Ding Youtian pondered for a moment and had a rough answer in his mind.
He is also a man. Once there is something wrong with a man's body, even ordinary people would probably not be willing to tell their wives about it, not to mention that Lord Yang is a prefect.
I can't talk about it, and I can't do that with Madam anymore, so I have to think of a way. Taking a concubine and no longer being close to Madam will cover up the past. It's just to make Madam resentful. As long as I treat Madam as close as usual, that's fine.
Curling his lips, he smiled and said, "Not surprising, not surprising. Madam, just wait and see. In two days, someone will come to you to seek treatment for a difficult and complicated disease. As for what the difficult and complicated disease is, haha, Madam, you will know it when the time comes."
"You mean... he'll send someone to ask for medicine?" Jian Ning shook his head. "I'm afraid that won't work. There are many causes of erectile dysfunction. If he doesn't come in person and doesn't get checked out, and just listening to others' narration doesn't guarantee we'll know the true cause, how can we treat him?"
"Isn't this examination to..." Ding Youtian's eyes darkened slightly. He tapped his forehead and paced back and forth in the room for a few steps. Then he raised his eyes to look at Jian Ning, "Did the female doctors in your place also examine men there in the past?"
Jian Ning rolled her eyes at him and said, "Doctors only care about patients, regardless of gender. Some obstetricians and gynecologists are even men, and they also deliver babies and perform Caesarean sections on pregnant women. What's the big deal?"
"But this is not your place after all. Even he himself may not be willing to let you see the cause of the disease above. I was worrying too much." After figuring this out, Ding Youtian grinned.
The next day, after lunch, Ding Zhu dismissed her maids and servants, donned a veiled hat, and slipped out of the backyard corner door. The master had only been in her room briefly the previous night, spending the night in the study for the first time ever, and hadn't been in her room all morning. Unsure what Jian Ning had said to the master, she decided to go and ask Jian Ning herself.
She wanted to make it clear to Jian Ning that they had already severed their relationship, so she would just leave them alone. She would not harm them or blame them, and they should not harm her either. They should just let go and live their own peaceful lives.
Ding Zhu was walking in the alley with her head down. A carriage was coming from the front. She moved aside, but she suddenly smelled a strange fragrance. Her body swayed, and the coachman jumped off the horse and threw her into the carriage.
The carriage had been waiting for her in the alley for a long time. Ding Zhu woke up and was shocked to find that she was blindfolded. She tried to pull the cloth off her eyes, but found that she could not move. It seemed that she was still tied to a chair. She was about to scream when a knife was put to her neck. "If you dare to scream, I will kill you!"
"Don't, don't kill me, I won't hurt them anymore, please spare me, I don't want to die!" Ding Zhu thought that Jian Ning had sent someone to harm her, and she was so scared that her whole body was shaking, her legs felt hot, and she even peed herself.
"No, if you want to harm them, you will die if they don't!" Another sinister voice sounded.
Ding Zhu felt relieved, but then she started asking again, "Who are you?"
"You don't need to know who I am. If you don't want to be thrown back on the flower boat, then just do what I tell you to do. I'll make sure you stay safe and sound as your concubine."
Judge Jiang came out from behind the screen and threw a small porcelain bottle to the man who was holding a knife to Ding Zhu's neck. The man took the porcelain bottle and stuffed it into Ding Zhu's arms.
"I've found out everything about you. If you drop the potion in the porcelain bottle into your brother and sister-in-law's tea or food, sending them to the underworld, you can rest assured and be my concubine. Otherwise, I'll send you to see Yama. Think carefully!"
After he finished speaking, the man untied Ding Zhu, picked her up and stuffed her into the carriage. She didn't dare to pull off the blindfold. After the carriage stopped and she was dragged out by the man and thrown away, she dared to pull off the blindfold only after hearing the sound of the carriage fade away. She looked around and found herself back in the alley where she was kidnapped before.
It was the hottest month of July, and the urine would dry up in a short while. She was too lazy to go back home to change her underwear. She picked up the veil that the man had thrown on the ground, touched the small porcelain bottle in her arms, hesitated for a while, and shuddered at the thought of that sinister voice. She felt as if a pair of eyes were staring at her in the dark, so how could she dare to do anything? She hurried to the street corner to call a carriage, told the name of the inn, and went to the inn where Jian Ning and the others were staying.
In the inn, Ding Youtian was sitting at the table reading a book, Jian Ning was sitting on the edge of the bed folding the clothes that the four of them had changed into after bathing yesterday, and Erniu and Sanniu were playing in the next room with their two little silver foxes and Guoguo Baimei.
The two little ones were playing with the bamboo figures made for them by Tong Bajin. The table on this side was occupied by Ding Youtian, so they had to play at the table on this side. They stuck the bamboo figures in the gap between the tables and let Guoguo pull the hemp rope with her mouth under the table to move it back and forth. The bamboo figures could then dance, and the two of them were so happy that they clapped and cheered from time to time.
"Children are so easily satisfied. A bamboo figurine can keep them entertained for ages." Jian Ning smiled and stood up. She picked up the folded clothes and walked past Ding Youtian. She casually flicked at the book in his hand and said, "Wushan Weirdness, Anonymous?"
"My master wrote it, but it was written under the name of the anonymous senior." Ding Youtian said this, and suddenly something happened. He looked at Jian Ning, "Didn't you assert that this anonymous senior was from the same place as you and Brother Ma? Could he be your master?"
"My master?" Jian Ning was stunned. She had suspected that the senior who traveled through time was from the Republic of China or the 1970s or 1980s. Her master was born in the Republic of China. Could it be that her master had also traveled through time when he was young?
Seeing her stunned, Ding Youtian's heart tightened, "If it really is your master, and she traveled back and forth, will Madam and Brother Ma also travel back in time?"
Jian Ning shook her head. "I told you long ago that it's impossible for me to come back from the dead over there. Brother Ma might be able to come back, but Captain Wu is just in a vegetative state. If he wakes up over there one day, he might be able to travel back. Who knows?"
Hearing her say this, Ding Youtian breathed a sigh of relief, but he was also worried about Tian. Tian's relationship with Wu Dui, who had traveled through time, was just as close as his and Jian Ning's. What would Tian do if Wu Dui returned one day?
He judged others by his own experience, thinking of the heartache he felt when he learned Xiu Gu had left him, and then thinking of Tian's screams on the morning of Ma Fuquan's accident, he put down the book and asked, "Is there any way to prevent Brother Ma from going back?"
"Do you take me for a god? Besides, Captain Wu has a wife and daughter over there. His wife reads to him by his bed every day and hopes he wakes up day and night. If that day ever comes, there's nothing we can do. We can't let Sister Tian build her own happiness on the suffering of others."
"I think when that day comes, Sister Tian will know the truth and she will understand. Even if Captain Wu is gone, she still has us and her sons. She will survive."
Just as Jian Ning was about to put her clothes into her bag, she heard a waiter downstairs calling, "Mr. Ding, someone's looking for you downstairs."
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