Chapter 32: You owe Xinrou this
Wang Peilan was coming out accompanied by her maid when she suddenly saw a group of brave guards rushing in from the outer courtyard as if they were ransacking a house. She was so frightened that she grabbed the maid's hand.
Did the Marquis' Mansion offend someone they shouldn't offend? Why did they send out the Southern Court's Imperial Guards?
"Xiao Cui, go and ask around." Wang Peilan ordered anxiously.
She has sent so many gifts to the Marquis' Mansion. If the Marquis' Mansion is in trouble, she must draw a clear line between them as soon as possible.
Xiao Cui came back quickly and told Wang Peilan the news she had heard. Wang Peilan's face turned strange for a moment, and she pulled Xiao Cui and quietly followed the guards.
Who would believe that Prince Kangping led so many vigorous imperial guards to see a miracle doctor?
What's more, the eldest son and daughter of the Chu family were also detained. Wang Peilan had a hunch that something was wrong.
It wasn't just Wang Peilan who was secretly following the imperial guards; there was also Doctor Yun.
He had just come out of the inner courtyard after giving acupuncture to the old lady when he overheard a few guards talking about looking for the girl that Chu Xinrou brought back that day. When he heard that it was Yan'er, he hurried to follow them.
Xiao Chifeng acted quickly. He had several maids serving in the inner courtyard arrested and threatened them before finding out Yan'er's whereabouts.
Not knowing what was going on inside, Xiao Chifeng and the others did not rush in, but guarded the yard tightly.
Shen Shuwei brought Qingdai in. The room was dim and filled with a bitter smell of medicine. There was only one little maid serving them. When she saw Shen Shuwei come in, she hurriedly stepped aside and knelt.
Chen Shuwei lifted the bed curtain and saw Yan'er sleeping soundly with her eyes closed. His heart skipped a beat.
She called out tentatively a few times and even reached out to push, but there was no response.
"Qingdai, go find Divine Doctor Yun and come in!"
Doctor Yun was squeezed in the innermost part and eavesdropping. He suddenly heard the order from inside the room. Without waiting for someone to come out to invite him, he pushed the door open and rushed in.
After seeing his granddaughter lying on the couch, Doctor Yun trembled slightly and hurried forward to take her pulse.
The more he examined the pulse, the uglier Doctor Yun's expression became. Finally, he threw a vase in the room with a dark face and loudly cursed everyone in the Marquis' Mansion, from Chu Xinrou to the old lady, and finally greeted the eighteen generations of ancestors of the Marquis' Mansion.
"Great! No wonder the eldest daughter of the Chu family insisted on stopping me from seeing my granddaughter. It turns out she had drugged her!"
Just now, when he was outside, a young man named Chen Zhang told him the whole story. He was skeptical at first, thinking that they were using him as a pawn.
As soon as he came in and checked his granddaughter's pulse, he knew that someone had deliberately given her a sleeping medicine to prevent her from waking up. What else could he not understand?
It turned out that someone else had saved his granddaughter, and some black-hearted people in the Chu family had drugged her for fear that she would tell the truth.
At this time, outside the courtyard, besides Xiao Chifeng and the others, there were also many noble ladies gathered to watch the fun. Now, listening to Divine Doctor Yun cursing the Jingning Marquis Mansion and revealing everything Chu Xinrou and her sister had done, they felt as sick as if they had swallowed a fly.
What? The granddaughter of the genius doctor was not saved by Chu Xinrou, but she took advantage of the fact that the Shen family girl was unconscious after saving someone and kidnapped her from her hands. Then what was the point of them running around and giving gifts to the elders or younger generations in the family for their illness these days?
When everyone thought about how the Marquis of Jingning had done such a shameless thing and still had the nerve to accept their gifts and thank them for their kindness, they felt angry and disgusted.
Just then, Chu Xinrou, Chu Yunlan, and a few others hurried over. Everyone looked at them with disgust, "Miss Chu, you didn't tell us that you snatched Doctor Yun's granddaughter from someone else."
"And they even gave him drugs. How cruel must one be to do such a thing?"
When Chu Xinrou heard the voice, her eyes went dark and she wished she could faint on the spot.
Chu Yunlan was embarrassed and clenched his fists, kicked the door open and rushed in.
