Madam, she always wants to run away

Chapter 38 Family Letter
Cao Wenxian felt as if she had had a long nightmare. In the dream, no matter how she struggled or ran, there were countless vicious dogs chasing her.She wanted to stop, but she didn't dare, she was afraid that if she stopped, she would be bitten into pieces.

She had another dream. She dreamed that there was a crimson boy standing on the edge of the cliff. He was so close that he seemed about to fall down at any moment.She ran and ran desperately, and finally stood beside the boy, trying to pull him down, but in a blink of an eye, the boy pushed her off the cliff with a blank expression.

"Ah—" Cao Wenxian closed her eyes and let out a scream.

"Girl, wake up." Just when Cao Wenxian thought she was about to fall off the cliff to die, she heard a strange man's voice talking in her ear.

"Girl, girl, are you awake?" Cao Wenxian then realized that those were just dreams and she wasn't dead.Cao Wenxian finally opened her eyes under the constant calling of this strange man's voice.

"You finally woke up."

When Cao Wenxian opened her eyes and saw a completely unfamiliar man, she shrank subconsciously and asked tremblingly, "Who are you..."

"Xian'er!" Li Ying, who was coming in with medicine at the door, saw that Cao Wenxian had woken up, and hurried over.

"Doctor Duan, let me have a few words with Xian'er."

Duan Yanlin avoided it sensibly.

Li Ying squeezed Cao Wenxian's hand tightly and said, "Xian'er, you have been in a coma for three days and three nights, and you finally woke up..."

"Cousin Ying..." Cao Wenxian burst into tears when she saw someone she was familiar with. She cried and threw herself into Li Ying's arms.

Cao Wenxian cried, and Li Ying cried too.

It wasn't until Cao Wenxian became tired from crying and calmed down that Li Ying asked cautiously, "Xian'er, the person who kidnapped you was Xiao Ling?"

Upon hearing this name, tears welled up in Cao Wenxian's eyes again, and she quickly wiped away the tears with her hands.

Cao Wenxian didn't need to answer, Li Ying already guessed the answer, she hugged Cao Wenxian distressedly, and kept apologizing: "Xian'er, I hurt you, I..."

Cao Wenxian shook her head in Li Ying's arms: "I don't blame Cousin Ying, it's Xiao Ling who is insane..."

"Xian'er, did he do anything to you?" Li Ying was most concerned about this.

Cao Wenxian shook her head again, and said with a choked voice, "He found out that he had arrested the wrong person. He just frightened me, and didn't really do anything to me."

Only then did Li Ying feel relieved: "Before the lord left, he asked me to live in the palace to be safer. I didn't take it seriously at that time, thinking that Xiao Ling was grounded, so what can I do. Unexpectedly, he... He is so bold! Don't worry, my sister will definitely seek justice for you."

Cao Wenxian shook her head violently when she heard the words: "My sister doesn't want it."

Li Ying let go of Cao Wenxian, looked at her with tears in her eyes, and asked, "Xian'er, he has already done such a thing, don't you still..."

Cao Wenxian didn't speak, it was a tacit agreement.

"Oh, that's all." Li Ying sighed, "For the sake of him sending you back, I don't have to pursue it, but how are you going to explain it to your aunt?"

Cao Wenxian didn't think about this problem at all, so she had to ask Li Ying for help: "Sister, help me."

Li Ying thought for a while, and said: "It's too much to say, so I can only pretend that I don't remember anything."

Cao Wenxian nodded obediently.

When Zhao Minying heard the news that her daughter had woken up, she hurried over. Seeing her daughter sitting on the bed with a haggard face, Zhao Minying shed tears before saying a word.

"My poor son, what happened to this, do you remember?"

"Mother, I was knocked out. I don't know what happened after that."

"Then... what the hell is that villain planning!"

"Auntie, could it be that Master Hou has some enemies? That villain wanted to ruin my cousin's reputation, and that's why he did this?"

Being distracted by Li Ying's area, Zhao Minying fell into deep thought. It is impossible to say that Xuan Pinghou has been in the court for many years without enemies, but who on earth would use such insidious tricks on Xian'er?

If they hadn't kept it a secret, it might have spread all over the capital by now, how could Xian'er get married by then!

Zhao Minying asked this and that and cared for a while, until she confirmed that her daughter was fine, and then went to Xuan Pinghou to settle the score in a fit of anger.This damned stinky old man said that his family members were not the only ones to suffer. He provoked someone from outsiders, so that Xian'er suffered such a big crime for no reason!

After fooling Zhao Minying away, both of them heaved a sigh of relief.

