Chapter 211
Ji Yunqing rolled up his sleeves, took a step forward, and kicked the wet nurse quickly, accurately and fiercely.
Everyone who saw this scene was stunned.
Is the master/concubine Ji so... so fierce?
It seems like it’s better to avoid provoking her in the future!
Everyone was thinking the same thing.
However, has the master forgotten that the prince is still here?
No one had the courage to look at the prince's current expression.
Looking at the nurse who had slid two or three meters away, Ji Yunqing said in a dangerous tone: "Are you going to tell me or not?"
"Speak, I will speak, I will speak now"
The nurse didn't dare to delay any longer, fearing that Ji Yunqing would attack again, and hurriedly cried, "But I really didn't eat anything else!"
Ji Yunqing looked at the others decisively: "Whoever can provide clues about the wet nurse will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, and it will be paid immediately!"
At this moment, everyone's eyes were brighter than the stars in the sky.
The remaining trace of pity for the wet nurse in her heart disappeared, and soon a little maid remembered it.
"Master, I saw that the nurse left the yard this afternoon."
"Do you know where she went?"
The little maid shook her head: "I don't know."
Ji Yunqing said nothing and directly signaled Xuancao: "Give her ten taels of silver."
The little maid was very happy. She didn't expect to get the money so soon.
"Thank you, Master!"
When ten taels of real silver were placed in the little maid's hands, everyone present had fiery eyes.
If the master offered a generous reward, they didn't know whether they could get it. Even if they did, it would easily bring disaster upon themselves and attract others' covetousness.
But ten taels of silver was neither too much nor too little, and they felt that they could do it!
Anyway, it's just a few words, not asking them to investigate the case.
Those who think quickly are already trying desperately to recall.
Dead brain, think quickly!
"Master, I remembered something. Today I heard someone say that the nurse's family came to look for her."
"Master, I heard it too. It was said that the nurse's mother-in-law came to look for her."
"Master, there is..."
Ji Yunqing gave the money one by one and exchanged it on the spot.
Soon he told the whole story of the wet nurse's whereabouts for the day and even the past few days.
In short, I stayed in the yard all the time, except for this afternoon when the nanny quietly went out.
Ji Yunqing looked at King Zhao: "Your Majesty"
King Zhao nodded and ordered, "Go find someone!"
Eunuch Shi quickly responded: "Yes"
He left in a hurry.
I sighed in my heart that Concubine Ji's trick was really useful, but the prince is still here, so I should let the prince investigate it, so that the prince will be more sympathetic to Concubine Ji and her son.
He shook his head. Concubine Ji was still too young.
Ji Yunqing actually thought about standing aside and waiting for the prince to go to work.
But firstly, she was really angry, and secondly, the child had been wronged, but she was still pretending to be weak. There was no way the prince would think of her as a cruel person who could even take advantage of a child.
"Prince" Ji Yunqing began to worry: "How much milk did the child drink? What did the palace doctor say?"
The court physician was also shocked by Concubine Ji's stunning kick. He sighed in his heart that Concubine Ji was really powerful and he must not provoke her in the future.
Now, when she heard Ji Yunqing speak, she immediately stepped forward and saluted, showing unprecedented respect: "Replying to Concubine, the Fourth Young Master is in good health, his pulse is normal, and it seems that he did not drink much."
My God, he is so old, he can’t withstand a kick from a concubine.
The nurse also collapsed on the ground at this time, seizing the opportunity to plead for herself: "Master, the young master is fine, he only drank a mouthful and spit it out, the young master is a lucky person, please forgive me!"
Hearing that he spit it out after only drinking one sip, Ji Yunqing felt relieved: "The child's health cannot be neglected. In the next few days, please trouble the court doctor to come and check his pulse every day."
The doctor was positive and enthusiastic: "Sure, sure."
In addition to paying his concubine to protect the pregnancy, he now has another job.
Fortunately, it was easy.
Ji Yunqing took one last look at the little guy. He was already asleep, his eyes tightly closed with a tear hanging from the corner of his eye.
Looks quite pitiful.
He whispered: "Take him back to sleep, don't scare the child."
This time, Nanny An and Xuancao took the initiative to look after the child, fearing that the other maids were not diligent enough.
The young master just drank poisonous milk!
King Zhao's men were very quick and quickly found out which gate the wet nurse had met the person at, and brought the person who was on duty at the back gate in the afternoon.
They were two sturdy old women.
As soon as the two old women entered the room, they knelt on the ground and burst into tears.
"My Lord, I am innocent!"
The sound was too loud, Ji Yunqing hurriedly shouted: "Shut up, keep your voice down!"
After saying this, she took another look at the room where the child was placed. Seeing that there was no reaction, she felt relieved.
The two old women were frightened and subconsciously wanted to howl again, but fortunately they were stopped in time by King Zhao.
"Who did she meet at the door this afternoon?"
King Zhao pointed and the two old women looked at the wet nurse on the ground.
In front of the prince, the two maids dared not say anything. One of them said, "Prince, I saw her this afternoon. She was met by an elderly woman who said... her mother-in-law..."
"Yes, that's her mother-in-law."
The other old woman also came to her senses and was afraid that something had happened to the wet nurse. It was good that it wasn't their bad luck.
"I heard their conversation. At first the mother-in-law was very nice and even gave her daughter-in-law some homemade rice wine. Then they had a quarrel. I remember it clearly."
Osmanthus wine!
Ji Yunqing's eyes lit up.
She had a hunch that this was probably it!
But he was still unsure, so he asked the two maids, "Did you give her anything to eat? Or anything else?"
The two women thought about it and shook their heads: "No."
In fact, it was quite unexpected that the old woman could take out rice wine and give it to her daughter-in-law, so they remembered it so clearly.
How can you find a mother-in-law who loves her daughter-in-law so much?
So the two of them started arguing, and they also lamented that their daughter-in-law had a really bad temper, and the old woman treated her daughter-in-law like her own daughter.
Now that I think about it, was that thing given to her to drink on purpose?
"There was a handful of green vegetables in the old woman's basket, which were wilted. I had planned to give them to her, but then we had a quarrel and I forgot to take them away." She was referring to the wet nurse.
Now that there was a witness, the wet nurse could not deny it.
She lay on the ground and said hoarsely: "Master, I didn't know. I really didn't know. My mother-in-law only said that drinking rice wine is good for the body. She asked me to drink a sip, take good care of myself, and take good care of the young master."
She really thought that her mother-in-law wanted the monthly allowance she had in her hands, which was why she was so attentive to her.
But she thought that it would be enough to give them a portion of the monthly salary, and she would save the rest, which would always be useful.
But when something happened to the young master, she understood everything.