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Chapter 1305: Years (1)

Qi Xiuyuan waved the commander of the Forbidden Troops away and looked at Fan Zijin in surprise. “What happened?”

Fan Zijin hugged Qi Xiuyuan’s leg and cried bitterly. “Cousin, if Haoran hadn’t told me, would you have kept it from me?”

Qi Xiuyuan asked in shock, “What did I hide from you?”

Fan Zijin showed him Qi Haoran’s secret letter. Because he had translated the contents with a red pen, Qi Xiuyuan only needed to look at the red words.

As he had just translated it, the handwriting was not dry yet. Hopefully, the Emperor probably would not realize that this letter was from two days ago since there was no date on it.

Qi Xiuyuan looked at the contents of the letter and was shocked. After a while, he said with difficulty, “So Haoran lied to me. Is he alright?”

Fan Zijin wiped his tears and said, “What can happen to that kid? His internal energy is deep and he’s in robust health. Even if the poison enters and he can’t move for a while, he’ll be fine after recuperating for about half a year. I’m worried about you considering you’re in your prime. God is too unfair to you.”

Smiling, Qi Xiuyuan slowly folded the letter. He said softly, “I’ve been the Emperor for more than ten years. The heavens are already very kind to me.”

After all, in Yuan Hui’s words, originally, he could only be the Emperor for a few years before passing away because of the relapse of his old injuries from the war. Even if he might not live to that age now, his achievements were not inferior to what it was supposed to be.

Qi Xiuyuan was already very satisfied.

And now, his younger brother’s lifespan had not been shortened because of him. Wasn’t God treating him well enough?

Fan Zijin wiped his tears and said, “How can you frame it like this? You can clearly do more.” He clenched his fists and said, “I’ll find a famous doctor to nurse your and Haoran’s health.”

At the mention of this, Qi Xiuyuan couldn’t help but frown slightly. “Since the poison in Haoran’s body isn’t very strong, he should come back to the capital to treat it. He can’t bring his wife and children around indefinitely.”

“Oh no.” Fan Zijin exclaimed, “Haoran said that we can’t tell you about this. If he finds out that you know the truth, he’ll definitely run away on his own. It’ll be even harder for us to persuade him to come back then.”

Qi Xiuyuan frowned and started worrying.

He knew his younger brother’s personality—he was a stubborn person who could not be held back if he had made up his mind on something. Previously, he thought that he was going to find a famous doctor for him, but he could get the commander of the Forbidden Troops to persuade him to come back. If it was for him, knowing Qi Haoran’s personality, unless he really found a famous doctor that could help Qi Xiuyuan, he would not return to the capital.

Qi Xiuyuan held his forehead.

Seeing this, Fan Zijin added fuel to the fire with a worried expression, “Now, he’d still write to me and tell me the truth. If he finds out that I accidentally revealed this to you, he will definitely hide with Ah Ling and look for the famous doctors himself. When the time comes, are we going to look for him all over the world?”

Seeing that Qi Xiuyuan was even more silent, Fan Zijin continued to say with a troubled expression, “And what about the children? It’s not good to roam outside or be away from their parents for a long time…”

Fan Zijin was so frustrated that he wanted to slap himself. He muttered softly, “If I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have come just now. I was too impulsive…”

The corners of Qi Xiuyuan’s lips twitched. “Alright, it’s not your fault.”

He thought for a moment and said, “Why don’t we let the imperial physician lie to him again? Tell him that the Imperial Institute of Medicine has already found a way, so he doesn’t have to seek out famous doctors…”

Seeing Fan Zijin looking at him steadily, Qi Xiuyuan sighed. “Alright, I know that this method won’t fool him. Then what do you think we should do? We can’t really let him run around looking for doctors, right?”

“Cousin, if your health hasn’t improved, Haoran will go out again even if he comes back. This matter can’t be hidden. Three to five years isn’t long.”

Qi Xiuyuan’s expression was complicated.

