Xie Yunhuai must have met with death.
Today was the day they had agreed to visit Shen Xihe for a follow-up visit. Xie Yunhuai had to leave Kyoto for some urgent business, so he would definitely send someone to inform her. Disappearing without a sound was definitely not Xie Yunhuai's style.
Shen Xihe personally went to where Xie Yunhuai lived. It was a small courtyard with a fence and a thatched house made of adobe. In the middle, there was a winding path paved with polished stones, and there were flower beds on both sides with some flowers and plants.
There were medicinal herbs drying in the yard, mixed with dead leaves that had fallen at some point. Shen Xihe pushed open the door and saw that the inside was tidy and clean. There was indeed dust on the table, and there were quite a few ingredients in the kitchen, including rotten vegetable leaves and glutinous rice that had been soaked, moldy and smelly.
He had indeed been missing for three days. He should have been preparing to cook these things into food three days ago, but he didn't have time and left for some reason. There were no signs of a fight in the house, and his medicine box was not there. It was most likely that this was a first visit, definitely an emergency.
"He is very skilled and well-versed in medical knowledge. Ordinary people cannot plot against him." Shen Xihe lowered his eyes. "He would not easily treat someone he did not know well. So he was preparing to prepare dinner before someone he knew came to look for him, and then he would leave with them..."
"Princess, I asked the guard at the city gate, and he said that someone, Doctor Qi, entered the city at 3:30 pm three days ago, but he didn't know who he was with." Mo Yuan ran to report.
Kyoto is a city of talented people and beautiful scenery, but Xie Yunhuai was a man of extraordinary talent and was also a doctor. He lived outside the city and had to go in and out of the city several times a day. After a few months, all the soldiers guarding the city walls knew him.
"Is there anything unique about that person?" Shen Xihe asked.
"The soldiers guarding the city just took a quick look and said that most of the people they were wearing were servants from the mansions of nobles in the capital." Mo Yuan asked in detail, but did not get any other useful information.
There are many powerful families in Kyoto, including the royal family, nobles, aristocratic families, and the elite, but each has his own preferences. The servants' clothing is usually the same as the four-season clothes prepared by the mansion. Needless to say, the royal family, most of the eunuchs and guards always carry swords.
Most of the nobles rose to power through military merit and were awarded titles, and they tend to be martial artists. Their servants mostly wore tight sleeves. The servants of aristocratic families had narrow sleeves but were slightly more particular about their attire. The servants of the noble families mostly wore simple clothes.
The people guarding the city have to meet all kinds of people every year, and they have some intuitive judgment about people's origins.
"Send someone to find out if there are any dukes, marquises, or earls who are anxiously looking for a doctor in the past five days." Shen Xihe narrowed her eyes slightly. She left Xie Yunhuai's residence and returned to the princess's mansion. Mo Yuan had already found out what she wanted to know.
There are only four dukes, five marquises and seven earls in Kyoto. Among these sixteen noble residences, it was found that some of them had invited doctors, but none of them were in urgent need of doctors, and none of them had submitted letters to the Imperial Medical Bureau.
If a noble mansion encounters a difficult disease and ordinary doctors are unable to treat it, they must ask for help from the Imperial Medical Bureau. If the Imperial Medical Bureau is also helpless, then they will try their best to visit a doctor who is praised by the people.
"I know who it is." Shen Xihe looked towards the direction of Chongyi Street, where was the Mansion of Duke Xie.
"Duke Xie detained Doctor Qi?" Biyu was surprised. "Will Duke Xie harm Doctor Qi?"
Shen Xihe returned to the house in silence and sat down in deep thought: "He is so smart. If Duke Xie was against him, he would definitely not go to Duke Xie's mansion."