Ji Changchuan couldn't help but turn his head to look at Ji Changying and Hu.

"Auntie Lan, did you tell me what it was?" Ji Changying stood up and walked forward a few steps, getting closer to Tielan.

"You will know when you go there. I don't know either."

Tielan's eyes swept over the people in the yard, and she answered with her head slightly lowered.

Ji Changying discovered that this was not her illusion, Tielan's attitude towards them had really... changed.

Ji Minghao and Ji Mingxuan supported Hu on both sides and asked in a low voice, "Are you going?"

Mrs. Hu gritted her teeth and said, "Is it okay not to go?"

Don’t you think about who called them? Is there any room for refusal?

Mrs. Hu pushed aside the hands of her two sons who were supporting her, stood up straight and smiled: "We just happened to be going to visit my brother-in-law. Since the lady invited us, let's go. Let's go!"

This is true. The brother and sister have not visited Zhou since they came back, so they have to go there no matter what.

Tielan stepped aside and waited for them all to step out of the door before closing it and following behind them one step behind.

Ji Changying and Ji Changchuan looked at each other and moved closer together.

"What's going on? Going to the execution ground?" Ji Changchuan muttered in a low voice.

"Maybe it's huge wealth?" Ji Changying was calm and didn't seem worried at all.

Ji Minghao held a charcoal pencil with a serious expression. As he walked, his hands were writing something in the notebook. If you didn't know him, you would think he was writing a policy paper.

Ji Mingxuan leaned over to take a look, only to see his younger brother, looking like an old scholar, writing solemnly in a notebook: On July 23, the 27th year of Mingde, I heard a shocking secret about the royal family...

"·····What are you doing?"

Ji Mingxuan couldn't believe his eyes.

Ji Minghao paused with the pen in his hand and calmly put away the notebook: "Nothing, just writing something down."

Ji Mingxuan said seriously, "Burn it! Don't write these things carelessly."

"knew."

Ji Minghao lowered his eyes and agreed.

"If these things were seen by others, you know what the consequences would be."

Seeing his brother being well-behaved, Ji Mingxuan sighed and patted his shoulder.

It was not far from the medicine house, and they arrived there quickly.

But when we got there, we found that the door of the medicine house was full of Zhou family members, including several uncles, aunts, and even twelve cousins, all standing in an orderly manner.

Not only Hu was stunned by this scene, even Ji Changying was a little surprised.

"Uncle! Aunt!"

Ji Changying shouted, and all the Zhou family members turned their heads to look over.

"When did you come back?"

Seeing the two of them coming, the uncle and aunt's faces were filled with joy. They turned around and surrounded them, lowering their voices: "I don't know what happened, but that Madam Jiang called our entire family here, but only let your grandma and grandpa in. We're all waiting here, and we don't know what she's going to do."

Before Ji Changying could say anything, Huang Lao opened the medicine room from the inside and saw Ji Changying and the others at a glance: "Come in!"

Mrs. Hu and she looked at each other and walked inside.

Zhou's uncle wanted to follow, but was stopped by Mr. Huang: "There's no room for so many people!"

Inside the room, Jiang Qianruo sat on a chair beside the bed, acting like the owner of the house.

Sitting below were Song Ruqing, Huang Lao, Tang Qingfeng and others. Zhou Yidao and his wife sat at the back, their buttocks just barely touching the edge of the chair.

Everyone had different expressions on their faces, but Zhou looked a bit bewildered and helpless. When she saw the Ji family members come in, her face suddenly lit up with excitement: "You're back!"

As soon as Ji Changying and the others entered, the small medicine house suddenly seemed even more cramped. Seeing this scene, Ji Mingxuan pulled Ji Minghao and stood not far from the door, and did not go inside.

"Mom! How are you?" Ji Changchuan saw Zhou taking a few quick steps and looking at her with concern.

Mrs. Zhou looked in good spirits: "I'm fine! Nothing's wrong at all. I think I'll be able to get out of bed in a few days!"

"Why are you in such a hurry to go to the fields? You don't need to do any work at home."

Mrs. Hu tapped Mrs. Zhou's forehead, and feeling a very oppressive gaze coming from the side, her hand froze and she let go.

Ji Changying took his brother to greet the other people in the room, and in the process blocked Jiang Qianruo's view of Hu.

"I wonder why you called us here today?"

After meeting the person, Ji Changying's eyes went straight to Jiang Qianruo.

Zhou Yidao and Zhou Liushi stared at her closely and secretly breathed a sigh of relief for her.

Jiang Qianruo looked at her granddaughter with excitement and admiration in her eyes.

She looks so much like her when she was young!

"I have seen the jade pendant. Your mother is my lost daughter. I will take you back to Beijing."

Jiang Qianruo spoke with a very firm tone, and did not ask what they thought at all, his tone was very firm.

"We're not going back, we're going to Kyoto. What's the excuse? Our Ji family was exiled here from Qingzhou by the Emperor. How can we just go to Kyoto casually?"

"There's no place in this world my children can't go. If I say they can go, they can go!"

"If your words were really so effective, my mother wouldn't have been missing for so many years, what do you think?"

When Ji Changying said this, everyone in the room changed their expressions, and even Song Ruqing looked at her in surprise.

I didn't expect she was so bold to say that!

Mrs. Hu felt like her heart was about to jump out of her throat. "You kid! Don't take advantage of your young age and speak without restraint..."

"You're right. I might not be competent." Jiang Qianruo's expression darkened as he spoke of this, but he quickly straightened his expression. "I've already had the Emperor write the imperial edict for my return to the capital. Bai Bi should be bringing it over in the next couple of days. I summoned you here today to give you advance notice so you can pack your things and prepare yourself mentally."

"The decree has been issued, and you cannot refuse it. Whether you blame me or hate me, there is no turning back on this matter."

"Ji Fengshou and Ji Fengyi, I'll send a letter to ask them to come back in the next two days. Then we can go to the capital together. And—"

Jiang Qianruo turned to look at Zhou Yidao and his wife: "Your Zhou family must also come along."

In any case, the Zhou family has made a contribution by raising her daughter. What's more... she can't really be too ruthless and let her daughter and her adoptive parents go their separate ways and never have any contact with each other again. That would probably push the child further and further away.

As soon as the words fell, the whole room fell silent.

"In that case, we don't have much to say. We just want to know when the date is set?"

When Ji Changchuan thought about his father and uncle coming home for this matter, he felt that it was not so difficult to accept.

Jiang Qianruo's eyes swept over everyone, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly: "Didn't I call you over to discuss this?"