Severed ties and living in a dilapidated house? No worries, the poor thing has a space.

"The child fell down."

Someone nearby shouted something, pulling the two people out of the ambiguous atmosphere.

The child who had fallen to the ground was laughing and playing, but when Fang Yu and Xiao Jingqi looked down, the child had already fainted.

Xiao Jingqi took Fang Yu's hand and bent down to check on the child. Touching the child's cheek, he frowned: "So hot."

Thinking of Liu Po's grandson's condition, Fang Yu pulled her hand away, squatted down, and took the child's hand to check his pulse.

"Stop! Don't touch my child!"

Just as Fang Yu felt the pulse, a woman rushed over, pried her hands off, and snatched the child in her arms, loudly demanding, "What have you done to my child?"

Xiao Jingqi pulled Fang Yu into his arms and held her hand, asking, "Miss Fang, are you alright?"

Because he remembered that she had just said she had eaten too much, and being lifted up by the woman would inevitably make her uncomfortable.

Fang Yu shook her head slightly, inhaled the faint fragrance emanating from him, then stepped back and said to the woman on the ground, "Your child's condition is very serious. You need to give him medicine as soon as possible, otherwise..."

"Shut up!" The woman glared angrily at Fang Yu: "What nonsense are you spouting? My son just caught a cold, don't even think about cursing him."

She glanced at Xiao Jingqi again, her eyes suddenly flashing with disdain: "In broad daylight, a lone man and a lone woman pulling and tugging at each other in the street, how improper! And she even tried to curse my son, ptooey!"

Fang Yu's lips twitched slightly. She glanced at Xiao Jingqi, walked over, and took his arm. "Let's go."

Before leaving, Xiao Jingqi's cold gaze swept across the woman's face.

The woman's heart tightened, and she quickly grabbed her child and left.

Fang Yu stopped, let go of Xiao Jingqi's hand, and said, "Lord Xiao, I might need your help?"

Looking at the empty arm, he nodded: "But that child's condition was very serious."

Fang Yu took out the prescription she had just used to get medicine for Granny Liu's grandson: "There should be many children in the neighborhood who are in the same situation. I would like to trouble Lord Xiao to deliver this prescription to the pharmacy."

Xiao Jingqi merely moved his fingertips slightly, and Mo Jiu emerged from the shadows to take the prescription and carry out his duties.

“Miss Fang, what that woman said just now…”

Fang Yu lifted her foot and walked forward: "It's alright, she's just worried about the child, I won't hold it against her."

"Lord Xiao." Fang Yu suddenly stopped and looked at the stall in front of him, where a delicious aroma was wafting over. "If Lord Xiao wants to thank me, why not buy a bag of roasted chestnuts? Xin'er loves them."

"Okay." Xiao Jingqi walked over, bought two packs, handed one to her, and held the other in his hand, peeled a kernel and put it to her lips: "Just try one, it should be alright, right?"

Fang Yu stared at him meaningfully, leaned slightly forward, bit into a chestnut, and her lips touched his fingertips.

Xiao Jingqi suddenly looked up, a flash of panic crossing his eyes, and his ears slowly turned redder.

Fang Yu turned around and continued walking forward, circling back to the restaurant. Standing at the entrance, Fang Yu said, "Lord Xiao, would you like to come in and have a cup of tea?"

"Ah."

Fang Xin wasn't in the lobby, so Fang Yu gave the chestnuts to the waiter next to him and asked him to take them to Fang Xin.

Sitting down by the window, Xiao Jingqi looked around the restaurant's furnishings, his gaze lingering on Fang Yu, who was slightly bent over, seemingly doing something behind the counter.

Fang Yu turned around and came out, holding a brand new chessboard in her hands.

"Lord Xiao, how about a couple of rounds?"

Xiao Jingqi slightly raised the corners of his lips, and the two began to play chess.

Fang Yu propped her cheek up, her slightly turned gaze seemingly sweeping into Xiao Jingqi's eyes.

Mo Jiu returned quickly, and hesitated to speak. Xiao Jingqi said, "It's alright, Miss Fang is not an outsider."

Mo Jiucai said, "I learned from visiting pharmacies that many children have recently developed the same symptoms as the child just now, and some of them died as early as two days ago."

"I also discovered that the first group of children to develop symptoms had all caught fish in a stream outside the city on the same day. As time went on, children who hadn't been to the stream gradually developed the same symptoms. I suspect it's because..."

"An epidemic!" Xiao Jingqi looked at Fang Yu, holding the white chess piece in his hand: "Miss Fang, it seems you knew about this a long time ago."

Fang Yu's eyes were fixed on the chessboard, and he shook his head seriously: "I don't know, but I'm close. However, as long as you use my prescription, those children will be fine."

Xiao Jingqi clenched the chess piece between his fingers and instructed Mo Jiu, "Go check the stream outside the city and be sure to find the source of the epidemic."

Mo Jiu bowed and withdrew, but Xiao Jingqi still asked with concern, "Miss Fang, I wonder if this plague can be transmitted to the adults?"

"No." Fang Yu placed his last piece: "Lord Xiao, you have lost."

From the moment Mo Jiu returned to report, Xiao Jingqi became distracted. He had been giving away points the whole time, so it was impossible for him to win again.

"Miss Fang's chess skills are superb; I humbly admit defeat."

Fang Yu propped her cheek up and looked at him: "Lord Xiao is an official in the capital, yet he still cares about the people of this place. It is a blessing for the people of Qingshan City."

Xiao Jingqi smiled slightly: "They are the people of Beiyu, who live off the emperor's bounty and are loyal to him. No matter where they are, they are all the people of Beiyu."

He slowly stood up, his slightly narrowed eyes watching the people coming and going on the street. After thinking for a moment, he said, "The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching. This matter is of utmost importance. I should go there in person. Miss Fang, please excuse me."

Fang Yu took out two porcelain medicine bottles from his pocket and gave them to him: "Lord Xiao, take these, just in case."

It contained spring water, which she only described as a preventative medicine.

Xiao Jingqi left, and Fang Yu followed his back into the crowd, her gaze lingering on him for a long time.

Fang Xin, carrying a freshly baked dessert, was standing next to her at some point.

"Sister, why are you staring at Lord Xiao's back?"

Startled by her voice, Fang Yu choked on her own, "No."

Seeing the appealing dessert in her hand, Fang Yu immediately changed the subject: "Did you make this? It looks pretty good."

Just as Fang Xin was about to tell her to try it, Fang Yu immediately covered her mouth and said, "I'm still very full. Let Fu Ju try it; he has a big appetite."

She ran upstairs to a private room and hid, but she didn't stay idle. She didn't expect Fang Xin to love cooking so much, so she wrote down some recipes on the spot.

The two sisters were busy during this time. In her spare time, Fang Yu taught Fang Xin to read. Overall, she learned quite a few simple characters.

It's still a bit difficult to fully understand the complete recipe right now, but it's not a big problem.

The two sisters stayed in the restaurant for most of the day. Their workers at home were waiting to be paid, so without delay, the two sisters hurried home.

On the way back, we encountered another uninvited guest.