He Youyou thought for a moment.
"Your Highness, I need to speak with him tomorrow. Please bring him directly to me."
Upon hearing this, King Qi's face immediately fell again: "Sister-in-law, please spare me. I'm so exhausted, can I rest for a few days?"
He Youyou sighed helplessly, "What kind of person does great things like you? To succeed, you need a strong will, perseverance, and the ability to endure hardship and fatigue. You're just getting started."
Back in the day, the entrepreneurs on the projects she led would work day and night without sleep, desperately trying to succeed.
"Sister-in-law, I'm afraid of hardship and fatigue, please give me a day off."
The King of Qi pleaded desperately.
"Alright, alright, then you can rest. I'll have him come to me tomorrow and I'll talk to him."
Zhao Changqing suddenly spoke up: "I'll join too."
He Youyou looked at him in surprise: "We're here to talk business, what are you doing here?"
“He… has moral failings, I’m afraid it might be bad for you.”
He Youyou sighed: "You haven't even done any investigation before you're labeling people?"
Zhao Changqing remained unfazed: "I'll send someone to investigate right away."
During her time in Zhuangzi, He Youyou's main purpose was to test the agricultural implements produced by the King of Qi. Now that the test results were in, there was no need for her to stay any longer.
That same day, they packed their bags and headed home.
Zhao Changqing insisted on going along as well.
"Hanzhang, won't you stay a few more days?"
"It's boring here, let's go back to the manor."
The two boarded a horse-drawn carriage and began their journey home.
Inside the carriage, He Youyou stared intently at the account books that the King of Qi had given her.
These things are all stored in my own space, and I can take them out and look at them anytime, anywhere.
I have to discuss serious matters with Manager Xin tomorrow, so I must thoroughly understand all the information before then.
Making use of fragmented time is her specialty.
I can squeeze in time to work while eating, before going to bed, or in the car.
She watched intently, sometimes frowning, sometimes relaxing, sometimes shaking her head, sometimes sighing, and sometimes swearing...
They were so focused that they forgot everything around them.
"long."
Zhao Changqing suddenly called her.
He Youyou looked up in confusion: "What's wrong?"
Zhao Changqing held up one finger to her: "I'm injured."
He Youyou leaned closer to examine his wound.
On his index finger, there was a cut about one centimeter long.
At this moment, beads of blood were seeping out.
"You..." she asked, puzzled, "When did you get hurt?"
"I didn't notice either, it was probably before I got on the carriage."
He Youyou pinched her chin: "Before getting on the carriage? But your wound looks quite fresh."
The carriage has been traveling for so long; if the platelets were functioning normally, the blood from such a shallow wound should have clotted long ago.
Zhao Changqing's expression flickered: "...Perhaps it was cut after getting into the carriage."
He Youyou craned her neck and looked around at his body: "I didn't find any sharp weapon. How did he get cut?"
Zhao Changqing lowered his head, looked at himself, and pointed to his belt: "There's a belt hook here, it's probably what scratched me."
He Youyou took a look and saw that there were indeed several small metal hooks on the belt hook.
"But this hook doesn't look sharp either..."
"Youyou, help me apply the medicine."
Zhao Changqing simply stated his demands directly without further explanation.
Unexpectedly, his approach turned out to be a lucky one.
People like He Youyou are experts at finding loopholes.
If you continue to cover it up and explain, you will only endlessly arouse her competitive spirit, making her determined to find out the truth.
If she were to directly ask for help or make demands, her protective nature would inevitably lead her to—
My little brother is under my protection, how could he suffer even the slightest grievance?!
So she began to reach into the space and explore.
"For an injury of your severity, there's no need to waste the medicine powder. I'll get you a band-aid; it'll be fine in a little while."
"good."
As she was groping around, her expression suddenly changed.
Zhao Changqing noticed that her expression was unusual and quickly asked, "Youyou, what's wrong?"
"It's refreshed."
"What refreshed?"
"I've refreshed the items Ahri uses for self-defense..."
Last year in Jizhou, she gave Ali a bottle of pepper spray for self-defense.
But now, this spray has somehow appeared in her medicine cabinet.
"Ah Li is in trouble!"
He Youyou looked at Zhao Changqing with some nervousness.
Zhao Changqing quickly lifted the carriage curtain and instructed the left guard and other subordinates who were protecting the carriage: "Zuo Ming, take a few men, ride fast horses, and quickly investigate Ali's whereabouts! Split into two groups, one to the He family and the other to inquire at the places he frequents."
Upon hearing his explanation, Zuo Ming immediately became nervous.
"yes!"
Several fast horses left the carriage at breakneck speed and galloped forward.
Although He Youyou was worried, she remained calm.
Since things have come to this point, and people have already been sent out, there's no point in being blindly anxious.
She took out a band-aid and bandaged Zhao Changqing's wound.
In the short time it took them to exchange a few words, the blood on the wound had almost congealed.
Yes, Zhao Changqing's platelet count is completely normal.
The carriage sped up, traveling along the official road.
Upon seeing that it was a prince's token, the guards at the city gate dared not delay and hurriedly let them in.
The carriage had just entered the city when it encountered Zuo Ming's horse galloping towards it.
Zuo Ming arrived at the carriage, dismounted, and reported through the carriage curtain.
"Your Highness, we've found the young master."
Where is he?
“We went to the He family’s house and found that he had just returned.”
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