Chu Qianli, accompanied by Qingming and Leng Ji, arrived outside Feng Yexuan's room.
Qin Xiao followed behind them, not daring to speak.
After all, he had intentionally concealed the truth first. No matter how one looked at it, he was in the wrong.
"Your Lord is in here..."
Chu Qianli stopped outside the door and turned to look at the anxious Qingming and Leng Ji.
"To be clear, your Lord came to find me himself. It has nothing to do with me."
She didn't want to be accused of enticing the Lord to a dangerous place again.
"I have other matters to attend to. You two persuade him to return on your own."
"Also, after you leave, immediately change into clean clothes and burn the ones you were wearing. Don't carry the germs out."
Although she had developed an effective medicine to combat the germs,
germs were not about how powerful they were, but how they mutated.
If they were carried out and spread to a new batch of patients, no one could guarantee if there would be any unknown changes.
Safety first was always the best policy.
After giving these instructions, Chu Qianli turned to leave.
Qingming called out to her, "Princess Consort, you must come back with us."
The Lord came here specifically to find her.
If she didn't return, the Lord might not be willing to go back with them.
Although, this was the first time he had witnessed the Lord acting so willfully.
Chu Qianli looked back and shrugged at him, appearing indifferent.
"I still have patients to treat here. How could I have the time to go back with you?"
"Princess Consort..."
But she ignored him and walked away.
She was indeed very busy, too busy to even eat.
How could she leave before the patients in this village were completely cured?
After Chu Qianli left, the temperature inside and outside the dilapidated house inexplicably dropped several degrees.
Even Qin Xiao faintly felt a chilling breeze.
Qingming steadied himself, not yet daring to push open the door.
He simply leaned in towards the room and said, "My Lord, please return to the manor with your subordinate."
There was no response from within.
However, the temperature continued to drop sharply.
Qingming and Leng Ji exchanged glances. They understood the Lord's temperament somewhat.
The Princess Consort's earlier words, "How could I have the time to go back with you?" were a great disrespect to the Lord.
She had utterly failed to give the Lord face!
"My Lord..." Leng Ji had just begun to speak.
From inside, Feng Yexuan's slightly hoarse voice came, "Scram."
The two couldn't help but exchange glances again.
Did this mean the Lord was unwilling to return with them?
But this was a plague-ridden area!
"My Lord..."
"Scram!"
...Qingming and Leng Ji scrambled away.
However, they only scrambled to another location.
Beside Chu Qianli.
"Princess Consort, this place is so dangerous. How can you let the Lord continue to stay here?"
"Exactly, Princess Consort. If anything happens to the Lord, can you bear the responsibility?"
"The Lord is not only the Emperor's fourth prince, but also a god in the hearts of all the people of Northern Ming. If anything happens to him, the entire Northern Ming will suffer!"
"Princess Consort, the Lord can be willful, but you cannot!"
"If anything happens to the Lord, your Duke's manor will have to be buried with him!"
Chu Qianli glared back at Qingming.
By the end of his words, it seemed as if the entire responsibility had fallen upon her.
However, Qingming's words were not without reason.
Feng Yexuan's status was indeed too noble. If anything were to happen to him, many people would truly suffer.
"Alright, give me two more days. After the patients' conditions here are completely stable, I will go back with him."
It was better to go back first.
As for whether she would leave again after returning, that was not something they could control.
Qingming and Leng Ji could only wait.
However, before two days had passed, something happened to Feng Yexuan.