036 Yangyang's Old Friends
"I don't know!" Xiao Han replied firmly. Not revealing a patient's privacy was the first lesson he learned since starting his training!
"Really?" Seeing his guilty look, Li Yang said slowly, "Is Song Xi here? I have something I want to talk to him about."
Xiao Han immediately blocked the door and asked alertly, "What is it?"
Li Yang raised an eyebrow: "Of course it's because one of his apprentices looked down on his medical skills and was secretly learning medicine from Master Yue."
Old Master Yue was a doctor whom Song Xi had brought back from somewhere, and he was currently in charge of Yuan Chongjing's acupuncture treatment. Li Yang had heard Yuan Chongjing say privately that Xiao Han often came to "bother" Old Master Yue with a bunch of questions while he was doing acupuncture.
In the practice of medicine, the biggest taboo is having one apprentice with two masters. One teaches a little bit and the other teaches a little bit, so in the end, the apprentice may seem to know everything, but he has only scratched the surface.
"No, no, no," Xiao Han quickly stopped her from going inside.
To hell with professional ethics!
Xiao Han glanced around and cautiously told him, "My master was afraid you would be upset if you saw this, so he gave Madam Biyun medicine early this morning and told her to leave with her son. Later, after the acupuncture, I saw someone come looking for Young Master Yuan, and then Young Master Yuan left in a hurry."
Having learned the whole story, Li Yang thanked him and calmly boarded the carriage.
Jinghe, standing nearby, was indignant: "Young Madam! How could the Second Young Master do this? It's too much!"
Rumors are circulating that he is still having an affair with Xu Biyun, and the second young master doesn't seem to want to avoid suspicion!
Li Yang, however, trusted Yuan Chongjing. She believed he was acting this way because he saw through the conspiracy and was deliberately trying to lure out the other party's tricks. She said, "It's alright, let's go back first. Maybe Brother Jing has already gone back."
But when they got back, they discovered that Yuan Chongjing had not returned to the mansion.
Li Yang told Jinghe to take Xiaotaozi to play elsewhere, while she sat and waited for Yuan Chongjing to return. Not long after, Beihai quietly slipped in through the back door: "Young Madam, the Second Young Master asked me to come back and give you a message."
"What did you say?"
Bei Hai explained simply, "This morning, Xu Biyun sent someone to ask for his help, and the Second Young Master went along with it. It turned out that Xu Biyun was taking Luo Song back to the Duke of Luo's mansion, but they were blocked at the gate by the Heir Apparent, Luo Minzhi, and his wife. The Second Young Master took the opportunity to try to force his way in with Xu Biyun, but Luo Minzhi summoned people from the Dali Temple. They said that Luo Yanzhi's death was strange and suspected that the Second Young Master and Xu Biyun had an affair, which led to Luo Yanzhi's death. Then the people from the Dali Temple took the Second Young Master away."
Upon hearing this, Li Yang asked, "What does Brother Jing need me to do?"
"Add fuel to the fire of the rumors and expose Cao Wenxian. Once Cao Wenxian comes to light, even if the Fifth Prince manages to escape unscathed, he will still be implicated."
Openly spreading rumors and slandering court officials and the young mistress of a duke's mansion is enough to give Cao Wenxian a hard time.
"Okay," Li Yang replied. After thinking for a moment, she asked, "Who led the troops from the Dali Temple?"
"Qing of Dali Temple, Hezhou of Song Dynasty."
Upon hearing his name, Li Yang's heart suddenly trembled.
If Xu Biyun was Yuan Chongjing's former lover, then Song Hezhou was Li Yang's former lover.
Song Hezhou came from the Empress Dowager's maternal family, making him her cousin by seniority. As he was born late in life to his parents, Song Hezhou was greatly favored by the Song clan, including the Empress Dowager herself. With such a powerful background, Song Hezhou enjoyed a life of luxury and privilege throughout the capital.
Even later, when he entered the academy and had several princes as classmates, Song Hezhou still stood out from the crowd. Just his seniority alone was enough to make them bow down with a simple "little maternal uncle".
One day, however, the aloof and powerful Song Hezhou seemed to be possessed, searching the entire capital for the 'Butterfly Fairy.' He couldn't describe the fairy's appearance, but he would seize young girls of marriageable age, make them write, and then release them one by one after examining their handwriting.
Nobody knows why.
No one could get the reason out of him.
Later, Song Hezhou's commotion became too great, and he was summoned by the emperor and reprimanded before things calmed down.
Li Yang knew.
Because the 'Butterfly Fairy' he was determined to find, even if it turned Kyoto upside down, was her.
