"Dougou, you don't know something about this Yang Ruoqing. She has an unusual relationship with your cousin. Your cousin treats her differently from others, and there is actually a reason for that." The woman said.

When Liu Doukou heard this, he quickly sat upright and said, "Mom, what's the reason? Tell me quickly!"

The woman glanced at the door of the room. The door was closed tightly. She pricked up her ears and listened again to make sure that there was no movement in the west room opposite. Then she put down the curtain and told Liu Doukou in a low voice.

He recalled the old stories from when Mu Zichuan and Yang Ruoqing were children.

"...the two of them are babies. Your uncle made the decision with Yang Ruoqing's father when he was still alive."

"Later, your uncle died, and your aunt disliked Yang Ruoqing for being a fool. Every time she went back to her parents' home and told us about this, it was her biggest headache."

"That idiot still likes to pester your cousin. Your cousin was so preoccupied with studying at that time that he annoyed her to the core."

"Otherwise, your aunt wouldn't have asked your father to pay some money to establish connections and get your cousin to study in the town's academy."

Hearing his wife's words, Liu Doukou suddenly realized, and his eyes immediately lit up with jealousy.

"The two of them are really insidious. It turned out that they had arranged a baby wedding a long time ago, but they both hid it from me so well, and pretended to be open and honest in front of me every day, as if they were really brother and sister. It's so hypocritical!"

Liu Doukou was very indignant.

But her mother said calmly: "Actually, they didn't mean to hide it from you. There's nothing to talk about in the first place. It's all a matter of sesame seeds and rotten millet."

"What's more, Yang Ruoqing is now the daughter-in-law of the Luo family, and the man she married, Luo Fengtang, is a national protector general, no worse than your cousin."

"Your cousin is a treasure in your eyes, but he doesn't care about him. You silly girl, you really can't compete with that Yang Ruoqing," the woman said again.

Liu Doukou frowned and said: "I didn't mean to compete with her, I was just shocked that she was so lucky that she was engaged to my cousin back then!"

"By the way, mother, how did their engagement end later?" she asked again.

The woman said: "Of course your aunt lifted it."

"My cousin agrees?" Liu Doukou asked again.

The woman nodded, "That's what your cousin meant too."

"If that's the case, then why do I see that my cousin doesn't dislike Yang Ruoqing at all, but his eyes are gentle and friendly, and there is even a bit of affection?" Liu Doukou asked again.

The woman smiled and said, "You are overthinking and overthinking. If your cousin really liked her, he would have been husband and wife long ago."

"Furthermore, we were all children and ignorant back then, but now we have grown up. Your aunt has also adopted Yang Ruoqing as her adopted daughter. It doesn't hurt to be a little more friendly between these adopted brothers and sisters. There are still etiquette and laws in the middle.

As for the rules of our ancestors, your cousin is a scholar and a high official in the imperial court, so he naturally understands these principles."

"So, you don't need to make enemies for yourself. Yang Ruoqing is the wife of the general who protects the country. She has a son and a daughter. Naturally, she will have nothing to do with your cousin."

"As for you, as long as you hold on to your cousin firmly, please her, make him fall in love with you, and make your aunt unable to live without you, then the marriage will happen naturally."

"When you marry your cousin in a serious manner, then the baby will have enough food, rice, oil and salt for the rest of his life. This kind of relationship will naturally happen."

"By then, your cousin will naturally know who is the closest and most trustworthy person around him, and that is his baby's mother, you!"

The woman held Liu Doukou's hand and taught her earnestly.

Liu Doukou looked shy, but there was a sense of responsibility in her heart that she had a long way to go.

"I understand everything mom said, but sometimes I see the two of them talking together, and my cousin makes excuses to send me elsewhere."

"I just feel like I'm an outsider and can't get in at all." She murmured, still unable to help but feel a little guilty.

The woman smiled and said: "Silly girl, if you want to please a man, it doesn't happen overnight. It's like growing rice in a farmer's family. You have to be able to wait, endure, and pay."

"As time goes by, you will naturally get the results you want. Don't be impatient. Impatience will never accomplish anything!"

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Yang Ruoqing had no idea that she, a twenty-five-year-old young woman, the mother of two nine-year-old children, who was about to enter the ranks of beauties in this era, was actually being discussed by Liu Doukou as an imaginary love rival!

If Yang Ruoqing had clairvoyance and good ears to see and hear this, she would probably laugh until she stopped breathing.

At this moment, most of her thoughts were spent on Zhuiyun.

Before going to bed at night, I had to make a late-night snack for Zhuiyun to replenish his energy, and then give him some medicine.

Because she knew that the eldest aunt of the Mu family would stay at Lao Mu's house for a few days, Yang Ruoqing did not visit her godmother in the past few days.

There are enough people there, so it’s okay if she doesn’t go for the time being. Besides, when the Mu family comes, they have to let their aunt, mother and daughter talk to each other properly!

In the past few days, she went up the mountain with the herb collection team to collect herbs every day during the day.

She opened her own medicine garden in the mountains and had dedicated people to take care of it. At this time of year, it would be the busy season for picking.

Many commonly used medicines are grown in Yang Ruoqing's medicine garden. In this way, there is no need for herb collection teams to travel all over the mountains and fields in search of medicinal materials.

But today, Yang Ruoqing followed the herb collection team into the mountains. After the first stop was at Yaoyuanzi, she assigned tasks to everyone as usual.

Then, after explaining to Uncle Fu's second son, who was also the person in charge of the medicine garden, she picked up the medicine basket, took a hatchet and a bamboo stick, and a string of ropes around her waist, and went there alone.

Went deeper into the mountains.

During the past few nights, she had been reading medical books.

I found a written record in one of the medical books compiled by the medical masters of the former dynasty. The symptoms in it were 70% similar to the symptoms of my godmother.

It also mentioned dispensing medicines. Yang Ruoqing remembered those medicinal materials and wanted to try her luck.

When Ga Po was sick, she did nothing to help her and could not ease Ga Po's pain. This was her lifelong regret.

Every time I think about it, I can't help but blame myself and feel sad.

So after Ga Po passed away, she was not willing to give up, and still used various connections to look for those medical books.

The copy on hand was sent by Zuo Junmo and is the only copy.

Therefore, Yang Ruoqing plans to try her luck!

Some of the medicines in this recipe are extremely rare and cannot be found in the medicine garden, so Yang Ruoqing plans to go deeper into the mountains to find them.

For hundreds of miles, Mianniu Mountain has one peak after another. Some peaks are so high that they seem to be connected with the sky. The valley is always shrouded in clouds and mist, like a fairyland on earth, almost an uninhabited land.
Chapter completed!