Fan Zijin wiped his tears and said, “Why don’t you listen to the imperial physician and put more effort into nursing your health? As long as your condition improves, we’ll have a reason to call him back. Back then when you were first poisoned, the doctor said that your body would weaken and that it’d affect your lifespan. In the end, after nursing your health for some time, not only could you go to the battlefield to kill enemies, but your health isn’t inferior to ordinary people. It can be seen that change is possible.”

Fan Zijin looked at the letter in his hand and said, “Just do this for Little Bear and the rest, alright? You can’t let the children be separated from their parents. As long as you recover, Haoran won’t have a reason to run around outside, right?”

Qi Xiuyuan was silent for a while before asking, “So we won’t tell Haoran about this?”

Fan Zijin nodded. “Since he’s pretending to be seriously ill, you can pretend that you don’t know the truth and use this opportunity to send him more things. It’s better than him abandoning his family and running away, right?”

If he really stopped Qi Haoran from going out to look for the doctors, he would really do such a thing.

Qi Xiuyuan was worried. Having a willful younger brother was also very tiring.

Qi Xiuyuan reluctantly agreed with Fan Zijin’s idea. This way, the commander of the Forbidden Troops would not have to “invite him back” anymore.

As for the craftsmen and more than ten carriages of supplies he had sent previously, they did reach Qi Haoran eventually.

Qi Haoran still couldn’t use his internal energy at the moment, and he could not help but click his tongue when he heard the guards’ description. He said, “Go and choose what we need personally. Send back the valuable things that we don’t need. As for the rest, distribute them to the commoners who were affected this time. Tell them that the Emperor gave them these. If they are grateful, pray for the Emperor. As for the craftsmen, send 20 of them to accompany the county’s conscripts to clean up the roads. The rest will help the villagers repair their houses.”

He then looked at the mud at the foot of the mountain and said, “By the time they cleared their way here, my poison should be almost neutralized. When the time comes, we’ll go to Lingnan to find a doctor first.”

Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin had made up their minds to help Qi Xiuyuan nurse his health. Hence, Qi Haoran went out to seek out famous doctors. After finding the doctor and receiving confirmation from the two accompanying imperial physicians that the other party was really capable, Qi Haoran politely invited him to the capital to treat the Emperor.

If they found or encountered precious medicinal herbs on the way, they would buy them and send them to the capital.

Tiger Head and Little Lion were unwilling to return to the capital to study. In their words, they said, “I heard that one has to experience being a traveling student at least once in their lives. We think we can bring that forward.”

Ultimately, Qi Haoran felt that they were still young and should study more. Hence, he hired a young, strong, and knowledgeable juren to be their teacher. He would look for famous doctors everywhere while teaching them. Sometimes, when he was tired from traveling, he would stop at some places for a month or two.

On the other hand, after quickly becoming a xiucai scholar, Little An packed his bag and ran to seek refuge with his Fourth Uncle and Fourth Aunt. Compared to Tiger Head and Little Bear, a scholar like him had a greater need to be a traveling student, okay?

Fan Zijin turned a blind eye and let him go.

This was because he was busier than Qi Haoran and didn’t have time to teach the child at all. If not for the fact that he was afraid that Little Madam Xia would be alone, he even wanted to send Little Fu to Qi Haoran as well.

Ever since Qi Xiuyuan found out that he did not have long to live and that his brother’s condition was fine, he had completely let go of his restraints.

As soon as the poison in his body came under control, he immediately revoked the Prime Minister and appointed Rong Xuan, the Minister of Revenue, Fan Zijin, and the Imperial Secretary as the Cabinet auxiliary ministers, with Rong Xuan leading them.

Yan Du was dismissed again, and this time it happened so fast that the ministers could not even voice their objections.

Everyone could tell that the Emperor’s physical condition was not very good, and they vaguely guessed that he didn’t have much longer to live.

People would not have any scruples before they died. At this time, no one dared to stop this reform at the risk of being beheaded, so the official system reform was successfully launched.

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