I started out with seven husbands, and I worked hard to support my family while crying.

Chapter 183: Strange Patterns

Don't let Old Zhang's age fool you; when he's acting, he's completely shameless and doesn't care about saving face at all.

"Fine, I'll drink it!"

Seeing that he's so old and still has to go through all this trouble, it's really enough.

Fang Xiaoxiao quickly stopped this guy's slightly exaggerated acting.

She took the ginger tea with her hands, but looking at the brownish liquid in her eyes, she found it really hard to drink it.

"Goooooooooo."

I managed to finish the ginger tea despite the pungent and spicy taste.

He then took the candy from Old Zhang's hand.

"Forehead!"

Fang Xiaogang put the candy in his mouth, and an indescribable bitter taste made his tongue go numb.

It tastes absolutely awful; these ancient sugars are simply inedible.

Suddenly, a great idea popped into my head.

"Wouldn't it be wonderful if I made my own icing?"

Just do it when you think of it.

Fang Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up instantly, and she grabbed Old Zhang's withered wrist.

"Old Zhang, hurry up and buy me three catties of sugar!"

"Three catties of sugar? What are you trying to do, shopkeeper?"

You'll see when the time comes.

"it is good."

Old Zhang wanted to ask for an explanation, but then thought better of it. He figured he'd find out sooner or later anyway, so there was no rush.

After watching Old Zhang leave, Fang Xiaoxiao decided to go back to her room to rest.

She was really tired today.

The whole day was busy, especially in the makeshift operating room, where it felt like an eternity.

……

Upon entering the room, Fang Xiaoxiao collapsed onto the bed, completely exhausted and unwilling to move.

Looking up at the roof beams, his mind began to wander to the story of the little girl who had been shot with an arrow.

When I saw Nai Nai get shot with an arrow, I didn't think it was an accident, especially since the murderer hadn't been caught yet. It all seemed like it was aimed at her, but the little girl had messed things up.

"No, I need to ask Nai Nai's mother first to find out what happened back then."

Thinking of this, all sleepiness vanished instantly.

She got up, put on her snow-white silk dress and snow-white cloud boots.

She is no longer the Fang Xiaoxiao who used to worry about where her next meal would come from, and who was always anxious about having enough to eat.

She was no longer the tough woman who risked her life to gather herbs in the mountains for a few copper coins.

Now, she is the manager of Lingxi Pavilion, earning over a hundred taels of silver a month.

Fang Xiaoxiao looked at herself in the bronze mirror.

Since arriving in ancient times, she hasn't had a proper look at herself.

Today, she is no longer the weak and spendthrift woman she once was, but a strong woman who can support more than a dozen people on her own.

I pushed open the door and walked towards Nai Nai's room next door.

At this moment, in Nai Nai's room, besides her, the only ones left to take care of her were her mother and aunt.

"Dong dong!"

"Excuse me, are you asleep, sister?"

Fang Xiaoxiao stood in front of the lattice wooden door and asked softly.

She did this because she was afraid of disturbing Nai Nai, who was still fast asleep.

The young girl fell into a brief coma after the surgery.

However, this is a normal phenomenon. After all, in order to receive timely treatment, it was necessary to use the "Three Ghost Needles" technique to seal the meridians that control sleep in the nervous system.

This way, the little girl won't feel pain during the surgery.

It's important to know that ancient anesthetics were not like modern ones, which could be used to locally anesthetize the body through injections.

It is an herb rich in neurotoxins that can paralyze the entire body, causing loss of consciousness.

However, it takes a long time for this herb to take effect after it has been taken, about half an hour.

Judging from Nai Nai's situation, it's simply impossible for her to wait that long.

After entering the house, Fang Xiaoxiao greeted Nai Nai's mother and checked on Nai Nai's condition before getting straight to the point.

"Sister, I'd like to ask about how Nai Nai got shot with an arrow."

Upon hearing her question about how her daughter had been shot with an arrow, the woman's watery eyes instantly welled up with tears the size of pearls.

She seemed to be feeling lingering fear.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

"My daughter has such a hard life."

Fang Xiaoxiao quickly tried to stop him, saying that if he cried like that, he would cry himself to death in less than half an hour.

"Alright, sister, don't cry. Nai Nai will definitely get better. Now you need to help me recall the whole process of Nai Nai being shot with an arrow. It has to be in detail."

"I want to avenge Naina and bring the murderer who killed her to justice!"

As she finished speaking, her voice boomed, as if the one who had been shot was not someone else's daughter, but her own.

The woman forced herself not to cry, her voice trembling as she spoke.

"Okay, I'll say ..."

In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

Fang Xiaoxiao finally heard the whole story of how the girl was shot with an arrow. It was about how the mother and daughter were buying jewelry at a jewelry stall when the little girl turned around and pointed to Lingxi Pavilion across the street.

Just then, an arrow suddenly appeared and struck the girl in the right chest.

Throughout the entire process, everyone appeared fearful and uneasy, some even running away with their heads in their hands.

Only the mother and daughter remained seated, too afraid to move.

However, the woman mentioned a man, a short, thin man with dark skin.

"Sister, you mean that man not only walked very fast, but also carried a blue package on his back?"

"Yeah, that's right."

"May I ask if you saw anything else unusual at the time?"

Fang Xiaoxiao then asked.

The woman pondered for a moment, as if she had thought of something.

She froze for a moment, then continued.

"I... I think I saw a very strange pattern on that man's neck..."

"!!!"

Strange pattern?

Fang Xiaoxiao hurriedly ran to her desk and began grinding the powder.

"Sister, please describe in detail what the pattern looks like!"

After about two cups of tea's time, the rest of the time passed.

Based on the woman's description, Fang Xiaoxiao used charcoal blocks to draw strange patterns on rice paper.

She realized she didn't know how to use a calligraphy brush at all when she was grinding the ink.

There was no way around it; neither the original owner nor I had ever learned calligraphy.

The original owner of this body was a spoiled brat who, relying on his family's wealth, spent his time playing around at school.

She never learned calligraphy, since in modern times, everyone uses ballpoint pens and fountain pens, and no one would specifically learn calligraphy.

"That's a demon!"

Fang Xiaoxiao had just placed the Xuan paper under the candlelight, wanting to see it more clearly, when she heard Aunt Nai Nai beside her say in surprise.

"Hmm... Big sister, do you recognize this pattern?"

"I guess you could say we know each other. Years ago, my husband showed me a picture of this pattern when he came back from fighting on the border."

"What does this pattern mean?"

“I don’t know either. My husband didn’t say either. He just said that this pattern is something that only the assassins under the nobles of the Great Zhou Dynasty would have.”

The woman, dressed in dark red coarse linen clothes and with a slightly plump appearance, told everything she knew.