Although it was just the same name as the person mentioned briefly in the dream, Xue Shu still felt a little unhappy.

He turned his head to look at the scholar named Xie Pingchuan for a moment, and then a guard noticed his expression. Seeing that the scholars were still angry, he wanted to curry favor with them, so he held the scabbard and knocked heavily on the fence of the prison car twice, shouting, "Quiet!"

After receiving the warning, the scholars in the prison car finally calmed down. When Xue Shu saw that Xie Pingchuan didn't say anything else, he turned around and rode ahead.

When the procession reached Qipan Street, they saw the prince's carriage coming out of Daming Gate from a distance.

Xue Shu raised his hand to stop the team, and rode forward to greet them: "Greetings, Your Highness the Crown Prince."

Yin Chengyu lifted the curtain of the carriage and winked at Zheng Duobao who was serving beside the carriage. Zheng Duobao then stepped back five steps with his entourage of guards to make it easier for the two to talk.

Yin Chengyu looked at Xue Shu's clothes today and raised his eyebrows: "What did Supervisor Xue do today?"

The two men were half a step apart, one sitting upright in the carriage, the other leading the horse with his head bowed standing by the carriage window. They seemed polite and there was no sign of inappropriate intimacy.

Xue Shu took advantage of the fact that others could not hear their conversation and did not answer Yin Chengyu's question. Instead, he lowered his voice and said, "Your Highness's congratulatory minister has seen it."

Yin Chengyu glanced at him lightly, the corners of his mouth curled up a little, and said "Oh": "Do you like it?"

"I like it very much. I also understand the inscription on the painting..." Xue Shu raised his eyes and looked at him greedily: "...but I don't understand the meaning of the gag."

His Adam's apple moved slightly, and his dark eyes gradually became eager.

It's really hard to tell. A little thing made him so impatient that he actually started asking questions in the street.

Yin Chengyu glanced at him with a smile, not feeling annoyed, but he did not lower his voice deliberately: "What I mean is... Supervisor Xue should be careful with his words and actions in the future, and stop talking nonsense and biting people."

He said it literally, but when other people heard it, it took on a different meaning. They thought the rumor was true. Xue Shu didn't know how he had offended the prince. The prince had always been lenient to his subordinates, but this time he humiliated him in public.

But Xue Shu was able to accept it respectfully, and he was indeed able to endure it.

In the eyes of outsiders, Supervisor Xue, who was silent, pursed his lips and whispered in a low voice to defend himself: "I only bit it once."

And His Highness clearly bit back.

His eyes moved and he wanted to touch the teeth marks hidden by the raised collar.

If we talk about the one who loves to bite, it should be His Highness.

But he held back from saying this, otherwise His Highness would definitely get angry again.

Seeing that he dared to talk back, Yin Chengyu frowned unhappily: "Why, do you think it's not enough?"

Xue Shu somehow thought of the scene in his dream, and suddenly felt a little guilty. He stopped trying to explain and just lowered his head, saying, "I know I was wrong."

Seeing that he had become obedient again, Yin Chengyu was satisfied. He put aside this matter and brought up the previous conversation: "What are you doing?"

Xue Shu then told him about going to Xichang to ask for help.

Hearing that the students imprisoned in the prison van were those involved in the Sun Miao case, Yin Chengyu became more concerned: "The Autumn Examination is approaching, and these students have been imprisoned for a long time and have suffered a lot. After the Ministry of Justice closes the case, ask Cheng Baichuan to release them as soon as possible to avoid delaying their preparations for the exam."

Xue Shu agreed to all of them.

After Yin Chengyu finished explaining, he was about to leave, but suddenly he caught a glimpse of a familiar face. He was stunned for a moment, and when he looked again, the other person had turned away and he could not see clearly.

Why does the scholar in the prison car look a bit like Xie Pingchuan?

