Chapter 192 Wang Family, Wang Juanyi
Chapter 192 Wang Family, Wang Juanyi
Another young man bowed and began to introduce himself.
"My name is Wang Juanyi. I wonder if General Ling has heard of my name?"
When Ling Yuancheng heard the name, he felt it sounded familiar. He looked him up and down and suddenly remembered: "Brother Wang, weren't you in Jinshui City? Why are you in the capital?"
When Wang Juanyi was very young, he came to the capital and lived for a period of time.
He knew that it was a branch of the lineage of King Ruyang.
To be precise, he was a distant relative of the current Empress Dowager's family and had nothing to do with Prince Ruyang. However, Prince Ruyang was in poor health at that time, and it was said that he needed a branch of his own to nourish his body.
The purpose was to transfer the disease of King Ruyang to that side branch.
Although the purpose of this side branch's existence is to cure King Ruyang's illness, and it is also very unlucky, as it requires King Ruyang to get sick instead.
But, that’s King Ruyang!
Anyone who can have some connection with Prince Ruyang will enjoy endless wealth and glory, right?
Many families hope to become a branch of King Ruyang.
After all, no matter how unlucky it is, and perhaps it will never happen, but the wealth and glory, and marrying up with King Ruyang, are extremely realistic.
In the spirit of keeping the wealth within the family, we finally chose the Wang family.
Wang Juanyi also came to the capital at that time and lived there for a while.
The strange thing is that after this branch came into being, Prince Ruyang's health gradually improved. Of course, nothing happened to the Wang family.
Later, when Prince Ruyang recovered, he no longer treated this branch of the Wang family very well, so he gave them some money and let them return to Jinshui City.
However, their status as a side branch has never been revoked.
If we look at the family tree, the Wang family has always been related to Prince Ruyang.
In other words, if Prince Ruyang has no children who can inherit the throne in the future, then someone from Prince Ruyang's lineage, the branch of the royal family, can inherit the position.
Wang Juanyi sighed, "Something happened to the Wang family, and they are all gone. Now, I am the only one left in the entire Wang family. I am thinking of going to the capital, maybe I can seek the protection of King Ruyang."
After all, their family originally wanted to save King Ruyang.
Perhaps, the fact that they are all dead now and only I am left has a lot to do with the fact that my Wang family helped Prince Ruyang to ward off disasters back then.
In Wang Juanyi's eyes, their Wang family is the benefactor of King Ruyang.
If it weren't for Prince Ruyang, their Wang family would definitely still be large in number and prosperous.
He seemed to have forgotten that if they had not become a branch of King Ruyang, given the situation of their Wang family at that time, they would have fallen into ruin long ago, and it might not have been certain whether he could still exist!
Although the Wang family has some relationship with the Empress Dowager's family, it is a relatively distant relationship.
At that time, if they had not shamelessly asked many people for help, they would never have gotten this benefit.
And if it weren't for the gold and silver given by King Ruyang, they might have died long ago.
"So that's how it is. I didn't expect that Brother Wang has been through so much over the years."
Ling Yuancheng looked at him with a hint of pity in his eyes.
When he was a child, he was quite optimistic about Wang Juanyi, who was smart and scheming.
If you can make friends with him, you can indeed gain a lot of benefits.
He remembered that at that time, the Ling family was already considered a relatively impoverished noble family.
After all, the queen was not yet an adult at that time, so naturally she did not enter the palace to become the queen.
When they were a group of kids playing together, someone would often bully Ling Yuancheng.
In comparison, Wang Juanyi got along well with him and didn't dislike him.
Although the Wang family was nothing, they had a relationship with Prince Ruyang, and Prince Ruyang still relied on them for health, so no one in the capital at that time dared to mess with the children of the Wang family.
Wang Juanyi helped him several times.
He remembers all these things, and he also remembers this friendship.
Wang Juanyi sighed and pointed at the middle-aged man next to him: "Brother Ling, Master Xun's medical skills are very good. He is known as a miracle doctor over there."
Originally, Ling Yuancheng didn't quite believe what the middle-aged man said about the plague, but when he saw that Wang Juanyi believed him so much, he immediately believed it a little more.
"If that's the case, according to what Master Xun said, if there really is an epidemic outside the city, it must be reported as soon as possible. Why hasn't anyone reported it yet?" Ling Yuancheng asked.
"Maybe the villagers don't want to say it and are hiding it from each other. Brother Ling, you also know that over the years, any village where the plague was discovered would be sealed off. In most cases, the entire village would be wiped out." Wang Juanyi said in a very calm voice, as if this was just a normal thing.
Ling Yuancheng nodded: "Brother Wang, what you said makes sense, but if it is really a plague, then we must solve it as soon as possible. We can't just ignore it because the villagers don't say anything."
Wang Juanyi responded, "It should be so."
That night, Ling Yuancheng stayed at home thinking about how to report this matter when he went to court the next day.
After all, if the plague were to become a reality, it would easily cause unrest.
In the end, he thought about it again and again, and still felt that this matter could not be said so bluntly.
At the Queen Mother's banquet, His Majesty had already expressed his dissatisfaction with the Ling family.
If they talked about the plague directly in the court, His Majesty might think that the Ling family was deliberately disrupting the court.
After all, there was no report of the plague yet, so how could Ling Yuancheng know about it? This didn't make sense!
So, after thinking about it, he decided to send a letter to the palace first to ask his aunt's opinion.
The queen received the letter the next day. When she saw the word "plague" for the first time, she was shocked and subconsciously wanted to throw the letter away.
That's a plague!
Who can not be afraid?
What if she gets infected through this paper?
However, she calmed herself down and continued to read the contents of the letter.
The queen's expression was somewhat solemn.
Normally, as the mother of a country, she would have informed Emperor Xia as soon as possible when something like this happened.
After all, if it was controlled early, fewer people would die, and those were all her people.
However, she thought again and hesitated because of what happened at the Queen Mother's banquet and Emperor Xia's attitude towards her.
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