Chapter Seventy: Eating a Ruthless Melon
This is it...it still needs to be nurtured for another six months!
He thought he was cured, but he still needed to recuperate. It's okay, so many years have passed, and he's already very grateful that he was cured.
There were still quite a few dishes left on the main table, and Ji Yingying wanted to pack them up, since many adults had already packed them up and left.
She was about to ask the King of Qi for a food box to pack up, since she had left in a hurry and hadn't brought a food box with her, when to her surprise, the King of Qi actually prepared a whole meal for her to take back.
[King Qi, you have excellent judgment! I like it.]
After the party ended, Ji Yingying heard from Apple that the Right Inspector had divorced his wife.
"Huh? Why is he divorcing his wife? Did she have an affair? Or is she keeping a lover behind his back?"
They all mean the same thing!
"I've heard it's about harming one's offspring."
[It was indeed the mistreatment of offspring, but how did they know? Could it be that Rong Yi found out again?]
As Ji Yingying thought to herself, she reached into the food box and secretly took out a chicken leg to gnaw on.
"And I heard that the eldest daughter of the Minister of Rites was sent to be raised by the second wife."
"What? You're giving your own daughter away to be raised by someone else?"
"Yes, today the Minister of Rites heard that his eldest daughter had been abused. After investigating the truth, and since his second wife had no daughters, he put her in her care."
[Didn't we just gossip about this family today? How did we find out the truth so quickly?]
【I don't know either. But it's a good thing that the girl was sent to be raised by the second wife. That second wife is a doting mother and has always wanted to raise a daughter. It's a pity that all three of her children are sons, and her two concubines are childless. So, in the past, when the wife of the Minister of Rites mistreated her daughter, she secretly helped her.】
So, does that mean that girl has a bright future?
Yes, as long as she doesn't act recklessly like her mother.
That's good. Which wife should you divorce?
[Divorcing your wife isn't so bad, at least you can have a child later, provided he knows you can cure him; otherwise, you'll still end up alone.]
I'm practically an expert in this field now, specializing in treating infertility.
"Cough cough..." Fang Yulan coughed lightly. How could an unmarried girl like this, suffering from this kind of illness, ever get married?
No! Is there anyone in the entire Tianyou Dynasty who can suppress her? Fang Yulan was worried; she had to hurry back and discuss it with Ji Cailiang.
Morning next day.
Before the Emperor arrived, the Right Inspector General walked over and whispered, "Lord Ji."
Even though his official rank was one level higher than the other person's, the Right Inspector still lowered his attitude when he needed to ask the other person for a favor.
Ji Yingying was resting with her eyes closed when she heard the flattering voice. She slightly raised her eyes and saw a round face in front of her, which almost made her scream.
[That old man scared me to death! He got so close to me, I thought I was being attacked.]
The Right Inspector was embarrassed.
He smiled sheepishly and said, "Well, this old man has something I'd like to ask for your help, Master Ji."
"What's wrong?"
"I've heard that you, Lord Ji, are highly skilled in medicine. I would like to ask you to take my pulse and prescribe a medicine for me. Rest assured, Lord Ji, I will definitely repay you handsomely."
Everyone knew what had happened, but no one said anything loudly, because it was too embarrassing.
"That's easy to say, we'll discuss it after court."
It seems there are far fewer people attending court today.
[In the past, there were large, dark crowds of people who could even argue. Now it feels like there are so many fewer people. There are far fewer civil officials, but quite a few military officials, and quite a few princes and nobles as well.]
That's because you mostly gossip about civil officials. You should at least gossip about military officers. Look at them, they criticize civil officials every day as "useless scholars."
But they had no choice!
[They were all beheaded, exiled, or imprisoned for making mistakes, but today we'll have a different story.]
What kind of gossip is this?
A skilled drug user encounters a novice drug user.
What does that mean?
See that one over there? That's the Minister of War.
That old man looks pretty rough around the edges. Is he a master of drugging? Or a novice?
[This immortal man loves to poison people; anyone who has offended him will be rendered incapacitated with a single packet of his drug.]
How so? Is it narrow-mindedness? Or some other reason?
[Other reasons, perhaps. Those who come to steal city defense maps or are spies from enemy countries, once discovered, will either poison or secretly poison the enemy.]
[Oh, so he's the immortal who poisoned people, then who's the newcomer?]
He looks pretty rough around the edges, doesn't he?
Ji Yingying nodded. With a full beard, she looked like a barbarian; anyone who didn't know her might mistake her for a caveman.
Actually, he did it on purpose. If he shaved his beard, he would be an absolutely dashing and handsome man. The reason he kept his beard was because he had been drugged.
The person who drugged him was a low-ranking soldier from Xiguan. He was attracted to the man's good looks and, taking advantage of his momentary lapse in attention, drugged him.
Did he get infected?
[He didn't get infected, of course, but from that time on, he started growing a beard, going for the roughest look imaginable, clearly traumatized.]
[Oh wow~ So even though he wasn't infected, he almost lost his chrysanthemum?]
[Yes, yes, that soldier was almost charging down to the bottom lane, but he managed to withstand it and kill him. Luckily, he's already married and has a son, otherwise, he'd definitely be single for life.]
Moreover, from that time on, he was traumatized; he wouldn't sleep with his wife when he got home, and he didn't have multiple wives or concubines—only one legal wife.
[His wife doesn't make a fuss about it; they don't even sleep in the same room anymore.]
They don't pay him any attention. He's a grown man now, who cares about him? His wife just focuses on raising their two children and hoping they'll succeed. As for him, she even looks down on him.
[Why does she look so pitiful?] Ji Yingying couldn't help but secretly laugh. She had almost lost her virginity without realizing it.
The Emperor has arrived.
Ji Yingying then let go of the Minister of War and turned to look at the Vice Minister of War.
[Host, want some tough melon?]
[He enjoys collecting corpses and personally preparing them into specimens.]
Ji Yingying peeked at the Left Vice Minister of War. He looked quite serious.
Why does this feel so perverted?
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