When she returned to Anxiang Flower Shop, most of the waiters had already left, and only the shopkeeper Wang was still waiting for her in the shop.
"Have you eaten yet? There's food in the kitchen. Can I heat it up for you?"
Wang Fugui looked at Ji Changying with concern.
"No need. I've already eaten, and it's getting late. You should go back and get some rest!"
Ji Changying shook her head and refused.
Wang Fugui didn't force her when she said that: "Those two have already been fed their medicine and meals. If everything is fine, I'll go back first and come back tomorrow."
Watching him leave, Ji Changying turned and went to the room where Mo You and Liu Shugen were.
Seeing her coming, Mo You propped up his upper body and sat up. Liu Shugen was slumped on the bed, glaring at her fiercely, but Ji Changying ignored him.
"How are you?"
Mo You laughed at himself: "I almost thought I couldn't hold on any longer, but I didn't expect to be alive again. I am really lucky after all."
"It's easy to die, right? But living is much harder than dying."
These words made Mo You silent.
"I have examined this man and found no trace of disguise on his face."
Ji Changying pointed in Liu Shugen's direction with her chin.
Mo You subconsciously retorted, "How is that possible?! Shugen definitely doesn't have the same skills as him. Before I left, Shugen's skills were even worse than mine. I've only been away for three years. How could someone become like this!"
He couldn't accept it. Could three years really change a person beyond recognition?
Ji Changying also felt a little confused about this.
She withdrew the spiritual power that was sealing Liu Shugen and kicked the foot of his bed: "Do you have anything to explain?"
"Wolf-hearted, ungrateful, and in cahoots with evildoers!"
Liu Shugen looked at Mo You with disgust and blurted out these words.
After realizing he could speak, Liu Shugen suddenly became excited: "Witch! What did you do to me?!"
Ji Changying quickly pulled out a dagger and played with it in his hand: "If you don't want your tongue anymore, I'll help you solve it."
As the dagger flipped, the wolf head on the handle and the cold blade made Liu Shugen's eyes dilate for a moment.
Realizing his own loss of composure, he quickly closed his eyes: "You can kill me or chop me up as you please. No need to make excuses. I am Liu Shugen!"
Ji Changying smiled, glanced at the dagger in his hand, and closed the scabbard: "Such a good dagger has been stained by your blood, what a pity."
The veins at the corners of Liu Shugen's eyes were bulging, and he clenched his back teeth to stop making any more noise.
She turned and looked at Mo You: "Do you think there is a medicine in this world that can change a person's appearance?"
Mo You's eyes lit up, then dimmed: "I don't know."
"One of you is half-useless, and the other is completely useless. You can lie down and chat about life when you have nothing to do. After all, he is your friend! Maybe if we talk more, you will know whether this is Liu Shugen or not. I have other things to do and can't accompany you anymore."
Ji Changying left the room with a smile.
She already had the answer in her mind, so the result was not that important.
She looked down at the dagger in her hand, sneered, and threw it into the space.
Carrying the pot of hoya that was as tall as a person, she ran to the alley of Prince Ping's mansion under the cover of night, ready to climb over.
Before she went up this time, she felt a figure fall in front of her. He Feng looked at her helplessly: "Miss Ji."
Ji Changying chuckled: "Excellent! Your vigilance is growing day by day."
Hefeng glanced at the flower pot she was carrying: "Yours is actually quite conspicuous."
Ji Changying held up the flower and said, "See? This is something for your master to please the Emperor! Let's go find him!"
He Feng led him all the way to Zhong Lizhou's study without any obstruction. He was still writing at his desk. Seeing her coming, he couldn't help but rub his head: "Are you ashamed of yourself or what? Why are you always climbing over the wall?"
"This is so convenient. No need to report or wait. I can come and go as I please. Here, this is a gift for you."
Ji Changying moved the flowerpot forward, and Zhonglizhou's attention was immediately diverted.
He walked around the desk and asked: "What kind of flower is this? I've never seen it before."
"Ball orchid, you've probably never seen it before! This is the flower I told you to send back to please 'the higher-ups' last time. How's it? Isn't it embarrassing?"
Zhongli Zhou squatted down and took a closer look. "Not bad, quite fragrant! I'm sure the Empress Dowager will like it."
Ji Changying raised her eyebrows: "Are you talking about the Queen?"
Zhongli Zhou stood up and said, "Yes! The one who truly loves flowers, plants, and trees is actually the Empress Dowager."
"Does your father... have a good relationship with the Empress?" Ji Changying asked hesitantly.
Normally, the two sides are not incompatible, but at least they are not like Prince Ping and Zhongli Zhou. Knowing that her mother might be related to the Queen, they not only did not make things difficult for her, but on the contrary secretly asked Zhongli Zhou to take better care of her.
Zhong Lizhou didn't know how to bring this up. He glanced at Ji Changying, who was eagerly waiting for his answer, pursed his lips and said, "My grandmother was a palace maid. It was only by chance that she was favored by the emperor's grandfather that my father was born."
"My father was born on the same day as the Empress Dowager. She was unlucky and died during childbirth. So my father was born without a mother and was disliked by the Emperor's grandfather. His life in the palace was always difficult. Not having enough food to eat and warm clothes was a small matter."
"One year, when my father was only six years old, an old eunuch stripped him naked in the middle of winter, forced him to eat dog food on the ice! Although my father had never been to school and no one had taught him much, he knew from the ridicule of others that this was not a good thing, so he gritted his teeth and refused to eat, and was nearly beaten to death."
"It was the Empress Dowager who passed by and asked about the situation. She then had her servants take my father to the Emperor Grandfather. That's when my father had the opportunity to learn martial arts and progress step by step to where he is today."
Zhongli Zhou felt a little complicated when talking about this matter.
Even now, whenever King Ping talks about this incident, he would unconsciously add many adjectives to the Queen Mother, saying how the Queen Mother saved him like a fairy from heaven.
But in fact, according to Zhonglizhou's investigation, the Queen Mother had an indifferent expression at the time. After listening to the whole story, she just had the old eunuch and Prince Ping handed over to the Emperor for disposal and left. She never asked a single question afterwards.
This may be one of the few warmth that my father felt when he was a child, and he doesn't want to point it out.
There is one thing Zhongli Zhou admits.
If it weren't for the Queen's action, it would be questionable whether his father could still be alive today.
After hearing this, Ji Changying was speechless.
I never thought that Prince Ping, a prince, would have such a miserable childhood!
The key is that he didn't grow up crooked. Now he looks straightforward, heroic and carefree. It is hard to imagine that he experienced so many unfair treatments when he was a child.
"Your Highness, this is a blessing for the future. Yes, that's right! The blessing is yet to come!"
Ji Changying said this and nodded firmly.
Zhong Lizhou smiled and said, "This matter has long been in the past. The Empress Dowager doesn't like my father and has long forgotten about it! We just need to respect her normally."
Ji Changying was not suitable to continue discussing this topic. She asked, "Is there a medicine or something in this world that can change a person's appearance?"
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