latelenovela Chapter 173 A Ghost Came in the Middle of the Night?
Chapter 173 A Ghost Came in the Middle of the Night?
Beijing.
Ye Gengxin returned to the bedroom from the study and saw Ninth Aunt sighing under the lamp again. He walked over and took the embroidery from her hands, saying somewhat irritably, "You can't do embroidery well even if you lock yourself in your room. You might as well come to the study and keep me company!"
Ninth Aunt rolled her eyes at him.
Ye Gengxin immediately smiled and said, "Don't worry about them. They're all shrewd. They're always scheming against others, never the ones who suffer losses. They've been gone for so many days. If they had really run into trouble, they would have sent someone to let us know. The fact that we haven't heard from them means everything is going well."
"You're quite shrewd!"
"Otherwise what? Look at those few, do you think we can control any of them?" Ye Gengxin pulled her to the bed, continuing to comfort her, "Just relax, they'll ask us when they need us, and if they don't need us, we'll only be disliked if we take the initiative."
Ninth Aunt rolled her eyes at him again.
Having been with him for quite some time now, she could see it all too clearly: this father was completely unreliable!
"Get some rest, I have to go to the morning court tomorrow." Ye Gengxin said as he went to put up the bed curtains.
Aunt Jiu's cheeks flushed slightly as she pondered how to find an excuse to refuse him tonight, when suddenly Hao Fu's voice came from outside the door, "General, are you resting?"
Ye Gengxin had just lowered the bed curtains when he turned to the door with an annoyed look and asked, "What is it?"
"General, someone from Jizhou has arrived! You must go and see!" Hao Fu's voice was urgent.
"People from Jeju?" Ye Gengxin was a little confused.
Ninth Aunt drew back the bed curtains and stood up, saying, "General, the Prince and Princess went to Jeju! Go quickly and see if anything has happened to them?"
Ye Gengxin then realized what was happening and quickly went to open the door.
The two followed Hao Fu to the main gate. Seeing the old man being helped by Wen Yan and Wen Mo, Ye Gengxin blinked hard to make sure he wasn't seeing things—
"Lord Duke? You... what brings you here?"
"General, it's been many years. How have you been?" Min Wenqian smiled, his face crinkling with wrinkles.
"Quickly...please come in!" Ye Gengxin was also overjoyed and hurriedly raised his hand to welcome him into the mansion.
Wen Yan squatted down and carried Min Wenqian on his back.
Ye Gengxin was stunned. By the light of the lantern on the gate, he realized that Min Wenqian was incredibly thin.
"This..." Coming to his senses, he hurriedly asked Wenmo, "What happened? Why has the Duke become so thin? Also, didn't the Prince and Princess go to Jizhou to see the Duke? Why haven't they returned?"
"General, let's talk inside," Wenmo said with a dry laugh.
"Quick! Wenyan, carry the Duke inside!" Realizing something was wrong, Ye Gengxin dared not hesitate any longer.
Hao Fu led them into a clean courtyard, had Wen Yan carry Min Wenqian into the largest bedroom, and then quickly arranged for maids and servants to come and do things.
Ye Shiting rushed over as soon as he heard the news.
When Wen Yan and Wen Mo secretly brought the Duke of Wei to the General's Mansion, everyone's first reaction was that something had happened to Yu Chi Ling and the others in Jizhou.
Knowing they were uneasy, Wenmo closed the door and said to them, "His Highness was worried that the Crown Prince and Crown Princess might harm the Duke, so he asked us to escort the Duke back to the capital secretly. But there's no one in the Prince's mansion right now, and the Duke is very weak. We were afraid we wouldn't be able to take good care of him, so we thought of bothering the General."
"You've come at the right time!" Ye Gengxin nodded solemnly. "What if something had happened to the Duke if you had sent him somewhere else?"
"I am deeply grateful for General Meng's kindness." Min Wenqian leaned against the bed, a hint of shame on his old face.
