Volume 1 Chapter 10: Moved

  "You kid, this is for your father, not you! This was secretly exchanged by grandma yesterday for a painting, hurry up and take it away, don't talk too much, got it?"

  Grandma first frowned and touched Xie Wenjing's forehead, then suddenly whispered into her ear about the difficulties of ginseng. It was enough to move Xie Wenjing to tears.

  Xie Wenjing lowered her head and looked at the two boxes of hundred-year-old ginseng. The price of this hundred-year-old ginseng was not low, with each root costing at least over a thousand taels of silver. This old woman had been so moved by her success in her past life that she would be willing to die for her.

  "Grandma, I, I, I thank you on behalf of my parents." Xie Wenjing's hoarse voice was almost in tears. A look that seemed to be deeply moved by her grandmother.

  "Go quickly!"

  Xie Wenjing held two boxes of ginseng, and Li Ayi followed her, saying that she was sending Xie Wenjing, but actually also wanting to see the ginseng enter the bamboo garden with her own eyes.

  Xie Wenjing walked slowly and steadily towards the bamboo garden, with a dignified air and an extremely elegant demeanor.

  In my heart, however, the two ginseng roots are constantly churning. I must remember their shape and roots clearly. After sending them to the bamboo garden, I will immediately go to Qing Shi Xiang in Yangzhou to buy processed dried radish to replace them.

  Yangzhou's Qingshi Lane is a mixed bag of good and bad, where people often secretly buy and sell counterfeit or inferior medicinal materials, passing off inferior goods as superior ones or fake ones as genuine.

  The most realistic thing in this Qing Shi Xiang is the carrot ginseng, which not only looks similar but also tastes like real ginseng.

  Such a radish-like ginseng is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish between true and false, but for doctors, it can be seen at a glance.

  In a past life, I also stumbled upon this alley by chance. This alley is often visited by the servants and maids of wealthy families.

  Some of them have grown bold and will substitute their master's precious medicine, some will run errands for the master. The young masters of truly wealthy families would not set foot in this alley, let alone the young ladies.

  "Long time no see, miss!" This was Wang Yi, the manager of Bamboo Garden, a man in his thirties who had been arranged by Auntie two years ago.

  It's an honor to guard the bamboo garden, no one can disturb Father's rest. In fact, it's watching Father and Mother die in the bamboo garden, with Liu Lingling guarding Father inside and Wang Yi keeping watch outside.

  Even if Father had a slight movement, the old woman was well-informed. She didn't even need to replace the servants attending to Father's side; originally, the people who attended to Father and Mother were still taking care of them, but with these two key figures in Bamboo Garden, Bamboo Garden was under the old woman's control.

  "Ah! Wang Bo has worked hard!" Xie Wenjing responded warmly, without losing politeness, and also didn't reveal her inner guard against him.

  "King Guan Shi, it's a trouble for you to take the young lady to see the old master, I'll go back first!" Li Ji saw her own people and went back to report to her master.

  Xie Wenjing saw her parents again, almost crying out loud. Her father lay on the sickbed, his clothes loose and fluttering, his face dull and without luster, his eyes full of fatigue.

  The daughter is sitting beside her father, feeding him medicine. Liu Lingling on the side is also helping to hold the medicine bowl and assisting the daughter in feeding the father medicine.

  His father is now so weak that he doesn't even have the spirit of holding a medicine bowl.

  Xie Wenjing held two boxes of hundred-year-old ginseng, standing outside her father's house, and finally couldn't help but quietly shed tears. Her father had a hard time in the past two years, which was caused by that old woman, and also by Dr. Jia from Huichuntang, who was an accomplice of that old woman and an accessory to the crime against her father.

  "Wen Jing?" Just as his mother was feeding him medicine, he suddenly saw his father staring at the door, dazed and refusing to take the medicine she was feeding him. It wasn't until then that she followed her husband's gaze and saw their daughter had arrived.

  "Aunt Liu, you go back and rest first, I'll attend to Father taking his medicine!" The first thing Xie Wenjing wanted to do was to drive away that old woman's spy, her father's concubine, Liu Lingling.

  Liu Lingling was very sensible and put down the medicine bowl in her hand, bowed to Xie Wenjing's parents: "Sir, madam, I'll take my leave first."

  "You go!" His mother nodded, with a gentle gaze.

  After Liu Lingling and Xie Wenjing paid their respects and retreated, Xie Wenjing couldn't help but kneel in front of her father's sickbed, staring at him without blinking.

  Xie Chengyu's hand, dry and rough, stretched out from under the quilt, trembling slightly: "Wenjing."

  "Dad!" Xie Wenjing gently grasped her father's withered hand, her heart aching with sorrow, not knowing how to quickly free him from such torment.

  "Wenjing, is this ginseng brought over by your grandmother for you?"

  Xie Wenjing's mother was deeply moved, and no one in the Xie family didn't praise the old woman's kindness.

  However, Xie Wenjing found that her father's eyes suddenly dimmed, and his eyelids drooped, making it impossible to see his eyes.

  "Hmm." Xie Wenjing replied faintly.

  Xie Wenjing knew that she couldn't tell her mother about her grandmother's wrongdoings at this time. Her mother not believing her wasn't a big deal, but if the old woman found out that she suspected her, she was afraid that she would be ruthless and let her father die from his illness untreated at any moment.

  No, we have to take Dad away from here as soon as possible in order for him to get better.

  Right, take Dad to Daming Temple in Yangzhou, use the excuse of praying for blessings to take Dad away, but I don't know if the abbot of Daming Temple will accept him.

  But if I were to suggest taking Father to the Great Ming Temple to live and pray for blessings, this old woman would be anxious and would definitely take action, killing Father decisively. Or she would kill my brother decisively.

  It was easy for that woman to let her brother die a wrongful death.

  It's not the right time yet, at least let that old woman have no scruples about herself. Xie Wenjing looked at her tortured father with tears in her eyes, and was heartbroken.

  Although the enemy is right in front of us and although Father can recover, in order not to give the enemy a chance to harm other family members, I now have no choice but to watch Father suffer this ordeal.

  "Wenjing, don't be like this, your father has the two top-quality ginseng given by your grandmother, he will definitely recover quickly, Chengyu, you also don't need to worry, Master Jia said yesterday that you need to rest quietly, huh?"

  Xie Wenjing's mother looked at the father and daughter holding hands in front of her, and she was also sorrowful in her heart. But her husband's body couldn't withstand stimulation, and it wasn't a big deal for Wenjing to cry when she saw her father like this!

  "Dad, mom, it's the daughter who is unfilial, and the daughter shouldn't cry. Mom, you've been tired all night too, go rest for a while, I'll take care of dad for a bit, don't worry, there are still Wu Ayi and Li Shu at the door, just rest assured and take a break!"

  Xie Wenjing didn't want her father to drink this bowl of medicine, although she couldn't immediately take action to rescue her father from the fire pit, but she could still make him feel a little better.

  "Wenjing, mom is not tired. Mom hasn't seen you for a few days, so let mom take a good look at you. You help mom hold the medicine, and when your dad takes it, Dr. Jia said that this medicine should be taken while it's hot."

  Xie Wenjing's mother looked at her considerate daughter with affection and picked up the spoon to continue feeding her medicine.

  "Mother, just give your daughter a chance to take care of Father. If you're not at ease with me doing it, then lean against the soft couch and watch as I feed medicine to Father, okay?"

  Xie Wenjing felt heartache for both her father and mother, but this medicine, if she were to administer it herself, would definitely have to be secretly poured away, just a little bit behind her mother's back.

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