After Hu, the housekeeper, prepared the medicine, he brought it in. Jiang Luoluo had already arranged for someone to stew chicken soup. Dingdang had been stabbed and lost too much blood, so she was weak and needed to be properly nourished.
Jiang Luoluo picked up the cooked chicken soup and fed it to Dingdang spoonful by spoonful.
Dingdang initially refused, shaking her head repeatedly, "Miss, how can this be? How can I let you serve me?"
However, Jiang Luoluo only glanced at it briefly, her eyes revealing displeasure.
Seeing this, Dingdang had no choice but to obediently open her mouth and drink the soup, and couldn't help but think of Mofeng's previous words: "Don't be so stubborn."
Earlier, Mo Feng drove the carriage back to General Weiyuan's mansion. Dingdang, who was in the carriage, had slowly woken up, but was still weak and powerless. She tried to get out of the carriage by herself, but almost lost her balance.
Seeing this, Mo Feng rushed forward and picked her up in his arms, saying, "I'll take you back to your room."
Dingdang was startled and struggled immediately, "No! Guards Mofeng, men and women should not touch each other!"
Mo Feng, however, disagreed, saying only, "His Highness taught me that in times of emergency, one should act expediently. Your stubbornness is just being inflexible."
Dingdang was speechless at these words, but she wondered why His Highness Prince Yi and her young lady said such similar things.
At this moment, under Jiang Luoluo's careful care, Dingdang obediently drank a large bowl of chicken soup, and after resting for a while, took her medicine.
After instructing several maids and servants to take good care of her, Jiang Luoluo led Mo Feng and Mo Yang straight out of the mansion and headed to Zuiyue Tower.
*
Four hours ago, Xie Yizhi spurred his horse and galloped straight to Zuiyue Tower.
In a private room on the second floor of Zuiyue Tower, Xiao Lingchuan had been waiting for a long time. He rarely left the palace, and only had one day off a month. Today was his day off, so he came here early to wait for Xie Yizhi.
Xiao Lingchuan was the son of Xiao Chongwen, the Grand Academician of the Hanlin Academy, and the younger brother of Xiao Yunwei. He was the third child in his family.
Although he came from a scholarly family, he was unruly and uneducated from a young age, and everyone in the capital knew him as a spoiled brat.
Xiao Lingchuan was carefree by nature and loved only two things in his life: gambling and eating and drinking.
Four years ago, he lost 10,000 taels of silver at a gambling den and was nearly beaten to a pulp by his father. In the end, it was only through the desperate pleas of his second sister, Xiao Yunwei, that his leg was saved. However, since then, the relationship between father and son has plummeted to its lowest point.
During a palace recruitment for a chief eunuch, Xiao Lingchuan acted impulsively and, to spite his father, signed up for the selection.
Unexpectedly, thanks to his smooth interpersonal skills and abilities, he successfully obtained the position of chief eunuch.
This incident thoroughly enraged Xiao Chongwen. He was already utterly disappointed in his son, and now he felt even more ashamed of the position of chief eunuch.
Every time the father and son met, the atmosphere was tense and full of hostility. Xiao Chongwen even gritted his teeth and said that he had stirred up a hornet's nest in his life and he would rather he had never had this son.
Xie Yizhi dismounted and walked steadily toward the private room.
"Hey, Yizhi, ever since you went to Yunchuan, you've become a guy who forgets his friends for the sake of women."
"You left the city gates so early this morning, are you going to meet your sweetheart?" Xiao Lingchuan, dressed in a dark purple robe and holding a teacup, asked in a light and teasing tone.
Xie Yizhi casually took the teacup Xiao Lingchuan handed him, glanced at him indifferently, and asked in a cold tone, "What clues have you found?"
Seeing that he had gotten to the point, Xiao Lingchuan's playful expression disappeared, he straightened his posture slightly, and his tone became low, "Last month, Du Yi, the deputy commander of the Jinwu Guard, went to Li Tieniu's blacksmith shop in the west of the city five times."
Upon hearing this, a fleeting sadness crossed Xie Yizhi's eyes. He picked up his teacup and drank the tea in one gulp.
Xiao Lingchuan noticed the change in his mood and tentatively asked, "Should we just arrest Li Tieniu and interrogate him?"
Xie Yizhi gently put down his teacup, his gaze calm and deep as he stared at the bustling crowd below. His tone was indifferent yet tinged with coldness: "No need. Making a rash move will only alert the enemy."
He seemed to be looking beyond the crowd into a deeper place, his tone tinged with coldness and self-mockery, "She's so eager to kill me?"
Du Yi was a member of Empress Dowager Du's lineage. Although he was of average ability, he had been able to hold the position of deputy commander of the Imperial Guard for many years due to his merits in the early years of the emperor's ascension to the throne.
When Xie Yizhi returned to the capital from Yunchuan, the assassins in the valley used the double-winged arrows with spines that were specially used by the Jinwu Guard.
Afterwards, Jiang Luoluo casually remarked, "In this capital city, who hates His Highness the most? That's who did it."
Although Xie Yizhi was prepared, when all the evidence was laid out before him, he still couldn't help but feel a sense of loss and coldness welling up in his chest.
Xiao Lingchuan poured Xie Yizhi another cup of tea, handed it to him, and asked with a serious expression, "What should we do next?"
Xie Yizhi tapped the table lightly with his long fingers, his eyes cold. "Use this as a pretext to lure the snake out of its hole."
He said slowly, "She wants to see me fall apart from my brother, so let her have her wish."
Xiao Lingchuan nodded solemnly in agreement: "Good, this plan is brilliant. Others think we are the prey, but little do they know that the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind."
The two raised their glasses and clinked them together, reaching a tacit understanding. After a sip of tea, the atmosphere became slightly more relaxed.
Xiao Lingchuan's gossipy nature stirred again: "By the way, how far have things progressed between you and that Miss Jiang?"
Xie Yizhi glanced at him, his tone tinged with impatience, "Are you free? Dean Xiao happens to be home today, why don't you go back and play a game of chess with him?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Lingchuan waved his hands repeatedly: "No, don't mention it! Don't you know my old man's temper? If he's home, I won't go back."
He changed the subject, his smile meaningful, "I heard that Zuiyuelou has recently launched some new dishes, I must try them. Coincidentally, I'll be staying at Zuiyuelou tonight."
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