Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 340 Giving a Cat

Song Ying shouted inside: "It's me! Song Ying! Master said that the cat's medicine should be changed. I'm here to bring it to you!"

After a moment of silence, Aunt Lian opened the door and said, "Come in."

The tone was noticeably softer.

After she finished speaking, she saw Chunrui again and frowned.

Song Ying quickly explained: "This is Sister Chunrui from the garden. I accidentally scratched my lantern on the way, so she brought me here."

Aunt Lian's eyes moved to the extinguished lantern in her hand as she spoke, and she nodded: "Come in."

Song Ying handed over the medicine. "It's getting late, so I won't go in. This is two days' worth of medicine. First, add two bowls of water and soak it for more than two quarters of an hour. Then boil the water over high heat, then switch to low heat and simmer for three to four quarters of an hour."

Unexpectedly, Aunt Lian did not take the medicine, but turned around and went straight in.

Song Ying was stunned. What was she doing? She hadn't provoked her, so why didn't she take the medicine?

Seeing her stunned, Chun Rui beside her pushed her and said, "Send it in. I'll wait for you."

Seeing Aunt Lian walking away, she leaned over to her ear and whispered, "How can you be so? She is the master, how can we give things directly to the master? As slaves, we have to deliver them in person and put them away."

Song Ying felt that it was not because of this. Aunt Lian had never been so particular before. Besides, she was not a maid in the Shen Mansion.

Despite this, Song Ying still walked in with the medicine reluctantly. She walked to the left wing with familiarity and prepared to put the medicine in.

Just as I walked to the door and before I opened it, Aunt Lian came out from the right wing holding a kitten and said, "You don't need to give me the medicine. You can take the cat home and raise it."

"What?" Song Ying suspected that he had heard it wrong.

"I said, this cat is for you." Aunt Lian repeated.

"No, why did you give me your cat?" Song Ying was stunned. What was he doing?

Chunrui outside the courtyard was also a little confused. Since Aunt Lian didn't invite her, she didn't dare to go in and just stretched her neck to look inside.

Aunt Lian took a deep breath and said, "I'm sure you've heard about what happened recently. As long as it stays with me, Shen Wanyi will not let it go. I can prevent it temporarily, but not forever. I see that you like it very much, so I'll give it to you."

"I like it, but you like it more! And I think you need it more. It's very close to you. Why give it away so easily?"

Aunt Lian's eyelashes trembled, and she quickly lowered her eyelids to hide the emotions in her eyes. She pursed her lips tightly, and after a long while she raised her eyes and said, "It doesn't matter whether I need it or not. It will be safer if it leaves me, and you are a doctor. If it gets sick again in the future, you will be able to treat it in time."

"If you are sick, just see a doctor in time. As long as you are willing to think of a solution, all difficulties can be solved." Song Ying wanted to say that Shen Wanyi's problem was also easy to solve. She could go find Princess Shun'an or Shen Zhuangyuan and ask them to order Shen Wanyi not to harm the kitten. However, due to her status, she could not say these words and could only hint at them vaguely.

But Aunt Lian was determined and stuffed the kitten into her arms. "If you don't want it, just take it out and throw it away."

After saying that, he turned and went into the house and closed the door.

Song Ying stood at the door of the wing room, holding the kitten in his arms, stunned.

Perhaps the kitten sensed Aunt Lian's departure, or perhaps it was uncomfortable with Song Ying's holding it, the kitten wanted to jump down. Song Ying subconsciously grabbed the back of its neck and stopped it.

With this movement, she stood towards the door and saw Chunrui at the door with a dazed look on her face.

Song Ying looked at the kitten in his arms, then looked at Aunt Lian's closed door, and didn't know what to do for a moment.

Seeing that Aunt Lian had no intention of coming out again, Chun Rui tiptoed in, looked at the kitten in Song Ying's arms, and asked in a low voice: "What should we do now?"

Song Ying shook her head, indicating that she didn't know either.

She just came to deliver some medicine, how could she encounter so many problems!

Time passed by, and seeing that Aunt Lian had no intention of opening the door and turned off the lights, as if she had gone to sleep, Song Ying could only decide to take the kitten back first.

She nodded at Chunrui and said, "Go back first. I'll go back and ask Master."

Chunrui nodded, "Give me your lamp and medicine."

Song Ying did not refuse. She was holding a kitten. Even though it was not struggling now, it might struggle again if it walked out of the familiar environment. It would be inconvenient for her to hold other things.

As they walked out of the yard, a soft, helpless, lonely sigh was heard from the room.

A quarter of an hour later, in the courtyard of Master Song Ying and his apprentice, Song Ying sat beside the charcoal basin in the main hall. "This is what happened, Master. What should we do now?"

Doctor Lin pondered for a long time and asked, "You didn't tell anyone about what the old master and Aunt Lian said, did you?"

Song Ying shook his head like a rattle, "No, I only told you."

How could she dare? Everyone in the Shen Mansion was very scheming, and the person who wanted to burn her to death had not been found yet.

Doctor Lin nodded, "Don't tell anyone about this. Remember, you only went to Aunt Lian's yard once tonight."

Song Ying nodded. She had not intended to tell anyone else. She told her master because she trusted her and her master knew the time she left. She had initially spent a long time at Aunt Lian's place. If someone suspected her and came to question her master, they would find that the time of her actions did not match.

Also, she thought that since her master had been in the Shen Mansion for so long and was a good friend of Princess Shun'an, she would know something. Combining the conversation between Aunt Lian and Mr. Shen tonight, she could guess the truth.

"As for the cat," Doctor Lin looked at the kitten hiding in the corner of the cabinet, "it's scared of the sudden change of environment. Bring it to your room. Don't open the window too wide for the next two days. Just leave a gap for ventilation. Let it get familiar with your room first.

Don't rush to the clinic tomorrow, come with me to see the old lady and report this matter to her."

Hearing this, Song Ying felt relieved. She carried the kitten back to the bedroom, put her unused cotton clothes in a bamboo basket to make a nest for the kitten. Worried that it would catch a cold, she gave it a hot water bottle.

Although the kitten was a little familiar with her and not as scared as at first, it was still afraid of the unfamiliar environment. It refused to go into the nest and kept hiding under the bed. Song Ying coaxed it for a long time, but it refused to come out, so she had to push the cat's nest under the bed.

She first organized and wrote down what she had learned from prescribing medicine during the day. Before going to bed, she lay down and looked under the bed. Seeing that the kitten had already crawled into the cat's nest, she went to sleep with peace of mind.

The next day, although she didn't have to go to the clinic early as usual, Song Ying still got up early. She first looked under the bed, but saw that the cat was not in the nest. She was startled and woke up from her drowsiness.