Chapter 1304: Resting (6)
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As Qi Haoran was pretending to be weak and poisoned, he even cut off all contact between the guards and the outside world in order not to let Qi Xiuyuan discover it.
Qi Haoran said very clearly, “If anyone dares to reveal my physical condition, don’t blame me for being impolite.”
Other than Mu Yangling, no one knew Qi Haoran’s true motive. They thought that he was guarding against foreign enemies. After all, the person who poisoned the Emperor had yet to be found.
Therefore, they all pledged their loyalty to King Rong and Great Qi and promised not to reveal a single word to outsiders.
Qi Haoran arranged everything properly. As he drank the medicine, he said sadly to Mu Yangling, “I wonder if we can find a famous doctor.”
Mu Yangling comforted him. “I’ll get the grain stores to keep an eye out. We’ll find someone eventually.”
As the Harvest Grain Stores were spread all over Great Qi and there were even branches on Qiongzhou Island, they were very well-informed.
Qi Haoran felt that relying on the grain stores alone was not enough because they were not people who specialized in gathering information and were likely to overlook things.
“Zijin has an agency that specializes in gathering information. It’s best if he handles this.”
Qi Haoran raised his head and finished the medicine, then stuffed the bowl into Mu Yangling’s hand and said, “I’ll write a letter to him.”
Qi Haoran never deliberately hid things from Fan Zijin. Naturally, he did not intend to hide the fact that the Emperor was seriously ill from him.
Qi Haoran pulled out ’The Analects’ from Little Leopard’s collection and wrote to him in secret code.
Feeling sad as he wrote, Qi Haoran wrote down his plan and told Zijin, “Because both you and Big Brother have suffered injuries in the past, I’ve always been worried about you guys, fearing you’d leave me all alone in the world. It was only later on when you and Big Brother tried your best to recuperate and your conditions stabilized that I felt at ease. However, who knew that a huge disaster would suddenly descend from the sky? Big Brother’s 16 years of recuperation went to waste, leaving him only three to five years left to live.”
“The Crown Prince is young, and the princes are even younger. How can they lose their father just like that? I hope you can help me find a famous doctor and wondrous herbs to nourish his body.”
After Qi Haoran finished writing the secret letter, he wrapped it in oil paper and tied it around the messenger pigeon’s leg, then watched it fly far away with melancholy. When he turned around, he saw Tiger Head and Little Lion, who were being grounded, secretly sneaking into the kitchen to look for food. Immediately, his eyebrows raised in anger, and his sadness turned into anger.
Fan Zijin, who was in the capital, was also about to explode from anger. He had just thought of his son and sent someone to the farm to fetch him back. His original intention was to have a good chat with his son before letting him return to the palace to study. In the end, the person he sent returned empty-handed and said that the three young masters were in seclusion, busy making toys.
A father knew his son best. It was understandable for Tiger Head and Little Lion to do so, but he highly doubted his son would go into seclusion with them to make toys.
One had to know that he was going to participate in the tongsheng examination in a month. Why would he be in the mood to make toys instead of studying hard at a time like this?
Fan Zijin felt that something was wrong and immediately rode to the farm to inspect. There was only Little An in the room where the three of them were in seclusion. When Fan Zijin broke in, Little An was holding a book and reading while shaking his head!
Clearly, Tiger Head and Little Lion had run away!
Fan Zijin was so angry that he fell backward. With no time to beat his son up, he threw him to the guard and hurriedly ran into the palace.
Shortly after the Emperor had been poisoned, these two brats ran out without knowing the immensity of heaven and earth. What if they were caught and killed?
Qi Xiuyuan had just finished his medicine and was about to go to the small garden with Li Jinghua to see his sons when Fan Zijin rushed in.
When he found out that Tiger Head and Little Lion had run away from home, he panicked and hurriedly sent the Forbidden Troops to chase after them. He asked, “When did they leave?”
“Three days ago!”
