The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 430 - 440: The Person Behind the City Lord

Chapter 430: Chapter 440: The Person Behind the City Lord

"Sister Youyou, Sister Youyou, did you hear what Master Storyteller said about you?"

Banxia had gone out for a walk and returned with her eyes shining with excitement.

In the past few days, Gu Youyou had not dared to open for business, claiming to the public that she had not returned for several days, that many medicinal ingredients in the clinic needed to be properly stored, and that after many days of toil, she needed rest.

One of the main reasons was that she feared the threshold would be worn out by too many visitors, and secondly, she wanted to wait until everyone was back before discussing it.

Previously, when she was in the military camp, Jin Zijin had also been stationed there. Now that she had returned, Jin Zijin had come back as well, and he was currently staring at that golden signboard, obviously troubled about how to deal with it.

Actually, Gu Youyou would also like to stare at that golden signboard in a daze, she was troubled as well. The city lord had said that it was an imperial gift and it had to be displayed to show respect for imperial authority.

And it could not be hung beneath the three characters of ’Jisheng Hall’, it had to be positioned above, and it had to be conspicuous.

When the renovation was done, they didn’t consider the need to hang two, only a place for one signboard was prepared, so if this one was to be hung, the other had to be taken down.

To hang just the two characters ’Divine Doctor’ over the main entrance would be too odd.

Thinking about it made Gu Youyou worry, so much that it could turn her hair white.

"Have you figured out how to handle it?" Gu Youyou was opening a box sent by Qin Changlin when she suddenly heard Jin Zijin speak.

She put down the box, walked over to Jin Zijin’s side, and said in a listless voice, "If only it were a smaller signboard, I haven’t figured it out, have you?"

Jin Zijin’s eyes flickered as he looked at her.

Clearly, they were troubled about different things.

Gu Youyou then said, "It’s an imperial gift, so it definitely has to be hung. Ah! If there’s really no other way, I’ll just have to make the signboard smaller and hang it beside the door. Ah, no, that won’t do, it would look terrible. Hey, what if... this thing has to be hung higher than my signboard, right? Why don’t we hang it below the second floor window, high enough and conspicuous enough, right?"

Jin Zijin scoffed and said, "Do as you please."

Seeing his unfriendly expression, Gu Youyou sighed again.

"The problem really isn’t the signboard itself, I feel like we’ve been schemed against. But this city lord... we haven’t offended him, have we? Why would he want to make me a target for all?"

Jin Zijin said gravely, "Because he is just a pawn, the person we’ve offended is the one behind him."

"The person behind him, didn’t you say Zhang Quansheng is the emperor’s man? Could it be..." Gu Youyou looked at him in surprise.

Jin Zijin said, "Yes, it seems he’s only ostensibly the emperor’s eyes in Lingnan, watching over the Marquess, but in reality, he serves another master."

Many things connected in her mind, and the truth slowly emerged, making Gu Youyou scoff coldly like Jin Zijin did before, and say, "So it turns out that this epidemic was no accident but manmade, with me as the target."

Jin Zijin nodded in approval and said, "The conscription at the end of February, someone with typhoid must have been sent in by him. His original intention was to use typhoid to weaken the Lingnan garrison, then incite conflict between the Lingnan garrison and Nanzhao soldiers. The recently suffered garrison, having just gone through an epidemic with severe casualties, would certainly not be a match.

But the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. He miscalculated on two counts: first, he did not anticipate that, just as the epidemic began, there would be another conflict between the two countries’ border troops. During that small-scale war, the typhoid also infected the soldiers of Nanzhao Country. Both sides contracted typhoid, nullifying his plan to weaken the Lingnan garrison and pick them off later.

Second, he did not expect that you would actually solve the epidemic, leaving the Lingnan garrison virtually unscathed, while we intentionally delayed providing a prescription to Nanzhao by half a month, resulting in heavy casualties among their soldiers. That signboard was a backup, not expected to be needed, but it turned out to be useful after all, hence there is a signboard but no imperial edict."