Shang Ruoyi came to an extremely remote courtyard where only a candle was burning.

A woman wearing clothes with many patches on her body was crying in front of the girl lying on the earthen kang.

Hearing a noise outside the house, I quickly got up to check.

"Mother! Come quickly! Come quickly! My boss is here to see our daughter!"

When the woman heard this, her tears stopped instantly and she said in disbelief, "Really?"

Wen Xi walked in and put the medicine box aside. Looking at the petite figure lying on the cold earthen kang, Shang Ruoyi's heart ached. She vaguely remembered that in her previous life, she came to an extremely poor mountain village during a mission, where many children died one after another due to lack of food and incomplete medical care.

But she was just passing through briefly and was unable to truly solve the problem of the village. A year later, when she finished her mission and returned to the village, there were no living people there. There were even weathered bones scattered around the village because no one had collected them. Some of the bones clearly belonged to babies.

That scene hurt her deeply.

Now looking at the child lying there, she walked forward and vowed to cure her.

He Jingheng looked at Shang Ruoyi with some confusion. Ever since she walked into the room, her temperament had changed drastically.

He didn't know what caused this change.

After Shang Ruoyi took her pulse, she breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the situation was not yet beyond saving.

At first it was indeed a cold, but it gradually turned into pneumonia. Now the lung inflammation is very serious. If I don't get treatment, it will be really dangerous.

The girl's face was abnormally red, her body was shaking from time to time, and her hands and feet were cold, which were the precursors to febrile convulsions.

Shang Ruoyi hurriedly took out the pill and put it into her mouth.

Pills again. How many of these things does she have?

Soon, the girl's temperature dropped.

Wen Xi poured out a few pills and handed them to Wang Erzhu: "Take one pill a day, and you will be cured in less than five days."

Upon hearing this, Wang Erzhu and his wife carefully held the pills in their hands and said excitedly, "Really? Can my daughter really be cured?"

Shang Ruoyi nodded: "Okay."

"Thank you, Boss! Thank you, Boss!" Wang Erzhu kept kowtowed on the ground: "I, Wang Erzhu, am willing to work for you for the rest of my life."

Shang Ruoyi smiled and said, "When your daughter gets better, you can come to me if you are still willing."

On the way back, He Jingheng couldn't help but be curious: "Did you make that pill?"

Shang Ruoyi nodded: "Why, you don't believe it?"

"It's not that I don't believe it, but I find it incredible. Even the imperial doctors in the palace can't make pills. Where did you learn it from?"

"Didn't I tell you that when my mother was alive, she gave me a miscellaneous book with a lot of strange things written on it?"

He Jingheng smiled and said, "Even pharmacology?"

"Of course." Shang Ruoyi said calmly, "I brought it with me on my wedding day. I think it has been collected into the national treasury now."

He Jingheng just smiled and said nothing, and Shang Ruoyi didn't want to dwell on this matter too much.

When the two returned to the yard, it was already dark and everyone was asleep.

Only their room was still lit with candles.

Shang Ruoyi frowned, pushed the door open, and found Qiao Yanxin making the bed in their room.

"What are you doing?"

When Qiao Yanxin saw them coming back, she said with a bright smile on her face, "I'll tidy up your room and make the beds."

She pulled out a hot water bottle from under the quilt: "It's getting cold, let me warm your bed."

Shang Ruoyi nodded: "I understand, but don't do this kind of thing in the future, and don't enter my room without my permission."

Qiao Yanxin looked at He Jingheng, then quickly lowered her head and nodded somewhat aggrievedly: "Yes, I understand."

Just as she was about to leave, Shang Ruoyi stopped her, "Also, you have to think carefully, are you really not going back to the second house? You can't be the master here."

Qiao Yanxin nodded: "I won't go back, they are really bullying me."

Looking at her departing back, Shang Ruoyi frowned, but He Jingheng didn't react at all. He just carried the bedding she had prepared to the side.

At night, a few birds suddenly chirped outside. He Jingheng suddenly opened his eyes, saw Shang Ruoyi sleeping soundly, and walked out quietly.

"master."

"How about it?"

Yunqi said in a deep voice: "We still haven't found any trace of the prince."

"Got it." He Jingheng's face was heavy: "Check the second branch Qiao's mother's family."

"Yes."

In the next few days, the construction of the house proceeded in an orderly manner.

Since there was meat for every meal, everyone was very motivated and the work that would normally take more than ten days was completed in just a few days.

That day, Zhang came back from the town with a heavy heart, holding a paper bag in her hand.

When He Ning'an saw her coming back, he said in a deep voice, "Where have you been? You've been missing since early morning, and Jinghe and I are still hungry."

"That's right! Mom, I'm almost starving to death."

Zhang hid the paper bag around her waist without saying a word, boiled water in a pot, and started to cook porridge.

"I'm so tired of eating porridge every day. I feel sick just looking at the porridge now." He Jinghe complained, "Mom, when can we eat meat?"

"Eat meat?" Zhang said coldly, "I heard that your grandmother and her family eat meat every day. Not only do they eat meat, but the people who work for them also eat meat."

He Ning'an frowned, "Humph, in my opinion, my mother is just getting old and confused. How could she let Shang Ruoyi, the concubine, be the housekeeper? And let her take care of such a big thing?"

"That's right." He Jingheng echoed, "How much money does it cost to build a house? This woman must have embezzled a lot." He pounded his leg, his face full of resentment, "I can't swallow this breath just thinking about it. I was actually stepped on by this woman."

Zhang sneered: "Don't worry, mother has her own way to deal with her." Zhang touched the paper bag around her waist and thought of what the man had said to her. As long as they did these things, they could leave here with the silver.

That day, Shang Ruoyi calculated the money. Although there was a lot of money in the space, she couldn't just sit back and enjoy it all.

After she divorces He Jingheng, she will have to find a way to return the things in Dingguo Palace to them. She can only start from scratch with the dowry she took away.

Now the food and drink of so many people in the He family depend on her. It seems that it is time to start thinking of ways to make money.

She recalled the shocked look on He Jingheng's face when he saw her take out the pills, and an idea instantly came to her mind.

The next morning, she wanted to go out to the town, but He Jingheng walked up to her with a smile on his face: "Go and have a look!"

"What are you looking at?"

"Aren't you going to ask me to make some defensive mechanisms?"

Shang Ruoyi's eyes lit up: "It's done? So quickly?"

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