Chapter 79: Marriage Destiny

  Yu Guai, Zheng Suxin's maid, didn't dare persuade her anymore and could only retreat behind Zheng Suxin with her hands tied.

  The weather was extremely cold, and Yu Gu didn't wear a fur coat like Zheng Suxin, but only wore a cotton-padded jacket and a cotton skirt, with a lambswool cape over it. The icy wind had already numbed her. She stood here with Zheng Suxin for several days, and thick frostbite grew on her ears, hands, and feet.

  Sheng Siyan heard people around him say that the Wu family had set up eight porridge sheds in the capital, although the porridge was thin enough to see a person's shadow, but it was better than nothing. Many people who were about to starve to death relied on this bowl of rice soup-like porridge to sustain their lives.

  Zheng Suxin was worried that someone would play tricks on her, so she came over to supervise in person and ensure that her porridge stall wouldn't be taken advantage of.

  Sheng Siyan followed Niu Xiaoye to watch the excitement for half a day before returning home.

  On her way, she met the prince again, leading people to collect and bury the frozen poor and beggars in the 49 cities, winning the praise of everyone.

  Sheng Siyan pondered, Zheng Suxin and the Crown Prince, even if they were just pretending to be in love, at least they were doing something practical, which was better than those who did nothing but held their positions.

  It was already dark when I got home, but Wang hadn't arrived yet.

  Sheng Siyan felt a bit uneasy, thought for a moment, and then asked the person in charge of the outer courtyard to bring four or five sturdy attendants, and sat in a large sedan chair to go to Dalisi Temple to pick up someone.

  Wang was then taking the pulse of Wang Zong's bedridden wife in the Dali Temple.

  A woman in her fifties stood beside her, tearfully gazing at her. She looked with a greedy gaze, as if she couldn't look enough, constantly wiping away tears with her handkerchief.

  Wang's emotions were extremely agitated, but for Wang Zongquan's illness, she still held back her emotions and calmed down to take Wang Zongquan's pulse.

  Wang Zhiquan was getting older and busy with official duties, and he didn't take care of himself. Recently, the weather suddenly became extremely cold, and his illness couldn't hold on anymore.

  It's actually not necessary to invite people from Shengguo Gongfu to come and diagnose.

  Only Wang knows why.

  The lady next to her was Min Shi, the wife of Wang Zhiyuan.

  Because Wang's wife was seriously ill and feared human contact, Mistress Meng had all the servants in the house dismissed. Only the three of them were left in the house.

  "After feeling the pulse, Wang said with a sigh of relief, 'Sir Wang has been overworked and caught a chill due to the cold weather. He has contracted a cold. However, his symptoms have developed rather quickly, so we must be careful. I'll write a prescription for him to take some Ganshen Baiguolong drink to dispel the heat.' After finishing speaking, he opened the medicine box he had brought with him and personally measured out ten days' worth of medicinal herbs, packaging them neatly on the small table in front of the bed."

  Mr. Min looked at Mrs. Wang with tears in his eyes, his lips trembling constantly, wanting to speak but stopping himself.

  Wang endured the discomfort, half lowering her head, and didn't dare look at Min.

  Wang Zhiquan struggled to sit up, stretching out a hand from the mosquito net. He lifted the mosquito net and looked at Wang carefully, saying softly: "Su Guang, my child, you're back."

  As soon as these words came out, Wang's endurance was exhausted. With a thud, she knelt at the head of Wang Zhi's bed and sobbed: "Father!" Then she looked up and saw Min Shi crying beside her, "Mother!"

  "The unfilial daughter, Su Guang, has kowtowed to you all..." Without another word, Wang's wife thudded thudded thudded and gave three loud kowtows each to Wang Zhi Quan and Min Shi.

  "Good child, get up quickly. What are you doing? Be careful not to hurt your forehead, or people will suspect something." Mrs. Min hastily pulled Mrs. Wang up and held her in her arms, trembling with voice: "Su Guang, Mama almost died..."

  Wang and Min wept bitterly.

  But they didn't dare cry out loud, and instead sobbed quietly, with tears rolling down from their eyes, wetting the fronts of their clothes.

