After seeing Zhao Yunwan off, the Li family gathered in the main hall. Xu Ningyou had also returned to her original state.
Xiao Sheng looked at Xu Ningyou, then thought back to Zhao Yunwan's disgusted expression earlier. He couldn't understand what had happened to Xu Ningyou.
That must be a very powerful method. It seems that this Grand Tutor is not just a military man as rumored.
No wonder his mother gave up her status as the legitimate daughter and the position of empress to ask the emperor for Li Ting to be his tutor.
So Mother cares about him this much? Xiao Sheng wanted to cry again.
Why did I never think of visiting my mother's palace during all those years when I was running around in the palace?
"Father, that Physician Ouyang you just summoned has an extraordinary apprentice. Physician Ouyang is preparing to leave the capital. Please find a way to keep that apprentice here! His name is Fan Zu'an. Please remember him! He will be of great use in the future."
Li Ting silently made a mental note of it and had already come up with a plan to invite the person back tomorrow.
[Mother, Zhao Yunwan has discovered the secret of your garden. Quickly find a way to make it more ordinary. Tomorrow, Zhao Yunwan's teacher, Lu Dacheng, is coming to investigate our family's situation. We can't let him find out!]
Xu Ningyou was stunned. Ruan Ruan actually knew! That villain Zhao Yunwan could actually see through the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams Formation?
It seems I underestimated her.
[Zhao Yunwan discovered this mechanism, which accelerated the design of our house. Originally, he planned to wait until Xiao Ding came of age before seizing the throne, but discovering the Li family's mechanical skills brought his plan forward by five years.]
Xiao Sheng felt that he was increasingly unable to understand Li Xingran's true feelings.
The five brothers of the Li family, upon hearing their sister's heartfelt words, once again discovered the hidden strength of their parents. They looked at each other in astonishment, then stared in disbelief.
A secret mechanism! How come they never knew they had such a mysterious contraption in their home?
[Oh, right, that Lu Dacheng is the head of the Imperial Medical Academy. He's currently the most skilled physician in the Southern Chen Kingdom. But if Father can keep that Fan Zu'an here, he'll be the one whose medical skills will be unparalleled in the Cangxuan Continent in the future!]
Li Ting knew what medical skills meant to a country. Wars needed doctors, ordinary people needed doctors, and after floods, doctors were needed.
Xu Ningyou felt that after giving birth to this daughter, it was like having an all-knowing person.
The people inside were still pondering Li Xingran's words when a commotion erupted at the doorway. Liu Fu's voice came through.
“Grandma, our master is teaching the Crown Prince, you really can’t go in!” Liu Fu said, while giving a look to a guard named Little Dimple under the eaves.
Little Dimple understood Liu Fu's signal and snapped her fingers. The guards blocked Fu Qing's path.
[This aunt has the nerve to show up? A treacherous relative, better off without her.]
In the original story, she was an accomplice in the murder of my mother. Thankfully, I arrived, otherwise my mother would have suffered the same fate.
[Waaah, my beautiful and capable mother, my sweet-smelling mother.]
Fu Qing was no pushover; she offended everyone in her husband's family. After her husband died, she had no place in their household.
That daughter of hers is trying to seduce my older brother! Brother, you'd better be careful! That cousin is very cunning, but you can't tell at all from her appearance.
The four younger brothers of the Li family looked at Li Ruizhang with expressions of sympathy.
Li Ruizhang was also completely baffled. Why did his sister say that all his experiences were related to women?
Mingming's fourth and fifth brothers eventually became some of the most handsome men in the Southern Chen Kingdom!
Listening to Li Xingran's heartfelt words, Xiao Sheng felt that everything she said was right and everything she said sounded good.
It also taught him that you can't judge a person by their appearance.
Although Little Horse isn't exactly handsome, he's been the only one who's stayed by his side all these years and never led him astray.
And that incredibly ugly eunuch—if it weren't for him, Xiao Sheng probably wouldn't have woken up yet.
The book doesn't mention the mysterious person who gave Fu Qing a large sum of gold. I'd love to know who was so generous; perhaps we could investigate where all that gold came from.
Upon hearing this, Li Ting walked out of the room alone. As he turned around, he gestured for everyone to stay inside.
Li Ting dismissed the guards and sat down in the pavilion in the courtyard.
Fu Qing walked over, wiping away her tears, and sat down immediately.
“Cousin, your older sister was blinded by greed and did something wrong. For my mother's sake, we can't sever our ties!” Fu Qing wiped away her tears and stole a glance at Li Ting's expression. Seeing that Li Ting's expression didn't change much, she felt that she could still move back into the Li family home.
"How dare you come to my house? You may be poor, but you shouldn't be poor in spirit! Even if you're poor, you shouldn't harm your own family for a little gold, right? Besides, I'll treat you well when you return to the capital. What has my Li family ever done to wrong you?" Li Ting glared fiercely at Fu Qing.
"Me, me! Oh dear, cousin, that mysterious person only gave me this letter, telling me to get my sister-in-law a new bowl of soup. There's nothing in the soup! Just some herbs to replenish qi and blood." Fu Qing continued to explain, explaining that she had stayed at the City God Temple for two or three days and just couldn't stand it anymore.
There were few shops around, the area was sparsely populated, and there wasn't a single prominent family among the residents.
Her two children are even hoping to find a good match through Li Ting.
How could she have known that a bowl of soup could be poisoned? Besides, even if it was poisoned, the poison wasn't given to Li Ting, so her sister-in-law was just an outsider at best.
Therefore, regardless of the era, whether in books or in reality, there are countless people with distorted values.
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