There is a god in the sky

Chapter 299 Knock on the door

The imperial physician Lan examined Zhao Xuan's pulse and said with a smile, "Miss Zhao's body has been cleared of snake venom, and she is in good health."

"Thank you very much, Imperial Physician."

Zhao Xuan withdrew her arm, looking listless.

"Next time you keep a pet, you have to be more careful. Venomous snakes and insects are not obedient little cuties; they can hurt others and yourself."

"What did you say?" Zhao Xuan's expression suddenly changed.

The Imperial Physician Lan still had that same smiling expression, shrugging and spreading his hands, "Isn't that right? Those little cuties you bought through such roundabout means are the ones I raised. Otherwise, why do you think I cured your poison so easily?"

Zhao Xuan took a step back, and the empty room suddenly felt cold, making her hair stand on end.

"Don't be so nervous. I saw Xiao Ji outside just now and I know the whole story."

You wanted to kill the unfaithful man, and you used some tricks, but that's nothing. A girl needs to be ruthless to survive.

"But you're quite clever, knowing to use poison to control the hunting dogs. Poisoning and medicine are inseparable; by feeding the dogs poison and medicine simultaneously, you've cultivated them into walking cancer cells—even more successfully than I did."

He moved closer to Zhao Xuan and whispered, "How about this, you become my disciple, and I'll teach you how to use poison?"

A deep voice came from behind, "Does Imperial Physician Lan need a lot of apprentices?"

The imperial physician was startled and turned around to see the Zhao family members standing at the door with Xiao Ji.

He chuckled and said, "I'm getting old, and I can't let my skills be passed down. Well, I have to go now."

He quickly retreated to avoid incurring Xiao Ji's wrath.

He just said bad things about him.

Zhao Kaizhi's face was very grim.

He never imagined that his pampered daughter would have such abilities, that she would poison people.

This time, a servant from the Marquis of Pingyang's residence died, and Xiao Ji's guard was injured. It will be difficult to resolve this matter peacefully.

Originally, Xiao Ji's decision to break off the engagement meant that the Zhao family was in the right.

Xiao Ji also promised not to publicize what Zhao Xuan had done, giving him a ready-made excuse to target the Xiao family in the future.

Who would have thought that the daughter would single-handedly ruin such a promising situation?

Xiao Ji threw the mad dog, its body severed from its body, into the main hall of the Zhao family. If it weren't for the Marquis of Pingyang's reluctance to escalate the conflict, perhaps another corpse would have been placed at the Zhao family's doorstep as well.

As Minister Zhao thought this, his anger flared up again.

This marriage seemed like a good match at first, but I never expected it to turn out like this.

If he weren't Zhao Xuan's father, he wouldn't be on Zhao Xuan's side.

She is absolutely lawless.

“Nephew, let’s talk about this outside. She’s gone mad. I’ll send her back to our old house in the countryside and make sure she never bothers you again.”

Zhao Xuan exclaimed in surprise, "Father? What do you mean?"

Minister Zhao ignored her.

Xiao Ji looked at her with unfamiliar eyes and did not agree with Minister Zhao's approach.

"A person only has one life. You cherish your life, but doesn't everyone else's life also have a life?"

"Didn't Miss Zhao consider the consequences of her blatant disregard for human life?"

Zhao Xuan lost her temper and screamed, "Why don't you just die? Why don't you just die? You ungrateful, fickle man, you forced me to do this! You forced me to do this!"

You want me to become the laughingstock of the entire capital? Haha... How could I possibly do as you wish?

"I, Zhao Xuan, can only lose my husband; I absolutely cannot be jilted!"

Xiao Ji watched her go crazy with composure.

Perhaps this marriage was a mistake from the start.

Minister Zhao listened to her rambling and waved his hand, ordering someone to lock the door.

"No one is allowed to bring the young lady out. I will go to the Pingyang Marquis's residence and the Xiao family to apologize in a few days. I promise that she will never appear in the capital again. I hope my nephew will be magnanimous."

