Chapter 41~42 Always a Child | What Master Hou did
Jiang Yueyue looked very tired, went back to her room in a daze, and fell asleep on the bed.
Ning Xiang had never seen Jiang Yueyue look so lazy, so she approached to take a look, it stands to reason that her beating was not serious, and she was so good that she was given medicine, and it was impossible to consume so much of her energy by saying anything.
"Miss?" Ning Xiang leaned over and found that Jiang Yueyue had already slept deeply, and her brows furrowed.
Could it be poisoning?
Ning Xiang reached over and carefully checked Jiang Yueyue's pulse, but found that the pulse was peaceful and nothing special.
After thinking about it, maybe Jiang Yueyue had a heart disease that was unresolved, and Ning Xiang put her heart back in her stomach.
Ouyang Shaoqian said that the Zhizhou Mansion is bound to be tightly tied to the Xiao Wangfu, and it will be a good pot in the end, and Jiang Yueyue and Xiao Qian's family affairs are undoubtedly the best entry point when the imperial court calculates the general account in the end, and even Qingyang Bo with the capital can be pulled into the water.
On the surface, these people are closely related, but if there is no formal search warrant, the court will not be able to find evidence.
Ning Xiang had never imagined that the imperial court would have to do such a cumbersome thing in this situation, and it seemed that everything had to be done properly and thoughtfully in order to make the new emperor feel at ease.
"Xiang'er, Xiang'er." The roof tiles were lifted open, and a faint light came through, and then Ouyang Shaoqian's face covered the light.
Ning Xiang felt a little helpless, was Ouyang Shaoqian such a naΓ―ve person before?
However, seeing his very anxious appearance, Ning Xiang did not hesitate, left Jiang Yueyue and left the house, and Ouyang Shaoqian stood blatantly outside the door waiting for him.
"You don't know how to avoid some people." Ning Xiang dragged Ouyang Shaoqian and was about to go to a hidden place.
Ouyang Shaoqian looked at her with a smile and said, "Everyone in your house has gone to Su Xueniang, who else should I avoid?" β
"yes... That's right! Ning Xiang finally remembered that something was wrong, "You came back from the eldest lady?" β
"Yes, listen to the sound of lamas chanting sutras in this courtyard." Ouyang Shaoqian plucked his ears a little impatiently, "Haven't you heard this voice since last night?" β
"Yesterday? Night? Ning Xiang suddenly realized that she seemed to be affected by something, she had slept extremely heavily in the past two days.
"What's wrong?" Ouyang Shaoqian felt that Ning Xiang's aura suddenly converged, and he was naturally nervous, and was busy asking what was wrong.
And Ning Xiang didn't know how to answer, so she could only drag Ouyang Shaoqian first, and the two of them avoided the people from all walks of life hidden in the mansion together, and flew out of the Zhizhou Mansion.
"Why are you going to leave the house all of a sudden? But what's wrong? Ouyang Shaoqian followed Ning Xiang's pace.
Ning Xiang said with some seriousness: "Doctors don't treat themselves, I can't be sure now." β
Ouyang Shaoqian also sensed that something was wrong, and found that Ning Xiang was going to Lang Zhong, who was dressed as his secret guard, and suddenly felt a little flustered.
"Why don't you go find Jingchen?"
"You still can't trust your own men?" Ning Xiang hooked her lips and smiled, "This matter is not complicated, he can do it." β
Ouyang Shaoqian still grabbed her disapprovingly, and said, "If it's not complicated, why didn't you notice it at all?" β
Ning Xiang was speechless for a while, standing in front of Ouyang Shaoqian, her heart was inexplicably empty.
Indeed, this time she was lax, and at such a juncture as Mrs. Jiang's death, she actually relaxed.
"I'm not good too." Ouyang Shaoqian saw Ning Xiang's face full of guilt, and he felt uncomfortable, "It stands to reason that I should protect you well." β
"I'll protect you, can't I?" Ning Xiang raised her head and asked with a smile, "I think I might be more suitable to protect you than to be protected by you?" β
"Xiang'er!"
Ouyang Shaoqian was angry, but he was reluctant to get angry at Ning Xiang, and after calming down a little, he reluctantly dragged the person into his arms.
Ning Xiang stretched out her hand to push him away, but found that although he didn't strangle her, he tied her very tightly.
"What's wrong with you?" After Ning Xiang found that he couldn't break free, he obediently stayed in his arms.
"Let's go find Su Jingchen, okay?" Ouyang Shaoqian felt helpless for the first time, like a precious thing in the palm of his hand, which would be blown away by the wind at any time, but he had no way to keep it.
Ning Xiang was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
So they turned around and headed out of the city.