"What are you saying, Your Excellency!" Ye Gengxin sat down beside him, patting his withered hand, and said, "Back then, we served in the same court, and Your Excellency took great care of me. The You family was able to be ennobled because Your Excellency repeatedly praised them to the Emperor. We remember your kindness and favor! Besides, if Prince Cheng is the Empress's own flesh and blood, then our two families are in-laws, wouldn't you say?"
Min Wenqian laughed and said, "Yes, I never thought we would become in-laws! I am truly delighted that Ling'er is able to marry Shu'er and have a father-in-law as great as the General!"
Ye Gengxin smiled with satisfaction.
He used to worry that his daughter would suffer at the hands of Consort Lan, but now that the truth about Prince Cheng's status as the eldest son of the legitimate wife has come to light and will be announced to the world, his daughter no longer needs to fear Consort Lan's harassment.
With a kind and benevolent maternal grandfather like the Duke of Wei, he had an elder who loved his daughter, and he no longer worried that his daughter would be wronged!
Min Wenqian suddenly looked at Ye Shiting and said kindly, "This must be the eldest young master, right? He is truly a handsome and extraordinary man!"
Ye Shiting humbly replied, "Your Excellency is too kind. When Your Excellency was in court, you were accomplished in both civil and military affairs and were respected by the world. I hope that I can rely on your guidance in the future."
Min Wenqian laughed heartily, "Haha! General, you've taught these children exceptionally well; each one is outstanding!"
The atmosphere was cheerful when Zhou Zheng's voice suddenly came from outside the door.
Wen Yan opened the door and led the man in. "Mr. Zhou, could you please take a look at the Duke? He's been rushing back to the capital all this time. I wonder if he's suffered any health problems?"
Ye Gengxin quickly got up and helped Min Wenqian lie down.
Zhou Zheng stepped forward, carefully took his pulse and examined him. After listening to Wen Yan recount his previous ordeal, he said, "The remaining poison in the Duke's body has long been cleared. He is only severely weak now, but there is no danger to his life. As long as he takes good care of himself for a few months, he will recover his health."
Ye Gengxin said, "Then the Duke should rest and recuperate at the General's Mansion. I'll take care of everything!"
Min Wenqian nodded gratefully to them, "Then we'll be troubling you!"
In order to be able to publicly acknowledge Prince Seung as soon as possible, he would cooperate and take good care of his health, no matter what arrangements they made.
His daughter is gone, and now that Prince Cheng is married, he has to see his great-grandson born!
Ye Gengxin immediately instructed Hao Fu, "You must keep the Duke's affairs a secret. Only we know about them, and you must not divulge a single word to anyone else!"
"Don't worry, General, I know how to do it," Hao Fu replied.
Wenyan and Wenmo continued to stay by Min Wenqian's side to protect him. When Ye Gengxin and Aunt Jiu returned to Yuhua Courtyard, it was already past midnight.
“General, I’m worried about the Prince and Princess. I’d like to go back to the Prince’s residence to arrange for guards to go to Jizhou,” Ninth Aunt suddenly suggested.
"Is there no one at the General's Mansion? Do you need to go back to the Prince's Mansion to move people?" Ye Gengxin glared at her with displeasure. "Don't worry about this. I'll arrange for someone to go at dawn!"
Aunt Jiu didn't say anything more and began to undress him. "It's getting late. Didn't you say you had to go to the morning court? Go and get some sleep."
"Ah."
The two went to bed.
Ye Gengxin wasn't sleepy and was wondering if he should do something else when someone suddenly entered from outside the door—
"General, urgent news from Jeju City!"
Ye Gengxin sat up abruptly, without any hesitation this time, and hurriedly went to open the door.
"What urgent report? Is it news about the Prince and the Second Young Master?"
The gatekeeper shook his head and said, "It has nothing to do with the Prince and the Second Young Master. It's a death notice from the Duke of Wei's mansion in Jizhou City, saying that the Duke of Wei has passed away!"
"What? The Duke has passed away?"
Ye Gengxin suddenly shivered.
What came to his residence in the middle of the night?