Yin Chengyu was somewhat suspicious, so he asked one more question just in case: "The imperial examination is coming up soon, how are these students' academic performance? Are there any outstanding ones among them?"

Xie Pingchuan was an old friend from the previous life, and he didn't want Xue Shu to realize that they had known each other for a long time, so he just asked in a roundabout way.

In his previous life, Xie Pingchuan first won the title of Jieyuan, then the title of Huiyuan, and then the title of Jingong in the palace examination. He won three titles in a row, which made him the most famous person.

Calculating the time, it is time for Xie Pingchuan to take part in the autumn examination.

Xue Shu had previously ordered people to investigate the family backgrounds of these students, and their academic performance in the academy was naturally included in the investigation.

He briefly described the situation of several students. When it was Xie Pingchuan's turn, he paused and told the truth: "Among the eight, Xie Pingchuan is the most knowledgeable. It is said that he is also well-known in the academy and is a hot candidate for the top prize in this autumn's examination."

When Yin Chengyu heard the name Xie Pingchuan, he was surprised and dazed for a moment.

It turned out to be him.

I just don't know how the other party was involved in the Sun family's case.

At this time in his previous life, he was imprisoned in the imperial mausoleum. When he met Xie Pingchuan, he had already been an official in the imperial court for several years. He didn't know much about the other person's student days.

"Oh? I'll go and take a look." Yin Chengyu got off the carriage with a curious look.

The prison van was parked at the other end. He didn't think it was too far and walked past the guards and servants to the front of the prison van.

Yin Chengyu's eyes swept across the scholars in the prison car and finally stopped on Xie Pingchuan's face with a complicated expression.

Xie Yunchuan, now just over twenty years old, has gentle features and sits in a prison van in tattered clothes. Apart from his outstanding appearance, he looks no different from other scholars and is quite harmless.

But it was this man who bore a blood feud but kept it to himself, and finally overthrew the chief assistant Shao Tian by himself. Later, he was recruited by Shao Tian and helped him a lot.

He and Xie Pingchuan shared similar aspirations, and they considered each other as close friends in addition to being emperor and subject.

He originally thought that he would have to wait until next year's palace examination to meet the other party, but he did not expect to meet her at this time and in this situation.

Yin Chengyu sighed slightly, but didn't say anything more.

After all, Xie Pingchuan didn't know him at that time.

Yin Chengyu stood in front of the prison car and looked at it for a moment, said nothing, and returned to the carriage.

Xue Shu followed beside him, observed his expression, and asked tentatively: "Your Highness, do you know Xie Yunchuan?"

Originally he thought that "Xie Pingchuan" was just a coincidence of having the same name, but now looking at His Highness's reaction, it does not seem to be a coincidence.

In the dream, he quarreled with His Highness because of "Xie Pingchuan" and was full of jealousy. Now in reality, there actually is a Xie Pingchuan, who seems to be acquainted with His Highness.

He had a strange feeling in his heart, but he couldn't explain it clearly.

It's like a tangled ball of thread with one or two thread ends sticking out.

He tried to make sense of it, but couldn't.

"Don't ask me about my affairs." Yin Chengyu glanced at him, not knowing where he got this guess from. It can only be attributed to the fact that these two people are born incompatible. Even if he had no memory in his new life, Xue Shu was still so sensitive about things involving Xie Yanchuan.

In the previous life, these two had many quarrels.

Or it could be said that Xue Shu was unilaterally looking for trouble and Xie Pingchuan fought back.

Now that the situation had come to an end again, Yin Chengyu didn't want to see the two of them being so treacherous to each other. He stared at Xue Shu and warned him, "Send him back safely and don't cause any more trouble."

After giving the instructions, he ordered the carriage to continue moving forward.

Xue Shu stopped where he was and watched the car drive away. He turned around after it had gone far away, took a gloomy look at the prison car, and said in a cold voice, "Go to the Ministry of Justice."

Yin Chengyu left the palace this time because of news from the Imperial Medical Office that the bloodletting method seemed to be somewhat effective.

