A life of ups and downs is pure joy

Kyoto was three days' journey from Luofeng. Ning Junze had the herbs delivered to West Street, then hurried to the Marquis's residence. "Grandmother Cheng, Yu Zhi is concerned about matters at the residence, especially Qinghuan and Qingru, who have contracted the epidemic. I wonder how they are doing?" Ning Junze asked with concern after respectfully bowing to Cheng Ping.

"It's so sad to say this. My Huan'er hasn't woken up yet. Fortunately, Ru'er is much smarter now." Cheng Ping said, wiping her tears.

"Grandma Cheng, please take care of yourself. I have invited Imperial Physician Chen this time. I vaguely remember that it was Imperial Physician Chen who treated An Cai's epidemic in his childhood. Now Imperial Physician Chen has gone to Lingzhu Garden." Ning Junze was a little restless. Lin Qinghuan was Lin Yuzhi's most beloved sister. If anything happened to her, Lin Yuzhi would not be able to stay in Kyoto anymore.

In Zelan Garden, Lin Mo helped Lin Qinghuan sit up and said, "I've asked someone to check it out. This Feng Sanniang used to be a gynecologist."

"Are you good at women's diseases, childbirth, and preserving the fetus?" Lin Qinghuan asked.

"Qinghuan, if a doctor has a kind heart, he can save people, but if he has a dark heart, he can harm people without even realizing it." Lin Mo looked at her for a long time and said tactfully, "Just like now, I can treat you every day, but I can also accidentally add a single ingredient to your medicine and kill you. So I suspect that the root of Aunt Xue's illness lies with this person."

"Sister Mo, does Chang Xinrui have a big conflict with Aunt Xue?" Lin Qinghuan said angrily.

"Huan'er, I don't know what happened in the Lin Mansion in the past, but Chang Xinrui seems very kind and considerate." Lin Mo said in a low voice.

"Yes, every time she saw me, she was so concerned about me. I never thought that she would harm me like this and hurt an innocent Qingru." When she mentioned Qingru, she suddenly thought of Xue Feng. "Sister Mo, could it be that she wanted to harm me from the beginning, and Aunt Xue was just implicated?"

"It shouldn't be the case. Aunt Xue gave birth to a boy back then. This kind of harmful behavior is not uncommon in the mansion. I'm now beginning to suspect that there might be a reason why the second mistress, your mother, suffered from hemorrhage. Because the second mistress has always been in good health. I heard that she loved riding and archery when she was young. It's impossible for her to die of hemorrhage because of twins." Lin Mo frowned as he spoke.

"I know nothing about my deceased mother. Aunt Xue told me some things before, but now she is gone, and I know nothing at all." Lin Qinghuan said helplessly. If Zhang Yulan's death was also caused by Chang Xinrui, then this woman was extremely vicious.

"Second Miss, the Fourth Prince has entered the mansion and brought a doctor with him." Hong Qi said while knocking on the door outside.

"Another trouble has come, Qinghuan, take the medicine and continue to sleep." Lin Mo came over with the medicine bowl helplessly, and Lin Qinghuan could only grit his teeth and drink it.

About an incense stick's time later, Chuxia welcomed the old imperial physician Chen, who was standing confused at the gate of Lingzhu Garden, into Zelan Garden. Imperial physician Chen sat beside the bed, taking the pulse carefully, frowning and sighing from time to time. Seeing the situation, Lin Mo also cooperated with the performance of crying.

"Second Miss, this...Alas." Imperial Physician Chen looked at Lin Mo and sighed helplessly.

"Imperial Physician Chen, you are an excellent doctor. Please think of a way to save Qinghuan." Lin Mo said to Imperial Physician Chen with tears in his eyes.

"Second Miss, you and I are both doctors. I can't do anything about Fifth Miss's current condition." Imperial Physician Chen looked worriedly at Lin Qinghuan lying on the bed. What should he do? This girl is the legitimate daughter of Marquis Luo Feng, and the Fourth Prince has entrusted her to see a doctor, but now he can do nothing.

"Imperial Physician Chen, why is Huan'er so pitiful? She has suffered so much at such a young age, and now she is suffering from this epidemic disease." Lin Mo kept wiping his tears after saying this.

"Second Miss, I'll take my leave first." Imperial Physician Chen hurriedly picked up the medicine box and staggered out of the gate of Zelan Garden.

In Jinghe Hall, Ning Junze frowned and asked, "Does Imperial Physician Chen have no other options?"

"Fourth Prince, there is nothing I can do even if I have used all my life's knowledge. You should prepare for your funeral in advance. Alas!" Imperial Physician Chen shook his head helplessly.

Ning Junze's heart sank, and he felt a mixture of emotions. For a moment, he was speechless and could only wave his hand to let Imperial Physician Chen go and rest first.

