Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 606 A Very Knowledgeable Village Auntie

Di Renjie admired Wu Meiniang very much, otherwise he would not have wanted to marry her sister.But the matter of Wu Meiniang and Li Zhi was a big secret, and Wang Pingan hadn't told him about it. Although Di Renjie felt that there might be something wrong with it, he was different from Wang Pingan after all.

For a person from the Tang Dynasty, a scholar who received feudal education since he was a child, it is basic common sense to be taboo for the venerable, and it must be done.So Wang Pingan glared and didn't allow him to ask more questions, so for him, there was no reason to reason. This is the normal mentality of a normal scholar who doesn't want to rebel!
He thought Wu Meiniang was dead, but suddenly he saw a village girl, a chubby village girl, wearing shabby clothes, standing in this dilapidated courtyard... If he imagined this village girl as the magnificent Wu Meiniang, Then he is not Di Renjie, but Da Shengjie, and he can stand side by side with Da Sheng An!

Di Renjie made a sound, and was stunned on the spot, thinking: "This person looks quite similar to Sister Wu! It's just that the appearance is similar, but the look is too different. Moreover, the skin is also rough, and the waist is also a little bit. It's rough, with a silly expression on her face, she looks like a woman who has never seen the world, the kind who can only go around the pot!"

Wu Meiniang's heart was beating wildly, thinking: "Xiao Di recognizes me now? I thought I ate too much these days, gained so much weight, and dressed up as a village girl. He wouldn't recognize me. The smear on my face Has the black ash been wiped less?"

In order not to let people recognize who she is, she has undergone careful makeup. Of course, it is impossible to transform into another person. The Tang Dynasty does not have such high makeup skills, let alone plastic surgery, but no matter what, a court lady and A village girl is also a huge difference.The court lady belonged to the highest social class of women in the Tang Dynasty at that time, and what she looks like now is that she is penniless, pregnant, suffering from domestic violence, and abandoned in a foreign land... In short, it is so miserable that it is no longer miserable woman!

Can you still recognize me like this?Wu Meiniang felt very frustrated. Could it be that today's encounter will encounter difficulties and cause unexpected complications?

Di Renjie stared blankly at Wu Meiniang, and Wu Meiniang looked at him in shock!
Wu Xiaomei asked strangely, "Di Lang, do you recognize her?"

Di Renjie uttered a sound, shook his head, and said, "I don't know, I don't know anyone here. It's just that this person looks a little... How should I put it, he seems to have met him before!" Wu Xiaomei walked to the backyard again.

Wu Xiaomei looked at Wu Meiniang curiously. When she and Wu Meiniang parted, she was still a little girl. Wu Meiniang's appearance had long been blurred. Starting from the second sister who is a talented person in the palace, others also say good things about her beauty, elegant temperament, and so on.In her heart, she already regarded her deceased second sister as the most perfect woman in the world!

As for the woman in front of me, she really has nothing to do with perfection!Judging by her appearance, she is already in her 30s or almost [-], and she still looks a little silly. Could it be that this village aunt or aunt is stupid?

The two walked past Wu Meiniang, looking at the village aunt with a "stupid" face, Wu Xiaomei suddenly whispered: "Look at her, she looks so pitiful. Di Lang, do you have any money? Give her some!" "

Di Renjie hummed, and thought: "Yes, I should give her some money. This woman, how should I put it, is somewhat similar to Sister Wu. Based on this alone, I should help her." He took out a small purse, which contained golden melon seeds. He has also developed a habit now, and he likes to reward others with golden melon seeds when he has nothing to do.

When Wu Meiniang saw him taking out his money bag, she thought to herself: "This is to reward me, and also to reward me with golden melon seeds. He really takes Wang Ping'an as an example!"

But seeing Di Renjie glanced at himself with the money bag, put the money bag back into his arms, and took out another money bag, this money bag was bigger than the one just now!
Wu Meiniang thought: "What are you doing, how much do you want to reward me? Does he recognize who I am? Is he pretending to be confused?"

Di Renjie took out the big money bag, but thought in his heart: "I'm confused, I was really confused just now. She is such a village girl, if I give her golden melon seeds, how can she spend them? It may not be easy for this small place to exchange gold. Wouldn't it be bad if someone else snatched it and hurt her again. It's better to give her some copper coins, it's easier to spend!"

