Chapter 317: One wave has not yet subsided, another wave has risen
Not to mention how mandarin ducks act.
Ping'er pretended to be nothing and hurried into the Yihong Courtyard. Just as she was about to go to the west wing, she happened to meet Mrs. Wang coming out of the east wing.
She hurriedly stopped and bowed respectfully: "Second Madam."
Mrs. Wang looked at her for a long while with sleepy eyes, and then smiled tiredly: "It's Ping'er, it's hard for you to run around these days - if there was someone as sensible as you in Baoyu's room, I would feel relieved."
Mrs. Wang hadn't paid much attention to it before, until she had been serving Baoyu day and night for the past few days, and then she discovered that more than half of the maids in Baoyu's room had lost their virginity!
But Baoyu is only 14 years old now, how can he withstand such recklessness?
Therefore, Mrs. Wang was very annoyed, but she couldn't do anything at this critical moment, so she could only endure it temporarily.
When he ran into Ping'er at this moment, he couldn't help but express his feelings when he thought of her usual behavior of sticking to her duties and never competing for favors or fawning on others.
But how could Mrs. Wang know that although Ping'er did not compete for favors or fawn on Jia Lian, she had given up her delicate body and offered it again and again on Sun Shaozong's bed yesterday!
But even if there was no affair, Ping'er couldn't agree to her words - otherwise, wouldn't it seem that she was planning to switch to Baoyu's room?
Ping'er then smiled and said, "I don't deserve your praise, Madam. In terms of looks and temperament, which of Xiren and Qingwen in Master Bao's room is not ten times more promising than this servant?"
"Achievements? I think it's a bit too much!"
Xiren was fine, but when Mrs. Wang heard Ping'er talking about Qingwen, she became even more unhappy - that mere maid was pointing fingers in front of everyone and was even more arrogant than her real master!
This is not even an identity. If she really becomes Baoyu's concubine in the future, wouldn't she be another Aunt Zhao? !
But it was not easy to argue with Ping'er about this, so Mrs. Wang waved her hand and said, "All right, go and serve your grandmother. If there is anything you can't handle, don't forget to let me know!"
After Ping'er agreed obediently, Mrs. Wang led a group of maids and servants out of the Yihong Courtyard and went straight to the front yard hall - after several days of live experiments, the day to see the truth has finally come!
The book does not elaborate.
But half an hour later, there were seven or eight people sitting sparsely in Rong Xi Tang. They were basically the direct relatives of the three generations of the Rongguo Mansion. The only exception was Sun Shaozong, the "official representative".
In fact, Sun Shaozong did not want to participate in this family meeting, but Jia Zheng invited him again and again, and he could not refuse, so he had to come and keep the last seat.
He looked straight at his nose and his heart, recalling the two consecutive nights of intense battles in the Zhuijin Tower, and heard Jia Zheng say in a deep voice: "We have almost tried all the methods that should be tried. There is news from Zilingzhou that there is a 70% chance of curing the disease..."
“Seventy percent?!”
Before he could finish, Mrs. Wang could not help but yell, "Four people died, and you are only 70% sure? No way, I will never let Baoyu and Fengjie take this risk!"
During the past few days, because Jia Zheng only locked up Aunt Zhao in a small Buddhist temple in the backyard and did not punish her severely, Mrs. Wang and Jia Zheng had several quarrels.
Jia Zheng, feeling guilty, had to retreat step by step, but he was already feeling very depressed.
Now that they were discussing serious matters, seeing that this 'woman' was still making trouble, Jia Zheng immediately became annoyed and squinted his eyes and said, "Then what should we do according to your opinion? Should we continue to find someone to test the medicine?!"
"snort!"
Mrs. Wang sneered. Although she did not make a formal response, her expression clearly showed her assent.
Pah~
Jia Zheng slapped the coffee table with his hand, his eyes wide open, and said, "This is absolutely ridiculous! Do you really think that the prison is run by our family? Now that these people have died in our family, it will be difficult to explain to the Ministry of Justice and Shuntian Prefecture, and you actually want to..."
"So what?!"
Mrs. Wang was also annoyed and asked sharply, "Are you willing to risk your son's life just to avoid offending others? You are willing to do so, but I am not!"
“You…”
“Alright, alright!”
Seeing the couple quarreling, Grandmother Jia slammed her dragon-headed cane to the ground and scolded them, "You are already old, why are you still quarreling? If my dear grandson hears it, won't his soul be even more reluctant to return to his place?"
When they heard the old lady speak, Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang hurriedly listened attentively.
At this time, Jia's mother changed the subject and asked Jia She, "Boss, you also tell me what we should do about this matter."
Jia She was watching the fun from the sidelines, and when the question suddenly came to him, he immediately became a little flustered. He hesitated for a while before saying, "I don't have much to say, but Baoyu and Lian'er's wife must not make any mistakes. We should think of a foolproof plan anyway ."
Despite such meaningless words, Mrs. Xing actually nodded vigorously, as if she was following her husband's lead.
Looking at Jia Lian again, he seemed to be in a trance and no one knew what he was thinking about.
Grandmother Jia sighed secretly, and had to turn her gaze to Sun Shaozong, and asked warmly: "Sun's brother has always had his own ideas, but I wonder what your opinion is?"
Didn’t we agree that you were just going to attend as observers?
Sun Shaozong complained helplessly in his heart. Actually, according to his point of view, a 70% chance of success was not low.
What's more, those witch doctors, monks and Taoist priests will definitely revise the success rate downward in order to shirk responsibility in the future, so the actual success rate may be more than 80%.
Just looking at Mrs. Wang's expression, she would definitely not agree with this statement.
So he thought about it for a while, and then changed his way of speaking: "In fact, I have been trying to figure out these past two days, was Chen Bo killed by the treatment, or was he poisoned beyond help? After all, the previous few people who were poisoned also went crazy for a while, and then died inexplicably."
Although this statement did not express an attitude explicitly , the underlying meaning was easy to understand: Who can guarantee that if things drag on any longer, the two will not die from the poison?
The hall was silent for a moment. Suddenly, Grandmother Jia slapped her dragon-headed cane again and said decisively, "Let those people get ready. We will start exorcising evil spirits and curing diseases at noon today!"
Jia Zheng immediately stood up and agreed. Mrs. Wang seemed to want to say something but hesitated for a while, but ultimately did not stop him.
At this point, Sun Shaozong thought that he had nothing to do and was waiting for the show to end. Unexpectedly, Grandmother Jia smiled at him and said, "Brother Sun, I'm afraid I still have to trouble you with something."
“Yes, yes, yes!”
Jia Zheng also hurriedly followed suit and bowed: "According to the advice of several masters, when exorcising evil spirits or curing diseases, it is best to ask someone with evil spirits to be there to protect you. I'm afraid that person must be my nephew."
This really uses every trick...
Sun Shaozong was speechless, but suddenly he remembered something - the method of detoxification seemed to include a medicinal bath, right?
Doesn’t this mean that…
"Don't worry, nephew."
Perhaps he had 'seen' Sun Shaozong's inner 'concerns', Jia Zheng hurriedly added: "You only need to take good care of Baoyu. We have hired someone else to take care of Lian'er's wife."
Damn~
Sun Shaozong was filled with excitement, but was immediately chilled to the bone. However, he did not dare to show it. Instead, he pretended to be relieved and said, "In this case, my nephew will naturally be more respectful..."
"master!"
At this moment, Zhou Rui hurried to the door and shouted, "Two centurions from the Northern Pacification Office have come. They said they have something urgent to report to Lord Sun in person!"