The story began in class that day when the female teacher told them the tale of "writing poems on red leaves." Li Yang found it amusing and wanted to express her feelings with maple leaves. So she found several large, thick maple leaves, wrote "seeking friends" on them, and then scattered them down the stream near the academy entrance.
She didn't pay much attention at first, but two days later, the maple leaf drifted back, and someone even replied to it.
After that, she started chatting with the person she had never met before. Eventually, feeling that their conversation wasn't quite finished, they agreed on a fixed meeting place and began exchanging letters.
She called herself the Butterfly Fairy, while the person opposite her called himself the Wolfhound Wangwang.
One day, she learned by chance that Song Hezhou of the boys' academy kept a large wolfhound named Wangwang. Breaking their vows, she secretly went to see the messenger and discovered that this 'wolfhound Wangwang' was none other than Song Hezhou himself.
Li Yang realized she couldn't afford to offend Song Hezhou. Then, thinking about how he had revealed his innermost thoughts in those letters and shown that he was becoming increasingly dependent on her, she was so frightened that she stopped receiving letters and disappeared completely.
This greatly worried Song Hezhou, who, unable to wait any longer, began a full-scale search for the missing person throughout the capital.
Even after being reprimanded by the emperor, Song Hezhou did not stop the matter, but instead carried it out in private.
At that time, it was almost Li Yang's turn. Just then, Yuan Chongjing asked the Li family for her hand in marriage. He was in a hurry, so Li Yang got her parents to agree without hesitation. She left the capital the day after the wedding.
After she and Yuan Chongjing returned to the capital last year, she occasionally heard that Song Hezhou had never stopped searching for the Butterfly Fairy in the past four years. She had even encountered Song Hezhou before, and felt that he was full of murderous aura. A cold look from him could kill you.
Unless absolutely necessary, she really didn't want to have any more contact with Song Hezhou.
But if things are left to develop as they are, when he investigates the rumors, he will definitely ask me to come and inquire.
If it's just an inquiry, that's fine. But if it involves signing or putting your fingerprint on something, and he recognizes your handwriting, that would really cause Yuan Chongjing a lot of trouble.
"This plan won't work!" Li Yang pondered for a moment and headed towards Hokkaido.
Beihai asked, "What insightful opinion does the young mistress have?"
Li Yang said, "Right now, the Fifth Prince is not prominent in everyone's eyes. Even if this matter were to fall on him, it would be a small matter to everyone else."
"Not young anymore, is he?" Bei Hai muttered to himself. Colluding with the Duke of Luo's mansion and framing a court official—this, to put it bluntly, is tantamount to privately receiving a court official, a grave taboo!
Li Yang knew what he was thinking: "Then let me ask you, even if all of this is true, Jing Ge is not favored by the Emperor. At most, he is just a minor official, negligible compared to his son. As for the Duke of Luo's mansion, it's just that the Duke of Luo's second son is ambitious and used some tricks to seize the position of heir. Do you think the Emperor has seen enough 'tricks' since he took over the government?"
Beihai thought about it and realized that Li Yang's words made sense.
"But the second young master said that we can take advantage of this incident to pull the fifth prince out from behind the third prince, so that everyone can see this person and know that he also has the ambition and possibility to seize the throne."
“We can’t let him put himself in danger,” Li Yang said. She had heard about the methods of the Dali Temple and Song Hezhou, even if she hadn’t witnessed them herself.
Li Yang became increasingly worried: "No, I have to go in and check on him. Oh right, don't tell my parents yet. I'll think of a way to get Jing Ge out tonight."
Bei Hai said with a mournful face, "Young Madam, they already know." The commotion in front of the Duke Luo's mansion today was so big, and there were so many people gathered around to watch the excitement. Even if they wanted to keep it a secret, they absolutely couldn't.
Li Yang knew that Yuan Chongjing was determined to make a big scene. She said, "I'm still not at ease. How about this, I'll go to the Dali Temple first and meet with Brother Jing."
The Dali Temple was not easy to enter, especially under the control of the ruthless Song Hezhou. Li Yang didn't even get close to the Dali Temple.
She was somewhat discouraged.
But thinking about it, it's probably for the best. With Song Hezhou's iron-fisted policies, Yuan Chongjing won't be harmed by the Fifth Prince while he's inside.
Li Yang stood in front of the iron gate of Dali Temple for a long time, still unwilling to give up and wanting to try again.
She went to find Song Xi.
Given that Song Xi is a renowned physician, she must have treated many high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital. If there are one or two people she can talk to, she doesn't ask for anything else, just to go in and say a few words. That shouldn't be difficult.
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