He was very kind and thoughtful of the village aunts and aunts. He exchanged the golden melon seeds for copper coins, poured out more than 20 cash, and said with a smile: "Ma'am, I'll give you this money. Let's buy a pair of shoes and wear them. I'll see you." My shoes are all torn."

Wu Meiniang opened her mouth wide, thinking to herself: "It's not just pretending to be confused, it's because you really didn't recognize me, and you actually called me Auntie!"

Seeing the way her mouth opened wide, Wu Xiaomei and Di Renjie thought at the same time: "It really is a fool, how pitiful!" Wu Xiaomei took the money from Di Renjie's hand, stuffed it into Wu Meiniang's hand, and whispered: "Take it!"

Wu Meiniang took the copper coin and thought to herself: "I didn't even recognize me. It seems that my makeup is still pretty good. I eat and sleep these days, and the effect is obvious."

She looked at Wu Xiaomei, is this her own little sister?They have grown up so much, and they are also very handsome, but they seem a little sick, and their bones are still not strong. These years have really made things difficult for her and mother. I don't know how the stepbrothers at home abused them!
Seeing the closeness in the village aunt's eyes, Wu Xiaomei smiled at her, thinking: "It's so good, it feels so good to be a good person, no wonder Uncle always likes to be a good person!"

Di Renjie looked towards the backyard, said ahh, and said, "It's better not to go in. I saw a person inside whose clothes were covered in blood. It looked a little scary."

As soon as Wu Xiaomei heard that there was blood, she immediately turned her head away and said: "My family is most afraid of seeing blood. If you don't go in, don't go in. My family... I'd better go back and serve my mother." In fact, she didn't want to leave, and she wanted to spend more time with Di Renjie. Stay for a while, but if she can't go in to see the bloody treatment scene, she can only go back, and she can't find an excuse to stay longer, and she won't make excuses either.

Di Renjie hurriedly said: "Don't... don't be in such a hurry, I see Mrs. Wu, she seems to be asleep, let's not disturb her."

Wu Xiaomei blinked her eyes, and said honestly: "No, Mother said just now that she wanted to soak her feet, and besides, she never went to bed so early."

Di Renjie scratched his head, and said: "Then..." He suddenly caught sight of Wu Meiniang, why not make this woman a topic, I asked her about the customs of Gyeongju, but seeing her in a daze, I don't know if I can answer Come up, if you have nothing to say, it's meaningless.

Is it not easy to have something to say, he smiled and asked: "Auntie, have you eaten yet?"

Wu Meiniang was angry and helpless, angry that Di Renjie couldn't recognize her, but helpless because she was really unfamiliar with her and hadn't seen her several times, so it was unrealistic for him to recognize her directly, but Fortunately, he didn't recognize himself, otherwise the trouble would be even bigger.

Wu Meiniang looked at Wu Xiaomei, her little sister had grown up, her heart was sad and happy at the same time, she was a little slow to answer Di Renjie's words.After Di Renjie asked again: "Auntie, have you eaten yet?"

At this time, Wu Meiniang wanted to pretend to be a poor person, so naturally she couldn't say that she ate. She shook her head and said slowly in a slightly Shu tone: "No, I have no food." No food and no food, but the two a different concept.

Di Renjie glanced at Wu Xiaomei, and thought: "Look, isn't this something to talk about? She has no food, which means she is too poor."

Wu Xiaomei has been treated coldly and abused by her stepbrother for many years, and she often does not have enough food and clothing to keep warm. She empathizes with the poor and poor.She said to Wu Meiniang: "Auntie, are you the landlord's wife? It doesn't look like it. Are you a tenant like us?" There was also a Shu accent in her tone of voice.

Auntie, my younger sister calls me Auntie, so what should my mother call me... Big Sister?Wu Meiniang shook her head, put her finger to her lips, hissed, and then whispered: "Don't let the landlord hear me. I don't have the money to pay the rent. I'm afraid they will drive me away."

Di Renjie wrinkled his nose, and thought: "Her accent sounds like someone from Bashu, but with accents from other places, I can't tell where she is from!"

He shook his head and said, "If you can't pay the rent, the landlord will naturally drive you away, but why didn't he drive you away?" Although the village girl in front of me is very strong and chubby, it's not impossible to drive you away, right? ?It's strange, since she is a poor village girl, how can she eat so fat, she is much fatter than the younger sister Wu.

Wu Meiniang put on a pitiful look, lowered her head and said, "I'm pregnant with a child, if he drives me away, I will have to die at the door of his house!"

