Xu family.
The butler of the Sun House respectfully handed the old man the note, “This is what the young master asked me to give to you.”
The old gentleman took it and opened it, and the four words on it caught his eyes.
The handwriting was small and scribbled, and it was clear that it had been written in a hurry.
The old gentleman put the note down and instructed Xu Liang to pay the reward and send the man out, and then had someone call Song Wan Yue and Song Yin to him, pushing the note in front of them, “Sun Qi sent this to me.”
The old man had already known that Sun Qi was Song Yin’s man, so he was not surprised to receive the note.
He just couldn’t figure out why Sun Qi would send such a note with only four words written on it.
Song Wangyue picked it up, squeezed it carefully and instructed Xu Liang, “Go and bring some millet porridge over.”
Song Wangyue took her chopsticks and dipped them into some of the congee and smeared it on the note, and the words slowly appeared on the note.
It was the first time the old man had seen this method of covering up the handwriting and he was amazed, but when he saw the words on it, he was so shocked that he almost didn’t stand up.
Song Wan Yue and Song Yin also had serious faces, they did not expect that the Emperor had used this trick.
“Damn it!”
Song Yin pounded his fist on the tabletop, they thought that the Emperor would poison the fourth prince, but it turned out that ……
He had underestimated the ruthlessness of that beastly thing.
The old gentleman was also emotional, “They say that tiger poison does not eat its children, how could he do it?”
Song Wan Yue laughed coldly, “For the sake of power, what is a son? If not, he still has grandchildren ……”
Grandchildren?
Song Wan Yue’s mind flashed with light and suddenly dawned on her, blurting out, “He never wanted to make the fourth prince, whether it was going to the Thousand Hills Temple or asking Master Jing Fan to tell the date, it was all a front, he wanted to make the third prince Chu Yi’s son.”
It wasn’t that Chu Yi’s son was so good, but that Chu Yi’s two sons were still young, and he could wait until he was on his deathbed before making the crown prince, so that no one would threaten him and take away his power.
Hearing her words, Song Yin’s heart sank sharply, it was his fault, he should have thought of it earlier, that beast had a demon in his heart, how could he let his cousin be the crown prince?
The old gentleman found it unbelievable that he would let his grandson become the crown prince after harming his own son, something only the current emperor has done since the beginning of time.
No!
There was more to it than that!
The old gentleman quieted his mind. If the Fourth Prince died, the Emperor would certainly not need to appoint a crown prince for the time being, but Song Yin, the hidden problem, had not yet been eliminated, and he would not stop there.
What would the emperor do next?
He will ……
The old gentleman jerked his head up to look at Song Wan Yue, his face changed and changed, if he was right, he would soon send someone to invite Yue into the palace.
“Yue’er ……”
His voice was urgent, “You and Song Yin go home quickly, no, go to Jiangnan, leave now.”
Stay in the green hills for fear of not having firewood to burn, nothing can happen to Yue’er!
The old man wouldn’t say that for no reason, Song Wan Yue and Song Yin looked at each other and both looked at the old man at the same time, “Why do you want us to go to Jiangnan?”
The old gentleman told his guess, “Since he has made his move, he will definitely want to cut off the grass and eliminate the roots, as long as he gets rid of you, Song Yin, the Xu family and the Ding Guo Gong House will all be unable to hold back, he will then seize the handle and get rid of all of us.”
He was already at this age, so naturally he was not afraid, but Yue’er was only thirteen years old, in her prime, and could not perish.
He intensified his tone, “Listen to your maternal great-grandfather, you will leave now.”
The fourth prince had just gotten smallpox, and the emperor would be pretending to be sad for a few days. When the fourth prince was seriously ill and the eunuch doctors were at their wits’ end, they would let Song Wangyue enter the palace.
They still had time, and although the river was still frozen now, it was faster on horseback, and even if it was only two days, the two of them had already travelled hundreds of miles.
It wasn’t that he didn’t pity the Fourth Prince, but the Fourth Prince had already contracted smallpox and it was up to the will of God whether he would survive, and he couldn’t afford to take Yue and Song Yin both on.
“Song Yin had also had smallpox.”
When the old gentleman finished, he was about to order Xu Liang to prepare the horses for the two, when he heard these words from Song Wan Yue, he looked at her in surprise.
“Do you still remember when you first came to the capital, Song Yin’s face was full of pox marks?”
The old gentleman naturally remembered, precisely because the pox marks on that face covered Song Yin’s original face, not only he, but even the Emperor did not recognise it.
“That was left behind after he got smallpox, and it was me and my master who cured him that time.”
“No!”
As soon as he said that, Song Yin understood what he meant and flatly objected.
Back then, it was because he couldn’t stop it that he allowed Yue’er to cure himself, and now he couldn’t let Yue take that risk again.
“You write down the prescription and I’ll have Grandfather send it to the palace.”
Song Wan Yue shook her head, “If I don’t go to the palace, neither Niang Fei Niang nor the Fourth Prince will survive.”
The eunuch doctors in the palace were not in name only, they all had real medical skills, and they might not be unable to cure a patient who had smallpox. But if that person had the intention of letting the fourth prince die, even if the eunuchs were good at medicine, they would not be able to save him.
Song Yin’s lips pursed into a straight line.
Song Wan Yue reached out and hooked her hand around his little finger, “Don’t worry, I’ll be fine. ”
Song Yin’s lips twitched, but no words came out.
Knowing that he was suffering inside, Song Wan Yue changed the subject, “I was wondering, how did the fourth prince catch this smallpox?”
Since the emperor had already had this in mind, he would certainly have had someone do it in advance, but he also took the fourth prince to Tianshan Temple on the fifth day of the first month, so if he did it in advance, wouldn’t he be afraid that he would be infected?
If not, then it was only after the fourth prince returned from the Tianshan Temple that he was infected. The speed of infection was so fast, which meant that the person who passed him smallpox had already reached an advanced stage, so how did this person conceal it for so long under everyone’s noses, and how did he contract it?
If he had contracted it in the palace, then the palace would have been in chaos by now, but Sun Qi’s note did not say that the palace was in chaos, which meant that everyone in the palace was fine except for the Fourth Prince.
Suddenly, Song Wan Yue thought of Sun Qi’s words that night, he had seen Liu Ying on the night of the palace banquet, Liu Ying had dressed up as a forbidden guard to enter the palace, could it be ……?
She looked at Song Yin, “Maybe we should go and meet Liu Ying.”
“Are you talking about Liu Ying, the commander of the feathered forest army?”
The old man asked.
Song Wan Yue nodded and told him about seeing Liu Ying the night of Sun Qi’s palace banquet, “I suspect that he brought smallpox into the palace.”
The old gentleman looked grave, “If that is true, you must not go to see him, he may have contracted smallpox by now.”
“He wouldn’t be that stupid, he shouldn’t have come into direct contact with a smallpox patient, he must have taken something used by a smallpox patient into the palace, I want to know where he got something used by a smallpox patient.”