The majestic sister-in-law of the Red Chamber

"Sister-in-law, what happened to mother?" Lin Tian just rushed into Mother Lin's room, and asked anxiously when he saw Jia Min standing in the living room.

"Niuniu, don't worry, the doctor is in there to see the mother! Look at you, I just took a shower, I didn't know how to dry my hair, and I didn't wear a coat, so I ran out in such a hurry! If you catch a cold , what should I do if I catch the cold!"

Jia Min said, and hurriedly ordered to the maid beside him: "You, hurry up and get a towel here and dry the lady's hair! You, hurry up and find a cloak for the lady to put on, and then go to the lady's yard and get a coat come over!"

"Yes, ma'am!" The servant girl responded and hurriedly split up.

Lin Tian couldn't care about these trivial matters at all, and just kept trying to sneak into Lin's mother's room, but Jia Min firmly stopped him from outside.

"Sister-in-law, just let me go in and see mother!" Lin Tian had no choice but to beg.

"Niuniu, be good, don't make trouble! Dry your hair first, and put on your clothes. The doctor will come out later, and you are going in to see your mother! If you go in now, it will be bad if you disturb the doctor's consultation." !" Jia Min said, took the towel from the maid, and carefully helped Lin Tian wipe his half-wet hair.

Lin Tian had just gone through the first medicated bath, because the soaking time was relatively long, when Jia Min was close to her body, she could still smell the strong smell of herbs that had not receded, and her complexion changed, a little Nervously asked: "Niu Niu, are you feeling uncomfortable there? Did you call a doctor, why do you smell so strongly of medicine?"

"Ah?" Lin Tian was taken aback for a moment, and then said with a natural expression: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, I'm fine! Since I started running every day, my body has been in great shape! I haven't been exercising in the yard recently Well, Mother Li was afraid that I would get tanned, so she made me a medicated bath prescription, saying that it is bubbles, so I won’t be afraid of the sun! It’s also the first time I tried it today, and I didn’t expect to let you smell it! "

"That's it!" After listening to Lin Tian's explanation, Jia Min looked at her carefully, and touched her forehead with his hand, and after making sure that there was no problem, he relaxed a long time. With a sigh of relief, if at this juncture, sister-in-law is sick, she really doesn't know what to do.

At this time, the old doctor who often came to the Lin family to see Lin's mother came out of the house, saw Jia Min and Lin Tianhou, and asked solemnly, "Is Mr. Lin not at home?"

"Ah! Someone has been sent to the yamen to inform the master, and he will be back soon!" Jia Min replied with some anxiety in his heart.

"Doctor, doctor, how is my mother's situation? What's going on? When I saw my mother during the day, she was fine. Why did she suddenly vomit blood and fainted after a while! Is it serious?" Lin Asked questions like a cannonball from the sky.

"Eh..." The old doctor was stunned for a moment, and then slowly said: "No hurry, no hurry, I will prescribe a prescription first, you take the medicine according to the prescription, and give Mrs. Lin a dose first! The specific situation will wait for Master Lin to come back, and I will explain it to you in detail!"

After the old doctor finished speaking, no matter how anxious Lin Tian jumped up and down, he picked up the pen, wrote the prescription, handed it to the butler beside him, and told him: "When decocting the medicine, you must Follow the order and time written in my prescription, neither early nor late, after three bowls of water boiled into one bowl of water, it will be done!"

Lin Tian saw that the old doctor was determined not to tell him first, so he simply ran into Mother Lin's room. During this time, she also checked a lot of medical books in order to prepare the most suitable medicinal bath prescription for her use. , consulted a lot of doctors, although I dare not say that I am proficient in medical skills, but some simple situations can still be seen.

"Mother!" Lin Tian stood beside Lin's mother's bed and called softly.

"Cough cough cough... it's Niuniu here! Why haven't you slept yet! It's getting late! Children won't grow tall if they don't sleep well, Niuniu, go back and rest quickly, mother is fine!" Lin Mu Suppressing the discomfort on his body, he comforted Lin Tian with a smile on his face.

"Mother! I won't go, I'll stay here with you! I'm not going anywhere!" Lin Tian tightly held Mother Lin's hand outside the quilt with his own little hand.

