Ji Mingxuan and Cheng Wu looked at each other for a long time and then compromised.
He stood up, turned his back to Cheng Wu, and said, "Follow me!"
After saying that, he left.
Cheng Wu was stunned on the spot.
What does this mean?
What's that expression on Lord Ji's face?
Cheng Wu stood up and almost fell down. He looked at Ji Mingxuan's receding back and chased after him.
Ji Mingxuan did not take Cheng Wu to the office room in the yamen, but took him to his study in the backyard.
“Do it!”
Ji Mingxuan asked the servant to make tea, and then asked Cheng Wu to sit down.
Cheng Wu opened his mouth, but he couldn't say a word.
The momentum he had just had to question his immediate superior was gone.
Only a complicated heart remains.
The two grown men sat opposite each other, neither of them spoke.
Only after the servant brought tea and snacks and left did Ji Mingxuan speak.
"My sister's maiden name is Feifei, the Fei of Fangfei. She is twenty years old this year, the same age as Miss Cheng, but a few months younger. She is pretty and cheerful, and enjoys swordplay and spearplaying, but not playing music, chess, calligraphy, or painting!"
Ji Mingxuan took a sip of tea and said leisurely.
Cheng Wu's body stiffened.
"Two years ago, my grandparents in the capital secretly arranged a marriage for my younger sister. The man was the current Second Prince. My younger sister didn't like it and ran away from home!"
"The situation at court is complicated. The Second Prince's mother, Concubine Shu Guifei's family is powerful, and the Crown Prince is frail. After discussing with my father, I made the excuse to the capital that my younger sister was ill and worried that we wouldn't be able to fulfill the engagement. I also sent someone to secretly protect my younger sister."
"My sister was clever. She escaped the people who were secretly protecting her along the way and later arrived at Taoyuan County, Yunzhou Prefecture. She met a constable from the county yamen, and they quickly got married and became pregnant."
"When the secret agent found my sister again, she was already pregnant. My father was furious and immediately planned to take my sister home. But then news came from the capital that the Second Prince had hired a famous doctor to treat my sister!"
"So, my father had no choice but to let my sister stay at her husband's house until she gave birth, and then bring her back. During this time, he told the people in Beijing that my sister only needed to rest for another six months."
"Half a year later, my younger sister gave birth to a son. Before he was a month old, he was brought back to the capital."
Ji Mingxuan spoke briefly and then looked at Cheng Wu.
Cheng Wu's whole body was shaking, even his eyelashes and lips were trembling.
He suddenly stood up and headed for the door.
"Captain Cheng can go to the capital right away and search for my younger sister at the Marquis of Jibei's mansion. If the people at the mansion find out, my father and I can still mediate. But if the Second Prince finds out, the worst that can happen is that the Marquis of Jibei's mansion will openly oppose the Second Prince. But I can't guarantee the marriage of my younger sister who was born in the countryside!"
"My sister's husband's family is in trouble. At worst, my sister can just live a secluded life. If she can think it through, she can find someone else to marry. Anyway, apart from my father's and my close confidants, no one knows that she has been married and has children!"
Ji Mingxuan sat on the chair and did not stand up to stop him, but his words made Cheng Wu stop involuntarily.
Cheng Wu thought again of what Cheng Yue said to him last night.
He put down his hand that was about to open the door dejectedly.
"The Crown Prince is gravely ill and beyond medical help. To be disrespectful, if the Crown Prince is gone, the next Crown Prince will most likely be the Second Prince! The Second Prince is currently determined to take over our Ji Family. Two years ago, he entertained the idea of an alliance, and he hasn't given it up yet. How could he allow someone to ruin his plans at such a critical moment?"
Ji Mingxuan said again.
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