Three days later, the rain in Pingcheng stopped. After the efforts of Xiao Ming and Min Fangqi, Xia Wu woke up.
Xia Wu opened his eyes, feeling a little dizzy and weak. He looked at the familiar faces in the room, looking at him with eagerness and concern, which made him a little confused.
The prince is also here. Xia Xiaoba's eyes are red and swollen, as if he has cried.
What's going on here?
"You guys~" Xia Wu felt that her voice was a little hoarse, and her mouth was dry and she couldn't say any more words.
"Fifth brother."
"Lao Wu."
A group of people screamed excitedly, went straight to the bed, and looked around him. Shi Tingyu's eight personal guards grew up and trained together since childhood, and their relationship was extraordinary. Xia Wu woke up after a near death, and everyone was very happy. .
After several people had made out, they all wisely withdrew, leaving Shi Tingyu and Xia Wu alone.
"To make a long story short, the patient still needs to rest." Before leaving, Xiao Ming told Shi Tingyu that after a few days of getting along, she clearly felt that Shi Tingyu's identity was somewhat special. Although several cousins in the Xia family were older than him, they Still calling him fourth cousin, his attitude was respectful.
It's really strange.
However, she was not a curious person and did not ask too many questions.
"Junior sister, how do you know Mr. Shi?" Min Fangqi looked at Xiao Ming and asked tentatively. He didn't believe that she didn't have any suspicion.
"He is Xia Xiaoba's cousin and he saved me once." Xiao Ming said, and he saved her more than once.
"Oh." Min Fangqi twirled his beard when he heard this and said nothing.
"Senior brother, Brother Xia Wu has to ask for help from senior brother for his later recuperation. Xiao Ming has been away from home for three days and should go back." Xiao Ming said, it's pitiful that she only returned home after half a month, and only stayed for one night and was taken over by Xia Xiaoba again. Pulled out.
Now that Xia Wu's condition has stabilized, it's time for her to go home. Senior Brother Min's superb medical skills are more than enough to recuperate his body and remove the remaining poison from his body.
The amount of western medicine in her space is limited, so she should use a little less. It would be better to ask Brother Min to use Chinese medicine to nurse her back to health.
"Senior brother, I still have some medicine here. Could you please help me develop a Chinese medicine with the same medicinal properties?" Xiao Ming said, focusing on increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, and hoped that Guangjitang could develop a substitute.
After hearing this, Min Fangqi nodded excitedly: "That's good. Also bring some of the infusion bottles and I'll have them made."
He was very interested in Xiao Ming's medical equipment, and he did not give up researching it during these few days of leisure.
"Okay." Xiao Ming said with a helpless smile. Min Fangqi was an old-hearted man and never forgot to study novel things.
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"Your Majesty, my subordinates deserve to die." Xia Wu lay on the bed and said guiltily. He was attacked by thieves when he came back. He effortlessly fought off the intruders. He thought he was a lowly little thief. He didn't pay attention to the small wound, but he never thought that this small wound would almost kill him and almost cause the prince to miss important information.
For a moment, Xia Wu was ashamed and speechless in the face of the prince's trust.
Faced with Xia Wu's self-blame, Shi Tingyu was not angry. Instead, he comforted him and said, "It's hard to guard against the thieves' treacherous tricks. We can rest assured that you can come back alive." Eight cousins of this generation of the Xia family since Ever since he was selected, he has been with him, loyal, and protected him with his life. They grew up together, practiced martial arts together, and went into battle to kill enemies together. He treated them like brothers.
If he loses any one of them, he will feel sad and blame himself. Now he is lucky that Xia Wu can wake up safely.
"You have to be more careful when doing things in the future." Shi Ting confessed.
"Yes." Xia Wu nodded seriously. After this death lesson, he will be more cautious in the future.
"Your Majesty, I found the news about the eldest prince." Xia Wu said, thinking that the child looked a little strange, seeming excited but also disappointed.
He, Xia Liu and Xia Qi went to Cen Yin's hometown to investigate. In order not to arouse suspicion, the three of them disguised themselves and acted separately. Finally, they found out the whereabouts of the eldest prince. He sent Xia Liu and Xia Qi to stay. With secret protection, he hurried back to report the news, but he didn't know that he would be assassinated on the way and almost died.
Thinking of this summer, Wu's heart still trembles.
"Really, where is it?" Shi Tingyu's calm face finally changed, looking at Xia Wu waiting for his next words.
"My subordinates, Xia Liu and Xia Qi, disguised themselves as salesmen and quietly inquired about Cen Yin's village. Only then did they find out that Cen Yin returned to his hometown half a year ago and brought back a child. However, Cen Yin died of illness within half a month after returning home. The child has stayed at the Cen family."
Then the child might be the eldest prince.
Cen Yin was different from Zhang Dong. She was sold into the palace as a palace maid by her family. She also had her parents and brothers at home. Six years ago, they went to Cen Yin's hometown to search, but they didn't find anyone. They wanted to come to Zhang Dong at that time. She and Cen Yin did not go home. Later, Zhang Dong died and Cen Yin was seriously injured. As a last resort, she took the eldest prince and carried his sick body back to her hometown, and died after entrusting the eldest prince to her family.
The Cen family thought that the eldest prince was Cen Yin's child and had been raised by the Cen family to this day.
"That's it." Shi Tingyu lamented. Zhang Dong died and Cen Yin left seriously injured. No wonder they stayed here and couldn't find them.
"That kid is doing well now."
"Not good." Xia Wu frowned and shook his head when he thought of the child, and his hands under the thin quilt couldn't help but clenched into fists.
He once had close contact with the child while dressing up as a cargo boy. He was dirty, barefoot, and had a different temperament than ordinary people. When the other children saw the candy he gave him, they all gathered around him to beg for it, but No, he stood and watched from a distance, his eyes unfocused, sucking his fingers, and his saliva flowed down his fingers and onto his clothes.
Very dirty, Xia Wu wanted to say.
He stopped and walked in Cenjia Village and learned a lot about it. When Cen Yin came back, he did not bring any money to the family. Instead, he left them a child and a burden. After Cen Yin died, the child was in an even more difficult situation. He had to live three times a day. He didn't eat enough, his clothes were disheveled, his body was thin, his hair was withered, and he was teased and scolded by the children in the same village.
He handed the candy to him, but he didn't reach out to take it. His eyes were dim and he looked at him with a smile. His face was dark and there was mud on his hair.
He looked sad.
This was the eldest prince he had been searching for for six years.
He did not feel the excitement of finding his lost child, nor the joy of finding him. Instead, he was a little disappointed. There was a huge gap between him and the person he hoped for, and there was a huge sense of gap.
The villagers and the Cen family all said that the child was pitiful. He was very smart and cute when he came back. Unfortunately, after his mother died, he couldn't bear the huge blow and became a little stupid. Apparently he had not recovered from the grief of losing his mother. Come.
is that so? He wasn't sure. He couldn't make up his mind for a moment, and he didn't know that this child was the eldest prince. He left Xia Liu and Xia Qi to watch, and he came back to report.
Secretly, he didn't want to believe that this child was the one he was looking for. He would rather keep looking for him with hope.
