Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

Chapter 950: The Suspicious Majesty and the Loyal Old Slave
Good things don't go out, bad things pass thousands of miles.

What's more, this is a story that allows people to make endless speculations and exaggerations.

By dinner time, the news that the two elders of the Chen family had fought and insulted each other in the inn had spread throughout the streets and alleys. The revised and polished version was obviously much more interesting than the one described by Xi An, with causes, processes, and results.

Some said that the two old men fought over a woman. After all, many people knew the details that they grabbed each other's messy gray hair and insulted each other as "shameless and old-fashioned". Of course, others said that it was a conflict over the uneven distribution of power within the clan, or the ownership of the treasures bestowed by His Majesty. After all, there were so many boxes, and everyone watched them being carried in... they were all jealous!
However, these reasons are obviously not as "chewy" as the story of "two elders in their seventies from aristocratic families fighting over a woman's favor". Obviously, the first reason has been the most widely spread, interspersed with some head-shaking and expressive interjections and summaries, "Tsk tsk, how shameful, how shameful!"

So much so that the next day, when Ji Wuyan came to the gate of the inn early to pick up Chen Yinuo to go to the palace together, what he saw was the inn that was so quiet that it was almost deserted, and Chen Yinuo who looked dejected and listless.

Like a quail.

Ji Wuyan held his chin up and looked at the silent quail in front of him. He finally resisted the urge to rub salt into the wound and only asked tentatively, "Are you okay?"

Quail nodded his head and hummed softly. After a long while, he couldn't say "not bad" and muttered, "Not so good... The clan leader and the second elder both suffered some minor injuries, and the younger generations who stepped forward to stop the fight also had their necks and faces scratched. The spectators surrounded them in three layers, pointing and laughing... I wouldn't even dare to do this in my dreams. It's too embarrassing. I wish I could find a crack in the ground to crawl into..."

He did not hide anything from Ji Wuyan and described the most helpless moment in his life. His voice became lower and lower, and his head lower and lower, and he looked like he wanted to bury his head in his knees.

Ji Wuyan and Ning Xiuyuan exchanged glances, Ning Xiuyuan shrugged quietly, then leaned against the carriage wall and closed his eyes to rest. Ji Wuyan wanted to say something to comfort him, but what could he say? He said that this matter had nothing to do with him, but he was his elder and his family, and he didn't need to care about rumors, they would pass after a while, but rumors were like a bladeless blade that could kill people...

Even though Ji Wuyan didn't like anyone in the Chen family, he admired Chen Yinuo to some extent. After thinking it over again and again, he still felt that no matter what he said, it seemed too light, as if he didn't feel the pain because the whip didn't fall on him.

So in the end there was silence.

……

They arrived at the palace gate in silence, and happened to meet Zhang Dexian who was in a hurry to leave the palace. The two carriages almost collided at the gate. Zhang Dexian looked up and was about to curse, but suddenly he saw the carriage of the Duke's Mansion and rushed over with a shout, "Third Master, Third Master..."

He was extremely anxious, but he hesitated to speak. It was obviously about His Majesty. Ning Xiuyuan comforted him while inviting people to the carriage. Zhang Dexian's hands and feet were weak. After climbing on the carriage, he saw the two people in the carriage. He said nothing and quickly sent people to His Majesty's bedroom. He originally left the palace to find Chen Yinuo, and now there are Ji Wuyan and Ning Xiuyuan. Isn't it God's help... Oh no, God bless His Majesty.

The emperor, who was thought to be recovering, suddenly took a turn for the worse in the second half of the night. At first, he just looked for the imperial physician and took medicine according to the previous prescription. The emperor fell asleep quickly, and the imperial physician also said that it was not a big problem, maybe it was just that the dinner was too greasy. Although Zhang Dexian was a little confused about the relationship between the two, he still believed the imperial physician's "not a big problem". Who knew that not long after he lay down in his clothes, he was awakened by the groaning of the emperor, and hurriedly looked for the imperial physician again...

Chen Yinuo frowned slightly when he heard this, and after thinking for a moment, he asked, "How long did it take for Your Majesty to wake up after taking the medicine?"

Zhang Dexian, who was originally dancing and gesticulating with great emotion and even in great grief, was suddenly stunned. "I, I don't know. I was awakened by your majesty's wailing, but I don't know how long your majesty had been awake before that."

Ning Xiuyuan was suspicious, "Your Majesty was so ill, why didn't you stay by his side?"

Zhang Dexian sighed repeatedly, "Third Master, you don't know, ever since Lin Yi came, His Majesty has blamed me for not killing the little prince, and said that I betrayed him... His Majesty no longer trusts me, so how could he let me serve him... Oh..."

As Zhang was talking, his eyes began to well up with tears. He lowered his head and wiped his tears with his sleeves, sniffing and saying, "As I get older, I tend to be sentimental. Please don't blame me."

Chen Yinuo waved his hands repeatedly, wanting to comfort the person but not knowing where to start. For a while he waved his hands and shook his head, looking flustered. He had no choice but to ask Ji Wuyan for help and winked at Ji Wuyan.

He is a very smart person, but his mouth always seems a little clumsy. On the other side, the eloquent person just held his teacup and looked at his nose, looking indifferent. Ji Wuyan shook his head helplessly and handed the handkerchief in his hand to him. "Don't be nervous, Mr. Zhang. Your Majesty is the true dragon emperor. He will be able to turn danger into safety... The poison that your Majesty was poisoned by is evolved from the forbidden technique of my Ji family. Fortunately, my grandmother happened to come to the city to visit my daughter a while ago. Fortunately, she still has some impression of the witch poison that she banned personally that year. My daughter has sorted out some methods of detoxification with my grandmother these two days. I believe I can do my best. That's why I came to the palace with Master Chen to see your Majesty today."

Zhang Dexian still had tears in his eyes. He was stunned when he heard that. "Are you serious, girl?" He wanted to believe it, but he didn't dare to believe it. So his face showed a mixture of excitement and nervousness.

He was truly loyal, but because of his good intentions he was disliked and questioned by the emperor.

"Really." Ji Wuyan nodded with a smile and promised, and raised the handkerchief in her hand, "Zhang, please wipe it. If you go in to see His Majesty like this, you will be blamed."

Zhang Dexian nodded, but still did not take the handkerchief. He just wiped the tear marks on his face twice with his sleeve and said with a smile, "A girl's handkerchief is the cleanest. My old face cannot use such a good thing. It's wasted, wasted..." While speaking, he wiped his face twice with such force that his skin soon turned red.