NCCnovel Chapter 234: Prepare to Send Concubine Lian to Her Way
Chapter 234: Prepare to Send Concubine Lian to Her Way
"Your humble servant pays homage to Her Royal Highness, Princess. May Your Highness live a thousand years, a thousand thousand years, and a thousand thousand years."
"Your Highness, after Eunuch Li sent Doctor Qi here, he returned to the Empress. Before leaving, he also told me that the Imperial Household Department is already making the jade hand-twisted ring Your Highness requested."
Ping An walked in with Doctor Qi. Liang Chongyue didn't even raise his eyelids, but only hummed softly at Ping An. After Ping An left, Liang Chongyue spoke to Doctor Qi in a calm tone:
"Doctor Qi, people can grow old, but their brains cannot be damaged. This princess doesn't want to hear any nonsense. Tell me everything. Maybe this princess can still save your life."
From the moment Doctor Qi saw Eunuch Li after leaving Jingyang Palace, his heart was in his throat. His Highness had never asked him to check his pulse before. Now that the incident happened suddenly and Concubine Lian had just had a miscarriage, His Highness came to him. Could it be that he discovered something?
Along the way, Doctor Qi was so frightened that his legs went limp and his official uniform was soaked with cold sweat.
When he arrived at the prince's bedroom and heard his prince's words, the heart that had been hanging in the air all the way finally died.
Liang Chongyue heard that Doctor Qi was silent for a long time, so he looked up and saw that Doctor Qi had collapsed on the ground, with a look of despair on his face, waiting to die.
"Oh, if you had known this would happen, why did you do it in the first place?"
Liang Chongyue remembered that the information sent by the system clearly recorded the prescriptions that Doctor Qi had written after taking Huang Wanyi's pulse.
It is said that all medicines are poisonous. If you take all the prescriptions he prescribed and mix them together, they will be extremely poisonous to pregnant women.
It can also ensure that after taking the drug, the woman will not have an immediate miscarriage, but the fetus will gradually die in the mother's body. She used to think that Doctor Qi was a person with connections who entered the Imperial Hospital, but she didn't expect that he was good at making poisons.
"I, I, I am wronged, Your Highness."
Doctor Qi was still afraid of death. As if to make his resolve clear, he slammed his head on Liang Chongyue's jade floor with a bang.
Liang Chongyue likes jade, and her scumbag father replaced the floor of her bedroom with jade a long time ago.
After the hit, her head was fine, but Doctor Qi was unable to get up for a long time.
Just when Liang Chongyue thought that Doctor Qi had committed suicide out of fear of punishment, the body below, which was still in the kowtowing posture, moved, propped up the body at an extremely slow speed, and raised the head.
"Your Highness, I have been used by someone. I feel so wronged."
Doctor Qi's forehead was red and bleeding was still oozing from the middle. He looked quite pitiful. Liang Chongyue looked at his jade floor with some distress. There was an obvious pool of blood on the glossy jade. He wanted to knock it off and replace it with a new one.
Yun Ling had been waiting beside His Highness. She could quickly detect any sign of displeasure on His Highness's face. She followed His Highness's gaze and saw the conspicuous red on the floor and the trembling Doctor Qi pretending to be dead beside him. She said coldly,
"Doctor Qi, why haven't you cleaned up the blood on my forehead? Do you think that dirtying the floor isn't enough?"
Liang Chongyue was amused by Yunling's words, and her unhappiness dissipated a lot. When she was unhappy, Yunling was like a machine gun, and anyone who bumped into her would be scolded by her.
"I will take care of it right away. I will take care of it right away."
After being scolded by Yun Ling, Doctor Qi stopped pretending to be dead. He quickly took out the hemostatic powder from the medicine box he carried with him to stop the bleeding on his forehead. After bandaging it, he did not forget to wipe off the blood that dripped onto the floor.
Then, under Yun Ling's sharp gaze like a knife, he knelt there with a serious expression and explained everything that had happened in detail. It turned out that there was no discrepancy between his account and the information sent by the system.
Liang Chongyue closed the book in front of her and saw that it was too late for Doctor Qi to regret. She wished she could cry loudly in her palace and vent all the grievances in her heart.
"Your Highness, it was Huang Wanyi who really came to me for medical treatment. I only accepted three taels of silver from her maid. Apart from that, she didn't promise me any benefits. I am really wronged, Your Highness..."
Doctor Qi started to cry as he spoke. His family had been practicing medicine for generations, and ever since he could crawl, he had been given various herbs, mortars and copper pots during the "Grab the One" ceremony.
After burying myself in study for thirty years, I was fortunate enough to be admitted to the Imperial Hospital. Now, now... everything is over.
Yun Ling stood beside the prince, looking at Doctor Qi with a gauze bandaged on his head, kneeling in the hall, crying and laughing, as if he was possessed by an evil spirit.
Liang Chongyue frowned slightly and said impatiently:
"When the imperial physician diagnosed the concubines and prescribed medicine, he had to keep a copy of it in the Imperial Hospital's register. Do you still remember the list from three months ago?"
"I remember, I remember. I still remember the recipe I wrote ten years ago."
Liang Chongyue didn't care whether Doctor Qi was bragging or not. He casually took out three pieces of paper and put them on the desk. He also prepared pen and ink for Doctor Qi.
"Write down the recipe word for word, and I will spare your life."
Hearing the princess' words, Doctor Qi seemed to have grasped the last straw and climbed up from the ground more nimbly than usual when kneeling.
Doctor Qi stepped forward and took the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the prince. Yun Ling had already put two low tables together to make it easier for him to write.
Without the wailing of Doctor Qi, Liang Chongyue could finally quiet down for a while. Doctor Qi was writing with ink flying everywhere, and soon half a sheet of paper was filled up. It seemed that he really remembered the prescription he had written three months ago.
Liang Chongyue spread out the booklet and continued to study. The prescription in Doctor Qi's hand was just her preparation for two situations, in case Concubine Lian couldn't hold on and died suddenly, and someone wanted to put the blame on her mother.
Huang Wanyi is not a good person, but there are not many good people in this palace. As long as things develop as she expected and no unexpected changes occur, she can turn a blind eye to Huang Wanyi and pretend that she doesn't know the inside story.
After Doctor Qi handed her the three fully written pages, Liang Chongyue locked the booklet and her notes in the cabinet.
"Your Highness, all the prescriptions I wrote over the past few days are here. I have checked and found no missing ingredients."
"Alright, you can leave now. This princess will not tell anyone about what happened today. Doctor Qi, please go home and burn incense and pray to the Buddha for mercy so that you can successfully survive this disaster."
Yun Ling took the things handed to him by Doctor Qi. Liang Chongyue propped up her head and looked at him. Her expression was normal, but there was a hint of pity in her tone.
"Yes, Your Highness, please have mercy on me and leave me a chance to live."
Liang Chongyue stretched out her hand and waved at him, both as a farewell and a response.
In the end, Doctor Qi left with his medicine box on his back, covering his face and crying.
Liang Chongyue carefully read the prescription written by Doctor Qi, and after confirming that there was no problem, he put it in the cabinet, looked at the sky outside, and got up to accompany his mother for dinner.