Chapter 72 This leg is hopeless
The steward in charge of the kitchen and purchasing in Duke Zheng’s mansion was the first to go out early in the morning.
He heard people at the morning market talking
about a fight over a prostitute at Yixiangyuan last night.
Then he listened carefully and found out that it was the eldest son.
Upon hearing the news, he stopped buying food and hurried back to the mansion to report what he heard on the street to the housekeeper. Upon hearing this,
housekeeper Zheng immediately asked the servant to go to the second gate to ask if the eldest son had returned to the mansion last night.
The result is predictable, no.
Because there is more than one gate in the mansion, it is impossible for housekeeper Zheng to find out the entry and exit of each gate at once.
The housekeeper asked the second gate to inform the wife of the prince, and he immediately took a few servants to go out to look for him.
Before reaching Yixiangyuan, Butler Zheng heard from passers-by that there was a naked man in an alley about three blocks away from Yixiangyuan. He
was still dazed.
Everyone ran to see the excitement.
Butler Zheng had a bad feeling. Anyway, he had to pass by there to go to Yixiangyuan, so he hurried in that direction with his servant. When they
arrived at the alley, the people who were watching the excitement were already surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside.
Several servants cleared the way, and the old butler in his fifties squeezed in.
A man with a bruised face was lying on the ground, and a kind-hearted person had taken off his coat and covered him.
Butler Zheng looked at the swollen face and felt more and more familiar with it.
He walked in and took a look: Young Master?
Butler Zheng was confused. Didn't they say that the eldest son was just competing with someone for a prostitute and there was some dispute?
Several servants also recognized him, but they didn't dare to shout loudly.
Butler Zheng asked two servants to take off their coats and trousers, quickly put them on the eldest son, and ran away with him on their backs.
Seeing the lively crowd, he wanted to follow to see which family it was from. This kind of liveliness was rare in a century.
As a result, he was stopped by other servants.
But how can such a thing be solved by stopping?
As soon as they returned to the mansion of Duke Zheng, the wife of the prince, Qin, was already waiting anxiously.
As soon as she saw him coming back, she went forward to check.
"Madam, the eldest son hasn't woken up yet. It's urgent to save him." Butler Zheng said anxiously.
A servant was very perceptive and ran quickly to ask for the palace doctor.
When Qin saw her son being beaten so badly that she almost fainted, she cried.
The court doctor was quickly called in, who did a brief examination and then gave him an acupuncture to wake him up.
The reason why he hadn't woken up was that he had been drugged.
As soon as he woke up, Zheng Rong howled like a pig.
Ahhh!
It hurts so much!
Sweat soon soaked his clothes.
"My leg, my leg." The excruciating pain made him lose all his image.
The court doctor was only concerned with waking him up first, and hadn't carefully checked every part.
When he heard Zheng Rong shout "leg", he immediately pinched his right leg bone a little bit to check.
When he reached five inches above the knee and touched it lightly, Zheng Rong screamed non-stop.
In the end, the femur was broken, and it was not just fractured, but fractured in multiple places, that is, comminuted fracture.
No matter how skilled the doctor was, it would be impossible to fix it properly.
"Doctor, how is it?" Qin asked hurriedly when he saw the doctor stopped.
"Madam, the femur is comminuted fractured." The old doctor had to tell the truth.
"What did you say?" Qin rolled her eyes and fainted.
Zheng Rong on the bed couldn't accept it either. She was stunned by the result and stopped howling.
When the doctor woke Qin up, she cried out of breath.
Zheng Rong's wife was not much better.
His two children didn't quite understand what a broken leg meant, and they just stared at their father on the bed.
"My son, what should I do? Who did you offend?" Qin cried for a long time before she calmed down and began to ask the reason.
At this moment, Zheng Zigang was also called back by the servant and just stepped into the house.
The doctor repeated his diagnosis.
Zheng Zigang was also shocked when he heard it.
"Someone come." Zheng Zigang shouted.
"I'm here." Bingfeng appeared at the right time.
"Check it for me, and find out who did it. I will tear him into pieces." Zheng Zigang ordered with gritted teeth.
"Second brother, tell me, what happened? Who did you offend?" Zheng Zigang asked with a gloomy face.
Although Zheng Rong is the eldest son, he has an older sister, Zheng He, who is actually Zheng Zigang's second child.
When asked about this, Zheng Rong felt a little embarrassed.
If he told his parents, he would definitely be scolded.
"Tell me." Seeing his hesitation, Zheng Zigang knew that he must have done something to make people angry.
"Dad, I... I just heard that a prostitute as beautiful as a fairy came to Yixiangyuan, and she was a prostitute, so I was curious and went there last night.
As a result, the brothel owner organized an auction, and a man kept raising the price with me, so we had a conflict. I asked the servant to beat him up, and he stopped raising the price.
Then I had sex with the woman, but when I woke up, I was in my bed at home, just now." Zheng Rong spoke more and more fluently. He finished what happened last night in one breath.
"Where are your servants? They weren't guarding outside the door of your bedroom?" Zheng Zigang asked again.
"I, I let them have fun too."
"Where are the secret guards assigned to you?"
Zheng Yun couldn't answer this question either.
Yes, he was taken care of by someone, what did the secret guards do?
One look at Zheng Yun's expression, Zheng Zigang knew everything.
This was a conspiracy against Zheng Yun.
"Butler Zheng, take my note and ask Dr. Hong to come." Zheng Zigang still held out a glimmer of hope. The court doctor's medical skills certainly could not compare to those of the court doctor.
Soon, Dr. Hong hurried over with a little medicine boy.
After a more careful examination, he came to the same conclusion as the court doctor.
"Sir Zheng, I am incompetent. The eldest son's leg is already beyond saving. The fracture is too severe. I can only do my best to connect it, but the eldest son will have to suffer." Dr. Hong was not a god.
Qin cried again, wanting to beat her son to vent her anger.
This useless guy has a wife and concubines at home, but he still goes out to visit prostitutes.
But Zheng Zigang thought more. He recalled what had happened recently and what he had arranged for the second son.
In the end, he had his own guess.
Zheng Rong was not an uneducated playboy, he just indulged himself occasionally, after all, he was a son of a wealthy family.
The eldest sons of the family were carefully cultivated.
There were many sons of wealthy families like him who went to brothels, and there were also many scholars and elegant people. Including Zheng Zigang himself.
Sometimes he would eat and drink with some friends in the officialdom to enhance the relationship, and sometimes he would invite people to brothels for enjoyment, which was all normal.
After two days of investigation, there was no clue. And the young man who raised the price with Zheng Rong was nowhere to be found.
The retainers that Zheng Rong arranged to capture Zhou Ankang also did not come back to report.
Combining all these things, Zheng Zigang could judge that this was definitely a revenge of the Marquis' Mansion.
Zheng Zigang was so angry that he smashed several teacups in the study.
The eldest son was abandoned. Such a big thing happened. He had to consult his grandfather. What should he do?