  Wang Zhiquan was a tough guy who had never cried in his life, but this time he got teary-eyed.

  This is his most beloved daughter. At home, he wanted to fulfill her wish to learn from Old Master Sheng, so for the first time, he went to ask Old Master Sheng and even humbled himself. Attempting to "bribe" Old Master Sheng.

  Unfortunately, the Sheng family's medical skills have never been passed on to outsiders. Zheng Su Xian has a remarkable talent for medicine, which moved Old Master Sheng to take her in as his apprentice, breaking the rule of not accepting outside students.

  Since he is the last disciple, it means the last one.

  Wang's qualifications are actually no worse than Zheng Suhui, just a step later. Otherwise, the fate of her and Zheng Suhui would have been rewritten...

  However, at that time, Old Master Sheng couldn't accept Wang as his disciple, but seeing how much Wang Zhiquan wanted to learn from him, Old Master Sheng secretly evaluated Wang's qualifications and decided to fulfill a father's wish.

  He told Wang Zhiquan that if he was willing, he could hire Wang as his daughter-in-law. He also said that he had a youngest son who was being raised in a temple outside and would only return to secular life after the age of 18 to get married.

  Once Wang entered the Sheng family gate, he would naturally be able to follow and learn the Sheng family's medical skills.

  The ancestral teachings of the Sheng family, medical skills are passed down to sons and daughters-in-law but not to daughters. Moreover, only in the direct lineage bloodline can disciples be chosen. Therefore, not all direct descendants of the Sheng family can learn medical skills.

  The ancestors of the Sheng family still understood the principle of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude.

  Also for this reason, the Sheng family's medical skills were both spread and not disseminated outside.

  Being able to marry his daughter into the Sheng Guo Gong Fu is a high match for the Wang family, and the character of the Sheng family people is obvious to everyone, so Wang Zhi Quan naturally agreed without hesitation.

  However, at that time, Wang was still young, and Old Master Sheng knew that Wang Zhiquan was a tight-lipped person, so he told Wang not to make it public, and even Wang's wife, Min, was not informed.

  The result was that in the eighteenth year of Sheng Qiye, a sudden change occurred in the capital, and the Sheng family was suddenly exterminated. The Empress Dowager also issued an edict to capture and execute all members of the Sheng family who were not at home at the time.

  At that time, Sheng Qi's name had already been erased from the Sheng family tree, and except for Wang Zhi Quan and three other national dukes, no one knew that Sheng Qi had escaped.

  The day Sheng's family was beheaded, Wang Zhi Quan was so angry that he had a big temper, and several times led people to enter the palace to reason with the Empress Dowager, but were all driven out.

  The last time I was even beaten severely by the palace guard with a stick and took more than a month to recover at home.

  Sheng Qi quietly went to the capital at this time, holding the token of identification given by Old Man Sheng, and first found the masters of the Wu, Zheng, and Zhou families to ask for their help. However, these three families were also in a state of panic and self-preservation at that time, and they all advised him to hide outside for the time being and wait until the storm had passed before doing anything else.

  Duke Wu Guo advised him that it would be best to find a way to cure Emperor Xiaoming first before returning. Otherwise, he would be sending himself to his death if he returned now.

  These three imperial families don't want to see the Sheng family being completely annihilated.

  The sense of urgency that "when the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold" made Wu, Zheng and Zhou secretly stand behind Sheng Qi to provide him with airtight protection.

  At that time, Sheng Qi was in the capital when a rumor suddenly spread in the capital that there were still people from the Sheng family in the world, inciting the Empress Dowager to continue the extermination.

  The Empress Dowager's anger had not dissipated. Upon hearing this, she dispatched a large number of secret agents and officials to capture young men in the capital who resembled Sheng Lao Yezi.

  Sheng Qi saw that someone was staring at the three Guo Gong Fu and didn't dare to contact them again, so he went according to Sheng Lao Ye's previous instructions, saying that if something happened, he could also ask for help from Wang Zhi Quan, who was the most upright Da Li Temple at that time.