Ning Xiang was the first time he saw King Xiao's troops, and I have to say that King Xiao was really a ghost, and no one would have imagined that a mountain would be built so suitable for military training.
Ouyang Shaoqian took out a ceramic whistle from his arms, put it to his mouth and blew it, it was the sound of a goshawk whistling.
Not long after, Su Jingchen emerged from behind a tree.
"Why did you bring Xiang'er here?"
When Su Jingchen saw that Ning Xiang was also there, he was overjoyed, and he approached in three or two steps. But when he approached Ning Xiang, his first reaction was to reach out and probe her forehead.
"But what's wrong?" Ouyang Shaoqian saw Su Jingchen's reaction like this, and his heart was about to jump out of his throat.
Su Jingchen felt that the temperature on his hand was a little hot, and he took Ning Xiang's hand again, carefully checked the pulse, and after a while, took off the thin cloak on his body and wrapped it around Ning Xiang.
"When did you feel unwell?" Su Jingchen asked.
Ning Xiang recalled it carefully, but she really couldn't remember it clearly: "I only know that I was a little sluggish last night, and I can't hear the movements around me very well." β
"Do you feel like it's foggy?" Su Jingchen stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Ning Xiang's eyes.
And Ning Xiang looked at Su Jingchen's palm, but felt that he was moving very slowly.
"Huh?" Ning Xiang seemed to have reacted to some kind of poison, and hurriedly took out the antidote pill from her body.
When Su Jingchen saw Ning Xiang taking the medicine by herself, he knew that the little girl had been poisoned not long ago, and she was still quite conscious.
Ouyang Shaoqian didn't know what Ning Xiang's situation was, so he could only watch Ning Xiang take the medicine anxiously, feeling that her face looked better, so he dared to speak.
"What kind of poison are you poisoning?"
"It's also a shame, I didn't expect to make a mistake on this." Ning Xiang shook her head amusedly, not caring about her trick, "It's just that I didn't expect that there would be someone who could prepare a medicine with similar efficacy to Master's prescription." β
"You can still laugh, if Ouyang hadn't brought you to me, would you really want to be a fool?" Su Jingchen raised his hand and knocked on Ning Xiang's forehead.
Ning Xiang was in pain and hid behind Ouyang Shaoqian, as if she was silently complaining.
Ouyang Shaoqian was quite helpless and rubbed Ning Xiang where Su Jingchen had knocked on it, and found that the little girl's forehead was a small piece blue, and he immediately looked at Su Jingchen with unkind eyes.
"Eh, I don't take you to unload and kill donkeys like this."
Ouyang Shaoqian ignored Su Jingchen's wail, and instead asked Ning Xiang, "Xiang'er, what kind of medicine is this?" β
"This medicine can make you a child for the rest of your life." Ning Xiang patted her clothes and patted all the dust and fallen leaves that were contaminated in the forest during her walk, as if there was something dirty on her body that needed to be carefully examined.
"This recipe seems to be more clever than Master's." Su Jingchen frowned, "I didn't even smell any smell." β
"Senior Brother Fengyao may be able to smell it, but I was also negligent, and I thought it was an ordinary fragrance of flowers and plants."
"When you say that, it's really quite similar." Su Jingchen sniffed violently again.
Ning Xiang reluctantly handed Su Jingchen and Ouyang Shaoqian an antidote pill each: "If you continue like this, I'm afraid that it will be deeper than my poisoning." β
"No, I see you have enough antidote." Su Jingchen took the pill she had prepared from Ning Xiang with satisfaction, put it on the tip of his tongue and licked it, and then swallowed it, "I'm getting better and better, I can't catch up with you." β
"After all, you have a lot of other things to do." Ning Xiang winked playfully, "For example, taking a concubine." β
Su Jingchen was so excited by Ning Xiang's words that he almost stuck the medicine in his throat.
Ouyang Shaoqian watched the two of them talk happily, pretended to walk between the two of them inadvertently, took Ning Xiang's hand and said, "It's hard to come here, aren't you going to take a look?" β
"What's the use of her looking at this?" Su Jingchen was afraid that Ning Xiang would be in danger if he went deep into the station, after all, the soldiers and generals in it were all loyal to King Xiao, and there were no women in the camp at all, if Ning Xiang was discovered, it would be a big trouble.
And Ning Xiang listened to Su Jingchen's tone, and pouted dissatisfiedly: "What, now I feel that I am useless?" β
"Where do you want to go? That was not what I meant. β
"And what do you mean?" Ouyang Shaoqian interrupted Su Jingchen's words with a wicked look and stopped Ning Xiang behind him, "I'll take her around by myself, you can go back." β
Su Jingchen wanted to stop again, but found that Ouyang Shaoqian had already fled out with Ning Xiang, and the two of them took a path that had not been opened, Su Jingchen knew that Ouyang Shaoqian just wanted to monopolize Ning Xiang, so he found an excuse to leave him.
