Painting Doctor Jinhua

Chapter 119 Rumors arise

After getting the confession and the divorce agreement, they left the villa. Yuan Rujing did not speak a word along the way and fell into deep thought.

"Aunt Rujing, don't blame me for forcing you to make a decision so quickly, because we don't have much time..."

"I know, A-Yu, I am actually very grateful to you. I just couldn't accept what happened just now. I didn't expect Fan Yong to be such a hypocrite. I really didn't know him well. If A-Yuan follows such a father, I don't know what kind of life she will live in the future..."

At this point, she looked at Xiao Jinyu with great guilt, "What I never expected was that the Fan family agreed to this marriage just to get information about your mother from me. They... even refused to let go of your mother's visit to Qi State... and they even wanted to take credit for it... It's really ridiculous!"

“It’s really ridiculous!”

Unconsciously, Xiao Jinyu also sighed, thinking that everything her mother Xiao Luan had suffered could be described as "shameless and despicable".

"Ayu——"

Yuan Rujing called out even more guiltily.

Xiao Jinyu came back to her senses and said, "Forget it, all this is in the past, there is no need to regret it. What's important is the present and the future!"

Yuan Rujing nodded with tears in her eyes.

"Let's go back! We have to start planning the next step!"

Xiao Jinyu said, then looked at Fenghuang, "Send the message to Lord Li and Lord Cui, it's their turn to go on stage!"

……

When the carrier pigeon arrived at the inn where Li Mi and Cui Heng were staying, the two were playing chess. Suddenly, a white pigeon landed in front of the window, and its white little head was turning around. Li Mi picked up the pigeon curiously, took off the note tied to its foot, and opened it to read.

Upon seeing this, he couldn't help but look surprised.

"I didn't expect this young lady to find a witness so quickly. Now it's our turn to lend her a knife! I'm a little excited just thinking about it, Sanlang, don't you think so?"

Cui Sanlang still stared at the chessboard with a frown and did not reply.

"Sanlang, I'm talking to you, what are you thinking about?"

After being pushed, Cui Sanlang finally looked up.

"I was thinking, just borrowing the knife is not enough, we should also cut off one of its wings! Since we are helping, we should help to the end!"

"That's natural!"

"Sanlang, do you know what kind of nursery rhymes are circulating in the streets and alleys now?"

……

"A foot of cloth can still be sewn; a bushel of millet can still be pounded, but the two brothers cannot get along!"

"It's too dark, the arrow star appears, the thousand-year-old skull grows sharp teeth, the tomb-robbing prince plots to take over the East Palace!"

However, in just three days, this nursery rhyme spread throughout the streets and alleys of Jiankang City. Since ancient times, this folk nursery rhyme has spread very quickly, and even the government is powerless to stop it.

When the crown prince Sima Yi of the Western Jin Dynasty was falsely accused of treason by Empress Jia Nanfeng, there was a folk ballad that went: "The south wind blows the white sands, and I can see the rugged mountains of Lu from afar, and the thousand-year-old skulls are growing teeth."

It is a satire on Jia Nanfeng and her nephew Jia Mi who conspired with each other to murder the crown prince and were disregarding human life, like a spirit skull.

"This nursery rhyme is similar to the previous one, satirizing the tomb-robbing King Shixing who disregards human life and wants to seize the position of Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace!"

In the Palace of Prince Shixing, Prince Changsha also recited the nursery rhyme three times in front of Prince Shixing Chen Shuling until Chen Shuling's face became darker and darker.

King Chen Shujian of Changsha laughed heartily, and then made an expression of admonition and regret.

"Brother, you are lustful, and that's fine. There are hundreds of beauties in this palace that are not enough for you to play with. Why do you have to provoke a little boy who knows nothing about romance and only knows martial arts? You see, the word lust is a knife hanging over your head, and it has got you into trouble, right?"

Chen Shuling has been unable to get up since then. Whenever he bent over, he would feel a sharp pain in his lower body. When he heard the ridicule from the King of Changsha, he was so excited that he wanted to get up from the bed and beat him. However, before the King of Changsha could move even half an inch, he let out a heart-wrenching scream.

"Come here, kill him!"

When Chen Shujian heard this, he immediately shouted:

"Help! My brother wants to kill me! My brother wants to kill me!"

"Someone come quickly! Protect me back to the palace! I want to see my father!"

Hearing Chen Shujian's extremely exaggerated howling, Chen Shuling became even angrier, but he could not move. He could not really kill his fourth brother Chen Shujian so blatantly.