Unexpectedly, Mother Lin's hands were as cold as iron, not only did not have the slightest warmth, but also felt a little stiff.I don't know why, but at this moment Lin Tian felt a strong uneasiness in his heart.

"Mother, tell me what's wrong with you!" Lin Tian asked anxiously, holding Mother Lin's hand.

"Cough, cough, cough..." Mother Lin couldn't bear it anymore, and coughed violently again.The face that was originally pale and sallow without a trace of blood was now flushed abnormally.

Mother Lin tightly covered her mouth with the other hand, but the suppressed coughing sound was continuously transmitted through her fingers, Lin Tian with sharp eyes even saw the red traces flowing from the gap between the fingers .

"Doctor, doctor, come quickly! Come and see what's wrong with my mother!" Lin Tian shouted anxiously, looking at his mother who was almost out of breath due to severe coughing and her lips were a little purple.

"What's the matter? What's the matter?" the old doctor asked, but his legs and feet were not slow, and he walked in quickly from the door in the time of speaking, followed by Lin Ruhai in official uniform, and Jia Min, who was fading. .

When Lin Tian got out of the way and the old doctor checked Lin Mu's pulse again, Lin Mu's face had turned ashen, and her breathing became vague.

The old doctor didn't say anything, but took out a package containing silver needles from the medicine box he carried with him, pricked a few needles on Lin Mu's hand and head, and looked at the silver needles that were long and short. , Just like that, it plunged into the mother's body, and Lin Tian, ​​who was not afraid of anything, looked at the old doctor with trembling eyes at this time.

"Doctor, how is my mother's health?" Lin Ruhai was also extremely anxious at the moment.

Just now he was sorting out the lectures for the emperor tomorrow in the Hanlin Academy, but he didn’t want his family members to rush to report that his mother had suddenly vomited blood and passed out, so he hurried back and arrived at his mother’s yard before he even had time to change into his official uniform. Who would have thought that as soon as he entered the door, before he had spoken a word to the doctor, he heard his sister's shrill voice calling for the doctor, and his heart suddenly rose to his throat.

"Is the medicine ready?" The old doctor asked softly after wiping the sweat from his forehead after the injection.

"Okay, okay! I just left it to dry on the sidelines, and the temperature is just right now!" said the big maid next to Mother Lin, and came over with a bowl of soup.

"Let the old lady drink this medicine first! You must not touch the silver needle on the old lady! Master Lin, let's talk outside!" After the old doctor finished speaking, he packed his medicine box and walked into the hall outside.

Although Lin Tian is also very worried about her mother, she wants to know what happened to her mother even more!So he also followed Lin Ruhai into the hall.

"Doctor, just tell me what's going on!" Lin Ruhai's face turned blue at the moment, and he was obviously anxious.

"Alas..." The old doctor sighed for a long time, and said: "The old lady is originally weak and weak, and she has been relying on good medicinal materials to warm her up before, so she can barely keep her root, but this time, I don't know The person was suddenly stimulated by something, so that he was so angry that he vomited more than just blood!

It's still her vitality, her life!The warming and tonifying effect of cultivating yuan and consolidating the foundation for many years, because the spitting out of a mouthful of painstaking effort is completely due to failure!Now, her whole body is almost exhausted! "

"What?" Lin Ruhai swayed a few times after hearing what the old doctor said. If Jia Min who was beside him hadn't supported him in time, he might have fallen to the ground long ago.

The cheeks that had turned rosy because of running too fast were pale as paper at this moment, and his lips moved slightly, but he couldn't say anything.

Lin Tian was completely dumbfounded when he heard the words "the lamp is exhausted and the oil is exhausted".It feels like someone has knocked on the head violently, I can't hear anything, and the whole person just freezes in place like that, as if the soul has been taken away by someone, the eyes are empty and lifeless, I don't know how to see to where.

"Miss! What's wrong with you, miss! Don't scare the slaves!" Xiaotao shouted hoarsely from the side, but she didn't dare to touch Lin Tian, ​​because Lin Tian looked like a lost soul at the moment. Like a porcelain doll, as if it would shatter if touched.

"Niu Niu, Niu Niu, wake up, don't worry, mother will be fine! It will be fine!" At this moment, Lin Ruhai seemed to be waking up from a dream, and ran over quickly, tightly holding him seventeen or eighteen years younger. sister in her arms.

