Chapter 81 A Profitable Business

The mother and her two daughters all knew that this was not a good time to talk, and they felt relieved when they saw that Xiaowu was fine.

Ji Qingwu didn't stay at the door for long.

After she left, Sihai stared at the sycamore tree in front of him in silence.

Not long after, the door of the house opened and a man came out and walked to the gate of the courtyard.

Sihai turned his head and found that it was Lanzhi, the little girl beside Ji Qingwu. She handed him a light yellow porcelain box with trembling hands.

"My lady said that the ointment here is very effective in healing skin and flesh wounds. Please be sure to use it, my lord."

Sanchuan wanted to refuse, but Sihai took it directly in his hand.

After the maid ran away in panic, he stuffed the porcelain box into Sanchuan's collar and said, "This is what she should do."

The whip marks all over his body were because of her.

Sanchuan warned seriously: "I have told you many times, if you do this again next time, the whip will hit you soon."

Sihai turned his head indignantly and continued to stare at the sycamore tree.

The dinner at Wutong Garden was also delivered to the house.

Lanzhi said, "These were personally sent by Sister Chunhua, who is by the Madam's side. She said she made your favorite dishes, such as crispy jade pig ears, shredded pheasant with pickled cabbage, and milk skin sesame cakes."

Ji Qingwu opened the food box. The aroma was tempting, but there were no milk skin biscuits at the bottom layer. There were only a few large round steamed buns with dough on them.

She raised her eyebrows, broke open the bun, and found that there was indeed "filling" inside.

A note was wrapped in oil-proof paper, and written in plum blossom small calligraphy what he saw and heard in the Cining Palace today.

When Mrs. Qiao learned that her daughter had been bullied, she returned to Anjuyuan and became more and more angry. She specifically told her daughter that Ji Changyan had been punished so that she could vent her anger.

Ji Qingwu burned the note after reading it. She lowered her eyes and watched it burn to ashes in the flames.

She found herself so cold-blooded that she didn't feel pity for Ji Changyan at all.

He deserved to die. Killing the censor was a serious crime, a felony that implicated the entire family.

What's more, he was the one who humiliated her first and gave her that aphrodisiac drug. If she took it improperly, she would die. No one's life should be taken lightly.

Ji Changyan deserved to die this way.

Ji Qingwu stared at the fire for a long time, and her eyes turned orange and red. The fireworks seemed to burn into her heart.

She just felt in her heart that it was not enough. As long as Prince Yong’s covetousness was not dead, there would still be endless troubles in the future.

The tree wants to be still, but the wind does not stop.

But Prince Yong is the Empress Dowager’s biological son and the Emperor’s younger brother, but so what! She wants to cut off the roots of this tree.

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The case of the murder of former censor Yan Zongrang was closed within three days.

The perpetrators were Ji Changyan and his five men, and all six confessed.

Ji Changyan is still imprisoned in the imperial prison. It is said that he is being kept alive by tonic medicine. Those who don't know the inside story think that the emperor has pardoned him and taken care of him because he is a relative of the empress dowager's mother.

However, this incident did not implicate other members of the Ji family. Only Ji Changyan was investigated and punished, which led to the officials of the Censorate being very dissatisfied with the Ji family and the empress dowager.

Prince Yong took sick leave for several days in a row, saying that he was recuperating in the palace.

At the morning court session, Duan Mingfeng was promoted from deputy envoy of the Imperial City Administration to chief envoy by the emperor, and Li Chengxun was also promoted one level, but he had even bigger good news.

His marriage to Princess Qingyun has been put on the agenda, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Guanglu Temple are jointly handling the wedding of the princess and her husband.

On this side, Ji Qingwu was also released from house arrest.

That afternoon, she ran to the Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery.

"Big sister, I'm here to check your pulse!" As soon as Ji Qingwu entered Ninghua Hall, her brisk voice reached the inner room.

Ji Qingrong, who was leaning on the couch, pushed Lu Juan away and hurriedly tidied her clothes and hair.

Chun Xing didn't say that her brother-in-law was at home, and after Ji Qingwu came in, the two of them had already separated, so there was nothing wrong with that.

But maybe it was because he had some experience with kissing, and when he saw the elder sister's face flushed and her red lips were wet and a little swollen, he knew what the two of them had done before.

There were three people in the room, and two of them felt guilty.

Ji Qingwu was neither in the right position to go in nor to retreat. She pursed her lips and dared not look at them. The door was open and it was still broad daylight. She really didn't expect...

In a corner where the fifth sister couldn't see, Ji Qingrong reached out and pinched Lu Juan.

Lu Juan just raised his eyebrows, looking relaxed and a little satisfied.

He said, "Fifth sister is here. You sisters can talk while I go to the study to take care of official business."

When Ji Qingwu saw his brother-in-law leave, he suddenly felt much more at ease and walked forward to sit on the red lacquered wooden stool.

Asked: "Big sister, are you feeling well these days? Do you have any discomfort?"

Ji Qingrong smiled and said, "You just got out of house arrest and you came to visit me first. How can I be bad?"

Ji Qingwu came over, took her pulse first, and then carefully prepared a prescription based on her month of birth and physical condition.

Then he said casually, "Big sister, I remember you told me last time that one of your close friends was having trouble having children, and you wanted to see me?"

Ji Qingrong's eyes paused. This was a sentence that was mentioned by chance when she just got pregnant. She didn't expect that her fifth sister had still remembered it.

However, since Ji Changyan had done such an absurd thing as sending her to Prince Yong's bed, it was not appropriate to bring up the matter again.

Her handkerchief friend...

Ji Qingwu's eyes were clear as she asked, "Big sister, I was very depressed a few days ago. It just so happens that I have nothing to do now. Medicine is a benevolent art. Solving problems for those in need makes me happy."

"You also met my best friend at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet." Ji Qingrong looked at her expression and said, "She is the Princess of Yong, Tao Wanyin."

Tao Wanyin is the eldest daughter of the cabinet minister. She is proficient in all arts, including music, chess, calligraphy and painting. She is the most talented and learned woman in Lin'an City.

But after marrying Prince Yong, she became like a bird in a cage, and we could no longer hear her compose any amazing poems.

Prince Yong spends his days in debauchery and has more than twenty concubines in his mansion. Ji Qingrong can imagine what kind of life Tao Wanyin leads. What kind of woman would like to share her partner with others?

Furthermore, although Tao Wanyin was a princess, she had yet to give birth to a legitimate son. The Queen Mother had long been unhappy about this and had allowed the concubine to give birth to a child before her, the principal wife.

The Prince Yong's Mansion already had a bastard son, and the concubine who gave birth to the son had no lower status in the palace than the princess who had no children.

Ji Qingwu lowered his eyes to hide the dark light that flashed across his eyes, and replied: "Princess Yong is also a pitiful person."

Ji Qingrong followed suit and sighed: "Fifth sister, although I feel sorry for Wanyin, you are my biological sister, you should not go to Prince Yong's Mansion again."

"Big sister, can you ask Princess Yong to come out? It should be no problem for us to meet outside."

Ji Qingrong thought about it and decided that this was a good compromise, so he agreed.

She immediately sent a maid to deliver a visiting card to Prince Yong's Mansion, inviting Tao Wanyin to go to Hanshan Temple to burn incense and worship Buddha the next day.

Ji Qingwu wanted to discuss a "business" with the Princess of Yong that would make a lot of money.