This means that he has really fallen into his trap, which clearly shows that he has the ambition to kill his brothers and seize the East Palace.

"Your Highness, you should be patient for the time being. Although what is being spread outside is just a nursery rhyme, nursery rhymes have been extremely lethal since ancient times. They have caused disunity between the emperor and his subjects, and have killed many loyal and honest people. What's more, this nursery rhyme refers to you and the prince!"

Counselor Wei Liang advised.

"Do you think I don't know? If I didn't know, I would kill that bastard Chen Shujian today!"

"Your Majesty, the Prince of Changsha is just a less favored prince. His mother was originally a maid in a tavern in Wu County. She had an affair with Your Majesty in her early years and gave birth to the Prince of Changsha. She is in no way comparable to your mother. Why do you always have to be so hard on him?"

"It's not that I'm against him, but he's always against me! Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore. How about the thing I asked you to do?"

"Mr. Dai has secretly sent a message to all the generals. Your Majesty, please rest assured that this matter is very secretive and no one will know about it."

"What about my injury? Why hasn't Doctor Yao come today? It's been five days, and I'm not getting better at all?"

"As for that lowly maidservant Xiao Jinyu and the lowly slave beside her, I cannot bear this anger. After I recover, I will definitely capture the two of them and make them wish they were dead!"

Amid Chen Shuling's angry curses, Wei Liang originally wanted to persuade him, but when he saw his ferocious look and thought of the maid who had been killed before, he quickly shut up.

"My Lord, the prescription is here!"

At this time, an eunuch ran in ecstatically, holding a prescription in his hand, and said, "Your Highness, this is the prescription that the Imperial Concubine ordered me to ask Princess Yunyin for. I heard that it was with this prescription that Xiao Balang recovered. Your Highness might as well try it!"

"Go call Yao Boshen and ask him to come and see if this prescription can be used!"

"Yes!"

……

After leaving the Prince of Shixing's Mansion, Chen Shujian was very proud and happy. In the past, when he competed for favor in front of his father, he always lost. It was unreasonable for his father to be partial to his second brother Chen Shuling.

Today, seeing that the arrogant and domineering King Shixing actually had a day in such a miserable state that he was bedridden, and the injury was in the same place, it was so funny and ridiculous that he felt much happier.

"Let's go. Today, I am happy. Let's go to the Xinghua Yanyu Tower!"

There is a new game in Xinghua Yanyu Tower recently, called Leaf Card Divination, which uses astrology, yin and yang, the five elements, the heavenly stems and earthly branches, etc. to predict the fate of individuals and even countries.

Chen Shujian was a person who loved numerology. When he came to the private room and saw that the guests inside were actually playing this kind of game, his eyes suddenly lit up and he became very interested. He looked around and saw a man sitting in a corner looking at the cards in his hand in a daze, so he hurried over to that man.

Upon closer inspection, he turned out to be Cui Heng, a scholar from the northern region from the Bo Ling Cui family.

"So you are Cui Ziyuan from the Cui family of Boling. What a pleasure to meet you. I have heard that Mr. Cui is knowledgeable and talented. Could it be that you are also very proficient in this art of divination?"

Chen Shujian asked first. He had also heard about the fact that when Cui Ziyuan was young, he had participated in a Buddhist debate among many famous scholars in Daliang. He was on par with Xie Yuqing, the legitimate daughter of the Xie family of Chen County at that time. He admired Cui Ziyuan very much and naturally developed a good impression of him.

"Your Highness the King of Changsha!"

Cui Heng stood up and greeted.

Seeing his refined manner, Chen Shujian was delighted and said hurriedly, "Mr. Cui, please take a seat! Zicheng just wanted to discuss numerology with Mr. Cui!"

"Okay! Your Majesty, please go first!"

Cui Heng explained the rules of the game to Chen Shujian, and then started playing. When they were having a great time, Chen Shujian suddenly asked:

"Mr. Cui is so well versed in divination, can you tell me what my future fate will be through divination?"

"Of course you can. What do you want to know? Please pick a card from these cards at random!"

After saying that, Cui Heng spread out the leaf cards on the table. Chen Shujian hesitated and never made a choice. Finally, he picked out a card with the word "loyalty" on it.

"What does this mean?" asked Chen Shujian.

Cui Heng smiled and replied, "Congratulations, Your Majesty! As long as you are a loyal minister, find the traitor for your master, and eliminate the rebels, you will be able to live a life of wealth and glory in the future without worries!"

"Then how can I find the traitor and eliminate the rebel?"