No matter how much the city talks about their family affairs, the door of the Gu family has never been opened since the second young master Gu got mad and killed Ruan Tian's wet nurse. People in the mansion can't come out, and people outside the mansion can't go in, which makes those who want to find out the truth have no way to start.
Ruan Tian fell ill on the night she moved into the Dongmen Inn, and she was bedridden. This made it difficult for the second young master Gu, who wanted to send Ruan Tian back to the Ruan family, to remain tough. If Ruan Tian didn't die, the Gu family could say that she was ungrateful and ignorant. But if Ruan Tian was forced to death by them, then it would be the Gu family's fault, if not the Gu family's.
"Let her stay at the inn," Mrs. Sun finally made the decision and said, "We will hire a good doctor for her, use good medicine, and do everything that needs to be done. Then no one else can say anything bad about our Gu family."
Yu Xiaoxiao and Gu Ershao were not happy that Ruan Tian could stay in Fengjing to recuperate. Gu Xinglang chose to ignore them and kept making a fuss about wanting to see Ruan Tian, but Gu Ershao and Madam Sun refused to give in. Which servant in the mansion dared to let the old man see the cousin?
Mrs. Lin had her own ideas. While the Second Master Gu and the Young Master Gu were in the palace to handle official business, Mrs. Lin went to the Prince Consort's residence to find Yu Xiaoxiao.
At this time, Yu Xiaoxiao was eating a bowl of braised pork ribs. When she saw Mrs. Lin coming, she invited her to eat the ribs with her.
Mrs. Lin looked at the greasy mouth of Her Royal Highness the Princess and the pile of bones on the table. Mrs. Lin felt that her eyes were hurt. The bones were gnawed so cleanly without a trace of meat. Even a dog could not gnaw them so cleanly!
Yu Xiao: "Second sister-in-law, please sit down."
Madam Lin sat opposite Yu Xiaoxiao and said, "Princess, are you just gnawing on bones?"
"Oh," Yu Xiao: "The meal is not ready yet, I'll gnaw on some bones as a snack first."
Taking braised spareribs as a snack, Mrs. Lin looked at Yu Xiaoxiao and had a question that many people have: how come this person doesn't grow taller even though she eats like this?
Yu Xiao: "Second sister-in-law, you eat, I have a pot!"
Mrs. Lin quickly shook her head. She still wanted to maintain her figure and didn't want to ruin herself.
Yu Xiaoxiao was surprised and asked, "You don't like eating meat?"
Madam Lin said, "Princess, Miss Ruan is still in the capital. Why are you just sitting at home eating?"
Yu Xiao: "Didn't they say she was too sick to get out of bed?"
Mrs. Lin said, "Who knows if she is faking illness?"
Yu Xiaoxiao stopped gnawing at the bone and said, "Not really, right?" That soft and sweet guy, in order to kill her, a heroine, even resorted to such a cheap trick as pretending to be sick? (Even if someone pretends to be sick, it's for your young master, not to kill you, wake up! ╮(╯▽╰)╭)
Madam Lin said, "You never know. What if she's faking illness? Give the doctor some money or something. Princess, this cousin has been staying with grandma since she came to Fengjing City. She's been asking questions all the time, and she's always talking about me. This cousin is so thoughtful to me, shouldn't you be more careful?"
Yu Xiaoxiao threw away the chopsticks in her hand.
Mrs. Lin said, "Princess, you are also a doctor. I think you should go and see it."
Yu Xiaoxiao looked at the braised spareribs on the table.
Mrs. Lin said, "Oh my princess, which is more important, the prince consort or the spareribs?"
Which one is more important, Gu Xinglang or the braised spareribs? Is there any need to think about this? Yu Xiaoxiao slapped the table and said, "Okay, I'll go take a look."
When several maids in charge heard that the princess was going to visit her husband's cousin from the Ruan family, they all looked at Madam Lin. How idle could this lady be to instigate the princess to do such a thing?
A maid said to Yu Xiao: "Princess, I will take someone to see Miss Ruan."
Yu Xiao: "No need, I'm just sitting around doing nothing anyway."
Madams..., His Majesty is hoping that you can stay idle in the mansion forever!
Yu Xiao: "Second sister-in-law, let's go."
Madam Lin followed Yu Xiaoxiao out of the Prince Consort's Mansion.
Yu Xiaoxiao was idle, but Madam Lin was not. In the past, Her Royal Highness the Princess ran out all day long, and she couldn't find a chance to talk to her or get close to her. Now, she finally found a reason to stay with Yu Xiaoxiao and deepen their relationship. Madam Lin was happy to be looked down upon by the maids.
Seeing Yu Xiaoxiao leave, a housekeeper hurriedly ordered a guard, "Hurry up and go to the palace to tell the prince consort that the princess has gone to the East Gate Inn."
The guard ran towards the imperial palace.
Madam Lin taught Yu Xiaoxiao as she walked upstairs: "Princess, when you see your cousin, you must not be soft-hearted just because she cries."
Yu Xiao: "Well, I'm not soft-hearted."
"Don't believe her words, Princess."
"Well, I know she wants to kill me."
Madam Lin..., is there something wrong with what you said?
Yu Xiao: "Second sister-in-law, I promise not to beat her to death."
Madam Lin..., I still feel that there is something wrong with these words.
Dongmen Posthouse, as the name suggests, is located near the East City Gate. When the group arrived at Dongmen Posthouse, Yu Xiaoxiao got off the horse and walked into the posthouse.
When several people in charge of the inn heard that Princess Linglong had arrived, they went out together to welcome Yu Xiaoxiao.
Yu Xiaoxiao met these people in the courtyard of the inn. Without waiting for them to salute her, she asked, "Where is that Ruan Tian?"
Several leaders looked at Yu Xiaoxiao, then at the posture of Madam Lin and her group behind them, and they began to get scared. Was Her Royal Highness the Princess here to kill anyone?
Seeing that the leaders were silent, Yu Xiaoxiao frowned and asked, "Why aren't you talking? Is Ruan Tian dead?"
Everyone..., why do you use "faint beauty and beautiful woman" and "dead beauty" together?
Mrs. Lin stepped forward and said, "Princess, I know where Ruan lives. Let's go."
Yu Xiaoxiao took a step and was about to follow her second sister-in-law into the lobby of the inn. At this moment, a peddler walked past the gate of the inn carrying two baskets of pancakes. Yu Xiaoxiao smelled the pancakes and turned her head to look at them. The pancakes must have been fried in oil. She smelled the scent of chopped green onions!
A guard who already knew Her Royal Highness the Princess hurriedly chased after the vendor to buy pancakes.
Thinking that she would have scallion pancakes to eat soon, Yu Xiaoxiao felt a little better. When she was about to turn around and fight with Ruan Tian, she saw someone standing in the corner to the left of the courtyard gate.
When the people in the corner saw that Yu Xiaoxiao had seen them, they immediately walked quickly out of the courtyard gate. They were all wrapped in cloaks with their hoods lowered, so others couldn't see their faces.
Mrs. Lin saw Yu Xiaoxiao staring at these people, so she called Yu Xiaoxiao: "Princess?"
Yu Xiaoxiao quickly came up to these people, looked at one of them, and said, "I can't recognize you because you're wearing a hat? Zhao Yingshan, long time no see."
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