The prince had always wanted to place his people in the palace and the Shen family, but he never expected that the two mansions were so impregnable.
But at this moment, in order to understand Shen Yuerong and Chi Mu, he had to take the risk.
Shen family.
Shen Yuerong looked at the child brought in by Qi Bo. Although she felt a little sympathetic, many eyes in the capital were on the Shen family at this moment.
"Although there are not many people in this courtyard now, we don't need that many. If this child is really homeless, why not ask Qi Bo to send him to the Anzhai in the capital. There will definitely be someone there to take good care of the child."
Sometimes, under the feet of the emperor, in the capital, some people were accused of crimes and their entire families were executed, leaving only a few young children. In order to prevent them from remembering the hatred, they were all sent to Anzhai.
Over time, Anzhai became a place to house orphans and widows with nowhere to go.
Qi Bo looked at the child standing next to him with some heartache. The child was only seven years old.
"He is not even seven years old yet. If he is sent to An Village, those people will not know how to treat a child like him."
Shen Yuerong felt strange and looked at Qi Bo.
"Qi Bo, tell me the truth, where did this child come from? What is going on?"
After knowing each other for many years, Shen Yuerong recognized at a glance that there must be something wrong with the person in front of her.
Qi Bo sighed, "He looks so much like my son..."
Only then did Shen Yuerong notice the appearance of the young boy. In her memory, Qi Bo did have a son, but that son later died of an illness, which caused him great grief.
Shen Yuerong stretched out her hand, "Come here and let me see."
The child looked at Qi Bo timidly, and only after the latter's consent did he walk timidly in front of Shen Yuerong.
"Miss."
She reached out her hand and touched his forehead. "He does look a lot like Little Tiger. Since... Qi Bo wants to keep him, then let him stay in the mansion. But he is still young and I'm afraid he can't do any hard work. Why not find him a private school and let him study there first?"
It would be bad to let such a young child spend his days in vain in the mansion.
Qi Bo nodded, and was about to praise Shen Yuerong, but he heard the child say.
“I don’t want to go to private school.”
He timidly hid behind Qi Bo again, making people feel even more pitiful.
"I don't want to go to a private school. They are bad and they beat people. I don't want it!"
Qi Bo looked at him helplessly, "This child seems to have suffered a lot of injuries before. I see that he has many wounds of varying sizes. It is better to leave him alone on the abdomen and let him rest. When he is better, I will talk to him properly."
Shen Yuerong had no other choice but to pick up two bottles of the best medicine.
"Looking at his current condition, I'm afraid he can't leave you easily, so leave him in your house for now and let him have a good rest."
Qi Bo thanked Shen Yuerong again and again, and when he left, he was still scolding the people beside him in a low voice, "The young lady is kind-hearted and is willing to keep you here, but... you must not do anything you shouldn't do and make the young lady angry."
"I see."
The days of peace did not last long. Ever since Chen Yuerong received warnings from Princess Yong'an and Chi Mu, she no longer went to the palace to pay respects to the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother found it strange.
Nanny Qin went to the mansion in person and conveyed the Empress Dowager's intention, but Shen Yuerong avoided the matter by claiming to be ill.
Chi Mu didn’t know what he had been busy with these days, but it had been a long time since they last saw each other.
It’s Princess Yong’an.
She sat in the yard somewhat bored, watching Taohua and the others sweep the floor.
"If I had known that suggesting you get sick that day would result in me staying with you in this courtyard every day, I would rather you go to pay your respects to the Queen Mother every day."
"I go to the palace every day. Whether the Queen Mother's condition is good or bad, it has something to do with me. If His Majesty and the Queen blame me, will Yong'an really be willing to let me go?"
Princess Yong'an looked at Shen Yuerong, "You are indeed not the same kind of person as him, and you are not from the same family."
She tore the leaves in her hands, and then threw the remains into the grass beside her out of boredom.
"Did you know...that there was an outbreak of plague in Jiangnan?"
"plague?"
Shen Yuerong was a little surprised. Although these natural disasters usually face challenges to the human body, even so, Shen Yuerong had already left her own methods to Jiangnan.
If the people in Jiangnan drank the medicines they made themselves, the plague would never spread for too long.
"Yes, otherwise why do you think my brother hasn't come back for so long? The court has been busy with this matter, saying that he might be the prince and he is going to comfort those innocent people who have suffered. But... why is it that there is almost no plague in the Jiangnan area where you and your brother have been before, but the prince..."
The prince later made two tours to the south of the Yangtze River. The direction they went in was different from their previous tours, and the places they went to were naturally different as well.
Moreover, those places were hardly the hardest-hit areas in Jiangnan, and certainly not places where the plague was rampant.
"The cities that the prince visited before were mostly just damaged by the continuous rain. They were not like the cities that the prince visited, which were almost completely flooded. How could those people..."
Shen Yuerong couldn't understand why the prince had clearly chosen the safest place, but she didn't expect that the people in those places would mutate?
"You ask me, how would I know all this? I just heard Yue Lang say a few words to me. But I heard that His Majesty attaches great importance to this matter. Perhaps the two of them will accept the order and leave soon. Then will you leave the capital again?"
Princess Yong'an looked at Shen Yuerong with some reluctance. They had finally reunited for some time, but now they were about to be separated again.
"Let's not talk about the affairs of the court. Have you visited the Queen Mother recently? How is the poison in her body?"
After all, he was Chi Mu’s elder, so Shen Yuerong was still a little worried.
The Queen Mother has those imperial doctors by her side, and you have a medical genius by your side, so why should you worry?
"Beside the Queen Mother..."
"Don't you feel that Nanny Qin has a different temperament? She is a medical expert specially sent out by the Queen Mother's family to be trained for the purpose of protecting the Queen Mother's health."
The struggles in the harem are always bottomless.
Sometimes, if you are not careful, you may lose your life.
Having a doctor you can trust by your side increases your chances of saving your life.
"I see."
No wonder the Queen Mother didn't worry about losing her life at all.
"It seems that the Emperor and the Empress have made a wrong calculation. If nothing unexpected happens, the Empress Dowager will definitely not be in danger of losing her life."
"Not necessarily. After all, Xiyan's poison has been in her body for so many years. This outbreak might just be the last gasp of a dying horse, a struggle of a trapped beast."
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