An ugly girl starts off, then becomes a beauty

Gao Heng returned to Beijing the day before the farm holiday at the end of the month. As it was a rainy day, there was no one guarding the gate of the mansion, so no one informed the young master in time when he returned.

Sang Feng'e took a nap in the bedroom of the painting hall, while Sang Ling measured his weight in his room in Hanning Garden. Cheng Lao squinted her eyes to recognize the numbers, and after a long time she read out with a stutter, "Two, two hundred, two hundred and nine, no, it's two hundred and four."

"You have to look carefully." The joy in her heart did not have time to dissipate when she saw Cheng Ao raised her mouth and her eyebrows were squeezed into the shape of a "川" character.

I’m afraid this old lady has made a mistake.

"No, it's two hundred and three." Cheng Lao said vaguely. Ya Nu was still smiling at the table.

"Oh." Sang Ling grabbed the rope, "Pinch your nails there, and I'll get up and take a look."

At this time, Gao Heng was taking off his raincoat and walking through the corridor. Hearing the noise in the garden, he looked over curiously.

"Two hundred and three! It's really two hundred and three." Sang Ling shouted excitedly twice.

One catty in the Ming Dynasty was half a catty in modern times, which is 115 catties.

"Write it down quickly, one hundred and fifteen!" she shouted at Ya Nu, and when she turned her head, she saw the man holding an umbrella by the door.

"cousin?"

Gao Heng didn't come in either. He just looked at her for a while in the corridor, asked about her current weight, smiled and praised her a few words, then went back to Yanshuiju. After changing his clothes, the first thing he did was to see his mother.

Sang Ling is still immersed in the joy of losing 115 pounds - being able to lose so much weight is actually not the result of daily food reduction and exercise.

Ever since she came back from Zhou's house, she has been in a bad mood. Her heart is connected to her stomach, so when she is in a bad mood, her appetite is also bad. She has not been able to enjoy her food for several days.

She hardly touched the food brought by Aunt Cheng in those days. Later, when her aunt asked her, she pretended to eat a little. She even stopped exercising for two days. She thought she would be stuck at her original weight and could not lose any weight. Who would have thought that she would break through today.

She suddenly felt that no matter how big the matter was, it was not worth her being sad.

The sound of rain outside the window drowned out the trivial sounds outside, and the wind was whimpering in the corridors of the inner courtyard. Although the weather was not very good, everyone in Hanning Garden was in high spirits, not for anything else, but because the young lady finally had a smile on her face.

Aunt Cheng asked two servants to move the bronze scale to the eaves of the corridor, while Ya Nu sorted out the bamboo slips on the table.

Just when they were busy, they suddenly saw someone running in from the yard. The sound of the wind from the inner yard and the shouting of the servants penetrated into the room, and everyone's actions stopped -

When Sang Ling hurried to the painting hall, he almost fainted as soon as he stepped into the house.

A Shan said: Earlier, the young master went in to talk to the female head of the family, and no one heard anything. Later, I don't know what they were talking about, but the mother and son started arguing. The female head of the family smashed things and cursed a few words. People outside didn't dare to go in to see. When the quarrel died down, everyone thought nothing was wrong, and then they heard the female head of the family shouting twice again.

"When I went in, I saw the young master lying on the ground. The female head of the family was asking Wei Ai to get a doctor, but she fainted while crying."

All of a sudden, all the servants inside and outside the painting hall came together. There were only two masters, and either they were fine or they were ruined. The slaves under them were all terrified.

"When did Aunt Wei leave?" Sang Ling glanced at the mother and son who were helped to the couch by servants. There was a person lying in the tent, and her aunt was helped to the bamboo bed by Aunt Wei. This scene was inexplicably creepy. If she hadn't had a good mental state, she would have fainted.

"I went there a moment earlier." Ah Shan was replying.

She nodded, walked to the couch, and tentatively felt her cousin's forehead. It didn't seem like he had a cold, so why did he fall down so suddenly?

The doctor invited by Wei Ai arrived three quarters of an hour later. Sang Ling dismissed the servants who were still waiting at the door, as he was afraid that too many people would cause noise and prevent a proper diagnosis.

After a while, the doctor came over from the bedside. Sang Ling asked someone to get five-zhu coins while he went to meet him.

"The master is too anxious. He doesn't need any medicine. He will wake up by himself if he warms his body. But the young master..." The old man twirled his beard and didn't say anything else.

"What's wrong with the young master?" Her heart was pounding and she looked sadly into the tent.

"You can ask another doctor to take a look." The doctor replied, "But in my opinion, the Chinese medicine doctors in Beijing may not be able to make a diagnosis. If we ask the Palace Medical Bureau, maybe - maybe they can know something." After saying this, he shook his head, did not take the money in Ashan's hand, and walked out of the room.

