Ji'er did not stay long. She turned and promptly squeezed out of the crowd.
However, the news she just read was stuck in her mind.
Her mother was seriously ill?
She was the best physician. How could she allow herself to get so ill?
Moreover, there was still her grandmother.
However, the imperial board did specify that her mother had gotten ill because of worry.
Could her mother's condition be caused by her running away?
Ji'er's mind was in turmoil.
She could not shake the feeling that this was a trick by her mother to make her go home, but what if her mother was legitimately sick?
Ji'er went back to her house in a state of distraught; she could not even hear anything the three little beggars said to her.
She shut herself in her room the moment she got home.
Memories of her childhood days began flashing through her mind.
Her parents had doted on her a lot since young and they have never once hurt her.
