52 Unexpected Gues (1/2)
After what was believed to be an attempted assassination on Ruan Wang, the entire manor had quieted down. It was overnight that Ruan Wang manor set down restrictions on everything going in and out of the manor. The servants had stopped going outside, while the only people who were allowed to come and go were those who delivered food and other necessities.
An imperial physician had been invited into Ruan Wang manor to take a look and see if there was a possibility for a cure. After taking a look, imperial physician Hu concluded that the cure was not difficult to make, but there would be a long period of time needed for rest before Ruan Wang would be back in full health.
”Thank you.” Xu Fei politely says to imperial physician Hu as he is packing away his instruments.
”No need, it is the imperial physician's job to make sure our masters are in good health.” The gray-haired imperial physician says as he takes his medicine box, ready to leave.
”I will see you out.” Xu Fei offers. He wanted to use this opportunity to ask a few more questions.
Imperial physician Hu nods, as they are heading out, the imperial physician looks towards Xu Fei, ”Is it possible that Ruan Qin Wang knew the assassin who poisoned him?”
Xu Fei thinks back to when Ruan Wang had willingly stepped into that guest house. The lord had ordered all those escorting him to stay outside. Ruan Wang also seemed anxious as he walked into the guest house. Could it be that Ruan Wang knew what would happen and willingly walked into a certain trap?
To not call for help even after being poisoned, there could only be two possibilities. First, the enemy was too powerful that even he could not handle it, and silently wait for his demise. Second, was that he knew the person.
”I don't think so, why do you ask.” Xu Fei decides not to answer truthfully, prying a little deeper to see what imperial physician Hu is thinking.
”It was nothing such that the poison was not one that acted quickly.” Imperial physician Hu goes on: ”In my many years of experience, assassins like to use a fast-acting poison to ensure the death of their target, but this poison has fast symptoms, and there is at least a week before it seeps in to end a person's life. Within my many years of experience, I have never seen an assassin so careless as to allow the victim to buy time to find the antidote like this.” Imperial physician Hu says as he silently observes Xu Fei's expression.
After listening to the old imperial physician speak, Xu Fei snaps out of a daze, brought on by the imperial physician's explanation.
Seeing that Ruan Wang's trusted servant was in a daze, he quickly scurried off with a quick goodbye.
The matters of Ruan Wang manor was kept low, the matter of poisonings had perhaps only made it to the emperor who was still ill and did not pay much attention.
On a certain day, in court, there was news. Grand tutor Yan Kun had requested leave from the imperial court on account of personal matters. The emperor, knowing of the recent tragedies that had befallen the grand tutor's family allowed him a year off from any courtly affairs, giving him time for his family to grieve.
The Yan Family manor had already put up the white silk and worn clothes of hemp for the young master Yan who had perished so humiliatingly in a dark alley by the red light district.
The funeral precessions had gone on as planned, and there were only close friends and faction members of the grand tutor that attended to pay their respects. Though the only outlier being Gao Zizheng, the second son of the prime minister who had suddenly arrived to pay his respects.
Though Yan Kun was slightly suspicious in his heart, he still followed the proper etiquette and allowed those who wished to pay their respects to enter.