Anyone who could be invited into the Gao Mansion must be a famous doctor, and he would also know what the Gao Mansion was like. Even though she no longer had the title of marquis, Madam Sang still had a younger brother who was a general in the court. Moreover, Madam Sang herself was also ranked among the noble ladies in the capital.

If you want to go to the palace to invite a royal physician, it is not an easy task.

At this time, only the master and servants were left in the room. Sang Ling cast a glance at Wei Ai, only to see that the old woman shuddered suddenly and her eyes were panicked.

"You stay here and guard it well. I will go back to the Taiwei Mansion to get someone."

Wei Ai nodded and said "yes". Ah Shan's mind was quick and he quickly followed the young lady, while calling for someone to prepare the carriage.

The rain had stopped, but when everyone got on the carriage, it started again, as if a hole had opened in the sky, and the roof of the carriage was crackling, making it impossible for people to calm down for a moment. She lifted the curtain in a panic, and the raindrops rolled down the curtain to the edge of her skirt, and a slight chill pushed against her ankles. She suddenly remembered the day when she was leaving school in the rain and met Gao Heng who had just returned in front of the mansion gate.

That day he dismounted from his horse in a straw raincoat and hat, and then he saw the ink on the hem of her skirt.

School ends after the 3 p.m., and it's not even 3 p.m. yet. If it weren't for the mid-year field holiday, the teachers would still be giving lectures in the gatehouse, and the officials wouldn't have had a day off yet. Sang Wu would definitely not be in the mansion at this moment, and if he went back he would only be able to see Ma.

If that stepmother knew what was happening in the Gao Mansion, it would be good if she didn't cause trouble.

He immediately lifted the curtain in front of the carriage and said, "Change the place! Let's go to the residence of the Minister of Zongzheng Ban."

Isn't it said that Ban Le has a relative working in the palace? Maybe we can ask her to help invite a royal physician to the palace?

The Gao family's carriage immediately changed direction on Changting Avenue. Ashan raised the whip and drove quickly all the way to Ban's house in the east of the city.

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"The master and his wife went to the ancestral temple the day before yesterday. Madam Le went to Tianliang with the lady to pray this morning and will not be back until the day after tomorrow." said the head of the Ban family.

Sang Ling's hand holding the umbrella suddenly loosened and she almost dropped it. Fortunately, Ashan held it for her so she was not exposed to the rain.

The housekeeper pursed his lips, looked at the weather for a while, complained a few words, and ordered the two heavy doors of the mansion to be closed.

Ban Le couldn't begged for anything, and there was also Dai Chengjun. What kind of official was Dai Chengjun's family? She closed her eyes, turned around and thought for a while.

"Do you know how far the Ci Cao Dai family is from here?"

With excitement, his hanging hand grasped Ashan's wrist.

"I don't know." The servant's cheeks immediately turned red, but he didn't dare to let go easily. He just said, "I'll ask them."

So he found the time to break free from the young lady's hand, wiped the water stains off his face, and just took a step to knock on the door of the Ban family's mansion when he heard the sound of horses driving behind him.

The two of them turned their heads at the same time and saw that the person coming was wearing a conical hat, light armor, and a long sword at his waist.

"Is that Sang Ling?" the man on horseback shouted, "What's wrong with you?"

There was no time to stand in front of the Ban Mansion. The rain blew in the wind and soaked Sang Ling's body. Even her skirt was dripping with water. She walked forward quickly, her voice containing a hint of tears that she herself had not noticed. "Nie Ce, my brother is ill and the doctor can't find the cause. Please take me to the palace."

"Enter the palace?" The man on the horse was stunned, and his eyes flashed under the bamboo hat. He saw that even though the girl from the Sang family was holding an umbrella, half of her body was submerged in the rain.

"Please ask the imperial physician to come to Gao's house." Her voice was almost hoarse.

"Why invite an imperial physician?" The Jade Lion shook its horse's head in the rain, and Nie Ce pulled it hard, "Didn't they say Guan Xingsheng came to Chang'an? He's not in Gao's house?"

Guan Xingsheng was the senior brother of the Guan family who had come to Gao Mansion earlier this month. Sang Ling just recalled, "But, but he went to Weinan, I don't know where he is."

"Weinan?" Nie Ce frowned, and understood.

He had been in the northwest for several years and had had some contact with the Guan family. If Guan Xing was in Weinan, he would most likely be in Guanjia Village, so he immediately turned his horse around and said, "I'll go to Weinan and bring him over."

"How long will it take approximately?" The person behind took another step forward.

"Two hours is enough." After saying this, the young man spurred his horse and ran away with his attendants behind him.