At this point, Fan Zijin was stunned. Considering the capital was only a day and a half away from where Haoran was, it would usually only take two or three days on a horse at normal speed. Logically speaking, they should have arrived, right?
Fan Zijin immediately turned around and said, “I’ll write to Haoran now and ask him if he’s seen the two children.”
Qi Haoran had long forgotten to inform Fan Zijin that his two sons had run away from home. The letter he had written previously was still on the table. When he returned to look at the map after lecturing the twins, he realized that he had only sent the letter with the secret message and had left out the letter he had written to plead leniency for Little An.
However, since the messenger pigeon had already flown away, he could not possibly chase it back.
Qi Haoran could only say regretfully, “Looks like I can only wait for the messenger pigeon to return.”
Fan Zijin was so anxious that he wanted to go back and beat his son up. Little An was lucky. He locked himself in the small study and refused to open the door no matter how hard Fan Zijin smashed it. When he lost his patience and wanted to break in, Qi Haoran’s messenger pigeon finally crossed mountains and rivers in the middle of the night and landed on the wall of Prince An’s Residence.
When Fan Zijin received Qi Haoran’s letter, he was no longer in the mood to care about the trouble his son had caused. He immediately left with a worried and conflicted expression.
Little Madam Xia hurriedly pulled Little Fu forward and knocked on the door. She said in a low voice, “Son, it’s Mother. Open the door quickly. Your father isn’t here.”
Little An carefully opened the door. Little Madam Xia poked his head and said, “You’re too bold. Why do you dare to urge Tiger Head and Little Lion to do all sorts of things?”
Little Madam Xia didn’t believe that Tiger Head and Little Lion could come up with such a plan. Her son was most likely the one who planned this.
Not repentful in the slightest, Little An pursed his lips and snorted. “Who asked you adults to hide things from us? Fortunately, we’re smart. Otherwise, we would have been kept in the dark.”
However, Fan Zijin was in no mood to pay attention to his son. He frowned as he read Qi Haoran’s letter. He had not expected Qi Xiuyuan’s health to be so poor.
On the other hand, Qi Haoran’s plan made him feel conflicted. He felt that his plan might not be effective. If he lied to the Emperor that Haoran’s body was severely damaged, then the good doctors and medicine would naturally be used on Haoran first. In order not to take away Haoran’s survival chances, the Emperor would probably be reluctant to use the herbs and doctors that Qi Haoran sent back.
Fan Zijin knocked on the table and took a pen to write a letter to Qi Haoran, asking him to write to the Emperor. In the future, he would seek out famous doctors and wondrous herbs outside and only come back after he recovered.
Qi Haoran did not know what Fan Zijin meant by this, but he knew that Zijin was smarter than him, so he did as he said.
He wrote a letter to Qi Xiuyuan and said that the poison in his body had yet to be cleared and the imperial physicians did not have a good solution. He wanted to bring his wife and children out to seek out famous doctors and return to the capital only after he recovered completely. He would leave Little Bear and the King’s Residence in the care of Qi Xiuyuan and Fan Zijin.
Qi Xiuyuan was heartbroken when he received this letter. He thought that his brother’s condition had worsened and only said this because he didn’t want him to worry, so he was about to send the Forbidden Troops to bring him back to the capital to recuperate. After all, no matter how great things were elsewhere, it was not as convenient as the capital.
Here, there were imperial physicians and a comprehensive collection of herbs. If there was anything they lacked, they could always think of ways to buy or find. Whereas there wasn’t even a place to live outside.
Qi Xiuyuan said to the commander of the Forbidden Troops, “When King Rong is feeling better, escort him to set off. If he doesn’t obey you, bring Queen Consort Rong, the young masters, and the princess back. At that time, he will definitely follow you.”
Just as the commander of the Forbidden Troops was about to agree, Fan Zijin ran in with tears all over his face. “Eldest Cousin!”
Fan Zijin rushed to Qi Xiuyuan, hugged his thigh, and cried.
The commander of the Forbidden Troops: “…”
He turned his head and pretended not to see anything.
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