Five days ago, Yin Ciguang came to see him and said that he had found a method of bloodletting in ancient books, which might be able to cure the pimple plague. Coincidentally, the letter sent back by Wei Xihe also mentioned that a doctor in Fujian had cured the plague by bloodletting. Yin Chengyu agreed to give it a try.

However, considering Yin Ci Guang's poor health, he was not sent directly to the plague hospital. Instead, he was sent to the Imperial Medical Hospital to learn bloodletting techniques from the imperial doctors, who then treated the infected patients.

But today, when Yin Chengyu arrived at the Imperial Hospital, he found out that Yin Ciguang had done it himself.

Although Yin Ciguang was not favored, she was still a princess, and with Zheng Duobao accompanying her personally, the Imperial Hospital attached great importance to his words. At his insistence, 20 patients with milder symptoms were selected from the leprosy clinic and placed separately in the warehouse for storing medicinal materials that was vacated by the Imperial Hospital.

The doctors in the Imperial Hospital were probably on good terms with Yin Ciguang, and after receiving his confession, they wanted to help cover up the matter at first. But when Yin Chengyu questioned them and revealed the truth, they had no choice but to lead him to the storeroom with a bitter face.

The warehouse was located in a very remote area, far away from the crowd, so there was no need to worry about the pestilence spreading.

However, when they arrived at the door of the storehouse, the imperial physician who was leading the way stopped Yin Chengyu and refused to let him take any risks.

Yin Chengyu knew the seriousness of the situation and did not insist. He stepped back a few steps and waited in an open space for the imperial physician to come and find Yin Ciguang.

Not long after, I saw the side door of the warehouse open and Yin Ci Guang came out from behind the door.

He covered his mouth and nose with a cloth, and wore only a very plain green robe. His black hair was simply tied behind his head. He still looked a little frail, but had a more heroic look.

Others only thought that he was a woman disguised as a man for convenience, but they didn't know that he was actually a man.

Yin Ciguang had a strong smell of mugwort on him, and it was obvious that he had just been fumigated with mugwort before he came out. He did not approach, but stopped carefully two or three steps away from Yin Chengyu, and bowed to him: "I have been with a patient for several days, and I am afraid that the disease has spread to Your Highness. Please forgive me."

Yin Chengyu shook his head, dismissed the waiter, and said, "There's no one else here, so you don't have to do this." He paused, then said, "This outfit suits you better today than before."

He spoke very cryptically, but Yin Ciguang understood it.

In order to survive in this deep palace, he was raised as a girl. His mother taught him court etiquette, music, chess, calligraphy, and everything a royal princess should know. But she was afraid that he would really think of himself as a girl, so she would cry and remind him again and again in the middle of the night when no one was around that he was a man.

But he had been pretending for so long that he would occasionally become dazed for a moment.

Yin Chengyu was the first person other than his mother to acknowledge his identity.

Yin Ci Guang raised his eyes to look at him, and a smile slowly appeared on his face which was mostly covered by the cloth.

He straightened his neck slightly, and somewhat uncomfortably put down his hand that was habitually pressed against his lower abdomen, and stood straight like Yin Chengyu. However, he was still a little confused, and a little embarrassed appeared in his eyes: "After so many years... I'm used to it. I'm sorry to embarrass you, Your Highness."

Yin Chengyu wanted to say something, but he felt that premature promises would always lead to disappointment, so he kept it to himself. He changed the subject and considerately eased the brief awkwardness.

"I heard that the bloodletting method was effective. How are the twenty patients doing now?"

Speaking of patients, Yin Ci Guang was indeed much more at ease. He lowered his head out of habit and told him in detail about what had happened in the past five days.

The author has something to say:

#There is only one prince in Gougou, and the prince can only have one Gougou#

Gougou: Who is Xie Pingchuan? Does Your Highness know him? Do you like him? Do you like him more than you like me?

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