"Yuzhi, how should I tell you?"

In Zelan Garden, Lin Mo sat down and drank a sip of tea. Looking at Lin Qinghuan who was sleeping soundly on the bed, he said to himself, "Huan'er, I hope we can find evidence quickly."

Lin Qingru, who was getting better, heard in a daze that Lin Qinghuan was now beyond help because of the lunch box she brought back, and she sat on the bed crying and feeling upset.

"Madam Zhou, I'm going to kill Sister Qinghuan." The little girl's eyes were red and swollen like peaches.

Nanny Zhou was also wiping her tears beside her. Before leaving, the eldest daughter asked her to take good care of the fifth daughter, but then she turned around and left the girl's life hanging by a thread.

"Madam Zhou, can I go see Sister Huan?"

"Sixth Miss, you haven't recovered yet. Going won't help. You'd better take good care of yourself."

"Mammy, if anything happens to Sister Qinghuan, I don't want to live anymore. Mother has always told me to protect Sister Huan since I was a child, but now it's me who has harmed her." Lin Qingru was already sobbing.

"Good boy, tell me if you still remember the appearance of the villain who gave you the food box that day?" asked Madam Zhou.

"I had never seen her before. I only knew that she had a red mole on her face." Lin Qingru said, recalling the scene that day.

"What did you say? A red mole?" Madam Zhou's face turned pale with shock, and she kept muttering to herself, "What a sin! What a sin!"

For some reason, Lin Qingru looked at Nanny Zhou crying, thinking that she was saying that she had committed a sin.

After the emotionally excited Lin Qingru drank the medicine and fell asleep, Nanny Zhou hurried to Anxinzhai.

"It was that damn girl who harmed my Huan'er." Cheng Ping angrily slammed the table and shouted.

"Miss, it's all my fault that I wasn't cruel enough at the time and left a little troublemaker. Please have someone beat me to death." Nanny Zhou said while kneeling on the ground and crying.

"Hey, Hongxiu, how can this be blamed on you? Hurry up and stand up and talk." Cheng Ping stepped forward to help Nanny Zhou up.

"I was the one who ordered the beating of Ginkgo. That little troublemaker should have come after me for revenge. Ginkgo's death was not a pity. At such a young age, she had the audacity to seduce the drunken master and even wore Yulan's clothes, frightening Feng'er and causing her miscarriage. I thought she was trying to take advantage of the situation, but I never imagined she had ulterior motives and drugged Huan'er to make her sleep. Now that her sister can enter the courtyard and harm others, it proves that there is something fishy going on in this mansion!"

"The ghost in the mansion may have done more than just this one thing. I heard from the second young lady that Concubine Xue's miscarriage wasn't caused by shock, but by the effects of drugs taken over the years."

"Hongxiu, go find her. Even if you have to search the entire Luofeng City, you must find that little troublemaker. I will definitely find a way to make her speak up and avenge Huan'er!"

"Miss, where are the ghosts in the mansion?" asked Madam Zhou.

"She keeps sticking her head out. I'm going to pull her head out." Cheng Ping muttered in a low voice.

In Zelan Garden, Lin Qinghuan finally woke up. Lin Mo and Chuxia brought her food. "I have been sleeping so soundly these days, it feels like there is no time to rest." She said while eating.

"Girl, have some more of this." Chuxia handed over the corn and shrimp roll again.

"I'm not going to eat anymore. This medicine from Brother Xiao is like suppressing my appetite. I'm full after just a few bites." After taking a few bites, he felt like he was going to vomit if he ate any more. He really didn't want to see food anymore.

"Chuxia, do you know a maid with a red mole on her face?" Lin Mo remembered what Lin Qingru had said to her and asked.

"Red mole? It seems like there is someone who has a red mole, but I can't remember who it is." Chu Xia thought about it for a long time but still couldn't remember.

"By the way, how is Li Xue?" I asked.

"It's nothing serious now. But when she was confused, she kept saying, 'I don't know, I didn't see anything,' and then she looked very scared." Chu Xia said, "She also said this when she had a nightmare before. When I asked her, she just said she was haunted by a nightmare."

"Lixue lost both her parents when she was young. I heard from Nanny Zhou that she was sold to the Marquis' Mansion by her aunt when she was very young. You grew up together, so please take good care of her." Lin Qinghuan gave an order and Chuxia responded.

"Sister Mo, how long should I keep pretending to be sick?"

"Huan'er, I don't have any evidence to identify Chang Xinrui. I'm so useless." Lin Mo said in annoyance.

"Sister Mo, this has nothing to do with you. If she was really stupid, she wouldn't have been exposed until today."

"Huan'er, now the whole mansion thinks you are hopeless. I always feel that she should do something."

"Then let's wait. Anyway, I've been hanging on by a thread since I was a child. When Brother Xiao comes back and he heals me, no one will find it strange."

