Chapter 823 Karma
Prince Xiao's palace was defeated so quickly and suddenly that no one in the capital could react.
I still remember that Prince Xiao's Mansion looked down on Fu Zhaoning and embarrassed her so much on the wedding day. At that time, everyone felt that Fu Zhaoning was indeed not worthy of Xiao Yanjing, and they were all thinking about who she could marry after breaking off the engagement in the street, who could surpass Xiao Yanjing.
Who could have known that Prince Xiao's Mansion would be completely ruined now, Prince Xiao was dead, and Xiao Yanjing was exiled three thousand miles away.
Moreover, Li Zhiyao was so arrogant in front of Fu Zhaoning because she had a father who was a miracle doctor.
Who could have known that now that Doctor Li had been killed and she herself had been thrown to death by Xiu that day, Fu Zhaoning was still doing well as Princess Jun and had even joined the Great Medical Association.
After the death of Dr. Li, there was only one person from the Great Medical Association left in the capital, and Fu Zhaoning's status rose significantly.
From now on, I can only go to her for help with difficult and complicated diseases. There is no more Doctor Li.
The people were also very sad about the death of Doctor Li.
"Dr. Li has spoiled his daughter. Almost all the troubles he has gotten into in the past few years were caused by Li Zhiyao. It's not good to spoil your daughter too much. She has become lawless."
"Isn't that just lawlessness? She even climbed into her father-in-law's bed. Do you think that this is why Prince Xiao got furious and killed Doctor Li?"
"He is now an exiled prisoner. Where else in the capital is there a person as important as Prince Xiao?"
"Does this count as Prince Xiao's bad luck also because of Li Zhiyao?"
There were also some kind-hearted people who, after hearing this, advised the people who were discussing the matter, "Forget it, forget it. The dead are the greatest. Stop talking about them all the time."
Li Zhiyao is already dead, and her death was so tragic.
First, rumors ruined her reputation, then she got sick, and then she was divorced and fell to her death.
This is really miserable.
"Who can be blamed for this?"
Some people disagreed, saying that it was not them who harmed Li Zhiyao, it was clearly her own fault, okay?
However, because of the incident between Li Zhiyao and Doctor Li, Fu Zhaoning's reputation became even greater. After all, Li Zhiyao had been deeply entangled with her from the beginning.
Moreover, Doctor Li had many conflicts with her in the past.
Some people think that Fu Zhaoning is now the big winner.
But no matter what, the wind direction is not biased. At least most people think that you reap what you sow. Fu Zhaoning has the glory she has now because she is very capable.
The incident at Prince Xiao's Mansion and Prince Li's Mansion lasted for a few days. A few days later, news came that Xiao Yanjing encountered a group of disaster victims on the way to exile, and a conflict broke out. In the chaos, he was beaten to death.
It was an officer in charge of escorting the man who escaped and said this.
The officer was also covered in wounds, with blood flowing everywhere. His forehead was cut, a finger was broken, and his lips were blue from the cold. He barely managed to survive.
"Someone secretly saved me and pulled me back at the critical moment, otherwise I would not have been able to come back. Those disaster victims were really crazy. They knew that we were officials and were escorting prisoners, and we definitely didn't have anything good on us, but they still rushed over like a swarm and looted us."
They brought two bags of wine, so they could drink at night in case it was too cold on the road. Besides that, they had a few days' worth of dry food, which was not good stuff, just some dry and tasteless bread.
"For those disaster victims, even a piece of bread can save their lives."
Xiao Lanyuan was talking about this with Fu Zhaoning.
Because the person who saved the officer was Lan Rong's subordinate.
Lan Rong sent someone to deliver a letter back to the capital, but encountered disaster victims committing crimes and was only able to rescue one person.
"That's right." Fu Zhaoning was curious, "The guards didn't have time to save Xiao Yanjing? Lan Rong's men should know Xiao Yanjing, right?"
Hearing her ask this, Xiao Lanyuan leaned over, got closer to her, and looked at her intently.
"What? Why are you looking at me like that—" Fu Zhaoning stepped back, and he moved a little closer, holding her hind legs with his hands to prevent her from falling.
"Do you really want to save Xiao Yanjing?"
"Why would I want to save him? I'm just curious. After all, he is of royal blood. After all, your men wouldn't watch him get killed by Zaixin, right? Aren't the people on Lan Rong's side still unaware of what happened recently?"
Fu Zhaoning looked at Xiao Lanyuan and knew that he was jealous, and couldn't help but laugh.
"If I wanted to save Xiao Yanjing, wouldn't I have stopped you that day and asked someone to report it to the police? If we hadn't reported it to the police at that time, he would have had time to deal with the matter of Doctor Li, and he wouldn't necessarily have been sentenced to exile."
Xiao Lanyuan is actually very smart, so why did his brain suddenly get stuck when encountering something like this?
"That's true."
Xiao Lanyuan nodded, bent down and kissed her on the lips, then stood up and helped her sit down.
"At that time, I only had time to save one official."
It's not that the guards didn't want to save people, it's just that when he passed by, the officer broke through and ran away, and there weren't many people pestering him, so they were able to save him.
As for Xiao Yanjing and the other few officers, they were really surrounded by the victims and could only watch and were unable to help.
After all, there was only one guard, and his job was to deliver the message, so he wouldn't get himself into that kind of trouble.
If he gets entangled by the disaster victims and the letter is lost or cannot be delivered, then the prince will be blamed. This is absolutely not allowed.
Saving an official is already very good.
"I thought Xiao Yanjing could at least reach the place where he was exiled and do some hard work before he died. I didn't expect that he couldn't even make it to his destination and died at the hands of the victims."
Fu Zhaoning also felt very emotional.
"Two years ago, Prince Xiao was on a disaster relief mission. He went to Zhajidao to build a dam and also settled the disaster victims to help them regain the basic living conditions."
Xiao Lanyuan was talking to Fu Zhaoning about the disaster victims.
"But after Prince Xiao went there, he only cared about colluding with local officials, investigating mineral veins, looking for beauties, eating, drinking and having fun all day long, and didn't care about the lives of the victims at all. The victims there could only live in straw huts. When the snowstorm came at the end of last year, it was the most unbearable. Those huts were crushed, but because they were straw huts, not many people were crushed to death."
"The number of deaths was not that large, but they had no place to live or food to eat, so they had no choice but to flee. I asked someone to find out, and the group of disaster victims that Xiao Yanjing met were most likely those who came from Zhaji Road."
Fu Zhaoning was stunned. "You mean karma?"
If Prince Xiao had taken more time to settle the people when he went to provide disaster relief, perhaps they would not have to flee during this snowstorm.
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