smoke from cooking

. "Nan Shu deliberately pointed her finger.

"I know, but it doesn't look good when you wear it like this. Dr. Xu is always a doctor in court, and he needs face when he goes out. Wearing a mended dress is too detrimental to him."

"Isn't this a matter of urgency?"

Nan Shu sat beside Xu Xiu.In the blink of an eye, Xu Xiu embroidered a small green leaf. "You want to embroider leaves?"

"Well, Doctor Xu's clothes are originally light green. I embroidered a few bamboo leaves here, just to cover up the traces of mending, and then embroidered a few more pieces in other places, so that the bamboo leaves look like they are. .”

"That's a lot of work. Isn't it just embroidering a piece of clothing, and it takes so much effort? According to me, just pull a thread here."

Xu Xiu smiled, but shook her head, her hands kept sewing.

"You, you have a solid eye. People who have nothing to do with you should be so careful. I think I will hand over all the worn out clothes at home to you to mend. You are so careful with a doctor who has nothing to do with you. Come to think of it. I am your master, you should be more careful." Nan Shu's tone was a little cold.

"Nan Mama, why do you bother to say these things. You asked me to make clothes for the two young masters, and I did my best."

"That's different, we are your master, and Doctor Xu has nothing to do with you." Nan Shu's voice became louder, as if she wanted everyone to hear her.

Xu Ju glanced behind him in a panic, and saw that the windows of the backyard room were tightly closed, and he was not sure if Xu Ju inside heard him.

"What are you looking at? You are from my family, and he is him, so what if you hear it. Could it be that I am wrong." Nan Shu's voice became a little higher.

Clang, there seemed to be a sound of something falling to the ground in the room.

Xu Xiu turned pale, "You, don't say it."

"I'm not wrong, why can't I say it. I saw the clothes you made for Xiaori and Xiaoyue. Although the stitching is done well, there is no embroidery or anything. It's just a torn dress." , you still bother to do embroidery. Too many things not too much!"

Xu Xiu's face turned pale, and the needle in his hand passed through tremblingly, but it pierced into the flesh of his finger, and a string of blood burst out of the wound immediately.Xu Xiu put her fingers into her mouth in pain, her brows twitching.

"You see, you have too much to do to embroider, and you've made your fingers bleed. For an irrelevant person, why not?" Nan Shu's fingers almost touched Xu Xiu's forehead.

"That's enough, Nanmama. Although I sold myself to the Zhang family as a servant. But it's not..."

"It's not what? Don't breathe, you said it." Nan Shu touched Xu Xiu's forehead with her fingers, and with a little force, Xu Xiu's head turned in the direction.

"Whether it's an unrelated person or not, I know in my heart. Don't worry about Mama, the master."

"Tsk. I'm someone who cares about you and doesn't care, so I don't bother to say it." Xu Xiu lowered her voice, speaking in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

"I also need to mend clothes for Dr. Xu, if Mama, the master, has something to do, just go and do it."

Nan Shu smacked this sentence, it was actually an order to evict the guest.But after such a toss, Nan Shu knew it in her heart, Xu Xiu didn't have any intentions, even if she had intentions and knots.

Nan Shu left Xu Xiu and went back to her room. As soon as she entered the door, Mama Dou hurried in, "Master, Mama, was discovered."

Nan Shu was putting a sip of hot tea into her mouth, and when she heard Dou Mama's words, she almost spit out the tea, "Someone discovered something. There is nothing wrong with it. I have already inquired about everything that should be inquired."

"Master, Mama..." Mama Dou smiled flatteringly, and moved to Nan Shu's side, "What's the matter?"

"What's the matter?" Nan Shu raised her eyebrows, deliberately hanging on to Dou Mama's words.

"That's what it is."

"Hmph, it's not just that one is affectionate and the other is intentional, or one has a knot in his heart, and the other can't be solved."

"Oh, Mrs. Xu is not bad, and Xu Mama seems to be a good one, why is there no result."

"According to me, this matter is not difficult to do, just put two people together to make a pile."

"How to make it together?"

"It's just raw rice and cooked rice. When Xu Xiu has a child and gives birth smoothly, all the knots in her heart can be solved. In my opinion, it's best for Xu Ju to kidnap him and leave here, and run to a far away place, Qiongzhou. The time is good, the mountains are high and the roads are far away, who cares about whose business. I said, the people in this county are too idle, and there is not much to do for half a day, and the big things are publicized. Put it in a bigger place , There is news every day, after a month or two, who cares if you are Xu Xiu or Chen Xiu."

Dou Mama was dumbfounded when she heard that, but Nan Shu actually proposed that Xu Ju kidnap someone. "Master Mama, you, what you said is true."