"Then let's wait." Lin Mo said.

In a secluded courtyard of the Marquis's Mansion, a woman in black spoke up, "This time it went smoothly, but why did we suddenly lose contact with that girl?"

The man said, "When my people find her, they will make sure she is silenced forever. Madam, please rest assured."

"You know, the master dotes on the lady very much. If the Zhang family had not sent a legitimate daughter here, the mistress of this mansion would definitely be the lady. These lands and shops are rewards from the lady. Go and clean them up." The woman in black handed the things in her hand to the man and disappeared into the night.

In Jingde Hall, Ning Junze sat on a chessboard couch. Someone behind the curtain whispered a few words. The Fourth Prince raised his lips with a faint smile, "Yu'er is quite good at entertaining the two girls. I was frightened by her. Okay, I'll just watch the fun. You go ahead." After that, the smile on Ning Junze's face stopped.

In Jialan Garden, Chang Xinrui was happy no matter how she looked at her daughter Lin Qingwan, who was beautiful, talented, and played the piano very well.

"Wan'er, the Fourth Prince is at home. You should walk around the courtyard more often. I asked people last time, and he doesn't like that damn girl from Shi'an Garden. It's just that the girl pestered him to play with the sword." Chang Xinrui said while waving a scented fan.

"Really?" Lin Qingwan asked doubtfully.

"Really, go ahead. I heard that he likes to practice sword by the lake these days." Chang Xinrui said.

Lin Qingwan sat in the pavilion by the lake, carrying her guqin on her back. She recalled the recent rumors in the courtyard that Lin Qinghuan had been unconscious for a long time and only relied on Lin Mo to feed him some medicine to keep him alive every day. After thinking for a long time, she sat down and started playing a sad tune.

Ning Junze, who came to practice sword, heard the sad sound of the piano and came over out of curiosity. He saw Lin Qingwan sitting alone in the pavilion from afar, sneered and walked over.

"Third sister's piano playing is so sad that it makes people want to cry." Ning Junze said.

"Fourth brother, Wan'er didn't know you were here." Lin Qingwan wiped her tears and pressed the strings of the zither with her delicate hands in panic.

"Fourth sister, why are you so sad that you are playing the piano here alone?" Ning Junze handed Lin Qingwan his handkerchief.

Lin Qingwan glanced at him and timidly reached out to take it.

"I heard from my mother that Sister Huan...Sister Huan hasn't woken up yet, but I can't go to see her. After all, we grew up together." After Lin Qingwan finished speaking, tears slid down her cheeks again.

"It's useless for you to go. Imperial Physician Chen said there's no way to save the patient." Ning Junze said.

"I thought Qinghuan would get better soon. Before this, she could go out to play every two or three days and come back at sunset every day. She looked as if she was not sick. Moreover, we had agreed to go to Kyoto in early autumn to celebrate her and Ancai's thirteenth birthday. Now..." Lin Qingwan was too sad to speak.

"You sisters have such a good relationship. Third sister, don't be too sad and hurt yourself. I heard that your piano skills are outstanding in Luofeng City. Why don't you play a song for me?" Ning Junze drew the sword from his waist.

Lin Qingwan was secretly delighted and began to believe what Chang Xinrui said. Sure enough, Ning Junze would pay attention to her. She glanced at Ning Junze, her face flushed, and sat down to play the piano. Ning Junze jumped lightly out of the pavilion and began to dance with a sword.

This continued for several days. Chang Xinrui was overjoyed when she heard this. "It's not difficult for you to make such an effort for me."

"Madam, I told you that no one can stop our girl's blessing." Feng Sanniang said from the side.

"Well, Sanniang, thanks to you all these years, otherwise I would really be helpless in this huge marquis' mansion." Chang Xinrui sighed.

"My dear, if it weren't for your kindness towards Sanniang, she would be nothing more than a handy girl in the music hall."

"By the time my Wan'er became a princess, she had gone through everything. It's a pity for my Wu'er. If it weren't for Zhang Yulan back then, how could my Wu'er have died young?" Chang Xinrui thought of her own son who died of illness. If it weren't for Zhang Yulan being unable to see anyone because of her pregnancy, how could Wu'er's illness have been delayed.

"My lady, please don't hurt yourself." Feng Sanniang stepped forward to comfort her.

"It's okay, it's okay. All those who should have died are dead, and the remaining He Su is not worth mentioning." Chang Xinrui said with a smile.

"My lady, Miss Wan'er has gone out again. I heard that it was the Fourth Prince's invitation." Feng Sanniang said. Chang Xinrui was overjoyed when she heard this.

Ning Junze was sitting in Jingde Hall, the chess board was set up on the table, and Lin Qingwan stepped into the yard gracefully. Ning Junze heard the sound in the yard and a wicked smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.