Chapter 28 is not simple.
Doctor Luo had inexplicably become emotional earlier, but after being interrupted, he calmed down and stopped saying anything.
This kind of head-to-head arguing was something that didn't even exist in the original owner's memories.
This was the first time Mu Xi had ever seen Doctor Luo and Jin Fangjun Mu Zhen arguing face to face.
This bystander was caught completely off guard.
Fortunately, Mu Xi hadn't forgotten the important matter and pressed on to her scumbag father's retreating figure, asking, "Father, are you still going to keep your promise from earlier?"
Without turning his head, Mu Zhen spoke only to Mu Xun: "Xun'er, just make the arrangements. Remember, be careful and don't leave any trace of your whereabouts."
"Yes," Mu Xun replied, pushing Mu Zhen away.
Doctor Luo turned away as if nothing had happened and urged Mu Xi, "Drink the calming medicine while it's hot."
"Can I not drink it?" Mu Xi didn't want to drink any of the herbal medicine right now.
"What, you suspect this bowl is also poisoned?" Doctor Luo asked seriously.
Mu Xi felt a natural affinity for Doctor Luo and, not wanting to jeopardize that trust, quickly explained, "That's not what I meant. It's just that all medicines are bitter."
"It's alright if you suspect this medicine is poisoned. I hope you can always remain vigilant." As he spoke, Doctor Luo scooped up a spoonful of the calming soup and drank it down. "You suspect that someone tampered with the fake death medicine, right? I've had my suspicions these past few days, but I've found nothing after all the investigations. So this calming soup was brewed by me personally, without any help from anyone else."
"Thank you for your hard work, Doctor Luo." Mu Xi felt a little guilty, so she had no choice but to gulp it down in a few mouthfuls.
Doctor Luo took the empty medicine bowl and said with satisfaction, "Don't do anything else these next few days, just rest in your room."
Peach handed over some candied fruit.
Mu Xi picked up a plum: "I can't avoid trouble even if I want to. The Marquis wants me to leave the city to avoid the storm, and he'll probably send me away in the next day or two."
"Leave the city?" Doctor Luo seemed to be deep in thought.
Mu Xi quickly swallowed two plums to relieve the bitterness: "Yangyi Altar in the suburbs."
Doctor Luo seemed to have thought of something, but surprisingly, she didn't object to Jin Fangjun: "That's good too. Given your current condition, that place is remote and sparsely populated, with only a few elderly witches guarding it. It's very quiet and a good place to soothe the soul."
Just then, the door was pushed open again.
This time, Zhelan brought in a basin of clean water: "Your Highness, let me help you wash the cinnabar off your face."
"No, don't wash it yet." Mu Xi thought that even now, she still didn't know what kind of pattern was drawn on her forehead, so she had to take a look herself before wiping it off.
But before that, there was still a matter to follow up on regarding Qi Erniang's situation, so he instructed Tao'er: "Tao'er, go and find Mu Xun again. I still have something to say to him."
"Yes." Then Tao'er and Ze Lan both left.
Doctor Luo had finished administering the medicine and was about to leave, but she still had one last thing to say: "Don't blame your father, the Marquis, for some things. He had no choice in what he did, even if it was only because he really didn't have much time left... Sigh... Never mind, it was just a moment of impulse on my part..."
It would have been better if we hadn't mentioned it.
Upon hearing this, Mu Xi also recalled their hesitant conversation earlier: "What were you talking about when I was little? Was it when I was little? Did something happen when I was little? I don't remember."
The original owner's memories were all in her mind, but Mu Xi didn't realize that those memories could be connected to their cryptic conversations.
"It's nothing, it's good that you don't remember. Anyway, it's good for you to leave the city and avoid the limelight, let this 'spirit possession' thing cool down." After saying that, Doctor Luo hurriedly left with the medicine bowl.
No sooner had Doctor Luo left than the voice of a three-year-old child echoed in Mu Xi's mind: "How could you not remember? I remember everything."
“You…” Mu Xi had just turned around and sat down to prepare for an internal examination.
Footsteps sounded outside again; Mu Xun had turned back.
Mu Xi had no choice but to put the child's voice aside for the time being and anxiously asked Mu Xun, "When are we going to see Qi Erniang? Is tonight okay?"
"Don't rush." Mu Xun turned around and closed the door tightly, leaving Tao'er to stand guard outside.
"Not in a hurry? Judging by the days, you should have arrested those two people three days and three nights already, right? Two people disappearing without a trace, aren't you afraid of arousing suspicion?" Mu Xi was genuinely worried that dragging it out would be a risk for both sides.
Mu Xun remained calm and composed: "This Qi Erniang is not as simple as you see her. You are eager to see her and save her life, but she..."
"How is she?" Mu Xi gestured for Mu Xun to sit down at the octagonal table, while she herself sat down next to him.
Mu Xun sat down and took out a bamboo tube from his pocket.
The bamboo tube was opened, but it was empty inside.
“This originally contained Qi Erniang’s biography, but my father and I burned it after reading it. According to the intelligence Jiang Meng gathered, Qi Erniang doesn’t seem as innocent as she appears.”
Upon hearing the name Jiang Meng, Mu Xi vaguely remembered it and immediately connected it with the coachman from the night before last.
However, this was not the time to dwell on the driver, so he simply said, "Tell me what you have to say first."
Mu Xun recalled for a moment, then began to recount: "Strictly speaking, this branch of the Qi family is quite distant from the 'Xiangnan Qi family,' having had no contact for the past two generations. This branch of the Qi family in Moyang City also made their living as merchants, with Qi Erniang's father as the clan head, and their business was always quite successful. Qi Erniang, whose real name was Qi Yingyu, was an only child, originally with an older brother. Unfortunately, her brother was addicted to gambling and drinking, and Qi's father, worried that his father would have no one to support him, arranged for Qi Yingyu to marry a shrewd and capable man. After the husband married into the family, he devoted himself to managing the business, and the family lived a relatively prosperous life. Later, Qi's father and mother passed away one after another, and Qi Erniang's brother also contracted an incurable disease due to excessive drinking and eventually died, without leaving any children."
"Ah, so it seems that this Second Madam Qi inherited the family business." Mu Xi felt it was quite remarkable.
Mu Xun didn't respond to the question, but continued, "The year after the son-in-law who had married into the family completely took over the family business, he was robbed by bandits while on a business trip and unfortunately died. This second wife of Qi and her husband had no children, so until now, it is considered that the second wife of Qi is supporting the family business alone."
"This..." Mu Xi also felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. "They've been married for many years, and they don't have any children?"
"No," Mu Xun replied, then added, "I've only heard that the husband who married into the family seems to have kept a mistress outside the marriage and had a child with her?"
"A mistress?" Mu Xi felt a sense of disgust, but such things were "normal" in that time and space, so she only asked, "You said she's not simple, what exactly do you mean?"
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