A Cutie Spoiled by Her Seven Uncles-Chapter 585: The Second Young Master Who Is Short Of Nine Lives Has Been Poisoned
Chapter 585: Chapter 585: The Second Young Master Who Is Short Of Nine Lives Has Been Poisoned
"Eldest Uncle! I... I was really wrong, please don’t be angry!"
"Where did you go wrong?" Ji Youyuan stared at her coldly, asking in a chilly voice.
"I was wrong for not practicing my calligraphy!"
"Then do you want to correct your mistake?"
Xiaosuisui nodded vigorously. "Yes!"
"So, how do you plan to correct it?"
How to correct it?
She thought about it, but for a moment, she didn’t know how she should.
"You claim to know your mistake, but it’s clear you have no idea!"
Xiaosuisui blinked, her little face flushed red as she bravely tried to appease her Eldest Uncle. "I’ll correct it however Eldest Uncle says I should!"
This is exactly what I was waiting for her to say,
Ji Youyuan thought. However, he maintained his pretense of anger.
"You said this yourself! Eldest Uncle didn’t force you!"
"No, no, Eldest Uncle is the best! You’ve never forced Suisui!"
With these words, Ji Youyuan finally got what he wanted, though his face still didn’t show it.
"Good. From now on, you’ll practice writing one hundred large characters every day!"
"Okay, no problem!" Xiaosuisui agreed cheerfully. However...
"H-How many?"
The little girl only realized the magnitude of her promise afterwards!
Ji Youyuan gave her a grin like the big bad wolf.
"A promise is a promise, Suisui. You said it yourself. From now on, one hundred large characters a day; you can’t go back on your word!"
Xiaosuisui’s face fell. She looked like she was about to cry but held back.
"Hold it. If you dare to shed a single tear now, you’ll add ten more characters to your daily practice!"
And so...
"Alright, I can’t go to the Imperial Palace to fetch you now. Ask His Majesty the Emperor to send the Inner Guard to escort you out! Hurry back to detoxify your Second Uncle!"
He, his wife, and Ji Youbo had been rushing back day and night. Just as they returned, they saw Ji Youran dazedly asking everyone around him all sorts of questions. At that moment, Ji Youyuan really wanted to give him a good beating.
However, he suddenly remembered Xiaosuisui mentioning Ji Youran mistakenly entering the River of Oblivion. So, he had no choice but to patiently recount their shared history from childhood to adulthood, talking until his mouth was dry.
He finally managed to make Ji Youran understand. Just as he had sent his wife back to their room and was about to head to the Imperial Palace to pick up his niece, a servant from the household rushed in to that his second brother, the one who had just lost his memory, had suddenly fainted and fallen unconscious.
After his on-site examination, he finally confirmed that Ji Youran was poisoned.
He was helpless; when it came to detoxification, using poisons, or treating illnesses to save lives, he really wasn’t skilled. With Ji Youran poisoned, the entire family was thrown into a panic.
Fortunately, with him, a Grand Master, present, he managed to temporarily suppress the poison’s effects. He then hastily wrote a letter and sent it to the Imperial Palace, asking Suisui to come out on her own.
After the Emperor finished reviewing two memorials, he habitually glanced back at the dragon bed behind the screen. To his surprise, he saw Xiaosuisui climbing down from the bed with her short legs.
"Father Emperor!" the little girl called out sweetly.
"How did you wake up so quickly?"
By his calculation, she hadn’t even slept for ten minutes yet, and the Palace Maid had just finished helping her freshen up.
The Emperor picked up Xiaosuisui and asked, "Was it because you changed beds, Suisui, that you couldn’t sleep well?"
He remembered Old Madam Ji mentioning during the Double Ninth Festival that their precious girl was particular about her bed.
"Nope, Suisui needs to leave the Imperial Palace and return to the Ji Mansion. Father Emperor, could you please have someone escort me back?"