"Cousin Ying, you reminded me at the time that you can't judge people by their appearance. Did you know what kind of person he is then?"

Li Ying didn't say anything, which meant he had acquiesced.

Cao Wenxian managed to force a smile, and said to Li Ying: "Now I know what kind of person he is, from now on, I will never have anything to do with him again."

Li Ying stroked Cao Wenxian's head and said distressedly, "Our Xian'er has grown up."

After crying a lot, Cao Wenxian's mood improved a lot. She asked, "By the way, who was that man just now?"

"Which one? Oh, that's the imperial physician I brought from the palace, surnamed Duan."

Cao Wenxian worried: "Let the imperial physician treat me in the mansion around the clock, wouldn't it be good?"

"Don't worry, I mentioned it to the queen mother, and the queen mother personally agreed. It's just that he was the only one on duty that night, otherwise I will definitely drag Wang Taiyi here for you."

"No need, I see that although the imperial physician is younger, he is very patient and careful."

"I saw it too, so I haven't changed the imperial physician. Let's stop talking and let the imperial physician Duan come in to give you a diagnosis and treatment."

"Ah."

Duan Yanlin has been living in the Xuanping Hou Mansion for the past few days, except for treating Cao Wenxian, the rest of the time is spent studying medical books in the guest room, it is rare to steal a few days of leisure in Fusheng.

"Doctor Duan." The princess called from the door, "I finished talking with my cousin, please go over and treat her."

"Here we come." Duan Yanlin picked up the medicine box and walked to Cao Wenxian's boudoir. He has become familiar with this rather small Hou's mansion in the past few days.

The scars on Cao Wenxian's wrists and ankles have scabbed over, and they will heal on their own after waiting patiently for a while.Li Ying asked the Queen Mother to get the miraculous scar removal ointment for Cao Wenxian to use.

On the contrary, Cao Wenxian was overly frightened, which was a problem.Cao Wenxian has been having nightmares for the past few days, and she can't wake up no matter what. Duan Yanlin judges that this is the sequelae of being frightened, and it will take a long period of recuperation to recover.

Duan Yanlin's hand rested lightly on Cao Wenxian's wrist. He closed his eyes and carefully checked her pulse.One click, one click, jumping faster than ordinary people. The moment he opened his eyes, he found that Cao Wenxian looked away suddenly.

"What's wrong with the girl?" Duan Yanlin was very concerned about Cao Wenxian's abnormality, for fear that there was some illness that he had overlooked.

"No." Cao Wenxian blushed, "I just discovered that your hands, Imperial Doctor Duan, are a bit more beautiful than those of ordinary women."

Now it was Duan Yanlin's turn to blush.On weekdays in the imperial hospital, there are a group of elderly imperial doctors, no one cares about what his hands look like.

When Cao Wenxian said this, Duan Yanlin immediately withdrew his hand, and said awkwardly: "Thank you for your compliment, I'll go and write you a prescription."

"You're tired."

For Cao Wenxian's matter, Li Ying stayed at home for another half a month, visiting Cao Wenxian every day, and Duan Yanlin dutifully made daily diagnosis and treatment of decoctions. After this period of time, Cao Wenxian gradually came out of the nightmare.

On this day, Nanny Xu's carriage stopped at the gate of Li's residence, and Li Ying rushed out to greet her.

"Princess, the palace has received a letter from the prince. Your name is written on it, but the queen mother is anxious to know if the prince is doing well, so she has to send me to invite you into the palace."

As soon as Li Ying heard Xiao Lian's letter from home, she hurriedly greeted Cao Wenxian and her family.

"Sister, go quickly, I don't have to worry about it here."

"Xian'er, you must be fine."

"Go quickly." Cao Wenxian pushed Li Ying out of the door.

Li Ying got into the carriage and went straight to Xuanwu Gate.

*
In Renshou Palace, the Empress Dowager held the thin family letter in her hand, looking around.

When Li Ying's figure appeared at the gate of the hall, the Queen Mother couldn't wait to meet him.

"Ying'er, you are here. Quickly open it up and have a look at the letter Lian'er sent you."

Li Ying ran all the way, out of breath, took a sip of tea, then took the letter, and carefully tore it along the seal, for fear of tearing the letter paper inside.

"You said Lian'er is true. It took half a month to send such a thin letter from home. What made Aijia even more angry was that the stinky boy only sent it to his wife, not to me, the old woman who worked so hard to raise him. Ji, it is said that having a daughter-in-law forgets mother, I, as a grandmother, feel deeply today."

Li Ying chuckled: "Queen Mother, do you still want to see it?"

"Look, I'm just complaining to you."

