Chapter 68 The Best Candidate
The only person in the world who could call a jade stick worth thousands of gold a dog-beating stick is probably General Shen.
For a moment, Chen Yuanshi didn't know what to say.
Wen Wan was a little anxious. "Doctor Chen, can you help me take a look? Is this really jade? Is it valuable? Have I become rich?"
Her eyes and eyebrows were smiling, and her love for money was shown on her face without any concealment.
In the years that Chen Yuanshi has been traveling around the palace, she has come into contact with people who have no worries about food and clothing. Everyone likes money, but no one would express their desires as directly as she does.
"Doctor Chen?"
Seeing that he didn't respond, Wen Wan tilted her head and called out again.
Chen Yuanshi came back to his senses and said, "Yes, I'm here. Okay, I'll help you take a closer look."
He took the jade stick and pretended to examine it, then returned it to her.
"Oh, I'm so sorry. My eyes are blurry and I made a mistake. It's really just an ordinary stick, just with fine workmanship."
The general said it was the dog-beating stick he used when he was a child, and that was the dog-beating stick.
Chen Yuanshi lied with his eyes open and was not at all embarrassed.
Wen Wan's hope of getting rich quickly was shattered, and she shook her head and sighed.
She raised the jade stick in her hand and said, "It really looks like an ordinary stick. To be honest, the texture feels really comfortable to touch. That's why when you said it was made of jade, I thought it was true. Forget it, if it is destined to happen, it will happen. If it is not destined to happen, don't force it."
Dean Chen smiled awkwardly, holding his sleeves with a look of shame on his face.
Wen Wan: "By the way, Doctor Chen, since Ah Chai is not here today, I want to ask you something. Can you tell me the truth?"
Doctor Chen responded.
Wen Wan lowered her voice and asked, "Did I cry my eyes blind?"
She remembered that Doctor Chen had said this on the day he first came. In front of Shen Yu, she resisted asking any more questions, and only now did she find the opportunity to clarify.
Dean Chen understood her condition and knew that she had lost some memory.
He considered it for a moment, seemingly unsure how to begin.
Wen Wan pleaded, "Doctor Chen, a doctor should be kind-hearted. I am the patient and I have the right to know the true condition of my illness."
Chen Yuanshi hesitated for a moment and said, "Yes, in my opinion, smoke can hurt your eyes, but it's not to this extent."
"Oh. I see. Thank you, Doctor Chen."
Wenwan had a smile on her face, and no emotion could be seen.
She turned and groped her way back to her room.
The door closed, she leaned against it, and the smile on her face gradually disappeared.
Did she cry her eyes out?
So, what happened in that dark underground Taoist temple during those seven days that was worth her crying until her eyes went blind?
*
In the past few days, Jin Mu has been looking for Zhou Qun in the border town according to the information provided by Chen Yuanshi, but after more than ten days, there has been no news at all.
"Logically, since this letter was sent from a border town, there shouldn't be any reason why we couldn't find any trace of him. But we asked around, and no one has heard of him. It's as if Zhou Qun never existed."
Jin Mu was puzzled. "General, do you think...could it be that Envoy Chen couldn't cure Miss Xiaowan, so he made up an excuse to deal with us?"
Shen Yu shook his head, "No. Even if he had the guts to be perfunctory to me, he wouldn't have the guts to be perfunctory to the people in the palace."
"That's true." Kaneki rubbed the back of his head irritably, "So what do we do now?"
Shen Yu: “Keep looking.”
Kaneki sighed helplessly and could only agree reluctantly.
Shen Yu thought of something else and asked casually, "By the way, has Zhao returned from Lin City?"
Jin Mu thought for a moment and replied, "I have sent someone to follow them. The news they sent back a few days ago was that they had set out from the nearby city. Calculating the distance, they should arrive in two days."
Shen Yu frowned, impatience written on his face.
At the beginning, he just asked Jinmu to send a few people to deal with Zhao and promised to help her find the lost concubine.
Later, there was news that the concubine had appeared in Linshi, so Zhao took her men to Linshi to look for her.
Unfortunately, the concubine was not found, and Zhao caught a cold. She had to stay in the nearby city for two months before she got better.
During these two months, Zhao's absence saved him a lot of trouble.
Jin Mu saw that Shen Yu's face was not right, so he asked tentatively: "General, I have a piece of news, but I don't know if I should tell you."
Shen Yu raised his eyebrows and snorted coldly, “If it’s not necessary to talk about it, you won’t talk about it?”
Jin Mu shrank his neck and laughed dryly, "General, you are wise. You can see through my little trick at a glance."
Shen Yu picked up the tea in front of him and took a sip, "Hurry up and tell me."
"This is the general's personal matter. As a subordinate, I dare not say a word without the general's approval."
Jin Mu cleared his throat and said, "When Zhao was seeing a doctor in Linshi, the doctor said that she had a cold and would have difficulty having children in this lifetime."
After listening to this, Shen Yu asked, "Cold disease?"
Kaneki nodded, "The people down below reported back, and these are the doctor's exact words."
Chen Yu sneered, "No wonder she's so anxious to find the lost concubine. She really treats me like a breeding horse. They can find anyone they want to help me bear a child?"
Kaneki didn't dare to say a word about this.
Chen Yu: "I think Zhao Shi doesn't need to go back to the border town. Send a message to the brothers over there and ask them to change the route and send Zhao Shi directly back to the Imperial Capital."
Jin Mu was shocked and hesitated, "This, this is not good. The old lady in the imperial capital is still waiting to have a great-grandson. Didn't you let the general's wife come to the border town for the old lady's sake?"
"Why not?" Shen Yu glanced at Jin Mu. "The old lady just wants a great-grandson. I'll write her a letter later and tell her that someone has volunteered to have two children in three years. I'll give her a chance, right?"
Kaneki suddenly realized.
By the way, Miss Xiaowan is still living in the courtyard, so the general is not without women around him.
If you have to choose between being forced to have a child and having a child with the woman you like, is there any point in choosing?
"I'll do it right away!"
After Kaneki figured it out, he rushed out.
*
Wen Wan sneezed several times in succession.
"Chen Zhou, I think someone must be saying bad things about me behind my back. I haven't stopped sneezing all afternoon."
Chen Zhou sat beside her, peeling melon seeds for her and complaining without even looking up.
"It's only spring, and you're already drinking herbal tea. Won't you catch a cold and sneeze? Sister Xiaowan, can you please control your mouth? Brother Chai will blame me for not taking good care of you later."
Wen Wan didn't care at all. "We have Doctor Chen living in our courtyard. What's there to be afraid of? At worst, we can ask him to prescribe medicine. By the way, why didn't I hear Doctor Chen's voice this morning? Did he go out?"
Chen Zhou: "Doctor Chen left home at dawn, saying he had news about his junior fellow apprentice and was going to check on him. But it's almost noon now, why hasn't he returned yet?"
Wen Wan sat up straight, a little worried, "He's old and unfamiliar with the place. I hope nothing happens to him. Otherwise, why don't you go look for him?"
Chen Zhou went to look for him immediately, and found out that something had really happened to Doctor Chen.
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