Send her back? The Emperor frowned. "Aren’t you going to wait for your Eldest Uncle to come and pick you up personally?"
Xiaosuisui shook her head. "No need to wait, Eldest Uncle is busy! He asked me to return on my own."
The Emperor wanted to say more, but Xiaosuisui insisted, so he ordered a troop of Inner Guards to escort Xiaosuisui out of the Imperial Palace.
By this time, the sky had completely darkened, and the palace gates had long been locked. When the guards escorting Xiaosuisui arrived and presented their Waist Tokens, the guards at the palace gate immediately granted passage.
Princess Ata hurried after them from behind, shouting loudly, "Wait! Wait for me! Crown Princess, wait for me!"
Xiaosuisui, sitting in the palanquin specially granted by the Emperor, lifted the curtain to look back and asked in confusion, "Princess Ata, what are you doing here?"
Princess Ata stood with her hands on her hips, panting so hard she could barely speak. "Oh my, I finally caught up to you! I want to leave the Imperial Palace with you."
Suisui looked at her in confusion.
Princess Ata quickly explained, "Your Father Emperor said that as long as I don’t harm you, I can follow you anytime."
Xiaosuisui understood the meaning behind Princess Ata’s words and agreed, "Alright then, you can come with me out of the Imperial Palace and back to the Ji Mansion!"
She then scooted over to one side of the palanquin, motioning for Princess Ata to come up and sit with her.
Princess Ata was overjoyed and immediately climbed into Xiaosuisui’s palanquin. The two, one large and one small, sat side by side. As the heavy palace gates opened, a troop of Inner Guards escorted an eight-bearer palanquin slowly out of the Imperial Palace.
On the rooftop of a tea house not far from the Imperial Palace, Liao Kong squinted, his eyes narrowed. Although the palanquin’s curtain was a layer of thin gauze, it still obscured the faces of those seated inside. Liao Kong couldn’t see their faces clearly, but the smaller figure looked like the Crown Princess.
It had to be said, Liao Kong had done his homework to capture Xiaosuisui. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have known from just a glimpse of a figure that it was the Crown Princess he was looking for. The reason was simply that there were no other children in the current Imperial Family of a similar build to the Crown Princess. Additionally, he had seen her at Qixia Temple, so he was naturally able to recognize her figure.
Confirming the Crown Princess’s identity, the corners of Liao Kong’s mouth couldn’t help but curl up.
I was just thinking it would be troublesome to capture her inside the Imperial Palace!
He hadn’t expected the Crown Princess to leave the Imperial Palace at such a coincidental time.
Capturing her at the Imperial Palace gate would cause a commotion and inevitably alert the Emperor inside,
he thought. So, he didn’t make a move. His gaze remained fixed on the procession, waiting only for it to move further away from the Imperial Palace. Then, he would find the right opportunity to seize the Crown Princess and head west.
「Ji Mansion」
"Doctor! How is he?" Old Madam Ji anxiously watched the doctor the Steward had invited.
"Old Madam, this poison is extremely potent. If the Eldest Young Master hadn’t used his profound internal energy to help the Second Young Master suppress it, I’m afraid he would have already perished and gone to the Underworld by now."
"Ah... then... then what about now? How is he now?" Old Madam Ji asked anxiously.
The doctor looked extremely troubled, his face full of pity.
What a pity!
This Second Young Master of the Ji family appeared quite young, and it was said he had no descendants yet. To now suffer an untimely death was truly too pitiful.
"Doctor! Please say something! Is there still any hope for my son?"
"SIGH..." The doctor sighed. He truly couldn’t bear to say it, but he had to. Finally, under everyone’s expectant gaze, he spoke.
"I can only use the golden needle acupuncture technique to delay the poison from spreading further to his heart meridians. This will probably buy about four more hours. If we still cannot determine what poison this is and find the antidote within four hours, then the Second Young Master will..."
Chapter 585: The Second Young Master Who Is Short Of Nine Lives Has Been Poisoned
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