"One dead body, two lives! Don't do such a stupid thing!" Wu Xiaomei hurriedly said.She felt sorry for what happened to Wu Meiniang, and reached out her hand to grab her sleeve.

Wu Meiniang was very moved, she was her own sister after all, even though her appearance had changed and she couldn't recognize who she was, this family relationship still existed like a broken root.

She said: "I just said that I would die at the door of his house and hang myself by the door frame of his house, so he wouldn't dare to drive me away. I plan to give birth to the child at his house!"

Wu Xiaomei said ah, and opened her mouth, is this okay?

But Di Renjie gasped, thinking: "This method is not bad. When you have nowhere to go, as long as you have a thick skin and don't leave, then no one can do anything to her."

Wu Xiaomei was taken aback, and asked, "Aren't you afraid that the landlord will report to the officials and send messengers to drive you away?"

Wu Meiniang shook her head, and said: "Don't be afraid. The landlord told me so, but I told him that if he sues me and asks the guards to drive me away, then I will go to the yamen gate and hang myself. This disaster will be regarded as his trespassing." That's right, the official will definitely deal with him, so he dare not report to the official!"

This time, Wu Xiaomei couldn't close her mouth when she opened it, and she still thought, is this okay?
But Di Renjie said: "Your method really has no solution! If you really go to the gate of the yamen to hang yourself, then the official should not be scared to death. During the administration, a pregnant woman, If the dead body complains, it will definitely alarm the entire Gyeongju officialdom, and even the court of Chang'an will know about it! If such a black stroke is painted on the face of a magistrate, that official's future will be completely ended, and there will be no more. It's the day of the beginning!"

Di Renjie's mouth twitched when he thought that he was about to take over the post of magistrate of Heshui County. It's not easy to be a magistrate. The woman in front of him is simply... a troublemaker!

Wu Meiniang nodded and said: "So the landlord didn't dare to sue me, he was afraid of causing trouble to the official."

Wu Xiaomei clapped her hands and said: "Auntie, you are really smart, you can come up with such a good way to make the house white, my mother and I never thought of it at the beginning!"

When they were in their hometown, Mrs. Yang and Sister Wu were abused by the sons of their two regular wives, who robbed them of their share of property, but their wives were helpless. They didn't know how to protect themselves, and they never thought about it. Report to the officer for help.Of course, even reporting to the officials is useless, the two brothers of the Wu family will settle the official and make them sue without winning!
Wu Meiniang's method is that if you force me to be unable to live, then I will not live, and I will hang myself at the gate of your yamen. I will die, and you will not be able to do it!

The politics of the early Tang Dynasty were fairly clear, and of course they were not very good in private, but at least on the surface, all the officials and lords were aboveboard. , can only be appeased, and even pay for it himself, otherwise, wouldn't it be the end of being an official!
Wu Xiaomei thought to herself: "It would be great if I met this aunt earlier. Her technique is definitely easy to use. If there is a trouble, I am not afraid that the official will not award us the property. But it is a bit embarrassing to do so. Mother, she will never do it, she would rather starve to death than do such a thing that would embarrass the Wu family!"

They were talking here, and a guard ran in outside with a medicine bag in his hand.The guard smiled at Di Renjie and ran past Wu Meiniang!
Wu Xiaomei said: "The medicine he took, is it for the landlord?"

Di Renjie hummed, and said: "It should be. If you don't want to watch it, then let's go back!" Originally, he wanted to chat with the village girl, so he took the opportunity to stay with Wu Xiaomei for a while, but the chat ended immediately How to deal with the topic of the official, how dare he continue talking!
Wu Xiaomei nodded obediently and said: "Okay, then let's go back!" Seeing Di Renjie turn around and go out, she hurriedly followed, took two steps, but turned back to Wu Meiniang and said, "Auntie, the way you think of is to deal with the officials. Sir, will it work?"

Wu Meiniang said with a smile: "It must be effective. I know them best when they are officials. As long as you think about how they can keep their officials and get promoted, you will be able to guess right!"

Wu Xiaomei groaned, feeling that what she said made sense, but she didn't have any special reaction.

Di Renjie suddenly turned his head and looked at Wu Meiniang in astonishment. How could this woman understand the mentality of officials so well? This is not the insight that a village girl should have!

But Wu Meiniang counted the copper coins in her hand with her head down, and said: "I have suffered a lot from being an official, so I can guess what they think!"

(End of this chapter)