Chapter 25: The Wind Rises
When Qi Ying returned to Chengping City's Su Palace, it was already the sixth day, she got out of the carriage, paid the silver, and was about to enter the mansion with her baggage, when she was startled by Chu Yanxu who suddenly appeared. His cold black eyes and tense face made Qi Ying dare not look directly.
Before coming back, Qi Ying was ready to face Chu Yanxu's anger, but this cold sword-like direct gaze still made her shudder!
Qi Ying never dared to look at Chu Yanxu, as if after a long winter, Chu Yanxu finally turned around and went in, without thunder, without blaming, and never said a word.
Qi Ying has only been away from here for more than half a month, and a lot has already happened here.
Mrs. Liu was grounded.
As soon as Qi Ying returned to the Xinyu Courtyard, Ke Xin couldn't wait to report to her what had happened in the mansion in recent days.
"When did the prince come back?" Qi Ying didn't have the heart to listen to other things for the time being, and interrupted Ke Xin's words loudly and asked.
Kexin: "Huh? ”
Xi Ji and Xin Ori also showed a look of surprise!
"The prince returned three days ago."
"Did he say anything?"
"No, it's just that you're already on your way back, and he rushed back first because he had something urgent to do......"
That's good! Qi Ying secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, Chu Yanxu didn't find out about her coming back privately, otherwise if Princess Su knew, she would inevitably be reprimanded.
"County Lord, don't you know that the prince is back?" Xi asked suspiciously
"I know!"
Qi Ying thought that she couldn't let them know about this, otherwise her ears wouldn't be able to be clean these days. After all, sometimes their daily nagging is somewhat similar to Princess Su's admonitions!
"Why is Mrs. Liu grounded?"
Sorry: "I heard that it is related to the untimely death of the fifth son"
"Fifth son?"
"The fifth prince is the child of Mrs. Gong, and he died less than a month after birth. The fifth son was born prematurely, his body was weak, and he began to pour some decoction at the age of half a month. ”
"It should have been some years since the fifth prince died, right?"
"Yes, I've heard that it's been twelve years!"
"It happened twelve years ago, and now it's only been revealed, and no one noticed it at the time?"
"The fifth prince was already suffering from insufficiency, and the doctors did not dare to guarantee that it could be cured at that time, so they were not noticed until that day, when a servant woman next to Mrs. Liu, Li Yang, took the risk of denunciating and turned it over."
Qi Ying was surprised, "An old thing that has been buried for twelve years, Li Yang's family knows the truth but has hidden it for so many years, and now he has taken the risk to report it, why is it?" ”
"A few days ago, there was a subordinate in the house, infected with wind and cold, grabbed some medicine to drink, I didn't want to have a strong wind and rain in those two days, and the old rheumatism of the knee was very bad, so I looked for medicine to apply it to relieve the pain, but I didn't expect to be poisoned."
Qi Ying was surprised and asked curiously, "Why?" ”
Xi Ji continued: "At that time, the princess ordered someone to ask a doctor for her treatment, and the doctor checked the two prescriptions she had used, and found that the herbs in the external prescription and the ephedra in the wind and cold prescription she drank were poisonous. This matter surprised the whole house, the next day, Li Yang reported Mrs. Liu, saying that the day before the death of the fifth son, Mrs. Liu asked her to go to the pharmacy to buy grass black powder, I don't know what to do, recalling that the situation before the fifth prince was somewhat similar, so he reported the matter to the princess, and the princess asked people to check the prescription of the fifth prince at that time, and there was indeed ephedra in it. ”
"I'm afraid that Li Yang's accusation of Mrs. Liu is not so simple, right?"
"Yes! A few days ago, Mrs. Qi carried a room for the third son, who was the daughter of Li Yang's family. ”
Qi Ying scoffed, "Sure enough! Did Mrs. Liu admit it like this? ”
"Mrs. Liu is flatly denying it, but so what? Mrs. Gong is looking for her life every day these days, and she is uneasy. Mrs. Gong is also pitiful! The two of them have a good relationship on weekdays, but they didn't expect to be so calculated. ”
Qi Ying pondered for a moment and said, "Twelve years have passed since the incident, and the bones of the fifth prince are cold, just based on the prescription that I used and the identification of a servant woman's empty mouth and white teeth, I think it is difficult to distinguish between the true and the false!" ”
The sudden wind and rain in Suwang's Mansion will stop for some time!