Chapter 92 - Pampered Consort of the Fragrant Orchard - NovelsTime

Pampered Consort of the Fragrant Orchard

Chapter 92

Author: 菩提苦心
updatedAt: 2025-04-20

"Don''t cry now." Du Xiaoli smiled comfortingly at her and said, "if I can cure your grandpa, but I want you to follow me, will you recognize me as the Lord?"

    "What?" the kid put his hand on his face and forgot to take it down. He stared at Du Xiaoli.

    "I said I would heal your grandpa, arrange a place for him to provide for the aged, and then let you follow me, work for me, and never betray me. Would you like to?" Du Xiaoli explained patiently.

    "Can you cure my grandpa?" the kid looked at Du Xiaoli excitedly and said, "as long as you can cure my grandpa, I will follow you. I will never betray you in my life!"

    "Xia yuan, take your things and let''s go and see his grandpa." Du Xiaoli ordered.

    "Yes, miss." Xia Yuan went out and came back with an extra satchel.

    Sitting in the Du''s carriage, the little beggar was a little stiff. None of the official ladies she met before looked at herself with disgust and didn''t let the bodyguard drive her away. She never thought she could get in such a luxurious carriage one day.

    Du Xiaoli had told Du Yunhan that he might not go back tonight before he left. Du Yunhan knew that Du Xiaoli was an independent person and that the daughter could only follow her temperament, so he nodded and agreed. When their carriage drove out of the gate, it was almost time to close the gate.

    The carriage drove for a long time before it came to a broken house in the suburbs. Du Xiaoli looked at the distance, looked at the kid and asked, "do you have to walk so far into the city to beg every day?"

    "No," the kid shook his head and said, "In the past, when Grandpa was in good health, we didn''t go out at night. We usually slept under the eaves of a house. Later, when Grandpa was ill, we found a place to stay. Grandpa rested there, and I went to the city to beg. Sometimes it was late, I would sleep alone for a night, and then go back to see Grandpa early the next day."

    Du Xiaoli suddenly felt a little sad when she heard the little beggar''s words. If the kid had parents, she wouldn''t suffer from these hardships. She was just like herself in a previous life. If she didn''t have such a distant relative, she would come to the same end.

    "How old are you?" Du Xiaoli asked.

    "Grandpa didn''t know when my birthday was, so he took the day he found me as my birthday. I just had my twelfth birthday the day before yesterday." the kid said.

    "Then you are one year younger than me." Du Xiaoli said. Looking at her now, he asked, "are you a boy or a girl?"

    "I''m a girl," said the kid. "Grandpa said I look handsome, so he let me look like this, so that others can''t see me."

    Du Xiaoli smiled. Although she couldn''t see her appearance, her bright eyes were still very attractive. At least, she was attracted, wasn''t she?

    The carriage came to a dilapidated house according to the route the kid said. Seeing the house, Du Xiaoli thought of the place where she had just arrived in the world. Now, by comparison, she found that the beggar lived much better than she did at that time.

    Because the old beggar was in a critical situation, Du Xiaoli went straight into the house and saw an old beggar lying on a pile of straw, with a doctor and a bodyguard standing next to him. They seemed to be communicating.

    "Let the bodyguard send the doctor back." Du Xiaoli said to Xia yuan. Xia yuan came forward and talked to the two people, and then the bodyguard took the doctor out.

    "Grandpa." the kid came to the old beggar and looked at him. He had only breath out but no breath in. His tears began to fall again.

    "Let me see. You stand aside." Du Xiaoli came to the old beggar, squatted down, took his dirty right hand, began to feel his pulse, and then checked his body.

    "Miss, can my grandpa still be saved?" the kid held his breath and looked at Du Xiaoli to check the old beggar. When she was finished, he asked.

    "It''s OK." Du Xiaoli took the silver needle handed by Xia yuan and said, "look at it later and don''t make a noise."

    "Mm-hmm." when the kid saw Du Xiaoli''s appearance, he subconsciously believed that she could save the old beggar. Perhaps it was also because Du Xiaoli was the straw she could finally grasp.

    Du Xiaoli gave the old beggar a needle, then fed him some water from the bowl, and took out a cut ginseng from another box and put it in his mouth.

    "Well, he''ll wake up soon. He wasn''t seriously ill before, but he was so dangerous because he didn''t get timely treatment and hunger. When he woke up, feed him some porridge..." Du Xiaoli remembered that they had nothing here. Where did they get the porridge and pot?

    "Plop -"

    The imp knelt down at Du Xiaoli''s feet and kept saying, "thank you, miss. Now the miss has saved my grandpa. The imp is willing to follow the miss and ask the miss to find a way to cure him completely."

    "Miss, I heard Yingge say that the Chuang Tzu I bought is not far from here. Why don''t we go there tonight?" Xia Yuan said.

    "Do you know where it is?" Du Xiaoli asked.

    "The bodyguard knows. The forces in the capital basically know." Xia yuan replied.

    "Then we''ll go to Chuang Tzu when he comes back." after a while, the bodyguard sent the doctor back before the city gate was closed. Then he went back to the beggar. When he learned that Du Xiaoli was going to Chuang Tzu, he took the initiative to drive a carriage for them and took them to Chuang Tzu. Now it was evening. Du Xiaoli felt comfortable when he smelled the smell of immature grapes. The carriage stopped in front of a yard. The guard went down and knocked on the door. When the door opened, he took out a keepsake. The gatekeeper opened the door. The guard came back and drove the carriage to the yard. When entering the yard, the old beggar woke up. Xia yuan ordered the kitchen to cook some porridge for the old beggar. Just in the evening, everyone drank porridge. When there was some left, they directly filled a bowl. The old beggar knew that Du Xiaoli had saved his life and thanked him again and again. Then he finished the porridge and ate two cakes before he stopped. The imp saw the dying old beggar less than an hour ago. At this time, she could eat by herself. The tears on her face didn''t stop. She kept thanking Du Xiaoli. When she saw the old beggar drinking porridge, her stomach screamed. "Xia yuan, take her to take a bath and change her clothes first." Du Xiaoli looked at the kid and said. "Yes, miss." Xia Yuan said, "come with me." the kid went out with Xia yuan, but Xia yuan came here for the first time. He had to ask a servant girl in Chuang Tzu to take them. Du Xiaoli knew that there were some commonly used medicinal materials in Chuang Tzu, so he gave the old beggar a prescription and asked someone to decoct the medicine for him. Then he also prescribed a medicine bath and asked him to wash his dirty body while taking a medicine bath.

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