"Brother... Is what you said true? Is mother really okay?" Lin Tian seemed to have recovered his soul at this moment, looking at Lin Ruhai who was hugging him tightly, and asked anxiously.

"Enen! Mother will be fine!" Lin Ruhai said solemnly, looking at the little Lin Tian in front of him, with tears in his eyes.

"Alas!" The old doctor sighed again. He has been a doctor all his life and has seen too much parting. Although, at this moment, he really doesn't want to provoke the poor pair of brothers and sisters.But the responsibility of being a doctor made him have to say it, lest they even miss his mother's last words.

"Doctor, go ahead!" Jia Min glanced at Lin Ruhai who was completely out of shape, and said to the old doctor in a deep voice.

"The situation of the old lady is exhausted, and there is no way to save it! Just now, the medicine I prescribed is life-threatening! After drinking that medicine, you can persist for at least two hours! What else do you have? If you want to tell the old lady, hurry up! Prepare for the funeral as soon as possible! The old man will leave now!"

After the old doctor finished speaking, he got up and went back to the room, took back the silver needles from Mother Lin, and then left the Lin residence without looking back. Jia Min asked the housekeeper to hand over the consultation money to the old doctor quietly.

At this moment, Lin Ruhai was like a child who had lost his backbone. After moving step by step to Mother Lin's bed, he knelt there upright, hugged Mother Lin's thin body and cried bitterly.

Lin Tian is still small, if he kneeled under the bed like Lin Ruhai, he would not be able to reach his mother on the bed, so she simply kicked off her shoes, jumped onto Jia's mother's bed, rolled over to the inside of the bed, and knelt on Jia's bed. Mother Lin's hand, gently stroking Mother Lin's bloodless cheeks, tears have been dripping down her chin on Mother Lin's quilt.

"Cough, cough..." With a violent cough, Mother Lin slowly opened her eyes, first glanced at Lin Tian on the bed, raised her weak arm, patted her lightly, and panted for a long time In a fit of anger, she said, "Niu Niu, now that your mother is gone, you have to listen to your brother and sister-in-law, and stop messing around like that, you know?"

"Enen!" Lin Tian nodded indiscriminately, and the continuous tears had already blurred her vision.

"Son, you have grown up and started a family! Mother believes that you will be able to support the Lin family's family business in the future! Mother's only regret in this life is that she did not see the third generation of the Lin family born before she died... Let me go down and explain to the ancestors of the Lin family!" Lin's mother's voice was a little helpless, a little sad, but more anxious.

Lin Hai is already 23. For a man like him, many children can already go to school, but he is still empty below his knees. Now that he is gone, he will have to keep his filial piety for another three years, and he will be 26 years old by then. ...

Thinking of this, Mother Lin's heart was bleeding. She grabbed Lin Ruhai's hand desperately, and said hoarsely: "Son! You promise mother, you must promise mother! If after one year of filial piety, your daughter-in-law If you haven't conceived yet, you have to take a concubine no matter what! Make a living for our Lin family!"

"No! Mother, you will live a good life and live a long life! You still have to watch your grandson be born, you can't die, you can't die!" Lin Hai said with a choked voice, unwilling cried.

"Hehe..." Mother Lin gave a wretched smile, and said: "Birth, old age, sickness and death, this is the iron law, no one can stop it, my son! You must promise mother, otherwise I will die, and I will not be able to close my eyes! "

"Okay!" Lin Ruhai gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry, mother! I will never let the three generations of the Lin family cut off their incense from me! Don't worry!"

"That's good, that's good! Also, your sister is still young... Your father and I are gone... You have to take good care of her! My dowry... will be left to your sister... you Don't have any worries. Girls who have lost their parents, if they don't have a substantial dowry... they will definitely suffer when they marry in the future!" Mother Lin said intermittently.

"Mother, don't worry! An elder brother is like a father. I'm just such a younger sister. I will definitely treat her well and not let her suffer any grievances. In the future, I will let her get married with red makeup!" Lin Ruhai solemnly promised.

"That's good, that's good! Old man, have you come to pick me up..." Mother Lin said, looking out of the window, and then gradually lost her spirit, and the hands that were holding Lin Ruhai and Lin Tian were also weak dropped down.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..." The whole Lin residence fell into deep sorrow.