Ge Mingzhu walked into the inner room with the case in hand. When she saw Ji Shu standing by the stove, she asked casually:
"What are you doing standing here? But your stomach still hurts?"
"Hmm... my back hurts from sitting."
Ji Shu responded calmly, his long eyelashes lowered to hide the shock in his eyes.
If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would never have imagined that Qi Ye's Qing Gong was so high. As written in the storybook, he came and went without a trace. It only took a few breaths from the time Ge Mingzhu made a sound to the time he walked in. Ji Shu subconsciously glanced at the door. Curtain, when you look back, there will be no one around.
Ge Mingzhu did not become suspicious and said, "Can I change it here? You can try it on first to see if it fits."
Just as Ji Shu was about to answer, a narrow gaze fell on her shoulder, and Ji Shu retracted his hand.
"I'm going to the ear chamber to change it."
After that, she took her clothes and got into the ear room. After a while, she came out. Ge Mingzhu handed her the ginger tea and said, "Thank you so much for today's events."
"It's just a little effort. Sister, you don't have to worry about it all the time."
"Okay, I won't mention it after this matter is over, but you have to think carefully about where you offended that guy."
Ji Shu tasted the ginger tea and felt much better in her stomach. She smiled and said, "Sister, are you talking about the Sixth Princess?"
"Yes, I don't know why she is crazy. Overtly or covertly, she is here for you. I could tell when Zhao Yan targeted you."
After all, Ge Mingzhu has been a princess for many years, and she still has the ability to observe people's emotions. She already has a savior filter for Ji Shu. Now she is pleased with everything she looks at. She looked so bullied, I couldn't help but worry for her.
"Xie Shangshan is not a good person, and she is favored by the emperor. She has always been willful and picky. I'm afraid you can't remember where you offended her, but now that you know it, stay away next time to save the chance of recruiting her again. revenge."
Xie Shangshan is different from the other princesses. In addition to the immense power of her maternal grandfather's family, she also has a gimmick that dates back to the year she was born.
On the day she was born, she held a piece of dragon jade the size of a fingernail in her hand. At the same time, there was a vision in the sky, and colorful clouds hung in the sky for nearly two hours.
It was precisely because of this vision that Emperor Tianzhi, who was still a prince at the time, was convinced that he was the True Dragon Emperor. As expected, he later eradicated his other brothers and secured the throne.
Of course, the so-called Longxing Jade and the vision were only spread after Emperor Tianzhi ascended the throne. It is impossible to guarantee that Emperor Tianzhi wanted to find a reason to let himself, who was neither his direct descendant nor his eldest son, succeed to the throne. It would be logical, but regardless of the truth Fake, Xie Shangshan's favor is obvious to all.
Ji Shu nodded gently, "I remember, thank you Sister Ge."
…
But after that day, Xie Shangshan did not take the initiative to cause trouble for Ji Shu. She was so frightened by the drowning that she made a fuss about Emperor Tianzhi sending people to the Runan Palace to cause trouble.
They searched for "water ghosts" under the lake, and asked eminent monks to do something about it. Finally, they forced King Runan to fill up the lotus pond, and this farce ended.
In the blink of an eye, it was half way through June, and Ji Shu was busy with the business of her shop when she suddenly received a letter from Yan'an Mansion and a package of something unknown.
Xitao handed it to her and said, "The people at the post house said that it was to be delivered to the lady."
Ji Shu opened the letter with suspicion and looked at the final signature.
"Wei Chongguang...Wei Chongguang...it's him!"
Ji Shu muttered a few words, then quickly remembered Wei Chongguang's identity, and then read the letter again.
Xitao: "Miss, what's in the letter? Who is this Wei Chongguang?"
"He is the shopkeeper of the medicine shop I found in Yan'an Mansion. He has some medical knowledge and is also very shrewd. In his letter, he said that a family from Yan'an Mansion came to Beijing for business and wanted to drop by to see me."
Ji Shu folded the letters and opened another package. Inside was an account book, which recorded the expenses of Tongji Drug Store in the past few months after she left Yan'an Mansion.
She flipped through it briefly, and found that the store's accounts were very good, and all the herbs that had been paid out as IOUs during the disaster had been paid off.
"It's a talent that can be made. It's a pity that this medicine shop doesn't belong to me for the time being."
