Wishful Things

It is said to be a teahouse, but it is secretly the private property of the Wu family. The transfer of information between the Wu family's many forces in Beijing and the hidden stakes is mostly carried out here.

Of course, this matter is kept secret, and on the surface, it is just a teahouse in a remote place with deserted business.

In her previous life, she only learned from Wu Chao that the Wu family had such a teahouse in South Lane, Zhongcheng, after she married into the Wu family, but she didn't know the name of the teahouse at the time.

The other party asked her to meet here today, presumably because they wanted to avoid people's eyes and ears, one is convenient for speaking, and the other is that they don't want to stir up any more rumors.

Xu Mingyi took Ah Zhu into the teahouse.

"The same son agreed to meet here."

The girl spoke calmly and calmly to the buddy who came forward.

"Yes, that young master has arrived one step earlier, and I will take you up here." The assistant hurriedly led him to the second floor.

In front of a tea table by the window on the second floor, a young man in a dark blue robe sat there casually holding an exquisite tea bowl in one hand. With half black hair, the chiseled profile is soaked in the morning light, and the eyes are slightly squinted, looking warm and leisurely.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the boy turned his head to look, and when Xu Mingyi came to him, he raised his hand to signal her to sit down.

"Keep Master Wu waiting for a long time." Xu Mingyi said casually and politely.

Wu Chao didn't dare to treat the girl in front of him carelessly, and said with a hint of coldness in his tone, "I just arrived too."

At this time, a clerk walked briskly up to the second floor, holding a teapot in his hand, and came forward with a smile.

"My lord, the tea is cold, I'll replace it with a hot one for you."

Wu Chao's temples twitched.

Change the tea, change the tea, why so much nonsense?

Does it have to be known that he has sat here for so long that even the tea is cold?

He went out early because he had something to confess to the spy in the teahouse!

The young man tried his best to look towards the other side calmly, only to see the girl taking a sip from the warm tea bowl, her eyelashes drooping down as fine as a small fan, her expression extremely calm.

He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

It seems that Miss Xu didn't really think about what she noticed, she was lucky.

Footsteps came again.

Another clerk went upstairs with a tray, and placed two bowls of hot porridge, a few side dishes and pastries in front of Wu Chao.

"..." Wu Chao looked at the guy almost in disbelief.

Did he say he wanted these?

The guy smiled honestly.

The shopkeeper said that the grandson came too early, so he must have not had breakfast, so he specially asked the kitchen to prepare it.

It is their duty to be considerate of their masters, so their grandchildren need not be surprised.

"Use it slowly."

The man went downstairs with a "thump, thud, thump" of the tray.

Wu Chao held the tea bowl tightly.

All of this makes his previous words seem so ambiguous...

However, things can only be stabilized so far.

"Going out early, I went to work elsewhere first, so I didn't have time to have breakfast." He seemed to explain something casually, and then picked up his chopsticks to pick up things calmly.

However, just as the chopsticks were about to touch the plate of pastries, a hand quickly moved the plate away.

Xu Mingyi moved the snack in front of him.

Wu Shisun's unstoppable mind was wondering what was going on, but he never noticed that this dish was peanut sesame crisp?

He can't eat peanuts.

When he first came to the capital, the people in the Xuesheng teahouse were no more careful than the servant girls. He probably didn't know that their grandchildren would develop rashes on their limbs and even have difficulty breathing after eating peanuts.

"..." Wu Chao, who saw the plate of dim sum clearly, tightened his grip on the chopsticks.

Xu Mingyi looked up at the sky from the bottom of his heart.

This is another suspicion that she has inquired about his likes and dislikes in detail, right?

She is so hard, really.

"Wu Shisun also likes to eat this?"

The girl seemed to be belatedly seeing the chopsticks he stretched out, and after she picked up a piece of chopsticks, she pushed the plate back.

Wu Chao's heart sank back.

It turned out to be a false alarm.

"No, peanuts are too fragrant, I never like them."

The boy expressionlessly took a mouthful of fried side dishes and put them in his mouth.

Is it wrong to be too fragrant as food?

This excuse sounds really unusual.

Xu Mingyi, who was not hungry, reluctantly ate two pieces of snacks and drank half a cup of tea, then saw Wu Chao put down his chopsticks, rinsed his mouth and took a clean damp cloth to wipe the corners of his mouth.

He is not a person who eats so slowly, let alone there are people waiting for him to talk about serious matters.

After wiping his hands clean, Wu Chao put down the cloth towel, and said bluntly: "In the beginning, the palace was really investigating this matter, but there were rumors in the palace, and many people speculated that the person who harmed the prince was Concubine Rong, and this word reached the ears of Concubine Rong During the process, she moved her fetus, and now she is lying in bed."

Xu Mingyi frowned slightly.

"It's good that the fetal gas is not moving, but it's more like a guilty conscience and frightened."

Wu Chao glanced at her noncommittally: "It's also because of the fetal gas that the palace didn't investigate further and only pinned the crime on the inner eunuch."

As for the inner eunuch’s framing of King Jing’s son, what’s the explanation? It’s just that the inner eunuch had a long-standing grudge against the prince. After impulsively pushing the prince into the water, he happened to see King Jing’s son and the maid in a tryst in the garden, and happened to pick up King Jing. The son's jade pendant, in order to leave a way out for himself in a panic afterwards, threw the jade pendant by the pool, and it would be settled.

No matter how big a matter is, when no one wants to pursue it, there will naturally be plenty of excuses to cover it up.

Xu Mingyi pursed his lips and remained silent.

Is it because Concubine Rong has mobilized her fetus, and the palace and courtiers were concerned about the dragon heir in her womb, so they didn't investigate deeply, or did Concubine Rong with her mobilized fetus just become a cover used by some people to cover up the truth?

She always felt that it would not be Concubine Rong's hands.

However, the other party was so frightened that her fetal gas moved, and the palace closed the matter hastily because of her fetal gas. Such a toss up and down, even if it wasn't in the eyes of others, it might be very similar.

"This matter is being investigated by the Department of Internal Criminal Affairs. It was Li Ji, the head of internal supervision, who was investigating and handling this matter. Even my aunt couldn't intervene, so I haven't heard any useful information."

After Wu Chao finished speaking, he added: "If there is any new discovery in the future, if I find out, I will let you know."

Regardless of other things, but this matter was brought up by her, it should have a beginning and an end.

"Then thank you Mr. Wu."

Xu Mingyi thanked him, and asked in a low voice: "Do you know how His Royal Highness is recovering?"

Maybe it was because she felt that there might be other clues in the prince, or that she herself was considered half a doctor, and the child who was rescued by her own hands always felt a little different in her heart.

Wu Chao shook his head and did not hide it from her: "The situation is not good. It is said that the high fever has persisted since yesterday, and the imperial doctors are helpless."

Xu Mingyi's heart tightened slightly.

If such a weak body continues to be unable to reduce the fever, coupled with the fact that he passed out from drowning before, even if he survives by chance, it will probably affect his sanity...

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