"It's not just talking, it's just a joke." Nan Shu took a sip of tea, breathing smoothly. "Xu Xiu is a dead-headed person. If the child is born, it's fine. If anything happens, if something happens, if something happens, or if he gets sick and dies, he must be blamed on himself. Take a step back and say, if something happens along the way, then the dead-headed person will be too. I can’t turn the corner. I’m afraid it’s not helping him, but hurting him. We have to think about it and find a gentler way.”

Dou Mama nodded again and again, "That's right. That, it's too scary." Dou Mama rubbed her chest, wondering inwardly, her own Mama is not an ignorant person, why does he know other people's affairs, but why? My own is confused.

"I have to write a letter to He Mingmin, his child was delivered by Xu Xiu, ask clearly, and then tell Xu Xiu to reassure him, well, one is not enough, it is best to have two more, but where can I find more? Where's Ma?" Nan Shu paced back and forth in the room. "It's difficult."

Dou Mama quietly lifted the curtain and exited the room.

Nan Shu couldn't think of a good way, so she could only use the formula of grinding characters.First ask Xu Ju to help write a letter to He Mingmin, asking about the child's situation.Then... just wait for the time to pass.

He Mingmin's letter was sent to Zhang's small courtyard at the beginning of autumn, and the person who went to Qiongzhou came back with the letter.

Do you know

He Mingmin's letter was written in great detail. When did the child learn to turn over, raise his head, and step forward one by one, and at the end he secretly blamed Nan Shu for not writing to him.

The letter in Nanshu Yang Yang's hands was handed over to Xu Xiu, "You read it to me. I have done too much kitchen work recently. I can't see clearly." Kitchen work is not needlework. No matter how much you do, it will hurt you. Eyes are also limited.

Xu Xiu received the letter, turned around and walked to the backyard to look for Fuzi. Nan Shu squinted her eyes. It turned out that Xu Xiu could not read.It's a good feeling, one more excuse.

Fuzi has been with You Ning for several years, and he may not be able to recite poems correctly, but Nianxin can definitely do such small things.After receiving the letter, Fuzi immediately ran to the front yard and read it aloud.

"It seems that Hemama is still doing well." Nan Shu said to herself, "Xu Xiu, you helped deliver Hemama's child back then. Now that they have grown up so much, in a few years, they will be able to follow her." His dad ran around."

"The child is still young, so it's hard to talk about what will happen in the future." Xu Xiu's eyes showed hope. Who wouldn't want a child delivered by himself to grow up well, but when he thought about the past, Xu Xiu felt chills in his heart.Xu Xiu knew that her delivery method was okay, not only okay, but also better than the well-known midwife Mama in the county, but so what, the babies she delivered died one after another.Mama's technology is not as good as her own, but the children she delivers are growing up well one after another.

"Who did you help deliver babies before?"

"The people who live in the west gate of the city... huh? Why are you asking this?" Xu Xiu answered smoothly, and immediately realized that Nan Shu's question might have other meanings. said.

"The west gate of the city. I heard that the people living there are not very good."

It turned out to be talking about this.The people living in the west gate of the city are all the lowest-class families in Xiancheng, which may not be as good as the farmers outside the city.

"It's natural, people with a little wealth would not choose there."

"In such a bad environment, children should often get sick, right? Think about it, you see, I force Xiaori and Xiaoyue to drink goat milk every day to supplement nutrition, and make them run around in the yard. It's not for their health. Children? , When you are young, you have to eat well, drink well, and exercise well, so that it is easy to feed and grow strong. Can those Ximen families eat one meal a day? Adults can’t eat, let alone children Eat well."

Xu Xiu was surprised by Nan Shu's comment, "There will always be food once a day. After all, it's not a famine year. As long as you have hands and feet and don't be lazy, you can't eat one meal a day. However, how much you eat is good. , it's hard to say. But these..." But these shouldn't be the cause of the child's life and death, right?Xu Xiu hesitated.

"Look at Zhang Xiaoniu, this kid has a solid skin, and the meat on his hands is hard. I know that the old Zhangtou has a few chickens at home, and he secretly cooks eggs for his children."

"Eggs...it's not surprising that farmers can eat them."

"Eggs are also a good thing. My family also feeds eggs to the children every other day to enhance their body's resistance."

Xu Xiu couldn't understand what physical resistance was, but she felt that it was a key factor for the child's survival.Is it really because those children who have delivered by themselves are not in a good family, so it is difficult to survive.Xu Xiu buried a small nail in her heart, glanced at the letter in Nan Shu's hand, and couldn't help but straighten her eyes.He Mingmin's family should be in a good family, right?

When Nan Shu saw Xu Xiu staring at the letter in her hand, she knew it was working.In fact, it is hard for Nan Shu to say whether her family background was the reason for those children's premature deaths, but there will always be indirect reasons