A piece of Japanese incense

When Zhi Yihe finally woke up, more than half a month had passed since the Lantern Festival.

Staying by her side and taking care of her were Yutuan and two maids named Xianqing and Qingyun.

The moment she regained consciousness, Zhi Yihe had only one strong thought in her mind - to go home. However, Yu Tuan's words extinguished her expectations like cold water. She told Zhi Yihe that the Yun Mansion had been confiscated and San Sheng Tang had been turned over to the public. What puzzled her even more was that all the people in the Yun Mansion seemed to have disappeared overnight without a trace.

Yu Tuan explained that because they had not returned for a long time, she went out alone to look for Zhi Yihe. Just when she was getting anxious, she saw her uncle holding Zhi Yihe and looking for a doctor everywhere.

When Zhi Yihe was out of danger and Yu Tuan was about to return to the mansion to report to his wife, she found that a new emperor had been appointed at court and the Yun Mansion had been sealed.

My cousin was still serving in the court. According to him, although the new emperor had a cunning and eccentric temperament, he was kind-hearted. He did not kill Emperor Zhaoding and his relatives. Instead, he was magnanimous and imprisoned them separately and treated them with courtesy.

On that day, Queen Yingyi led the Yan family army to escape to Menghui City. In order to quell the disputes in the court, the new emperor chose a policy of recuperation and did not hunt them down.

However, these were not the most important things to Zhi Yihe. What she was most concerned about at the moment was when her body could recover. She was eager to know how her grandfather, grandmother, mother, aunt Hong, and Yu Nian were doing...

She didn't know if they were detained, or if they knew about the change in the situation in advance and escaped, or if...

Countless thoughts swirled in her mind, causing her to toss and turn sleeplessly at night.

Before I knew it, February had passed. It seemed that overnight, the biting cold was driven away by the warm spring sun, and the temperature gradually warmed up.

With the help of Xianqing, Zhi Yihe finally got out of bed and walked around. His cousin's house was really remote, with no neighbors around. The old wooden house lay quietly in the weeds at the foot of the mountain, with only the occasional bird calls breaking the silence.

"The yard is very foggy and the girl isn't fully recovered yet, so let's go back to the house," Xian Qing said.

"Why hasn't Yutuan come back yet?" Zhi Yihe asked.

"Sister Yutuan must follow the stream through this large dense forest to enter the city, and it will be sunset when she returns."

"The young lady asks Sister Yutuan to go to the city to inquire every other day. Every time the young master comes, the young lady always asks questions non-stop. She is really worried. How can she be a person who is recuperating from illness!" Qingyun said jokingly.

Xian Qing heard this and chuckled, "That's right, I've seen Sister Yutuan lose a lot of weight, but I accompany her to eat delicious food every day, and she's so fat that she even has to change her clothes every day!"

Zhi Yihe then smiled and responded lightly: "She has lost weight now, but she can't wear her old clothes anymore, after all, her house has been ransacked."

Xianqing and Qingyun suddenly fell silent, looked at each other, and stared at her with bated breath, afraid that a careless word would hurt her fragile little heart.

"Oh! It's okay. There's nothing to be shy about. At worst, I can just buy her a new one!" Zhi Yihe answered in an almost imperceptible tone, as if he was talking about yesterday's weather.

"You are so bold! How dare you take a girl out to the yard to enjoy the fresh air!" Yu Tuan put his hands on his hips, his tone full of unquestionable seriousness.