1851
Xia Yongtu wouldn't have thought much of it if he hadn't brought it up, but at his mention, Wu Sansi suddenly had an epiphany: "Brother Xia, Fu Hanwen hasn't returned for so long. Do you think it could be that the Emperor of Xilin Country is upset because Lady Qin treated our Cangming Country citizens for smallpox, and that's why he hasn't summoned them back to Xilin Country?"
If that's the case, even if he had someone take care of their entire family, it wouldn't be a problem.
He had vaguely heard that their King of Cangming had some conflict with the previous Emperor of Xilin Country five or six decades ago. It was said that the two countries almost went to war back then even though there was Great Zhou Country in between; the Cangming army had even reached the border of Great Zhou Country before their King of Cangming inexplicably withdrew the troops. Since then, the two nations had no contact.