  Wang Zhiquan took him in but also told him that there was no way to help the Sheng family reverse their case unless they could wake up Xia Mingdi.

  Sheng Qi then stayed at the Wang family for a period of time and got to know Wang Zhi Quan's legitimate daughter, Wang Su Guang.

  Wang Zhiquan knew that these two were also considered to be engaged. So Wang Sugong would often go find Sheng Qi to discuss medical books, he would turn a blind eye, just thinking that once Sheng Qi left, he could arrange another marriage for Wang Sugong. At the beginning it was only verbal, and hadn't been finalized yet.

  He didn't expect it. His daughter Wang Sugong actually took a liking to Sheng Qi and insisted on marrying him!

  But following Sheng Qi, it's likely that I'll spend my whole life wandering around, living a precarious existence.

  The king's whole heart is set on this girl as if she were his very life; it can never be.

  So he locked up his daughter and wouldn't let her see Sheng Qi again.

  Sheng Qi left dejectedly, and Wang Su began a hunger strike.

  It had been just one day. Wang Zhi Quan couldn't take it anymore. He made up his mind to fulfill the wishes of these two children, and also fulfill his promise to Old Master Sheng.

  A gentleman's word is worth a thousand pieces of gold. He is not a complete gentleman, because he has wavered before, and for the sake of his daughter's lifelong happiness, he had thought about secretly breaking his promise.

  The Wang family's fasting action made Wang Zhi Quan determined.

  That night, Wang's nanny quietly opened the door and let her out to find Sheng Qi, who was dominated by Wang Zhiquan.

  All of this, Wang Zhiyuan had never told his daughter Wang Sugong.

  But after all these years, Wang Sugong has become the mistress of the Sheng family again, and she has learned a magical medical skill from Sheng Qiye.

  It can be seen that she and Sheng Qi are destined to be husband and wife.

  Wang Zhiquan recounted this past event from many years ago in its entirety to Wang Shi and Min Shi.

  Some things were guessed by Sheng Siyan, but some things even Wang didn't dare to think about.

  "Father, is what you're saying true? Did I really have a marriage arrangement with Sheng Qi?!" Wang Shi was both shocked and delighted, although her heart felt uncomfortable, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curve upwards, forming a joyful arc.

  Wang Zhiquan sighed, "The Sheng family is gone, what's the point of making up such lies? If Old Master Sheng knew about it in the afterlife and saw you getting along with his youngest son, he would definitely smile in satisfaction."

  Wang wiped away her tears and said: "The ancestral temple of the Duke is next to our national government office, tomorrow we will go to offer incense to his elderly."

  Wang Zhiquan nodded, "Should be. Actually, I should also go and burn incense for him."

  "Father, let's talk about this later. I don't want to drag down the Wang family." Mrs. Wang hastily interrupted.

  Mrs. Wen scolded: "You child, now that you've become the wife of a national duke, what's this talk about being a burden or not?"

  Wang smiled bitterly and said, "Mother, as long as the new emperor does not ascend to the throne, our Shengguo Gong Fu will forever be just a mere facade."

  Wang Zhi Quan remained silent for a while before asking, "How is Sheng Qi doing in the palace?"

  "These days he hasn't come back. Nothing's wrong, I suppose?" Wang said absent-mindedly.

  Mrs. Ming was just about to speak when a loud voice came from outside, "Master and mistress, the eldest daughter of the Shengguo Duke's household has come to visit, saying it's getting late and wants to take her mother back home."

  Wang Zhiquan and Min Shi were both stunned.

  "That's my daughter," said Mr. Wang hastily, and then smiled and added, "She is the granddaughter of her paternal grandparents."

  The first update has been delivered. I'll work hard on the second update. It's the weekend, seeking pink tickets and recommendation votes o(n_n)o~~

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  Thank you to everyone who gave me a peace symbol yesterday. I'm asking for pink tickets and recommendation votes. Also, if you're looking for something to read, you can check out my newly completed novel "The Original Wife's Handbook". o(n_n)o And also my previous works "Smoke Water Cold", "Rebirth Space Guardian Rules", "Walking with the Child", and "Supplementing Heaven Record". o(n_n)o