The sickly son died young? After the marriage exchange, I will bring prosperity to his entire clan f

Having only known each other for a short time, she placed all her hopes on Ling Ziming and his wife.

She had believed it before, but when she saw her son actually taking the medicine, she regretted it, she really regretted it. She could have just taken her son back home. As long as they went back to their hometown, those people definitely wouldn't have been chasing her anymore.

As long as she keeps her mouth shut, those people definitely won't want to kill her.

If all else fails, she can die; her death will save her son's future.

Regret and hatred kept her awake. She sat quietly on the bed, looking out in the darkness. So she saw with her own eyes someone approaching their room in the yard and a knife being inserted through the crack in the door.

She instinctively called out to her son, immediately lit a candle, and rushed to his bedside. She discovered that her son did indeed have a high fever.

Seeing them all come over, she felt both relieved and happy.

The group sat down, and Aunt Xu kept changing the handkerchief on Xu Chang's forehead. After a while, Ling Silang and his companion returned, accompanied by a doctor.

It's normal to have emergency calls at night, and the doctor wasn't upset. He calmly came over to examine Xu Chang and found that he had a high fever.

"I'll prescribe some medicine for you. Take it when you get back. If the fever goes down, it shouldn't be a problem."

"Okay, thank you, doctor."

Ling Silang and his companion went with the doctor to get the medicine. After they returned with the medicine, they handed it to Aunt Xu.

By the time they finished their commotion, it was almost dawn. Liu Ya, seeing that there was nothing more for her to do, went back to her room to prepare a proper meal. Le Xiang also wanted to go straight back to her room.

Aunt Xu was brewing medicine in her room, and Ling Silang had already left.

Du Mingxian noticed her worry and stepped forward to comfort her, "Don't worry, the medicine we gave you is safe. You can brew the medicine the doctor prescribed, but it's best not to give it to him."

"What?" Aunt Xu hesitated. "But my son has a high fever. He's like this now. What if he gets brain damage if I don't give him his medicine?"

"No, there's nothing wrong with the medicine we gave him. You can think about it. If his condition isn't too serious, you can go home directly. It's too easy for others to become suspicious."

Aunt Xu didn't speak, and Du Mingxian could tell she was hesitant, so she didn't say anything more. "Then you think about it. I'll go back now."

Du Mingxian left and went back to her room to catch up on sleep. She stayed up all night and didn't get any sleep.

She and Ling Silang didn't wake up until noon, and they were already starving.

The two of them didn't cook, but simply went out to eat. They didn't eat anything particularly fancy, just ordered two bowls of wontons from a nearby wonton stall.

After dinner, the two wandered around the streets until it was almost dark in the afternoon before returning home.

Since they rarely had the chance to go out together, the two treated it like a date and didn't do anything else.

Evening, in the space.

"The day after tomorrow is the opening day of the family restaurant, so I can't go to the garment workshop."

"We'll go home together then."

"Oh, right, I also need to tell my father that he said..." Du Mingxian recounted what Lord Wen had said, that he wanted Old Madam Wen to recognize her mother as her goddaughter.

"According to the previous plan, the day after tomorrow is the day the restaurant will open, which is also the day when Old Madam Wen will meet my mother."

Ling Silang was relatively free. "I'm fine here. No one follows me when I come and go. But it's your side. If you don't go for two days, the garment workshop won't come to keep an eye on you, will they?"

Du Mingxian wasn't sure either. "Probably not. I'm just one of the people in that courtyard. I'm not some important person. I'm just ordinary, average, and unremarkable."

"Besides, I don't have the same abilities as Liu Ya, who was selected to go to the inner courtyard in just a few days, so it should be fine if I don't go."

"Then don't go tomorrow either, to avoid arousing suspicion."

"Of course, after we finish our business here, I'll go back. I also need to inform the Crown Prince about the clothing workshop."

Du Mingxian said, "Tomorrow I will go back and first send a letter to the Wen family, then secretly go to the Crown Prince's residence. I also need to go home and tell my mother."

"Okay, then let's go back together tomorrow."

"Forget it, just treat yourself like a guest the day after tomorrow and go straight to the restaurant. You don't need to do anything else. You can go about your business. You need to make friends and study on your own. The Crown Prince doesn't treat you like a candidate at all."

Ling Silang shrugged. "The Crown Prince said he would give me the exam questions. He's protecting me and letting me get in through connections."

“Even if my husband doesn’t use connections, he will definitely pass the exam.”

"Of course, all of this is thanks to Madam."

Du Mingxian smiled.

The next day, Ling Silang went out to work, and Du Mingxian also went out. She first went to the Wen family to hand over the letter she had written to the gatekeeper, asking him to pass it on. At the time she went there, Lord Wen was definitely still in the palace and had not yet come out.

She then went straight home.

No one is home.

The restaurant is opening tomorrow, and everyone in the family is going to help out, including the children and several maids. When she returned home, she found the courtyard empty.

Left with no other choice, she could only secretly go to the Crown Prince's residence.

At the back gate of the Crown Prince's residence, Du Mingxian knocked on the door. The old man guarding the gate saw that it was her and let her in without saying a word, but he still mentioned, "His Highness is not at the residence at the moment."

"It's alright, I'll wait for him."

He is about to ascend the throne, and now the emperor no longer cares about many things in the court; the crown prince is handling them all. Naturally, he is very busy.

Du Mingxian tried her best to avoid going inside, but when she was almost at the Crown Prince's main courtyard, she was spotted by the guards.

The bodyguard recognized Du Mingxian and immediately revealed himself when he saw her enter.

"lady."

"I'm looking for the Crown Prince."

"His Highness is not here."

"Wait a minute, I have something very important to say."

She hoped these people could help her pass on her message.

As expected, after hearing Du Mingxian's words, the guards hesitated only slightly and said nothing. They then asked Du Mingxian to sit down and wait, and the others withdrew.

Du Mingxian stayed in the Crown Prince's residence and didn't dare go anywhere else. She just sat on the stone in the waterside pavilion near the entrance and waited.

Fearing complications, she could wait outside, but then she worried about having to explain her identity, so the Crown Prince's residence was a better option.

She was so sleepy that she didn't know how long she slept, but then she heard the two of them talking.

"How long has she been here?"

"It will take a little over an hour to return to Your Highness."

"Next time she comes, just invite her in directly. There's no need to wait for me outside."

"Yes," someone replied, adding, "Your Highness, sitting here was her own request."

"Alright, I know, I..."

Du Mingxian was already awake. Although the two people were speaking very softly, her body would instinctively wake up when someone approached, and the environment of the Crown Prince's residence was unfamiliar to her.

Therefore, when she feels insecure, she will usually wake up as a conditioned reflex.