It was not Doctor Yu who asked to leave, but the Emperor who asked him to leave!
Hua Zhi frowned and thought for a while, "I remember that Divine Doctor Yu had never taken the emperor's pulse before."
"yes."
"This is not right. There must be something wrong with the emperor's health."
"If there is a problem, why did you let Divine Doctor Yu leave the palace?" Chen Qing's heart skipped a beat and he couldn't help but take a step forward. "You mean this problem can't be known to others, so the emperor never lets Divine Doctor Yu take Ping's pulse?"
The two looked at each other, and Chen Qing took a deep breath, "I'll have someone go back and investigate immediately."
"Don't worry. We didn't find anything before, and we may not find anything now. Either the other party is hiding well, or we are not looking in the right direction, otherwise we wouldn't have found any clues for so long." Hua Zhi shook her head, "Are you sure the emperor looks better than before?"
Chen Qing wanted to say yes, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was not the case. After pondering for a moment, he described in detail the emperor he saw that day, "Compared to before, the emperor looks much more rosy, but the frown on his face seems to be... deeper? No, it can't be said that the frown is deeper, but the face looks looser and seems a little swollen. According to my understanding, if the complexion is better, the body should be lighter than before, but the emperor seems to walk slower, that kind of, that kind of..."
This was a bit contradictory, but Hua Zhi understood what he wanted to express. She continued, "A sense of old age?"
"Yes, it's the old age. To be disrespectful, the emperor now looks older than the empress dowager."
Hua Zhi nodded slightly. Old age is a feeling that you won't have when you are young. As you get older, your body will naturally show it in your posture, body movements, etc. Now he is in his early fifties, and it is far from the point where he even slows down when walking.
Her grandfather was about the same age as the emperor. He looked to be about 40 years old before he was exiled. People of this era paid attention to health preservation. For example, her grandfather would often practice boxing and sword skills to stretch his body. There was no sense of old age for her grandfather. Her maternal grandfather was a little older than her grandfather, but he was far from old, which made it even more obvious that something was wrong with the emperor.
"Is there any way to forcibly search the Rulan Palace?"
"Unless we can find evidence of Concubine Yue's misconduct, then we can bypass the Emperor and let the Empress Dowager make the decision to search Rulan Palace directly."
Hua Zhi looked at the boxes of silver, thinking of Yan Xi who was thousands of miles away, and said softly: "Then give her some evidence."
Chen Qing's heart trembled, and he bowed in response.
With something on her mind, Hua Zhi was even more eager to return home. She was afraid that Xiao Liu would suffer, and that Haoyue had set up a trap during this period to put her side at a disadvantage. She was also afraid that the foolish emperor would eventually trick Yan Xi again, thinking he cared about her. Even now, Yan Xi still regarded him as a relative, and she didn't want him to be sad again.
"With no one in charge in Jinyang, this matter will not be delayed for long. We will return to Beijing as soon as the people arrive. By the way, does Yan Xi have any other arrangements?"
"Master, I will obey your orders."
"Does he have enough manpower? Why don't you bring some more people over to support him?"
Knowing that the young lady was worried about the safety of her master, Chen Qing smiled and said, "This is about the Chaoli tribe, the master will not be careless, the ship will definitely stop at several major places along the way, and summon the people from the Seven Stars Division to go together, you don't have to worry, now the master will no longer put himself in danger like before."
That would be great. Hua Zhi suppressed her worries, drank her tea and started fiddling with the abacus. What she had to do now was to quickly transport the silver away.
On the third night after the petition was made, a cart loaded with silver was silently pulled out of the city from the west gate by horses with bound hooves. General Lu had kept his promise and evacuated the Qingliu Camp, and personally led a group of personal soldiers to guard the full warehouse of silver.
Hua Zhi came with the first batch of silver. She was wearing black and riding a horse, and the horse's hooves were also wrapped in soft cloth.
Seeing Lu Peiyu coming over, she dismounted and said, "Thank you for your help, General."
"It's nothing." General Lu looked at the long carts that kept coming in, "Do you need any help?"
"It would be great if the general could provide some additional manpower. I roughly calculated that the silver that needs to be transported should be around 1.2 million taels. I'm afraid we can't transport all of it in one night with the manpower we have."
Lu Peiyu was shocked. "There are so many?"
"The noble families in Jinyang donated a total of about 2.2 million taels of silver." Hua Zhi was not surprised. There were only about twenty people who came that day, but this time there were more than just these twenty families who suffered heavy losses. Not to mention that their family assets were emptied, their vitality was also seriously damaged. In order to ensure their safety, they were also ruthless to themselves.
"You cut it in half."
"Just more, no less." Hua Zhi embarrassedly tucked her hair in. "I couldn't help it. I was always worried that the emperor would throw the silver into the water."
Digging a canal is just about throwing money into the water. Lu Peiyu laughed. This girl is really a little bold, but it’s better to be bold. Maybe I will have to thank her for her courage in the future. However, "If so much silver is transported together, won’t it be too conspicuous?"
"Yes, we have made some adjustments to the previous strategy. The silver will leave the stables with the horses first, and only a part of it will follow the horses. The majority of it will be transported to the capital in the name of a caravan organized by Jia Yang."
"Send it to the capital?"
"No." Hua Zhi did not say anything more specific, nor would she tell the general that she had no intention of hoarding the silver. She would turn the silver into food, as silver would not be enough to fill her stomach at the critical moment.
Lu Peiyu glanced at her and stopped asking questions.
The carriage traveled back and forth for a whole night before moving all the silver out of the city. Hua Zhi then left all the rest to Jia Yang.
When Hua Zhi was finishing up in Jinyang, Gu Yanxi also arrived at Pengkou's base in Qisusi.
Looking at the spread-out map of friends, Gu Yanxi said without even raising his head: "There's nothing wrong with the friends?"
"Yes, I know Pengkou very well. If there are really people active here, I can't hide it from me. But I don't remember such a group of people as you said." The Qixiusi stationed in Pengkou are all famous. This is already the east, and Daqing has always been on guard against this side. The people placed here are naturally carefully selected. Gu Yanxi believed what he said, but he also believed that a dying man's words are good, unless what he knew was wrong information.
Pointing to a few places on the map, Gu Yanxi said, "Check these places carefully, and make less noise so as not to alert the enemy."
"Yes, I will arrange it immediately..."
"Master." Wang Hai's voice came before he arrived, "Yu Mu is here."
Yu Mu was helped in. He did not change people along the way as he and Hua Zhi had said. Instead, he rushed here day and night. After drinking a large bowl of water, his voice finally came back. "It's not in Pengkou, it's in Songzhu."