Li Ying took out the thin piece of paper, and there were only a few short lines on it:

"Yingying my wife:
Seeing a letter is like a face.I arrived in Nanhe City on the tenth day of October, where the floods were flooding and the victims were everywhere. We tried our best to rescue them, working day and night without idle time.Only in the middle of the night can I take a break and write this letter from home.

At this moment, I look up at the bright moon in the sky, thinking that you, like me, are bathed in this moonlight, so that I can slightly comfort my pain of lovesickness.

I wonder how you are doing in Beijing?Take care, and wait for me to come back safely.

Say hello to grandma for me. "

"Stinky boy, that's all I wrote to Ai's family, it really hurts him for nothing." The Queen Mother said jokingly, but Li Ying didn't reply for a long time.

"Ying'er, what's the matter with you?" Seeing Li Ying's frowning and serious expression, the Queen Mother thought that something happened.

"Queen, why is this Nanhecheng so familiar?"

"It sounds familiar, where have you heard it? I don't have much impression of the Ai family, the population should not be large."

"Wait..." Li Ying tried hard to recall, Nanhe, Nanhe, why did she have an impression of the name of a small town.

!!!

Li Ying remembered!Nanhe is the birthplace of the plague that swept across more than a dozen cities in the south in the previous life!Because the capital was not endangered, and she had been trapped in the deep palace, so the impression was not deep.

Xiao Lian is in Nanhe, isn't that the closest place to the plague?In his previous life, he was not sent to control the floods, and naturally he did not go to Nanhe, but in this life, because of her entanglement with Xiao Lian, Xiao Lian was actually involved in this huge disaster!
Li Ying's hand trembled, and the letter in his hand fell to the ground. The Empress Dowager picked up the letter and asked nervously, "Ying'er, what happened to Nanhe, Lian'er, is there anything wrong?"

Li Ying took a deep breath, she had to calm down, judging from Xiao Lian's family letter, the plague had not yet broken out, there was still time for her to go now.

No, she forgot some important information... Nanyang, the plague, yes.

Duan Yanlin!
She finally remembered why she felt familiar when she heard his name for the first time, because it was this medical officer who was only an official to rank nine who had developed a prescription to fight this plague in her previous life!

Duan Yanlin, Duan Yanlin, there is really nowhere to look for, and it doesn't take much effort to get it.

Li Ying hurriedly asked Nanny Xu to pack her luggage, and told her that the lighter the better, the better.

The Empress Dowager watched in confusion: "Ying'er, where are you going?"

"Queen, Xiao Lian is in danger, I have to save him!"

"But it was not mentioned in the letter."

"It hasn't happened yet, but it's about to happen, and I have to be there before then."

"Yingying, you are a weak woman, you are only on the road, how can you let Ai's family feel at ease?"

"Who says I'm alone? Empress Dowager, I have to bring Duan Yanlin from the Imperial Hospital with me."

"Here, which one is this?"

"Queen, I don't have time to explain so much, just say, do you believe in Yinger?"

The queen mother nodded: "I believe."

"Then send a small team to escort us to Nanhe!"

Outside the gate of Xuan Pinghou's mansion, there was a loud sound of horseshoes, and a woman hurriedly got off the carriage in the dust and walked towards the mansion.

"Cousin Ying, why are you back?" Cao Wenxian looked at Li Ying who had gone and returned, very surprised.

Li Ying looked at Cao Wenxian who was packing her luggage, also with surprise on her face.

"Where are you going?"

Cao Wenxian stuffed the clothes into the bag, and said with a bitter face: "Cousin Ying, I am really unlucky. Do you know that Duke Hua came after you left?"

"What? What is he doing here?"

"He came to propose marriage for Xiao Ling."

"...?" Li Ying almost choked on his saliva.

Cao Wenxian glanced at Li Ying helplessly, and said, "My reaction is exactly the same as yours. Xiao Ling is an out-and-out lunatic, and she is so insane that there is no cure."

"Then what are you going to do?"

"You see, I'm going to run away."

"Where can you go?"

"I don't know, but I have no choice but to run. Cousin Ying, you haven't said what you're here for?"

"I'm here to see Doctor Duan."

"What are you doing with him?"

"I'm going to take him to Nanhe City."

Cao Wenxian stopped what she was doing, and asked curiously: "Nanhe City? It sounds like a long way away. What are you taking Imperial Physician Duan there for?"

"I couldn't explain it clearly at the moment, Xiao Lian is there, he will be in great danger soon, I have to save him, and Imperial Physician Duan is the key link."

Cao Wenxian rolled her eyes and said, "Why don't I go with you!"

(End of this chapter)