Chapter 456 Something must be wrong
Zhou Yunshu was not aware of Wu Ci's departure.
Towards evening, Mr. Xue, who had tidied himself up, knocked on the door of the study.
Zhou Yunshu looked at the neatly wrapped Old Man Xue and said, "Grandpa Xue, how is things at home?"
"Nothing happened at home, I came to see you."
Zhou Yunshu and Wu Gui asked Mr. Xue to feel their pulses one by one. After that, they looked at Mr. Xue nervously.
"Both of your pulses are steady and strong, nothing abnormal."
Zhou Yunshu and Wu Gui were slightly relieved after hearing Mr. Xue’s diagnosis.
"That's good. I'll have to trouble Grandpa Xue to take care of me during this period. All the doctors in Yuncheng are on the roster. If you need them, Grandpa Xue, you can arrange for them."
After Mr. Xue put down the high-concentration liquor that Zhou Yunshu had somehow mixed earlier, he said to her, "I sent a letter to Qingfeng, asking him to come back as soon as possible to help me."
Qingfeng was taken away by Wei Zhong before, and later he worked hard to treat the wounded in the northern military camp. When Xixi ascended the throne, he was recruited by Ji Sheng into the Imperial Hospital.
If Mr. Xue wrote a letter to Qingfeng, then Ji Sheng would probably know about it.
"Can he get away?"
Old Master Xue stood up and said to Zhou Yunshu, "He is not used to the environment of the Imperial Hospital."
After Qingfeng regained his freedom, he contacted Mr. Xue, so Mr. Xue was aware of Qingfeng's situation.
What he didn't tell Zhou Yunshu was that the reason Qingfeng couldn't adapt to the situation in the Imperial Hospital was that he was really troubled by the powerful people in the capital.
Especially the imperial physicians of the Imperial Medical Bureau knew too much about the private affairs of the families of the powerful in the capital. If they were not careful, they would die.
Qingfeng felt that it was better when he was working as a traveling doctor with Mr. Xue, or when he was a doctor in the military camp.
Although the former encounters fewer patients, he gains more respect; the latter encounters more patients and gains more experience.
When he was in the Imperial Medical Bureau, he either found ways to find excuses for those who complained about their illnesses, or some illnesses were difficult to talk about.
If the news gets out, no one knows whether those powerful people will die or not, but the imperial physician who made the diagnosis or not will definitely die.
He was really tired of this kind of life of fear, so he thought that as long as Mr. Xue agreed, he would immediately resign and return to Haizhou.
"Okay, then I'll trouble you, Grandpa Xue."
Not long after Mr. Xue left, Dong Ge brought dinner to the door.
Wu Gui smiled as he came in with a tray, "Tonight's dishes are quite good. Wonton noodles, shrimp and winter melon soup, crab, salted duck eggs pickled with winter pigeon, and a plate of mung bean cakes."
Zhou Yunshu smelled the fragrance and moved the small coffee table directly to the middle of the bamboo couch. "I wasn't hungry at first, but I really am hungry after smelling this."
The noodles and vegetables were all gone, leaving only half of the mung bean cake.
After dinner, the two chatted for a while on the bamboo couch, then Zhou Yunshu pulled Wu Gui up, put the food tray at the door, and continued to take a walk together.
"Exercising more can boost your immunity."
Wu Gui was a little accustomed to hearing one or two words from Zhou Yunshu's mouth from time to time that she had never heard of, especially the three words "immunity", which she heard quite a few times today.
Zhou Yunshu and Wu Gui were taking a walk here after dinner. At the Cen family's side, Cen Ruize was huddled in the corner of the main hall, scratching his arms constantly.
"Plague! How could it be plague?"
"Didn't you lie to her? Didn't she lie to her? Didn't she say it was just a common fever? How could it turn into the plague?!"
"Ryusei, Oze!"
A weak voice came from the inner room. Cen Ruize covered his ears and continued to mutter.
There must be something wrong.
Could it be Cen Miaoying? Cen Miaoying must not want to help them, so she came up with such an outrageous reason to bring them down.
Yes, that's right!
Cen Ruize found a new reason that he could accept to replace the plague, which was an unacceptable reason for him.
It must be that Cen Miaoying wanted to get rid of them, wanted to get rid of the burden they were, so she joined forces with that group of people to stage a drama. She wanted herself and her sister to die.
Yes, it must be like this. She was taking revenge on herself and her elder sister, taking revenge on them for sending her to the bandit leader in the bandit camp in order to escape and save her life.
But it wasn't their fault in the first place. One of the three had to sacrifice.
The eldest sister is the legitimate daughter, and she is the only male in the Cen family, so the one to be sacrificed will of course be the illegitimate daughter Cen Miaoying. This is what she should do, and this is what she should contribute to this family.
She had clearly agreed to it at the beginning, but now she was so cruel to them. Why?
He is the only remaining child of the Cen family, and Cen Miaoying cannot treat him like this.
The more Cen Ruize thought about it, the angrier he became. He stood up and rushed to the door, banging on the locked wooden door frantically.
"Cen Miaoying! Cen Miaoying, you can't do this to me. I'm your brother, the only man in the Cen family. You can't lock me up. Let me out!"
"I'm not sick. I'm not the one who's sick. Why are you locking me up? I want to report it to the police! I want to report it to the police!"
"Let me out, wow wow wow. I wasn't the one who threw you to the bandit leader. It was all Cen Miaofu's idea. It had nothing to do with me. You can't do this to me. I'm innocent."
"As long as you let me out, I will listen to whatever you say. It's really not my fault, it's all the fault of that vicious woman Cen Miaofu. Let me out, woooo!"
Cen Miaofu, who was lying on the bed in the inner room, stretched out her hand but dropped it weakly when she heard the sound of Cen Ruize throwing all the dirty water on her.
She was in so much pain, all over her body.
Especially her heart, her heart was broken with pain.
"puff!"
She spat out another mouthful of blood, and with her drooping eyelids she looked at the pool of blood, wanting to reach out and wipe it clean.
She didn't know that she had the plague. She only knew that she felt very uncomfortable, and she didn't want to infect Cen Ruize. After all, he was the only remaining child in the Cen family.
When Cen Miaofu fell under the bed, she seemed to hear her brother's scream, but it also seemed as if she didn't.
She saw her father and her mother. They smiled and came closer to her, touched her head and said that she had done well and was a good sister.
But in the blink of an eye, the kind-looking parents changed their expressions. They pinched their necks and asked them why they got the plague and why they infected their younger brother.
Cen Miaofu tried to explain, but their resentful gazes were like sharp blades piercing her chest.
Amidst the faint screams in her ears, Cen Miaofu looked at her parents and her younger brother who was always protected by them. She pulled out the bamboo hairpin on her head and thrust it into her neck.
She really didn't mean it.
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