Chapter 773 Something is going to happen
Listening to her clear voice, Mr. Ji suddenly remembered.
This Xiuhong is his daughter who lives in an alley behind his small courtyard.
However, he didn't live in the capital for long. The girl entered the palace three years ago and only came out once since then. It happened that her grandfather was sick and needed medicinal herbs, so she begged him to buy some.
"Hurry up and get up. Isn't it cold sitting in the snow? Are you okay?"
Xiuhong stood up and brushed the snow off her body. Her skirt was a little wet, but she didn't care.
Picking up the packages that fell on the ground, she responded to Mr. Ji, "I'm fine."
"Are you going home? Come on up, I'll give you a ride."
Xiuhong got on the carriage and thanked Mr. Ji repeatedly.
The medicinal herbs that her grandfather needed before were only in the hands of Old Ji, so Old Ji was considered the benefactor of their family.
Xiuhong looked at Mr. Ji and felt very conflicted.
This was her benefactor, and she didn't know whether she should tell him what she had heard.
"Do you have something to say?" Old Ji couldn't help himself when he looked at her. This girl always had such a conflicted look on her face, which made him uncomfortable.
If you have something to say, just say it. It's hard to hide it. Even if it's not hard for her, it's hard for him to see her.
Xiuhong was a little embarrassed. She didn't expect he could see it.
"Master Ji, I heard that Princess Jun is your apprentice? Have you seen her recently?"
"Why are you asking her? She is my apprentice."
Actually, Mr. Ji had just returned from the Fu family. He had wanted to visit Prince Jun's Mansion for a long time, but he was afraid of ruining the plans of Prince Jun and Fu Zhaoning. He also didn't know what they were going to do.
So, he went to the Fu Mansion to hear what Fu Jinchen had to say.
He had accompanied the couple all the way from Dahe back to Zhaoguo, and he had a certain understanding of Fu Jinchen. He thought Fu Jinchen was a very smart person.
Therefore, he may have known what Prince Jun and Fu Zhaoning were planning.
Sure enough, after listening to Fu Jinchen's words, Mr. Ji calmed down. Now he was going to go home and make tea around the stove, and he would not care for the time being.
"I heard some news in the palace..." Xiuhong thought about it and whispered the news to Mr. Ji.
As Mr. Ji listened, his expression changed.
The emperor asked the imperial physician to develop medicine to treat syphilis.
The imperial doctors felt that Zhaoning had been infected with the disease.
They also hope that Zhao Ning will die.
It was because Fu Zhaoning was a woman and so young, and she joined the Great Medical Association. Now her reputation was greater than those of the imperial physicians, so those people were jealous and could not tolerate her.
Also, Xiuhong said that the emperor had previously banned Prince Xiao from entering the palace, and no one from Prince Xiao's mansion was allowed to enter the palace either.
These things are linked together -
Mr. Ji’s face turned dark.
It seems that Prince Jun's illness in prison is related to the Emperor and Prince Xiao.
He sent Xiuhong home, and saw a woman knocking on the door and crying at Xiuhong's door, with a bundle in her arms. Next to her was a child of six or seven years old, whose cotton jacket was a little torn.
"Cousin, please open the door quickly. Can we forget about the past? We have nowhere to go now. Please take us in!"
Mr. Ji pulled Xiuhong, who was about to get off the carriage, and asked, "Is she your relative?"
Xiuhong nodded, and suddenly thought of something, and was startled, "Mr. Ji, that's my cousin and her son, but they are tenant farmers in a farm outside the city, and the land they rent is from Prince Xiao."
A tenant farmer of Prince Xiao's family?
Old Ji frowned. Although he didn't know what happened in Prince Xiao's Mansion and how it related to Prince Jun and the others, Fu Jinchen had just told him that the fact that Prince Jun's Mansion was closed to visitors should be related to Prince Xiao's Mansion.
Fu Jinchen found out that Prince Xiao's mansion was also closed to visitors today.
The whole city is saying that Prince Jun has contracted some kind of serious disease. What about Prince Xiao who was refused entry to the palace? Could he be the same?
Prince Xiao had not shown up since New Year's Eve. Where had he been? Combined with the news from the palace revealed by Xiuhong, he always felt that these things were somehow related.
Mr. Ji thought about it and suddenly felt that something was wrong.
"Don't get off the car yet. Wait until the mother and son leave."
Xiuhong was also a little panicked and didn't dare to get off the carriage, so she just waited in the carriage.
Her aunt knocked on the door for a long time, but it didn't open. She got angry and started cursing, scolding her cousin's family for being so heartless and cruel that they watched her die and said they would get their retribution sooner or later.
"My parents have severed ties with them a long time ago. They did some things that were unfair to my family in the past and agreed to never have any contact with each other again. I don't know why she brought her child to my house today." Xiuhong felt strange.
Aren’t you living well in Zhuangzi?
Besides, where was her cousin? Why didn't he come? It was strange just thinking about it.
The woman cursed but still failed to open the door, so she had to leave with her child.
After they walked away, Xiuhong quickly got off the carriage and knocked on the door. As soon as she spoke, the door opened quickly.
Xiuhong's father opened the door, saw her and quickly took her in.
Mr. Ji thought this was a bit strange, so he asked someone to find out. As a result, in the evening, Xiuhong came to his house in person and told him something.
She was a little panicked.
"Mr. Ji, my father said that my cousin had been serving Prince Xiao on the farm! He said that Prince Xiao was ill and his body was rotten!"
"What?" Mr. Ji was also surprised.
"Someone else in the farm secretly told him this, because my cousin has been serving Prince Xiao in that room. Prince Xiao has told him that no one else can go in, and he can't come out. But someone heard what my cousin and aunt said across the room, saying that Prince Xiao had contracted that disease, his body was rotten, and it smelled bad!"
Xiuhong's face turned pale. "My cousin's aunt was afraid, so she didn't dare to stay in the farm, so she brought the children to the city for refuge. My father didn't let them in today because he got the news."
Fortunately, someone reported the news first, otherwise, if her aunt really moved into the house, what if, what if she also got infected with the disease, wouldn’t her whole family be infected as well?
Mr. Ji thanked Xiuhong and asked her to go home quickly. He wrote a letter and asked someone to deliver it to Fu's house immediately.
The Fu Mansion now has Prince Jun's secret guards, who can definitely deliver news to Prince Jun's Mansion.
When Fu Jinchen got the news, he thought it was an important matter, so he immediately sent someone to deliver the letter to Prince Jun's Mansion.
Xiao Lanyuan got the letter.
The Queen Mother came to see him again in the evening. He couldn't continue pretending to be asleep, so he leaned on the bed and said two sentences weakly, each sentence not exceeding five words.
This made the empress dowager, who wanted to have dinner with him, give up the idea as she didn't dare to tire him out.
After the Queen Mother left, Xiao Lanyuan and Fu Zhaoning had a simple dinner. They were thinking about continuing to look at the map of rivers and mountains and looking for a suitable place to go when Eleven came with a letter.
Xiao Lanyuan read the letter and frowned.
"My father's letter was addressed to you?" Fu Zhaoning was a little shocked. Shouldn't it be addressed to her?
Xiao Lanyuan handed the letter to her.
“It feels like something’s going to go wrong.”
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