we came to Wanwan Hutong.

Speaking of Wanwan Hutong, it has a constant relationship with Diexian.Since she broke her body at the age of 14, she has been friends with guests from all walks of life behind her back. But the more he fought, the braver he became.After going through hundreds of battles, I feel that the actors are handsome, strong and well-informed, so in the past few years, they have only been concentrating on courting the actors.And the top tea garden theaters in the capital are all in this ten thousand yuan alley, and Diexian regards this place as his second hometown.Half a year ago, a new troupe came to the Huale Building in the Hutong. On the night of the first singing, Die Xian happened to be accompanied by a guest.Five or six excerpts were performed that night, one of which was "Testing a Horse" [3], in which a young martial arts student named Cha Dingkui took the lead. He was ranked sixth in the troupe, and everyone called him Cha Liulang.As soon as Liu Lang appeared on the stage, he won a lot of attention with his appearance, and his heart skipped a beat when he saw Die Xian. The next day, he called someone to come to his door and gave him four kinds of gifts: preserved deer, bird's nest, golden leg, and shark's fin.Zha Liulang heard that Diexian is one of the most famous prostitutes in the capital, one is greedy for beauty, and the other is thinking that she has a lot of money and wants to get some cheap, so they hit it off, and at night, they showed their housekeeping skills on the bed.Although Diexian has experienced countless people, she has never tasted such a good taste, and she is devoted to Taoism.Although this side is doing Cao Zhimu's business, the other side has to fool around with Zha Liulang in private for three or five days, otherwise he will feel bad and lose something.Recently, because she planned to redeem herself and marry someone, she was only busy trying to win over Cao Zhimu, and she didn't have a tryst with Zha Liulang for more than ten days.Fortunately, Cao Zhimu also often accompanied her to the operas, knowing that she was obsessed with Hualelou's operas, he specially reserved a box here, since that was the case, it was rare for Diexian to look at plum blossoms to quench her thirst.

(End of this chapter)