"This is called unloading the mill and killing the donkey." After Su Jingchen figured it out, he gritted his teeth angrily. And Ning Xiang on the other side can't be seen.
At this moment, Ning Xiang was immersed in the beautiful scenery of this mountain, she didn't expect Ouyang Shaoqian to always find beautiful scenery in these strange places.
"How did you find here?"
Ning Xiang looked at the thick trunk in front of her and walked around it. The tree really didn't tell how old it was, and its long branches stretched out in all directions, and even the canopy was very large, obscuring the sky and the sun.
The surrounding trees seemed to be deliberately avoiding its edge, and there was a short distance from it, which happened to leave a circle of light on the ground.
It was originally a gloomy place, but when I walked here and saw the sun, it was like a fairyland on earth.
"Do you like it here?" Ouyang Shaoqian watched Ning Xiang smile brightly with his hands behind his back not far away, and his mood was also relaxed, he only felt that he was willing to do everything for her smile.
"I like it." Ning Xiang's eyebrows and eyes are crooked, and it is rare to reveal the coquettishness of her little daughter's family.
Ouyang Shaoqian seemed to understand some stupid things his father had done in an instant.
It is said that his mother had just married into the Protector's Mansion, and his father was still stunned. Although he was good-looking when he was young, he was not very popular among women.
An ice bump who doesn't like to laugh, compared with the gentle and always smiling King Xiao, a woman will choose King Xiao.
Unlike his mother, he is always willing to talk to a cold person like his father, so that in the end, the one who fell into the deepest is still the old marquis.
Mother loves to raise flowers, no matter what kind of breed, she can feed them in her hands, and the old marquis goes around looking for some precious flowers and gets them into the house.
Someone once asked him why he didn't use green bamboo in the yard.
The old marquis did not hesitate at all, and asked rhetorically: "Madam doesn't like it, what's the use of coming?" β
He wants to present everything his beloved wife likes to her.
In the past, Ouyang Shaoqian only felt that the family was extremely unfair, no matter what his mother did, whether it was right or wrong, his father never showed a little dissatisfaction with her. And if his son makes his mother unhappy, he will definitely be reprimanded for a while.
I heard that my father was by my side when my mother gave birth to me.
Ouyang Shaoqian looked at Ning Xiang's upturned face, as if enjoying the sunshine, and couldn't help but think that if she was with Ning Xiang in the future, if she would have to experience the pain of her mother...
"What are you shaking your head for?" Ning Xiang saw Ouyang Shaoqian standing there by himself, smirking for a while, and being serious and curious, who knew that this person suddenly began to shake his head.
Ouyang Shaoqian was interrupted by Ning Xiang's thoughts, and when he realized that he had just thought about the pile of things that he didn't have, his face immediately flushed.
"It's nothing, I'm just thinking of the right way to pick you up at your house."
Ning Xiang heard Ouyang Shaoqian say this, and also thought about it seriously.
"No matter how you look at it, it's not the best time. In order to let me enter the palace, King Xiao even wanted me to be a concubine, but Jiang Zhizhou's attitude was very clear and he didn't want me to enter the palace. This is the first time I have seen Jiang Zhizhou against King Xiao's meaning, how do I think it is wrong. β
"You just said that King Xiao wants to take you as a concubine?" Ouyang Shaoqian thought that he had heard it wrong, so he asked again.
Ning Xiang didn't notice that Ouyang Shaoqian's face was not safe, and nodded and said, "That's right." Isn't that a fantasy? He's old enough to be my father. β
"Whatever dad you want!" Ouyang Shaoqian pinched Ning Xiang's face, "I can't mention this in front of my father in the future." β
"Why is that?" Ning Xiang moved closer to Ouyang Shaoqian, as if she wanted him to dissipate his anger.
Ouyang Shaoqian was pleased by Ning Xiang's small actions, and replied patiently: "King Xiao hooked up with my mother, but my mother immediately told my father that it would be impossible for them to talk to Yan Yue in their lives. β
"King Xiao really is..."Ning Xiang really didn't know what to say about King Xiao.
is a good man, making himself like a little man, it is really unimaginable, it will be the work of a prince.
"You see, this is all that the women who fell into the gentle country have sacrificed for him."
Ouyang Shaoqian said, hugged Ning Xiang with one hand, flew onto the branches of the towering tree in front of him, and looked at it from a distance, he could see an open land under the cliff, and the military camps were connected, enclosing a boxy training ground in the middle.
"It's so spectacular?"
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