The carriage was driving on the busy street, and the wooden wheels collided with the road, making a clattering sound.

Xia Qingyao lifted up a corner of the window screen and looked at Lu Yan's house outside the window, feeling as if she was in another world.

"Miss Xia, are you bored? Do you want to come down for a walk?" Murong Tong, dressed in white and riding a white horse, had been paying attention to Xia Qingyao's movements. When he saw her looking at the street, he immediately urged his horse forward.

Xia Qingyao suppressed the disgust in her heart and smiled shyly: "I just want to take a look. Thank you Second Young Master for your kindness." Then he slowly lowered the gauze curtain.

The window screen covered that delicate little face. Murong Tong felt a little regretful and simply urged his horse to follow the carriage.

"When I ordered someone to go to Qingzhou to bring your family back, your father was ill. Although the Xia family is a medical home and your brother's medical skills are also very outstanding, I still made the decision privately and ordered Dr. Zheng from the Shang Tai Medical Bureau of Prince Chen's Mansion to go there.

Diagnosis and treatment for your father."

"Thank you, Second Young Master, for your thoughtfulness." Xia Qingyao's voice behind the gauze curtain was soft, but her face was expressionless.

Murong Tong didn't realize it at all and pretended to sigh: "Hey, it's also a sin. In my opinion, the Xia family was obviously wronged. Who would have thought that Princess Jiang's death in childbirth would lead to your family being exiled for eighteen years?

"My mother-in-law also said that she would forgive your family before, but it is a pity that my eldest brother is perverse and cruel. He often beats and punishes servants in the palace. Even the eunuchs who have served him for many years were whipped to death with his own hands.

Well, my mother-in-law and I are afraid of making him crazy, and there really is no other way."

Xia Qingyao exclaimed: "I didn't expect the prince to be such a temperament? I think the princess is a kind-hearted person, how could the prince be like this?"

"After all, he lost his biological mother when he was young, so he can be eccentric and willful." Murong Tong sighed as if he was sympathetic.

Xia Qingyao's voice was filled with emotion: "The second young master and the princess are both kind-hearted people, and this little girl understands."

Listening to her soft voice, Murong Tong felt as if a feather had brushed through his heart, and urged the horse to get closer to the carriage.

"I have a word of advice, please help me. Miss Xia should try to stay as far away from my brother as possible. He is a man who kills people just by looking at him. He has killed many of the maids serving in the room. If you don't pay attention, you offend him.

I'm afraid of danger, and I'm worried that I won't be able to arrive in time to save you."

After all, Murong Tong still had the same purpose as in her previous life. She was afraid that she would get close to Murong Zheng and detoxify him, so she frantically smeared him.

If he looks at her, will she be deceived and used by him?

"Thank you very much, Second Young Master. I really don't know how to thank you as a daughter-in-law."

Xia Qingyao's voice was full of gratitude, but inside the gauze curtain, the corners of her lips were raised mockingly, revealing a smile like a cat playing with a mouse.

Listening to her slightly trembling voice, Murong Tong felt that the task was half done and smiled happily.

"Sir, Xia Mansion has arrived." Sun Dequan, the eunuch of the royal family, reported back.

The carriage slowly stopped on the street, and Murong Tong also got off the horse gracefully, walked to the carriage and stretched out his hand to Xia Qingyao.

Xia Qingyao smiled shyly and got out of the car with her head down, holding on to the wall of the car and stepping on the wooden stool for footrests.

When she rejected him, Murong Tong not only wasn't angry, but became even more interested.

"Miss Xia was born in the Qingzhou quarry. I'm afraid she's not familiar with your old house." Murong Tong took the initiative to chat and then asked Sun Dequan to go to Xia's house to pass the news.

Xia Qingyao stopped and looked at the unfamiliar house with mixed feelings in her heart, "Second Young Master is saying that although I am not familiar with the house, I can tell that it was recently renovated. You are interested."

"No matter what, it's just a piece of cake." Murong Tong unfolded the jade bone fan gracefully.