Xiao Ji turned and left, leaving behind the words: "Lord Zhao, the people who died this time were from the Pingyang Marquis's mansion, and I cannot make the decision."

The entire capital knew about the Marquis of Pingyang's temper.

Upon seeing Fu Xin's body, he immediately mustered his troops and headed straight for the Zhao residence.

Shen Lan was also at the Marquis of Pingyang's residence. She helped Fu Xin with his burial, cleaning up the unsightly wounds on his legs, styling his hair into a man's bun, putting on a golden crown, and smoothing the furrowed brows he had left in pain before his death.

Fu Xin is young and unmarried. How can one not feel grief as he lies in this cold coffin?

Lady Pingyang personally handled his funeral arrangements. Seeing Shen Lan's meticulous care for the body, she remarked, "The most handsome time of his life was when he was lying in the coffin."

Shen Lan said in a low voice, "He died protecting Lord Xiao."

Lady Pingyang sighed: "Everyone said that Wangchuan's marriage was a good match, and I also thought it was a match made in heaven. I never expected that it would cause me so much trouble."

With Minister Zhao around, it's impossible to make her pay with her life; at most, we can only force her to leave Bianjing.

Shen Lan's mind started to wander, and she asked Lady Pingyang, "Where will the Zhao family send her?"

"The Zhao family's old house is in the countryside of Xingyang. There is an ancestral home for the Zhao family there, so it will definitely be sent back to the ancestral home."

She's the daughter of a high-ranking official, after all. If she returns to her hometown and marries into a prominent local family, she can live a life of luxury.

"Even if the Marquis of Pingyang goes, it won't work?"

Lady Pingyang smiled, but there was a hint of helplessness in her smile.

"The Marquis only wants some compensation when he goes there. Does he really intend to kill Zhao Xuan to pay for a guard's life?"

Moreover, Minister Zhao is a man of the Crown Prince; if the Crown Prince intervenes, the Marquis cannot disobey His Highness.

Shen Lan stayed at the Marquis of Pingyang's residence for half a day before leaving.

The weather suddenly changed, dark clouds gathered, and it soon started to rain.

A horse-drawn carriage sped by, rushing through the rain and forcing pedestrians into a corner.

"Isn't that Minister Zhao's carriage? Why the rush? Are they in a hurry to be reincarnated?"

"This is the direction out of the city, I wonder what happened."

"I've heard some things. It seems that the marriage with the Xiao family has run into trouble. They're in such a hurry to leave the city because they're probably going to their clan to get help."

"Are you kidding me? The two families have been engaged for over ten years. How could something like this happen?"

"That's right, they're getting married soon. The Xiao family isn't such an unkind family."

Shen Lan counted the guards following the carriage; there were eight in total.

Could the person in the carriage be Zhao Xuan?

Shen Lan followed. No matter how fast the carriage was going, it was still on the street and there were bound to be some obstacles.

Thunder rumbled, and Shen Lan was soaked to the bone. When she left the city, she told the guards that she wanted to go out to collect herbs, and she was quickly allowed to pass.

The thunderstorm lasted all night.

Marquis Pingyang smashed the gate of the Zhao family.

If the Crown Prince hadn't arrived in time, the soldiers from the Marquis of Pingyang's residence would have almost destroyed the Zhao residence.

Finally, with the Crown Prince's mediation, the Zhao family paid a compensation of one thousand taels of silver and filled a vacancy for a position as a clerk in the Ministry of Revenue.

The silver was to compensate the deceased Fu Xin, while the official in charge of the Ministry of Revenue was to compensate the Xiao family.

Xiao Ji almost lost his life on Vulture Peak Mountain. If it weren't for the hunting dog he brought with him when he went up the mountain, and the dog protecting its master, it's hard to say whether Xiao Ji would have been able to come down the mountain alive.

This matter cannot be resolved like this.

But with the Crown Prince present, the three parties couldn't afford to fight; they could only try to maintain a balance in the present.