On the same day, Zhu Chumo went to the Zhong residence. After taking Madam Zhong's pulse, he fed her a pill, saying, "This is the antidote. After that, you just need to take good care of yourself."
"The poison in his body has been neutralized?" Master Zhong was somewhat incredulous. So many famous doctors had been consulted before, but none of them could do anything. This seemingly too young and ethereal nobleman had cured him with just one pill?
Zhu Chumo glanced at him and replied, "It's over, but you're still weak and need to take good care of yourself."
Upon being glanced at like that, Master Zhong's many questions were stuck in his throat. He subconsciously dared not question any further and politely saw the person out of the mansion. "Thank you for saving me, young master. This is a small token of my appreciation. Please accept it."
Zhu Chumo didn't even glance at the box the steward of the Zhong family was holding. He had only been called here by his junior brother to do good deeds; otherwise, he wouldn't have come. Whether or not there was a thank-you gift was not on his mind.
"No need. I'm only making this trip because of the Zhou family. If you want to thank someone, thank the Zhou family." After saying that, Zhu Chumo turned into a blur and disappeared from the spot in a few breaths.
Master Zhong was stunned for a moment, then opened his mouth wide and exclaimed, "I was just blind. I thought that young man was too inexperienced, but I overlooked his demeanor. He is clearly a master from another world."
After shouting with a look of regret, Master Zhong quickly turned around and went to Madam Zhong's room. At that moment, the nanny next to Madam Zhong came out of the room and almost bumped into Master Zhong.
"Oh dear, sir, please forgive me. I was too hasty and didn't watch where I was going." The old woman curtsied.
Master Zhong: "How is Madam?"
"Madam just woke up. Although she is very weak, she said she wants to eat something. I was just about to tell the kitchen to prepare some easy-to-eat food and send it over."
The old woman smiled. These past few days had terrified all the servants. Since the lady was poisoned, she had been in a daze, unable to eat, and had become extremely thin.
"Then go quickly, Granny, I'll go in and check on Madam." Master Zhong strode into the room and immediately saw his wife lying on the bed, looking at him with her eyes open.
"How are you feeling, Madam?"
"My lord, I feel much better. Before, it felt like my internal organs were on fire and burning to ashes, but now it feels like the fire has been extinguished. I feel much better, and I can feel hungry." Madam Zhong had just drunk some warm water and spoke these words without pausing.
"It was my fault for being so blind. I saw that the young master only fed you one pill and said you were cured, but I didn't believe him and sent him away like that. I should have let that expert stay a few more days." Master Zhong was now filled with regret, deep regret.
“Master, there’s no need to blame yourself. Yesterday, Sister Guihua came over and told me that those men in white are not like ordinary people. We can’t control whether such experts stay or leave. If they wanted to stay, they would have stayed even if you didn’t say so. The fact that they left so quickly means that they don’t want to associate with us anymore. We should be sensible and not offend them.”
When Zhou Laoda and Zhao Guihua learned that Madam Zhong's poison had been cured, they were relieved and began to take care of the restaurant. Li Qian stopped dealing in mountain products and spent his days busy with Zhou Laoda.
In the future, he will be the manager of the Fucheng Restaurant, and he will have to handle many things, so he has to pay a lot of attention.
Ten days passed in the blink of an eye. The restaurant was renovated and would open in a couple of days. Once things were settled in Fucheng, Zhou Laoda's family would return to Yegou Village.
That day, Zhu Qiuyu was stopped by a group of officials. The leading official said anxiously, "Young Master Zhu, we have finally found you. Your whereabouts are really hard to figure out, and we have been looking for you for a long time."
Zhu Qiuyu frowned slightly, subtly pulling away the sleeve that the officer was holding. "What business do you have with me?"
"Young Master Zhu, our Prefect invites you to the Prefectural Office. Please come to the Prefectural Office." The official was very polite. The Prefect had specifically instructed him that Young Master Zhu and his party were not ordinary people and that they should not be offended.
"I don't think I have anything to talk about with the Prefect, do I?" Zhu Qiuyu frowned. That old fox Prefect was trying to shift the blame again. Humph, he wasn't going to fall for it.
But he didn't want to go. The officials insisted that he go, and a group of officials shamelessly surrounded him and wouldn't let him leave. If Zhu Qiuyu made a move, he could get away, but this place was very close to the house that the Zhou family had bought, and he was worried that the officials would cause trouble for the Zhou family.
The eldest brother thinks things through deeply. The Zhou family has opened a restaurant in the prefectural city, so they inevitably need the government to take care of them. It would be bad to offend them.
Fine, for the sake of my junior brother, I'll go.
However, Zhu Qiuyu soon regretted it. He shouldn't have come. Although he had guessed the prefect's intentions, he did not expect things to be so far beyond his imagination.
It turned out that a few days ago, the prefect personally went to Pingzhou Prefecture and told the governor about the matter. After that, he sent people to seal up the largest brothel in Pingzhou Prefecture and arrest the madam and a group of thugs.
The courtesan at the brothel was a man of Prince Gong. The madam was coerced by the courtesan into coming up with the idea of capturing children among the refugees. Unfortunately, the courtesan escaped, and the important person was not captured.
Of course, Zhu Qiuyu didn't care about any of that; that was the government's business, not his. What he cared about now was the large group of children he had saved who couldn't find their parents.
Only a dozen or so children have been reunited with their families. There are no leads on the families of the other children, who are presumably dead in the disaster. This has left these children with nowhere to go.
"I can't help with this either. Isn't it the responsibility of the government and the imperial court to resettle the refugees?" Zhu Qiuyu said with a half-smile.
"That's true, but what good would it do if those children were placed in care? They obviously can't survive on their own. I originally wanted to find some families who couldn't have children to adopt them, but there are few such families, and these days everyone is struggling. Nobody wants to adopt someone else's child. It would just add another mouth to feed and create a burden for themselves..." The prefect rambled on for a long time.
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