At this moment, the front door of the Xia family opened wide, and a group of people, old and young, walked out in large numbers.

The leader was very thin, wearing a dark blue new Taoist robe that looked like it was hanging on a bamboo pole when he walked. He led the children up to him and bowed down to Murong Tong.

"I, Xia Ziming, brought my family to pay my respects to the Second Young Master. I would like to thank you for taking the trouble to protect our entire family and save this old man's life."

"Thank you, Second Young Master." Behind Xia Ziming, the sons and daughters of the Xia family saluted in unison.

Xia Qingyao looked back at her adoptive parents and had to bow down with them.

Murong Tong stood with his hands behind his back, raised his chin slightly and said, "Excuse me. I always felt that I couldn't blame Imperial Doctor Xia for what happened back then. Now that I can let you come back, it's a worry for me."

Xia Qingyao's grandmother, Mrs. Xia, was trembling with excitement, and her golden steps on her gray hair were shaking.

"Thank you, Second Young Master, for your kindness. I can't thank you enough! If not for Second Young Master's kindness, I would have thrown my old bones into the quarry." As she spoke, Mrs. Xia covered her face and started crying.

"Old lady, there is no need to be polite, you are the elder."

Although Murong Tong behaved modestly and politely, his words showed that he also believed that the Xia family should be grateful to him, completely forgetting that the Xia family would be returned to the capital because Xia Qingyao had the ability to treat Princess Chen.

The family helped each other up, and several young girls looked at Murong Tong, their eyes full of emotion and gratitude. Among them, the fourth sister Xia Qingxuan was the shyest, with her face flushed and her eyes sparkling.

Xia Qingyao saw everything in his eyes, and his heart sank slightly.

Xia Ziming didn't notice any of this, and turned sideways to make a gesture of invitation: "The house is humble and simple. I hope the second master doesn't mind it. Please move to the hall to rest for a while."

Murong Tong nodded and entered the house surrounded by the Xia family.

At this time, the adoptive mother Xia Wang walked up to Xia Qingyao and took her hand, with a bit of joy in her eyes.

"Yao'er, I didn't expect that you were really capable of curing Princess Chen and exonerating our whole family. If I had known you were so powerful, my mother wouldn't have stopped you from going to Beijing in your father's place."

The eldest brother Xia Qingyan looked unhappy: "If I hadn't been beaten by my third sister, wouldn't it be possible if I entered the palace to accomplish this? The medical skills she secretly learned can only be accomplished with half a bucket of water."

Xia Qingyao's face darkened. She had not been liked by her brothers and sisters since she was a child. Both temperament and appearance were different from those of the Xia family. Even her parents seemed to treat her differently, especially since she secretly studied medicine.

After she was found out, her father stopped talking to her even from then on.

She didn't know that she was not Xia Ziming's daughter until everyone in the Xia family was executed.

When Su Yinqiu, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, was convicted, the concubine of the Hou Mansion "fallen down the tree and the hozen animals were scattered". Her biological mother Zhang was just a concubine at the time, and returned to her hometown of Qingzhou with a belly of five months.

Zhang had difficulty in giving birth, so she asked Dr. Xia to help her. It happened that Xia Wang gave birth to a daughter on the same day. The Xia couple did not want their daughter to suffer the pain of exile, so they secretly exchanged the baby girl.

In her previous life, she had complained about Xia Ziming and his wife's selfishness, but after all, they had nurtured her and sent her back to her biological mother before the clan was exterminated.

What happened today, in her previous life, she might have tolerated.

But she didn't come to live a new life to suffer.

"That's what the elder brother said." Xia Qingyao pointed pitifully in the direction Murong Tong walked away.

"Either I go and tell the second young master that my medical skills were learned secretly, and please ask the princess to hire someone else. In fact, I am also very afraid that if something goes wrong, our family will be guilty again, and if something goes wrong, I will be killed.

Damn it! If that’s the case, we might as well go back to Qingzhou as a family.”

As he spoke, Xia Qingyao's tears fell.

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