The surprise came unexpectedly.
Xie Tingzhou's lips curled up into a smile. "Besides you, no other woman has ever touched my body. This time, you really have to take responsibility for me."
Ye Zhen didn't understand his glib talk; she simply hugged him tighter.
But then he pinched him on the waist and warned him sternly, "Never take any more risks in the future."
He rushed into the fire. Ye Zhen belatedly realized her fear and worry. When she wrapped her arms around Cui Yihuan, she was also wrapping herself up, worried that she would also rush out.
But in fact, she had already ordered people to prepare wet blankets, so that if Xie Tingzhou did not come out at the time they estimated, she would go in to rescue him.
At that moment, Ye Zhen confirmed her feelings.
She wasn't one to mince words, so she responded to Tse Ting-chou.
Xie Tingzhou carefully hugged her back, feeling that the injury was truly worthwhile, allowing his beloved girl to see his true feelings.
Worried that it wasn't real, he increased the pressure slightly and said to Ye Zhen, "Pinch me again."
Ye Zhen chuckled, having never seen him so silly before. Without being polite, she pinched him again.
Xie Tingzhou was delighted.
very nice.
The person in his arms was still there, and the pain from being pinched was still clear. He replied, "Okay, whatever you say."
The laughter in his voice was barely contained.
As he laughed, he remembered that he still had a misunderstanding to explain to Ye Zhen, and wondered if now was the right time.
Ye Zhen has just accepted him. If she finds out that he is the one who caused her to be hunted down back then, will she turn her back on him?
Or should we wait until our relationship is more stable?
But if I don't say anything, I always feel guilty...
Before Xie Tingzhou could come to a conclusion, Ye Zhen said, "Aunt Cui cares a lot about the young master."
She was referring to the Crown Prince, not the person in front of her.
Cui Yihuan thought she had done a discreet job of dressing up as a ghost to scare the old lady, but Ye Zhen already knew about it.
Fu Guang, following her orders, kept a close watch on every movement in the mansion. When Cui Yihuan first dressed up as a ghost, he reported it to Ye Zhen, and naturally, he also informed Xie Tingzhou.
Xie Tingzhou also noticed something was off when Cui Yihuan ran into him in the front yard.
Once or twice is a coincidence, but being there every single day is deliberate.
However, Xie Tingzhou had been surrounded by admirers in the past and had seen many women's desire to get involved with him, so he could tell that Cui Yihuan did not want to seduce him.
However, he couldn't figure out why Cui Yihuan did this, so he pretended not to know.
Later, Fu Guang told him what Cui Yihuan said to the old lady when she was dressed as a ghost, which gave Xie Tingzhou the absurd idea.
She was the eldest daughter of the Cui family. Before she was born, Madam Lou had already passed away. How did she know the true cause of Madam Lou's death?
When he went into the fire this time, he clearly heard her heart-wrenching cries for him, and he also heard the look in Cui Yihuan's eyes when he came out.
He had experienced that kind of look in Madam Wang's eyes before; it was the worry and care of an elder for a younger generation, full of affection.
Is there really reincarnation after death?
Xie Tingzhou asked Ye Zhen.
He suspected that Cui Yihuan was the reincarnation of Madam Lou, which he found incredible.
Ye Zhen, however, felt that it was only recently that Madam Lou was reborn into Cui Yihuan's body. If she had Madam Lou's memories from the beginning, she would not have waited until recently to approach the Marquis's mansion.
She told Xie Tingzhou her guess and sighed, "The world is full of wonders."
She herself was reborn after death.
"If she really is Madam Lou, she will probably recognize you in the future."
How can I tell the person in front of me that I am not your son, and that your son has already passed away?
Leaving aside whether Cui Yihuan could withstand it, the identity of the person in front of her could not be easily exposed.
It goes without saying that, after a while, he inevitably felt guilty for receiving her maternal love for no reason.
Xie Tingzhou never expected that before the misunderstanding with Ye Zhen could be cleared up, another person, Cui Yihuan, would appear.
Having abandoned his identity for many years, he had the idea of ​​returning to it for the first time.
But it's not the right time yet.
In retrospect, today is not the time to explain the misunderstanding from back then to Ye Zhen.
He hugged his sweetheart again, "I'm going to take a shower first."
Although he had wrapped the old lady in a thin blanket when she came out, he disliked her. Even if she wasn't injured, he felt disgusted just touching her, let alone the fact that she was covered in blisters.
Even though there was no physical contact, Xie Tingzhou still felt unclean. If it weren't for the fact that Ye Zhen hugged him for the first time and he couldn't bear to push her away, he would have gone to wash himself long ago.
Ye Zhen inexplicably understood his thoughts and waited for him in his room with a smile.
Xie Tingzhou came out quickly, and Ye Zhen applied medicine for him. Before the two could say anything, the imperial court sent someone.
It was the Grand Princess and Ye Wantang who went to the palace to file a complaint.
They said there was smallpox in the Marquis's residence, but Ye Zhen concealed it. At the same time, Ye Wantang also told the Emperor that she had discovered smallpox infections in the eastern part of the capital.
The East Market was the place where the mansions of powerful and wealthy families in the capital were responsible for procurement. The implication was that someone from the Marquis's mansion had contracted smallpox but failed to report it and seek treatment in time, thus infecting the East Market.
The Grand Princess condemned Ye Zhen for his malicious intentions and requested the Emperor to severely punish him.
Since it was smallpox, the emperor hurriedly ordered the imperial guards to take the imperial physician to the Marquis's residence.
The gate to the Marquis's mansion, which the Grand Princess and Ye Wantang could not open, was finally opened.
The imperial physicians, after taking necessary precautions, entered the Marquis's residence, where the Imperial Guards stood watch outside the main gate.
After the diagnosis of smallpox, the imperial physician carefully relayed the situation of the disease in the mansion and the current condition of the patients to the imperial guards outside the gate. The imperial guards then returned to the palace to report to the emperor.
The emperor's expression was grave as he asked Feng Xing, the head of the Imperial Medical Academy, "Do you have a good plan?"
Feng Xing shook his head in shame, "There is currently no cure for smallpox, but based on my understanding of smallpox, once someone is infected, almost no one around can escape it."
However, the infection situation at the Marquis's residence is much better than I previously knew, and no one has died. Perhaps the Marquis's residence has taken some countermeasures.
"I wish to go there myself to see if I can find a solution. I humbly request Your Majesty's permission."
As a physician, he was not afraid of danger and wanted to share the emperor's burdens. The emperor was satisfied and agreed.
In the emperor's mind, smallpox was usually associated with death and rapid spread, causing widespread suffering. The situation at the Marquis of Zhongyong's residence was indeed unexpected.
If the imperial physician hadn't already diagnosed it, he would have suspected it wasn't smallpox.
The Grand Princess entered the palace to punish the Marquis of Zhongyong's family. Seeing that the Emperor had no such intention, she hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, the Great Abyss has already experienced the harm that plagues can cause to a country decades ago."
Now that the Marquis's household has been diagnosed with smallpox, they should be promptly moved out of the capital and isolated in the suburbs to prevent further infection.
As the young mistress of the Marquis's mansion, Ye Zhen knowingly allowed smallpox to spread in the household, endangering the capital and the entire Dayuan region. Her crime was tantamount to bringing disaster to the country.
During the period of the lockdown, she imprisoned the old lady of the Marquis's mansion in the house. Today, a fire burned the old lady of the Marquis's mansion beyond recognition, which is suspected of being an attempt to murder an elder.
Disloyal to the country and unfilial to his family, such a wicked person should be burned at the stake as a warning to others.
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