The Red Mansion: From a Small Pawn to a Leader

Chapter 292 The storm is coming
In the upper study, Li Yuanzheng from the Imperial Hospital was standing beside the imperial desk, waiting for Emperor Yongchang to speak.

After reading the medical records, Emperor Yongchang raised his head and thought silently. After thinking for a while, he looked at Li Yuanzheng: "The illness is so serious, won't it be cured in a short time?"

Li Yuanzheng: "Yes. The Prime Minister is also an old man. He was not in good health to begin with, and now he has typhoid fever. He needs to stay in bed for at least a month, and then we have to see how he recovers. If he is not in good health, then he will be fine."

Emperor Yongchang raised his hand and said, "I understand. You can go down now."

Li Yuanzheng: “Yes.” He answered and walked out.

Emperor Yongchang was silent for a moment, then turned his gaze to the eunuch on duty: "Did you see it with your own eyes?"

The chief eunuch said, "Yes. I saw it with my own eyes. He had a high fever and was unconscious. He was very ill."

Emperor Yongchang stood up and walked back and forth as usual, saying as he walked: "I always feel that this matter is strange. The Prime Minister of the Cabinet fell ill because of a little rain, and the illness is so serious."

At this point, he suddenly stopped walking, his eyes flashed, "He wants to resign, but I won't agree. Send two imperial doctors over to take care of him in two shifts every day. If he needs any medicine, he can get it from the pharmacy in the palace."

The chief eunuch said: "I will go and pass on the order right away."

Emperor Yongchang: "Let the deputy assistant come to the study." He walked back to the dragon throne and sat down, spread out the memorial on the imperial desk, and picked up the red brush to prepare for review.

Suddenly, he felt inexplicably irritated, and then slammed the red pen hard on the imperial desk!
Dai Quan was frightened, but he still walked over with a rag and started wiping it gently.

Emperor Yongchang looked at him and asked: "Am I a tyrant?"

Dai Quan was stunned.

"go out."

"emperor."

"go out!"

Dai Quan had no choice but to retreat.

Emperor Yongchang closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair.

With a "pop", Lin Daiyu placed a chess piece on the chessboard, glanced at Li Hu, smiled and shook her head.

Li Hu was half lying and half sitting on the recliner opposite the Go board. Xiangling was sitting on a bamboo stool and gently massaging his legs, while Xueyan was fanning him gently with a round fan.

Li Hu took out a piece and placed it on a hole on the chessboard.

Lin Daiyu glanced at the position where Li Hu's chess piece was placed and said with a smile, "What a murderous aura!"

Li Hu raised his eyebrows and said, "Today I will kill you without leaving a single piece of armor!"

Lin Daiyu laughed and said, "If you were half as good as you are at talking, you wouldn't have lost two games in a row."

Li Hu: "I was just letting you go."

Xueyan burst out laughing, but quickly held it back.

Li Hu pinched her face and said, "What are you laughing at?"

Xueyan immediately looked at Lin Daiyu pitifully.

Li Hu was amused: "Hey, you're telling tales in front of me!" As he said that, he was about to twist Xueyan's face, scaring her so much that she hurriedly hid behind Lin Daiyu.

Lin Daiyu glared at him unhappily and said, "Don't bully Xueyan." Then she picked up a chess piece and placed it gently on the chessboard.

Li Hu laid out a piece and asked, "How much money is left in the account?"

Lin Daiyu calmly placed a piece and asked, "How much do you want?"

Li Hu thought for a moment and replied, "Give me 30,000 first."

Lin Daiyu: "Cash or a bill of exchange?"

Li Hu: "It's best to divide the bills of exchange into three bill houses."

Lin Daiyu: "When do you want it?"

Li Hu: "The sooner the better."

Lin Daiyu: "Okay, let Hubo come to my room tomorrow afternoon." Li Hu put a chess piece on the chessboard, "Okay."

Lin Daiyu: "Do you need me to prepare more money?"

Li Hu was silent for a moment, then replied, "Okay."

Lin Daiyu stopped talking, picked up a chess piece and placed it gently.

At this time, Nanny Wang came in carrying a food box, followed by a maid.

Nanny Wang: "Miss, Miss Shi sent someone to bring you something."

Lin Daiyu was a little surprised: "Oh? Open it and let me have a look."

Nanny Wang placed the food box at the foot of the chessboard and opened the lid, revealing two small filigree boxes.

Li Hu came over and opened one first, which contained peaches and apricots. He then opened another, which contained a plate of fresh chestnut flour cake steamed with osmanthus sugar.

The old woman bowed and said, "These are all newly grown fruits from our garden. Our girl brought them here for you to try. Inside this silk package is the work you asked us to do the other day. Our girl said, please don't mind that they are too rough, and use them if you can."

Lin Daiyu was stunned for a moment, but still let Xueyan answer the call.

Lin Daiyu smiled again: "Go back and say 'thank you for your trouble'." She then said to Nanny Wang: "Please give this Nanny a bowl of iced sour plum juice to cool off. And give her another five hundred coins so that she can go back and buy some wine."

Nanny Wang: “Yes.”

The old woman smiled and said, "Thank you, young lady, for the wine." Then she bowed to Li Hu and Lin Daiyu, and followed Nanny Wang out.

Li Hu picked up a piece of cake and looked at it, then put it down and looked at the silk bag again: "Why did you think of asking Miss Shi to help with needlework?"

Lin Daiyu shook her head and said, "I didn't ask Yun to help with needlework." Then she took the silk bag from Xueyan, put it on the chessboard, and untied the bag.

Inside were some silk threads and two-color needles and threads.

Li Hu had sharp eyes and spotted the wax ball in the ball of thread at a glance.

He took out the wax ball and crushed it gently. There was a thumb-wide piece of paper hidden inside. He unfolded it and was slightly startled. What did the Shi brothers mean by this? Another double bet?
After reading it, Li Hu said to Xiangling, "Fire."

Xiangling hurried into the bedroom and brought back a candlestick after a while.

Li Hu held the note toward the candle flame and lit it. He waited until the flame reached his fingertips before he dropped the last corner into the basin of water beside him. He then said to Xueyan and Xiangling, "Don't tell anyone about this."

Xueyan and Xiangling nodded at the same time: "Got it."

Li Hu deliberately frowned and said, "If this gets out, don't blame me for being ruthless!" As he said that, he pinched his fingers until they made a crackling sound.

Xueyan and Xiangling were so frightened that their faces turned pale and they nodded quickly.

Lin Daiyu rolled her eyes but didn't say anything.

Li Hu glanced at the clock in the corner and saw the time. Everyone should be ready. Since everyone has the same idea, let's have a clash to see who is the elite among the sentinels!

Thinking of this, Li Hu stood up and said to Lin Daiyu, "I'm going out for a while."

Lin Daiyu also stood up, looked at him, then took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped his hair on both sides of his temples, then said softly: "Go, I'll wait for you at home."

Li Hu reached out and touched her little face, then strode out.

At the same time, the prince extended the letter in his hand towards the candlestick.

A corner of the letter caught fire, and then the flame slowly engulfed it until the three words "Duke of Zhenguo" on the envelope were burned to ashes!

Suddenly, the sound of bronze horses "ding-dong-dong" came from under the eaves outside.

The prince walked to the window, looked at the big tree swaying in the wind, and murmured, "The wind is blowing~"

Under the eaves outside the study, Dai Quan stood there and looked up at the sky: "It's going to rain!"

At this time, the voice of Emperor Yongchang calling him came from the upper study.

Dai Quan turned and walked in.

(End of this chapter)