It was all Shen Shuwei's fault. She was the one who ruined everything!
His good reputation, his official career, all of this was ruined by Chen Shuwei!
"Chen Shuwei, leave him here! This is the miracle doctor Xinrou invited to treat her grandmother. If you weren't so unfilial and refused to give her acupuncture and boil medicine, why would Xinrou take Yan'er away?"
"Ultimately, all of this is because of your unfilial behavior! You knew that Grandmother was seriously ill, and you had found a miracle doctor, but you refused to share it with the Marquis's family. If you had brought the miracle doctor earlier, how could things have turned out like this?"
"You must keep the miracle doctor to make amends!"
Ji Jinglan, who followed in, also advised earnestly, "Shuwei, go out and explain to everyone that this is all a misunderstanding. Xinrou didn't steal your person. She saved him, and we didn't drug Miss Yan'er."
"Shuwei, go and tell them quickly." Ji Jinglan was anxious. She broke out in a cold sweat just by hearing those people outside talking about how shameless their Marquis' Mansion was.
If the Marquis knew about this, they would ruin the reputation of the Marquisate, and that would be the end of it. The only solution now was to let Shen Shuwei take all the responsibility and go out to explain things to those noble wives outside the courtyard.
Chu Xinrou's eyes were red from crying as she leaned against Chu Yunlan delicately and weakly. "Sister, are you really going to ruin my reputation?"
"If you want the miracle doctor, I'll give him to you. Why are you slandering my innocence with everyone else?"
Shen Shuwei was so angry that she laughed. How could she not realize that these three people were so suitable for setting up a stage to perform?
"Get out of here." She was too lazy to say anything more to them, so she asked Qingdai to wrap Yan'er tightly and prepare to carry her out.
Chu Yunlan stopped her, glaring at her with gritted teeth, "Don't leave! You must keep the miracle doctor and this woman here today."
"Go explain clearly to those people outside that it was you who spread the rumors deliberately because you were jealous of Xinrou. It was Xinrou who saved that person. The reputation of Xinrou, me, and the Marquis of Jingning Mansion cannot be damaged!"
Only by keeping the genius doctor and Yan'er, those outsiders will continue to ask for their help. Having enjoyed the opportunity to easily gain power and wealth, how could Chu Yunlan agree to let Shen Shuwei take them away?
Moreover, Chen Shuwei must make it clear with those people outside. If his reputation and that of the Marquis of Jingning's Mansion are tarnished, how can he enter the court as an official and be granted the title of marquis and appointed as prime minister!
"He's just a miracle doctor. So what if you give him to Xinrou? Why are you so petty and nitpicking? Do you know that what you did today will ruin Xinrou's reputation?"
"You've already taken away Xinrou's wealth and glory for sixteen years, and you owe her a lot. Now that you're just a miracle doctor, consider it your compensation."
"As long as you are willing to come forward and clarify to those people outside that it was Xinrou who saved the man, and keep the miracle doctor, my mother, Xinrou, and I will forgive your actions today and will not pursue the matter further."
Ji Jinglan nodded at the side, "That's right, Shuwei, just do as your elder brother says."
Chen Shuwei raised his eyelids and looked at the two of them. Seeing Chu Yunlan's face, which looked as if he was not guilty at all, he suddenly laughed, raised his hand and slapped him hard in the face.
"Snap!" The crisp sound of flesh touching echoed inside and outside the house.
Chu Yunlan turned his face to the side after being slapped by this, and touched his stinging cheek with the tip of his tongue. He looked at Chen Shuwei in disbelief, with a murderous look in his eyes.
"You dare to hit me."
Shen Shuwei shook his red and painful hand, and met his gaze with a sneer, "How is it, are you sober now?"
"It's your mansion that owes Chu Xinrou. You should make up for the past sixteen years of her life. You don't have the ability to make up for it, so you put the blame on me and want me to make it up for you."
"A piece of junk."
Chu Yunlan looked at Chen Shuwei and remembered that Shen Shuwei used to flatter her and even stayed up late to review her essays. But she had changed since she left the Marquis' Mansion. She became rebellious and unfilial.
"It seems that it was the Shen family who taught you bad things, making you so ignorant of rules and ungrateful. Today I will teach you some rules on behalf of your mother." Chu Yunlan's expression became stern.
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