Chapter 168 Hopeless
Feng Qingsui stopped and cast a puzzled look at Ji Changqing who was standing not far away.
Ji Changqing walked over slowly and said softly, "The friend I told Miss Pei about when we were having dinner at Mingyue Pavilion just now was the one sitting next to me."
Feng Qingsui: (*°▽°*)
Wasn't it him?
Ji Changqing understood her expression and the veins on his forehead twitched.
This person really imagined him and Pei Minru.
"I've said before that Miss Pei and I have no friendship. The one who first asked me to ask you to come to the palace to treat her was Shangguan Mu..."
Feng Qingsui suddenly realized: "So that's how it is."
Immediately doubt.
"Miss Pei is already a free woman, so why is Prince Shangguan still being so secretive and unwilling to show his concern?"
"Miss Pei is the former Crown Princess after all. Even if she returns home now, according to the Pei family's tradition, she will never be allowed to remarry."
Ji Changqing replied.
"Shangguan Mu's mother is Princess Minghui, and his maternal grandfather is your majesty's uncle. He and the former crown prince are cousins. The Shangguan family will certainly find it difficult to accept this marriage."
"Since their future was hopeless, he hid his worries to avoid causing trouble for Miss Pei."
He glanced at her quickly as he said the last sentence.
He quickly looked away.
Feng Qingsui was unaware and sighed, "'A lifetime, a generation, a pair, yet they are separated by a soul-destroying distance. Longing for each other, yet unable to meet, for whom does spring come?' It is truly heartbreaking."
(Note: From "Hua Tang Chun: A Lifetime, a Generation, a Pair" by Nalan Xingde of the Qing Dynasty)
Ji Changqing recited the poem silently and asked, "Whose lyrics are these? I've never heard of them before."
Feng Qingsui chuckled, "I don't know where it came from either. My master happened to read it to me once, and I found the first few sentences interesting, so I wrote them down."
“Good word.”
Ji Changqing praised.
"I guess your master is also a man of temperament."
Feng Qingsui shook his head: "Second Master, you are wrong. My master always said, 'Love is fleeting, but gold and silver are everlasting.' He told me to save more gold and silver and trust less men."
Ji Changqing: -_-b
It’s hard to say who is more hopeless, him or Shangguan Mu.
Seeing that he had nothing else to say, Feng Qingsui took Wuhua back to the courtyard.
Ji Changqing walked slowly towards Canghaixuan with heavy steps.
With such a clear-headed and self-controlled master, Feng Qingsui would surely not be moved by petty love affairs.
What can impress her is something more tangible.
For example, gold and silver.
Or, power and status.
Of course, she may not care about either of these at the moment and just wants to take her life from her enemy.
Then... help her get rid of her enemies first.
After returning to the study, he first wrote a letter and had it delivered to the palace by carrier pigeon, ordering the secret agents in the palace to infiltrate Fengyi Palace as soon as possible.
Then he summoned Zhuying.
"Have Ye Lu and the others dispatch personnel to various locations to search for Zhao Bixiang, paying special attention to areas where cults or bandits are active."
Zhuying obeyed the order.
At the same time, in the Duanyunling bandit camp, Zhao Bixiang, who had just received a tip-off from the capital via carrier pigeon, threw a set of tea sets violently.
"That bitch Feng is ruining my good fortune again!"
The last time he ordered people to deal with the Feng family, the largest shadow guard camp was destroyed; this time he ordered people to abduct Pei Minru out of the capital, and another shadow guard camp was destroyed.
He only had five shadow guard battalions in total, and nearly half of them were gone!
Moreover, the fact that he did not bring this up was also Feng’s doing!
The reason why he suddenly decided to send people to capture Pei Minru was because a few days ago he heard that a Taoist doctor had come to Xizhou, in Mengcheng, not far from Duanyun Ridge.
So he disguised himself and went to see the doctor.
The Taoist doctor said that he suddenly became impotent because he ingested poison.
He had suspected it before, but he was extremely careful about his daily life and diet. After the incident, he checked and found no poisoning, and the doctor he consulted privately also failed to find that he had been poisoned.
Later, the corpses were discovered in the Rongchang Marquis's mansion, and he was sent to Anguo Temple to practice. He had to put this matter aside and plan to make money to support his private army.
After the Ruifeng Society failed, he fled from Anguo Temple and set up camp in Duanyunling.
Only after he settled down did he have the leisure to seek medical treatment and medicine.
But the medical skills of the doctors in Xizhou were far inferior to those in the capital. Each of them described the pulse condition, but none of them could identify the crux of the problem.
The Taoist doctor immediately told him he was poisoned. Although he was a little surprised, he didn't really believe it. He said, "The food I eat and drink are all non-toxic. How could I be poisoned?"
"What about the incense? Have you checked it?" the Taoist doctor asked. "Some incense is poisonous. Just a few breaths can harm a person's body and mind, or even kill them."
He usually used ambergris, and was about to tell the Taoist doctor that it was okay to use incense, but he suddenly remembered that Pei Minru did not use ambergris in his bedroom.
He originally thought that Pei Minru had been tamed by him like a dog. If he pointed east, she would never dare to go west.
It was not until she broke into the imperial study and told him about the abuse in front of her father, Ji Changqing and others that he realized that her gentleness was all an act.
All her patience was just to wait for an opportunity to bite him back.
Since she dared to tell him about the abuse, why didn't she dare to poison him?
Before he got into trouble, she had invited Feng into the palace!
At that time, he neither took her nor Feng seriously. Who would have thought that it was these two women whom he did not take seriously that forced him to show his true colors.
He suppressed his anger and asked the doctor, "Master, can you help me detoxify?"
The Taoist doctor shook his head: "There is no antidote for this poison."
He was so angry that he immediately sent a message back to the capital, ordering people to abduct Pei Minru and send him to Xizhou.
He wanted to skin her, bone her, and cut her into pieces to relieve his hatred.
Who knew...
He read the letter and replied immediately.
The letter contained only one sentence: "Kill Pei and Feng, no matter the cost."
After releasing the carrier pigeon, he was still furious. He went outside to watch the bandits from Duanyunling practicing. He caught a few of them doing something wrong, dragged them out and beat them half to death. Only then did he feel better.
The bandits in Duanyunling were terrified.
When I returned to my room to rest at night, I sighed and groaned.
"When will this end? Why doesn't God send down a thunderbolt to kill him..."
Feng Qingsui never puts his hopes in God.
After returning to the hospital on the evening of Dragon Boat Festival, she thought that Zhao Bixiang might have guessed the whole story of the poisoning, which was why he suddenly attacked Pei Min.
Given his vengeful nature, if he fails this time, there will definitely be a next time.
Maybe she could use this opportunity to uproot his shadow guards in the capital, or even find out his whereabouts.
However, this requires Pei Minru's cooperation and sufficient manpower.
The next day, while Ji Changqing was at home, he sent a jar of calamus wine to the study.
"This calamus wine was given to me by a friend yesterday. I specially left it for you, Master."
Ji Changqing's eyes were gloomy.
"The friend you're talking about is Souji?"
Feng Qingsui praised: "Second Master is really very talented and got it right at the first guess."
Ji Changqing: (; one_one)
It would have been fine if she had just given him the same sachet as the one she gave to Pei Minru, but she actually gave him the holiday gift that Zong Si had given her.
Really... I lost to her.
He took the jar of wine and sighed.
"What do you want from me?"
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