"Master, as soon as I learned of the situation, I ordered someone to bring the man to the capital at full speed. Do you want to interrogate him in person?"
"Then why are you talking so much nonsense? Hurry and bring the person up to me."
Not long after, the guards from the palace brought in a rather old-looking woman.
The old woman had only one eye open, the other eye was tightly closed.
Judging from its shriveled and sunken appearance, it has probably been blind for many years.
"I, Qiu, greet Prince Rui." Qiu was very calm, much calmer than Han Qijing. Without waiting for Prince Rui to ask, she took the initiative to introduce herself, "I am the Yin-Yang Po of Shahe County. These eyes can see life and death with one look.
“Whenever a family in the county has a funeral that is inconvenient for them to personally handle, they will ask me to help out.
"I remember it clearly. It was the eighth day of the sixth lunar month. Someone from a large farm outside the city suddenly came to ask me for help. They said their wife had given birth to a child, but the child died at birth. They asked me to find a good place to bury the child."
The death of children is quite common, and such children who pass away before reaching adulthood cannot be buried in the ancestral tomb or kept in the burial grounds.
Therefore, people usually spend money to hire people like Qiu to help choose a place to bury the child properly.
However, this place cannot be told to the child's parents, otherwise the child will be bound by the parents' longing and will not be able to reincarnate smoothly.
Qiu didn't know that the people in that farm at that time were the wife of Prince Rui, who had given birth prematurely due to an accident on her way back to Beijing, and Prince Rui himself, who had rushed over from the capital overnight after receiving the news.
At the back door, she took a child with a purple face and no breathing from a woman.
Qiu's tone was calm, but Prince Rui clenched his fists when he heard it.
I only heard her continue: "When I received the child, I felt it was really a pity.
“Although the child was no longer breathing, his entire body had been wiped clean and wrapped tightly in a brand new red blanket.
"If it weren't for the purple face, you wouldn't have known the child was dead. You would have thought he was asleep."
"I took the child, wrapped him in a piece of white cloth, and prepared to take him to the mountains to choose a place for burial.
"Who would have thought that just when we reached halfway up the mountain, we could hear a baby crying from inside the white cloth bag.
"Even I was startled at the time and quickly opened the white cloth and quilt.
"I discovered that the child, who had originally been lifeless, was now desperately stretching out his hands and legs, crying heartbreakingly..."
Prince Rui could no longer bear Qiu's slowness and asked frantically, "Don't tell me these useless things. I just want to know where the child, the one who survived, has been taken!
"Since the child is not dead, why not send him back!"
"Do you know how much suffering my wife and I have endured over the years because of our child's death?"
Qiu opened the only eye she could see and slowly looked up at Prince Rui.
Prince Rui felt uncomfortable being looked at, and stopped asking questions awkwardly, and his attitude softened a lot.
Qiu continued in her characteristic tone and pace, "I didn't know the people in Zhuangzi were actually the prince and princess. I just thought they were some wealthy family who had a daughter they didn't want, so they handed her over to me to deal with.
“Even though I received the money, I still can’t let a child who had escaped death die again, nor can I send the child back directly.
"In the following days, I went to the house every day to inquire around it, and found out that the people in the house had left long ago.
"So I became even more convinced that the child was abandoned, and I stopped trying to find anyone."
Han Qijing saw that Prince Rui's face was getting uglier and uglier, so he hurriedly whispered, "Hurry up and tell us, our prince is almost dying of worry!"
Prince Rui didn't care about the taboo in Han Qijing's words at this time. He stared at Qiu with his eyes, and his eyes were about to burst into fire.
Qiu said calmly, "Your Majesty, everything has its cause and effect, so don't be impatient.
"When I saw the child who had finally escaped death, I couldn't bear to abandon her, so I found a good family for her in the city.
"Later, perhaps because they didn't want people to know that the child was adopted, the family quickly moved away from Shahe County.
"Since then, I have had no news of my child."
Prince Rui asked anxiously, "Is the family that adopted the child surnamed Ye?"
Upon hearing this, Qiu shook his head and said, "No, no, I remember clearly that the family's surname was Wang, not Ye."
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