My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

After Yan Zhengquan stepped forward, Yang Zhao and others followed suit, racking their brains to come up with ideas.

Regardless of whether the idea is flawed or usable, the key is to demonstrate their attitude.

They must convince Ji Yunshuang and Fu Ci that they have genuinely pledged their allegiance to them.

As for the fact that their ideas might be bad, showing their incompetence, that doesn't matter.

They're not strategists, and they're not particularly clever, so that's normal.

But since they were all kept by Minister Yan's side, they must each have their own strengths. Fearing Ji Yunshuang might not understand, someone took the opportunity, while offering advice, to introduce themselves. They said their greatest strength wasn't their intellect, but their physical abilities, and so on.

Seeing this, the rest of the people followed suit and began to introduce their own strengths.

Ji Yunshuang didn't deal with these people at first because she planned to keep them for her own use.

After scanning the group with her gaze, she said, "Yan Zhengquan, I'll have someone escort you out and have your people send a message to the capital. Can you do that?"

Yan Zhengquan hurriedly kowtowed to Ji Yunshuang and said, "Thank you for giving me this opportunity, Your Majesty. I will certainly not disappoint you!"

"Then I'll leave the task of delivering the message to you."

Ji Yunshuang selected a few people from their side to accompany Yan Zhengquan to deliver the message. She then looked at Fu Ci and said, "The news of your injury..."

She had barely begun to speak when Fu Ci understood her meaning. He said, "Junior Sister, could you please arrange for someone to personally escort me back?"

There are some things he needs to go back and say in person.

He didn't want his father to fight with her.

She's just too strong; they might not win if they fought her. At least for now, they have absolutely no chance of winning.

As for the future...

He dared not think about it again.

Ji Yunshuang said, "Third Senior Brother's injuries haven't healed yet, so it's not suitable for him to travel long distances. I'll personally take you back once your injuries have improved in a few days."

Fu Ci was so surprised by Ji Yunshuang's decision that he subconsciously said, "How can that be? Just let Tang Yiyang and the others make the trip."

Although the two still address each other as senior and junior brothers and sisters, Ji Yunshuang is the Empress, and her status is no longer the same as before, which is an indisputable fact.

How could His Majesty possibly send him off personally?

Ji Yunshuang said, "Why not? I'll personally escort you; it'll put my mind at ease. Who knows if any other forces are watching you, Senior Brother? Besides, it won't take much effort. Third Senior Brother, you don't need to be so polite with me."

Fu Ci thought that besides Emperor Gong of Zhou, there was also King Jing of Qi who wished the two sides would start fighting each other as soon as possible.

The junior sister thwarted Emperor Zhou Gong's plot, but whether there are others lurking in the shadows is truly impossible to say...

Having a junior sister escort her is definitely a safer option.

Fu Ci did not refuse again.

As Yan Zhengquan and the others watched the interaction between the two, they became increasingly convinced that Ji Yunshuang was no ordinary person. Based on what they had learned about Ji Yunshuang's past, she had essentially betrayed Fu Ci and his son, and even seized their power.

But Fu Ci had no ill feelings towards her whatsoever.

There's even the unrequited love that can't be suppressed...

It must be tough for Prince Rui's son. Falling in love with someone so unattainable, he has to humble himself to the dust. Isn't he destined to love but not be loved, desperately hiding his feelings?

Is there really anyone in the mortal world who is worthy of a woman like Your Majesty?

*

After Pei Zhengqing and his men arrived in Canglan Kingdom, they discovered that offering medicine was not as easy as he had imagined.

After making careful inquiries, he discovered that the head of the Cui family deeply loved his wife. His efforts to find medical treatment for his wife after she fell seriously ill were known to almost everyone in the Canglan Kingdom.

This has led many people seeking wealth and status to try to take this shortcut.

If we can cure Madam Lu's illness, we will surely become an honored guest of the Cui family...

Many who wanted to establish a connection with Cui Yang sought out doctors or prescriptions from all over the place to offer as gifts.

At first, Cui Yang instructed his staff to treat these people who came to his door well, and then determine whether they had any medicine or doctors to save his wife.

But he experienced countless moments of hope followed by countless moments of disappointment.

Gradually, Cui Yang lost hope in the people who came to offer him medicine. Moreover, his wife was nearly harmed because of the medicine offered by several ill-intentioned individuals. From then on, he felt intense disgust for those who exploited his desperation to obtain medicine for his wife.

He would not give anyone a chance if he discovered that someone was donating medicine with ulterior motives.

Pei Zhengqing's plan to quickly get closer to Cui Yang was thwarted.

This greatly worried the officials who had gone to Canglan Kingdom with Pei Zhengqing.

Without contact with Cui Yang, there's no way to quickly buy grain.

So many soldiers at Beiguan are waiting for food to fill their stomachs! If they delay sending food for even a day, the soldiers at Beiguan will go hungry for another day.

Song Yuanzhi asked anxiously, "Sir, what do we do next?"

Pei Zhengqing pondered for a moment and said, "We need to make him come to us on his own initiative."

How can we get him to come to us on his own initiative?

Pei Zhengqing said, "Go and find out who around Cui Yang is terminally ill."

"Does Your Excellency intend to treat other patients first, so that Cui Yang will come to us on his own?" Song Yuanzhi asked with some concern. "But can we handle someone who is terminally ill?"

Pei Zhengqing said, "I believe that the medicine given by His Majesty the Divine Lord must be extraordinary and cannot be wrong."

Song Yuanzhi said, "You're right, sir. His Majesty's medicine is definitely not wrong. I'll go right away."

"Wait a moment!"

Pei Zhengqing thought for a moment, then stopped him and instructed, "Although His Majesty's medicine will certainly not cause any problems, it would be best to find a seriously ill woman. We can also inquire around and find one or two suitable people to administer the medicine."

"Understood!" Song Zhiyuan led his men to gather information.

Pei Zhengqing didn't place all his hopes on Song Zhiyuan. After Song Zhiyuan left with his men, he gathered all the merchants he had brought with him and asked them to contact the Cui family in their own way.

They brought a lot of goods with them when they came to Canglan Kingdom.

Ji Yunshuang asked them to bring these goods, partly to let them explore the market reaction, and partly to open up trade routes.

Pei Zhengqing planned to approach the matter from two angles, and he did not place his hopes solely on the Cui family.

Although the Cui family is the largest family in Canglan, there are many other families in Canglan besides the Cui family.

If we can't cooperate with the Cui family, we can cooperate with them instead.

It's not impossible for them to take matters into their own hands and change the power structure of the major families in Canglan.

That's just too slow.

This was not their first choice.