I Became the Eye Candy: Four Bigshots Claimed to be My Dad?-Chapter 54: Ran Away So Easily?

Everyone was overjoyed at the news. They had been saying the General was fine, and it was all the second household’s fault for spreading rumors throughout the mansion.

Swept into the main hall by the throng of people, Xiang Minghou was met by Old Madam Xiang, who had arrived late. Seeing he had returned, she finally let out a sigh of relief. "My eldest, it’s wonderful that you’re back."

"I’ve made you worry, Mother," Xiang Minghou said.

"What about the poisoning of Old Prince Helian?"

"The Old Prince was indeed poisoned yesterday, but I was framed. The matter has been investigated, and the Old Prince has now been fully detoxified."

"That’s good, that’s good. As long as you’re all right." The old madam patted her chest. She had been terribly frightened all night.

"By the way, why do I see so many things missing from the mansion?" Xiang Minghou glanced around. He remembered several large vases in the main hall, but now not a single one was left.

"..."

Old Madam Xiang’s expression faltered, a hint of embarrassment on her face.

"After you were taken away by the men from the Prince Mansion yesterday, your second brother and his wife ransacked the mansion for valuables and left," Liu Shi said quietly.

PFFT—

Ye Qianning couldn’t help but laugh out loud. ’Seriously? They just ran for it?’

’To think an idle threat I made yesterday would make Xiang Mingli pack up his kids and flee. Did they really just run away that easily?’

"He’s a lost cause. If he left, so be it." Xiang Minghou was utterly disappointed in his younger brother.

"He probably thought he was preserving the Xiang family bloodline, in case something happened to you. Now that you’re all right, I’ll have him brought back in a couple of days." Old Madam Xiang, however, didn’t think it was a big deal.

Xiang Minghou had no desire to discuss the matter with the old madam. After a few perfunctory replies, he led Ye Qianning to Xiruo Courtyard.

"Pangtuan, how about I send you to school in a few days?" Xiang Minghou asked on the way.

"I don’t want to go," Ye Qianning said, shaking her head.

"Why not? I already made arrangements for you yesterday." Having seen her scrawled, crooked characters the day before, Xiang Minghou had decided it was time for his daughter to start school.

"Six is still young." Ye Qianning had no desire to spend all day with a bunch of children.

"It’s not young at all. Girls begin their studies at five, and boys at three. You’re already behind."

"I’m not going! I’m not going! Lectures give me a headache." Ye Qianning shook her head and decided to throw a fit, looking just like a toddler being forced to go to school.

"Fine, fine. If you don’t want to go, you don’t have to."

Seeing how strongly she resisted, Xiang Minghou didn’t press the issue.

「A few days passed in a flash.」

The investigation into the poisoning of the Old Prince from the Helian Royal Mansion concluded. It was discovered that during the birthday banquet, Minister Zhang’s wife had paid her respects to the Old Princess Consort and brought up old matters from the past, which agitated the princess.

Minister Zhang confessed to the poisoning and to bribing the young servants and guards. The motive stemmed from a grudge from the previous generation. Since Xiang Minghou had also been somewhat involved in those past events, Zhang had come up with an impromptu plan to kill two birds with one stone. He never imagined his plot would be ruined by a child.

Meanwhile, another story was spreading like wildfire through the Capital City—the tale of the six-year-old child from General Xiang’s mansion. Rumor had it she was a prodigy, a genius of medicine.

She had cured the Old Prince of a deadly poison in a single day, her skills surpassing even those of the Imperial Physicians. Furthermore, some people recalled that this was the very same child who had taken down the public notice from the Changyang Prince Mansion.

Ye Qianning instantly became famous within the aristocratic circles of the Capital City. For the past few days, visitors had nearly worn the threshold of the General’s mansion away.

Back at the General’s mansion, Ye Qianning settled into the Yuehua Small Building. Over the next few days, aside from focusing on her health, her most significant discovery was that the person pulling the strings behind the Changyang Prince Mansion incident was finally making a move.