Ji Shu smiled and shook his head. This boy was also an upright person. He wrote about the county mistress in every sentence in his letter. He must have known that she had nothing to do with the Wu Dingbo Mansion, but he still handed him the account books that should be given to the Wu Dingbo Mansion.
Ji Shu said to Xitao: "Find someone to say hello to the postmaster at the posthouse. If they arrive in the capital, send someone here to pick them up."
"This slave has taken note of it."
Not long after Xitao left, she quickly returned. Ji Shu blinked and asked, "Is it done so quickly?"
"No, as soon as I left the hanging flower door, I heard my servants talking in the corridor..." Xitao whispered in her ear: "The general is here."
Qi Ye?
Ji Shu's eyes were startled, he stood up and walked to the front yard, walking quickly.
She walked around from the back corridor to the small door of Baoxia in the front yard. After entering, there was a screen blocking it. When she got closer, Qi Ye and Ji Rong could be faintly revealed.
The two of them were sitting together drinking tea. Ji Shu's palms were wet and his chest was heaving.
She hoped that Qi Ye came to deliver Geng Tie, but she also didn't want him to come so suddenly. She felt the conflict between them and made a bitter look on her face until she heard her father say:
"Ji Mansion cannot take back the things belonging to the Marquis. The things that my daughter and Li Shi should have taken back have been taken back. After the Marquis has finished drinking this cup of tea, please take the things back."
Ji Shu's beating heart calmed down. Ji Rong's gentle tone suggested that the general did not send Geng Tie.
She let out a long breath, not sure whether it was regret or joy.
Qi Ye turned his back to her and spoke in a calm voice: "This is a gift from me, and it has nothing to do with the Qi family. What Ji Shu saved was the life of a lieutenant general in our army. It didn't matter that I didn't know her identity before. Now that I know it, I The general will definitely thank you generously."
"I have received the gift from the Marquis on my daughter's behalf, but the thing is really——"
"This is what I gave to her, Master Ji cannot replace it."
"..."
When Ji Rong was speechless, Ji Shu came out from behind the screen and said, "Father."
"Shu'er? Why are you here!"
Qi Ye looked back at her, their eyes met. One was dignified and elegant with a polite and distant smile, while the other was indifferent, calm and unsmiling. After a brief eye contact, Qi Ye stood up and bowed.
"Lord Wenyu County."
"The Champion."
Ji Shu also raised his hands and folded his eyebrows in front of his eyebrows and bowed in return, with a clear voice. The two people's serious movements were obviously unfamiliar to the extreme, but Ji Rong always felt that something was not quite right.
But he couldn't say anything, so he had to interrupt the long meeting ceremony between the two and said to Ji Shu:
"Sit down."
"Shu'er, the champion is thinking of your kindness in donating food, so he sent you a few boxes of thank-you gifts. As a father, it's better not to take them..."
"I should accept the Lord Marquis's thoughts with a smile."
After Ji Shu finished speaking, Ji Rong's face immediately darkened, and he patted the table hard.
"Asshole!"
Ji Shu stiffened, and the smile on Qi Ye's face suddenly disappeared. He turned away and slowly looked at Ji Rong, with a wave of wind secretly rising in his dark eyes.
Ji Shu lowered his head as usual and quietly rolled up his handkerchief to play with himself. Seeing this, Ji Rong pointed at her and scolded:
"This is how I taught you before! Give me-"
"Don't yell at her."
Before Ji Rong finished speaking, Qi Ye gave a cold face and shouted unceremoniously.
The murderous aura that had gathered around him swept over him, and the atmosphere in the room instantly dropped to freezing point.
"..."
Ji Rong was stunned by his scolding and looked at him in disbelief.
Ji Shu stopped rolling up the handkerchief and looked at Qi Ye quietly, with a tiny light shining in her eyes.
Qi Ye clicked his tongue, stared at Ji Rong with a pair of dark eyes, and asked: "Master Ji, do you remember that this is the Ji Mansion, not the court, and she is not your political enemy, but your biological daughter?"
Ji’s father: “…”
Qi Ye: "If you want to show off your strictness as an official, you can stay in the court and never come back. This is home, not the court. This is the first time I have seen a father who treats his children as political enemies."
